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Chapter 18 Fighting back against the barbarian king Yuqiutai

Wei Qiutai's harsh words didn't last long, because after he ordered the entire army to siege Zhao Yun, in just half a cup of tea, as Zhao Yun gathered his formation again and returned, the entire battlefield seemed to be shrouded in a strong atmosphere of murder.

Zhao Yun's cavalry, even the roar of the jars of the sole heels, was very different from the Buyu Barbarians.

The Fuyu people and the Sanhan people have maintained peace with the Han Dynasty for many years, and they really don’t know how advanced the technical equipment of the Central Plains cavalry has been.

As the Fuyu people of the Eastern barbarians, they had always been backward in metallurgical technology and had to trade and buy iron tools from the Han people, and exchanged them for precious animal skins and other items in Changbai Mountains for some iron knives and gun tips.

Most people in Fuyu still cannot even afford an iron pot, so they can only eat barbecue or stew meat in a casserole.

So even though all the warlords in the Central Plains knew that horseshoe had been known for more than ten years, the people of Fuyu had never seen a single item, so they could not afford equipment themselves.

The Takahashi saddle and the double-sided rope-ring stirrup are affordable, but the metal stirrup cannot be imitated. At most, it is made of wood and upgrade the rope-ring.

The only thing they can do with such equipment is the archery talent of the fishing and hunting nations and the number of people on the battlefield.

"The whole army dispersed! Surround Zhao Yun! Each of them fights! Our soldiers are dozens of times more powerful than Zhao Yun! Be sure to hurt Zhao Yun with bows and arrows first!"

At the last moment before the bloody battle, Wei Qiutai made a correct military adjustment, trying to maximize the cavalry and shooting advantages of the Fuyu cavalry.

The fishing and hunting nations are different from the Xianbei nomadic peoples. Although they all live on horseback, nomadic people do not need to shoot arrows every day, but they just need to ride horses every day. Therefore, nomadic riding is slightly stronger than fishing and hunting, but archery is far inferior to fishing and hunting.

This is also very consistent with the technical characteristics of the barbarians in northern China since ancient times.

The northwest, the closer you get to the grassland plateau, the stronger your riding skills and the stronger your cavalry charge. The northeast, the closer you get to the mountains of Changbai Mountain in the Greater Xing'an Mountains. Riding and charging will be weaker, and horse control will be less than nomadic in the northwest, but archery skills will become more and more accurate.

Even in modern society, Koreans have always been proud of bows and arrows. Isn’t the so-called Dongyi the nations that “one-person bow” in the east?

From the word "Making" it can be seen that adding a bow to one person is a bargain.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the sound of howling sharply. Before Zhao Yun could catch the enemy, he was hit by thousands of arrows in each round, like a storm, and it was endless, connecting in sequence.

But the expected man in Wei Qiutai did not appear, but the strong arrows were ejected on the iron frame, and then the Mars blasted off.

The body quality of the Fuyu people is still good, and they are wrapped with a large number of animal tendons to strengthen elasticity, so the kinetic energy of the arrow is very strong. Unfortunately, the arrow cluster is not sharp enough and cannot use armor-breaking clusters made of high-quality steel.

Zhao Yun broke out of the formation as if he was flying locusts and rushed forward fiercely. He immediately started a bloody storm among the Fuyu cavalry who had no time to keep a distance and had not yet expected to keep a distance.

It felt like a traffic jam on the road. A tank that came without caring about it came and rushed over and drove all the way, and everyone was in trouble.

Hundreds of Fuyue cavalry were slaughtered and dropped off the horse almost the moment they collided. The strange sound of iron hooves stomping their heads was endless, making the brave fishing and hunting nation unable to stop being frightened.

Wei Qiutai's pupils shrank violently a few times, and the rest was full of horror.

This is how Zhao Yun took one-tenth of the number of people and broke through his siege. There were only two or three thousand people on the opposite side! You were surrounded, shouldn't you show some morale disintegration? Why did you feel like you were fine after being surrounded?

This is completely inconsistent with the expectation of military strategy! The trick they used to deal with the Han people who were engraved in their genes for generations was to bluff, "Ling Jian caused chaos", and then they killed the Han people like wolves slaughtering sheep!

In fact, let alone the Dongyi people, even Gongsun Zan, who first learned to practice the White Horse Righteous Cong, was using the barbarians to control the barbarians. After learning their strengths, they knew that the key to light cavalry was to scare the enemy with their voices. If the enemy was in chaos, it would be easy to talk about in the future.

However, Zhao Yun's men, one-tenth of them, were surrounded and shot from all sides, but they were not messy and firmly attacked in the direction of Wei Qiutai!

All the Han cavalry actually had only one thought in their minds, but unfortunately Wei Qiutai didn't know: Zhao Yun had told them before the war that after crossing the river, he would fight to the death for three days! Either hold back and wait until Taishi Ci came! Or kill the enemy commander who dared to fight in the field! Or die!

