The sound of drums and horns echoed each other, and various long soldiers came and went where the infantry on both sides met.
The Han army used standard weapons, and after long training, they were very skilled in cooperating with each other.
The Huns had all kinds of weapons, and although they had many brave men, they were at a disadvantage.
The crossbowmen on both sides were not idle, maintaining their strength and firing arrows one after another.
Archery is not about clicking the mouse in a game and shooting as many shots as you want.
Even for archers who have undergone strict training, the explosive power of their arms in a short period of time is limited. Usually, after shooting twenty or thirty arrows in a row, their arms will become so weak that they can no longer shoot.
So there is rarely rapid shooting, it is all shooting round after round.
The Han army's crossbowmen were commanded by officers, and most of them were covered with arrows in waves.
As for the Huns' bows and arrows, they were scattered and scattered, unable to form a covering shot, and their deterrence was naturally reduced.
However, at this almost face-to-face distance, even if it is a soft bow used by the Huns, if an arrow comes in front of them, unless it hits the iron armor, it will be difficult for the Han army to resist.
When the halberd soldiers in the front line of the Han army were stabbing and stabbing, the sword and shield bearers in the rear quickly stepped forward, ducked under the forest-like halberds, rushed forward, crashed into the Huns' formation, and waved their rings. The first knife and other weapons were used to chop at random.
Many Xiongnu infantry were slashed to the thighs and calves, and they all screamed and fell to the ground.
The Huns also followed suit, and many Huns with short soldiers also began to rush toward the Han army like crazy.
There was the infinitely powerful Bai Chang, who was wearing a stolen iron armor. He waved the bone in his hand to swing the halberd in front of him, rushed into the Han army's formation, raised his hand and smashed the heads of the Han soldiers in front of him with the bone. .
The other hand raised a cowhide shield to block the attack from one side. The bone in his hand swung again and hit a young Han soldier two steps away in the face.
Seeing the frightened face of the young Han army, Baichang felt very happy.
'puff! '
The two halberds pierced him almost at the same time. Baichang used his shield to deflect one halberd, but the other halberd stabbed straight into his head.
Baichang relied on his many years of battlefield experience and turned his head to avoid it.
But before he could take a breath, the halberd suddenly retracted, the horizontal blade cut his neck, and blood spurted out like a spring.
Bai Chang's eyes lost their luster, and his strong body fell heavily to the ground, followed by being stepped on by countless pairs of big feet.
On the battlefield of fierce fighting, personal bravery can play a negligible role.
Tight formation and tacit cooperation are far more important than personal bravery.
When the front line engaged in the battle, the two wings were not idle either.
The Huns' cavalry began to attack the two flank arrays regardless of casualties.
Cavalry combat is not about rushing upwards.
Although that is a tactic, usually no one would do it.
Cao Mengde once said that cavalry includes combat cavalry, trap cavalry, and wandering cavalry.
If you really want to rush into the formation with all your strength, you must attack at different levels, constantly look for the weak points of the formation, and then seize the opportunity to attack the weak points with all your strength.
The Huns' infantry are indeed very poor, and their combat effectiveness is basically in line with the level of five barbarians as one man.
But their cavalry is not bad, otherwise they would not have been able to suppress the Han army for so many years.
First, the knights came forward and kept shouting, intimidating and disrupting the Han army's formation, and at the same time consuming the Han army's crossbows.
After that, the war cavalry followed, constantly attacking and testing the Han army's formations one by one, looking for weaknesses.
When there was chaos in the Han army's position, Fengqi immediately launched an attack, desperately shooting at the Han army's bows and crossbows, and rode his horse directly into the Han army's formation.
The techniques and tactics of his cavalry have been adjusted by Maodun and the two older generations of Chanyu, and they have already become extremely proficient in their use.
"Your Majesty! Captain Han and Captain Zhao sent people to ask for help!"
