"The Han Dynasty attacked!"

On the hill, a Hun nobleman roared loudly.

In the distance, in the Han army's formation, a long line of cavalry poured in like a rushing tide. They opened a diagonal line on the battlefield and swept towards the edge of the Xiongnu's left wing.

"Wooden shield ready!"

One after another, the Xiongnu nobles reacted immediately, and hundreds of wooden shields were pushed to the front of the formation pointed by the Han army's arrows.

The Huns had been playing with cavalry all their lives, and they knew the general rules of cavalry engagement very well.

They knew very well that a cavalry battle did not start with swords, spears, swords and halberds facing each other.

All cavalry battles begin with a guerrilla attack from both wings.

By constantly using bows, arrows, short spears and various throwing weapons to attack the enemy's weak points, tear apart their defenses and disrupt their formation.

"Bows and arrows ready!"

Behind the wooden shields, hundreds of Hun archers squatted down with bows and arrows and began to string them.

After the archers, there were slave soldiers armed with various short spears and stone tools.

These slave soldiers shifted their body weight downwards.

He was always ready to use his own body to deflect arrows from his master. He was also always ready to rush into the Han cavalry formation, pull down the Han men on horseback, and perish with him.

However, the next scene will be forever engraved in the eyes of these Huns.

I saw the Han cavalry galloping from afar. When they were about a hundred steps away from their formation, they suddenly seemed like the tide rushing onto the beach, and like migratory birds flying south. In a short period of time, there might not be enough of them.

The moment of breathing spread out in front of them like a fan.

There were even nobles who sneered at the corners of their mouths when they saw the Han army on the opposite side.

"Be careful!" countless nobles and officers shouted.

Each wooden shield was tilted backwards, forming a wooden wall that could shield all attacks.

However, these Huns were surprised and shocked.

At a distance of about thirty steps, the Han cavalry on the opposite side suddenly loosened their grip on the horse's mane, leaned their bodies, and then drew their bows.

"Xiao Xiao Shuo!"

A rain of arrows filled the sky, flying into the air, and then, with huge inertia, they tilted down like raindrops.

"Eject!" countless Huns shouted.

It's a pity. It's too late!

The Han army's arrows plunged into the Xiongnu formation in a moment.

"Ah!" Immediately, someone was hit by an arrow and wailed in pain on the ground.

Some people even didn't even react by groaning or struggling, and the arrow had already penetrated their heads, and they fell to the ground.

But this was just the beginning, the moment when the Huns' front line was in panic.

The flag bearers of the Han army who followed completed the second round of shooting.

This time, the powerful bow and arrow shot straight at the Huns' military formation.

Many wooden shield bearers were even impaled on the ground with their shields.

When the Xiongnu archers raised the bows in their hands, unstrung the bowstrings, and prepared to counterattack, they found out helplessly that the Han cavalry on the opposite side had already completed their turn. They were moving quickly in front of their own formation just as when they came.

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Then, in a moment, they escaped from the effective killing range of the bow and arrow.

This was a trick used by the Huns to provoke the Han infantry phalanx in the past.

correct!

Any exchange between cavalry and infantry archers is seeking death.

Because the cavalry has a large target, archers standing on the ground can find the enemy faster and hit it more easily.

However, cavalry and cavalry come and go like the wind.

Until the horses are tired, the infantry archers can only helplessly watch the enemy wreak havoc in front of them.

They didn't even dare to draw their bows easily.

Because you can only take three shots when faced with an enemy.

Even the well-trained archers of the Han army could only draw three bows at most when facing cavalry charging into battle, and then they would be bumped in by the enemy.

More importantly, humans are not machines.

I want to shoot a bow and arrow with such power that it can kill the enemy fifty paces away.

Not only does the bow string need to be powerful, but the arm strength of the person using it needs to be able to keep up.

Generally speaking, if an archer fires ten bows in a row, he will reach his limit.

If you draw the bow again, you may strain your muscles.

The Huns, not the Han army, did not have high-tech equipment such as crossbows.

The eyes of the nobles in the Xiongnu formation were placed in another place.

"These Han cavalry... these Han cavalry..."

Several generals around King Zhelan were going crazy.

"How could they shoot a bow from a horse so easily?" Someone shook his head repeatedly and shouted in horror.

In the Xiongnu, even the best warriors who were good at riding and shooting could not complete the shooting on the bumpy horseback traveling at high speed as easily as the Han Dynasty cavalry.

Not to mention, some Han cavalry had just carried out more difficult projectiles.

"It's their equipment!" King Zhelan said in a deep voice, with a serious expression on his face.

He looked carefully and saw that there were many things on the horses that Han was riding that he had never heard of or seen before.

It is those things that allow Han Qi to easily free his hands, and even use the strength of the horse to complete difficult actions such as shooting and even projecting.

Without these things, the Han cavalry could certainly have achieved some results in the attack just now.

But how could they not leave something in front of their formation?

With these equipment, the Han cavalry can maximize their speed and firepower.

As a result, the other side lost nothing, while our own side suffered at least dozens of casualties.

"Partridge!" King Zhelan looked at a noble beside him and said, "Take your headquarters and go have fun with those Han cavalry!"

"Bale, you follow the partridge, cover and protect!"

"As you command!"

Two Hun nobles wearing rough bronze helmets immediately bent down and saluted.

"Remember, grab some Han army horses for me!" King Zhelan said calmly.

"Yes!" The two nobles nodded, and then walked to the side of the banner.

Seeing these two people, more than a thousand Zhelan cavalrymen in the Huns' formation under the hill began to mount their horses.

Several shamans, holding a magic weapon made of a human head, blessed the cavalry.

"The gods and ancestors are watching you, brave Zhelan knights, go and tear those despicable Han cavalry into pieces!" Holy water was sprinkled on the horseshoes of Zhelan knights. This means that the ancestors and gods have blessed their horses.

Allowing them to run faster and more steadily.

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"The Huns have moved..." Yi Zong stood under the commander's banner and watched the strange movements in the Huns' formation from a distance.

He waved his hand and commanded the flag to wave, and two trumpeters from the Han army, riding on a chariot, blew their horns.

"Woo..."

The sound of the war drums began to become more intense and urgent.

The left wing of the Han army also began to move.

Yi Zong raised his hands flat.

The military formation on the right also began to move out again.

Yi Zong squinted his eyes and looked at the Huns' banner opposite him.

"King Zhelan, how should you respond?"

Any general who leads troops knows one truth very well - offense always has an advantage over defense.

Especially the cavalry duel.

The offensive side always takes the initiative before the defensive side.

The so-called defensive counterattack to win may only happen once in ten times in a cavalry war.
To be continued...