My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?

at the same time.

The top of Xiaojian Mountain.

Ying Chengjiao looked at the movement of the Xiongnu troops and said in a deep voice, "Send a message to the Acting Commander Hulun and Commander Zhang Xiao."

"The main force of the Xiongnu may move towards the Zadun River or Yinling River next!"

"I know that Hulun and Zhang Xiao's troops are outnumbered compared to the main Xiongnu forces, but by the time the Xiongnu main forces reach the Zadun River or the Yinling River, they will no longer be able to fight, and their morale will be shaken by the successive ambushes we have encountered."

"Order the acting commander Hulun and commander Zhang Xiao not to make any attempts. They must attack the enemy with all their might when they first meet, and then pursue them relentlessly. They must also report the enemy's strengths and weaknesses to me immediately!"

"With just one round of fierce attack, we will surely break the enemy's courage and scare them away. I will fulfill my orders and be rewarded for my merit."

"But if you hesitate and fear the enemy because of their large force, both your divisions will be destroyed!"

Family members know their own business. How can there be a war between the gods of the north and south? How can there be a story that Changshengtian can no longer hold on?

Ying Chengjiao is not a god at all!

The reason why Ying Chengjiao was able to repeatedly set up ambushes in front of Touman Chanyu was not because Ying Chengjiao was good at calculating, but because of science!

In Ying Chengjiao's opinion, the combat thinking of a small group of Hu cavalry is completely different from that of a large group of Hu cavalry. The issues that a large group of Hu cavalry needs to consider when fighting are far more than those of a small group of Hu cavalry.

For example, the simplest thing is drinking water. An adult male drinks between 1.5-2 liters of water a day when not exercising, and between 2.5-3 liters a day during high-intensity activities. The daily drinking water demand of the Touman soldiers is around 200,000 liters, which is not much and can be transported by horses.

However, young adult horses like the Hun warhorse drink 15-30 liters of water a day when not exercising, and during high-intensity activities, the daily water intake soars to 45-57 liters!

The Touman tribe has more than 70,000 soldiers. Most of them can still maintain three horses per person, and a few soldiers can only ride two horses. A rough calculation shows that the daily water consumption of the Touman tribe is more than 10 million liters, or more than 10,000 cubic meters!

What does 10,000 cubic meters mean? The minimum storage capacity of a small (II) type reservoir in the later generations is only 100,000 cubic meters. The Touman tribe, including people and horses, can drink it all up in a few days!

How to carry such a huge demand for drinking water?

There is no way to bring it!

Touman Chanyu could only lead his entire army to search for water and drink it as soon as they found it.

Moreover, war horses are more intolerant to dehydration than humans. Once they are dehydrated by more than 15%, they will die in minutes!

If Touman Chanyu didn't want his war horses to die of thirst, all the knights would turn into infantry on the spot and have to find rivers and lakes to water the horses. The river should not be farther away from the location of Touman Chanyu's troops than the maximum distance that light horses could reach before dying of thirst or exhaustion.

After all, Jin Alin is not in the southern water town. Although there are rivers and lakes in the mountains, they are not abundant. If the range is narrowed to within 300 miles, the target will be even scarcer.

This is just one constraint on large cavalry troops during marches and battles. There are many similar constraints, and they are all objective laws that cannot be resisted or violated.

Use small groups of Qin troops and Qin scouts to force and guide Touman Chanyu's direction of movement to further reduce the area that needs to be defended, combine objective conditions to infer the enemy's goals, and take advantage of the Qin army's large numbers to deploy defenses at multiple points. Even if Jin A Lin is vast and boundless, it is still just a big jar in Ying Chengjiao's eyes.

Therefore, all the arrangements and detours made by Touman Chanyu during the journey were meaningless, because Ying Chengjiao had already captured Touman Chanyu's final destination.

No matter how hard Touman Chanyu struggled, he was just a turtle in a jar!

But just as Ying Chengjiao was about to arrange the next encirclement based on the direction of the river near the Zadun River, Zhang Liang suddenly pointed at the Xiongnu army and said solemnly: "Commander-in-chief!"

"The Huns are moving differently!"

Ying Chengjiao immediately looked towards the Touman tribe, and saw a lone knight breaking away from the main force of the Touman tribe and running westward. Then, more and more Hu cavalry caught up with the knight and gradually surrounded him, charging westward together!

To the west of the Touman tribe was the location of the Qin army’s central army stationed at Xiaojian Mountain!

Ying Chengjiao's eyes narrowed: "Hun, are you charging at me?!"

How long has it been? How long has it been since the enemy dared to take the initiative to charge at Ying Chengjiao?

Did Chanyu Touman lose his mind to dare to charge at the Qin army with his exhausted troops?!

Xiao He thought for a moment and said, "Commander-in-chief, could it be that the Xiongnu Chanyu has realized that he is unable to shake off our army, let alone tire our army? If he continues to delay, the Xiongnu will gradually die."

"So you don't want to turn around, but want to attack our center first, and fight like a trapped beast?"

After Ying Chengjiao pondered for a moment, he gradually frowned: "This shouldn't be the case!"

"Touman Chanyu is the overlord of the unified grassland after all. Although I hate him, I still respect him as a hero."

"My three ambushes will certainly severely damage the morale of the Xiongnu soldiers, but a person like Touman Chanyu is extremely confident in his tactics and will not change his strategy even if he is in a desperate situation."

"There may be changes among the enemy forces!"

Having said that, Ying Chengjiao did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

Who knows if Touman Chanyu suddenly had a seizure?

