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Text Chapter 317: Thorns all over (Second update)

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    Listening to Lu Bu's "satisfied" showing off, Chen Gong really felt that Lu Bu knew how to use his "brains"!  He consciously 'push the waves' and added: "What am I saying! In recent years, not one thousand but eight hundred barbarians have been killed by the lord's halberd. It is impossible for the lord to be happy because of such a tragic victory."  Isn't that right?" When the "good-faced" Lu Bu repeatedly corrected his excuse that "there must be more than a thousand," Chen Gong continued the original topic and said: "But, my lord, you must know! You are in a hundred  The King of Guanzhong among the flowers will inevitably ignore the attention of the eldest lady. In Chen Gong's humble opinion: Why doesn't the lord send someone to Bashu to propose marriage to the Marquis of Liyang (Tao Qian)? It is said that the Marquis of Danyang has always been happy to marry his son! Haha!  ,Ah!"

    "It's too late, Gongtai! Lu Bu only has such a daughter, how can you not plan for her as soon as possible? Previously, I had asked Zhuo Jing to send people to Bashu to propose marriage! Ha, ha," Lu Bu said with a laugh.  Chen Gong also sighed in his heart with his smiling face: What a pity the hearts of parents in the world!  People share the same mentality and principles!

    As the infantry and cavalry who had experienced a tragic battle returned to the army camp one after another, the generals also gathered in Lu Bu's Chinese army tent again to discuss the next specific combat deployment.  All the generals also agreed that the next step must be to take a defensive position and hold on as long as possible until reinforcements arrive.  Therefore, Lu Bu also adopted Chen Gong's opinion (which he had already approved), and let Le Jin unified the command and dispatch the remaining nearly 40,000 infantry with fighting strength to organize a defensive lineup.  Lu Bu himself is responsible for commanding the cavalry, and plans to attack from both wings in a timely manner after the infantry defensive battle begins, cooperating with the infantry defense.  Such an arrangement is actually to be prepared to "hold on as long as possible until reinforcements arrive."

    The generals, including Lu Bu, also knew that since they had now advanced to the edge of the southern Xiongnu gathering area, reinforcements from the southern Xiongnu might arrive at any time.  After all, the several armies I mobilized are far away, and they need to travel long distances to reach each other.  Therefore, the Bingzhou Army must be prepared to continue fighting a "bad war".  Lu Bu, who said he had no control over the door, also complained resentfully: "Taoist, why don't you come as soon as possible if you want to conquer the desert? Now you have made a certain Lu Bu 'neither advance nor retreat'  Staying here. Is this a 'bad war' that I am willing to fight?" Actually, the reason is that I was delayed by Sun Ce's slow action!  The transportation and communication conditions in this era are extremely poor!  The delay in coming and going is more than a month.  Lu Bu was complaining about me, and I, who was still leading the army to the Hetao area urgently, was also cursing Sun Ce in my heart!

    After the preliminary arrangements were determined, Le Jin, Shi Huan, Hou Cheng, Song Xian and others began to make arrangements urgently.  Le Jin was also a little worried about what Chen Gong expected: after Mang Zhengji took a short rest, he would start to carry out non-stop harassment regardless of consumption, so as to create a greater obstacle for the subsequent main force of the Southern Huns cavalry led by Hu Chuquan.  opportunity to defeat your own side.

    For the study of combat between infantry and cavalry, Le Jin does have a set of feasible theories and methods!  Lejin first sent out a large number of soldiers, and adopted a fan-shaped radiating extension on the front of the Tunjun camp, using a combination of trapping pits (upright bamboo sticks inserted inside) and dise (nail boards) to form a dense formation.  The spiral-shaped forward defense deployment turned almost all the open space in front of the garrison camp into a "trap" where the cavalry struggled to move forward and were covered with thorns.

    While deploying the "flat" defenses, Le Jin also started the "three-dimensional" preparations, sending soldiers to cut down a large number of trees to make "horse-rejecting guns" for the "horse-rejecting formation".  The so-called horse-repelling guns are several rows of retractable long guns parallel to each other on a 'three-dimensional tripod'.  Since the 'tripod' can not only block and delay the horses, but also protect the soldiers at the rear of the 'tripod', the panic and confusion when the blocked cavalry approaches will naturally cause  It will turn the cavalry into a 'target' for the pikemen!  It can be said that in the era of cold weapons, a "horse-rejecting formation" composed of a large number of "horse-repelling guns" was a practical way to deal with cavalry and implement field defense!

