Six hundred and fifty-three Li Si is not stupid
For the Hun cavalry that dominated the alliance, the Xianbei knights were never convinced.
Isn't it just that there are many Huns and a longer history, and what else is great? Why do they Huns often claim to be the suzerains of the upper states and dictate to the Xianbei warriors?
As a nomadic people, the Xiongnu did not have accurate and authoritative population data in any period, so historians of the past dynasties could only speculate and estimate. In the most powerful and heyday period in the history of the Xiongnu, Mao Dunshan Yu once sent 400,000 troops to besiege Liu Bang in Baishan Mountain in the siege of Baideng, and according to the ratio of one out of five, the population of the Xiongnu in this period was at least about 2 million.
Not long ago, Temujin ascended the throne in Shengjing and became emperor, calling himself the Great Yuan Taizu, claiming that the combat strength of the Huns had exceeded that of the Maodun period, and for the first time published official population data, there were 3.5 million Xiongnu, Qiang, Qiang and other ethnic groups within the territory of the Great Yuan Kingdom.
Of course, everyone knows that this is the Huns bragging, but even if you fold the Huns in half, there are 17.8 million, and then there are about 8.9 million, it can be said that the ten years after the Yellow Turban Rebellion lost the advantages established by the Huns during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Huns were indeed much stronger than before under the leadership of Temujin.
Compared with the Xiongnu, the Xianbei tribe is much smaller, the whole clan of men, women and children add up to more than 300,000 people, and the maximum number of strong people that can be drawn out is 50,000 or 60,000 people, if they do not ally with the Xiongnu, they have no ability to be independent in this world. Not to mention the powerful Eastern and Western Han Dynasty, or the rising Li Tang, even Gongsun Zhan, a small prince who guards the border fortress, can beat Xianbei.
Therefore. Although the Xianbei warriors were not convinced by the Huns, they could only make promises on the surface. Accept the instructions sent by the Huns, but in the hearts of the Xianbei people, they have never given up the determination to find an opportunity to prove their combat effectiveness to the Huns.
I heard that one of the members, Don, killed Jebe with a single horse. Hammered and killed more than a thousand Hun cavalry, which made the Xianbei knights have a feeling of schadenfreude, "Haha...... This Huns are really a wretch, and they were beaten like this by a member of the Tang General, could it be that they are immortals? ”
When Tuo Lei heard that Jebe had died in battle, he was shocked, and hurriedly sent a messenger to see Murong Ke, asking Xianbei to send a chain of horses forward to block the Tang army that came to stir up the situation, so as not to be taken advantage of by Gongsun Zhan's army to break through.
It's too far away from Jebe's location. Murong Ke and Murong Trai didn't see what Li Yuanba looked like, but to say that they killed Jebe single-handedly and killed more than a thousand Hun cavalry, Murong Ke and Murong Trai absolutely didn't believe it.
"With infantry against cavalry, even if this Tang general leads 10,000 people to defeat Jebe, it is enough, how can he be alone?" Murong Ke's head shook like a rattle.
Murong Chui bowed his hand to Murong Ke and said, "Brother, since the Yuan army has been frustrated, let's take the opportunity to show the strength of our army's chain horses." Let Tuo Lei and Timur see the combat effectiveness of our Xianbei warriors, if it weren't for the small number of people, how could our great Xianbei listen to the command of the Huns? ”
"Third brother be careful!" Murong Ke stroked his beard with his hand and agreed.
At the moment, the Xianbei cavalry was divided into two roads. Murong Ke continued to lead 20,000 cavalry to cooperate with Tuo Lei and Wang Baobao to attack Ran Min and Luo Cheng, while Murong Chui led 3,000 heavily armored chain horses in front, and 7,000 light cavalry in the rear to attack the direction where the Tang army was located.
Although Li Guangbi wants to watch from the wall. Sitting on the benefits of the fisherman, but Li Yuanba has already entered the encirclement. In case of a mistake, it is not something that Li Guangbi can afford. I could only shake my head and sigh. Waved his gun and ordered the charge: "The whole army marches forward in formation to support King Zhao!" ”
However, in an hour's effort, the rise of Li Yuanba's killing, including Jebe, killed more than 1,300 Hun cavalry, and killed more than 500 war horses, which was just a warm-up.
This made Li Yuanba a little bored, and he walked leisurely among the Hun cavalry with a pair of sledgehammers: "Alas...... Damn, there's not a single one to see, who can take me a hammer? Speaking of which, this king still misses Jinling, and that fight was very happy! And that Mu Guiying, I don't know if I have a baby, do you still remember this king? ”
The Hun cavalry, which had lost its main general, began to collapse in their hearts, and many began to turn their horses and retreat in the direction where Tuo Lei was, and even fled aimlessly.
"A bunch of guts, get out!"
Li Yuanba's horse flew like a fly, driving behind the Hun cavalry, like a cat playing with a mouse, and when he saw that it was not pleasing to the eye, he hammered it down, and even smashed it into a meatloaf with men and horses. looked pleasing to the eye, and took a sledgehammer to the top of his head a few times, which scared the Hun cavalry into urine, but Li Yuanba looked up to the sky with a playful face and laughed, letting the other party survive.
During the gallop, Li Yuanba saw a Han general from a distance, nearly nine feet tall, with a hook halberd in his left hand and a double-edged spear in his right hand.
