When the Northern Xinjiang Army finished arranging, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the sky, followed by a piece of dust and smoke in the distance that seemed to be connected to the sky, seemingly covering the horizon endlessly, and the sandstorm in the desert gradually came. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"All troops on alert!" Li Yi raised the overlord gun and shouted.

Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang were also prepared at the head of the city, and if Ding Ling's people rushed directly into battle without stopping, he could also make a response immediately.

However, Zhai Yu did not take advantage of the momentum to rush into the formation, and lined up five hundred steps in front of Li Yi's formation. In fact, there is no formation, tens of thousands of people are just scattered on the front. The leaders of each tribe led their own men and horses, and fought their own battles.

Li Yi rode out of the battle, and the overlord pointed his gun at Zhai Yu, and said coldly: "Zhai Yu, this is the third time, you kid must keep his promise." ”

Zhai Yu was speechless, but in order to maintain morale, he still said to himself; "Li Pengfei, the first two times you were tricky, and I was deceived. Today's decisive battle is dignified, see that I led the troops to capture you......"

Li Yi turned his horse back, waved his hand and said: "You say that these are useless, if you are brave, you will come to the battle." ”

Zhai Yu saw that the northern Xinjiang army on the opposite side was well organized, both offensive and defensive. On the other hand, on his own side, he is like a herd on the grassland. Zhai Yu therefore wanted to wait for Li Yi to take the initiative, so he did not give the order to attack.

As the minutes passed, nearly 100,000 people battled, and they even looked at each other.

Li Yi sarcastically said: "Who said yesterday that there was going to be a showdown, and you kept saying that my Han people were weak." Today, my Han warrior is here, and you don't dare to attack, obviously you are really brave. ”

"Ding Ling rats, don't dare to get out of the hole!"

"Ding Ling rats, don't dare to get out of the hole!"

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10,000 soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army shouted in unison.

In order to provoke Zhai Yu, Li Yi said again: "If you dare not get out of the hole like a mouse, then get off the horse and be bound." You don't have to worry, if you're not convinced, I can let you go back! ”

Zhai Yu was a straight man, and he was immediately enraged. Xin said that he must not let Li Yi underestimate himself, he must defeat him, and let Zhai Ya know that his man is not a hero.

So, Zhai Yu gave the order to charge.

Ancient cities are mostly in the plains, and Longcheng is no exception, it is located on the prairie at the eastern foot of Yanran Mountain. It is backed by Yanran Mountain, facing the Anhou River, and the terrain is very dangerous.

At this moment, on the great plain north of the city, 20,000 people started a big battle.

Zhai Yu is indeed a straight person, he saw that Li Yi only took 10,000 horses out of the city, and only shot 10,000 cavalry to attack.

10,000 Ding 0 cavalry, under the order of Zhai Yu, launched a charge against the Northern Frontier Army.

Li Yi arranged the soldiers and horses into a crane wing formation and waited for the battle.

Lu Wenlong and Yuwen Chengdu each led two thousand guards with two wings, Dian Wei led the remaining two thousand guards with the iron cavalry in front, Zhao Yun led the elite of the first army of four thousand cavalry in the middle, and 10,000 horses formed four military formations, linked to form a crane wing array.

Li Yi was in the center of the formation as the main commander of his side, surrounded by long-range archer troops used by the First Cavalry Corps, and the gaps were protected by shield bearers. On the periphery, there are thick sword and shield soldiers and pikemen.

Hundreds of meters stretched out from both sides, Yuwen Chengdu on the left and Lu Wenlong on the right, each leading two thousand strong pro-guard iron cavalry, like a pair of outstretched wings.

When the enemy enters the crane wing, the formation can be immediately activated, the two wings can be extended, and the central division will follow, and the encirclement will be formed immediately.

Zhai Yu shouted loudly and gave an order: "Divide your troops to surround the enemy cavalry and destroy Li Yi's mobile troops first!" ”

So, the 10,000 Ding 0 cavalry soldiers divided into two roads, and formed four strands, and surrounded them with crane wings stretched forward.

Zhuge Liang saw the truth at the head of the ten-zhang high city, and hurriedly waved the order flag. There are special flag officers who urgently report to Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong. I saw a pair of crane wings folded like a tide, as if a big bird had withdrawn its wings and clinged to its side.

This body is the central formation of Li Yi, Zhao Yun and Dian Wei.

"Damn!" Seeing the cavalry of the Northern Xinjiang Army retreating, Zhai Yu immediately changed his strategy and shouted: "Before entering the enemy formation, shoot left and right!" ”

As a result, Ding Ling's cavalry formed a sharp arrow formation, and sharp knives shot at the battle formation of the Northern Xinjiang Army. When you are a few dozen paces away, you can make sharp turns with skillful riding skills and bend your bow and arrows.

I saw that the head of the front arrow formation turned into two left and right divisions, and the cavalry behind the front arrow formation continued to pour out, and immediately after the arrows, the left and right sides were divided to make room for the rear troops.

Under the hooves of 10,000 horses, the dust heads formed a thick earth mist, and the crazy Ding Ling people continued to appear in the earth mist, as if they were endless, and a puffy bow and arrow came like locusts to cover the sky and the sun. The rumbling sound of horses' hooves can shatter a person's heart, and the deadly bow can scare the faint of heart to death.

"The shield man covers, the archer shoots, shoots!" Li Yi also gave the order to counterattack.

The sound of clanging kept appearing on the bodies of the iron cavalry of the outer guards. It was the sound of dense arrows hitting the body. However, the men and horses were all heavily armoured, and only a few were shot to death in the exposed parts, and a few unlucky horses were shot at the legs and feet of a small section of the exposed limbs.

