"The Han Dynasty has attacked!"

On the hill, a Xiongnu nobleman roared loudly.

In the distance, in the Han army's array, a long line of cavalry, like a rushing tide, poured in, and they opened a diagonal line on the battlefield and swept towards the edge of the left flank of the Xiongnu.

"Wooden shield ready!"

One after another Xiongnu nobles reacted immediately, and hundreds of wooden shields were pushed in front of the Han army's arrows.

The Huns have played cavalry all their lives, and they know the general rules of engagement for cavalry.

They knew very well that the cavalry did not start a battle with each other holding swords, guns, swords, halberds, and hedges.

All cavalry battles began with loofer fire on both flanks.

By constantly using bows and arrows, short spears and various throwing weapons, strike at the enemy's weak points, tear through their defenses, and disrupt their formation.

"Bow and arrow ready!"

Behind the wooden shield, hundreds of Hun archers, armed with bows and arrows, crouched down and began to wind up.

The archers were followed by slave soldiers armed with a variety of short spears and stone tools.

These slave soldiers shifted their body weight downward.

Always ready, use your own body to block the arrows for the master, and be ready at any time, rush into the cavalry formation of the Han army, go to pull the Han people who are riding horses off their horses, and die with him.

However, the next scene was forever engraved in the eyes of these Huns.

I saw that the cavalry of the Han army galloping from afar, when they were about a hundred paces in front of their formation, suddenly seemed to rush to the tide of the beach, and like migratory birds flying south, in a short time. It may not be enough for a moment to breathe, like a fan. Spread out in front of them.

There were even nobles who saw the Han army on the opposite side. A sneer at the corner of his mouth.

"Be careful!" Countless aristocrats and officers shouted.

The wooden shields were raised diagonally backwards, forming a wooden wall large enough to shelter all attacks.

However, in the midst of the surprise and shock of these Huns.

At a distance of about thirty paces, the Han cavalry on the opposite side suddenly let go of their grip on the horse's mane, leaned over, and then they pulled their bows.

"Soso, Suo, Suo!"

The rain of arrows in the sky flew into the air. Then, with great inertia, it sloped down like raindrops.

"Projectile!" Countless Huns shouted.

Unfortunately, it's too late!

The arrows of the Han army, after a moment, pierced into the formation of the Xiongnu.

"Ahh Immediately, someone was struck by an arrow, and they wailed in pain on the ground.

Someone didn't even have a moaning and struggling reaction before an arrow was plunged into the head and the whole person fell to the ground.

But that's just the beginning. At the moment of panic in the front of the Huns.

The follow-up standard-bearers of the Han army completed the second round of shooting.

This time, the powerful bow shot straight at the Xiongnu's military array.

Many wooden shield hands. He was even tied to the ground with a shield and a man.

When the archers of the Huns, raise the bow in their hands. Pull the bowstring and prepare for a counterattack. But I helplessly found that the Han rider on the opposite side. Having completed their turn, they swept quickly over the edge of the flank in front of their own phalanx, as they had come.

Then, in a matter of moments, they escaped from the effective killing range of the bow and arrow.

This was a trick used by the Huns to provoke the Han infantry phalanx in the past.

That's right!

Any cavalry that shoots against an infantry archer is looking for death.

Because the cavalry has a large target, the archers standing on the ground can find the enemy faster and hit more easily.

However, the cavalry cavalry, coming and going like the wind.

Before the horses were not tired, the archers of the infantry could only helplessly watch the enemy wreak havoc in front of them.

They didn't even dare to shoot their bows easily.

Because, there are only three shots in front of the enemy.

Even the well-trained Han archers could only draw their bows at most three times when facing the cavalry charge, and then they would be rammed in by the enemy.

More crucially, people are not machines.

You want to shoot a bow and arrow with a power that can kill and injure enemies from a distance of 50 paces.

Not only does the bowstring need to have strength, but it also needs the arm strength of the person who uses it to keep up.

Generally speaking, an archer has to reach the limit if he opens ten bows in a row.

If you pull the bow again, you may strain your muscles.

The Huns, not the Han army, did not have such high-tech equipment as crossbows.

And the eyes of the nobles in the Xiongnu array were placed in another place.

"These Han riders ...... These Han riders ......"

Several generals around King Zhelan are about to go crazy.

"How could they shoot so easily on their horses?" Someone kept shaking their heads and shouting in horror.