"Tsk...... This guy is a bit interesting, and it looks like he has a fight with the few Han generals under Jinling City. Sure enough, the Han people are still powerful, what bears, embarrassments, badgers, these strange races are not vulnerable at all! ”
Li Yuanba carried a double hammer to shatter his thoughts, and suddenly his legs slammed on the horse's belly, and he rushed towards Ran Min and killed, "Huh...... That man will have a fight with this king in the future, and he can pick me up three times, and I will call you grandpa! ”
But it was too far away, and the battlefield was dusty, and the sound of killing was shocking, and Ran Min, who was fighting hard, didn't hear Li Yuanba's call at all.
The sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and Li Yuanba was suddenly blocked by a cavalry in the middle of galloping, which was the Xianbei chain of horses led by Murong Chui.
"Get out of here, this king doesn't want to kill you bastards, get out of the way for me!" was blocked in the way, which made Li Yuanba angry, and roared loudly, sonic shock.
The two sides didn't understand the language at all, and Murong Chui didn't know what Li Yuanba was shouting, so he made a move with the horse lance in his hand, "Charge me and trap this stupid big man with a horse formation!" ”
"Boom ......"
The sound of horses' hooves was deafening, and the three hundred heavily armored chain horses that rushed to the front stepped in unison, and the knights on the horses held shields in one hand and spears in the other, shouting loudly and pounced on Li Yuanba.
"Look for death!"
Li Yuanba was furious, and the double hammers in his hands flew out of his hands, like two flames, volleying into the air.
With one loud bang after another, the shield hit by Li Yuanba's sledgehammer flew into the sky, the bones of the knight on the horse were broken, and the war horse was also severely damaged by the huge impact force. But compared with the Hun light cavalry, the defensive power of the chain horse wrapped in armor outside was several times higher, and it was not like the Hun cavalry who were killed to chop melons and vegetables.
Li Yuanba charged down and killed more than 200 Xianbei knights, but did not cause fatal damage to the chain of horses led by Murong Chui, but was tired and sweated profusely, and the remaining Xianbei cavalry still swarmed in.
At this moment, Li Guangbi led the elite of the Tang army to kill, and in the face of Xianbei's heavy armored chain horses, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and hurriedly ordered the light cavalry to carry it in front, and ordered the pikemen to erect a horse rejection gun to block the charge of the chain horse.
Li Yuanba was not afraid of Xianbei heavy armor, but the Tang army suffered a big loss.
Li Tang's war horses were originally short, and there was a serious shortage of horses on the Korean Peninsula, and there were only 40,000 cavalry in the 350,000 Li Tang army, a ratio of nearly ten to one, compared with Liu Wei's nearly one million men and horses and 150,000 cavalry, the number of cavalry in the Tang army was seriously insufficient. Therefore, Li Jicai decided to take advantage of Xianbei's troops to attack Yuyang, connect Lingzhi, Wuzhong, and Yuyang together, encircle a fertile grassland, feed war horses, and expand the number of Tang cavalry.
At this moment, the most elite chain horse of Xianbei collided head-on, the Tang cavalry suffered a big loss, the casualty ratio was three to one, a bloody battle, five thousand Tang cavalry killed more than a thousand people, and the Xianbei cavalry lost more than 300 horses, which was about the same as the number solved by Li Yuanba alone.
"Oops...... can be killed by King Zhao! ”
It was difficult to ride a tiger, and Li Guangbi could only grit his teeth and urge the pikemen to move forward and fight with the Xianbei cavalry. Continue to engage in hand-to-hand combat, if it weren't for Li Yuanba's Hu Lai, he would have been able to watch from the wall at all, and wait for work.
Seeing that Tang Jun had suffered a loss, Li Yuanba stopped doing it when he boarded, and roared angrily: "Hey...... You bastards, dare to be more powerful than our Datang warriors? I see that you are impatient, this king has a different way of playing! ”
Li Yuanba swept out with a hammer, and after a few turns on the chain of the chain of the chain of the chain in the front, he was firmly locked together. Li Yuanba urged the horse to leave, and with his own strength, he forcibly pulled a column of three hundred horses and followed him.
The Xianbei war horses were tied together, and they couldn't keep up with the speed of a thousand miles of lights under Li Yuanba's crotch, and they were dragged by Li Yuanba's huge strength and lost their center of gravity. Under the trampling of each other, at least 100 people died, many war horses staggered and messed up, and the remaining other Xianbei cavalry could not advance or retreat, so they could only sit and wait to be killed.
Li Yuanba took the opportunity to lead Li Tang's pikemen to cover up, smashed in a while, Li Tang's pikemen stabbed in a mess, and it didn't take a moment to solve a team of 300 horses.
After Li Yuanba found the trick, he concocted the same method, and once again aimed at a team of Xianbei chain horses, first locked them with a sledgehammer, and then relied on the super sprinting power of the war horse under his crotch, and then with his own divine power to pull out the mountain and lift the mountain, dragging the chain horses around. When the opponent's war horse stumbles and falls, tramples on each other, and messes up, he will lead his troops to rush up to encircle and suppress.
However, after half an hour's effort, Li Yuanba used this tactic to solve the four teams of serial horses, plus the previous hand-to-hand combat killed, and the Tang cavalry fought hard, so that this Xianbei ace army only had three teams of more than 1,000 horsemen left.
Li Guangbi shook his head and sighed while fighting hard: "Although King Zhao is not very clever on weekdays, he is clever on the battlefield!" Today, he almost single-handedly broke the chain of horses of the Xianbei people, this is definitely not done by man, it seems that King Zhao is not a pure fool! (To be continued......)