It is also wrong to say that Gao Shun did not think about the problem of the escape route at all.
The problem is that Gao Shun has no other options.
He didn't even dare to divide his troops.
After the Jinzihe City incident, were the troops distributed again? Then maybe they were still soldiers when they were distributed, but they were probably ghosts when they were taken back. The sneak attack by a small group of troops from behind the Che Division was one reason, and the other was
The reason is that the morale of the army is unstable. With Gao Shun by his side, he can still protect him, but if he lets go...
Things like the human heart will fall apart at the drop of a hat.
If we follow a sound plan, if Gao Shun encounters a strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the country, he should attack steadily. However, the prerequisite for a steady attack is sufficient logistical support and military and food supplies. Does Gao Shun have these?
No.
Not only did he not, but he also received an order from Lu Bu, asking Gao Shun to capture Tu Gu, the post-state minister of Che Division, as soon as possible, and then return to the army...
Therefore, Gao Shun could either resist the order or choose to attack.
Gao Shun's character makes him unable to disobey orders.
He just follows orders.
So, after Gao Shun led his men to break through the stone wall of Wutu Valley, he found that he was also surrounded.
Those who came were from Wusun.
Wusun's cavalry.
Wusun people are also human beings, but they believe that there are people in the sky and people below the ground.
People in heaven wear their "belts" around their necks, people in the underground wear them around their ankles, and people in the human world wear their belts in between, of course around their waists. The primitive Wusun people
He worshiped the sun, moon and stars, so he liked to embroider the patterns of these three on his body. Even the word "Kun" in King Wusun's title is equivalent to Kaun or kon in Tocharian, which means sun.
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During the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty had a marriage relationship with the Wusun people. The purpose was to contact Wusun to control the Xiongnu. Princess Xijun and Princess Jieyou were married to King Wusun successively. Princess Xijun and King Wusun Junxu Mi had a daughter, Princess Jieyou.
She and Wusun Wang Wengguimi had three sons and two daughters.
However, just as the pro-Han people in the Western Regions were not dominant due to the chaos and uncertainty of the Han's foreign policy, the Wusun people were not able to maintain a pro-Han status for long after the Western Han Dynasty.
It began to be influenced by the forces of Central Asia and even more westward West Asia.
Generally speaking, it is like cultural erosion in the Civilization game. If one's own culture is not strong and there is no cultural development, other cultures will be forced to reduce their influence, and even eventually lead to confusion of thinking in one's own country...
Now Wusun is in the process of being invaded by West Asian forces. Although Wusun Dakunmi and Xiaokunmi have different opinions on what happened to Cheshi's back country, they don't have much favorable impressions of the Han Dynasty. Strictly speaking, they are
If you don't have much friendship, you won't have any good feelings.
So Wusun came anyway.
The sharp whistle blown by the copper whistle resounded all around.
To deal with cavalry, there is only cavalry.
Of course there will be hot weapons such as machine guns and tanks in later generations, but right now...
Facing the Wusun cavalry who suddenly appeared behind his butt, if he wanted to protect his chrysanthemum, Gao Shun had to turn around and come back first. For this reason, he could not even chase down the defeated Cheshi Houguo people, but had to first
These Wusun cavalry intercepted and defeated them at the entrance of Wutu Valley, and finally defeated or killed them.
The Wusun cavalry were divided into three formations, and each formation contained about a thousand people.
The spear heads raised on the array were shining in the sun.
The first few rows of cavalry were all wearing chainmail, but Gao Shun couldn't see clearly whether those at the back were wearing armor.
Unlike the Chinese, soldiers in the Western Regions and Central Asia preferred chain mail instead of scale armor or zhao armor, which were cheaper and more widely applicable.
The cavalry at the front is holding an extra-long spear, the Wusun cavalry in the second row is holding a shorter, but also eight-foot long spear, and the third row is holding a knife instead of a long spear. The Wusun cavalry is holding a sword.
They gathered about five steps forward and backward, forming an orderly queue.
Gao Shun's heart sank a little.
This is the main force of Wusun.
Not only because of the armor, but also because of the fighting posture of these cavalry, which is not something that ordinary herdsmen cavalry can have, and this means that the battle will be more difficult and troublesome...
Gao Shun set his sights on the horses of the Wusun people.
Those war horses are also excellent.
