"The Han army also used armor to ride?"
Hearing this news, Xulu Quanqu Shan Yu was a little surprised, it turned out that this was Ren Hong's killing move hidden behind the array.The Huns saw heavy cavalry.In those years when there was no Beiting Imperial Protectorate to block the east and west, and the Xiongnu and the Western world were in smooth traffic, Shan Yu envoys had been to rest in Parthia, and in addition to seeing the vast area, they also saw the scene of the heavy cavalry in peace and welcoming each other, and the rest cavalry was equipped with bronze and steel horse armor and human armor, shining in the sun, which surprised the Xiongnu envoys.It is said that the Yueshi people who ran to the homeland of the Great Xia Kingdom also began to use heavy armored cavalry imitating the Persians, and the Yueshi heroes climbed over the Hindu Kush Mountains every autumn, ran to the south to poison, and the Great Xia city-states plundered, almost invincible.The Xiongnu envoy looked greedy in the west, and after returning to Shan Yuting, he suggested that Shan Yu also engage in a heavy cavalry that imitated rest, but in the end it ended in vain.This is not a type of army that the pure grassland tribes can afford, after the Xiongnu lost the Western Regions, the annual iron production was at least half less, and there were only a very few iron armors, and people could only afford to wear leather and wood, how could they still equip horses?
If Sun Wan's iron army is an "iron beast", the armored horse is an iron rhinoceros with four hooves, and its movement and impact force are doubled, and it crashes into the flock.The cavalry of the Subu Division, which was already very thin by the Jizhou soldiers, barely resisted, and was crushed by the diamond-shaped array in front of the Han army.The spear-riding horses that stabbed in front of them were so formidable that they suffered a big loss in terms of collision potential energy alone, and for a while the horses turned over and were torn open a big hole, allowing the three diamond-shaped formations in the rear to calmly enter the Xiongnu position.The horn shook the sky, with a hint of panic, the Huns realized the purpose of this army, and in front of him, King Outuo, who was still resting, hurriedly remounted his horse and organized his subordinates to try to stop it.Thousands of Huns controlled the string and threw it, and as the enemy was getting closer, they shot so urgently that they didn't wait for the bow to be full, and the thumb released the string.Duan Huizong ignored the light arrows that were whizzing and flying, the Tun cavalry camp was reorganized, and a large number of children from the six counties were added, and when they were in Chang'an, they relied on polo games to select good riders, and when they arrived in Yunzhong County, they practiced together, and often let the horses let their hooves loose on the training ground full of deep ditches, and after many falls, these Hequ horses learned to run with a small broken step, plus a high saddle stirrup, the knight would sit firmly even if he was heavily armoured.He observed the array left and right, controlling the overall situation, his eyes were full of surging horse heads, the four tun chiefs were not confused by the arrow attack, the array moved forward steadily, and the arrows that swirled forward hit the armored horse but had no effect, the horse armor withstood most of the impact of the feather arrows, and occasionally the arrows hit the iron curtain to make Duan Huizong feel a pain in his face.As the enemy got closer and closer, Duan Huizong asked Hu Cong to raise the flag, and the armored cavalry began to accelerate for the second time.King Outuo seemed to see countless giant beasts rushing towards him, and the iron armor of the soldiers was shining, and he was stunned, ignoring Shan Yu behind him, and instinctively urged his horse to avoid the front of the armored cavalry charge.He ran, the left Ou detachment soldiers also followed, the four or five thousand newly defeated in the moon formation of the Huns morale was already low, the slightest wind and grass will collapse, at this moment in the armor cavalry rushed to cooperate with the separation of avoidance, to avoid a cavalry hedge.It was only after they blew like a gust of wind that the king of Outuo suddenly remembered to fight again, and roared and rode his horse to pursue, but he was separated by a distance, and he thought that he was going to cooperate with the Han army to attack Shan Yu."
Damn King Outuo!"
This scene made the Xulu Quanqu Shan Yu, who was watching the battle from afar, scold, and as a result, he only had 3,000 Shan Yu guards left at hand to resist the Han army."
