Hanhou

After resting all night, just after dawn, more than a thousand Han riders jumped on their horses and continued to march towards Yanmen County.

The Han army did not clear the camp, but divided into two teams, tied branches behind the horses, and dragged them all the way, trying to disturb the sight of the pursuers.But it is also clear that such means may not be very effective.

Things have developed to the present, anyone with a long brain can guess the direction of Hanqi's progress.

After traveling for several miles, the two teams met by a dry river.

As the scouts said, the further south you go, the more frequent the rangers appear.Judging from their actions, the Xiongnu army is not far away.

The only good news is that the pursuers are still left behind, unable to catch up for a while.This provides precious time for Hanqi to take a short break after a long run and take a little breather.

Even if you are determined to head-to-head, in the process of charging, you also need to pay attention to strategy.

There were at least [-] Xiongnu blocking the way, and the Han army in the early [-]s did not pay attention to any tactics and rushed forward recklessly.

Han Qi rushed to replenish water and prepare for the next fierce battle.

Wei Yue and Li Danghu discussed in a low voice how many scouts should be sent to find out the weak points of the Xiongnu camp.

Zhao Jia opened the water bag and gulped down two mouthfuls of water.After moisturizing his dry throat, he wiped away the water stains around his mouth with his backhand. Looking towards the direction of Bianjun, his pupils constricted for a moment.

"Wolf smoke!"

Everyone was startled, and they followed his direction, only to see a black column of smoke rising straight into the sky on the horizon.Then came the second and third.

"The Huns invaded the border!"

As the smoke continued to rise, Wei Yue and Li Danghu sent out all the scouts without any further hesitation, and ordered the entire army to mount their horses.Now that things are up to now, even if there are dragon pools and tiger dens and cliffs ahead, we must make a breakthrough.

The scouts were ordered to go first, and it didn't take long to capture the two rangers.

Judging from the clothes, appearance and weapons, one was from the headquarters, and the other was a barbarian.

The Huns were extremely tough, tied and dragged with ropes, they still had ferocious expressions and fierce eyes.

Man Qi struggled up from the ground, his neck was pressed by the blade, he swallowed hard, with fear in his expression, he kept yelling loudly, saying that he was willing to surrender, only to save his life.

Zhao Jia rode forward and whispered to Wei Yue.The latter showed surprise, considered for a moment, and quickly made a decision.

The heads of the Huns were beheaded and their bodies were thrown on the grassland.

The Han cavalry got on their horses again, Wei Wu and Li Da each led a team of cavalry, led by the wild cavalry, and went to arrest the ranger.

In order to complete the plan, the Han army no longer tried every means to avoid the rangers, but took the initiative to meet them, relying on their superiority in numbers, neatly hacked people off their horses, and collected leather robes, leather hats, and bone knives.

The barbarian who led the way was horrified to find that these Han people would do nothing if they didn't rob, but once they did rob, they were really extremely cruel.

"I can't go any further." Wei Wu picked up a blood-stained leather robe, shook it twice in disgust, and finally wrapped it around his body.Then he put on a leather cap and a bone knife with a bow and arrow. If you don't look closely, you can see that it is a burly Bianbu barbarian.

"Approximately how much did you collect?" Zhao Jia asked.

"In the early [-]s." When Wei Wu spoke, the [-] Han cavalry who put on leather robes and fur hats gathered behind him.

"That's enough." Zhao Jia rode his horse towards Wei Yue and said, "Faster and faster, we can reach Yanmen County in less than half a day. I will lead the two teams in front, Wei Wu and Li Da pretend to be the other troops in pursuit, and the captain of the department will lead the army behind." , took advantage of the night to attack the camp."

"The pursuers behind him can also be used." Zhao Jia raised his left arm, caught the flying golden eagle, and tied the cloth strips to the golden eagle's legs.Fingertips brushed against the edge of the golden eagle's beak, and no surprise, there were blood-stained feathers.

