When the sky starts to dim, the camp is already filled with the smell of rice.
Last year's Chensu had been eaten long ago, and now the army is carrying noodles that were ground in three places in Tanshan, Kinmen and Yunzhong.
Maybe they knew there was a big battle today, so the auxiliary soldiers made steamed cakes.
Steamed cakes need to be made with pig paste to make them fragrant. But when you are away on a military expedition, how can you have this condition? You can just make do with horse paste.
Of course, horses are generally lean and have very little fat. Two hundred dead horses didn't scrape out much oil, so they just made do and let everyone smell the fragrance.
Two steamed cakes per person, a bowl of broth, and some pickles, everyone enjoyed the meal.
Wang Chan looked around and watched the auxiliary soldiers deliver basket after basket of prepared steamed cakes to the soldiers. Then he sat down and took a bite of steamed cakes and a bite of pickles.
The war was approaching, but he no longer felt any nervousness.
Numb, really.
When I was in the army in Hebei a few years ago, it was unimaginable to be surrounded by cavalry in the field.
During the Jin Dynasty, only Ma Long seemed to have done it.
The Duke of Luyang County repeated Ma Xiping's feat more than once.
The Silver Spear Army are really good soldiers. The longest one has served for five or six years and has seen countless battles.
The most ordinary spear, when you refine it over and over again, it becomes extraordinary.
It feels like life in the hand. With a single step, it can penetrate into armpits, knees, neck, face, wherever the armor cannot protect it, as fast as lightning.
Some veterans of the Silver Spear Army even show off their flaws when using their spears, and use very complicated dangerous tricks such as overhead assassination.
They can also shoot arrows.
At close range, it is not a problem to shoot a pot full of thirty arrows.
When it's a little further away, it's not a problem to shoot a dozen shots.
During a battle, it was normal for them to shoot three or five arrows with a full draw and then start fighting with a spear.
As long as the Silver Spear Army is here, what kind of Zhongwu Army can we obey?
They are the cornerstone of Shaw Brothers and their most powerful force.
Today, the most capable 4,000 to 5,000 silver spear troops are gathered here. There are also 500 trapped soldiers and more than a thousand brave cavalry. They want to fight a decisive battle with thieves who are several times their number. With such arrogance and ambition, Wang Chan feels that there is no point in dying.
Sorry.
Even if he dies today, he died in an upright battle with several times the bandit army. Damn it!
"Dong dong dong..." the first tom sounded.
The auxiliary soldiers immediately began to take action, and they first pulled several empty grain trucks to the river.
With a chorus of shouts, the grain truck was dragged directly into the river bed. In the year of severe drought, the water was shallow in winter, and the stream could not completely submerge it.
Soon, the second car was towed over...
Some auxiliary soldiers filled the empty grain bags with sand and placed them inside the carriage to stabilize their position.
The Huns riding on the opposite side were stunned.
They were still thinking yesterday. Although the stream was neither wide nor deep, under their gaze, it was not so easy to build a pontoon bridge.
Moreover, the pontoon bridge is narrow and cannot pass many people at one time. Then they will have many ways to intercept it, charge on horseback, surround and shoot, etc. The Dingjiao Jin people will pay a huge price in casualties.
More than a dozen ballistas were moved to the river bank by the auxiliary soldiers who were shouting slogans.
The Hun cavalry on the other side hurriedly turned their horses' heads and drove away as if they had seen the god of plague.
The auxiliary soldiers looked at them contemptuously and laughed.
"Woo——" the horn sounded.
Dozens of thick crossbow bolts were fired at the other side, causing some Huns cavalrymen who had not had time to leave to flip over.
Some people were lucky, but the horse was pierced by the crossbow arrow, and the person was still able to leave after falling.
Some people were not so lucky and were taken away directly. Their miserable situation caused more Huns cavalry to ride away and form formations in the distance.
Grain trucks were filled into the river bed one after another.
The interior of the carriage is actually made of sandbags, and the water flow is not large, so it is very stable and there is no risk of being washed away.
Soon, most of the stream was cut off, the water downstream suddenly became shallow, and the river bed was directly exposed in many places.
More sandbags were brought over, as well as door panels, wood, reeds, etc., whatever they could be used for, they were spread directly into the river bed.
"Dong dong dong..." The second tom sounded.
The neatly dressed Jin San led the 600 people from the first building of the Silver Spear Army to cross the river.
Following closely behind were the five hundred soldiers led by Chang Can.
More than a thousand soldiers waded through the water up to their ankles, quickly passed through, and arrayed themselves on the east bank of the river.
"Boom..." The sound of intensive horse hoofbeats sounded, and the Huns could not wait any longer. They were so anxious that they charged directly on horseback, trying to drive down the group of people who had just crossed the river.
More than a thousand infantrymen formed an inverted V formation.
The outer shield is large, and the spear is raised.
The soldiers inside fired a volley of crossbows.
Casualties occurred during the cavalry charge.
It's nothing if the knight fell off his horse. The most troublesome thing is that the horse was hit by an arrow, which formed an obstacle, causing the following cavalry to hurriedly detour, and the entire queue became a bit scattered.
Logically speaking, the Huns cavalry should not charge hard. How can the cavalry bow shoot against the infantry bow and crossbow?
During the charge, before even entering the shooting range of the cavalry bow, a round of arrows was fired for free.
But they have no choice.
Let the people cross the river smoothly and establish the forward position. Will the generals be able to survive after returning? They can only fight.
