Just when Xie Yan was about to kill Qu Bei, another 5,000 cavalry rushed out of the Huns' formation, preparing to intercept Xie Yan's pursuit!
When Niu Gui saw this situation, he immediately offered gold and retreated his troops. This victory was already an unexpected joy for him. He did not want Xie Yan and the others to be plotted by the Huns!
"Ding, ding, ding!" Ming Jin's voice of withdrawing his troops spread throughout the battlefield. Xie Yan heard it and immediately stopped the horse. When he saw the Huns' cavalry coming out, he knew that it was impossible to annihilate the cavalry, so he could only say helplessly
: "Let's go back!"
The first battle between Niugui and Xubu Guduhou ended!
After half a day of fighting on this unknown grassland, 3,000 soldiers from both sides died here!
The Huns lost 2,000 warriors, and although Xie Yan was the winner, thousands of warriors also fell here!
After counting the casualties, the coaches of both sides felt that their opponents were difficult to deal with.
Niu Gui's main camp!
All generals above the rank of Army Sima are gathered here!
Everyone laughed after seeing Xie Yan: "Brother, this battle can be regarded as destroying the morale of the Huns. If they had not escaped back, they would have been wiped out by my brother!"
But Xie Yan smiled bitterly and said: "It's just a lesson learned over a battle. Yunzhong County is newly occupied, the militia system has not been fully established, and the tribesmen are not as strong as those in Mayi. The young men have not even completed a military training.
If I hadn't had an idea this time and relied on crossbows to suppress the Huns, I would have been the one to escape!"
Then Xie Yan said to Niu Gui: "General, in terms of physical strength, we are still not as good as the Huns, and the number of troops is not as good as the Huns. To deal with the Huns, we still have to focus on defense. If the Huns move out in such a large scale, Mayi will definitely increase our troops.
Yunzhong County, as long as we can hold on for more than half a month, reinforcements will arrive, and then we can take the initiative!"
Niu Gui also watched this battle, and naturally knew that he could win this time thanks to Xie Yan's tactical suppression of the Huns, but he would not have such good luck next time. In terms of hard power, the Huns were stronger than them, and neither was their defense.
Unacceptable things.
So Niu Gui said: "Xie Yan is right. The Huns are stronger than us. We focus on defense and wait for reinforcements!"
But he also said: "The low combat effectiveness of soldiers is also a problem. We still need to find ways to increase the combat effectiveness of soldiers!"
Colonel Yan Zhu said: "If you want to increase your combat effectiveness, there is a faster way to increase it than on the battlefield! As long as we continue like today, with battalions of soldiers constantly fighting the Huns, our combat effectiveness will naturally be too little!"
Niu Gui thought for a while but gave up and said: "It's just to let them die, it's better to use other methods!"
He wanted to agree just now, but suddenly he thought that these 30,000 soldiers were almost the strongest in the entire Yunzhong County. If they really fought with the Huns in this way, I am afraid that every family in the entire Yunzhong County would wear filial piety.
Don’t even think about developing the county. All the young people are dead, and there are still people there to develop!
At the same time, the Huns camp!
The big and small leaders of the Huns also gathered together!
Xubu Guduhou asked Qubei concernedly: "King Zuoguli, are you not injured?"
Qu Bei shook his head and said: "The Tengjia Army didn't hurt me, but I was unwilling to lose. We obviously have the advantage! If it weren't for their strong armor and their crossbows raining like rain, we should have won!"
Xubu Guduhou said with relief: "It will be fine if we learn the lesson from this time!"
Captain Lan Buwu, the right captain, pondered for a moment and said: "Judging from today's war, even if King Zuo Guli's army is stronger than Tengjia Army, it still won't have much advantage. And they have 30,000 people. We
With 40,000 people, it can be said that we do not have an absolute advantage. Even if we defeat them, we will probably have to sacrifice less than half of our troops. Such a war is not cost-effective for us!"
Xubu Guduhou also said seriously: "There are 30,000 troops in Yunzhong County. This is something we never thought of before, but now we have crossed the Yellow River. Even if the enemy is strong, we must find a way to destroy them, otherwise
When Lei Gong's reinforcements arrive, we will have no way to conquer Yunzhong County!"
