Chapter 647: Facing the Huns (2)

The Hun army surrounded by the Dai army is only four or five hundred people, far from being able to compare with the Dai army in terms of numbers, although the Huns are a nation on horseback, everyone is good at riding and shooting, but now the Huns are still using old-fashioned horse furniture, the saddle is basically a flat plate, and there is no horse pedal, and the cavalry of the Dai army is not comparable at all, so although the cavalry of the Dai army is not as good as the Huns, but with the absolute strength of the weapon, it is not worse than the Huns.

And the Huns are good at riding and shooting, in close combat, the Huns have no advantage in horsemanship, and weapons, armor are inferior to the army, the result of the battle is naturally conceivable, was killed by the army fell off the horse, and after a while, most of the casualties were lost.

At this time, Mao Dun was still hesitating whether to attack, but the left general who was responsible for luring the enemy to help Luo Ji couldn't hold his breath, and he led the remaining 500 Hun cavalry to turn around and rush towards the Dai army.

As soon as the Dai army saw it, they immediately divided a thousand men and horses to meet the Hun army, and the remaining 1,000 men and horses continued to encircle and annihilate the encircled Hun army, and as a result, the battlefield suddenly became two, each fighting fiercely.

At this time, Mao Dun can no longer endure it, because now the situation on the battlefield has been very clear, although the two sides are divided into two battlefields to fight, but in these two battlefields, the strength of the army occupies an absolute advantage, by which it is the previously surrounded Hun army, has lost more than half, it will not take a while, the whole army will be annihilated, and the besieging Hun army can free up their hands to attack the people and horses of Fuhuluo, this thousand Hun army may be all confessed.

Of course, if the tactics of luring the enemy can be successful, Mao Dun is not reluctant to let this thousand men and horses, but if all the thousand men and horses are wiped out by the Dai army, there will be no people and horses to lure the enemy, and the Dai army will not be able to take the bait, it will definitely outweigh the losses, so Mao Dun immediately ordered all the horses to attack, and he and Kalugu each led two thousand men and horses, divided into left and right roads, and killed the Dai army.

Although in this way, although the Dai army can be defeated, the Dai army also has enough time to retreat, and there are not many losses at all, and the victory of the Xiongnu is limited, so after Mao Dun led the men and horses to kill, he was also secretly praying in his heart, hoping that the Dai army would not retreat and be able to fight with the Xiongnu for a while.

And it seems that as if receiving Maudun's prayer, the Dai army did not retreat, but let go of the two Hun armies that had completely fallen into the upper hand, and rushed up against the two Hun armies that rushed out of the woods. Seeing this, Mao Dun couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately urged the Hun army to quickly engage the Dai army, for fear that the Dai army would run away again.

However, the Xiongnu were divided into two roads, and there was a distance of about three or four miles between the left and right roads, and the cavalry of the Dai army gathered together to meet one of them, and Yi was the Xiongnu army led by Kalugu, so Mao Dun hurriedly ordered the men and horses led by him to hurriedly turn around and rush over to engage the Dai army.

But at this moment, Maudon heard the sound of horses' hooves on his left, and a very strange cavalry rushed towards his army. Although the number of this cavalry army is not large, the war horses ridden are significantly taller than ordinary war horses, and even the men and horses are covered with bronze armor, and even the knight's face is covered with a bronze mask, only a pair of eyes are exposed, and the spear held by the knight is much thicker and longer than the ordinary spear.

Of course, seeing such a cavalry army, the first thought in Mao Dun's heart was that it was too extravagant, too wasteful, and even the horses were put on armor, because the metallurgical technology of the grassland tribes was far inferior to that of the Chinese nation, and it was made of metal, so the weapons cast by the Xiongnu nation could not compete with the Chinese nation, but they could not make such exquisite armor as the Chinese nation, for the Xiongnu nation, only a few nobles had a set of bronze armor, and the ordinary Xiongnu people in the middle and lower classes could have a set of leather armor It would be very good, The vast majority of the Xiongnu soldiers had no armor at all, and wore only clothes made of sheepskin.

Of course, the cavalry army that rushed to kill Maudun was the 600 heavily armored cavalry brought by the plateau, and the original plan of the plateau was also very clear, that is, to attack with a small number of cavalry, entangle with the Hun army, and attract the ambushed Hun army, and then use the Fan Yong army, the heavy armored cavalry, the two ace cavalry of the army to wait for the opportunity to attack, and then with the assistance of the infantry army, you can defeat the Hun army in one fell swoop.

Sure enough, after the Xiongnu's ambush army was killed, Gao Yuan immediately ordered the heavy armored cavalry to attack and launched an attack on a Xiongnu cavalry army.

Although Mao Dun has never seen such a cavalry, but since there is an enemy army attacking him, he will naturally have to fight, of course the Huns will not be afraid of any challenge, not to mention that the number of this cavalry is far less than the Hun army led by himself, so Mao Dun gave an order, and the Hun cavalry urged the war horses to charge up to the army.

The distance between the two sides was not far in the first place, so in a short time, the distance was quickly shortened to about a hundred paces, and at this moment, the Dai army first launched a long-range attack on the Hun army.

