The momentum of 100,000 cavalry charging with all their strength can be called the earth shaking the mountains and the sky changing color. The kind of rushing and roaring coercion and momentum is really beyond words. The great fear and sense of panic that the end was imminent was not comparable to any previous battle.

The Shence Army led by Wang Yuan can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, as the Jiannan Army of the original team of the Shence Army, it had encountered the full attack of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Tubo under the city of Pibo. At that time, the Tibetan soldiers and horses mobilized 60,000 cavalry to launch a huge charge. That scene has long been remembered by the soldiers of the original Jiannan Army, and even Wang Yuan has a deep memory. The scene of 60,000 cavalry roaring in gave people a great sense of oppression and suffocation. But the memory of that time, in front of the charge in front of him, is simply a small thing. The charge of the 100,000 Hui cavalry in front of him completely refreshed everyone's cognition. First, the number of cavalry increased by 40,000, and second, the charging method of the Hui cavalry was not to charge in batches and echelons, but to charge collectively in the whole army. Third, at least half of the Tibetan cavalry at that time were camel cavalry, and the speed of the charge was far inferior to that of war horses. And the Hui people in front of them, the mounts are all war horses, and the speed of the charge is extremely fast, giving people a greater sense of fear.

The distance of a short mile was crossed in just a few moments. The tide of Hui Hui rushed into the entrance of the north entrance of Shanbao at a rapid speed, which was more than three roads and two miles wide. It was like a huge wave hitting half of the reef, and the two mountains on the north side instantly became isolated islands submerged by the torrent. The Uighur cavalry was split into three torrents, pouring into the plum-shaped terrain from between the two mountain packs in the north and from the east and west sides.

What is strange is that at the moment of rushing into the mountain bag passage, the imaginary blow did not come at all. There is no trace of the Divine Commander's soldiers and horses in the northern mountain pack. Therefore, although the formation was divided, the three cavalry torrents still galloped in along the wide flat passage of Lixu, and their speed did not decrease in the slightest.

However, because of the barrier and division of the mountain bag, even three passages nearly two miles wide were not enough for the charging formation of 100,000 cavalry. The original charging formation, which was nearly nine miles wide, was forced to be compressed by half. This led to the Uighur cavalry rushing into the mountain passage forced to form a dense formation. The distance between the cavalry could have been maintained to a certain foot, but now it was forced to be compressed to within a few feet. For the cavalry, although it is a dense charge formation, the oppressed formation is too dense, which will bring huge hidden dangers, that is, once a horse knight stumbles, it will have disastrous consequences for the surrounding cavalry, often because of the fall of a war horse, resulting in the loss of seven or eight surrounding war horses. If the response is not successful, a chain effect will be formed.

But at this time, the Uighur cavalry, who were in a state of hyperactive charge, had no time to take care of these. Especially after entering the mountain bag passage, after not suffering the expected blow, they were even more anxious to get out of this too narrow passage and hoped to immediately bypass the mountain bag on their side to reach the open place, so they quickly whipped up their horses and accelerated the speed of the charge.

Right now. Three red signal flares rushed into the sky, and the moment they burst into a rain of flowers, a huge roar sounded on the two mountain bags surrounded by cavalry in the north. With this deafening roar, on top of the two mountain packs, eight tiger squatting cannons opened fire at the same time, this time there was no need to aim, just condescendingly aimed the muzzles at the formation of the dense Hui cavalry and fired. Eight solid iron bullets fell into the Hui cavalry formation with a low whining sound of wind and thunder. In the next moment, eight or nine Uighur cavalrymen and horses burst on the spot and shattered into pieces of flesh and blood.

The solid bullet hit the Hui cavalry like a sledgehammer on the head of a small animal, and the force, the impact was indescribable. The force of the impact can directly shatter the flesh and bones, piercing through the flesh, leaving behind a shattered corpse that bursts like a blast. A cannonball hit a horseman's head directly, shattering the horseman's head and striking the thigh of another several feet away, knocking them to the ground.

