Chapter 739: Fighting in the Wind

Chapter 739: Fighting in the Wind

Chapter 739: Fighting in the Wind (Part )
As if there was some foreshadowing, the wind suddenly died down and began to sob.

The killers on both sides seemed to be stimulated by something, and they all stepped forward and started fighting with weapons.

Sima Shixian of the other tribe held a heavy sword in his hand, stood in the third row, and rushed forward with all his might.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the local soldier Lu Da fighting with a group of Hun soldiers on the opposite side.

Both sides were holding spears, and seemed to be very skilled in this technique, with their spears pointed at each other from a distance.

Lu Da was too lazy to test the opponent, so he stepped forward quickly and thrust his spear out like lightning, pointing directly at the opponent's uncovered face.

The man on the other side was not in a hurry. He tilted his spear downward and hit Lu Da's spear hard at one-third of the way, deflecting it. Then he raised the tip of the spear and stabbed Lu Da's neck.

When masters fight, life and death are decided instantly. There are no fancy moves, it is just so plain and simple - of course, to achieve such plain and simple, one must practice a lot.

Shi Xian's face remained calm.

When he had just watched from a distance, he knew that this group of Huns was not easy to deal with, especially the front few rows, who were wearing iron armor and had good morale. They were one of the sixteen guards of the Huns, had experienced many battles, and in recent years had even defeated the Tuoba Xianbei.

But what does it matter? Standing on the corpse field, who can guarantee that they will not die? Just kill them, anyway, there is no need to worry about the family.

Sure enough, just as this thought came to mind, a man from the back row of Lu came up and thrust his spear straight forward.

The Hun soldier had just killed one man and his confidence increased greatly. When he saw the other party stabbing at his chest, he sneered inwardly and choked down with his spear, hitting the other party's spear shaft.

Unexpectedly, the opponent's hand had amazing strength, and the spear was knocked down. He dodged sideways and stabbed the Hun's calf.

The Hun's spear passed by his ear, and his spear pierced the opponent's calf, causing blood to flow.

A man nearby stabbed the Hun man sideways and killed him.

It sounds like a lot, but actually all of these happened in a flash.

Without going into details, the general idea is that after the two sides fought, people kept falling down, and people kept taking their place, and then people kept falling down again.

It looks similar to farmers and soldiers stabbing each other with guns, but the level is very different.

Not to mention the armor these elite soldiers wear. Even if they are not wearing armor, when fighting against the peasant soldiers, with their quick eyes, hands and swift movements, they can achieve a very good casualty ratio and defeat the opponent in no time.

"Puff!" A strong wind blew towards him, blowing a large amount of blood towards Shi Xian.

Shi Xian roared, pushed aside the corpse still standing in front of him, and rushed forward.

Opposite him is a swordsman and shieldman.

Shi Xian chopped down on his head with his sword, and his opponent raised his shield to meet it, and swung back with his sword in his right hand.

Shi Xian held his sword horizontally, then stepped forward and exerted force with his wrist, pressing the enemy's ring-handled sword to his side.

The enemy quickly drew his sword, and his movements were very fast, but Shi Xian's sword was even faster, and he chopped the enemy's chest diagonally with great force. The huge force made the opponent stagger and almost fall to the ground.

Just as Shi Xian was about to step forward, his comrade on the left thrust out his spear and stabbed the unstable enemy soldier to death on the spot.

In fact, it only took a few breaths for an elite veteran who had trained hard for many years to fall down.

Another enemy is coming up from the opposite side...

******
Liu Cong looked down from a high place and watched in surprise the fighting on his own left wing.

In the strong wind, debris was flying and the sound of killing was deafening.

One warrior after another was killed on the spot.

They were the elite troops that the Han Dynasty relied on for survival. They were selected from various tribes and armies, provided with good food and drink, equipped with the best weapons, and trained frequently. As a result, up to now, they were only evenly matched with the Jin people on the opposite side.

That's not the Silver Spear Army!
Moreover, although the battle line is now stalemate, there are only one thousand armored warriors on our side, and more than three thousand on the other side. As the battle goes on, it is obvious which side will be exhausted first.

Once these elite warriors are used up, will the young and strong men behind them be able to withstand the bloodthirsty Jin people?
Liu Cong silently issued an order.

Hou Feihu was also watching the battle on the right wing.

