Chapter 304: The Huns Slay the Beast
The cold wind in the desert is more corrosive than the bitter cold.
The conquest of the Xianbei grassland is more complicated than imagined, after a certain altitude, not to mention altitude sickness, long-term wind erosion can also blow down the body of a strong man.
Clothing that is more insulating and windproof is a must-have for walking the highlands. After more than a month of fighting in the desert, Liu Cang had a clearer understanding of the grassland area with higher altitudes in the north of the desert.
Thousands of miles of yellow sand, towering sand dunes set up military flags and tents.
The curtain of the tent is wide open, and there is a table in front of the tent, looking at the surrounding area, the soldiers of the field are arrayed.
The Han army arrays of hundreds or hundreds of people were innumerable and covered the desert.
Thousands of meters away, the horses were restless, and the Hun cavalry in the wilderness were fighting against each other.
"Zheng~" The sound of the piano bursts, Liu Cang is high in the sand dunes, and Cai Yan is caressing the piano beside him.
The sound of the piano spread throughout the battlefield, and with the sound of the piano, the images in Cai Yan's memory flashed in the minds of the Han soldiers on the battlefield.
Thinly dressed slaves huddled beside haystacks in the cold wind shivered, and the slightest wound on their bodies could become fatal hazards.
Slaves with frostbite on their hands and feet were abandoned in the wilderness to die, and slave girls who were played with by strong men in bearded clothes even had a smile on their faces, because in this way they might be able to survive this winter.
The newborn child was taken away by others until the tribe was broken by the Han army, and the emaciated and filthy parents forgot to find their child, and when they found the half-old child, they were only rewarded with a sharp knife pierced into their chest and a face full of disgust.
These are all encounters of Han slaves in the desert, and they are also what Cai Yan encountered and saw during the more than a month of battle.
At this time, through the sound of the piano that Cai Yan felt with feelings, those scenes were once again transmitted to the minds of the soldiers of the Han army as if they were personal experiences.
'Musical empathy'. Cai Yan's own stunt selectively transmits the influence of memories in his mind through the rhythm of music, and this empathetic picture also makes his own soldiers have a common hatred and resentment towards the nomadic army.
After more than a month of invasion of the desert area, hundreds of thousands of people died in the ravages of the eight battalions of hussars.
Raging in the truest sense of the word. Because of the rage, this kind of conquest is much simpler than ordinary warfare, which takes a lot of consideration.
Now, a large number of Xiongnu cavalry troops gathered from the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, and finally formed a military capacity of nearly 100,000 to fight against the desert dunes with Liu Cang's department.
"Kill!" The shouting and killing has begun, but it is not a comprehensive rush, and the battle of the ten thousand armies is not so simple.
The vast array stretched out for miles of battle as a wolf army fought with a group of nomadic cavalry in the west.
Both sides of the enemy are deploying troops to fight each other, both waiting to encroach on each other's weakness somewhere, and they are both waiting for the appropriate time to rush and kill.
This time, the Xiongnu did not run, and chose a battle in formation, intending to use their absolute superiority in strength to surround and kill Liu Cang, a group of Han troops who committed heinous crimes, in the desert.
"Lord, the Southern Huns should have been assembled, with an estimated 70,000 elite cavalry and more than 30,000 slave soldiers." After Liu Cang's death, Jia Xu received a report from the Eagle Falcon Army and reported to Liu Cang.
Liu Cang sat Cai Yan and Bian Ji on the left and right respectively, now it is different from the past, Liu Cang no longer needs to worry about others, female soldiers and female generals, even if they take their mother-in-law into battle, there is no one to gossip.
"Hehe, it really made them up an army of 100,000. Then you can close the net, too. Shaoxian, after slaughtering this army, are you still worried that there will be chaos in the state? Liu Cang sneered, and turned to the rear emperor Fu Li asked.
"If this army is destroyed, it can ensure the stability of the Southern Xiongnu for ten years, but it is also necessary to prevent them from colluding with Wuhuan and Xianbei." Huang Fu Li didn't say anything, Huang Fu Heng thought about it and said.
"There is no need to worry about the future, there is a great opportunity, we should suppress this army first, and we must not let them escape."
"Now that the enemy is outnumbered, we should show weakness first, lead them deeper, and attack our army." Fu Xie, who had not long joined the army, had a twinkle in his eyes, and suggested to Liu Cang as if he was anxious.
Huangfu Song Jizhou Mu was deposed, Liu Cang went out of the customs to kill, and Dong Zhuo also saw the ruthlessness of the attack. The nomads outside the border were massacred, and it would be abnormal if Xianbei didn't fight this side in the coming year.
Seeing that Liu Cang's single-minded engagement with Hu Qiang could not be faked, Dong Zhuo could also be regarded as selling Liu Cang's face, and Huangfu Song returned to the position of the Taishou of Beidi County. If Emperor Fu Song guards the northern land, Dong Zhuo is more at ease, after all, Dong Zhuo only wants to be in power, not to destroy the Han.
Fu Xie has long been labeled as Liu Hong, Fu Xie has governed Hanyang well, and Dong Zhuo naturally cannot let him continue to gain popularity in Liangzhou.
After Dong Zhuo took the throne, it was inevitable that Fu Xie would be removed, just when Liu Cang wanted Fu Xie, Fu Xie was dismissed from the position of Hanyang Taishou and transferred to the north to assist Huangfu Song, who also appeared in Liu Cang's army at this time.
"Run? I waited for them for a long time, how could I let them run. Nanrong, after this battle, give you a battalion of elite soldiers, can you do another sweep of the Xiongnu in Bingzhou? Fu Xie's battle spirit was burning, and Liu Cang asked him.
