"Behead the captives and give them a piece of wine, and give them all the clothes and weapons they have captured!"

The scout reported that when the Qin army's grain team was just ten miles away, the Xiongnu's right bone Duhou Huyanlan issued an order to fight.

In the Xiongnu, wine was also a rarity, often as a reward for the Huns for killing the enemy, and the equipment on the Qin people made them salivate. But the greedy Hun cavalry still thought that the reward was not rich enough, and someone shouted:

"Gudu Hou, if you capture the population this time, can you bring it back as a slave?"

"Yes, I heard that the Qin people's grain team has a thousand cows, pulling a full load of grain, can you let us divide it equally?"

Hu Yanlan shouted undoubtedly: "This battle will leave no people and animals alive, and after the Qin people are scattered, they will all be burned!" ”

It was very difficult for the Huns, who fought only to plunder, to get them to give up the spoils of war, but there was no other way for Huyanlan. According to the agreement with the right big danghu, they waited for the time for the horses to pull the dung twice in a hilly area, but they still didn't see the shadow of the Qin cavalry or the Huns, so they knew that something was wrong, and the big danghu might be entangled by the Qin army.

Hu Yanlan did not go back to help, but immediately took his subordinates to continue south, and the big danghu instructed that if things changed, he would attack the Qin people's grain team instead, and strive for a quick victory!

According to the scouts, there were about two or three thousand Qin people who escorted the grain, but among them were a thousand people who drove the car, and most of the rest were not wearing armor, and only a few heavily armed armor soldiers accompanied them.

Although in the face of the thick-armored and sharp-edged Qin army, the Hun cavalry did not dare to confront it, but when they were replaced by unarmed people's soldiers, the bows and arrows in their hands would not hesitate to shoot out!

However, when Huyanlan passed through this hill and saw the Qin army's grain team, they were immediately dumbfounded!

Because what he was in front of him was not the panicked grain team after being attacked by the Huns, this long snake composed of oxen, horses, and grain carts was coiling in an orderly manner outside a small forest with a radius of one mile. Then the car was unloaded by the Qin people, close to each other, layer upon layer, circled several times, and remained in place like a wall battlement. The cattle were herded into the forest by the coachmen's guards and tied up under bare trees, so as not to panic and flee in the event of a battle and disturb their positions.

The remaining more than 1,000 "people" who were not wearing armor, under the protection of the sword-wielding armorers, stood in this city composed of chariots, vigilantly watching the invading Huns......

The Huns looked at each other, they had ravaged outside the country for many years, and even hit the edge of the Western Regions, but they had never seen this kind of formation, several horses wanted to come forward to test, but only within a hundred steps, in the wall of the car, they shot out a crossbow arrow, the crossbow arrow was deeply nailed into the chest of his mount, the horse fell to the ground with a scream, the Huns were lucky not to die, but they were also frightened to the pale, and the companions behind them immediately turned back!

The Qin army's hand crossbow can shoot dozens of steps, and then it will be weak, similar to the range of the Huns' bows and arrows, but the arrows shot from the wall of the car at the moment go straight through a distance of more than 100 steps without flawlessness!

The sharp-eyed Hu Yanlan saw that this arrow was shot by those Qin people who were not wearing armor, and what surprised him even more was the way they wound it.

The first time I saw the crossbow of the bones, I was stunned and left a sentence.

"I've only seen people who control the strings with their hands, and the Qin people actually have people who control the strings with their feet, who can match the condor shooters and shoot more than 100 steps!"

It is said that this is the origin of this type of army, which has long been called "foot man" by the grassland people......

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The Hun cavalry was frightened by the crossbow, and when they hesitated and did not dare to advance, the grandson Bailu in the car wall was also praising Gan Chong, the son of a good family who had just hit the Hun war horse with a crossbow.

"Good marksmanship!"

The heel army and the Chinese army needed to advance quickly, so they only brought a relatively light arm crossbow, and the crossbow was carried on the rear army's baggage, which came in handy at the moment.

In addition to a large number of weapons and equipment, when the rear army left Xiaoguan, it also temporarily joined a thousand crossbowmen who came from Shangjun to reinforce from Shangjun on the order of the emperor.

