Zhang Liao's surprise attack cannot be said to be ineffective, at least it succeeded in delaying the Xiongnu army's offensive for another day. King Huliba of Xiutu ordered the miscellaneous men to dig a two-foot-deep horse pit in front of the camp, and allowed the Huns to
The Han craftsmen seized the time and rushed to manufacture siege equipment.
So two days later, the Huns marched again. King Xiutu learned the lesson of the previous rash charge. This time, he temporarily stopped his elite troops and ordered various miscellaneous men to push the wooden poles like a mountain wall, one step at a time, as the vanguard.
, warriors from all ethnic groups who were good at shooting stood behind the formation and exchanged fire with the Han army behind the fence.
Then arrows flew randomly from both sides, as if a black iron wind blew, sweeping through the two soldiers. The Han army's arrows were sharper, but the wooden posts were thick, and the arrows were nailed between the wooden boards, and the arrow feathers seemed to be struggling on the shore.
fish tail, with little effect.
The same was true for the Huns' arrows. In the past two days, the Han army took the time to cover the fence with a layer of cowhide. In addition, there were wooden posts blocking the view. The Huns lost their accuracy and could only throw the arrows into the sky, scratching the cowhide.
White marks.
For three moments like this, the Han army saw the Xiongnu army advancing the battle line step by step to the fence, and then the bastards swarmed out from between the wooden posts. The Han army used long spears to fight back between the fences. Compared with the Han army's skill in martial arts training,
Zahu was just a lower-class slave of the Huns. He was thin and weak. He was driven by the Huns and lacked courage. He could not help but shrink in this deadly battle. After a while, he left some corpses behind and tried to retreat behind the wooden pillars. The Huns in the rear immediately shot to death several Zahu who tried to escape. They were arrogant and shouted loudly at the Zahu. The Zahu had no choice but to take their weapons and rush back to the fence, facing the cold thorns and continuing.
Trying to cut down the fence.
At the same time, King Xiutu led all the Gudu lords and his subordinates to gallop up to Bailing on the east side, surveying the battlefield from a high position, and saw a cavalry unit on the wooden road of Quyu City getting ready to go. It was obviously intended to flank the wooden pillars.
If the forward can cause the forward to retreat, it will be even more difficult to organize an offensive.
King Xiutu ordered the Marquis of Heliangudu to lead his troops to intercept. The Marquis of Heliangudu, Chihou, was the leader of the Tiefu Xiongnu. He was a close relative of the Chanyu and Xiutu tribes, and they had lived in the upper county for generations, and were called Chanyu Xiping.
Because the Tiefu tribe mostly lived with Qiang and Hu, they were not only good at riding and shooting, but also good at Qiang fighting, and were praised as the most brave of the Xiongnu.
The Red Queen waited for someone to find some vines, wrapped them around her armor and weapons, and used the juice to draw green waves on her face. Then she led the cavalry forward slowly. When the Han army's cavalry began to speed down the slope, the Red Queen let out a strange roar.
, as ghostly as a mandrill, and then quickly chased after the Han army.
The Han cavalry was panicked. Only then did they realize that a group of cavalry suddenly appeared from behind, and they were riding down the slope of the mountain. In a hurry, they could not turn to meet the enemy. For a time, the morale of the army was in chaos. The leader of the group was none other than Yang Chou.
, he immediately gave the order: "Go south! Go south!" Before he could finish his words, a spear flew past behind him and hit the back of one of his followers. Before the man even screamed, he jumped from the horse.
Rolling over and falling to the ground, Yang Chou felt awe-inspiring and hurriedly lowered himself to the horse's back, driving the horse to turn.
Unable to turn to face the enemy on the hillside, continuing to maintain the formation that was being followed and charging into the enemy would be a dead end. Yang Chou was determined to go south, so he turned back along the hillside and ran back to the city wall, relying on the bows and arrows inside the fence and on the watchtower.
He forced the pursuers back. He thought well and acted quickly. He had almost completed the turn before he came into contact with the Red Queen. However, he turned reluctantly on the battlefield. There were still some knights behind who did not listen to the military orders and tried to stop their horses.
He fought with Hu Jun in a field battle, but the opponent was condescending. When he rushed, few people could stop him, and most of them were killed in a single encounter.
The Tiefu people shouted repeatedly that they had the upper hand. They brandished blood-stained spears on their horses. The strong ones even picked up a corpse, chopped off the Han army's corpse with a knife, and hung it on the saddle as a trophy.
With only the white of his eyes in his eyes, the Tiefu man dressed up in a weird outfit is even more terrifying.
Seeing this, Han Xian suggested that Chen Chong take out the bed crossbow again and intercept the Tiefu people behind Yang Chou. Chen Chong shook his head and replied: "The bed crossbow is precious and it is difficult to make a heavy arrow. It can be used to deter the enemy, but it needs to be used more often.
It's a critical moment." So he ordered Zhang Yang to lead his troops to continue the rescue from behind the wooden road. Just to avoid King Xiutu's imminent attempt to do it again, the two sides engaged in a refueling tactic. He set up an infantry formation diagonally behind Zhang Yang's cavalry, occupying a high position.
Ensure that Zhang Yang’s charge is worry-free.
Upon seeing this, King Xiutu sent out another group of cavalry to try to repeat the same trick. However, while sprinting along the ridge, the Tiefu people were not as smooth as the wind on the plains, making it appear that the Han army's infantry formation was as solid as a mountain. The leader of the army was named Wei Ping.
, holding a nine-foot-long spear in his hand, he stood at the front of the soldiers and ordered the front row to hold their shields high, the second row to stab the horses, and the back row to draw their bows and shoot people.
