sweeping the world

Chapter 565 One Han Arrives Ten Hu
Li Hong's Han army gave up after chasing and killing the collapsed Rouran cavalry just a little bit, because some peripheral scouts issued a warning with wolf smoke, and several groups of Hulu cavalry were approaching quickly.

Now is not the time to calculate the results of the battle. Even the head-cutting, which the Han army is very fond of, only cut off a few parts.

Seeing that Li Hong's goal of stimulating the Hu people had been achieved, he did not directly lead his army back to the valley, but continued marching southeast.

About two quarters of an hour later, a group of barbarian cavalry arrived at the battlefield just now. After they arrived, they dismounted directly. What they did on the battlefield was to collect interesting and usable things, and they did not clean up the corpses.

In the battle on the grassland, after the fight, unless there are some people who are related by blood, otherwise no one will bother to clean up the dead bodies of the dead, and they will let them be exposed.

Just less than a quarter of an hour after the fight, many vultures appeared on the battlefield after the fight. They ignored the arrival of living people, leisurely destroying the human body with their sharp peckers, pecking off a piece of fresh meat. It will raise its neck and "gulu" and swallow it into its stomach.

Not only vultures, some carnivorous birds and animals are also active in the ruins after the battle, but except for vultures, they are still afraid of living people. After the barbarian cavalry appeared, most of the "corpse eaters" left.

Liga has long been used to animals eating dead bodies. What he wants to know most is whether the people can find something useful.

The Rouran Tribal Alliance is relatively primitive, and primitiveness indicates directness in pursuit. For most of the Rouran Tribe leaders, Bati wants to participate in an alliance of kings, and they don't care at all.

The tribal leaders in Rouran only care about one thing: what kind of benefits can they get from that alliance, and they have to be the kind of benefits that can be seen and obtained quickly.

"Dear Qi Lifa, we searched all over the battlefield, but the Han army only left some dead horses behind, and couldn't find the rest."

The biggest one in Rouran is of course the Khan, and there are many official positions under him. Tilifa, also known as Tunnifa, has a high position.

In fact, the title of Khan is the "new generation". The supreme rulers of all ethnic groups on the grassland were called Shanyu, which is a legacy of the Xiongnu system.Waiting for Rouran to replace the Xiongnu as the new overlord of the grassland, and Khan to replace Shanyu as the supreme ruler, is tantamount to the beginning of another era.

Starting from Rouer, there has been no Shanyu title on the grassland since then, and the later generations of Turks, Khitans, Mongolians, etc., all use the title of Khan. As for Shanyu, go to hell.

Rouran not only had an influence on the title of Khan, but the official position system they established also affected the grassland tribes for generations. The official titles would change, but the responsibilities were basically the same.

The reason why the Rouran culture has influenced the grassland tribes for many generations is quite simple. The Turks who emerged later adopted a system similar to that of the Han Dynasty that inherited the Qin Dynasty. The Turks almost completely adopted the system of the Rouran people, and the Turks were once powerful enough for the inheritance to be passed down. If we continue, we have to say that the grassland nomads are not creative. If there is a ready-made one that can be used, we don't want to waste that brain.

"Didn't it mean that the Han people are very rich?" Li Jia hurried over, just to be the first to clean up the battlefield: "Could it be those southerners who deceived us?"

It is not a problem for the Rouran people to call the Xianbei and other Hu tribes southerners, just as Donggaoche called the Rouran people southerners.This is determined by its own geographical location.

"We..." Liga was about to speak, but he caught a long black line appearing on the distant horizon from the corner of his eye. He squinted his eyes as hard as he could and asked, "Are there any of our people in the southeast?"

No one could answer Liga's question.

Many Hulu learned that the Han army was approaching the old site of Langjuxu Mountain. Bati intended to show force and temporarily terminate the alliance to attack. Of course, the other kings would not object.

The surrounding area of ​​Langjuxu Mountain is now the territory of the Rouran people. There are quite a few tribes. Without the premise of remote communication, no one knows how many tribes will find that the Han army will come to intercept them. There were quite a lot of teams dispatched on the side, and it was hard to tell if they were one of our own when they were far away.

Li Jia didn't bother to think too much, and followed the command of the commander's instinct: "Let people gather."

