Straight man of steel

Chapter 468 Insights

Wei Qing and Gongsun He walked to the east gate of Yuyang City, only to realize that the [-] Xiongnu who rushed into the city had been completely wiped out by the Han army in the city.

Then came the Huns cavalry who got off their horses and rushed towards the city gate one after another.

At the beginning, the Huns were a little stupid, but later they knew how to slowly push the corpses in front of them.

However, the crossbow arrows of the three-bow bed crossbow are enough to penetrate the wall they piled up with corpses.

The smaller the lethality, the smaller it is.

However, Wei Qing was a little worried that the Huns would find the steel plates buried in the soil.

It's normal for him to be worried, but the Huns actually discovered it a long time ago, but they didn't take it seriously at all.

I didn’t even think about why the steel plate was so hot.

It has to be said that they did play a certain role in pushing the corpse forward.

They are almost out of the city gate.

"General, do you want to pull the steel plate away?"

Gongsun He was a little worried that the Huns really occupied the city gate, and then rushed in continuously.

At that time, the Han army will be passive.

"No, let the Huns see the strength of the Han infantry.

The three-bow bed crossbow can also be withdrawn, and an army of 5000 people is sent out from a city gate to maintain a good formation, and a Hun soldier is not allowed to let them out.

When the city gates are full of Huns' corpses, we will pull away the steel plates and burn these corpses directly to avoid causing plague in the army. "

"Here!"

The infantry of the Han army is in the same line as the armored soldiers of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it has been difficult to see a rigorous army.

When the four army formations moved to the gate of Yuyang City, the three bows and crossbows also retreated.

Shields blocked the city gates tightly.

Then the Han soldiers behind the shield helped the Xiongnu army clean up the corpses under the shield.

The reason why the Han army wanted to clean up the corpses in front of the shield was to fight the Huns earlier.

Hundreds of bodies were quickly cleared.

The long swords of the Huns kept cutting on the shields of the Han infantry, but it had no effect at all.

A wise Hun inserted a knife into the gap in the shield.

As a result, the Han infantry overlapped their shields slightly, causing the weapons in the hands of the Huns to fall off.

The Han soldiers behind the shield kept attacking the heels and legs of the Huns from under the shield with halberds and spears.

If the soldiers of the Huns are not paying attention, they may be dragged into the formation of the Han army.

This is a one-sided massacre.

After seeing this, Ajuduo sneered.

He didn't care about the loss at the city gate at all, as long as the three bows and crossbows were removed.

"Send someone to cut off those iron ropes for me."

"Yes, big pawn!"

A Juduo didn't even think about it, Wei Qing was not a fool, how could he be given a chance to cut those steel cables.

The weapons used by the Huns were mostly scimitars made of wrought iron, or bronze weapons left over from a hundred years ago.

It is similar to the weapons used by the Qin army who fled to the Baiyue area.

Wei Qing hired a blacksmith to make these iron ropes out of fine steel.

A Hun's weapon was blunted after a few blows, and only a few scratches could be seen on this iron chain.

This is technological crushing.

It seems that when foreigners invaded the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Qing soldiers could only fight with foreigners' foreign guns and cannons with swords.

Ajudo soon discovered the reality before him.

It takes at least two quarters of an hour to cut one iron rope, and two hours to cut all eight iron ropes.

Couldn't the Xiongnu have killed more than [-] people in two hours?

"Find hemp rope, wrap it around the horse and then wrap these iron ropes."

"Big household, how many horses do you need?"

"The more the better!"

Can't I pull out these few iron cables of yours if you keep cutting them?

Ajuduo also felt ruthless in his heart to think so.

If Wei Qing knew it, he would die of laughter. If you could pull out the iron cables, then what would I do with those steel rods.

In fact, during this period of time, the casualties of the Han army were not small.

The number of crossbowmen on the city wall has been reduced by nearly 5000.

This was the result of a few school captains temporarily putting the sword shield on the city wall and holding up the shield for protection.

If the two sides really let each other shoot at each other.

It is not bad if the battle loss ratio can be maintained at three to one.

But now there is a battle loss ratio of five to one, and it is still growing.

Yi Zhixie, who was so angry that he almost responded to Ajuduo's requests.

He made up his mind to break Yuyang City today.

He couldn't bear King Hunxie's look like a fool.

If there is no hemp rope, we can just dismantle the camp account, and we have to satisfy Ajuduo's request.

But Ajudo's method was ultimately a stupid one.

If Zhang Yuan was here, he would be able to think of a way to solve the predicament in front of him.

There is no need for anything else, just like Ajuduo's, just war horses and hemp rope or linen cloth.

Ajudo tossed and tossed for half an hour, but he couldn't pull out the eight iron cables. Although they were loose or loose, the horse still couldn't get through.

