Chapter 172: Strike Again
Li Shuhu took the 8,000 cavalry of Lin Xicheng and 10,000 heavy crossbow dragoons to converge with Duan Zigang's 8,000 cavalry from the north, it was already late at night at this time, Duan Zigang did not stop the routine harassment every night, but today he reduced the scale, and the continuous harassment in the past three days was actually to prepare for tonight's raid.
"Zigang, have you done all the traps for the preset position?"
"It's all right, let a few generals of the dragoons take the lead to see the place, don't run to the wrong place in the dark at that time."
"Didn't you leave someone behind?"
"There's nothing wrong with being careful1
"Hehe, yes, the Beida camp is mine, this time I have to burn the camp of the Wuhuan people to the ground."
"Well, I'll hand over the reinforcements from the east, and after that's done here, you put three rockets, and I'll retreat."
The Wuhuan people stormed for a day today, even if they knew that there would be harassment by the Han army at night, they couldn't resist the physical fatigue, besides. Isn't there a unit on duty in shifts?
In the second half of the night, the sudden thunderous sound of horses' hooves woke up the sleeping Wuhuan people, but before they could come out of the tent, the rockets in the sky were about to fall on their heads. Mixed in with it were the bows and arrows of the Han cavalry.
Because of the continuous rockets, the firefighting work is very difficult, and there are a large number of bows and arrows mixed in it, the firefighting is to risk your life, and the winter is the dry season, even if there is heavy snow around, but in the camp. The snow has been removed for the sake of keeping the ground dry, and it is impossible to find snow to extinguish the fire. I tried to dig up the earth to extinguish the fire, but the ground was frozen like iron.
Seeing that such passive firefighting was not a way to do so, the guard of the North Battalion, Hata, immediately organized his troops to prepare to rush out, and in his consciousness, the troops that could fire rockets were all infantry. As long as chasing them out can eliminate these damn infantrymen, it's earned.
It's a pity that the black light is blind, and when he rushed out of the camp gate, he was attacked by the opposing cavalry. Looking at the density of the bow and arrow, the number of Han troops is not a few. After finally breaking through the camp gates, Hatta commanded his cavalry to light torches in the snowy fields. The infantry units that were rapidly retreating were charged, and as for the archers cruising around his troops, he didn't care so much now.
It's a pity that when he rushed to the infantry formation 200 paces away with 30,000 cavalry, he was hit by the heavy crossbows of the infantry.
Hatta desperately hit the horse, and the cavalry around him also desperately urged the horse, while using the stirrup to hide, to prevent being hit by the crossbow arrows, and suddenly the cavalry who rushed in front of him turned on their backs, and the cavalry team of high-speed impact suddenly crashed into a ball, and some cavalry were thrown high and fell to the ground.
With the help of the faint firelight, Hatta found that the flat ground has been made out of a series of threshold-like ice edges, and there are many waist-high inverted horse stakes in it, of course, the mole hole is also indispensable, the width of this trap is not very large, presumably because of the relationship of time, but this trap really blocked the crazy impact of the cavalry, and now the nearly 30,000 Wuhuan cavalry who have stopped have become the target of heavy crossbowmen two hundred steps away, The assault cavalry behind him was also constantly consuming the troops in the rear and on both sides with their running fire.
Khatta was about to crack, he understood that he couldn't hesitate at this time, and there was only one way to break this dead end, and that was to 'rush/
"Rush! Rush over to me! Do whatever it takes! 1 Hatha roared hoarsely.
In this short period of time, the crossbowmen's crossbow arrows have not stopped, and the crossbowmen have adopted a three-stage shooting mode, one to improve the continuity of firepower, and the other to increase coverage.
Just when Hatta was about to die to impact the defense line of the heavy crossbowmen, Li Shooting Tiger found this fighter and immediately issued an order to impact, now the opponent's cavalry has lost its speed, Li Shooting Tiger's cavalry changed its spear and plunged in from the enemy's two ribs, because it was dark, everyone's sight was actually not good, but the attacking side had an advantage, because the side that launched the attack only needed to maintain the formation and follow the teammates to rush on, but the attacked side was a little troublesome, because they didn't know who was the teammate and who was the enemy, Don't dare to attack with bows and arrows, the Wuhuan people are not equipped with spears, and they still work when the scimitar charges, but when they are charged, it is really not very useful.
The heavy crossbowmen lowered the shooting angle, almost flat fire, even so, the power of the heavy crossbow did not weaken at all, the front row of the Wuhuan cavalry who tried to impact the trap belt fell like mowing grass one by one, even if they could hide under the belly of the horse to avoid the crossbow arrows, but the horses could not avoid the crossbow arrows of this heavy crossbow, the war horse fell, the knight in the cavalry charge, in the case of poor vision in the dark night, even if they were not trampled to death, the dense crossbow arrows shot from the opposite side would not let them survive.
