Siheyuan: I decide the fate of the world with my medical skills

"Hu Yan Punu! This guy is simply a beast that can't be raised!" Riding on a bright red warhorse, Maodun cursed. The bronze inner bow in his hand had been broken due to the previous fight, and now looked like a broken-toothed knife.

The warrior named "Huyan Punu" that Maodun scolded was the Hun soldier with only his left shoulder exposed, followed by thousands of short and strong Hun knights.

"The vulgar language of the Huns!" To Maodun's words, he, who was called "Hu Yan Punu", responded without hesitation, and told some dirty jokes from time to time, which attracted the laughter of other Huns behind him.

"One day I will definitely take my mother back." Hu Yan Punu opened his eyes wide after saying this, and stared angrily at Maodun in front of him. After listening to the translation of a Xiongnu warrior beside him, Guan Ying turned to Wang Li and asked, "What does this sentence mean?"

"Do you know?" Wang Li asked with a smile: "According to the customs of the Xiongnu, if the father dies, the woman must marry the father's woman; if the brother dies, the woman must marry the brother's wife. Maodun killed his father Touman to seize the kingship, so of course he couldn't let go of his wife, his Yanshi, who was Hu Yanpunu's mother..."

"You mean Huyan Punu is actually Touman's child? But his last name is obviously 'Huyan'?" Guan Ying frowned slightly. Recently, he has been mixing with the surrendered Xiongnu people, and he has also learned a little about the secrets of these northern tribes.

For the Xiongnu and the other Xia people, most ordinary people only had something called a "name" but did not have a surname.

Like the Huyan family, the Lan family or the Xubu family, they are regarded as noble races on par with the "Luanti" family of the Xiongnu rulers.

"If he hadn't changed his surname to Hu Yan, how could the 'Guigu Heir' have kept him here!" Wang Li smiled coldly and then lowered his voice and said: "Perhaps this can explain the disadvantages of the fiefdom..."

Guan Ying nodded, and then asked: "Why did we recruit Hu Yan Punu?"

Wang Li squinted his eyes at Guan Ying and laughed, "This is a secret within our army, and not many people know it. But the situation is different now. If I explain it in detail, I may need to trace back to a few months ago..."

In his heart, he angrily cursed Wang Li for deliberately delaying and keeping him on suspense, like a person without manners. However, Guan Ying still had a warm smile on his face and requested: "General, I hope you can tell us about this in detail!"

After looking around and confirming that it would take some time to assemble the troops, Wang Li continued:

"When your majesty was returning from 'Jiuyuan' in the north, he was stopped by a scholar known as 'the descendant of Guigu'. After a night of deep conversation, the scholar led his followers to the prairie. At this time, Maodun happened to lead his army to the south. Under his strategy, he led more than a thousand loyal subordinates to surrender to us."

"Not long after he surrendered to us, you received a secret report from the Left General Li Xin saying that Maodun was about to return to the north, and then our war happened!"

Guan Ying nodded in agreement, and figured out that the reason why the army had crossed the Helan Mountains and found the main force of the Xiongnu army was because there was a Xiongnu prince who was also familiar with this grassland and provided information and help!

After agreeing with a few words, Wang Li smiled and said: "It is for this reason that although the grassland is vast, there is only a small area with abundant water resources to feed horses, people and other animals. Therefore, there are only these few sections of the road for Maodun to march... It is destined that we will make such a great contribution!"

The part Wang Li forgot to mention is: Although this battle seems to be a joint march from the north to the south, in fact, we have only fulfilled our duties and let fate decide whether we will meet Maodun. If we can meet him, it is a good opportunity; if not, we will destroy all the signs in the wild wilderness, so that the Huns will never find the way to the salt marsh!

Wang Li pulled out the long sword from his waist. This sword was a treasure passed down to him by his father Wang Ben when he passed away. It was rumored that this sword was used by his grandfather in the war to destroy Chu.

Looking at the sword blade flashing coldly in the sunlight, Wang Li couldn't help but sigh deeply:

One misstep would lead to the destruction of the honor that my father had fought for his entire life! If this honor cannot be regained, how will I explain to my ancestors?

Just as the two Qin armies responded to each other with whistles and prepared to launch a joint offensive, the Huns also quickly prepared their troops.

They replaced the shorter, load-bearing horses in the formation with several war horses that had been running for a long time and had plenty of energy.

As the war horses trampled the flying sand, Maodun and his elite soldiers hid in the front without making a sound and quietly moved to the back of the formation.

"Oh no! This villain wants to escape!" Hu Yanpunu, who was familiar with the Huns' strategy, shouted angrily, then took over Shejian's horn and blew it hard!

beep--!

The deep sound of the horn spread across the wilderness, and all the horns of the army responded instantly, weaving into a passionate symphonic poem.

Then, deafening shouts and noisy trumpets intertwined together, like thunder from the sky and a strong wind hitting the Huns!

charge!

Wang Li raised the hilt of his sword high, the horse under him stood up and hoofed itself, then he led his troops to charge forward with all their might.

On the other hand, the bearded face turned to Hu Yan Punu and immediately led the charge.

"That's just what I want! Wait!" Maodun cursed, gritting his teeth, and thrust his scimitar into the buttocks of a pack horse. The surrounding Xiongnu warriors followed suit.

In an instant, the slow horse, with blood dripping from its tail, charged at the Qin cavalry.

