As soon as Li Yunze said this, both Hanbok and Chen Xin looked dissatisfied.
From Baishan Mountain to the present, the Han army has been fighting the Huns for so many years, and even among so many famous generals, no one dares to say that they can definitely win.
The king in front of me is still young and talkative, so I don't like it.
Li Yunze's eyes were piercing, and he could naturally tell the changes in the mentality of the two people from the subtle expressions and movements.
However, he was not in a hurry to explain anything, nor did he pat his chest and say, "I have experience in history that can be used for reference. I beat the Huns on horseback into nothing." '
Because he knows very well that this kind of thing does not need explanation, only practice can prove everything.
Those who fight with their mouths are called blowers, and those who fight with their mouths are called mouth cannons.
Li Yunze was very courageous. He was not satisfied with attacking the Huns piecemeal. He planned to use a big one, with the goal of besieging Cheng Le's Aries tribe.
This is a large Xiongnu tribe that can mobilize tens of thousands of troops at its maximum.
It is not enough to rely on more than a thousand soldiers and horses under his command. First, he must obtain the command authority of the two people in front of him.
Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for the captain of the border army to accept the command of the feudal king. This is a matter of losing one's head.
But now, there is an opportunity to take advantage of.
"I am willing to vouch for these two generals."
Li Yunze cut off a piece of mutton and put it into his mouth with a short knife. "The reason why the two captains missed their appointment is because they were recruited by the king to fight against the Huns."
Hanbok and Chen Xin looked happy at the same time.
Failure to arrive at the agreed place within the agreed time is called delayed military flight in the military.
According to military law, this is going to cost you your head.
As for paying fines to reduce penalties, it didn't become popular until Liu Che came to power, because Liu Che needed money to fight.
Even now there are some, but what are their identities? They are just ordinary captains in the border army. The emperor will give them this chance to survive? If Chengle really fell, as the reinforcements would be delayed and the important territory would be lost, how dare you expect to survive?
To take a step back, even if they can survive by paying fines, where will they get the money to pay the fines?
It’s not enough to sell the whole family.
Now, the King of Zhongshan in front of them has indeed given them a chance.
Theoretically, if King Zhongshan is willing to shoulder the responsibility, their culpability will be much reduced.
In addition to his status as the feudal king, King Zhongshan also has the status of being the prince of the emperor. They missed the deadline to protect the prince, at least there was a reason. This is much better than the reason why the march is slow and missed because it cannot defeat the Huns.
The premise is that King Zhongshan must shoulder the responsibility, and this responsibility may very well lead to King Zhongshan being deposed and expelled from the country!
Leading troops out of the fiefdom privately and daring to recruit border troops, what is the difference between this and rebellion.
Li Yunze didn't push him, it was up to the two of them to decide.
After weighing the pros and cons and making eye contact, Hanbok and Chen Xin naturally chose to follow the king's order.
This meant that the blame was passed to Li Yunze. If the court's stick struck him, this tall king would be the first to hit him.
"Respect the king's order~~~"
Li Yunze didn't say much, and immediately responded, "Immediately kill the sheep, slaughter the cattle, and bury the pots to make rice. The masters in the army took the prisoners to cut down the trees, and the craftsmen who accompanied the army led people to build planks for carts. All the crossbowmen and crossbows in the army were equipped with arrows." Everybody gather together”
Orders were issued quickly, one after another, and the arrangements were very orderly and appropriate.
Hanbok and Chen Xinxin were secretly shocked. This king was very experienced. He was almost like a border general who had led troops for many years.
Now that he had taken over the command, Li Yunze stopped talking nonsense to them and directly arranged things as a subordinate.
The first thing is to clean up the battlefield, slaughter cattle and sheep, and arrange meals for the sergeants. This is related to the morale of the sergeants and must not be careless.
After eating and drinking, Li Yunze announced to everyone that he would be rewarded.
The old rules are still the same, each person has two coins and one piece of silk.
As soon as these words came out, there were thunderous cheers, and the morale of the Han army immediately rose.
Of course, Li Yunze basically used up all the money he brought from Zhongshan Kingdom and the money he seized from the Huns.
The only spoils left now are tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.
Looking at the cattle and sheep, Li Yunze ordered without any hesitation, "Except for the cattle and horses that were pulled, all the excess ones will be slaughtered."
Everyone was very sorry, and Zhao Yan couldn't help but tried to dissuade him, "No, your Majesty, you can get at least 2,000 yuan for a cow, and 400 yuan for a sheep."
Li Yunze looked at him coldly, "Drag him down and give him ten sticks."
He looked around at the many officers above the village commander level in front of him, "Who else questions this king's military order?"
Everyone was solemn and no one dared to say a word.
In the army, on the battlefield, in wartime!
At this time, the general has issued an order. If you don’t carry out the order, don’t say it, and still shout that it must be done, your life will be in danger if you don’t beheaded.
"Build a cart with planks of wood." Li Yunze continued to order, "Put the planks upright and nail them to the side of the cart. Make holes in the planks for shooting. The cart was divided into two teams on the left and right, led by Han Duwei and Chen Duwei. Bows and crossbows Keep plenty of crossbow bolts on your chariots, and shoot them when the Huns cavalry approaches.
Don’t care if it’s far away. The master and other troops were marching in the middle of the convoy, guarding the grain, grass, and baggage horses."
This is the reason why you don’t bring extra cattle and sheep, there is not enough space to hold so many.
And Li Yunze's tactic was indeed his first in this era.
But he also made reference to the historical battle in which Liu Yu defeated Nan Yan.
