The 400,000 Southern Barbarian army, under the leadership of Meng Huo, slaughtered the royal court, and he vowed to take back the foundation of his survival, and he was inseparable from the Eastern Barbarian and the Great Han.

The reason why he made such a big noise was that he had other purposes.

Great Qin made it clear that he would give up his support for Meng Tu, making him feel that there was an opportunity, thinking that the Qin Emperor must have felt that Meng Tu was overwhelmed, and that he wanted to concentrate his forces to deal with Rong Di in the north, so he withdrew from the affairs of the Southern Barbarians. If he could show enough combat power, the Qin people would definitely turn to support him, because it was impossible for Great Qin to watch Nanban become the sphere of influence of the Great Han.

has just defeated the second son, and while the morale is high, he will definitely be able to defeat the Han Barbarian Coalition in one go.

Meng Huo was very confident in this, and while waving his army south, he did not forget to send an envoy to Daqin to contact.

The march of 400,000 men stretched for several miles, and the convoy of baggage carried the baggage made the march not very fast, and it was only necessary to walk for half a day, but now it had to be walked for a day and a half.

Meng Huo is not in a hurry, the royal court has just been occupied by the Han barbarian coalition army, and the hearts of the people in the city are still facing him, and when he leads the army to appear outside the city, he only needs to stand on a high place and raise his arms, and there will inevitably be 10,000 people in the city.

"Report!" a sentry came from a distance, and shouted anxiously: "Oh no, the king, the main force of the Han army has been found in the west, and it is less than thirty miles away from us!"

Meng Huo's eyes widened and he asked, "How many people are in the Han army?"

The sentry replied: "There are no less than 200,000 people, all under the banner of the Iron Eagle Legion, mainly cavalry, and they are rapidly approaching us. ”

Meng Huo frowned, and snorted: "It's only 200,000 people, even if it is the main force of the Han Dynasty, in the territory of my Nanban, I don't want to go wild! Order the whole army to stop, quickly occupy the favorable terrain, and prepare to meet the enemy, this king wants to teach the Han people how to use cavalry to fight, if they use the method to deal with the Rong Di people, it will be a big mistake." ”

"Yes!" the heralds left together, conveying the barbarian king's orders everywhere.

The tactical literacy of the barbarians is very high, just now still marching, less than a quarter of an hour, has completed the conversion of marching and defense, the main cavalry has been assembled, they will hang the round knight's shield on the left arm, the right hand holds a strong bow, ready to compete with the Han cavalry cavalry riding and archery skills.

Look at the infantry military formation, two people in a group, together to lift the length of the spear more than three zhang, the tail against the ground, nearly two feet long spear head in the sun shining cold light, this is used to deal with the cavalry impact of the effective method, even if it is a heavy cavalry, in front of the spear phalanx is only the part of the halberd sinking sand.

Meng Huo's formation looks very simple, in fact, it is very exquisite, the infantry army array is located in the middle, the cavalry phalanx is located on the two wings, and slightly forward, at first glance it looks like the horns on both sides of the bull's head, known as the bull's head array.

The advantage of this formation is that when the enemy charges towards the center, the two wings can quickly move forward, encircling and dividing the enemy in front until they are completely annihilated.

Of course, if the enemy chooses two flanks for the attack, the infantry phalanx in the middle can quickly reinforce both flanks.

The reason why Meng Huo was confident was because he had an army of 400,000 troops, while the Iron Eagle Legion only had 200,000 horses, and with a force of two to one, he was fighting on his own soil, which could be said to have an advantage.

As far as the eye could see, thick smoke billowed from the west, and the enemy's vanguard could already be seen.

Meng Huo picked up the binoculars and looked carefully, and soon saw the mighty eagle on the enemy's flag, and said to himself with a smile: "If you don't stay in the north honestly, but you have to go thousands of miles south to meddle in the affairs of the Southern Barbarians, this king wants to make the Han Emperor pay the price for his arrogance." ”

Putting down the binoculars, he picked up the command flag and ordered in a loud voice: "All the barbarian warriors, listen, the Han army has nothing to fear, in our southern barbarian territory, it is not their turn to spread wild! Since they rushed up to find death, we don't need to be polite to them, beheading one person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and the beheading of two people will be rewarded with double the reward, and so on, and after the end of the war, we will be rewarded for meritorious deeds!"

The surrounding brutes all shouted loudly, their eyes full of fanaticism.

After a while, the Iron Eagle Army completely appeared in the front of the formation, and the speed of the attack decreased again and again, until it reached a distance of ten miles, when it completely stopped and began to line up.

The Iron Eagle Army's formation was a little slow and seemed to be disorganized, which made Meng Huo scoff, seriously doubting that with such military qualities, how did they dominate the north?

Time passed minute by minute, and after half an hour, the formation of the Iron Eagle Legion began to take shape, if it weren't for the fact that the formation had been set up in advance, Meng Huo would definitely lead the army to rush over directly, and the melee would still be able to win.

On the side of the Iron Eagle Army, Cao Ziang was mixed in a group of generals, and because he was demoted to a partial general, he was wearing ordinary general armor, and he was not conspicuous in the team.

The generals were more or less puzzled on their faces, and some people couldn't help but ask: "General Cao, we can obviously complete the assembly in ten minutes, why do we deliberately delay, isn't it to make the barbarians on the opposite side look down on us?"

Cao Ziang's face turned pale: "Why do you ask so much, this is Coach Ye's arrangement, let you do whatever you want, talk less and do more, understand?"

The old general's face flushed, nodded and said, "Understood." ”

Cao Ziang glanced up at the other party's strict military formation, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, in case the enemy couldn't hold his breath and rushed over, would 200,000 people be able to stop it?