After hearing this, Li Yunze on horseback looked calm and said, "Tell them that I have no reinforcements for them. If I cannot hold the two wings, I will lose the army."
Military merit and law in the Han Dynasty were not that complicated. After corporal punishment was abolished, beheading was the only option left in addition to battle punishment.
If the military formation is broken and the battle is defeated, one will definitely be beheaded.
Li Yunze must have a reserve force. He has more than a thousand Zhongshan State sergeants who are both the central army and the reserve force.
But Li Yunze would not use this power on both wings.
"Fortunately, the Aries tribe came this time." Li Yunze, who was paying close attention to the battle ahead, whispered to himself, "If the leader of the Great Chanyu comes, then I will have to do something special and summon an armored vehicle."
The reason for this is very simple, because the Aries tribe is both farming and herding, and they do more farming.
Therefore, the main force on the battlefield is actually the large number of infantry.
If the chanyu were to lead them directly, at least tens of thousands of cavalry would gallop forward, then Li Yunze would have to cheat.
Looking up at the sky, Li Yunze said to himself again, "Aren't you going to release it yet? Your front line is about to collapse."
He held the reserve team and waited for the fighter plane, and this fighter plane was the reserve team in the hands of the Aries tribe on the opposite side, which was the tens of thousands of people in the Chinese army.
The Han army, which was mainly infantry, had nothing to do with the Hun cavalry galloping on both sides, because it could not catch up with them.
Although Li Yunze also thought that the Huns might be stupid and took the initiative to use cavalry to attack the convoy in the rear, but it was obvious that they were not that stupid. The precious troops were used on the impact array instead of stupidly carrying crossbows to hit them. cart.
If you want to win, you must defeat the Aries tribe's central army.
If you want to defeat the Chinese army of the Aries tribe in one fell swoop, you must first let them out on the battlefield.
The battle of the front army became more and more intense. The Han army led by Chen Xin, relying on its excellent equipment, good organization and high morale, gradually overwhelmed the Huns' front army.
The battle was very cruel, especially for the sergeants in the front row. There were people all around them, and their only option was to keep thrusting forward.
Their battle loss rate was also very high. At this point in the battle, almost all the halberdiers in the first two rows had already laid down.
Chen Xin's troops numbered 1,800, of which 1,200 were halberdiers arranged in four square formations. Nearly half of them have now been lost.
Of course, this does not mean that all of them died in the battle, but that many people were injured and unable to fight anymore, such as their hands and feet were shot by arrows, etc.
The ones who actually died the most were the hundreds of sword and shield soldiers. They rushed into the enemy formation and fought. Once they were injured, they were basically dead.
The Han army, who was gradually red-eyed, thrust the halberd in his hand, pulled it back and thrust it in again, really mustering up his last strength to fight.
There are fewer and fewer sword and shield soldiers still fighting in the enemy formation.
Chen Xin, whose scalp was numb, couldn't help but want to call the King of Zhongshan for reinforcements.
He suffered heavy losses here, but actually the people from the Aries tribe opposite suffered even greater losses.
Not only were the losses huge, the foot soldiers of the Aries tribe were even on the verge of collapse.
They have been able to persist until now, not because the degree of organization is high, but on the contrary because the degree of organization is too low. Many people were surrounded in a mess and fought with the Han army, and there was no place to run.
Suburu was disappointed.
He placed his hope for victory on the cavalry, but the cavalry attacking the two wings of the Han army, even if they launched a desperate attack and shook the position of some of the army, were still beaten back.
The tenacity of the Han infantry made him secretly feel chilled.
Abandoning the traditional harassment tactics and engaging in a regular face-to-face battle with the Han army, the result was so tragic!
A thought came to Suburu's mind, 'How about trying to attack the convoy in the rear? '
After this idea wandered around in my mind for a while, it was abandoned.
The losses were too great and he already wanted to retreat.
But it was also because the losses were too great that he was unwilling to do so and ran away in defeat.
