Straight man of steel

Chapter 440

When King Xiutu got the news, he rushed to King Hunxie's tent immediately.

Don't look at the fact that the two of them set off together, but many things are clearly distinguished.

In the march, King Hunxie's army was in the front, and King Xiutu's army was behind, so there was a clear distinction.

Even the barracks have set up two out.

In fact, this is also to avoid conflicts. There are actually many contradictions within the Huns.

The territories of King Xiutu and King Hunxie overlap, and there are often disputes over grazing on pastures.

"King Xiutu, you are finally here."

King Hunxie waited for half an hour in the king's tent.

"I said why are you so timid, can you believe what the Han people say?"

King Xiutu was not very satisfied that King Hunxie directly disrupted the plan.

Originally, they were going to march today, but it would take a whole day to delay.

"Look at it for yourself, and talk to me after you've finished."

King Hunxie threw the crumpled paper to King Xiutu.

King Xiutu already knew the general content above, and King Hunxie just wanted to show King Xiutu the tone of Zhang Yuan's letter.

After King Xiutu finished reading it, he was obviously more angry than King Hunxie.

"What kind of a guy is he, Zhang Yuan, why should he dictate to us.

We have an army of 20 in our hands. If we rush to Hehe with Da Shanyu, I don't believe that we can't beat the Han army! "

King Hunxie shook his head and said with a sigh.

"Now the big Han people know our movements, and the Han cavalry in the col is probably here to monitor us.

In this case, if there are really 20 Han troops in the surrender city, do you think we can smoothly join the Great Chanyu? "

"Then what do you think we should do now? Could it be that we can't graze cattle in this wretched place?"

King Hunxie didn't have an idea for a moment.

Now the 20 Hun army is indeed caught in a dilemma.

"Should we send someone to test the strength of the Han army in front of us?"

King Xiutu didn't believe the letter written by Zhang Yuan, and he also didn't want to be stopped here at Junji Mountain by an unknown number of enemy troops.

"Okay, you and I each send out [-] cavalry, let's try."

"Who will lead the army?"

"The number one warrior of my Hunxie tribe, Wu Tugu, is born with supernatural powers, and he will lead the army to success."

The roar of the horn resounded throughout Junji Mountain, and the Han army camp ten miles away naturally heard it, not to mention that there were Han army scouts who had been watching the Huns' movements.

"The general is not good, the Huns are gathering an army and preparing to attack us!"

Zhang Cigong glared at the scout who came in, and then ordered.

"Although our task is to hold back the Huns' reinforcements, there is no need to contact them head-on.

Pass the order down and move out immediately, we want the Huns to eat dirt behind our asses! "

"Here."

Li Shuo also knew that their vanguard army was not a vanguard army in the usual sense.

Therefore, there is no doubt about Zhang Cigong's order.

If 1 people fought against 20 Huns, even if the battle loss ratio exceeded one to one, that person would be gone.

The [-] vanguard cavalry with simple equipment and not many things with them quickly gathered together.

As for those scouts, they have nothing to do with Zhang Cigong, so it doesn't matter if they don't evacuate.

"Let's go, brothers, let's go to the Xiongnu army to mock and then retreat!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Cigong led the army is a gangster.

He can treat all soldiers as his own brothers.

Ten thousand Han cavalry came out from the pass between East Junji Mountain and West Junji Mountain.

He rushed straight towards the Huns camp.

Because the cavalry of the Han army was condescending, the Huns could clearly see the size of the cavalry of the Han army.

King Hunxie and King Xiutu were immediately at a loss.

"The total number of Han troops is about 2 or [-]. Am I mistaken? How dare they attack our army formation."

"You read that right, King Hunxie, what I saw was also 2 horses.

Knowing that they have so few troops, they should have attacked their camp last night. "

King Hunxie originally wanted to say something to King Xiutu, but at this time the enemy army was in front, and it was not good to have a conflict, so he didn't open his mouth to speak.

The scouts of the Han army have surrounded the camp of the Xiongnu army, and they are still thinking of attacking at night. I am afraid that the camp will be empty before you reach the camp of the Han army.

"Let Wu Tugu prepare for the battle!"

The Xiongnu messengers on one side beat the animal skin drum representing the battle.

Wu Tugu of the Hunxie Department is a tall, fat man.