Fortunately, the enemy had no intention of charging.

No one knew that there was another team that quietly went around to the rear of the Southern Barbarian Army Formation, led by Meng Zhun, the Eastern Barbarian King, and was the 300,000 elite cavalry under him.

In order not to attract Meng Huo's attention, this group of men and horses made various preparations at the beginning of their departure, such as removing the bell around the neck of the war horse, wrapping the horse's hooves with thick rag sheets, and striving not to make a sound during the march.

Meng Huo's attention was all drawn to the Iron Eagle Legion, and he didn't notice that someone was about to stab him in the back.

After a long time, Meng Huo became more and more puzzled and asked, "Why aren't the Han soldiers in a hurry at all, what are they waiting for?"

The general shook his head: "I don't know, it stands to reason that the Iron Eagle Army shouldn't be so bad, they all say that there is no weak brigade under the fame, they ......"

Before he finished speaking, a few small soldiers hurried from behind, and said breathlessly: "Oh no, another army has appeared behind the army, and the number is more than the Iron Eagle Army, and it looks like it is about to be killed!"

Meng Huo suddenly gambled, only then did he realize that he had been fooled, and hurriedly asked: "How many people are there on the other side, and how far is it from our rear army?"

"No less than 300,000, it's the Eastern Barbarian Army! It's less than three miles away from us, it's all cavalry, and it can arrive in minutes. ”

"Huh?" Meng Huo's eyes widened, if he wanted to fight with the Iron Eagle Army, he had the confidence to win, because the Iron Eagle Army had just arrived, and he didn't know the tactics of the Southern Barbarian Army.

However, the Eastern Barbarian Army and the Southern Barbarian Army are out of one family, and it is not possible to talk about who takes advantage and who suffers in frontal combat, but Meng Zhun's army is killed from behind and has already taken a big advantage.

Changing formations?

It's too late in time, and as long as such a huge military formation moves, chaos is bound to occur, and when the time comes, not only the Eastern Barbarian army behind, but even the Iron Eagle Legion will rush over to take advantage.

"Iron Eagle Legion, what a poisonous strategy!" Meng Huo gritted his teeth angrily, and said in a deep voice: "Order the rear army to prepare to meet the enemy, it is bound to block the charge of Meng Zhun's army! All he brought are cavalry, as long as he blocks his first round of attacks, the subsequent attacks will be weak, as the defender, at least we have an advantage to rely on." Order half of the men and horses on each flank to attack after the enemy's attack has been thwarted. ”

On a small dirt bag in the distance, Ye Yunyang is Liu Yuying on his left, and Dongfang Yixue is on his right.

Liu Yuying pursed his lips and said: "Obviously, Meng Huo was cheated by you again, the Iron Eagle Legion is responsible for attracting the attention of the enemy, and the Eastern Barbarian Army quietly stabs the knife from behind, and when the Southern Barbarians are in chaos, the Iron Eagle Army can take advantage of the fire to rob, and I don't know how long Meng Huo can hold out under the attack from both sides?"

Ye Yunyang smiled indifferently, he left Yin Falcon and 100,000 Nanshan troops to garrison the royal court, and sent the Iron Eagle Legion and the Eastern Barbarian Army to ambush Meng Huo, and deliberately chose this place in Yima Pingchuan as the battlefield, in order to facilitate the deployment of a large number of troops.

The Eastern Barbarian army rushed towards it in a wedge-shaped formation, firing the first round of arrows at a distance of 800 meters, and then began to release arrows freely.

Feathered arrows flew like locusts into the enemy's ranks, mercilessly reaping lives.

The enemy raised their shields one after another, but due to lack of preparation, many people held the smallest knight's shield in their hands, which could not protect the whole body at all, and many more people had no shield to use at all, and they were shot down in an instant.

After a few rounds of arrow rain, the Eastern Barbarian cavalry put down their strong bows and showed their swords and guns, and rushed into the enemy formation.

The combat effectiveness of the Eastern Barbarian Army far exceeded Meng Huo's pre-estimate, originally he didn't take Meng Zhun seriously, because for a long time, Meng Zhun was cowering under the protection of the wings of the Han Dynasty, and he had never fought any hard battles before, and this time he was under the leadership of the commander of the Han Army, so that he couldn't help but feel contempt.

The actual situation is that Meng Zhun these 300,000 people are the warriors he carefully selected, the barbarians are warlike, and they need to obtain rewards through their military exploits.

The two armies engaged, and the formation of the Southern Barbarians was quickly torn apart.

The Southern Barbarians appeared vulnerable, and the Eastern Barbarians' victories continued to expand.

Ye Yunyang didn't expect Meng Zhun to fight so smoothly, and said to Chen Shilai with emotion: "Send a signal to Cao Ziang immediately, the Iron Eagle Army can be dispatched, don't delay time, otherwise the credit will be snatched away by Meng Zhun." ”

"Okay!" Chen Shilai nodded, took out two command flags, and waved them in the direction where the Iron Eagle Legion was.

Cao Ziang saw it for the first time, raised the long sword in his hand suddenly, and said loudly: "The athletes of the Han Dynasty, the opportunity to make contributions has arrived, rush forward with the general, and capture the barbarian king Meng Huo alive!"

"Capture Meng Huo alive!" 200,000 people shouted in unison.

Meng Huo on the opposite side was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, watching 200,000 people rushing over, he was only frightened in his heart, not to mention the two-sided attack, and the total strength of the other party far exceeded his own, this battle could not be fought!

He subconsciously turned his horse's head and shouted in a slightly trembling voice: "The whole army obeys the order, follow this king to break through from the east, don't fall in love with the war, the whole army breaks through!"

With that, he ran away.

The soldiers also fled, without incident, and then turned into a rout.