Chapter 40 The Power of Bazooka
"Don't respect military orders, act without permission." Wei Qing's big tent was so angry that his beard was shaking. Wei Qing was still on the ground. "Send a quick horse to chase them, and you must chase them back!"
Wei Qing's good brother Gongsun Ao, persuaded with a wry smile, "This letter was left six days ago. At this time, maybe they have already arrived in Hexi, so how can they catch up with me?"
Six days ago, Huo Qubing sent a group of Yulin Army to escort the wounded, escorting the prisoners and various seized spoils back to Wei Qing's central army.
When he first heard that Huo Qubing killed two thousand in a battle with 800 to 3,000, captured Yi Zhixie's uncle and seized a large amount of spoils, he happily boasted to Lieutenant General Gongsun Ao that his nephew was extremely brave.
But when he saw Huo Qubing's letter saying that he went to Xiutu Wangcheng to take revenge, he was really angry.
The Xiu Tu Royal City is far away from Hexi, the heart of the Huns thousands of miles away. Just because the six or seven hundred cavalrymen around Huo Qubing dared to run so far, he was completely crazy.
Huo Qubing knew his uncle very well and knew that he would definitely object, so he asked the sender to try his best to delay time.
For Huo Qubing's troops, who were three horses, the time for six days was enough for them to go from Monan to Hexi.
Wei Qing's eyes were full of worry, and he valued this nephew very much. This time, Huo Qubing went deep into the dangerous situation, which really made him very worried.
"Su Chen is also by Huo Qubing's side, hoping that he can keep Qubing back alive."
In the Hexi Corridor thousands of miles away, Su Chen on the hot air balloon put down his glasses and picked up the intercom. "There is a large tribe in front, which looks different from other tribes. There is a circle of adobe walls outside."
On the ground, Huo Qubing, who had been having fun with the walkie-talkie these days, immediately shouted, "There are walls on the grasslands, all the royal cities, let's go now!"
Unlike the Central Plains civilization that exhibited advanced city building technology, there is basically no such thing as a city wall on the grassland because of the lack of stone.
However, nomads envied the Central Plains civilization to hide behind tall and solid city walls, so they always wanted to build their own walls.
The lack of materials made the Huns only build the simplest city walls in the Hun royal courts and the royal courts of major tribes. Even smaller tribes cannot do it.
After traveling thousands of miles in a few days, even though he kept changing mounts with three horses, Huo Qubing's subordinates were still exhausted.
There were as many as thousands of horses to death along the way, and dozens of people were exhausted or left behind.
Even though they paid a heavy price, they did it. They fought all the way from the distant Monan to Hexi and came to the location of Xiutu Royal City.
This is the heart of the Huns, and they never thought that a large group of Han troops would appear here.
Some herders who were grazing outside did not know that the Han army had actually come to kill.
Through interrogation of the herdsmen, it was learned that the tribe dozens of miles ahead was indeed the location of Xiutu Royal City. At this time, Xiutu King led the young and strong people from the tribe to fight against the Han army in the south of the desert, and there was no garrison force in the royal city.
For a moment, the morale of the Yulin Army was greatly boosted.
Su Chen fell down the hot air balloon and looked at the dirt city a few miles away. "It's finally here, I've been missing for a week."
Huo Qubing stepped forward to look at it, "It's a bit troublesome. There is no wood nearby to build siege equipment. You have to go to the woods at the foot of the mountain to log wood first."
Although the walls of Xiutu Royal City were just adobe, they were also walls more than two meters high. Huo Qubing and the others rushed all the way, with no supplies except weapons, armor and food. If you want to attack this simple royal city, you must first build siege equipment.
Su Chen smiled, turned around and took out an aT4 from the hanging basket of the hot air balloon. "Don't be so troublesome. Here is at least fifty or sixty miles away from the woods at the foot of the mountain. It's dark when I come and cut down trees. What should I do if the people inside run away with the golden man? I'll open the city wall, and you just rush in."
Huo Qubing trusted Su Chen very much and immediately asked the Yulin soldiers to get off the horse and rest, drink water and eat dry food.
A quarter of an hour later, the Yulin soldiers who had been repaired took out salt-dried bean cakes from the cloth bags to feed their respective war horses, and at the same time sorted out their own gear.
Another quarter of an hour later, all the Yulin Army were on their horses, and everyone was unsheathed their swords and bows were swaying, and they were full of murderous intent.
Su Chen carried the aT4 horse first, behind him was Huo Qubing and his more than 600 Yulin Army soldiers.
The Central Plains army during the Han and Tang dynasties was different from the Central Plains army in everyone's impression.
In the traditional impression of the modern world, the Central Plains army is mainly infantry. Even if there are cavalry, the number is small and they are all equipped with one man and one horse.
This impression is correct, but that was just the Central Plains army after the Song Dynasty.
During the Song Dynasty, due to the rebellion of the Dangxiang people, the Song Dynasty lost its last place to raise horses. Because of the lack of horses, it had to vigorously carry out infantry.
During the Ming Dynasty, it was because civil officials vigorously suppressed military generals. One cavalry that could afford ten infantry was naturally suppressed. This gave people in later generations an illusion that it seemed that the Central Plains army had only infantry.
But in fact, the main forces and elites in the Han and Tang dynasties were all cavalrymen. Most of them were paired with two horses or even three horses.
