Chapter 196
When the sun sank into the horizon, it left the last touch of red glow on the fields between the Tuojiang River in Shu River. The ox horn sounded, and the unique wooden drum sound of the barbarians became tighter.
On the horizon in the northwest direction, countless black shadows with uneven heights suddenly rose, from the northeast bank of the Shu River to the southwest bank of the Tuojiang River.
These were more than a dozen barbarians who crossed the Shu River and Tuo River, with a total of 33,000 people pressing towards Jiangyang City. In fact, when they crossed the river, they were already discovered by the scouts of Zhao Yun's army. What Zhao Yun expected was indeed good, and Meng Huo tried to put the Han army into the pocket formed by the two rivers.
Among them, a barbarian army led by Ah Huilan arrived at the designated location, ignited piles of bonfires and then began to build a camp. After only half an hour passed, he heard the sound of horses galloping in the southeast.
The barbarians shouted and shouted, and they all picked up their swords, guns and weapons, crouched after some of the horses that had just been tied up, and looked vigilantly at the fields covered by the night. It was pitch black and there was nothing to see. But the earth was still trembling, and the roar of horse hooves running louder and louder.
"Swish swish" The sound of arrows breaking through the air suddenly appeared in the ears of the barbarian army.
"Ah!" Ah Huilan, who was staring at the front, heard a scream from his side. A barbarian holding a torch lay down to the ground with an arrow on his head, and the torch in his hand was thrown several feet away.
"Quick! Extinguish the bonfire of the torch first! After getting on the shield, then light the bonfire to form a formation!" Ah Huinan suddenly understood and shouted loudly. At the moment when he was speaking, hundreds of ten barbarian soldiers were injured and injured.
The barbarians extinguished the torch and poured out the bonfire with water. The entire scene was immersed in the darkness. But in this way, the barbarians could not build camp fortifications and build horse-resistance.
The sound of the galloping horses suddenly weakened, replaced by a little loud noise and horse roar, mixed with the sound of commands from the army. The opponent's cavalry did not rush forward any further.
But after only a quarter of an hour, Ah Huinan suddenly heard the sound of drums and trumpets, and then he saw a "sea of fire" composed of countless torches appear in the southeast. It was an offensive formation arranged by Zhao Yun's army, and was steadily pressing towards Ah Huinan.
Ah Hui's veins on his forehead were thundering. He didn't expect the other party to come so quickly. If the other party breaks out from him, it would be difficult for him to explain to Meng Huo.
"Form a formation to defend the enemy!" Ah Huinan shouted loudly, and at the same time he ordered people to quickly report to the barbarian king Meng Huo. When Zhao Yun's military formation reached a distance of 100 battles, he suddenly stopped his pace. Ah Huinan's heart was slightly relieved.
At this time, the barbarians' shields had already formed a shield wall in front of them. The other barbarians had already lit the torches again and arranged the military formation under the reflection of the flames.
The two sides were confronting each other in the dark. Under the threat of the other military formation, Ah Huinan could only maintain the formation of the military formation at all times and did not dare to build camp fortifications again.
Another barbarian camp, more than a mile away. After Meng Huo arranged the task of building fortifications by his subordinates, he lay down on the straw mat to rest.
Just as he was about to fall asleep, a barbarian soldier came to report the news, saying that Ah Huilan's troops were attacked and that the Han army seemed to be about to break out of his encirclement.
After hearing this, Meng Huo's sleepiness was gone. If the Han army fled, his painstaking efforts and arrangements would be completely ruined. He got up and immediately began to dispatch troops and gather at Ah Hui.
Meng Huo was also worried that this was Zhao Yun's plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. Therefore, he did not dare to mobilize all the troops on the line to Ah Huinan, but instead mobilized troops in the remaining barbarians with a ratio of three draws and one. The remaining troops were still stationed in place, building fortifications, and strictly preventing the Han army from slipping out of their respective defense areas.
Zhao Yun stared at the blood-filled eyes and looked vigilantly at the barbarians' positions outside the Baizhan. The lights were brightly lit and people shouted like a sound, which was extremely noisy. The barbarian soldiers gathered more and more, but they were busy but not chaotic and maintained their formation at all times.
The Liang soldiers behind Zhao Yun were already squatting on the ground and resting. They ate a kind of high-energy dry food made of sugar, honey nuts, potato flour, as a midnight snack, and chewed a kind of tea to refresh themselves.
Both sides maintained their formation all night, from ordinary soldiers to generals, everyone knew in their hearts that after dawn, there would be a bloody battle here.
Four hours later, a bright color finally appeared in the sky. Zhao Yun looked out of the hundred battles. He saw that in the hazy mist, there were all the heads of barbarian soldiers, boundless, and it was impossible to estimate how many people there were.
There were also a large number of war elephants mixed in the formation. Their bodies, which were taller than the heavy cavalry of the Han army and their white fangs frightened both the Liang and Shu soldiers in the Han army.
Zhao Yun knew that the number of barbarian soldiers and the elephants made the soldiers feel a little afraid. He rode his horse slowly in front of the Han army formation, and while walking, he spoke loudly to the soldiers and generals.
Yan Yan also shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Shu army: "Do you forget that the barbarians robbed your property and destroyed your house?"
Under the leadership of the general and the school, the soldiers of the Shu army responded with a loud voice: "Don't forget!"
"Do you forget that the barbarian soldiers killed your parents?"
"Don't forget!"
"Do you forget that the barbarian soldiers captured your wives and children?"
"Don't forget!"
"In this way, you should follow me today and kill all the barbarian soldiers! To restore this revenge!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The morale in the Han army formation was immediately mobilized, and everyone was ready to wait for the upcoming decisive battle.
The sun rose a high pole, and the mist on the wilderness was completely dissipated. Amid the high drums and whistles, the Han army formation, which was nearly two hundred wars wide, began to move forward.
Meng Huo, who sat on the tower of the battle elephant, looked down at the entire battlefield and immediately determined that his troops were more than twice as powerful as the opponent. The opponent was a heavy cavalry with an iron man and an iron horse, but this time he also assembled thousands of battle elephants.
Thinking of this, Meng Huo looked at the battle elephants on both sides of his mount. These battle elephants covered with bamboo armor enhanced his confidence.
"Tell me the king's order, the whole army will attack!" Meng Huo coldly ordered the barbarian soldiers under his feet. The sound of the Niuke and the wooden drums followed, and the huge barbarian army formation faced the Han army formation and slowly moved forward.
When the two armies were seventy battles apart, a convoy of fifty large chariots in the rear of the Han army suddenly stopped. When the two hundred archers were fifty battles apart, they also stopped. These archers were obviously not ordinary archers. The muscles on their arms were clearly visible, and their bows were five feet long. This was the long archer trained by Liang Guo.
Accompanied by the whizzing sound, the longbowman's heavy arrow pierced through the vine armor on the barbarians' sound from time to time, shooting them to the opposite end. Even in the front, with a muffled sound, a heavy arrow shot through the bamboo shield, and the arrow clusters inserted into the face of a barbarian soldier, making him extremely angry on the spot.
Chapter completed!