Chapter 59 Sweeping thousands of troops in the first quarter

After two years of Hufu cavalry and shooting, great results were achieved. Zhao Guo trained 300,000 elite new troops: 100,000 well-dressed infantry were all stationed at the southern pass of Zhao State to deal with the Central Plains, and 200,000 Hufu flying cavalry were all stationed on the front line of the Great Wall.In the third year, Zhao Yong handed over the state affairs of Handan to Fei Yi to assist Prince Zhao Zhang, and then went north to the Great Wall to clear up the border troubles. In the early summer of 305 BC, the Zhao army raided the Linhu base camp in the first battle, which kicked off the prelude to the land expansion in Kuobian.

Before the war, Zhao Yong, Lou Suan, Lian Po, and Niu Zan made careful planning, and they already knew the distribution of troops in the nomadic areas of Linhu's tribes and the base camp of Huang Qihai, and the raid routes were repeatedly explored and found no mistakes.More importantly, Lou Huan had already sent more than ten teams of "merchant brigades" deep into the grassland, called "trading with Lin Hu", in order to collect and stockpile a large amount of horse milk and cooked meat of cattle and sheep along the way of Zhao Jun.The general deployment of Zhao's army is divided into three routes: Lou Huan sits at Yanmen Pass for defense, and at the same time gathers common people's cavalry and ox carts to deliver supplies for the army; Lin Hu broke through and fled south, and was ready to respond at any time; Zhao Yong personally led 100,000 flying cavalry, with Niu Zan as the former general of the army, and went straight to Huang Qihai.

One night at the end of April, Zhao Jun's 100,000 light cavalry set off from outside Yanmen Pass, and flew to the vast grassland in the northeast with their flags and drums silent.It happened that one night and one day, Zhao Jun flew to the mountainous valley in the upper reaches of Yuyanshui.After resting overnight, Zhao Jun was dispatched at five o'clock. Just before dawn, the roaring thunder suddenly exploded in Linhu's base camp. The arrogant Linhu tribe did not expect that Zhao Jun would dare to go deep into Huangqihai, and rushed to the battle. After two hours, they could not resist the enemy and fled straight to the Daihai grassland in the southwest.Fleeing westward for three consecutive days, the Lin Hu cavalry, known as the fierce and agile, could not escape the fierce pursuit of Zhao Jun's flying cavalry.In desperation, Lin Hu Danyu called the chiefs of the major tribes to gather for business urgently, and decided that this was Zhao Yong's desperate move. If he fought hard and won in one fell swoop, he might drive southward.Therefore, relying on the Daihai Mountain Plateau, the Linhu tribe gathered more than 300,000 fighters from all tribes, and wanted to fight Zhao Jun to the death.Seeing that Lin Hu's army suddenly refused to retreat, Zhao Yong immediately understood the mystery. While ordering Niu Zan to bite Lin Hu's main force, he immediately sent Lian Po's 100,000 flying cavalry to join the battle.

Three days later, the two armies with a total of more than 500,000 cavalry launched an unprecedented massacre on the Daihai Grassland.After three days of fierce fighting, more than 200,000 people were killed or injured by the Linhu tribe, and they finally fled north in a panic.Zhao Yong ordered Lian Po to lead the army back to the defense, and without hesitation he personally led 60,000 flying cavalry to chase Lin Hu northward.Chased for two consecutive months, and engaged in more than 30 battles, big and small. Lin Hu was always defeated in every battle, so he had to flee in the wind.When the scorching midsummer arrived, Zhao Jun had already chased to the vast desert of the North Sea, thousands of miles away from the Great Wall to the south, so Zhao Yong ordered to stop the pursuit.

