Chapter 114: Powerless

"Woo-" the horn sounded.

A dense array of arrows flew out, the first to be aimed at the cavalry who were shooting around the outside.

Soon, the soldiers activated the loaded crossbow bolts and went straight to the Hun infantry that were killing them head-on.

How can the hussars have any decent armor? It's nice to have leather armor, let alone iron armor!

As a result, the striking effect of the bow and crossbow is considerable.

The soldiers of Fangcai Mansion shot a round of individual crossbows, and the sergeants of the silver spear fired three rounds of bows, which not only drove out the cavalry archers, but also shot the Huns who dismounted and fought on foot in front.

After shooting the bow and crossbow, most of the people picked up spears, heavy swords, large shields, ring-headed knives, long-handled axes, wooden rafts and other instruments, and stood solemnly behind the antlers and baggage carts.

Only a small number of men with superior arms still wielded their bows, ready to wait for the enemy to get closer, and shoot arrows in a less labor-saving way.

The first wave of Huns had already rushed over, and they could even see their appearances clearly.

Or hair, or bunched hair, or even braided hair - obviously, not all of them were real Huns, or most of them were miscellaneous beards.

The battle began immediately.

Wu Changji took the hook and sickle with the rod to hook the horse's legs, and directly hooked the head of the enemy soldier, and Zhao Huai, the chief of the army, raised the knife and fell, and his head fell under his feet with a "bang".

A spear stabbed at the opposite side, and the big shield couldn't cover it, grazing Zhao Huai's ear and passing through.

The robe next to him immediately stabbed and hit the enemy in the throat.

Unexpectedly, a powerful person came from the opposite side, and Mu Yan swept down the two people directly with the sound of the howling wind, and smashed it on the head of the third person, who fell down without saying a word.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew right in front of Hercules.

Hercules screamed in pain, and reached for the shaft of the arrow, and a ring-headed knife slashed directly at his arm, almost breaking his elbow.

Another spear was pierced from the side of the Huns, which was covered by a large shield.

A long axe fell from the sky and directly knocked down the man with the spear.

Inside and outside the antlers, the scenes of hand-to-hand combat come and gore, which is very bloody.

People on both sides kept falling, blood pooling into pools, and feet "clicking" on them.

Jin San held up a heavy lance, first swept it, directly swinging three or four spears, the left and right two people walked forward quickly, the spears were stabbed and retracted, and then stabbed.

In a few breaths, four people had already been stabbed.

A heavily armored Hun roared and rushed in, completely ignoring the empty door in front of his chest, wielding only a heavy halberd, instantly slashing down a man, and then ravaging again, the sharp halberd blade slashed through the throat of a silver-speared sergeant, and blood rushed out.

"Ahh Just as he continued to rush forward, he was shot in the instep and knee and fell to his knees in pain.

"Whew!" The long axe swept at him, slicing off almost half of his neck.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew trickily, and the old soldier of the Silver Spear Army, who was still wielding a long axe just now, was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground on his back.

"Whoosh! Sou! The archers of the Silver Spear Army soon spotted the man who had suddenly cast the cold arrow, and slashed his bow and arrows from the left and right, killing him instantly.

After the five hundred soldiers shot another round of crossbows, the Hun cavalry archers could not withstand the casualties and went away.

Chang Cang did not hesitate at all, and ordered the crossbow to be abandoned with a sword, crossed the antlers, and outflanked him from the left and right wings.

There were still about 2,000 Huns left in the front of the rush, and they were crowded.

The people in front of him kept falling, and the people behind them stepped forward bravely, looking crazy.

This battle is completely exhausting for them, even if they exchange a few people for each other's lives, it is worth it.

And they had no way to retreat, and two hundred paces away from the rear, there were three thousand authentic Hun five cavalry arrays to supervise the battle. If they retreat without a fight, these people will really dare to rush directly to kill.

The soldiers who flanked from the left and right played a quick word, and after rushing into the crowd, the heavy sword slashed and swept without rest.

And their actions finally calmed down the Hun infantry from their madness.

The people in front were at a loss, still slashing and killing each other with the Silver Spear Army, but the people behind had already begun to retreat and fled backwards.

The soldiers did not care about the fleeing enemy troops, but only outflanked the rear, flanked the front and back with the silver spear army, and killed the Huns who did not have time to flee one by one.

The Hun cavalry moved and slowly began to accelerate.

However, in the end, he left a hand, and did not really rush to kill those routs, but bypassed to both sides, and then rushed to the side of the Jin army.

But with such a delay, it was too late to catch the government soldiers who came out of the formation.

They withdrew from the gap, and the silver-lance archers came forward to fire a volley.

The Hun cavalry left dozens of corpses in a daze and retreated.

The room was quiet again.

In just two hundred steps, there were countless corpses of people and horses.

On the two wings of the antler array, there were still two or three hundred corpses of Hun cavalry archers, and no one cleaned them up from morning to noon.

The wind whistled and whimpered, as if singing an elegy for the victims on both sides.

Liu Li, the king of Han Anyang, stationed in Ma Gaopo, looked at everything in front of him wordlessly.

It didn't work!

It's really useless!

Three thousand light cavalry dismounted and fought on foot, and directly hit the bones.

He saw very clearly that there were only more than 2,000 soldiers on the opposite side, who could shoot from a distance, be able to fight in close combat, and all of them were wearing armor and cooperating tacitly.

Not to mention three thousand, if you double it, six thousand will not break through - unless this is six thousand well-trained hoplites.

But where will this come from so many hoplites?

The Han does have elite foot soldiers who are good at fighting, but they are the feather forests and tiger soldiers who protect the Son of Heaven, and this should still be under the tent of Dasikong Huyanyi, and I don't know if there is a big sun.

