Tengge was delighted to see that the Han army had replaced its general with a thin one to fight against him.
Such a thin Han general is simply coming to deliver his head to me.
If he could kill this Han general, even if the Han general named Gao Chong came back in the next battle, he could still save some face even if he was defeated and retreated.
"The Donglu tribe's green flag, Tengge."
"Big man, Li Yuanba."
After the two sides introduced themselves to each other, Tengge noticed the pair of iron hammers in Li Yuanba's hands.
Judging from the size of the pair of hammers, if they were solid, they would probably weigh about 700 to 800 kilograms, so Tengge concluded that they should be a pair of hollow hammers.
However, even if it was a hollow iron hammer, it should be quite heavy, so Tengge secretly became more careful.
However, when the long-handled mace in Tengge's hand collided with the iron hammer in Li Yuanba's right hand, Tengge felt a huge force coming, and the knuckles of his hands holding the weapons were suddenly cracked.
The long-handled mace weighing more than 100 kilograms was also shaken and flew out.
Tengge just shouted in his heart: "Not good!"
Li Yuanba swung the iron hammer in his left hand, and Tengge, who was unable to dodge, was knocked away by the hammer and fell heavily to the ground, without a sound.
Tengge, who was known as the most powerful general of the Donglu tribe's Zhenglu Banner, was killed by Li Yuanba with just one move.
"Donglu Tartars, send one more person up!" Li Yuanba shouted loudly to the Donglu army, holding two hammers.
Although Li Yuanba was thin, he had a very loud voice. In addition, he had just killed Tengge, the most powerful general of the Zhenglu Banner, so Li Yuanba's shouting made many generals of the Zhenglu Banner and the Yinlu Banner show some fear on their faces.
Even the leaders of the Plain Green Banner, Borjin, and the Bordered Green Banner, Toge, had their expressions changed drastically.
"Twelfth brother, what should we do next?" Tog asked in a low voice.
Borjin gritted his teeth and said, "Let each of our flags send out an elite 'Jiala' cavalryman to test the strength of the Han army's armored cavalry."
Toge nodded quickly and said, "Just do as Twelve Brother says."
The Donglu army had an elite cavalry unit called "Jia La", which refers to cavalry excluding auxiliary troops, and there were about 2,500 of them.
The Plain Green Banner and the Bordered Green Banner each sent out a "Jiala" of elite cavalry, totaling 5,000 cavalry.
Seeing that the Donglu people no longer continued to fight, they directly sent several thousand cavalry to charge over. Sun Hao immediately sent out three thousand Snow Dragon Cavalry to meet them.
The cavalry of the Donglu tribe are basically heavy cavalry wearing armor. Many of them even wear two layers of armor, the outer layer is iron armor and the inner layer is cotton armor.
Cotton armor is made by wetting picked cotton and then patting it repeatedly to make very thin cotton sheets. Multiple such cotton sheets are then stitched together to form a very thick and solid cotton cloth and fixed with copper nails.
Although cotton armor's defense against bows and crossbows is not as good as iron armor, when iron armor and cotton armor are used together, ordinary bows and crossbows can hardly cause fatal damage to such two layers of armor.
In addition, the climate in the area where the Donglu people live is cold, and the cotton armor can also keep out the cold.
Unfortunately, the two layers of armor of the Donglu cavalry could not protect against the javelins thrown by the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, and the archery skills that the Donglu cavalry was proud of could not penetrate the armor of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry at all.
In just one encounter, the three thousand Snow Dragon Riders killed the five thousand Donglu cavalrymen, leaving only less than five hundred of them.
If the remaining 400-odd Donglu cavalrymen had not escaped quickly, the 3,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalrymen would have launched another charge, and the 5,000 Donglu cavalrymen who had gone into battle would have been completely wiped out.
"The Han's armored cavalry are indeed formidable.
"Twelfth brother, in a head-on confrontation, the warriors of our two banners are no match for the Han army's armored cavalry." Toge, the leader of the Green Banner, said in a deep voice.
Borjin, the leader of the Zhenglu Banner, was decisive. "Seventeenth Brother, we will retreat for now. If the Han army dares to pursue us, we will find an opportunity to strike back."
The Zhenglv Banner and Xianglv Banner of the Donglu tribe wanted to retreat, but Sun Hao certainly would not agree. He had led 400,000 elite soldiers of the Imperial Guard for more than 3,000 miles. He couldn't just kill thousands of Donglu cavalry and then withdraw his troops back to the capital!
So under Sun Hao's order, the First and Second Towns of the Imperial Guards sent a total of 200,000 Snow Dragon Cavalry to pursue the troops of the Donglu tribe's Zhenglv Banner and Yilv Banner.
Finally, the 200,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalry drove the Donglu tribe's troops of the Zhenglv Banner and the Yilv Banner out of the territory of Yan State before they pulled the reins of their war horses.
During the pursuit, the Donglu tribe's cavalry of the Green Banner and the Inlaid Green Banner tried to counterattack many times, but in the face of the powerful combat effectiveness of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, it was completely useless and instead caused greater losses.
After Borjin, the leader of the Plain Green Banner, and Toge, the leader of the Bordered Green Banner, escaped from the State of Yan, they counted the troops under their respective command and could not help but feel their hands and feet go cold.
The fifteen "Gushan" of the Zhenglu Banner had a total of about 570,000 people, including auxiliary troops, but now there are only more than 300,000 people left in total.
The thirteen "Gushan" of the Bordered Green Banner had nearly 500,000 troops, including auxiliary troops, but now there are only more than 230,000 left, more than half of which have been lost.
"Twelfth brother, this is too tragic, it's really too tragic.
"These thirteen Gushan of our Bordered Green Banner have been completely crippled. My father, the Khan, will certainly not let me off easily when I return," said Toge, the leader of the Bordered Green Banner, with a bitter expression.
Borjin, the leader of the Green Banner, said with a gloomy face, "We can no longer worry about being punished by our father Khan. We must return quickly and report the strength of the Han army to our father Khan as soon as possible.
It seems that the Han army is the mortal enemy of our Donglu tribe."
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