The first World War eradicated the great trouble of Linhu, Zhao Jun flew to the prairie, and the Huns were greatly shaken. In the spring of the following year, the Donghu tribe, which was already at the end of its strength, joined forces with the Xiongnu tribes in the northwest, and went southward in a large-scale way from east to west, trying to retake the Linhu prairie east of Yinshan Mountain.When the flying cavalry report came, Zhao Yong laughed out loud, bird!I was about to give it a go, but he actually called at the door, it's God's will!After some planning at the Great Wall, Zhao's troops were divided into three groups to meet the enemy: Niu Zan led 30,000 troops to attack Donghu in the east, Lou Sui led 30,000 troops to the center and went out to Daihai to respond, and Zhao Yong himself led an army of 140,000 flying cavalry. With the fierce general Lian Po as the former general, he flew out of the cloud grassland to intercept and kill the Huns cavalry.

After the tribes of Rong and Di in the northwest surrendered to Qin, the tribes of the Xiongnu who migrated from the vast western regions to the northern part of Yinshan gradually became stronger, and they had formed a faint pressure on Qin and Zhao.But at that time, the Qin army was in full swing, and the Xiongnu were afraid of the strength of the Qin army, and did not dare to harass Jiuyuan and Shangjun of Qin in the south of Yunzhong, so they coveted the prairie in the north of Zhao.But at this time, there was Lin Hu Donghu pressing on top of Zhao Guo, occupying this vast pasture with fertile water and grass, the Huns did not dare to openly challenge Lin Hu Donghu easily.Therefore, for a long time, the Huns have not posed a direct threat to Zhao.Now, Lin Hu, who is the most fierce and skilled in fighting, left behind a mountain of corpses and fled away. Dong Hu was not enough to fight against Zhao Jun, even if he was connected to Loufan in the south, he was also no match for Zhao Jun.Looking at the grasslands and deserts, only the newly-emerged Huns are worthy of a battle with Zhao Jun.Therefore, the leader of Donghu sent a special envoy of flying cavalry to invite all the tribes of the Huns to raise troops, and after defeating Zhao Guo, they divided the Linhu grassland together.The Xiongnu Shanyu was overjoyed, and summoned all the minions to talk about it, but everyone cheered and jumped in unison. Lin Hu, a cheetah, is incompetent. If he meets my Xiongnu bear, he will tear Zhao Yong, a fat deer, into pieces and trample it into a pulp!

In the middle period of the Warring States Period, the strength and ferocity of the Xiongnu were still emerging, and they were not valued by the Warring States Period of the Central Plains.Except for the Three Kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, and Yan, the rest of the Central Plains Warring States are still not very good to the Xiongnu.It wasn't until the Qin State unified China at the end of the Warring States period that the trouble of the Huns gradually became the biggest threat.After the Han Dynasty was repeatedly harmed by the Xiongnu and fought back against the Xiongnu many times, the word Xiongnu became synonymous with border troubles in the entire northern part of China, and became the nightmare of Shuofang in China. "The heart of terror!Until the Western powers invaded China from the sea in modern times, Lin Zexu still exclaimed that "the British and French countries are not suffering, and they will eventually be the patients of China, and the north is Russia!" This is a later story.

In terms of its origin, the Xiongnu is a peculiar nomadic tribal state that originated from the Central Plains and was mixed in the Yinshan Mobei area, and continued to gather and separate.In Chinese history, the Xiongnu, as a nomadic state, only existed for five or six hundred years. After the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, they gradually disintegrated and scattered and recovered as the Northern Zhuhu.Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the predecessor tribes of the Xiongnu were scattered in the hinterland of the Central Plains and the surrounding barbarian mountain grasslands.During the Five Emperors and the Xia Dynasty, the predecessor tribe of the Xiongnu was called Hun porridge, in the Yin and Shang Dynasties it was called 獯 porridge, in the Western Zhou Dynasty it was called 猃狁, and in the Spring and Autumn Period it was called 玁狁.It was not until the middle of the Warring States Period that the name Xiongnu came into being.In the later Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu was carefully studied and verified, and it was determined that the Huns were the remnants of the Shanrong, Quanrong, Chidi, Baidi, Kunyi, and Wanyi tribes after they were driven out of the Central Plains. It is the Chinese people's final way of thinking after hearing that Hu characters have many pronunciations.One point that the Han Dynasty has not taken into account is that the Huns at this time also integrated the Roman exile tribes who migrated from the far west to the vast prairie in the east, and later known as the Raksha Kingdom, Xianbei Kingdom, Wuhu, etc. northern nomadic peoples.Generally speaking, the Zhuhu tribe was still the biggest threat to the Central Plains at that time, and the so-called Xiongnu was still taking shape, and had not yet become a general term for the tribes in the northern desert and grasslands. It was not until hundreds of years later that the Xiongnu regime basically took shape and the remnants of the Zhuhu tribe also merged into the Xiongnu.This is another story.