Ying Chengjiao immediately ordered: "Send a message to the commander Su Jiao to turn to the southwest of the battlefield. If the enemy army crosses the border, attack them from the side!"

"Captain Feng Wuze, you lead the front of the central army to intercept the enemy!"

"Lieutenant Bell, you lead your troops to retreat and scatter, and spread out your defenses!"

Bell and Feng Wuze immediately bowed excitedly: "Yes!"

Thousands of Bell knights led their troops to retreat, while 30,000 Qin infantrymen, led by Feng Wuzhe, formed a formation and marched forward towards the path of the Touman tribe!

Seeing the Qin army's movement from afar, Maodun felt a little depressed.

Maodun originally wanted to use the speed of his horses to feint an attack on the center of the Qin army in order to intimidate the various Qin troops and force them to move to reveal their weaknesses, thereby creating room for Maodun's troops to turn around.

After all, whether you run or not, being surrounded is still being surrounded, and any person with a brain would not like to be attacked from all sides!

However, the troops of Li Bo, Dong Yi and Xifeng seemed not to be threatened by Maodun at all, and continued their tactical advance as steady as a rock. The only troop of Su Jiao that was mobilized did not go to meet Maodun as Maodun expected, but instead moved to the southwest, further blocking Maodun's route to break out of the encirclement.

Although Ying Chengjiao seemed to have made only minor adjustments to the 15,000 soldiers and horses, he put Maodun in a dilemma and made him truly feel the pressure that Touman felt!

Maodun put the straight knife stained with his head and blood back into the scabbard, tightly grasped the copper beak, and shouted loudly: "All troops, listen to my order!"

"Don't be stingy with your horsepower, use me as a guide, and move forward at full speed!"

Maodun pushed his horse forward again and came to the front of the army, riding side by side with Lakshen. He ordered in a deep voice, "Go south-west, follow Gu Chong!"

"Kill the Qin army on the opposite side and break out of the encirclement!"

The infantry of Feng Wuzhe's army was not a concern. Although the chariots of Xifeng's army were fast, they were not good at fighting in the mountains. The armies of Dong Yi and Li Bo were far apart. As long as they could kill the Qin army in front, Maodun still had hope of realizing his strategic plan.

Although Maodun's troops are relatively tired, with 70,000 against 15,000, the advantage is on my side!

Seeing that the Maodun tribe turned on the spot and galloped towards the southwest, Su Jiao was unable to react for a moment.

Are you saying that you ignored generals like Dong Yi, Xi Feng, Li Bo, Feng Wuzhe and chose to attack me?

I really want to thank you...

Holding two long spears, Su Jiao shouted excitedly: "Soldiers, military merit will come naturally!"

“Kill!”

With a kick of his heel against the horse's belly, Su Jiao took the lead and rushed towards the oncoming Maodun tribe!

Looking at the young general who was about the same age as himself but wearing heavy armor, Maodun temporarily loosened his left hand that was holding the reins, and also held the copper beak with both hands, estimated the distance between the two sides, and then shouted angrily: "Break the formation!!!"

Maodun has already demonstrated his bravery in front of his fellow soldiers. Now he is going to use the blood of the general in front of him to show his ferocity to his fellow soldiers!

As long as he can make his fellow tribesmen recognize his bravery, he will be able to keep these more than 70,000 tribesmen firmly in his hands.

“Ding~~~”

The sound of metal clashing rang out, the bronze beak tilted to the side, and the halberd tilted!

Su Jiao looked admiringly: Judging from the headdress of this man, he is just a captain of a thousand men, but he was able to block my stabbing blow. The Xiongnu Khan has no ability to judge people!

Maodun was filled with shock: despite my bravery, not only did I fail to kill the enemy with one blow, but I ended up being at a disadvantage!

Maodun wanted to turn around and fight again, but Su Jiao just glanced at Maodun and turned his attention to Lakshen wearing the headdress of a ten thousand men, roaring loudly: "I am Su Jiao of the Great Qin, and the enemy will die!"

Su Jiao exerted force with both arms, and the tip of the halberd bypassed the copper beak like a snake spitting out its tongue, and hit Lak's neck steadily and accurately!

He continued to charge forward at the speed of his horse, and the blade of his halberd cut off Lakshen's head. When the two horses crossed, Su Jiao grabbed Lakshen's head with one hand and threw it to his comrades behind him, shouting in Xiongnu language: "The enemy general is dead! The rest of you, surrender quickly!"

In a flash, Lakshen's headless body turned into a fountain of blood.

But Maodun had no intention of feeling sad for Lak Shen at all, instead his whole body was torn apart!

Are you Su Jiao, the most powerful general of Qin State?

You should have said it earlier!

If you had told me earlier, how could I have rushed to the front!

But the Qin army would not give Maodun a chance to regret and retreat. Before the subsequent Hu cavalry caught up, four long spears had already stabbed at Maodun's head from all directions!

“Ding~dingding~ding~ding~”

Before charging into Su Jiao's tribe, Maodun thought that he could kill people in all directions, not only to carve out a bloody path for the following troops, but also to establish his position in the hearts of his tribesmen in one fell swoop, and completely make up for the shortcomings of his illegitimate and hasty rise to the position.

After rushing into Su Jiao's tribe, Maodun transformed himself into a musician on the spot. The bronze beak in his hand never drank a drop of blood, but played a hurried and tragic music together with the constantly attacking spears and halberds!

Seeing that the blood scab on his left arm that had just solidified began to bleed again, Maodun had no choice but to shout loudly: "Erisong! Wulihan!"

"Come quickly!"