The sound of ox horns was blown, and the Rouran people, who had not gained much, approached each other cursingly. They didn't pay much attention to the appearance of a large group of people in the distance.

The Rouran people are famously believed by surrounding ethnic groups to have only muscles and no brains. They can suffer losses repeatedly on the same thing, but they don't remember it long after they suffer losses.Donggaoche and Rouran are at war. Both sides are relatively inexperienced peoples. They rely on experience and head-on confrontation to do everything. The Rouran people have the upper hand in the confrontation because they are stronger than Donggaoche in terms of force.

On the horizon in the distance is the Han army. After Li Hong marched southeast, he discovered that there were tens of thousands of unknown troops in the southeast direction.

There were only so many Han troops on the grassland, and Xie Ai led the main force near the valley. For Li Hong, the Han army, "unknown" meant hostility.

Li Hong didn't want to lead his troops to break out to the southeast. He was just cruising in the vast grassland. Follow behind your own ass.

"It's the Rouran Cavalry again." Li Hong has a telescope, and the advantage of the viewing distance is not the 01:30 point: "There are no other enemy troops within thirty miles, so you can do one more job!"

The grassland is really flat. It depends on the number of people and the distance at which the two parties can find each other. Generally speaking, if the number exceeds a certain level, special terrain is needed to hide.

Liga instinctively gathered his troops. They didn't know what formation to put in, they just gathered in a loose pile. The most remarkable thing was probably that they all stayed on horseback.

The Han army had uniform uniforms, which was probably the only one among the Eastern countries and forces. When they came within ten miles of the Rouran cavalry in Lijia, they began to accelerate slowly.

Shili looked at it with the naked eye, but it was still blurry. Lijia realized that something was wrong because the arriving team did not act according to the etiquette of the grassland.

When two teams meet on the grassland, no one can interfere with what the other is doing when the distance is still far away, but when the distance between the two sides is close enough, neither side can let the speed soar, fast speed is a battle that is about to break out.There is such a custom because there is no shortage of horses in the tribes of the grassland. The fighting on the grassland is the battle between the cavalry. Instead of slowing down, they speed up. It doesn't mean that there is hostility.

Li Jia shouted "drive", patted the horse's belly with his legs, and waited for the mount to move before shouting: "Enemy attack!"

On the other side, Li Hong, who was observing with a telescope, was already happy because he saw a relatively distinctive large banner.

The banner is a dancing tool made of feathers or an ornament on the emperor's chariot. It is the banner of the army or guard of honor in ancient times. All ethnic groups will have similar things. After the civilization of the Chinese Miao descendants develops to a certain level, the feathers of the banner will be woven Items replaced by other items, but the nomadic people's 纛 has always retained its original characteristics.

There are quite a few grades of banners, the more gorgeous the banner is, the more noble or powerful the holder is, and the gorgeousness is reflected in what kind of animal skins and feathers are used to make the banner.

Li Hong didn't know the difference between official positions in the Rouran Tribal Alliance, but he knew that the more special the big banner of the Hu people, the higher the status. He originally attacked with excitement, but he would become excited when he found the big fish. The opponent only had more than 6000 cavalry, and the opponent had at least [-]. He didn't think there was any problem.

The Han army was accelerating, but it did not let go of the gallop. Only commanders who did not understand cavalry would foolishly accelerate at full speed far away from the enemy. If they really waited to engage their own horses, they would be at a physical disadvantage.

War horses need to warm up to a certain extent before fighting. The Han army has been cruising and has finished warming up early.Those who know how to command cavalry in combat and those who don't, some subtle differences in control will determine the degree of combat effectiveness a cavalry army can exert. Li Hong believed that he knew how to command cavalry, and would only move when he saw that the enemy was within four miles of his own side. Standing up, a smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Liga hesitated.Of course he knew that he had come from a long way, and he stayed at the same place for about fifteen minutes. The horse went on the road for a while, and after the rest, the horse's sweat was dried. It was very difficult to get into a state suitable for fighting again.The reason why he hesitated was that it was difficult to judge the endurance of the mounts of the Han army, including how high the speed could gallop for how long.