Although there was only the first round of attack with eight iron bullets, the chain reaction brought about affected the cavalry around the bombed cavalry, and in an instant, like dominoes, more than 100 cavalry rolled off their horses and were trampled into meat sauce by the surrounding cavalry.

This was just the beginning, on the sides of the mountain, the erection of the Shenwei cannon began to bombard the cavalry within the firing range, because of the range, the Shenwei cannon could not be erected on the top of the mountain, nor could it cover the enemy's charging formation. However, because the Hui cavalry needed to keep a distance between them as much as possible, it was inevitable that the formation would spread to a distance of more than 100 steps from the mountain pack, and this was the distance that the Shenwei cannon could play. The shortest distance of the Shenwei cannon is also 300 paces away, and after being erected in the middle of the mountain pack, it can extend its range a little due to the increase in height, but this is no longer important. The purpose of the Shenwei cannon is actually to further compress the opponent's charging formation, so that they have to gather more densely in the middle of the passage within a wide distance.

Once the Shenwei cannon fires, the power is even more obvious. At least in terms of momentum, it is much more huge than the tiger squatting cannon. The ammunition of the Shenwei cannon exploded on the ground, so it looked even more fierce. It's a pity that the mountain pack is too small, and there isn't much terrain that can be used to place the Shenwei cannon. The hard sand and gravel could not be excavated, and in the end, only a dozen Shenwei cannons could be installed in the middle of each mountain package. But it was this small number of Shenwei cannons that brought about extremely serious explosive consequences.

The sound of explosions caused the Hui cavalry within a distance of three or four hundred paces from the mountains on both sides to be attacked like they had never been subjected to. The blast of the bolt and the sharp pieces of iron flying through the bolt caused the Uighur cavalry, who did not have much armor to arm their bodies, to inflict heavy damage. Each thunderbolt blew the skin of several cavalry cavalrymen within a radius and rolled off their horses. The resulting series of stampedes and collisions brought more killing.

Kizanali charged at the front of the formation, but not at the front. He is a senior general in the army, and taking the lead in the charge is only to boost morale, and he will not be a member of the first echelon of soldiers and horses engaged with the enemy. At this moment, he had just rushed into the passage between the mountain packs, and witnessed the bombardment of the Shence army on both sides of the mountain packs, and the situation of people on their backs in front of him, and Qi Zhanali immediately understood what was going on. He realized that the other side was using the narrow terrain to bombard the cavalry, so as to achieve the purpose of depleting his own forces. Although it seems that the density of this kind of bombardment is not large, and the casualties caused by it are not too large, but allowing them to occupy a high place and continue to bombard will bring great fear to the soldiers and horses.

"Flowers are not left, and the cloth is not left. The two of you led your troops and horses to occupy two mountain bags and destroy the Tang people's equipment. You have to take down the mountain bag, or you will see you. Qizanali ordered in a loud voice.

The two Hui generals received the order and whistled loudly, each leading a cavalry team of 3,000 men to rush towards the mountain bags on both sides. In fact, they all understood that this was the wisest thing to do, and ordered someone to capture the mountain bag, and the threat of these weapons was removed. The mountain bag is so small, there should be no soldiers and horses on it, and there is no great difficulty.

The two cavalry received the order and began to rush towards the foot of the mountain bag, however, just as the thousands of cavalry approached the bottom of the mountain bag, countless arrows rained down from the slope, which was the infantry placed there by the Shence army. In cavalry combat, infantry played little role.

More than 30,000 Shence infantry are useless. Their bows and crossbows also have a limited range, and they can't bombard their opponents from hundreds of paces or even miles away like the Shenwei Cannon and the Tiger Squat Cannon. Then the only chance they can kill the enemy is to use the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Shenwei Cannon as bait, and when the opponent intends to attack the mountain pack, this is when they play a role.

In fact, there were only more than 1,000 infantry stationed on the slope below each mountain bag, not that Song Jiangong didn't want to station more soldiers and horses, but the mountain bag was too small and there was not much place to stand at all. Around the slope below the mountain bag, in fact, it can only accommodate more than a thousand archers. But the crossbows and arrows of the more than 1,000 archers were the best. It was the most elite crossbow in the Divine Army. This kind of crossbow arrow was originally only available to cavalry, but this time, Wang Yuan distributed 6,000 crossbow arrows to the infantry stationed on the mountain bag, just to complete the task of blocking the opponent from capturing the mountain bag.

