The great man will live forever

Chapter 42 The Battle of Hexi (Beheading Two Kings in Six Consecutives)

In 122 BC, on February [-]th, Liu Han and Huo Qubing's troops once again came to King Hunxie's royal city.

It has only been ten days since they set off on the fourth day of February. They traveled all the way across Hexi and turned 2 miles. They were invincible and the enemy fled.

The Han army failed to pass through the royal city and continued to pursue Hunxie's tribe. At the southern foot of Heli Mountain, Hunxie gathered a large army and waited.

A great war is about to break out.

Almost at the same time, King Zhelan and King Luhou each led more than a thousand troops and nearly 30 cavalry, following the Han army at a distance of more than [-] miles. Once King Hunxie led the main force to fight against Huo Qubing's army, these two troops were right behind the Han army. Raid.

At night, behind the Han army, in a valley, King Luhou and King Zhelan had set up camp.

King Lu Hou suddenly felt a little distracted, and he quickly ordered a sentry leader under his command: "Send a few more people to look carefully behind the west mountain to see if there is an ambush."

The leader of the cavalry sentry left in response, and another person in charge said with certainty: "Your Majesty, there must be no ambush within a few miles. The Han army should not have discovered us. He is busy dealing with the army of King Hunxie in front. How can he have the strength?" Come care for us.”

King Lu Hou took a deep breath and said seriously: "I seem to smell the scent of war horses coming from the side of the mountain. The Han people have a saying: Be careful to make a ten thousand year ship."

King Zhelan on the side nodded and agreed: "Yes, the Han army is elusive and comes and goes like the wind. We only have 3000 people. If we are attacked by them, we will be in big trouble."

Unfortunately, the more people are afraid of something, the more likely it is that something will happen.

"kill!"

"Archery!"

"charge!"

"Help!"

Suddenly, a shrill scream came from the rocky slope a few miles away. Like a bolt of lightning, it cut through the dark night and put fear and surprise into the hearts of every Hun cavalry.

Although the Xiongnu soldiers did not believe that the Han army could hide so quietly, they still subconsciously cocked their arrows, held their maces in their hands, and quickly surrounded King Zhelan and King Luhou.

"Block the enemy!"

"Follow me to kill."

King Zhelan and King Luhou hurriedly faced the enemy. In the dark night, it seemed that there were enemies on all sides, and they were frightened.

It turned out that Huo Qubing and Liu Han were afraid that King Zhelan and King Luhou would attack from behind. After all, these two tribes retreated too quickly and their losses would not be great.

Just in case, they sent people to investigate, and sure enough they found that King Zhelan and King Luhou had led 3000 people to secretly follow them.

Liu Han suggested: "How about we go back and kill them all, lest they sneak up on us during the battle with King Hunxie. Then we will fight on two sides and be attacked from both sides."

Huo Qubing refused, "No, once we fight back, King Hunxie will take advantage of the situation to pursue us, and we will be attacked from both sides."

"Then what should we do? Divide the troops?" Liu Han frowned and couldn't think of any solution for a while.

"Well, there are many servants in the Liangma school, and Zhao Ponu, the eagle strike commander."

"exist!"

"I now order you to lead a thousand cavalry to leave the Han army, go around behind King Zhelan and King Luhou, and wait for an opportunity to attack them."

"promise!"

Therefore, Lieutenant Puduo of Liangma School and Zhao Ponu of Eagle Attack Sima, under the guidance of a Xiongnu soldier, went south for dozens of miles and detoured into the only way that King Zhelan and King Luhou must pass, hiding In a valley, only a dozen sentries were sent to investigate the whereabouts of the Zhelan tribe and the Luhou tribe.

When the troops of King Zhelan and King Luhou passed by and relaxed their guard at night, they led their troops to attack. This attack was sure to kill.

"Those who surrender will not be killed!" Zhao Ponu roared and chopped down several Xiongnu sentries.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Han cavalry rained arrows continuously. As soon as the two sides met, hundreds of Huns soldiers were shot off their horses.

King Zhelan shouted angrily, "Asshole, didn't King Hunxie say that the Han army had no more arrows? They were all using Dun arrows? Why are there so many and so sharp?"

King Lu Hou keenly noticed the key point, "The Han soldiers are fewer than us. I estimate there are only more than a thousand. Their army may be fighting against King Hunxie now."

"Okay, then we'll deal with them, and then sneak attack the Han army from behind."

