Section 1322 The Terrible Xu Army
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For a time, on both sides of the straight, there were many voices and horses neighing.
However, in the big tent of the Chinese army, Yizong convened a meeting of all the officers above Sima level.
Hundreds of officers crowded the whole tent.
In the center of the big tent, a huge improvised combat sand table has been erected, and at the same time, a detailed map of Yaoyang, White Sandalwood, and Slippery Salt has also been hung on it.
"The scouts have just reported that a large number of Hun cavalry have been found on the road north of Yaoyang and Yaoyang...... "Yi Zong took the baton and said: "Just the Daxu found has three sides...... Two of them have already been identified......"
"They are one of the ten thousand horsemen directly under the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and they are called the 'Xu Su Army'......"
The officers of the Flying Fox Army all turned pale when they heard this.
Xu Junjun!
It's an old friend......
Especially for the officers of the Flying Fox Army, they and their predecessors have spent the most time dealing with this Xiongnu royal court and ten thousand horsemen in this world.
Since the establishment of the Flying Fox Army, and even, before the establishment of the Flying Fox Army, their predecessor, the garrison army stationed in the Flying Fox Mouth Beihu, has been dealing with this Hun cavalry, and even, in history, the main opponents of the predecessors of the Flying Fox Army are this Xu Jun Army and the two cavalry of Zhelan and Baiyang that are now defeated under the Han Army.
As a direct subordinate of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, this Xu army has left a profound impact on the Flying Fox Army in its history.
There is even a school captain, who once fought against the Xu Army.
But the officers of the northern and southern armies were confused.
These young people didn't know that this terrible Xiongnu cavalry had committed the sins they had committed in the Great Wall, but they just thought that the name of this cavalry was so weird, and it didn't look like a strong army.
Seeing this, Guo Mao, the commander of the Flying Fox Army, said to his adjutant general: "General Xu, please tell you, this army, which is known as a dog's tooth......"
"No!" Vice General Xu stood up and bowed to Yizong and all his comrades: "A certain Xu family rejuvenates the country, a certain brother, so Xu Zhe, the captain of the Flying Fox Army, ......"
When he introduced himself, he immediately made all the generals awe-inspired.
As we all know, the Flying Fox Army is the mobile reserve corps of the Great Wall Corps of the Han Army, a firefighter, where to save the fire.
Since the beginning, General Ling Mian Feng Taizong Xiaowen Emperor established this army in Feihukou to fight against the Xiongnu, the Flying Fox Army has gone through 18 years and has gone through seven captains.
Among the seven captains, three of them shed blood on the Great Wall and sacrificed their lives heroically.
Xu Zhe was the last of the three sacrificial captains.
Soon after the first emperor ascended the throne, the Xiongnu military ministers tore up the Han-Hungarian contract and invaded the south.
Its main force was divided into two routes, one from Yunzhong County to the south, and all the way from Shangjun to Kou.
Yanmen Pass was broken by the Xiongnu in this battle, and the country was in a mess, and tens of thousands of people were killed, wounded, missing, and taken captive.
The light cavalry of the Huns even crossed the Beidi County, and the beacon fire appeared again in the Ganquan Palace.
It was also in that battle that Xu Zhe, then the captain of the Flying Fox Army, was surrounded by the main force of the Huns in the Pavilion Tao between Dai Zhao when he rushed to the aid of Yanmen Pass, and died in battle.
It is precisely in honor of his brother that Xu Xingguo will change his name to Xingguo.
At that time, the Hun cavalry raged in the territory of the Great Wall until the spring of the following year.
Almost the entire Daibei was trampled by the hooves of the Huns.
Twenty-one cities, including Yanmen Pass, Shanwu, Mayi, Wolf Mengsai, and Guangwu, fell to the enemy.
This was the greatest humiliation of the Han dynasty in modern times.
And in that battle, it was the Huns' Zhelan, Baiyang and this Xu army that broke through Yanmen.
Now, Zhelan has been defeated, and the Aries army has been wiped out and is in a state of collapse.
But this Xu army did not invade the south because it followed the military ministers to the west.
This made the Flying Fox Army resentful, especially Xu Xingguo, who dreamed of crushing this canine cavalry known as the Xiongnu Shan Yu, trampling on its Daxu, and putting the head of its 10,000 cavalry commander at the bottom of Jingguan to comfort his dead brother!
As the saying goes, what knows you best will always be your enemy!
Although Xu Xingguo was eager to crush the Xu army immediately, he was very clear about this Hun cavalry.
This is a terrible cavalry not much inferior to the Zhelan!
