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Chapter 290 Crushing Battle

Under the morning light, the sun was shivering with cold, and when the cold air on the snow surface rose into the air, the leather robes on the soldiers who were ambushing in the pine forest were already frozen hard.All the Turkic war horses were covered with white sweat.

The battle was imminent, and the horses had to be fed to have sufficient horsepower. The soldiers took out the hay harvested by Akita from their bags and began to feed the horses.The horse's head was stuck in the manger, chewing happily, and its tail was thumping back and forth.
Li Chongjiu grabbed a handful of snow with his hands, and the snow was pinched into a lump of ice in his palm. The past few days suddenly became colder for no reason. Although there was no heavy snow, the weather is much colder now.Therefore, the soldiers who looked at the Hunhe King's Department only walked around the stockade and gave up the investigation of the four fields, which gave Li Chongjiu a chance.

From a distance, Li Chongjiu saw that the camp of the King of Hunhe was still built in the same way that the Xi people always used chariots for their camps. They used Xi chariots with two huge wheels to form a double-heavy cart around the camp. base.In the fortress of chariots, the war horses of the king of Shuhe were all kept in a big shed, while the soldiers were carrying hay and were going to feed it.

Looking from the inside, the thousands of tents were silent, many tents were hung with bloody sheepskins on one side after another, and the smoke was rising slightly, and the king of Huhe was cooking milk tea soup with cow dung.

The entire grassland was quiet, and the Hunhe kings didn't know that danger was approaching them.

Get on the horse!

With a shout, all the soldiers under Li Chongjiu's command got on their horses, and the horses were half-fed, which was the time when they were most energetic.They picked up hand axes, horse poles, and scimitars, and wiped them with their sleeves, bloodthirsty in their eyes.

Wu Gu Nai led his [-] heavy armored cavalry and mounted the horses together. The tall Liaodong horses carried the tall Mohe warriors and armors with ease.

Wu Gu Nai raised his iron bones and waved upwards. The Mohe warriors under his command received the order in an instant and urged their horses to go straight away.When the Mohe people charged, they were like prairie wolves, and there was a terrifying murderous aura in their silence.

The Hunhe king who was two miles away felt the ground rolling, and in a blink of an eye, a black line against the white snow came suddenly.

The pupils of the Hunhe kings who were present all shrank in unison, but then they reacted, and immediately raised the horn in front of their chests and started blowing straight.

Woohoo!

The sound of the warning horn sounded hastily, which added to the sudden panic of being attacked.The naked, chest-haired Hunhe kings came out of the tent one after another, and saw some cavalry in iron armor, killing them.

These cavalrymen and their horses are all covered with iron armor, and their faces are also covered with iron masks. Only two eyes are shining faintly, like hungry wolves.At the moment, the scouts of the humiliating kings approached the chariot base one after another, raised their bows and arrows, and formed a wall of arrows.

They wanted to use the car battalion to try to slow down the armored cavalry, and then the rear light cavalry could be ready to fight back.

Behind the farther tent, several clumps of black smoke rose into the sky, asking for help from the Humiliation King Khan Court and other ministries in the distance.

At this time, the Mohe cavalry waved their big sticks and approached in an instant. Facing the car camp, the Mohe cavalry raised their big sticks one after another on the horse and threw them at the car camp.

At this moment, the King of Disgraceful He behind the chariot base shot a rain of arrows, and the arrows fell from the sky, but when they hit the heavy armor of the armored cavalry, it was like scratching an itch.

Although the arrows of the Hunhe kings used precious iron arrowheads, their bow strength was too weak, except for a few warriors, at most no more than two stones.As for heavy armor, except for the three-stone crossbow, ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate beyond fifty steps.

Not to mention the disgraceful kings, many of them are still using backward short bows with mulberry skin as strings.

The King of Hunhe still did not give up. Three rounds of arrows rained down, but only five or six Mohe cavalry fell under the arrows. Stone arrowheads, as well as bone arrowheads, can't break through the iron armor.

The random arrows flew together, but they seemed to be empty, and they hit the armor and flew upside down one after another.

After a few trials, the Mohe cavalry had consumed part of the opponent's iron arrowheads, and immediately approached and broke through their first heavy vehicle barrier.When the soldiers of the royal clan of Hunhe replaced them with iron arrowheads and shot them back, Li Chongjiu's light cavalry had arrived at the same time.

The Qingqimen all raised their horse crossbows, which were all obtained from the arsenal of Zhuojun County. As a result, some of them were equipped with the Wansheng Army and the Tuqi regiment.The horse crossbow is specially used for the cavalry of the Han army who are not good at riding and shooting on horseback. The rest of the Qingqi are just like drinking water and eating.

Many of Wan Shengjun's Fanqi are good archers on the prairie, even good at carving eagles. They can draw strong bows. The rain falls like a sieve.

Those who humiliated the king's tribe, even if they hid behind the chariot barrier, would not escape bad luck, and even more people were suppressed and couldn't lift their heads.But the iron arrowheads that were shot gave the Hunhe kings a chance. Regardless of the danger to their lives, they tried their best to pull out the iron arrowheads, and then reflected the armored cavalry of Mohe.

But at this time, the Mohe iron armored cavalry had already aroused their ferocity. They rushed fiercely and smashed wildly, and stepped forward to break through the second car barrier.The Xi Che swung round the iron bones of several strong men, and there was a loud bang like a mountain. A Xi Che was almost overturned by it, and a few broken boards and wood chips flew around. The soldiers of the Hunhe King's Department who were hiding behind were so frightened by this scene that their legs became weak.

