The Han army in the western direction has been transferred, and the reinforcements of the Han and Qin coalition forces will arrive on the battlefield at any time, and Mao Dun has completed his goal, so it is naturally time to break through.

Mao Dun had his own reasons for fighting the Han and Qin coalition forces here. One is that at the beginning of the Han army in the west to intercept, if they directly choose to break through, even if there is a West Pole horse as a mount, it will inevitably be entangled by the Han army, once the Han army is slightly entangled by the Qin army on the other side will be impacted, at that time Maotun's side will be in an obvious disadvantageous position, of course, the Han and Qin coalition forces must be mobilized first; The second is that Mao Dun brought representatives of various ethnic groups not only to make them realize the strength of the Han and Qin coalition forces, but also to let both sides fight and see blood, it is best to have mutual casualties, and it is better for the representatives of various ethnic groups to die more.

Since ancient times, the contact between ethnic groups has started with violence, the savages of primitive societies are like this, and it is also the same after the spark of civilization, only when both sides find that they cannot be eliminated or annexed, there will be the possibility of peace, and the basis of this peace is based on the fact that both sides become stronger together, if either side becomes weak, it is the beginning of a war.

For Mao Dun, whether the Han army was killed and wounded by a large number of eastward migration ethnic groups and had hatred, or the military force of various ethnic groups was despised by the Han army, as long as the contact between the two sides brought blood to the spill, the Xiongnu would be on the advantageous side.

After the Han army rangers led by Zhang Cang were chiseled through for the first time, there were still about 700 left, but the original 1,500 people of the various ethnic groups were completely less than half, and the result was that the Han army rangers chiseled through and galloped straight towards another Han army, behind them were cavalry of various ethnic groups with frightened expressions and did not dare to chase.

"Terrible ......" A Humi cavalryman lost his left arm, he discarded his weapon early and covered the broken arm with his right hand, his pale face trembled his lips: "At that speed, our weapons can't split their armor!" ”

The faster the speed, the greater the inertia, as if the two ends of a steel wire are firmly tied, and a person running over at a very fast speed will inevitably be cut by the wire. Many times there will be such a scene. When fighting on horseback, there is no need for a knight on horseback to slash hard, and the knight only needs to use the inertia brought by speed to kill.

Hu Mi is a tribal name under the Wan tribe alliance, and the tribal leader of Hu Mi has been killed on the spot in the confrontation just now, counting the representative who fell to his death after the horse stumbled, and the two high-status representatives of the Wan tribe have been finished one after another.

The Wan people are an extremely good horse breeding group, their population of this tribal alliance is about 70,000, but the shepherd of West Pole horses is as many as more than 200,000. Of the 6,000 or so Hu cavalry that came here this time, more than 8,000 West Pole horses were provided by the Wan clan alone, and the other 4,000 or so West Pole horses were provided by other tribes.

Noble people naturally want to ride better horses, such as the representative of the horse who fell to his death on the mountain road, and the Pegasus selected from the West Pole horse. The leader of the Yama tribe, who had just been killed, was also riding a Pegasus. Maybe...... It was the mount of the leader of the Hu Mi tribe that was so good that he was the most advanced in the charge, and the result was that the faster he ran, the faster he died?

It is impossible for Maudun to take all the West Pole horses in one battle, then there will definitely be West Pole horses in the hands of the Han army, but that doesn't matter, the batch of West Pole horses brought are all castrated mounts, the best of the West Pole horses...... That is, the war horse named Tianma is not good, and Tianma is too precious to be castrated, so he kills the injured mount of the Wan representative on the mountain road.

As another of the two Pegasi who came this time. That is, the mount of the leader of the Humi tribe, no one knows whether it is dead or not, and Maudun, who is busy arranging a breakthrough, will not have the leisure to pay attention to it.

By the way, it must be stated. Now the castration culture of war horses is not so popular, for example, in the ancient pre-Qin era of the land of China, the castration of war horses was not prevalent, so there have been many stories of a general using a mare to seduce enemy stallions during the estrus season.

The castration of war horses in large quantities began in the Western Han Dynasty, and the background of that era was because the Han army was sending troops to the grassland. At the beginning, the troops will be deployed according to the season, and the later battles will become more and more intense, not so according to the season, and the horses in estrus cannot be ridden at all. That can only be castration.

