The Xianbei cavalry of Budugen rushed up in groups and layers on the front twenty miles wide, in a dispersed array, which seemed amazing, but it did not directly hit the entire army.

The troops still have to play different roles in layers and batches. At the beginning, the highway was just to catch the enemy and quickly passed through the more than ten miles after the two armies discovered each other.

When it comes to the last step, the vanguard will still harass and tear it around with cavalry and shooting. If the Han cavalry catches up, let the vanguard retreat appropriately, so that the Han army's formation is disconnected - just like the Parthian tactics in the Empire era and riding and killing.

Once the formation is loosened, the main force of the large army is forced to the present, which is a melee of attack by the entire army. Because the number of people is large, once it reaches a scale of tens of thousands, it will be difficult to make the formation rotate and ride and shoot, and the organization cannot keep up. At this time, there are more people and fewer people, you can only rush forward.

The Han army had heavy armor and horse-killing swords, and the quality of the long spear was better than that of the Hu people. This was the reliance of the Han army to the Five Barbarians.

On the other hand, it is also because the attacking Hu tribes are different, not everyone is good at riding and shooting, and ordinary cannon fodders can only use a riding gun to hedge their lives.

On the northern grasslands at the end of the Han Dynasty, the nomadic people were also more good at riding and shooting the northeast, and the more they went northwest, the better at rushing. The Wuhuan and Xianbei in Youzhou were the strongest riding and shooting, and the weakest sprinting. The Xianbei people north of Bingzhou and Hetao were relatively balanced, while the Qiang in Hexi was the best at spear assault.

At this moment, after approaching Ma Chao's two or three hundred steps, Bu Dugen's vanguard cavalry gradually slowed down and gradually changed to a horizontal line across Ma Chao's front and began to shoot arrows.

When fighting against Han infantry infantry intensified square formations or chariot formations, such raiding formations are very dangerous, because the crossbows of Han infantry are much stronger than those of cavalry bows.

But when both sides are cavalry, they use cavalry bows, so it doesn't matter. Even if the Han cavalry wears heavy armor, the general horses do not have heavy armor. As long as they shoot over the Han horses, they can still cause disconnection and chaos in the formation of the Han army, and the purpose of the Xianbei vanguard is achieved.

"Shot arrows! Ma Chao's cavalry heard that they all have iron-breasted plaques. You don't need to shoot people deliberately, but you can shoot horses!" Many former cavalry officers under Bu Dugen's command were ordered and then started shooting arrows.

This Pioneer is about 10,000, and there are 30,000 to 40,000 main players behind it. They are more than five miles away from them, in order to give the pioneer room to harass the Pioneer.

For a moment, arrows on the front of the battlefield were like rain and bloody arrows flew.

Ma Chao fired arrows while rushing, and did not care about the low accuracy or the fewer soldiers in the charge formation that entered the range, and were easily shot and gathered fire. He was eager to shoot and could pull the enemy into close combat at any time while shooting.

Ma Chao's army had no intention of dividing troops, but just gathered 12,000 people into a large formation, not giving the enemy the chance to divide and defeat each. After all, he was the side with a significantly disadvantageous number of people. More than 10,000 people could barely command each formation, and he was not afraid of too many people and chaos.

When the Xianbei officers of the former army saw this posture, they initially smiled viciously and proudly:

Ma Chao swayed a formation between a wedge-shaped array and a cone-shaped array. This formation is not suitable for shooting arrows. Most soldiers who are nestled deep in the formation cannot shoot arrows, and are too far away from the enemy.

In contrast, although the Xianbei people did not understand the formation, their own riding and shooting formation was very large in front of the enemy, and the number of people who could shoot arrows at the same time was even more.

Unfortunately, after just a few waves of arrow rains exchanged, the Xianbei vanguard officers calmed down a little. The actual situation on the battlefield made them realize that the problem was not that simple.

"The Han people also put light armor on their war horses? What is that made of? Is it leather? Or what cloth? But it is impossible for the cloth to resist the bow riding!"

The Xianbei officers soon discovered in horror that the light and soft riding bows had a much lowered effect on the Ma Chao army's war horses that should have been completely armorless!

It turned out that Ma Chao's troops used layered thick cotton steps this year to make a batch of cotton armor for winter use, namely cotton horse armor. Important parts that do not need to be moved, such as horse's chest, neck guards, and leather reinforcement.

This is the best optimization solution that a cavalry unit that takes into account both cost and mobility. Compared to when he attacked Guo Si last year, the cavalrymen had iron armor but no armor, which was a great improvement.

