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Huchuquan's logistics camp was under the surveillance of the Han army. There were only four thousand Hun soldiers in the camp. Without the orders of the Shanyu, they did not dare to abandon the camp and leave, but they did not dare to drive cattle and sheep to leave the camp south. In that way, they would undoubtedly die. They were like lambs forced in the corner, waiting helplessly to be slaughtered by the butcher, or their masters came to save them.

At this moment, they received the news that the Xiongnu in Bingzhou crossed the Yellow River. The barracks were in full swing. The soldiers packed their luggage and prepared to retreat eastward and meet with the army of Zuo Xianwang.

But at this moment, the alarm bell on the military camp sentry sounded, and soldiers ran and shouted: "The Han army is coming from the west."

Almost all the soldiers felt the earth trembling, dust was flying in the distance, and the black Han cavalry was rushing towards the camp. There was a chaos in the Hun camp, and the soldiers were panicked and rushed out of the camp. At this time, they could no longer care about hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and only cared about their lives.

But the Hun cavalry had just run out, and the overwhelming arrows shot from the woods on the side. The Hun cavalry screamed and got shot arrows. Then the drums sounded like thunder, and countless Han soldiers rushed out of the woods.

At this time, the Han army in Gaonu County received news from Zhao Yun. Under Zhang Ren's leadership, the thousand troops were ambushed in the woods next to him. Zhang Ren took the lead and shouted: "Brothers, the day to avenge the shame is today, kill me."

The Gaonu defenders were surrounded by the Hun army for several months, and everyone was filled with anger. At this moment, they were finally vented. Everyone shouted and rushed towards the Hun cavalry. Although they were all infantry, their function was to intercept the enemy to escape.

The spear stabbed and the sword slashed. The Hun cavalry was anxious and fought to death to kill a piece of blood. The Han soldiers were extremely angry and refused to let them break through. The two sides fought fiercely.

At this moment, Ma Dai led 10,000 Han cavalry to finally come. The horses were fast and quickly rushed into the Xiongnu team, rushing the Xiongnu cavalry to pieces. They quickly surrounded them, and the two Han troops gathered together to cut off the retreat of the Xiongnu cavalry.

The extermination of the Huns' logistics camp was just a small episode, and the fight against Liu Bao's army was an important task for the main force of the Han army. Zhao Yun led an army of 50,000 to travel east. The next afternoon, they finally met Liu Bao's army in the wilderness outside Zaolin Town. Zhao Yun immediately ordered the army to set up a formation in the wilderness.

The 50,000 Han army was composed of ten thousand cavalry and 20,000 infantry. Except for the 5,000 Han cavalry, the remaining 25,000 were composed of the Wuhuan and Qiang people recruited by the Han army.

This is completely different from the Han and Qiang coalition led by Ma Chao. Although these cavalrymen were Wuhuan and Qiang people, they were real Han troops and received rigorous training in Xiliu Camp for nearly months.

Regardless of military discipline, formation, and equipment, they are completely the same as the Han army. They have been transformed. With their own superb riding skills, they are the most elite Han cavalry and can completely compete with the Hun cavalry.

In addition, Zhao Yun also carried a secret weapon, which was the killing weapon against the cavalry. There were a total of thousands of troops, controlled by nine thousand soldiers, but these nine thousand were also spear infantrymen, and they could enter the battle at any time.

"Woo" the Han army blew the horn, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the north was howling, and the horn sounded particularly desolate under the drooping dark clouds.

Fifty thousand Han troops set up a wing formation in the vast wilderness. Pang De led 10,000 cavalry to the left wing, Ma Dai led 10,000 cavalry to the right wing, Leng Bao led another 10,000 cavalry to the backing, and the vanguard was the 10,000 spear army phalanx led by Zhao Yun personally. There were thousands of bee crossbows hidden behind the phalanx, commanded by Zhang Yi.

At this time, Liu Bao's army also stopped slowly four miles away and quickly formed the array. Liu Bao had roughly learned about the current situation from the defeated soldiers. He sensitively realized that Hu Chuquan did not tell the truth to him, and he had hidden several crucial information.

First, his brother Liu Qubei's army was trapped in the straight road for more than ten days and could not escape. Secondly, Hu Chuquan fell into the trap of the Han army and was dragged by the Han army into the Luochuan Road, and it was also difficult to escape.

In this case, Huchuquan issued a golden arrow order, ordering the Xiongnu in Bingzhou to cross the river and advance westward to jointly encircle and suppress the main force of the Han army that arrived in Gaonu County.

The main force of the Han army arrived in Gaonu County, but where did Huchuquan's army clearly coax him to rescue him, or he used him to lure the main force of the Han army, Liu Bao hated him.

But at this time he had no choice. He was already facing the main army of the Han army. It can be said that he had completely fallen into the trap of Huchuquan.

Liu Bao was angry and shouted loudly: "Tell me my order, the army lined up and prepared to attack."

At this time, a ten thousand men approached Liu Bao quietly and whispered: "The formation of the Han army seems a bit strange."