The Yamen Army was not so powerful before. Perhaps after serving as a government soldier for many years, they had accumulated a certain amount of wealth, and through long-term training, they gradually made up for their shortcomings in skills, and their combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

More than 3,000 men advanced in a wall, armed with a variety of weapons, and fought with the Xiongnu's imperial guards.

By this point in the battle, both sides had suffered three to four hundred casualties, which was a brutal battle.

According to experience, if the battle continues for a while, the enemy's left wing will not be able to hold on.

Suddenly, the rumbling sound of horse hooves came from behind the enemy camp.

Liu Cong deployed the imperial cavalry that had not been sent into battle before, totaling one thousand horses. They had now circled out of the rear formation and were slowly moving forward.

Hou Feihu ordered the flag to be hung up, and at the same time he found a messenger and said calmly, "Tell Shi Fuhou that he was just trying to be polite. If he continues to be so sneaky, he will be in trouble when Liang Gong's army marches south to Hedong."

"Yes." The messenger jumped on his horse and galloped away.

After a while, drums roared from a starting position in the rear.

Under the scolding of their leader, the Jie cavalry quickly understood how to fight this battle - sometimes there was no need for long speeches, a brief word or an action from the leading officer was enough to let these experienced soldiers know whether or not to fight hard.

Thousands of riders rushed out.

Those who are good at close combat will be in the front, while the light cavalry will encircle the enemy on the left and right, using their numerical advantage to block or even defeat the enemy.

But for some reason, their movements were not so urgent or fast. Instead, they waited until the front line of the Xiongnu cavalry rushed into the flank of the palace soldiers regardless of casualties and despite the arrows, and then they slowly accelerated.

When Liu Cong and Hou Feihu saw this, their eyes froze.

Liu Cong knew that the cavalry he sent out was going to suffer a heavy loss.

If they engage in a head-on battle, the Jie cavalry on the opposite side may not be able to stop them, but their mission is not to deal with the Jin cavalry, but their right-wing infantry, that is, the palace soldiers who are currently making their left wing somewhat exhausted.

At this time, the front army had already rushed into the palace army's formation, and the two sides were fighting fiercely. Hundreds of cavalry from the central and rear armies were still rushing over. If the Jie people took advantage of the situation and attacked suddenly, they would definitely be divided into two or even three parts.

Liu Cong sighed sadly.

The elite troops disappeared one by one, just like his life slipping away bit by bit.

Hou Feihu watched intently, and secretly took note of Shi Fuhou in his heart.

If they tried harder and increased their horse speed to the maximum, they might be able to intercept most of the Xiongnu cavalry. But they did not do that. Instead, they waited for a while, and only rushed forward after the Xiongnu cavalry rushed into the palace soldiers' formation from the flank, shouting.

These birdmen are so cunning!
As the Xiongnu cavalry charged, the more than 3,000 soldiers on the right wing fell into chaos as men and horses were thrown to the ground.

The morale of the Han army, which had been almost breathless after being hit on the front line, was restored. Led by the remaining imperial guards, they shouted and advanced in formation, and the fighting became fierce again.

Up to now, both sides have been making moves on the flanks.

The right wing of the Jin army and the left wing of the Xiongnu were the places where the two sides fought most fiercely, and also the areas with the heaviest casualties.

******
The strong wind continued to blow.

The Huns had squinted their eyes before, and now it was the Jin army's turn.

Dead branches, leaves, and thatch, mixed in the wind, kept hitting my body.

The infantrymen of the Black Legion Army had given up archery and put their bows on the left side of their waists.

I just shot two rounds of arrows.

At a distance of one hundred steps, the casualties were very minor.

The casualties from the seventy-step projectile attack were slightly greater, but also relatively limited. The only benefit was that it caused a little chaos in the enemy's formation.

However, there were two thousand armored warriors in front of them, marching in a solemn and orderly formation. Under their leadership, after walking thirty steps, the formation of the miscellaneous soldiers was slowly restored.

The drum beats gradually quickened, and the soldiers of the Black Sword Army, holding their spears, slightly quickened their pace.

The crossbows on both sides kept firing.

The thick arrows penetrated a distance of dozens of steps, causing horrific damage in their respective formations.

Perhaps unable to bear the huge casualties caused by the crossbow, both sides quickened their pace and collided violently.

Looking down from the air, as soon as the Han and Jin sides came into contact, their respective elite soldiers fell down in rows, and the thick formation melted little by little like ice and snow under the scorching sun.