In the Xiongnu, even the most skilled warriors in cavalry and archery could not have achieved the possibility of shooting on the back of a bumpy horse traveling at high speed with such ease as the cavalry of the Han Dynasty.

Not to mention, Fang Cai partially rode and made a more difficult throw.

"It's their equipment!" King Zhelan said in a deep voice, a serious expression on his face.

He looked carefully, and there were many more of the war horses on the Han horse, which he had never heard of and had never seen.

It is those things that allow Han Qi to easily free his hands, and even use his strength on horseback to complete difficult actions such as shooting and even throwing.

Without these things, the impact of Fang Cai, the Han cavalry would certainly be able to achieve some results.

But how could they not leave something before their own formation?

And with these equipment, Han Qi has brought his speed and firepower to the extreme.

As a result, there was a situation where the other side had nothing to lose, while its own side paid at least dozens of casualties.

"Partridge!" King Zhelan looked at a nobleman beside him and said, "Take your headquarters and go play with those Han horses!" ”

"Balle, you follow behind the partridge, cover and protect!"

"Yes!"

Two Xiongnu nobles wearing rugged bronze helmets immediately bent down and saluted.

"Remember, grab a few Han army horses for this king and come back!" King Zhelan said lightly.

"Yes!" The two nobles nodded, then walked to the side of the Great Silk.

See these two. In the Hun army formation under the hill, there were more than 1,000 Zhelan cavalry. Start getting on the horse.

Several shamans, holding a ritual vessel made of a human head. Bless these cavalrymen.

"The gods and ancestors are watching you, valiant knights of Zhelan, go and tear those despicable Han riders apart!" The holy water was sprinkled on the hooves of the Zelan cavalry, indicating that the ancestors and gods had blessed their horses and made them run faster and more steadily.

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"The Huns have moved......" Yi Zong stood under the banner of Shuai, watching the movements in the Hun army from a distance.

He waved his hand and ordered the flag to wave. Two trumpeters of the Han army, riding in chariots, blew their horns.

"Woo......"

The drums of war began to become more intense and eager.

The left flank of the Han army also began to move.

Yi Zongping raised his hands.

The army on the right flank also began to move again.

Yi Zong squinted his eyes and looked at the Xiongnu Daxu opposite him.

"King Zhelan, how should you deal with it?"

Any general who leads his troops knows very well one truth -- offense is always superior to defense.

Especially the duel of the cavalry.

The attacker will always have priority over the defender to take the initiative.

The so-called defensive counterattack wins, in the war of cavalry. It can only happen once in 10 times.

The remaining nine times, those idiots who stupidly waited for the enemy to attack, all died, and even their bones turned to scum.

This is because. Cavalry is an offensive arm by nature.

The fool who stood still and let the enemy attack, no matter how brave his men were. How tightly organized, how high the tacit understanding between each other.

It will also be exhausted by the constant intrusion and attacks of the attacker.

Ultimately. The courage of the soldiers was consumed, and the organization was disrupted. The tacit understanding turned into chaos.

Then, with just one charge, this army will be completely crushed!

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, all cavalry duels began with the mutual pursuit of the two wings and small-scale melee.

The Chinese charge, which is to gain superiority on both flanks, must at least have a force to penetrate the enemy's rear before it begins.

For today's Han army, cavalry fighting and melee are the advantages that the Han army is best at.

The Hun cavalry will be gradually consumed by the Han army's hand crossbows and high-speed cavalry in such battles.

Therefore, Yizong is now forcing the Huns to invest their strength on both flanks.

Of course, the Huns on the opposite side could choose not to instigate on the two flanks, but to press forward with the Chinese army, shifting the battlefield from the flanks to the front, or concentrating their forces to eat the Han army on one side first.

But, the question is......

The forward pressure of the Chinese army is generally a desperate madness.

Once the forward pressure of the Chinese army is thwarted, then, the cavalry that has penetrated into the flanks and even the back will definitely be overjoyed.

There was nothing more comfortable for cavalry than to launch a surprise attack from the fragile back of the enemy.

As for concentrating on eating one side of the Han army?

It's tantamount to dreaming.

Because it's completely unrealistic.

The cavalry fights, and if they can't beat it, can't they still run?

Many times, cavalry warfare often pulls the battlefield into a vast battlefield that stretches for hundreds or even thousands of miles.

