Chapter 265: The Battle of Lindi River Mouth (2)
"I've caught you, despicable Xia people."
Lin Hu leader Pilo looked at the river estuary in the distance, and his face showed a bit of cruelty.
Pilo still doesn't understand where the unknown Xia army suddenly appeared in the distance and attacked Chiyi and Baiyi, and cut off the retreat of his Hu army.
Of course, this doesn't matter, as long as the other party is the enemy.
Before Yin hour today, when Li He led the Wei Wu soldiers, the soldiers of the formation and the Shaoliang soldiers to attack the Hu people's garrison outside Gaolang City, two hundred generals Wang Meng also led more than a thousand surprise soldiers to attack Lincheng, killing many Hu slaves, and creating chaos.
Pilo was also awakened by this, and was furious when he saw that his warriors were unable to kill the attacker for a long time: "...chase! Send someone to chase! Find the despicable Xia people for me and cut off their heads!"
Under Pilou's order, a team of Linhu cavalry rushed out of Lincheng and chased Wang Meng and other Shaoliang soldiers. The latter also led Linhu to the east as much as possible, as Li He told him.
The bad thing is that several Linhu cavalry chased the wrong direction - or in other words, they misjudged the direction of the retreat of Shaoliang soldiers, and bypassed the river and rushed to the north of Lincheng. Then, at the moment when the sky was getting dark, they found five thousand Wei Wushu who were deployed to the north of the river estuary.
Since this team of Linhu cavalry only has dozens of people, while the Xia army opposite has more than 10,000, these Linhu cavalry did not dare to approach, and just stood in the distance and watched and talked a lot.
"The Xia people crossed the river? When?"
"Why did the Xia people cross the river? Could it be that they want to attack us?"
At this time, in front of the positions of five thousand Wei Wushang and ten thousand Wei troops, Xia Yang Jun and the general Fang Han also noticed the Lin Hu cavalry and secretly complained that something was wrong.
After all, according to the agreed time, Gaolang's military and civilians will retreat here soon. The Lin Hu cavalry opposite Jieshi would definitely guess what was going on.
Fang Han ordered decisively: "Ask Zuo Song to send someone to expel this Lin Hu immediately!"
Not long after, Zuo Song, a thousand-man general, received the order from Fang Han and sent two teams of 100 people. However, unexpectedly, the heavy Wei Wushu could not catch up with the flexible Lin Hu cavalry.
Just as Fang Han became more and more anxious, Han Yan and Wu Heng and five hundred Shaoliang cavalrymen attacked decisively.
Although it took only a few days since these surprise soldiers and veterans came into contact with horse riding, they relied entirely on the saddle and the two riding tools of stirrup barely balanced on the horse's back and could not exert their due strength at all, but with the advantage of the 500 cavalrymen, it was no problem to expel these few dozen Lin Hu cavalrymen.
The appearance of these Shaoliang cavalry made the Linhu cavalry on the opposite side open their eyes wide. After all, they had never heard of the Xia people who actually had cavalry.
But when they saw the clumsy appearance of the Shaoliang cavalry chasing them, these Lin Hu cavalry were no longer afraid and laughed at Han Yan, Wu Heng and others. For a moment, they seemed to have forgotten Pilou's order and chased and played with the Shaoliang cavalry in the river mouth area.
At this moment, some Gaolang soldiers and civilians retreated to this side.
Seeing these people, the Lin Hu cavalry led the team immediately realized that he didn't mind playing with the clumsy cavalry of the Xia people, so that the Xia people knew that it was not that easy to master riding, but at this moment he couldn't care about it.
"Gao Lang! These Xia people are helping Gaolang's Xia people escape!" He roared: "Hurry, go back and tell the leader that Gaolang is going to run away!"
Under his order, dozens of Lin Hu cavalry quickly chased Han Yan, Wu Heng and others, and returned to Lincheng, informing them of their gloomy face.
"Gaolang's Zhao people want to escape?"
Piloteng, who was sitting on the bench, stood up, staring at the warriors of his clan who came to report the news with a gloomy expression.
You should know that as far as he knows, there were soldiers from two small tribes under him besieged outside Gaolang City, and there were even Huns in the north - Talin Hu had not captured Gaolang for a long time because he discovered the Huns who were fighting the same purpose during the attack on Gaolang and had friction with the latter.
Although Lin Hu and the Xiongnu were both grassland ethnic groups living in the Hetao area in the northern shape of the Dahe River, the relationship between the two sides was not very good. Unlike Lin Hu, who had long been out of Lou Fan's control and growing stronger, the Xiongnu were still vassals of Lou Fan. When Lin Hu and Lou Fan had a war in the past two years, the Xiongnu also sent their soldiers to attack them with Lou Fan.
Since they were enemies but not friends, Pilo and Lin Hu naturally did not want the Huns to take the opportunity to gain any advantage in Gaolang. So the two sides fought a battle in Gaolang area, but the scale was not large, that is, thousands of cavalry chased each other against thousands of cavalry.
Given that Lin Hu and the Huns' riding skills were taught by one teacher Lou Fan, the strength of the two clans' cavalry was comparable. After fighting for a full ten days, after losing hundreds of soldiers, both sides could not stand it. After all, both sides came to plunder Zhao Xihe County. Now that the master's belongings have not been snatched, both sides have lost hundreds of soldiers to each other. Is this really necessary?
So Pilo came forward to talk with the Xiongnu, and agreed that both sides would not invade each other and plunder China together. The Guilin Hu that Lin Hu robbed and the Guixinu that the Xiongnu robbed.
The Xiongnu accepted the Pilou's conditions, so both sides sent people to surround Gaolang. If Pilou had not suddenly noticed that they were cut off by a Xia army that came out of nowhere, he would have led people to launch a fierce attack on Gaolang, conquered the city, and then attacked Li Shi.
