Three Kingdoms

   It is also wrong to say that Gao Shun did not think about the problem of the back road at all.

  The problem is that Gao Shun has no other options.

  He didn't even dare to divide his troops.

  After the Jinzihe City incident, divide the soldiers? Then maybe they may still be soldiers when they are distributed, and they may become ghosts when they are returned. The surprise attack by a small group of troops from the Cheshihou country was due to one aspect, and another aspect was the unstable morale of the army. With Gao Shun by his side, he can still protect him. If he lets go...

  Things like human hearts will fall apart.

   According to a sound plan, Gao Shun should fight steadily when he encounters the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field. However, the prerequisite for a steady and steady fight is to have sufficient logistical support and supply of soldiers and rations. Does Gao Shun have these?

No.

   Not only did he not, but he also received an order urged by Lu Bu, asking Gao Shun to take down Che Shihou as soon as possible and return to the army...

   Therefore, Gao Shun can only resist orders, or choose to attack.

  Gao Shun's character made him unable to resist orders.

  He only obeys orders.

  So, after Gao Shun led people to break through the stone wall of Wutu Valley, he found himself surrounded by people.

   Those who came were from Wusun.

   Wusun cavalry.

  Wusun people are also human beings, but Wusun people believe that there are people in the sky and people in the ground.

  The "belt" of the people in the heaven is tied around the neck, the "belt" of the people in the underground is tied around the ankles, and the "belt" of the people in the world is between the two, of course it is tied around the waist. Wusun people worship the sun, moon and stars primitively, so they like to embroider patterns of these three on their bodies. Even the word "Kun" in the title of King Wusun is equivalent to Kaun or kon in Tocharian, meaning the sun.

  During the Western Han Dynasty, the Dahan and the Wusun people had a marriage relationship, the purpose was to contact Wusun to control the Xiongnu, and married Princess Xijun and Princess Jieyou to the King of Wusun successively. Princess Xijun and Wusun Wang Junxumi had a daughter. Princess Jieyou and Wusun Wang Weng Guimi had three sons and two daughters.

However, just as the pro-Han people in the Western Regions were not dominant because of the chaos and uncertainty of the foreign policy of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions, the Wusun people did not maintain their pro-Han status for a long time after the Western Han Dynasty. It began to be influenced by Central Asia, and even more westward West Asian forces.

  Generally speaking, it is like cultural erosion in the game of civilization. If one’s own culture is not strong, without cultural development, other cultures will be forced to reduce their influence, and even lead to confusion in one’s own domestic thinking...

   Now Wusun is in the process of being invaded by West Asian forces. Although Wusun Da Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi have different opinions on this encounter with Che Shi Houguo, they don't have much favor for the big man. Strictly speaking, if there is not much friendship, naturally there will be no good feelings.

  So Wusun still came.

  The sharp whistle from the copper whistle resounded all around.

   Against cavalry, only cavalry.

  Of course there will be heat weapons like machine guns and tanks in later generations, but what about now...

Facing the Wusun cavalry who suddenly appeared from behind, Gao Shun had to turn around to protect his chrysanthemum. These Wusun cavalry intercepted and defeated at the mouth of Wutu Valley, and finally achieved a defeat or kill.

  The Wusun cavalry is divided into three formations, each formation is about a thousand people.

  The spear heads erected on the array are shining in the sun.

  The first few rows of cavalry were all wearing chain mail, but Gao Shun couldn't see clearly whether the ones behind were wearing armor.

  Unlike China, soldiers in the Western Regions and Central Asia prefer chain mail, rather than scale armor or zip armor, which are cheaper and more applicable.

  The cavalry in the front held super long spears, the Wusun cavalry in the second row held shorter but also had about eight feet long spears, and the third row did not have long spears, but held knives. The Wusun cavalry gathered about five steps forward and backward, and the formation was neat.

   Gao Shun's heart sank a little.

   This is the main force of Wusun.

   Not only because of the armor, but also because of the fighting posture these cavalry put on, which is not what ordinary recruited herdsmen cavalry can have, and this means that the battle will be more difficult and troublesome...

   Gao Shun set his sights on the horses of the Wusun people.

   Those war horses are also excellent.

  It is as good as the war horse under my crotch. These horses all felt the atmosphere of the battlefield. Even though the violent horses stood still, they frequently pawed the ground with their front hooves, snorted and shook their heads from side to side.