When one falls, another takes his place.

One row dies, and another row rushes up.

One side was full of fighting spirit and vowed to wipe out the Huns.

One side is deeply indebted to the emperor and has no way to repay him, so it can only fight to the death.

Liu Cong sent out the last reserve troops.

There were still more than 700 imperial cavalrymen who had attacked before. They rested for a while, changed horses, and went into battle again.

Following behind them were two to three thousand light cavalry. These were the Xiongnu tribal soldiers, the best and strongest soldiers selected from the army heading south. There were a total of over three thousand cavalrymen, who came around from the Xiongnu right wing and the Jin army's left wing, and actually risked being shot at by the Yang clan's troops and charged sideways at the Black Jade Army.

The survival-catching troops and the cavalry troops rushed forward at the first opportunity, fighting with the Huns without caring about their own lives.

Liu Quan led two thousand light cavalry to bypass the flank of the Xiongnu cavalry and shot arrows like rain.

At this time, we can tell who is our own and who is an outsider.

The Zhuosheng Army, the Xiaoqi Army and even Liu Quan's Jie cavalry all rushed forward without regard for their lives, trying their best to intercept the Huns and not giving them a chance to flank the Heiliang Army.

On the other hand, the group of birds in Shifuhou were only concerned with reducing their own casualties...

The wind gradually died down.

Three fighting groups have formed on the open plain.

From the direction of the Jin army——

The first is located in the front right.

The palace soldiers were fighting with the Xiongnu infantry on the opposite side, while at the same time they were enduring the attacks of Xiongnu cavalry on their flanks. This Xiongnu cavalry was blocked by the cavalry of Shifuhou, and was now in chaos, scattering in all directions.

The second one is located in the center.

The Heilongjiang Army and the Xiongnu Infantry had just engaged in battle, and the fighting was at its fiercest.

The third is to the left of center.

Thousands of cavalry from both sides engaged in a melee. As the fighting went on, due to lack of space and the threat of bows and crossbows from the other side's infantry, they gradually moved outwards.

Liu Cong had already sent out almost all of his reserve troops and made the final move to win the game.

He was standing on a high platform, with only a thousand guards around him, which was very weak.

Of course, strictly speaking, there are still thousands of young men in the camp, but they are old or young, and their combat effectiveness is questionable. Can they also be considered a reserve force?
******
"The wind comes at the right time!" The camp gate opened and teams of cavalrymen filed out.

Duan Liang put his hands on the pergola and looked at the sky.

"Bah! You call this the sun? It's freezing cold." He spat, turned his head to look at the Youzhou Tuqi Du who was slowly organizing his troops in the field, and laughed: "My men, follow me and charge for a while to warm up your bodies."

Everyone laughed.

After waiting for a while, when the troops were almost in line, Duan Liang took the lead and shouted, "Good wind, help me!"

"Good wind, help me!" The 1,500 soldiers of Youzhou cavalry roared in unison and followed closely.

More than a thousand Jie cavalrymen sped up their horses, went around and advanced, drove out the enemy's stragglers, and cleared the road.

Nearly three thousand cavalrymen charged forward and rushed out from the right side of the battlefield.

Some Hun cavalry scattered around the periphery of the battlefield discovered this new troop that had joined the battlefield.

The shepherds hesitated.

The faces of the imperial guards also turned pale, but they reacted quickly and shouted to the herdsmen to come closer to them, intending to use their speed advantage to shoot arrows at medium distance and delay this large-scale armored cavalry.

Liu Cong also saw it and his face was as gloomy as water.

The civil and military officers surrounding him opened their mouths slightly, at a loss.

On the battlefield in the upper right corner, Shi Xian was already covered in three wounds. Unknowingly, he had reached the outermost side of the battlefield.

He had just killed a Hun soldier when he suddenly felt the earth shaking.

I took a quick glance out of the corner of my eye and saw only dense crowds of horse legs.

White, black, and yellow, one after another, densely packed, like drumsticks, heavily hitting the earth.

Gradually, the horses' strides became larger and their legs seemed to move more closely together.

The Huns' panicked shouts were heard on the battlefield.

The light cavalry rushed forward heroically, trying to stop them, but they were quickly taken away by the Jie light cavalry who were in the front.

The way is open.

The armored cavalry was getting faster and faster.