Lan Buwu, the right captain, thought for a while and said: "Chanyu, my subordinate's idea is whether we can let the Xianbei people support us. If we have another 20,000 Xianbei cavalry, we will have a double numerical advantage over Yunzhong County!
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When he went to Beimai, he objected: "Is it possible for the Xianbei people to leave after they come to Yunzhong County? They already have Shuofang County and Wuyuan County. If they are allowed to occupy Yunzhong County again, won't we be helping the Xianbei people to fight!"
The other leaders nodded when they heard about going to beer. Now that Xianbei has a large number of people, if they are really allowed to enter Yunzhong County, they will probably defeat the Tengjia Army in the end and Yunzhong County will not have their share! They have 8
Tens of thousands of people, could it be that they were trying to gain territory for the Xianbei people? Although the two sides formed an alliance because of Xu Wei's relationship, the decades of hostility could not be changed in a short time.
Go Beer continued: "Although the Tengjia Army has elite weapons, we are not without advantages. Our cavalry far exceeds that of the Tengjia Army. In the next battle, we will use our cavalry advantage and mobilize the Tengjia Army's troops to make it difficult for them to maintain
The formation will create a situation of more enemies and fewer enemies. As long as we defeat a few battalions of the Tengjia Army, victory will definitely belong to us!"
This tactic can maximize the advantage of their cavalry, so Xubu Guduhou thought about it and agreed.
The next day, Xubu Guduhou prepared to continue fighting Niu Gui, but he did not expect that Niu Gui stayed behind closed doors!
So he led people outside Niu Gui's fight and shouted: "Niu Gui, you are still not a man, do you dare to come out and fight!"
At this time, all the soldiers in Niu Gui's camp were in their respective positions to prevent the Huns from attacking the camp!
Niu Gui laughed when he heard what Xubu Gudu said and said: "I am not an idiot. I use infantry to fight your cavalry on the grassland. If you are a man, bring your cavalry to attack my camp. If you can break my camp,
I call you a hero!"
At this time, Xubu Guduhou carefully looked at Niu Gui's camp, and dug a trench two feet wide and one foot deep outside the trench. Outside the trench was filled with Juma antlers to protect the cavalry.
Beyond the antlers is a barbed wire fence, and many archery towers are built around the camp. Anyone who wants to attack this camp will be subject to crossbow arrows fired from these archery towers!
After reading this, Xubu Guduhou took a deep breath. There was a camp here and there. It was like an extremely huge hedgehog! I'm afraid the general defense power of the fortress was not as good as this camp! Are the people of the Tengjia Army so greedy for life and afraid of death?
If Xu Wei heard this comment from Xubu Guduhou here, he would definitely be very pleased. Niu Gui learned seven things from him!
Xubu Guduhou could tell that this camp was dangerous, and naturally the other Huns leaders could also tell.
Lan Buwu solemnly asked: "What should we do, Chanyu?"
Marquis Xubu Gudu said: "If we can't destroy this army by attacking from the outside bit by bit, we won't be able to occupy the entire Yunzhong County!"
So the Huns' 40,000 troops surrounded Niu Gui's camp on three sides, leaving only the north side for Niu Gui to escape!
The Huns began to clear the defenses outside the camp bit by bit. What they faced most was the outermost barbed wire fence.
At first, the Huns didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just rattan, horse ropes and the like used to hinder the cavalry. But when the Huns sent people to clear these barbed wire fences, they were greeted by Niu Gui's crossbows and arrows. The first wave of attacks
The Huns were shot so hard that they ran around with their heads in their hands, but the barbed wire fence did not move at all. Only the Huns who got closer discovered that the barbed wire fences were all driven with wooden stakes and could not be pulled out at all. Hundreds of Huns died, but no fortifications were cleared at all!
Go Bei said angrily: "Niu Gui is so cunning and cunning, he even drove down wooden stakes! Damn it, how could this Tengjia Army be so rich, and actually use precious iron materials to make trip ropes!"
