At Helian Ji's command, three hundred Xiongnu cavalrymen roared and charged forward.
With their new equipment, the Xiongnu cavalry were naturally a completely different force from what they had been before.
The horse's hooves kicked up dust into the air, and the rider lay prone on his horse, holding a ring-pommel sword.
In their eyes, these eighteen ungrateful riders were utterly vulnerable.
One charge is all it takes to make them victims of the blade.
Just as they were about to reach them, the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun moved.
Their faces were covered, and their entire bodies resembled black phantoms.
Their eyes gleamed with a terrifying light.
A black cloak fluttered in the wind; a crescent-shaped scimitar gleamed coldly.
When the two armies clashed, there was only the sound of chopping vegetables, swords piercing flesh, and the screams of the Huns before their deaths.
That's terrifying!
That eerie scimitar was as bright as the moon in the sky, and as elusive as a ghost.
Before the Xiongnu cavalryman's sword could fall, his throat was slit, and he died instantly.
Fast, accurate, and ruthless!
In a single engagement, half of the three hundred cavalrymen were wiped out in the blink of an eye. The Xiongnu cavalry had no chance to fight back and didn't even get a scratch.
When they clashed again, the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun split into three groups.
Just like a sheepdog hunting a flock of sheep, or a wolf hunting a fat sheep, they surrounded it from three sides.
As the circle shrank, the Xiongnu cavalry fell like wheat being harvested, until only fifty or so remained.
Seeing this scene, Helian Ji, who was surrounded by the crowd, was so frightened that his whole body went cold and he was sweating profusely.
These eighteen people were like eighteen Yama Kings from hell.
Even if he had a burning desire for revenge, it was nothing in the face of absolute power!
Forget about revenge, you might not even be able to escape now.
One by one, the people around him fell down, and the expressionless black mask was already in front of him.
Helpless, he could only grit his teeth and face it head-on.
Pfft!
With a flash of light, Yan Shiba's crescent-shaped blade sliced across Helian Ji's neck, spraying a cloud of blood mist into the sky.
Helian Ji swayed on his horse for a moment, then collapsed into the dust.
He never knew what kind of opponent he had encountered until his death.
After Helian Ji died, the rest of the Xiongnu cavalry were also killed.
Three hundred corpses lay scattered all over the ground.
The warhorses, now without owners, scattered in panic.
These warhorses were beneath the notice of the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun, since their own warhorses were all Ferghana horses!
Liu Wei, who had been watching the game from the hillside, couldn't help but secretly admire him!
These eighteen riders of Yanyun were like a bull dropping a bomb between its legs—absolutely insane!
Three hundred Xiongnu cavalrymen—judging by their equipment and combat capabilities, they were quite good, almost catching up with the Han cavalry.
However, in front of the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun, they were like three hundred pigs or three hundred sheep, at the mercy of their captors.
Liu Wei didn't know how the eighteen of them had wiped out three thousand people. It could have been a decapitation operation, or they could have used other schemes.
However, Liu Wei had witnessed the killing of three hundred Xiongnu cavalrymen firsthand, and he had no choice but to admit defeat!
Soon, the eighteen riders of Yanyun cleaned up the battlefield and came to Liu Wei's side to report.
Their method of cleaning up the battlefield involved picking up a long spear and moving among the corpses, shooting anyone who wasn't quite dead.
"My lord, it shouldn't take more than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn for us to wipe out all three hundred barbarian cavalrymen and leave no survivors."
The eighteen riders of Yanyun, reeking of blood, slowly approached.
What else can Liu Wei say?
"If you ever fight the enemy in the future, you should be a little more restrained."
"My lord, why must we restrain ourselves?" Yan Da asked, puzzled.
They've already been restrained enough; if they were to unleash their full power, these three hundred barbarian cavalry wouldn't be enough to kill them.
"Well... we have to leave some way out for the other brother units!"
Liu Wei stroked his chin. "It's getting late. Let's find a place to rest."
"Tomorrow we will contact the other two locations, rendezvous, and await the next move."
"Here you go!"
The group walked south for another twenty miles or so, and were still about ten miles away from Fushi City.
It was already pitch black, so the group rested in a dense forest.
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Meanwhile, two other Xiongnu cavalry units discovered traces of Han troops, each numbering forty to fifty, near the Great Wall and on the west bank of the Yellow River.
The attire of this part of the Han army was completely different from that of the Bingzhou army.
Moreover, Niu Fu's main force from Bingzhou was fighting the Qiang people in the desert west of the vassal states of Baitu and Kucha.
There were no Bingzhou soldiers or troops in other parts of Shangjun.
This was something Li Ru explicitly told them.
Therefore, it can be inferred that these two small groups were also their targets for encirclement and killing.
Thus, the centurion of one of the Xiongnu cavalry units spotted the enemy on the banks of the Yellow River and immediately ordered a pursuit.
However, seeing that they had so many troops, the enemy avoided battle and headed south.
The centurion of the Xiongnu cavalry ordered his men to give chase. After a day and a night of pursuit, they discovered that the enemy was heading towards Hengshan.
Knowing that his men were already lying in ambush at Yokoyama, the centurion slowed his pace and followed behind at a leisurely pace.
This Han army was led by Shen Lian, consisting of fifty Imperial Guard cavalrymen and five Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Seeing that the pursuers were not moving too fast or too slow, Shen Lian understood their intentions and stopped to launch a surprise attack during the march.
They expended a significant number of pursuing troops along the way.
As they approached the rendezvous point at Hengshan, they had already taken the heads of nearly a hundred pursuers.
The Xiongnu cavalry that discovered traces of the Han army in the Hetao region near the Great Wall were led by Shi Tugu himself.
Upon discovering the enemy's whereabouts, Shi Tu Gu did not rush to launch an attack, but instead set up an ambush on a necessary route.
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