Although the defense is definitely far inferior to the iron horse armor and cannot stop spears and crossbow arrows, it is better to be enough, suitable for battle between cavalry. Ma Chao was not a white farm in Yinchuan County this year. Guan Yu, who popularized cotton in Xiliang, was not a waste of money this year.

There is basically no private trade in the cotton trade this year, and most of the harvest has been acquired by the government, either sold to Huchuquan or directly equipped for Ma Chao's cavalry. Moreover, there is an additional benefit of cotton armor, that is, the warmth effect in winter is very good, which is obviously to facilitate Ma Chao's army to fight back against the Hu people after the cold season.

At this moment, after resisting the initial exchange of seven or eight rounds of arrows, the Han army clearly shot less than 30% of the Hu people, but the Han army was not at all inferior in terms of the mutual killing effect of both sides.

There were only more than 200 riders on the Han army were dropped, while the Xianbei vanguard had three or four hundred people. If we look at the algorithm "the Han army is more than five times the strength of the Hu people", it seems that the two Hu people replaced one Han people, which is still within the scope of the Xianbei side's acceptance. According to this theoretical value, they could destroy Ma Chao's 12,000 people by only 30,000 people.

But everyone knows that fighting is not a theoretical value. In the Hu people's advantage, they will be a exchange ratio. In the subsequent stage of fighting, the Han people will definitely take advantage of it.

What's more, the more than 200 Han riders were caught, almost all of them were shot in the legs and belly, and the soldiers fell off and were injured and could not die. Almost no Han cavalry wearing chest plate armor and iron armor were shot to death.

Ma Chao was under pressure and his formation broke through within thirty steps of the two armies. The Xianbei vanguards had also dispersed to the two wings, making it easier to adjust it in a while and then turn back and rush to kill Ma Chao from three directions.

Seeing that the range was enough, Ma Chao ordered all the cavalry to pull out the five spears on his back that were stuck like Zuo Qianhu, and the three shorter javelins in the center began to charge and throw.

Two-stage javelins with thin wooden lathes are shot out one after another. The thicker poles in the back are easy to throw and maintain inertia. The thinner spear tip in the front is easy to increase the pressure, sharply penetrate the flesh, and it will break into the body as soon as it enters the flesh.

"Puchi phuchi!" Two consecutive waves of dense blood springs shot, and countless Xianbei cavalry were stabbed by javelins at very close range, and they were killed by horses and tragically. This wave of "face sprays" before sprinting each other, which made the morale of Bu Dugenjun plummet, and the momentum of the first kick was gone.

Otherwise, nomadic peoples have no culture and slow information circulation. In fact, Guo Si had suffered a great loss in the Liangzhou Battle last year. Unfortunately, Guo Si would not deliberately tell the Hu people who also had a grudge against him when he died. Therefore, the Xianbei people had to pay the price of bleeding again for tuition.

Even the cemetery man in the central army was greatly impacted when he saw this scene. It took him a while to figure out the situation.

"What? The Han people actually used this weapon that was cut off and thrown at once to pursue the instant explosion of the enemy. The Han people were so rich. But now is not the time to say this, the whole army's cavalry and spears hedge!

This is our only chance! The war horses rushed forward and the power of the spear, and even with iron armor, they could stab the horse to death! Those who retreated would slash!"

Bu Dugen is very clear that without the advantage of cavalry and shooting, the Xianbei cavalry must rely on cavalry and rifle to hedge. If they fall into melee combat between sabers and horse swords and lose their sprint speed, and the Han army has iron armored Xianbei people, it will be a one-sided massacre.

The inferior broken sabers of Xianbei people cannot break the iron armor at all.

In front of the sprint of the rifle, all living beings are equal. Even if you have iron armor, you can still kill them. Note that they are killed or stabbed to death. Because if the quality of the rifle is poor, the head of the spear may be broken when hitting the iron armor, but even if the gun is broken, you can still kill the other party.

The deceased was more like he was killed in a car accident. He didn't need any sharp weapon, and it was a miracle that was done with great force.

Unfortunately, Bu Dugen's determination was like Guo Si last year.

"Why is the Ma Chao army's cavalry rifle so long? How do they control the balance on the horse's back? Are you not afraid of breaking?" The first row of Xianbei cavalry who were still using the stirrups on both sides had not reacted until the moment they were stabbed to death.

