Seeing the Wu'an army out of the camp to meet the Hun army, Tousu also breathed a sigh of relief, because what he was most worried about was that the Wu'an army was stationed in the camp and used the fence vehicles in the camp as cover to resist the attack of the Hun army. Although the fortifications of the Xiongnu camp were not very good, the Xiongnu army was always not good at fighting fortified positions, so if the Wu'an army was stationed in the camp, the Xiongnu army would attack it rashly, which would cause heavy losses.

Although Tousu didn't know that before this battle started, Shui Xinyue, Cao Wushu and others had already set the tone for this battle, and the Hun army would definitely be defeated. But seeing the Wu'an army lined up to face the battle, Tousu was full of confidence in this battle. Before the war, when the two sides won the victory, Zhao Xin's division had a strong subjective consciousness, in fact, it was influenced by the head beard, because in the eyes of the head beard, he only saw the victory conditions of the Xiongnu side, but could not see the advantages of the Wu'an army.

The array of the Wu'an army is still centered by the infantry, and the cavalry is arranged on two wings, but the horizontal spread of the central array is very wide, reaching more than 400 steps, but the depth is not large, only a dozen rows, so once it is killed by the Hun cavalry, it can rely on the strong impact of the cavalry to break through the array of the Wu'an army and defeat the Wu'an army.

However, Cao Wuxian has specially studied the method of using troops on the plateau, and knows that the plateau has trained a formation, with a dozen people as a group, fighting together, which is very powerful and can withstand the attack of strong forces, so although the depth of the array listed by the Wu'an army is not large, it does not mean that it is vulnerable. However, this time, the array discharged by the Wu'an Army was not distributed in small groups, but a horizontal and vertical, neat rectangular array, so I don't know why.

Of course, Tousu didn't know these things, but although he had not learned the orthodox art of war, he had also fought on the grassland for decades, and although he was full of confidence in this battle, he faintly felt uneasy in his heart. Therefore, although at this time, some Xiongnu generals asked for battle and demanded that a full-scale attack be launched on the Wu'an army immediately.

But Tousu still felt that it was better to be steady, after all, he only had more than 15,000 main troops in his hands, which was not a lot, and he couldn't send the main army out lightly. It's better to send an army to test the strength of the Wu'an army first. So the head of the army ordered to send 10,000 cavalry first, and first launched an attack on the array of the Wu'an army.

Of course, the 10,000 Xiongnu army is composed of old people, women, and teenagers, because the Xiongnu are all soldiers, and the old people naturally don't need to say that they fought when they were young, and women and teenagers have also participated in the battle, and now all the Huns know that if this battle cannot defeat the Wu'an army and recapture the camp in Wuliangsuhai, to be precise, the grain and livestock in the camp, they will not be able to survive today's winter. Then their relatives and daughters may starve to death, and this battle is an out-and-out battle for survival.

Therefore, after the head beard gave the order, the Huns who went out to fight raised their weapons one after another, urged their war horses, and rushed towards the array of the Wu'an army. 10,000 troops is not a small number, since it is 10,000 cavalry, charging at full speed, the momentum is also very amazing, 40,000 horses' hooves trampling the earth, even the earth seems to tremble a little.

And the plateau was in the formation of the Wu'an army, watching the approach of the Hun army, and ordered: "Release the arrows." ”

"Whoosh!"

The sound of dense arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the arrows shot towards the Hun army like raindrops, and immediately shot down a large row of the Hun army, and the people turned on their backs, screaming for a long time. However, at this time, the Hun soldiers were indeed determined to die, so they still rushed forward bravely in the face of the rain of arrows from the Wu'an army. In addition, according to the combat experience of the Huns, the bow and arrow could not block the rapidly charging war horse, as long as it withstood three or four rounds of fire from the opponent, it could rush to the front of the array of the Wu'an army, and then rush into the array of the Wu'an army.

But soon the Hun army found that the arrows shot by the Wu'an army were not airtight, and continuous, wave after wave, dense and urgent, continuously shooting at the Hun army.

Because this Hun army is basically composed of old people, women, and teenagers, no one wears iron armor, even a few people wearing leather armor, the vast majority of people are wearing fur clothes, and there is almost no defense against bows and arrows, as long as they are shot by bows and arrows, they are either dead or injured, even if they are not hit by fatal parts, they are also in pain, and among the arrows in the war horses, no matter whether they are injured or killed, there is almost no case of fast screaming and falling to the ground, throwing the knight on horseback to the ground, and the horse personnel who fall to the ground in front will also trip over their companions behind, Or trampled on the back of a horse that rushed up from behind. Therefore, under the bow and arrow attack of the Wu'an army, the Xiongnu army was shot down almost in rows, and the number of casualties also rose sharply, and in a short time it exceeded 1,000 people.

