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【 Chapter 576 】

Da da da da da!

The 20,000 Iron Cavalry of the Huben Camp rode their horses and approached the barbarian army's formation at a speed that was unattainable to the naked eye.

Under the cavalry's iron hooves, the spacing between more than 200 steps was sharply shortened.

Seeing that the four generals were killed by Han general Dian Wei, the Han army suddenly attacked and rushed towards him. The Xiongnu Chanyu Yufuluo, who was standing in front of the horse, was angry and his cheeks turned blue and gritted his teeth.

He immediately crossed the sword formation and shouted angrily: "Warriors, Hannu are rushing towards us, so that Hannu can see the power of my Great Huns' Iron Cavalry! Follow my orders, Xianbei war cavalry will fight!"

"Aowu——"

Amid the howling of wolves, more than 30,000 Xianbei warriors roared like wild wolves, holding scimitars, carrying bows and arrows, jumping out of the battle formation with a scream, rushing towards the Huben Camp led by Dian Wei.

Whoosh swish swish swish!

As soon as the front of the Xianbei war cavalry rushed out of the battle formation, 10,000 war cavalry in the middle followed closely, while the 10,000 war cavalry in the back had their hands broken and sprinted with bows. Then, dense arrows roared into the air, crossed the front of the Xianbei war cavalry, and then tilted straight down, pounced on the iron cavalry of the Huben camp, which was about to fight with the Xianbei war cavalry. The person rushing in the front was Dian Wei, the leader of the Huben.

The moment the barbarian army's arrows took off, Dian Wei knew that these alien races were using their usual tricks, trying to use cavalry shooting to kill the war cavalry in the front, and then the barbarian army took advantage of the defeat in the front to quickly break through the front, break into the formation, kill all directions, and defeat the Tiger Cavalry under his tent in one fell swoop. This is the attack method that the alien race's Iron Cavalry is best at.

Dian Wei has been stationed in Beidi County for more than two years, and has long been familiar with this kind of combat skills. He has experienced more than 100 battles in all sizes. He has suffered a great loss at first, and then learned lessons. He is no longer afraid of the skills of riding and shooting in the alien race.

"Scatter!" Just as the arrow was tilting down, Dian Wei, who was in the lead, suddenly stepped up and shouted loudly, raised his halberds and waved them to both sides.

In an instant, more than 5,000 Tiger and Ben cavalry following closely behind suddenly dispersed. The cavalry following them also scattered and galloped to both sides, staggering the arrows falling from above the heads. However, the five hundred personal guards behind Dian Wei did not dodge to both sides, but saw their bodies tilted down from the horse's back, hooking the one-sided kick, hiding under the horse's belly. They rose and fell quickly with one hand and one foot, and their rhythm was exactly the same as the horse's hooves.

In this way, they will not be dismissed, nor will they be trampled to death by their mounts.

These 500 personal guards were all carefully selected from the 30,000 combat cavalry. They were all second-rate knights and were all riding masters. In the past two years, these people have experienced hundreds of battles, and one group of people died and then another group of them. After many trials, they finally formed the elite personal guards.

Bang bang bang———!

Xi Yuyu!

The rain of arrows above the head fell as scheduled, and it sounded like a sequel, making the huge ground full of feathered arrows and dust flying. However, the Hu Ben war cavalry, which was still crowded just now, had already rushed dozens of steps away from both sides. Only a few hundred cavalry could not dodge, and was shot by the scattered arrows and fell to death. The remaining thousands of cavalry were safe and sound. After avoiding the arrows, the Han cavalry gathered again and headed straight for the enemy's army to fight.

Under the same rain of arrows, Dian Wei swung his halberd and shot down dozens of arrows, leaving himself and his mount Zhui Feng horse without any injury. The Five Hundred Guards, who were closely following him, quickly opened the distance when the rain of arrows fell and moved forward with the speed of the war horses. Under the rain of arrows, more than thirty war horses were shot into hedgehogs and fell to death. The personal soldiers hidden in the belly of the horse took advantage of the situation to escape, jumped onto the back of other horses, and continued to charge. However, more than a dozen personal soldiers were still unable to escape. They were tripped by the war horses and fell to the ground. Eight of the war horses were killed by arrows. The remaining few were pulled onto the horses by their companions. The two rode on the same horse and continued to fight with injuries.

After a round of arrows, five hundred personal soldiers lost more than 30 cavalry, and less than ten people were killed in battle, and the rest were all safe and sound. However, many war horses were injured by stray arrows. Fortunately, the war horses were huge and their vitality was far more tenacious than humans. As long as they were not shot into the vital points, even if they were shot in ten or eight arrows, they would not fall down for a while, and they could still continue to run and fight.

What's more, these arrows fall from the top of their heads and generally do not hit the horse's hooves. Punching on the war horses will only make the war horses run faster in pain, but will not die immediately. What's more, the war horses in the Huben Camp have simple animal skin armor, protecting the horse's head and neck, minimizing the casualties of war horses.

"Kill——!" After a round of arrows, Dian Wei took the lead in fighting with the Xianbei cavalry. But when he saw him running with his two halberds in his hand, he killed two enemy soldiers and fell off his horse with one fight. The two halberds flew, causing a bloody storm. No one could stop him wherever the two halberds were. The personal guards immediately followed him to fight with the Xianbei cavalry, with a skillful and straightforward technique, and killed hundreds of enemy cavalry in one blow, killing hundreds of enemy cavalry in a few breaths, following Dian Wei to rush forward.

Whoosh swish swish swish!

Just as Dian Wei led his troops into the enemy formation, another rapid rain of arrows roared into the air. However, this time the arrow flew above the heads of the Xianbei war cavalry. The archers were naturally the Huben Camp war cavalry under Dian Wei's tent. They were only a few breaths slower than the alien race. They saw the barbarian cavalry shooting behind the shooting and then shot at the back.