He didn't care that hundreds of people died. What he cared about was that the fortifications of Niu Gui's camp were not damaged at all. At the same time, he was frightened again by the crossbow arrows of the Tengjia Army. In order to kill hundreds of them, Niu Gui actually shot thousands of long arrows and even
They just threw valuable iron materials on the ground and surrounded the entire camp with these iron materials. I felt that these iron materials alone were more than what the 40,000 of them could use. What a waste. On the contrary, they, the Huns,
He kept talking about riding and shooting, but he didn’t fire a single arrow!
Fortunately, the method of defense against crossbow arrows is also very simple. I went to Bei to find someone to build a lot of giant wooden shields to block them in front. They had no way to deal with the crossbow arrows. I just underestimated the wooden stakes nailed into the ground. Even if the Huns could resist them,
Crossbow arrows, but they couldn't pull out these wooden stakes despite all their efforts. Instead, because of pulling out these wooden stakes, several people stepped out of the wooden shield's defensive range and were killed by crossbow arrows!
Faced with new fortifications like barbed wire, I spent a whole day thinking about it but still couldn't think of any way to remove these things. If I wanted to pull them out, it wasn't impossible. He worked hard all day today and pulled out one, and also found it.
The method is to remove the soil around the wooden piles, which will make them easier to pull out. But even with this method, it would be impossible to pull out hundreds of wooden piles under Niu Gui's crossbows without spending several months!
The Huns armies in the other two attacking directions also encountered the same problem as the beer removal. This problem can be solved by using pressure pliers in modern times, but for the Huns who have no industry, they don't even have a pair of big scissors.
No!
Finally, after deliberation for a day, these Huns leaders came up with a solution that was not a solution, which was to cover these annoying barbed wire fences with wooden boards or horse skins! Anyway, hundreds of horses were killed in the last battle, and they were skinned and covered with these barbed wire fences.
That’s it!
It took the Huns three days to finally break through the barbed wire fence, and then they encountered obstacles such as horse and deer antlers. At this time, they were already 50 steps close to the camp. Within this range, even projectiles could be fired with considerable accuracy.
Damn the Huns, not to mention there is a huge trench behind these horses!
If you want to clean these antlers, you have to bear the rain of crossbows and arrows from the Tengjia Army. It can be said that every time you clean an antler, you have to pay several lives!
It took the Huns seven days and thousands of people died to finally reach this trench. At the same time, they also said goodbye to the situation of only being beaten without fighting back, because at this range they could also use mounted bows to fight back, but the effect was not very good.
On the ground, if the ceramic armor's defensive sword can still be considered barely, the defensive effect of crossbow arrows is comparable to that of iron armor. As long as you are not particularly unlucky to be shot in the face, you will basically not be injured, and the Huns will definitely be sure as long as they hit 4-5 arrows.
You will lose your life. After all, crossbows are more powerful than cavalry bows, and the Huns' leather armor has poorer defense!
It can be said that this is a comprehensive crushing of equipment! If the fight continues with this exchange ratio, the Huns will be dead before all the Niugui are killed!
After realizing this problem, Xubu Guduhou stopped the offensive for a day and rested his team. During this rest, he discovered that the attacks in the past few days had caused more than 5,000 casualties to his subordinates. He was now only over 30,000.
of troops!
"We can't continue fighting like this. If we continue to fight, our tribes will be destroyed in the attack!" Lan Buwu shouted. Every tribe has suffered heavy losses in the attacks in the past few days, but they didn't even reach the entrance of Niugui camp.
I haven't even touched it, which makes many people intolerable.
Go Bei angrily said: "You have suffered a heavy loss, and we have not suffered a heavy loss. Leave now. Do you think Lei Gong will let us go? Look at what he did to the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people attacked the Tengjia Army twice, and Lei Gong
They annexed 300,000 tribes of Xianbei people. What will be left for us Xiongnu if Lei Gong annexes 300,000 tribes?"
Going for a beer made the leaders present feel depressed. They were living a good life, so why did they attack the Thunder Lord of Mayi?
It's not that Lei Gong didn't give them a way to survive, but he actually said that they would kill the chief and divide the cattle and sheep. Who did they offend while living a good life in Bingzhou? They were bullied by outsiders like Lei Gong!