There are only two foot soldiers near Luoyang, Zhao Gu and Wang Mi.

The former is Wu Bao Ding Zhuang, and his combat power is not strong.

The latter was defeated three times in two years, and finally trained a little person, and was immediately killed all over the field, when will he grow into an elite soldier?

Infantry can't do it, only cavalry, that's walking on one leg, it's really not good.

Fortunately, the Jin army also walked on one leg, and their cavalry could not.

If you want to choose, Liu Li will choose cavalry, fight if you want to, and leave if you don't want to fight, very active.

And very unfortunately, Liu Li's cavalry has now lost the initiative, they must fight, not go.

The third round of the offensive began......

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On the west bank of the stream, the battle ended early.

At the moment when the armored cavalry rushed out, the Hun light cavalry decisively gave up the charge and scattered in all directions, trying to use the speed to consume the Jin people's armored cavalry.

The light cavalry led by Duan Xiong did not give them this opportunity, and a fierce charge directly dispersed the Hun light cavalry that was trying to gather.

The armored cavalry turned around and ravaged the Huns, like a mud cart crashing into the crowd, and everywhere it passed, the corpses were strewn all over the field, and it was unbearable to see.

They repeated the charge twice, until a group of Hun light cavalry made a large circle and tried to hold them back, and then quickly retreated back to the camp, protected by the infantry's bows and crossbows.

After a while, Duan Xiong also returned with light cavalry.

The battle was de facto over.

The less than 4,000 light cavalry on the west bank of Jianshui, plus the 4,000 or 5,000 Zhao Gubu infantry temporarily transferred, could not take down the thousands of Jin troops in the camp at all.

How can this battle continue?

In the afternoon, Wang Mi also climbed a high slope overlooking the battlefield.

He had just arrived.

After receiving the order, more than 3,000 infantry who could ride horses were selected, and they rushed to the west bank of the stream under the stars.

When he heard that more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Shao Xun's troops were going to be surrounded and annihilated, he was both a little excited and a little frightened.

When I heard the composition of the troops again, I gave up directly.

He was really not jealous of Zhao Gu.

The Huns now grant high positions to every Jin general and soldier who is willing to surrender, and even Zhao Gu, a dock marshal, can be a heavy general, can he be jealous?

The quality of Zhao Gu's soldiers and horses reminded Wang Mi of himself in May last year, which was really not good.

Asking them to attack the veteran camp that has been in battle for a long time is purely looking for death.

To be honest, this is also a siege war, and you can make do with the lives of your own people in exchange for the lives of the other party's veterans. If it is a field battle, it will be directly beaten to pieces, and it will not be able to change the opponent's life at all.

The reason why the Shao thieves were reluctant to fight in the field was completely because they were worried about the existence of the Hun cavalry, or they were in a hurry to cross the river and did not want to risk entanglement with them on the west bank.

Otherwise, today's thousands of Zhao Gu's people would have been completely explained in this field.

This battle, Lao Tzu will not fight!

The total number of soldiers is less than 20,000, and if there are thousands of casualties, the cost is even less, fart!

A new offensive was launched on the other side of the river.

Wang Mi Shi Ran looked at it with pleasure.

After this great battle, the imperial court should understand the importance of the infantry army, right? Infantry training should be strengthened, right?

Opportunity, maybe it's coming, hehe.

The main general Wang Mi did not move, and the generals Cao Wei, Xu Miao, Gao Liang and others understood, knowing that the servant was going to preserve his strength, so he talked and laughed, looking at the Huns on the opposite bank who hit their heads and bled in front of the antlers and carts twice, and did not think they were friendly soldiers at all.

Not long after, Liu Rui, the commander of the west bank of Jianshui and the king of Xichang, sent people to urge them to fight.

"Messenger He Caoye!" Wang Mi didn't speak, Cao Wei observed his words, and took the first step to prevaricate: "Our army is traveling day and night, and we will arrive this morning." Lack of strength and energy, why do you fight? ”

"Zhao Anbei's department has attacked twice in a row, but you are sitting here and watching, is it reasonable?" The envoy pointed to the Wubao Ding Zhuang, who were struggling to attack the camp of the Jin army, and asked, "The king of Chu sent the king's servants here not just to watch the battle. ”

Wang Mi still didn't speak, just looked at the Jin and Han armies that were fighting.

Zhao Gu's main force is not here, and I don't know which Wubao commander was sent over, this will be regarded as the second attack. Barely entering the vicinity of the camp, the two sides fought with spears and halberds, strong crossbows, hard bridges and hard horses for a while, and the forts could not bear it again, and hundreds of corpses retreated in a hurry.

The Jin cavalry attacked again, and even the infantry rushed out of the camp and shouted for a fierce battle.

"It's not good, the army is defeated. Pass on our military order to retreat five miles back and reorganize. Wang Mi was "shocked" and ordered.

Cao Wei and the others understood, and immediately went to give orders.

The messenger was so angry that his nose was crooked, and he cursed, but when he saw that no one paid attention to him, he could only leave in a huff.

Almost at the same time, the Hun army on the other side of the river also collapsed, and once again hundreds of corpses were left.

At this point, they had lost nearly 3,000 men and horses, and their morale was almost no longer maintained.

The sun gradually moved westward, and Wang Mi, who was retreating, turned his head to take a look, and the Jin army had begun to gather soldiers, equipment, chariots and horses, and began to cross the river with a swagger.

Nearly 20,000 Huns rode on foot in the east and west of the stream, just looking at them stupidly, unable to do anything.

When the sun was completely sinking in the west, the Jin army had all converged and marched into the ancient city south of the Han River.

The Huns scattered in a hurry and disappeared into the night.