Qiang Qin

Updated: 2011-01-25

Surprise appeared on the faces of every Xiongnu cavalry who was rushing towards Jiuyuan City. They really didn't expect that the city was not only prepared, but also had a large number of troops several times their own.Immediately, the surprised expression on his face was replaced by fear. Although the cavalry of the Diela tribe could be regarded as the elite soldiers of the Huns, they had traveled for several days to get here after all, and their physical strength was almost exhausted.If there were indeed only Wanxu's defenders in Jiuyuan City, and they had no defense at all, they might be able to take it down in one go.But now they knew that they had obviously fallen into an ambush by the Qin people, and they had completely lost their confidence in the First World War.If the war horses hadn't been urged to run forward, I'm afraid they would turn their horses and run back, but the situation is even worse now, because they are rushing head-on to the Qin army, which is several times their own.

The two sides finally collided. Due to various factors, the combat effectiveness of the Xiongnu cavalry who invaded this way from the Diela tribe was only [-]% of the original.As a result, their ability to resist was already very weak, and the Qin army seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to continuously attack these Huns, completely breaking up their unorganized formation. Let the cavalry of the Huns become individuals fighting alone.

As the Huns were dispersed and separated by the Qin people to fight alone, their flexible, fierce and domineering killing methods lost their due effect.Although it was on a wide and flat plain with a clear view, although the Huns cavalry were all on horseback, they were the ones who were attacked.This is something they never thought of before.

Standing in the middle of the cavalry, Gu Ke, who was protected by hundreds of people, showed a look of despair. Seeing his people continue to fall under the swords of the Qin people, he felt that his hope was shattered.At this time, Na Mie got up to his side and said, "Leader, now the Nine Plains can no longer be taken down, and the only way we can retreat is to get away from the impact of the Qin people."

"What's the use of that? Without the supply of food and grass in the city, why should we go back to the grassland? If we don't go back to the grassland, Mouton will definitely use this incident as an excuse to be unfavorable to us." Guke said with a tone Deep despair.

"Headman, as long as we leave here, the grassland may be ours. Seeing that there are so many Qin people attacking us, they must be Qin people's reinforcements. Now that they have arrived here, Maodun and the others may not It will succeed, so we still have a chance as the leader." Mie Qi persuaded.His words gave Gu Ke a glimmer of hope. At the same time, he also thought that these tribesmen would be his bargaining chips in the future, and they couldn't just be wiped out by the Qin people, so he immediately gave the order to retreat.

The Huns wanted to retreat, but the Qin people didn't want them to go so easily, so they followed closely behind them and kept beheading the Huns who were alone.Chasing all the way, the ground is full of the corpses of the evil Huns.After chasing and fleeing for more than 30 miles, these Huns relied on their riding advantages to throw away the pursuing Qin army and ran to the depths of the grassland in the north.In this battle, the Qin army had no more than a thousand casualties, but killed nearly [-] Huns, which can be regarded as a great victory.

When Qin Jun returned to Jiuyuan City, Meng Tian in golden armor was standing at the gate to welcome them.Zhang Han, who was dressed as an ordinary soldier, strode out of the Qin army and cupped his hands repeatedly at Meng Tian: "General Meng is indeed his nemesis of the Huns. The Xiongnu cavalry fled far into the depths of the grassland and did not dare to come out again. In this way, the pressure on the side of Yunzhong must have been relieved a lot."

Meng Tian's face was still pale as if he had just recovered from illness, but he also laughed a few times, and then said: "I, Meng Tian, ​​just told you the strategy, and the real meritorious service is all the soldiers. Especially you, General Zhang. , and even spared their lives to fight against the Huns, I really admire it." After a few compliments, the two brought their troops into Jiuyuan City.

It turned out that everything was so coincidental, when Yunzhong brought the news that the Huns were going to attack Jiuyuan here with pigeons, it happened that Meng Tian and his two came here with reinforcements.In fact, this is also easy to explain. The army from Xianyang to rescue the northern counties got the news of the Xiongnu soldiers encircling the clouds along the way.Meng Tian quickly judged that this was the intention of the Huns to use the city of Yunzhong to transfer other Qin troops there and fight them on the plain.Thinking of this, Meng Tian came up with the idea of ​​putting the reinforcements in a certain city close to the cloud, so that the army would have to rely on, so that they would not lose the opportunity completely.Near Yunzhong are the two cities of Yanmen and Jiuyuan. The former has already fallen into the hands of the Huns, so Meng Tian had to bring his troops to Jiuyuan.

