Chapter 582: The Battle of Wujin (Part II)
The sound of drums and trumpets echoed each other, and all kinds of long soldiers came and went where the foot soldiers on both sides met each other.
The Han army used standard weapons, and they were trained to cooperate with each other very skillfully.
The Huns have all kinds of weapons, although there is no lack of brave people, but the situation is inferior.
The crossbowmen on both sides were not idle, and they kept their strength to shoot a rain of arrows.
Archery is not a game where you can shoot as much as you want with a mouse click.
Even if the archer has undergone rigorous training, the explosive power of his arm in a short period of time has a limit, usually after shooting twenty or thirty arrows in a row, his arm will be weak and weak to shoot again.
So there are very few rapid shots, and they are all rounds of archery.
The crossbowmen of the Han army were commanded by officers, and most of them were covered by waves of arrows.
The bows and arrows of the Huns were sparse and scattered, and they could not form a covering shot, and their deterrent power was naturally reduced.
However, at this almost face-to-face distance, even if it is a soft bow used by the Huns, an arrow comes in front of them, unless it is shot at the iron armor, otherwise it will be difficult for the Han army to resist here.
When the halberd soldiers in the front of the Han army stabbed and stabbed, the sword and shield hands in the back row quickly stepped forward, rushed forward from under the long halberd of Rulin with the cat's waist, crashed into the military formation of the Huns, and slashed indiscriminately with weapons such as ring head knives.
Many Hun foot soldiers were cut to the thighs and calves, and they all screamed miserably and fell to the ground and tossed.
The Huns also followed suit, and many Huns with short soldiers also began to rush towards the Han army like crazy.
There is an infinite strength of Bai Chang, wearing a snatched iron armor, waving the bone in his hand to swing the long halberd in front of him, rushing into the Han army formation, raising his hand is a bone to smash the skull of the Han army in front of him.
The other hand raised a cowhide shield to block the attack on one side, and the bone in his hand swung again, smashing directly into the face of a young Han soldier two steps away.
Looking at the young Han Jun's face full of horror, Bai Chang's heart was happy.
'Poof! ’
The two halberds stabbed at almost the same time, and Baichang swung one with his shield, but the other halberd stabbed straight into his skull.
With years of battlefield experience, Bai Chang desperately turned his head sideways to dodge.
But before he could catch his breath, the halberd suddenly retracted, and the horizontal blade cut his neck, and blood gushed out like a spring.
Baichang's eyes lost their brilliance, and his strong body fell heavily to the ground, followed by countless pairs of big feet.
On the battlefield of fierce fighting, the role of individual martial arts can play very little.
Strict formation and tacit cooperation are far more important than individual martial arts.
When the front line engaged, the two wings were not idle.
The cavalry of the Huns began to shock the flank array regardless of casualties.
Cavalry combat is not a rush upward.
It's a tactic, but no one usually does it.
Cao Mengde once said that cavalry has war horses, trap horses, and rangers.
If you really want to fight for your life, you must divide the layers to attack, constantly look for the weak points of the step formation, and then seize the opportunity to desperately attack the weak points.
The Huns' foot soldiers are indeed very bad, and their combat effectiveness is basically in line with the level of Wuhu and Han.
But their cavalry is not bad, otherwise it would not be possible to suppress the Han army for so many years.
First, the rangers stepped forward and kept shouting and shouting, intimidating and disrupting the Han army's military formation, and consuming the Han army's bows and crossbows.
After that, the war cavalry kept up, constantly attacking and testing the Han army formations one by one, looking for weak points.
When there was confusion in the Han army's position, the trapped cavalry immediately launched an attack, and shot against the Han army's bow and crossbow, and directly rode into the Han army's military formation.
The techniques and tactics of its cavalry have already been used extremely skillfully after the conditioning of Mao Dun and the old two generations of Shan Yu.
