The Xiongnu blew their horns and roared like wolves. The Xiongnu knights almost gave up short weapons and long weapons. Everyone held a bow and arrow in their hands, and their backs were full of quivers.
Howls and hoofbeats sounded like a shower, and the ground shook. Zhao Kang's more than 100,000 elite troops were lined up in such a way that they could not see each other from the front and back. They were lined up on the land for several miles.
The Huns rode horses with fur on their bodies and without any armor. Although this reduced the defensive nature of the cavalry, it maximized the mobility of the cavalry. The horses galloped like lightning, and the knights held the arrows tightly.
, staring closely at the enemy in the distance, shouting excitedly, the cavalry all over the mountains and plains suddenly avoided when approaching the enemy, and flew around in a detour to the left and right. The cavalry raised their bows and arrows, and shot sideways.
They looked very unorganized, as if they were not fighting, but competing. There was no queue or command. They competed in riding and archery skills, letting the horses lead them to gallop, and they surrounded the Qin army.
On both sides... and completely opposite to them, was the Qin infantry group trapped in the middle. These infantry were very serious. They stood there neatly, motionless, as if they were carved from the same mold.
Uniform armor, fluttering flags, and neat postures. At that moment, Zhao Kang finally issued all his orders, and the Qin Infantry Army began to change formations. The first was the surrounding infantry, who faced the direction of the enemy.
He raised his shield high, and then walked towards it, while the crossbowmen followed the shield soldiers. When the crossbowmen reached the original position of the infantry, a second row of infantry came to take over.
In the position of the crossbowman.
Zhao Kang did not choose to fight back immediately, and the result was that the Huns threw arrows at the Qin people unscrupulously. Although the shield was big, it could not block all the arrows. There was always someone there.
On the way to change the formation, he was shot down and died immediately. Because the bows and arrows were fired in rounds, the Qin people in the central area also suffered a high casualty rate.
Looking at the Qin people who were being shot and killed repeatedly, Touman squinted his eyes. He did not dare to underestimate the enemy in front of him. After all, the "Li Mu" in front of him was a terrifying opponent. However, Touman could not see the opponent's
What did the generals want to do? In other words, neither side had much experience, because before this, no country dared to mobilize an army of 200,000 to cross the Great Wall to attack the Hu people in the grasslands.
On the one hand, there is no benefit in doing so. The barbarians will run away if they cannot be beaten, but other countries in the Central Plains may stab them in the back. In addition, because of the Huns' cavalry, the Central Plains army relies on chariots and can only resist, but cannot
Defeat these light cavalry. Similarly, the light cavalry cannot charge into the formation and directly defeat the Central Plains army, but it can defeat the enemy through endless harassment and cutting off logistics.
This is the first time that the Central Plains Kingdom has sent so many soldiers to the grasslands to fight against the barbarians.
This is the first time for both parties, and neither of them has experience, so they are both testing. One wants to open up the situation and swallow the opponent whole, while the other wants to penetrate in, find the opponent's flaws, and break down the formation. That's it.
Under the exploratory attack, Zhao Kang chose not to follow common sense. He completely ignored the Huns' shooting and just kept letting the peripheral infantry advance, and then the archers and infantry cooperated in turn.
If you can stand from a God's perspective, you can see that Qin's army group is constantly spreading outwards, with infantry on the outside, archers outside the infantry, and infantry after the archers, and so on, and in the middle.
The position became empty. This was a hollow crossbow phalanx, and this phalanx appeared in this world for the first time. Sima Shang was a little confused about the situation. He looked at the Huns' unbridled attack.
Zhao Kang, on the other hand, was just arranging his own formation, with fire coming out of his eyes.
The Huns began to circle around the phalanx and shoot continuously, while the Qin army used large shields to create a square city wall. Zhao Kang once again raised the flag, and under the protection of the infantry, the crossbowmen
The counterattack began, and almost at the same time, Qin's crossbowmen fired one after another. In a short period of time, round after round of arrow rain directly enveloped the enemy.