Facing Nan Yan with almost all cavalry, Liu Yu, who mainly relied on infantry, used this box car tactic to force the cavalry to be unable to harass, all the way to the capital of Nan Yan, forcing the cavalry to face off, and then The result was that the Murong clan of Nanyan directly destroyed the country.
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The biggest advantage of cavalry attacking infantry is that they come over like a gust of wind and release arrows.
The appearance of the carriage can effectively block the bow and arrow shooting, which naturally eliminates its harassment technique.
Once the harassment fails, the Han soldiers have nothing to fear and can just move forward quickly towards their destination.
When Qi Jiguang sent troops outside the Great Wall, he also used a similar carriage, but replaced the crossbows with artillery and muskets.
There is no doubt that this is a tactic against cavalry that has stood the test of time.
At noon the next day, traces of Hun cavalry appeared nearby again.
Li Yunze ignored him and just urged the army to move forward.
The Hun cavalry looking from a distance were obviously confused, because they had never seen this kind of car formation before.
However, the harassment is still unavoidable. This Han army is obviously heading towards Chengle, so they naturally want to stop it.
This is the Yunzhong Plain, with open and flat terrain, which is very suitable for cavalry operations.
More than ten Hun cavalrymen rushed down from a slope with shouts. Everyone held soft bows in their hands, intending to get closer and shoot arrows at the convoy to create chaos.
The industrial level of the Huns was very low. They had no crossbow-making technology, and their bows and arrows were weak. They had to get closer to about thirty steps before they could fire an arrow.
But when they approached forty or fifty steps away, there was a buzzing sound in the Han army's convoy with wooden walls erected, and more than a hundred crossbow bolts flew out, killing the Huns in an instant. People were enveloped.
There was no surprise at all. There was no iron armor. The Huns screamed and fell to the ground with both men and horses.
A group of Han cavalry rushed out from behind the convoy and quickly ran to the place where the Huns fell to the ground.
The cavalry touched up the wounded Huns, recovered the crossbow bolts, and then rode back to the convoy.
The Huns who were watching from a distance were shocked. They had never seen such tactics before.
The leader of the team, Baichang, felt his scalp numb and his heart was filled with fear.
Although the losses in battles with the Han army were always very high, the fact that so many men and horses were so easily wiped out really shocked him.
All the commanders and assistants under his command were looking at him.
"Charge separately!" The order Baichang received from Danghu was to harass the Han army in the wild. It was impossible not to continue the combat operation.
However, changes are still needed: "Stay farther away, don't go within a hundred steps."
Hundreds of Hun cavalry roared down the slope, divided into two teams and shouted back and forth on both sides of the convoy to harass them.
"Ignore them." Li Yunze on horseback shouted and ordered, "Keep going."
That is to say, the training of this Han army was good. After all, it was a frontier army. The soldiers and horses of Zhongshan Kingdom were trained by Li Yunze himself, so they were able to carry out the orders and continue to move west regardless.
As for the masters, they were all from the border areas, and their organization was pretty good.
Only the captured Huns, old and weak, were in constant commotion.
Li Yunze looked at Hanbok. After understanding it, Hanbok immediately drew his sword and rushed into the old and weak Huns with his own soldiers, killing all the commotion.
The commotion that had not yet developed quickly subsided.
The harassing Huns saw the huge convoy moving forward, leaving corpses on the ground.
Confused, he stepped forward to check, only to realize that he was one of his own.
Immediately, the furious cavalry rushed forward, but they were immediately shot if they got close.
The Qiannu of the Han Dynasty had an epoch-making technological innovation, that is, the Mount Wangshan was installed on the Qiannu.
The Wangshan sight is an improved sight with five scales and a half-degree mark between each degree. The shooting accuracy is very high.
Well, this thing was excavated by archeology in later generations and was found from the tomb of King Jing of Zhongshan.
As soon as they entered within fifty steps, crossbows would immediately shoot through the shooting holes in the wooden walls, and from time to time, Hun cavalry would scream and fall to the ground.
Li Yunze opened his bow and set up an arrow, and quickly fired several rounds of arrows, knocking down more than ten riders one after another.
He put away his strong bow and called to the cavalry around him, "Attack and kill them all!"
These Huns are too trusting.
There are only a hundred people, but they dare to attack the Han army's thousands of people. This is too disrespectful to the Han army's cavalry.
Li Yunze brought more than a hundred cavalry from Zhongshan Kingdom, and Wu Gao and Wu Yao also had more than 200 cavalry, which was almost 400 cavalry.
By the time the Huns realized something was wrong, the four hundred cavalry were already roaring and rushing out from the front and rear, chasing down the Huns cavalry.
The outcome of the battle was not surprising at all. Except for a few distant horsemen who escaped alive, the remaining Huns were all killed.
From then on until dark, no more Huns came to attack.
When we set up camp, we calculated that we had traveled more than fifty miles in one day, which was a huge difference compared to less than two hundred miles in the previous ten days.
The reason is also very simple, all the luggage is in the car.
There are a large number of old and weak Xiongnu stragglers on the road, and no one cares about them.
Setting up camp is also very simple. You can just surround the van, set up traps, dig ditches, and arrange bundles of guns and antlers, etc., and then arrange open and hidden sentries, latent sentries, mobile sentries, etc.
Li Yunze, who was sitting by the fire with a map, made some calculations and came up with the result.
"If we march at this speed, we can reach Wujin the day after tomorrow, and Chengle County the next two days!"
(End of chapter)
