The Qiang people were terrified, and they were afraid. To the west is an unstoppable army of iron cavalry, to the east is a phalanx of infantry advancing step by step, to the north is the Spirit River, and to the south? The soldiers looked at the dark space to the south, and the fear in their hearts reached the extreme. No one could have imagined that the catastrophe would come so quickly, so suddenly, and so ferociously.

Li Wenhou gasped when he saw the weapons in the hands of the Han infantry from a distance. What kind of spear is that? It wasn't a spear at all, it was a tree with a bowl as thick as five or six feet. What kind of shield is that? It wasn't a shield either, it was a two-foot high door panel covered with raw cowhide. The Han army used this giant weapon against the cavalry, apparently prepared.

The cavalry had a deep-seated contempt for the infantry, and this contempt gave Li Wenhou a delusion. He felt that the way out for tonight was in this group of infantry. The iron cavalry on the opposite side are all bearded Xianbei people and Karasuma people, which are too difficult to deal with, and it is safe and reliable to fight infantry. In his opinion, no matter what weapons the Han army used and what position it ranked, it was simply wishful thinking to block the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Li Wenhou resolutely ordered the 10,000 cavalry of the right army to fight the oncoming iron cavalry to prevent them from rushing to the eastern battlefield. The soldiers withdrawn from the front, rear and middle armies, about 27,800 people, directly charged the infantry phalanx of the Han army. Twenty or thirty thousand cavalry, rushing to kill the nineteen infantry phalanxes in front of them, is not nine out of ten.

"I'd like to see who eats whom?" Li Wenhou gritted his teeth and said.

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The horn sound of the Qiang people was dense and fierce, full of anger and murderous aura, echoing in the empty night sky.

The Qianghu soldiers were launched on all fronts. The shouts of tens of thousands of people suddenly exploded in the darkness, like a mountain collapsing and the ground cracked, violently impacting the bloody battlefield in the darkness.

The 10,000 cavalry of the Qianghu Left Army formed a scattered formation, and under the leadership of Xiaoqu Shuai Nie Xiao, they advanced rapidly and rushed towards the oncoming Fengyun Iron Cavalry.

At this time, Li Hong had already commanded the army to complete the change of formation, and the troops changed from a goose charging queue to a conical attack formation. The cone is like a torrent, the call sign roars, it goes back and forth on the battlefield, like entering a no-man's land, its awe-inspiring murderous aura is like a spear burning the plain, and it is overwhelming.

Li Hong took the lead, like a roaring long arrow in the air, sharp and sharp.

He held up the bloody steel spear, looked back and shouted, "Whew...... Ho ......"

"Whew...... Ho ......"

The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry galloped wildly, full of pride to the sky, with all their strength, holding their weapons high, and shouting: "Whew...... Ho ......"

The two armies met, and a shocking bang erupted on the battlefield. Kill.

"Kill ......" Li Hong opened his eyes angrily, and the steel gun was waving, eating away at human life.

"Killing ......" Black Panther Yicong followed closely behind, and the sword went up and down, wreaking havoc on living beings.

The warriors of the "...... Killer" Storm Riders are like bloodthirsty beasts rushing out of the night, staring at a pair of blood-red eyes, waving bloody weapons, running rampant, and frantically devouring innocent lives.

The Qianghu cavalry knew that there were 20,000 or 30,000 comrades behind them attacking the enemy's infantry, and if they could not block the enemy's iron cavalry and let them kill them, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Nie Xiao ordered a group of soldiers to gather in dense groups and kill directly against the enemy's cone. The rest of the soldiers attacked the flanks of the enemy's cone, killing and wounding the enemy at all costs, preventing the enemy from rushing to the battlefield on the right side of the battalion.

"Brothers, kill ...... Ah......" Nie Xiao picked up his round sword and shouted, "Kill ......"

The cone of the Wind and Cloud Rider seemed to have hit a stone, and suddenly it was a little difficult to walk, and it was difficult to move an inch. In the face of the enemy rushing up like a tide, the Iron Cone Formation gradually slowed down.