Go Beer continued: "I dare say that if we retreat this time, Lei Gong will definitely attack us in Meiji next year. Then you will watch Lei Gong lead your tribe to hang you and kill your wives, cattle and sheep.
Give them all to those slaves! Just like he did on Baitan Mountain!"
Go Bei said even more viciously: "If we all die, what's the point of keeping the tribe alive, and what's the point of even the existence of the Xiongnu to us!"
These words were somewhat rebellious, but they awakened the leaders present!
That’s right, if you don’t defeat Thunder Lord now, then Thunder Lord will take his tribe and hang himself to death. By then, none of his tribe will belong to him, so what’s the point of keeping his tribe?
"Yes, we can't procrastinate like this anymore. Even if all our troops are exhausted, we still have to conquer Niu Gui's camp! Otherwise, when Mayi's reinforcements arrive, we will be the ones who die!"
So Niu Gui was surprised to find that after a day of pruning, the Huns all seemed to be going crazy.
Opposite Xie Yan, Qu Bei didn't even care about the casualties of his troops. He launched more than a dozen attacks in one day. All the fortifications outside the camp were removed by Qu Bei, and the trenches in front of the camp were also filled in. He was now facing
The camp continued to launch attacks. The strings of Xie Yan's crossbows were almost broken, but they still couldn't stop Qu Bei from attacking the camp. It seemed that Qu Bei didn't care about the casualties of their own troops!
After the battle, rivers of blood flowed around the camp and there were corpses everywhere. The blood dyed the entire camp red. The Huns were so desperate that the casualties of the Tengjia Army also increased.
At the end of the fight, Xie Yan even had to hold a sword in person to resist these crazy Huns.
"Kill all the Tengjia troops!" In order to boost morale, Qubei also personally attacked the front line with a sword and leather shield! The Huns used ropes to open the gate of the camp.
Then he led 1,000 soldiers to the camp!
At this time, Go Bei was furious, his face was ferocious, like a demon from hell, and the sword in his hand was as powerful as thunder. Any soldier who stood in front of him would be killed by him without exception.
Killing Shura from the sea of blood.
Encouraged by the bravery of Qu Bei, the Huns' morale was greatly boosted. Everyone risked their lives in the battle. Even if they suffered heavy losses, they would die together with the soldiers of the Tengjia Army!
The Huns soldiers led by Qu Bei used such a desperate fighting style that the soldiers of the Tengjia Army were beaten back steadily. Qu Bei quickly occupied the entrance of the camp and led the Huns to continuously expand their advantage!
After Xie Yan discovered this scene, he immediately led his personal guards to block it! He even faced the fierce and invincible Go Bei!
Xie Yan rushed towards the beer, and the two swords collided, creating a dazzling electric light!
When I went to beer and found out it was Xie Yan, I sneered: "I didn't expect to meet you here, it just happened to avenge me last time!
Qu Bei stabbed Xie Yan sharply. Xie Yan's strength was not as strong as Qu Bei's, and his whole body was blown away!
When I saw Xie Yan in a panic, he sneered, "I want your life!"
After saying that, use all your strength to chop again!
But at this time, Xie Yan and his two personal guards pounced on them, but their martial arts were low, so they were killed with a single blow!
"Go away, you dare to kill my brother, I want you to pay with blood!"
Xie Yan was filled with evil spirits and struck thirteen times in a row. The two swords collided and produced sparks. Xie Yan's swords were all blocked by Qu Bei. Qu Bei took advantage of Xie Yan's discouragement and struck at Xie Yan's with his sword.
On the chest, the iron armor and the steel knife wiped out a flash of lightning, but I could feel that I didn't cut Xie Yan's body!
Go Bi An cursed: "What an iron can!"
Then he kicked Xie Yan away!
At this time, Niu Gui led thousands of reserve troops to arrive here. With this new force, the situation on the battlefield quickly improved. Qu Bei also spent a lot of energy in the battle just now. He was not as brave as he was just now. Niu Gui led
The people directly drove them out of the camp. At this time, night fell and the Huns' horn horns sounded to retreat. Gobe had no choice but to lead the retreat.
