'Woo~~~'

The sound of bullhorns in the distant steppe threw the caravan into chaos.

"Get out of here!"

Li Yunze kicked Zhao Yan, who ran over and wanted to drag him on the horse, and strode forward to scold Lieutenant Wu Gang, "What are you waiting for?" Beat the drum and gather the troops! ”

Like Zhao Yan, Wu Gang, who became the lieutenant of Zhongshan Kingdom by spending money to go through the path of the eldest princess, looked at Li Yunze in a daze, a little at a loss.

"Rubbish!"

Li Yunze kicked Wu Gang who was in a daze, and simply ordered to several tun commanders to lead the team, "Beat the drum and gather the troops, line up!" ”

These people all knew Li Yunze's identity, so they immediately accepted the order.

Li Yunze was not idle, he reached out and took a bow to hang on his body, a quiver with thirty arrows hanging on his waist, took a ring-headed knife, and picked up two short spears and stuck them diagonally behind his back.

Zhao Yan stumbled over, dragging Li Yunze's thigh and crying, "King, let's go!" We are guarding the king, and the horse is gone."

'Smack! ’

Li Yunze slapped it to the ground, and the ring knife in his hand was directly put on his neck with a whoosh: "If you dare to disturb the morale of the army again, you will be beheaded!" ”

Let's say, look around at the many assembled sergeants and roar, "So-and-so, the king of Zhongshan, yes!" This battle lives and dies with the sons! ”

'Roar Roar Roar ~~~'

The morale of the sergeants was immediately aroused.

At this time, Lieutenant Wu Gang also came back to his senses and hurriedly stepped forward to put on armor for Li Yunze.

"It's too late." Li Yunze pushed him away, "The whole team." ”

The Xiongnu tribes all knew that if they plundered the caravan, they would not come in the future.

Therefore, from Shan Yu to the nobles of each department, they all strictly restrain their subordinates, and it is no problem to enter the Han land to plunder the grass valley, but it is absolutely not allowed to rob the caravan.

However, the Xiongnu's control over the numerous tribes below was far less stringent.

The caravan not only carried a large number of precious goods, but also countless wealth, which naturally attracted the attention of many tribes.

Therefore, the looting of caravans still happens from time to time.

The caravan brought by Li Yunze, after buying tens of thousands of cattle, was ready to go home.

Because of their large size and large number of people, they met several caravans along the way and followed them to increase their sense of security.

This return trip was not the same way back, because the trade along the way had already gone from Yunzhong County to Jiuyuan County in the former Qin.

It was now occupied by the Huns, including Henan to the south of the Great River.

The caravan crossed the Great River and went south into Henan Land in Jiuyuan County, intending to return to Dahan on the county.

When crossing the river before, many Hun cavalry sneakily watched from a distance and saw that this huge caravan was a fat sheep.

Finally, a few days later, today, a group of Huns launched an attack on this place, where there was no village in front of the village and no store in the back.

Obviously, the Huns chose this place as a battlefield with the idea of killing them all.

It is risky for caravans to go out of the grassland, so caravans will be equipped with force, and the individual abilities of these guards are very outstanding, but when it comes to going to the battlefield to fight, it will become a rabble.

The tribe that attacked the caravan obviously knew this, and perhaps had experience in doing this kind of thing many times before.

The most unfortunate thing about them was that they didn't expect that the largest caravan was composed of the elite soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom.

What's even more terrifying is that Li Yunze is also here!

This raiding caravan can be regarded as a kick in the armor steel.

Li Yunze brought a song of 500 soldiers this time, commanded by Lieutenant Wu Gang.

However, looking at Wu Gang's performance, Li Yunze took power very simply.

At this time, the Han army was still very elite, especially this time, it was the most elite army in Zhongshan Kingdom.

After the king did not flee, but took the initiative to meet the battle to boost morale, the sergeants quickly equipped themselves and gathered in a queue.

The sergeants were silent and stood in their positions in an orderly manner.

They know very well that once they fall into chaos on the battlefield, they are dead.

The two rows at the head were halberders, and behind them were the treasurers, that is, the crossbowmen.

The strong crossbow of the Han army was inherited from the Qin Dynasty, which was well-made and powerful, and was a sharp weapon against the Huns.

After that, there are the sword and shield soldiers who hold the shield and hold the sword.

Li Yunze stood under the flag that originally belonged to Wu Gang with the ring head knife, and several team leaders took the initiative to come over and act as Li Yunze's personal soldiers and heralds.

This was not an encounter, and Li Yunze, who was experienced on the battlefield, had long sensed that something was wrong.

Early on the order for the sergeants to put on the hidden weapons and armor in advance, just in time for the surprise attack of the Huns.

The only thing I didn't expect was that Commander Wu Gang was actually a waste.

But we'll have to wait until we get back.

'Woo~~~'

The horn sounded again, and the Hun cavalry, more than two hundred paces away, began to move.

Li Yunze's expression was very calm, and to him this was just a small scene that was not worth mentioning.

He raised his hand and suddenly pointed forward at a forty-five degree angle, and the team leaders around him immediately roared angrily, "Lift~~~"

The halberders in the first two rows are half-kneeling on the ground, sticking the back end of the halberd in their hands on the ground, pointing diagonally forward.