The Pro-Guard is not passively beaten.

"Reflex, concentrate fire with a little!" Yuwen Chengdu gave the order to counterattack, and Ding Lingren galloped in front of them, as long as they concentrated at one point, they would naturally take the initiative to collide.

There was no armor, and most of the Ding Ling people with open chests and backs, although they had excellent riding skills to dodge, but there were still more casualties in a large area of concentrated shooting.

"Shoot a horse, shoot a horse for me!" Lu Wenlong was more intelligent, and when he saw that his opponent had superb riding skills and could always dodge flying arrows, he gave different orders.

The horses kept falling to the ground in a mournful roar, and after the rider threw them out, how could they survive under the dense hooves? Horses that fall to the ground at the same time form a chain of horse accidents, often one horse can make three or five horses stumble.

Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu looked at each other and smiled at the head of the city, and ordered the flag bearers to shake the flag. After the officers who were specially watching reported to Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong on both wings, the iron cavalry of the pro-guard army spread their wings again.

This pair of steel wings, like sharp knives, smashed into the formation of Ding Lingren's left and right divisions, and cut them in half.

In the Chinese army, Li Yi's face is cold, and his own troops are constantly falling, but this is war, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, after more than ten years of tragic war tests, Li Yi's heart has already been like a rock!

He continued to command the central battle formation, and after the iron cavalry on both flanks counterattacked, he continued to fire volleys into the center of the enemy's front and arrow formation, relieving the pressure on the iron cavalry on both flanks after the enemy's left and right diversion.

Today, the cavalry of the First Legion of Cavalry led by Zhao Yun out of the city all replaced the cavalry bows they used before, and replaced them with infantry bows with longer range and greater power. Anyway, today they play the role of not cavalry, but simple archers. A strong bow and a hard crossbow, the power is unmatched.

Soon, Ding Lingren lost 2,000 cavalry, while the two flanks of the Northern Frontier Army and the front were closely protected by mounted iron cavalry, coupled with the advantage of longer range of infantry bows, the weaker central defense of the archers suffered very little losses. The total loss was only one-tenth of Ding Ling's people, that is, two hundred. Moreover, most of these people were wounded, and the real casualties were only a few dozen.

When Zhai Yu, who commanded the operation, saw this situation, he knew that his strategy was wrong. It is obvious that his light cavalry unit is no match for the iron cavalry of the Northern Frontier Army in hand-to-hand combat. In addition, he had to withstand the salvo of 4,000 archers in the central formation of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Zhai Yu couldn't accept the continuous attrition, and immediately changed his tactics, he wanted to crush Li Yi's own formation in one go, so he ordered loudly: "Order, give up the fight with the enemy's armored iron cavalry, and go all out to attack the central archer phalanx of the Northern Xinjiang Army!" ”

As a result, Ding Lingren's sharp arrow array no longer diverted, but directly hit Li Yi's central array.

Zhai Yu thought that this time's strategy was right, although the soldiers of the other party's own formation were also cavalry, but at the moment they were playing the role of infantry, and they couldn't help their own rangers at all, this idea was deeply rooted in the minds of the grassland people.

However, he was wrong, and the mistake was that he chose a head-to-head showdown. In addition, he also underestimated the strength of the Northern Frontier Army's personal guard army and iron cavalry.

Li Yi smiled.

Zhuge Liang on the back of the city was the same, and ordered loudly: "Order, encircle!" ”

The flag was unfurled, and the iron cavalry of the two wings of the pro-guard army began to detour left and right.

After Li Yi got the report of the flag officer, he also issued an order: "Shunzhi led the two thousand guards in front to prepare for the collision, Zilong led two thousand cavalry to counterattack, and the rest of the men and horses continued to counterattack with bows and arrows." Close! Close! ”

Knock knock knock...... Two thousand shields smashed to the ground, and the heavily armored guards leaned on their shoulders.

The next moment, the bloodthirsty Ding Ling cavalry swarmed in, and the sturdy horses' hooves jumped high and mercilessly smashed into the front line of the Northern Frontier Army. The situation of the horse stepping formation appeared, and Zhai Yu's cavalry broke through the heavy infantry phalanx converted from the iron cavalry of the pro-guard army almost instantly, but at this moment, Li Yi lost more than 30 people.

Li Yi's heart was dripping blood, and he led the archers to desperately release the arrows, and in the buzzing sound, the arrows shot like flying, and many Ding Ling people fell to the ground in the middle of the flying horses, and the horses that landed were ownerless, scurrying in the formation of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

At the same time, Zhao Yun led two thousand archers on horseback, turned into cavalry, and launched a counterattack against the oncoming Ding Ling light cavalry.

For a time, the entire front was surrounded by bloody rain and bloody wind amid deafening shouts and neighing of horses. One by one, fresh lives passed away under the cold swords and guns. A fearless warrior who uttered a cry of death.

Li Yi knew that the archers had completed their mission at this moment, and they should use their true power.

Under Li Yi's order, the last 2,000 people got on their horses together. Li Yi pulled the reins of the horse, and the white dragon horse stood up. Pointing forward at the overlord gun in his hand, Li Yi shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

The next moment, Li Yi rode into the front line of blood killing. In the swing of the Overlord Spear in his hand, he assassinated a Ding Ling warrior armed with a scimitar.

"Protect the lord. Charge! Charge! Two thousand light horsemen followed behind Li Yi and swarmed out. (To be continued.) )