It is also wrong to say that Gao Shun didn't expect the problem of the future.
The problem is that Gao Shun has no more solutions.
He didn't even dare to divide his troops.
After the Jinzihe City incident, should the troops be divided? Perhaps the troops may still be soldiers when they are divided, but they will most likely become ghosts when they are taken back. The sneak attack of small troops in the Cheshihou Kingdom is one reason, while the other reason is the unstable morale of the army. Gao Shun is by his side and can still protect him. If he let go of his hands...
Things like human hearts will disperse as soon as they say.
If Gao Shun encounters a stable plan to clear the country, he should make steady progress. However, the premise of steady progress is sufficient logistics support and supply of military and food. Does Gao Shun have this?
No.
Not only did it, but he also received an order urging by Lu Bu, asking Gao Shun to take down Che Shihou State Council as soon as possible and then return to the army...
Therefore, Gao Shun either can only resist orders or choose to attack.
Gao Shun's character made him unable to resist the order.
He can only obey the order.
So, after Gao Shun and others broke through the stone wall of Wutugu, he found that he was surrounded by others.
The people who came from Wusun.
The cavalry of Wusun.
The Wusun people are also humans, but the Wusun people think there are people in heaven and underground.
The "belt" of people in heaven is tied around their necks, the people on the ground are tied around their ankles, while people in the world are tied between the two, of course, they are tied around their waists. The Wusun people primitively worship the sun, moon and stars, so they like to embroider the patterns of these three on their bodies. Even the word "Kun" in the title of King Wusun is equivalent to Kaun or kon in Tochari, meaning the sun.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty and the Wusun people had a marriage kinship with the Han Dynasty. The purpose was to contact Wusun to control the Huns. He successively married Princess Xijun and Princess Jieyou to the King of Wusun. Princess Xijun and Wang Jun Xumi gave birth to a daughter. Princess Jieyou and Wang Wengguimi of Wusun had three boys and two girls.
However, just like the chaos and uncertainty of the foreign policy of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions, the pro-Han people in the Western Regions did not have the advantage, and the Wusun people did not maintain a pro-Han state for a long time after the marriage between the Western Han Dynasty, and then began to be influenced by Central Asia and even the more western-era Western Asian forces.
Generally speaking, it is like cultural erosion in civilization games. If your own culture is not strong and there is no cultural development, other cultures will force you to reduce your influence, and even eventually lead to your own thinking disorder in the country...
Now Wusun is invaded by the West Asian forces. Although the opinions of Wusun Da Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi on this encounter with Cheshihou Kingdom were not very unified, they did not have much favorable feelings for the great man. Strictly speaking, they did not have much friendship, so they naturally would not have any favorable feelings.
So Wusun came anyway.
The sharp whistle blew from the copper whistle resounded all around.
There are only cavalry to deal with cavalry.
Of course, there were some heat weapons such as machine guns and tanks in later generations, but now...
Facing the Wusun cavalry that suddenly popped up behind the butt, if you want to protect your chrysanthemum, Gao Shun had to turn around first. For this reason, he could not even chase and kill the defeated Cheshihou people. Instead, he had to intercept and defeat these Wusun cavalry at Wutugukou and defeat them, and finally defeat or kill them.
The Wusun Cavalry was divided into three arrays, each of which was about one thousand people.
The spear heads raised on the array shine in the sun.
The cavalry rows in the front were all wearing chain mail, and Gao Shun couldn't see clearly whether there were armors behind them.
Unlike China, soldiers in the Western Regions and Central Asia prefer chain mail instead of scale armor or mail armor with lower cost and wider application.
The cavalry in the front held a very long spear, while the Wusun cavalry in the second row held a shorter spear, but there were also eight feet long spears, and the third row did not have a long spear, but held a knife. The Wusun cavalry gathered about five steps in front and back, and the line was neat.
Gao Shun's heart sank a little.
This is the main force of Wusun.
Not only because of armor, but also because of the fighting postures made by these cavalrymen, it is not something that ordinary recruiting herdsmen and cavalrymen can have, and this means that the battle will be more difficult and troublesome...
Gao Shun turned his gaze to the war horses of the Wusun people.
Those war horses are also excellent.
