Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 157 Massacre
The stagnation of Hu Qi in front soon caused chaos in the rear.

In the chaos, King Aries summoned some of his confidants to the front, and ordered sharply: "You guys, go ahead and see what happened?" However, without waiting for these confidants of King Aries, When the horses were pushed forward, the sound of horns suddenly sounded in the dense forests on both sides of the valley.

"Well, where did the horn come from?" Aries King's expression changed drastically.

The next moment, there was a tidal wave of shouts from the dense forest on both sides of the river valley. Judging from the momentum, it seemed that thousands of troops were rushing out from the depths of the dense forest!

Hu Qi, who were crowded in the middle of the valley, suddenly became agitated.

Time passed quickly amid the turmoil of the Hu people, and in less than a moment, endless "Old Qin people" rushed out of the dense forests on both sides of the valley. All Qin people wore scale armor and held strong bows and crossbows. The front rows were strong crossbows, and the rear rows were longbows.

Of course, this is not an old Qin man, but a Chu army holding a Qin crossbow and Qin bow!
The next moment, arrows as dense as locusts were already shooting towards the Hu Qi who were crowded in the valley.

Suddenly, there was a continuous wailing sound in the valley, and the barbarians who were caught off guard fell down one by one.

The strong bows and crossbows captured by the Chu army from the arsenals of Luoyang and Xianyang made the Hu people suffer a lot, especially the kicked crossbows in the hands of the first few rows of Chu troops, which caused great damage to the Baiyanghu cavalry. The crossbow arrows shot by these more than 2000 crossbows are thick and heavy, and even war horses can shoot through them. If a person is shot, he will either die or be disabled!
In addition to the two thousand crossbows, the eight thousand longbows also caused a lot of damage to the Hu people.

Although the arrows shot by the longbow and hornbow do not have the penetrating power of the crossbow, they are better than the speed of fire. The time it takes for a crossbow to shoot one arrow is enough for a longbow and hornbowman to shoot three to five feather arrows. , More than 8000 archers poured dense rain of arrows on the heads of Hu people. How can this scene be described as cruel?
The Hu people were completely stunned by the shooting, and a small number of Hu people became fierce. Before the general gave an order, they screamed and rode their horses to kill the Chu army's archers on both sides of the valley, but they were quickly shot to death by the Chu army's powerful crossbow. , Many barbarians remained calm, one by one unloaded their short bows from their backs, and began to shoot back with arrows, but more barbarians ran back and forth in the valley like headless ropes.

If this chaotic situation continues for a few quarters of an hour, the Aries Tribe will definitely be over!

"Don't panic, everyone, don't panic!" Aries King drew out his long sword and roared repeatedly on his horseback.

The leaders of the various small tribes of the Baiyang tribe also came back to their senses one after another, and began to rectify the young men of their tribes.

The Hu people who had been completely in chaos finally calmed down gradually, and then formed an orderly group under the scolding of the leaders of their respective tribes, and then launched a tidal charge towards the Chu army's archers on both sides of the valley , After surviving the initial panic, the Aries man finally came back to his senses and showed his ferocious fangs again.

With their backward nomadic civilization, the barbarians of the grassland can repeatedly threaten the advanced farming articles of the people of the Central Plains. The biggest reliance is the cavalry who are not afraid of death. These barbarians have lived in an extremely harsh environment since childhood. And they have repeatedly fought against the cruel nature, so they are all fierce and aggressive, brave and good at fighting.

"Ow, ooh, ooh..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

"Alright, alright, alright..."

As time went by, more and more Hu people fell under the rain of arrows. Then, at least [-] Hu cavalry charged the Chu army's archers on both sides of the valley. These Hu people desperately urged their horses , while waving the short sword and wooden fork in his hand, howling like a beast, rolling towards the Chu army archers on the left and right sides.

Amidst the tidal sound of horseshoes, the surging forward Hu Qi was less than a hundred steps away from the Chu army's archers!
If these [-] Hu cavalry are really allowed to rush forward, then what awaits the archers of the Chu army will be slaughtered. In front of the fierce Hu cavalry, the tens of thousands of crossbowmen and archers of the Chu army are no more than sheep Any difference, they can neither resist nor run away, they will only be like a flock of sheep, waiting to be bitten and devoured by wolves.

However, just when five thousand Huqi were about to rush in front of the Chu army's archers, a sudden change occurred!
Hundreds of deer villages erected from the wormwood in front of the archers of the Chu army without warning. Rows of white and cold fresh stubble are like rows of fangs in the mouth of a giant beast, ferocious and ruthless.

The fierce attack of the barbarian cavalry suddenly turned into a tragic suicide!

Without any suspense, the cavalry in the front row were pierced by the sharp wooden stakes with people and spurs. Only a small number of cavalry escaped by leaping high with their superb riding skills, but before they landed again, rows of cavalry The long halberd had already stabbed from behind the deer village, and immediately nailed them to death in the air.

