Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 175 Confrontation between the two armies

Huan Xi sat cross-legged on the grass casually, chewing the dried meat in his mouth, showing no sign of dignity.

The soldiers sitting around him also took the time to eat in order to regain their strength as soon as possible. Only the sentries led by Zhang Shisheng and Guo Zhenyi were still monitoring the begging tribe's every move from a distance.

The dry and hard dried meat was really hard to swallow. Huan Xi picked up his kettle and remembered that it was already empty, so he had to ask:

"Chiqian, is there any cooked water?"

Cooked water is boiled water. Huan Xi has always prohibited soldiers from drinking raw water directly. In order to attract their attention, he even used the death of Huo Qubing as an example.

In fact, he himself did not know whether Huo Qubing really contracted the disease from contaminated raw water by mistake, but it did not prevent Huan Xi from using this to warn everyone.

"some!"

Shen Chiqian agreed, took off his kettle and handed it to Huan Xi:

"Mr. Liang, please use it."

Huan Xi took it, opened the lid of the pot, raised his head and took a sip, feeling very refreshed.

He covered the kettle again and asked Shen Chiqian with concern:

"Are you nervous?"

Shen Chiqian followed his father Shen Jin's orders and served Huan Xi all the time.

He had never participated in a battle in the past, and most of the time he served as Huan Xi's personal attendant, watching the battle with Huan Xi from behind.

The tiger father has no dog son, Shen Jin is a strong general, and Shen Chiqian is also eager to make contributions, so he takes the initiative to ask Huan Xi for help, hoping that he can follow Deng Xia in this battle to defeat the enemy.

Huan Xi saw his courage and agreed, but after all, it was his first time on the battlefield. Huan Xi still had to be concerned. He once said in front of Shen Jin that he would regard Shen Chiqian as his nephew. No joke.

Before Shen Chiqian could reply, a young general next to him smiled and said:

"It's just that you're facing a group of rabble, what's the point of being nervous!"

The young general has an immature face and looks about the same age as Shen Chiqian. He is Huan Xi's cousin Huan Shiqian.

However, his current name is Huan Qian for the time being.

Huan Qian was the eldest son of Huan Xi's third uncle Huan Huo. When Huan Xi married Xie Daoyun in Jiangling, he and his father went there to celebrate.

During this period, Huan Qian was often taken by Huan Xi, and the relationship between the two was very close.

Huan Xi wanted to bring Huan Qian to the north for a long time, but Huan Qian was too young at the time, so he didn't ask his third uncle.

Unexpectedly, Huan Qian, who was seventeen years old, took the initiative to say goodbye to his father and came to the north to join his cousin.

Huan Huo did not stop him. He was also willing to see his son serve under his nephew. Before leaving, he gave Huan Qian a nickname to suppress evil.

It is certainly not an ordinary person to have such a nickname.

Although Huan Qian was young, he was very courageous. In the battle to encircle and destroy the Duolan tribe, Huan Qian took the lead, and even Deng Xia couldn't catch up with him.

After Huan Qian went north to join the army, his reputation for bravery and agility soon became known to Huan Xi's soldiers.

After all, as long as he is a strong general, he will have many opportunities to show off his martial arts skills on weekdays. The generals in the army will regard him as a ten thousand enemy like Deng Xia and Deng Qiang.

Huan Qian interrupted, Huan Xi did not show dissatisfaction, and obviously admired his brave and fearless cousin on the battlefield.

Shen Chiqian said seriously:

"Gong Liang, please don't look down on me. I am eager to kill the enemy for you now!"

The Shen family of Wuxing was originally a powerful sect in martial arts. Although Shen Chiqian's martial arts was not as good as that of powerful generals such as Deng Xia and Huan Qian, he could still be regarded as a general.

Huan Xi smiled and said:

"Just wait, there's no need to rush."

The Liang Jun soldiers hurriedly filled their stomachs and rested for a long time.

Huan Xi felt that his physical strength had almost recovered, and he expected that the soldiers were about the same. He finally stood up from the grass.

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers also stood up. Huan Xi asked:

"Can you guys fight?"

Everyone replied in unison:

"Can fight!"

Huan Xi nodded and said loudly:

"Mount!"

When Huan Xi led the 5,000 spear cavalry and 5,000 bow cavalry to recover their strength and approached the Qifu Xianbei camp, Qifu Sui Dahan had already gathered the remaining 10,000 young men of the Qifu tribe.

Due to the lack of horses, they could only form an array outside the camp with infantry.

The defense of the camp is no different from that of paper, so naturally it is impossible to defend the camp.

Because Qifusi Dahan was old and frail, his son Qifusi Budai commanded this battle.

The formations of the two armies were more than 500 steps apart. In the open wilderness, Liang Guo, a country with a farming civilization, could be seen, and all the soldiers were cavalry.

As a nomadic people, the Qifu Xianbei are basically infantry.

I have to say, this is something new.

It's a pity that the quality of Xianbei's infantry can't be compared to Ran Wei's 10,000 elite infantry in another showdown between cavalry and infantry.

Huan Xi observed the enemy's formation. He saw that there was nothing new about the begging and stepping down. It was still the old routine of infantry against cavalry. He formed a formation with vehicles, hoping to use the formation of vehicles to block the impact of the cavalry.

Xie Ai's eyes were more on the camp behind, and he added:

"Mr. Liang, I think it is better to detach an army and set fire to the camp. This will surely derange the enemy's morale."

In Huan Xi's army, even the lances and cavalry cannot be regarded as heavy cavalry, let alone the Huns' archers, who certainly cannot charge into the chariot formation.

There were no flame-retardant tents in ancient times. According to Xie Ai's idea, if a cavalry really bypassed the infantry formation begging for Xianbei and destroyed those simple fences, they could break into the camp and set fire to it, allowing them to come and go freely.

When they saw the camp behind them on fire, the Xianbei soldiers must have been worried about the safety of their families, and how could they think of fighting again.

The reason why Qifu Xianbei had to go out of the camp to fight was because the camp that could accommodate 40,000 tents was too big. If they really wanted to defend, the troops would have to be scattered. It was better to go out of the camp and form a formation, hoping to fight with Liang Jun outside the camp. .

Huan Xi did not adopt Xie Ai's suggestion. He said indifferently:

“The people and animals in the camp are all my trophies, how can I let them perish in the sea of ​​fire.

"This battle doesn't have to be so troublesome. Just watch the Xiongnu archers and cavalry and show off their power."

Xie Ai's eyes lit up when he heard this. He had heard about the Xiongnu's archery tactics for a long time, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

After thinking about it, this battle is really suitable for the Huns' archers.

After all, what the horse archers fear is melee cavalry, and Qifu Xianbei currently does not have a large-scale cavalry at all.

At the same time, even if they were infantry, the Xianbei people practiced mounted archery. They used cavalry bows with low draw power, while the Tiefu Xiongnu were equipped with an infantry bow that killed two people with one stone, so they naturally had an advantage in shooting range.

The infantry lacks mobility, so there are very few living targets like this.

Xie Ai smiled and said:

"We will wait and see."

As soon as he finished speaking, Huan Xi had already given the order, and the five thousand archers and cavalry received the order. Amidst the exciting drumbeats, they roared towards the infantry formation begging to ambush Xianbei.

The remaining five thousand lances and cavalry stood still, waiting for the opportunity.

After all, bow cavalry can only harass the enemy. The final word must be made by lance cavalry.

　It's only 7,000 today. My cold is almost gone. I should be able to recover to 10,000 tomorrow.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)