Han Dao world

Chapter 525 The First Battle
When the sun was high, Yan Chi led his troops to appear in front of the battle.

After receiving the report, Liu Xie immediately boarded the general's platform and looked up into the distance.

On the horizon, between the sand dunes, the Xianbei people swarmed out like ants, getting closer and closer, looking amazing.

The sound of war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Han army quickly walked out of the camp and entered their respective positions.The knife shield hand raised the shield and drew out the sword.The crossbowmen began to wind the strings, placing the arrows within easy reach.The knight checked his harness again and prepared to charge.

Going up and down the stage, Lang Guan and Shangshu are also busy.Cai Yan, Pei Jun, and Yuan Quan took their seats behind Liu Xie.There is a small stove on each of their desks, which is used to bake the inkstones and prevent the ink from freezing.

There will be a lot of official documents to be recorded today, and the three of them will all go into battle and use the relay method to record.

Liu Xie was wearing gorgeous armor and sitting on the general platform.After a while, his face was frozen, so he didn't have to worry about the trouble of expression management.Even if the sky falls apart, there will be no expression on his face.

There was the sound of war drums in the distance, and Duliao General Zhang Yang on the right sent a message that the left wing of the Xianbei was approaching and might launch an attack.

Liu Xie was a little surprised. Yan Chi did not attack Ma Chao's position, nor Han Sui's position, but chose Zhang Yang's position on the right wing. It seemed that he still lacked confidence and wanted to try Zhang Yang, who had the least reputation.

It seems that the Xianbei people are not well-informed enough, and they don't know how Zhang Yang's Marquis of Shaling got here.

He ordered the drums to be beaten and Zhang Yang to fight.

The sound of war drums echoed over the battlefield, and many people held their breath.

The real battle begins.

The horn sounded one after another, and a hundred Xianbei cavalry under the command of the centurion galloped out, heading straight for Zhang Yang's position.

Zhang Yang immediately sent a hundred horsemen to fight.

Two hundred cavalry charged and killed repeatedly, and the generals of both sides paid attention to the fighting soldiers while closely observing the opponent's position in order to respond in time.The scouts from both sides came and went, continuously delivering the latest news to their respective generals.

After a few rounds, the Xianbei voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield.They paid the price of more than [-] people, but they didn't take advantage of it, so they had to retreat voluntarily.The victorious knights of the Han army dismounted and were about to cut off the heads of the Xianbei people, when another two hundred Xianbei cavalry rushed out of the position.

Zhang Yang didn't dare to be negligent, and sent another two hundred cavalry to fight, and ordered the cavalry who had just fought a battle to withdraw to their positions.Physicians and doctors carrying medicine boxes rushed over to bandage the slightly injured soldiers, and those seriously injured were sent back to the rear camp for treatment by the imperial physicians of the imperial medical office.

After half an hour of probing, the Xianbei people confirmed a fact.The ordnance of the Han army is indeed good, with sharp swords and spears and stronger defense capabilities. With the same strength, they can't take advantage of it at all.After consulting Yan Chi, they immediately sent more knights, preparing to win with more.

Zhang Yang only had three thousand riders. Seeing this, he immediately ordered the knights to retreat and shrink their formation.

It's not that he can't win more with less, but it's arranged in advance.Now is not the time to go all out. Only by making the Xianbei people feel that they have a chance to win can they hold the Xianbei people back and create opportunities for the Xianbei people to be hit hard.

The infantry array extended to the right flank, blocking with bows and crossbows.

Blocked by the dense array of arrows, the Xianbei knights did not dare to charge forward and had to report to the Chinese army.

Yan Chi didn't panic, and then ordered the right wing to attack.

Like Zhang Yang, Ma Chao shrank his formation and hid behind the infantry formation when the Xianbei launched a large-scale attack.

The original nearly rectangular position has been deformed, the two wings have shrunk, and the central army has become more prominent.Because the pawns extended to the wings, the formation in the middle became thinner.

This was exactly the result Yan Chi hoped for. He ordered the two wings to maintain pressure, and while constantly attacking, he launched an attack from the front.