Suppose the Zhelan people are crazy.
Then Xu Junjun is a psychopath!
The behavior of a madman, you can also predict, the behavior of a nervous person, you will not even figure it out.
"Xu 纰, is a transliteration...... The real name of this Hun cavalry, in the Hun language, is auspicious and the meaning of the beast, its big battle flag, to the Hun legend of the auspicious beast white wolf as the totem, therefore, also known as the white wolf horse! Xu Xingguo said slowly.
"White Wolf Ride!" Even Yizong was moved.
Xu Junjun, Yizong has no influence, but the white wolf rides, he has been famous for a long time.
Over the years, Xiuyiwei and Da Honglu repeatedly reported to the imperial court on the Xiongnu's western expedition.
In the relevant information, it can be seen many times such as 'Shan Yu went west, ordered the white wolf to ride west for 300 miles, and lived in the south of Weishui ...... after Kang'
'Daxia, Kangju, Yueshi, the coalition army of 50,000 horsemen, the formation of 'all battles', its soldiers to the strong array of giant shields for the middle army, the Huns can not break, only angry, but the white wolf cavalry 7,000 horses, from the coalition flank raid, the big break, the coalition army collapsed, the dead are countless......
And so on and so forth, and so on, and so on, and so on,
Even this expedition, before leaving, the Son of Heaven also specially instructed 'If you encounter the Huns and white wolves, Qing should seize the opportunity to break his army, so as to severely demoralize the Huns'.
"General Xu continues to ......," Yi Zong said with a serious face.
White wolf ride!
Shan Yu's canine teeth, known as the strongest ten thousand horsemen in the Hun royal court, there is no one.
Once with the Zhelan cavalry, together as the elite of the Xiongnu Empire to suppress the national fortune and dominate the world.
In recent years, this cavalry has disappeared from the East, though.
But in the West, its reputation is enough to stop children from crying at night.
At the beginning, Wusun betrayed the Huns, and it was this army that killed the Wusun people the most.
According to the accounts of the Wusun people who fled to the Han Dynasty, the White Wolf Cavalry, after defeating the Wusun tribe, often tortured and killed prisoners of war.
They are even more terrible than the Zhelan.
Zhelan people are only fierce on the battlefield, and when they get off the battlefield, they generally do not easily deal with prisoners of war.
But the White Wolf Cavalry was different.
This barbaric cavalry, even did, stripped all the surrendered Wusun women naked, and then dug out their *** and took out their hearts to eat alive.
Even women, the most valuable prisoners of war on the prairie, were not spared.
You can't expect any kindness or morality from these guys.
"The Xu army fights, similar to Zhelan......" Xu Xingguo reminded the generals of the Han family: "But they are different from the Zhelan people, the Zhelan cavalry, if they go crazy, they will not care about life and death, but once the Xu army goes crazy, they will kill their own people!" Nine years ago, the Xiongnu into the Kou, breaking the Yanmen, good nothing, my brother led the army to the north to help, between the Dai Zhao, encountered the Xu army, my brother led the army of 3,000 people, in the north of Guantao County in the smelting water array, with the material officer as the middle army, the two wings with swords and shields, and the crossbows of the great powers behind the formation of a thousand ......"
"That's indeed a good place to defend......" Yi Zong nodded when he heard this, this time he had passed by Yeshui, and he knew something about the local area, and the army with his back to Yeshui could effectively defend against cavalry raids with the local mountains and woods.
Xu Xingguo also smiled bitterly and said: "Indeed, as the general said, at the beginning, my brother did block the surprise attack of the Hun cavalry...... However, then, the Xu army appeared......"
As a survivor of that battle, Xu Xingguo unfastened his armor and revealed his chest, on which there were several scarred but still clearly visible arrow wounds.
"These injuries are all marks left on me by Xu Weiren......"
Recalling that battle, Xu Xingguo said: "I still remember the charge of the Xu people...... Its forwards have no formation at all, which seems to be reckless, but in fact, they cooperate with each other tacitly, one rider falls, and the other rider immediately fills the position...... And...... The army charged, but if the front rider hesitated slightly, the rear rider would draw his sword and kill those who hesitated......
"If this is the case, it will be impossible ......to break through the defense line of our army," Yi Zong listened and asked: "General, please tell me about the combat characteristics and combat methods of these captives, and try to ...... as detailed."
As Jun Hou said...... "After putting his armor and clothes back on, Xu Xingguo said: "If there is only madness and speed, Xu Junjun is just a group of reckless men who are not worth mentioning......"
