One thousand three hundred and forty one contact battle
Not only Lan Zheye but also Tie Yannan were frightened by the roar of the Han army.
However, compared to Lan Zheye, Xiyunnan did not need a translator. Their family had been responsible for communicating with the Han Dynasty for generations.
He has a certain understanding of the writing, language and even culture of the Han Dynasty.
Hearing the roar of the Han army, Xin Yunan sighed deeply: "The ambition of the Han Dynasty people has finally been revealed..."
Xiyunan's grandfather was Xiyunqian who served as an envoy to both Maodun and Laoshang Shanyu. Xiyunqian even had dealings with Jia Yi, a great literary giant of the Han Dynasty and known as a national scholar.
Therefore, it is difficult for Xi Yu to know that Jia Yi once publicly expounded his Han-Hungarian policy.
In terms of policy towards the Xiongnu, Jia Yi's main ideas were to make the Xiongnu surrender without fighting and to argue that the emperor of the Han Dynasty should rule the grasslands as a matter of course.
These arguments are almost exactly the same as those held by the Han Dynasty people today.
However, at that time, people in the Han Dynasty only dared to discuss it quietly.
But now they are blatantly issuing their demands to the Huns!
In the whole world, there is nothing but the king's land, and on the shore of the land, there is nothing but the king's ministers, the king, and the emperor! Wherever boats and chariots go, wherever human traces go, even if they are barbarians and barbarians, they are also the people of the emperor! Today, the Jizhu family is leading the people of the emperor.
It is a grave sin to disobey the Son of Heaven! If you sin against Heaven, there is nothing to pray for!
Just hearing this is enough. The people of the Han Dynasty wanted to swallow up the world and dominate the world, which made Xi Yunnan feel a little breathless.
He knew very well that the future world would really be the world of the Han Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Xie Yunnan's mood became a little lower.
However, he looked back at his army.
Four to five thousand people rode on the vast plains, as powerful as an overwhelming mountain.
This gave him a little confidence.
Although the Black Crow Riders are in the royal court, they are not considered elite.
But it is also one of the strongest troops on the entire grassland.
At least, these four to five thousand cavalry are worth more than ten thousand Kangju cavalry!
With such an elite presence, even if you can't defeat him, you can still run away, right?
"The whole army obeys the order!" Xi Yunan drew out the saber from his waist and pointed forward: "Concentrate our forces and attack the corner of the Han Dynasty!"
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves resounded throughout the world, dust flew up, and smoke was raised on the horizon, which could be clearly seen even ten miles away.
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"The enemy's cavalry is five hundred paces away!" Unlike the dragoons of the Northern Army, the two captains of the Southern Army were pure cavalry, and they were also rangers.
In the battle sequence and functional planning of the Han army, the rangers are the vanguard of the army, the sharp edge of the cavalry, the fastest light cavalry, and the most mainstream cavalry in the Han cavalry force today.
They are equipped with standard cavalry combat weapons.
A fine iron saber, a pair of gauntlets, two crossbows and a horn bow.
However, the cavalry of the Confederate Army will always have more luxurious equipment than ordinary troops.
After all, the officers of the Northern and Southern armies were basically the sons of generals who were noble ministers of Chang'an City.
Among them there are even some princes and nephews of foreign relatives.
Naturally, their network of connections and abilities are far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.
At the same time, the northern and southern armies were the armed forces that guarded Chang'an, the forbidden army at the gate of Suwei Palace, and the most powerful strategic mobile force in the hands of the emperors of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, their equipment is naturally much more luxurious than that of ordinary field regiments.
Liang Yuan rode a war horse and passed by the Northern Army's crossbow array. He looked at these 'dragon cavalry' with a sneer on his lips.
"Dragon cavalry?" He chuckled: "They are just horse-riding officers and powerful crossbows..."
As a cavalry captain of the Confederate Army, Liang Yuan certainly had his own pride.
Moreover, the historical feud between the Northern and Southern armies has been going on for a long time. For every officer of the Southern Army, he must not lose to the Northern Army in terms of momentum!
Therefore, Liang Yuan snorted coldly, turned his horse's head, came to the hillside on one side, and deliberately loudly asked the thousand cavalry who had already lined up: "Gentlemen, what is the Southern Army?"
"We are the sword of the Liu family, the eagle eye guarding the palace gate, and the home of loyal ministers and righteous men!" A thousand people answered in unison, overwhelming the Northern Army in an instant.
As far as the Confederate Army was concerned, the Northern Army, although not enemies, was by no means friends.
