Chapter 734: The Attack Is Blocked (2)
Seeing that the Xiongnu army was gradually separating, Gao Yuan also immediately ordered that the soldiers who had gathered to collect arrows outside the position should hurry back, while the archers in the position still continued to shoot arrows, putting pressure on the attacking Xiongnu army and delaying their attack.
Of course, most of the Hun soldiers were killed in the trenches, so although it took less than ten minutes, the soldiers collected five or six hundred quivers, and more than 10,000 arrows. After hearing the order to go back, the soldiers immediately turned back, and after a while, they all hid in the position.
At this time, all kinds of arrows, stones, and crossbow guns in the position of the Dai army were like raindrops, hitting the attacking Xiongnu army, and on the way to attack, a large number of Xiongnu soldiers fell.
However, although the momentum of the Xiongnu army did not weaken much, and it was not long before it rushed to the vicinity of the trenches, but the cavalry of the Huns did not jump over the trenches and attack the defense line of the Dai army like the last batch of attacking troops, but stopped at the edge of the trenches, threw out the ropes, and planned to lasso the horse-rejecting vehicles in front of the defense line of the Dai army, and then pull away, while the Hun soldiers who dismounted to fight rushed through the trenches from the wooden fence that had been erected, killed near the defense line, and moved the horse-rejecting vehicles.
Just now, the Hun army used this method to clear the rejecting horses in the trenches, thus breaking through the trenches, and now the Hun army obviously intends to repeat the old trick and use the same method to open the defense line of the Dai army.
It's a pity that this time the army will not be merciful, the number of archers has more than doubled, the striking power of the arrow has more than doubled than before, and now the Hun army is closer to the defense line of the army, so the lethality has naturally increased exponentially, and many Hun soldiers have not thrown the rope, and the arrow fell.
Although there are still some Hun soldiers who throw out the rope and lasso the rejection of the horse, but the rejection of the camp defense is placed very firmly, but it is not a few cavalry can be pulled, and there are soldiers of the army stationed behind the defense line, naturally they will not let the Hun soldiers hold the rejection of the horse, immediately rotate the sword, cut the rope, as a result, many Hun soldiers are pulling the rope hard, but the rope is broken, and suddenly the strength is too strong, and he falls off the horse.
The Hun soldiers who dismounted to fight held their shields and braved the blows of the Dai army and approached the position of the Dai army, but the Dai soldiers guarding the defense line immediately used their spears and stabbed the Hun soldiers from behind the defense line. The spears used by the heavy cavalry were as long as two feet and five feet, even if they were behind the horses or vehicles, they could easily stab the Hun soldiers close to the defensive line, and the heavy armor could protect them from damage. As a result, the Hun soldiers who rushed to the front of the line were either killed by bows and arrows, or pierced by spears, and there was no way to push the horses.
However, there are also some Hun soldiers in the formation to shoot arrows to the camp of the Dai army, although there are not many Hun soldiers who shoot arrows, but because the distance between the two sides is too close, and the archery skills of the Hun soldiers are indeed much stronger than the Dai army, so the casualties of the Dai army are also increasing violently, far more than yesterday's battle.
The battle has been going on so far, and the number of soldiers killed in the Dai Army, the soldiers of the Bailing Clan, has exceeded 100, and the number of wounded has also reached four or five hundred. In such a fierce battle, such casualties are inevitable, as long as the wounded and immortal soldiers can be treated immediately, and it will not be long before they can recover from their injuries and continue to participate in the battle.
The casualties of the Xiongnu army were far greater than those of the Dai army, and of the 5,000 Xiongnu soldiers who attacked for the first time, only more than 2,000 were withdrawn to the main formation, and as many as 13,400 soldiers were wounded.
The culture of the Xiongnu is far behind that of the Chinese countries, and the level of medical care is naturally lower, so it can even be said that in the Xiongnu tribe, there is no real sense of the Langzhong doctor, and the affairs of the Langzhong doctor are basically concurrently served by the sorcerer, and the cure is not good, so in the ordinary grassland campaign, the mortality rate of the injured is generally about three or four percent, sometimes even as many as six or seven percent.
Although there are now a group of Bailing people in the Xiongnu army, there are only more than ten Bailing women, except for Yunqi, there are no outstanding people, and it is Yunqi, at most it can only treat about ten people, and others can only treat four or five people, and this can not save all the Hun soldiers, so they can only carry out selective treatment, mainly to treat important people in each tribe, and other injured Hun soldiers can only ask for more blessings. However, compared to before, it is still much better, yesterday after the efforts of the Bailing people overnight, they successfully treated more than 180 Hun soldiers, which was unimaginable before. But despite this, it is a drop in the bucket for thousands of wounded soldiers.