"In the past, many people, including my brother, were contemptuous of the charge of this Hun cavalry after seeing it, and they didn't pay attention to it, so they suffered many losses!"
Yi Zong also nodded, relying on brute strength, maybe in a single or several people in a fight, he can have an advantage.
But in the combined battle of thousands or even tens of thousands, brute strength is useless.
As long as the commander organizes properly and intercepts layer by layer, then no matter how many and crazy these barbarians are, they are just delivering food.
Especially for the Han army, especially the main army of the Han army, which was very disciplined and organized.
A well-defended camp with basic fortifications as a support is enough to resist 10,000 cavalry for a day in the field.
As long as it lasts for a day, the follow-up reinforcements arrive, and even if you can't defeat the enemy, you can retreat with your whole body.
"The crux of the problem is that the archery skills of these cavalry are ......," Xu Xingguo said with palpitations: "These cavalry are the reliance of the Huns Shan Yu, and among the other Huns ten thousand horsemen, among the five hundred horsemen, if there is one eagle archer, it is already considered elite...... However, among the Xu Jun army, as seen in a certain year, there is almost one condor shooter or quasi-condor shooter for every ten horses! ”
"His archery skills are superb, and his accuracy is very high!"
"Fifty steps away, you can do the arrow without missing a shot!"
"My brother, that's what I ...... suffered."
Xu Xingguo closed his eyes, recalling what he saw and heard that day.
The Hun cavalry, more than 50 steps away from the Han army's formation, suddenly exerted their strength collectively, arrows rained down, and the accuracy was amazing.
More than 100 officers in the front row fell in an instant, and most of them were officers, or soldiers in key positions.
Then, suddenly, they spread out to the wings, and kept shooting, making the most of their archery advantages.
You must know that at that time, whether it was the Xiongnu or the Han Dynasty, there were no stirrups and saddles, and the rider had to open the bow on horseback, and it was a high-speed moving horse, which was difficult in itself, and ordinary people needed to slow down or simply stand still in order to open the bow.
But these Huns were born riders.
They are on smooth horseback and can also shoot their bows with ease.
At that time, his brother immediately suffered a big loss because of this, and the material officer in the front row suffered a heavy loss.
The crossbowmen in the back row, with their arrows, could hardly pose a threat to the scattered and high-speed cavalry.
His brother's army, so the formation was in disarray.
In the field, the infantry faced the cavalry, and once the formation was confused, the consequences could be imagined.
That battle was the biggest defeat of the Flying Fox Army since its founding.
The 3,000 army was driven down by the Huns like dumplings.
There are countless dead, and in the end, only more than 100 people can survive.
Xu Xingguo was lucky, he caught a piece of the wreckage of the chariot in the icy river, and then the buoyancy was not drowned, even so, after he was rescued, he took a full year to recover from his injuries.
But his brother and other comrades didn't have such good luck.
After that time, the Flying Fox Army cultivated for three years, and it was not until he ascended the throne that he slowly recovered.
"So many Condor Shooters!" When Yi Zong and the other Han army officers heard this, they also gasped.
The Hun eagle archers, even today, are a big problem for the Han army.
These Huns' marksmen have always been the priority targets of the Han army's elimination and annihilation.
The big yellow crossbow in the past, and the current god arm bow, are all tailor-made for them.
The order of attack of all long-range strike weapons of the Han army has always been that of the Condor - the nobles - the officers.
"We must find a way to eliminate this white wolf cavalry, the Huns' Xu Jun army!" The decision was made almost immediately.
The Condor Archer, the strongest soldier of the Huns, was also the backbone of the Huns.
Even in the Han Dynasty, it takes more than three years to train a marksman, and at the same time, this soldier needs to have good talent.
And in the Xiongnu, Yizong believed that the requirements were definitely more demanding.
This Xu army is probably the army formed by the Huns who transferred the elite of the whole country.
Destroying him is equivalent to breaking one of the Huns' arms, and even, it is equivalent to breaking half of the Huns' bodies!
Therefore, this army must be annihilated!
Even, even if you let go of the Huns Shan Yu, you must destroy it!
The reason is very simple, the Huns died a single Yu, and another one can be established.
However, the Xu army is the same as Zhelan, there should be only one, and if it is eliminated, it will be impossible for the Huns to form another cavalry of the same kind in at least ten years!
"Let's talk about the other two 10,000 horsemen...... Yi Zong also sat up straight, Xu Jun's army was already so elite, and the other 20,000 horsemen, Yi Zong felt that he might not simply go there.
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Not...... There are some private matters today, so there are no codewords during the day - (to be continued.) )