Zhao Jun has been dealing with the Hu people for a long time, so he deliberately collects the news of the northern tribes.In particular, when Zhao Yong ascended the throne, he had a long-term plot against the Hu people in the north. While practicing Hu clothing, riding and shooting, he sent dozens of merchants to go deep into the Hu land, and made a field investigation of all the major tribes in the north.The various descriptions of the merchant scouts finally left a deep imprint on Zhao Yong's heart: the Huns are fierce and uneducated, they must be Zhao's strong enemy! At that time, the total population of the Xiongnu was only more than two million, which was roughly equivalent to the population of a county in Zhao State.The Xiongnu had more than 30 tribes of various sizes, and their autonomy was similar to that of the princes of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties in the Central Plains.The general leader of the Xiongnu called Shanyu who supported the plow and Gutu, and the one who supported the plow was the proud son of heaven; the Shanyu was vast and boundless.People in the Central Plains did not understand these meanings until the Western Han Dynasty hundreds of years later.In the Warring States period, Yiyin just called him "Shanyu". In order to distinguish it from the little Shanyu, the leader of the tribe, the general leader of the Xiongnu was simply called "Da Shanyu".The Xiongnu grew and formed like a snowball.Whether it is the nomads who came from the Central Plains thousands of years ago, or the nomads who migrated from the west to the north later, as long as the Fanlai people submit to the established tribal power of the Huns, they can get a large area of ​​grassland and lakes to settle in, except when fighting Send troops together, and pay a little tribute to the Great Shanyu. The ordinary nomadic livelihood is that the tribes are completely autonomous and self-reliant.Even Da Chanyu, the supreme leader, must first be the leader of a certain large tribe, otherwise he would not have the strength to control the tribes in war.Because of this loose control, many nomads who migrated were happy to submit to the Xiongnu, which finally became a climate in the middle of the Warring States period.

The merchant scouts reported that the Xiongnu had no writing or documents, and everything was restricted by words.The Xiongnu had no written laws, no fixed prisons, and the maximum "sentence" was only ten days of imprisonment. In ordinary days, all prisoners were only a few people, and everything was handled according to the customary customs.The Xiongnu people are accustomed to the barbaric customs. Since the Da Shanyu, they all ate livestock but not grains. They wore all kinds of animal skins as clothing, and they slept with fur as bedding.The whole family regards the old and the weak as pariahs, and regards the strong and healthy as the honor. The young and strong eat fat meat, and the old and weak can only eat discarded bones and wild fruits.Even if the leader is Shan Yu, he has to hand over power when he gets old, otherwise he will be ruthlessly killed by the young and strong successor.When the father dies, the son takes his mother as his wife; when the brother dies, the remaining brothers take their wives as wives; there is no scruple about interbreeding between men and women.The Xiongnu people have no names and no surnames. They are rough and tough. They are able to ride and shoot. When they are young, they can ride a sheep and draw a bow to shoot birds.The Huns have only three kinds of weapons: string control, scimitar, and 鋋.String control is what the Xiongnu called bows and arrows, but tiao is a short spear with an iron handle three to five feet long. It can be used to shoot arrows from a distance, throw thongs in the middle, and fight with a machete at close range. This is the main method of warfare of the Huns.The Huns had no achievements in battle, but they only returned the prisoners of war and looted goods to themselves. If a warrior beheaded the enemy, the leader rewarded him with a cup of wine as an encouragement.That's why the Huns fought only for profit, scrambling for grasslands and pastures, plundering and killing, never caring about casualties.If you encounter profit, you will fight to the death and never retreat, but if you escape, it will be regarded as the greatest shame!If there is no wealth, goods, land, and population to win in this battle, even if Shan Yu gives orders, the birds and beasts will scatter.

