The 129,000 Yuan army formed a strict square formation and slowly chased the Maodun army leaving Jiuyuan City. ( .)
The generals of the Jiuyuan Army who left the city knew very well that Mao Dun obviously wanted to break through Jiuyuan City. The reason why he chose to give up the siege of Jiuyuan City was precisely because Jiuyuan City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Mao Dun did not want to bear the loss. He left.
Going north to Jiuyuan City was just a deliberate move by Mao Dun.
With the speed of the Huns cavalry, the journey of more than thirty miles only took half an hour. I am afraid that the Jiuyuan Army had already received the news just after they left the city, and now the Huns army had begun to turn around and rush towards Jiuyuan City.
Coming.
Therefore, Li Gang and other generals of the Jiuyuan Army who left the city were not in a hurry at all.
Mao Dun abandoned the city and went north just to force the Jiuyuan Army to leave the city. Now that the Jiuyuan Army has left the city, there is no need to rush to chase the Huns. The Huns will naturally come to them.
Sure enough, the Jiuyuan Army formation moved slowly. Not even half an hour later, the ground began to tremble slightly, and the roar of thunder came from the northern sky. In less than a moment, the overwhelming Huns cavalry appeared in the north.
on the horizon.
At this time, 129,000 soldiers of the original army had just left Jiuyuan City and were less than ten miles away.
Seeing the densely packed Hun cavalry appearing at the end of their sight, the Jiuyuan Army did not stop advancing immediately, but continued to meet the Hun cavalry.
What Mao Dun was waiting for was for the Jiuyuan Army to leave the city, but what he didn't expect was that the Jiuyuan Army had just come out less than fifty miles away from Jiuyuan City. Obviously, the Jiuyuan Army was absolutely unwilling to let his hundreds of thousands of cavalry enter.
Yunzhong, from several counties in Yanmen.
The roar of the Hun cavalry's hoofs changed from rolling thunder to a loud roar. More than 400,000 Hun cavalry formed a huge half-moon and surrounded the infantry phalanx of the Nine Plains Army that appeared in the wilderness.
More than 400,000 cavalry charged. As far as the eye could see, the entire land was basically covered by the Huns all over the mountains and plains, and countless war horses galloped. The momentum was magnificent and the momentum was shocking.
The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army walking in the wilderness could clearly feel that the entire earth was shaking. And the trembling gradually turned into shaking as the Hun cavalry approached, and finally gave people the feeling that the whole world was shaking.
In just a moment, the Hun cavalry, which was originally the size of a fingernail, had grown into the size of a normal human being. The distance between the two sides was now less than five miles.
"Dong dong dong!"
The dull sound of war drums suddenly sounded from the center of the slowly marching Jiuyuan Army.
As the war drums sounded, the slowly advancing three Nine Plains Army infantry phalanxes of 80,000 infantrymen stopped in unison. The Qin Army soldiers in the three infantry phalanxes immediately closed tightly into a huge
Strictly organize the square formation.
Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled sound of "bang bang bang". Twenty thousand infantrymen of the Jiuyuan Army, holding giant shields more than one foot high, crossed the formation and put down their huge phalanx around this huge square formation composed of 80,000 Qin Army infantry.
A large shield wrapped in iron.
In just a moment, a steel city wall composed entirely of giant shields more than one foot high appeared on the outermost edge of the Jiuyuan Army's infantry phalanx. The infantry phalanx was tightly surrounded by this steel city wall.
As soon as the big shields were placed, the spearmen holding spears and spears stepped forward and got close behind the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army holding huge shields, using spears, spears and other weapons more than three feet long to deal with the cavalry charge.
The tail of the spear was inserted diagonally into the soil, and the body stood on its side, holding the spear tightly in its arms with both hands. Let the sharp spear tip or the spear head point toward the sky through the gap deliberately left in the middle of the giant shield.
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The infantry phalanx of the Nine Plains Army, which was originally surrounded by a giant shield as if covered with a layer of turtle shell, turned into a giant hedgehog with a domineering appearance, with sharp spears and spears in just a short time.
The head shone with a frightening cold light in the sun.
The elite cavalry of the 49,000 Yuan Army who had been slowly riding behind the three infantry phalanxes of the Nine Yuan Army, after the integration of the 89,000 Yuan Army, passed by Li Gang, Meng Shi, and Zhao Zhan.
Under the leadership, everyone started to move.
However, the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army did not go towards the rushing Hun cavalry. Instead, they turned their horses and headed towards the direction of Jiuyuan City. It seemed that they had abandoned the 80,000 infantry and wanted to return to the city.
The 40,000 fine cavalry left in a short time and disappeared without a trace.
The Hun cavalry formed a huge half-moon arc and surrounded the infantry of the Nine Plains Army arrayed in the wilderness. The horse speed in the middle part obviously slowed down, while the Hun cavalry on both wings were beating their crotches desperately.
The war horses obviously wanted to surround the 80,000 Qin army infantry.
They were not worried at all that the Jiuyuan Army who dared to leave the city could escape. The difference between two legs and four legs could be understood with just a toe. Who could outrun whom? Instead, the Xiongnu barbarians hoped that the Jiuyuan Army could escape.
