It was mid-June, the hottest season in the northern part of the country. The war horses were impatiently wagging their tails and slapping their bodies to drive away mosquitoes and flies, chewing on some wilting vegetation. The Huns could no longer wear furs, so they all
They took off their waistbands and went bare-chested. While drinking water from the Youhe River, they cursed and looked at the tightly besieged Baiyang Mountain in the distance. A tentative attack had just ended, and the Qin army once again launched a thousand crossbows.
After all the attacks, the Huns couldn't stand the losses and ended up retreating...
"Horses, cattle, and sheep will become weak if they don't drink water for six days. Are these Qin people all riding camels?" The Huns were very surprised by this.
Camels are camels. They are the most thirsty animals that the Huns have ever seen. Once they drink enough, they will be fine without water for ten and a half days.
The siege of Baiyang Mountain has entered its sixth day. According to Da Danghu, there is no drinking water on the mountain. Even though the more than 10,000 Qin troops still have food rations, in this hot summer, the final result is that they lose their combat effectiveness due to thirst and are easily defeated by the Xiongnu.
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The Huns are all calculating hunters. They like to win without paying any price. Wait, they have a lot of patience. Just like the hunting wolves, they bite hard, hang far behind and tail, wait until they completely lose their strength, and then
Pounce on it and tear the flesh and blood into pieces.
However, this group of Qin troops from Shangjun were more determined than Touman Shanyu imagined, and the Xiongnu's siege of the exhausted enemy did not seem to have a very good effect.
"The people of Qin have a knack of digging out the ground and building a spring out of nowhere."
Ulan, a condor who was blind in one eye, was making his own bows and arrows. He didn't like this kind of siege battle that was tiring and he didn't have many opportunities to shoot Qin people. But he and a group of knights were ordered by Shan Yu.
, I went to the old camp of the Qin Army and saw a rare thing called a "well". The grassland people have not yet mastered this technology.
The Huns were very curious about the well, but before Ulan could explain it in detail, Xubu Sheng, the great householder, came over with a gloomy face and called his name.
"Ulan! Mount your horse quickly and follow me to send troops!"
Indeed, the Qin army on Baiyang Mountain was not as immune to water as the Huns imagined. There were no rivers or streams, so they asked the craftsmen and soldiers to dig wells to get springs. Although the number was not large, it was distributed to each soldier.
There is only a small sip a day, and the crossbowmen who are the most important in guarding the camp can drink half a scoop a day. Most people are so thirsty that their lips are blistered. Every morning, they get up and suck the dew on the grass and trees. This has even happened.
scramble.
But after all, Shangjun soldiers were the most elite troops of the Qin Dynasty. The soldiers were all from Guanzhong. Many of them had experienced battles across the six kingdoms. Although they suffered setbacks, military law and discipline were still there, and they were still able to organize a decent defense.
But as for breaking out of the encirclement, Feng Jie did not have the courage to do so. Once he left the hills and forests, without the advantage of the crossbows and chariots, the tens of thousands of Qin troops could easily be divided and annihilated by tens of thousands of Huns...
Now, he can only stand on the top of Baiyang Mountain with a grimace every day, desperately hoping that the northern and southern armies will detect the Huns' intention to concentrate their forces, find that their own side is in danger, and send troops to help...
The great success of the establishment was in vain. What Feng Jie hopes now is not to suffer a huge defeat and lose his troops and humiliate his army.
But at this moment, his captain delivered extremely bad news.
"General, our crossbows are about to run out!"
Feng Jie suddenly became excited and asked: "How many days will it take?"
"At most four days, if the arrows shot by the enemy are reused and people are asked to pick them up a hundred steps away, it may take six or seven days..."
According to the rules of the Qin army, each crossbow is equipped with 100 arrows. The whole army has 3,000 crossbow soldiers and 300,000 arrows. But 100 arrows weigh almost twenty or thirty kilograms. So many arrows
It is impossible to carry them all with you, so there are special carriages for carrying arrows when marching.
Fortunately, Feng Jie did not throw away all the baggage when he encountered the Huns.
But problems ensued. In order to prevent the Xiongnu from attacking continuously, they shot a large number of arrows, tens of thousands of them every day. At night, the Huns would let their half-grown children walk about a hundred steps and scavenge the ground.
Crossbow arrows. The crossbow arrows were short, and it was difficult to match the Huns' compound bows or single bows, so they took them back, knocked off the cluster heads, and attached them to the Huns' arrows.
Therefore, as the siege continued, Feng Jie was shocked to find that the proportion of copper and iron in the Huns' arrows had increased a lot. When the Huns approached and fired thousands of arrows, the Qin army's casualties also increased.
They were able to hold their position solely by long-range firepower. If they were thrown into a melee, the Qin army would be outnumbered and the situation might not be good.
"Sigh, will heaven destroy me?"
Feng Jie looked haggard and sighed. He had never suffered such a defeat since he entered the army.
Fortunately, the sentry watching the Huns' movements reported another strange thing.
"General, a group of Huns suddenly split up and headed north!"
The Huns had at least ten thousand cavalry. Feng Jie was overjoyed now. The Huns relied on concentrating their forces to organize continuous attacks and disperse the ten thousand cavalry. This meant that before they came back, the Huns could only slow down their attack speed.
However, the Huns were cunning and cunning, and Feng Jie was not sure whether this was their plan and wanted to tempt his side to break out.
