Gao Shun didn't want to fight, so he turned around and left. Que Ji saw that half of the siege equipment he was responsible for escorting had been damaged. He couldn't help but get angry and galloped in hot pursuit. He had long forgotten the power of the Han army.
Que Ji's men originally had less than 10,000 men, but because half of them had to be divided to put out the fire, only more than 3,000 people followed Que Ji to catch up. In the battle the day before, Que Ji was defeated by the Han army's trebuchets and bows. In the hands of crossbows and infantry battle formations, he had been in the rear group just now, and his understanding of the Han cavalry was almost zero. In Queji's opinion, it was impossible for the Han cavalry to surpass those people who had lived on horseback since childhood, plus He was so angry that he completely forgot that the Han cavalry had fired rockets from a distance of 300 paces and ignited the siege equipment.
When Gao Shun saw Que Ji's troops chasing after him, he couldn't help but sneered secretly. With a slight squeeze of his legs, the horse slowed down and ran for more than half a mile. He saw Que Ji's team of Xianbei cavalry getting closer and closer to him. Then he raised the spear in his hand.
Seeing the signal sent by Gao Shun, the Han cavalry turned around one after another. The horses continued to run forward, but their bows and arrows were shot backward. Que Ji was chasing so fast that many Xianbei cavalry did not even take out their bows and arrows, let alone expect that The Han army would launch an attack at this distance, and the Xianbei cavalry rushing at the front would immediately fall in large pieces.
After the Han army's cavalry fired, their speed suddenly increased and they continued to run towards Qixian County. Without thinking, Que Ji took off his bow and shot an arrow in the direction of the Han army's departure. He had the ability to shoot vultures with a bow. A capable warrior, he did not expect that this arrow would fall into the dust, still far away from the Han cavalry.
At this time, Que Ji realized that the range of the Han army's bows and arrows was far beyond theirs. After discovering this problem, Que Ji should have led his troops to retreat. Because wars between tribes often occur on the grasslands. Since it is a war, there will always be wars. There is a victorious party and a defeated party. Both sides, who are equally skilled in riding and shooting, will adopt the tactic of riding and shooting, whether they are chasing or escaping. They often fight for a long time, but the casualties on both sides are very few. Now the bows and arrows of the Han army The shooting range is far beyond theirs, and they also adopt the tactics of riding and shooting. If they insist on catching up, it will be the same as death.
However, whether it was because he was too angry or because he was afraid that he would be punished by the leader when he returned, Que Ji actually chose to continue the pursuit.
After chasing for another half mile, the Han army counterattacked with another wave of arrows. This time the Xianbei people were on guard and used their superb riding skills to dodge left and right. The casualties were obviously much smaller, but there were still more than two hundred people. A man dropped his war horse.
Gao Shun looked back and saw that there were only about a thousand Xianbei cavalry left. He couldn't help but sneered, pulled the reins, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me and kill!"
Que Ji originally thought that the Han cavalry would just use the power of bows and arrows to escape, but he did not expect that they would turn around and fight back. Because the bows and arrows could not reach the opponent, most of the Xianbei people had already put away their bows and arrows and drew out their scimitars. At this time, it was too late to use bows and arrows, so they had to attack them with swords. The Han army also put away their bows and arrows and drew their sabers. The two cavalrymen collided fiercely.
Gao Shun had just noticed that Que Ji was the leader of the chasing Xianbei cavalry. As soon as he turned around, he drew his gun and went straight for Que Ji. Que Ji was not ambiguous, he came up to him with a scimitar and struck first. Draw a knife.
An inch long, an inch strong, especially in the formation of the two armies. Seeing Que Ji's scimitar coming at him, Gao Shun pointed his spear, gently opened the scimitar, and took advantage of the situation to drill, hitting Que Ji's horse. The horse felt pain on its head, screamed sadly, and stood up.
Que Ji's horse didn't have stirrups. When he stood up, Que Ji couldn't sit still and had to hold on to the reins desperately to prevent him from falling.
Normally, with his riding skills, he could quickly regain control of the horse. But this was a battlefield where the two armies were fighting. How could Gao Shun let him control the horse calmly? He swung the spear in his hand and drew it at the opportunity. on the back.
Que Ji roared and fell from his horse. But he was quite brave. At the moment of falling, he still slashed at Gao Shun with his knife.
It's just that Que Ji's body has lost its balance, but this sword can't use much strength. Gao Shun's spear shook, and it stabbed Que Ji's right wrist holding the knife. The scimitar flew into the air and was caught by Gao Shun. He stopped, and with a wave of his hand, he cut off Que Ji's head. This series of actions all happened in a flash of lightning. Only when Que Ji's head flew into the air did his headless body fall heavily to the ground.
Gao Shun raised the scimitar above his head and shouted: "Kill! No one will be spared!"
Although it is also a scimitar, Queji's scimitar is inlaid with many gems. It can be seen that it is used by the leader. Although many Xianbei cavalry did not see it clearly in the battle just now, but now they see the scimitar in Gao Shun's hand. , everyone knew that Que Ji had been killed, and the morale of the army was suddenly in chaos. The equipment of the Han army cavalry was originally suitable for close combat, and they often conducted close-quarters killing training. Now they used numbers to defeat the outnumbered, and in a short time, these Xianbei cavalry were defeated. They were all killed. However, the Xianbei people were very strong, and the Han cavalry also paid the price of dozens of people.