They are as good as the horses under their own legs. These horses feel the atmosphere of the battlefield. Even if the horses with violent personalities are standing still, they will frequently dig the ground with their front hooves, snorting and shaking their heads from side to side.
Aggressive and brave.
"General, our sons are a little tired now..." Ma Changsheng, smelling of blood, said to Gao Shun, "Are you sure we will fight back now?"
"We are tired, and their horses are tired." Gao Shun said, "If it were you, which one would you choose?"
"..." Ma Changsheng sighed. He did not choose to be clever, because in the current situation, being clever would only make him look stupid.
The cavalry can recover some physical strength while riding on horseback, but if the horses keep running, they cannot recover their physical strength. And once the cavalry does not have the cooperation of the horses...
This is why Gao Shun immediately turned around and prepared for a counterattack when he saw the smoke and dust raised by the Wusun cavalry.
However, it is obvious that the Wusun people also felt that Gao Shun and others were exhausted, so they also had the advantage and could win with one blow.
The two sides displayed themselves at the entrance of Wutu Valley.
Neither side was timid.
Gao Shun left a small force to drive away the Cheshihou people and put pressure on the Cheshihou people. Then, taking advantage of the time when the Cheshihou people had not yet reacted, Gao Shun turned around and faced the Wusun people.
However, because of the relationship between the entrance of the valley and the others, Gao Shun and others had a smaller and longer queue, while the Wusun people were divided into three parts, half surrounding the entrance of the valley.
The tactics of both sides were clearly visible when the queues were displayed.
Gao Shun glanced at Ma Changsheng, "How is the wound?"
Ma Changsheng chuckled and moved his arms, "You can't die."
Gao Shun nodded, "First team, you take the lead. If you survive, all the previous matters will be wiped out. The rest will be all meritorious service."
Ma Changsheng grinned, "Sure. Anyway, after this fight, I want to go back to my hometown... Exchange my merits for some land, plant some crops, build a house, raise some cattle and sheep, and then marry someone with a big butt to have a good family."
My mother-in-law...hahaha..."
Gao Shun also raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "Then you must remember to chop off more heads."
"No problem." Ma Changsheng moved his arms again, "I'll go to the front first...waiting for the general's order."
Gao Shun nodded.
The Wusun cavalry on the opposite side was also mobilizing. Gao Shun saw some Wusun messengers holding red triangular flags running back and forth in the opposite array...
"Prepare to attack." After a while, Gao Shun checked all the arrays again and said to the guards around him, "Blow the whistle. The front troops attack!"
The guard put the whistle in his mouth and blew out five short and one long whistle.
After a while, it was repeated again, three times in a row. The third whistle sounded, and the cavalry in front of the array spurred their horses on the next three short whistles and began to move forward.
The Wusun cavalry also began to move.
Ma Changsheng was in the array, staring at the opponent's cavalry, and then measuring the distance between the two sides. He had to adjust the speed and direction of the cavalry at any time based on changes in the movement, distance, speed, etc. of the cavalry on both sides to ensure that his cavalry was at the highest speed.
, and suppress the opponent so that the opponent has to contact us at sub-high speed.
Obviously the opponent was also a veteran among the cavalry. General Wusun deliberately moved the cavalry formation to the side, as if to avoid Ma Changsheng's missed formation. However, Ma Changsheng knew that if he was deceived by the opponent, he would also go astray.
Then the opponent will adjust during the final sprint and give itself a flank blow. Because the opponent presents a semi-encircled three-piece array, the opponent does not worry about the Han cavalry going astray at all...
Perhaps it would be better to think that the Han cavalry went astray?
Ma Changsheng looked back at where Gao Shun was, hesitating slightly, but quickly turned around and shouted in a deep voice, "Send the order, speed up! Full speed!"
"Ah? Now?" The messenger next to Ma Changsheng was stunned for a moment. The messenger was also a veteran, and he knew that the distance now was still a bit far, and it was not the best distance to reach full speed.
"We don't have that much time..." Ma Changsheng took a deep breath, and while tugging at the cloth strips tied to the back of his hands and the handle of the knife, he shouted, "If you want to win... you have to take some risks! Accelerate, full speed."
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The messenger was silent for a while, then he held his whistle in his mouth and blew the order to speed up.
Gao Shun, who was at the rear and leading his horse slowly forward, frowned when he saw this scene.
Accelerate at this distance?