"But if not, why did the Xiongnu divide their troops and flee? Is it because there is a gap between the tribal leader and the Shanyu, or..."
Feng Jie's eyes sparkled with hope: "To the north...could it be that the two generals Qiang and Mongolia have come to Henan from Beijia!?"
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Feng Jie made a mistake. It was not Meng Tian who forced the Huns to divide their troops and go north. It was Meng Tian who was bold and careful. He took advantage of the separation of the Huns' front troops from their livestock, led a fleet of chariots and cavalry, and rushed dozens of miles north of Baiyang Mountain in one go.
Li Xin!
Tiger Mountain is the remnant of Helan Mountain to the east of the river. It is named after the presence of tigers on the mountain. This tiger is a branch of the North China tiger. Its body color and markings are very light, but not white, so it is very suitable for the grassland environment.
The lush grass at the foot of Laohu Mountain is a good pasture, and it guards the mountain pass leading to the Hetao. Touman Shanyu asked a captain to graze more than 10,000 cattle and sheep here, as well as a spare 10,000 horses, just like people,
If all the livestock are concentrated in one place, the local turf will not be enough to graze.
The Huns originally wanted to encircle the enemy for reinforcements, but Li Xinxin liked to win by surprise. He ignored his friendly troops and rushed straight to the rear of the Xiongnu. This move really frightened Manchanyu, so he arranged to attack the enemy in the west.
The thousand scouts were unable to stop them, so they could only watch the Qin cavalry go downstream. After reporting back to the Chanyu, the Chanyu asked Subucheng to take the fifteen thousand cavalry to rescue...
At this time, the Huns' offensive on Baiyang Mountain could only be stopped. Li Xin's strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao was indeed effective.
Xu Bu Sheng was still slow for several hours. When he led his army to Tiger Mountain, there was only a mess. Thick smoke billowed from the felt tents. The Huns grazing were disemboweled and died on the ground. Their corpses and
The killed livestock were mixed together, and the cattle, sheep and horses were missing, either dispersed or driven away by the Qin army.
When they searched for horse hoof prints and rushed to the river at the foot of Tiger Mountain, they saw an astonishing scene: wooden boats were connected into a pontoon bridge, and the last group of Qin troops were driving their captured horses across the river. On the other side of the river, on one side,
The huge flag is flapping in the wind...
Wulan stared at the symbols on the flag, his eyes almost bleeding!
Last autumn, when Ulan followed Dadanghu in the eastward expedition, an army of only a few hundred men brought nightmares and disasters to the tribes south of Qingshan Gorge. Thousands of Xiongnu herdsmen died unexpectedly, and the remaining 100 people had their eyes cut out.
After being rescued with blood and tears, they dipped in blood and wrote the flag symbols of the Qin people who attacked them...
That's the character "李" in seal script!
It was also the flag in front of Ulan. He knew that the enemy who slaughtered his tribe was on the other side of the river!
Under the control of the Qin people, the pontoon bridge disintegrated and the ships gradually moved closer to the west bank. The river was not shallow. If the Huns crossed the river at this time, they would probably be attacked head-on by the Qin army. Even if they got ashore, the west bank was called Changliu Shui and Pucao Spring.
Where water is densely packed, even if the cavalry rushes over, it will not be easy for the cavalry to perform. However, in addition to light cavalry, the Qin army also has many fully armed infantry...
The general with white hair and red cloak seemed to know this. He stood on the other side of the river and stared coldly at the belated Huns. He raised his hand and his soldiers led hundreds of captured Huns to the river. They were all captured.
Pressed on the ground, the braids fell down.
As the red-cloaked general swung his arm, the ax cut off the heads of hundreds of people! A stream of blood rolled into the water together with the round heads, dyeing the river pale red...
As more than ten thousand Huns watched this scene, Ulan the Condor Shooter was so furious that he almost wanted to rush over on his horse, but was stopped by Xu Bu Sheng, the great householder.
"Don't be fooled, he is deliberately provoking the Huns."
Xu Bu Sheng stared at the red-cloaked general and felt a sense of shock.
He is the person who has fought the most times with the Qin army among the Huns. The generals of the soldiers from the northern counties of Qin he encountered last year fought steadily but were timid. They guarded the camp without revealing any flaws. They waited until the Huns were impatient and made mistakes.
Just follow the plan.
Xu Bu Sheng originally thought that this was the fighting method of the Central Plains people, but today, the red-cloaked general on the other side refreshed his understanding.
He likes to use his cavalry to go deep alone, not to fight head-on, but to target the Xiongnu's weak spots and slaughter their livestock. After the victory, he immediately withdraws so that he cannot catch his tail, but he does not dare to be careless because he does not know when he will come again.
It will launch an unexpected attack on you, and its moves will be fatal...
Xu Bu Sheng was even more wary of the Qin people, and said to himself: "The light cavalry is soaring, and the advantage is to advance thousands of miles. It is disadvantageous to escape decisively, and is ruthless. The fighting style of this red-cloaked Qin general is not like a Qin general, but like a... Huns."
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Li Xin, who was good at cavalry warfare, used the strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and restrained more than 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry to the river for defense. At the same time, General Heifu, who was considered by the Huns to be "stable but timid", also raised 20,000 infantry.
I walked slowly and reached the mouth of the Dusi Tu River, where I camped. I was so surprised that the Huns scouts flew back to Man Shanyu again...
The Qin and Hungarian armies are about to be killed within a hundred miles, and a big battle is about to break out!