With the unity of the Han Dynasty, the confidence established by the Han Dynasty in the wars of the north and north for more than ten years and the reputation of General Zhao, the morale of the Han army's cavalry is now comparable to that of Xiang Yu's troops when they were burning their boats.

I was careless! I shouldn't have listened to the words of my brother-in-law and brother-in-law from the beginning! I'm going to do a field battle that "takes halfway through the enemy"! I should have defended the city resolutely!

Wei Qiutai saw that Zhao Yun was about to kill him, and all the guards on both sides were blocked and were slaughtered in batches and had to start retreating.

In fact, Wei Qiutai can indeed retreat. He was unwilling to retreat at first, because he was afraid that the army would feel that the commander was defeated, which would lead to the collapse of his own morale.

As expected, Wei Qiutai's banner began to retreat. Relying on the speed advantage of the light cavalry, Zhao Yun could not catch up with Wei Qiutai who was fleeing his life crazy.

But the Fuyu, who was originally told by Wei Qiutai to "fight independently and surround and harass Zhao Yun, and the rest of the three Korean cavalry units were also shaken. They were unable to firmly implement Wei Qiutai's pre-war explanation.

Countless grassroots generals began to think in their hearts: the chief commander's central army flag has retreated! The flag formation is in chaos! Is our army defeated? Do we still have to continue to fight to the death? It seems that we have shot so many arrows, but we have not shot several monsters with iron armor on the opposite side!

This is the biggest difference between the early Northeast fishing and hunting people and the later Mongolian hunting tactics.

The reason why the later Mongolians were particularly strong was that their riding and shooting skills were still one aspect. The key was that the Mongolian command system could achieve real "flat management" when several armies attacked in groups, and they could command themselves, and act according to the opportunity.

But the people of Fuyu cannot do it.

There is a king in Fuyu people, and this king cannot die. If the king retreats, the morale of the entire army will collapse. No one will continue to implement the combat plan the king gave at the beginning.

This is the Mongols' "During the Western Expedition, Subutai and Ba were not afraid of each other's head coaches who died. Anyway, no matter whether the friendly coach died or not, I would beat myself. If the friendly coach retreated, my morale would not decline."

Only by achieving no point where the enemy will "rescue me if I attack" can any point that is stared at by the enemy with less mobility and bitten to death. If the assault is taken, you can retreat directly without fear of embarrassment. You can retreat as much as you want, and it will not affect the pursuit and morale of other divisions.

Therefore, the scene that Wei Qiutai expected, "I was chased by Zhao Yun and fled, and other friendly forces that were not chased by Zhao Yun can bite Zhao Yun's rear army and continue to export to Zhao Yun" was because the Fuyu people had a king that they had to save, and it could not be achieved.

If you have a head, you will be afraid of beheading.

Only if there is no head, there is no head to kill, and it can stick to the enemy like the bacterial virus Amoeba.

The opportunity that Wei Qiutai had struggled to surround Zhao Yun was completely ruined because he couldn't stand it and had to escape.

The Fuyu cavalry chasing behind Zhao Yun, who were following the arrow, gradually became frightened and lazy because they were panicked about the situation of the main formation of the central army. They were unable to move forward. They turned around and scattered to the sides, and walked less and less.

A strange scene on the battlefield appeared: most of the Sanhan and Fuyu troops were not defeated by Zhao Yun's sudden attack, but followed Zhao Yun for a while, and before they knew it, the number of people was running smaller and smaller.

Zhao Yun fought a battle all his life, and it was the first time that he had experienced this wonderful and unprecedented fighting style in practical combat.

The enemy has a king and a target that must be rescued is a good thing for our army.

Unfortunately, the endurance of the iron-armored cavalry was insufficient and its speed was much slower than that of the light cavalry. Zhao Yun was able to chase and disperse the Fuyu cavalry, but failed to achieve his merits in one battle and directly chased and killed Wei Qiutai himself.

After all, the other party wanted no face and paid the price of the entire army escaping on their own, just to exchange his life, so he could at least ensure that he could get back his life.

"General Zhao can't chase after him anymore! Our army's horses are exhausted!" Wei Yan repeatedly persuaded him, and his war horses began to foam at the mouth and fall down.

Zhao Yun was unwilling to give up, looked around and made a decisive decision to change horses.

During the previous rush, it was not entirely the Han army chasing Fuyu people and fled. In order to rescue his king, the warriors under Wei Qiutai came up to intercept Zhao Yun and were killed by the Han army. However, the Fuyu horses left on the battlefield were everywhere. Although the Han army had not cleaned the battlefield and did not deliberately gather them together, there were still hundreds of horses in front of the army.

"If you are willing to follow this general to chase King Fuyu and make achievements, replace the armorless horse! Run fast! There are not many people around Wei Qiutai, and hundreds of people chasing him will be enough to kill the Barbarian King! Wen Chang, you can lead the remaining iron armored cavalry to intercept and defeat the enemy in the other three directions! Don't let them move closer to Wei Qiutai!"

