met free Chapter 188: Lu Yihou rises
Chapter 188: Lu Yihou rises
The 50,000 Hun soldiers did not feel cold at all in this climate common in the Mobei grasslands.
But a slight chill blew into his collar, and Lu Yihou still felt shivering.
He did not look at the enemy charging towards him, but only felt the ground shaking and his crotch felt a little cold.
In the sandy area of Wugou Mine, sounds of fighting and shouting came from three directions.
"Charge, hold on..."
The spearmen around him shouted, and the people under the shields held up the shields with all their strength.
The warhorse felt pain and hit the wooden shield, and the whole person and the shield slid back a few steps. Lu Yihou felt something pressing on his back. He looked sideways and saw a Hun man raising a knife and slashing at a spearman.
The man carrying the shield below seemed to have his spine broken. He knelt on the ground with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.
"Fuck!" Lu Yihou knew that the person he was stepping on was probably a human, and a Hun.
The spearman in front of him had died in battle, the spear in his hand piercing the neck of the warhorse, leaving only half a wooden stick for Lu Yihou.
After knocking over the soldier who was stepping on his back, Lu Yihou turned around. His horse opened its eyes wide and saw a man stabbing down with a half-broken wooden stick.
The Hun soldiers never expected that their necks would be pierced by wooden sticks and blood bubbles would pop out of their throats.
The people around were still fighting each other in a stalemate, and their morale was soaring. In the dawn, they brandished swords and held shields, rushing towards their surrounded comrades, roaring and killing them.
He picked up the saber on the ground, looked at the Huns who had lost their horses, and continued to chop at the injured.
Although Lu Yihou was a bandit in Xiaolong Mountain and did many bad things, when he saw the scene in front of him, an unknown flame burned in his heart.
"I'll kill you!"
Most of the people on the ground were carrying shields, and among them were his former brothers.
They were just carrying shields and were hit by war horses, falling to the ground injured. The pain made them instinctively want to get up, but they were still attacked by the barbarians.
Lu Yihou was really angry!
I have never been a good person. I used to be a bandit. Even when I was sent to reform school, I still bullied others. It can be seen that they cannot bear to see their brothers being bullied. They are just trying to survive.
A Xiongnu warhorse came over, and Lu Yihou chopped off the horse's hoof with his sword.
The warhorse neighed and fell over, and the Hun soldier immediately fell down, got up and rushed towards Lu Yihou.
"You're asking for death." Lu Yihou suddenly burst out with such a strong murderous intent, and stabbed him with a knife.
The scimitar pierced into the enemy's body, and when it was pulled out, it brought out a trace of blood.
Arrows flew overhead, the whistling sound mixed with wailing, and figures moved about, making it impossible to tell friend from foe.
The miners wore coarse cloth miner's clothes and no armor. The armor of the Dingzhou army was mostly cloth armor, while the Xiongnu people mostly wore leather armor.
It's cold and I'm wearing a fur hat wrapped around my face. If I'm not careful, it's really hard to tell friend from foe.
Right now, after the battle between Dingzhou County and the people at the iron mine, most of them were killed or injured on both sides, and the remaining people are just barely surviving.
"Well done, we held off 30,000 Hun soldiers."
The commander-in-chief of the army was covered in blood as he encouraged his soldiers.
"Sir, you're telling me, knowing that there are 30,000 enemies, you're still dragging us all into battle formation. Don't you know the Xiongnu cavalry will charge?"
Although Lu Yihou was a bandit, he also knew how to fight.
"Who are you?" The commander-in-chief looked displeased. Offending him in front of the battle was a big taboo in the army.
He originally intended to punish the person who was speaking, but seeing that he was wearing coarse linen clothes, he must be a laborer in the mine.
"Are you a military man?"
The governor spoke in a bad tone, clearly showing contempt.
"How about serving? My brother is the Minister of War, and I led troops to fight in the wars back then."
The Minister of War! The first person that the commander of the Dingzhou Army thought of was Lu Junyi.
"Are you from the Lu family?" asked the governor.
"So what?" Lu Yihou dusted off the dust on his body and answered with his face up to the sky.
"The Lu family! Very good, huh! ..."
The governor saw blood on the person who was talking to him, and thought that there must have been a fight just now. Just because he was a member of the Lu family, he did not look happy.
Lu Yihou was just wondering why the governor had such an attitude when he saw a miner with loose hair running towards him and shouting:
"Here they come, here they come, the damn Huns are coming again."
Just as the 30,000 remnants retreated, another large group of people came. It's just a mine, why are they fighting to the death?
"Arrange yourself in formation to defend against the enemy!"
The governor stood up and ran to the front of the formation, shouting loudly.
When all the people stood up, there were only about 3,000 people left.
"Retreat to the mining area. It's not suitable for cavalry. Besides, there's cover on the high ground. We don't need shield soldiers or formations."
Lu Yihou ran straight to the governor and shouted loudly.
There were less than a thousand miners left after the previous battle, and only two thousand of the five thousand Dingzhou troops.
It really can't withstand the impact of tens of thousands of people at once.
"Commander-in-Chief, if we retreat to the mining area, we might actually be able to fight."
Other officers of the Dingzhou Army advised against it after hearing this.
The Hun soldiers were getting closer and closer. If they didn't retreat, they would die, and they couldn't form a battle formation anymore.
"Pick up your weapons. We're retreating to the mining area. Shields are no longer needed. Pick up all your weapons!"
The governor finally gave the order that if they retreated, they might not survive, but they would not suffer such a devastating defeat.
Everyone retreated to the mining area with their weapons. There were still a thousand miners here, plus the security guards, the total number was about two thousand.
"Quick, cooperate with the Dingzhou army and prepare to intercept and kill the Xiongnu soldiers in the mining area."
The governor returned to the mining area and shouted to the crowd still gathered in the shanty town.
The iron mine security captain rolled his eyes at the governor, then turned to look at the crowd below and said, "Those willing to fight, come out. Those not willing, go to your cells and sit down."
The remaining people were basically diehards. After looking at each other, no one was willing to help them fight. After all, most of the remaining people were Huns.
The houses in the prison area are circular, with eight people living in each house. There is a passage behind the house to facilitate the movement of people inside in special circumstances.
The doors of the prison area are all uniform thick wooden doors with a small window facing outside.
Now the number of people has been reduced by two-thirds, so only two to three people have entered each room.
The Xiongnu soldiers who arrived were Tuoba Jing's men. After surrounding the mining area, they did not dare to go in rashly.
"Captain Tuoba, this mining area isn't very big, and you've brought quite a few people with you. Are you scared by a mere 3,000 people? Back then, when I was outnumbered 30,000 to 10,000, the casualties were only a one-to-one ratio."
Yelu Kang, who was following behind, saw the garrison and teased Tuoba Jing.
There is a circular building on the hillside with four gates, covering an area of more than ten acres. Ten thousand people can enter at once without feeling crowded.
A big Xiongnu man, wearing a leather hat and leather armor, holding an extended straight knife in his hand, moved extremely quickly. Relying on the mobility of his warhorse, he took the lead and rushed into the mining area.
A large group followed behind, circling the mining area and shouting for a duel with the people inside.
At the observation port of the room, a longbowman drew his bow and arrow and shot randomly into the yard.
Although there were not many casualties, the rest of the people took advantage of the power of the first wave of arrows to throw in rolling stones, logs, javelins and flying spears, all of which attacked the Xiongnu soldiers, killing the enemy and forcing them to fall off their horses and flee.