Chapter Seventy-Three: A Pyrrhic Victory
Amu felt that his body was unusually tired, and his body leaned against the arrow battlements of the city wall. He closed his eyes tiredly, but the terrible howl continued to penetrate his ears. After so many years of military career, he has a very light view of killing and being killed. But today it seems that the scream is particularly terrible, and every time someone screams, he will feel his heart tremble.
This is an old man, this is a man, this is a woman, this is ...... Child! Child...... Amu opened his eyes and saw a Hun soldier at the foot of the city not far away, holding a knife to cut open a child's belly. Rummaging through his colorful intestines, the little boy looked like he was about seven or eight years old. With his mouth open and closed, he really didn't understand how his small body could make such a loud roar.
That's the case with the Han people, who sometimes swallow money. The guy who really wants money and doesn't want to die, Amu thought and closed his eyes again.
Suddenly, Amu's eyes suddenly opened. No, why are there so few people? Fewer kill, less killed. Standing up suddenly, the black cloud-like cavalry under the city walls was pulling north. What's going on? There is a big war?
When Yun Xiao saw the overwhelming cavalry, his eyes shrunk to the size of a pin's nose. I thought that the Huns would be desperate, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly and so fiercely. It seems that this is not 80,000 if not 100,000.
He guessed wrong, there were 120,000 Hun cavalry rushing over on the opposite side.
The trench was dug less than a metre deep, and not a single iron spear was inserted in the trench. The mound next to the trench was also low, and it could be easily jumped over with a slight leap according to the Huns' riding skills.
Yun Xiao began to break out in a cold sweat behind him, and there were more than 50,000 people under his command. Most of them were newcomers who had never seen blood, although they had all undergone the Yun family's arduous training. But a well-trained army is very different from a hundred battles.
"Master Hou! How are there so many Huns. Qi Tie and Dai Yu gasped almost at the same time.
"Scared?" Yun Xiao said coldly. He knew that as a commander at this time, his composure directly determined the strange and unpredictable morale.
"Life and death are common, follow Hou Ye to fight in the south and in the north. In this life. It's long enough! Dai Yu's eyes shone eagerly. He hadn't fought in more than ten years, and the first swordsman of Jingchu had already waited impatiently.
"Good! It's still a bit of the arrogance of the year, Dai Yu, you are the left-wing, and Qi Tie is the right-wing. Ben Hou is the Chinese army, come here! Move the chair to the front. In today's battle, those who bravely kill the enemy will be rewarded. Those who have withdrawn from this chair. Kill! ”
The mustard made was placed in front of the battle, and the trebuchet was busy spreading piles of thistles. The gunpowder crossbow was wound up, and the Yun family's war machine was arranging the defense at the fastest speed.
The thistle terrestris was sprinkled with a layer of Khenpo, and the Hun cavalry had already killed it with a bang. Seeing their horses not slowing down in the slightest, you knew that these guys were here to fight hard.
Yi Zhixian really came to fight hard, in the first impact. He dispatched 60,000 cavalry, but his most elite 20,000 troops remained in Taiyuan. There's a lot of food there, and if the shock fails. He also had to retreat to Taiyuan in order to fight again.
"Boom! Boom! "The gunpowder crossbow exploded incessantly among the Hun cavalry. The tumbling wave of air lifted the charging knight high into the air, and then slammed it to the ground.
The Huns learned wisely, and their skirmishers were stretched wide. The three-bow bed crossbow has a slow reload time, and these daredevils are here to die. Use their lives to buy time for the follow-up troops.
The Huns abandoned their usual way of fighting, and the cavalry rushed directly to Yunxiao's army formation as if they had gone crazy. After shooting two arrows, many Hun cavalrymen simply abandoned their bows. The Huns have always regarded bows and arrows as life, but now they have thrown away their bows and arrows. Prove. These Huns no longer had any hope of survival.
"Send someone to tell Wei Qing if no reinforcements arrive after two hours. Collect my body. Yun Xiao whispered to Yun Cong.
Yun Xiao touched Yun Cong's head. At this time he was a father. He can die, but the child can't. Fathers all over the world do this.
"Father!" Yun Cong was shocked, although the Huns were very imposing. But the young man's enthusiasm also made him boil, and he left the battlefield at this time, how could the excited little guy accept it?
"Hurry up, can the reinforcements come. It is related to the life and death of the father. Hurry up! Yun Xiao urged dissatisfiedly.
The Yun family's baggage has not yet come up, and there is very little gunpowder to accompany them. There were a lot of bows and arrows, but there were also a lot of Huns. Yun Xiao is very remorseful now, in his estimation, the Huns should send troops to the north to test it. The attack will be launched the next day, and I will have a night to prepare. Until then. The baggage battalion will also be in place.
