A few days later, Ma Zhan received a letter from General Zhang Sheng, which said: There are Xiongnu troops and 3,000 cavalry spying on the Yanmen border. After watching it, Ma Zhan rushed directly to General Zhang Sheng's mansion and explained his intention.

Zhang Sheng asked Ma Zhan to join this time, but he also made it very clear that he was a small soldier in the army, and he would not take special care of him, and life and death depended on him. Ma Zhan also made it clear that he did not need special care.

It took less than an hour for the army of 20,000 people to assemble, and they stepped out of Yanmen City on their horses and marched to Maoshigou, a hundred miles away. 10,000 cavalry, galloping what a magnificence, horses' hooves clanging, smoke and dust billowing and flying, black clothes and black armor, so solemn, from a distance, is a black torrent, galloping endlessly.

An hour later, I came to Maoshigou.

The army stopped, and no voices could be heard at all, only the snorting of horses. The flags were unfurled, and several groups of scouts rushed out and reached ahead, and one group of troops entered the ambush area under the order and waited quietly.

Maoshigou is a ditch-like that is not narrow, the mountains on both sides are not high, it is more than 20 zhang, and in the middle is a road seven or eight meters wide, with potholes and potholes, and the road is more than 80 meters long. There is a road up the hill on this side of Yanmen Pass, and there is only a cliff on the other side of the pass, which is a natural ambush site, and it was also a road of death in the past.

Originally, there was a letter from the border general of Yanmen City asking for a frontier here, but it was rejected by the lord of Yanmen City, and it was not done after that. But if the grassland tribe wants to attack Yanmen City, they must pass through here, and this has become a battlefield that is not a city.

Hours passed like this, with scouts coming back from time to time to report on the military situation. Another hour later, several teams of scouts returned and reported to Zhang Sheng that there were 3,000 enemy troops, less than fifty miles from Maoshigou.

At the same time, the largest Mongolian tribe among the steppe tribes, the Great Khan's tent, "Qi Yu Great Khan, the Xiongnu tribe did not obey the king's orders, went to war without authorization, and attacked the Yanmen border of the Great Qin Empire." ”

"How many people are playing?"

"The Great Khan sent a total of 150,000 troops, including 3,000 in the forward, 140,000 in the middle army, and 7,000 in the rear. ”

"Got it, go down. ”

"Yes. ”

"Great Khan, the Xiongnu tribe is becoming more and more disobedient, is it not to send troops to teach a lesson?"

"Forget it, it's better for them to test Daqin's reaction. Not to mention them, what about the other tribes, are they all training the army? ”

"Everything else is okay, the Xianbei, Turkic and other tribes are still relatively subordinate to the orders of the Great Khan. ”

......

Maoshigou, Zhang Shengbu is already ready to go, just waiting for the 3,000 snooping troops to enter the ambush circle.

Three thousand Hun cavalry, lined up in a column of five horsemen, ran through Maoshigou, and there was not even a tempting forward army......

"Put. ”

Arrows shot from both sides of the cliff in a volley towards the rubble ditch, and the screams kept coming out.

"Charge, just rush over. ”

"Don't mess around, move forward. Don't mess up, move forward ......"

"Shoot. ”

Bows and arrows are like dense heavy rain, just two rounds of rain falling from the sky, and there are not many 3,000 cavalry left, it can only be said that there are too many archers in Daqin, not only that there are too many people in ambush.

It can only be said that these 3,000 cavalry are cannon fodder.

The 2,000 cavalry who had been waiting for a long time at Yanmen Pass slaughtered into the Maoshi ditch, killing the remaining live mouths.

At the same time, the 140,000 Hun army, a hundred miles away, was also waiting quietly.

In the distance, more than a dozen Hun scouts ran over, "Emergency military report, get out of the way, urgent military report, get out of the way......"

"Report to King Xian, my vanguard army has been completely wiped out. The Qin army is clearing the road. "Scout Soldier.

"The king ordered the army to advance and target Maoshigou. ”

"Pass the military order of the right Xianwang, the army will pull out, target Maoshigou, and advance at full speed. ”

"Pass the military order of the right Xianwang, the army will pull out, target Maoshigou, and advance at full speed. "The order for the army to advance was spread throughout the army in waves.

The army of more than 100,000 moved rapidly, 10,000 horses neighed, the military horn whined, and the commander Da Xuan (dao) moved forward quickly, and the horses' hooves rumbled. And the Qin army, who was far away in Maoshigou, was still carrying corpses and clearing roads.

Half an hour later, the Great Qin scouts, who were thirty miles away, saw the overwhelming smoke and dust in the distance, and shouted one by one, "Enemy attack." Instead, he quickly retreated and ran towards Maoshigou.

"Report ...... The army is coming, the Huns are coming. ”

"General, the Hun army is coming, the smoke and dust are billowing out, I can't see how many people there are, just visually, there are at least hundreds of thousands. "Scouts on the run, quick debriefing.

"The army is assembled, quickly. ”

An army of 10,000 troops, quickly assembled, divided into three teams, ran up to both sides of Maoshigou, and a team of 2,000 people guarded the exit. On the one hand, let the heralds send an order to Yanmen Pass, mobilize 150,000 troops, and come to Maoshigou for reinforcements.

Just as the Qin army ran to the cliff, he could already see the smoke and dust rolling in the distance, sweeping in. The three rode side by side, moving forward, wanting to quickly cross the rubble ditch.

"Put. "A dense rain of arrows was fired at the Hun cavalry. A large number of cavalrymen began to die, and screams continued to sound. But there were still dozens, dozens of Hun cavalry running towards the exit, but what awaited them was death. There were many spears, and the popping sound kept sounding, and the Hun cavalry fell to the ground one by one.

'Put ...... Put...... Put ......'

'Forward, fast forward...... No backwards...... Backward to die, kill, forward...... Charge, for the sake of immortality......'

There is no pause in the war, and once the fighting is fought, it will not end, because either you die or I die, and there will be no mercy, because the next one may be your death. Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye.

The road was filled with dead Hun soldiers, accumulating into a thick human-shaped carpet, and streams of blood gathered together, like a stream, flowing slowly. The pungent smell of blood enveloped Maoshigou.

The horses that fell to the ground, snorting and purring, broke the brief silence, because the advance of the Hun cavalry was blocked by the corpses, and could not advance quickly, so they could only dismount as infantry, ready to clear a road and provide a cavalry charge.

On the side of the Great Qin Empire: "General, we have no arrows." An orderly said to Zhang Sheng.

"Got it, go down. Zhang Sheng's face was very ugly and said, "Herald, how long will it take for reinforcements to arrive!"

"Report to the general, at least four hours, this is the fastest. The herald replied.

"Blow the trumpet, assemble at the foot of the mountain, and prepare for a hand-to-hand encounter. Zhang Sheng gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes, General. ”

'Woo..... Woo......'

The trumpet sounded, and the Qin troops on both sides quickly assembled at the bottom of the mountain, taking advantage of the fact that the Xiongnu had not yet launched an attack......

At the other end, half of the Hun cavalry got off their horses, holding a shield in their left hand and a scimitar in their right hand, and marched forward in a row of eight people.