This survivor is Yu Wenjing. Although Yu Wenjing is not an authentic Xianbei person, he is very close to the Xianbei people. His tribe's status on the Xianbei grassland is also higher than that of the Xiongnu and some other small tribes. According to the status of the Yuwen tribe
, he shouldn't have been at the front, but because he offended Murong Xiong that day, Murong Xiong used it for personal gain and transferred him to the first thousand-man team, thus falling out of the trap.
Yu Wenjing reacted very quickly. The moment his horse stumbled, his first choice was to hold his head with both hands and close his eyes. This reaction saved him. Otherwise, if quicklime got into his eyes, he would be blind even if he didn't die.
However, Yu Wenjing's condition was not much better. He was not the first to fall, nor was he the last to fall. Although the sharp bamboo spear did not stab him, a horse that fell behind crushed him.
He was knocked unconscious on the spot. The same horse blocked the random arrows ordered by Murong Xiong for him and saved his life.
Su Li's cavalry team passed by the pit, and the sound of hooves of thousands of horses galloping past woke up Yu Wenjing from his sleep. When Yu Wenjing saw the arrows stuck on the corpses of his companions, he understood what had happened. He didn't know
Dare to make any move, until the sound of horse hooves gradually faded away, he quietly climbed out.
Yu Wenjing was very strange after he escaped. His body was red and white. The red was the blood and the white was the quicklime that the Han people scattered at the bottom of the pit. One of his legs was broken by the horse that fell down later.
He didn't know where the waist knife fell. However, when he climbed out of the pit, he picked up a pair of bows and arrows.
Yu Wenjing knew that he would definitely not be able to return to the Xianbei army. Even if he found them, he would definitely be executed as a deserter. The Xianbei people value heroes the most, and their treatment of deserters is much crueler than their treatment of enemies. Yu Wenjing is looking for
He picked up a rotten branch, dragged his injured leg, and walked eastward with difficulty.
But he said that Suli bypassed this pit and continued to move forward. Not far away, he encountered another pit, in which many Xianbei knights also fell dead. Suli still curled his lips in disdain, and the chanting army walked forward for a few miles.
On the way, I met a group of people walking together.
Although it was summer, most of the people in this group were still wearing sheepskin coats, and it was obvious at first glance that they came from the grassland. When Su Li came closer, he realized how embarrassed these people were. However, he also learned from this group of people that they were from the grassland.
They knew that there was a "nail array" ahead, which injured many of their horses. Now, this "nail array" has been cleared by them, and there is no obstacle to moving forward.
Su Li couldn't help but be overjoyed and urged the army to move forward quickly. When he was still more than ten miles away from Daling City, he saw many crows circling in front of him in the distance. Experienced soldiers knew that there must have been a big battle there.
There must have been many corpses left behind to attract so many crows.
Seeing this situation, Su Li became a little worried. According to what he learned on the road, the forward led by Murong Xiong lost at least 3,000 people. If there was a big battle ahead, they would definitely be outnumbered. However, Su Li believed
With the fighting strength of the Xianbei cavalry, even if they were at a disadvantage in numbers, they could at least defeat twice as many Han people. However, when Su's army came closer, they were stunned by the scene in front of them. People were lying down in the fields.
They were all corpses of Xianbei people. These people were either shot to death by bows and arrows, or their heads were chopped off with a knife.
Su Li couldn't help but hesitate. Judging from his experience, Murong Xiong and his men didn't have much power to fight back in front of the Han army, because many of their scimitars were not stained with blood, and there was no curling of the blades. .Su Li did not dare to move forward and ordered to camp on the spot.
They were different from forward troops like Murong Xiong. Their team also carried a lot of materials for building tents, and they quickly erected a camp ten miles north of Daling City. However, the level of Xianbei camping was worse than that of the Han people. Many. This camp is actually a bunch of tents close together, with only simple fences around, and there are not even deer villages or horses.
Three miles south from where Suli camped, there was a wide and deep trench, which was dug overnight by the Han army's engineering troops. Many willow branches were planted on the opposite side of the trench, and these willow branches were cut from near Daling. , disguised this place as a forest. Four wooden planks were put up on the trench to allow our troops to pass. To the south of the trench, two hundred trebuchets were lined up, and almost all the trebuchets of the Fourth Army were here.
Under the "willow forest", Zhang Liao picked up his clairvoyance and looked carefully at the Xianbei people's camp, with an imperceptible smile on his lips. In the clairvoyance, the Xianbei people began to set up tents, and hundreds of riders came and went around the camp. Gallop alert.
Zhang Liao pointed forward and asked: "Can the trebuchet attack there?"
The captain in charge of commanding and operating the trebuchet grinned and said proudly: "Don't worry, general, we can throw it farther than this! I will prepare stone bombs right now."
Zhang Liao waved his hand and said: "No! Use horse nails in the first wave!"
