Chapter 160

More than a thousand Hu cavalry were tightly entangled by seven hundred infantry, and before they could turn around in time, Liu Ye had decisively seized the opportunity and ordered the cavalry to turn to attack.

The five hundred cavalry turned to the left like a huge arrow, and the direction of the five hundred cavalry's attack was once again aimed at more than a thousand Hu cavalry.

But he watched helplessly as five hundred cavalry rushed in like mountains and seas, exerting the impact of the cavalry to the extreme, and flanking the infantry on both sides, it seemed that they were going to crush Hu Qi.

Hu Qi, whose mobility was suppressed, was simply allowed to be slaughtered. Five hundred infantry raised their shields and pushed forward layer by layer. The spears protruding from the gap stabbed Hu Qi off one by one. Hundreds of Hejian soldiers roamed nimbly among the Hu cavalry, slashing out with spears and knives and axes, directly chopping down the tall horse. Hejian soldiers stepped forward and made a knife.

However, this group of Hu cavalry were not soft persimmons to be kneaded by others. They were inspired by the brute courage in their bones, and they simply jumped off their horses to fight bloody battles with the Han army.

The two hundred Hejian soldiers and the Hu Qi who dismounted and fought on foot were caught in an entanglement. If you cut me with an axe, I will return your knife. However, the few Hejian soldiers quickly fell into a disadvantage.

Yu Jin, on the other hand, raised a banner and ordered the Hejian soldiers to retreat. He opened his jaw and saw the flag fluttering. He stabbed a Qiang man to death with one shot. He turned around and shouted, "Don't fight, retreat!"

The two hundred Hejian soldiers retreated after hearing the order. Hu Qi immediately showed excitement when he saw the Han army retreating.

Quedu brandished his saber and laughed loudly: "Warriors! The Han army is weak, let's not let them go!"

The barbarians rushed forward, but what appeared in front of them was a tight shield wall, and the spears mounted on the shields reflected the cold light of the sun and pushed forward.

The red-eyed barbarians rushed forward regardless of the situation, but the sabers in their hands could not cut through the solid wooden shield no matter what, leaving at most a few criss-crossing marks on it.

But the spear protruding from the gap in the shield wall could easily pierce through their leather armor and cloth clothes. In front of the dense formation of infantry, stragglers are simply vulnerable.

The five hundred infantry seemed to be slowly crushed by a wheel, and all the barbarians who rushed up were crushed to pieces. This is the difference between the elite and skirmishers. The former is like a fist tightly clenched with five fingers. , while the latter is a mass of loose sand, how can it resist?

But he panicked. He brought two thousand Huqi to establish his first skills, but he didn't expect that Xinping County encountered such a tough Han army inexplicably, which was completely different from the previous Han army. Guard the city.

"Withdraw, don't get entangled with this group of Han troops."

But Du hurriedly wanted to escape, and the hundreds of Qiang people who followed him immediately followed him and ran away. As for the remaining Hu people, they were already under Jin's control, and they couldn't run away at all.

Of course, Liu Ye would not let this group of Hu Qi go, and ordered Guan Hai to bring 200 cavalry to cooperate with the forbidden siege to kill the Hu people, and then led 300 cavalry to chase in Hu Qi's direction.

This group of Hu Qi came aggressively, but once they lost their courage to fight, they ran away without thinking of their heads, while the Han army following behind would draw their bows and arrows from time to time, and Hu Qi would fall down with a scream at any time. The horse was trampled alive by the rushing Han Qi.

Once this group of Hu cavalry slipped away, they would definitely tell the army behind them that they must all be left behind, so as to give Huangfusong enough opportunity to fight.

"Don't let this group of Hu Qi go!"

After a great battle, Liu Ye first used the impact force of the cavalry to offset the impact of the two thousand horsemen, and the two thousand horsemen who had lost their impact collided head-on with Yu Jin's rock-solid army formation, and they were hit head-on. .

When Liu Ye led the three hundred horses back, there was a barbarian's head hanging on the horse, with deep eyes and high nose, and two eyes wide open. It was the head of that Hu Jiang Que Du.

But in his eyes, there were groups of war horses and corpses everywhere. This was the first time he had seen so many war horses. The elite cavalry of the Han army are all one man and two horses, and these Hu people located in the northwest border are no exception.

In addition to Bingzhou and Jizhou, the three major horse-producing places in the Han Dynasty were Liangzhou, especially Liangzhou, which was also connected to the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used ten thousand gold to beg for the hard-earned horses of Dawan Kingdom. The horses are of good quality.

"Wen Ze, how many war horses are there?"

This time, Yu Jin couldn't help showing a smile on his face, which was always calm: "Sima, this group of barbarians has 2,000 riders and a total of 4,000 war horses. Apart from being hacked to death by the Junyi Hejian soldiers, there are also those who escaped. , our army still has more than 2,700 horses left."

With 2,700 horses, even if one person has two horses, at least they can organize more than 1,300 riders. In the past when Liu Ye led troops to fight against the Yellow Turban Bandit, because Huang Fusong never left the Yellow Turban Bandit behind, at most Liu Ye could get some weapons and food.

Unexpectedly, in a battle with this group of Hu Qi, more than 2,000 war horses were captured, which suddenly made Liu Ye feel rich and powerful.

"Cut off the heads of this group of barbarians, and reward the charioteer on the left!"

A group of infantry immediately dispersed, and rushed into the pile of Hu Qi's corpses with weapons in hand, first to see if any of them were dead, and if they were not dead, they would make two stabs to let him die completely.

The ring head knife fell heavily, cutting the barbarian's throat, a stream of blood shot out, and then the corpse was separated and hung on the waist by the Han army, dripping blood dripping down.

Nearly 2,000 heads were wrapped in single clothes stripped from the barbarians, and firmly tied to the captured horses. Liu Ye sent scouts to report the situation of the battle to Huangfusong, and then led people to the Xinping County government office. Qi County drove in.

Although Qi County is the administrative seat of Xinping County, its scale is very limited. After all, it is a small town located in the northwest border, but there are not many people in the city, because since the Qiang people started the rebellion, the nearby residents dare not stay in the village , but ran to Qi County in one go.

Wooden fences can't stop Hu Qi's horseshoes and sabers, but stone walls can.

Qi County had noticed this huge horse team a long time ago. Hundreds of guards rushed to the top of the city and placed their bows and arrows on the top of the city.

But as the yellow Liu Zishuai flag became clearly visible, they realized that the cavalry under the city was not the savage Hu cavalry, but fellow robes.

A cavalry from the army outside the city rushed under the wall of Qixian County and shouted loudly: "I am waiting under the command of the left chariot, open the city gate quickly!"