In full swing, the language came out "Guoyu. Wuyu".

At that time, the Wu State in the south participated in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains under the leadership of King Wu Fu Chai, and even defeated the Lu State and the Qi State. They led their troops to form an alliance with the Jin State in Huangchi to compete for the position of leader. At this time, the Yue King was behind him.

Gou Jian suddenly raised his troops, cutting off Wu's retreat. King Wu Fu Chai and his ministers were frightened, but they also knew that the Jin army was ahead, and it would be more dangerous to flee in panic at this time, so they came up with a trick.

On the second day, Wu's army totaled 30,000 men, divided into three phalanxes of 10,000 men. The left column was all in red uniforms, red flags, red armor, and red feathers. Correspondingly, the middle column was in white military uniforms.

The one on the right was all dressed in black. The three military formations set out in the middle of the night and arrived in front of the Jin army's camp early in the morning. They were lined up neatly and cheered non-stop. The kings and ministers of the Jin Kingdom, the overlord of the Central Plains, went out to see the camp and saw the Wu army's military formation in full swing.

Hai, after all, was a little flustered, so he recognized the fighting power of the Wu people and allowed the Wu army to leave Huangchi and return home calmly.

Of course, this kind of tactic that relies on the neat formation and formation of troops to achieve psychological shock has been common in history, and everyone even feels that they are self-taught, because this is one of the most basic tactical qualities of human beings.

This action of King Wu Fu Chai is just one of the outstanding examples... From the primitive people applying oil paint on their faces to the tattoos on their bodies in tribal times, this is the meaning. Even on Baishan Mountain in the north of Pingcheng in Yanmen County, Gongsun Xun

In the place where he shot the roe deer, the Xiongnu Maodun Shanyu once divided his 400,000-strong army into four parts: 100,000 white horses, 100,000 green horses, 100,000 black horses, and 100,000 red horses, and besieged Han Emperor Liu Bang on all sides. This is also the same tactical idea.

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To put it bluntly, four words - show off your power!

What's interesting is that, back in front of us, Hou Bu Gudu actually had a similar plan. He was planning to have 50,000 to 60,000 people suddenly appear in front of Mayi City in complete formations, and to shock them with a huge number of cavalry formations.

The wealthy families and people in Mayi City made the other side completely surrender.

What's even more interesting is that Gongsun Xun, who had been waiting in Mayi for a long time, had the same idea as his opponent.

Under the almost dumbfounded gaze of the small group of Huns who had forced themselves in front of the city, a tower suddenly rose above the gate tower in the north of Mayi City. Everyone in the entire northern Xinjiang knew it, but it was the first sign of most of the Huns.

The white horse flag I saw with my own eyes.

The white horse on a red background, spread out in the wind, is truly astonishing.

But this was just the beginning. Before the leaders of these people could turn around to find the nobles behind them to report the military situation, horns sounded continuously from the top of Mayi City. Then the city actually lowered the suspension bridge and opened the city gate... This situation, this scene,

The Huns who rushed to the front were not surprised, but were even more frightened, because as the city gate opened, a large number of white horse cavalry poured out of Mayi City continuously!

These cavalrymen are all tall, wearing finely polished bright iron armor, white cloaks, iron helmets, and white feathers. There are bright white flags with black stripes hanging under the spears...

What’s even more frightening is that the first few dozen horses with majestic cavalry that came out actually had iron horse heads on their heads!

These Han people are so rich that they even equip their war horses with iron armor!

Some of the Huns who rushed to the city had no time to think about it. Their first reaction was to turn around and run away... Think about it, from the perspective of the Huns, the equipment on one hundred of them is probably better than that on one person in the Youzhou Army.

The equipment is valuable, what should I use to fight it? What should I use to fight it?

The Huns who were too prominent in front turned around and fled, but the elite Han cavalry on white horses did not pursue them. They just took advantage of the situation and poured out one after another from the north gate, the east and west gates, and then calmly gathered in formation in the north of the city.

, followed by the local young men of Mayi, armed with spears, bows and arrows, wearing undyed white clothes in accordance with the requirements of the Han army, following the white horse cavalry in formation under the city wall.

The military formation is so elite that when viewed from a distance, it looks like a field of white flowers blooming on the field outside the city in early winter. It is so gorgeous that it makes people feel ashamed... In fact, many Huns were dumbfounded just by looking at it.

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But it's not over yet.

Just as the Han army was forming in front of the city, in the mountains to the west and south, behind the gentle slopes of the mountains where Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once had a Tibetan army of 300,000 people, a continuous sound of trumpets suddenly sounded, and then in the almost horrified eyes of the Huns

In the middle, two large groups of soldiers and horses, which were even more astonishing in number and destined to be more deadly, surged out from behind the hillsides on both sides, and then calmly formed an array.

