Compared with the general ballista, Li Hu's ballista has a part of the transformation of skilled craftsmen, those ballistas are not crossbow guns, but a mouth shaped like a crescent blade, inside and outside the blade, extremely sharp, as long as it is launched, the crescent-like crossbow blade will rotate rapidly, where it passes, it must be a person on his back and a horse, with broken arms and stumps all over the ground, which is a murderous design that directly kills and injures limbs.

In addition to the difference in what is fired, the height of this crescent moon ballista is much lower than that of ordinary ballistas, and the purpose is very simple, that is, the legs of people and horses. Most of the time, even the Mingguang armor worn by the general of the Sui army has a lot less defense for the legs than the upper body, and the war horse is even more so, just like trapping the horse pit and mixing the horse, the horse's four legs are also the most vulnerable place.

Although the Sui army was very short of horses and was rarely willing to attack the local war horses, in the face of the absolute superiority of the barbarian army, Li Hu couldn't care much - whether it was important to save the lives of the Sui soldiers or capture the horses of the barbarian army, at this moment, no one would want to choose the horses of the barbarian army!

Similarly, in order to prevent the cavalry of the barbarian brigade from concentrating their forces to attack their own infantry formation, from the day the barbarian army arrived, Li Hu ordered the soldiers to dig a horse pit in front of the expected infantry position.

Like a ballista, the horse trap pit excavated by the Sui army was not the kind of big pit with a length and width of one zhang in size, which was too inefficient, but the kind of small pit that was only the thickness of the bowl mouth and one and a half feet deep, but because the pit was not big, it was dug very high and dense, all over the front of the preset position, and the depth reached three or four miles!

As long as the barbarian cavalry dared to charge at the Sui infantry, then what awaited them was death - a hole the size of a bowl would not hinder the soldiers' footsteps!

The commander of the barbarian army has also dealt with the Sui army many times, not to mention that many years ago as the prince of the barbarian tribe led a diplomatic mission to Luoyang to meet the Sui Emperor, for the Sui army's tactics and equipment, and even combat effectiveness have a deep understanding, and even personally competed with the warriors of the Sui Dynasty, although at this time I can't see any ambush in front of the Sui army's infantry array, but at least I know that the Sui army must not be well-intentioned, and the cavalry is concentrated in the central direction, it seems that the cavalry is going to be a decisive battle, but one of them contains evil intentions, and it can't be done carelessly。

Of course, caution saved the army under the command of the barbarian Khan to a certain extent, if he desperately launched a group charge of the barbarian cavalry, facing the blow of the eight hundred ballistas prepared by Li Hu, not to mention that there are only two and a half million people now, even if the number of troops is doubled, it will also collapse—— fighting a battle does not depend on the number of troops, it can decide the victory or defeat!

This was the case with the last great victory of the Southern Han Empire over the northern warlords.

The same soldiers from the generals of Longxi and Guanzhong, in order to go south to replace the rule of the Southern Han Empire, concentrated almost all the northern troops that could be collected, including 1.2 million cavalry and nearly 5 million infantry soldiers on the river, but were counterattacked by the 800,000 elite of the Southern Han Empire led by Xie Xuan, the general of the Southern Han Empire.

In the dark night, the army of the Fu family was unable to communicate in time because the number of troops was too large, and Xie Xuan sent dead soldiers to spread rumors in the Fu army, as a result, the hundreds of thousands of Fu troops as the vanguard had a camp roar, the forward corps collapsed, and reversed the Chinese army of the Fu army, Xie Xuan led the army of the Southern Han Empire to constantly intersperse, and constantly drove the rebels to attack the Fu army camp that was still intact, and the result was this battle, forcing the Fu army to lose its troops and generals, not only the Southern Han Empire recovered all the cities occupied by the Fu army, but also pushed the Fu family back two thousand miles away。

And the result of this battle after the end of the war, but also continued to ferment, standing in the north for 500 years, there was also a queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty era, was completely thrown into the garbage heap of history, the first to open a historical family gate valve rapid decay, disappear precedent, but also set a family gate valve defeat speed of the fastest record.

Compared with the Sui army, although the barbarian army is huge, but the command is the same as the Fu army of the year, there is a problem of being too bloated, if you want to give full play to the advantage of troops, then there are only two options, one is to ignore it, the whole army is pressed at one time, relying on the tactics of the sea of people, the Sui army in front of it is broken through, drowned, but the consequences are likely to be even if you kill a thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred. And after this battle, the barbarian army will no longer be able to sweep through Guanzhong and Guanxi. For the barbarians, this is a last resort, which will only have one benefit, that is, the number of barbarians will be greatly reduced, so that the remaining barbarians can get sufficient supplies for the winter.

The second option is to fight in rounds. Relying on the numerical superiority, uninterrupted dispatch of small forces, launching attacks or harassment, always so that the Sui army could not get rest, and when the Sui soldiers were exhausted, the main force of the barbarian army launched a thunderous blow to completely defeat the exhausted Sui army and achieve a complete victory.