This is also the reason why the Heifu rest assured that the grain team chose to pursue the main force of the Huns first, there are a hundred good families who are good at bows and crossbows, plus 1,000 Shangjun material officials, and the grain team can be reported without worry.

Gan Chong was praised by Gongsun Bailu, just smiled, and arched his hand: "If it weren't for the county lieutenant's caution and the order to ride as far as thirty miles, we wouldn't have been able to find the Huns half an hour in advance......

Gongsun Bailu said with a smile: "The art of war is cloudy, the enemy has no danger to prevent the defense, go deep into the long drive, cut off its food route, the enemy will be hungry." In the Central Plains, the cavalry was most often used to cut off the enemy's grain routes, attack and harass the baggage, and the Huns had been riding and shooting since childhood, so how could they not even understand this truth? ”

There is another sentence he didn't say, and the lieutenant of Heifu probably also knew this, so he let the grain team use it as bait to lure the Huns to attack first.

In the long-term confrontation with the Zhao State, which took the lead in using cavalry, the Qin army's baggage troops also had a set of formations to deal with cavalry, that is, the "Four Martial Forces"!

The key to this set of formations lies in the chariot base, first unload the cattle and horses, connect the vehicles into a circular or square barracks, as a temporary camp, and then make the material strong crossbows, ready on all sides, so that you can resist the assault of the chariots and horses.

Originally, the strict "Four Martial Forces" had to dig three circles of trenches five feet deep outside the base, but today the Huns were menacing, and there was really no time for the incident to happen in a hurry, so there was no ravine, but Gongsun Bailu still let Gan Chong and others sprinkle some small things in the dry grass outside the base......

Although they were taken aback by the range and strength of the crossbow, the Huns still did not give up, Guduhou gritted his teeth, ordered two thousand horsemen to move, ran around the Qin army's chariot array twice, and then ordered hundreds of them to rush towards the seemingly weakest position! Tried to get them close to the archery and kill the officers who had no armor to protect them!

The Huns rode roaring, when a hundred steps away, more than ten crossbows immediately sounded, like a thunderbolt-like sound, several horses fell down in response to the strings, to seventy or eighty steps, behind this car base, more than 100 ordinary arms crossbows also shot arrows, and more than 10 Huns were hit by arrows......

But the crossbow machine also had a disadvantage, that is, the winding was too slow, taking advantage of this gap, the Hun cavalry accelerated forward, but just as they entered the distance of fifty paces, and were about to draw their bows and shoot arrows at the base, the horses under them suddenly let out a neigh, and then suddenly stopped and jumped up.

Nearly a hundred horsemen rushed in, all of them, losing control of their mounts, and even more unlucky people were thrown off their horses, and immediately screamed as if they had been stabbed by something.

At this time, the material officer who came to support in the barrier had already shot at these live targets with crossbows, leaving dozens of lives behind......

The Huns didn't dare to move forward, and after shooting a few arrows casually, they retreated, all looking frightened, and felt that there seemed to be something strange in the dry grass in front of the Qin army's fortress.

Hu Yanlan walked up to a limping horse with a grim face, and asked the Huns, who were trying to pacify the horse, to lift the soles of their feet, and couldn't help but gasp.

But I saw that the softest part of the center of the horse's palm was pierced with a small thing with spikes on all sides, and the blood was not stopping.

"It's ...... Tribulus terrestris? ”

Tribulus terrestris is a common plant of the Xiongnu and even the Central Plains, the fruit shell has triangular spikes, falls to the ground after maturity, there is always a thorn facing upwards to pierce and stab passers-by, often stabbing the children and livestock of the Huns, and is deeply hated by them.

But now it's winter, and the tribulus terrestris has long since died, so it shouldn't appear here, and if you look closely, it's bigger than the average tribulus terrestris, and the material seems to be wooden, cut out by hand......

Looking at the seriously injured who were rescued by their companions after falling off the horse, there were also several such thorns pierced on their bodies, and some of them were iron, which pierced deeper and more painfully.

This thing is called Tribulus terrestris (jili), it is also a sharp weapon used in the Central Plains to deal with the chariot rider, it has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is said that it is invented by the people of Qi in order to deal with the Jin chariot soldiers, often spread in the narrow road, the enemy chariot rides through, often seven or eight out of ten. When the Mo family defended the city, they also used this thing to arrange the entrance and exit of the underground tunnel to prevent the enemy from attacking from underground.