Both sides are covered with flags and people and horses. On the west side, there are red armor and flags, which look like fire. On the south side, there are black armor and flags, which look like an abyss!

What's even more terrifying is that, not to mention that the south side is too far away to see clearly, the Huns can see clearly on the west hillside that is closer. The red military formations on the hillside are actually all cavalry! Moreover, this

There were no extra flags placed in the cavalry formation for protection. These Han cavalry were swaggering on the hillside within sight of the Huns, and they were divided into about ten neat troops. Two or three of them were arranged in long strips on the flanks.

The flying geese posture is used as a shield, and then seven or eight troops are in the middle, each division is divided into more than ten places, and they are arranged into a triangular thrust formation, and each thrust formation has about a hundred people.

Huns with a little military experience can tell at a glance that this is a typical Han army military system, so-called fifty people in a group, a hundred people in a team, and two hundred people in a band. Then each unit is organized into about five groups, ten teams, and twenty groups.

, nearly a thousand people... In other words, there are nearly ten thousand cavalry on this mountain! Nearly a hundred sharp arrows burst into formation!

There are no redundant flags, just from the department to the song, from the song to the team, and from the team to the village. Each floor has a level of flags used to command and indicate the organization. It is simply clear at a glance.

The west side is so clear, and the north side cannot be seen clearly for a while. It is also the same when I think about it... This is consistent with the previous intelligence. White Horse General Gongsun Xun came from Youzhou with 20,000 to 30,000 people. If the local soldiers of Yanmen County are added,

Ma, wouldn’t it be right to gather 30,000 people to ambush here?!

Moreover, such a powerful army is dizzying at a glance. How can we fight without an ambush?

The Huns who had swarmed into the open space several miles wide to the north of Mayi City were not fools. As soon as they thought of this, many leaders immediately called on their subordinates to retreat. However, at the entrance of the mountain pass behind them, the Huns soldiers and horses who did not know what was going on ahead were still there.

It keeps pouring out, and it is impossible to turn around.

It's not just the Huns who were running fast in front. They had just entered the basin and had just gathered a few nobles. Xubu Guduhou, who had not yet come to give orders, looked blankly at the opposite mountain and counted his breaths. He didn't understand what was going on.

What's going on?

This is clearly a fall into the opponent’s ‘Mayi scheme’!

What about General White Horse's thirty-day deadline, what about gathering the big officials in Yanmen County to go to Pingcheng, what about demarcating the border with Huangganshui... It was clearly a flaw to lure him and others here!

And what Zhang Ze did was clearly exactly the same as his ancestors!

But before he and the nobles around him could draw their swords to kill people, Zhang Ze, who had been standing in the distance behind him, had already changed his tone and took the initiative to shout loudly: "Don't make a mistake, Shanyu! Don't forget the breakfast time.

What you said! Now that the matter has come to this, what is the use of killing me besides venting your hatred? Instead, we, the Zhang family, will take revenge! Keep me here, and if I am surrounded, there will be someone who can give me the message to surrender, and I will save you all in vain.

dead."

Shanyu, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu, glanced at Zhang Ze blankly, then turned around and looked at the Huns soldiers and horses behind him who were still pouring into the basin. He felt almost chilled to his heart, but he had nothing to say... He really had nothing to say.

It's fair to say, he really doesn't know what to do or what to say at this time?

Should he order the entire army to fight to the death, or should he order the entire army to flee?

If it were a decisive battle, would they bravely attack the small number of white horse cavalry in front, or turn around and confront the red army formation on the side, which must have tens of thousands of cavalry?

If he were to escape directly, should he abandon the 20,000 to 30,000 horses who had entered the basin as sacrifices, and turn around and flee along the original route with most of the nobles, or should he order the entire army to scatter in the mountains and flee? But even if he made a decision,

How to pass on the order? How to divert the remaining soldiers and horses who are still pouring into the basin due to ignorance?

But no matter what, at this time, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, the more hesitant, the more everyone's lives are wasted... Correspondingly, on the top of Mayi City, the trumpet sound of the Youzhou Army has stopped, replaced by the impressive

It’s the rumble of drums!

Trumpets were blowing, orders were given to form formations, drums were rumbling, and orders were given to march... In other words, just when the Huns were at a loss, the Han army was not stopping and was about to launch an attack!

It turned out that Lou Gui on the city wall saw from a distance that some of the Huns pouring into the basin were frightened by the strength of the Han army. When they turned around and tried to evacuate, they blocked the northern crossing with the follow-up troops. Knowing that the fighter plane had arrived, he could not

If you hesitate any longer, just say something and beat the drum and march!