Thousands of horsemen rushed to within a hundred paces of the mountain, and they were attacked by an unusually dense and powerful crossbow bolt. On this side, there were actually only more than 400 crossbowmen of the Divine Ce Army, but the crossbow arrows shot were dense as if thousands of people were firing arrows together. This, of course, is facilitated by the ability of a repeating crossbow to fire continuously. With eight crossbow arrows in one magazine, it takes only eight times to pull the bowstring spring to shoot a single magazine, which takes three times less time than bending the bow and arrows, and is more accurate. The arrows and crossbows rained down, and when the Hui cavalry rushed to the bottom of the mountain, they had already suffered thousands of casualties. But the Uighur cavalry still rushed forward, because they received a death order, and they could not retreat.

But when you charge on a horse, you still have a horse as a shield. Now the infantryman is going to rush up the hillside, moving slowly and becoming a target, and there is nothing to hide from, which is simply to die. More than 2,000 Hui soldiers only rushed up the hillside for a dozen feet, and then they realized that this was too stupid to move. Hundreds of corpses were left behind and rolled down the hillside, fleeing from the range of the archers.

When there was a fierce battle on both sides of the mountain pack, the formation of the Hui cavalry had penetrated five or six miles into the land of the mountain pack. Tens of thousands of Hui cavalry have passed the test of life and death in the first mountain bag passage. But there were two other mountains in front of them, and the passage was narrower than the passage that rushed in, about a mile and a half wide. Several surrounding mountains also began to sound a loud roar. The iron bullets fell one by one in the formation, raising patches of flesh and blood mist, splashing patches of earth, stone and gravel. It triggered a large number of stampedes of fallen horses.

But by this time, no one had a way out, and there was no room for manoeuvre at all except to continue to rush. The figure they wanted to see most now was the most powerful figure, and they were eager to vent their anger on the enemy, so several narrower but more ferocious torrents rushed straight to the two passages in front. The bad news is that the soldiers and horses that originally rushed in the three lanes converged into two, and in the face of the front passage that was hundreds of paces narrower, the formation was compressed a lot. But there is also exciting good news, that is, the Hui cavalry at the forefront finally saw the figure of the black oppressive enemy cavalry in the passage ahead.

The moment they saw the opponent's soldiers and horses, the subtext in the hearts of all the Hui cavalry was: Finally, they can fight happily and honestly, and Lao Tzu's scimitar is already hungry and thirsty.

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In the city of Pizhou, which is more than eight miles south of Toyoshu, under the same moonlit night, when the war outside the city of Toyosu is in full swing, it is also shrouded in the oppressive atmosphere of the approaching war. Not only the fear and depression brought by Li Guangbi's army coming to the city, but also the act of killing his wife and son and then committing suicide by Li Yao, the king of Heng, who had just happened, also brought this atmosphere of fear and depression to its peak.

Li Hui, Li Pu, Li Zhen and others actually understood in their hearts that the fundamental reason why Li Jin did this was because of despair. Under such circumstances, Li Yao knew that the general trend had gone and there was no hope of survival, so he made such a move. Killing his wife and children and then committing suicide is to think about it for a hundred times and end all this suffering completely.

Facing the corpses of Li Yao and his wife and children, the faces of the three of them were clouded. Before, they comforted and encouraged each other, desperately trying to convince themselves that there was still hope of holding Pizhou, but in fact, they knew in their hearts that this was just self-deception. At this moment, they even admired Li Yaolai a little. This twenty-seventh brother, who is obsessed with cultivation, shows more courage than his brothers at a critical time, and it takes great courage to commit suicide, which the three of them can't do if they ask themselves. Knowing that the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the three of them still refuse to give up hope, and the best thing to say is not to admit defeat, but to put it badly, it is actually that the three of them are afraid of death, afraid of the tragic ending that has already been outlined in their hearts.