All these and so on made Zhao Yong come to a judgment: the Xiongnu cavalry's move to seize the Daihai Grassland will not be profitable, and it must be even more fierce!If the Xiongnu succeeded in this battle, a force stronger than the Sanhu would overwhelm the Zhao State, and the Zhao State would be in jeopardy.Zhao Jun had never fought against the Huns before, so he had to lead the army to a decisive battle by himself to be safe. In the early summer of April, Zhao Yong's army crossed the clouds over the head of Qin State, and was blocking the east entrance of the Yinshan Grassland, where the Xiongnu must pass from the west. They wanted to fight a desperate battle with the Xiongnu army here. At this time, although Yunzhong and Jiuyuan on the north bank of the Great River were fortresses in the northern part of the Qin State, apart from the castle, the Qin army was far from powerful enough to control the vast Yinshan grassland outside the Qin Great Wall.The Xiongnu base camps from Yanran Mountain and Langjuxu Mountain in the north to the thousands of miles of grasslands in the Yinshan Mountains in the south are all nomadic areas of the Xiongnu tribes.The Qin army was fighting in the Central Plains, and was unable to go north to the Great Wall to drive out the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu were also afraid of the Qin army, so they only dared to nomad in the Yinshan grassland, but did not dare to move their base camp south to the Yinshan grassland.And if the Huns succeed in this battle and capture the Daihai Grassland in the east of the Yinshan Grassland, they will inevitably move their headquarters to the Yinshan Grassland or Daihai Grassland with more fertile water and grass. Zhao Yong could clearly see these general trends.When the army was dispatched, Lian Po, the former general of the army, suggested that it would be convenient to set up camp two hundred miles westward without crossing Yunzhong, so as not to conflict with Qin at this time.Zhao Yong waved his hand, come in!Beyond the clouds is the best battlefield.At this time, Qin State was going to be dizzy, so Zhao Yong took down Jiuyuan in Yunzhong together, and showed Mi Bazi and his mother some color!When Zhao Jun rumbled past the Great Wall in Yunzhong, Qin Jun's guard Ying Bao immediately reported to Xianyang on a flying horse, requesting to attack Zhao Jun's rear.Ten days later, Xianyang's express feathers flew to Xianyang. Not only did it strictly order the Qin army in Jiuyuan in the cloud to borrow from the Zhao army, but it also attached a special order from the Queen Mother Xuan: If the Zhao army fails to catch it, the Qin army must immediately march out of the Great Wall to help the battle. The orderer will kill without mercy!Ying Bao was originally a strong cavalry general of the Qin army, so he immediately rectified the 30,000 troops and horses, ready to attack the Xiongnu at any time.In this way, Zhao Jun crossed the Great Wall in Yunzhong without incident, marched westward for a hundred miles, and chose a prairie between two mountains facing each other far away as the battlefield between Jiuyuan in Yunzhong. Five days later, when Zhao Jun, who was waiting for work, had been deployed in secret, the scout flying cavalry came to report: The 200,000 Xiongnu army had arrived at the western foot of Yinshan Mountain, but they suddenly set up camp to rest, for some reason? "What day is today?" Zhao Yong asked suddenly. Lian Po replied, "April 29th." Zhao Yong laughed loudly: "It's God's will! Old general, I'm going to change my style of play!" "Soldiers are overwhelming, how can you change the army in a hurry?" The mature and prudent Lian Poda was puzzled. "Old general, have you forgotten?" Zhao Yong said with a smile, "the custom of the Huns: to attack when the moon is strong, and to truce and retreat when the moon is weak. This time, I traveled thousands of miles south, but I arrived at Yinshan at the end of the month, and I must camp behind Yinshan for ten days. Day, when the moon is full, the east will attack me, how can there be others?" However, Lian Po frowned again: "There is no difference in this festival. It's just that he lived for half a month, and he understood our army's deployment and investigation, but it was difficult to achieve the surprise effect." "How can he be safe for half a month?" Zhao Yong just smiled coldly, "This is God's will, it is what I said to