It is as good as the war horses under your crotch. These horses all feel the atmosphere of the battlefield. Even if the horses with violent personalities stand in place, they frequently use their front hooves to dig the ground, and sniff and shake their heads left and right.
Fighting, brave.
『General, now, the men are a little tired...』 Ma Changsheng said to Gao Shun with a smell of blood, "Are you sure you will fight back now?"
"We are tired, and they are tired." Gao Shun said, "Which one would you choose if you were the one?"
『…』 Ma Changsheng sighed. He did not choose to be smart, because under the current situation, being smart will only make him extremely stupid.
The cavalry can still recover some physical strength when riding on the horse, but the war horses are running and cannot recover their physical strength. Once the cavalry does not have the cooperation of the war horses...
This is why Gao Shun turned around immediately when he saw the smoke and dust raised by the Wusun cavalry.
However, it is obvious that the Wusun people also felt that Gao Shun and others were exhausted, so they also had the advantage and could win with one blow.
Both sides were exhibited at the entrance of Dutugu.
Neither side was timid.
Gao Shun left a small number of troops to drive away the Che Shi Houguo and put pressure on the Che Shi Houguo. Then, taking advantage of the period when Che Shi Houguo had not yet reacted, he turned around to face the Wusun people.
However, because of the relationship between Gao Shun and others, the queue was smaller and longer, while the Wusun people were divided into three parts, half surrounding the valley.
The tactics of both sides are fully visible when they are displayed in the queue.
Gao Shun glanced at Ma Changsheng, "How is the wound?"
Ma Changsheng chuckled and moved his arm, "I can't die."
Gao Shun nodded, "First team, you take the lead. If you survive, the previous things will be written off. The rest will be meritorious."
Ma Changsheng opened his mouth, "As long as I finished this fight, I want to go back to my hometown... exchanged meritorious service for some land, planted some crops, built a house, raised some cattle and sheep, and married a big butt and easy-to-bringing wife...hahaha...
Gao Shun also curled the corners of his mouth slightly, "Then you have to remember to chop off a few more heads."
"No problem." Ma Changsheng moved his arm again, "I'll go ahead first... waiting for the general's order."
Gao Shun nodded.
The Wusun cavalry opposite was also mobilizing. Gao Shun saw some Wusun commanders holding red triangle flags running back and forth in the opposite array...
"Prepare to attack." After a while, Gao Shun checked all the arrays again, and said to the guards beside him, "Blow the whistle. The front army attacked!"
The guard held the whistle in his mouth and blew a whistle of five short and one long.
After a while, it was repeated again, three times in a row. The third whistle fell, and the cavalry in front of the array instigated the war horses in the next three short whistles and began to move forward.
The Wusun cavalry also began to move.
Ma Changsheng was in the array, staring at the opponent's cavalry, and then measuring the distance between the two sides. He had to adjust the speed and direction of the cavalry at any time according to the changes in the movements, distances, speeds, etc. of the cavalry on both sides to ensure that the cavalry on his side is at the highest speed, and suppressing the opponent, forcing the opponent to contact his side at the sub-highway.
Obviously, the opponent is also a veteran among cavalry. The Wusun general deliberately shifted the cavalry line to the side, as if he wanted to avoid Ma Changsheng's loss of the array. However, Ma Changsheng knew that if he was deceived by the other party, he would adjust it in the final sprint and give him a blow to the side. Because the opponent showed three semi-encircled arrays, the opponent was not worried about the Han cavalry going astray...
Maybe it would be better if the Han cavalry went astray?
Ma Changsheng looked back at where Gao Shun was, a little hesitant, but he quickly turned around and shouted in a deep voice, "Send the order, accelerate! Full speed!"
"Ah? Now?" The messenger next to Ma Changsheng was stunned for a moment. The messenger was also a veteran. He knew that the distance was still a bit far away and was not the best distance to increase to full speed.
"We don't have that much time..." Ma Changsheng took a deep breath, and while pulling the strip of cloth tied to the back of his hand and the hilt of the knife, he shouted, "If you want to win... you have to take some risks! Accelerate, full speed!"
The messenger was silent for a little while, and then he blew the order of acceleration with his whistle in his mouth.
Gao Shun, who was walking slowly with a war horse in the back position, frowned when he saw this scene.
This distance accelerates?
