Chapter 402 The Huns also have smart people(1/2)
No one can say for sure whether the Huns had brain damage. After all, there were no high-tech gadgets like CT.
But the current Huns are indeed behaving very abnormally.
Generally speaking, when seeing this kind of defensive posture, the attacking side will stop and observe in detail.
Find the weaknesses of the formation and make key breakthroughs to disrupt the entire defensive formation.
But the Huns did not. Instead of stopping, they continued to speed up, urging their horses to rush towards the battle formation.
'boom……'
'boom……'
Two violent sounds came one after another.
More noises followed, almost every time two different sounds in succession.
The ancients were not fools. Those military strategists who have spanned history for hundreds and thousands of years, whose thoughts can survive without a few brushes?
Juma is not the kind of toy in the TV series.
It's not something that can be knocked away by a war horse.
There is no standard limit on the width of the real horse, but there is a limit on the distance width.
Four wooden sticks thicker than arms are tied together with rope, three sticks form a triangular support, and a short one is fixed in the middle of the triangle.
Juma rarely builds it as a whole and then moves it to the front.
That saves trouble, but it's not durable and the cavalry can quickly knock them away.
The truly strong and durable Juma are all temporarily assembled in fixed positions.
The bottom of both ends of the tripod is more than half a meter deep into the ground. It uses the ground to stabilize it and prevent it from being knocked away by cavalry. It also prevents infantry from being sent out from the opposite side to easily move it away.
Two thick sticks are placed horizontally on a triangular stand. In order to enhance the defensive power of Juma, there is a triangular stand every two steps.
But as a result, the amount of work is too large, and a lot of it was rushed yesterday.
It’s obviously impossible to do all of this if we all adopt high standards.
Therefore, the current Juma outside Yuyang is to go deep into the ground at both ends, and use simple ones in the middle.
Just sharpen the bottom and pierce it into the ground to stabilize it.
In fact, the suggestions here are enough. If Wang Li had been given two months to prepare, he would have been able to set up a defensive formation that would have given the Han army a headache.
The first sound was the sound of a war horse hitting a horse.
The impact of the war horse is great, but the two calf-thick wooden sticks are no joke.
Under the huge resistance, the war horse felt pain and fell forward violently.
Although the cavalrymen on the war horses were on guard, it was still difficult for them to escape. They were thrown directly to the front, and then they fell heavily to the ground.
'Whoosh whoosh whoosh...'
At the same time, dense arrows came from overhead.
Of course, the Han army will not miss this excellent opportunity to attack. At this moment, they can kill one after another. If they kill one now, they will have one less person to face later.
The battlefield is not an acrobatic field, and the war horse is not a kangaroo. He cannot jump more than 1.5 meters above the ground, and it is impossible to maintain the ability to stay in the air enough to allow his whole body to jump over the horse.
Therefore, under the attack of resisting horses and arrows, the Huns cavalry fell off their horses one after another or were hit by arrows.
Of course, there are exceptions. The horse is knocked away, but there is another horse behind it. If you want to continue to knock it away, it is impossible to do it at the current speed.
As for cavalry charges, speed and impact are their advantages.
But because of the resistance of the horse, the speed in front slowed down and even stopped.
But the speed behind it was still very fast.
Car accidents on the battlefield are actually not uncommon.
Whether they have a God's perspective, the people behind will naturally not know what is happening in front.
After leaving behind hundreds of corpses and wounded, the first wave of the Huns' charge finally ended in vain.
Stay and move on?
Meaningless!
It has completely lost its speed and can only eat arrows from the opposite side.
"Prince, what should we do now?" A Huns looked at Luo Tan Ji Zhou in disbelief. He was so surprised by the Han army's defense that the cavalry could not charge forward at all.
This is because after Luotang Jizhou discovered the problem, he immediately ordered a retreat.
Even so, they lost hundreds of men.
Well, this refers to the soldiers who stayed in front, and there were thousands of soldiers who were shot by arrows but did not fall off their horses and forcibly followed the team back.
Naturally, those people will not be able to go up in the next charge. They will only be allowed to go up unless there is really no one available.