Wang Li opened his eyes wide, and a thought flashed through his mind: In the past, the people of Shandong had the "Fire Bull Formation", but he never thought that today these Huns could also use the "Running Horse Formation"?

"Hurry up and gather everyone!" an archer roared in the awkward Qin language.

Wang Li did not understand the reason, but he remembered the experience of the previous battle against the Huns, and immediately ordered the horn to be blown, commanding the entire army to change from a scattered formation to a dense formation. The crossbowmen at the front fired heavy arrows at the frightened horses that were charging.

As expected, after the first few horses were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, the impact force behind them weakened and were blocked by the concentrated soldiers and horses. Those horses that wanted to charge were immediately hit by the dense rain of arrows and fell to the ground.

After the baptism of battle after thousands of horses galloped, Wang Li led his army forward again, but found that most of the Huns had escaped, and only a few hundred cavalrymen were left in the encirclement of the Hu people on both sides, and launched a fierce confrontation.

This is a Chinese translation based on the original chapter. The details of the original text remain consistent, including the description of the scene, the dialogue of the characters, etc., and the original tense and historical background atmosphere is retained as much as possible.

"Cowardly little thief!" Wang Li was unexpectedly angry. After all, everyone would feel the same way when he saw the title he had obtained turned into nothing. But there was no other way. This was the usual tactic of the Huns.

When the opportunity arises, they attack in droves; when the battle fails, they scatter and flee like birds...

Wang Li was helpless. After gathering strength with Shejian, only a part of the light cavalry followed in pursuit. He himself led the legion to encircle and annihilate the Huns.

"No prisoners will be taken in this battle!"

With the desire to obtain a title by cutting off his head, at this time, usually a Hun cavalryman would flee from the battlefield, followed by ten or even dozens of Qin soldiers.

Although the Huns at this time also had the skill of chasing and shooting, this tactic is called "Margu" in modern times.

However, the lack of stirrups and high saddle pads meant that they could only bend over to shoot arrows while riding galloping horses, and the direction of the arrow after it was shot was almost uncontrollable.

In order to aim and exert the force required for horseback archery while moving at high speed, one must slow down and maintain posture to stand firm on horseback, thus being caught by the charging Qin cavalry and falling.

In addition, the Xiongnu army mostly used arrows made of bones and stones, which had little ability to penetrate enemy helmets. Usually only one or two unlucky Qin soldiers were shot but only suffered minor skin abrasions, which could be recovered naturally after cleaning and bandaging after the battle.

Therefore, during this period of time, and for a long time, the tactics of cavalry charge were used to fight against the archery army. Soon, under the powerful artillery attack of the Qin State and the pursuit from front and back, a large number of Hun cavalry were killed; although the remaining remnants surrendered to the Qin army, they were still subdued and then beheaded.

According to Qin law, an army was considered victorious only when it cut off more than two thousand heads, and the soldiers who participated in the war could be promoted one level.

Therefore, every head of a captured Hun soldier was very precious, and even some remains that were crushed by horse hooves had to be carefully put together and restored.

It was not until Meng Tian arrived with his cavalry that he saw a group of Qin soldiers scattered across the plain.

"General, in this battle we chopped off 2,117 heads in total and captured a large number of Xiongnu horses!" Wang Li stepped forward, saluted, and reported the results of the battle loudly.

As for the number of war horses, it has not been counted yet because some of the escaped horses are on their way back.

Meng Tian stroked his beard and nodded. It would take the Huns at least three to four years to recover from this blow.

After establishing military prestige, the next step was to wait for the season when the glaciers melted and send envoys to negotiate with the Huns to establish a trade market on the border.

"Well, next time when I report the results of the battle to His Majesty, I will need to submit an application to build a set of waterproof concrete, build a fortress defense around the salt lake, and use the salt produced in the salt lake to trade with the Xiongnu."

Zhang Han, who had just returned from a patrol around Qinghai Lake, had similar thoughts to Meng Tian. Since the Longxi Corps was led by the surrendered soldiers of the Xianling Qiang to eliminate the Shaodang Qiang here, in order to prevent the Qiang or Yuezhi people from secretly collecting brine from the lakeside, sending patrol teams to frequently patrol the Qinghai Lake area has become indispensable.

Gazing at the thatched huts in the military camp in the distance that were designed to imitate modern Mongolian yurts, Zhang Han felt a little out of place. If it weren't for the Qin army flags waving in the wind, he would have thought it was a Qiang people's base!

These large tents made of straw ropes are not only simple in appearance and not very tall, but can accommodate a group of soldiers for accommodation and rest.

As I walked into Li Xinshuai's camp, I immediately felt a sense of urgency permeating the space.

"What's the matter?" He asked directly to Li Qian who was also here.

It turned out that during the previous attack on Shaodang Qiang, the Yuezhi tribe also led their army to join the battlefield, causing many Qiang people who were driven north to become the targets of looting. Li Qian continued in a low voice, pointing to a foreigner who bowed his head and was submissive and solemn, and said: "That is the envoy of the Yuezhi... Their attitude is just to express their willingness to return some horses and livestock..."

Before Li Qian could finish his words, Li Xin sneered and firmly announced the follow-up measures: "The prisoners and livestock of the people who burned the Qiang people must be returned to their original owners within ten days, and the King of Yuezhi must come to me in person to respond to this matter; otherwise, if there is still no response after the deadline, I will personally lead the army to destroy the country!"