Each heavy cavalry will be equipped with two crossbows and a horn bow, although the range of these two crossbows is not as far as the crossbow, but it is still much farther than the ordinary bow and arrow, can reach more than 100 steps, and before the attack, the two crossbow bows have been opened, the crossbow arrows are loaded, just wait to enter the range, you can strike continuously, and the distance of long-range strikes, can also reach more than 100 steps,.

The bows and arrows used by the Huns are all single bows or composite bows made of simple technology, and the range is generally only fifty or sixty steps, of course, it is far from being compared with the Dai army, but the Dai army first launched a strike, and the soldiers in the front row immediately shot the arrows in their hands.

The sound of breaking the sky suddenly sounded continuously, and the Hun soldiers basically did not have bronze armor, only a few people wore simple leather armor, and there was almost no defense against the crossbow arrows, as long as they were shot, it was difficult to escape, even if it was not a fatal part, but the pain was enough to make it difficult for the arrow to sit on the back of the horse, and as a result, the Hun soldiers fell from their horses one after another, or were drowned by the fast-galloping horses, or knocked down other war horses behind.

And after the soldiers in the front row finished shooting the crossbows, they did not continue to load and shoot, but slowed down their horses, allowing their companions behind to overtake themselves and continue to strike continuously at the enemy. Moreover, the change of formation and position of the representative army are very skillful, showing that they have been trained intensively in peacetime, and there is no chaos at all, and the arrows fired have almost never stopped.

However, although the horses of both sides did not gallop at full speed at this time, the speed was still not slow, so after a few rounds of blows, the Hun army also entered their own range, and the Hun soldiers fired back with bows and arrows.

It should be said that the Hun soldiers are indeed good at riding and shooting, although they are on the back of a galloping war horse, and they are also using bows and arrows, but the hit rate is much higher than that of the Dai army, but although many arrows have hit the target, there are very few cavalry of the Dai army who fall off the horse, almost none of them, and the arrows shoot to the cavalry or war horses of the Dai army, and can only make a "ding" sound, and then they are bounced off.

Mao Dun was also dumbfounded, and then he understood the intention of the army, this is not a waste, but a very suburban defense, but this defense can be said to be completely piled up with money.

Although the two sides have not officially engaged in battle now, it is impossible for anyone to withdraw from the battlefield at this time, so Mao Dun can only bite the bullet and command the Hun army to continue to rush forward, thinking in his heart that it will be good to wait until the time of close combat, even if the defense of the bronze armor is strong, but as long as the soldiers of the Dai army can be knocked off the horse, it is enough, Mao Dun still has enough confidence in the riding skills and riding ability of the Hun soldiers.

Soon, the two sides entered the distance of close combat, but the result was greatly unexpected by Mao Dun, because after the cavalry of both sides staggered, almost all of them were Hun cavalry, which also made Mao Dun almost dare not believe his eyes, is this still the army of the Huaxia tribe?

The rise of the Xiongnu nation on the grassland, about in the middle and late Warring States period, until now there are about fifty or sixty years, about and Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu cavalry change coincides, so there are some experts in later generations that the rise of the Xiongnu nation and the strength of Zhao has an important relationship, Zhao Wuling King's change made Zhao strong, has defeated Lin Hu, Lou Fu and other nomadic people, and occupied their place of residence, Lin Hu, Lou Fu and other tribes of a part of the Zhao State, and some of them migrated to the north, Eventually, it was incorporated into the Xiongnu tribe, making the Xiongnu strong from then on.

During this period of time, the Xiongnu and Qin, Zhao, Yan and other countries had conflicts and wars, mainly with the Zhao State The conflict was the most intense, some people think that this is related to the integration of the Xiongnu Linhu, Lou Fu and other departments.

Because there were many battles, the Xiongnu also knew the army of Zhao very well, of course they knew that Zhao also had cavalry, but Zhao's cavalry was obviously not as good as the Xiongnu who grew up on horseback, so the two sides were at war, and the Xiongnu had always won more and lost less, only until Li Mu used the strategy of luring the enemy to go deeper, and set up an ambush in advance, and the sword broke the Xiongnu's army of more than 100,000 people, so as to curb the momentum of the Xiongnu going south.

But when it comes to fighting, the Huns are still full of confidence, believing that if it is a one-on-one competition, the Chinese nation is definitely not the opponent of the Huns, because it is a cavalry, one Hun cavalry is enough to fight against the cavalry of the three Chinese nations, even if it is to exclude the advantages of the Chinese nation in armor and weapons, the Hun cavalry is one against two, and it is completely counterant.

Although after the plateau entered the Daijun, the new horse furniture was popularized on a large scale, and it was used in the raid on Yinshan, but that battle was only a surprise operation after all, and after that war, there was no large-scale battle between the Dai army and the Xiongnu army, so the image of the Xiongnu on the Dai army was still stopped at the level of the Zhao army in the past, and I did not know that the current Dai army was completely different from the original Zhao army, including the Qin army, which has also undergone great changes.