The 1043rd Section: The Huns' Fear of the Han Army
It was the afternoon of the second day of the lunar month, the winter day of the 10th month of the sixth year of Yuande.
It has been four days since Ziling reported that the main force of the Han army had left the fortress.
Bad news reached Huyandangtu one after another.
Ziling, of course, inevitably fell under the control of the Han Dynasty.
Huyan should massacre King Ruolu and divide his population and livestock. His original intention was to strike first to gain strength, kill chickens and frighten monkeys, and establish authority.
Everything was fine originally.
All tribes have bowed their heads obediently.
The cavalry and livestock that had been promised also began to be mobilized.
As long as five days pass, Ziling's defense will be stable!
However, the reaction of the Han Dynasty people was so quick and decisive.
With full calculation, he had already decided to go out of the blockade almost the same day after Huyan Dangtu attacked Ziling.
Huyan Dangtu also understood why.
At first, he killed the Ruolu tribe, but in the end it was impossible to control all the people in a tribe with more than 10,000 villages.
King Naruolu's sons fled with a group of cronies.
Some people fled to Nanchi to complain to King Hujie. Some people fled to the grassland and wanted to go to Mubei to seek refuge with their relatives from the Ruolu tribe. However, most of them fled to the Han Dynasty frontier fortress.
Huyan Dangtu already knew about this before taking action.
After all, after decades of wars and exchanges between Han and Hungary, it was common for nobles and officials to run to each other and seek asylum from each other when something happened.
However, what Huyan Dangtu did not expect was that the Han Dynasty people would be so decisive.
He quickly left the barrier without giving him any time to prepare.
The army was divided into two groups, and without any effort, they reached Ziling and controlled the roads to Ziling.
As for the tribal forces in Ziling and nearby Ziling, they were caught off guard and could not organize any resistance at all, so they could only evacuate in panic.
The Han army's decisive and resolute advance made Gaoque Fortress actually exposed to the Han army's front.
Now, the only remaining barriers to Gaoque are Dahe Natural Barrier and Honghu Fortress.
However, the natural dangers of the river are not reliable at all in this season!
The cold winter on the Mongolian Plateau has caused the river to almost completely freeze.
In some sections of the river, the ice thickness even exceeds three feet!
Not to mention people, even cavalry on war horses can pass through safely, and even heavier carriages with heavy loads can pass through!
So in fact, before Gaoque Fortress, the only thing Huyan Dangtu could rely on was Honghu Fortress.
but
The Honghu Fortress has been in disrepair for a long time, but because it is across the river from Gaoque, the Huns would occasionally repair it.
Its city defense system has long been useless!
What's even more troublesome is
"God's Cavalry!" Huyan Dangtu sighed, looking at Ziling in the south with a ferocious expression.
The Han Dynasty army has not yet figured out how many soldiers and horses came to Huyan Dangtu this time.
But one thing is certain.
The emperor of the Han Dynasty sent his trump card, the most powerful armed force of the Han army, the powerful cavalry known as the Divine Cavalry by countless Xiongnu tribes and shamans.
Two years ago, during the Battle of Mayi, the Zhelan tribe attacked crazily with a determination to die.
But in front of that terrifying Han cavalry, he was crushed to death like a chicken or a dog, like an ant.
Legend has it that the Zhelan people did not even kill a single divine knight!
These stories and legends, along with the remnant Zhelan soldiers who escaped and the nobles who were redeemed in recent years, spread all over the grassland.
As a result, this year, more than a dozen tribes who originally wanted to return to Makunan to spend the winter chose to move westward.
They would rather give up their ancestral home and the pastures they have grazed for generations than face the possibility of an invincible horseman.
After all, that legend is so scary!
The powerful Zhelan tribe, which even the Shan Yu's own tribe may not be able to defeat, was the backbone of the Xiongnu Empire and the riding whip of the Chan Yu. They were wiped out in a single battle in Mayi.
Even those who were lucky enough to escape were mostly frightened into lunatics and idiots.