Gao Shun looked at it, then thought silently for a while, his eyebrows and eyes twitched, "Transfer the order and the middle and back formations accelerated."
Gao Shun's front formation began to enter the process of high speed to full speed, while the middle and rear formations changed from slow forward to trotting. At the same time, more than a dozen messengers holding small flags ran out of the middle formation, crossed out of the array, and went to both sides of the queue, and were in a free state, and were not responsible for contact and killing. These messengers used spears with triangular flags, and then provoked the spears and could also see the soldiers behind them. They turned their heads from time to time to observe the flag commands raised by Gao Shun in the middle formation and passed them out...
The whistle and flag can allow cavalry to make some fine adjustments when moving. This is the ability of the front-line cavalry generals, and it is also a project that the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and Liangzhou Iron Cavalry are good at. The move just now was that Ma Changsheng temporarily adjusted the strategy and did not discuss it with Gao Shun, and Gao Shun also adjusted the original plan.
The Han army accelerated the speed, which means that the Han army would pass its half faster and oppress the opponent's array. The Wusun people originally obviously planned to face the invasion of the left and right wings head-on, but due to the deviation of their front army and the lack of space, the middle array that should have been separated and the right wing would be glued together!
Wusun's left wing was naturally isolated and exposed!
This is Ma Changsheng’s guidance to Gao Shun!
Speed ​​up!
Kill some of them first!
What followed was that Ma Changsheng, who was the front army, had to bear the dual pressure of the Wusun Central Array and the right wing...
The horse speed gradually increased, and the originally chaotic sound of horse hooves gradually summarized into neat roars. The war horses who had been familiar with each other for many years rumbled across the dry and hard land, stirring up the dust in the sky.
Just as expected, when Ma Changsheng's front row began to contact and fight with the Wusun people, the left wing of the Wusun people also appeared in front of Gao Shun intact.
The cavalry of Wusun is wider, and the troops are not distributed evenly, but rather a horizontal rugby shape that looks slightly thicker in the middle and is slightly thin on both sides, coming towards Gaoshun's middle formation.
Gao Shun shouted loudly: "Turn! Go right!"
The flag sways and the whistle is clamoring.
The triangular flag guided the direction. The cavalry in the Han army heard the whistle and accelerated the horses at the same time. The rumbling sound of horse hooves was like thunder from far to near the horizon. The red tassels on the helmets were jumping, like countless flashing red flames.
With the hedging between the two sides, the distance between them was only a hundred steps left in the blink of an eye...
That's now!
『Full speed! Full speed! Charge!
Gao Shun roared in the wind.
The whistle sounded sharply, sandwiched in the whistling wind.
Thousands of horses' hooves were flying everywhere.
The vibration caused by the rushing rush seemed to be resonating even this space.
In comparison, the Han army's array was more dense.
And dense means that there is no way out in a sense, and there is no more room for escape. It is also for oneself. Killing people or being killed will occur in the moment when the horses are intertwined. In such a dense space, fancy techniques and false moves are basically useless. Only the instinct formed by long-term training and the courage to die are effective guarantees for survival.
The Wusun cavalry that came towards them showed some panic. When they faced the dense array of Han cavalry, even the extended cavalry could not bring them more security...
A short distance is fleeting.
"kill!"
Gao Shun exhaled loudly, and his blood rose.
"kill!
'The Han cavalry also burst into roars with hissings.
The torrent of flesh and blood and steel collided head-on.
At this moment, it seems that all auditory functions have failed.
The broken gun rod was accompanied by broken armor and flew in the air.
Blood is erupting unscrupulously.
Mars, whose swords, guns and armor collide with each other, seemed to want to ignite everything in this world.
The unavoidable horses collided with each other and their bones shattered. Some were knocked up and flew up, while some fell to the ground with their horse-backed cavalry and rolled on the ground one after another.
At the last moment, Gao Shun stared at the Wusun cavalry in front of him, lowered his figure, reduced the area on the front, and interspersed with the other party in the chaos. The sword suppressed the spear stabbed by the Wusun cavalry, and blew and cut off the Wusun cavalry's arm in the sparkle. The Wusun cavalry screamed, and his figure fell to the sky, and then disappeared under the horse's hooves flying in the next breath.
