No, they are not Huns. They are hunnits, but they have quite a lot of Hun habits.
The nomadic people's dress style is relatively fixed. Because they have little creativity and productivity, they don't bother to weave and design clothes. If they want something to hide their shame or keep warm, they can only use the animal skin harvested by hunting or the leather of cattle, sheep and other livestock.
Mao Yun would think that what he saw was the Huns and the enemy he saw. It was really the dress style of the Huns. Most of them were sheepskin jackets with a pointed hat on their head, but they could also see the dirty braids swinging and bumping on horseback.
Hunit is a new tribe with multi-ethnic integration. If multi-ethnic integration is carried out, the integration of farming nations will wipe out the rest of the higher level of civilization, but the nomadic nation must be a stronger nation, leaving the most traces.
If we distinguish according to the historical records of Zhuxia, the sudden emergence of the hunit light cavalry is undoubtedly full of strong Hun style, which Mao run has never encountered before.
Two armies of different camps wanted to kill each other. After a period of gallop, they finally had a confrontation.
It was the sound of bowstring pounding constantly, such as the arrows of locusts being shot out. They would shake their bodies happily in the process of flying in mid air. If they hit the human body after falling, they would break the clothes and drill into the body, so that the beautiful Yan red flowers would bloom.
The cavalry of the two sides galloping in the front, they had the same situation under the dense arrow rain. People kept humming or screaming from the arrow and fell off the horse's back, and then they were repeatedly trampled by horseshoes and became a part of the earth.
Not only people can hit the arrow, but the bearing capacity of war horses is much higher than that of humans. Of course, they will have pain when they hit the arrow. Well trained war horses will still gallop forward. If they are hit at the key part, they will stumble and fall to the ground and roll, and they will be crazy because of pain.
Constant overturning is a normal scene in the cavalry battle. No matter which side of the cavalry is charging forward in a complex environment. Their ears were not only filled with the sound of horse hoofs, but also with endless screams and howls. They had enough skills and luck to rush through the chaotic area of their own side, and the next moment was to oppose the enemy cavalry.
Maorun is in a constant crisscross of charge. As he was trained, he tried his best to keep his body close to the horse's neck, and the saber in his hand was crossed out. From time to time, he could feel the collision between the saber and the object, and his body would feel more and more wet.
The wet blood comes from the splashing of the enemy when he is cut by the blade. He may be injured somewhere on his body, that is, his head is full of horse hoofs and he is in a complex environment where his nerves can't react. People who encounter this situation for the first time will definitely be in a trance and need to get out of the chaotic site for a while to get over it.
After the two groups of cavalry chiseled through each other, Mao run waited for at least five minutes to rush out before returning from the trance state. In the trance stage, the war horse decided to follow the brigade, not out of the control of the rider.
"Are you hurt?" Li Bing looked at Mao run, whose whole body was covered with blood, and pointed to Mao run's left upper shoulder: "it's rotten there."
It's rotten leather shoulder pads, like being scratched by some blunt instrument with spikes.
For nomads, this hunit light cavalry can actually be called excellent armour. Sheep fur jacket itself is a kind of protective equipment. They don't know how many layers of fur jacket they wear. Most people have spears with gun heads, and many also have a machete. Some strong people use mace weapons. Compared with Shujie people, they have excellent armour.
The cavalry of the Han Army did not stop. It was still in a slow cruising state. The leading cavalry in front had begun to make circuitous movements. The remaining people might be artificially controlled, or it might be the instinct of the war horse to follow the lead horse. The whole cavalry team was making a curved adjustment.
Mao run looked dully at his left shoulder. He felt pain, subconsciously reached out and touched it, and controlled the left shoulder to move: "should it be a skin injury? I should press my body lower, and I shouldn't tilt to the left."
Li Bing knows that he is more and more fond of Mao run. He could see that Mao run was involved in the fight for the first time. It was not easy to adjust his state just in a trance. It was even more difficult to know what improvements he should make.
"This is the advantage of reading." Li Bing himself was really adapted after three or four battles. He gave Mao run a thumbs up and reminded him, "we should pull out a distance."
Cavalry combat will not be too close to paoze. It is a safe distance to open a distance of two meters from each other. It is best to maintain a distance of more than three meters after launching an assault. Otherwise, in high-speed running, only the reins shake may cause collision. If they are hit by enemy arrows, they will inevitably collide. A distance of more than three meters from each other gives a reaction time for evasion.
The ground where they fought became a real mess. The green grass was trampled over, and the bodies of people and horses were left on the ground in twos and threes.
It would be said that it is scattered because the bodies of both people and horses are damaged to no shape. I don't know how many people or horses don't even have broken bodies left, which are trampled into meat mud by horse hoofs.
In the battle just now, nearly 1000 bodies were left on the side of the Han camp, and the hunit side would not be less than 1800.
Although the losses on this side of the Han camp were relatively small, the hunites were still on the side of quantitative advantage. This is the difference in the personnel base before the war. At the time of the war, the Han Army had more than 5000 people, while the hunit side was about 10000.
"I... I..." Abati felt his thigh hurt badly. Because his thigh was wrapped in leather, he couldn't see the trace of the leather cut by a sharp weapon, but it was unbearable: "my leg should have been hit hard by a blunt tool, and the bone may have been broken."
In the "roaring" sound of horses' hoofs, no one could hear what Abati said clearly. Aside, Kuze could only look at Abati from time to time with worried eyes.
It's hard for cavalry to keep themselves from being hurt because of the mutual opposition between them. As long as they don't fall on the spot, they are lucky to be alive after being chiseled through.