change the style of play." After thinking for a while, Lian Po was suddenly pleasantly surprised and said, "Your Majesty, you mean to attack at night?" Zhao Yong jumped up against the case: "Yes! Night raid! Give the barbarians of the Xiongnu a jar of Zhao wine!" Then at night the next day, the prairie was dark and the wind was high, and Zhao Jun's 100,000 flying cavalry rushed forward, divided into three routes, crossed the Yin Mountain and went straight to the Huns' camp.The Xiongnu cavalry were stationed in their own barracks by each tribe, and there was no distance between each other to respond to the battlefield. They just picked water and grass to set up their own camps.It is said to be a camp area, but there are no necessary defensive barriers such as trenches and deer villages, and for the sake of convenience, the Huns always march without tents in the spring, but when they sleep overnight, they light countless bonfires to roast cattle and sheep and drink horses The grandma, after eating and drinking enough, wrapped herself in a felt sheet and fell asleep, and there were only dots of patrolling sentries outside each camp, just like wild geese camping.In the middle of the night, the bonfires all over the prairie at the western foot of Yinshan Mountain were gradually extinguished. The endless snoring was mixed with the intermittent snorting of war horses, and the strong smell of roasted cattle and sheep was mixed with the sweet and sour smell of horse milk , with the mighty spring breeze spreading over the grassland, it was definitely announced to the grassland that the Xiongnu army is here! At the right time, the western foot of Yinshan Mountain suddenly collapsed and the ground cracked, rumbling thunder and bursts of hurricanes rolled in from all over the country, and exploded in the boundless Xiongnu campsite!The Xiongnu army suddenly woke up, and people and horses rushed all over the field, crowded and trampled on each other, and there were no casualties in a moment.About half an hour later, the various tribes of the Huns finally gathered gradually amidst the sound of various sharp horns, and separated to fight to the death.Zhao's army had originally advanced in three ways, and each way was divided by wedges along all the lakes and rivers with a thousand cavalry team, so they divided the 200,000 Huns army into dozens of pieces and strangled them.On the prairie battlefield with a radius of tens of miles, more than 300,000 cavalry from the two armies were all entangled together, and launched a desperate fight!Zhao Jun came prepared, did not hold up torches, but wrapped a wide white cloth around each knight's arm, and tied a large white cloth around the horse's tail as a echo mark.However, the Xiongnu army has a custom of not fighting when the moon is dark. It was originally expected that the Zhao army would not go over the Yinshan Mountains to seek battle anyway, so they planned to recharge their batteries outside the Great Wall of Qin for half a month to avoid the dark and waning period of the moon. Drums go east.After all, this Yin Mountain has always been a nomadic area for the Xiongnu tribe. If the Huns did not provoke Qin and Zhao, they would have spared the southern barbarians. How dare Zhao Guo come here?Big Bear is in the forest, naturally he is contented, and he only has big dreams of how to grab more wealth, cattle, sheep and prisoners of war. Who would have thought that he would go to war as soon as he arrived in Yinshan? Suffering from the stormy night attack of the Zhao army, even though the Xiongnu army fought to the death after the chaos, they were surprised to find that the fierce and fierce Zhao army was actually not inferior to the white bear warriors of the Huns!The Huns were even more shocked. This Zhao Jun was fighting in the dark night, but he seemed to be possessed by ghosts and had long eyes.The Xiongnu warriors who are used to fighting alone, the two weapons they are best at - bows, arrows and short spears are useless in this dark night when they entangle each other and fight each other.However, the Xiongnu scimitar is a mixture of old copper knife and new iron knife, which is far from being comparable to Zhao Junzhi's pure iron and strong scimitar. So I just picked up the iron piece and smashed it at random. Suddenly, a mournful trombone pierced the night sky, three times in a row, and the Huns' rebellious army rolled northward