Straight man of steel

Chapter 444 Make You Can't Run
After Zhang Yuan retreated here, he directly inserted the collected spears into the grass on the narrow east side of Fuyangju Mountain.

Due to time constraints, Zhang Yuan asked the army to directly insert the end of the spearhead into the soil.

If you want to bury the tail into the soil, it will take at least five times as long as using the spearhead.

And the advantage of using a spear head is that the spear shaft can be buried in the soil by beating the spear tail.

After doing all this, Zhang Yuan led the army to a narrow place five miles away from Fuyangju Mountain and waited quietly.

The two thousand pawns were hidden in the forests on both sides.

They serve other purposes.

It took half an hour for the Huns to reorganize their army.

During this half an hour, the Han army was in full swing and did not dare to relax in the slightest.

"General Wei, they are about to pass through the narrow mountain."

Five miles away, the Han army could see the darkness coming from Fuyangju Mountain.

"The whole army is ready to charge!"

Zhang Yuan didn't speak, Xue Ren knew what to do now.

When the Xiongnu slowly walked in front of Zhang Yuan and the others, all the traps arranged in front of them would lose their due effect.

"The whole army listens to my orders and puts up their spears!"

The remaining nearly [-] cavalrymen put their spears on their waists in unison.

"The whole army charges, and diverts to both sides when rushing to the narrow mouth of the mountain!"

Xue Ren roared and rushed forward like crazy.

Except for the [-] soldiers who stayed behind to protect Zhang Yuan, everyone rushed out, including Li Ju.

The Huns dared to charge when they saw the Han army. Before anyone gave an order, they swarmed and rushed out of the narrow mountain screaming.

The Huns are invincible on the grassland, and the reason for their defeat just now was all due to the constraints of the terrain.

Regardless of the facts, the Huns thought so anyway.

As a result, the Huns just picked up their speed, and all the Huns cavalry in the front were tripped before they ran a mile forward.

Under the high-speed movement, the horse's leg hit a wooden pole, and the resulting force was enough to fracture the fragile horse's leg.

And the wood will rebound a bit, causing a second blow.

These wooden poles are naturally the spear shafts of those spears. Tens of thousands of spears are enough to remove the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry.

The first charge of the Huns' cavalry ended like this. They could only slowly cross the spear area, and then what awaited them were wooden sticks and thorns in the frontier.

There are traps for two miles on the east side of the narrow mountain. They may not cause much damage, but they can prevent the Hun cavalry from charging.

They couldn't rush up, but the Han army could.

After Xue Ren saw the Huns charging, he waved his hand to signal the army to slow down, and they had to wait until the Huns had crossed the trap area before charging.

"Seeing that the Xiongnu cavalry was only two miles away from the big Han cavalry, Xue Ren waved his hand and the whole army rushed out like an arrow off the string."

Everyone held the six-meter-long war spear with one hand and held the reins tightly with the other hand.

The Huns had seen war spears, but that was 100 years ago, when the Qin's iron hoof shook the entire grassland.

The memories of nomadic people cannot exceed three generations. After three generations, the stories are no longer true.

So the Huns cavalry just felt that the Han army's weapons were more like spears. After all, they couldn't see the length of the spears from the side.

But some Hun soldiers who survived the baptism of spears immediately realized what kind of weapon it was.

But their impression of the spear is only that it is a throwing weapon.

Xue Ren took the lead and was the first to rush in front of the Huns cavalry.

A cavalry that has not charged against a cavalry that has begun to advance at full speed is the same as cavalry against infantry.

Once the speed is fast enough, it is easy to tear apart the opponent's army formation, and the Huns have no such thing as an army formation.

That means they will be torn apart by the Han army faster.

Xue Ren used his war spear to push five Huns cavalry off their horses. The impact was gone, so he immediately turned his horse's head and headed west.

This was Zhang Yuan's strategy. The people in front moved aside to both sides, so that the leading troops of the Xiongnu army could always suffer the impact of the Han cavalry and would not rush into the encirclement of the Xiongnu army.

With such a round of charges, the mountain pass on the east side of Fuyangju Mountain formed a meat grinder-like existence.

The Huns who came in basically had only a dead end, and they couldn't even touch the armor of the Han army.