Gao Shun watched, then thought silently for a while, his eyebrows twitched, "Send the order, speed up the middle and back formations."
Gao Shun's front formation began to move from high speed to full speed, while the middle and rear formations changed from walking slowly to trotting. At the same time, more than ten messengers holding small flags ran out of the middle formation and beyond.
The array, when it reaches both sides of the queue, is in a free state, and is not mainly responsible for contact killing. These messengers use long guns with triangular flags. After lifting the long guns, the soldiers behind can also see them, and they turn around from time to time.
Observe the flag command issued by Gao Shun in the center and pass it on...
Whistle sounds and flags allow the cavalry to make some fine adjustments when moving. This is the skill of the front-line cavalry general school, and it is also an event that Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and Liangzhou Iron Cavalry are good at. What he did just now is
Ma Changsheng temporarily adjusted his strategy without consulting Gao Shun, and Gao Shun also adjusted his original plan.
The increased speed of the Han army meant that the Han army would pass through its own half faster and press the opponent's array. The Wusun people had obviously planned to face the invasion from the left and right wings head-on, so they would be defeated because of their front army.
Due to the offset and lack of space, the center array and the right wing, which should have been separated, are glued together!
Wusun's left wing was naturally isolated and exposed!
This is the guidance given by Ma Changsheng to Gao Shun!
Boost!
Kill some of them first!
What follows is that Ma Changsheng, as a former soldier, has to bear the dual pressure of Wusun's center and right wing...
The horse's speed gradually increased, and the originally chaotic sound of the horse's hooves gradually merged into a neat roar. The war horses that had known each other for many years rumbled across the dry and hard ground, stirring up dust all over the sky.
Just as expected, when Ma Changsheng's front line began to fight with the Wusun people, the Wusun people's left wing also appeared completely in front of Gao Shun.
The intervals between Wusun's cavalry were wider, and their strength was not evenly distributed, but appeared to be in the shape of a horizontal rugby ball with a slightly thicker middle and slightly thinner sides, heading towards Gaoshun's central formation.
Gao Shun shouted: "Turn! Turn to the right!"
Flags waved and whistles sounded rapidly.
The triangular flag guided the direction. The cavalry in the Han army's formation heard the whistle and accelerated their horses at the same time. The rumble of horse hooves was like thunder running from far to near in the sky. The red tassels on the rows of helmets were beating like countless flickering blooms.
red flame.
As the two sides clashed, the distance between them suddenly turned into the last hundred steps...
It's now!
"Full speed! Full speed! Charge!"
Gao Shun roared into the wind.
The whistle sounded sharply, amid the whistling wind.
The dirt and grass clippings carried by the hooves of thousands of horses flew everywhere.
The vibrations caused by the galloping seemed to start to resonate with the entire space.
In comparison, the Han army's array was more dense.
And denseness means that there is no way to retreat in a certain sense, and there is no more room to escape. Against the enemy, it is also against yourself. Killing or being killed will happen at the moment when the horses cross each other. In this way,
In a dense space, fancy techniques and feints are basically useless. Only the instinct formed through long-term training and the courage to die are the effective guarantees for survival.
The oncoming Wusun cavalry showed some panic. When they faced the dense array of Han cavalry, even the lengthened lances could not bring them more sense of security...
The short distance flies by in the blink of an eye.
"kill!"
Gao Shun exhaled loudly, his blood rising.
"kill!
” The Han cavalry also roared at the top of their lungs.
The torrent of flesh and steel collided head-on.
At this moment, it seems that all auditory functions have failed.
The broken gun barrel was flying in the air along with the broken armor pieces.
The blood is spurting out unbridled.
The sparks of swords, guns and armor colliding with each other seemed to want to ignite everything in this world.
The horses that couldn't get out of the way collided with each other, causing their bones to break. Some horses were knocked into the air, and some fell to the ground with the cavalry on their backs, rolling on the ground one after another.
At the last moment, Gao Shun stared at the Wusun cavalry in front of him, lowered his stature, reduced the frontal area, and passed the opponent in the chaos. The sword suppressed the spear thrust by the Wusun cavalry.
, the sparks sparkled and the dry blow neatly cut off the arm of the Wusun cavalry. With a scream, the Wusun cavalry fell to the sky, and then disappeared under the flying horseshoes in the next breath.
At some point, a seat beside Gao Shun became vacant. There was a guard who was knocked away at an unknown time and place. Before Gao Shun could take another look, several more people rushed in front of him.