"Kill!" King Luhou brought the Xiongnu soldiers' maces tied with animal skin ropes to show off their might, knocking down dozens of men and horses, and then a melee ensued.

However, the Han army still prevailed because of its armor, sophisticated weapons and equipment, and its advantages in close combat were obvious.

"Woo!" The horn blew, and a full-scale melee began.

The two kings did not hesitate and immediately ordered a full-scale attack. The nearly three thousand maces alone were enough to make the Han army suffer.

Puduo and Zhao Ponu divided a thousand cavalry into two parts, with five hundred cavalry on the outside. The cavalry inside stood on the ground and fired continuously with hundreds of strong bows.

This round of violent arrow rain killed at least four to five hundred Hun cavalry. However, the Hun soldiers did not charge in one direction, but attacked from the left and right respectively, thus escaping greater killing.

"Come on!"

The two armies finally came into contact at hand-to-hand combat. The shouts of killing were earth-shattering and there were soldiers fighting everywhere.

The cavalry on horseback galloped back and forth, and from time to time someone fell off the horse's back. Han soldiers holding weapons and Huns gathered in groups of three or five, fighting with their lives.

King Zhelan and King Luhou obviously knew that they had been tricked by the Han army regarding the number of arrows, which resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives. Their anger erupted uncontrollably, and each of them shouted: "Kill me!"

Eagle Strike Sima Zhao Ponu looked at the soldiers around him having their throats cut and beheaded by the enemy. Hearing countless miserable screams in his ears, his anger spurted out like blood splashing everywhere. He waved his long knife and screamed at the top of his lungs. shouted.

"Kill!"

Both sides fought fiercely, with corpses, broken swords, blood, the night sky, roars, and screams...

All of this forms a cruel and heroic scene.

As the river goes eastward, as time goes by, their battle may only have a few strokes in the history books, or it may not be recorded. It will be completely forgotten after a thousand years, but it does not hinder their bravery, shining with the sun and the moon, bathing in it. Starlight.

In a big battle, both sides lost at least half of their troops, and it seemed that they would both perish if the battle continued.

King Zhelan and King Luhou wanted to retreat. At this moment, they still had hundreds of war horses, but most of Zhao Ponu's horses fell in a pool of blood, leaving only a few hundred.

"retreat!"

Seeing the two kings withdrawing from the battlefield from both sides, other Huns soldiers who lost their horses also fled.

The defeat is like a mountain!

Zhao Ponu's long sword had long since disappeared. He grabbed a long sword and said, "Whoosh!" He cut off half of the head of the enemy in front of him.
"Hoo, ho, ho!" He exhausted himself and lay on his back on the belly of a dead horse, gasping for air.

At this time, many of Liangma's lieutenants still had enough strength and men. He led a hundred-man cavalry and continued to pursue them. King Zhelan and King Luhou did not dare to fight, so they rode away and watched their kings fight for their lives. He fled, and the rest of the Huns soldiers scattered in all directions.

After resting for a while, Zhao Ponu sat up, seized an enemy's horse, and personally led the remaining soldiers to continue the pursuit. Most of the soldiers around him were killed in this battle, which also ignited his anger for revenge.

In an instant, all the other Han soldiers who could move raised their swords and followed the Xiongnu soldiers.

"Chase!"

"kill!"

King Zhelan and King Luhou were trapped and exhausted, and they were overtaken before they could run far. Zhao Ponu bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and the arrow was like a shooting star.
"Be careful!" A soldier beside King Zhelan shouted. As soon as King Zhelan turned around, he saw flying arrows shooting straight at him. He wanted to hide, but it was too late.

"Pfft!"

"Clap!"

He was directly pierced by an arrow and fell to the ground dead.

"Your Majesty!" Several Huns soldiers were shocked.

Seeing King Zhelan fall off his horse and die, King Luhou felt bad. He was already wounded. He wanted to dismount and surrender, but his servants didn't want to leave him alive at all. They rushed forward and killed him with a knife on the ground.

In this battle, Liangma School Lieutenant Puduo and Yingshou Sima Zhao Ponu used a thousand Han troops to sneak attack the 1200 Xiongnu troops of King Zhelan and King Luhou, killing more than 700 of the enemy and injuring more than [-] of their own.

King Zhelan died with an arrow, King Luhou was beheaded, and the Han army won a great victory. It was also a tragic victory!

(End of this chapter)