The news of Li Yao's suicide soon spread, and several princesses and horses living in the back hall of the palace arrived one after another, and immediately cried bitterly. All the imperial relatives who followed Li Heng, Li Pu and others to participate in this crusade sensed the danger of the situation from Li Yao's death. It is not so much that they are crying for Li Yao, but that they are regretting their wrong choice and crying for their upcoming tragic fate.

Li Heng frowned, looked at the painful crowd and shouted, "What are you crying for?" The twenty-seventh brother is a coward, and it is irresponsible to choose to leave in this way at this time. Before the war, this was a shake in the hearts of our troops. The twenty-seventh brother's move is really inappropriate. ”

Everyone looked at Li Heng in surprise, his own brother was dead, and he still said such things, it was simply inhumane.

"Am I not right? Even if you die, you have to die in the voice of the battlefield, you have to die for your father and the Tang Dynasty, kill your wife and kill your son and commit suicide, isn't this cowardice? Don't cry, come here, get some coffins, put them away, and park them in the temple in the city. Twelfth brother and thirteenth brother, we still have a lot of work to do, but we don't have time to mourn and cry here. Li Heng said coldly.

Although Li Pu and Li Jian were unhappy in their hearts, Li Hui's words were also reasonable, and he didn't know how many preparations to defend the city had to do, so how could he have time to cry for Li Yao here. Li Jian sighed, picked up Li Yao's body and put it on the bed, covered Li Yao's twisted and terrifying face with a cloth towel, and choked up: "Twenty-seventh brother, you can go in peace." When you retreat from the enemy, the royal brother will definitely give you a beautiful funeral. Ay! You know how to enjoy the blessings, this is gone, and there are brothers who will give you a burier. But the brothers don't know if they can survive this time, if we die tomorrow, I'm afraid we won't even have a coffin. Hey, don't say it, don't say it, if you have a spirit, bless us to keep Pizhou. ”

Everyone listened to Li Zhen's words and felt unspeakable compassion in their hearts, yes, Li Yao died today, and the coffin was retracted. If the city is broken tomorrow, I am afraid that these people will not even have a thin coffin. As the saying goes, if you die today, I will be buried, and tomorrow I will die, who will bury me, thinking about it makes people disheartened, weak, and discouraged.

Li Heng didn't want to stay here and be affected by this emotion, he frowned and said in a deep voice: "I'll go to the city first, and the two imperial brothers should hurry up and do their own things, don't delay here." ”

With that, Li Heng turned around and walked quickly away from the place where the bloody and terrifying atmosphere was suppressed. Li Pu and Li Pu had no choice but to explain to the rest of the people and wait a few words, and asked the two horses to arrange the burial, and the two also left the courtyard with their front and back feet.

Li Pu and Li Jian silently walked along the corridor to the front hall, the hall was empty, and Li Heng had obviously gone to the city. Li Pu walked out of the hall with a step, but was stopped by Li Pu behind him.

"Thirteenth brother. Please stay. Li Pu said in a low voice.

Li Jian stopped, turned around and asked, "What?" ”

"What does the thirteenth brother want?"

"Go ahead and collect rations. How? Won't the twelfth brother gather the people to defend the city? Li Jian asked in surprise.

Li Pu sighed, walked to Li Pu's side, and said in a low voice: "Thirteenth brother, now that the matter has come to this, do you think it is still useful to do this?" Even if all the people in the city are driven to the city to defend by us, even if there is enough food and grass, do you think we will be able to defend Pizhou? ”

Li Jian was stunned and said, "Brother Twelve, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Thirteenth brother, the reason why the twenty-seventh brother made such a radical move is that he knew that he was at the end of the road, so he killed his wife and son and then committed suicide. The end of the twenty-seventh brother tonight is our end tomorrow. Tomorrow, when the city is broken, we will end up worse than him. Do you really believe that we can hold the city? Li Pu sighed.

"Brother Twelve, so far, I can only do my best. What can we do but do our best? Even if you know that Pizhou can't keep it