Chapter 1108: Attack Halfway Across the River

After the coalition waited for three days on both sides of the stream, the news of the scouts finally came from the northwest of Yizi Mountain. The Wuhuan army appeared in the west, with about 30,000 people. However, because of the mad rush, it has been dragged into a team several miles long. The Wuhuan people are the powerful Wuhuan Iron Cavalry. They are all wearing leather armor, with curved swords on their waists, long bows on their backs, and riding the strongest war horses. They are the most elite cavalry like the palace cavalry of the Xianbei people. When the Wuhuan was the most powerful, there were 200,000 of the most elite Wuhuan Iron Cavalry, which was stronger than the Xianbei and the Xiongnu people. But now there are only 5,000 cavalry left, and the rest are ordinary Wuhuan cavalry and infantry.

By noon, the Wuhuan vanguard cavalry finally arrived at the stream, but they did not cross the river immediately, but stopped by the river to rest, and also let the horses rest, because after crossing the river, it was a difficult valley. They still needed to cross the valley for dozens of miles before they could reach the west of Liucheng, so this was the most suitable place for them to rest.

An hour later, all the Wuhuan soldiers had arrived at the river. Tadun ordered them to rest for half an hour before setting off again. This news made all the Wuhuan soldiers very happy.

When the time came, the horn of the central army sounded, and teams of Wuhuan soldiers began to prepare to cross the river. Although the army was very tired, now that the royal city was attacked, everyone was forcing themselves to move forward and return to rescue the royal city.

Soon, the 5,000 ordinary cavalrymen in the lead began to lead horses across the river. The reason why the Wuhuan Iron Cavalry was not used to cross the river first was that Tadun wanted the Wuhuan Iron Cavalry to rest well. In the next battle, the Wuhuan Iron Cavalry might become a team against the elite of the Han army, so he had to send ordinary cavalry to cross the river to test. Although in Tadun's mind, the Han army should still be attacking the city under Liucheng, but out of the caution of the generals, he decided to send 5,000 ordinary cavalry as the vanguard to cross the river for the army to explore the enemy situation.

As the first batch of soldiers began to cross the river, people and horses began to neigh on the bank of the stream. In fact, there was a wooden bridge at this location, but it was destroyed by Yu Fan's order. Not only this wooden bridge, but also several wooden bridges within 20 miles upstream and downstream were destroyed by him. This gave Tadun a feeling that the Han army was trying its best to stop him from rescuing Liucheng. Since the Han army made such a move, it proved that the Han army was still attacking Liucheng with all its strength and now had no energy to ambush him.

Soon, the first batch of 1,000 cavalrymen successfully waded across the river, and then they began to gather on the other side of the river, and then divided into two teams, respectively, to explore the enemy situation upstream and downstream, while the second batch of cavalrymen continued to cross the river. This time they had 2,000 cavalrymen. After crossing the river, they gathered and moved towards the valley in the east.

When the second batch of cavalrymen also began to gather on the other side of the river, Tadun and other generals breathed a sigh of relief. With 3,000 cavalrymen on the other side, they believed that there would be no problem. This time, Tadun prepared to cross the river in a large group of troops, and no longer waded across in batches.

Just when the third batch of cavalry waded to the middle of the river, shouts of killing suddenly sounded from the mountains on the east bank of the river. Then, at least three or four thousand cavalry rushed out from the forest on the opposite bank. Seeing this, the Wuhuan cavalry that had crossed the river quickly assembled and rushed towards the Han cavalry. In their opinion, they could easily win with only three thousand cavalry against four thousand Han cavalry.

But the next result surprised Tadun and others on the west bank of the river. Their three thousand cavalry were defeated by the attack of more than three thousand Han cavalry and were driven towards the river by the Han cavalry. They had calculated everything, but they had missed that their cavalry had been running wildly for nearly ten days, while the Han cavalry had been recuperating here for two or three days. Moreover, these cavalry were the elite of the Leting Army and the Yanbei Army. In fact, in terms of strength alone, they were not ordinary Wuhuan cavalry at all.

Seeing this, Tadun ordered the army to cross the river quickly, and at the same time ordered the Wuhuan cavalry to start crossing the river. Everyone believed that as long as the Wuhuan cavalry crossed the stream, the Han cavalry on the opposite side would be defeated. At this time, Tadun still believed that the Han army only sent these thousands of cavalry to harass his army in order to buy more time for the Han army attacking Liucheng.

Soon, the third wave of cavalry crossing the river had already reached the river with four or five thousand cavalry, and the Wuhuan cavalry had also begun to dismount and cross the river. Then, at this time, three wolf smokes suddenly rose from the mountains and forests on the other side of the river. Just when the Wuhuan soldiers were all in doubt, a deafening shout of killing suddenly came from the mountains and forests behind them. Then, the Wuhuan people saw that the Han army, numbering as many as 10,000, rushed out of the mountains and forests, rushed to their backs a hundred steps away, and quickly approached them.

And behind these Han troops, there was still a large amount of smoke and dust rising, and it was unknown how many Han troops were pouring out of the mountains and forests.

At this time, the sound of trumpets rang out from the east bank of the river. Then, the Wuhuan people saw thousands of Han soldiers pouring out of the mountains and forests opposite, following the cavalry and rushing to the river. Behind them, there was also a huge cloud of dust rising, and a steady stream of soldiers and horses poured out of the mountains and forests.

Seeing this, the Wuhuan people knew that they had been ambushed by the Han army. Now nearly half of their soldiers and horses were in the river. Although the river was not deep, it was more than a foot deep in mud. No one, whether a soldier or a war horse, could walk fast in the river.

If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to subdue these Wuhuan cavalrymen, and the fact that the water in this small river was not deep and the current was too small to build a dam upstream to flood the Wuhuan people, Yu Fan might have come up with a plan to flood the three armies.

On the west bank of the river, more than 10,000 cavalrymen were dismounting to cross the river. The sudden appearance of more than 10,000 Han troops frightened the cavalrymen, but some generals reacted quickly and organized more than 1,000 cavalrymen to mount their horses and kill the Han army approaching their army.

Unfortunately, most of the Wuhuan cavalrymen had stopped by the river. The land by the river was soft, which was a nightmare for the cavalrymen. Secondly, the distance between the two armies was less than 200 steps. This distance might be an ideal distance for infantrymen, but it was not enough for cavalrymen. In the end, the 1,000 cavalrymen were killed by the Han infantrymen like cutting melons and vegetables. Only less than 200 people escaped, and the rest were all killed in front of the Han army. First release

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