Horse nails are low cost and very effective against cavalry, so they are widely equipped in the Han army. Horse nails are placed in different clay pots depending on the way they are distributed. The soldiers throw them by hand. Horse nails are installed in a cylindrical clay pot, while trebuchet-thrown horse nails use a spherical clay pot.
After Zhang Liao's order was issued, the soldiers on the other side of the trench immediately became busy. The ladle of the trebuchet was slowly tightened, and the angle and direction were constantly adjusted. Large wooden boxes were carefully carried to the back of the trebuchet. There are spherical clay pots neatly stacked inside, and the pots are filled with nails.
The captain in charge of commanding the trebuchet also raised the telescope hanging on his chest and quietly gestured to the back. The orderly soldier behind him waved a red and green triangular flag. There was a "bang" from the other side of the trench. There was a loud noise, and a black pottery pot flew out with the sound of wind and landed in the southeast corner of the Xianbei camp. Through the telescope, Zhang Liao and the captain could see clearly. The pottery pot fell to the ground and shattered, and the horse nails were like a goddess. It was scattered around like flowers, and several passing Xianbei soldiers jumped on the ground holding their feet, obviously being stabbed.
The captain made two more gestures, and the red and green flag in the hand of the orderer waved up and down twice more. The trebuchet position on the other side of the trench was busy. The first clay pot just thrown out was to explore the path. , according to the landing point of this clay pot, the trebuchet needs to be readjusted.
The adjustment time this time was very short. As the signal flag of the messenger waved again, there was another "bang" sound from the other side of the trench, but this time the noise was much louder than before. Even those hiding in the "willow forest" Zhang Liao behind felt his eardrums shaking. It's no wonder that this was his first time using a trebuchet in actual combat. In the past, at the training base, no more than twenty trebuchets were used at a time. Twenty trebuchets emitted Of course, the movement of the two thousand trebuchets cannot be compared with the movement of two hundred trebuchets. Two thousand pottery pots roared through the sky, and the sky became dark. Most of these pottery pots fell around the Xianbei camp, and a small number fell. When they arrived at the Xianbei military camp, there was a commotion. After a short pause, another wave of clay pots was thrown out, and the target was still around the Xianbei military camp.
Su Li had just sat down in the big tent when he heard a commotion outside. A soldier stumbled in and said loudly: "It's bad, the Han people have scattered many 'iron nails' around the camp."
On the road just now, Su Li had already learned from Murong Xiong's men how powerful the horse nails were. Although this thing was small, it could easily destroy their war horses. Without the war horses, the Xianbei people's combat effectiveness would probably be inferior.
Su Li, an ordinary soldier of the Yuan Army, couldn't help but turned pale in shock and said bitterly: "What a cunning Han people, hurry up, send someone out to clean up, we can't be trapped by them no matter what!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sounds outside the camp suddenly changed. Sharp whistles were mixed with the soldiers' howls and panicked shouts, telling Su Li that another big change had happened.
Su Li couldn't sit still anymore. He grabbed the scimitar in front of him and walked towards the outside of the tent. With a muffled "bang", his camp shook twice and fell down. There were hands and feet all over the place.
After dragging Su Li out of the tent, he saw a rain of stones flying in the air, and a stone bullet hit Su Li's head.
The stone bullet was only approximately spherical, and there were many tiny protrusions on its surface. These protrusions were very sharp. It hit Su Li on the forehead, as if a watermelon had been smashed open. Blood spattered everywhere on the spot, and Su Li opened his eyes wide.
With both eyes, he fell down without saying a word. Unlucky Su Li, pitiful for him, a dignified leader of Xianbei, Liaodong, died without even touching the face of the enemy.
Before the news of Su Li's death spread, there was already a chaos in the Xianbei camp. The pottery pots thrown by the Han army at first could only smash people's heads and bleed them. Although those horse nails made it difficult for them to move, they did not.
It's fatal, but the stone bullets thrown at it later will really hurt and kill it.
Faced with the sudden danger, the first reaction of the Xianbei soldiers was to look for their horses and rush out of the camp screaming. But at this time, horse nails were densely covered outside the camp, and the riders who rushed out stumbled, and the Han army
But the stone seemed to have eyes, chasing it from inside the camp to outside the camp.
The structure of the Xianbei cavalry is that every thousand people form a thousand-man team, and every ten thousand-man teams have a commander. Leaders such as Suli who are in charge of larger tribes are called adults. News of Suli's death spread quickly
After coming out, the three commanders quickly took over the command. Of course, they were not convinced by each other, so they could only command the thousands of troops under their respective command. However, the chaotic situation in the camp was alleviated to a certain extent.
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Although there was a certain organization, the three commanders did their own thing. Two of them led their men to retreat to the north, and the other commanded several thousand-man troops to launch an attack in the direction where the stone bullets were thrown.