   Aggressive, brave.

  『General, we are a bit tired now...』 Ma Changsheng said to Gao Shun with the smell of blood all over his body, 『Are you sure to fight back now? 』

  『Our people are tired, they are male. ’ Gao Shun said, ‘Which one would you choose? 』

  『…』 Ma Changsheng sighed. He didn't choose to be smart, because under the current situation, shaking smart would only make him look stupid.

  The cavalry can regain some stamina while riding on horseback, but the horse cannot recover stamina when the horse is running all the time, and once the cavalry is without the cooperation of the horse...

   This is why Gao Shun immediately turned around when he saw the smoke and dust raised by the Wusun cavalry, ready to fight back.

   However, obviously, the Wusun people also felt that Gao Shun and the others were exhausted, so they also had the advantage and could win with one blow.

  The two sides exhibited at the mouth of Wutu valley.

   Neither side was timid.

  Gao Shun left a small force to drive away those Che Shihou people, put pressure on Che Shi Houguo, and then turned around to face the Wusun people during the period when Che Shihouguo hadn't reacted.

   It’s just that because of Taniguchi’s relationship, Gao Shun and others have a relatively small and long queue, while the Wusun people are divided into three parts, half surrounding Taniguchi.

  The tactics of both sides are already clearly visible when they are displayed in the queue.

  Gao Shun glanced at Ma Changsheng, "How is the wound?" 』

   Ma Changsheng chuckled, stretched his arms, and said, "I can't die. 』

   Gao Shun nodded, "First team, you take the lead. Survive, the previous things will be written off. The rest are merits. 』

   Ma Changsheng grinned, "Success. Anyway, after this game, I also want to go back to my hometown...Take meritorious service for some land, plant some crops, build a house, raise some cattle and sheep, and marry a big-ass mother-in-law who is easy to raise...Hahaha...』

  Gao Shun also raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Then you have to remember to cut off a few more heads." 』

"no problem. Ma Changsheng moved his arm again, "I went to the front first... waiting for the general's order. 』

   Gao Shun nodded.

  The Wusun cavalry on the opposite side are also mobilizing. Gao Shun saw some Wusun messengers holding red triangular flags running back and forth in the opposite formation...

  『Ready to attack. After a while, after Gao Shun checked all the arrays again, he said to the guards around him, "Blow the whistle." The former army strikes! 』

  The guard put the whistle in his mouth and blew five short and one long whistles.

  After a short interval, repeat again, three times in a row. The third whistle sounded, and the cavalry in front of the array mobilized their horses in the next three short whistles and began to move forward.

  The Wusun cavalry also started to move.

Ma Changsheng was in the formation, staring at the cavalry of the opponent, and then measured the distance between the two sides. He had to adjust the speed and direction of the cavalry at any time according to the movement, distance, speed, etc. of the cavalry on both sides to ensure that the cavalry on his side was at the highest speed. , and suppress the opponent, so that the opponent has to contact one's own side at a sub-high speed.

Obviously the opponent is also a veteran of the cavalry. General Wusun deliberately shifted the cavalry formation to the side a little, as if to avoid Ma Changsheng's arrow array, but Ma Changsheng knew that if he was deceived by the opponent, he would go astray. Then the opponent will adjust during the final sprint and give him a flank blow. Because of the semi-enclosed three-block array presented by the opponent, the opponent is not worried about the Han cavalry going astray at all...

   Maybe it’s better if the Han cavalry went astray?

   Ma Changsheng glanced back at where Gao Shun was, hesitating a little, but he quickly turned around and shouted in a deep voice, "Send the order, speed up!" full speed! 』

"ah? Now? 』The messenger next to Ma Changsheng was stunned for a moment. The messenger is also a veteran, and he knows that this distance is still a bit far away, and it is not the best distance to increase to full speed.

  『We don’t have that much time...』 Ma Changsheng took a deep breath, and while pulling the cloth strips tied on the back of his hand and the handle of the knife, he shouted, 『If you want to win...you have to take some risks! Accelerate, full speed! 』

  The orderly remained silent for a while, then with his whistle in his mouth, he blew an order to speed up.

  In the back position, Gao Shun, who was slowly moving forward with his horse, frowned when he saw this scene.

   Accelerate at this distance?