Li Hong's eyes were full of bright swords and eerie spears, and although he tried his best to dance the steel spear, he still didn't have time to parry. A spear stabbed Li Hong in the arm, and then the thigh was slashed by the enemy's sword, and blood splattered. Li Hong was stimulated by the great pain, and he roared wildly and pulled out his war knife, using both guns and knives, like a tiger, roaring, and clashing back and forth in the enemy formation.

The Qianghu cavalry launched a fierce offensive while speeding along the two flanks of the iron cone.

The iron cone array was thick and hard, and the soldiers were tightly gathered together, like a rock, which could not be shaken at all.

The Qianghu cavalry rushed and killed again and again, endlessly, although they were mercilessly strangled and brutally trampled by the galloping iron cavalry, and the waves of the enemy were swept away by the rolling torrent like river sand, and there was no trace of them, but they still stubbornly pounced on them, and the waves of attack were higher than the other.

The soldiers in the iron cone formation aimed at the enemy who pounced, and sent out rounds of volleys, and the long arrows were like *, dense and urgent, which greatly killed and injured the enemy and reduced the defensive pressure of the peripheral soldiers.

Nie Xiao found that the attack was ineffective and the troops suffered heavy casualties, so he immediately changed his tactics, and he ordered his soldiers to move with the enemy's formation, adopt the method of outflanking cavalry and shooting, and attack from a distance.

The soldiers of the Wind Cloud Iron Cavalry suddenly felt the pressure drop sharply, and the Iron Cone Formation immediately began to accelerate. However, the enemy cavalry in charge of blocking was still biting around the head of the cone, and the resistance to continuing to advance was very great. Li Hong immediately ordered the formation to turn to the right, urging the iron cone formation to kill to the south of the battlefield. His purpose was to kill, not to rendezvous with the infantry.

The Qianghu cavalry surrounded the formation around the position, firing at will, and the long arrows roared violently, shooting into the cone formation like raindrops, accurate and ruthless. The soldiers in the formation immediately returned fire. The two sides exchanged arrows and arrows, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce. The two armies of cavalry were locked in a stalemate.

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On the battlefield in the east, the Qianghu warriors howled and roared under the command of the horn of the bull, and swarmed up to meet the Han army formation walking on the opposite side. They were like a pack of hungry wolves, with their teeth and claws, baring their teeth and grinning, and fiercely pounced on a flock of sheep, a flock of sheep that looked weak and could be bullied.

In the Chinese army phalanx, which is about 100 steps away from the front line, Xian Yu is standing under the banner of the Chinese army, calm and calm.

He listened carefully to the various voices on the battlefield in front of him, and deduced the state of engagement on the battlefield in his mind. Hearing the enemy troops rushing on all fronts, a smile finally appeared on his face.

Xian Yufu shouted loudly: "Beat the drums and order all the formations to stop advancing and keep their distance." ”

"Kill the enemy at will, order them to kill the enemy at will......"

The sound of war drums suddenly changed from dense to sparse, from fierce to low, from fierce to peaceful.

The nineteen giant phalanxes immediately stopped. On the two-mile-long attack surface, they lined up, with ten in the front and nine in the back, densely intersecting.

The giant shield was raised diagonally, and the back was supported by six giant trees in two layers. Three giant spears sit side by side on a shield. The swarthy giant spearhead makes people shudder. A significant number of giant spears were improvised, with no spearheads, just sharpened tops of trees with knives. Swordmen lay in ambush behind giant shields and spearmen, ready to strike at any moment to slay enemy horses and soldiers.

"Upper Arrow......" Gao Ran shouted. The drums of war are beating. Four hundred archers drew their bows and arrows.

Gao Ran was very confident in this set of dense infantry phalanxes. These methods were all thought up by the soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry when they were training in the upper valley of Youzhou. When they were training infantry and cavalry battles in Handan, they used this set of formations. The cavalry had a headache with this phalanx of the infantry, and they never took advantage of it when they trained.

