Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight seal the wolf Juxu (4)
After leaving nearly 10,000 corpses, the Huns finally got five rounds of fire from the red-clothed crossbows, approaching about a hundred steps away from the Han army's fortifications. At this time, Xu Shu stopped the order to continue firing, and instead ordered the eight hundred crossbowmen to push the red-clothed crossbows to move from the platform to the platform. Each of these red-clothed crossbows was extremely expensive, and Xu Shu didn't want them to suffer any damage. After the Huns entered their range, Xu Shu immediately put away the red-clothed crossbows.
Sure enough, the Huns began their best skill - rushing. The nearly 10,000 Hun cavalry running in the front raised their bows and started shooting on the horse's back. Nearly 10,000 arrows flew into the sky. After reaching the apex, they took a sharp turn and fell towards the fortifications of the Han army.
The reaction of the Huns was long expected by Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu. The platform that could carry red-clothed crossbows had another function, which was to resist the Huns' rushing. Nearly ten thousand arrows were shot down densely, but they could not cause any damage to the Han army. Most of them were blocked by the earth wall and the platform at the top. Only a few arrows crossed the platform and landed on the Han army behind the earth wall, but were easily shot down by the Han army.
After the Huns' round of rushing, no effective killing was formed, and no scream from the Han army was heard. This was simply unimaginable in the past. Just when the Huns' cavalry were puzzled, another bad luck came. As the war horses galloped, they had entered the trap area dug by the Han army. Those traps with extremely hidden nature were carefully covered by the shadow members. There was no abnormality at all on the outside.
"Ah--" The first Xiongnu cavalry who fell into the trap. After a shrill wail, there was no other sound. Obviously, he had been pierced by a sabre hanging upside down at the bottom of the trap and died. This unlucky Xiongnu cavalry opened the door to bad luck. After him, the Xiongnu cavalrymen in the gallop fell into the trap one after another and were stabbed into a hornet's nest by the sabre at the bottom of the trap.
Due to geology, the trap dug by the Han army was not deep, only ten feet deep. If it were deeper, the sandy desert would probably not be able to withstand the weight of being hollowed out and collapsed on its own. Although the depth was only ten feet deep, it was defeated by the large number. These traps caused great trouble to the Hun cavalry. After a large number of Hun cavalry fell into the trap, some luck did not die. The war horses under them blocked the saber at the bottom of the trap. However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the tribe members fell into the same trap. The horse hooves of the tribe members knocked on their heads and smashed their brains out.
A trap that is ten feet deep can accommodate up to three Hun cavalry and their war horses. When countless traps are filled with bodies and war horses by the Huns, the Hun cavalry who rushed to the forefront have reduced the number of thousands of people. These people will always be buried in the yellow sand of the desert and will never see the sun. A gust of wind blows, and the unique wind in the desert drives the small sand to move, completely filling the trap dug by the Han army. They also buried the Hun cavalry deep in the trap. On the outside, there are no traces of the trap that have existed. If it were not for seeing it with your own eyes, no one would have thought that it was not long ago. In this seemingly gentle desert, there were thousands of living lives struggling to survive.
The qubei, who was supervising the battle in the rear, was completely angry and embarrassed. He was unwilling to retreat in a mess. His prestige would definitely be greatly weakened. Moreover, the current qubei and the leaders of various tribes had no way out. They either fought to win the hope of life or were wiped out and died on the battlefield. They knew that the Han army would never spare them.
He pulled out his sabre and shouted: "My sons! It's better to fight to the death than to live a life of sabre!" The remaining tens of thousands of troops shouted hard, raised their sabres high, and issued a call that was unique to the Huns, almost like a wolf, and rushed towards the fortifications of the Han army.
Although the red-clothed crossbow was temporarily transferred by Xu Shu, this does not mean that the Han army had no weapons of long-range killing. After Ao Lie's order, the Hu Ben Army came to the earth wall, raised its arms and pointed the Xizi crossbow ringed on its arms through hundreds of lookouts on the earth wall, aiming at the Xinu cavalry sprinting outside. At the same time, the Blood Killing Army turned over and jumped to the platform that originally carried the Red Killing Army. The Longxiang Army came to the second floor platform between the Blood Killing Army and the Hu Ben Army. They all made the same actions as the Hu Ben Army.
This is also the tactic arranged in advance by Ao Lie. Because the Tiger Ben Army is heavy in armor, they are all strong and stubborn men. Although their armor is the thickest and is the most suitable team to shoot on the top platform, Ao Lie is worried that their heavy weight will cause the collapse of the earth wall, so they can only let them shoot down to the ground through the lookout, and the Blood Killing Army replace them.