Luo Tan Ji Zhou also frowned deeply.
This name may feel a little strange, but the other name must be very familiar.
He is the future Laoshang Chanyu and the next generation of Xiongnu Chanyu in history.
This time, Luo Tan Ji Zhou led 20,000 troops from his headquarters and 80,000 soldiers captured from Donghu, forming a 100,000-strong coalition and headed south.
The first is to avenge last year, and the second is to use this opportunity to consume a group of Donghu people and at the same time establish the prestige of the Huns, paving the way for the next step of comprehensive integration.
At this time, Luotang Jizhou was still a little younger and had little combat experience. He just heard that the Han people were arrayed outside the city, so he directly ordered the charge.
"Kill the people who are investigating!" Luo Danjizhu ordered with a dark face.
"Prince, why is this?"
"Asshole, why did you only say that the Han army went out of the city to form an array, but didn't say that the Han army had complete fortifications?" Luotang Jizhou said directly.
That's right, he had no idea that the Han army had done so many things to resist horses, and the investigators didn't tell him either.
The reason is of course not that they were ignored, but that the explorers had never gone south and had never seen these things.
In addition, seeing so many Han troops, I was naturally excited and hurried back to report.
People have no idea what Juma does, let alone how powerful Juma is. Coupled with the huge temptation of military exploits, it is actually normal to ignore these situations.
If it weren't for this fatal error in intelligence, would he have recklessly ordered the charge?
Can you directly give hundreds of heads to the opponent in the first wave?
And let thousands of people on your side temporarily lose their combat effectiveness?
Luantang Jizhou is young now, but he still has IQ and ability. What he lacks is just combat experience.
In history, he was the Xiongnu Chanyu who killed King Yuezhi and used his head as a drinking vessel.
Historically, he was the one who pacified the Western Region and suppressed most of the Western Region.
He was the one who frequently went south, breaking defenses everywhere and leaving the Han Dynasty helpless.
If the ancestor of guerrilla warfare is Peng Yue, then the person who truly carried him forward in history was Luo Tan Ji Zhou.
In the war against the Han Dynasty, Luo Tan Ji Zhou used this trick because he saw that the Han army lacked cavalry and could not pursue the Xiongnu far away.
When the enemy stops, I attack; when the enemy advances, I flee.
This was the strategy of the war against the Han Dynasty.
Even under the guidance of this idea, he once attacked Pengyang and set fire to Huizhong Palace. Emperor Hanwen was furious and sent heavy troops to fight him.
Then he fled far away, and the Han army chased him beyond the Great Wall but failed to catch up, so they had to withdraw their troops and come back.
Under the guidance of this idea, he often launched some very sudden harassments, invasions, and plunders, which overwhelmed the Han Dynasty. Every time the Han Dynasty reorganized its troops, he would flee far away with his people, and would not follow you at all.
The main force of the Han Dynasty met, making it impossible for the Han army to fight.
In the end, the Han Dynasty had no choice but to seek peace, so Luotangjizhu married two Han Dynasty clan daughters, a princess and a princess.
After giving the order to kill the investigating soldiers, Luo Dang Ji Zhou was also using his brain to quickly think of countermeasures.
This battle must be fought, and there is absolutely no way around it.
Moreover, the Han people have already made preparations, and the cities behind them must have similar preparations.
It's just a matter of how many troops there are, but no matter how many troops there are, as long as the Han people retreat into the city and can't get out, he has nothing to do. Instead, he may be surrounded by the Han army.
It would be too embarrassing to just go back home like this. It would be impossible to cook the porridge.
Of course, Luo Tan Ji Zhou is capable and ambitious, but he is not very courageous either.
Unlike his father, who dared to kill his grandfather and ascend to the throne, and later dared to write to Empress Lu asking her to be his concubine.
Being timid doesn't mean being incompetent, and being brave doesn't mean being capable.
"Send people to dismount and cut off their horses!" Luo Tan Ji Zhou quickly thought of a way to deal with it.
"Cut it off?"
"It's so thick, how can I cut it?"
To be continued...