As the commander of the barbarians, the Great Khan of the barbarians, Tama Yugu knows that the way of fighting is actually not suitable for dealing with the Sui army, after all, the two armies are at war, the contact area is relatively narrow, and it is impossible for a million armies to contact at the same time, so it is a waste of troops to do so, and it is better to use their own consistent combat method - wolf pack tactics.

Therefore, after seeing the Sui army out of the camp and arranging the cavalry in the center, Tama Yugu made a decision to let the hundreds of small tribes under it draw troops and take 5,000 people as a team to attack the Sui cavalry phalanx in turn, and regardless of the number of casualties on their side, the only requirement is not to let the Sui army have time to rest.

Just as the sun was rising, the first wave of barbarian cavalry began to attack the Sui army, and the second and third waves also organized an attack formation.

The watchman standing on the high lookout accurately informed the herald below of the observed movement of the barbarian army, and the herald then rode to Li Hu's side to report the movement of the barbarian army.

The movement of the barbarian army did not surprise Li Hu, or it was better to say that Li Hu forced the barbarian army to make the choice it is now, the so-called general is to be able to command the enemy to act according to his own wishes through his own actions. Today, at least Li Hu has done it.

Dealing with these batches of barbarian small tribe cavalry used to test the cavalry of the Sui army, Li Hu did not even have the intention of letting his own cavalry attack, but just let the archers and crossbowmen in the rear of the Sui army step forward, with a team of thousands, and every two teams lined up a figure-eight formation with inverted goose wings, and staggered at the rushing barbarian cavalry to fire crossbow arrows.

This method is not the common combat form of archers and crossbowmen in the Sui army, but the general tactics used by rapid-fire firearms in modern society proposed by Lin Xiao - side-fire strike.

Originally, the bow and crossbow arrows carried out by the Sui army maintained the straight-line strike method inherited from Yaoshun and Tang Yu, and the archers who formed a group used dense direct arrow rain to strike at the charging enemy. In Lin Xiao's view, this is no different from the "queue shooting" of modern firearms combat in modern society, and its combat efficiency will definitely not reach the highest, so he gave Li Hu such an idea, and it is also the only idea.

The two teams of archers are one echelon, and then the second echelon is responsible for firing the second arrow, and so on, Li Hu prepared five echelons, a total of 10,000 archers! This oblique bow and arrow attack method that came out for the first time in the Xianxia world is like a huge fishing net interwoven in the air, and the five thousand iron horsemen who rush are the fish that automatically fall into the fishing net.

The poor barbarian cavalry was also the first time to encounter this strange tactic of the Sui army, the arrows flying from both sides of their own flank, it was really impossible for these young herdsmen to parry, almost every second, there were more than a dozen horses, dozens of horses off their horses, and when the remnants of the cavalry rushed to a distance of more than 100 steps from the Sui army's crossbowmen, the first wave of 5,000 cavalry was left with less than 100 horsemen - these are the most elite or the luckiest barbarians among them.

However, rushing here, the luck of these barbarian armies, whether they were the elite or not, came to the end of their lives. Because at this time, the sharpshooters in the Sui army have been waiting for a long time with bows and arrows.

This was arranged by Li Hu, the most elite archer in the Sui army, originally belonged to the role of shooting the enemy's middle-level generals in the 10,000-horse army and disrupting the enemy's command system, and now the Sui army did not launch a large army attack, so their role is to avoid the remnants of the barbarian army rushing into the camp of the crossbowmen and causing unnecessary casualties to the crossbowmen.

The attack of the archers killed all the remnants of the barbarians who were approaching the crossbowmen's camp, and none of them could rush to the distance of fifty paces in front of the crossbowmen's formation, and the only wounded archers were still startled by the weapons thrown by a dying barbarian, so he sprained his ankle.

The first wave of barbarian cavalry had just been wiped out by the crossbowmen, and the second and third waves of barbarian cavalry had already arrived. These two groups of barbarian cavalry followed the first wave of cavalry and launched an attack at an interval of 500 paces, forming a wave-like shock formation. And just after these two groups of cavalry, the fourth, fifth, and sixth waves, all the way to the position of the main force of the barbarians, a distance of two hundred miles, from slow to galloping, a total of fifty waves of cavalry were lined up, and a total of 250,000 cavalry were used as the first stage of the charge combat force.

To tell the truth, what the Sui army was most afraid of was this refueling tactic of the barbarian army. The largest type of soldier in the Sui army is the crossbowmen, and among the millions of Sui troops, if you count the non-full-time crossbowmen, then you can count all the sword and shield soldiers, which is more than 700,000! If you count the number of cavalrymen who are also passable in archery, then the million Sui army is enough to be called a million crossbowmen -- this is the essence of the Great Sui Empire, which inherited the legacy of the pre-Qin and Han empires.