  Gao Shun looked at it, then thought for a while in silence, his brows twitched, "Send the order, speed up in the middle and rear." 』

  Gao Shun's front line began to enter the process of high speed to full speed, while the middle line and the back line changed from walking slowly to trotting. At the same time, more than a dozen messengers holding small flags rushed out of the center formation, out of the formation, and to the two sides of the formation, in a free state, not mainly responsible for contact killing. These messengers use long spears with small triangular flags. When they are lifted up, the soldiers in the rear can also see them. They turn their heads from time to time to observe the flag orders issued by Gao Shun in the center and pass them on...

  The whistle sound and the flag signal can also make some fine adjustments when the cavalry is in motion. This is the skill of the front-line cavalry general school, and it is also a project that Bingzhou wolf cavalry and Liangzhou iron cavalry are good at. What he did just now was that Ma Changsheng temporarily adjusted his strategy without discussing it with Gao Shun, and Gao Shun also adjusted his original plan accordingly.

  The increased speed of the Han army means that the Han army will pass through its own half faster and oppress the opponent's formation. The Wusun people obviously planned to face the tactics of attacking the left and right wings head-on, but because of the offset of the front army and the lack of space, the middle array and the right wing that should have been separated will be glued together!

  Wusun's left wing was naturally isolated and exposed!

   This is Ma Changsheng's guidance to Gao Shun!

Boost!

   Kill some of them first!

   What follows is that Ma Changsheng, as a former army, has to bear the double pressure of the Wusun center and the right wing...

  The speed of the horse gradually increased, and the originally chaotic sound of horseshoes gradually merged into a neat roar. The horses that had known each other for many years rumbled across the dry and hard land, stirring up dust all over the sky.

  As expected, when Ma Changsheng's front line started to fight against the Wusun people, the left wing of the Wusun people also completely appeared in front of Gao Shun.

  Wusun's cavalry is more spaced, and the troops are not evenly distributed, but appear to be a horizontal football shape with a slightly thicker middle and thinner sides, and they are heading towards the Gaoshun center.

   Gao Shun yelled: "Turn around! To the right! 』

  The flag is shaking, and the whistle is rushing.

The triangular flag pointed the direction, and the cavalry in the Han army heard the whistle, and at the same time they accelerated their horses. The sound of rumbling horseshoes was like thunder rushing from far to near in the sky. Rows of red tassels on the helmets danced like countless flashing bloom red flame.

   Under the hedging between the two sides, the distance between them is only the last hundred steps...

It's now!

  『Full speed! full speed! charge! 』

   Gao Shun roared against the wind.

  The whistle sounded sharply, caught in the whistling wind.

  The dirt and grass clippings brought up by thousands of horseshoes are flying around.

  The vibrations generated by the Pentium seem to be resonating even in this space.

  In comparison, the array of the Han army is denser.

   And denseness means that there is no way to retreat in a certain sense, and there is no more room to hide. To be against the enemy is also to be against oneself. Killing, or being killed, will happen at the moment when the horse's body staggers. In such a dense space, fancy techniques and feints are basically useless. Only the instinct and skills formed by long-term training The courage to die is the effective guarantee for living.

  The oncoming Wusun cavalry seemed a little flustered. When they faced the dense array of Han cavalry, even the extended lance could not bring them any more sense of security...

  The short distance is fleeting.

"kill! 』

   Gao Shun exhaled loudly, his blood rising.

"kill! 』The cavalry of the Han army also let out a hissing roar at the same time.

  The torrent of flesh and steel collided head-on.

  At this moment, it seems that all auditory functions have failed.

  The broken gun shaft was flying in the air along with the shattered nails.

  Blood is erupting unscrupulously.

  The sparks from the collision of swords, guns and armor seem to want to ignite everything in this world.

  The horses that couldn't dodge in time smashed into each other's bones. Some horses were knocked into the air, and some fell to the ground with the cavalry on their backs, rolling on the ground one after another.

  At the last moment, Gao Shun stared at the Wusun cavalry in front of him, lowered his figure, reduced the frontal area, and staggered past the opponent in the chaos. The saber suppressed the long spear stabbed by the Wusun cavalry, and cut off the Wusun cavalry's arm neatly amidst the sparkle. With a scream, the Wusun cavalryman fell on his back, and then disappeared under the flying horse's hooves in the next breath.