Occasionally, a few Han soldiers fell from their horses because of being hit by arrows, but these were not worth mentioning in the face of the huge battle losses of the Huns.

King Hunxie King Xiutu was already angry when he saw such a scene.

"Quickly clean up these damn wooden poles!"

King Hunxie and King Xiutu were all wise men on the grasslands. They didn't let the army pull these wooden poles, but let them chop with knives.

The Huns are naturally stronger than the Han people. It is not easy to survive in the desert. It is not surprising that they are all brave.

A single blow with all your strength can cut off the shaft of a spear.

Thousands of people wielded swords, and tens of thousands of spears were cleared away along with the sticks and thorns in front of them within a quarter of an hour.

"Boys, rush for me!

Let the arrogant Han people see who is the king of the grassland! "

King Xiutu raised his scimitar and let out a loud roar.

Immediately, deafening horns sounded from both sides.

The sound from the animal bone horn made of giant animal bones has a particularly strong penetrating power and can be transmitted very far.

Zhang Yuan also has a makeshift war drum here.

The remaining soldiers immediately began to beat the war drums under Zhang Yuan's order.

This time the Han cavalry did not withdraw to either side.

The original rear team had become the front team. When they heard the sound of war drums, they used the length of their war spears to push one or several Huns cavalry off their horses, then threw away their war spears and replaced them all with rings. The first knife continued to rush into the Huns' army.

This will be an extremely cruel war.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The original unilateral massacre turned into a melee in an instant.

But just when the Han army broke through the Huns' front for one mile, it was also the time when the Huns cavalry behind rushed most vigorously.

The pawns on both sides of the forest are finally going to display their light and heat.

In order to have a place to shelter from wind and rain, the Han army brought over linen cloth. These linen cloths were used as tents to protect them from wind and rain two days ago, but now they were twisted into five extremely long ropes.

More than 5 soldiers, that is to say, there are nearly [-] pieces of linen.

The Han's material advantage was clearly demonstrated at this moment. Under the feet of the Huns cavalry, a linen rope was pulled up every ten meters.

The two thousand infantry were divided into ten teams. They tied the trees tightly with sackcloth ropes, and then stretched them with all their strength.

This trick was used by Zhang Yuan before, and it worked unexpectedly well against the cavalry.

In this case, pulling these few ropes is like flying fish in the ocean. When they are advancing rapidly, suddenly a fisherman on a fishing boat spreads a large net on the sea.

It is impossible to fly if you continue to fly, and you cannot run away even if you want to.

King Xiutu and King Hunxie did not expect Zhang Yuan's crooked tricks to be one move after another.

In short, it is to make your Hun cavalry unable to charge, and the cavalry cannot charge, then they are infantry.

"Cut all these ropes!"

In addition to cutting off, it is cut off, but after such a stagnation, the more than 2 cavalry who had rushed out in front immediately suffered the most vicious blow from the Han army cavalry.

The Han army will not let go of such a good opportunity to kill the enemy.

Such a rush is about to rush into the narrow mountain.

But they wouldn't rush in foolishly. The reason why they rushed forward was to cover the retreat of the two thousand infantry.

The war was going on very anxiously,
The total number of Xiongnu cavalry who came out of the narrow mountain was less than 1. In the first wave of Han cavalry charge, more than [-] people lost their combat effectiveness.

Zhang Yuan's order is that as long as his side does not show signs of decline, he must continue to fight.

The two sides have been fighting for nearly two hours, and the speed of battle damage is much slower than that of charging.

If two people fight without other people intervening, their reaction speeds are almost the same, and they don't have the running speed blessed by war horses. It is very likely that they will fight for more than ten rounds.

Xue Ren and the others have also found their opponents.

There were no particularly fierce generals in this period, and the big man had not yet entered the time of strong individual heroism.

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are famous not because of their invincibility, but because of their commanding ability.

Compared with the generals' fighting power, the big man can't compare with the Xiongnu.

The Western Han Dynasty is not the Three Kingdoms, and the novels about generals in the Three Kingdoms are so blown up that they can go to heaven.

In real situations, such non-human beings do not exist. Real war relies on strategy, numbers and equipment.

Zhang Yuan's side has now crushed the Huns strategically, and also crushed the equipment, but the huge gap in numbers can only maintain a balance.

As time went by, it seemed that there was no end to the Huns being killed, and the Han army slowly began to fall into trouble.