At Zhao Jia's suggestion, Han Qi changed his strategy, deliberately leaving traces along the way, and no longer tried to get rid of Hu Qi, but instead lured him to catch up.

Because of the golden eagles, Hu Qi let one of the black eagles die.Nowadays, it is impossible to use the eagle to detect, and can only rely on the horseshoe prints on the ground and the direction of the earthquake to track the target.

After chasing and chasing, the counselors in the team sensed that something was wrong, and they made a lot of suggestions. The Han army carefully covered up the traces before, but now they seem to have left them deliberately, and there is no guarantee that there is fraud.

Wan Chang is confident.

The smoke of the wolf has risen, and the army of King Zuoguli is ahead.No matter how powerful this Han army is, with dozens of times more troops standing in front of it, if they dare to charge forward, they will still die.

If he wanted to gain credit, he had to speed up. Before this Han army was slaughtered by King Zuoguli, he had to find a way to cut off a few heads, which could be regarded as an account of his orders.

If you are lucky and catch up with the Han army charging, you can also launch an attack from behind, and the credit may be even greater.

Before him, Wan Chang chased all the way but failed to take down the target. Instead, he lost his troops and lost his generals. The army was easily defeated, and he himself died under the knife of the Han people.

Such a way of dying is simply humiliating!

All the cavalry who fled from the battlefield were reduced to slaves, and Wan Chang's family members were also put into the sheepfold.

Unlike the Han Dynasty, the Huns did not have a well-formed code of law. From the elders to the military officials, they always continued the rules formulated by Maodun Chanyu. For those who were punished, they were either dealt with with a knife or locked in sheepfolds.

Wan Chang didn't want himself to be reduced to such a fate.

He wants to take down the Han cavalry, go south with King Zuoguli, accumulate military exploits, and strive to become a powerful household.

He wants to lead the tribe among the nobles and occupy a place in the royal court!

"Accelerate the whole army!"

Kicking away the counselor who was holding on to the reins, Wan Chang ordered the horn to be blown, and followed the traces left by the Han army, chasing all the way south.

The sound of the Huns' horns came along with the wind, and Han Qi's heart trembled, knowing that the pursuers were approaching, and he had no way out.

Zhao Jia checked the kindling and quickly pointed out a hundred cavalrymen.Half of them came from Yunzhongqi, and half of them were healthy servants and soldiers he brought out from the county.In addition, the civil official and two minor officials also joined them, each covered with double leather armor, and prepared to rush to the camp with Zhao Jia.

Wei Yue wanted to replace him, but Zhao Jia shook his head.

If he wants to break through the camp of the Huns, he is the best choice as a forward.

In fact, once the plan starts, everyone present will face the test of life and death.As a forward, it is not necessarily more dangerous than in the rear.

"Aduo, I'll be with you." Wei Qing'er rode forward.

Zhao Jia shook his head and rejected the proposal.

The striker's speed must be fast, and Wei Qingmo's riding skills are excellent, but in terms of speed and coordination, there is a certain gap between him and the cavalry he picked out.

"Sister stays in the rear." Zhao Jia was categorical and there was no room for negotiation.

Well aware of his character and the importance of the plan, Wei Qing'e didn't try to fight, and returned to the team, standing with the surviving caravan members, ready for the next battle.

"got windy."

Zhao Jia turned the horse's head and led the hundred riders to leave the team.

The Han army pretending to be wild riders followed behind.

As the sun sets, the cold wind rises from the ground.

Flowing clouds are like fire, lingering around the half-sunken sun, and red clouds appear in the sky.

The golden eagle spread its wings and soared in the wind, making a loud cry.

The three hundred Han riders were shrouded in the sun, and they traveled farther and farther.

Watching their comrades gallop away, Wei Yue and Li Danghu personally blew the horn, and the cavalry under their command formed a forward arrow, opened a certain distance, and chased after the forward team.

The sound of the horn attracted pursuers, and Wan Chang kept urging his subordinates to speed up. No matter what the Han army's intentions were, he would catch up and take off the opponent's head!