After the addition of iron officials in Beidi County, Heifu asked craftsmen to cast a lot of iron thistles with templates, so that the rear army carried a full fifty carts! I don't want to get to Huamachi yet, so I will come in handy here.

"Terrible!"

The Huns suddenly felt that the Qin people were really very cunning, and in their eyes, the Qin army's chariot base was like a porcupine full of spikes. If you want to eat the soft meat inside, you must be pierced and your hands are covered with blood, and the Huns are all frightened, and they are no longer willing to take the initiative to attack, regardless of how the Gudu Marquis reprimands.

The temperament of the Huns, when they see the enemy, they seek profit, like a collection of birds; After several attempts to hit a wall, Hu Yanlan also knew that the Qin army was well prepared, just waiting for him to come and rob the grain, if he was stubborn and didn't leave, I am afraid he would really not be able to leave.

So after sighing hatefully, Huyanlan could only announce a retreat, and with a few whistlings, the Huns retreated to the west......

Two moments later, reinforcements from Huamachi City also arrived here, and Qiang Hua and Fu Zhi, who were worried about the safety of Gan Chong and the grain team, galloped closer, but only saw that they were safe and sound, and they were re-arming the cattle and horses, and recovering arrows and thistles everywhere. There are also hundreds of human and horse corpses abandoned by the Huns in the dry grass wilderness......

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In the early morning of the next day, when thousands of Qin soldiers and horses returned to Huamachi City, Yan Jun hurriedly led his troops out of the city to greet them.

Groups of soldiers were in high spirits, because they had just won two battles, the elaborately decorated battle flags were hunting and flying in the winter wind, and what was even more terrifying was that the sons of the good family were all riding horses, holding spears, showing off their might, and the tips of the spears were pierced with hundreds of Hun heads, which were shot by the rear army's baggage troops yesterday.

Yan Jun and his party worshiped on both sides of the road, not daring to raise their heads for a long time, but they were shocked in their hearts.

Yesterday, the Qin army and the Huns fought on the salt flats, he stood on the city wall to see the whole process, but saw those who looted and stormed the Huns, but when facing the Qin army's foot cavalry, they could only flee in embarrassment, many people were also killed and captured, and the Huns' big pawns did not even dare to return to the camp, and fled westward to a hundred miles away.

Later, the Yiqu White Wolf returned with a large number of Yan people, cattle and sheep captured from the Xiongnu camp, although most of them had been sent back to Helan Mountain by the Huns, but it was also something that Yan Rong never dared to think of to be able to snatch food from the tiger's mouth.

The Qin army's grain team, with its own strength, fought against 2,000 Hun cavalry, repelled its attack, and beheaded more than 100, so that relying on these heavy grains, the Qin people were able to gain a firm foothold in Huamachi.

"It seems that I have done the right thing by raising my clan to take refuge in Daqin."

Thinking of this, Yan Jun and his people walked to the black horse, bowed down to him, and said words of thanks......

Heifu was not interested in these Rong people's gratitude and loyalty, and waited for Yanjun to finish speaking before he said: "Yanjun don't just thank me." ”

He arched his hand to the southeast: "The most thankful person is my Emperor Majesty of Great Qin!" After a while, after the Huns are completely expelled from Huamachi, they will go to Xianyang with me to knock on the que! ”

Wu Shiyan was on the side to help translate, and when Yan Jun heard it, isn't this the same as the Huns Shan Yu asking him to go to Manchester City? Suddenly, my heart tightened.

But look left and right, his city is planted with the banner of the Qin army, Heifu's generals have taken control of his city and taken over the arms in his hands, Yan Jun can only smile his head: "This is natural, barbarian villain, to be able to witness the majesty of the emperor and the Son of Heaven, it is really a blessing accumulated by several generations!" ”

But Heifu's next sentence made him dizzy again.

But I saw Heifu gesture to the soldiers with high morale behind him: "You also want to thank these soldiers who went to foreign lands to help Yan people drive out wolves!" Yanjun, the soldiers fought hard for a day, tired and hungry, and you let the people slaughter a thousand heads...... No, kill 2,000 sheep, and I will feast on soldiers! “u