If the Han cavalry had always adopted the tactics of riding and shooting, such casualties could have been avoided, but Gao Shun always remembered those siege equipment. He knew that at most half of the sneak attack just now was destroyed, and the remaining half It could still pose a threat to Daling City. He wanted to make a comeback and destroy all the enemy's siege equipment.
Just as he was regrouping his team and preparing to set off, a rush of horse hooves suddenly came from the south. When Gao Shun raised his eyes, he saw a large cloud of smoke and dust rising, and tens of thousands of horses galloping towards him, but it was the leader who sent them. of another pursuit team.
The leader of this team was Tuoba Jun, who was attached to Jianman. This time when he sent troops to the Central Plains, the leader issued an order to recruit all young men. Although the people of the Jianman tribe were quite dissatisfied with the leader's usurpation of the throne, they He did not dare to openly disobey his orders, so he had to send troops to accompany him. Jianman was young, and the power of the tribe was actually in the hands of his mother Tuoba Ying. Jianman could not lead troops, and Tuoba Ying, as a woman, could not lead However, Tuoba Ying was worried about handing over the military power to others, so she entrusted her brother Tuoba Jun to lead the army on her behalf.
Kuitou recruited people from the Jianman tribe just to show them his "martial arts" and did not intend to let them share the benefits. So, just like punishing Que Ji, Tuoba Jun was also assigned to the rear army. He served as a Han army When the news of the sneak attack and burning of the siege equipment reached Kuitou's ears, he was furious and immediately ordered that the Han cavalry team must be destroyed, and Tuoba Jun's troops in the rear army were sent out. .
The leader thought, how many people should a cavalry team have? So he only asked Tuoba Jun to bring out half of the soldiers and horses, but the Jianman tribe was a large tribe, and half of the soldiers and horses were 20,000.
Seeing the large number of enemy soldiers, Gao Shun knew that it was no longer possible to go back and burn the siege equipment. He immediately turned his horse and ran towards Qixian. Along the way, he kept a distance of about 300 steps from the Xianbei cavalry, riding and shooting.
Effectively kill the enemy.
Outside Daling City, Kuitou ordered the city to be surrounded on all sides and ordered the remaining siege equipment to be pushed forward.
Seeing the Xianbei cavalry moving towards the east and west, Zhang Liao, who was standing on the tower of the north gate of Daling City, waved his hand gently and passed an order. The south gate of Daling City suddenly opened, and the cavalry who had just withdrawn into the city
Mount the horse again, rush out of the south gate, and leave. Although defending the city requires a large number of manpower, the best battlefield for the cavalry is in the wilderness, and they should go to the place that suits them best.
The siege equipment Yuan Shao gave to Kuitou was not much, and half of it was burned by Gao Shun. It was impossible to attack the four gates at the same time. Therefore, Kuitou divided his troops into the other three gates just to surround the Han army.
Within the city, his real attack was only concentrated on the south gate.
The Xianbei army formation under the city slowly separated, and the siege equipment was pushed forward by the forcibly recruited civilians. The people sent by Yuan Shao were instructing the Xianbei people on how to use these equipment. Suddenly, there was a "bang" on the top of the city.
An experienced warrior can hear the sound of a bow string. However, this sound is very loud, hundreds of times louder than the sound of an ordinary bow string, but it is different from the sound of hundreds of bows pulling together.
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Just when everyone looked at the city gate in surprise, they saw a "spear" coming through the air and hitting a car facing the city gate. In fact, it was not a spear, but a spear like a long spear.
The crossbow arrows were as thick as spears. The crossbow arrows were fast and powerful. They were shot on the shaft of the ram. With a "bang", the ram suddenly fell apart.
The ram is an important siege equipment. It has a huge log installed on it, which is used to hit the city gate. The log is thick and hard and cannot be lifted by human power alone, let alone used to hit it.
For the city gate, the log must be mounted on a cart and the wheels used to move it back and forth. Now that the cart is falling apart, the log is of no use.
This kind of crossbow arrows are fired by the bed crossbow. The bed crossbow is actually a very ancient long-range weapon that can be used to defend or attack the city. In the past, the bed crossbow was not used much by the Han army.
Because in terms of siege, its power is
It was not as powerful as the trebuchet, and the Han army's cities under Liu Xin's control were rarely attacked. This time Liu Xin dispatched Zhang Liao's troops to march into the counties of Daling to prevent the Xianbei army from going south, and specially allocated all the crossbows in the institute's inventory.
Gave it to them.
Kuitou had never seen a bed crossbow, and he didn't know that there was such a weapon in the world. In his opinion, it was just a special spear. Someone threw the spear from the top of the city and destroyed the ramrod.
This judgment made the leader feel frightened for the first time. You must know that they have not started to attack the city yet, and the rush car is still parked in the distance.
Six hundred steps away from the city wall. If someone could really throw a spear so far from the top of the city without losing its power, how strong would this person be? With such a god-like figure guarding the top of the city,
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