This time the attack came even faster than the last time.
This shows that Murong Shifu has more and more soldiers and horses available for replacement, and almost as soon as one army of soldiers and horses retreats, another army of soldiers and horses immediately steps up.
The Han army was clearly looking tired, and the situation would collapse if this continued.
"Brother, we're afraid we won't be able to hold on any longer," Shi Wansui said helplessly.
Yu Wenxin was a Marquis of Wuwei conferred by the Han Dynasty. As a Marquis, he got it earlier than all the other civil and military officials who were still on the front line. Obviously Li Xingchen wanted to commend him for his merits in garrisoning Wuwei. The other two people, Shi Wansui and He Ruobi, also
Made a count.
The three of them had originally fought side by side, and because they were unwilling to face the Northern Zhou Dynasty after surrendering to the Han Dynasty, they were sent to the northwest together by Li Xinchen to deal with the brothers and sisters in Tuyuhun, so there was no need to be polite.
The war situation has developed to this day, and it is actually better than expected. When the Tuyuhun army pressed forward, Yu Wenxin and others actually imagined how to gather the army as soon as possible after the fall of Wuwei, resist step by step, and buy time for follow-up reinforcements.
, and try to reduce the loss of the troops in your hands as much as possible.
After all, Tuyuhun's attack was menacing at the beginning, which was indeed terrifying. In addition, the Han Dynasty was still busy with the Northern Expedition at that time, and there were simply not enough troops to deal with Tuyuhun. Therefore, he was defeated in person and had no reinforcements. Of course, he had to fight well and retreat at the same time.
preparation.
As a result, the situation developed much better than expected.
The Tuyuhun soldiers and horses seem to be quite numerous, but most of them are herdsmen who serve as soldiers in wartime and as civilians in peacetime. Of course, their combat power cannot be compared with that of the Han army. And more importantly, these soldiers and horses of Tuyuhun and
The cavalry on the grassland are different.
The cavalry on the grassland also serve as soldiers in wartime and for the people in peacetime. What is their strength?
It lies in the superb equestrian skills they can still train during their daily herding process, and also in the frequent external plundering and internal fighting between tribes. It seems that these guys are indeed harmless herdsmen on weekdays, but in fact
Every now and then they would have conflicts with the tribe next door and the Central Plains dynasty in the south. In terms of combat experience, they were actually no better than the elite soldiers who had fought hundreds of battles.
But the soldiers and horses under Tuyuhun obviously couldn't do this. The land occupied by Tuyuhun was even wider, from the desert in the west to the snowy plateau in the south. Various tribes were scattered scattered across a land almost as big as the Central Plains.
Unlike the grasslands where there are many high-quality pastures that everyone needs to compete for, the Qilian Mountains have Gobi to the north, desert to the west, and mountains and plateaus to the south. No matter which side you are on, it is actually a barren place.
, naturally it doesn’t matter whether to rob or not to rob.
The few excellent alpine pastures and the like are almost all under the direct control of the Tuyuhun royal family - this is one of the reasons why the Tuyuhun royal family can maintain their authority and achieve rule. The excellent soldiers and horses they have trained cannot be defeated by others.
You can only obey orders obediently - so in the remaining grazing areas, everyone says "the elder brother does not laugh at the second brother", but in fact there is no difference.
Therefore, conflicts between tribes are not naturally inclined to break out. Each tribe can just keep its own one-third of an acre of land. The land that took a long time to grab may not be enough to pay for the food and human life.
This also means that there is actually a lack of sufficient communication and cooperation between the various soldiers and horses in Tuyuhun. On weekdays, except for everyone who responds to the call of the royal family, there is almost no chance to meet in the vast wilderness. Now we need to
When tribes go into battle side by side, they naturally criticize and complain against each other. Of course, the chiefs of each tribe feel that this defeat is due to the inability of the other chief next to them, whom they have never met before, to cooperate well.
As the battle continued, internal discords increased, and finally Murong Shifu was forced to limit the number of tribes participating in each battle, which affected the dispatch of troops. Otherwise, each tribe would take turns to go into battle, and there would be a main attack.
With flank cover, the pressure on the Han army will be greater.
It is because the opponent "gives face" that Yu Wenxin and the others can grit their teeth and persist until today. However, after so many days of running in, the enemy's attack has become more and more sharp, and the cooperation with auxiliary units such as trebuchets has become more and more smooth.
The pressure on the Han army was increasing day by day.
For example, now, in the blink of an eye, the enemy is about to attack the Great Wall again, but the Han army soldiers have not yet recovered from the stone bullets. When their own drums sounded and the flags swayed back and forth, they all picked up their weapons and rushed to the city wall.
.And by this time, the enemy will almost reach the city wall.
Yu Wenxin decisively ordered to mobilize the reserve team to go up first and block several gaps.
The gap created by the enemy's trebuchet was the most deadly place. The two sides fought repeatedly here, and the piled corpses almost reached half the height of the city wall. Therefore, the Han soldiers had almost no time and energy to repair the gap.
And in order to break through here, the enemy also used many methods, either concentrating their archers and crossbowmen to suppress them with all their strength, or making thick shields to withstand the Han army's arrows and bullets and rushing forward, but Yu Wenxin was able to resolve them one by one.
.
The only time it was more dangerous was the night before yesterday. The enemy selected short and agile soldiers and reached the gap all the way before they were discovered by the Han soldiers. However, the Han soldiers were already prepared for a night battle. They fired muskets indiscriminately, and the enemy
Caught off guard, they disrupted their position first, allowing the Han soldiers to gather together, and instead charged through the gap and gained a lot.
Now the enemy's attack is obviously coming from these places.
Instead of waiting until the front-line soldiers can no longer resist and then letting the reserve team attack, it is better to attack first.
The battle at the gap was in full swing, but at least the Han soldiers never let the enemy kill them past the ridge filled with corpses.
Yu Wenxin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Shi Wansui: "I am going to ask Brother He's soldiers and horses to come up. After the enemy attacks and retreats, immediately lead your people back. Lao He's soldiers and horses will arrive on the battlefield soon.
, help you launch a counterattack, which should buy you a certain amount of time. Not only must you withdraw before the enemy's trebuchet is launched, but you must also collect the corpses on the battlefield as much as possible, without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy.
Walk."
Shi Wansui raised his eyebrows. He also knew that the battle situation was so dangerous that even his always conceited self was injured. The soldiers under his command must have also been exhausted to a certain extent, and they could no longer bear the burden. As for cleaning up the corpses, although now in the northwest
The weather is not that hot, but the sun is still very hot. If these corpses are piled up for a long time, something will happen. This is not the first time that the medical officer accompanying the army has mentioned this matter.