The World of Yellow Sky

This also proves that this person has good attainments in terms of strategy, scheming, and military strategy.

Facing such an enemy, and the Yellow Turban Army had never fought against the Huns, Xu An did not know the tactics of the Huns, so Xu An still felt a little apprehensive at this time.

But it's just a little apprehensive, after all, when the Han army has widely used iron weapons and armor.

The Huns on the prairie only had weapons in the hands of some nobles, and only a few elites could have a few iron weapons. Most of the rest only had bronze weapons, and some even held low-quality stone weapons.

The protective gear that can be worn on the body is only those nobles, and the headman can wear iron armor. As for the others, only fur is used as armor.

In contrast to Xu An's Yellow Turban Army, most of the soldier battalions were equipped with tower shields, and what they held in their hands was also the sharp halberd in the Han army's arsenal.

After the reorganization of the Ruishi Battalion, Xu An also allocated a part of the shields. Generally speaking, two people held the tower shields.

He is also wearing the best leather armor in the arsenal of the Han army. Whether it is the iron armor of the Yellow Turban Army soldiers camp or the leather armor of the Ruishi camp, it is difficult for the riding bows, soft bows, and arrow clusters in the hands of the Huns to shoot through.

The bows and arrows of the Huns will only pose some threats if there is no protection.

With tall tower shields as protection and long-range soldiers holding strong bows and crossbows as support, the Yellow Turban Army is basically invincible.

However, it is only invincible.

It is absolutely impossible to defeat the Huns who are almost all cavalry with the six or seven hundred cavalry under Xu An's command.

This is why Xu An did not choose to attack when the fierce battle between the Huns and the Han army was coming to an end.

The Yellow Turban Army lacked cavalry, that is, it lacked the means to fight the Huns and make a final decision to decide the outcome.

The initiative will be in the hands of the more mobile Huns, not the Yellow Turbans.

It is well known that there are many cavalry in the Bingzhou Army. Although Zhang Yi is going south this time to attack Yong'an City, the number of cavalry in the army must be much smaller, but it is certainly not too much.

As long as there are two or three thousand Han cavalry, they can repel the Hun cavalry in front of them.

The strong crossbows of Jizhou, the sudden cavalry of Youzhou, and the cavalry of Bingzhou are all powerful soldiers in the world. Although it is not the Guangwu period at this time, these cavalry of Bingzhou have not regressed too much.

These Han cavalry in Bingzhou fought against the barbarians in the north all year round. Although limited by the number of disadvantages, Bingzhou could only be on the defensive.

But with the same number of Hu cavalry, it is almost impossible to beat the cavalry of the Han army.

The cavalry of the Han army were also proficient in bows and horses, and well-armed. The martial arts skills of those aristocratic families, as well as the generals who climbed up from the bottom, were even more extraordinary.

Whether it is leading a cavalry to charge the battle, or commanding and detachment, they are all handy.

Possessing solid armor and excellent military equipment, although they did not have the demeanor of one Han as five Hu in the Han Wu period in the past, but now the Han cavalry in Bingzhou often defeat Hu cavalry that are two or three times their own in the front.

Not to mention, there are still a lot of heavy cavalry in the Bingzhou cavalry. The armaments of the two sides are almost an era behind. How can the Han army not defeat the Xiongnu?

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"Kick kick kick..."

The messy sound of horseshoes disrupted the thoughts in Xu An's mind.

The scouts of the Yellow Turban Army with negative feathers on their backs had already arrived on flying horses.

"There are a large number of Hun cavalry in front, about [-] cavalry. General Lu Bu has led the cavalry to retreat to the formation."

Xu An looked up to the front, trying to see the situation ahead, but countless banners blocked his vision.

"Is it finally here..."

Xu An drove the horse and swung his whip, leading the claret horse to the side.

More than forty armored cavalry, as well as yellow angels and personal guards, all moved together with Xu An.

Xu An led a group of people up to a slightly higher mound, and saw the road ahead and the flag clearly.

In the wilderness far away, a large black mass of floc like a dark cloud was floating in his direction.

In front of the army formation, the khaki flag representing the Yellow Turban Army was retreating, and the small black dots that had started to recede in the field gathered again.

Xu An's hand holding the rein was sweating.

Xu An remembered a poem he once learned: Dark clouds overwhelm the city, and the scene in front of him is as shocking as the lines in his memory.

These are the Huns, and this is the scene of thousands of horses galloping together...

Xu An once witnessed the charge of Han cavalry in Guangzong, and he also saw hundreds of thousands of people fighting for tens of miles in Xiaquyang.

