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Only in this way can the strategic goal of "obtaining the greatest benefit at the least cost" be achieved, so Mongolia can conquer a large area of ​​land with a mere hundreds of thousands of horses.

Although the Huns at this time said that their cavalry tactics were immature, they still knew how to use the tactics learned from hunting.

For example, what they let go of is the north side, which is of no benefit to the Qin army... If the Qin army really wanted to break through from this side, it would be right in its hands.

Shen Bing turned his head and said to Wang Ben:

"Have you remembered all of them?"

Wang Ben nodded and sighed:

"My subordinates also said that only the Central Plains can talk about the art of war, and only when I saw it today did I know that the Xiongnu have surpassed everything!"

Shen Bing didn't answer.

Although there are not many Xiongnu military tactics, they are all born out of nature and are very practical. For example, they are accustomed to using interspersed tactics, dividing and encircling, as well as breaking the whole into parts, breaking parts into wholes and preserving strength, etc., which are regarded as treasures in modern times. Tried and tested.

Since contacting the Huns cavalry these days, Wang Ben and the Shenwu Army have learned a lot of tactics, and even used the opportunity to fight against the harassment of the Huns to practice cavalry while marching.

There is a saying that "the battlefield is the best school". When the Shenwu Army competes with the strongest cavalry and learns under the pressure of life and death, its rapid progress is no longer comparable to that of the Central Plains cavalry.

After waiting for a while, Shen Bing ordered:

"Back to the Yellow River and shrink the line of defense!"

The messenger responded, took the command flag and rode away:

"Back to the Yellow River and shrink the line of defense!"

"Back to the Yellow River and shrink the line of defense!"

……

So the Qin army compressed to the center and retreated slightly to the south.

Qin Jun's action felt ominous in Mao Dun's eyes.

Mao Dun has studied the tactics of the Central Plains, and he knows that this does not conform to the combat habits and principles of the Central Plains.

This is not difficult to understand.

Every encircled army is extremely taboo about the lack of combat space, because this will cause people to crowd into a pile and cannot exert their due combat effectiveness.

Therefore, when you are surrounded, you should try your best to hold your own position and expand outward.

In this way, we can not only win the living space for our own side, but also find the loopholes in the enemy's encirclement in order to break through.

Now Qin Jun is doing the opposite... Does this mean that Qin Jun has something to rely on?

Or did the Qin army have other strategies to defeat the enemy?

Mouton was right.

The reason why Shen Bing wants to shrink the line of defense is, on the one hand, because he has the "thunderbolt fireball" in his hand, so he doesn't worry about "exploding" and not opening up his living space.

In fact, Shen Bing was not worried about being surrounded by the Huns from the beginning to the end, he was worried that the Huns would not be surrounded.

On this basis, Shen Bing certainly dared to shrink the line of defense when surrounded.

On the other hand, Shen Bing shrunk the line of defense to make the Xiongnu more dense... The Qin army's line of defense shrank, and the Hun cavalry surrounding the Qin army also shrunk, so the formation became denser.

The denser the Huns, the more effective the "thunderbolt fireball" will be, or the greater the effect.

But Touman Shanyu didn't think of this.

At this time, Touman Shanyu was watching triumphantly as his cavalry marched towards the Qin army step by step like a tide.

When the Qin army ordered to shrink the line of defense, Touman Shanyu took it for granted that the Qin army was on the defensive because of the lack of crossbow arrows... When dealing with the cavalry, the infantry did shrink the line of defense and took a defensive position, because the infantry had to form a dense array of spears and shields.

This made Touman Shanyu feel that the situation of the battle was settled, and he planned to watch the scene of the warriors under his tent massacring the Qin army, so he took his personal guards to a mound a few miles away to watch the battle situation by the river from a distance.

What Touman Shanyu didn't expect was that Shen Bing was following his actions.

Shen Bing looked around and saw a small group of cavalry troops in the open space to the north, well-organized and independent from the Huns' army.

Don't think about it, it must be the leader of the Huns.

So without any hesitation, Wang Ben ordered:

"Did you see a group of Hun cavalry on the mound?"

"After the war started, lead thousands of people to quickly take it down, regardless of life or death!"

Chapter 335 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Before the Qin army could set up their positions, the Xiongnu blew a long horn.

