Chapter 589: Arraying to meet the enemy
A warm wind blew across the wilderness.
Under the light of the wind, the green grass all over the field undulated like waves.
On the open field, the 100,000 Huns had already lined up in formation, quietly waiting for their enemy to come.
Liu Bao, who led the army of 100,000 Huns, rode a jujube red horse, carrying a straight knife commonly used by the Huns on the battlefield at his waist, his body stood straight, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stared into the distance.
Behind him, the army of 100,000 Huns was a huge cavalry.
Countless Hun cavalry stood on the warm wind in the wilderness, the wind stirred the sheepskin on their bodies, and blew the wool rolled on the sheepskin slightly trembling.
The eyes of all the Huns were staring in the same direction as Liu Bao's, and the tension that could not be concealed could be seen on the purple-colored faces of each Huns.
The Huns, who lived on horseback since childhood, were born warriors.
They drove away the wolves and dared to fight the tigers and leopards with their bare hands, but this time, this army of 100,000 natural warriors had a solemn atmosphere.
On the faces of every Hun person, they could not see their contempt and contempt for the Central Plains people in the past, but instead there was a deep sense of unease and nervousness.
Liu Wei only led eight people, and the news that Cai Yan was rescued from under the noses of 100,000 Huns had already spread.
The people of the Central Plains, who knew about the matter, regarded Liu Wei as a hero in their minds. The Huns, who were enemies of Liu Wei, were worried about the future fate of the Huns because they were enemies of the king of Luoyang, who had come and gone without a trace.
Heroes, if they are allies or commanders, can bring endless fighting spirit to the soldiers under their command. But if there is a hero among the enemy, it is undoubtedly a great morale blow to an army.
One hundred thousand Huns, in terms of numbers, far more than the Luoyang army they were waiting for. But among these 100,000 people, including the commander Liu Bao, not a single one had the slightest confidence in the decisive battle that was about to start today.
Silence, in the huge array of the Huns, there was a silence that made people almost breathless. Even the war horses under the crotches of the Huns seemed to know that the enemy they were going to deal with today would be the most difficult enemy for the Huns to deal with since the Han Wu and Han Ming dynasties.
At the end of the horizon, an inky battle flag finally appeared.
The sunlight shone directly on the ink-colored battle flags that were waving in the wind, and the jet-black battle flags were also plated with a layer of gold edges.
With the appearance of battle flags, a red wall gradually emerged in the vision of Liu Bao and the 100,000 Hun army.
Liu Wei, who was wearing golden armor, rode a snow-white war horse under his crotch, and walked at the forefront of the Luoyang army.
Immediately behind him were the five hundred dragoons under Deng Zhan's command who were the best at swordsmanship.
The big red robes on each dragoon guard were very clean, just like a newly issued military uniform, and they became more and more red and bright. In particular, the golden feathers on their helmets, which trembled slightly under the wind, added a bit of might to them.
Following the line of dragoons is Yu Linwei, who will be the vanguard of this battle.
Like the Dragoons, the feathers' robes were as clean as new, and the red feathers on their helmets gave people a bloodstained feeling when they shook.
With the appearance of the Dragoon Guard and the Yulin Guard, the figure of the 20,000 Luoyang Army cavalry who followed Liu Wei to the Hetao also appeared in the field of vision of the Huns.
Although the heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army did not have the towering feathers on their helmets, but were only decorated with red tassels, their majestic posture was no less than that of the second guard soldiers walking in front of them.
Groups of heavy infantry of the Luoyang Army, walking in neat steps, followed behind the cavalry.
Seeing the array of the Huns from afar, Liu Wei, who was walking in the front, raised an arm and made a stop gesture to the army behind him.
The cavalry in front of them reined in their horses, set up a neat formation, and stared at the Hun array that had been waiting for them in the distance.
The cavalry stopped first, but the infantry of the Luoyang Army did not stop.
The heavy infantry, holding long knives in both hands, divided into two arrays, first bypassed behind the cavalry, and in front of the cavalry's array, a defensive formation was formed.
And the Pu Dao soldiers, who were holding the Pu knife in one hand and the shield in the other, advanced a little further, forming a solid human wall in front of the array of the Mo Dao soldiers.
The strong crossbowmen with the smallest number of people, after the two whole columns of Mo Dao and Pu Dao were stationed, quickly ran between the two arrays, and put out the formation that was most suitable for exerting the lethality of the strong crossbowmen.
Looking at the Luoyang army in a red robe in the distance, which looked like a group of flames burning from a distance, Liu Bao's heart couldn't help but start beating drums.
In terms of numbers, the Huns were twice as large as the Luoyang army, but the Huns' formation was loose, and they didn't feel like an army with steel discipline at all, but more like a group of well-equipped rebels.
