Zhang Han led the army to appear here purely out of chance and coincidence, they were originally in training, was on the way back, when approaching this area, the expatriate scouts found out the whereabouts of five or six thousand Hu people, Zhang Han considered that the Qin army under his command had carried out a long training is not the best combat state and did not want to engage in battle, and sent people to contact the friendly troops on patrol as fast as possible, and then wanted to bypass and return to the camp, but did not expect to have a detour and finally ran into it.

Is it shameful to find that the enemy does not engage in combat? It would be a mistake to understand it this way. Zhang Han is training the army, not taking the army to patrol or do defense tasks. What the army is talking about doing its own job well, completing whatever task it gets, and trying to avoid unnecessary behavior if it is not its own task, Zhang Han's choice does not carry any mistakes, and besides, they have been training in the field for three or four days, and the soldiers are in a state of exhaustion and unsuitable for fighting.

The terrain of this area is not very complicated, at least it is not an environment such as a long mountain road, but the grass is very dense and there are many woods, although both sides have sent scouts as eyes to try to avoid accidents, but God seems to be playing with pure intentions, a Qin army that is not suitable for fighting because of the fatigue of the soldiers, and a Hu army that wants to maintain secrecy to pick up people, the two troops just ran into each other, and they found each other in a grass not dense area far away from the woods, At that moment, the two groups of people who saw each other were probably a little stunned?

What kind of environment did the two sides meet? It was a flat land about ten miles in radius, with a large range of forests on the west, streams and mountains with complex topography on the north, a basin on the south, and a flat plain on the east.

The Hu army had just come out of the woods about two or three miles, and the Qin army had just come out of the mountains before crossing a small stream. The Hu people in the two groups were facing east from the west, and the Qin army led by Zhang Han was facing southeast from the north, and even two friendly teams would inevitably intertwine halfway. Not to mention that it was two teams that were already hostile, it was obviously impossible to turn around, the Hu troops were going to pick up Mao Dun and the others, and the Qin army turned around to form a kind of danger of half-crossing and attacking, and no one would choose to stay where they were, and there was only one choice left, that is, confrontation.

The Qin army was the first to recover from their astonishment, and they sounded the horn of the whole group, and the cavalry soon formed a column of fifty men, and immediately entered the forward posture.

Waiting for Qin Jun to blow the horn before Hu reacted from his stunned? The Hu people must have thought that the enemy forces that appeared here were trying to intercept them. Preventing them from coming to meet Maudun and the representatives of the various ethnic groups was also a clarion call to advance.

The sound of the horn "woo" was frequently blown in this land, and the ground also played a "boom" sound in the running of the horses' hooves, and the Qin army shouted in unison "Hey!" before the charge. Then there was silence without saying a word, and the Hu people kept shouting "Yo-he-yo-" on their side.

The number of people is almost equal, and Zhang Han doesn't know what the situation is on Hu Ren's side, but he knows that his side is not suitable for hand-to-hand combat, so he gave the order to use long-range attacks and not do hand-to-hand combat from the beginning.

What happened next was simple, the Qin army used the advantage of the ordnance to carry out a swimming band burst. At a distance of 300 meters from the Hu troops, they pulled the trigger and fired crossbow arrows, each time it was three rows of a total of 50 Qin cavalry in the same band, and the batch that was launched moved to the northeast in the forward direction, followed by the robe Ze who entered the state of waiting for the shot to repeat the band shooting. This was followed by an offset maneuver, and slowly the cavalry brigade of the Qin army showed a semi-whirling posture, relying on this maneuver to keep a distance and shoot arrows continuously.

The Hu people were also thinking about swimming and riding at first, but they never thought that the range of the Qin army's crossbow arrows would be so far. The Hu cavalry who ran in front of the team couldn't prevent it and wanted to laugh when they saw the first wave of crossbow arrows fired by the Qin army, laughing at the enemy army on the opposite side for not having the courage to panic before they would shoot arrows in a panic when the distance between the two sides was so far, but the crossbow arrows with a sharp sound of breaking the air made the mockery on Hu Ren's face turn into fear.