The Xianbei stirrups were simpler. Even if they were installed on both sides, they could not sprint with long weapons with too much center of gravity, because the cavalry could not control the balance at all and could not remove the recoil when stabbing the enemy.

The spear head of Ma Chaojun is at least half a foot longer than that of the Xianbei people! This is generally fatal half a foot!

The sound of "Puchi~Puchi~" was heard endlessly, and only the Xianbei people in the fur coat were stabbed off one by one.

After a bloody strangle, the casualties rose to thousands. But what made them even more desperate was that the cavalry of the Ma Chao army abandoned the broken guns in their hands and replaced the second one from behind, continuing to maintain the advantage of weapon length and repeatedly rushing.

After a long bloody battle, some elite soldiers who were in the sharp knife parts even lost two wooden riding guns because of their rapid weapons loss and replaced them with the last steel-headed cone gun. The last spear was half a foot shorter, similar to an ordinary riding gun, and it was not a disposable consumable.

However, when this gun could be used, the Han cavalry usually had two or three lives on his hands, and the armor was covered with blood-stained martial arts.

"We underestimate Ma Chao too much! In spring, he came to capture Yinchuan County and killed the local tribes, but he had not yet tried his best!" Bu Dugen felt cold all over his body. He watched thousands of athletes under his command die in battle and was injured, and his heart was bleeding.

He originally came to join the Marquis of the Lotus Gudu for the sake of his lips and teeth. Now that he has suffered such a great loss and exchanges are so miserable than the data, his heart will naturally be shaken.

Fortunately, there is still a way out of the way, which is to rely on his entire cavalry to break away from contact and admit defeat and keep the green mountains there.

As a nomadic person, you know that you can't do it and decisively guerrillas will not be shabby.

However, he also knew that today's battle had been fully in force. Whoever retreated first would be brutally covered and killed. He must not retreat easily, nor should he suddenly retreat without warning. If he harmed friendly forces like that, it would be difficult to get on the grassland in the future and his prestige would be completely lost.

After all, among the three clan coalition forces, only the Xianbei people were pure cavalry who came from a little far away, the Xiongnu and Qiang people had infantry, and the ordinary people who were old and weak who could not retreat in time.

Bu Dugen gritted his teeth and continued to waste his life with Ma Chao. Tens of thousands of people on both sides shouted that they were minced meat together in battle.

Every charge, at least more than a thousand Xianbei people stabbed the horses and fell off the horses. However, the Han cavalry also suffered a lot, and there were also losses of a hundred people. The war horses were stabbed, causing the cavalry to fall off the horses. After all, the thick cotton horse armor that the Han army had just equipped had almost zero defense effect on the spear stabbing.

Ma Chao is also very cunning. Seeing that Bu Dugen has not been defeated, he also knows to use his strengths, so he tries to entangle a certain Xianbei cavalry to chase him, and does not give the other party a chance to hedge again.

For example, after the two armies were in a short hand-to-hand combat, when the enemy wanted to pull it apart, Ma Chao's army turned their horses' heads and stuck them to ensure that both sides chased each other side. In this way, the relative speed of the horses on both sides was offset, the power of riding a gun against the stabbing was greatly reduced, and the Han army's iron armor advantage was increasingly exerted.

The only drawback is that the entire forged steel breastplate originally designed for "face-to-face charge", in this parallel combat mode, the chance of effect being greatly reduced. The reason is also very simple: the two sides fight hand-to-hand combat, the attack comes from both sides, and the chance of being shot in the chest is extremely low.

However, the probability of being shot at the ribs, waist, shoulders and arms on both sides suddenly increased. Fortunately, Ma Chaojun's armor situation was not the same as that of two years ago, with only breastplate. The popularity of inlaid iron armor on the shoulders, ribs, etc. was also good. Now he has finally found a place to use it thoroughly.

As the horsepower of both sides decreased, all the horses were panting and unable to rush, the proportion of the fighting forms of close-fitting body fighting became higher and higher, and Budugen's heart was bleeding faster and faster.

"Even if the Han army is strong and powerful, how can their physical strength withstand such repeated rushing, slashing and stabbing? Are Ma Chao's cavalry so elite in terms of physical fitness?" Bu Dugen struggled and roared in despair.

At this moment, the last straw that firmly insisted that he gave up his friendly forces finally fell down.

More than twenty miles south, a new force came from afar on the battlefield where Ma Dai and the Marquis of the Burrow Gudu battles. From a distance, he could not tell the enemy and us, but soon Bu Dugen saw the clues from the chaos of the Burrow Gudu Hou's army.