Then several directions responded as if they were answering, and a trombone shot through the void like a sharp arrow at the Qin army, making the soldiers of the Qin army nervous and ready for battle.

Standing on a chariot, Wei Wei looked in the direction of the Huns and shouted:

"Open the crossbow!"

The orderly immediately raised his banner and shouted:

"Open the crossbow!"

Just hearing the sound of "crash", the soldiers of the Qin army bent down uniformly and exhausted all their strength to prop up the crossbow and install the crossbow arrows.

Wang Ben holds a bow and arrow in his hand, puts on his rattan armor mask with his right hand, and raises his hand backwards, and immediately a team of thousands of people divides into two rows and follows behind.

Li Jian waved the command flag to get all the Shenwu Army units ready to attack.

Li Jian was a Marquis of the Black Armor Army together with Chen Duan at the beginning. After Chen Duan died in Ruyin City, he was replaced by Wang Ben, and Li Jian became Wang Ben's deputy.

At this time, Wang Ben had the task of beheading, and Li Jian, the commander of the Shenwu Army, commanded and cooperated with Wang Ben's troops to attack.

Shen Bing looked back, and gave orders to Ren and other personal guards:

"Protect your son!"

The personal guards and others reined in their horses and prepared to meet the enemy before and after Fusu's carriage.

The carriage that Fusu rode in was specially made by Shen Bingrang Cang. It was made of double-layered elm wood, and a layer of rattan armor was added between the interlayers, even the roof was no exception.

Cang once suggested using iron sheets in the interlayer, but Shen Bing did not adopt it.

The reason is that the maneuvering speed of the carriage needs to be considered. The double layer of elm wood is already thick enough, but with the iron sheet in the middle, it may not be able to drag four horses.

Or even if it can drag, it can't run fast. What should I do if Fusu is in a state of being chased by the enemy?

From this point of view, add rattan armor with interlaced warp and weft in the interlayer and clamp it tightly, so that the hardness of elm wood and the toughness of rattan armor can be combined.

Fusu at this time can be said to be the hope for the development of the Northland, but Shen Bing dare not be careless at all.

Then the Xiongnu launched an attack on the Qin army.

The Xiongnu's attack this time is a bit different from the previous ones. In addition to shooting arrows at the Qin army in circles as before, they also sent some small teams to rush towards the Qin army's phalanx with lasso... When they reached a certain distance, they threw the lasso Then turn the horse's head and leave.

It was only later that I learned that the other ends of the nooses were tied to the horses. Once a soldier of the Qin Army was put on, they would be dragged out of the phalanx and dragged along behind the horses screaming.

This can be regarded as a housekeeping skill of the nomads.

But after all, it is only small-scale and has no effect, and these close-up Huns riders are easily shot and killed by the Qin army's crossbow arrows.

It's just that the Qin army still didn't do anything... Shen Bing hadn't given the order yet, and they were all waiting, even though waves of the Huns' arrows had fallen into the Qin army's phalanx, causing casualties.

Shen Bing is waiting for the Huns to turn the circle away and speed up, which means that more Huns will join the battle group... Shen Bing has never forgotten the goal of this battle: to kill and wound the enemy's vital forces as much as possible.

After a while, the battle formation of the Huns became bigger and bigger, and the arrows they shot became faster and denser.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Shen Bing immediately ordered:

"Go to battle!"

The orderly shouted:

"Go to battle!"

As soon as the battle flag was waved, the war drum sounded "rumbling", and the sound was dense and sharp drums.

Qin Jun, who was still as quiet as a virgin, launched a counterattack in an instant.

To be more precise, Qin Jun is like a wolf in sheep's clothing. At this time, he took off the sheep's clothing to reveal bloodthirsty eyes and gleaming fangs, and fiercely pounced on the prey that fell into the trap in front of him...

The first to play a role is the infantry's crossbow.

With Wei Xing shouting loudly, the pawns pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrows went straight towards the Xiongnu like locusts amidst the sound of bowstrings.

Where the crossbow arrows fell, one by one Hun riders could be seen screaming and falling off their horses.

The arrows fired by the three-bow bed crossbow stumbled a group of enemy cavalry.