In the Han Dynasty, the "One Han is the Five Barbarians" repeatedly defeated the more with fewer people, and basically they were fought with cavalry as the main force.
For example, the Han army at this time was Liu Che who took over the massive wealth accumulated by the previous emperors for decades. This was the powerful Han army that could defeat the powerful Huns.
The proportion of cavalry among the Han army was very large, and the Yulin Army was all elite cavalrymen.
It is precisely with these premises that they can gallop for 2,000 miles in six days, and fight from Monan all the way to the Hexi Corridor.
Su Chen glanced at Huo Qubing and felt that he didn't care about such a thousand-mile rush.
Thinking about it, Huo Qubing in history is famous for his good at long-distance raids. Later, he even rushed to Langjuxu Mountain and Beihai.
"What's wrong?" Huo Qubing looked at Su Chen in confusion.
Su Chen smiled and waved his hand, "It's okay, look at you being handsome."
Huo Qubing's face suddenly turned dark.
In this era, it is not a good word to say that men are good-looking, but heroes are their pursuit.
Thick eyebrows, big eyes and burly muscles are the types they admire. It would be even better if there were a few scars on their faces.
If the young and handsome guys from later generations come to this era, then the end will be terrible.
"The Huns are ready." Su Chen held aT4 and signaled the wall in front of him, "Prepare to start fighting."
The Xiu Tu tribe was a big family among the Huns. It was simple to mobilize an army of 10,000 or 20,000 casually. If the limit was expanded, there were 30,000 cavalry.
At this time, the young and strong people in the Xiutu tribe basically followed King Xiutu to fight in the south of the desert. Apart from the small tribes scattered in the pastures, if they forcibly mobilize all the elderly and children in the royal city, they can still look like three or five thousand.
The number is quite large, but the combat effectiveness is very suspicious.
First, most of these defenders were elderly people and children. Secondly, all the tribes of the Huns were extremely lacking in iron, and the Xiu Tu tribe was no exception. The iron weapons and armor, and even bronze weapons in the tribe were mostly taken to the battlefield by the young and strong people, and there were even wooden sticks and forks among the defenders.
Finally, these people never thought that the Han army would raid themselves. They were just herdsmen, not professional soldiers who had received strict training. It would be good to be able to take weapons to the walls under chaos. As for organizationalism and morale, let alone.
For the defenders of the Xiutu Division, their only hope was the walls of the royal city.
As long as the wall can be guarded, the messengers sent out can bring back the army from all over the city within a few days.
"I heard that the Huns claimed to be descendants of the wolf god." Looking at the Huns who were lying on the wall in the distance, Su Chen jokingly said, "But when I see this today, I'm just a group of cowards."
Huo Qubing naturally made a supporting role, "How do you say this?"
Su Chen pointed at the royal city, "Although this earthen city is not big, there are always thousands of people inside. There are still three or five thousand men who can go into battle. We only have a few hundred and a few thousand, but they dare not come out to fight in the field. They can only guard the earthen wall and wait for us to attack. This is not a coward."
"Hahahaha~~~" The Yulin soldiers around all burst into laughter when they heard this, and their morale also rose.
The Huns on the wall looked at each other, not understanding what the Han soldiers outside were giggling. However, they could also feel the powerful aura of the Han soldiers, and they were even more uneasy.
The Huns did not have a large killing weapon like a crossbow, and Su Chen walked directly outside the range of bows and arrows that were only a few dozen meters away from the wall.
Remove the fire cap, turn on the sight, activate the shooting program, resist the aT4 on the shoulder, and aim at the wall.
After completing these steps, Su Chen remembered something and turned to look behind him.
Sure enough, Huo Qubing, Li Gan and others stood behind him like curious babies waiting to see Su Chen's next move.
Su Chen, who had a dark face, waved his hand repeatedly, "Are you crazy? Come away quickly and don't stand behind me. It's your fault that you are going to be burned to death later."
Although I don’t know what Su Chen wants to do, when he heard it, he would spit out of fire, everyone was frightened and ran away quickly.
When Su Chen was choosing to buy goods, he specifically asked for different types of bullets. The aT4 he was carrying on his shoulder was equipped with high explosive bombs, not armor-piercing bombs.
If it was an armor-piercing bomb, the wall in front of him would be bald.
As for why you want to buy these, it was made by Su Chen to avoid Terminator, Hulk, Alien and other monsters with strong defensive power.
Ordinary guns are of no use to these monsters, they can only use heavy firepower.
Su Chen pressed the shooting button, and a stream of white smoke erupted from the back of the rocket launcher. The warhead at the front roared out, and in an instant it hit a wall dozens of meters away.
The military weapons in the modern world are so powerful that people of this era can hardly imagine.
Huo Qubing and the others only felt a lit up in their eyes, and they remembered the roar of thunder in their ears, and then they saw that the wall was blown open.
The explosion was extremely powerful, and the wall was blasted open for more than ten meters long. Flying pieces even fell on Su Chen's body.
After throwing away the shooting tube, Su Chen stood up and patted the floating soil on his body, looking at the crowd with his mouth wide open behind him, "What are you waiting for? Get on."
Finally came to his senses, Huo Qubing forced himself to suppress the shock in his heart, rode on the horse and waved his long sword to point at the gap.
Chapter completed!