The soldiers in Gao Shun's array shot a short crossbow almost at the same time, and several people suddenly burst into blood on their legs in the opposite line. Many of them were shot directly and fell to the ground. However, the shooting of Gao Shun and others also made the opponents rush up subconsciously and frantically and directly enter the melee and fight.
Because as long as you have some experience on the battlefield, you know that when facing soldiers with long-range shooting ability, keeping a distance is seeking death.
『Pull it up!』
Gao Shun dropped the whistle, let it sway in front of his chest, hang the short crossbow back to his back, then put on the sword behind the shield, and shouted loudly.
The other soldiers under Gao Shun also made the same moves, skillfully and smoothly.
The shields of both sides collided together, and the sound of banging continued.
The pointed helmet and the dome cloak intersect each other. Both sides were looking for each other's flaws, knocking on each other's shields, attacking each other's loopholes. For a moment, the collision between metal and metal, the friction between flesh and body, the flow of sweat and blood, and the sound of random and meaningless howlings.
Gao Shun skillfully made a move to relieve force with a very small amplitude during the first round of shield collision. Although the opponent pushed back half a step by the other party through the advantage of the geography, his feet were not scattered and the shield position was maintained very well. Instead, through such a small step, the distance between the opposite shield and his body was expanded, exposing the side torso that should have been safe.
Before the other party could react, Gao Shun pressed the other party's shield with a shield, making the other party unable to protect half of its exposed torso. Then the sword in his other hand directly slashed across the inside of the other party's calf...
Inexperienced soldiers may want to kill each other with one shot, or kill each other with one shot, but in most actual battles, unless there are no armor or inexperienced recruits on the other side, the protection of key areas is quite in place and no more fatal mistakes will be exposed. Therefore, if you blindly pursue a fatal sword or a shot, you will often hit the opponent's protection and miss the opportunity to attack.
This is Gao Shun's attack method.
Gao Shun is not like Lu Bu, nor is she like Zhang Liao. Gao Shun has almost no fixed weapons, and he can use any weapon. He uses a spear to get on the horse, or uses a battle knife when he dismounts, or even picks up an axe to chop wood, a fork or something, and can also use it casually. It seems that no weapon can stump him, and nothing can be regarded as his weapon.
Just like now, Gao Shun uses swords and shields, which seems to be more proficient and skillful than ordinary swords and shield hands.
Gao Shun was light and seemed to consciously lure his opponent and expose his flaws, but his opponent was also a veteran. Even though the shield in his hand was suppressed by Gao Shun's skills, the other party still protected his vital throat.
At the same time, the other party also has armor, torso armor, and skirt armor, and at least it is at a medium-sized armor level. In this case, directly slashing the opponent's torso with one knife is likely to cause the blade to pass or collapse due to the angle.
Gao Shun's terrain is slightly lower, while Sogdians are taller and taller. Therefore, instead of attacking the opponent's throat that most of them cannot hit, it is better to directly attack the opponent's weak calf position that can definitely obtain the results of the battle.
Gao Shun's choice is undoubtedly correct.
The Sogdian on the opposite side screamed, and angrily swung his knife angrily, trying to slash Gao Shun's head, but Gao Shun shrank a little, and the other party's sword could only bounce high on the upper edge of Gao Shun's shield, splashing a few sparks. After the Sogdian himself was bounced away, he was stabbed by Gao Shun in his armpit. He couldn't even hold the sword, and he was crooked, his calf injured and unstable, and he lost all his posture. He was stabbed by Gao Shun in his throat and fell to the sky.
Three swords, Gao Shun was lightly raising weights, as if he was slight, as if he knew all the actions of the other party and responded freely. Even the sword was just stained with some blood at the tip of the knife. The blade was still sharp, and it did not consume more physical strength, and the breath was still stable.
This is Gao Shun's method of trapping the formation after improvement, and it belongs to Gao Shun's current "secret".
This "secret" is almost public...
But it's difficult to do it.
Not only does it have higher requirements for soldiers, but also for generals. The requirements for generals do not mean that the generals are strong in their military power, but that they must have patience and skills in training. The soldiers do not understand and do not understand how to teach them. Beating, scolding, scolding, and scolding is one way, but not the whole method. After all, Gao Shun does not require simple knowledge, but to be proficient in being almost instinctive, which makes it impossible to simply beat and scold.
The training degree of a large number of soldiers beyond ordinary soldiers makes the soldiers under Gao Shun have higher combat skills and can almost instinctively adopt various techniques to minimize physical energy consumption. Instead of pursuing one-hit kill, they consume their opponents in constant battles, luring their opponents into flaws, and then after superimposed attacks, they finally kill the opponents. At the same time, they do not need to deliberately restore their breath and adjust their breathing to facilitate continuous and uninterrupted combat.
At this point, maybe Gao Shun and Leo have a common language.