The Qianghu soldiers galloped towards them.

"Let go of the ......" Gao Ran roared, "Attack, attack ...... continuously"

Ten phalanxes and 4,000 archers were sent forward, and on the two-mile-long attack surface, they aimed at the enemy cavalry almost at the same time, and launched a fierce long-arrow attack. For a while, the sky was full of arrows, and the howling of long arrows tearing through the air converged into a huge roar, which was terrifying.

The cavalry of the Qiang people basically had no armor, they were all dressed in cloth and animal skins, and their defense was very poor, and there were many people who were hit by arrows and fell from their horses. The death of their comrades greatly stimulated Qianghu, the anger in their hearts was ignited, they went crazy, they lost their minds and did not dodge, and rushed up in the face of the dense rain of arrows.

Crash, crazy and ferocious.

The battlefield was filled with the neighing of war horses, the roar of soldiers, the roar of giant shields being struck, the roar of long arrows tearing through the air, the dull sound of spears poking into war horses, and the sound of gold and iron. The bloody battle begins.

The Qiang cavalry was not afraid in the face of the enemy formation, and they hit their horses one after another and directly crashed into the giant shield, although their heads were broken and bleeding, they did not hesitate.

The horses leaped high, either being pierced by the giant spear and dying, or falling backwards. The rider was either hacked to death after flying into the shield by inertia, or rolled to the ground with the horse. Only a few giant shields were hit or broken by the horses, and the Han soldiers with their shields were immediately knocked away by the horses or crushed to death, but no Qiang cavalry was able to rush in. The giant shield was destroyed, and the axemen, ordinary spearmen and archers in the back row would immediately rush forward, whether it was the enemy's horses or soldiers, all of them were hacked to death. Without the giant shield, the gap is combined with a normal long shield and a giant spear to continue to hold on.

The first round of collisions was a complete failure, and did not pose any threat to the Han military formation.

The second round of impact was even more ferocious.

The Qianghu cavalry did not hesitate to rush to the horse, many places were attacked by two horses, its impact force was so great that it was simply not human power to resist, although there were six wooden stakes to support the giant shield, but the number of giant shields destroyed increased significantly. The enemy's cavalry still did not get a bargain, either the horses died, or the soldiers were killed, and none of them were able to rush into the phalanx. The Han soldiers in the phalanx swore to block to the death, and when the giant shield was gone, they used ordinary shields; When the spear is broken, the ordinary spear is used; The shield-bearer or spearman is dead, and the axe-bearer is on top; The first layer of defenders were all killed, and the second layer of defenders were all on top. Under the tenacious and fearless defense of the Han soldiers, the phalanx was still not opened by the enemy.

Li Wenhou was in a hurry, if he collided like this, the enemy's phalanx would not be broken, and his own soldiers would die by thousands.

"Command the soldiers, concentrating their forces, to ram the front of the enemy phalanx, in succession, without pause, in a continuous ramming of its front."

The horn "woo ......" sounded one after another.

Xian Yufu heard the sound of the enemy's horn, raised his eyebrows, and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum...... Order all sides to concentrate on defending the front of the phalanx. ”

"Order the archers, a dense salvo, a dense salvo at close range."

The sound of war drums can be loud or small, dense or sparse, resounding through the night sky.

The third round of crazy ramming began.

Thousands of horses began to run, began to fly, and began to ram under the roar and drive of the cavalry; Hundreds of shields began to crack on impact, began to shatter, and finally turned into pieces of wood flying in the air; The giant spear stabbed the first batch of horses that leaped and blocked the impact of the second group of horses, but in the face of the horses galloping one after another, the spearmen had nothing but shouting, they had no time to carry out the spear operation, and could only watch the enemy kill them. Except for the broken ones, the rest of the giant spears gradually became waste after the loss of the giant shield.

