Chapter 450: The Battle of Tianchi (2)
Xiongnu, Great Qin.
The two armies face each other, and in the middle is a group of slaves from weak countries who are used as cannon fodder. At this time, no one would have thought that it would be this group of inconspicuous cannon fodder who would determine the outcome of this war.
This situation did not only occur between the Xiongnu and the Luo Jia army, but also in the southern battlefield, Helianbi invested even more prisoners and slaves. In the same way, the Heavenly Masters and Daoists of the Heavenly Master Dao also fought for a bigger Liliang among the slave groups without stopping, and decided to launch a pre-battle riot.
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Due to the twilight, the Qin army could not see exactly how many Huns, and what they saw in their eyes was that the black and oppressive enemy army was approaching step by step.
"Crossbowman, prepare!"
"Pikemen, prepare!"
Cao Xin coldly stared at the slowly approaching "enemy", as long as he gave an order, it would be a slaughterhouse where ten thousand crossbows were fired in unison, leaving not a single enemy alive.
Fast as fire, competitive, eager to win, several years have passed, Cao Xin's temperament has not changed, the vanguard, break the sharpest edge of the enemy, and then, the army is exhausted, kill him a river of blood, this is Cao Xin's favorite thing to do.
This time, he finally came to the battlefield before the big war started, and Cao Xin didn't wait to rest, so he asked Ling to take up the command of the front of the Qin army.
"General Cao, the general has an order, the crossbow cavalry retreats, and the heavy cavalry attacks!" Just as Cao Xin was about to give the order to shoot, the herald scout from Luo Jiazhong's army delivered the latest news.
In the Qin army, the cavalry is mainly divided into three arms, one of which is the traditional crossbow cavalry, these crossbowmen mainly rely on the bronze crossbow machine to shoot the enemy at the flat end as a means of combat, its strength lies in the medium and long-distance shooting, and it is not good at hand-to-hand combat at close range.
The second is that Li Yuan gradually equipped himself with ironclad heavy cavalry after occupying the south and north of the desert, and this "tank" unit will collect the armor and spears when marching in peace. And before the battle, their main role is to inflict heavy losses on the enemy when the two armies are in line to hedge against each other.
The third is mainly scout light cavalry, these light cavalry are mainly responsible for the task of transmitting information and probing the enemy's situation, and the role is not very obvious in the real large army battle.
Compared with the varied cavalry of the Qin army and the different types of troops, the Xiongnu side was the traditional control of the string light cavalry, and the warriors of each tribe had the ability to shoot and kill with one hand, at the same time. In the event of melee combat, they mainly rely on relatively primitive bronze spears or even bone spears and bone knives to meet them.
In the case of a large gap in jishuliliang and training level, the Qin army drew the heavy cavalry to the first line, with the aim of defeating the Huns in close combat. And the premise of such a transfer is naturally that the Qin army learned from the Heavenly Master Dao that the enemy approaching at this time was not the real Hun cavalry, but groups of slaves.
The slaves are nothing more than meat shields, and they don't have the ability to shoot the Qin army from a distance, so. The Qin army's heavy cavalry did not have to worry, it would be attacked by the guerrilla wolf pack tactics of the Huns, and what they had to do was to recuperate. Wait for the moment when the order to attack is given.
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Two hundred steps.
One hundred and fifty steps.
Tension spread among the captives.
Finally, the climax that made the captives the most excited came, and it was the Heavenly Master and Taoist disciples who took the lead in launching the action to remove the Xiongnu nails, and they swarmed up. With the stones picked up from the ground, and the advantage of crowding, one after another Xiongnu nails were smashed to death in the crowd.
Riots and shouts. It burst out in the pitch-black crowd.
The helpless cries for help of the Huns lasted only for a while, and then they were declared silently dead, compared with the slaves who were several times more than them, the individual bravery of the Huns, like a small wave, was instantly swallowed by the sea.
"Spread out on both sidesβ!" In the crowd, from time to time, there were Heavenly Master Daoists shouting, trying to command this group of slaves who had lost order. The slaves in the front and middle section began to consciously disperse under the shouts of the Heavenly Masters, and fled towards a place where they could hide in the darkness.
However, on the side of the team, the slaves close to the Hun army formation did not have this luck, and after witnessing the abnormal situation in the slave group, the Hun cavalry behind the slaves also began to come to their senses, and they began to raise their war spears and urge their war horses to rush towards the slaves.
For a moment, the sound of mournful screams rang out.
The slaves who lost their relatives in an instant had red eyes, and impulsively, the young men among them fought hand-to-hand with the Huns behind them unarmed, hoping that before they died, they could pull the Huns off their horses and then beat each other to death.
"Da Qin, attack!" Cao Xin, who had been waiting for a long time, roared, took the lead, and rushed to the enemy's formation. The heavy cavalry that followed Cao Xin was like a dark cloud sweeping through the night, killing the chaotic Hun enemy formation.