"This... After all, the Southern Xiongnu have been in the Han Dynasty for many years, and the cutting down of them in the territory may cause unrest to the border people. And even this army needs to be destroyed quickly, so as not to be supported by Dong Zhuo. Fu Xie hesitated.
The Southern Xiongnu returned to the Han Dynasty, and nominally obeyed the requisition of the imperial court, as for why they appeared in the desert outside the Han realm to confront Liu Cang.
Well, anyway, there is no reason why these nomads don't need troubled times, and there is no need to say much about it.
Hanzhong integration, it is good!
But this kind of harmony has never made the foreign high-ranking men of the non-scattered clan system equal, after all, it is integration, and it is not looking for a father. And what will be attracted in the end, the memory of the previous life has already given Liu Cang a clear argument.
"Dong Zhuo won't support it, at least not this group of people." Liu Cang denied Fu Xie's worries, Dong Zhuo was afraid that he would like the Southern Huns to fight him to the death, if he could kill him, the king of Dongping, Dong Zhuo might be more comfortable.
As for Fu Xie's decisiveness towards the killing of aliens outside the Han realm, but he was timid about the aliens within the Han realm, Liu Cang also understood.
"Let the tigers and bears go, and let them win for a while." Liu Cang ordered, and the mountain king lying in front of him stood up and roared with his head held high.
"Roar!" The Mountain King is dressed in armor, and the beast armor with the movable leaf design of the plate armor combat boots makes the Mountain King transform into a steel war tiger.
The king of the mountain and the copper of the mountain drove the tiger and bear out of the battle, and the enemy army on the opposite side rushed out of thousands of cavalry, but the king of the mountain and the copper of the mountain wearing the armor of the beast did not participate in the battle, driving the beast herd to fight, and the two beasts returned to Liu Cang's side.
Mengbeast failed to join the army in the end.
On weekdays, or in small-scale battles, the Flying Bear Battalion with war beasts can also be multiplied in power.
However, in the event of a large-scale battle, the tiger and bear will only cause chaos in the battle situation, and it is normal to hurt the enemy and oneself.
On the contrary, attacking a single eagle is more able to cooperate with the owner to harass the enemy.
There were hundreds of bears and beasts in the thousands of tigers, and it was difficult for them to cooperate with the soldiers, so Liu Cang could only throw them to the enemy as independent combat units.
The tiger armor and bear armor have been designed, but for the time being, they have not taken care of building the beast armor, and the tiger and bear that came out of the battle at this time are not the war beasts of the flying bear battalion, they are all beasts that go out with the army this time.
These tigers and bears were not protected by armor, after all, Liu Cang did not plan to bring them back.
In the future, the war beasts of the generals and soldiers in the army will be equipped with armor stomachs, although they cannot fight together, but the beast army that forms an independent battle in the battle is obviously not comparable to this group of tigers and bears at this time.
The wild tiger and bear rushed to the cavalry on the opposite side, the nomadic cavalry had already expected to face the beast in the hands of the king of Dongping, thousands of cavalry rushed out of the seemingly messy formation, swinging up the sky full of dust, the tiger and bear were not close, and the salvo shot arrow rain, bringing out a large number of casualties of the tiger and bear.
Long knives and spears rushed in formation, throwing ropes and nets to disturb beasts and rushing.
The human body is not as strong as the claws and teeth of wild beasts, but the application of wisdom and weapons has also made humans a creature that any beast needs to avoid.
The man-beast battle in the central battlefield attracted everyone's attention.
The Huns were fierce, and this Hun cavalry of 4,000 people could also be described as brave.
In the face of the unarmored tigers and bears, the prepared Hun cavalry used their superb riding skills and used a variety of weapons to cooperate to besiege the beasts.
Disrupt the attacks of the herd, resist the onslaught of the herd, and then there is a confrontation between the cold blades and the ferocious minions.
In less than 20 minutes of fighting, in the confrontation between the crowd and the herd, the Hun cavalry lost thousands of dead and wounded, and quelled the frontal rush of nearly 2,000 tigers and bears.
"Roar~~!" Beastly roars from the mouths of the humans, they have overcome the herd, and they are convinced that if they do it again, they will defeat the herd with fewer casualties.
The morale of the Huns was high, and in addition to the beast hunting cavalry in the center of the battlefield, the Hun army in the distance also broke out in excitement.
The tribal battle flag waved in the wind, the beasts were slaughtered, and in the sound of horns and war drums, the Xiongnu side galloped and launched a decisive charge against Liu Cang, a tyrannical and vicious Han army.
"Hahahaha~~" The 100,000-strong army shook the sky, Liu Cang stood in the sand dunes, and the sound of wild laughter filled the army.
"These barbarians have been raised by my big man for many years, and I am afraid that there are too many good days, and I have forgotten how to fight!"
"Drums! Spread the flag! Let's let these barbarians see how our Han army fights! "The order was given, and the snare drum was thundering.
"Wind!"
The strong bow is stringed, and the crossbow is revealed.
"Hum~"
The buzz sounded suddenly, and the bed crossbow across the kilometer tore through the eternal sand, and the arrow rain formed by tens of thousands of arrows covered the thousands of Hun warriors who slaughtered the beasts.
The warrior slashed the herd of beasts, and led the army to rush forward. Ten seconds of 'wind' roared, and the rest withered.
"Woo~~~" The horn of the Han army sounded, and the drumsticks broke suddenly.
Thousands of heavy steps stand in front of the Chinese army. After that, Tianji kicked the crossbow, and the field army array moved with the general.
After the beasts, at this time, it is the official confrontation between humans.
The king of Dongping was a tyrant of beasts, and he didn't let the ten thousand army of Huns kill the beasts, and Liu Cang was really afraid that they would escape and be difficult to chase.