like a tide. Zhao Yong gave an order: "The Great Chanyu is about to retreat! Ming Jin withdraws troops!" Lian Po's former army had just gathered, when he heard the shouts of killing from the northern mountain pass.Lian Po asked loudly: "Your Majesty, my army of 40,000 interceptors has already engaged the Xiongnu! How about hiding from behind and defeating the Xiongnu in one battle!" "No!" Zhao Yong, who was covered in blood, smiled fiercely, "Don't be defeated, I will disembowel myself." "Hey!" Lian Po waved his big hand and ordered in a loud voice, "All the soldiers! Shout out to me: Hun Shanyu——! If you dare to fight Zhao Jun tomorrow——I will let you regroup—!" His shouts rolled across the prairie like thunderclaps, blowing away with the wind.In a short while, two riders flew over with torches, shouting from a distance: "Zhao Yong listened, I am the commander-in-chief: a decisive battle tomorrow! Whoever escapes at night is not a big white bear!" He couldn't help laughing loudly: "Bird! Who will be your big white bear! Back to you, Shan Yu: Tomorrow's decisive battle, whoever escapes at night will be the big black bear!" "Wrong! Whoever escapes at night is not a great pyrene bear!" "Bird! Do you still have to be your big pyrene?" Zhao Yong couldn't help laughing, "It's up to you, whoever escapes is not a big pyrene." "Tomorrow is full, Yinshan Xiangyang Ranch!" With a loud shout, the Xiongnu Flying Cavalry disappeared into the dark night. "Withdraw to intercept and kill, retreat ten miles and set up camp!" Zhao Yong turned his head and shouted loudly after giving the order, "Old general, the Huns are not afraid of my Zhao army. The Huns barbarians only know how to fight! He can't remember if he doesn't beat hard! Just chase If you can't go, you have to fight and kill him to make rivers of blood!" "Your Majesty!" Lian Po shook his big snow-white and blood-red beard, "Is he still afraid that I will escape in the night? The big white bear bites the deadly battle, so let him show him how to kill him!" When Kui Ye withdrew his troops, Zhao Yong immediately summoned his generals to make plans in secret before his armor was released.As soon as the plan was determined, Zhao Jun immediately started the secret movement of quieting the flags and drums. After two hours, everything was ready, and the camps immediately filled with the sound of heavy snoring.When the sun rose over the hills, all the faint snoring stopped.At this time, the vast Yinshan grassland is sunny, and although the Central Plains is already in the golden midsummer of the fields, here is the spring breeze and the greenery, a cool and boundless spring, without any heat.Near noon, I heard faint thunder approaching from the west foot of Yinshan Mountain, and a big red flag at the mountain pass slowly swayed from side to side. The Zhao army faced the enemy westward, and the camp was facing the entrance of the Yin Valley in the west. Zhao Yong's central army camped on the highest hill near the Qin Great Wall on the south side of the camp.Seeing the red flag waving, Zhao Yong immediately ordered: "Flying riders out of the camp! The strong crossbow battalion is in formation!" A large white banner was swung three times to the east, and then there was a rapid and loud sound of horns of different lengths from the foot of the mountain.After the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry of the Zhao Army brigade rumbled out, stretching out the north and south wings outside the camp ditch, forming a formation five or six miles deep from dozens of small squares.From a bird's-eye view from the top of the mountain, it seems like two red long swords facing the western mountain pass.Behind the two-wing flying cavalry, there are six three-foot trenches with a width of ten miles, each trench is ten steps apart, and all 30,000 strong crossbows are arranged in six shallow trenches.On both sides of the crossbow formation, there are five thousand flying cavalry scattered on each side, ready to intercept and kill the Hun dead soldiers who have been intercepted by the rain of crossbow arrows and the two wings at any time. Zhao Jun was almost ready, and suddenly he saw that the mouth of the Yin Valley collapsed like a big river, and the cavalry of the Xiongnu poured out of the mountain pass like a raging tide rushing out of the gorge, scattered on the grassland, roaring and roaring!In a moment, they were in the