After entering the cavalry bow shooting range, the Huns cavalry divided into two groups from the middle, each shooting around the Jin infantry.
The arrows shot through the air, some landed on the large shield held high in the front row, and some fell into the formation, making a clanging sound.
The protective ability of the iron armor is still very strong. Except for a few unlucky ones who were shot in unprotected parts and screamed in pain, most of the arrows were blocked by the helmet and breastplate.
The Jin army's counterattack came quickly.
The rate of fire of the crossbow was too slow, and the infantry of the Silver Spear Army fired another volley.
The arrows fired from nearly four hundred walking bows fell far away among the Huns' cavalry. Even though they were widely scattered and moving quickly, the screams could still be heard, and many people fell off their horses.
The Huns quickly turned their horses' heads, circled away, and returned to their formation.
A second group of cavalry rushed forward, still circling and shooting.
Perhaps seeing that the Huns did not send out close combat cavalry, or perhaps despising their combat effectiveness, Jin San directly ordered a change of formation.
The infantry were spread out more widely and were no longer as dense as before, in order to reduce the damage caused by mounted bows.
The soldiers who had loaded their crossbows fired a round from a distance, knocking the Hun cavalry off their feet.
The infantry archers followed closely behind, killing and injuring many people with arrows like locusts.
As usual, the Huns moved around the two wings of the inverted V formation, riding around and shooting.
Maybe they sent more people, but this time their results were slightly greater, probably knocking down more than ten Jin soldiers, but their own losses also increased sharply.
Such a confrontation is really a disadvantage!
So they quickly retreated, and the battlefield calmed down for a while.
The wounded soldiers lay on the ground, wailing.
The injured horse was lying on its side, with large tears flowing from its eyes.
Another group of soldiers with silver spears successfully crossed the river, and the auxiliary soldiers even brought some horses over.
Jin San once again ordered the formation to change, and threw some antlers brought by the auxiliary soldiers around the formation to prevent the Huns cavalry from rushing directly into the infantry formation.
They have never been afraid of shooting.
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On the west bank of Jianshui, the Huns, who were belatedly unaware, finally launched an attack.
But facing the camp consisting of sidecars, baggage cars and wooden fences, the cavalry could not charge, so they had to replace the infantry.
Shao Xun, who was watching the thieves from a high place, was a little surprised. The Huns actually mobilized infantry? They really wanted to capture him!
If he had known in advance that they had a large number of infantry, he would not have chosen to cross the river today, but would have relied on a simple camp on the west bank to fight the Huns.
But it was not too late now. He ordered some auxiliary troops to find a way to drag some vehicles across the river to help stabilize the position on the other side.
If you have the chance, dig some more pitfalls.
Vehicles, antlers, horse traps, and horse traps, with these things on the other side, there will basically be no problems on the other side.
Come on, let's fight, let me see if Liu Cong has any infantry that can fight?
The result left him somewhat disappointed.
The Han infantry was loose during the charge. After being shot by the ballista for a few rounds, some of them hesitated in their steps, while others continued to move forward, and the formation suddenly became loose.
"Buzz..." The Silver Spear Army infantry remaining on the west bank of the river fired a volley.
Unfortunately, the equipment of the Han infantry was very poor.
The arrows fired from the walking bow were like strong winds blowing through the grass, sweeping down a large area in an instant.
Some people had already turned around and fled, but the Huns cavalry rushed up and killed them indiscriminately, forcing them to continue moving forward.
Finally someone rushed near the camp.
"Kill!" Wang Que'er, deputy governor of the Silver Spear Army, jumped up and stabbed out his spear like lightning, killing two people one after another.
The others followed suit, hardly needing to greet them, their spears were as fast as a dragon, and the Hun infantry outside the chariot formation fell one by one.
Occasionally, a few tough men would wield blunt weapons and beat the Silver Spear soldiers until they vomited blood from their mouths and noses. They would be thrown off the vehicle and soon stabbed to death on the ground.
Shao Xun got off the high platform, raised his bow, and walked around leisurely.
The distance is so close that you don't even need to fully draw the bow. A light arrow can often elicit a scream.
When a pot of thirty arrows had been shot, the bandit army finally couldn't hold on any longer, threw down hundreds of corpses, and retreated hastily.
"Dong dong dong..." The drum sounded.
Three gaps were opened in the camp, and Duan Xiong led nearly a thousand cavalrymen to rush out, chasing and defeating the enemy.
The Huns cavalry immediately took action and tried to intercept it.
Duan Liang immediately led more than a hundred armored cavalry out of the formation and charged straight at the Huns' light cavalry.
There is almost no suspense in the battle.
Shao Xun climbed onto the high platform again and turned his eyes to the east bank of Jianshui.
In the endless smoke and dust, the Huns launched a new round of charge.
A part of the cavalry rushed to the front, displaying their special skills of riding and shooting, circling around the antlers, withstanding casualties, and shooting an arrow from time to time.
Behind them, a full 3,000 Huns cavalry dismounted, waving a mess of weapons, and rushed towards the deer antlers and the horse-rejecting formation.
Obviously, they were unwilling to let Shao Jun cross the river easily.
Yes, if both sides of the river are attacked together, both on foot and on horseback, and they are surrounded on all sides, and if Shao Xun is allowed to easily cross the river, where will the big man's face be?
Without the price of blood, it is impossible for either party to give up.
The stream flows quietly, as if what is flowing is not water, but blood.
Chapter completed!