What came was Huchuquan, which also claimed to be the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu! Huchuquan brought 15,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu to attack the fake Shanyu's lords and marquis!

Ma Chao and Ma Dai and Zhang Ji discussed it last time, and it was estimated that Bu Dugen and the Marquis of the Lu Gu Du would definitely try the final battle when Zhang Ji once again brought a large amount of supplies. So he notified Hu Chuquan in advance and came secretly.

Just to avoid the Hu people's coalition, Hu Chuquan came slowly and was relatively low-key, and did not dare to approach the main battlefield too much before the war. At the same time, Ma Chao might not be sure of this deployment. If there was no decisive battle today, they were going to give Hu Chuquan a batch of supplies and compensate him for his time in vain and let him come again next time.

Anyway, the logistics difficulties of the Han army have greatly alleviated. With the logistics system of the civil business movement and official supervision, it is still possible to give Huchuquan some food. It is better to spend some food and forage in vain than to ensure more guarantees on the battlefield.

At this moment, because Ma Dai's battlefield command ability and martial arts skills were far inferior to Ma Chao, the situation of the Hulu Guduhou on the southern battlefield was originally better than that of Budugen on the northern battlefield. In addition, the Hulu Guduhou was in order to guard his grassland from being eroded, and his combat determination was greater than Budugen.

Unfortunately, the emergence of Huchuquan completely changed everything on the southern battlefield. The troops of the Huhu Guduhou were already struggling with bloody battles. Huchuquan raised the banner as the "orthodox heir of Qiangqu Shanyu", rushed and attacked, and even yelled viciously in the Huns on the battlefield:

"The King of Hanzhong will not enslave our Southern Xiongnu in power! What's more, the King of Hanzhong is now reforming and allowing tax reductions to serve long distances and pay for money and grain. The more remote the people in the area, the less tax they pay less. Do you still have to be afraid of forcing us to serve thousands of miles during the reign of Emperor Ling?

When they forced everyone to rebel, it was because of the bad government of Emperor Ling. King Hanzhong had been refusing to blame him after the reform! The people who were captured by Huchuquan Shanyu two years ago are now living well and well-fed!"

These words need to be understood by the Huns with some culture, and ordinary herdsmen and big-headed soldiers will not be shaken by this.

However, the Huns were not all illiterate, and this kind of shouting was still attractive to officers who had a little understanding of civil affairs.

In addition, Hu Chuquan was also a Shanyu after all, and the troops of the Hou of Gudu gradually began to collapse.

Bu Dugen saw that the flags of the Marquis of the Gudu in the south became more and more chaotic, and the decisive battle today had lasted for more than two hours. It was getting dark. He knew that he had no chance to struggle anymore and decisively announced the retreat of the entire army.

"Let the Qiang people who could not escape to us cut off the rear! All the Xianbei warriors talked to me!" Bu Dugen seized an opportunity, and the hero broke his arm and took his main force with more than 30,000 left.

Ma Chao was too late to chase, but was blocked by the chaotic Qiang soldiers on the battlefield. In the end, he chased and killed one or two thousand Xianbei people, and was run away by Bu Dugen, relying on the lightness of the horses and the cover of the dusk.

However, Bu Dugen was also heartless enough. Ma Chao was chasing him and hurt himself to death by himself. The chief of the Barbarian King of the two Qiang tribes of Hetao and the Maitian tribes. Bu Dugen did not even bring his head back.

Ma Chao chased Bu Dugen for thirty miles before returning. While clearing the captives of the collapsed Qiang people, he had already seen the flag of the southern Hu Gudu Hou disappeared.

It turned out that the Marquis of the Bogu Du of the Lotus had been killed by the archers and cavalry of Huchuquan. Fifty-three thousand young and strong people of the pseudo-South Xiongnu were attacked and collapsed in a half-day bloody battle, chased and killed and killed in the north, killing and injured 10,000 or 20,000 people, accounting for one third. One third ran away in scattered birds and beasts, and the last third was captured and annexed by Huchuquan.

Because they were of the same clan as Huchuquan, after Huchuquan returned, he was able to train and brainwash him, and then become Huchuquan's own soldiers. Although Huchuquan had killed and injured three or four thousand people in today's bloody battle, it was still very easy to capture 15,000 prisoners, remove the waste and save the ginger and screen them, and then add more than 5,000 cavalry.

Before the war, Huchuquan had 15,000 troops, and after the war, he could have more than 20,000 cavalry.
Chapter completed!