Soon, the two armies crashed into each other. Great Qin's soldiers fought like wolves and tigers, their eyes gleaming with ferocity, while the Xiongnu soldiers looked terrified and could barely hold their weapons steady. The outcome was a foregone conclusion.
With Li Cunxiao, Ying Bu, Long Ju, and Fan Kuai leading from the front, the Qin army swept through the enemy like a knife through bamboo. They soon cut straight through the Xiongnu ranks, then wheeled their horses around and charged back in.
After three or four such charges, the Xiongnu army broke apart and fled in disarray.
Chanyu Touman stared blankly at the battlefield and cried, "Eternal Heaven, this cannot be real! Great Qin's cavalry cannot possibly be this fierce!"
"Chanyu, retreat! If we don't run now, it'll be too late!" a tribal chief urged.
Chanyu Touman snapped out of his daze and saw Li Cunxiao charging toward him. Terrified out of his wits, he spurred his horse and fled, with a band of personal guards close behind.
Seeing this, Li Cunxiao shouted, "Stop that big fish! Don't let him get away!"
The eyes of a group of Qin cavalrymen lit up at his words. They moved to intercept the Great Chanyu, only to be blocked by his personal guards.
With those guards no longer in his way, Li Cunxiao charged straight at Great Chanyu Touman.
The distance between them steadily closed. Great Chanyu Touman glanced back and spotted Li Cunxiao fifty or sixty paces behind him. He drew his bow and fired an arrow at him.
Li Cunxiao leaned aside to dodge the arrow, then hurled the Heaven-Dragon City-Breaking Halberd in his hand at Touman.
Touman fared little better than his son. Li Cunxiao's halberd likewise impaled and killed his mount, sending him tumbling to the ground, dazed