Heavy riding of healthy horses.
Knocking through all the obstacles that stood in his way, a stout Hun Qianchang had just pulled the bronze spear out of the captive's chest, and before he could react, he felt a gust of wind blowing in his ears.
"Who?" The hot pain in half of his head made the Hun generals angry, and the Hun Qianchang, who had few opponents in the tribe, tried to turn his head, wanting to see who attacked him.
"Porphyry!"
The dull sound drowned out all his thoughts.
The cavalry of the Qin army grew over the spears of the two, pierced straight into the abdomen of the Huns, and then, penetrating through the back, the Hun generals who were strung on the spears like sugar gourds only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and their chests were like knives wringing, which made him feel painful.
"Uh, Qin Manzi, damn it!" The wide-eyed Hun commander spurted a mouthful of blood from his mouth, and with a little strength in his right hand, he threw the bronze spear at the opponent who knocked him over.
"Choke!" The copper spear collided with the iron armor, and after a crisp and weak crisp sound, the head of the copper spear of the Huns broke open and fell to the ground.
On the contrary, the Qin cavalry who had been hit only paused slightly, and continued to charge the bloody enemy on the spear as if nothing had happened. Seeing this scene, the unwilling Hun generals could only close their eyes in pain.
Heavy riding is like a bamboo.
In the confrontation between order and disorder, the Qin army laughed once again to zuihou, and the individual bravery of the Huns completely lost its role in the confrontation with the collective liliang.
On the side of the Luo Jia army, the Qin army was progressing smoothly, while at the southern foot of Tianchi, the Western Regions coalition army led by Li Zhongxiang was harvesting and tightening the Huns' front step by step in another way.
Warriors of the Thirty-Six Nations.
All come from the desert oasis with yellow sand, and they are much more accustomed to the climate and topography of Central Asia than the Huns, who have just arrived.
In the years of tacit warfare, the Western Regions coalition army, the cooperation between the various arms of the army has become more and more tacit, and, more importantly, the organization and discipline of these soldiers have been greatly improved, they are under the command of the coalition command headed by Li Zhongxiang, crossbowmen, archers, heavy armor soldiers and strong barbarians, taking turns to impact the single and fragile defense line of the Huns.
Offensive guerrilla.
It is the strength of the Huns.
And defensively.
Obviously, these warriors under Helian Bi are not good at it, they will neither build walls like the Central Plains, nor do they put up a phalanx battle formation like the Romans in the West, and the so-called defense of the Huns only depends on a little joint force in numbers. What's more, from the very beginning, the Huns did not think about how to defend.
"Attack!"
The generals at all levels of the Western Regions Alliance Army raised their swords and shouted loudly one by one. Thousands of soldiers rushed into the enemy formation with fearless courage and rushed the stunned Huns to pieces.
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"What? What did you say? The Qin people broke through the second army formation, how could this be! Helian was horrified.
In just one hour, the front of the Xiongnu army in the south and the east was shaken at the same time, how is this possible? In these two directions, he sent 30,000 elite soldiers and fierce generals each, even if the Qin army could tear it apart, it would be impossible to defeat the Xiongnu tribe at once.
What's more, in the hands of the Huns, there are still tens of thousands of slaves of Wusun and Daxia, and even if these meat shields are cut one by one in a queue, it will take more than an hour.
"Da Dan Yu, yes, it was a slave riot, we were caught off guard, General Zuo's tribe has suffered more than six thousand casualties, if we don't retreat, we will be all finished."
"Report to Da Danyu, the Qin army on the right is approaching the Chinese army camp, let's retreat quickly!"
Helian Bi was stunned by one defeat after another, and not long ago, he was still immersed in the joy of Lian Zhan Lianjie, and he never imagined that as soon as he fought with the Qin army, he suffered a big loss.
"Hey, let's go! The generals on the left and right were ordered, and they were not allowed to take a step back without receiving the order to retreat. Helian Bi's face turned pale, and he ordered hatefully.
A strong man breaks his wrist.
The shouts and tears of the Qin army were getting closer and closer, and Helianbi did not dare to guarantee that when he retreated westward, he would not encounter the enemy's resistance again.
"The big order is gone!"
"Da Danyu has escaped!"
"Bullshit, what Helian Da Shan Yu is, just a coward, a sinister villain, we were fooled." After Helianbi and his cronies fled, the rest of the Hun soldiers who were waiting for reinforcements finally found that they were desperately fighting in front, while their Dadan Yu had slipped away early.
"If you don't fight, just surrender to the Qin people." In the middle of the night, in desperation, the Huns, who had lost the will to fight, began to lay down their arms one after another.
The sporadic battles could not change anything, and after a brief discussion before the battle, Li Zhongxiang's Southern Route Army stayed to clean up the mess, while Luo Jia led the Central Route Army to continue to pursue the remnants of the enemy. (To be continued......)