At this time, there is no such thing as muscle. The fatter people are, the more popular they are. Their fat is not puffiness, but represents strength.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Wu Tugu hammered his chest with both hands, then picked up the mace on both sides of the horse, and rushed out with a roar.

The [-] Xiongnu army moved after hearing the sound, and rushed out together.

When Zhang Cigong of the Han army saw that the Xiongnu army had been dispatched, he immediately asked the messengers around him to sound the horn.

The last cavalry of the Han army cavalry immediately turned around, and the rear team changed to the front team and began to evacuate.

However, the withdrawal speed of the Han army was very slow. Zhang Cigong said that he wanted to mock the Xiongnu army, and running away suddenly was not his style.

Seeing that the Han army began to retreat, Wu Tugu inevitably began to despise it in his heart.

However, in order not to let the great opportunity of winning the battle slip away from his hands, he urged the army to speed up.

"General, it's almost there!"

Li Shuo was afraid that Zhang Cigong might not be able to grasp the distance between him and the Huns, so he repeatedly reminded him.

"Everyone shoot these picky bastards with crossbows!"

The Huns used bows, while the Han army used crossbows. The range of the two weapons is very different.

Zhang Cigong was like using a few waves of crossbow shots to make the Huns suffer.

All of a sudden, densely packed crossbow arrows appeared in midair.

The Huns had no shields, so they could only rely on the weapons in their hands to accurately hit the crossbow arrows.

Wu Tugu roared wildly, and swung the mace with one hand.

He is worthy of being the number one warrior of the Hunxie Department. This mace weighs eighty catties, and it is difficult for ordinary people to lift it.

But he can dance with one hand, this power is absolutely unmatched by others.

But no matter how many Huns there are, they haven't even bit the tail of the Han army.

It can only be their side that suffers the loss.

"Give them another volley, and then retreat faster!"

Zhang Cigong saw that the speed of the Huns had not slowed down, and he was unwilling to take risks, so he immediately changed his previous thinking.

When the second wave of densely packed arrows appeared in the sky, the hearts of the Huns were already aroused to bleed.

This is a nation that has been fighting all the time. To be fair, if the equipment level is above the same line, the Han army will definitely not be able to defeat the Xiongnu army.

What can be bullied is that your equipment is not good enough!
"Defense!"

Wu Tugu also knew not to cause too many casualties, so he roared wildly.

It's just that he provided the Han cavalry with a good opportunity to escape this time.

On the grassland, cavalry and cavalry chase each other, and the competition is whose horse has the best endurance.

Because of the horseshoes, the stamina of the big man's horses is already comparable to that of the Huns' horses, but the speed is slower.

The Xiongnu army has been chasing madly, and it is possible to catch up with the Han cavalry.

But they chose to stop and defend. Zhang Cigong seized this opportunity and immediately opened the distance by several miles.

"Hahaha, at least we killed hundreds of Huns."

Many people were fighting the Huns for the first time, not to mention their excitement.

"Don't take it lightly. The Huns are not that weak. This time, our general commanded them well and caught them by surprise."

The experienced veterans immediately warned the recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time.

"General, what should we do next?"

Li Shuo asked Zhang Cigong.

"Let's keep the distance from the Huns' army twenty miles away, and let the scouts closely monitor the movements of the Huns."

"Here."

Because it is a mountain road, even though it is very wide, it is also winding because of the mountain.

Zhang Cigong led the [-] vanguard army and stopped to rest after passing a bend, waiting for the latest news from the scouts.

Wu Tugu chased the Huns for ten miles and found that there was no trace of the Han army, so they had to retreat first.

In King Hunxie's tent, Wu Tugu knelt down to plead guilty.

King Hunxie had a gloomy face, while King Xiutu looked like he was watching a show.

Those who died were all the subordinates of King Hunxie, and he, King Xiutu, did not feel sorry for them at all.

It doesn't matter if King Hunxie dies a little in battle, it's just that this way of dying is too aggrieved.

"You have the most elite army of [-], and you have the best horses on the grassland under your crotch, yet you still can't catch up with those Han people riding Han horses?"

"My lord, the last general is willing to accept the punishment!"

King Hunxie wanted to have Wu Tu Gu pulled down and killed just like he did to the prisoner.

But he can't, the battle is imminent, and there are not many generals under his command, and most of the rest are defeated by Wu Tugu's subordinates.

