Chapter 15: Let's Go
Before the charge began, Oda reined in his crotch. Many of the Huns were illiterate, and they had no idea what the scouts were talking about. But when he really saw the Han army's military formation, he completely lost his intention to rush out.
With an army formation of 20,000 people, Li Xi has enough troops to make this army array have enough width and breadth. Gounod and Oda attacked the county for two days, losing no less than 300 men. Now, with more than 1,700 people, it is basically impossible to break through the army formation of 20,000 people.
"Kunlun God! Why did these Han people come here so much? Gounod was dumbfounded as he looked at the dense military array in front of him. Such a military formation made them lose the courage to continue the charge.
"What to do Guno, think of a way. The Han Chinese came over, and their crossbow arrows were shot farther than us. "Oda has fought with the Han army many times, so he is naturally familiar with the equipment of the Han army.
"I know, let's go back and maybe the west side can be for us to protrude." Gounod also retreated at this time, perhaps the Han people concentrated their main forces in the east. There shouldn't be so many people in the west.
"Steady forward, don't pursue. Steady! Li Xi loudly informed the heralds that the most important thing at this time was to stabilize the position and not let the chaos of the military formation give the Huns a chance to escape.
Nearly 2,000 Hun cavalry turned around and rushed towards the hilly west. But what they saw on the west side was still a dense array of troops, which seemed to be less numerous than on the east. But due to the terrain, it was still difficult for the Huns to break through.
"Look at the south is also pressing, how can there be so many Han troops." Oda was so shocked that he was almost speechless when he saw Gongsun He leading the Han army to press up from the front.
"Oda . We're done. Now there is only one road ahead of us, and many brothers may die. Would you like to rush with me? ”
"When have you been saying such things again, if you have any ideas, you can say them quickly."
"Now the Han army is surrounded from three sides, these Han troops are very elite, there is no flaw in their joint, if we rashly attack their joint, then the result is likely to be surrounded by two Han armies. When the time comes, we won't be able to fly even if we put on our wings.
Now we can only rush out from the junction of the county seat of Qixian and the Han army, although then we will be shot with crossbows. But there will always be some people who escape, and it is better than all of them dying here. ”
"Then what are you still doing, we will rush towards the county seat. Those damned Han people thought we didn't dare rush to the county seat. This time we rushed under the walls. Let those Han people pounce on the air. Hahaha! ”
Gounod was indeed good at using soldiers, due to the lack of power of the Han army's foot soldiers. There is a big gap between the city wall and Li Xi and Su Jianbu that has not been filled. At the current distance, the Han army could only be blocked with bows and crossbows. However, no matter which side of the impact was hit, they were shot by thousands of bows and crossbows. A lot of people will die. More than 1,700 people. How many people can rush out. It's really an unknown.
Oda took the lead in rushing ahead, and more than 1,700 cavalry followed him like a stream of water to rush to the city wall of Qi County.
They still chose Li Xi's direction, because they just had to slip along the city wall. Ahead is an endless plain. This terrain is suitable for them to run.
"Stop moving forward, crossbowmen shoot." Li Xi was very surprised to see the Huns suddenly rushing towards the gap between him and the city wall, these Huns were really cunning. He only needs to walk another seven or eight hundred steps to seal the gap, and now he can only use his bow and crossbow to block and shoot. It is hoped that as many Huns as possible will be left behind to appease the anger of the general.
When formulating the battle plan, Gongsun He gave the order to die. This time it is necessary to fight a war of annihilation, and it is extremely necessary to leave none of the 2,000 Huns in the city of Qixian County. If one escapes, he will come to him.
"The chariot soldiers detoured back to the front and stopped the Huns and couldn't let them escape." Helpless, Li Xi could only send his fastest moving chariot soldiers, hoping that they could seal the gap before the Huns.
Like a locust's crossbow arrows flew over, Oda felt the sound of "do" and "do" on the small shield of the talisman. I don't know how many crossbow arrows were inserted, and he buried his head under the small shield. Holding the reins in one hand and holding a small shield in the other hand to protect the vital points of the body.
