Chapter Forty-Eight: The Mountains Surrounded by Regiments
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After Li Tian led his people to break through the barrier of the Huns on the west side, he quickly rode his horse and marched, and after breaking through the encirclement, Li Tian only had 1,600 people left in his hands, and soon they rushed to the peak on the west side of Gaolan Mountain.
Without pause, under the leadership of Li Tian, 1,600 Han troops got off their war horses, took weapons, carried feather arrows, and galloped all the way to the peak.
Ten minutes later, 1,600 strong bows appeared on the vast mountain peak, and 1,600 sharp feathered arrows were also aimed at the large number of Hun cavalry that were about to appear at the bottom of the mountain.
Li Tian arranged for his soldiers to stand in various dangerous positions on the mountain peaks, preparing to resist the attack of the Xiongnu.
It was not for nothing that Li Tian chose this place as a place to stop the Huns, because there were three lines of defense.
Although the peak on the west side of Gaolan Mountain is only more than 60 meters high, the mountain is bare, without any shelter, but its width has reached more than 500 meters, and the most important thing is that there are two naturally formed trenches on its mountainside.
The first trench is more than 30 meters below the peak, the depth is generally about a little more than one meter, but it stretches for nearly 400 meters, almost surrounding most of the peaks, even though the height of this trench is different, some places are two or three meters deep, but some places are not even one meter, but this is a pure natural line of defense.
The second trench is at the position of fifty meters on the peak, but the second trench is only more than 200 meters long, only around the peak less than half a circle is enough, these two trenches are two lines of defense, soldiers can rely on feather arrows to shoot the Huns, but also establish a buffer zone, as for the third line of defense, is the top of the peak.
Even though this mountain peak has a large slope that can lead directly from the bottom of the mountain to the peak, it doesn't matter, Li Tian has sent people to bulldoze the first and second ditches and the slope leading to the top of the mountain, and Li Tian also arranged for soldiers to deepen the trenches, until the depth of each trench reaches about one meter six or five before stopping, and the trenches that are too deep are chosen to fill in.
But Rao is like this, and it is impossible to hold out here for too long.
Although there were three natural lines of defense, its height was too short, only more than sixty meters, but Li Tian had no choice.
While the soldiers were stubbornly digging deep into the trench and leveling the slope, Li Tian ordered his soldiers to shout loudly towards the position of the evil king.
"Evil King, your son is in the hands of my Li Tian, you have the ability to save him!"
On the easternmost peak of Gaolan Mountain, after hearing this sound one after another, the Evil King of Hun was angry enough to breathe his blood all over his body, and the golden wine glass in his hand fell on the grass at his feet, and the wine was spilled all over the ground, and even his boots were wet with the wine, but now the Hun Evil King couldn't care so much, and hurriedly looked at the source of the sound.
The evil king saw the stubborn figures of the Han soldiers on the west side of the mountain, and at the top of the peak, under the feet of a Han general, a young man wearing a gorgeous Hun robe and a few Hun buns on his head was stepping on the bottom of his feet.
Because of the distance, the Hun Evil King couldn't see his son's current look clearly, but he must have trembled more than a little when he thought about it, and when he thought of it, the Hun Evil King's heart was dripping blood, his son, his eldest son actually became a prisoner of the Han army!
Don't be afraid, my son, for the sake of the Father, this is here to save you!
The sky was red, and he trembled up and down, biting his purple lips, staring at the Han troops who were showing off their might on the mountain peaks not far away, and the evil king roared.
"Someone, mobilize 10,000 soldiers and horses for this king, storm that mountain peak, and rescue the eldest prince with me, and never let him fall into the hands of the Han army!"
The evil reason is gone, in fact, in this case, he has no reason anymore, for a father, can he watch his son fall into the hands of the Han army and become a lamb to be slaughtered?
Li Tian underestimated the weight of the son of the Hun Evil King in his mind, he thought that he could only attract 6,000 enemy troops at most, but he didn't expect that the Hun Evil King would actually draw out a full 10,000 troops!
This guy ...... It's ruthless enough.
The reason why the Evil King of Hun transferred so many people to save his son, in addition to what he just said, there is a more important reason, that is, the King of Hun Evil ...... I can't stop it.
This is his only son.
The evil king is forty-five years old this year, and he has five or six daughters, but there is only one son, originally there were three, but the other two ......
One died in infancy, and the other died of illness last year, and now he only has such a son left.
And...... The Evil King has an unknown characteristic, and that is that he ....... Not down there.
Don't look at him this year, he is only forty-five this year, but I don't know why, the evil king has become more and more bad in recent years, and in the last year, he has not even had sex with his wife and concubine beside him.
And this also shows that the evil king will only have one son in this life, just such a one, but if there is a little hope, the evil king will also fight hard to save him!
The reason is six words, he can't be rejected!
Li Tian's strategy finally worked.
Use the son of the evil king to blackmail the evil king, let him lead the army to defeat himself, and at the same time create a chance for Huo Qubing to win.
A simple method, a tragic price, but in Li Tian's heart, as long as he can win, everything is worth it.