[The enemy army is about [-]...] Li Jia has been able to see a little bit what the Han army looks like: [Sure enough, they are very rich, all of them are shining! 】

The so-called shining means that the sunlight is reflected from the light source on the smooth plate armor.The plate armor is a dark silver color, and the rest of the joints are a dark copper color, which will reflect the light of metal under sufficient sunlight.

Whether there are metal minerals underground in the grassland is the same to the nomads. They have no exploration technology, and even if they are lucky enough to find open-pit mines, they have no smelting technology. As a result, the nomads on the grassland have always been in an extreme shortage of metals. state.

[It seems...will be caught up soon? ] Liga has sufficient experience in cavalry battles, and he also became greedy for the shiny Han army: [I have [-] cavalry, and the Han army only has about [-]?Even if it's a disadvantage in speed, if four hit one, even if the loss is heavier, there's no reason why they can't beat it! 】

Metals, metals that have been made into armor and weapons, Rouran's desire for them is infinite, so big that Ren Jia is willing to exchange at least 1 people.He also thought of one thing, there are several friendly troops approaching in the surrounding area, so it's not just [-] against thousands, reinforcements will appear after a long time, and they think they should fight.

However, Lijia did not directly collide with the incoming Han army. He had more than 3000 men collide with each other. The rest of the cavalry went around and used more time to adjust the condition of the horses.

The more than 3000 people sent out were the death squads in Lijia's eyes. They didn't expect to get many kills, but simply used the fighting to slow down the speed of the Han army.His knowledge also determined one point, that is, he didn't expect that the Death Squad could disrupt the Han army's formation to some extent, all because Rouran didn't know there was such a thing as formation at all.

The fight between the two sides started with shooting arrows at each other. The difference was that the crossbow arrows fired by the Han army had a far enough range, but none of the arrows fired by the Rouran cavalry could touch the Han army.After the exchange of shots, the two sides immediately entered the stage of close combat. The cavalrymen staggered with each other, and inevitably some cavalrymen would directly collide with each other. The scene was quite chaotic.

After all, they are all fighting at a high speed, so the cavalry fights at a fast pace, but the fast pace does not mean that the final victory can be determined in a short time. On the contrary, after the cavalry fights, unless one side retreats immediately, otherwise It is difficult to decide victory or defeat in an instant.

Li Hong found that the front became empty, and without looking back he pointed the sword in his hand at the large bamboo pole not far away.

The bursts of horns sounded in "Woo-woo--", which was the order for the Han army to charge again.

Li Jia, who was on the periphery, felt like he was scared to death. He had tried his best to observe just now. The three thousand death cavalry sent out were just intertwined with each other. There were no more than five hundred who could survive and wait to penetrate each other. The remaining daredevil cavalry didn't know whether they were dizzy or what, they broke up after piercing each other.

[The loss of the Han army...will not exceed two hundred? ] Li Jia was shocked by this. He even found out: [Some of the Han troops turned back to the battlefield, and they were actually picking up the dead on their own side? 】

As long as the Han army has the opportunity, they will definitely bring back the body of Pao Ze who died in battle. Getting back the equipment is secondary, and sending Pao Ze to the Hall of Valor is the main thing.For every Han soldier, earning military merits while alive is rewarded, and returning to the Hall of Valor after death can also enjoy incense. It is best for the ashes to be placed in the Hall of Valor.Everyone wants to bring back their ashes after death, and no one can guarantee that they will not die in battle. Of course, they hope to lead by example and do their best to take away the body of Paoze who died in battle.

Li Hong was going to attack the big banner, but when he caught sight of the beacon fire in the distance, he yelled unhappily: "Turn around, leave!"

If you can kill the important figures of the enemy army, you must kill them. If you can’t kill them, don’t hesitate. Cavalrymen are most afraid of being greedy.

Li Jia soon discovered that the Han army was making a detour. The next moment he saw the inexplicable smoke, and kept shouting with a ferocious face: "Bite, must bite, kill them all, and steal all their armor and weapons!"

That's right, what Rouran people want is those shiny standard equipment.

……Dividing line……

There was a bug previously. The contemporary Rouran Khan should be Bati, not Tuhazhen.Bati is the son of Tunugou.

(End of this chapter)