It turned out that this long-distance attack, the 10,000 infantry troops brought by the Wu'an army, was to prevent a frontal decisive battle with the Hun army. However, the plateau knows that the infantry army and the cavalry are fighting, and the role of the mandarin duck array is not great, and it can only be used to continuously attack long-range strikes to allow the infantry army to fight with the cavalry head-on, so the plateau did not bring the soldiers of the mandarin duck array this time, but brought three thousand crossbowmen on a special trip, and the crossbow is the longest-range individual weapon in this era, and the crossbow must be stepped on to pull the crossbow apart, but the range of each crossbow is as high as one hundred and fifty meters, which is also the weapon that the plateau is specially used to deal with the Hun cavalry.

Therefore, the plateau divided the 3,000 crossbowmen into five rows, each platoon of 600 soldiers, and carried out five sections of rotational firing to maintain the continuous strike power of the Xiongnu cavalry. Moreover, the crossbow soldiers are not using the method of direct fire, but taking a hundred soldiers as a unit, taking a slightly inclined position, forming a six-group inclined cross-firing method, so that the crossbow has a large strike coverage, of course, only the crossbow has an ultra-long range, this strike method can be used, if it is an ordinary bow and arrow with a range of only fifty or sixty meters, there is no way to form a cross-fire.

As a result, after more than a dozen rounds of continuous shooting, the Xiongnu army had already suffered heavy casualties, but the distance from the Wu'an army was not much closer. Although the Huns were very brave, regardless of life and death, desperately assaulted, but the Wu'an army's arrow and crossbow shooting net was too dense and continuous, so it could only be continuously shot down by crossbow arrows, and it was impossible to break through the Wu'an army's shooting net.

After holding out for more than ten minutes, the Hun army finally couldn't stand it anymore and had to retreat. And the 10,000 soldiers who went out to fight, when they returned to the main formation, there were only more than 7,000 left.

In the formation of the Hun army, there were many Hun soldiers whose faces were pale, and the bows and crossbows of the Wu'an army were too powerful, and everyone was thinking in their hearts, if they had participated in the attack just now, would they be able to survive the crossbow arrows of the Wu'an army.

When the head beard saw it, he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, and finally understood the reason for his uneasiness, and at the same time he was secretly fortunate in his heart, fortunately, he was a little cautious at the beginning, and did not send the main force to attack, if the main army suffered heavy losses, then this battle would not have to be fought. But now the Hun army is already difficult to ride a tiger, and it can't even retreat. Because once the Xiongnu army retreated, the Wu'an army could follow suit, and the Xiongnu army would be defeated. And how can the Xiongnu army break through the arrow array of the Wu'an army? There is nothing to be done about the head beard for a while.

On the side of the Hun array, Shui Xinyue and the others were also judging the battle just now, Zhao Xin smiled bitterly, saluted Cao Wuxian, and said: "It's still Lord Cao's insight, only from the battle just now, the Hun army is indeed bound to lose." ”

Cao Wushu also smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't expect this trick, I didn't expect that Wu Anjun's bow and arrow would be so powerful, not under the Qin army, but we can learn a little bit in the future." ”

Ye Wuyue frowned, and said: "Now I only talk about the things in front of me, and I will talk about the future later, are you going to talk about it, is there any other way for the Huns?" ”

Cao Wuxian shook his head and said: "There is no way, if it is the army of other countries, you can also use the infantry army to block arrows with shields and advance layer by layer, but the Huns are all cavalry, and there are not many shields, so you can't do this at all." ”

Ye Wuyue said: "Then can the Hun army avoid the middle road and outflank it from both flanks." ”

Cao Wuxian said: "If the Wu'an army is all infantry troops, or only a small number of cavalry troops, then it is feasible for the Hun army to use this tactic of avoiding the middle road and outflanking the two wings, but now there are 20,000 cavalry troops in the Wu'an army array, even if it is a head-on battle, it is not under the Hun army, so it will not be useful for the Hun army to outflank the two wings." ”

Ye Wuyue was stunned for a moment, and he was completely speechless.

Shui Xinyue said: "Is there no way to look at the Huns like this?" ”

Cao Wuxian said: "There is only one way, that is, to constantly use a small force of troops to attack, to induce the Wu'an army to keep archery, because this time the Wu'an army is lightly armed, will not carry too much baggage, each soldier will not carry too many arrows, and when the Wu'an army's arrows are used up, it is naturally time for the Hun army to launch a full-scale attack, not to that time, the loss of the Hun army will not be less, it will definitely be more than half, and even more, so the final decisive battle between the two sides, the Hun army's chance of victory is not big, Maybe that's the goal of the Wu'an Army. ”

Shui Xinyue nodded, and said: "The chance of victory is not big, but it is better than nothing at all, at least it can let the Hun army fight a good battle, even if it loses, it will be a painful loss, and it will not be lost. Do you think so? ”

Zhao Xin hurriedly said: "What the adults said is very true, I will immediately go to the head of the Su Jian." ”