The arrows of the crossbow that fell with a screeching sound broke through the leather armor, propped open the clothes, and burrowed into the flesh. The screams and muffled snorts turned into mocking the ignorance of the Hu people, and they were told with the actual qiē...... The archery from 300 meters away was not due to the panic of the Qin army, but the ordnance made with advanced technology was teaching them what long-distance killing was.

What did the Han scouts who were hiding in the shadows see from afar? It was the continuous wave shooting of the Qin army's gyration, and it was the Hu people's forward who rushed up and was cut off by the crossbow arrows layer by layer like peeling the skin of a fruit, and the result was that the Qin army kept firing crossbow arrows at a distance in the roundabout, and the Hu people kept being hit by arrows and falling off their horses, even if the Hu people were not shot, they would hesitate to reduce the speed of the horse, or they would run into chaos when they collided with an unmanned war horse that lost its control because of the arrow, and the chase became more difficult.

"Qin Jun seems to have discovered a tactic that is beneficial to him according to his current situation?"

"I was still wondering why the cavalry was carrying a crossbow, after all, the recoil of that thing was not ordinary. I didn't expect Qin Jun to really overcome the recoil brought by the launch on horseback......"

It was not completely overcome, and the direction and angle of many cavalry firing from the Qin army were not ideal when shooting in a roundabout, and there were even accidents that fell off horseback.

You must know that it is the state of a large number of war horses galloping, no matter what the reason is to fall off the horse, the galloping war horse has no way to brake urgently because it will hit someone, so if anyone falls off the horse in the riding battle, it will basically be knocked over, and then trampled into meat by the hooves of the galloping horse.

It didn't take too long for the Qin army to shoot the crossbow arrows from the beginning to the 3,000 cavalry, and the result they achieved was to kill and wound about 200 Hu people, and their own losses due to carelessness were 13 people. And the thirteen people lost by the Qin army were still because of the wrong knotted rope that tied themselves to the horse's back, and if the Qin cavalry did not bind them, the losses were estimated to be more than that.

The hit rate of the stationary arrow array of the elite infantry army is about ten to one, and the killing ratio of the arrows fired by the cavalry is usually the probability of one hit in fifty rounds, so the Qin army fired three thousand crossbow arrows to cause about two hundred kills is already a high proportion, almost one of the thirteen crossbow arrows hit, although it is because of the relationship between the wind and the field, but judging from the results, it has to be said that Zhang Han trained an elite cavalry team.

The Qin army made a detour with just one echelon of arrows, and not only the people watching from the periphery discovered it, but the Hu people who fought with it soon discovered that the Qin army could only shoot once per person. This discovery made many people breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Not really! If the Qin army could inflict damage on the combatants from a distance of three hundred meters in an infinite loop, it would be simply terrifying. Anyone who encounters such a force will be frightened, and can only bear incalculable losses in the pursuit, hoping to return fire or hand-to-hand combat after approaching.

The commander of the Hu army's army found that the enemy army deliberately detoured, and the direction of the detour was interspersed with the southeast direction, and he quickly knew the enemy's intentions, and the enemy army had obviously lost the ** of the confrontation and wanted to leave? He didn't know if the enemy was adjusting their posture for the next round of confrontation, or if they were really leaving.

The Hu people's troops appeared here to meet Mao Dun and others, and their primary goal was to ensure that they met Mao Dun and others first, so they did not chase the Qin army. When the Hu Commander is about to issue a new directive. The scouts from the southeast brought news, one was that Mao Dun and the others had been found, and the other was that a large group of Han troops was approaching here.

What about Maudun? They stopped and watched for a moment, and Zhang Cang's department, which had chased after their butts earlier, had regained access to less than four miles. Mao Dun obviously did not choose to stay where he was, let the people around him blow the horn of contact, and his own side also changed into a well-bodied war horse, and then galloped straight towards the army that met him.

Zhang Han was already going to lead the army to break away, and they did widen the distance from the Hu people's troops, and they could leave safely as long as they took a slight detour. However, the news brought by the scouts on the periphery gave Zhang Han a new choice, they could leave as originally planned, and they could also keep the existing distance and wait and see.

