No, they are not Huns, they are Hunnites, but they have quite a few Hun habits.
Nomads have a fixed style of dressing, and since there is little creativity and productivity, they do not go to the trouble of weaving and designing clothes, and if they want something to cover their shame or keep warm, they can only use the hides of animals harvested from hunting or the leather of cattle and sheep slaughtered.
Mao Runhui thought that what he saw was the Huns, and that the enemy soldiers he saw were really the style of the Huns, most of them were dressed in sheepskin jackets, with a pointed hat on their heads, but they could also see the dirty braids that swayed from the bumps of the horse.
The Hunnites are a new tribe that has been multi-ethnic and integrated, but if there are many ethnic groups, if the agricultural peoples are integrated, the higher level of civilization will wipe out the rest, and the nomadic people must be the stronger people who have left the most traces.
If you follow the historical records of Zhuxia, the Hunnite light cavalry that suddenly appeared is undoubtedly full of strong Xiongnu style, which Mao Run has not encountered before.
Two armies of different factions, each wanting to kill each other, finally clashed after a long run.
It was the constant sound of bowstrings, like locust arrows being shot out, and they would shake their bodies with joy as they leaped through the air, and if they hit a human body when they fell, they would tear through their clothes and burrow into their flesh, causing beautiful crimson flowers to bloom.
The cavalry of the two galloping sides at the front, they appeared in the same situation under the dense rain of arrows, and people constantly fell off their horses with muffled or screamed arrows, and then were repeatedly trampled by the horses' hooves and became part of the earth.
It's not just people who can be hit by arrows, but the endurance of war horses is much higher than that of humans, and of course they will have pain when they are hit by arrows, and well-trained war horses will still gallop forward, and if they are hit by the vital parts, they will also fall to the ground and roll, and there will be a situation of madness because of pain.
It is a normal sight in cavalry battles where people are constantly turning on their backs, and the cavalry of either side is charging forward in a complex environment.
Their ears were filled with the sound of horses' hooves, as well as the unbreakable screams and howls, and they had enough skill and luck to rush through the chaotic areas of their own side, and the next moment they were hedging against the enemy cavalry.
Mao Run is in the midst of a constant staggered charge.
He tried his best to keep his body close to the horse's neck as he had been trained, and the sword in his hand was sideways, and from time to time he could feel the knife colliding with objects, and his body would feel more and more wet.
The blood that caused the wetness came from the enemy being splattered out by the blade, and it was possible that somewhere on his body he was also injured, that is, his head was full of the sound of horses' hooves and he was in a complex environment where his nerves could not react, and those who encountered this situation for the first time would definitely be in a state of trance, and they would need to get out of the chaos for a while to recover.
After the two cavalry scuttled through each other, Mao Run waited for at least five minutes to rush out before he recovered from his trance, and the mental trance stage was completely the war horse's decision to follow the brigade to move, not out of the control of the riders.
"Are you hurt" Li Bing looked at Mao Run, who was covered in blood, and pointed to Mao Run's left upper shoulder: "It's rotten there." ” It was the leather shoulder pads, as if they had been scratched by some blunt object full of spikes.
For the nomads, this group of Hunnite light cavalry can actually be called well-armoured, the sheepskin jacket itself is a kind of protective gear, they don't know how many layers of leather jackets they wear, most of them are not spears with spear heads, many also have a scimitar, and some people who look strong use maces This kind of weapon, compared with the Shuqian people, it is a well-armored weapon.
The cavalry of the Han army did not stop moving, it was still out of a slow cruising state, the leading cavalry in front had begun to make roundabout movements, and the rest of the people may be artificially controlled, or it may also be the instinct of the war horse to follow the head horse, and the whole cavalry team is making a curved adjustment.
Mao Run looked at his left shoulder a little sluggishly, he felt the pain, subconsciously reached out and touched it, and controlled the left shoulder to move: "It should be a skin injury, I should press my body lower, and I shouldn't tilt to the left." ” Li Bing knew that he was getting more and more fond of Mao Run.