"General, the Huns have executed thousands of people at the city gate in the past half an hour. Do they think there are so many people?"

Gongsun He looked puzzled, this doesn't look like the style of the military officials of the Huns.

The military officials who had lost [-] cavalry were able to choose to avoid the battle, and his prince Yu Shan was also captured by Zhang Yuan at that time.

The same is true for the Battle of Mayi at the beginning.

The military minister had no intention of being tough with the Han army.

He knew that positional warfare was not what the Huns were good at.

From Maodun Shanyu to the old Shang Shanyu and the military minister Shanyu never thought of being tough with the Han army infantry.

Even though Maodun Shanyu besieged Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, at Baishan Mountain, he did not have the urge to start a war.

Just surrounded.

Originally, he wanted to wait until the Han army ran out of ammunition and food before attacking, but it turned out that Mao Dun was a man who listened to his wife.

"Something we didn't expect must have happened within the Xiongnu. It is definitely not a military minister who is commanding these large armies."

Wei Qing reacted quickly after being reminded by Gongsun Heyi.

"What should I do?"

"Cold salad! This person is so stupid, it's a good thing for us!"

Wei Qing was still thinking about the combat opportunity that Zhang Yuan had been looking for before, and it was right in front of him.

He and Zhang Yuan have played countless times, but they never thought that the Hun army would take the initiative to fight the Han army.

As a result, what they had been looking forward to for a long time appeared in front of them.

Wei Qing thought that if he had an army of 20 instead of 50, and he would not sleep for dozens of hours, he would leave all the cavalry of the Huns under Yuyang City.

"Could it be that the Xiongnu's military officials died?"

"It's not impossible. Send the order and capture some Huns prisoners alive!"

"promise."

Both Gongsun He and Wei Qing became excited.

The military minister was already old, so it was not impossible that he would die.

At this time, Wei Qing wanted to capture the Xiongnu captives. It was not too easy. In less than a quarter of an hour, more than [-] Xiongnu captives knelt in front of Wei Qing.

"Let me ask you, who is your Da Shanyu now?"

Wei Qing shouted sharply.

Some Huns couldn't understand Chinese, but some could understand it, but they didn't answer Wei Qing's question for a while.

"If you don't answer, right? You still had a chance to survive, but now it's gone."

Both the Han and the Huns are afraid of death.

If you can live forever, who wouldn't want to live well?
"I said, I said, our big order is Yizhixie's big single!"

"Left Wise King Yi Zhixie?"

"The military minister Da Shanyu died of illness in winter, and King Zuoxian succeeded the Da Shanyu."

Wei Qing nodded.

No wonder the current Hun cavalry are as stupid as they are.

And Wei Qing also understood why Yi Zhixie was so impulsive.

He has just ascended to the position of Grand Chanyu, and his position has not yet been firmly established. He needs some achievements to prove that he is competent.

Did Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu resist the Seven Kingdoms Army so hard to prove himself?

It is never more orthodox for a younger brother to inherit his brother's position than for a son to inherit his father's position.

"Prison these Huns first, and open the city gate to send them out after the war is over."

It is true that the Han and Hungarians rarely killed prisoners.

Wei Qing also did not want to leave these Huns in Yuyang City to eat their military rations.

Li Guang once chatted with a heavenly official of the big man before.

He complained that he should have been named a marquis long ago with his qualifications, and those who were named marquis in the army were mostly inferior to him in ability.

Tianguan Wang Shuo said that when Li Guang was young, he deceived the Qiang people and killed more than 800 prisoners of war at one time. God will not let you be a marquis in the eyes of this kind of thing.

This shows how great the impact of killing prisoners of war is.

After Huo Qubing made Hunxie King Xiutu surrender, even though Xiutu repented halfway, he had no intention of killing the prisoners of war.

People at this time always believe that God is watching what they do, and their character must be upright so that the rest of their lives can go smoothly.

These Xiongnu captives got a chance to survive, and Wei Qing and Gongsun He also got extremely important information.

With the death of a military official, the combat power of the Xiongnu army was reduced by at least one tenth.

"General, the fire under the steel plate is extinguished!"

Wei Qing was just happy, but a piece of news brought him back to reality.

"What? How can it be destroyed?"

"The blood of the Huns flowed into the pit, and no one was watching them, so they were wiped out."

Because the temperature was too high, Wei Qing only asked people to go in every half an hour to add firewood.

As a result, such an oolong came about.

"Continue to raise the fire!"

"General, unless the steel plate is also removed, the fire will not rise."

The soldier wanted to explain, but he didn't know how.

After the water in the blood evaporated, the remaining blood scabs stuck together, blocking the connection between the steel plate and the pothole.

The air in the hole cannot circulate, which is the main reason for the fire to be extinguished.