At first, Gao Shun also most sought a high-explosion attack method like Lu Bu or Zhang Liao. However, it was discovered that this method had very high requirements for soldiers on the one hand, and on the other hand, it consumed a lot. After all, soldiers could not have sufficient carbohydrates, fat, protein, etc. like generals, so it was almost impossible to make soldiers have a high-explosion physique under limited conditions.
At the same time, the soldiers fight against each other. High explosion means short endurance. The soldiers are also unlikely to have guards like generals. They can retreat to the guard circle after the explosion and recover. The soldiers must always be on the front line until the next group of soldiers take over them. However, it is very likely that when the next wave of soldiers is over, it is too late, and the consumption on the battlefield will naturally be large.
After obtaining the cavalry standard equipment, Gao Shun changed his original method based on the strong guardianship of the soldiers, from pursuing high explosions to emphasizing high skills and high endurance, making Gao Shun's current soldiers appear tougher and more endurance.
It is better to be shorter or longer. It seems that all men know how to choose.
When Gao Shun was about to continue leading the soldiers forward, he heard someone shouting something among the Seminar people, and then the other side slowly retreated and left the contact.
Instead of chasing him, Gao Shun ordered the soldiers to scatter.
If you chase it out by yourself, the formation will be scattered, and the opponent will have a row of cavalry to support the formation, which may not be able to get much advantage.
On the other hand, if the opponent wants to use cavalry to attack his own array, the straggler line is not too afraid of the opponent's small number of cavalry, and he will definitely be unable to control himself and rush into the river.
At the same time, the people upstream and downstream of their own are about to bypass. As long as they delay for a while, the other party will inevitably be unable to escape the siege.
However, Taxa, opposite Gao Shun, did not intend to fight Gao Shun to death. He just came to weigh the weight of the Han army. Seeing that he could not continue to eat smoothly, it was natural that it would not be possible to fight with Gao Shun to the end.
Seeing that Gao Shun was not trapped, and his side would soon be surrounded by the other party, Taxas stuttered. On the one hand, he had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Han army. On the other hand, he was a little angry that Ma Xiu did not come to support him. He completely forgot that he had said that the Han army was nothing before. Seeing that Gao Shun and others were ready for battle, they were not at all confused, so they gritted their teeth, shouted, leaving seven or eight corpses, and retreated with the queue.
Gao Shun's eyes were also a little solemn.
On the battlefield, everyone likes that their opponents are more impulsive, and they can jump into the pit by themselves after a little teasing.
Gao Shun was originally the main infantry, but later he followed Lu Bu to Fei Qian and had sufficient war horses. Therefore, his soldiers not only had to face infantry battles, but also had to deal with cavalry attacks. Therefore, Gao Shun actually hoped that the other party was a rookie or a general who was easy to get ahead. He felt that the cavalry would have an advantage against infantry, and then launched a charge regardless of the situation...
"Come on, collect the queue." Gao Shun issued an order, but did not chase the other party.
Gao Shun walked forward a few steps, walked to the corpses, then looked at the Central Asian people who were distinctly different from the Han people, then picked up a sharp-horned helmet and weighed it in his hand.
Not light weight.
The lining is linen, the outside is cowhide, and there is a circle of metal, like bronze.
There seem to be some seal carving words or patterns on the bronze.
Gao Shun couldn't recognize him.
"Take a bunch of them." Gao Shun pointed to the corpse, then turned to ask his subordinates, "Are anyone injured? How are the casualties?"
"General, Zhang Houshi seems to be unable to do it!" A soldier shouted not far away.
Gao Shun walked over quickly and saw Zhang Laoshi lying on the ground, with a large gap on the inner side of his left thigh, and blood sprayed outwards. Someone poured gold-cancerous powder into the wound, but it was quickly washed away by the blood and could not stop at all. Someone could not hold it down even if he was lying on the side, and his hands were covered with blood.
『General...General...』 Wang Laoshi's face was pale. When he saw Gao Shun, he tried hard to pull the corner of his mouth, "I...climbed from the pile of dead people..., climbed...I didn't expect...this point...General, I... didn't give you, no, I'm embarrassed...
"This is useless to press the wound! Tie your legs! Where is the strap?!" Gao Shun shouted anxiously, "Where is Jinchuang bag? Take another one! Tie the root of your legs with a bandage!"
The soldiers on the side quickly handed over a new Jinchuang bag. Gao Shun had just pulled it open, and Zhang Laoshi was already dead.
Several soldiers shook and shouted again, but Zhang Laoshi died silently like his name.
Zhang Laoshi is Gao Shun's only injured person and the only dead person.
"Zhang Houshi! Zhang Houshi!" The soldiers on the side shook Zhang Houshi, cried and asked Gao Shun in disbelief, "Why are you dead? Why, General, why is there just one hole... Such a small hole..."