land of two arrows, but the tide of the Xiongnu slowed down.Traditionally, cavalry battles have always been fought, but this Zhao army kept two lines on both sides and did not move. The wide grassland in the middle did not have a single man or a horse, and the naked camp in the distance was magic. up?If before yesterday, the Xiongnu cavalry would not have cared about how you arranged them, they would just kill like a tide, but last night the Hun army had more than 80,000 casualties, but they still had lingering fears in their hearts. Unconsciously slowed down.At this moment, the Hun Shanyu led 30,000 knights from his tribe and rushed forward from the center. With a wave of his scimitar, he shouted, "There are wealthy women in the camp of the Zhao army! Whoever grabs the most will win!" It's a great white bear! Kill—" Suddenly, the Xiongnu tide roared and rolled over again, horses' hooves were shining like thunder and knives everywhere, white fur coats and long yellow and black hair fluttered all over the field, killing sounds Shaking the wilderness, it was like landslides and ground cracks. At the same time, the 30 battle drums on the top of the mountain were like thunder, and the cavalry on both wings of the Zhao army shouted loudly, and flew past the white torrent like two red clouds, instead of rushing towards the Huns, they went straight to outflank the two sides.The Huns cavalry don't care how you run your horse, the white torrent just roars and rolls towards Zhao Jun's camp.At the place of two arrows, the knights of the Huns galloped forward, and everyone hung their knives, bent bows and long arrows to the strings. Immediately, thousands of arrows were fired, and the rain of arrows poured into Zhao Jun's camp like migratory locusts all over the sky!After the volley, the horses rushed forward to thirty steps away from the enemy. At this time, the Hun knights were the second wave of flying soldiers to attack—thousands of short spears (鋋) were thrown together, and when there was no time, the flying horses chopped down. Drive straight in.This is the most effective method of warfare for the Huns cavalry: with one arrow, thousands of arrows are fired at the same time, and short spears are thrown at the same time thirty steps away. , the opponent collapsed in panic, and the Xiongnu knight's shining scimitar had already slashed towards him with a thunderous roar.With the power of such tactics, few armies in the world can withstand three or five shock waves.The Xiongnu rose from the forest of the mighty Hu people, became dominant for five or six hundred years, and posed a huge threat to the strong military and warring states in the Central Plains, relying on this ferocious method of charging and trapping.At this time, the Xiongnu fought in the daytime, one was desperate for revenge, and the other was without the dark moon fighting, so the bow, arrow and short spear showed their talents, and they were naturally extremely fierce. But there are even stronger players among the strong, and the Xiongnu army miscalculated this time. At the moment when the Huns' army rumbled to the place where the two arrows were placed, the knights bent their bows and set their arrows, the strange sound of bronze drums in Zhao Jun's camp boomed three times, and six shallow trenches with a width of ten miles suddenly stood up. The red jungle, followed by a neat and roaring shout: "Let—" Thousands of red arrow shafts rushed out amidst sharp whistling whistles. After shooting, he immediately crouched down and loaded the crossbow with arrows, then stood up and fired the last one. The six crossbows shot in volley one after another, and the arrow rain roared continuously for less than half an hour without a break.The Xiongnu knights' archery skills are solid, and they only use their arms to bend their bows and use their physical strength to shoot. A hundred steps away, they will become flying. The bag can only carry up to twenty arrows (usually about ten), but how much can it shoot?Zhao Jun is a crossbow machine in the Central Plains, a powerful crossbow that is handled by multiple people, and can shoot more than ten arrows at a time. The three-foot arrow shaft is as thick as a wooden stick in the hand, and the arrow clusters are as long as a dagger. step!The light machine crossbow for individual soldiers uses their feet to step on the arrow, even though it is a single shot, the range is also