The rest of the Mohe gentry were even more ferocious like wolves. With the fierce swing of the mace and the pulling of the harness pole, several Xi chariots were torn apart, and a hole was opened by them in the second car barrier.

Woohoo!

The horn sounded, and Li Chongjiu immediately ordered the whole army to attack from the gap.

Mohe Jia rode on the horse and took the lead, swung the mace in his hand left and right, aimed at the person's head and opened the brain, and the whole skull was opened like a crispy melon with a loud crash.The members of the royal family of Hunhe resisted bravely, and many members of the royal family of Hunhe hurriedly got on their horses and stabbed wildly with their spears and spears.

But inside the camp, the soldiers of the Hunhe King's tribe had no time to form an formation, they had to disperse and fight on their own, and the Mohe armored cavalry swept past, leaving only empty horses everywhere.The cavalry died in a hurry. In order to slow down the speed of the Mohe iron cavalry from killing the main tent, let the companions buy time.

Many of the men who insulted the King's tribe were wielding knives and fought straight out of the tent, but each knife did not leave a white mark on the iron armor of the Mohe cavalry men and horses.The Mohe cavalry also didn't bother to pay attention to these little guys, they just rushed their horses and hit them.

The hooves of the horses flipped, and the members of the Hunhe royal family who tried to stop the torrent of cavalry were immediately crushed under the hooves of the horses.

The ferocity of the Mohejia cavalry not only exceeded the expectations of the Hunhe royal family, but also greatly exceeded the expectations of the friendly troops. The cavalry led by Wang Mahan was the second wave of attack, but they expanded the gap and attacked After entering, I found that there was nothing to do with them along the way, and I could only make up for a few crippled people occasionally.

As for the third wave of unarmored Wansheng Army Qingqi, after they surrounded Li Chongjiu and entered, nothing happened. The ground was full of dead bodies of people who humiliated the king, as well as those who surrendered with their heads in their hands and gave up resistance.

Too easy!
Even Li Chongjiu couldn't help but shake his head. The resistance of the Hunhe royal tribe was not without courage, but this battle turned into a one-sided crushing battle.His own light cavalry and Wang Mahan's war cavalry did nothing except shoot a few arrows.

Eight hundred iron cavalry broke the army directly!

The power of the heavy armored cavalry is very powerful, but what is hidden behind it is the incomparably brave blood of the Mohe people, which is far inferior to even the Xi people.It’s no wonder that in the future, those who roam the white mountains and the black waters dare to utter dissatisfaction with the Jurchen. The organized and ironized nomadic cavalry can be backward and barbaric, but it is the nightmare of the civilization of the times.

Li Chongjiu almost saw the shadows of later Jurchen and Manchurians from them.

If we talk about the rise of the Khitan in history, Yelu Abaoji's father led the Khitan tribe and learned to smelt iron.Then the Jurchens, on the basis of iron smelting, implemented the restraint of Meng'an Mou more thoroughly and improved the mobilization force from top to bottom.
But now Li Chongjiu used these two methods to equip and train the Mohe cavalry, showing their ferocious fangs.

Not long after, the battle ended, and the entire car fort was smashed to the ground by Mohe cavalry.According to rough statistics, nearly a thousand young and strong people were killed, and the remaining ten thousand old and weak women and children all surrendered.

After Wu Gunai broke through the main tent, he tied up more than [-] noble officials who insulted the King of He with ropes.Li Chongjiu interrogated a few words immediately, and knew that in order to survive the winter, the royal tribe of Hunhe divided the people into five places to spend the winter, and Li Chongjiu just broke one of them this time.

Li Chongjiu immediately ordered all the captured Hunhe kings to move south to the foot of Yuyi Town.As for the first-class Ujumqin war horses, as well as the winter cattle and sheep, they also took the sheep together.

The army walked on the grassland and returned to Yuyi Town. Everyone who humiliated the king had a sad look on their faces, but under the urging of Li Chongjiu's subordinates, they could only hurry on their way.

The next day, the Royal Department of Disgraceful He seemed to have heard the news, and immediately a cavalry force of 3000 to [-] men appeared behind Li Chongjiu, obviously coming to rescue after hearing the news.

Li Chongjiu didn't pay attention to the troops of the Hunhe royal family at all, and immediately dispatched Wang Mahan and Er Tuo to lead the army to defeat this group of cavalry, beheading more than 300 people.

At present, the cavalrymen of the King of Disgrace did not dare to fight again, so they had to follow from afar.Li Chongjiu put on a confident look and marched swaggeringly, while the cavalrymen of the Hunhe King were afraid of ambush and never dared to go forward.

On the fifth day, the king's banner of the Hunhe King's Tribe appeared, and the number of troops of the Shuhe King's Tribe increased to more than 5000 horsemen. The Mohefu Tribe and the Qijiao Tribe of the Xi Clan, who had always been inseparable from the Shuhe King's Tribe, also sent nearly Thousand cavalry came to Austrian aid, obviously the three parties reached some kind of tacit agreement.

However, the Qijin Qiuli Han of the Mukun tribe also sent troops at this time, leading [-] Mukun cavalry to meet Li Chongjiu, and at the same time Yan Yelie also led [-] cavalry to brave the heavy snow.

Under the confrontation between the two sides, the Hunhe royal family seemed to have no courage to fight, so they led the army to retreat immediately.

(End of this chapter)