Zhang Laoshi is a veteran. He followed him around and went through battle formations, but he didn't expect to die in such a small friction and under such a not-so-big wound.
Gao Shun stood up silently.
The human body is full of various defects. It is like giving up halfway on the road of evolution, or the rabbit sleeping under a big tree on the roadside during a tortoise and hare race, and it is not even comparable to ordinary plants, let alone catching up with the evolutionary speed of viruses and bacteria.
The Jinchuang bag equipped with the cavalry system can save the lives of many soldiers, but it is not omnipotent.
Gao Shun didn't expect that such a veteran who followed him would die in such a small place.
"A person cannot be resurrected when he dies. We are all military soldiers and die on the battlefield, so there is nothing to cry. Clean him up and let him find a good place to leave. I will finally send my brothers away." Gao Shun said.
He brought the person out of it, and the body cannot go back after death, but the soul must go back.
Several soldiers with honest friendship with Zhang resisted their sadness, raised his body, and then cleaned him by the riverside, washed him, and then put on a decent outfit, washed his armor stained with mud and blood, and put it on him again...
The teams that were separated from each other to go around also arrived. When they saw this scene, they were not a little silent.
"General, we..." the guard who followed Gao Shun and asked, "What should we do next?"
Gao Shun frowned and did not answer immediately.
This unexpected encounter caused by water withdrawal is not in Gao Shun's plan.
Although seven or eight people died on the other side, and only one person was injured or killed on his own, it was quite good by the ratio, but for some reason, Gao Shun felt a little uneasy in his heart.
It is obvious that the horse thief is not just the water intake point of the Cressu River, and even on this river, Gao Shun cannot defend all the waters, so it is meaningless to wait for work here, and it will only put itself in a clear place, making the situation worse.
What can be confirmed now is that the horse thief does have the participation of other countries, and these Semuhu people are proof of this.
"Next step..." Gao Shun thought for a while and made a decision, "First get water, bring enough, and then send your brothers for a long time, we will avoid it first... and then send someone to urge the rear army to speed up!"
The guard nodded and then cursed in a low voice, "These guys are really slower than turtles!"
At this moment, Gao Shun didn't know that the rear army had dispersed...
On the other hand, when Ma Xiu faced Taxa who rushed back angry, he laughed in his heart, but shouted loudly: "Excellent! Great! The general is indeed powerful! Awesome! He defeated the Han army so quickly! The Han army is not as powerful as imagined! Look, our general has won!"
Taxa's anger suddenly got stuck, and his eyes rolled, "What are you?"
Maxiu approached Taxa and whispered: "General, it's not that I don't bring people to rescue, nor that I have any intention of making things difficult for the general, but these guys..."
Ma Xiu signaled the whistling horse thieves around him, "If they knew that we could not resist the Han army... would the general run away tonight?"
Taxa was stunned.
『What's more, the general said he would just go...』 Ma Xiu added, 『If even the Han army team had to win, so many people would have to fight... Then what should I do if the Han army team came?"
Taxa glanced at Maxiu, "I said, can you do it yourself?"
Ma Xiu nodded repeatedly, "General, can't you do it?"
Taxa was silent for a moment, exhaled and completely suppressed her anger.
I have to say that Ma Xiu made sense.
"Now, what are you going to do?" Taxa asked. He suddenly felt that Ma Xiu seemed to be quite smart, so it was also good to listen to Ma Xiu's advice.
Ma Xiu's eyes shook his left and right a few times, and he said while thinking: "It is normal to see if the Gobi Desert in the Western Regions is so big. Maybe these Han soldiers came from another place... We should now find a way to figure out the number of these Han soldiers and contact the people ahead of us... If there are only small troops of Han soldiers, then we can take these people to surround them and eat them... But if it is really a large-scale Han army, we... we'd better claim that we have won and then leave here quickly... Anyway, the general has already won a victory now, right?"
If before this encounter, Taxa would definitely sneer at Ma Xiu's suggestion, believing that Ma Xiu was cowardly and afraid to avoid the war. However, after seeing the bravery of Gao Shun and others, Taxa felt that the Sogdians under his command were not necessarily opponents of the Han army soldiers, so there were some changes in their natural attitude and began to feel that it was not a very wise thing to confront the Han army head-on.
As for whether I won the battle...
Is this still necessary to ask?
Of course it is victory!
A victory in an encounter is also a victory!
『Very good, very good, just like this, just like this…』 Taxa laughed, waved his arms, like triumph, 『Victory! I like it! Victory!』
"Oh oh oh, victory!" The horse thief who was unknown also cheered, as if they were hiding away from the distance and did not dare to step forward at all, were participants in this encounter and winners.
What?
More deaths than the Han army?
That doesn't matter, are there immortals on the battlefield?
Anyway, as long as you win in the end, who will care about how many people will die?
Chapter completed!