But at this time, the Huns seem to have a way to deal with the cable arrows. They have already arranged several teams of soldiers to wait under the horses with shields. Once they find the cable arrows, they will cut them off, and then someone will quickly pull the rope away from the other end. In order not to become a hindrance to the cavalry again.

This is indeed a way to deal with Suojian, at least it will not make the Hun cavalry unable to attack.

But the Xiongnu never imagined... what they have to face at this time is not just the arrow.

As soon as the attack was ordered, more than a hundred chariots lined up in the Shenwu Army launched the "thunderbolt fireball" that ignited the fuze into the Xiongnu cavalry group with a "teng".

The Xiongnu cavalry didn't know what it was, so they didn't take it seriously, and still shouted and rode their horses to shoot arrows at the Qin army.

then……

There was a chaotic sound of "boom, boom", thick smoke, barbed wire and caltrops flying in all directions, and the neighing of horses and the sound of people were all in chaos.

The Huns cavalry, who were circling at high speed, were disconnected from each explosion point as if blocked by an invisible big hand.

Some Huns were blown up with their men and horses, and all the men and horses were trampled into a piece of mud by the friendly troops who rushed up afterwards.

The stomachs of some horses were cut open by the caltrops... The caltrops are shot from the bottom up, and the belly of the horse is the weakest and unprotected part, so it is easy to be scratched.

Pained and frightened, he no longer ran around under the control of the knight.

Some war horses were frightened by the "thunderbolt fireball" and threw the rider off the horse...

No matter what the reason is, if you fall off your horse under these circumstances, you will be trampled into flesh by the following cavalry immediately.

What's more serious... Many frightened horses ran wildly and rushed into the Huns' cavalry in reverse, causing a chain of horse-ramming incidents immediately.

The originally orderly Xiongnu offensive became the scene of a "car accident" in a blink of an eye.

Of course Qin Jun would not let go of this opportunity, and rushed towards the Huns who were stunned on the spot with a loud shout.

The chariots even fired "thunderbolt fireballs" one after another towards places where there were many Huns, only to explode with screams and wailing everywhere.

Many of them didn't know what the sky-shattering noise was, and they were frightened stupid at the first time, and they didn't even have the courage to disperse and escape, so they just circled around in place...

This is actually a kind of deterrence. At the same time, most of the Xiongnu soldiers originally had the mentality of winning but suddenly turned into a crushing defeat. They had no time to adjust their mental state, so they didn't even think of running away.

The next battle becomes easier.

The Qin army swarmed up, with crossbow arrows and knives and guns, and ruthlessly knocked down the Huns one by one.

Wang Ben led a team of thousands of people to fight out... The thunderbolt chariot was strengthened by one for each village, and the thousand men led by Wang Ben had [-] chariots.

These chariots fired "thunderbolt fireballs" all the way forward, almost relying on them to blast a gap in the encirclement of the Huns.

Then Wang Ben and others forced their way out of the gap and went straight to the mound pointed by Shen Bing.

At this time, Touman Shanyu was still in a daze, and even the horse under him was frightened by the explosion and circled anxiously.

After Touman Shanyu stabilized his horse and took a look, he saw that the battlefield was in a terrible mess, and there was still a team of Qin cavalry fighting out of it like steel knives and heading straight to his position...

Chapter 336 The Death of Touman

Touman Shanyu was shocked and immediately ordered to retreat.

The guards reacted immediately. One team drew out their scimitars to meet them, while the other team protected Touman Shanyu and retreated... This is the standard action of the guards. There was basically no hope of catching up with Tou Manchanyu.

This is true.

The Xiongnu cavalry who came to stop Wang Ben were not only masters of riding and archery, but also good at close combat with scimitars. Thunderbolt fireballs overturned a group, but still hundreds of people rushed into the formation to block the way of Wang Ben and his party.

It is very troublesome for the enemy cavalry to enter one's own camp, because at this time, the bow and arrow and the thunderbolt fireball have no effect, and they can only escape by cutting them over with knives and guns.

Faced with this situation, Wang Ben had no choice but to watch Touman Shanyu go further and further away.

But at this moment, a group of frightened horses suddenly slanted into Touman Shanyu's cavalry, immediately causing Touman Shanyu's cavalry to become a mess, and many riders were knocked off their horses, including Touman Shanyu.