Please leave for the time being!"
Zuo General Bo Xutang asked for this, but he refused, he knew that as soon as he ran, the battle would be over.After decades of dealing with horses, he never thought that one day he would be afraid of the rumbling horses' hooves and the dirt and dust brought up by the thousands of horsemen, so he only forced himself to calm down and pointed to the first horse: "General Zuo, block them!"
”"The Han people are also weak, reinforcements are coming, as long as you block the Han cavalry in front of you, you can win!"
The 3,000 cavalry under the command of General Zuo is the elite of the Huns, although the armor rate is 100% leather armor, and the arrows and weapons held are all iron soldiers, and most of them are selected by the tribes to serve as young people, in order to protect the big single Yu as the duty.Seeing that the Han cavalry was getting closer and closer, General Zuo let 1,000 cavalry line up in front of Baixu to protect Shan Yu to leave at any time, and personally led 2,000 cavalry to start moving forward."
Change the heavy arrow!"
After a hundred years of competition with the Han army, the Huns also learned the secret of dealing with the Han armor, that is, to make long arrow feathers with carved feathers and wild goose feathers, using pine wood as a thick arrow shaft, plus heavy arrows that are heavier and thicker than light arrows, and shooting them with a special horn bow with a thick bow body and bow tip.Such a bow and arrow are weak to shoot from a distance, but they are not inferior to a strong crossbow when they are shot at close range!
The front row galloped out, these were the most skilled eagle archers, under the cover of ordinary riders, approaching the Han army that was slowly accumulating their horsepower, drawing their bows like a full moon, and heavy arrows popping out.Thirty or forty paces away from the shoulders of a knight, this time it was not bounced off, but heavily embedded in the armor, which made the knight cry out in pain, and the horse lance in his hand was taken off.As more and more heavy arrows were fired, the marching armored cavalry began to suffer casualties, and the horses also escaped from the trick, Duan Huizong's side Hu Cong was slammed off his horse by the flying heavy arrows, his feet were still on the stirrups, and he was dragged around by his mount, and his helmet hit a stone on the ground and fainted.But every time the armor riders in front fell, someone in the rear immediately filled them, and they were like a wall, unswervingly advancing towards Baixu.Getting closer, General Zuo's hand holding the reins was a little sweaty, the Han army was already two hundred steps away, the speed of the cavalry running was a little slow, they had already entered the Xiongnu position for two miles, and broke two formations in a row, the burden of the horses was too heavy, and the impact of this speed was bearable.But at this moment, the loyal Hu Cong beside Duan Huizong raised the flag again, and the oversound of the horn sounded through the grassland, and the small flags of each team should be ordered to move forward diagonally, which was a signal to accelerate.The knights kicked the horses in the abdomen with the iron spurs on the side of their boots, and generally they were reluctant to do so, and would rather hurt themselves than let the horses be wronged, and after the pain, the already exhausted iron horsemen suddenly accelerated their pace!
The first cavalry is like a moving wall, the Huns' space for maneuver is getting smaller and smaller, and it is impossible to stop the Han army by harassment and long-range shooting alone, General Zuo gritted his teeth and rushed forward with two thousand horsemen, they must use their flesh and blood to stop the Han people, so that the king of Outuo can surround him and exhaust the opponent's strength in close combat."
Charge!"
Seeing that the other party was fighting, Duan Huizong's blood surged straight to his head, and he waved the flag for the last time, and kicked the mount again under his feet, all of which were pierced with blood, and the horses raised their speed to the highest, and the wind was whining in their ears.Thanks to the stirrups and high saddles, the hands were almost free, and the people in the front row held a four-foot horselance, sandwiched under the elbows and armpits, and they would serve as the main force to break the enemy, the second row was an eight-foot spear, and behind it was a ring-headed knife, and everyone stepped on the stirrups tightly and launched a charge!