"Strong wind!" Duan Liang raised his lance and shouted.

"Strong wind!" the armored cavalry responded in unison.

The wind really got stronger, blowing the flags rustling and making the Huns unable to open their eyes.

Everyone lowered their veils, leaving only three orifices exposed.

The horses were covered in iron armor, the men wore heavy armor painted with tiger patterns, and their large spears were raised diagonally forward. The 1,500 armored cavalrymen were like a silver torrent, passing by the flank and rushing diagonally into the left wing of the Xiongnu infantry.

Shi Xian's morale was greatly boosted, and he called on his fellow soldiers to charge forward bravely and disperse the last group of Xiongnu guards.

Ahead was the armored cavalry towering above.

They charged in with tremendous force, crushing the old, weak and miscellaneous soldiers behind the left wing of the Xiongnu like destroying rotten wood.

They were very brave. Even when their horses were forced to slow down, they still wielded their long spears, poking, stabbing, knocking and sweeping from their high positions.

There was an armored cavalryman who was unfortunately tripped. At the critical moment, the knight struggled to adjust his direction, flew out sideways, and knocked down a large number of Hun infantry.

More people took advantage of the gaps and drove the old, weak and miscellaneous Hun soldiers away in all directions, then rushed straight to the rear of the Hun's central army.

There were also old, weak and miscellaneous soldiers there. When they saw the steel giant that looked like a ghost or a ferocious beast, they were terrified, as if they remembered the fear they had experienced many years ago when they were dominated by the armored cavalry of Tuoba Xianbei.

Without any suspense, they were broken through in one blow.

The Youzhou cavalry commander was like a sharp knife, tearing open the Huns' left wing and center army at an angle, and even had the tendency to break through the center army and go behind the Huns' right wing.

******
"It's done!" Hou Feihu's expression remained calm and he only uttered two words softly.

However, the clerks, officers, and personal soldiers who surrounded him flushed with joy.

This is a victory over Liu Cong!
He also defeated 6,000 Hun imperial guards!

General Hou was the first to do so in the twenty years since the war broke out.

Hou Feihu took in everyone's expressions, but didn't say much. He just looked at the battlefield quietly and thought silently.

The Hun's left wing had completely collapsed.

The imperial soldiers defeated and put the 4,000 Xiongnu infantry to flight. Under the orders of the officers, they slowly gathered their formation, then turned left collectively, holding spears and swords, and marched in a wall, attacking the flank of the Xiongnu center army that had already fallen into chaos.

The Xiongnu central army was already struggling to hold out on the front, and its flanks were suddenly disrupted by the armored cavalry, so it was already in a state of retreat.

The palace soldiers stepped forward quickly, first fired a round of arrows with their bows at close range, causing the enemy to fall down in large numbers, then they shouted and charged forward, cooperating with the Black Sword Army in front, killing the 6,000 infantrymen in the Xiongnu center army, leaving their corpses all over the ground.

"Lost!" Liu Cong's expression was extremely gloomy, as if he had thousands of words to say, but in the end only these two words came out of his throat.

The left wing was completely wiped out in casualties, the center army began to disintegrate, and the right wing was still intact, but what could it do?
"His Majesty."

"His Majesty……"

All the ministers looked at Liu Cong.

"Sound the horn to call back the troops and return to the camp to defend it." Liu Cong closed his eyes and gave the order.

The sound of gongs soon rang out, which was the signal to retreat.

Liu Cong and his ministers, escorted by their guards, rushed into the camp in panic.

There were only about 7,000 old, weak and disabled soldiers in the camp. When they saw their side was defeated and the emperor fleeing, they all turned pale.

Countless defeated soldiers rushed back crying and shouting.

With this situation, can the camp really be defended?
Obviously impossible!
After defeating the Hun army in the field, Hou Feihu immediately issued a series of adjustment orders.

Simple siege equipment was brought up, and the camps attacked fiercely from the east, north and south.

As the battle progressed into nightfall, the Huns were defeated again. Liu Cong and his ministers fled westward in panic towards Jie County.

A battle just ended in Jie County.

Liu Can led more than 10,000 troops from Guanxi and the garrison at Puzhou Pass to repel the attack launched by Yang Hui, the governor of the Longxiang Shogunate, and beheaded more than a thousand people.

When he learned that the emperor had been defeated in the Battle of Wenxi, he was shocked and immediately went out to support.

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