"King! Han Duwei and Zhao Duwei sent people to ask for help! ”
Hearing this, Li Yunze, who was on horseback, had a calm face, "Tell them that this king has no reinforcements for them, and he can't hold the wings, so he will be punished for losing his army." ”
In the Han Dynasty, military merit and military law were not so complicated, and after the abolition of corporal punishment, in addition to combat punishment, only beheading was left.
If the army formation is broken and the battle is defeated, it will definitely be beheaded.
Li Yunze must have a reserve, and the more than 1,000 Zhongshan State sergeants under him are both the Chinese army and the reserve.
But Li Yunze will not use this force on both wings.
"Fortunately, it's the Aries tribe this time." Li Yunze, who was paying close attention to the battle situation ahead, whispered to himself, "If Da Shan Yu's direct leader comes, then I will have to open the altar and summon armored vehicles." ”
The reason for this is very simple, because the Aries tribe is both farming and herding, and they are more agricultural.
Therefore, the main force on the battlefield is actually those who are numerous.
If you change to a big order and lead it directly, at least tens of thousands of cavalry will gallop mightily, then Li Yunze will have to hang up.
Looking up at the sky, Li Yunze muttered to himself again, "Aren't you going to let it out?" Your front is about to collapse. ”
He pinched the reserve and waited for the fighter, and this fighter was the reserve in the hands of the big boss of the Aries Department opposite, that is, the tens of thousands of people in the army.
The Han army, which was dominated by foot soldiers, had no way to take the Hun cavalry galloping on both wings, because they couldn't catch up with others.
Although Li Yunze also thought that the Huns might be brainless and took the initiative to use cavalry to attack the convoy in the rear, it was obvious that they were not so stupid, and their precious troops were used to impact the array, rather than stupidly hitting the cart with a bow and crossbow.
If you want to win, you have to defeat the Chinese army of the Aries tribe.
If you want to defeat the Chinese army of the Aries tribe in one go, you must first let it go out to the battlefield.
The battle of the front army became more and more intense, and the Han army Chen Xin's department, with excellent equipment, good organization and high morale, gradually crushed the front army of the Huns.
The battle was very brutal, especially the sergeants in the front row, there were all people in front of them, left and right, and the only option was to keep stabbing forward.
Their battle loss rate was also very high, and by this time in the battle, almost all the halberd soldiers in the first two rows had already lay down.
Chen Xin's troops had 1,800 soldiers, of which 1,200 halberd soldiers lined up in four phalanxes, and now almost half of them have been lost.
Of course, it is not that all of them died in battle, but there are many people who are wounded and unable to fight again, such as being shot in the hands and feet by arrows, etc.
The real most dead were the hundreds of sword and shield soldiers, who rushed into the enemy formation to fight, and once they were wounded, it was basically a dead end.
The Han army, which was already gradually red-eyed, stabbed the halberd in his hand, pulled it back and stabbed it in again, and really mustered up the last strength to fight.
The figure of the sword and shield soldiers who are still fighting in the enemy formation is getting fewer and fewer.
Chen Xin, whose scalp was numb, couldn't help but want to call for reinforcements to King Zhongshan.
He suffered heavy losses here, but in fact, the people of the Aries tribe on the opposite side suffered even greater losses.
Not only are the losses great, but the pawns of these Aries tribes are even on the verge of collapse.
They have been able to persist until now, not because of the high degree of organization, on the contrary, because the degree of organization is too low, and many people are surrounded by the Han army in a mess, and there is nowhere to run.
Subulu was disappointed.
He put the hope of victory and defeat on the cavalry, but the cavalry that attacked the Han army on both flanks, even if they launched a decisive attack and shook the position of part of the army formation, they were still beaten back.
The tenacity of the Han army's foot soldiers made him feel cold.
abandoned the traditional tactics of raiding and harassment, and faced the regular battle with the Han army, the result was so miserable!
A thought crossed Subulu's mind: 'Why don't you try the convoy that is attacking the rear?' ’
The thought swirled around in my head and was abandoned.
The losses were so great that he already wanted to retreat.
But it was also because the loss was too great, so he was unwilling to flee in defeat.