Outside Yanmen County, the army led by Yi Zhixie stationed for several days, finally started to attack.

The sound of horns and drums overlapped, and the Huns cavalry screamed strangely, brandishing bones and short knives, like a pack of ferocious wolves, and rushed towards the county fortress.

Borrowing the cement sent by Yunzhong County, Zhidu organized manpower to build a large fort along the border.After the county soldiers hid in the fortress, they used arrows and poisonous smoke pipes to fight against the charging cavalry.

Not far from the fortress, the burly soldiers took off their jackets, brandished wooden hammers, and smashed down wooden posts one by one.

Catapults were pushed out one after another and placed between the stakes.

Five or six strong men pulled the rope together, and the wooden pole more than ten meters long was pulled, and the stones and broken logs in the wooden pocket flew out, roaring and smashing into the charging cavalry formation.

Even if he was swept by the edge of stones and broken logs, Hu Qi would fall off his horse and be trampled to death by the horse's hoof in an instant.A dozen or so people couldn't dodge in time, and were smashed right on the ground. They were crushed into a pulp on the spot.

"Throw again!"

"Throw a boulder!"

With hoarse voices, several team leaders rode their horses and ran in front of the catapult to convey the order of the military lord.

Boulders and broken logs flew out like rain, and the joints of the wooden poles creaked.

The soldiers tried their best to pull the rope desperately, the muscles in their shoulders and arms kept rising and falling, the veins in their necks bulged, their jaws were split open, and their fingers were bleeding.

Even so, no one stopped moving.

Some people's arms trembled and their fingers couldn't grasp it. They simply wrapped the thick rope around their waists and used the weight of their bodies to drive the wooden pole again and again.His waist was bleeding from being strangled, and his teeth were still gritted. There was only one thought in his mind, as long as he was still alive, he would never let the Huns step into Yanmen!

However, there were too many Xiongnu, and instead of charging blindly, they imitated the Han army, rushed to the front of the fortress, lit imitation poisonous smoke tubes, and threw them out with ropes.Hu Qi even drew his strong bow and shot burning rockets into the fortress wall.

The Huns will also learn that no matter how arrogant their temperament is, they will try to imitate weapons that cause them big troubles.

There is no way for ironware, there are craftsmen and no raw materials.What's more, over the years, the number of craftsmen who can be caught is getting smaller and smaller.Compared with the period of the old Shanyu, the number of ironware owned by each has not increased, but has a tendency to decrease.

There are more bronzes.However, as the border county continued to tighten the rope, merchants who dared to transport copper to the grassland were either arrested or killed. Even in the headquarters of the Huns, most cavalry still used bone arrows.

Having suffered a great loss in Yunzhong County, when Yi Zhixie was retreating, he ordered someone to retrieve some unburnt poisonous smoke tubes.

It's just that the Huns didn't know the gunpowder formula, and no matter how many times they tried, they couldn't achieve the same power.At most, it is to collect some special dry grass, which can release thick smoke when lit.

For such a result, Yi Zhixie was naturally very dissatisfied.

However, due to limited conditions, even if all craftsmen are threatened to be hacked to death, if they cannot be imitated, they cannot be imitated.

Fortunately, the finished product is not useless. If caught off guard, it should be able to cause some confusion to the Han army.

This time going south, the army minister Shan Yu finally cleared his mind, he knew not to force people too much, he didn't let Yi Zhixie go to Yunzhong County again, but ordered him to lead the army to attack Yanmen.

Although Zuo Xianwang suffered a great loss in Yanmen County, in Yi Zhixie's view, Yu Dan's lack of brain accounted for [-]% of the heavy loss.

With the lessons learned from the past, if you were yourself, you would naturally have to beware of the Han people setting fire.What's more, to treat the person in the same way as the person, and bring a large number of imitation poisonous smoke tubes, even if it does not have much lethality, it can still disgust the opponent.

After the Xiongnu cavalry threw the poisonous smoke tube, the Han army was shocked.