The feudal army can't be compared with the modern cavalry wall charge, the training time is short, and the rush is a little scattered until now, and some cavalry can't find officers, so they only subconsciously follow the people in front of them.But when they accelerated, the originally chaotic and dense hooves slowly converged into a rumbling sound, like a snow-capped mountain cracking, and like a thunder running from far to near in the sky, thousands of hoods fluctuated in the evening sun, and the white feathers on the top swayed, its Xu was like a forest, and its disease was like the wind!
The Han army's armor and cavalry were in order, and the Huns were even more chaotic, although General Zuo and Shan Yu's guards held the heart of death, and the eagle archers behind were still trying to shoot heavy arrows when they were only a few dozen steps apart, and this relative speed made more than a dozen Han army riders fall off their horses with heavy blows, but to no avail.No one can stop the armor horse, Jin Ge Iron Horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger!
The distance passed in a blink of an eye, and with the neighing and roaring of the people on both sides, the two turbidity currents collided violently!
Countless broken spear shafts and broken blades flew into the sky, along with horses and tumbling stumps and broken arms.Time seemed to slow down, and in the eyes of a jujube-red Hun horse, Duan Huizong's hideous iron curtain was reflected, and he also saw the beautiful and slender sharp horse lance piercing.It began to disobey the command and desperately turned its head to avoid it, but there was no way back.I could only watch the ironclad knight hold the long horse lance and make intimate contact with the owner on his body, and the slightly trembling lance broke through the leather and plunged into Hu Qi's chest!
The flesh and skin were broken, the bones were broken, blood and fragments of the lungs splattered out, and the frightened Hun Hundred Cavalry Commander was all picked off his horse, and a big hole was opened in his stomach.Duan Huizong did not stop, he was still advancing, and his arm was weakened by the impact, and his horse lance slanted downward, stabbing the neck of another unlucky Hun horse that rushed towards him, and splashing a blood flower.The mallet made of fine wood is astonishingly flexible under the impact of gravity, piercing deep into the horse's body, twisting at a great angle before cracking and breaking.The head of the lance was left in the body of the fallen Xiongnu horse, and the splinters of wood flew everywhere, but fortunately, Duan Huizong let go of his elbow and armpit at the last moment and was not taken out.But in the blink of an eye, his horse met the third horse that followed, and the force was relative, although the heavily armored war horse smashed the skull of the same kind, but the inertia also made Duan Huizong's whole person fly out and fall heavily in the chaotic battlefield!
Except for a few unlucky ghosts who were thrown away in the impact, the armored cavalry won a complete victory, more than half of the hundreds of Huns in the front row were killed and wounded, countless people fell off their horses, and the remaining lucky ones staggered with the charging Han army, and the number was already sparse.Before they could evacuate, they saw that the second team of the Han army was deliberately lagging behind, and urged the horses to rush up.Something similar happened all over the front, and the two thousand Shan Yu Guards array was swept away by round after round of armor cavalry.But it was good to buy some time for King Outuo, so he avoided the Han army's left cavalry to arrive, and after the Han army's armored cavalry formation had dispersed and lost the space for impact, he roared and surrounded him, trying to fight more and less.But even in the melee of outnumbered enemies, the armor cavalry is not intimidated at all, the ring knife made of the steel filling method is sharper than in the past, and it is as easy to chop the limbs of the Huns as if cutting tofu, and the leather armor is vulnerable in front of it, but it is the weapon of the Huns, and it is difficult to cause damage to the body under the Mingguang armor or the armor.The Han army only needs to hold the hilt of the knife and wave it lightly, they can bring up a puff of blood mist, they are too skilled in doing this action, just like playing polo in Ping Optimistic, you see that the head of the Huns, isn't it also round?
Not far away, the corpses were everywhere where they had just collided, and some of the cavalry on both sides who had fallen came back to their senses and fought each other on the ground.When Duan Huizong got up in a daze, he found that his horse lance was completely broken, and the ring head knife was gone, so he could only bow his head and casually pick up the remnants scattered on the ground to fight with the Huns who rushed over.Maybe it was because his bright light armor was too conspicuous, which attracted the attention of General Zuo Bo Xutang, and the guards around General Zuo were also scattered by the armored cavalry, he had no one available, and he could only join the battle, at this moment he looked at Duan Huizong with hatred, clenched the spear in his hand, and began to urge the war horse to accelerate, the spear was in his hand, and stabbed out!