The frontal position of the Han army had three ice walls, and there were horses stuck in the soil, which was not conducive to the impact of the cavalry. Yan Chi ordered thousands of knights to dismount and attack on foot.

At this time, something unexpected happened.The Han army moved away a few horses, and a group of cavalry rushed out of the formation, and went straight to the Xianbei who were approaching the position.Seeing that the situation was not good, those Xianbei soldiers retreated one after another, and the formation also became chaotic.

The knights of the Han army patted their horses to catch up and killed wantonly.

Yan Chi could see clearly, and while scolding Han Sui for being cunning, he was even happier in his heart.He was not afraid that Han Sui would send cavalry to attack, but he was afraid that Han Sui would stay in the formation and not come out.He immediately ordered the cavalry to fight, entangle the Han army knights, and at the same time personally guard the cavalry to prepare.If Han Sui sent cavalry for reinforcements, he could take the opportunity to kill a large number of people.

Judging from the previous battles on the two wings, with the same strength, the Han army has a considerable advantage, but as long as it has twice the strength advantage, it can basically be sure of winning.This proved his previous conjecture from another angle. There were only so many wolf cavalry, and the other Han troops did not have such abnormal combat effectiveness at all.

Two thousand Xianbei cavalry rushed out of the position, one team faced it head-on and the other outflanked it.Regardless of the rain of arrows shot by the Han army, they cut off the retreat of the Han army knights and attacked back and forth.

The knights of the Han army who went to battle fell into a tight siege and were surrounded by the Xianbei knights several times their own.Although they struggled and rushed, they were still unable to break through, so they had to blow the horn for help and ask for reinforcements.

Han Sui sat on the general's platform, looked at the battlefield where they were fighting, waited deliberately for a while, and then sent General Anxi Cheng Gongying to lead his troops for reinforcements.

Cheng Gongying led two thousand cavalry to rush out of the position and enter the battlefield.

Yan Chi was overjoyed, and immediately sent his personal guards to fight against Cheng Gongying.

Six or seven thousand soldiers from both sides were divided into two battlefields, rushing back and forth to fight, and it was indistinguishable for a while.

Standing on the general platform, Liu Xie couldn't see the specific situation on the battlefield, but he analyzed the news from the front, and the first batch of knights who went out to battle should be the Qiang people that Han Sui said.Most of those people were the former subordinates of Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu. They were the first to rebel. After Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu were killed by Han Suiyin, they became Han Sui's subordinates.

Now, Han Sui sent them to the battlefield, and wanted to use the Xianbei's knife to cut them up and use them as bait to deceive the Xianbei people.

These people are brave and cruel, but they don't actually have much pursuit. From the beginning to the end, they are the knives in the hands of others.First it was the sword of Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu, then it was the sword of Han Sui, and now it was broken by Han Sui himself.

The saddest thing is this.

After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, seeing that the Qiang cavalry who entered the battle at the beginning were completely lost, Han Suicai beat the drums again and sent the most elite guard cavalry into battle.These cavalry were well equipped and trained the best. Not only were they stronger than those Qiang cavalry with insufficient armor, they were even inferior to the knights led by Cheng Gongying.As soon as they went into battle, the Xianbei people felt the pressure.

Yan Chi immediately ordered the blowing of the trumpet and ordered the cavalry on both wings to return to help, ready to swallow Han Sui's cavalry in one go.

But Han Sui didn't give him this chance. After the guards joined up with Cheng Gongying, they voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield.

Looking at the scattered corpses on the ground, Yan Chi was surprised and delighted.He knew that Han Sui was unlikely to fight him desperately in order to preserve his strength.But he never expected that Han Sui would do it so obviously. He had a chance to win, but he gave up the victory.

He immediately ordered an inventory of the battlefield, especially the armor of the Han army, not even a helmet should be wasted.

The results of the battle were unexpectedly good. He obtained more than [-] sets of armor, as well as more spears and ring swords.

Yan Chi ordered the troops to withdraw and rushed to the camps of the Kuangsha Tribe and the Red Sun Tribe overnight.

(End of this chapter)