So, the moment this legendary cavalry appeared on the grassland, wearing their symbolic tall and straight helmets, wearing cold armor, and holding a carbine that was the same weapon as the god's artifact in legend.
It immediately caused panic among countless tribes.
A large number of small tribes and clans almost fled.
These guys even abandoned their pastures, belongings and livestock, and ran across the ice of the river crying for their fathers and mothers.
This triggered an avalanche effect.
Other tribes also fled.
The most embarrassing thing is the 7,000-year-old Xiutu tribe.
These guys are obviously still more than two hundred miles away from Ziling.
As a result, as soon as they heard that the Han Dynasty had dispatched the divine cavalry, they immediately fled to Gaoque with their slaves and livestock.
If Huyan Dangtu hadn't immediately sent out his personal guards, closed the city gates and passes, and killed more than a hundred fools who were frightened.
I am afraid that the current Gaoque has become a passage for refugees to escape.
The people of the Han Dynasty no longer needed to think of ways or worry about how to conquer this fortress.
Just the dozens of tribes south of Gaoque, more than a hundred clans of various sizes, hundreds of thousands of herdsmen and hundreds of thousands of livestock, are enough to turn Gaoque into a city of chaos.
Of course, Huyan Dangtu can understand the panic of these tribes and clans.
Even he was frightened to death after hearing the news about the Han Dynasty's divine cavalry, and even trembled from the depths of his soul.
After all, according to legend, the extremely powerful Zhelan's charge failed to kill even a single divine horseman of the Han Dynasty.
There is an essential difference between zero to ten thousand and one to ten thousand.
The former means invincible, means invincible, means that only God can resist.
The latter, at least, is something that mortals can deal with.
Although, Huyan Dangtu didn't believe the information brought back by the remnant soldiers and nobles.
But it is a fact that the Zhelan tribe was completely defeated and annihilated by the divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty. Even the defeated generals who fled back were mostly frightened crazy and stupid.
Facing such an enemy, Huyan Dangtu felt that he could not attach too much importance to him.
However, the problem is
When Huyan was slaughtered, he walked up to the top of Gaoque City and looked at the densely packed domes under the city and in the surrounding woods.
"Although I hold a large army, my morale is extremely low." He looked at the Hun warriors on his left and right.
These warriors are all first-rate warriors.
There are even some warriors who have killed tigers and leopards.
However, even such warriors, if they were allowed to fight against the divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty, they would probably be scared to death like everyone else before even entering the battlefield.
Going to fight the enemy with an army that you think you will never be able to defeat before the battle begins?
I'm afraid that as long as the battle is slightly unfavorable, the Han army on the opposite side will send out the divine cavalry in formation to prepare for a charge.
Then, most of the Xiongnu soldiers would probably be scattered.
Probably only the Wanqi in the headquarters can barely resist.
But the thought of resisting would collapse in an instant once it collided with the Han cavalry.
Of course, there is no need to think about the rest.
Huyan Dangtu has seen too many such examples.
Take the Dawan people, for example. Last year the Xiongnu went on an expedition to the west. To be honest, the Dawan people's combat effectiveness was pretty good.
At least at the beginning, it caused enough trouble for the Huns army.
But, when Shanyu ordered his headquarters to charge and wiped out those who resisted.
In the entire Dawan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
The Xiongnu soldiers marched straight into the capital city without encountering any resistance.
Hundreds of thousands of Dawan people were even frightened by thousands of Xiongnu cavalry and did not dare to leave the city.
Finally, when the capital of Dawan was captured, the nobles and generals in the country did not dare to resist at all.
The most courageous person can only commit suicide.
The rest all became prisoners and slaves of the Huns.
Those prosperous manors, cellars filled with gold and silver, beautiful girls, fragrant wine, and warehouses full of rice all became the spoils of war for the Huns.
An army that hesitates when it sees the enemy, even if it has one hundred thousand, one million, or even tens of millions, is just livestock to be slaughtered, chickens and ducks on the chopping block!
"How disgusting!" Huyan Dangtu clenched his fists, and his nails dug into his flesh.
The Huns believed in shamanism, and for shamanism, nothing in the world could become a god.
Not to mention the herdsmen on the grasslands, they regard their enemies as gods.
Even a stone on the mountain, a whirlpool in the river, or a relatively large water bird in the lake may be regarded as gods by them.
Moreover, there is a very interesting point in the teachings of shamanism.
That was the thing that caused the greatest harm to the Xiongnu, and the more it was worshiped.
For example, locusts, blizzards, and epidemics are all embodied as gods or messengers of gods.
It is this simple teaching that has put Huyan Dangtu into a dilemma.
Even though he didn't believe those legends.
But I can’t help others believing it!
"If I lead my troops to fight directly with the main force of the Han army," Huyan Dangtu thought in his heart, "I'm afraid the cavalry from all the tribes will flee!"
For the Huns, it was impossible for humans to defeat gods.
Mortal bodies dare not fight against God's cavalry.
The cavalry in the main unit is not bad. Under the power of Chanyu, finding a few shamans and jumping masters can alleviate the situation.
But the servants and the herdsmen and cavalry from the miscellaneous tribes were now extremely frightened.
They only wanted to run and had no intention of fighting.
"If I want to defeat the Han army, I'm afraid I have to find a way to get rid of the lie that the Han people are protected by gods!" Huyan Dangtu knew very well what he should do.
If we cannot dispel the myth that the emperor of the Han Dynasty was a living god, the Han Dynasty received blessings and protection from the gods.
Then this war should not be fought.
Each tribe should quickly pack up their things and flee for their lives or surrender!
To dispel this myth, we must first defeat a Han army on the battlefield and show their heads and corpses to the tribes: Han Dynasty people are also human beings, and they will die with a knife!
But the problem is
Where can I find a Han army that I can use for training?
The main force of the Han Dynasty on the Ziling side, Huyan Dangtu, simply did not dare to fight.
Are you kidding me?
With that divine cavalry in charge of the central army, it would be impossible for any Huns cavalry to dare to charge.
It's even possible that as soon as that magical horse moves, many people will be so scared that they will pee their pants.
At this time, a group of cavalry galloped from a distance. They passed through the city gate of Gaoque and entered the city. Then a nobleman panting climbed up to the top of the city, knelt down in front of Huyan Dangtu, and said: "
General Zuo! Your loyal servant should report to Tu Qing urgently: We have discovered that the Han army has moved from the south and has occupied a remote highland on the south bank of the river. General Zuo, please send troops to support immediately!"
When Huyan Dangtu heard this, he was overjoyed and asked quickly: "How many Han people are there? Do they have heavy cavalry from the Han Dynasty?"
"Reporting to General Zuo, the invading Han army is about 20,000, and the Han Dynasty's divine cavalry has not been found yet!" the nobleman replied.
"It's a heavy cavalry!" Huyan Dangtu glanced at him and said helplessly.
This is his minion, and even his minion does not dare to do any blasphemy to the Han Dynasty's divine cavalry.
I was afraid that if I was not careful, I would offend the gods and be electrocuted to death with a thunderbolt.
After death, the soul will sink into hell and be burned by fire for ten thousand years.
That's too bad!
When the other party heard this, he lowered his head to the ground and did not dare to answer the question.
This made Huyan Dangtu feel even more powerless.
but
Since this partial division of the Han Dynasty does not have heavy cavalry,
"Come here, call the commanders of the ten thousand cavalrymen of the Xubu clan and the Lan clan to see me immediately!" Huyan Dangtu immediately jumped up and ordered down: "At the same time, order all the warriors of the Huyan clan to prepare their bows and horses.
Prepare to attack with me!"
Twenty thousand Han troops?
A tough nut to crack indeed!
However, Huyan Dangtu didn't believe it. He gathered Gaoque's elite troops and all his cavalry, but he couldn't defeat them!
If he brought seven or eight thousand cavalry and rushed at him with thunderous force, he would not be able to defeat the Han army without any divine cavalry.
So what else is there to say?
Just jump into the river to wash yourself off! To be continued