He could see that it was the first time for Mao Run to participate in the fight, and it was not easy to adjust his state after a while in a trance, and it was even more rare to know what improvements he should make.
"That's the benefit of having a book."
Li Bing himself went through three or four battles before he really got used to it, gave Mao Run a thumbs up, and reminded: "We should pull out a distance." ” Cavalry combat will not be too close to the robe, two meters between each other is a safe distance, after the charge is best to keep a distance of more than three meters, otherwise in the high-speed gallop just the reins shake a bit may cause a collision, if hit by the enemy's arrows will inevitably collide, more than three meters away from each other is to give a dodge reaction time.
The field where the battle had been fought became a mess in the real sense, the green grass was trampled and the turf was turned over, and the corpses of people and war horses were left on the ground.
It will be said that it is scattered, because the corpses of both people and horses are broken to the point that they are not in shape, and I don't know how many people or horses have not even left the broken corpses, and they have been trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves.
In the battle just now, nearly a thousand corpses were dropped on the side of the Han army's camp, and the Hunnite side would not be less than 1,800 if it was less.
Although the losses on the Han side were relatively small, the Hunnites were still on the side with the numerical superiority.
This is the difference in the number of personnel before the war, when the Han army had more than 5,000 people, and the Hunite side was about 10,000.
"I, I" Abati felt a terrible pain in his thigh, because his thigh was wrapped in leather, and he could not see the traces of the leather being cut by a sharp object, but the pain was unbearable: "My leg should have been hit with a blunt object, and the bone may have been broken." ” In the sound of the horse's hooves, no one could hear what Abati said clearly, and Kuze on the side could only glance at Abati from time to time with worried eyes.
The cavalry hedged against each other, and it was difficult to guarantee that they would not be injured, as long as they did not fall on the spot, they were very lucky to be alive after being chiseled.
Once you are really out of the brigade, it will be an act of looking for death, no matter how painful it is, you have to grit your teeth and follow the brigade, and you can see that from time to time someone in the cavalry team of the enemy and us will fall off the horse, that is, the injury is too serious to support the balance on the horse's back.
The desolate sound of the horn was sounded on both sides, and the two cavalry on both sides again put their heads on each other, driving their mounts to charge as fast as they could, but as a result there was no further collision, and more people from the two different camps fell off their horses.
This time, Mao Run found that he did not fall into a state of confusion, and was able to think and distinguish more calmly, no longer the brain could not control the body, and left it to his instinct to deal with it.
There was a bump sound, it was Mao Run who swung his war knife and knocked off the arrows he shot, and after doing this action, he felt that he had been sublimated and entered a new life.
He even had the leisure to observe his surroundings, looking at the expressions on the faces of the cavalry of his own camp, and the nervous, hideous, and frightened faces he saw.
Farther behind the fighting field, Su Ren held a telescope to observe the overall situation, and behind him were five thousand cavalrymen who were ready to participate in the battle at any time.
"There is a force of cavalry on the low slope, which should be the commander of the enemy army.
There must be enemy troops behind the low slope, and the judgment will not be less than 10,000.
Su Ren looked in the other direction: "In the direction of our north side, the number of enemy troops is five thousand. ” Chen Xu asked Su Ren's question: "The enemy army here is counted as 30,000, and the remaining 20,000 or more enemy troops are left."
Su Ren put down the binoculars in his hand and said firmly, "They went to attack our rear." ” Chen Xu also made the same judgment, but the Hunnites were destined to kick to the iron plate, and they were not a baggage team, but a main force.
Of course, there will not be only one battlefield in a war, there will be a head-to-head battlefield, and several other battlefields where feints or battle losses will be grinded, and many times the outcome of a war will be determined by who can eliminate the opponent's logistics troops.
Zakuma wanted to win the war by eliminating the logistics of the Han Chinese, and Li Kuang also understood the importance of logistics in a war.
