Chapter 186 The Great Rout
Seeing tens of thousands of Han troops in front of him, Li Wenhou couldn't help but be overjoyed. The wilderness is the best stage for cavalry.
Li Wenhou's saber pointed forward: "Warriors, let this group of Han people know how powerful we are, kill!"
"Array!"
Although the Han army retreated, they were not a group of peasants after all, and knew how to deal with the cavalry, so they hurriedly lined up under the command of officers at all levels.
boom!
The 20,000 Hu cavalry came in a row, and they were divided into two groups with 10,000 cavalry each, but they did not swarm into the Han army formation, but passed by the two wings of the Han army suddenly, as if two huge sickles were drawn across the Han army. In the army formation.
The sergeants on both wings of the Han army were suddenly slashed by Hu Qi's flying saber, and 20,000 Hu Qi charged in one charge, and at least they reaped the lives of more than a thousand Han soldiers.
After the two huge sickles crossed the flanks of the Han army, they merged into one. Under the command of Li Wenhou, they turned around again and came to kill the Han army from the other side.
But this time Hu Qi was still very cunning, he did not confront the Han army head-on, but continued to divide into two parts from the middle, and kept scraping towards the two wings of the Han army, just like a pack of wolves hunting on the grassland. Not in a hurry to kill the prey, but to keep creating wounds on the prey, causing the prey to lose too much blood and gradually lose strength.
Every time Hu Qi scraped through the Han army formation, hundreds of Han troops fell to the ground, and although the Han army also used arrows to fight back, Hu Qi's guerrilla attack was very fast, coupled with the darkness of the night. I can't see clearly, only five or six hundred horses fell off the horse after several rounds of arrows.
And after Li Wenhou scraped the Han army back and forth for four rounds as if plowing the ground, he suddenly discovered something: This group of Han troops seemed a little vulnerable?
"The two armies gather together and make a frontal assault!"
Li Wenhou decided to give it a try to see if this group of Han troops could withstand the frontal attack of 20,000 Huqi.
Two Hu cavalry rushed out from the flanks of the Han army, gathered in the middle, and regrouped into a single group. There were still 19,000 cavalry left, while the Han army had already paid nearly 3,000 casualties.
But this time Hu Qi no longer divided his troops, but gathered into a group, and tens of thousands of horses charged vigorously towards the frontal formation of the Han army.
"Turn on the string, the enemy will shoot at 150 paces!"
Seeing that Hu Qi finally chose to attack from the front, the archers in the Han army finally breathed a sigh of relief, and they all raised their bows and arrows, especially the hundreds of crossbows in the formation. Holding the body of the crossbow, he stretched the crossbow with both arms.
Whoosh!
Thousands of arrows shot out suddenly, covering thousands of Hu Qi who were charging ahead like rain, and even if more than a thousand Hu Qi fell from their horses, many of them had more than ten arrows in their bodies. Rolling hedgehogs generally fall off their horses.
After a round of arrows, the three thousand archers hurriedly took arrows from the quiver on their backs, but just as the arrows rested on the crossbow, they suddenly felt a void in their lower abdomen, and the crossbow couldn't open just after halfway drawn.
You must know that archery is actually a very physical exercise. Even a well-trained archer will have numb arms after shooting a dozen arrows. However, Zhou Shen's army was close to running out of food. On weekdays, the soldiers ate only clear soup and little water. It would be good if they barely starved to death. How could they still have the strength to fight?
This time the arrows fired were less than half of what they were just now, and they fell softly, only killing more than two hundred Huqi.
really!
Li Wenhou galloped his horse, and couldn't help laughing in his heart, this group of Han troops was simply vulnerable.
More than 17,000 Hu rode his horses and galloped. After two rounds of arrows, the vanguard had reached the front of the Han army.
The shield wall, which was indestructible in the past, has become extremely weak today. The first row of horsemen rushed up and urged their horses to slam into it. As a result, the rows of large shields were directly knocked into the air. His hand was trampled to the ground by the horse's hooves.
The sword and shield fighters in the first row in the army are often strong men in the army, warriors who dare to fight, and this means that their food consumption is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. Therefore, after the army ran out of food, the combat power of these sword and shield players dropped rapidly, and the weight of one man and one horse rushed up, and they couldn't hold the shield in their hands at all.
Fat is the energy reserve of the human body. The stronger a person is, the harder it is to survive a famine, because they consume far more energy than others.
More than 17,000 Hu Qi did not expect that they would tear up the defense line of the Han army so easily. In the past, they seldom shook the Han army head-on. They always relied on the tactics of harassment from the two wings, which made the Han army exhausted, and finally launched total attack.
However, Han Sui led the army to guard the Kuiyuan Gorge and cut off the Han army's food road, so that the Han soldiers could not eat enough every day and had no strength to fight at all.
More than 17,000 Hu Qi rushed into the Han army's formation as if they were smashing and smashing, as if the levee collapsed, and a torrent suddenly burst out from the river and sea, covering the entire Han army formation.
Galloping war horses and high-raised sabers flew past, and the power of the spearmen of the Han army without the shield wall was far less invulnerable than before.
The Hu Qi who rushed up in the first row acted as meat targets and resisted the thrust of the spears, and the Hu Qi who followed immediately rushed forward, and the Han army who could not pull out their spears for a while was immediately dispersed.
The Han army that was densely arrayed before is now completely empty-handed and has no strength at all. More than 10,000 Huqi are charging in the formation, but after all, there are still brave fighters in the Han army fighting to the death. The batch of brave warriors fell to the ground like wheat falling, and the momentum of the Han army became smaller and smaller.
The densely formed Han army was abruptly divided into a dozen small formations by the Hu Qi who came rushing to fight, and the Hu Qi who kept coming and going were like the scythe of death, reaping lives one by one.
The personal guard battalion around Zhou Shen was his personal soldiers after all, so the supply battalion gave priority to supplying food and grass, and the full-fledged personal guard battalion was powerful, so naturally they still maintained their combat effectiveness.
The personal barracks set up a shield wall to block the charge of the Hu cavalry. The spearmen and crossbowmen in the formation attacked the Hu cavalry who came to attack in batches in a well-organized manner, which was quite conspicuous in the army formation.
However, Li Wenhou also found out where Zhou Shen's general flag was, so he personally led three thousand cavalry to gallop here.
Li Wenhou personally supervised the battle, and the Hu Qi around him all took the lead bravely and rushed forward.
"General, there are too many Hu Qi, and everyone can't kill them all. Otherwise, I'd better run away?"
Zhou Shen laughed bitterly when he heard the words, and said palely, "Flee, where are you going? Defeat the 30,000 army in one fell swoop and then flee?"
"If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. General, please go quickly. I'm willing to fight to the death!"
Zhou Shen looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh.
"I regret not listening to Sun Wentai's words!"