    Mang Zhengji is really ¡®promising¡¯!  Mang Zhengji, who has always been arrogant and reckless in the past, has really learned to use his brain after experiencing a huge setback in his life (being captured in Longxi)!  Don¡¯t blame him for being the ¡®father¡¯ of Liu Yuan, the chief villain of the ¡®Five Husbands¡¯ a hundred years later!  Everything was exactly as Chen Gong expected.  Mang Zhengji's troops of the Southern Xiongnu, who led their troops back to camp thirty miles away, took a brief rest for two days and immediately began to attack the Han army's camp.  I don¡¯t know what Mang Zhengji was doing earlier?  After more than a month of confrontation with Lu Bu's troops, they still did not launch an attack.  On the contrary, after Lu Bu made the first move, he couldn't wait any longer and immediately started to play with his life!  Maybe this is what we call a 'critical moment' and a 'break' must be a 'critical moment', right?

    Mang Zhengji's current troops, plus some of the defeated troops of the Xianbei Tufa tribe, still have more than 30,000 cavalry.  As for the Han army, after the losses in the battle, the cavalry was reduced toThere are a little more than 10,000 left, but there are still nearly 40,000 infantry.  But you must know that the Han army is now fighting outside the fortress and must adhere to the normal tactics of "fair and well-behaved" tactics.  The Southern Huns are "inland warriors" and are very familiar with geography, landforms and other natural conditions. In addition, they are completely iron cavalry and can move extremely quickly and erratically.  Overall, the Han army still had a huge disadvantage.  If all the troops are invested in a "attrition" type of field battle, the Han army will definitely be "unsustainable" in the end.  Therefore, the current strategy of "defense first and timely counterattack" is inevitable.

    Mang Zhengji drove the Southern Xiongnu troops to launch an initial attack on the Han army camp, which would make the Southern Xiongnu cavalry suffer!  The effectiveness of the horse pits and the astringent ground was fully realized. About thousands of the Southern Huns' iron cavalry were scarred and bloody. Even though some of the war horses were still alive, they had to be abandoned.  It can only be used as a 'vegetable horse' to satisfy one's hunger!  The horse's hoof was pierced, making it difficult to move, let alone ride!  At this time, the effectiveness of the ¡®spiral¡¯ extension method adopted by Lejin Defense was also revealed!  Lu Bu's counterattack cavalry can rush out and retreat according to the pre-marked marks on a smooth road, but as long as the Southern Huns cavalry enters the defense area, they will be trapped, thrown, and stabbed until they cry and howl!  Lu Bu, who was smiling arrogantly, couldn't help but give Le Jin a thumbs up and praised Le Jin repeatedly: "Generals, generals! Great generals."

    However, fixed ¡®patterns¡¯ are easy to understand and master after all.  After several days of "filling" and "bedding" the human and horse bodies of the Southern Huns cavalry, the Han and Hu armies inevitably entered the stage of face-to-face fighting with real guns and swords.  The launch of the 'Rejecting Horse Formation' caused Mang Zhengji's troops to suffer a great deal!  When Huchuquan, the Great Chan of the Southern Huns, arrived with a main force of fifty to sixty thousand cavalry, Mang Zhengji's Southern Huns cavalry was almost on the verge of collapse.  Only a few thousand people died, but nearly 10,000 people were injured and had difficulty moving; a large number of war horses were also lost.

    Seeing that Mang Zhengji¡¯s troops were still defeated in a ¡®mess¡¯ despite the assistance of the Xianbei Bald Hair Division!  The furious Hu Chuquan had just finished cursing halfway when his subordinates who kept explaining Mang Zhengji's explanations made him unable to curse any more!  Huchuquan, who understood that Mang Zhengji's defeat was "excusable", had no choice but to wave to his son Mang Zhengji, who looked like a "bitter melon", and told the extremely tired Mang Zhengji to go down to rest, and told him that he would personally lead the cavalry in the future.  Go to war.  The truly brutal iron-blooded fight has just begun
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