Compared with the neatly dressed and well-equipped Luoyang army, the Huns were like a group of hungry beggars, and they had already lost the Luoyang army for a while in terms of military appearance and military style.
"Roar, roar!" As soon as the formation was formed, the soldiers of the Luoyang Army raised their swords and shouted in unison.
Their shouts were powerful and powerful, and the shouts made to boost morale drifted across the open field, drifting towards the Huns who were about to fight them in the distance.
When the Luoyang army shouted in unison, Liu Bao also pulled out the straight knife on his waist.
He pointed the tip of his sword straight to the sky and held it high, as if a craftsman had recently carved a statue of Liberty on the prairie.
When Liu Bao raised the straight knife, there was a long and thick sound of bullhorns in the Xiongnu array.
The sound of "wooing" horns and the roars of the soldiers of the Luoyang Army echoed in the empty field.
Standing in front of the Luoyang Army array, Liu Wei raised an arm to stop the shouts of the Luoyang Army soldiers, and then waved his hand back as if he was very careless.
After Liu Wei waved his hand, the array of the Luoyang Army changed again.
The five thousand feather forest guards, who were originally standing behind the dragoon guard, slowly advanced under the leadership of Gao Shun, first passing behind the Pu Dao Formation, and then passing through the strong crossbow array and the Mo Dao Array, and finally standing at the forefront of the Luoyang Army array.
At the same time as Yulinwei advanced forward, the 20,000 heavy cavalry of the Luoyang Army also advanced a little. However, they didn't advance much, but when they reached the position where Yu Linwei was before, they stopped the war horse.
In the Xiongnu array, the melodious sound of bull horns came and went. The Luoyang army stopped roaring, but the Huns let out a roar like courage at this time.
While roaring, many Huns also slapped their shields with straight knives, and the shields in their hands "crackled".
The two armies confronted each other from afar, looking at the Huns who could not see the end of the black pressure on the opposite side, Liu Wei's face was always expressionless.
Since he first led the army in this era to the present, although he has also had the experience of encountering the enemy face to face, he has never arranged troops with the enemy like this time, and put on a posture of array warfare.
In array combat, the two sides fought for the formation, the courage and number of the soldiers. And the so-called surprise victory, for array warfare, is just some subtle control done in specific battles.
When he was in Yanzhou, Liu Wei had read a military book about array warfare, but what was recorded in the military book was only that the two armies met and what kind of formation should be used to deal with it, and there was no very detailed introduction to how to deploy troops and horses to really start a fight.
Looking at the Huns who were twice as large as them, Liu Wei's brows furrowed slightly, and he turned his head and shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Order General Gao, Yulinwei advance!" ”
The pro-soldier first responded with a fist, then turned his head, raised his voice, and shouted: "Yulinwei advance!" ”
As the soldiers shouted this voice, a flag bearer waved the big flag he was holding back and forth, and gave the order to advance to the Yulin guard at the front of the array.
After receiving the order to advance, Gao Shun raised his arm holding the spear, and waved it forward, although he did not speak, he rode his horse forward first.
Five thousand Yulin guards took off their crossbows from their backs one after another, and followed Gao Shun's slow horseback towards the Huns' large array.
After Gao Shun's training, when Yu Linwei advanced, almost every war horse had almost the same stride. The soldiers slowly advanced forward, and between the war horses and the war horses, they were actually parallel, and from the side, each team of Yulin guards was overlapping, as if only one person was riding forward.
Seeing Luoyang Junyu Linwei slowly advancing from a distance, Liu Bao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he also shouted behind him: "Facing the enemy in the front!" ”
After receiving the order to meet the enemy, the cavalry in front of the Huns also gently clamped their legs towards the belly of the horse, urging the war horse to meet the Yulinwei of the Luoyang army.
The Huns' array was loose, and there was absolutely no formation between the soldiers and the soldiers. When they rode horses, each person was an independent individual, not to mention the distance between the war horses and the war horses, but the speed of the Hun soldiers riding horses was uneven and messy.
The soldiers on both sides who were ordered to advance were not very fast. When they reached a distance of fifty or sixty paces from the enemy, the officers and men of both armies reined in their horses and looked at each other at a distance.
After all the Yu Lin guards restrained their horses, Gao Shun raised the spear in his hand again.
However, this time, he did not immediately give an order to Yu Linwei, but silently waited for the main formation of the Luoyang Army to convey the new task.
Like Gao Shun, the Hun general, who led the team forward to meet the enemy, also raised his hand holding a straight sword, staring at the Luoyang army that had already raised his strong crossbow and aimed at them from a distance.
Gao Shun and the Xiongnu general's hands holding swords were held high, and both of them were waiting, waiting for the main formation to give the order to attack.