Unexpectedly, he had just occupied the wolf bowl for less than half a day. The Huns rushed over as if they were crazy. The trenches were not dug well, and the baggage was not in place. Even Canghu took 10,000 cavalry to the north to expel the Hun rangers.
In front of the battle, a dense group of Hun cavalry had fallen, and the corpses of men and horses were full of arrows. Some of them unfortunately fell into the tribulus formation, and their bodies were covered with quenched and poisoned thistles, and they still rushed forward with their swords to kill. Until they are mercilessly shot by a bow and arrow.
The iron-tired crossbow didn't have time to be wound, and all the Yun family guards were shooting with bows and arrows. The dense rain of arrows was like a wall, and countless Hun knights crashed into this wall, and then their souls flew away.
The battle was extremely bloody from the beginning, and the strong smell of blood seemed to explode on the battlefield at once. The Huns, with countless corpses of men and horses, proved that their previous victories were not without cause.
In just two rounds of assault, the Huns actually destroyed most of the obstacles outside the military formation. Many triangular nail thistles are even rolled out of a living person.
The roar on the battlefield was loud, but the terrible howls of the Huns covered with thistles were still heard vividly.
The expression on Yun Xiao's face was like copper pouring iron, killing the enemy in the way of the charge. This is the Yun family's usual style, but this time it doesn't seem to work. The Huns seem to know the importance of the way back, if they let the wolf bowl be occupied by Yunxiao. They can only pray to the god of Kunlun to give them a pair of wings, otherwise they can only become fish struggling for no reason in the big net.
"Boom!" Countless Huns were killed by arrows and blown up by gunpowder crossbows. got closer, and was killed by a grenade. The corpses of men and horses paved the road of the attack, and the subsequent Hun cavalry finally rushed into the military formation with the corpses of their predecessors.
But what was waiting for them was a four-wheeled carriage that came sideways. In the long carriage, countless spears stretched out. The screams were repeated again. Scarlet blood fluttered in the spring breeze. One by one, the Hun cavalry was pierced by spears, and the Hyogo warriors faced the Huns for the first time without a trace of fear.
The ancestors of the Three Qin Dynasty defeated their ancestors under the leadership of Meng Tian, and the descendants of the Three Qin Dynasty can still do it a hundred years later.
Countless flying claws landed on the four-wheeled carriage, before the Hyogo warriors could react. Hundreds of Hun soldiers beat their horses and pulled back, and the four-wheeled carriages overturned. The soldiers of the Hyogo inside fell to pieces. A lot of people didn't wait to get up. The blades of the Huns had already been beckoned.
"Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains! The blood does not dry up, and the fight to the death continues! Yun Xiao's mouth chanted softly!
"Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains! The blood does not dry up, and the fight to the death continues! "First the guards chanted, and then tens of thousands of soldiers of the Hyogo chanted. For a time, the battlefield was full of mighty energy.
Dayuanjun stared at his blood-red eyes and roared. led his own guards to go up, and Fusang took the lead and threw a spear fiercely, piercing a Hun general in pair.
"Master Hou. Qi Tie sent people to ask for reinforcements. The Iron Guard ran up to Yun Xiao and fell to one knee.
Yun Xiao was shocked, it had only been more than an hour, and Qi Tie couldn't hold on? Hurriedly stood up and took the binoculars to Qi Tie to take a look. But seeing that the Hun army had already started hand-to-hand combat with the Yun family guards, the soldiers on both sides screamed and fell from time to time in the noisy dust.
This kind of hard fight has no technical content at all, and whoever is more powerful and ruthless will win. The Yun family guards, who were less numerous than the Huns, were obviously at a disadvantage. If it weren't for the tough Yun family armor and sharp saber, I am afraid that I would not be able to hold on at this time.
"Tell Qi Tie. There are no reinforcements. Let him fill it in with the guards, and wait for him to fill it in. Lao Tzu continued to fill in. ”
The cold command suffocated the guard. glanced up at Yun Xiao and saw that his Hou Ye's face was sinking like water. Then he called him to retreat and give the order.
It's not that Yun Xiao doesn't want to reinforce Qi Tie, but he only has a guard of two thousand people in his hands. This was the last power in his hands, and he didn't dare to throw it out at will.