I don't know when, under the cover of the wild grass, the [-] soldiers of the Chu army quietly came to the formation of the archers, and pulled up the deer villages that had been prepared in time, and screamed loudly in front of the rows of deer villages The barbarian cavalry, who was about to start a massacre, was hit on the head and bloody, and a large number of barbarian cavalry died tragically on the spot.

Witnessing such an abrupt and tragic scene, the sinister smile at the corner of Aries King's mouth froze for a moment.

No matter how unresponsive Aries King is, he will also realize that he has fallen into the trap of the old Qin people.

Cunning and damn old Qin people, they must have set up a trap here and waited for themselves to sneak into it, right?
The next moment, King Aries wailed like a wounded beast: "Ambush, we have been ambushed by the old Qin people, withdraw, withdraw quickly..."

However, the King of Aries has just turned his horse's head, and the mutation is reborn!
On the low mountain ridge where the Aries man entered the river valley just now, at some point there were several more rows of armored soldiers, and they were all heavy armored soldiers wearing heavy armor and iron helmets and holding large shields and heavy swords. In front of the platoon of heavily armored soldiers, a raging fire suddenly ignited on the originally empty and barren mountain ridge.

The Aries King's heart suddenly sank infinitely, the blazing fire, rows of heavy armored soldiers, the Aries people's retreat has been cut off by the old Qin people.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

A large number of arrows still kept falling from the sky, like rain.

The Aries King was only slightly stunned, and a feathered arrow had already pierced his leather armor and wedged into his left chest. The severe pain suddenly came from the left chest, and the Aries King immediately let out a scream. The horse fell down on its back, and hundreds of Hu Qi nearby immediately became rioted when they saw this.

"The king is dead, the king is dead!"

"Your Majesty was shot to death by the old Qin people!"

"It's over, it's over, it's over!"

The news of Aries King's death spread like the wind across the entire river valley. The Aries people who had no fighting spirit left at last lost their last courage, scattered and fled indiscriminately. , or the way out of the valley, or the dense forests on both sides, are all blocked by people, there is no way to escape at all!
When the bright moon rose from the eastern sky, this planned and premeditated ambush finally came to an end.

The [-] Chu army against the [-] Hu cavalry should have been a bitter battle, or at least an evenly matched fierce battle, but the final result was that the Chu army completely slaughtered the Hu cai!Due to the absolute advantages in intelligence and tactics, the Chu army fought an appropriate ambush at the right time and at the right place, and the result is self-evident.

It took two hours to clean the battlefield, and the results came out. In this battle, a total of more than 1 heads were beheaded, and more than [-] horses were captured, of which more than [-] horses were only slightly injured. After a period of time, it can be restored to its original state, but the remaining [-] war horses can only be killed for meat.

It seems that there is no need to worry about the meat of the Chu army in the future.

Huan Chu, Ji Bu, Tian Heng, Xiao Kai and other generals of the Chu army were all very excited when they saw the corpses of Hu people all over the valley. They all felt that the Hu people were nothing more than that. The Chu army has won a complete victory, but this does not mean that the Hu people are vulnerable, and it does not mean that the Chu army has the strength to sweep the Hu people in the entire Hetao!
In fact, if the extremely favorable terrain had not been selected in advance, and the careful traps had not been set up, the Chu army would never have achieved such brilliant results. I am afraid that the result will be completely different. Even if the Chu army can win in the end, it will inevitably pay a heavy price.

Moreover, even just now, the Aries are not without the power to fight.

If King Aries is calm enough to give up the idea of ​​rushing out of the siege from the very beginning, and then take the initiative to give up the advantage of the cavalry, order more than ten thousand barbarians to dismount, and then place all the horses around to form a meat shield to resist the arrow rain of the Chu army, Then the vast majority of Hu people can survive the attack of the Chu army's arrow rain!

In this way, if the Chu army wants to win, they have to launch a strong attack on the Aries who formed a group of hedgehogs. Even if the Aries are still unable to escape the end of destruction, they can at least cause a considerable amount of damage to the Chu army, unlike the current situation. , the Aries were almost wiped out, but the Chu army only suffered hundreds of Liao Liao casualties.

Therefore, the complete victory of the Chu army can't really explain anything.

If it weren't for the defenseless Aries, if it wasn't for the Aries King being too weak, if it was the Huns of Modun, would the result still be like this?The answer is obviously no!
At this moment, Xiang Zhuang felt an unprecedented sense of urgency.

If there is no accident, the Hun army in Maodun will go south soon. Before Maodun goes south, the Chu army must raise enough horses and turn the Chu army into a cavalry in the shortest possible time, and then leave Hetao as soon as possible. , otherwise, once the Mouton army enters Hetao in large numbers, it will be too late to leave...

(End of this chapter)