The resources of the Xiongnu were actually very scarce.

The characteristics of the nomadic people have led to this, coupled with the excessive mortality rate, which has also made their craftsmanship and technology very backward.

In a certain film and television drama, Zhang Qian obtained some small black iron particles from Yuezhi during his mission, and brought them back to the Han Dynasty. He changed the iron smelting technology of the Han Dynasty, thus starting the iron era of the Han Dynasty.

However, the reality is that these are all nonsense.

The real history is that the Han Dynasty realized the benefits of iron weapons as early as the Wenjing Dynasty.

So research in this area began.

After the development and accumulation of the two emperors, by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, we finally ushered in a big explosion in technology.

In other words, the Chinese were the first country in history to maximize the use of iron as a material, and they were also the first country to use it in the military on a large scale.

At the same time, the Han Dynasty during this period also represented the world's leading iron smelting brother.

The second brother and the third brother combined at this moment are no match for the first brother of the Han Dynasty.

The second great explosion of iron smelting technology in history came from the Tang Dynasty.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the iron smelting technology originating from Persia began to spread to China. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the smelting technology of iron iron was fully mastered.

There is another name for iron: Damascus steel.

If it's not clear enough, the Mo Dao of the Tang Dynasty was made of this material.

The current Han Dynasty does not have this kind of material, and the technology is far behind it. Therefore, when Wang Buxu was making a horse-killing sword, he was forced to use the method of thickening the back of the sword to enhance the strength of the sword.

Apart from anything else, the Han army faced by the Huns now had basically completed all iron weapons.

The only weapons that still use copper are arrowheads.

And what about the Huns?

More than 60% of the people still use bronze knives, and 35% of the people still use wooden sticks or bone weapons.

Less than half of the people use iron weapons.

But also because of problems with smelting technology, the quality of weapons is very worrying.

When fighting against bronze weapons, they would naturally have some advantages, but when fighting against the iron weapons of the Han army, they would not have any advantage.

In previous battles, many of the Huns' weapons had been damaged.

It was either directly broken into two pieces, or it was cut in half, and a huge gap appeared directly on his knife.

The comprehensive crushing of equipment also caused the previous battle to fall into an extremely passive situation.

But now, Modun Shanyu saw something even more terrifying to him.

At this time, Maodun Shanyu was even thinking about a question.

If it was previously thought that the Han troops fighting were heavy cavalry, then what are the three thousand men who are now on the battlefield?

The armor on their bodies covered themselves from top to bottom.

Even the helmet is connected to some armor pieces and draped directly on the shoulders.

In other words, even if you chop their necks with a machete, you won't be able to cause direct harm to them.

In front of the mouth is a net, an iron net.

The gap is not so big that even arrows can't penetrate?

In other words, the net in front of the eyes is thinner.

If that's all, they even wear armor on their horses.

And the only part of the entire war horse that can be attacked is the lower part of the four legs?

But, you let the cavalry chop off the horse's legs?

Or is it only about forty centimeters above the ground?

Even the infantry probably don't have much energy to cut off the horse's legs at the moment.

Do you think the cavalry can't move while sitting on a war horse, or what?

However, Modun Shanyu was not given much time to be shocked. Soon, the three thousand heavy cavalry told him with facts what a real heavy cavalry was.

Their charging speed is not fast, but their impact is very strong.

The formation was also more compact than the light cavalry. After entering the formation, they basically charged directly at a relatively slow speed.

Wherever it goes, no one can resist it.

The war horses were all deserted.

Then, Modun Shanyu opened his mouth and said angrily: "Run...run? Are you running away now?"

That's right, facing the attack of heavy cavalry, the Huns cavalry simply couldn't muster the energy to resist.

The previous light cavalry was enough to make them timid. They were able to charge forward only because they did not dare to disobey their superiors' orders.

He himself was trembling, and now an even more terrifying heavy cavalry came.

If the battle ahead was similar to that over there, maybe they would have the courage to go up and besiege them.

But the facts tell them to give up, it's useless.

The heavy cavalry's formation was compact, which made it impossible for them to take advantage of the chaos.

The cavalry rifle in the hands of heavy cavalry is heavier than that of light cavalry, which also means that the attack force is greater.

Often when a shot came down, the Huns tried to block it with their swords, but the result was that they couldn't block it at all.

The gun barrel pressed down on the blade and went straight down, and then the gun head struck hard into the shoulder blade.

In an instant, blood spurted out.

"Da Chanyu, retreat quickly..."

"Yes, Great Chanyu, withdraw, you can't defeat him at all..."

"Da Shanyu, if you don't leave now, when the main force of the Han army comes up to attack us, we won't be able to escape even if we want to..."

Maodun Shanyu's face was red. He had more than 100,000 cavalry, but he couldn't defeat the 30,000 Han army?

If you can't beat him, then you can't beat him. He also accepts the idea of ​​​​exchanging one with another.

But tell him now that the Huns couldn't even exchange one for one?

"Yue Zhi..." Maodun Shanyu gritted his teeth tightly.

He knew very well that everything in front of him was thanks to the Yuezhi.

Because it was the Yuezhi who gave the Han army war horses. Without these war horses, how could the Han army come here?

How could it be possible to train such a strong cavalry in such a short period of time?

"Withdraw!" Maodun Shanyu had no desire to continue fighting at this moment.

It’s not that we didn’t fight. This battle has been fought like this, and there is absolutely no way to continue fighting.

Donghu's troops could not be defeated, and the Xiongnu elite could not be defeated either.

This is equipment crushing, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

If he doesn't withdraw now, what awaits him is to throw away these soldiers.

This is very worthless...

"Great Chanyu, what should the prince do?" someone asked.

The prince should still be in Han Dynasty at this moment, right?

If they withdraw, the Han army will definitely go south.

With so many main Xiongnu forces, they can't defeat them, but how can the small number of main Xiongnu forces led by Luo Tingjizhou and most of the Donghu surrendered troops be defeated?

It is definitely impossible to defeat, and the possibility of Donghu surrendering troops or even surrendering again is very high.

"It's already this time, how can we care about the prince?"

"Chanyu, take advantage of the moment and send someone to inform the prince to retreat..."

"Yes, Great Chanyu. We haven't unified the grasslands yet, so we can't bring out our combat effectiveness. It's normal that we can't defeat the Han army now. After all, they came well prepared."

"Yes, after we unify the grassland and absorb the Donghu people and integrate them, our combat effectiveness will definitely increase."

"Well, let's send someone to tell Luo Ting Ji Zhou to withdraw quickly. Let's go north first, and then west to find the Yuezhi people to settle the accounts!" Modun Shanyu said with his eyes blazing.

This time the Xiongnu suffered such heavy losses, he would never let the Yuezhi people go.

As for the Han people, let’s wait until we can defeat them later.

"Da Shanyu, why don't we take a rest first? This battle has had a huge impact on our morale. We will have to fight thousands of miles away. I'm afraid..."

"Da Chanyu, the Yuezhi people are surrounded by the Han people. They should have already formed an alliance with the Han people. If we go to attack, the Han people will come out to support soon. By then..."

Many people have already cursed the Yuezhi people severely in their hearts.

These bitches...
To be continued...