Killing Wu Tugu now is tantamount to breaking his own arm.

"If you can't balance your merits and demerits in the next war, then don't go back to Hunxie Mountain."

"Thank you king."

Knowing that he would not be punished again, Wu Tugu immediately withdrew from the king's account.

King Xiutu saw that he didn't see the show as successful, so he remembered the business.

"King Hunxie, should we continue to stop here or move forward?"

A small collision between the Xiongnu army and the Han army cavalry, although the Huns suffered a loss, it also allowed King Hunxie to figure out Zhang Cigong's thoughts.

"Moving forward, it looks like the Han cavalry is trying to slow us down.

What Zhang Yuanxin wrote above may be true, but the Han army may not have reached the surrendered city by now.

As long as we speed up and join the Great Chanyu earlier, victory will eventually belong to us Huns. "

"Okay, I'll go back and order the march!"

The Xiongnu army packed up their things and started to march again. Another half an hour passed.

Seeing that the time was approaching, they still hadn't reached the boundary of Xijunji Mountain. Although it was only five miles away, the five miles were like a natural moat.

As soon as there was any movement from the Huns, the scouts of the Han army knew it.

Immediately, someone rode a horse in the jungle and ran towards the place where Zhang Cigong and the others were resting.

The Huns were also helpless. They wanted to wipe out the surrounding Han army scouts, but that would inevitably take a longer time.

With 20 people and hundreds of people playing hide-and-seek in this mountain, the time lost by the Huns would not be a day or two.

"General, the Huns are ready to march."

Zhang Cigong smiled, and he planned to humiliate the Huns again.

"Brothers, don't rest, we will fight the Huns later!"

This kind of terrain is doomed that it is impossible for the 20 troops to spread out, and it is the habit of the Huns that large troops must be in the middle to protect cattle and sheep.

There will not be too many troops in the front, and those in the back are the logistics troops who have to pack the tents.

It is also a last resort to use cattle and sheep as military rations.

After all, once you go out, you don't know how long it will take. Marching with live cattle and sheep to provide rations for the army also relieved the burden on the Huns.

It's not like the Han army carries up to half a month's ration with them. Once the supply of food and grass is not available, they will finish the calf directly.

In the Central Plains War, there are many examples of defeat due to insufficient food and grass for thousands of years.

But the Xiongnu had never heard of the lack of food and grass. They slaughtered cattle and sheep. When the cattle and sheep were gone, they drank mare's milk. Without mare's milk, they could survive by eating grass and tree roots.

When the Xiongnu army had just marched five or six miles forward, and had just arrived at the intersection of Dongjunji Mountain and Xijunji Mountain, a vanguard army of [-] people led by Zhang Cigong appeared.

"kill!"

When the vanguard army appeared in front of the Huns, they were still seven or eight miles away.

But with a distance of seven or eight miles, it is impossible to give the Xiongnu army a reaction time.

Cavalry can run eight hundred miles in eight hours a day.

The speed of battle is faster, and the contest of life and death makes them not need to consider the feelings of the horse.

The distance of seven or eight miles is less than half a quarter of an hour.

The speed of the Han army was so fast that King Hunxie had just received the news that Zhang Cigong had already made contact with the Huns at the front.

"Kill all these hundreds of people, and then we will withdraw!"

The Huns sent out only a few hundred people to explore the road ahead, and these hundreds of people were also bait.

King Hunxie thought that when he marched, a few hundred people would only need to drag the Han army for a while, but most of the Xiongnu army behind them was not ready for battle, and they were still packing up and driving cattle and sheep.

The [-] vanguard quickly cleaned up these hundreds of Huns, and took their heads leisurely, and took away their horses along the way.

When Wu Tugu arrived with 2000 troops, there were only a group of headless corpses on the ground.

"Ah, I'm going to kill these damn Han people!"

Tu Wugu was really angry, but when he wanted to find the traces of the Han army, he found that the ten thousand Han soldiers had disappeared again.

He is brave, but not reckless.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Wutu Gu went back to report to King Hunxie.

The reason why he wanted to clean up the battlefield was because he did not want his compatriots to be trampled by their own clansmen after death.

If King Hunxie and King Xiutu wanted to continue marching, they would definitely step on these corpses. As for dignity?

There is no such thing as dignity for the defeated.

(End of this chapter)