After all, the fleeing soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army will not be able to form a complete battle formation. Once the Qin army does not have a battle formation and fights independently, facing the overwhelming Xiongnu cavalry that is at least five times the size of the Jiuyuan Army, the entire army will basically be destroyed.
Can go.
The distance of more than ten miles is just the blink of an eye.
The Hun cavalry spread all over the mountains and plains. Except for the two wings, which were farther away because they had to circle around to outflank the Jiuyuan Army, the concave part of the Hun cavalry in the middle was already less than five or six miles away from the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army.
In the hedgehog-shaped infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army, the war drums have never stopped. Every time the drum beats, the blood of the Jiuyuan Army soldiers boils. Looking at the Hun cavalry getting closer and closer, the majestic battle in my heart is
Desires cannot be suppressed.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
I don’t know who took the lead in shouting these three words. At first, there were only a few shouts, and then it turned into an earth-shattering shout that made the whole army roar. The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army beat their chests hard with their copper swords.
Wearing armor, they all shouted three words of "kill"!
The clash of weapons and armor, and the murderous shouts, suddenly resounded throughout the entire world, drowning out the overwhelming roar of horse hooves.
The murderous aura that soared to the sky reached its peak at this moment!
Visible to the naked eye, as the shouts suddenly erupted from the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army, the Hun cavalry running at the front and closest to the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army were at least several in this huge sound.
The ten cavalrymen stumbled and fell to the ground because their horses were frightened. The Hun cavalry on horseback didn't even have time to scream in agony before they were trampled to pieces by countless Hun cavalry following closely behind.
The Jiuyuan Army didn't care about all this at all, because at this time, the originally steady sound of the war drums began to become rapid, and they sounded like big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate, one after another.
All around the strict Jiuyuan Army's steel hedgehog phalanx, hundreds of passages several feet wide were suddenly opened. Carriages pulling large continuous-firing crossbows came out of the cleared passages and appeared on all four sides.
The perimeter of the square hedgehog phalanx.
A total of two hundred large-scale repeating crossbows!
Thousands of soldiers from the Nine Plains Army quickly unloaded the large repeating crossbow machine from the carriage, then led the horses pulling the carriage into the phalanx, and placed the two hundred empty carriages end to end, forming a phalanx.
The surrounding perimeter cannot block the place where the large continuous-fire crossbow is launched.
Although there were not many of these carriages, they could still serve as the first obstacle to the Hun cavalry charge.
While thousands of soldiers were orderly debugging large-scale repeating crossbows, thousands more soldiers of the Nine Plains Army rushed out from the cracked passage in the phalanx. These soldiers all wore deerskin gloves in their hands, and each of them carried a
A seemingly heavy sack.
These soldiers ran very fast until they were a hundred steps away from the phalanx. Then they took out handfuls of copper nails, copper thorns and other things that could damage the hoofs of horses and block the cavalry charge from their sacks, and randomly threw them on the ground.
In the wilderness.
At this moment, the Hun cavalry is less than four miles away from the infantry phalanx of the Nine Plains Army. In a few moments, they will be within the range of the large continuous-firing crossbow machine!
But no matter whether it was the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army debugging the large continuous-firing crossbows, the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army spraying copper thorns, or the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army arrayed in formation, no one panicked, and they even seemed not to hear that at all.
The deafening roar of horse hooves.
Debugging crossbows, debugging crossbows, throwing thorns, and arrays. The only difference is that there is a flame brewing and burning in the eyes of every soldier of the Nine Plains Army!
The Jiuyuan Army has never been afraid of fighting and killing, and has never been afraid of the Huns and barbarians. This was vividly demonstrated at this moment.
Three miles!
Thousands of the Jiuyuan Army who rushed to throw away copper thorns and other objects a hundred steps away quickly threw away the copper thorns and other objects in the sacks, then turned around and ran towards the phalanx without looking back.
They were not afraid of the incoming Huns cavalry, but they were worried that they themselves would block the display of large-scale repeating crossbows. Not being afraid of the Huns did not mean that they were willing to be shot into pieces by their own people.
Two miles!
At this distance, the soldiers on the outermost edge of the Jiuyuan Army's formation could even see the ferocious eyes of the Hun cavalry rushing towards them. After the left and right wings of the Hun cavalry circled a small semicircle, they were about to complete the attack on the 89,000 Yuan Army.
of encirclement.
Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry, the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army did not show any emotion on the faces of the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army except for the rumbling war drums that sounded more urgently.
No commotion, no fear, no timidity.
It seems that what we are facing is not hundreds of thousands of Huns barbarians, but just a few wild dogs.
One thousand eight hundred steps!
One thousand six hundred steps!
"Bang Bang!"
Continuous dull banging sounds sounded one after another from all around the infantry square formation of the Jiuyuan Army!
The thick crossbow arrow, which was more than ten feet long, with a sharp whistling sound, instantly crossed the 800-meter distance and penetrated into the dense group of Huns cavalry!
Amidst the deafening sound of horse hooves, you could not hear any screams of the Huns! Because they were either dead the moment they were pierced by the giant crossbow arrows, or they were pierced by the crossbow arrows and fell off their horses and fell to the ground. They were followed closely.
Countless Huns cavalry were trampled to death!
Hundreds of giant crossbow arrows plowed out hundreds of blood grooves in the dense group of Huns cavalry! (To be continued...)
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