The sound of Peng Peng sounded continuously. Three elite troops on the upper, middle and lower floors of the earth walls pulled the Xizi crossbow on their arms at the same time. Thousands of crossbow arrows shot out from all angles and directions. Thousands of crossbow arrows were made of iron. At this moment, they seemed to be blocks of money, flew towards the Xinu cavalry wildly, causing effective damage to them. The power of the three elite crossbow arrows shot out by the three elite crossbows was naturally impossible to compare with the red crossbow cannons, but the Xizi crossbow in their hands was also improved by Wang Hun and Ma Jun, and the power should not be underestimated. What's more, the Xizi crossbow is one of the conventional weapons of the three elite troops. They usually work hard on this aspect. Each elite shooting has extremely high accuracy, and instantly shot down a large number of running Xinu cavalry, causing a bloody storm.
The most terrifying thing is that few people screamed when the Hun cavalry who were caught in the arrow, because most of the parts they were hit in the throat! The one-arrow sealing the throat is exactly the ultimate pursuit of the three elite troops! Such accurate shooting skills are even inferior to those of the Huns, who are known as the best of both bow and horses.
After one shooting, the three elite troops immediately retreated and gave their positions to their companions. Another group of elite troops quickly filled the gap and calmly pulled the crossbow, causing thousands of injuries to the Huns again.
The two consecutive accurate shootings made the leaders of the Huns wait for the Huns breathe. The Han people's shooting skills were really terrifying, even more accurate than the Huns who lived on horseback for generations. They had no idea how the Han people practiced such sharp shooting.
After the second batch of elite soldiers completed the shooting, they gave the position to the third batch of elite soldiers again. The precise point shooting continued, the death of the Huns continued, and the shock of the leaders was still continuing, and the entire battle continued. Before the official confrontation, the Huns had already died nearly 20,000 people under the precise attack of the Han army's red-clothed crossbows and the elite troops! Ao Lie used this to the extreme.
After surviving the three rounds of precise shooting of the Han people, the front of the Hun cavalry had already stepped within fifty steps of the Han army's fortifications. Here, there were countless tripping horse ropes and horse-rejecting stakes waiting for them. Even though the Hun cavalry had seen these threats on the surface, they were no longer able to retreat. Behind them were the horse hooves of tens of thousands of tribes. If they avoided, they would cause chaos in the tribes behind. Such a tragedy had happened once just now, and they did not want to repeat the same mistake.
He gritted his teeth and stepped into the obstacles placed by the Han army. The Hun cavalry in the forefront soon began to regret it. Those tripping ropes were simply an illusion of inducement. What was really fatal was the trapped horse pits carefully disguised by the shadow personnel! One half-foot-meter-a-round trapped horse pit was hidden in a place without tripping ropes, waiting for the Huns' war horses to step in. In the soft desert, the Han people could actually use traps and horse pits to tactics, which was greatly beyond the expectations of the Huns. Only Ao Lie, a person with later knowledge, could use such insidious means in the desert, so that those seemingly flat deserts actually contained murderous intent everywhere!
The guardless Hun cavalry rode their horses into the trapped horse pit. The horse's legs were immediately deep into the pit, but the horse's body could not stop at all and were still sprinting hard. Under the two opposite forces, the horse's legs of the Huns' war horses were cut off without any doubt with a clear and audible click. The horse's legs, which were broken by the war horse, lost their strength, and could no longer support their bodies and the Hun cavalry on the horse's back. After a painful neighing, the horse lost its horse.
Like the front hoof, he lay on the ground and overturned the Hun cavalry from the horse's back. Even though some Hun cavalry were very lucky and did not step into the trap, they could not control the war horses to avoid every tripod horses and other things in the high-speed cycling. In the end, they either broke the horse's hoof by the tripod horses or injured the war horses by the horse's stake. The Hun cavalry in the forefront bumped into the horses without exception, and together with the tripod horses, they became obstacles for the tribesmen to advance behind them.
The Hun cavalry rushing behind were caught off guard and had no time to hold the speed of sitting down the horse. They could only let their horses trample over the body of the tribe members, trampling their bodies into a ball of meat paste. What's more, they were tripped to the ground by the fallen bodies or war horses of the tribe members, becoming another obstacle for the tribe members behind.
As the crowd was overturned, chaos spread in an instant in the Huns formation. The various screams and shouts of the Huns filled the space within fifty steps of the Han military fortification.
Chapter completed!