On the small slope, Gongsun Xun immediately stood under a banner with the Chinese character "Han". His hanging general's flag embroidered with the character "Gongsun" was also swaying in the wind in the hands of a guard on the side. There were several scribes surrounding him.
officer.
At the foot of the hill, a few hundred steps away, four to five hundred Xianbei horsemen were fighting with an almost equal number of Wuhuan horsemen. Both sides were going back and forth, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow and fell off his horse, and even if he didn't die at the time,
It will also become the target of the opponent's bows and arrows.
Just when the fight between the two sides was fierce, suddenly, more than half of the four to five hundred Xianbei people suddenly separated their troops and rushed straight towards the hillside... You don't need to think about it to know that this large force
There must be a commander with sufficient status among the Xianbei people, so that the troops can make such a neat change of formation, and only then can the remaining half of the Xianbei people stay below to desperately block it.
However, the Wuhuan cavalry below had no intention of stepping forward to hinder them. They just gathered their troops, put away their bows and replaced their spears, and prepared to eat the abandoned ones left behind in one go.
But it didn't matter, because the Han cavalry on both sides of the hillside had already moved without Gongsun Xun's orders.
There are significant differences between the Han cavalry and the Wuhuan cavalry...not only in their tactics and weapons, but more importantly, the Han cavalry were wearing armor. In this era, soldiers wearing iron armor, whether they were
Both cavalry and infantry can be called the most advanced arms.
Think about it, if you shoot an arrow and pierce someone's armor, and they shoot an arrow, you can't lift your arm; if you stab it with a spear, it just cuts through the person's skin, and the other person stabs it with a spear.
If you come here, your wound will be deep enough to the bone; in the most extreme case, if you chop it with a knife, a spark will appear, and if someone chops it with a knife, your head will be gone!
Aunt Gongsun stays in Liaoxi and brags to her son every day, talking about technological crushing, but what is real technological crushing? The iron armor on these Han soldiers is the most outstanding and efficient technological crushing of this era!
However, now that they are wearing iron armor, don't expect to have an advantage in speed over these Xianbei people who wear leather robes and have been riding horses since childhood. So, there was another wave of suicidal divisions, visible to the naked eye.
, this wave of Xianbei people almost separated into more than half of them, and crashed directly into the Han cavalry... The quality was not comparable, and the number was not comparable. They were just committing suicide.
But at the same time, this bought space and time for the dozens of elite Xianbei cavalry in the middle. They did not look at both sides at all, but led a bald warrior in iron armor and rushed straight to the flag on the hillside. And
, in an instant, they were only a few dozen steps away from Gongsun Xun and others under the flag.
A round of arrows came, and the guards on both sides quickly raised their shields. Although Gongsun Xun behind the shield looked worried, he did not move at all. This made the bald man below look happy.
However, at the next moment, hundreds of crossbowmen who had been prepared suddenly appeared from behind the hillside. Astonishingly, the official military officer of the Han army and the two groups of companions, the former holding a crossbow and the latter holding a bow, shot down in a row.
Dozens of riders fell to the ground with their horses on the spot... without exception.
Someone went down to cut off the head of the Xianbei leader. Gongsun Xun didn't even bother to look at it: "I used to think that the Xianbei warriors kept their heads bald to show their bravery, but now I know that it was to prevent them from getting lice."
Probably still a little unaccustomed to such a big scene, Lu Fan on the side still covered his nose when he spoke: "Wen Qi, the enemy is so crazy that they may have received a death order. We have already encountered this kind of death twice this day.
style of entanglement..."
"Then we must march quickly!" Gongsun Xun said sternly. "Only by speeding up can these originally scattered Xianbei people have no time to gather and hinder!"
Everyone nodded.
"Give me the order to resolve the battle as quickly as possible. No beheadings are allowed, and no cleaning of the battlefield is allowed. Once it's over, immediately mount the horse and march to Danhan Mountain with the whole team!" Gongsun Xun said while glancing at a short-built officer next to him. "Gao Heng, you
You are the captain of the general's personal guard, you lead people to restrain those Wuhuan people!"
"Here!" Gao Heng didn't say much and just rode off.
Looking at the opponent's back, Gongsun Xun became increasingly unhappy.
By the way, last night he clearly asked Xia Yu to send Gongsun Zan to lead the reinforcements... On the one hand, he wanted to give Gongsun Zan a chance to make meritorious deeds, but on the other hand, he really felt that at this critical moment of life and death, his clan brother
It is reliable, whether it is blood relationship, ability, or legendary luck. However, such a matter of public and private matters was rejected by Xia Yu, and instead he sent someone to follow him.