The Hun knights around him fell one after another, and bows and crossbows were shot down from time to time on the city tower. There were even people who threw broken bricks and rubble to attack the Huns.
The team suddenly turned on their backs, and almost all the men and horses close to Li Xi's army were full of arrows, and the corpses of people and horses on the ground were full of arrows like hedgehogs.
Oda suddenly felt a sound of breaking wind hit his head, and his instinct to lick blood from the knife edge for many years made him hurriedly tilt his head. A brick fell from the sky, though it didn't hit him on the head. But it smashed firmly on his shoulder.
The boxy bricks with gravitational acceleration smashed Oda off his collarbone. The shoulder holding the small protective shield suddenly lost its strength, and it was the moment the protective shield squatted down. A crossbow bolt burrowed into Oda like a viper, and the sharp arrow went through the ribs in an instant.
"Ahh Odda screamed, but his legs were still clinging to the horse's belly. But the crossbow arrows of the Han army attacked like flying locusts, and soon the second and third crossbow arrows "poof" and "poof" pierced Oda on his body.
"Oda !" At Gounod's roar, Odah's tall body fell like a rag pocket under the horse. Disappear into a cloud of dust raised by horses' hooves.
The dust raised by the horses' hooves fluttered high, and Gounod led the remnants of the Huns to brave the arrows of the Han army and finally rushed out. The chariot soldiers of the Han army were one step slower than them, but the crossbowmen on the chariot still succeeded in leaving more than 200 Huns.
ran out for dozens of miles, and Gounod reined in his horse. The nose of the war horse under the crotch was quickly retracted, and the whole body seemed to be drenched in water. Gounod, who was on horseback, was also uncomfortable, and a crossbow bolt pierced through the gap in the shield and nailed to him. The bolt lost its strength and was caught in Gounod's ribs, and he couldn't move forward, otherwise he would have to chase after Oda either.
Enduring the sharp pain coming from his ribs, Gounod looked back and counted the number of people. Of more than 1,700 people, only twenty-eight horsemen remained. Half of them also had crossbow arrows stuck in their bodies, and they didn't know if they would be able to return to the grassland alive.
Guno gritted his teeth and pulled out the crossbow bolt stuck in his ribs. Glancing back at the direction of the Han army, he patted his horse and walked in the direction of Captain Zuo.
Gongsun He rode a horse and entered the county seat of Qixian with his head held high, and the county commander opened the city gate and knelt respectfully. An official of his rank had to kneel and bow when he saw a general in the imperial court.
defeated 2,000 Hun cavalry without injuring a single soldier, and this record made Gongsun He still have a lot of face. Although dozens of people ran away, Gongsun He didn't mean to blame Li Xi. After all, the Han army was a foot soldier, and the Huns relied on the mobile advantage of cavalry to rush through the city wall and his junction. This is also something that cannot be helped, and most of them are still stayed. Their heads will become their own military merits and be presented to His Majesty the Emperor.
The Great Han finally produced a general who could defeat the Huns, although fifty thousand against two thousand. This comparison of forces is to bring a pig to fight, and it can annihilate 2,000 Huns at one time without losing a single soldier. This record, except for Yunhou, no one really dares to compare with him.
The county seat of Qi County slaughtered pigs and sheep and welcomed General Gongsun into the city. But there was a haze in the camp of Captain Zuo.
The grief-stricken Captain Zuo had not yet come out of the shadow of being killed by a thousand men last night, and Gounod brought him even worse news. His two thousand-man team was annihilated by the absolute superiority of the Han army. Only these twenty or so people escaped, and a few seriously injured seemed to survive tonight.
Captain Zuo didn't understand that the men of King Huqiang took Shuoxian County without any damage. The robbery was full of money, and the group of waste brought by himself was hit one after another. On this expedition, a total of 6,000 people were brought with them. Half of the men and horses were lost in one day.
I really don't know how to explain to Da Shan Yu when I go back, and what kind of humiliation I will suffer from King Huqiang.
"Withdraw the troops, let's go!" After much thought, Captain Zuo gritted his teeth and made a painful decision. (To be continued......)