Wei Yan was very anxious: "General! You are already the General of the Cavalry. You should not underestimate the enemy and advance in a dangerous place."

Zhao Yun: "What a dangerous place? How many people can be left by Wei Qiutai? I don't have time to explain to you. Wei Qiutai is a barbarian king of a country, and I deserve to be killed by me. That's it."

Zhao Yun finally gave himself a step: we are not taking risks, but the goal we are chasing is indeed a big fish. A barbarian king is qualified to let him do it himself.

Zhao Yun continued to pursue him relentlessly.

Wei Qiutai became more and more tired as he ran, and he was out of breath. There were still thousands of people left by his side. He was almost dozens of miles away from the battlefield. The shouts of killing from behind him were heard again, and they were getting closer and closer.

This surprised him very much, because he had just realized the advantages and disadvantages of the Han cavalry. The weakness of the Han army was that it was not fast with iron armor and its endurance was not enough to run for a long distance. It was obviously far away, why did it catch up again?

Wei Qiutai, who did not believe in evil, couldn't help but look back and watch. After a while, he found that Zhao Yun had only hundreds of cavalry chased him, and he had changed to a war horse without iron armor.

"Does our Fuyu warriors really not be able to kill people? They bully people too much! Only these hundreds of people dare to chase them, and even give up the iron armored horse? Is it over? The boys turn back and fight to the death!"

The aides begged by Wei Qiutai: "You must not! Zhao Yun is brave and powerful. As we have seen, there are no less than a hundred warriors in our army who were assassinated by him, so we should not fight against the enemy! Although not many enemy troops have caught up with us, there are only a few thousand left in the central army. If we really turn back and fight to the death, the left and right troops will probably not be able to rescue them!"

"Zhao Yun chases him so urgently, he may not be able to run away even if he wants to run!"

"The king can abandon his army and escape! Let these thousands of men block Zhao Yun and escape from chaos!"

"Then what else do I have to be King Fuyu! A coward!" Wei Qiutai was so angry that he drew out his saber, chopped off the escapist strategist who had shaken the morale of the army, and then supervised the battle to fight himself.

He hoped that after Zhao Yun changed to the armorless war horse, the arrow rain of Fuyu Warriors would have more effect.

Unfortunately, the two sides quickly strangled together. This time there were indeed nearly a hundred cavalry of the Han army. Because the people had armor but the horses were not armored, the horses fell to the ground by arrows, but most of the Han army warriors still killed in front of the Fuyu people.

The most important thing is that Zhao Yun himself flew up and down with a steel gun, blocking left and right, and all the only arrows running towards Zhao Yun's horse were blocked by him.

The moment Zhao Yun entered the formation, everything was completely over. The iron sword flew up and down, and the silver spears were all over the horse. In a moment, Zhao Yun killed in front of Wei Qiutai and shot the Fuyu barbarian king with one shot.

In today's battle, the Han army rushed to the front and killed nearly twice the size of its own enemy cavalry. The key was to completely break up the remaining enemy troops and let them flee separately.

Zhao Yun and Wei Yan chased the north and were chased by the people who were chased and kneeled down to surrender. Unfortunately, Zhao Yun did not have enough manpower and did not move fast enough, so he could not catch too many prisoners.

However, when the battle ended and the battlefield was cleaned, everyone in Zhao Yun's army led at least three horses. This means that within one day, there were at least five or six thousand horses brought from the killing of the enemy and prisoners of war, which did not count as the loss on the battlefield.

Even if the fleeing soldiers could be gathered up by Gongsun Kang after a period of time, it would have happened a long time later. The structure of the city tribe like the people of Fuyu, many people did not want to go back to die after they escaped, and the organizational level was very low.

...

In Tunnan County, Gongsun Kang realized the collapse ahead in the afternoon that day and became in panic all day long. He sent a sentry to the front several times to understand the situation.

In the evening, the bad news that his brother-in-law, Fuyu Wang Wei Qiutai was shot dead by Zhao Yun in front of the battle was finally reported. Gongsun Kang realized that the situation was over.

Because of today's aggressive advance, I thought I could hit halfway, but I still kicked the iron plate with one kick.

The combat effectiveness of the Han army's iron cavalry is more than ten times higher than that of the Fuyu Light Cavalry!

Both cavalrymen, horses are not much worse than those of the enemy. It’s just that there is a huge gap between weapons, armor and horses, which can increase the combat effectiveness by ten times!

"This is my fault... I shouldn't have thought of fighting a field with the Han army at the beginning! It was this that I harmed my younger sister and my brother-in-law."

The adviser Jia Fan advised him: "King, for the sake of this, we must gather the remaining troops as soon as possible and defend them! Our army has lost at least 20,000 troops, and we cannot lose any more! We must not fight again!"
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