Cavalry battles do not determine victory or defeat in a short period of time, even if one side has an absolute advantage, a cavalry battle is not a charge, usually one side is cruising and pulling the battle line, chasing and fleeing back and forth, again and again in a tug-of-war until one of them is dragged down, or the pursuer gives up the pursuit.
Because it is impossible to distinguish the winner in a short period of time, looking for the enemy's baggage team to destroy, and even cutting off the enemy's supply line, will effectively shorten the time loss of the war.
Whether it's cavalry engagement, infantry vs. infantry, ang or infantry mixed formations, it is very effective to make the opponent unable to obtain supplies.
The vast plains were difficult to conceal, and the only way to march stealthily was to march at night, finding a basin or a forest large enough to avoid the Hungites during the day.
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Today, however, Yang Su did not choose to act at night, and no longer concealed and directly attacked the enemy's logistics units that had already been detected.
The Hunnites are a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural people, but no matter what kind of nationality they are, as long as they send cavalry-based troops to the battle, they will inevitably choose to bring a large number of herds with them, and only carry a small number of heavy animal vehicles.
"A small number of scouts keep an eye on them" Yang Su could already clearly see the enemy troops in the distance with a telescope, and he lay on the ground and stared intently at the normal enemy troops in front of him: "We wait for night to fall. ” Their army of 3,000 cavalry, after half a month's march, marched at night and concealed during the day, and with at least seventy percent of their luck, the rest was to make use of their sufficient experience, and they could be regarded as making a detour to the north side of Herat, and it was almost without much effort to detect the enemy's baggage team.
The military strategists of Zhuxia always emphasize the time, location, and people, among which the time is luck, and many times even if it is the location, the people and the people are on their own side, but they lack a little bit of luck, not only do they want to get the result but do not appear, and even they are annihilated.
So far, the luck of the Han army seems to be good, and it can even be said that it is completely lucky, almost as soon as the troops enter the position, they immediately find the target they want to seek.
"They're on the move, and we can't keep up too closely."
Bai Xianqi told the truth: "There are their scouts patrolling around, and we may be found anytime and anywhere. ” Of course, Yang Su knows this situation, there will be nothing foolproof in any war, and some people have made a good battle plan, and they all do their best to avoid accidents that they don't want to see.
Although it is very metaphysical or irresponsible, in fact, after everything is perfect, the rest can only be left to luck.
Elsewhere has nothing to do with their army for the time being, what they need is to wait.
And this time it may be that the Hunnites did not believe that the Han army would be able to quietly detour back to their rear, or that the Han army was lucky enough to remain unnoticed until nightfall.
The ecological environment of the grassland is always filled with insect chirping at night, and sometimes there are bursts of wolf howls at some point if you don't know what the location is.
Yang Su was still lying on the grass, and looked up at the sky, where there was a tooth moon hanging in the corner of the sky: "The stars here don't have the beauty of hometown." ” They don't attack as soon as night falls, and the best time to do a sneak attack at night is at the darkest hour before dawn.
It's not nitpicking to inexplicably want to be darker, not only because the darkest time before dawn is the most sleepy time for the enemy's night watch, but as a prepared attacker, he definitely knows what is happening better than the person being attacked.
At night, the Hunnites lit bonfires one after another, and from a distance you could see them preparing food and singing in bursts of song.
This Hungite baggage force should have numbered nearly 40,000 men, but the number of people in the prime of life was slightly smaller, and most of them belonged to the elderly, weak, women and children.
Men and women, young and old, drove their cattle to move with the army, and they were not only responsible for providing logistical supplies for the army, but also the main force for collecting the spoils of war when the war was going well.
"In the evening, I saw a group of about 1,000 women leave."
Yang Su didn't mind whispering something while waiting: "You know where they went."
A burst of laughter in a low voice appeared, who doesn't know what's going on, women follow the army to fight, whether it's Zhuxia or any other nationality, it's nothing more than something physical that will happen.
Yang Su glanced at the enemy camp in the distance again: "Tonight will be incomparably long. ”: