This meant that the blame was passed to Li Yunze. If the court's stick came down, this tall king would have to be the first to hit him.
"Respect the king's order~~~"
Li Yunze didn't say much, and immediately responded, "Immediately kill the sheep, slaughter the cows, and bury the pots to make rice. The master in the army took the prisoners to cut down the trees, and the craftsmen in the army led people to build planks for carts. All the crossbowmen and crossbows in the army lost their arrows."
Get it all together..."
Orders were issued quickly, one after another, and the arrangements were very orderly and appropriate.
Hanbok and Chen Xinxin were secretly shocked. This king was very experienced. He was almost like a border general who had led troops for many years.
Now that he has taken over the command, Li Yunze no longer talks nonsense to them and directly arranges things as a subordinate.
The first thing is to clean up the battlefield, slaughter cattle and sheep, and arrange meals for the sergeants. This is related to the morale of the sergeants and must not be careless.
After eating and drinking, Li Yunze announced to everyone that he would be rewarded.
The old rules are still the same: each person has two coins and one piece of silk.
As soon as these words came out, there were thunderous cheers, and the morale of the Han army immediately rose.
Of course, Li Yunze basically used up all the money he brought from Zhongshan Kingdom and the money he seized from the Huns.
The only spoils left now are tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.
Looking at the cattle and sheep, Li Yunze ordered without any hesitation, "Except for the cattle and horses that were pulled, all the excess ones will be slaughtered."
Everyone was very sorry, and Zhao Yan couldn't help but tried to dissuade him, "No, Your Majesty, the first cow will get at least two thousand coins, and the first sheep will get four hundred coins..."
Li Yunze looked at him coldly, "Drag him down and give him ten sticks."
He looked around at the many officers above the village commander level in front of him and said, "Who else questions this king's military order?"
Everyone was solemn and no one dared to say a word.
In the army, on the battlefield, in wartime!
At this time, the general has issued an order. If you don’t carry out the order and still shout that it’s necessary, your life will be in danger if you don’t cut it.
"Build a cart and planks of wood." Li Yunze continued to order, "Put the planks upright and nail them to the side of the cart. Make holes in the planks for shooting. The cart was divided into two teams on the left and right, with Han Duwei and Chen Duwei respectively leading the bows and crossbows.
If you have too many crossbows on your chariot, you can shoot them when the Huns cavalry approaches.
Don’t worry about it when it’s far away. Master and other troops, guarding the grain, grass and baggage horses, are marching in the middle of the convoy..."
This is the reason why we don’t bring extra cattle and sheep. There is not enough space to hold so many.
And Li Yunze's tactic was indeed his first in this era.
But he also made reference to the historical battle in which Liu Yu defeated Nan Yan.
Facing Nan Yan with almost all cavalry, Liu Yu, who mainly relied on infantry, used this box car tactic to force the cavalry to be unable to harass, all the way to the capital of Nan Yan, forcing the cavalry to face off, and then
The result was that the Murong clan of Nanyan directly destroyed the country.
The greatest advantage of cavalry when attacking infantry is that they come and fire arrows like a gust of wind.
The appearance of the carriage can effectively block the shooting of bows and arrows, which naturally eliminates its harassment technique.
Once the harassment fails, the Han soldiers have nothing to fear and can just move forward quickly towards their destination.
When Qi Jiguang sent troops outside the Great Wall, he also used a similar carriage, but replaced the crossbows with artillery and muskets.
There is no doubt that this is a tactic for dealing with cavalry that has stood the test of time.
At noon the next day, traces of the Huns cavalry appeared nearby again.
Li Yunze ignored him and just urged the army to move forward.
The Huns cavalry looking from a distance were obviously confused because they had never seen this kind of car formation before.
However, harassment is still unavoidable. This Han army is obviously heading towards Chengle, so they naturally want to stop it.
This is the Yunzhong Plain, with open and flat terrain, which is very suitable for cavalry operations.
More than ten Hun cavalrymen rushed down from a slope with shouts, each holding a soft bow in their hands, intending to get closer and then shoot arrows at the convoy to create chaos.