two hundred paces away.Zhao Jun was originally a light soldier on flying cavalry, and he only had 200 crossbows, but there were more than 60,000 machine crossbows for individual soldiers, all of which were sent to those who were strong and good at shooting.Zhao Yong and the generals discussed in secret last night to temporarily transform 40,000 knights into a crossbow battalion, with 200 crossbows in the center and 30,000 single soldiers surrounded by crossbows. The 120,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu are all concentrated in this ten-mile grassland at this moment, rushing forward, suddenly encountering this unheard-of sharp long arrow and slaughtering it like a storm. The people who fell to the ground were all in sight, and their power was even more terrifying than the short spears thrown by the Hun knights with all their strength!In a short while, the people and horses fell one by one, and even if you rushed forward, you would still be unable to break through the red curtain-like rain of arrows.Da Shanyu gave a loud roar, and returned to his horse!The panicked Hun army rolled back all over the mountains and plains. At this moment, the big red flag with the word "Zhao" on the top of the mountain waved rapidly, and the drums rumbled loudly, and the red cavalry that had been surrounded by two wings suddenly spread out on the prairie, and rushed into the Hun cavalry group with a loud noise.At the same time, a large group of red flying cavalry poured out of the west entrance of Yinshan Mountain like a tide, blocking the front of the Xiongnu.The 10,000 cavalry on both sides of Zhao Jun's camp also mobilized at the same time, hiding and killing the Huns from behind.The Xiongnu Da Shanyu hissed and roared, kill!Die to die!The Hun knights also roared all over the place, fighting indiscriminately, but there was no sign of retreating. Zhao Yong on the top of the mountain looked at it for a while, and his face became more and more gloomy: "Order to fight to the death!" When the words fell, he heard Sima of the Chinese Army shout: "The golden drum and horns are all sounding! Fight to the death!" In an instant, the three on the top of the mountain Ten war drums, thirty big gongs, more than a hundred trombones rumbled and roared in the vast grassland battlefield, and the red "Zhao" flag was suddenly erected with two bright lights. The flag gun hangs flat under the blue sky.The red cavalry on the vast grassland suddenly shook the sky and the earth, and a banner with the word "Lian" was like a flying boat smashing the waves in the army of ten thousand horses, and it went straight to the white bear banner of the Xiongnu Shanyu.Almost at the same time, Zhao Yong led three thousand guards to fly down like a hurricane, and rushed to the Xiongnu Central White Bear Banner like Mount Tai.Two powerful cavalry armies launched a real desperate fight at the foot of Yinshan Mountain. When the sun went down, the prairie was finally silent.The red knights, the blood all over the field, and the fiery red rays of the sun melted into a boundless flame. The vast grassland trembled and burned, and it seemed that they didn't even have the strength to breathe, and there was a deathly silence. "Long live! Long live Zhao Jun!" Suddenly, distant and clear cheers came from the foot of the Great Wall. "Your Majesty, the Qin Army is celebrating our army!" Sima Feiqi of the Central Army came to report. "Qin army?" Zhao Yong, who immediately stood on the top of the mountain, smiled disdainfully, "Check the battlefield and return to the army tomorrow." In the Battle of Yinshan, the Zhao army beheaded more than 180,000 people, all beheading more than a hundred leaders of the Huns, big and small, and only more than 10,000 Huns escaped from the encirclement.At the same time, good news came from the Eastern Front: Niu Zan's army defeated Donghu, beheaded 80,000 people, and the leader of Donghu and more than 20 tribe leaders were all captured alive.There were more than 60,000 casualties among the Eastern and Western Zhao armies.Zhao Yong returned to the Yanmen Great Wall, rested for three months to replenish soldiers, and immediately rewarded the wounded for meritorious deeds.When the autumn wind started to rise, Zhao Yong personally led an army of 100,000 to enter Yanmen Pass, pressing directly on the top of Zhongshan Kingdom and Loufan, trying to eradicate Loufan's troubles in Zhongshan.