After a brief astonishment, they found that these wooden tubes could only emit smoke, they would not burst at all, and what was burning was dry grass, without any poison in them. The smoking wooden barrels were thrown away after two of them were thrown away.

It can't be fried or burned, and it's crudely made, so I'm afraid of a bird!

As the battle continued, the Yanmen garrison found that this Xiongnu was different from the ones they encountered in the past. The imitation poisonous chimneys were not counted, and they also launched catapults made from logging, and there were a considerable number of ladders.

Neither the catapult nor the ladder can be compared with that used by the Han army.

However, the boulders flying down from mid-air still caused some trouble to the defenders.

Before night fell and the two sides called for gold and retreated, two fortresses had already been breached, all the defenders died in battle, and the entire building was burned.The other three were in danger. If Zhidu hadn't come to the battlefield in person and the reinforcements arrived in time, they might have suffered the same fate.

Just when the defenders were strictly guarding the fortress and the Huns retreated to the camp to prepare for the battle tomorrow, there was a sudden tremor on the ground. Then, a hundred-man Han cavalry came from the north, chasing 200 soldiers behind the Han cavalry. Duohu riding, shouting while chasing, quickly attracted the attention of the Huns in the camp.

Seemingly being chased in a panic, the Han army crashed into the left camp of the Xiongnu.

Hu Qi followed closely, yelling, and kept shooting arrows at the Han army.

The Huns were bewildered by this scene, and they didn't even realize that the arrows shot by the pursuers were strange. They seemed to be aimed at the Han army, but in fact they were all tied with firelights and flew towards the nearby tents.

By the time the guards reacted, no less than twenty tents had already caught fire.

In the dark night, the tents were burned into torches, which were extremely eye-catching.

Zhao Jia and his entourage only had 300 people, and the number of tents that could be burned was limited. Compared with the entire camp, it was not worth mentioning.

However, it is the unknown that creates the most fear.

The flames lit up the night sky, and the Xiongnu cavalry looked towards Zuoying, not knowing what happened.There was a brief chaos in the left camp, thinking it was a night attack by the Han army, many cavalry grabbed their weapons, jumped on their horses, and prepared to charge.

At this moment, there was another sound of horseshoes, and hundreds of Han cavalry broke through the camp again, and rushed into the camp with their knives along the road that the 300 people rushed out before.

Just these few hundred people are not enough to make the Huns afraid.The problem was that after this cavalry, there was another large black shadow galloping over. The distance was a bit far, and the clothes of the comers could not be seen clearly. Contacting the cavalry who broke into the camp, the Huns quickly discovered the "truth".

"Han army, they are all Han army!"

"The Han army is going to attack the camp at night!"

"Fire arrows!"

A thousand chief roared, and the Huns swarmed up, and the Han army who entered the camp immediately fell into a hard fight.Hu Qi, who was chasing behind the Han army, was stunned by the rain of arrows.Including Wan Chang, they have no idea why King Zuoguli's army wanted to attack him.

At the same time, when the Han army behind the fort got the information, they went up to the wall, saw the golden eagle hovering above their heads, unfolded a piece of cloth brought by the golden eagle, recognized the handwriting and private seal on it, made a decisive decision, and sent three Thousands of cavalry went out to fight.

Hearing the familiar sound of the horn, the Han cavalry attacking the camp exploded with amazing fighting power, tearing through the Huns' defense line.

Realizing that the Han army had entered the camp and he was "attacked from both sides", the cavalry of the headquarters could still be organized, but the savage cavalry of other troops who went out with the army suddenly fell into a panic.

"Follow me!"

Zhao Jia took the lead, ignoring the enemies around him, grabbed the horn hanging from his waist, and blew it vigorously.

In the chaos, braziers were kicked down and more tents were set ablaze.

The Han army was around, and there were some disguised as other troops. I don't know how many there were. In panic, the two barbarians hacked and killed each other.

As the chaos intensified and the flames shot up into the sky, Hu Qi finally blew up the camp!