Chapter Thirteen First Battle

  If viewed from the sky, you would see that on both sides of the middle line in the vast gourd belly, countless small dots quickly move towards the middle line and stop. And not far in front of the gourd belly, a large number of black dots are rapidly rushing towards a long black line in the gourd belly.

  "General Quarters!"

  "General Quarters!"

  "General Quarters!"

  “……”

  With the flag language at the forefront of the team, a group of orderlies rode horses back and forth on both sides of the chariots and infantry, shouting loudly.

  Immediately, except for leaving a small number of cavalry still at the end of the team to protect the few remaining supplies, hundreds of cavalry rushed forward on horseback to the front of the team. For a time, countless smoke and dust flew up on both sides of the team, chasing after the deafening sound of horseshoes fluttering in the air.

  At the forefront of the troops, nearly two thousand cavalrymen stood still on horseback, gazing intently ahead. Three to five miles away, several hundred Xiongnu elite soldiers clad in white leather armor were charging towards them with a loud whooshing sound.

  "Waaaahhhh~~~~~~"

  Xiongnu cavalrymen, carrying long knives and wearing quivers on their backs, shouted loudly as they galloped, a few hundred men seeming like an army of thousands, the dust swirling rapidly under the horses' hooves.

  "How hateful! How did these Xiongnu people suddenly appear before us without a sound? Were the scouts we sent out earlier all useless? Not a single message was sent back!" A seventeen- or eighteen-year-old youth in the middle of the front row of nearly two thousand Han cavalry exclaimed indignantly.

  "Shut up!" Li Guang's eyes never left the Xiongnu elite troops rushing over from the end of the post road, "Those scouts are probably already dead at the hands of these Xiongnu cavalrymen!"

  "What? How is this possible? Those cavalrymen were all elite..." Li Gan said, his body trembling involuntarily. He had probably never encountered Xiongnu cavalry before and didn't know what they meant.

  Li Guang, however, completely ignored him, his eyes fixed intently on the Xiongnu cavalry surging forward like a tide, already over 100 zhang away. Several hundred Xiongnu horsemen were charging towards them with the force of thunder and lightning, like several hundred fierce tigers descending from the mountains.

  Li Guang drew his long sword, and with a "swish" sound, the sword was out of its scabbard. Nearly two thousand cavalrymen around and behind Li Guang simultaneously drew their bows and nocked their arrows, aiming the iron-tipped arrows at the Xiongnu cavalry in front of them.

  "Drip!"

  Under the scorching sun, the sweat on the faces of the soldiers dripped down from their cheeks and fell onto the horse's back. Nearly two thousand cavalrymen stood still at this moment, their armor and uniforms fluttering in the autumn wind.

  At this moment, Li Guang's eyes only saw the Xiongnu cavalry in front of him, and his ears only heard the "clanging" sound of the Xiongnu cavalry's hooves. Everything else seemed to have disappeared at this moment.

  This is a moment of perfect combination of dynamic and static.

  Suddenly, Li Guang's long knife in his hand thrust forward!

  "Fire!"

  Almost simultaneously, "Dang Dang Dang Dang..." the sound of bows and arrows leaving their strings rang out like rain, as nearly two thousand iron arrows flew towards the Xiongnu cavalry!

  The space between the Han army and the Xiongnu cavalry was suddenly filled with a rain of arrows!

  But in an instant, these arrows disappeared!

  The next moment, they had charged into the Xiongnu cavalry camp!

  At this moment, hundreds of Xiongnu arrows also rushed into the Han army's cavalry formation!

  "Bang, bang, bang, bang......" The sound of arrows piercing through the armor echoed simultaneously in the Han army and cavalry formation, bringing up a burst of blood flowers that bloomed luxuriantly under the scorching sun!

  A shrill cry suddenly rose in the two armies' camps, and the warriors and war horses shot by arrows let out their last cries of life!

  The warriors who were shot off their horses could only wail in agony and no longer fight, but those who were not hit or did not fall off their warhorses had to continue charging forward!

  The Han army cavalry and the Xiongnu cavalry, who had shot their first arrows, swiftly mounted their second arrows on horseback. Amidst the warhorses' frantic galloping, countless pairs of bloodshot eyes shot out the second arrows from their hands!

  "Bang bang bang bang......"

  "Bang bang bang bang……"

  The sound of bows and arrows leaving the string and piercing armor echoed, amidst the chilling screams, another batch of warriors fell off their horses, losing their qualification to charge into the enemy formation with their warhorses.

  Many arrows hit the enemy, but more did not. After two rounds of shooting, the Xiongnu cavalry lost a quarter of its men, while the Han army officers and soldiers, due to their large numbers and dense formation, suffered losses that were not small in number, almost as many as those of the Xiongnu people!

  After shooting the second arrow, both sides had already approached within a few feet of each other, and there was no time to shoot a third arrow. Li Guang, who was charging at the forefront of the Han army, waved his long knife in his hand and shouted loudly: "Put away your bows and draw your swords!"