Among the Wusun cavalry, one of the Wusun cavalry wearing chainmail waved the scimitar in his hand towards Gao Shun. Gao Shun just relied on instinct to shrink his head and dodge, and the Wusun cavalry did not do anything.
At the second opportunity to attack, the Han cavalry behind him shot him under the arm, causing him to fall off his horse.
The dense formation of the Han cavalry made the damage to the Wusun more obvious during the confrontation between the two sides. In the blink of an eye, among the more than 80 Wusun people in the first wave of battle, five or six were shot down.
Ten, the remaining twenty or thirty people quickly disappeared into the follow-up follow-up of the Han cavalry.
Although it is said that the Wusun cavalry used the long lance tactics of West Asia, and it is true that an inch longer is stronger than an inch, but similarly, if it cannot directly stab people, then the long lance is a burden. The vast majority of those who hold long lances
Even if the Wusun cavalry successfully hit the Han cavalry during the first round of attack, their blades were broken and they had no time to change weapons. Those that were not hit were often too late to recover, so they faced the Han cavalry.
At the time, they were almost powerless to fight back. At the same time, the dense and straight array of Han cavalry also gave them no room to avoid to the side...
The tactics of the Han cavalry are basically very mature.
They still maintained their formation while running at high speed, whizzing towards them with sharp swords in their hands. By using the power of the hedging force, they did not need to swing hard. They just had to hold the handle of the knife and wave it lightly when they passed by, or
If you press the opponent's weapon and cut it, you can bring flying limbs and a shower of blood.
The Wusun cavalry was not the only one who suffered damage.
The dense cavalry array also means that as long as the Wusun cavalry causes direct damage to the Han cavalry, the Han cavalry will also be difficult to avoid. They can only rely on armor to resist, but because the impact speed of both sides is very fast, there are
Even if the armor is not broken, the impact will cause the horse to fall off the horse. With the horses galloping like this, once the horse falls off the horse, it is basically equivalent to death.
But in any case, the battle damage of Wusun's left wing was obviously much greater than that of Han cavalry.
When facing a dense array of Han cavalry, even if the Wusun cavalry kills the Han cavalry in the front row, they will almost immediately be attacked by the Han cavalry in the back row, or they will be attacked by the opponent's cavalry who also have no room to escape.
bumped into each other.
The Wusun cavalry on both sides of the array wanted to help, but found that their own array had been smashed into chaos by the Han cavalry. The rolling people and horses on the ground also blocked their support route, forcing them to reduce their horse speed, which made them
It plays almost no role in combat.
After the impact, the first wave of Wusun cavalry lost more than a hundred people, and the entire deployed front was immediately shattered. However, the attack was not over yet. When the second wave of Wusun cavalry tried to attack Gao Shun, they were hit by
An entire platoon of cavalry crossbows were lost!
Before the advent of the era of hot weapons, the loss of crossbows was undoubtedly a nightmare for cavalry. Even until the Middle Ages, those Western knights still suffered from the loss of crossbows, saying that those who lost crossbows were evil and lowly.
Upright swords, guns and shields...
Although the cavalry crossbow is much lower in power and shooting range than the infantry crossbow, it is enough for the cavalry between the two armies. Imagine that on the highway of later generations, an abandoned
A falling kite string can cut off the head of a motorcycle rider, not to mention that what the Wusun cavalry hit was not a string, but a harder and sharper crossbow.
The crossbow roared out, catching the Wusun cavalry who wanted to take advantage of Gao Shun's attack and the encirclement by surprise. The Wusun cavalry originally wanted to wrap up Gao Shun and others, but they didn't expect that doing so would backfire.
It allows you to expand the area under attack!
Just like struggling to hug a ferocious hedgehog, Wusun's left wing was immediately pricked with blood everywhere, howling in agony, men and horses falling over, and countless casualties.
The Wusun people on the front line fell one after another, and the Wusun people on the back line inexplicably saw a whole group of people falling because their sight was blocked. This caused the Wusun people on the back line to panic instinctively.
In the blink of an eye, Wusun's left wing could not bear the humiliation, and its morale collapsed. Perhaps it was deceived, or perhaps it lost its commander during the battle, Wusun's left wing was quickly attacked by Gao Shun's men.
collapsed.
But before Gao Shun could take a breath, he received some disturbing news.