There was no time around Gao Shun, and a guard had already been hit and went to wherever he was hit. Before Gao Shun could take a look, several Wusun cavalry rushed in front of him. One of the Wusun cavalry in the chain mail waved the scimitar in his hand. Gao Shun just shook his head with instinct and dodged. The Wusun cavalry had no chance of attacking for a second time, and was shot by the Han cavalry following behind him and fell down the war horse.
The dense formation of the Han cavalry made the Wusun more lethal during the hedging process between the two sides. In a blink of an eye, more than 80 Wusun people who were involved in the first group of fights were shot down, and the remaining twenty or thirty people quickly melted into the subsequent follow-up of the Han cavalry.
Although the Wusun cavalry used the tactics of the long cavalry of West Asia, one inch longer is indeed stronger than an inch, but in the same way, if it cannot be stabbed directly, the long cavalry of the long cavalry is a burden. Most Wusun cavalry with long cavalry successfully hit the Han cavalry during the first round of impact, but their weapons were broken, and they had no time to replace their weapons. Those who did not hit often had no time to retract them, so that they had almost no power to fight back when facing the Han cavalry. At the same time, the dense and straight Han cavalry array also made them have no room to avoid them...
The tactics of the Han cavalry are basically very mature.
They still maintained their formation at high speed, holding the sharp sword in their hands, whistling in. By hedging the horsepower, they did not need to waving hard. As long as they clench the hilt when they passed by, they could take off their flying limbs and a rain of blood when they were passing by, they could take off their flying limbs and a rain of blood.
It was not only the Wusun cavalry that were injured.
The dense cavalry array also means that as long as the Wusun cavalry has direct damage to the Han cavalry, the Han cavalry will also be difficult to avoid. They can only rely on armor to resist. However, because the impact speed of both sides is very fast, sometimes even if they cannot break the armor, they will be dismissed due to the impact force. In addition, when the horses of both sides are galloping, once they are caught, it is basically equivalent to death.
But no matter what, the war damage on the left wing of Wusun was obviously much larger than that of the Han cavalry.
When facing the dense array of Han cavalry, even if the Wusun cavalry kills the front row of Han cavalry, they will be attacked by the rear row of Han cavalry almost immediately, or they will collide with the opponent's cavalry who also has no room to hide.
The Wusun cavalry on both sides of the array wanted to help, but found that their own array had been chaotic by the Han cavalry, and the rolling people on the ground also blocked the route of support, forcing them to slow down their horse speed, which made them almost useless in the battle.
After the impact, the Wusun cavalry lost more than 100 people in the first wave, and the entire unfolding line was immediately broken, but the attack was not over yet. When the second wave of Wusun people attempted to fight Gao Shun, a whole row of cavalry crossbows came to their faces!
When the Age of Hot Weapons was still coming, crossbows were undoubtedly a nightmare for cavalry, so until the Middle Ages, those Western knights were still suffering from crossbows, saying that crossbows were evil and inferior, and they were not as good as swords, guns and shields...
Although cavalry crossbows are much lower in power and shooting distances compared to infantry crossbows, it is enough for cavalrymen who are hedging against each other. Imagine that on the roads in later generations, a lost kite line could cut off the heads of motorcycle riders, not to mention that the Wusun cavalry hit the line, but a harder and sharper crossbow loss.
The crossbow roared out and caught the Wusun cavalry who wanted to take advantage of Gao Shun's impact and caught them off guard. The Wusun cavalry originally wanted to wrap Gao Shun and others up, but they did not expect that doing so would expand the area they were attacked!
It was like hugging a fierce hedgehog hard, and the left wing of Wusun was suddenly pricked with blood everywhere, howling everywhere, people were poured out, and countless casualties were injured.
The Wusun people at the forefront fell one after another, while the Wusun people at the back line were blocked, so they inexplicably saw a whole piece of people falling down, which caused the Wusun people at the back line to become instinctively panic.
In the blink of an eye, Wusun's left wing could not bear the humiliation and his morale collapsed. Perhaps it was because he was stunned, or perhaps because he lost his commander during the battle, Wusun's left wing soon collapsed under Gao Shun's repeated attacks.
But before Gao Shun could breathe a sigh of relief, he received a piece of news that made him uneasy.
Chapter completed!