  Before his voice fell, the Han army soldiers behind him had already put away their bows and arrows, drew out the long knives with cold light from their waists. Each of them, like wolves and tigers, had eyes that were already bloodshot. At this moment, they forgot about hatred, only leaving the power left by hatred! Every one of them was eager to get close to the Xiongnu cavalry in front of them as soon as possible, and then chop down the long knives in their hands at the fastest speed!

  Every Han soldier stared at a Xiongnu cavalryman, the next moment, their knives would slash into each other's chest!

  "Waaaahhhh~~~~"

  "Waaaah~~~~"

  "Waaaahhhh~~~~"

  “……”

  The Xiongnu cavalry howled like wolves and quickly broke into the Han army's formation!

  Golden spear and iron horse collided at this moment!

  "Kill!"

  Li Guang let out a loud shout, the long knife in his hand flashed like lightning and cut off the head of the Xiongnu cavalryman in front of him. His body slightly tilted to avoid the long knife of this Xiongnu cavalryman, and with the galloping of the war horse, he had already approached the next cavalryman!

  Behind him, the Hun cavalryman's neck suddenly spouted a fountain of blood, while his horse continued to gallop forward, as if unaware that its master had fallen. When the corpse's blood splattered onto Li Guang's back and onto Li Dang's body, the headless corpse finally fell to the ground along with the blood!

  "Plop!"

  Li Guang's long knife never stopped for a moment, and every time he slashed down, it would inevitably bring up a crimson blood flower. Even when he was withdrawing his momentum, he could still cut off the enemy's legs or chop off a piece of flesh from a Xiongnu warhorse! Meanwhile, his body moved agilely on horseback, dodging one deadly attack after another!

  Li Gan, who was following behind Li Guang, had stopped trembling and his body was no longer shaking. He closely followed Li Guang, his long knife continuously slashing down and retracting, and in a short time, he also harvested many lives!

  If it weren't for the circumstances not allowing it, Li Gan, who was already burning with fervor, really wanted to let out a loud shout: "Kill!"

  Li Gan's situation was also that of countless Han military cavalrymen, especially new recruits like him who were experiencing their first battlefield.

  When the long knife in one's hand is fiercely slashed onto the enemy, reaping his life, the new recruits who killed for the first time were all excited and inexplicable, and many people even appeared to be stunned for a moment.

  However, these new recruits who were momentarily stunned, in the next instant were approached by the Huns cavalry at high speed, and with their long knives, they brought up a splash of blood flowers on their chests or necks, and their lives also fell at this moment!

  Even just for a moment of daze, it's not allowed on this battlefield!

  In this first round of the cavalry charge, apart from Li Guang, there was another extremely fierce figure in the Han army's cavalry, wielding a long knife and driving his warhorse through the Xiongnu cavalry camp as if entering an uninhabited land. This red-eyed cavalryman would mutter a word every time he swung his knife, as if pouring out something. And as his warhorse galloped past countless Xiongnu cavalrymen, one after another, they refused to fall down.

  His expression was icy to the extreme, he was one of the few cavalrymen among the new recruits who had a steady hand and accurate knife, and he was also the second most enemy-killing existence in this battle, next only to Li Guang.

  He is Yue Yi!

  The two armies clashed, and in the blink of an eye they were mixed together. Countless blood flowers burst in mid-air, countless heads and limbs flew through the air, and countless soldiers fell from their horses. In the rolling smoke and dust, the two armies brushed past each other. When the last cavalryman turned to flee, the place where they had just clashed was left with nothing but a sea of smoke, countless bloodstains, corpses, and several places where the cries of the wounded were heart-wrenching, as well as several war horses that had lost their masters, wandering aimlessly with their heads hung low.

  A single charge, just over ten breaths of time.

  The Xiongnu cavalry, who had broken through the Han army's cavalry formation, saw the Han infantry in front of them. These fragile creatures were no match for them. However, when their line of sight reached the war chariots and supply carts lined up in front of the Han infantry, they did not choose to attack.

  Such a defensive formation of thousands of people waiting in array cannot be broken through by the few hundred cavalry they have now.

  Like the Han cavalry, the Xiongnu cavalry turned their horses around in the shortest time and faced the enemy they had just faced again.

  There was such a brief moment of distant longing.

  The red war cloak was torn, the war armor was broken, the mighty war spirit stirred up the warriors, and the four hooves galloped to exhaustion.

  When everyone turned their horses around, without even wiping the blood off their faces, the generals of both armies once again gave the order to charge.

  War horse, smoke and dust, angry roar, waving long knife, rise again in anger!

  Qin Cheng stood among the three thousand chariots and infantry, unable to see several hundred feet ahead of the battlefield. Even though he had experienced street fighting before, Qin Cheng was deeply shocked at this moment!

  Just by the sound, Qin City knew that the two armies were fighting, and it was a completely different scene from the gang fight. There is a world of difference between these two, and they cannot be mentioned on the same day.

  Looking at the infantry beside him, Qin Cheng could sense their eagerness and anticipation as they awaited the military horn that signaled the start of battle. However, today's battle was destined to render these infantrymen useless.

  This is a battle of cavalry against cavalry, only cavalry can rely on its own strength to wash away hatred, insult and gain glory in this battle.

  Qin Cheng felt a sense of loss.