There is a road in the middle, with villages on the left and fields on the right. All the Huns on the road have been driven to both sides. Chen Cheng asked the cavalry who are good at galloping to use bows and arrows to support their comrades on the side. Many cavalry shot a few arrows.
, simply jumped off the horse and stood on the field ridge to shoot the Huns who were stuck in the mud.
After landing on the ground, the speed and accuracy of archery were immediately improved. Many Huns were nervously confronting the enemies in front of them, but they might as well have arrows suddenly shot from the side or behind, killing them one by one.
Knock them down. Especially those soldiers who came out of the cavalry camp. Most of them brought two bows. After dismounting, they replaced the walking bows and shot hard. They could inflict great damage to the Huns within fifty steps.
This group of Huns was not the vanguard. Their main purpose was to detect the enemy situation in the south, and they had no intention of fighting to the death. After being penetrated through the battle formation, they quickly lost their fighting spirit and retreated one after another. In addition to jumping,
In addition to the heavy casualties suffered by the Huns who entered the farmland, the Huns on the road who took refuge in villages and woods saw that something was not going well, so they turned their horses and fled to the rear.
Zhao Yun rushed out of the farmland on horseback, with a spear like a dragon, and picked up the last Huns who fell. Blood splashed on him, dyeing the already dotted shirt more red. He rushed to Chen Cheng
Beside him, he reined in his horse and shouted loudly: "My lord, we can no longer pursue you, the Huns' reinforcements are almost here!"
Chen Cheng nodded and said to the soldiers behind him: "Blow the horn and withdraw the troops."
The remaining forty or so soldiers looked at each other, and one person stood up and said, "Feng Er, who was in charge of the horn, was stabbed off his horse just now."
Chen Cheng said: "Where is the gong?"
"Boss Zhang is also dead."
"...Where's the waist drum?"
"it's here!"
Chen Cheng said angrily: "Then beat the waist drum!"
The drums and trumpets sounded several times in succession, and the fighting soldiers withdrew. Many of the soldiers still had the grinning heads of the Huns tied around their mounts. It took half an hour to gather the soldiers and reorganize the team.
It was discovered that a total of more than 400 levels had been achieved, and our own side had suffered nearly a hundred casualties. Among them, the ratio of casualties to casualties, minor injuries, and serious injuries was close to one to one to one.
The soldiers and generals were very excited, thinking that this was another great victory. Chen Cheng thought that this was a normal thing, and the soldiers who followed him out of Luoyang City also thought so. Although the Huns cavalry were brave, they were not as good as the others.
Compared with the Northern Army, they are still a little inferior. The most important thing is that their equipment is too poor. Let alone iron armor, most of them are just wearing fur or cloth robes, and their defense power is almost the same as nothing.
And their weapons are also very bad. At least the Xiliang army can make their own weapons. Even if the quality is a bit poor and the workmanship is rough, they can basically be self-sufficient. However, the Huns mainly rely on looting and capture.
It was made by Han craftsmen. Therefore, although the Huns had strong soldiers and horses, they could only occupy one-third of the inheritance left by the Xianbei people.
For more than ten years, they could neither defeat the Wuhuan people in the east nor the Qiang people in the west. There was a huge Han court in the south. Even though the court was already in a state of uproar, and even if Zhang Jiao responded with hundreds of responses and stirred up the world, the Huns still could not defeat them.
Dare to provoke. The purpose of sending troops this time is to break the situation of being surrounded on three sides.
Of course, they still wanted to rob more things and plunder more people. So after conquering Lian County, the Huns have been looting the surrounding villages and villages, Wubao, and sent them to Linrong along with the people and property in the city.
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The Huns moved very quickly. As soon as the formation of the team was completed, their follow-up troops had already appeared at the end of the line of sight. In the pond next to them, the water surface kept rising and falling, as if the earth was shaking.
Many soldiers' expressions changed slightly and they thought: "The Huns are coming so fast!"
Chen Cheng raised his spear and shouted: "Yao Qiong!"
Yao Qiong immediately responded loudly: "Master, what are your orders?"
"You order a hundred people and bring back the dead, wounded and captured soldiers." Chen Cheng raised his voice and said to those around him: "Others, come to the west with me!"
He was marching along the Yellow River, on the far right of all the troops dispatched. His original intention was to see if he could cooperate with the naval forces moving down the river. As a man who once fantasized about "blitzkrieg" and "mechanized combat waves"
, a man of the future who "integrates air and ground" and "combines multiple arms", he knows that sometimes "one plus one" can produce magical effects.
But unfortunately, based on what he saw, there was probably no hope for water and land cooperation. In an era when there was no human interference, or when human intervention was not too serious, there were not many places to dock ships on the Yellow River. At most
You can shoot arrows on the side to support it. The difficulty of amphibious landing is really too high.
Moreover, the current on the river is fast and it is easy for boats to go down the river. It will be troublesome to come back. This is a trump card that can only be used once. If you release it, you will lose the winner.
While Chen Cheng was thinking about the possibility of advancing by land and water, he led his cavalry to the west. Cheng Yi and Yang Qiu also encountered the Huns' reconnaissance troops, but they did not win so neatly, but fought with the Huns.
It was a stalemate.