The shield soldiers were at the forefront of the phalanx, and they died many and miserably, they were either crushed to death by their horses, or they were slashed and stabbed to death by the enemy's cavalry; Having lost the giant shield and the giant spear, the sword and axe hands of the phalanx, the spearmen had no choice but to sacrifice their lives to plug the gap.

The front of the Han army's phalanx was gradually broken through by the enemy, and more and more forward positions began hand-to-hand combat, fierce and brutal. Many of the frontal defenders of the phalanx were almost wiped out, and many archers in the formation immediately made up for it, swearing to block the enemy and ensure the integrity of the phalanx.

Gao Ran held a knife in one hand, covered in blood, and ran around the front of the phalanx like a madman with a dozen attendants. Cut off the legs of an enemy's horse as soon as it touches it, and cut off the head of an enemy who rushes in. He led his attendants to kill from east to west, and from west to east, without stopping.

The soldiers on both sides forgot about life and death, forgot about pain, and only knew how to kill, kill, kill the enemy, and kill another enemy. They are tireless, bloodless, and keep killing until they themselves are killed by someone else.

The ten phalanxes in the front row of the position, under the continuous and endless attacks of the enemy, finally could not hold on, and the defense was all in crisis. The nine phalanxes in the back row were not attacked by the enemy's key attacks because they were a little far away, and the formation was complete.

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The curved moon in the sky quietly moved to the east, and dawn was approaching.

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Xian Yufu heard the sound of war drums from the phalanx, shook his somewhat stiff neck, and shouted loudly: "Beat the drums, order the front phalanx to shrink and defend, and the nine phalanxes in the back row will go up." ”

The drums are violent and exciting, and the rhythm is so dense that people are a little breathless.

Gao Ran slashed the enemy's head with a knife, kicked the enemy's body away, and then flew backwards, shouting: "Shrink...... Shrink the defensive ......"

The phalanx soldiers strode back to the beat of the drums. At the same time, the archers in each phalanx aimed at the front and launched a frantic burst of fire to block the enemy's pursuit attack. Due to the reduction of the defensive range of the phalanx, the defending soldiers on the other three sides of the phalanx were immediately drawn out and replenished to the front of the phalanx with the most serious losses.

As soon as the front phalanx had finished shrinking, the archers in the phalanx immediately began to fire suppressively to cover the forward movement of the nine phalanxes in the back row.

In such a fierce confrontation, the Han army even dared to change formations. Li Wenhou was furious, he roared wildly, cursed incessantly, and ordered his troops to attack fiercely while the enemy was moving and the formation was unstable, and break the enemy's phalanx at all costs. As long as the phalanx is breached, all that remains is a bloody slaughter of the enemy.

The Qianghu soldiers were also enraged. Under the command of the horns, they slightly sorted out their formation, and immediately began the fourth round of attacks, attacking in full and frenziedly.

A huge wave of sound suddenly broke off on the battlefield, a huge and tragic wave.

The phalanx that had shrunk and the phalanx that was advancing did not have a firm foothold, and the giant shields and giant spears did not play their maximum role, although they were covered by archers, but each phalanx was hit to varying degrees, and the casualties increased sharply.

As time passed, nineteen huge phalanxes finally stood side by side, lined up, forming a human wall more than two miles long. In the face of the ironclad formation, the Qiang people began to be powerless, and there was a feeling that they had no way to start.

Li Wenhou immediately ordered his subordinates to concentrate the main force, break the point first, and break one phalanx after another, as long as one or two phalanxes of the Han army were broken, they would definitely be able to defeat them all.

A part of the Qianghu cavalry, under the command of Horn, gathered slightly, and then launched a fifth round of attacks.

Gao Ran's phalanx was breached, and Fan Li's phalanx was also breached. The Qianghu cavalry swarmed up, and the soldiers on both sides immediately began bloody hand-to-hand combat, fierce and brutal, and never stopped.

The drums of war for help were beating.

Xian Yufu immediately ordered Tie Yue and Lei Zi to bring 1,000 people each to support quickly.