There was an obvious conflict between the two brothers. Gao Heng and Gao Xuanqing didn't know whether it was to check and balance one or the other, or because they were worried about themselves, so they simply sent a team to supervise the battle.
To be honest, it’s a good thing that this guy has been honest since he arrived, and the hard battle is about to make trouble easy, otherwise Gongsun Xun would definitely find an opportunity to kill this guy and hold the five hundred sergeants in his hands!
"Wen Qi." Watching Gao Heng go away, and most of the officers at all levels were in their respective deployments, Lu Fan took the opportunity to come closer again. "Xia Yu assigned us such a task, maybe he has bad intentions, right? It's okay now.
, when we reach the Jieqiu River and face tens of thousands of Xianbei royal court elites, even at night, even across a river, can we really hold on? It's too dangerous!"
"There's nothing wrong with him." Gongsun Xun's face became even more ugly. "If I didn't agree yesterday, he would have killed me right then... How could he be a man of two thousand stones who upholds integrity, while I'm just a Sima of less than a thousand stones?
Once the success is achieved, thousands of bones will wither. Now we have to be the stepping stones for others, and we have to work hard."
"A man's life cannot be left in anyone's hands!" Lu Fan said something casually as if in agreement, and said no more.
The two thousand troops were on the road again. Although the speed was extremely fast, they still encountered several such blockades. Although the size of the troops that blocked each time was different, this desperate fighting style also gave Gongsun Xun this
Only the vanguard caused great trouble.
The losses of arrows, horses and other military supplies were nothing more. The key point was that from the second day onwards, the casualties increased rapidly in an uncontrollable manner.
In several battles on the first day, including the battle involving more than 500 cavalry, the number of casualties of the Han army was firmly controlled below a safe level... This was because the Han army had a very rested day before.
Sufficient, they have enough mental and physical strength to deal with it, and can even complete exquisite tactical coordination time and time again without making a sound.
But starting from the next day, these response actions became difficult, and some small problems that didn't look like much, but were extremely fatal, began to appear frequently... And on the battlefield, any problem, big or small, would turn into casualties.
Reflected.
The biggest casualty was naturally the Wuhuan cavalry on the periphery. Although Gongsun Xun killed a small Wuhuan leader who dared to cause trouble, he could not stop the exhaustion and disorder of the Wuhuan cavalry. After four encounters on the second day,
, five to six hundred Wuhuan cavalry, a total loss of more than one hundred... In Lou Gui's words, it was fortunate that these Wuhuan people lived inside the Great Wall, otherwise they would have fled long ago or simply rebelled.
Secondly, there are the two villages of companions. The companions are the only troops in the Han army that do not have universal iron armor. They are also responsible for the most basic tasks of setting up camp and burying pots for cooking, which is also extremely hard. Therefore, after failing to retreat in time, they were directly encountered
A close-quarters attack by the Xianbei people resulted in dozens of casualties, and dozens more were hacked to death.
In the end, even the core and most elite soldiers of the Han army suffered a casualty that made Gongsun Xun extremely distressed in the afternoon of the second day... At that time, they had just finished their third encounter in one day.
Shangtanhan Mountain appeared in the field of vision, and the Han soldiers could not help but relax a little. Gongsun Xun also made an exception and allowed them to temporarily remove their armor, drink water and eat, rest for a while, and then work hard again. Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was actually
Two to three hundred eastern Xianbei cavalry came from behind. The Han army rushed to fight and suffered heavy losses.
All in all, by the time Gongsun Xun led this special force to the Jieqiu River at the foot of Danhan Mountain that evening, only 1,400 to 1,400 to 1,400 to 5,000 were left... More than 300 were dead, and there were still 200 left.
Many of the wounded were mounted on horses, so they may not survive.
Of course, Gongsun Xun, who was in front of the Junchou River, no longer had the time to think about the casualties, because he now had a huge confusion in front of him... Yes, it was confusion, not a challenge! Because this road was blocked by sandalwood.
Huai took a fancy to it, and then built the royal court across the river from the mountains and rivers. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there is an army stationed there!
There must be an army, but it is by no means the tens of thousands of royal court elites as previously imagined! It would be good to have four to five thousand! In the dim light of the setting sun, any officer who has been on the battlefield can come to this conclusion!
So...where did Tanshihuai's headquarters go?
What should I do?
"Tanshihuai established his court on the Jinchou River at the foot of Danhan Mountain, more than three hundred miles north of Gaoliu, where the army and horses were very prosperous." - "Book of the Later Han", Volume 90. Biography of Wuhuan and Xianbei, Volume 80.
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