Herein lies the reason.

Moreover, Yizong felt that the Huns might not be able to deal with any of the Han cavalry.

He raised his hand and pressed it down.

The flag soldiers behind him immediately understood, making the flag dance and the war drums roaring.

The Han rangers in the distance heard the drums, and the officers turned back, and then they saw the dancing flags.

"The whole army obeys the order!" The helmet-wearing Han general raised his head and shouted at his comrades: "Let's go around behind the butts of the Huns and fuck these bastards fiercely!" ”

"No!" He was greeted with the cheers of the whole army.

The impact of the square, the big guy is so cool!

There is nothing more refreshing than shooting at the Huns like that, and the Huns are powerless to do anything and can only watch their own evacuation!

So, after moving away from the Xiongnu formation, this Han army began to turn along the edge of the flank, and their intentions could not be more obvious - look good! Labor and management are going to the back of your ass, will you come?

At the same time, the central army formation of the Han army, two thousand cuirassiers, was still slowly rubbing forward.

But no one dared to take their attention away from them for even half a second.

Because they are so conspicuous, so high-profile, and so dangerous.

At least the eyes of the king of Zhelan never took their eyes off them.

"If the Han army does not move, it must be dominated by these cavalry!" King Zhelan raised his horsewhip and said to his cronies on the left and right.

"Father!" The eldest son of the King of Zhelan, the next generation heir of the Zhelan tribe, the left general Hu Mei said: "I once heard Lan Tuoxin, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, say that the Han Dynasty has a cavalry that is wrapped in iron armor all over the body, and even the war horse is covered with thick armor...... Probably these cavalrymen! ”

King Zhelan nodded.

He had also heard about it.

However, before today, the whole Huns regarded it as a joke and a myth.

Wearing armor all over your body, even the horses are wearing armor?!

What a loser and how exaggerated this is!

However, today, when a cavalry of the Han army, wearing heavy armor and fresh clothes and angry horses, appeared on the battlefield in an extremely high-profile manner, the Zhelan tribe knew that myths and legends had become a reality.

The Han Dynasty is such an exaggeration, such a loser!

The cavalry in front of him, although not like the legend, even the men and horses were packed into an iron sheet.

However, it is also extremely terrifying.

All the Zhelan nobles had solemn expressions on their faces.

On the contrary, it was the soldiers and slaves of the lower classes, who looked indifferent.

For them, it doesn't matter what the enemy looks like or what weapons he uses.

Just rush over and pull them off their horses.

All of them will be dead!

Some people even quipped: "Are these Han Dynasty crazy?" The cavalry of their army walked slower than a turtle, what kind of combat power did such a cavalry have? ”

King Zhelan and the other nobles also had similar thoughts in their hearts.

In their opinion, the Han cavalry of the Chinese army, although it looks majestic, is unbeatable.

But most likely, speed is their weakness.

Just like the Han heavy infantry they had encountered in the past, they had wrapped themselves in an iron can, and they were just scary to watch.

However, the Han army on the opposite side did not let them think more carefully.

With the sound of dense war drums, the situation on the battlefield has changed again.

The Han cavalry, which had just swept past Zhelan's left flank, regrouped and formed in a safe area about three hundred paces away.

Then, they urged their horses and pulled a diagonal line towards the flank of the left flank of Zhelan's military formation.

"They're going to go around the back?" The Partridge, who had just been ordered to come to intercept and invite the battle, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips: "Where is there such an easy thing?" ”

"Warriors, charge! For the Huns, for the ancestors and gods! The partridge drew the bronze dagger from his waist and shouted, "Let these Han people see the power of the great Zhelan cavalry!" ”

"Wow!" More than 1,000 Zhelan cavalrymen drew their weapons one after another and shouted along.

Then, like a landslide, they sloped down the hill.

The sound of horses' hooves of more than 1,000 horsemen rumbled throughout the earthquake.

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"Huh!" Zuo Sima of the Southern Army, looking back, saw the Hun cavalry leaning out of the Hun army formation on his body, with a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Sima of the Northern Army Right Tun on his side: "Zhang Sima, the game of shooting wild boars has begun, let's try to compete?" ”

The Han army Sima who was riding on a horse showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said fearlessly: "It's better than that, the husband of the Northern Army, don't be afraid of Qiu Ba of the Southern Army!" (To be continued.) )