In an instant, the halberd was like a forest.

"The halberd is good against the infantry, but it is a little less interesting against the cavalry." Li Yunze didn't take the Huns to heart, and at this time he was still thinking about the military system, "Rifle lance or spear are better." ”

As the Hun cavalry on the opposite side got closer and closer, when he rushed within a hundred steps, Li Yunze, who was watching six ways and listening to all directions, suddenly fell with his oblique arm.

The team leaders roared "Release!" ”

The crossbowmen, who had already been prepared, pulled the bracket and shot the crossbow arrows at an angle of forty-five degrees.

'Boom~~~'

The dense crossbow bolts fell into the cavalry of the Huns, and they fell instantly.

The guards of the other caravans arranged on both sides also shot arrows at this time, but they could not form a scale and had little effect.

Facing the Hun cavalry that was getting closer and closer, the Han soldiers in the front row stood still.

Seeing that the opposite side did not collapse or run, the Huns could only turn their horses' heads when they were thirty or forty paces away and released a rain of arrows in their hands.

There is no way, the riding bow used by the Huns is less powerful and has a short range, so it can only come like this.

"Hmph."

Seeing the weak bone arrow fall on the Han army, Li Yunze sneered and raised the step bow in his hand.

Kill three birds with one stone, chase the stars and catch the moon!

Three Hun cavalrymen who were sideways towards the Han army were shot and immediately fell off their horses.

The team leaders who acted as pro-soldiers around them cheered and cheered: "King Divine Shooting!" ”

Li Yunze clamped his four fingers, pulled out three arrows from the quiver again, opened his bow and shot arrows like a cloud, and three Hun cavalrymen landed on the ground.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the Han army also finished reloading, and another round of arrows rained over.

This time, there were many more Huns, because the distance was too close, and as many as thirty or forty people fell this time.

The Huns didn't expect that there were Han soldiers in this caravan, but they couldn't retreat at this time, so they could only continue to ride and shoot with red eyes.

In the midst of the 'buzzing' sound, the sharp arrows on the opposite side also came one after another.

The cavalry and archery level of the Huns is really not bad, and in Li Yunze's opinion, it can be compared with the Turks at their peak.

It's just that their equipment is too poor.

Soft bow, bone arrows.

The Han army that was shot, as long as it was not shot in a place without armor, basically had no problem.

However, it was still some bad luck, who were shot in the arm and thigh or in the face, and fell to the ground screaming and snorting.

Li Yunze's face darkened, and the arrows in his hand swished out quickly, and he put down many Hun cavalry one after another, until he reached out and found that the quiver was empty.

"Beware, King!"

Several team members raised the shields in their hands and formed a shield wall in front of Li Yunze.

In the sound of 'aggressive', at least a dozen arrows were fired in this direction.

Obviously, Li Yunze's previous brave play attracted the attention of the other side.

Li Yunze, who took over a bucket of quiver again, shouted, "Withdraw the shield." ”

The shield was removed, and Li Yunze used the beaded arrows again.

In order to increase their lethality, the Hun cavalry kept approaching the military formation, and the nearest cavalry was less than twenty paces away from the halberders.

Li Yunze no longer used continuous arrows, but instead used single arrows to shoot those who rushed forward, and at the same time he did not forget to observe the battlefield.

After sensing the fighter, he immediately roared angrily, "Enter!" ”

The team leaders around him roared in unison, "Enter!!" ”

The drums sounded, and the halberdiers in the front row quickly got up and pushed forward with their halberds in both hands.

At this time, the crossbowmen reloaded and fired a third round of crossbow arrows, which greatly confused the Huns' position.

"The rate of fire of the crossbow bolt is too slow." Li Yunze frowned slightly, "If it was a strong archer player, he would have won." ”

However, he also knew that training a qualified archer was not easy, and it would take at least a few years of time and investment.

But crossbowmen are much cheaper, and they can go to war after a few months of training.

The 200 halberd soldiers who rushed forward directly crashed into the unprepared Hun cavalry with their halberds.

The halberd hooked the cavalry, and the Huns who were killed by the legs of the horses were in chaos.

The sword and shield soldiers in the back row also quickly stepped forward, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed in to slash and kill.

When the cavalry loses speed and impact and gets caught up in a melee with the infantry, it's almost a dead end.

In the distance, there was the sound of horns, and the Huns desperately beat their horses to escape.

Li Yunze, who shot the quiver again, immediately turned over and began to chase with the only dozens of horses around him.

Although there were only dozens of horsemen, and there were at least hundreds of Huns who fled, the Huns who fled were all heartbroken, and they did not dare to reflexively fight, and let the people in the rear team be eaten by mouthfuls, just like the beggar Ming army that was defeated at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After chasing all the way for more than ten miles, Li Yunze reined in and beckoned the cavalry to gather.

The knights of the Han army were all elated, and this battle was really happy.

Originally, I thought that the king was going to beckon them back, but I didn't think about it, but the king said, "There are at least more than a thousand Huns, and there must be their tribes nearby." The sons scattered and searched, and those who found their tribesmen were rewarded with a hundred gold! ”

(End of chapter)