And Gongsun Xun had no reason to indulge in the war effort. After hearing Lou Zibo's advice, he directly ordered to beat the drum and attack.

Not to mention the ambush on the southern hillside in the distance, the Han army on the nearby hillside in the west heard the sound of drums, and under Han Dang's order, all battalions, units and teams immediately slowly increased their speed and headed towards the basin below;

The white-horse Yi Cong in front of the north gate, led by the dozen or so flag lance cavalry with iron-masked horse masks in front, speeded forward directly.

"I wanted to put on all the dozens of horse armors in the Yanmen County arsenal, but unexpectedly I couldn't put them on. I could only wear face armor to scare the Huns who had never seen the world." Gongsun Xun saw it on the top of the city.

At this sight, he shook his head repeatedly.

"It's a white horse, and it has to be tall and strong. How could it be put together in a hurry?" Lou Gui sighed from the side. "And this kind of horse armor is very taxing on horses. It has to be a majestic horse, but it only takes a few times.

I'm so exhausted... I don't know why the imperial court made such full-body horse armor back then? There were only a dozen or so in the entire Yanmen."

"It's still useful," Gongsun Xun sighed. "Since ancient times, military affairs have been dangerous. It is said that one battle can determine the outcome of ten years. In the battle formation, if there are dozens of armored and heavy cavalry, both men and horses wearing iron armor, running rampant, who will

Can you take it? Maybe it will be the final word."

"It's still too expensive, and it may not be worth it." Lou Zibo extended his palms and said. "If you ride a hundred heavy cavalry with armor, the money and food will be enough to support three hundred ordinary armored cavalry, or a thousand light cavalry, and you can replace it with leather cavalry."

A serious infantry with spears and bows and arrows is three thousand... With this money, what if I exchange it for three thousand infantry? If three thousand infantry stand in the stronghold and shoot randomly with bows and crossbows, a hundred heavy cavalry will definitely die."

"But have you ever thought about it, Uncle Zi?" Gongsun Xun glanced at the battlefield where the battle was about to take place, shaking his head and laughing. "If we use heavy cavalry, we can free up two thousand people to work on the land to support our families..."

Lou Gui did not answer... It was not that he was completely speechless, but as he spoke, on the alluvial plain in front of him, Baima Yicong had already taken the lead to join the battle with the Huns.

The two of them seemed to have a lot of time before, but as Gongsun Xun said, the military situation is dangerous, and the outcome of a major battle involving tens of thousands of people is enough to determine the political direction of a region in the next ten years. The two monarchs and ministers on the city wall

How could they really be absent-minded? When the Youzhou Army entered Yanmen, they never really worried about whether they could take over Yanmen, which was in a vacuum of political power. However, after taking over Yanmen County, the peace and order here have changed.

It still has to be guaranteed with human lives... Of course, this refers to the lives of the Huns.

As for the reason why the two of them were chatting and laughing and pretending just now, it was just because the war drum beat, it was probably not them who decided the direction of the war... In other words, as the commander-in-chief of an army, and the 'strategist' who formulated the strategy in the army

, before the moment of beating the drum, he had already tried his best.

Release prisoners of war to paralyze the opponent and expose their weaknesses; send them to death to lure the enemy deep, and deliberately agree to meet the exhausted opponent in the middle of the night; set up heavy troops in the near area to wait for work, and use strong men and civilians in the distance to make up the numbers, uniformly equip them, show off their power, and frighten the enemy's morale; and even send out

We have gathered some special forces to book the venue...what else can we do?

The next thing depends on the soldiers who fight in person on the battlefield and the middle and low-level officers... Of course, fortunately, the Youzhou elite that Gongsun Xun was proud of did not let him down.

Baima Yi never had more than 1,200, and his spread was only a thin layer. However, under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, and Wen Ze, he galloped straight away and drove the Hun soldiers and horses in front of him like cattle and sheep.

Generally...for the Huns, after seeing the Han army waiting for work, the fatigue, hunger, and cold that had been covered up by excitement surged up almost instantly. No one was willing to resist, and everyone was running away.

But escaping was useless. When they arrived on the gentle slope to the west, tens of thousands of Han cavalry roared down. Hundreds of red arrow-pointed formations plunged directly into the Huns' formation in the basin, like red-hot iron stones breaking through clay pots holding water. People were shocked.

Countless Xiongnu soldiers and horses fled in all directions... However, the crossing was blocked, and the surrounding area was blocked by the terrain of the basin. It was impossible for these scattered soldiers and horses to escape at once, so countless people became fierce ghosts on the battlefield!

The cavalry trampled them, the soldiers charged at random, the spears were stained with blood, and the blades pierced the bones.
To be continued...