Qi Tie was more unlucky, perhaps because Yi Zhixian thought he was easier to bully. After suffering heavy casualties, Yi Zhixian threw 30,000 of the remaining 60,000 cavalry into the right flank, as long as the right flank was crushed. Convenient. He could cut sideways into Yunxiao's military formation, he could see it. Although the Yun family's military formation was strong, its fatal flaw was that it was far fewer than its own. Today, even if all the family is thrown here, they will rush out. Otherwise, it's all about playing, and besides, all the troops thrown here are the princes. His headquarters remained in Taiyuan.
"Big Order. Their right wing could not stand it. If your subordinates work harder, they can take it in one fell swoop. Zhao Xin looked at the crumbling right wing, and Pegasus ran in front of Yi Zhixian. This guy doesn't miss any opportunity to grab Yi Zhixi's attention, and as a general, Yi Zhixie's appreciation and trust are the capital of his survival.
"Go ahead!" At this time, Yi Zhixian had no interest in talking much, and the entire battlefield was already full of murderous sounds. Whether it can stand out or not, it's a matter of doing so.
"Master Hou, you see General Li Guang has arrived." Tie Wei suddenly pointed to the distance excitedly, and Yun Xiao raised the telescope to see that it was Li Guang's banner.
When Wei Qing received Yun Cong's request for help, he knew that something was wrong. Let Yun Xiao call for help, proving how dangerous the situation is.
Li Guang was the first to arrive, and there were not many of his men. There were only five thousand people, but all cavalry.
"General Li Guang is ordered not to come to me to receive the task. Go directly to the right wing, Qi Tie really can't stand it. "Just now the iron guard returned, and the three arrows in Qi Tie's body were still fighting endlessly.
When Li Guang saw the noisy battlefield, he immediately became excited. The task of luring the enemy was too much, and he lost one city after another in his own hands. 15,000 people, stunned to fight only more than 5,000. And the right flank, which he was about to reach, was even more fierce.
"The people of the world, fight here! The Emperor of Heaven and the Queen of Earth, forever bless Shenzhou! If you are not afraid of death, rush with Lao Tzu. Li Guang drew his sword and slashed at the right wing of the smoke.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and Amu stroked the head of Taiyuan City. The northern sky is noisy, like a sandstorm that often blows in the desert in spring. He knew that it was a thrilling decisive battle between two armies. He didn't receive an order, and he understood Da Shan Yu's intentions. The cavalry of the headquarters is not to be moved, because this is the capital of his rule over the steppe.
A few small black dots ran back from afar, and Amu's eyes widened. It's getting dark, and the result should be determined soon.
"Amu Wan rides, Da Dan Yu has an order to immediately rectify the city defense of Taiyuan. Collect the city's grain and grass! Amu's head buzzed, it's over! Defeated!
The medical hall pinched the shaft of the arrow with pliers, pulled it out hard, and Yun Xiao snorted, and his face turned pale. Beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down his head.
The arrow was thrown into the copper basin, and the generals all surrounded the hospital and asked questions.
"Everyone, everyone! Hou Ye needs to recuperate, but fortunately, the arrow entered the flesh only an inch and did not hurt the viscera. There shouldn't be much of a deal. ”
The generals let out a sigh of relief, and the Canghu who hurried back sat on the ground with his butt. When he heard that Hou Ye was hit by an arrow, he was scared to death. I hurriedly rushed back with my subordinates to find out what kind of big battle I had missed.
More than half of the Yun family's 50,000 horses were lost, and the courtyard monarch suffered nine wounds, and his life and death are still unknown. Fusang was shot through the arm by an arrow, and now whether the arm can be saved is still two words. Less than 30% of the Hyogo soldiers were able to stand up on their own after the war. Qi Tie was tied like a zongzi, and his big black head was wrapped in gauze so that only two eyes were exposed, and Canghu didn't recognize it for a while.
"Master Hu, Master Hou ordered you and Master Dai to go in." The Iron Guard walked up to the tiger and gave a report.
Dai Yu and Canghu walked into Yun Xiao's back account, and Yun Xiao's face was like gold paper. Lying on the bed dying, Yun Cong next to him looked helpless.
"It's coming! Yun Cong, you go out and do two things. The first was to find the corpse of General Li Guang, and the second was to urge those people to dig trenches and arrange fortifications overnight. If you don't understand anything, just ask Qi Tie. Yun Xiao's voice was very weak, as if he was about to die at any moment. Seeing Canghu and Dai Yu's hearts fluttering.
"Father......!" When Yun Cong saw Yun Xiao's appearance, he immediately began to choke.
"Don't cry, hurry up and run errands. Maybe the Huns will attack tomorrow, if they don't build the fortifications quickly. How to defend against the cavalry of the Huns tomorrow. ”
"No!" Being scolded by Yun Xiao, Yun Cong hesitated and turned to leave. (To be continued......)