The castration culture of war horses directly leads to the fact that excellent horses are selected as war horses, because the riding needs to be castrated, so it will evolve into the more excellent war horses will become extinct soon, only those inferior horses can escape the catastrophe, and the result of evolution is naturally that excellent war horses have disappeared, and only short and abandoned horse breeds can still have reproductive organs for reproduction, and this is not over, the disappearance of excellent war horses can only be castrated after selecting the second-level horses again, As a result, of course, the generation of horse breeds in China is even worse than the generation.

The castration culture of war horses will not affect the nomads, for the nomads, the livestock is their property, the horse is far more than a tool used to ride and fight, or their second life, if there is no absolute necessity, no one will harm their second life, let alone "cut off the roots" or something. Mao Dun castrated this batch of West Pole horses this time because he didn't want the Han army to obtain excellent horse breeds, but also because those West Pole horses did not belong to his property, and it didn't matter to him whether they were lost or not, anyway, they had to be returned after he went back.

Similarly, in some regions such as Central Asia, West Asia, Europa, etc., the castration of war horses is not popular. Therefore, the horses in these regions were still majestic and excellent until modern times, but the best horses in the Huaxia region were pulled to participate in the Olympic Games and stood together with other horses, and the horses on this side of China became mules compared to those horses.

It must be said that the current castration of war horses is not popular in the land of China, so there is a reason why the Han army did not launch a large-scale military confrontation, after all, it was the spring when animals were in heat. The accumulation of materials is not in place, and it doesn't matter if the animals embark on a journey during the mating season, but most of the war horses cannot be used for riding battles, and only some mares can be selected as riding horses, so how can a large-scale battle be launched?

The simple thing is that both the Han army and the Qin army have a large base of war horses to choose from, and it is impossible to send large-scale cavalry to fight, but it is still possible to gather so many or thirty thousand.

Correspondingly, the Hu people who have more horse bases can pick out more war horses to ride, it is with this in mind that Lu Zhe will go with the infantry army and the cavalry army, and the support in the direction of Woye is mainly based on the infantry army, and if you can't ride a battle, at least you have to increase the infantry combat force.

Infantry troops are stored as defensive forces in non-special circumstances. The Hansai Outer Front, which gradually took a defensive position, did not fail to have the situation of the Hu people going to knock the camp after they reduced their military operations, but the Hu cavalry who went to attack was basically killed and wounded by the Han infantry army relying on the fortifications in an arrow array.

The Hu people were very powerless in the face of fortifications and a large number of crossbowmen to lay down arrow arrays, and they could not take out too many troops to launch a large-scale attack.

According to the intentions of both sides, there would be no capital to launch a large-scale military operation until after the animal mating season had passed, and Mao Dun led the army to come without Touman's consent, and the Han and Qin coalition forces did not expect this to happen at all. For the supreme commanders of the two field groups, it is an unexpected situation, and there is no such thing as the scale of the war snowballing...... At least Maudun didn't want to get reinforcements from Touman.

Because of his location, Mao Dun knew very well that he would not have any reinforcements, but this was relatively close to the camp of the Han and Qin coalition forces, and he knew very well that there would definitely be reinforcements from the Han and Qin sides. So after he achieved the desired goal, he didn't drag the mud and water at all, and just patted his ass and left.

The exhausted Han and Qin cavalry originally wanted to try to intercept it, but the Hu cavalry, which had changed their horses again, did not give a chance at all, and waited for several Han and Qin troops to complete the rendezvous, and Mao Dun had already taken the Hu cavalry to break away for at least two miles. According to the current situation of the Han and Qin cavalry, it is basically impossible to chase.

Most of the Han and Qin cavalry who completed the rendezvous had a tired expression on their faces, this time the battle was different from what they had encountered before, and they were basically smooth sailing when facing the enemy army of the same Chinese system before, even if there was a duel between the cavalry, the Han army could gain an absolute advantage. It is only relatively troublesome when dealing with charioteers.

This group of Han troops encountered the nomadic cavalry for the first time, and the first time they fought with the nomadic cavalry was from the command of Mao Dun, which can be said to be unfortunate or lucky. Unfortunately, the losses of these Han rangers were slightly larger, but fortunately their original pride was curtailed after they were beaten to the head.

Because it was Maudun who led the army to break away. The battlefield was naturally cleaned by the Han and Qin sides, the cavalry cleaned the battlefield, and the officers gathered in piles for the next step of discussion and battle damage calculation.

