Chapter 296: Battle of Poplar Valley II
"Assault on the whole army!" But Moore let out a majestic roar with the peculiar prairie man after the battle formation. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe Huns continued to fight bloody battles in the valley on the Eastern Front. White-knuckle combat on foot has always been the strength of the Han army, and the strength of the Xiongnu is kung fu on horseback. Therefore, the lieutenant's retreat was also a last resort but also a wise means, and there was no cavalry charge in the valley. The Huns could only fight with the Han army at the head of the city like a siege.
The battle is whether the force and equipment are well-equipped. In this way, it seems that the Han army has the advantage, but there are not many people in the Han army who can pick up arms at the moment.
After watching his subordinates rush into the valley one after another, they were carried out by others, but Moore's heart was dripping blood, but if he wanted to completely annihilate the Han army, he could only have a chance under this kind of terrain. Fortunately, he concentrated almost all the troops that could be mobilized, more than 30,000 people. More than 30,000 people surrounded and annihilated 4,000 Han troops in the valley, and many of them were unable to take up arms, which shows the degree of elite.
The peaks on either side of Poplar Valley weren't too high, but Moore looked at it and asked his attendants, "How long does it take to climb these two slopes?"
The two entourages looked at the "Great Khan, it will take half an hour at the earliest"
But Moore nodded, "Send someone to climb the valley immediately and give the Han army a blow condescendingly, otherwise relying on the current gap, it will take a lot of time to completely annihilate the Han army." ”
The two of them didn't talk much nonsense, and after giving up, they each took a hundred people up the mountain.
And the Northwest Military Academy Captain who was fighting in the valley at this moment was terrified, this valley was extremely special, the mountains on both sides were almost level, and the whole valley was like a long matrix. From the mouth of the valley to the center of the valley, there is hardly much change in width. "Hurry up and retreat to the east, here we can carry it!" "There is no need to deliberately encourage, 'hand over your back to me' is the biggest promise of a soldier.
The night wind could not blow into the closed Poplar Valley, and the captain who had been fighting for more than half an hour was already covered with sweat, and his robe was stained with countless traces of scarlet blood. He couldn't count how many Hun soldiers he had cut down under his own broadsword, "Go die!" The captain's broadsword cut down a Hun soldier from top to bottom, dividing the Hun soldier into two, and then took advantage of the fact that the big knife had not yet detached from the corpse of the Hun soldier, and used all his strength to drag the body of the Hun soldier to trigger a super-large sweep, and directly swept back the Hun soldier in front of him. The Hun soldiers had seen the bravery of this Han army, but they didn't expect that they still had such strength. After a brief shock, the lieutenant immediately retreated with his men, and regrouped to resist the onslaught of the Huns. Although the Huns were shocked, but after all, they were numerous, and as soon as they saw the Han army retreating, the Hun army behind them again hit the Han army's defense line like a tide hitting a dam. The sword and shield team of the Northwest Army held shields to defend against wave after wave of onslaught.
Although the narrow valley limited the advantage of the Xiongnu cavalry, it also did not have enough space for the Han army to form an effective camp to defend against the Xiongnu. can only rely on the shield to defend against the sword.
The former commander of the Huns looked at this troublesome scene, so he said to the entourage behind him, "You go back and tell the Great Khan, can you give some support on both sides, advance like this, the casualties are too great"
The soldier pointed to the top, "My lord, my lord, it's up there, our reinforcements!"
When the general looked up, he saw that two hundred Huns had climbed to the top of the hill, ready to throw stones and arrows. The main general was overjoyed and said, "Rush! Our reinforcements are coming" As soon as the Hun soldiers heard that the reinforcements were coming, their morale was greatly boosted, and then they looked up randomly and saw friendly troops on top. Then he went crazy and forced the Han army to retreat.
The lieutenant was extremely puzzled, "Why is this Hun suddenly so bloody?" and when he followed the line of sight, he suddenly saw a pile of arrows and stones coming from his head. The Han army was originally attacked on one side, but suddenly it became a state of being attacked on the belly and back. However, the hardest hit were the wounded soldiers who retreated first. Everyone was busy dodging arrows and rolling stones, and the camp became chaotic, and the Han army in front was constrained by this, neither daring to raise their shields to resist in the back, nor daring to relax the Hun army in front, and suddenly their combat effectiveness fell because of the chaos.
The captain immediately shouted, "Resist the Huns first, walk at the foot of the mountain in the back, and retreat to the east as soon as possible, this place can not stay for a long time, quickly!" Although the captain shouted loudly, but the Han army at this moment is in such a state, and it may not be able to play normally when listening to orders! "The hateful Huns, there are so many ambushes"
At the east end of the valley, the Huns had already gathered their strength and began to attack the Western Regions Protector Army. Although the Western Regions Protector Army belongs to the Han Army, it is not a unit trained in China after all, but a unit stationed abroad as a military presence. The main enemies are also pony thieves and small countries, unlike the Northwest Army, which is prepared for war against the Xiongnu all year round.
Therefore, the strength of the two sides was judged, and the retreat of the Northwest Army was orderly and regular under the repeated onslaught of the Huns. Although the protectors of the Western Regions were also orderly, they were generally forced to retreat because the Huns used cavalry to force repeated attacks at the outer end of the mountain pass.
The Western Regions Metropolitan Protector of a former army Du Bo shouted, "My lord, this kind of impact, how many times can we bear it, the Huns can withstand this kind of impact, we can't stand this kind of impact, we need to retreat to the valley to weaken the Xiongnu's charge"
The envoy of the Western Regions was in trouble for a while, "If we retreat, we may not be able to storm and rush out again!"
"My lord, I'm stuck here, maybe before the Northwest Army withdraws, we will be rushed here by the Hun cavalry first, our camp is scattered, the back is washed to pieces, the Northwest Army is a dead end, go back first, we can still regroup and rush out!"
"There is no way, we can't accept such a loss! The whole army slowly retreated into the valley, and the mountain pass could not move!" The envoy of the Western Regions finally chose a compromise approach, stopping at a little place in front of the mountain pass, and did not choose to retreat into the valley.
On the other side, the Northwest Army, under the coercion of arrows and rolling stones and pursuing soldiers, broke off the army from more than 700 people to only about 400 people, and finally crossed half of the valley road. Such tragic casualties were something that the Han army had never encountered before, but the Northwest Army could not care so much, believing that they would be able to escape from Ascension as long as they reached the mouth of the East Valley, but they did not know that a huge crisis had quietly approached them.