After carefully observing the battlefield for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and issued a new order: "The cavalry is going to block the Han army on both wings. All the captains, Qianqu and Qianchang are coming with me!"
Sublu's central army numbered about ten thousand people, including almost four thousand cavalry.
He ordered four thousand cavalry to block the Han army's formation on both wings and isolate the Han army's front army.
Sublu also had rich battlefield experience. He could see that the front army of the Han army had suffered a lot and was at the end of its war effort, so he decided to lead the Chinese army forward and devour them in one go!
The former army who swallowed Han'er took advantage of the situation and struck again. It would be best to defeat those who can be defeated. If not, then leave.
After the commander made up his mind, all the ministries took action quickly and rushed to the battlefield in a mighty manner.
Li Yunze, who observed this scene, immediately ordered "Prepare for war!"
The 1,600 sergeants of the Zhongshan Kingdom, who were part of the Chinese army, arranged their armor and weapons one after another, and followed Li Yunze's banner and pressed forward.
The three frontier captains all believed that Li Yunze's Zhongshan troops were elite. The reason was that all of the more than a thousand troops were wearing iron armor!
Sublu ordered the infantry in the front line to retreat and reorganize, and Han'er's front army was left to him to fight.
But he overestimated the fighting power of the Aries tribe. When the two armies were fighting fiercely, it was not easy to retreat before the formation.
As a result, when the order was given to blow the horns, the front army, which had long been unable to hold on, suddenly dispersed and all turned around and fled back.
There are smart people who know how to bypass the two wings of the Chinese army.
But there were more sand sculptures, and they ran directly into the Chinese army without thinking.
There is not much to say at this time. When faced with defeated troops, they are killed directly. Otherwise, it will be easy to mess up your position and cause the entire army to collapse.
After all the chaos, Suburu was half angry to death.
The rout not only blocked the Chinese army's opportunity to advance and take over the front line, but also shook the Chinese army's position, giving the opposite Han army an opportunity to calmly adjust.
Li Yunze naturally did not miss this opportunity, and he keenly seized the opportunity.
Chen Xin was ordered to rush forward quickly and entangle the middle army of the Aries tribe who was in chaos.
He himself led the soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom and moved sideways in a half arc to attack from the side.
Chen Xin wanted to say that our department has suffered too much loss, so let me withdraw.
But he could also see that the fighter plane was right in front of him, so he could only grit his teeth and urge Sergeant Wu Yao to keep moving forward.
When facing the Huns, the Han army's fighting will was actually very high.
Especially the Great Wall Legion, which has a bloody feud with the Huns, has a higher ability to withstand casualties.
In this case, the sergeants chose to grit their teeth and continue fighting.
Li Yunze and two thousand men were preparing for a side attack. Suburu was not blind so he could naturally see.
When he saw the military formation shining silver in the sun approaching from the flank, his back teeth were chattering.
"Hanerlen!"
Suburu roared, and in exchange for his confidants, "I'll give you the thousand-man team in the rear, and I'll give you my tent army. Go over and stop them! Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet, and let the cavalry come back!"
The men and horses in front were either collided and confused by the broken troops, or they were entangled in the front of the Han army and could not be mobilized.
Now he still has troops and horses for construction in his hands, and only the thousand-man team behind the point and his own tent army are left.
Suburu knew very clearly that he must not escape at this time. If he escaped, the six thousand infantry would be considered here, and even some of the cavalry would be trapped.
Counting the previous losses, it was almost over ten thousand.
These are over ten thousand strong men. The Aries tribe only has tens of thousands of strong men in total. If they were really lost, it would be like shaving off the bones and digging out the hearts!
He could only resist first and call back the cavalry in the distance as soon as possible to reorganize the front, at least to force the Han army back.
Suburu's heart felt cold. He had been frightened by the terrifying fighting power of the Han army. Now he just wanted to reduce losses as much as possible and return to the tribe with more men!
(End of chapter)