After Niu Gui saw the Huns retreating, he began to clean up the battlefield. He found Xie Yan who had been repelled and asked, "Are you okay?"
Xie Yan said: "I can't die. I don't know what happened when I went to have a beer today. I am so brave. I guess you are no match for him, boss!"
Among the Tengjia Army, if Xu Wei is the well-deserved first fierce general, Niu Gui is the well-deserved second fierce general! Most of the top leaders of the Tengjia Army are from refugees and have no chance to learn martial arts.
Eat well, and learn some martial arts by fighting on the battlefield.
But Niu Gui is a ranger and has studied martial arts for more than ten years. No matter how advanced he is, he has a better foundation than Wang Lei and others. Niu Gui is also the martial arts instructor of the Tengjia Army. And the younger brothers around Niu Gui are more or less skilled.
They know some martial arts, so they like to be on the front line!
It's just that this time Xie Yan really lost his confidence in being beaten by Go Beer. He and several of his bodyguards didn't even beat a Go Beer!
Niu Gui also felt strange, but after thinking about it he smiled and said: "They should be struggling to their death. They have been attacking Yunzhong County for more than 10 days. With the speed of our Tengjia Army's support, reinforcements may have already entered Yunzhong County.
, that’s why they fought so fiercely. We just need to keep these days in check, and then it will be the Huns’ turn to escape!”
Although Niu Gui didn't guess the reason correctly, he was right about one thing. Wang Yong's army had arrived in Chengle, and the Huns couldn't hold on for a few more days!
As dusk fell, the Huns' camp was lit with bonfires, and all the leaders gathered in the Chinese army's tent to report their battle losses! In the end, they calculated that they had lost 3,000 soldiers in this battle!
This result made all the leaders gasp! If such an intense battle were to continue two more times, I'm afraid the clansmen would rebel.
No one knew what to say for a moment, and the whole tent was deserted!
At this time, Tanma ran in and knelt in front of Xubu Guduhou and said: "The reinforcements of the Tengjia Army have entered Yunzhong County. There are 60,000 reinforcements. The commander is Wang Yong, the pioneer general of the Tengjia Army!"
Lan Buwu lost all hope and said: "It's over, it's over, reinforcements from the Tengjia Army are coming. We failed, and it was a miserable defeat! We fled back to Meiji and begged the Han Emperor for mercy. Now only he can protect us!"
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Lan Buwu didn't want to fight. Now they only have 20,000 warriors, and their morale is not high. However, the Tengjia Army has 80,000 soldiers, and 60,000 of them have high morale. How can we fight this? If we continue to fight, we are not asking for death.
!
"While the Tengjia Army has not yet surrounded us, we will immediately cross the Yellow River and return to Xihe County. We have natural dangers along the Yellow River, and the Tengjia Army will not be able to attack Meiji so easily!" The other leaders also panicked. Don't look at it.
They were so determined as they said yesterday, but if they could live a few more days, they were still willing to live an ignoble existence. If they continued to stay in Yunzhong County, I was afraid that they would all die under the sword of the Tengjia Army.
"Commander Lan Buwu is right. We beg the Han Emperor for mercy. He needs our warriors to help him conquer the world. He will definitely forgive us!"
"Yes, yes! At worst, we ask the Han emperor to change our territory. Even if we go to Xiliang to face the Qiang people, it's okay. Xiliang is not rebelling now. We go to Xiliang to help the Han emperor quell the war. The Han emperor will definitely
willing!"
"Yes! When we get to Xiliang, it's hard for Lei Gong to follow him!"
Wang Yong's 60,000 reinforcements completely defeated these Huns leaders' confidence in victory. They couldn't defeat 30,000 people. How can they fight with 80,000 to 90,000 Tengjia troops now?
Once again, all the leaders know that they have no possibility of victory, and now they have to find a way to save their own lives!
When Xubu Guduhou heard this, his face turned ugly. The other leaders could surrender to the Han emperor, but it was obviously impossible for him, the one who killed Qiang Qu. It was obvious that everyone was dissatisfied with Qiang Qu and rebelled together.
But now it seems that these people want to put all the responsibility on themselves and make themselves the scapegoats. How could Lord Xubu Gudu be happy at this time!