Duan Huizong plunged the remnants into the chest of a Hun man, heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a spirit dodged and avoided the spear stabbed by General Zuo, and broke out in a cold sweat.Without waiting for him to find another weapon, General Zuo had already turned around and rushed again, aiming at the unarmed Duan Huizong, determined to win.No, he's armed!
Like the King of Qin in the shouting of "Wang Negative Sword" among the ministers, Duan Huizong was stunned for a moment before remembering that there was also a sword, the "Shangshu Chopping Horse Sword" given by the Son of Heaven to General Ren, and General Ren let him bear it on his body, so that he took the armored cavalry to raid Shan Yu and behead him personally!
General Zuo is getting closer and closer, and there is no time, Duan Huizong hurriedly unsheathed his sword, and his right hand wants to pull out the heavy sword, so heavy!
The speed of drawing the sword was extremely slow, and the sound of the sword body rubbing against the scabbard was painful, until Duan Huizong used his two hands to completely pull it out, General Zuo had already galloped to within ten steps, and the hand holding the spear was raised back, about to deliver a fatal blow!
Duan Huizong dragged the long sword and took a step forward suddenly, seeing that the two sides were about to contact, one inch long and one inch strong, the other party was still on the horse, he suffered a big loss, and the spear of General Zuo was aimed at his chest!
At the last moment, Duan Huizong's body suddenly lowered, and General Zuo's spear grazed by, picking it out, and sparks splashed for a while, and Duan Huizong, who was bent down, didn't care about the bleeding scalp, held the sword in both hands, swept it violently, and directly cut off the two front legs of General Zuo's horse!
Shangshu Horse Slashing Sword is made of 100 steel, and the sharpness is better than that of the general ring head knife, and the war horse loses its front hooves and falls to its knees, and Zuo Da will be thrown out high and smashed on a stone ground, with severe pain in his chest.Before he could turn over, Duan Huizong had already rushed over in a few steps, raised the Shangshu sword high, aimed at the back of General Zuo, and stabbed it with a pop, accompanied by his scream, and sent it violently inside!
Blood vomited, and General Zuo died on the spot.Duan Huizong fell to his knees tiredly, arrows kept shooting at his armor, he only held on to the sword of the horse, trying to get himself back on his feet, and after looking around, he found that the impact had turned into a melee.Five or six thousand Huns from all over the Huns surrounded thousands of armored horsemen in the middle, although they couldn't help them for a while, but it was impossible to pull away from the impact, and Shan Yu's eagle feather Bai Xu, just two or three hundred steps away, he could even see Da Shan Yu's panicked expression!
Duan Huizong hated, didn't he have a chance?
No, there is!
Screaming again and again, Duan Huizong turned his head and saw that the group of soldiers who were bullying the weak and afraid of the hard of King Outuo had scattered like panicked rabbits again, and they were attacked by a curtain of arrows behind them.A group of cavalry who followed closely behind the armored cavalry killed, and more than 2,000 cavalry broke through the blocking queen Outuo, but did not pay attention to the trapped armored cavalry, but rushed straight towards the eagle feather white silk!
It is the five original national horses led by Zhao Han'er, and it is also the last trump card hidden by Ren Hong in the array.And Ren Hong's most trusted is still his old subordinates.Zhao Han'er clamped the horse's belly, bent his bow, and led the subject country to launch a surprise attack on the eagle feather Baixu."
Attila!"
The Hu cavalry of his subordinate state chanted in Xiongnu language that Zhao Han'er was jokingly taken when he was assigned by Ren Hong to disguise the Huns many years ago, but it was used as a pseudonym today."
Attila will destroy the Huns here!"
PS: Chapter 3 at night.