There was even a time when a guard of the Southern Army openly said when talking to the envoy sent by the emperor to protect the army: "You have a sacred mandate and walk in the camps of the Southern Army. There are no taboos, but there is one thing you must not get close to the Northern Army. Otherwise,
It will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the entire army..."
Although this is a bit exaggerated, it is also true.
The officers of the Northern and Southern armies, at the rank of captain and above, have not been friends or married with each other for thirty years.
Even if there is, it only happened after being transferred from the Southern Army or the Northern Army.
Nowadays, at the horse racing track in Maoling, there is a polo match every ten days, and the most intense competition has always been between the Xuanwu Team, composed of veterans of the Southern Army, and the Suzaku Team, composed of veterans of the Northern Army.
The competition between these two teams has always been very exciting and full of gunpowder.
On every match day between the two teams, hundreds of government officials inside and outside the racecourse are as if they are faced with a powerful enemy, as well as the troops of General Zhonglang and Jinwu, suppressing both inside and outside to prevent any unexpected events.
Even so, they often lose control and engage in all-out violence, often causing headaches and bleeding among supporters of both parties.
There were even times when some marquises were punched in the face on the playing field.
The origin of all this lies in the bloody battle between roommates more than thirty years ago.
That fight for beliefs and political opinions.
Although the Confederate army failed, even though it bled thousands of miles and laid tens of thousands of corpses.
But the spirit of the Confederate Army has not been destroyed, and the main body of the Confederate Army has not been destroyed.
Moreover, after Emperor Taizong Xiaowen ascended the throne, the world's public opinion and common people sympathized with, respected, and even admired the Confederate Army.
After all, the idea of loyalty to the emperor is the most correct universal value in the world.
The performance of the Southern Army was worthy of this.
After all, not everyone dares to lead troops and line up in armor when the situation is over and everything is over, stopping in front of the new emperor's car and shouting: The emperor is here, where are the steps?
Not everyone has the courage to draw a sword to protect the two little emperors who are hopeless and destined to die.
However, here, it is possible that some top-level black hands are deliberately indulgent.
After all, between the northern and southern armies, the former defended Chang'an and the latter guarded the palace.
If there is another slowdown between the two, wouldn't it be very unsafe in Weiyang Palace?
Therefore, the two of them fought without breaking up and were hostile to each other, which became the choice of the people above to play the art of emperors.
That is to say, after taking the throne today and establishing the Yulin Guard and the Huben Guard one after another, the hostility between the northern and southern armies was alleviated, and the embarrassing situation of me and you without you, and tit-for-tat against Maimang, was alleviated.
Even so, the grievances between the Southern Army and the Northern Army cannot be easily eliminated.
It cannot even be erased in one or two generations.
Now, for the Southern Army, it can lose to anyone, but it cannot lose to the Northern Army's bastards!
And the same is true for the Northern Army!
So seeing the arrogance of the Confederate cavalry, the Northern dragoons suddenly became red-eyed.
"In this battle, if we behead the bastards who are not as good as the Southern Army, I will not be able to return to Chang'an to see my father again!" A leader of the Northern Army said: "Gentlemen, please join me in killing the thieves!"
"No!" He was answered by a hundred crossbowmen with a furious anger level.
In the front row of Modao's column, due to the provocation of the Northern Army, the soldiers actually forgot about their pre-war fears and worries about the Huns cavalry, and instead gritted their teeth and said: "We must not let the bastards of the Southern Army overwhelm me.
wait!"
In many cases, the power of emotion is indeed very powerful.
At this moment, the Huns' cavalry had rushed to a place about 150 steps in front of the Han army's formation at high speed.
The dust kicked up by the horses' hooves of the Huns' vanguard could already be clearly seen.
"The enemy is one hundred and fifty steps away! Prepare the divine arm bow!" the military judges shouted loudly.
The two hundred divine arm archers hidden in the array silently raised their giant crossbows.
"wind!"
"Gale!"
Following the order, two hundred bowstrings roared, sharp arrows came out of the strings, and with a screaming sound, they shot at the Hun cavalry.
Tsk tsk tsk!
In just three breaths, these terrifying crossbows penetrated the entire Hun cavalry array, knocking dozens of unlucky ones off their horses.
However, compared to the thousands of Huns' cavalry, this is not even a mosquito bite.
However, it still frightened the Huns, especially the Hun nobles.
The power of this salvo is really too great!
It is not safe even one hundred and fifty steps away from the Han army's array!
Fortunately, the Han Dynasty people seemed to have problems with the firepower of their crossbowmen.
Thinking of this, Tie Yunnan said loudly: "Charge in at full speed! Get fifty steps in front of the Han Dynasty formation, hold your bow and shoot!"
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"wind!"