Then the question is, Gaolang was surrounded by Talin Hu and the Huns, how did the Xia people in the city escape?
Despite his surprise, Pilo decided to believe in the warriors of his own clan, so he immediately summoned 6,000 warriors from his tribe and various tribes, gathered all the Hu Nu in Lincheng area, and caught up with the north in a mighty manner.
At this time, Li He also rode a chariot to return to the Wei army's position, and met Xia Yangjun, Fang Han, Mo Jian and others.
Xia Yangjun frowned and said to Li He: "Ziliang, the situation is not very optimistic. Before, Hu cavalry came here and saw Gaolang soldiers and civilians who were evacuating."
Li He also frowned when he heard this. After all, this was a "foreseeable accident". It depends on whether Pilou would lead the army to come.
Several people were talking, and suddenly Xu Wu rode a horse to report the news: "Doctor Ziliang, there were a large number of Hu people in the direction of Lincheng, and there were thousands of Hu cavalry alone, and countless Hu slaves."
Xia Yangjun's face darkened: "It seems that he can't hide anymore..."
Fang Han said from the side: "Hu Nu is vulnerable. I have five thousand military soldiers and ten thousand soldiers. I am more than enough to defend the position. I am afraid that Lin Hu will bypass our positions and slaughter the Zhao people behind me."
"Change the formation." Li He said a few words to Fang Han and ordered Fang Han to distribute 5,000 Wei Wu soldiers and 10,000 Wei troops in an arc shape, including the two bridges and the retreating Gaolang soldiers and civilians.
Then Li He ordered Hu Ben: "Immediately inform Lin Yuan and brothers Lin Zhan, tell them that Lin Cheng Lin Hu is about to attack and ask them to quickly lead the Gaolang people to retreat to the other side."
"yes!"
Hu Ben hugged his fists and drove the chariot to find Lin Yuan, Lin Zhan and his brothers, and told him what Li He had told him.
Lin Yuan thought for a moment, then said seriously: "How can we let the Wei and Liang armies fight alone? Brother, take all the remaining soldiers of my Gaolang, and resist the Hu people with Ziliang Doctor Xia Yangjun!"
"yes!"
Lin Zhan immediately went to assemble the army, while Hu Ben returned to Li He and replied to the latter: "...Brother Li, I told the Lin brothers that the Lin brothers intend to lead the remaining nearly 5,000 Zhao troops to fight side by side with our army."
"Gaolang has five thousand Zhao troops?" Xia Yang Jun was a little surprised, then nodded and said, "There are 20,000 people here, you can fight..."
Hearing this, Li He and Fang Han frowned and said nothing.
In fact, even without these nearly 5,000 Zhao troops, only 5,000 Wei Wushang and 10,000 Wei troops, this battle could be fought - after all, the Lin Hu soldiers were basically cavalry, and the infantry only had those Hu slaves. A group of vulnerable Hu slaves wanted to defeat the Wei army? To be honest, it is unlikely.
The key is that the thousands of Hu cavalrymen.
Just as everyone was waiting for the coming war with a sense of gain and loss, the earth began to tremble.
"This, this is..."
Feeling the shock of the earth, Xia Yangjun looked forward in horror, and then saw thousands of Linhu cavalry rushing towards him.
I saw those cavalrymen in the forest and Hu were scattered and formed in formation. They appeared in front of the Wei army all over the mountains. This was a spectacular scene of thousands of horses galloping. Not to mention thousands of cavalry, even more than ten thousand cavalrymen would believe it.
"Don't be afraid!"
Noting that some small riots occurred in Wei Wuzhu, Li He immediately shouted: "Hu Qi is just a light cavalry, your Wuzhu is a heavy armored soldier. Their swords and bows cannot penetrate your armor. If the opponent dares to rush straight over, it will be a death sentence!"
It has to be said that Li He is also quite famous in the Wei army. With his inspiration, Wei Wuzhang quickly resumed the riots. However, Fang Han looked at Li He with a strange expression, as if he was complaining that Li He had stolen his job.
Facts have proved that the Hu cavalry did not dare to rush straight to the Wei army's defense line, and they stopped about one mile away from the Wei army.
Then, in the direction where these Hu cavalry came, Pilo personally led a small group of cavalry and drove tens of thousands of Hu Nu to come.
Facing a Xia army that cut off their retreat, what else could Pilo say? He smiled and issued an order: "Kill them all!"
"attack!"
Under the order of a Hu warrior, tens of thousands of Hu Nu spread their legs and rushed towards the defense line formed by the Wei and Zhao armies.
Fang Han also ordered at the same time: "Wei Wuzhang, shoot arrows!"
With a command, five thousand Wei Wushu pulled the trigger at Hu Nu who was coming towards him. There was a whizzing sound, and dense crossbow arrows shot towards the opposite side.
For a moment, tens of thousands of Hu slaves screamed and the momentum of charge slowed down.
"Roar over! Kill them all!" Several teams of Lin Hu cavalry, similar to the supervision team, killed dozens of Hu Nu in the rear, forcing Hu Nu to continue charging.
Under the pressure of these Hu people, tens of thousands of Hu slaves were forced to rush towards the Wei army with their weapons and screaming.
Seeing this, Fang Han shouted decisively: "Wei Wuzhang, abandon the crossbow and fight!"
Under his order, Wei Wuzhang quickly put away the crossbow tool and changed the combat form. The Wei Wuzhang in the front row had no time to carry the crossbow tool behind him again, so he simply threw it to the ground, holding a long spear and a shield to welcome the impact of tens of thousands of Hu Nu.
boom--
It seemed like there was a roar, and the crowd of tens of thousands of Hu Nu hit the defense line between the Wei and Zhao armies.
Chapter completed!