The industrial level of the Huns was very low, they had no crossbow-making technology, and their bows and arrows were weak and weak. They had to get closer to about thirty steps before they could fire an arrow.
But when they approached forty or fifty steps away, there was a buzzing sound in the Han army's convoy with wooden walls, and more than a hundred crossbows flew out, instantly killing the Huns.
People were enveloped.
There was no surprise at all. There was no iron armor. The Huns screamed and fell to the ground with both men and horses.
A group of Han cavalry rushed out from behind the convoy and quickly ran to the place where the Huns fell to the ground.
The cavalrymen touched up the injured Huns, recovered the lost crossbows, and then rode back to the convoy.
The Huns who were watching from a distance were shocked. They had never seen such tactics before.
The leader of the team, Bai Chang, felt his scalp numb and his heart was filled with fear.
Although the losses in battles with the Han army were always very heavy, the fact that so many men and horses were so easily lost really shocked him.
All the commanders and assistants under his command were looking at him.
"Charge separately!" The order Baichang received from Danghu was to harass the Han army in the field. It was impossible not to continue the combat operation.
However, changes are still needed: "Stay farther away, don't go within a hundred steps."
Hundreds of Xiongnu cavalry roared down the slope, divided into two teams and shouted back and forth on both sides of the convoy to harass them.
"Ignore them." Li Yunze on horseback shouted and ordered, "Keep going."
That is to say, the training of this Han army was good. After all, it was a frontier army. The soldiers and horses of the Zhongshan Kingdom were trained by Li Yunze himself, so they were able to carry out the orders and continue to move west regardless.
As for the teachers, they all came from the border areas and were well organized.
Only the captured Huns, old and weak, were in constant commotion.
Li Yunze looked at Hanbok. After understanding it, Hanbok immediately drew his sword and rushed into the old and weak Huns with his own soldiers, killing all the commotions.
The commotion that had not yet developed quickly subsided.
The harassing Huns saw the huge convoy moving forward, leaving corpses on the ground.
Confused, he stepped forward to check, only to realize that he was one of his own.
Immediately, the furious cavalry rushed forward, but they were immediately shot if they got close.
The strong crossbow of the Han Dynasty had an epoch-making technological innovation, which was the installation of a Wangshan on the strong crossbow.
Wangshan is an improved sight with five scales and a half-degree mark between each degree. The shooting accuracy is very high.
Well, this thing was excavated by archeology in later generations. It was found from the tomb of Prince Jing in Zhongshan...
As soon as they entered within fifty steps, crossbows would immediately shoot through the shooting holes in the wooden walls, and from time to time, Hun cavalry would scream and fall to the ground.
Li Yunze opened his bow and set up an arrow, and quickly fired several rounds of arrows, knocking down more than ten riders one after another.
He put away his strong bow and called to the cavalry around him, "Attack and cut them all down!"
These Huns are too trusting.
There are only a hundred people, but they dare to attack the Han army's thousands of troops. This is too disrespectful to the Han army's cavalry.
Li Yunze brought more than a hundred cavalry from Zhongshan Kingdom, and Wu Gao and Wu Yao also had more than 200 cavalry, which was almost 400 cavalry.
By the time the Huns realized something was wrong, the four hundred cavalry were already roaring and rushing out from the front and rear to chase down the Huns.
The outcome of the battle was not surprising at all. Except for a few distant horsemen who escaped alive, the remaining Huns were all killed.
From then on until dark, no more Huns came to attack.
When we set up camp, we calculated that we had traveled more than fifty miles in one day, which was a huge difference compared to less than two hundred miles in the previous ten days.
The reason is also very simple, all the luggage is in the car.
There are a large number of old and weak Huns who are left behind on the road, and no one cares about them.
Setting up camp is also very simple. Just surround the van, set up traps, dig ditches, and arrange guns and antlers, etc., and then arrange open and hidden sentries, latent sentries, mobile sentries, etc.
Li Yunze, who was sitting by the fire with a map, made some calculations and came up with the result.
"If we march at this speed, we can reach Wujin the day after tomorrow, and Chengle County the next two days!"