The armies on both sides are fighting in the wilderness, in the farmland, on the road, in the woods, and in the villages. Because most of them are high-mobility light cavalry, the troops that join the battlefield are often lost after being broken up.
In the establishment, soldiers cannot find officers, and officers cannot find soldiers.
When Chen Cheng led his troops to attack from the side, the Hun rangers who were placed on the outside were quickly discovered. The desolate horn sound sounded from the north, and with a low sound of "wuwuwu", the large group of Hunnu cavalry broke away.
The entanglement with Yang Qiuchengyi's troops quickly left the battlefield to the north.
Seeing the Huns starting to flee, deafening drums suddenly sounded in an abandoned village. Amid the drums, a large flag was tilted out. On the flag, a big Chinese character "Yang" was embroidered.
Under the banner, Yang Qiu, holding a spear in hand, led five hundred iron cavalry and rushed out of the village, biting the Huns' tail fiercely.
With the cooperation of Chen Cheng's army, they surrounded a Huns army of more than 400 people. Outnumbered and outnumbered, the Huns were quickly defeated. Only a few dozen horsemen escaped, and the others were either annihilated or dismounted.
Please surrender.
"Hahaha", Yang Qiu laughed, turned the handle of the gun upside down, and gave several Hun prisoners a severe beating.
Chen Cheng advised: "Prefect Yang, it's better not to fight yet, the Huns' reinforcements will arrive soon."
Yang Qiu knocked over another prisoner of war, and then said: "I know, that's what they did last time, and it's the same this time. Chen Shijun, let's call Cheng Yi and retreat together as planned."
Chen Cheng agreed and asked his soldiers to beat the gong they had picked up. After a while, Cheng Yi's army also broke away from contact with the Huns and began to retreat. Behind them, thousands of Huns
Riding on the backs of war horses, the cavalry galloped in groups on the ground, and the sound of their hooves shook the ground, like thunder in the sky.
This kind of power is many times stronger than the previous Huns cavalry?
One side was retreating quickly, and the other side was in hot pursuit. The two sides ran one after another, and soon ran for more than twenty miles. Riding on the horse, the body kept rising and falling with the war horse, as if doing
It's like some kind of piston movement. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the previous dynasty, someone once said: The greatest joy in life is on horseback and a woman's breasts.
The wind whistled in my ears, and the grass and trees quickly drew closer, and then quickly fell behind me. The war horse galloped faster and faster. If I didn't clamp the horse's belly hard, I was afraid that it would be thrown away by the horse. Suddenly on the side
A war horse buckled its front hooves, and its huge body fell into the field on the roadside.
The cavalryman on horseback was thrown to the ground, his neck was broken, and he died on the spot. Chen Cheng pulled the reins, and Gulu ran diagonally to the side. He rushed more than forty meters before stopping. The soldiers
He also ran down the avenue after him.
Chen Cheng pointed to the war horses whining on the ground and the motionless soldiers, and said, "Go and see for yourself what's going on."
A soldier ran over to beat the horse, jumped off the horse and was inspected. Then he came back and reported: "The horse's hoof was cracked, and then..."
He gestured and said regretfully: "Then he fell to his death."
Chen Cheng sighed and thought to himself: There are too many things to do, including promoting literature, farming, and making better saddles and stirrups. Do we need to add horse shoes now?
He said to the soldiers: "Go and take the body with you."
The one who was thrown to death was also a member of the soldiers. He was highly skilled in martial arts and very brave in combat. He followed him into battle several times without being injured, but he didn't expect to die here, and he died in such a miserable way.
The sound of horse hoofbeats behind him got closer and closer. Chen Cheng said to Zhao Yun who was not far away: "The Huns are chasing too closely. We must let them suffer. Zilong, lead your troops to ambush behind the mound over there and wait for me."
There's a fight here, come out and fight."
The mound was more than a hundred meters away from the main road, and there was a height difference that was enough for the cavalry to increase their speed. Zhao Yun gave a whistle and led two hundred cavalry to ambush behind the mound. Chen Cheng led more than a hundred cavalry to line up on both sides of the road.
It formed three columns. He himself took more than forty soldiers in the first column, the second column was shock cavalry using spears, and the third column used everything, but the main equipment was bows and arrows.
and spears.
After waiting for less than half an hour, the Huns' pursuers had already arrived. The Huns in front were no different from those seen before. They all wore felt hats or were bare with two braids and the same clothes.
It was dirty, worn out, covered in grease and dirt, and looked filthy.
If you get closer, you can still smell the fishy and stinky smell on their bodies. In fact, it is not only the Huns who have the smell, even the soldiers on Chen Cheng's side will also have a strong smell on their bodies. After all, this
This was an era when middle and low-level officials only took a bath once every ten days. This was in the relatively warm Central Plains.
However, no matter how strong the smell of the soldiers of the Liangzhou Army was, it could not compare to the Huns. On the grassland, a person might not be able to take a few baths in his life. As far as Chen Cheng knew, Temujin was later writing "
The "Zhasa" clearly stipulates that herdsmen are not allowed to bathe in the rivers on the grasslands to avoid polluting the water sources.
In the era when the Huns were dominant, there was no trace of Mongolia, but there was no difference in personal hygiene.