But at that time Xu An was in the formation, he had a glimpse but couldn't know the whole picture, and he didn't see the scene of the cavalry galloping together.

Xu An also fought with the Han army led by Zhu Jun in the wilderness of Kuicheng in a majestic formation on the wilderness.

But Xu An had never seen so many cavalry galloping together, and the Han cavalry led by Sun Jian was only two thousand.

Now he is now facing cavalry, but there are more than 6000 cavalry, which is three times the number of Han cavalry in Kuicheng that day.

Cavalry is no more than infantry, it has more space, occupies a larger area, and looks larger visually.

More than [-] riders are like thousands of horses and horses, even better than tens of thousands of infantry.

Xu An withdrew his gaze, led the bay red horse, and stood under the big khaki banner.

On the road below him, there are countless khaki-colored banners, and under the banners are countless Taiping Dao believers.

Xu An raised his right hand, raised the halberd in his hand high, and shouted in a deep voice: "Arrange to meet the enemy!"

The messengers galloped out, and the melodious horn sounded in the formation of the Yellow Turban Army.

"There is an order from the big banner, line up to meet the enemy!"

"There is an order from the big banner, line up to meet the enemy!"

The general's order from Dazhu spread like a gust of wind and rain throughout the entire army in an instant.

The sharp wooden whistle sounded one after another in the army formation, and the marching ranks of the Yellow Turban Army on the field were rapidly evolving into horizontal battle formations.

Chapter 228: The Same Enemy

"The Huns' offensive has slowed down..."

Zhang Yi's face was stern, and he narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to see more clearly.

The military situation from the front line, as well as the Huns in his sight, let Zhang Yi discover the change of the Southern Huns.

And before that, he also saw that in the cavalry formation of the Southern Huns, one of the cavalry seemed to be dispatched to the south.

The south is Yong'an City, which was occupied by the Yellow Turban Army. Zhang Yi knew it all too well. After all, that was the place he was going to attack, and he couldn't get it wrong.

At this time, the Southern Huns sent a large number of cavalry to the south and slowed down their offensive. All this proved that there should be something in the south that could threaten them.

The only ones who could pose a threat to the Southern Huns in the south were the Yellow Turban Army in Yong'an City.

But the Yellow Turbans and the Han army were sworn enemies. Huangfusong and Guangzong in Xiaquyang built the "Jingguan" with the corpses of more than [-] Yellow Turbans.

The slogan shouted by the Yellow Turban Uprising was "Heaven is dead, Huangtian should stand", expressly wanting to take the Han Dynasty and replace it.

However, the Han Dynasty strictly prohibited the Yellow Turban Army and the Taiping Tao. Anyone who entered the Tao would have their clans wiped out, and they had no tolerance for it.

The two sides are in the same situation, how can there be a time to blend?

So in Zhang Yi's view, those "moth thieves" from Yong'an City had absolutely no reason to come to help.

Those despicable "moth thieves", those mobs, only wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman when they fought fiercely with the Huns to the last moment.

However, some people from the Southern Huns did move to the south, and the dispatch of the trilogy was not fake.

The Han camp was surrounded by wilderness, stretching as far as the eye could see. Although some hilly areas to the south blocked the view, it was absolutely impossible for any ambushes to be buried.

What's more, the Huns invaded aggressively, and there was no need to plant any ambushes.

Like Xubu Guduhou, Zhang Yi also fell into confusion.

The Han army is now surrounded by groups, and the Huns' cavalry are staring at the wilderness around the camp, and there are constantly Hun tribes who want to rush into the Han army's camp.

Any Han army who wanted to escape from the camp could not escape the hands of the Huns.

At least on this vast plain, it is difficult to surpass the Xiongnu in terms of riding skills, let alone so many Huns, how could they allow the scouts of the Han army to go out to investigate.

Now the Han army is surrounded by the camp, and it is already a blind existence, and everything from the outside world is cut off by the Huns' cavalry.

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It is indeed difficult to fight infantry against cavalry.

Only a tight military formation, such as locust arrow rain, can resist the impact of cavalry, or the threat of cavalry and shooting.

What is even more difficult is that when ten thousand horses are galloping together, under the sound of thunderous hooves, as well as the threat of weapons and death.

Facing the roaring iron cavalry, the infantry can still ensure that the army formation is strict, as immovable as a mountain, and persists in not retreating.

Only in this way can we resist the impact of cavalry, and in this way we can withstand the harassment of Hu cavalry.

This is the toughest test of an army's discipline and courage.