Arrows fell on the Huns like raindrops. The horses whined and fell to the ground one after another. The knights who had almost no defensive measures also fell down and were directly trampled by the following cavalry. Almost within a few moments, the Huns
There was a huge attrition. Touman only heard a buzzing sound, and then dense and desperate arrows flew out from the enemy, and his own knights began to fall in pieces.
This was so shocking that Touman was stunned for a moment and hurriedly issued an order not to approach them and to keep distance!!
In fact, without his instructions, the Xiongnu knights already knew that they had to keep some distance. Under the shooting just now, the Qin people almost cleared their surroundings... The ground was full of corpses and escaped ownerless horses. Looking at the Xiongnu
The knights distanced themselves, and Zhao Kang gave the order again. At that moment, Touman saw that the Qin people's formation had changed again. The infantrymen kept advancing with large shields, while the crossbowmen coordinated with the infantry to advance and shoot.
The Huns opened too long a distance and were unable to shoot their enemies. When they could kill their enemies, Qin's arrows always took their lives first. Just when Touman Shan was in a hurry
When he was turning around, he found that the Qin infantry group suddenly separated, and a cavalry galloped out from among them. Zhao Kang's face was red, he handed the flag directly to Sima Shang, and rushed out on his horse.
"You are the general!! You can't charge!!" Sima Shang shouted anxiously.
"We are on the same level!" Zhao Kang just replied, and then led the more than 3,000 cavalry he had just organized to head towards Touman's location. Touman was startled at first, he did not expect
The enemy dared to rush into his face, and then he laughed. The enemy was so stunned that he could use his cavalry to surround these Qin knights and devour them all!
Zhao Kang took the lead and rushed into the Huns' cavalry. When the two sides fought at close range, the Huns discovered a big problem: I didn't bring any melee weapons!
Sure enough, Zhao Kang's melee knights began to kill, while the Huns cavalry began to evade in a hurry. Of course, not all the Huns just brought bows and arrows. The elites around Touman had long swords.
With spears and swords, Touman quickly asked these people to attack, and the two sides fought together. When the other Hun knights slowly came around, Zhao Kang suddenly turned around and fled, and Touman directly ordered the pursuit.
Zhao Kang led the cavalry back to the infantry array, while the long-awaited crossbowmen fired rapidly, and the chasing Hun knights fell to the ground one after another!
Touman was stunned and was about to command the knights to retreat when Zhao Kang led the knights out again.
Touman's face suddenly turned green. Are you here to play light cavalry harassment with me?? Touman was extremely angry and ordered the knights to start attacking from all sides again, while he led the elite to fight. He wanted to cut off this small group of soldiers.
However, after Zhao Kang discovered the movements on the left and right, he immediately led the knights to retreat. Sima Shang no longer dared to disobey Zhao Kang's order at this moment. He was convinced.
Therefore, he followed Zhao Kang's arrangement and continued to make the hollow square array bigger. The bigger the formation was, the greater the range. Touman was leading the knights to fight. He could not complete the command of the knights, watching.
As the battlefield became increasingly chaotic, Touman felt that something was wrong. He was here to harass, not to confront them head-on. What he brought with him was not the entire main force. Many of the troops of the wise king were still holding on.
Touman suppressed the anger in his heart, and the Xiongnu's horn blew again. The knights flew towards various places without looking back. The Qin army had no way to catch up with them. Sima Shang's eyes widened. He
He wanted to stretch out his hand to pinch himself, but when he saw Zhao Kang covered in blood on the horse in the distance, he was speechless. His hands were trembling slightly. When he walked in front of Zhao Kang, Zhao Kang
Kang dismounted angrily.
"Where is Li Mu? Where is Li Mu?! There is such a good opportunity to destroy the Huns, where is he?!"
If Zhao Kang dared to ask such a question on normal days, Sima Shang would definitely argue with him. But now, facing the menacing Zhao Kang, Sima Shang subconsciously gave up. He lowered his head and said cautiously: "This
You can't blame General Li Mu, who would have thought... You almost wiped out all the Huns cavalry with this change of formation..." He looked at the Xiongnu corpses all around him and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
This piece of grassland was turned into a cemetery by Zhao Kang, which was unbearable to look at.