Liu Bao narrowed his eyes and he also discovered that the Han army usually had crossbowmen in front and infantry behind, guarding the cavalry on both sides. Here, there was no problem with the cavalry on both sides, but the crossbowmen were gone.

"I suspect that there may be something hidden in the army"

Liu Bao stared at him for a moment, shook his head and said, "No matter what they are hiding, we must face it."

The commander of Wanfu immediately bowed and said, "I am willing to lead the army as the vanguard and attack the enemy's main formation."

"good"

Liu Bao immediately ordered: "You can lead 10,000 cavalry as vanguards and attack the enemy's center infantry. I will arrange the army to occupy the enemy's wings. I hope you can cut off the enemy's chief flag for me."

"Abide by the order"

The ten thousand men turned around and shouted loudly. At this time, the Huns sergeant drums were loudly sounded, and the dong dong drums were shaking the earth. A group of 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry rushed out of the team. They kept urging war horses and waving their swords. The momentum was as thunderous as the earth trembled, and the dust filled the sky. The murderous aura soared into the sky, sweeping towards the Han infantry several miles away.

Liu Bao immediately ordered the other two commanders: "You will lead the headquarters to stand up to the left and right wings of the Han army, and cover Sada to attack the center of the enemy."

Two ten thousand men took the order and left. After a moment, two Xiongnu cavalrymen with ten thousand men each broke out from the left and right sides. A team of ten thousand men attacked the Han army in a font. Liu Bao watched the attack of the ten thousand men nervously. This was the first time he sent such a number of cavalrymen, hoping that they would not disappoint themselves.

Zhao Yun watched the enemy rushing coldly. When the formation of the cavalry had already been formed, Zhao Yun immediately ordered: "The bee crossbow turns into a formation."

The flag was waving on the command platform, the red flag was raised, and the green flag was waving. The 10,000 spear infantry in front quickly retreated, revealing the thousand bee crossbow chariots behind them. The five crossbow chariots were in a row, with a total of six rows of lines, and the front was one mile long, covering the first ten thousand cavalry team in front.

The Thousand Bee Crossbows are all wooden oxen, large in size and solid in workmanship. On the one hand, it is the Han army's crossbows, but it also has another function, that is, the infantry obstacle chariot. This is a tactic developed by the Han people and nomadic peoples in the long-term battle. Using chariots as obstacles, infantry fighting chariots and nomadic cavalry prevented the nomadic cavalry from chariots and the nomadic cavalry from playing the advantage of maneuvering high speed. It was not until the Sui Dynasty, when Yang Su fought against the Turkic cavalry, that he finally got rid of the chariot obstacles.

At this time, the thousands of wooden ox crossbows were launched, which had a great confusing effect. Liu Bao and the Xiongnu generals were all confused. Then they suddenly realized that the mysterious weapon hidden in the Han army was actually thousands of combat chariots.

Liu Bao snorted coldly. Can a few thousand chariots block the impact of 50,000 cavalry? Liu Bao felt that he didn't need to put all 50,000 cavalry into the battlefield, and it was enough to invest only 10,000 cavalry.

But some clear-headed generals found that the formation of the chariots was not in the traditional circle shape, but in a formation. This may be a secret weapon of the Han army.

Ten thousand Hun cavalry vanguards were getting closer and closer, and they rushed into five steps. Thousands of bee crossbow chariots were ready, and ten iron crossbow arrows flashed with a strange luster in the sun.

Ten thousand cavalry rushed into the field, and the cavalry was covered with the sky, like a huge black carpet, moving rapidly in the wilderness, and all the cavalry shouted, "Kill."

A sentry rushed to Zhao Yun and whispered: "General, the enemy cavalry has entered the range."

Zhao Yun stared at the Hun cavalry who were coming from the sky and issued a cold order to "fire"

Thousands of bee crossbows were already ready. With the order of the chief general Zhao Yun, the flag that fired the bee crossbows was swung down, and the drum sounded loudly. One thousand bee crossbows suddenly fired, and tens of thousands of iron crossbow arrows rose into the air, and they were covered in black, like hungry locusts, whistling towards the group of Hun cavalry coming towards them.

The commander of the Wanfu found the densely shot crossbow arrows and shouted loudly: "It's an arrow."

The Hun cavalry never liked to use shields because the shield would affect their performance on horseback. He used double-layer leather armor to defend, which was extremely strong. Within eighty steps, ordinary arrows could not shoot through their leather armor.

However, Liu Bao's army lived in the Central Plains for a long time and was greatly influenced by the Central Plains army. In addition, the Central Plains had long been warned, and a large number of weapons had long been out of control. The Huns also obtained the light shields of the Central Plains army, which became their fixed equipment.

Seeing the dense arrows shooting, without having to give orders, the Hun cavalry raised their shields one after another. The shields and leather armor were all able to defend against ordinary crossbow arrows, but the Hun cavalry never dreamed that what they were facing today was not ordinary crossbow arrows, but iron crossbow arrows.
Chapter completed!