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After seeing that his only son became a prisoner of the Han army, the evil king immediately ordered to transfer 10,000 soldiers from the battlefield to rescue his son with him, in addition to his original five thousand iron horsemen, the evil king of Hun Tu from the rear army of King Hutu has a very tough attitude to transfer 5,000 people, no matter how King Hutu jumped like thunder, scolded, the evil king did not care, and even, the evil king of Hun continued to curse King Hutu in his heart.
It's not your son, you really don't know how to be in a hurry!
Soon, the 10,000 Huns besieging Huo Quai's army slowly withdrew from the battlefield and rushed to the mountain on the west side of Gaolan Mountain, where Li Tian led 1,600 soldiers to guard.
The 10,000 iron horsemen left, the pressure of Huo Quai's illness was doubled, and the Han army began to organize counterattacks continuously.
The two sides soon fell into a stalemate again.
On the battlefield, wielding his golden knife and killing three big Han horsemen who killed him one after another, King Luhu, looking at the Hun army gathered at the foot of Gaolan Mountain in the distance, flashed a trace of anger on his rough face, and spat extremely angrily.
"Evil bastard, his son is gone, and he is actually at this important juncture when he is about to annihilate the Han army, he has transferred so many soldiers and horses to leave, if this makes the Han army defeat into victory, I think he will have the face to live!"
The evil king is not as unbearable as King Luhu said, in fact, he also understands that in this situation where he is about to annihilate this Han army, the behavior of suddenly leading his troops away is irrational, and can even be regarded as stupid, for details, you can refer to the analysis report of "On Why the Big Wolf Can't Eat Sheep".
In addition to being really anxious to save his son, there is also the fact that the evil king is very confident, although he has currently transferred 10,000 elite soldiers and strong generals, there are still more than 18,000 soldiers fighting with less than 6,000 Han troops.
So far, the battle has been fought until noon, and both sides have lost nearly 2,000 people, and the casualties of the Huns seem to be greater, which has to be said to be a miracle.
18,000 to 6,000, although he led the army to leave, it may lead to the inability to completely eliminate the Han army in a short period of time, but the Han army on the mountain peak is only more than 1,000 people, why did he transfer 10,000 troops, isn't it to be able to kill them all as soon as possible, save his son, and then lead the army back to help, and completely eliminate Huo Quzhi.
In the eyes of the Hun Evil King, it won't take long to annihilate the Han army on the mountain peak, at most it will be more than an hour to solve the battle, and at that time, he is leading the army back to help, and in one go, he will directly annihilate this Han army that has given him a headache and feared for a long time, it is simply why not.
In the eyes of the Evil King, Li Tian and the 1,600 soldiers, even a piece of big fat in the bowl, were already in his mouth, and it only took a moment to eat them.
But the Hun Evil King didn't expect that such a small hillside and so many thousand people could actually stop the 10,000 army under his command alive for a full seven hours!
On the battlefield, as soon as King Luhu's voice fell, and he was about to continue to attack and kill the rest of the Han army with his men and horses, a loud roar sounded, even like a tiger roaring and a dragon's roar.
"King Luhu, Lao Tzu is the double-sword general Zhang Taishu, and I will meet you, the first brave general in Hexi!"
King Luhu was so frightened by this roar that he couldn't help but tremble, and looking at the source of the sound, King Luhu only saw a Han general with more than a thousand elite horsemen, but he was covered in blood, brandishing two terrifying swords in his hand, and drove his horse to kill him.
The Han general is very brave, but the close-fitting armor is covered with thick blood, from a distance, it looks like a bloody person who has just crawled out of the pool of blood, and the majestic face is not clear because of the blood, only the pair of eyes, very godly.
After silently looking at the Han general who rushed on a horse, King Luhu turned over his golden sword, and immediately rushed forward with the Hun cavalry behind him, and soon the two sides stood together.
And Zhang Taishu and King Lu Hu also fought together at the first time of the battle.
"Bang!"
The three big knives collided together, making a piercing sound of gold and iron, staggering back and forth on horseback, and the soldiers on both sides of the fight were shocked by this loud noise and subconsciously stopped their hands and covered their ears, which shows how piercing the collision sound caused by the intersection of these two weapons is.
After one move, Zhang Taishu failed to hack King Luhu to death, and King Luhu failed to kill Zhang Taishu, and the two of them continued to ride their horses on horseback to kill!
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At the foot of the western peak, densely packed with groups of Hun cavalry, they had already dismounted their horses and formed a formation at the foot of the mountain, ready to attack at any time.
Li Tian stood in the first trench on the peak, his right foot stepped on the ground outside the trench, and his left foot remained in the trench, and the blood-stained sword was inserted into the soft ground on the side.
Touching his chin, Li Tian looked solemnly at the Huns who were about to attack at the bottom of the mountain, in his eyes, the mountain peak he was on seemed to be completely surrounded by the Huns like a tide.
Looking at it, in addition to the Hun cavalry, it is still the Hun cavalry.
In his line of sight, it seemed that the Huns were not standing at the foot of the mountain, but a group of white ants, so that the number of Huns could be known, after all, under this peak, there were 10,000 people.
And around Li Tian, it has long been full of Han soldiers with bows and arrows, the first trench is like this, the second trench is like this, and the top peak is also the same, 1,600 Han soldiers are evenly distributed in every corner of this short peak, and the strong bow in their hands has not been relaxed for a moment, silently waiting for the Huns to attack.