Cavalry and archery are not only unique to alien cavalry. Among the eight main cavalry battalions of the Western Liang Army, there are almost no cavalry who can't archery except for the baggage and knights. As for the accuracy of cavalry and archery, it varies from person to person, both good and bad. However, most soldiers' cavalry and archery skills are not inferior. At least compared with alien cavalry, the arrows are more sophisticated and have greater lethality. Therefore, in such a head-on battle in front of them, the cavalry and archery soldiers can shoot the arrows out, and the height and strength are not a problem, even if they can't hit people, they can hit the horses, and their lethality is far above the Xianbei cavalry and archery cavalry.

"Ah———Bang bang bang!"

Sure enough, when nearly 10,000 arrows of the Han cavalry fell one after another, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry were shot by the stray arrows, and they screamed in succession, and their people were on their backs and overturned. Then, hundreds of enemy cavalry were tripped by the war horses that fell in front, and the casualties quickly expanded. After a round of arrows, the Xianbei cavalry lost at least a thousand war cavalry.

The reason is that the two years of fighting and training in the Huben Camp can definitely be said to be well-trained, so at Dian Wei's order, the soldiers behind him can immediately respond and scatter. In contrast, although the Fuluo army has many troops, they belong to different camps and come together temporarily. The barbarian cavalry is okay to deal with infantry that are not good at horse fighting, and is even more good at fighting the family and robbing. However, when they fought face to face with the Western Liang cavalry, the gap between the two immediately emerged. The disadvantages of the barbarian army's lack of unified training are obvious and cannot be concealed at all.

The front charge of the Xianbei cavalry was frustrated, which blocked the front path of the war cavalry that followed closely behind. The charge was reduced sharply, and the battle formation fell into chaos. As one went up and down, the Iron Cavalry of the Huben Camp rushed into the enemy formation one after another, chopped and killed, and carved out a bloody path, and entered the back formation of the Xianbei cavalry.

At this moment, Zhang Liao led five thousand Jinniuwei cavalry to follow and rushed into the enemy formation as fierce as a tiger. In this way, the 25,000 Han army cavalry fought together with 30,000 Xianbei cavalry, and the number alone was no less than the barbarian army. In addition, the Xianbei cavalry's offensive was frustrated and he was already at a disadvantage. Therefore, the Jinniuwei cavalry was like a straw that broke the camel's back, and with an unyielding brave attack, he tore open the enemy formation in the shortest time and rushed straight to the Xianbei rear formation. At this time, the Xianbei rear formation was actually the central army where Yu Fuluo was located.

However, the central army led by Yu Fuluo himself is very strong, and it is a war cavalry with more than 40,000 people. This war cavalry is the Huns Iron Cavalry led by Lao Wang of the Southern Xiongnu. He temporarily obeys Yu Fuluo's orders and guards the central army.

Seeing that more than 30,000 Xianbei cavalry were attacked by the Han cavalry in an instant, and the casualties were severely injured. Now it is only twenty steps away from the central army. In an instant, the expression of the old king of the Southern Xiongnu changed drakes on his wrinkled cheeks, and his face was mournful, and his loose eyelids were leaping up and down.

"Shanyu, it seems that the information you received before was wrong. Who said that the Han army in the Western Liang had been disbanded from the battle formation for a long time, the troops had been declining, and the morale was low! Look at the situation in front of you, the Han army was so fierce, how could it be a little bit negligent about the battle formation?" The old king of the Southern Xiongnu complained to Fu Luo with a stern face.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Yu Fuluo also frowned, his cheeks were slightly pale, and his eyes were filled with horror. He could not understand why the Han army, who had shrunk a month ago, dared not respond to the battle, had such a strong combat power?

Especially the black-armored cavalry that followed the Huben Camp and rushed forward, killing the Xianbei iron cavalry retreating step by step, with almost no counterattack power, and was simply unstoppable. The most conspicuous thing is that this Han army cavalry is well-equipped, with war horses wearing armor and soldiers wearing black armor. From head to toe, only one pair of eyes exposed outside, the rest is wrapped in iron armor, and even the nose is protected by iron armor. The weapons they carry are very well-equipped, all of which are five-meter-long war knives, which look like big swords, but they do not have the curve of the back of the big sword. They look like big swords, with blades on both sides, which can both slash and assassinate, and are rare strange weapons.

"What does uncle mean? Can we still calmly withdraw from Liangzhou and return to the tribe now?" Yu Fuluo asked back with a gloomy face, but was worried that the respected uncle of the tribe beside him would be angry.

So he took a deep breath and explained in a low voice: "Uncle should know that after Li Li of Xiliang strongly sent troops to the border, our southern Xiongnu tribe has never set foot in the Han territory for more than two years. In the past, when we entered autumn every day, we would send troops to hunt in autumn, loot Han counties, grab grain, cloth and Han women to spend the winter, so as to strengthen the tribe's strength.

However, in the past two years, our tribe members did not dare to step into the border of Xiliang, and never robbed a grain of food. What's more, the Han army guarding the border sent troops to plunder our Southern Xiongnu tribe every month, and often dispatched tens of thousands of cavalry to plunder within a radius of a hundred miles of the border, and would all be kidnapped, all young and old, now these people are slaves to the Han people, and young and strong people are building official roads and cities for the Han people. Uncle, have my great Hun warriors fallen to this level?"

Yu Fuluo spoke out the blood and tears history of the Southern Xiongnu in the past two years with a look of anger, and spoke in a loud voice, so that the old king of the Southern Xiongnu blushed when he heard it, and lowered his head in shame and dared not look at Fuluo in front of him.

—————————————— (To be continued)
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