When Zhang Cang saw Yu Yan. Yu Ya's face was as white as paper due to excessive blood loss, and the two didn't say much before Yu Ya fell to the ground and fell into a coma.

In a battle, only 1,003 of the Han army rangers who participated in the battle were 2,800, and the captain Zhang Lian was killed, the military marquis Shi Gong was killed, Sima Qinshuang and Han Zhong of other departments were killed, three were also killed at the rank of commander of the tun, and seven officers at the level of team leader were killed......

"The Huns are especially targeting our officers," Zhang Cang asked Zhang Han, "I wonder if this is the case on your side?" ”

Zhang Han nodded with an ugly face: "Indeed, the loss of the officer is very large. ”

The Qin army was originally 5,000 full, and after a battle, there were more than 2,400 left, which was equivalent to a loss of more than half. How many cavalry are there in the Qin State? After this battle, Zhang Han's school is considered to be semi-crippled, and even if it is replenished afterwards, it will not be able to recover its best condition in a short time, not to mention that many officers who have been trained in this battle have been killed on the spot.

The cavalry of the two schools that went out to fight was half-crippled before the real outbreak of the war, which was simply bad news for the Qin army, and it was a heavy blow to Zhang Han, the commander of this school. He originally wanted to show his skills, otherwise he would not have worked hard to train the troops at a time and place that was not so suitable, and this time the cavalry under his command was half disabled, and it seemed that the originally bright future had become not so bright.

The Hu cavalry that appeared here was definitely elite, there was no doubt about it, what Zhang Han wanted to know more was the Huns...... Or how many cavalry are there on the Hu people's side that are similar to this kind of suzhì.

Zhang Cang was also thinking about what Zhang Han was curious about, and the information sent back by the Han Sai Outer Front in the fertile field showed that although the Hu people encountered by the Han army in the Heshuo area were highly mobile, it was not difficult to solve the Hu cavalry encountered by the Han army over there.

In some ways...... It is equivalent to that the opponents encountered outside the Seychelles seem to be some rabble on the steppe? It's like when the Hu people went south to buckle the border, the regular army of the Hu people encountered the head of the Chinese land?

"The combat power of the Hu people must be reassessed?" Zhang Cang thought that there seemed to be something wrong, he beckoned Pao Ze to bring some corpses of Hu people on the battlefield, and pointed to the corpses with different costumes and even obvious skin colors and facial features: "These people wearing linen clothes and leather armor or sheepskin jackets and cowhide jackets are Huns, and these people wearing animal skins and costumes with Central Asian characteristics are alien ...... who have migrated eastward."

Zhang Cang recounted the process of the battle after he led his subordinates to launch a charge, and combined with the battle situation encountered by the ranger robes of other brigades and the cavalry of the Qin army, he came to a conclusion in the shortest time and language, that is, the level of the enemy troops they encountered was very different.

Zhang Han kept nodding his head, but his expression and gaze seemed a little absent-minded, and the direction of his eyes constantly scanning was the horses that were gathered when cleaning the battlefield, among those war horses were the mounts of Han Qin's side, and of course there were also the West Pole horses left behind after the Hu cavalry such as Mao Dun broke through.

Zhang Cang was not surprised to see Zhang Han's gaze, as long as he participated in this battle, who wouldn't salivate over those explosive West Pole horses? Just when Zhang Cang thought that Zhang Han was going to open his mouth to distribute the spoils, Zhang Han did not talk about that topic, but asked if there were any follow-up reinforcements.

"Reinforcements?"

To be honest, Zhang Cang can be sure that there will be reinforcements, but he doesn't know how many reinforcements will come, and what kind of troops the reinforcements will belong to.

"Your army's follow-up troops haven't appeared here for so long, should they take a detour to intercept them in other directions?" Zhang Han's eyes finally moved away from those West Pole horses, and his eyes looked at Zhang Cang: "I hope they are intercepting in a roundabout way, so that they may be able to intercept successfully, if it is ......"

Zhang Cang fully understood what Zhang Han meant, those damn Hu people didn't know where to get the new horse breeds, and the wrong direction of the Han army intercepting the galloping came meant that it would not be of much use, he could only hope that the commander who led the team to help could make a correct judgment. (To be continued......)