Fortunately, these soldiers under Xu An's command, these sharp fighters, they do not lack courage.

Whether it's Julu, Guangzong, Xiaquyang, or the Yellow Turban Army under Xu An's command.

They never lack courage.

Facing the Han army in sharp clothes, facing the famous generals in the world, even if the weapon in their hands is just a bamboo spear, a pair of farm tools, and they are only wearing a single piece of clothing, or they are naked from the upper body.

They still dare to rise up, and they still dare to fight in formation.

Part of it is for the belief in my heart, and more of it is to fight for a way to survive in this doggy world.

Now the Yellow Turban Army brought out by Xu An from Yong'an City is the elite of the three armies.

The soldiers battalion and sharp warrior battalion are well-trained and well-clothed, and the selected candidates are basically veterans who have experienced the invasion of Kuicheng and Shangdang.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army under Xu An's command today are very different from the Yellow Turban Army soldiers in the seventh year of Guanghe.

Basically, except for the Baibo Army, all the trilogy under Xu An's direct control have been trained by him.

And these training methods are Xu An's brainstorming, racking his brains, recalling the training methods of modern infantry that he has seen.

Combined with a part of the military training method found in the Taiping Jing, the training method is concentrated and organized.

Coupled with the stricter military discipline, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army under Xu An's command were more like professional troops than farmers who had just laid down their weapons.

When an infantry unit has discipline and the courage to persevere in the face of cavalry roaring, then it has the strength to deal with cavalry units.

The continuous sound of horns, the sound of wooden whistles one after another, and the deafening sound of war drums echoed in the formation of the Yellow Turban Army.

When the Hu cavalry of the Southern Huns were within three miles of the Yellow Turban Army's formation, the Yellow Turban Army had already completed its formation.

The pawns and warriors holding tower shields stood in the front row and built a shield wall with tall tower shields.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army behind the shield stick out their halberds from the gap between the shields. At a glance, the entire formation of the Yellow Turban Army looks like a hedgehog, with sharp spikes to protect itself. .

Horses are animals, they also feel fear, they also feel pain, no matter how well-trained war horses are, they are also afraid of sharp objects and flames, unless they are blindfolded, they will never dare to charge like this.

Even if the horses are forced to rush forward, the cavalry will lose the greatest advantage in impact.

In the face of cavalry and archery, infantry formations still have ways to counterattack. The range of infantry bows is far better than that of cavalry bows. What's more, although the Huns are good at archery, they don't have many strong bows.

On the contrary, the Han people with higher craftsman skills have more powerful bows and crossbows.

In addition to bringing the cavalry, military pawn battalion, and sharp warrior battalion, Xu An also brought [-] archers. These archers can launch counterattacks when the Huns are cavalry and shooting, and they will not be completely passive.

And now Xu An's military pawn battalion began to move closer to the requirements of Wei Guo's military pawns during the Warring States Period.

Xu An also consciously trained soldiers in the military camp to use bows and crossbows.

In fact, the territory Yixuan currently controls cannot maintain so many troops, so the policy of elite soldiers must be implemented.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan, successively occupied Jizhou, Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou, unified Hebei, and made friends with the northern minorities, reaching the peak of his power.

But when he fought Cao Cao at Guandu, the number of troops he dispatched was only more than a hundred thousand.

In the records, although Cao Cao also occupied a lot of areas, the troops he invested in Guandu were only 3 to [-].

There are so many soldiers under Xu An's command. On the one hand, they are gathering bandits from all over the country, and on the other hand, the Yellow Turban Army did not subdivide the auxiliary soldiers too much.

Moreover, with the help of the income from the robbery of the bandits in the mountains, and the accumulation of the powerful family in Shangdang County for many years, they barely maintained so many soldiers under their command.

Another reason why Xu An chose to go out of the city to meet the enemy was that although he had never fought the Huns, he had a plan to attack Bingzhou, so he naturally knew something about the Southern Huns stationed in Bingzhou.

These Huns lacked solid armor, sharp weapons, and strong bows and crossbows.

Relying on the number of people, only the bravery honed in the harsh living environment, the riding skills honed from nomadic all year round, and the skillful shooting skills.

But these advantages of the Huns are almost better than nothing in front of Xu An's Yellow Turban soldiers.

With the cover of the tower shield, the counterattack of the infantry bow, and the cavalry led by Lu Bu and other Xiaoqi cavalry, the Yellow Turban Army, which was persistent and sharp, had more than [-] people, so why not be afraid of only [-] to [-] Hun cavalry.