  Gao Shun didn't know when there was an empty seat beside him, and one of the guards was knocked away at an unknown time and place. Before Gao Shun could take another look, several Wusun cavalry rushed in front of him. One of the Wusun cavalry wearing chain mail swung the scimitar in his hand at Gao Shun. After turning his head, he dodged, and the Wusun cavalry did not have a second chance to attack, so the Han cavalry who followed behind shot him in the armpit and fell off the horse.

The dense formation of the cavalry of the Han army made it more lethal to Wusun during the confrontation between the two sides. In a blink of an eye, five or six of the more than 80 Wusun people who fought in the first battle were shot down. Ten, the remaining 20 or 30 people also quickly melted into the follow-up of the Han cavalry.

  Although it is said that the Wusun cavalry used the tactics of long cavalry in West Asia, it is true that every inch is strong, but in the same way, if they cannot stab people directly, then the long cavalry will be a burden instead. Most of the Wusun cavalry with long cavalry spears, even if they successfully hit the Han army cavalry in the first round of impact, their blades were broken because of this, and it was too late to replace their weapons. Retracted, so that there is almost no power to fight back against the Han cavalry, and at the same time, the dense and straight formation of the Han cavalry also leaves them no room to avoid the side...

  The tactics of the cavalry of the Han army are basically very mature.

Under the high-speed galloping, they still maintain their own formation, whizzing forward with sharp sabers in their hands. With the help of the hedge horsepower, they don't need to swing hard, just hold the handle of the saber lightly when they pass by, or It's just pressing the opponent's weapon and cutting it, and it can bring flying limbs and a rain of blood.

   It is not only the Wusun cavalry who were injured.

  The dense array of cavalry also means that as long as the Wusun cavalry directly damages the Han cavalry, the Han cavalry is also difficult to avoid. It can only rely on the armor to resist hard, but because the impact speed of the two sides is very fast, sometimes even if the armor cannot be broken, the impact will cause the horse to fall. Under such galloping war horses on both sides, once they fall off the horse, it is basically tantamount to death.

  But in any case, the battle damage of Wusun's left wing is obviously much greater than that of the Han cavalry.

When faced with a dense array of Han cavalry, even if the Wusun cavalry killed the Han cavalry in the front row, they would almost immediately be attacked by the Han cavalry in the back row, or with the cavalry of the opponent who also had no room to dodge. bumped into each other.

The Wusun cavalry on both sides of the array wanted to help, but found that their own array had been smashed into a mess by the Han cavalry, and the rolling troops on the ground also blocked their support route, so they had to slow down their horses. Played little role in the engagement.

After the impact, the first wave of Wusun cavalry lost more than a hundred men, and the entire unfolded front was immediately shattered, but the attack was not over yet. A whole row of cavalry crossbows!

When the era of hot weapons has not yet come, crossbows are undoubtedly the nightmare of cavalry, so that until the Middle Ages, those Western knights were still deeply distressed by crossbows, saying that crossbows are evil and lowly species, not as good as Imposing swords and shields...

  Although the cavalry crossbow is much lower in power and shooting distance than the infantry crossbow, it is enough for the cavalry between the two armies. Imagine that on the roads of later generations, a lost kite line can cut off the head of a motorcycle rider, not to mention that what Wusun cavalry hit was not a line, but a harder and sharper crossbow bolt.

  The arrows roared out, immediately catching the Wusun cavalry who wanted to take advantage of the encirclement formed by Gao Shun's impact by surprise. The Wusun cavalry originally wanted to envelop Gao Shun and the others, but they didn't expect that by doing so, they would expand the area under attack!

   It was like trying to hug a ferocious hedgehog. Immediately, Wusun's left wing was pierced with blood, howling everywhere, and the people and horses fell, causing countless casualties.

  The Wusun people at the front fell down one after another, while the Wusun people in the back line saw a whole group of people fall down inexplicably because their sight was blocked, which caused the Wusun people in the back line to panic instinctively.

  In a blink of an eye, Wusun's left wing was overwhelmed by the humiliation and its morale collapsed. Maybe it was because they were beaten up, or maybe they lost their commander during the battle, Wusun's left wing quickly collapsed under Gao Shun's repeated blows.

  But before Gao Shun could breathe a sigh of relief, he received a disturbing news.

  Ma Changsheng, died in battle...