The armor worn by the Han army was all iron armor. The Tiefu people's arrows could not hurt people, and the javelins they carried were limited. They could only wander around for a while, and they couldn't decide what to do when facing the guards.
During the stalemate between the two sides, Zhang Yang had successfully charged to the flank of Helianchi's rear. Seeing that the reinforcements were blocked, the Tiefu people had no choice but to give up the idea of pursuing them and instead engage in hand-to-hand combat with Zhang Yang's new force. However, the situation was reversed at this time.
Zhang Yang was at the top, and the Tiefu people were at the bottom, and there was no room for retreat between the two armies. The Tiefu people stopped screaming, and the Han army did not say a word. Both sides could only look at each other's faces getting closer and closer.
Getting closer and closer, a silent barrier formed between the two sides.
Until Empress Helianchi and Zhang Yang could see each other's eyes clearly, the collision suddenly came, and the shouts came from every warrior fighting. Although they had different faces, different clothes, and different languages, the words in their eyes
The clear murderous aura is so consistent.
Zhang Yang led his direct lineage to gallop towards the leading Queen Helianchi. Queen Helianchi was surrounded by his tribe in the riding formation. Instead of advancing, he retreated, trying to open a small distance and stab all the spears to his side.
Among the earth and rocks, a small guardrail composed of soldiers was formed in just a moment. Zhang Yang couldn't help but hesitate when he saw this. He could only choose to slow down and fight with the cavalry behind Chi Hou. p>
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The Tiefu people are indeed good at fighting. Not only are they not afraid of death, but they are also particularly good at adapting to the situation. Zhang Yang stabbed a Tiefu cavalryman in the chest and abdomen with a knife nearby, and saw the Tiefu man smiling at him. Before he died,
In front of him, he actually pulled out an arrow from his quiver and thrust it straight into Zhang Yang's eyebrows. However, he lost his strength after all, and Zhang Yang reacted and turned his head to avoid it. Zhang Yang then mashed the Tiefu man's stomach.
After dragging out pieces of intestines, the Tiefu knight also collapsed from his horse. The horse under him realized that no one was holding the reins, and was stunned for a moment, standing still on the spot.
As for the Tiefu people, they never fell to the ground.
After fighting for this moment, they could only let He Lianchi go away safely, but since then, Zhang Yang and Yang Chou had enough time to regroup and rush to the Zahu in front of the fence as originally planned. In this moment
, right in front of Chen Chong and Huliba, they could see an iron wave bringing out yellow dust and violently colliding with the Hu troops who were fighting desperately in front of the fence.
The bastards were already very concerned about the entanglement between the cavalry on the hillside, but they saw the Han knights swooping down from a distance, leading the sky full of smoke and dust. The setting sun shone on the armor, and it was like heavenly soldiers and divine blessings.
.In an instant, morale collapsed. Even if there were still Huns behind them who kept shooting at deserters, the worst they could do was to escape in another direction.
The entire fighting front line fell into chaos. The Huns were killing and the Han infantry between the fences were killing. Then the Han knights arrived and started killing. Only the bastards were being killed miserably. They were surrounded on three sides.
As if there was a force driving them all to the west, where there was only the rolling river.
The first Hu man to stand by the river looked horrified. He had just woken up from a dream. He tried in vain to dissuade his colleagues behind him from continuing to move forward. But where was the other way to survive? Jumping into the river was like being stabbed by a knife.
I don't know if they had such thoughts, but they continued to march toward the river with a bow.
So a strange scene unfolded: the Yellow River had just thawed, the water was bone-chilling, and many half-clothed Hu people were holding knives and long bows in their hands, looking sad, but they jumped into the river without hesitation.
The barbarians struggled on the water, but more barbarians could only wave their arms in the water without knowing their future, pulling many of our water-minded compatriots into the bottom of the water.
Zhang Yang's original intention was to drive the collapsed Zahu towards the Xiongnu's main formation, thereby causing the entire Xiongnu army to retreat. However, unexpectedly, the Huns did not treat Zahu as a human being, and bows and arrows were like rain, marking a clear horizontal path for Zahu's retreat.
No less than 800 Zahu were crucified in front of the battle line. No matter how the Zahu reacted, the main force of the Xiongnu remained unmoved, which made the Han soldiers feel chilly.
So after a pile of corpses were thrown into the air in front of the fence, both sides stopped to rest. Chen Chong ordered all the boats in Quyu to enter the river to salvage the corpses floating in the river. Those who were still alive on the battlefield tried their best to save them, and there were still a few
Chen Chong personally met some of those who surrendered and asked them about their relationship with the Huns. In detail, in today's battle, the Huns lost more than 5,000 Zahu people.
It turned out that most of these slaves were slaves in the market of Meiji people, or domestic slaves abandoned by various princes. They were organized into a battalion by King Xiutu as the vanguard, and King Xiutu promised that if they performed great achievements on the battlefield, they could be eliminated.
The slaves were rewarded with cattle and sheep. However, they did not expect that in the eyes of the Huns, they were not even as good as cattle and sheep, and were shot and driven away on the spot. When talking about this, many bastards sobbed and even shed tears.
Chen Chong could only comfort him by saying that he would bury all the dead in the soil. If there are any of your relatives and friends inside, I hope you can identify them. I will also engrave their names on the tombstones. The dead are gone, but the living are still worried about their bodies.
Under my rule, I will cut off your slave status.
Zahu was even more grateful and burst into tears, praising him for thousands of years, but how trustworthy they felt in their hearts was another matter.
Guo Da witnessed all the progress of the war on the other side, but still made no move.