Time to retreat.

Zhang Yuan knew that if the fight continued, the entire army might be wiped out.

"Ming Jin, the whole army retreats!"

Zhang Yuan didn't know how many people could be withdrawn, but now he could only do so.

The sound of Ming Jin withdrawing his troops sounded on the battlefield, and Xue Ren, Li Jian and other generals immediately began to urge the soldiers around them to retreat.

The Huns also knew that the Han army was about to fail, so they bit the Han army tightly and prevented them from retreating.

Li Ju roared at this moment.

"General Xue Ren, you withdraw first, and I will lead the men to stop the rear."

At this time, someone must choose to sacrifice his chance to survive.

Xue Ren nodded heavily, then waved his horsewhip and walked eastward without looking back.

Li Ju temporarily organized nearly [-] cavalry around him, and defended the line of defense to prevent the Huns from passing.

This means that they withstood the attack of more than 5000 Huns cavalry, and the time required for the cavalry to retreat was very short. They only needed to get their horses running again.

Zhang Yuan was also ready to retreat at any time. Seeing that the large army had already started to retreat, and someone had taken the initiative to undertake the post-break mission, although Zhang Yuan couldn't bear it, he still withdrew to the east.

Night fell after all.

Zhang Yuan sat by the campfire alone, and the generals around him were gone.

They dispersed to collect the remnants and check the number of people. Before tomorrow morning, Zhang Yuan needed to know how many troops he had left.

It is estimated that the number of people has been checked, and Xue Ren walked over here.

Seeing that Zhang Yuan looked a little lost, he coughed lightly twice.

"Ahem, General Wei."

"Tell me what's going on now?"

"There are still [-] troops left in our army, but there are still some remnants joining in one after another.

The general thinks that we will be able to leave a team of 5000 people in the end. "

Zhang Yuan thought it might be tragic, but he didn't expect that he only fought hard with the Xiongnu for one day and used so many tricks, and the losses were still more than half.

"Where is Li Juren?"

"General Li Ju has not returned, but the last general has sent people to Shoujiang City to inquire.

Some soldiers were chased by the Huns towards the city of Shoujiang. "

Zhang Yuan did not ask about the Huns' battle losses because there was really no way to find out now.

Zhang Yuan and the others were the losing side, whether it was because they touched eggs against stones or because there were too many Huns cavalry, a defeat was a defeat.

But this defeat is also in everyone's imagination.

Not many people are depressed because of the defeat of the war.

Unless the 5 people are all elites like the Qimen Army and the Yulin Army, there is no way to wipe out the 20 Huns cavalry head-on.

"General, I think our tactics today are a bit inappropriate."

"What's wrong?"

"If we can release all the Huns, we can easily kill them when we charge against them on the grassland, and we can retreat calmly when the defeat is over."

Zhang Yuan shook his head, why didn't he know this truth.

This is to maintain the formation and retreat directly at the end, but it can't kill too many people.

In case of falling into the quagmire, the danger is far greater than this kind of frontal positional warfare.

"Send scouts to check the movements of the Huns, focusing on how many of them are left.

Then send some people to the surrendered city and tell them our current location. Let's walk around the grassland with the Huns for a day after the truce tomorrow. "

"Here."

Xue Ren cupped his fists and left. Zhang Cigong came over as soon as he left.

"General Wei."

"It's the Marquis of the Shore."

"General Wei, remember to act with caution.

We must take these people back to Chang'an alive. "

Zhang Yuan glanced at Zhang Cigong, he didn't know what Zhang Cigong was thinking until now.

He just wanted to kill as many Huns as possible and keep the Han army at a relatively small number.

When returning to Chang'an City in the future, the military exploits will not be distributed to the dead.

"I understand, I won't let the chariot general pick up a cheap one for nothing."

Thirty miles west of the cavalry of the Han army, Fuyangju Mountain is narrow. King Xiutu and King Hunxie decided to set up camp here.

Like Zhang Yuan, they are also extremely concerned about the battle damage, but the Huns are more troublesome than the Han army.

The Han army only needs to ask one level at a time, while the Huns immediately start counting heads, and it is impossible to count how many people are missing in each department.

And the Han army can clearly know how many troops are left in each army by asking level by level.

(End of this chapter)