"If the enemy can go, so can I!"
However, Liu Wei loudly stopped Tian Yu and the others from offering their well-intentioned advice.
"Now that the overall situation is settled, there is no need for any more strategies or plans. We can rely entirely on the entire army to fight bravely!"
"If I were to personally lead the charge, I would surely boost morale and, with overwhelming force, sweep away all demons and monsters!"
Liu Wei's resounding words struck the hearts of everyone present like a resounding bell.
"I am willing to follow my lord and behead the enemy chieftain amidst ten thousand troops!"
Liu Bei, being a passionate young man, was so excited by Liu Wei's words that he was the first to stand up and loudly express his opinion.
Tian Yu and Tian Kai were also blushing, and drew their swords, ready to go to the battlefield.
Inspired by Liu Wei's heroic spirit, the rest of the group also expressed their determination to join the fight.
"Guorang, Yuanfang, Tianchou, Qizhou, you lead the infantry to block the Wuhuan cavalry's charge!"
"Liu Xuande, you will stay by my side, raise the banner of my General Zhenbei Mansion, and lead the cavalry to charge the enemy's central army!"
"I want all the Han soldiers on the battlefield to know that the princes of Han are fighting alongside them."
Liu Wei's gaze gradually turned cold.
The seventeen riders of Yanyun behind him and Murong Ping were even more eager to fight.
Knock knock knock!
The war drums thundered, and a five-colored banner was raised high!
The banner reads: General Liu, the General Who Guards the North.
The flag shone brightly in the morning sunlight.
Even from miles away, it can be seen with perfect clarity.
Upon seeing this extraordinary banner, Dunta, who was leading his cavalry in a charge, was both surprised and greatly excited.
He was familiar with Han culture and had knowledge of Han official positions and military systems.
When the emperor went on campaign, he carried a yellow flag with six-colored banners, while the generals or dukes only carried flags with three or four colors.
The five colors before them indicated that it belonged to a vassal king.
It is common knowledge that Emperor Ling of Han had two sons and one illegitimate child.
The only one capable of leading troops into battle could be none other than Liu Wei, the King of Yunzhong, who recovered the four counties of Yunzhong, defeated the Tuoba Xianbei, and annihilated the Southern Xiongnu.
To everyone's surprise, Zhang Chun deduced that the commander of the Han Dynasty's army was actually a prince of the Han Dynasty!
His eyes, though seemingly cold and ruthless, gleamed with a wolf-like ferocity.
He had already thoroughly investigated the troop strength and situation of the southwestern army.
One thousand cavalry, the rest were infantry.
The princes of the Han Dynasty are also here now.
If he could utterly defeat this army and capture and kill the prince, he would be an unparalleled hero of the Eastern Desert Grasslands, remembered for generations.
His name and heroic deeds will be sung for generations to come!
His status within the rebel coalition will also rise sharply.
"Warriors at the foot of Wuhuan Mountain, do you see that? Where that banner stands, lies the prince of the Han Dynasty!"
"Whoever can kill him will be granted the title of King of Ten Thousand Households, a reward of ten thousand gold pieces, and a thousand women as slaves!"
The overwhelming rewards bestowed upon him ignited a frenzy of excitement among his Wuhuan cavalrymen, who were as if they had been injected with adrenaline.
They let out strange cries, brandishing their scimitars, maces, and spears, urging their warhorses on, eager to storm into the enemy's camp and cut off the prince's head.
The Youzhou army had 14,000 infantrymen. Apart from the front row of 4,000 spearmen forming a defensive cavalry square, the remaining 10,000 were all equipped with powerful bows and crossbows.
Youzhou has always been a land of war, with foreign tribes frequently coming and going, which makes the local soldiers of Youzhou even more powerful in combat.
Their standard weapons are also the best of the Han Dynasty!
In addition to individual bows and arrows, there were also crossbows fired by two people.
When fighting against the Xiongnu, the Han army inherited and further developed the crossbows from the Qin people, which became a nightmare for the Xiongnu cavalry.
Qu Yi's eight hundred vanguard warriors, relying on their powerful crossbows, were able to cause Gongsun Zan's three thousand White Horse Cavalry to flee in disarray and disappear from the annals of history.
Therefore, the infantry of Youzhou Army remained calm in the face of tens of thousands of Wuhuan cavalry who surged like a tide!
Zhao Gai and Tian Chou stared intently at the approaching Wuhuan cavalry in the distance, silently calculating the range of their shots.
"Release the arrows!"
With Zhao Gaitianchou's loud shout, a muffled thud was heard, and the sky above them went dark.
Arrows rained down in the air like locusts.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
In just a breath or two, the arrows rained down like a storm.
Ten thousand soldiers and ten thousand arrows were fired into the horde of rapidly advancing Wuhuan cavalry.
Dunta knew that their arrows could not travel as far as the Han crossbows.
He abandoned mounted archery, sacrificing the lives of his cavalry for speed, and reached the Youzhou infantry in the shortest possible time.
Facing a barrage of arrows also meant suffering heavy casualties!
But to be able to charge into the infantry, cut down the banner of the Han prince, and kill the Han prince, no matter how many lives are lost, it is all worth it!
As soon as the arrows fell, riders from the dense Wuhuan cavalry fell off their horses one after another, only to be trampled by the hooves of the cavalry that caught up behind.
Intestines spilled out, brain matter splattered, and the ownerless warhorse panicked.
Initial estimates suggest that at least a thousand people have been shot and killed.
Round two, round three, round four...
The Han army's arrows rained down relentlessly, like a storm.
When Dunta's 10,000 cavalrymen charged desperately into the enemy's spear formation, more than 4,000 of them had already been killed by arrows!
Moreover, casualties continued to rise; after all, ten thousand cavalrymen spread out would be overwhelming.
boom!
The fearless Wuhuan cavalrymen continued to charge the Youzhou army's spearmen with their warhorses.
The dense forest of spears appeared so vulnerable in the face of the high-speed charge of the cavalry.
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