If you are injured, there is no need to leave the brigade. Once you really leave the brigade, it will be an act of death. No matter how painful it is, you have to bite your teeth and follow the brigade. You can see that someone in the cavalry teams of the enemy and our sides will fall off the horse's back from time to time. It is because the injury is too serious to support the balance on the horse's back.
The bleak horn was sounded by both sides, and the two cavalry on both sides fought head to head again, driving the mounts to sprint as fast as possible. As a result, there has been no collision again, and more people from two cavalry teams of different camps fell off their horses.
This time, Mao run found that he didn't fall into a state of ignorance. He could think and distinguish more calmly. It was no longer the brain that couldn't control the body, but his instinct to deal with it.
A knock was the arrow that Mao run knocked off with his war knife. After this action, he felt that he had been sublimated and entered a new life. He even had free time to observe the surroundings, looked at the expressions on the faces of his own camp cavalry, and saw faces of tension, ferocity and fear.
Further behind the fighting field, Su Ren held a telescope to observe the overall situation. Behind him were 5000 cavalry ready to fight at any time.
"There is a cavalry on the low slope, which should be the commander of the enemy. There must be an enemy behind the low slope. It is judged that it will not be less than 10000." Su Ren looked in another direction: "our North position, the number of enemy troops is 5000 by visual inspection."
Chen Xu asked Su Ren's question: "there are 30000 enemy troops here, and the remaining 20000... Or more enemy troops?"
Su Ren put down his telescope and said firmly, "they're going to attack our rear."
Chen Xu also made the same judgment, but the hunites were destined to play to the iron plate. Their rear was not a baggage team, but a main force.
Of course, there will not be only one battlefield in a war. There is a battlefield of frontal confrontation, and several other battlefields of feint or grinding damage. Many times, it is who can take away the logistics troops of the other side that determines the victory or defeat of a war.
Zakuma wanted to win the war by taking out the logistics of the Han people. Li Kuang also understood the importance of logistics for a war.
The cavalry battle will not determine the outcome in a short time. Even if one party occupies an absolute advantage, a cavalry battle is not a charge. Even if it is finished, one party usually cruises and pulls the front, chasing and running back and forth, and tugging at each other again and again until one of them is dragged down or the pursuer gives up pursuit.
Because it is impossible to decide the outcome in a short time, find the enemy's baggage team to destroy, and even cut off the enemy's supply line, which will effectively shorten the time loss of the war.
Whether it's cavalry fighting, infantry to infantry, or mixed infantry and cavalry, it's a very effective means to make the other party unable to get supplies.
The vast plain is very difficult to hide. If you want to hide, you can only March at night, find a basin or a wide enough forest, and avoid the exploration of the hunit people during the day.
Today, however, Yang Su did not choose to act at night and no longer concealed and directly attacked the enemy logistics forces that had been detected.
Hunit people are a semi nomadic and semi farming nation. However, no matter what nationality, as long as they send troops dominated by cavalry, they will inevitably choose to take a large number of herds and only carry a small amount of baggage and livestock vehicles.
"A few scouts keep an eye on them!" Yang Su could clearly see the enemy in the distance with a telescope. He lay on the ground and stared at all the normal enemy in front of him: "we wait for the coming of night."
After half a month, they marched at night and hid during the day. With at least 70% luck, the rest was to use sufficient experience to detour to the north of herat. They almost didn't bother to spy on the enemy's baggage team.
The military strategists of Zhuxia always emphasized the timing, geographical advantage and harmony between people. The timing is luck. Most of the time, even if the geographical advantage, people and harmony are on their own side, they lack a little luck. They not only want to get the result, but also are destroyed by the whole army.
So far, the luck of the Han army seems to be good, even very lucky. Almost as soon as the army entered the position, it immediately found the target it wanted to look for.
"They are moving. We can't keep up too closely." Bai Xianqi told the truth: "there are their scouts patrolling around. We may be found anytime, anywhere."
Of course, Yang Su knows this situation. There will be nothing foolproof in any war. Some of them make a good battle plan and try their best to avoid unexpected accidents. Although it is metaphysical or irresponsible, in fact, after everything is perfect, the rest can only be handed over to luck.
Things in other places have nothing to do with their army for the time being. What they need is to wait. This time, the hunites may not believe that the Han army can quietly detour back to their rear. It may be that the Han Army has enough luck to be undetected until nightfall.
In the ecological environment of the grassland, the sound of insects is always full at night. Sometimes I don't know where it is, and there are even bursts of wolf howls.
Yang Su still lay on the grass and looked up at the sky. A tooth moon hung in a corner of the sky: "the stars here are not as beautiful as their hometown."
They will not attack immediately when night falls. The best time for a night sneak attack is the darkest moment before dawn.
It's not to be picky and inexplicably want to be darker, not only because the darkest time before dawn is the most sleepy time for the enemy's night watchmen. As a prepared attacker, he definitely knows what's happening better than the attacked person. After a while, the East turns white, and the interval is estimated to confuse the other party, With light, you can finish what you want to do more quickly and accurately.
The hunites lit bonfires one after another at night. From a distance, they could see that they were preparing food and singing.
This hunit baggage team should have nearly 40000 people, but the number of adults is slightly small, and most of them belong to old and weak women and children.
It is a major feature of nomads that men, women and children drive livestock to move with the army. They are not only responsible for providing logistical supplies to the army, but also the main force to pack up spoils when the war is smooth.
"I saw a team of about 1000 women leave in the evening." While waiting, Yang Su didn't mind whispering something: "do you know where they went?"
A burst of low voice laughter appeared. Who doesn't know what's going on? Women go to war with the army. No matter Zhuxia or other nationalities, it's just that some physical things will happen.
Yang Su took another look at the enemy camp in the distance: "tonight will be very long."