"Some of the soldiers untied the rope nooses and loaded the crossbows, while the rest of the soldiers remained vigilant."

Zhang Han had long wanted to see the Han army's way of cavalry. Is this an opportunity? He was also prepared for another thing, and although he did not receive orders to help in battle, he did not intend to stand idly by when necessary.

The number of Han troops who were rushing was not large, and the costumes should have been improvised by the rangers who were responsible for patrolling the periphery. The number will definitely not exceed two thousand.

"There is a Hu cavalry of about 500 people on the edge of that mountain, and this Hu cavalry of about 5,000 people is here to meet them?" Zhang Han found Mao Dun and the others without surprise, and after a little thought, he guessed some rough ideas.

"Before the Han army arrives, the two groups of Hu people will meet. We can't stop it if we catch up now. Qin Jun, dressed as a school captain, said.

Indeed, they appeared here by coincidence, and they didn't find out in advance that there would be a Hu people on the other side of the mountain, and they fell behind the intelligence, and they didn't have time to make any interception measures before the two Hu people turned when they were discovered.

Almost when Maudun joined the troops who came to meet him, the Han army, which was about 2,000, also arrived on this plain, and at the same time, Zhang Cang and about 700 other rangers also went out of the mountain road.

The Han army that came was indeed a temporary composition of several rangers of different sequences, and the highest rank on the scene was only a captain, and they did not rush directly to the Hu troops when they came to the scene, but occupied a position in the northwest direction and sent people to contact the Qin army that appeared here.

"That Qin army is Zhang Han's department, they left the camp four days ago for training, and they appeared here by chance. They had already fought against those Hu people before, reminding us that those Hu people had a strong sense of discipline. ”

Zhang Han said that the discipline of the Hu army is not nonsense, very few grassland cavalry can brave the constantly falling arrows and still be able to do not mess up the formation, and the Hu people can adjust the formation in a very short time to show an offensive posture, obviously it will not be an unbearable rabble.

"Nothing but those?"

"Qin Jun didn't say anything else."

The captain of the Han army was Zhang Lian, who had been trained at the Nanling Military Academy and knew very well what a highly disciplined army represented.

"We have some information that the Huns had a force that had been active in the direction of the Western Regions earlier, and had only recently moved eastward. That Hu cavalry is under the command of the Xiongnu prince Mao Dun, could the Hu cavalry that appeared here be them? ”

Mao Dun's troops should be one of the more elite among the Huns, but the Han army heard that Mao Dun's troops will carry a kind of banner painted with the appearance of a wolf's head, no matter what the occasion will be played out of the blue wolf flag, the Hu cavalry who appeared here did not see any banner, Zhang Lian did not have the superpower of an unpredictable prophet, saying those words was just guessing, it is estimated that even he himself felt unlikely.

To tell the truth, the Han army did not pay much attention to this interception operation in the early stage, after all, intelligence spying before the war between the two armies was a very common behavior, and it was a normal small-scale military operation to find that someone came to spy on the military situation to intercept it.

Can people arrange troops to respond, it must be some important person to personally come to spy on the military situation, after the rangers on the periphery of the Han army temporarily assembled to chase after them, the battalion also dispatched 10,000 cavalry on the way to come, but because of the distance and the terrain, it will not come so quickly.

When the Han cavalry arrived, it had actually been arranged to intercept the column, the so-called column is a kind of straggler form of squads connected to each other, each squad is 51 cavalry including the team rate, and locally by five squadrons to form a squadron of 250 people, and then by the squadron to form a brigade of 1,000 people, the current Han cavalry of about 2,000 is to present a goose-shaped array posture.

The goose-shaped formation is actually a formation that is conducive to long-range killing, after all, its overall appearance is two inverted "V" wings formed by many soldiers, and the coverage of the arrows is relatively large.

Zhang Lian saw that the Hu troops not far away were adjusting their formation, and they seemed to be preparing for a charge? He glanced at the more than 700 people in Zhang Cang's department, and then ordered the trumpeter next to him: "Send a signal to prepare for battle!" ”

The sound of the horn was blown, and the roaring hooves of horses trampled on the ground to accompaniment, but the next scene was somewhat unexpected...... (To be continued......)