“General, actually put some tung oil in the pothole.

When the steel plate is pulled apart, put a few rockets inside, and the fire will start again. "

Gongsun He suggested a good idea to Wei Qing.

"Yes, you send some people to dig up the ashes and pour tung oil into the hole."

"Here!"

The fact that the fire was extinguished was just a small episode, but luckily it didn't hinder the battle.

It didn't take long for the shouts of killing at the city gate to weaken.

The Huns' losses made Yi Zhixie sober up. If this continues, he may not be able to control his army.

"Is the Huns going to retreat?"

"seems like it."

"Hey, I thought they could hold on a little longer."

Wei Qing and Gongsun He went up to the city wall and saw hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry retreating like the tide of the sea.

There were corpses all over the ground, and blood stained the walls of Yuyang City red.

The four city gates are now more like a morgue.

“I’m giving the order and all the corpses in the city will be cremated collectively.

The carcasses of the war horses were taken away, cleaned and made into food. "

Although the horse meat was very sour, Wei Qing couldn't help it.

If you can provide one day's rations, then you can provide one day's rations. It's still meat after all.

There are people in Yuyang City who have never eaten a bite of meat since they were born.

90.00% of Jiu's soldiers would not dislike horse meat. Wei Qing has only seen one person who really dislikes him, and that is Zhang Yuan.

Liu Che probably didn't even know that horse meat was sour, as if people in later generations liked dogs so they didn't eat dog meat.

The horses raised by Liu Che are treasures, more important than living people, and no one dares to eat them when they are dead.

Those who are qualified to despise the horse are reluctant to kill the horse, so Wei Qing has only seen Zhang Yuan who despises it.

When all the Huns withdrew, the gate of Yuyang City was not closed.

Gongsun He arranged for people to cut off the heads of the Huns, and set up a Jingguan outside the city gate.

Used to mock the Huns.

Wei Qing thought for a while and asked Gongsun He to do this. The Huns must be cruel to them. Now if they withdraw Zhang Yuan, it will be in vain.

When it was night, Wei Qing asked the people below to report the battle damage to him.

"General, today our army has killed more than 8000 people and more than 3000 people were injured, but basically all of them still have fighting strength."

The more than 3000 people who were injured were all shot in the arms or thighs by bows and arrows. The arrows were pulled out and bandaged again.

This is the case with cross-shooting. Otherwise, it will directly hit the vital point, or if it is shot crookedly, it will not cause death due to serious injuries.

Unless he was hit by a lot of arrows and bled to death.

"What were the Huns' losses?"

"Only over [-] Huns died inside the city, and there may be even more corpses outside the city. It is estimated that no less than [-] Huns died in today's battle."

After Wei Qing finished listening, a smile appeared on his face.

A six to one battle loss.

In a few more games, the number of Han troops in Yuyang City will be equal to the number of Huns outside the city.

"Very good, let the soldiers in the army eat and drink well, and have a good night's rest."

"promise."

Compared with the cheerful atmosphere in Yuyang City, the atmosphere on the Xiongnu side is about to freeze.

Yizhi looked at Ajudo who was kneeling below with a dark face.

They calculated that the Han army lost [-] people and the Xiongnu lost [-] people.

Some of the soldiers of the Han army who died in the city, the Xiongnu could not count at all.

As a result, Wei Qing's calculation was six to one, and Yi Zhixie's calculation was eleven to one.

How can he not be angry?
"Drag Ajudo down and kill him!"

Yi Zhixie roared wildly, wanting to prove that it was not his fault, but Ajuduo's.

King Hunxie didn't know why, but at this moment, he was suddenly moved to cherish talents.

Ajudo's behavior on the battlefield today is still remarkable, many times better than the abrupt bone under his hands.

"Wait a minute, Da Shanyu is not going to vent his anger on an irrelevant person.

Winning or losing is a common matter for military strategists, so why is Da Shanyu so angry. "

Irrelevant?

Yi Zhi looked sideways at King Hunxie and couldn't help but ask.

"It has nothing to do with him, King Hunxie, do you mean that I caused so many losses?"

King Hunxie really wanted to nod his head and say yes.

But when he thought that he had only one hundred thousand troops by his side, and this was Yi Zhixie's king's camp, he really drove this lunatic into a hurry, and he didn't know what would happen.

"The three of us made the decision together, and Wuhuan Da Shanyu and I didn't stop you.

So don't get angry again, Wei Qing is probably eager to see you like this.

Then think about what we should do is the most important thing to do. "

"King Hunxie is right, don't get angry with the people below."

At this time, King Hunxie gave Ajudo a wink.

"Why don't you hurry up and get out, we talk about things, do you want to hear it too?"

"I'm going down here."

Ajuduo got the idea and immediately got up from the ground and ran out.

(End of this chapter)