Zhao Kang still looked a little angry. He looked at the Hun cavalry going away, shook his head helplessly, and said: "General Li Mu should have let me command the cavalry." Sima Shang thought for a moment, maybe this is really the case.
But before the expedition, who would have thought that you could fight so well... Sima Shang couldn't help but ask: "How did you come up with such a formation??" Zhao Kang grinned, "What's so difficult about this?"
"The Huns were also beaten away. Do you want to play football together?"
Touman Shanyu's face was ashen. He was angry not because the Qin people had severely injured him this time, but because the cunning Li Mu dared to use the Xiongnu's strategy to deal with the Huns. Touman squinted his eyes, and his army looked tired.
Unbearable, the Hun knights who had just experienced a bloody battle were all lowering their heads at the moment, looking very frustrated. This was their first showdown with the Qin people on the grassland. Both sides wanted to prove that they were the real ones.
The men all wanted to push each other to the ground, take out... daggers and cut off their heads.
But this time, the Huns were being ridden. They had not experienced such a fierce battle for many years. The enemy's command ability was too high. He could even only have hundreds of thousands of people instead of thousands. This was very difficult.
It's scary... Touman was thinking about ways to defeat the enemy. Now it seems that a head-on confrontation with Li Mu is not a good choice. The only option is to give up all the territory in Yinshan and evacuate here. I don't believe that the other party still dares.
Keep going...
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Touman had already given up on fighting the enemy head-on, but at this moment, the knights in front suddenly stopped.
Touman raised his head and saw the cavalry all over the mountains and plains. These cavalry were waiting for him on the only way to the royal court. There were many of them, but they were not Huns, because they were in formation, neat and solemn.
This is the army of the Qin people. The Qin people also have a cavalry... At that moment, Tou Man's hair stood on end and his back felt cold, but before he could give the order, the knights who had been waiting for a long time on the opposite side launched an attack.
Li Mu split his troops with Zhao Kang at Yanmen and led tens of thousands of cavalry around the Yinshan Mountains. Relying on his familiarity with this place and the help of the herdsmen in the army, he avoided the sight of the Huns many times. Yes, the grassland can
If you can hide the Huns, you can also hide Li Mu's cavalry. Li Mu ignored Zhao Kang at all and did not even exchange any letters with them. This was to avoid being discovered by the Huns.
Making such a decision requires a lot of courage and a lot of trust in your teammates, because you don't know the situation of your teammates at all, but Li Mu still did it. He believed in Sima Shang and Zhao Kang. He believed in Sima Shang and Zhao Kang many times.
After a detour, we finally arrived at the Royal Court. Just after Shan Yu left here with his cavalry, a general suggested that the Xiongnu's lair should be taken away, but Li Mu did not agree.
If you want to defeat the Xiongnu, you can't follow the Central Plains style of play. It doesn't mean that you lose if you capture your royal capital, but you defeat your main force. That is the real victory. Therefore, Li Mu led his people
Resting around here, he wanted to wait for Shanyu to return to the army before defeating him, because he found that when Shanyu sent out troops, the cavalry was galloping, without formation, and did not retain its physical strength.
If you can run well, then I'll hit you when you can't run anymore.
Li Mu originally thought that the Chanyu could at most repel Zhao Kang and then return here with his army, but Li Mu himself did not expect that when the Huns returned, they would be so exhausted and their morale was very low. It seems that Zhao Kang is
They suffered heavy losses, as can be seen from their attrition, so when Touman was about to go home to rest, Li Mu, who had been waiting in front of his house for a long time, quickly launched an attack.
Touman looked at the mighty torrent charging towards him in the distance, and he was afraid.
The two sides were fighting, and the Qin cavalry who were recuperating were not afraid of the tired soldiers in front of them. The Xiongnu elite knights collapsed at the first touch. They had experienced bloody battles for several hours, and now they could no longer draw their bows and arrows. Their arms were swollen and in severe pain.
, even unable to pick up weapons, and they became lambs to be slaughtered. At the beginning of the war, Touman knew in his heart that he had no way to win.
Just like more than ten years ago, Chanyu screamed in fear and quickly fled the battlefield surrounded by his confidants.