At this time, on the battlefield, the battle was still raging, under the fierce blow of the Dai army, the casualties of the Hun army were very heavy, the new corpses covered the old corpses, and on the ground that had not dried up, there was new blood flowing, and it was on the ground within a range of more than one zhang in front of the Dai army's defense line, almost all of them were the corpses of the Huns, and the ground could not be seen.
However, under the onslaught of the Hun army, it was not completely unsuccessful to receive a little result, several Hun cavalry threw out the ropes, and as a result, three or four ropes were put on the same rejection horse, and other nearby cavalry came to help, everyone pulled back together, although the soldiers of the army hurriedly rushed up to cut the ropes, and the archers also concentrated on shooting arrows at these Hun cavalry, but it was still a step too late, although two of the ropes were cut off, and several Hun soldiers were shot down, but this rejection horse was still half pulled away. The Hun infantry before the rejection of the horse immediately replenished, and after paying the lives of nearly twenty Hun soldiers, finally moved this rejection horse completely.
Although there were less than 1,000 Huns' infantry left at this time, there were still quite a few people in the vicinity, and as soon as they saw that the horses were being removed, they immediately took their weapons and swarmed towards the gap, hoping to rush into the camp of the Dai army first and win the heavy prize promised by Maudun.
Although more than a dozen soldiers in front of the rejection of the horse resisted hard, but because the number was too small, almost all of them died tragically under the guns and swords of the Hun soldiers, of course, the same number of Hun soldiers were killed, but the Hun soldiers behind immediately filled their positions and continued to break through to the position.
In the array of the Xiongnu army, Fu Gongyan, Mao Dun, and the leaders of various tribes who were watching the battle all saw it very clearly, and everyone's face showed an excited look, because in their opinion, breaking through the defense line of the Dai army was already in front of them. Therefore, everyone is thinking in their hearts, after breaking through the defense line of the Dai army, how will they fight for the spoils, because they want to grab more Bailing people, these two days of fighting have proved that the Bailing people are extremely important resources for every tribe, and she is a woman of the Bailing tribe, whose value is enough to withstand three or four Hun soldiers, and even more than that.
And what Fu Gongyan was thinking about was another problem, although he broke through the defense line of the Dai army, but with the martial arts of the plateau, it was not difficult to get out of the battlefield, except for himself, I am afraid that no one in the Hun army could stop him, so if he wanted to kill the plateau, he had to take action himself. But it is impossible for him to act alone, he should ask Mao Dun to ask for hundreds of cavalry to help, so that he can kill Gao Yuan with complete certainty.
Just when everyone thought that they were winning the game and each was making their own calculations, there were unexpected changes on the battlefield. Of course, this change was not an accident at all for the Dai army, and I saw that several squads appeared in front of the Hun army, blocking their way to break into the camp.
The number of these squads was not very large, there were only a dozen of them each, and there were no more than twenty people, but they were all differently armed, some with shields, some with spears, some with bows and arrows, and some with strange, unknown weapons, which looked very strange.
These squads are, of course, the Mandarin Duck Formation Squads of the Back Wei Army. This time, the plateau brought out a total of 600 soldiers of the Beiwei army, which can form thirty mandarin duck formation squads, this time to resist the attack of the Hun army, the army established a solid positional defense line, but the plateau did not take it lightly, after all, no matter how strong the defense line, there is a possibility of being breached, and it is necessary to consider the measures to make up for the old after the defense line is breached.
So the plateau divided the Beiwei army into six squads, each squad had five Mandarin Duck formation squads, distributed on the defensive line of the camp, once there was a gap in the defensive line, the Beiwei army would immediately make up for it. The five Mandarin Duck Formation squads can defend a distance of fifteen zhang and use them to fill in the gaps, which is more suitable. Sure enough, it was used at this time.
This time, the Beiwei army came to the grassland with the plateau, and it was really a little depressed, because this trip out, although there was no big battle, but there were a lot of small battles, but all the battles were basically based on the Fan Yong Army, but the scout army, the heavy armored cavalry army, and even the female army all had their own play, only the Beiwei army, from the beginning to the present, basically did not have a formal battle, and could only watch other armies make meritorious contributions.
After all, the battles on the grassland were all fought with the cavalry as the main force, so the infantry like the Beiwei Army really had no room to play, and as a result, in the migration of the Bailing Clan, the Beiwei Army could only do a little chores to maintain order. This is also a matter of course for the Beiwei Army, one of the ace armies under the plateau, to feel depressed.
And now that the rejection horse has been pulled away, there is a gap in the defensive position of the Dai army, and the nearby Beiwei army immediately rushed over to block the gap where the rejection horse was pulled away. Finally got the opportunity to fight, and the soldiers of the Beiwei Army were naturally very excited, and lined up the array of mandarin ducks to meet the Hun soldiers.