Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Moore took the token from King Sun Chaser, licked his lips, and looked at Fort Dinghu unwillingly.

"Kasmu, I'm giving you an advantage. There are a lot of good things in the Han people's fort... That's all. This fort is yours now!"

Kasimu smiled flatteringly, "Thank you, General Moore... I will leave you with four layers of servants captured in this battle..."

"Haha, General Kasmu is so polite..."

Moore did not stay longer. After gathering his thousand cavalry, he led his troops back to Luntai.

There were only 3,000 Zahu soldiers left outside Dinghu Fort and more than 200 Huns supervising the battle.

Looking at Moore walking away, Kasim straightened his back and became energetic.

He couldn't wait to take away his loot.

"Warriors, Fort Hu is definitely ours now, let me attack!"

After the Xiongnu brigade left, Zhuhu's will to fight became stronger and the battle became more intense.

The Han army in Dinghu Fort, under the command of Chen Huan, has repelled seven consecutive enemy attacks.

The soldiers had suffered more than 30 casualties, with casualties reaching 30%, and the remaining sergeants were also scarred.

However, the enemy's offensive continued one after another, as if it never stopped.

The small Dinghu Fort is like a small boat in the sea, as if it will be smashed by the raging waves in the next second.

Kasmu looked at the situation at the top of the city and felt very confident. He was about to become the first general in the Western Regions to defeat the Han army.

He stroked his beard and said to the left and right: "Huh, after we break the city, we must kill every one of us in the fort to let those Han people who think they are noble know how powerful we are."

His deputy, Zihan, was secretly frightened. Attacking such a small castle had already cost him more than 400 casualties.

The Han army here is so tough, I don't know if it's worth paying such a price.

However, there was a smile on his face and he said: "This is only possible because of the general's command and determination!"

"Hahaha!"

Kasim laughed proudly.

At this moment, a chime sounded from the north.

Kasmu frowned, but he saw a scout riding towards the northwest, running towards this direction.

Soon the scout arrived in front of the formation.

He rolled off his saddle and dismounted, knelt on the ground and reported: "General, the Han cavalry has arrived ten miles away..."

Kasmu was shocked, "Where did the Han cavalry come from? How many men and horses are there?"

The scout said, "There are about a thousand riders coming from the north!"

"Qianqi!" Zihan couldn't sit still at this time.

"General, hurry up and order the warriors to move back... These are thousands of Han cavalry!"

Kasmu hurriedly said, "Hurry up and withdraw your troops!"

No wonder the two of them were so nervous. A few years ago, the Han army defeated Kang Ju Wanqi with only 700 cavalry.

Kangju was a powerful country in the eyes of the Gumo people, but now he only had more than 2,000 infantry.

Kasmu ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and immediately the sound of the horn sounded, resounding throughout the entire battlefield.

The Hu soldiers who had just attacked the city were startled, and many of them showed unwilling expressions on their faces. However, when the order to withdraw troops was sounded, no one dared to disobey the military order, so they had to withdraw from the city.

Chen Huan and others also had incredible expressions on their faces, some of them couldn't believe what they were seeing.

The battle for Dinghu Fort has actually reached its end.

More than half of the soldiers had been killed or wounded, and their arrows had been exhausted.

Seeing that the enemy was about to succeed, he suddenly left. Is there any trick in this?

The Han soldiers were also surprised and asked each other

"What happened?"

"Why did the Hu people withdraw their troops?"

Everyone was ready to die for their country, but this barbarian suddenly ran away.

But everyone was still very happy. Who would want to die if they could live?

Chen Huan looked at Dongfang and guessed, "Could it be that reinforcements are coming?"

Suddenly a soldier pointed in the distance and shouted happily: "Han Cavalry... It's Han Cavalry, reinforcements are coming."

Everyone looked anxiously, and sure enough, under the sun, many flags were protruding from the ground in the distance, and they could faintly see the black Canglong flag of the Han army.

Under each flag is a neat cavalry square formation

"It's the Lancers!"

A veteran of the Han army shouted excitedly.

"It's Wu Luntai Lancer!"

It was Li Si's troops and Yuli Han army who came to help.

After the two sides joined forces, Li Si led them to the rear of the Gumo Army under unified command.

At this time, they had occupied a small high ground about three miles away from the Hu coalition forces.

Although Kasmu was panicking, he was still a veteran after all, and he still had basic tactical literacy and commanding abilities.

He commanded his soldiers to quickly form a Greek-style infantry phalanx.

The Greek phalanx usually consists of 8 soldiers arranged in one column, and then extends to the left and right sides according to the total number of people.

Assuming that the total strength is 10,000, the front of the phalanx will consist of more than 1,200 soldiers, and the length of the phalanx will be approximately one kilometer.

The hoplites in the Greek phalanx usually hold a round shield about 1 meter in diameter in their left hand and a spear about 2 meters long in their right hand. They line up side by side in a dense and neat formation, advancing forward like giant hedgehogs.

During the battle, the shields in the hands of the soldiers in the square formation not only protected their left sides, but also covered the right sides of the adjacent comrades. Once the soldiers in the front row fell, the soldiers originally in the second row would quickly fill in.

The gap he left.

The essence of the entire phalanx tactic is that all soldiers work together and advance together. Those who escape before the battle will be severely punished.

In the Greco-Persian War, the Greeks relied on such a phalanx to defeat the invincible Persian army.

However, the ancient Greek phalanx also had a fatal weakness, that is, as long as you try not to let it have a unified battlefield and only attack its two wings or back, but not its front, you can kill it.

In the Battle of Leuctra, the Theban strategist Epaminondas concentrated troops up to 16 levels deep, penetrated from the right side of the phalanx, and greatly broke the Spartan phalanx.

The phalanx laid out by Kasmus is naturally different from the standard Greek phalanx.

However, it is still roughly the same. His phalanx also has eight rows, with about 300 soldiers in each row.

Only the last row became archers, and cavalry were added to both wings for cover.

The overall combat effectiveness is stronger than the standard Greek phalanx.

However, such a phalanx was vulnerable in Li Si's eyes.

"Ex-military alert..."

"The rear army dismounted and rested..."

Li Si issued two orders in succession.

After all, his Han cavalry had come a long way, and both the horses and soldiers had consumed a lot of energy.

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Seeing that the Han army was resting in front of his own army's formation, Kasim suddenly didn't know what to do.

The Zhuhu coalition forces are all infantry. If they attack, the Han army will have plenty of time to react at such a distance.

Continuously defending is not an option. The soldiers have been fighting for a day and their physical strength has been exhausted a lot.

"General what to do now?"

"Book of Han: Biography of the Western Regions": "In the Yanqi Kingdom, Wang Zhiyu Qucheng went to Chang'an for 7,300 miles. He had 4,000 households, 32,100 inhabitants, and 6,000 soldiers. He attacked the Huhou and defeated the Huhou.

auxiliary prince, left and right general, left and right captain

, attack Hu Zuoyoujun, attack Cheshijun, Guiyi Cheshijun each, attack Hu Duwei, attack Hu Jun each with two people, and attack three interpreters. It is four hundred miles southwest to the Duhu Office and one hundred miles south to Yuli

, it is adjacent to Wusun in the north. There are many fish in the sea water."
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