Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 89 Shan Yu's Ambition

At this time, tens of thousands of cavalry were quietly ambushing in a fjord on the south bank of Deshui.

Riders on horseback wear animal skins, with bronze inner arc knives or pickaxes hanging from their waists, and bows and feathers hanging from their saddles. Like the war horses under them, the riders are thin, but they look energetic full.

The leader is a young man in his thirties, wearing a golden eagle crown and leopard fur, riding a red horse and looking at the goshawks circling in the sky.

If Meng Tian was there, he would have recognized at a glance that the young man was none other than Mao Dun (dú), who had killed his own father a few years ago.

At this time, the Huns were less than forty or fifty miles away from the battlefields of Qin and Qiang, and they were at a distance where they could join or retreat at any time.

In the summer, Mao Dun heard that Qin Ting had a coup d'etat, and the Emperor Shi Huang who had overwhelmed him finally died.

Through merchants and some other means, he induced the Xianling Qiang to plunder the Qin people, thus triggering this war.

The purpose is to have the opportunity to test the reality of the Qin people.

If it is as the Korean said, the first emperor will die and be divided!
Then the opportunity for the Huns to take advantage of the expansion has come!
Not only that, when the Jiuyuan Army deployed by the Qin people in Shangjun went south to suppress the rebellion, the opportunity for the Huns to regain the old place of Hetao also appeared!
So Mouton was not in a hurry to join the battlefield, he was waiting for a suitable time.

When the Qiang and Qin people were exhausted, these tens of thousands of elite grassland cavalry were enough to sweep the entire battlefield!
Annihilate the Qin soldiers, force the Qiang to surrender, and then break through Longxi to plunder!
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Boom!Boom!Boom!
The sound of drums rolled across the entire wasteland like thunder, and a large banner [dào] slowly rose from the top of the building on the hill, with the dragon flag and feathers waving in the wind, so majestic.

As long as this flag does not fall, it means that the coach is still there, and the morale will not collapse, otherwise... let's run.

There are dozens of drum carts lined up under the building carts.

In this era when communication basically depends on shouting, this is one of the most effective tools used to order the entire army.

Not only the Chinese military shogunate has drums, but all levels of the army have their own drums with corresponding specifications.

The drums of the middle army make the sound of Shang, the drums of the middle-ranking officer 'Shuai' make the sound of horns, and the drums of the junior officer 'Bo' make the sound of feathers.

Beat the drums to advance, lower the flag to move forward, hit the gold to retreat, head to the left, head to the right, sit with the golden drums together...

This is a set of drills written by Wei Liao for the Qin army.

The reason why Li Xin stayed in Fanghan for so long was mainly because he was practicing this formation.

Nearly [-] Qin troops lined up in an orderly manner according to different drum sounds and under the flags of various colors raised by the shogunate.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
As the formation was set up, the sound of the drums from the Chinese army gradually coincided with the sound of Shuai and Bo's drums, which meant that the battle was about to begin.

According to the military regulations of the Qin army's "fighting one and defending two", the total number of soldiers who go into battle each time is only one-third of the total force. .

At the same time, a black bird flag was raised on the building where Li Xin was, which was the flag that ordered the cavalry to attack.

Han Xin was on the hill and saw a bird flag raised by the Rongdi cavalry in the distance. He knew that this move was called "responsive flag", and he reported to the shogunate that he had received the order.

He stepped on the saddle, tried to straighten up, had a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield, eagerly learning Li Xin's way of commanding the army.

The Rong and Di cavalry recruited from Longbei were evenly distributed on the two wings of the army. Li Xin also deployed heavy troops on the right wing of the army near Deshui. The only [-] chariots that went out were also arranged on the right wing.

In Han Xin's view, Li Xin's deployment, apart from the strengthening of the right wing, made him somewhat incomprehensible.

But this is normal, because the Qiang people on the opposite side have more old-fashioned tactics.

Looking at the formation of the Qiang people, Han Xin thought in a daze that he was on the battlefield of King Wu's defeat of Zhou, and the opposite was the army of the Shang Dynasty who came from Chaoge in a hurry.

The infantry was in the front and the chariot was in the center. How did the Shang army line up during the Battle of Muye? The Qiang people on the opposite side almost repeated the battle line of that year.

Under the repeated blows of the Qin people, the Qiang people not only lost their farming skills, but even their combat skills remained in the descriptions of poems.

Sin ah...

Han Xin shook his head slightly, thinking that after this battle, he could at least be promoted to the title of two ranks.

According to the law of Qin, 2000 people were beheaded in field battles, and only the general who commanded the battle could be credited. Everyone from military officials to generals would be rewarded, and all combatants would be awarded first-class titles.

But now, the Qiang people are almost in full force, at least 5 to [-] people!
However, they only have the advantage of having more people.

Judging from the sunlight reflected by their weapons, there are not many metal products. Most Qiang people use shu[shū], forks, flails, horse sticks and other daily tools necessary for home travel, killing people and stealing goods.

Only those on the crude chariots and the elite Qiang people who followed the chariots used the bronze spears and inner arc knives that they did not know where to get.

Han Xin touched the Huanshou knife at his waist, looked around, and found that most of the weapons of the Qin soldiers had a line of small characters smeared with cinnabar, which said which arsenal the weapon belonged to.

He knew that after the battle, these weapons would be returned to the treasury.

Probably, this is what His Majesty said about one Qin being five Hu... Han Xin sucked his reddened nose, waiting for the shogunate's order.

When Han Xin was learning about warfare in battle, Li Qian led the left-wing Rongdi cavalry to attack.

After being equipped with stirrups, the Rongdi cavalry, who were good at riding and shooting, completely evolved into the cavalry archers in Fusu's impression. They could let go of the reins with both hands on the galloping horses, and draw bows and arrows.

According to the combat method set before the start of the war, the Rongdi cavalry on the two wings used scattered formations to outflank the formation of the Qiang people from the flanks, and took advantage of their excellent bows and arrows to launch attacks outside the range of the Qiang people's wooden bows.

Just like a shepherd dog driving a flock of sheep, squeeze the formation of the Qiang people from both sides.

Gradually, after a few waves of arrow rain, the infantry phalanx on the two wings of the Qiang people were still very annoyed, although they did not suffer too much loss, so under the order of Hao Chief, they began to shrink inward, using shields to protect the phalanx. Stay on the point, and place archers behind the shields at the same time.

In this way, the light cavalry of the Qin Army don't want to use long-distance scattering to prostitute war damage for nothing.

If you want to get results, you can only shoot at close range, but in this way, you will become a target for Qiang archers.

Although the Qiang people don't know how to ride and fight, they are not bad at archery.

After clearly seeing this scene through the telescope, Li Xin smiled coldly and gave the order again.

"Hand over all the recommendation tickets!"

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