"Gale!"
Another order was given, and the archers in the front row started firing volleys, followed by the crossbow units.
For a time, arrows were falling like rain in front of the Han army's formation, as if they had returned to the Han-Hungarian battlefield ten years ago.
However, at that time, the scale of the arrow rain from the Han army's crossbow troops was magnificent and huge.
If there is an army of 20,000, they can at least organize more than 8,000 crossbowmen to block the direction of the Hun cavalry's surprise attack with a rain of arrows that covers the sky.
At that time, the Huns' tactic was to use some light cavalry to attract the attention of the Han army's crossbow troops, and then mobilize another group of faster cavalry to attack the Han army's weak flanks. Just tearing a hole was enough to lay a solid foundation.
victory!
Therefore, during that period, the Han army's Caiguan troops suffered heavy casualties.
But now, the Han army's arrow rain is undoubtedly much weaker.
After only a slight delay in the speed of the Huns' cavalry, which killed about a hundred people and dismounted more than a hundred others, the Huns had already rushed to the front of the Han army's formation.
In front of the defense line composed of those giant shields.
"Beep!" Blowing the whistle in his mouth, Northern Army Colonel Chen Ruan ordered loudly: "Gentlemen, let the world see the majesty of my husband from the Northern Army!"
"Mo Dao soldiers advance!"
So, the hundreds of Han warriors who were squatting on the ground, closing their eyes and concentrating, stood up with a crash, holding the long Mo Dao in their hands, ready to welcome the collision of the Huns cavalry and kill them at any time.
, let’s have a massacre!
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But this time the Huns did not hit the shield wall in front of the Han army as expected. Instead, they began to slow down suddenly fifty steps in front of the Han army's formation, and then dispersed towards the two wings. Then, these Huns opened their hands
The riding bow in.
Boom boom boom boom!
The bows of the Huns were made of pine wood that was common on the grasslands, and the strings were usually made of beef tendon, so the sound they produced was different from the bows of the Han army.
When they heard the vibration of the bowstring, the shield soldiers in the front row immediately responded correctly according to the training requirements.
Almost as a reflex, they raised their large shields to form an almost airtight wall.
However, the Huns had too many bows and arrows!
The rain of arrows that filled the sky covered the entire front row of the Han army's array in an instant.
The Mo Dao soldiers in the rear who were about to move forward were caught off guard, and dozens of them fell instantly.
In the front row, hundreds of giant shields were now in pieces, and the position was in a mess.
Fortunately, in the passages on both sides of the Han army, auxiliary soldiers who were already on standby immediately ran over carrying stretchers.
Judging from past battle cases, as long as the rescue is timely, generally more than 70% of the wounded and more than half of the seriously wounded can return to the army, and they will become the elite of the army next time!
At the same time, in the rear, the crossbowmen of the Northern Army immediately adjusted their direction and fired back at the Huns.
The Han army's crossbows were stronger, faster to string, more powerful, and most importantly, had a higher hit rate.
Even though the enemy was a cavalry that was moving at high speed and had dispersed, this round of retaliatory volleys from the Han army caused more than 200 people to fall off their horses due to the closer distance.
If the war is like this, shooting at each other, then there is no doubt that the Han army will have the last laugh!
Because the cavalry is on horseback, even though the Huns have now imitated stirrups and saddles, the accuracy and accuracy of shooting is still very low.
The Huns' volley just now was due to a sudden attack, leaving the Han army unprepared.
The Han army standing on the ground could undoubtedly threaten the Huns more effectively and fatally.
But unfortunately, cavalry combat has never been like this.
Youjie is just an appetizer.
All cavalry battles ultimately rely on hand-to-hand charges and hand-to-hand combat to determine the outcome.
The Han army knew this, and the Huns knew it even better.
So, at this moment, a large skull banner appeared from the right wing of the Han army, and they rolled in along the edge of the river.
"Force the cavalry? That is, the ghost cavalry?" Yi Zong held up his telescope and looked at the enemies attacking from seven or eight hundred or even a thousand steps away. He sneered and said to a general beside him: "
Ghost Rider! My enemy of China, Captain Zhang, should be the Emperor and the world, and get rid of this evil thief!"
The general heard the words and bowed: "I will obey the general's orders! I will live up to the general's expectations!"
Then, he dismounted and galloped towards his army.
Yi Zong looked at his retreating back, sighed, and said: "Brother, I can only help you get here..."
That person was none other than Yi Zong's former boss and current younger brother, Zhang Cigong from Hedong. However, this former eldest brother did not do well in the official circles of the Han family.
There is no other way, Yi Zong can only help him! (To be continued.)