When he knew that the Xiongnu would have a force to attack Jiuyuan City, Zhang Han guessed that the Xiongnu did not have enough food and wanted to come here to rob food. At the same time, he also proposed to send troops to attack the Huns halfway.Although Meng Tian agreed with his judgment, he didn't think it was a good idea to attack the Huns halfway. Instead, he ordered the army to wait in the city until the Huns came here before giving them a head-on blow.Zhang Han understands that he is now wearing a sinful body, and also feels that Meng Tian's method is more secure, so he agrees with him.So there was a big victory just now.

When the Qin army was celebrating the victory of the battle, Meng Tian and Zhang Han were already discussing the next move.Zhang Han said: "I think we should first inform General Han and the others in Yunzhong of the news of the great victory here, so that they can fight the Huns there at ease, and then march steadily to Yunzhong and attack the Huns together with the defenders there. military."

Meng Tian agreed: "You're right. I'll let someone pass the news to them through carrier pigeons. After a day's rest, we will take our troops to the cloud the next day. But we also have to tell the soldiers As mentioned above, although we have won today, it does not mean that our enemies are easy to deal with, so they should not despise these invading Huns."

"That's right, this subordinate will let people publicize this matter in the army later..." Zhang Han agreed, heartbroken by the attitude of a famous general like Meng Tian who is victorious but not arrogant.In the past, he only thought that Meng Tian was just lucky, and followed Qin Shihuang and Fu Su, but after this year's contact, he has been greatly convinced by Meng Tian. There is not a small gap.

Just when Zhang Han wanted to ask Meng Tian about the use of troops, a person from outside the hall had already come over and reported: "Two generals, when we were cleaning the battlefield, we found that the horses of the Hun cavalry were equipped with this thing. If you don’t dare to hide anything, I’m here to report.” The man raised the wooden stirrup and the leather saddle as he spoke.

Meng Tian and Meng Tian were already very familiar with this thing, and they recognized it at a glance. The faces of the two were congealed. Zhang Han hurried up to take the stirrup, and then said to the man: "Tell me that these two things are in all the Huns. Are there all immediately or only a few are equipped with immediately?"

The man said: "The wooden stirrups are all there, and the saddles are only for a few horses, and the other horses are still bare." After speaking, he saw Zhang Han motioning him to leave, and the man retreated .

Meng Tian took the stirrup and looked at it carefully. Although it was not as fine as the one equipped by the Qin army, and its appearance was a bit out of shape, Meng Tian was still sure that it was the stirrup that the Qin army relied on to fight the Huns cavalry.His expression became more solemn, and he said to Zhang Han: "It seems that the Huns have learned how to make stirrups, so their cavalry might be even more powerful than before, we must be more careful in this battle. Unexpectedly, the sharp weapon we relied on was obtained by the Huns without our knowledge, and our future battles with the Huns may be even more difficult."

Although Zhang Han was also a little worried, because he also knew how much the stirrups and saddles would improve the cavalry's combat effectiveness. Once the Hun cavalry were equipped with these things, it would be like adding wings to a tiger, but he didn't think things would be much different. , so he comforted: "Is General Meng worrying too much? Although this stirrup can increase the damage of the cavalry, it will not play a decisive role in the battle. After all, combat depends on people, and it is still a good command. ah."

After listening to his explanation, Meng Tian calmed down a little, he smiled and said: "You are very reasonable, just because I thought that this stirrup was thought up by the emperor to deal with the Huns who were better at riding than us. Humans, that's why it's like this. I forgot that wars can't be decided by just relying on such a small thing. But in this way, the possibility that our army could compete with the Huns in cavalry is gone again. , so we have to think of another way. Although we have more troops than the Huns, but they are all cavalry, we may not be able to severely damage these people who come and go freely."

Zhang Han said: "I think it's God helping us. If it wasn't for the Huns who invaded today, and he happened to be equipped with stirrups, I'm afraid we won't find out about it until the actual war starts. The deployment will be useless, and this battle may not be really victorious. But now we still have time to reconsider the method of fighting the enemy."

"What method?" Meng Tian asked.

"Now that the Huns have stirrups and other things, let's go a step further and use the serial horses that were used to defeat the Chu army a few days ago. I don't think the Huns will have seen this thing, even if their riding skills have improved a lot. , under the impact of my chain horse, it will become a fish on the cutting board." Zhang Han said confidently.

After weighing it for a while, Meng Tian still chose to agree with his suggestion, because this battle was related to the success or failure of Qin against the Xiongnu.