In order to support the troops to quickly reach the destination, Xian Yufu specially equipped the 2,000 Chinese army with war horses. Tie Yue and Lei Zi had already gone crazy, and as soon as Xian Yufu's order was issued, the two troops rushed to the battlefield like two sharp arrows off the string.

Seeing that the reinforcements had arrived, the phalanx of Gao Ran and Fan Fence immediately gave way to the passage. The soldiers of the support units shouted and roared in. The Qianghu soldiers were taken by surprise, and the enemies in the phalanx were quickly killed and fled in disarray.

The night begins and dawn creeps in.

The wind and cloud iron cavalry crisscrossed the battlefield, killing more and more bravely, and the speed became faster and faster, gradually becoming a trend of ten thousand people.

Nie Xiao was hit by an arrow and retreated surrounded by attendants.

Standing on the edge of the battlefield, he saw that the soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry were under the command of the horn, flexibly and freely manipulating the iron cone array, wantonly killing and invincible, while his own soldiers were exhausted, and they were chased and killed one by one without the strength to fight back, and suffered heavy casualties. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Qianghu cavalry was caught off guard and had no time to form a formation, so they could only temporarily assemble and counterattack in a straggler formation, just like using their five fingers to fight against the opponent's fierce punch in a hurry, and the defeat was predetermined.

I don't know if it's because of the severe pain, or because his subordinates have little left, and they don't have the strength to fight, Nie Xiao smells the smell of death getting stronger and stronger. He gave the wrong order, he ordered his men to withdraw from the battlefield and flee south with all their might while the light was shining.

Li Hong suddenly found that the enemies around him were fleeing, and he was ecstatic in his heart, and shouted loudly: "...... to the east, attack ...... east."

The sound of the bull's horn suddenly rose into the sky.

The soldiers of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry thundered with joy, and one by one they flew like horses, killing the battlefield in the east, and the shouting of killing was earth-shattering for a while.

Xian Yufu smiled slightly, and said to the soldiers around him: "We won, we won." ”

"Drumming...... Drum ...... We won ......"

In the cheers of the soldiers, the war drums beat violently, and the drums were fierce and majestic, and the momentum was magnificent, and it soared into the sky.

The Han soldiers in the phalanx were inspired by the sound of drums and shouted wildly one by one, and their high fighting spirit and rainbow-like morale made the enemy's soul scattered.

Li Wenhou despaired. He looked at the stormy iron cavalry surging from the western battlefield, and then looked at the infantry phalanx on the eastern battlefield that had not been defeated so far, and he was completely desperate.

He couldn't believe that the infantry phalanx in Jizhou could withstand the continuous attacks of his tens of thousands of cavalry. Looking at the battlefield full of corpses, looking at the Han battle flag standing proudly in the morning light, and looking at the enemy whose morale is like a rainbow, he smiled helplessly.

Beigong Boyu, where are you, are you dead? Li Wenhou looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

"Withdraw ......," Li Wenhou said softly. No one heard, and everyone was looking in fear at the stormy iron cavalry that was slaughtering like a sea of mountains.

"Withdraw ......" Li Wenhou roared angrily, "Withdraw ......"

The low and long sound of the bull's horn hovered on the bank of the Spirit River, helpless and desolate.

Defeat is irretrievable, but retreat does not mean that retreat can be withdrawn. On the battlefield, the soldiers on both sides are mixed up, and it takes time to get out, and a way to retreat is needed.

The Fengyun Iron Cavalry was killed in an instant, and the Qianghu soldiers who were hit head-on couldn't help themselves, so they could only turn around and flee to the Han army formation. They are caught in a two-sided attack, and there is no way to escape. The soldiers on the south side of the battlefield were the luckiest, and they were the first to escape from the battlefield. The Qianghu soldiers on the north side were the most miserable, in addition to killing into the enemy formation and forcibly breaking through, they could only jump into the Ling River.

A fiery red sun suddenly jumped out of the horizon, and in an instant, it was full of light.

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