"Lord, behind a certain person, there are deafening shouts of killing, and the sound of horse hooves mixed with it is weak and continuous.
It must be the Xiongnu riding up to kill them."
As the horse galloped, Zhang Liao caught up from the rear and reported quietly beside Ma Chao. road.
"So fast."
Ma Chao's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he calmed down and ordered: "The Huns are only interested in profit, not loyalty.
You are waiting in formation, and Rong Mou will negotiate with the Huns.
Even if we can't reach an agreement, You may not lose to them even if you are someone else.”
"Nuo" Zhang Liao heard this and immediately rushed to Xu Huang to convey Ma Chao's order.
Gao Shun did his part and took the lead in commanding the deployment of the heavy cavalry.
Gao Shun first asked his more than 300 spearmen to insert their spears diagonally into the ground, forming a long line of giant anti-horse defense lines.
Then, more than two hundred sword and shield men were sent in front, and three hundred crossbowmen were allowed to hide behind Luzhai.
As for the heavy cavalry, the Yanbei cavalry guarded the two flanks after 200 steps of the horse-gun defense line.
Ma Chao was overjoyed.
After having these three generals, he didn't have to give orders personally for many things.
These people can take the initiative to do well, and even do better than they imagined.
Ma Chao knew that Gao Shun was not letting them die in vain, but was using it as a cover to cover up the enemy's guns.
When the Xiongnu rushes over at high speed, these sword and shield men will definitely go around behind the horse guns as soon as possible.
When the crossbowmen are powerful, they will pick out the trapped fish that hit the horse guns and chop off their heads.
The three hundred crossbowmen, although seemingly few, became the main force in this attack.
Because the crossbow has the reputation of being the so-called "sharp weapon of the Han Dynasty", it is the main battle weapon of the Han army.
This thing is different from a bow.
It relies on the power of a mechanical spring, so the user has to fill the crossbow arrows into the bullet slot in advance, which is extremely convenient.
Moreover, when the crossbow is fully loaded, the range is extremely long, up to 250 steps, which is far better than the bow and arrow.
In addition, the crossbow machine has a mountain for aiming.
The shooting accuracy is also much higher than that of bows and arrows.
Therefore, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, sixty-seven out of ten soldiers in the army have been equipped with crossbows.
In the past, Wei Qing went on an expedition against the Huns and encountered the main force of the enemy's cavalry.
So they first formed a circular formation with iron chariots, and held the crossbowmen in the middle.
Taking advantage of the enemy's long attack and being exhausted and ineffective, he suddenly released his cavalry to attack the enemy's tired army, thus winning a complete victory.
At this time, the Yuanrong crossbow of the Ma family used by the trapped camp, although the shooting range was reduced.
But in terms of frequent shooting of crossbows, they are better than the Han crossbows.
Ma Chao roughly estimated that although Gao Shun only had more than 300 crossbowmen under his command.
But when shot in one round, it is no less powerful than a thousand people.
And if the number of people is larger, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are thousands of crossbows.
As for the Han army's formation of ten thousand crossbows, it refers to dividing the troops into several horizontal lines during combat.
Move forward to aim the arrow, move backward to prepare, move forward to finish shooting, and step back to reload, move backward to shoot again.
By taking turns shooting in this way, the cycle repeats.
It continuously deals powerful blows to the enemy, so there is a saying that "the crossbow can fight for a long time".
Later, Li Ling's five thousand soldiers were surrounded by tens of thousands of Huns.
Although they finally surrendered because their arrows were exhausted and backup was far away, they still achieved an impressive record of killing more than ten thousand enemies.
This is what he uses.
What is certain is that the three hundred crossbowmen under Gao Shun will definitely shoot twice or three times like this.
In other words, although Gao Shun's formation seems simple, it has completely absorbed the subtleties of Wei Qing and Li Ling's formations.
Coupled with the sword and shield wielder's confusing tactics, Ma Chao expected that as long as this swing was normal, Gao Shun's six hundred men would be able to kill at least three thousand Xiongnu people in the first wave of attacks.
After that, when the Xiongnu cavalry was completely in chaos and the horse-repelling formation was filled up, the unparalleled heavy cavalry was then allowed to come out to destroy Kula Qiao.
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The highly skilled Yanbei cavalry was responsible for killing on both wings.