The heavy crossbowmen rolled back while shooting, and soon approached the horses they placed behind, and after shooting the last arrow in the heavy crossbow, the heavy crossbowmen got on their horses one after another, and turned around and ran, Hatta saw clearly, but the distance of two hundred paces could not be broken through, and he could only watch these heavy crossbowmen get on their horses and walk away, so angry that Hatta almost vomited blood.
And his follow-up troops have been pierced by the Han army's assault cavalry at this moment, even if Hatta can catch up now, the number of troops that can keep up is very limited, and if he doesn't look back, the Wuhuan cavalry behind him can be slaughtered by the opponent's assault cavalry.
Hatta had no choice but to turn around and join the follow-up troops, and finally drove the Han army's assault cavalry away. But these Han cavalry were not in a hurry to retreat, but watched aside, and rushed up to bite when they had the opportunity to take advantage of the darkness until Hatta wisely retreated to the camp. The Han cavalry retreated beyond range.
The three rockets were very conspicuous in the night sky, and the duan who was cruising around the reinforcements in the eastern camp to shoot the enemy just showed a smile and loudly beckoned his subordinates to retreat.
Hatta returned to the camp, and soon reinforcements from the Eastern Battalion arrived, but the Han army had already disappeared in the night.
After some counting, in addition to the countless losses of the material tent, more than 3,000 slave soldiers were shot and burned to death, and he led the team to attack the opponent's crossbow formation, but he lost more than 8,000 cavalry. This night attack, coupled with the loss of more than 10,000 during the siege during the day, originally nearly 100,000 troops in the Northern Battalion, now there are only more than 70,000 left.
What's worse is that. The Wuhuan people have no way to deal with those heavy crossbow dragoons now, if they come to fight every day and run, the Wuhuan people will not be able to catch up at all, and it is impossible to set up an ambush on the grassland of Pingchuan. Besides, the periphery is now the most active place for the Han army and the Inhumans, and if there are few ambush troops, they will be eaten directly by the other party at any time, so how can they hide their tracks if there are many ambush troops?
So. The appearance of the heavy crossbow dragoons put the Wuhuan people in a situation of being passively beaten. This situation will not change, let alone the siege of the Wuhuan people. Think about how to avoid being burned to death in your sleep.
When Hatta had a headache, Li Shooting Tiger and Duan Zigang were not idle, but went around in a circle, and attacked the southern camp of the Wuhuan people again, this time because there was no reinforcement from the East Battalion, Li Shooting Tiger repelled the Wuhuan troops who went out of the camp to clear the attack, and once again used the heavy crossbow dragoons to carry out a second attack, because the Wuhuan people are tidying up the camp at the moment, the damage caused by the dragoons is particularly huge, and the Wuhuan Clearing Force that attacked again chased after it in vain, in addition to being shot by Li Shooting Tiger in the periphery A lot, Nothing was chased, but fortunately, it was finally dawn, and the Han army retreated.
After daybreak, the two camps in the north and south were miserable, not only the tent was burned, but the camp was full of corpses, and the two camps lost nearly 30,000 people in one night, which was as huge as the siege loss during the day, which was really unacceptable.
The Wuhuan people's offensive slowed down the next day, or rather, they were unable to attack at all, and now the Wuhuan people have to seriously consider whether they are looking for Xianbei people to help, in one day and one night, more than 200,000 Wuhuan troops have died a quarter, and this battle cannot be fought.
The players in the city didn't know what method Fang Zhiwen's troops used to carry out the night attack, but from the fire in the Wuhuan camp that night and the scene they saw the next day, the Wuhuan people probably suffered heavy losses last night.
The Wuhuan people withdrew the camps in the north and south directions, and all concentrated in the east, so that the three camps in the shape of a zigzag made Li Jiehu not easy to start, but it didn't matter, according to the current situation, Li Jiehu was going south, and his task was to break through the camp on the northern grassland of Guliu Town, where there were more than 400,000 people waiting for him to plunder.
After exchanging 4,000 dragoons with Duan Zigang, Li Shuhu, who was full of pride, quietly went south with 12,000 turquoise cavalry and 6,000 dragoons, he was the first to lead so many turquoise cavalry troops, and more importantly, these troops he led were to put an end to the grassland hero, and from then on, there was no longer a need for this heroic man on the grassland.
The Wuhuan people gathered their troops on the east side of Fengning, which was equivalent to letting go of the encirclement of Fengning City, the system post station had begun to operate again, and the materials needed by Fengning City were also continuously transported, and Duan Zigang was able to send the prisoners back to the city, and replenish the battle damage and grain and grass equipment.
Since Fengning City has been fully open to players, coupled with the crazy bombardment of the national media the day before, there are players constantly appearing in the system station, and then after replenishing the supplies in the city, quickly lead the troops out of the city, go to the grassland, and establish their own merits, Fengning City is now very much in combat missions, raiding Wuhuan, harassing Xianbei, looting the Hu people, clearing the Hu stragglers, collecting strategic materials, etc., from the air, Fengning City is like a huge monster, constantly swallowing, and it seems to be a strong heart, It provides a strong impetus for the Han family children who conquered the grassland. To be continued.
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Text Chapter 172 The Strike Again is over.