After carefully observing the battlefield for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and issued a new order: "The cavalry will go and block the Han army on both wings, and all the captains, and the canals, all of them will come with me!" ”
The Chinese army of Subulu was about 10,000 men, of which there were about 4,000 cavalry.
He ordered 4,000 cavalry to block the Han army formation on both flanks and isolate the Han army in the zigzag shape.
Subulu also has a lot of battlefield experience, and he can see that the losses of the Han army's front army are not small, and they are close to the end of the strong crossbow, so he decided to take the Chinese army forward and swallow it in one bite!
The former army that swallowed Han'er took advantage of the situation to fight again, and it was best to fight if it could be defeated, and if it couldn't be defeated, it would leave.
After the commander made up his mind, the various units quickly moved and rushed to the battlefield.
Li Yunze, who observed this scene, immediately ordered "Prepare for war!" ”
As the 1,600 sergeants of the Zhongshan Kingdom in the Chinese army, they sorted out the iron armor on their bodies and the weapons in their hands, and pressed forward with Li Yunze's banner.
The three border army captains all thought that Li Yunze's Zhongshan soldiers and horses were elite, and the reason was that all of the more than 1,000 men and horses were wearing iron armor!
Subru ordered the infantry in the front to retreat and regroup, and the Han'er front army was handed over to him to fight.
But he overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Aries tribe, and when the two armies fought fiercely, it was not easy to retreat before the battle.
As a result, the order was issued, and the horn was blown, and the front army, which had long been unable to carry it, suddenly dispersed in a hurry, and all turned around and fled backwards.
There are smart ones, and they also know how to bypass the flanks of the Chinese army.
But there are more sand sculptures, and they collide directly with the Chinese army without a head or brain.
At this time, there is nothing to say, and in the face of the rout, they are directly killed. Otherwise, it is easy to mess up your position and lead to the rout of the whole army.
After a tumultuous mess, Subulu was half dead in anger.
The rout not only blocked the opportunity for the Chinese army to advance and take over the battle line, but also shook the position of the Chinese army and gave the Han army on the opposite side a chance to adjust calmly.
Li Yunze naturally did not let go of this opportunity, and he keenly seized the opportunity.
Ordered Chen Xin's troops to quickly pounce and entangle the middle army of the Aries tribe who were in chaos.
He himself took the soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom and made a sideways half-arc to attack sideways.
Chen Xin really wanted to say that the loss of our department is too great, let me retreat.
But he could also see that the fighter plane was in front of him, so he could only grit his teeth and urge the military sergeants to keep coming forward.
When facing the Huns, the Han army's will to fight was actually very high.
In particular, the Great Wall Legion, which had a deep blood feud with the Huns, had a higher ability to withstand casualties.
In this case, the sergeants chose to grit their teeth and persist and continue to fight.
Li Yunze led a small 2,000 people to prepare a side attack, and Su Bulu was not blind, so he could naturally see it.
When he saw the array of troops glittering silver in the sunlight approaching from the flanks, his back molars chattered.
"Hanerlun!"
Subulu roared, in exchange for his henchmen, "The thousand-man team in the rear is for you, and my tent army is also for you, go over and block them!" Blow the trumpet and let the cavalry come back! ”
The men and horses in front were either confused by the rout, or they were entangled in the front of the Han army and could not be mobilized.
Now he can still build the soldiers and horses in his hands, and only the thousand-man team behind the point is left, as well as his own tent army.
Subulu knew very well that he must not escape at this time, and if he escaped, even if the 6,000 foot soldiers were explained here, even the cavalry would be partially trapped.
Counting the previous losses, it is almost more than 10,000.
This is more than 10,000 strong men, and the Aries tribe is only tens of thousands of strong men in total, if it is really lost, it is shaving bones and digging out the heart!
He could only resist first, gather the cavalry in the distance as soon as possible to reorganize the battle line, or at least force the Han army back.
Su Bulu's heart was so cool, he was already frightened by the terrible combat power of the Han army, and now he just wanted to reduce his losses as much as possible and return to the tribe with more men!
(End of chapter)