That kind of scene, that kind of incomparable Ma Chao believed that unless a general as skilled as Gao Shun appeared in the Xiongnu team, they would definitely die miserably if they chose to fight.
After Gao Shun finished arranging the formation, Ma Chao looked up and saw that in the dark night, on the official road two or three miles away opposite, the overwhelming flames seemed to have stopped advancing and gradually gathered to form a bright sea of torches: The Xiongnu obviously discovered the movements of Ma's army, so they also stopped and gathered up the troops that had become loose due to the rapid march.
Immediately afterwards, as if a giant dragon was spitting out monstrous flames, countless points of fire swam out from the huge sea of fire on the opposite side.
Accompanied by earth-shattering shouts of killing, they rushed towards this side in a chaotic and loose manner.
Feeling the trembling of the earth under his feet, Ma Chao's breath was suffocated: It's coming And just as Ma Chao stared intently at the Xiongnu approaching at an alarming speed, the torches that were advancing at high speed suddenly extinguished and the shouts of killing suddenly stopped.
This amazing change was dizzying, making the burning enemy in the distance suddenly stop.
The space between the group and the four thousand soldiers of the Ma Family Army suddenly turned into extremely deep darkness.
Only when the chaotic hooves of countless cavalry gradually turned from a subtle sound into a rolling thunder in the eardrums could all the soldiers realize that the Huns were about to appear in front of them.
"This" Ma Chao had no experience in fighting against the Huns, and he did not understand the Huns' sudden extinguishing of the torches.
"My lord, the Huns suddenly extinguished their torches, which was just a cover to hide their charge from scattered charge to a dense formation.
After they gather together, they will rush into the opponent's battle formation like a torrent.
This method is really impressive."
Zhang Liao seemed to be used to this and explained.
"Oh, that's it."
He comforted Xiao Hei who was shocked by this sudden powerful force.
Ma Chao couldn't help being shocked: the Xiongnu cavalry could so naturally and smoothly move from loose soldiers without being able to see their fingers.
The complicated changes in the line to the continuous gathering to form a dense formation, how hard training is required, and how superb the riding skills are.
The use of military strength and horse speed is too accurate to describe the nomadic people who grew up on horseback.
Fortunately, it was already night.
If it were daytime, Gao Shun's formation would probably be of little use under the Huns' running fire.
Thinking of this, Ma Chao couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: He really wants to make an enemy of this fighting force for no reason.
They are just the expelled troops of the Xiongnu.
There are at least hundreds of thousands of such warriors on the grassland.
If a war breaks out, This is really an enemy that the Ma family does not want to face in the future.
However, this is not the time to look forward and backward.
Ma Chao felt that the Xiongnu troops were close at hand in the darkness, and shouted: "Ma Chao, the great general of the Han Dynasty, is here.
Please tell me your name as soon as possible."
With this sound, the sergeants behind Ma Chao shouted loudly and repeated: In this noisy battlefield, no matter how penetrating Ma Chao's voice is, it cannot penetrate the muffled sound of 20,000 war horses rushing.
Only thousands of soldiers shouting in unison can the other party hear clearly.
And just after that, Ma Chao suddenly felt that the sound of the horse hooves of the opponent's Hun troops suddenly weakened a lot.
What he heard immediately was the scattered sound of horse hooves as the Xiongnu dispersed their camp.
Just when Ma Chao was confused, a shout suddenly came from over there: "It's Ma Chao of Yongzhou, Ma Mengqi."
Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, but then he was happy: the Xiongnu didn't care about his official position in the Han Dynasty at all, but mentioned Yongzhou.
This shows that their understanding of Yongzhou is far more important than that of the Han Dynasty.
"Exactly," Ma Chao replied with enthusiasm.
At this time, he discovered that the Hun cavalry on the opposite side began to extinguish the activity again, and was slowly approaching him in a defensive formation.
"The Xiongnu Chanyu Luan mentions Yufuluo, and asks General Tianwei for forgiveness."
As soon as the voice fell, Ma Chao saw a guy who was very gorgeously dressed, short and stout, with a big round head and only a small beard under his collar.
He held a spear respectfully and knelt on one knee in front of him.
Ma Qian Ma Chao couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.
He turned back to look at his subordinates.
His innocent eyes seemed to be saying: "When did you have such a prestigious reputation?"