The cold moon hung in the air, and the sound of killing in front shook the sky, but the main force of the Tianshan Army Infantry did not move.

Zhu Lingyue frowned, and launched an attack at the time of the unitary, it had been almost three hours, and the battle was fierce on three sides, but there was no battle report that made him excited.

Before the war, he did not think that the Tianshan Army would sweep the horse farm like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, but after three hours of fierce fighting, he did not break through a single opening, which made his patience begin to be greatly tested.

He didn't expect that the Tianshan Army would still have such tenacious strength.

Chu Huan's soldiers and horses are only 30,000 people, and the most important thing is that most of them were withdrawn from Hezhou, and they were exhausted, and it was Zhu Lingyue's surprise that they could still be so stiff until now.

He faintly regretted it in his heart, if he knew that it was like this, on the way to the retreat of the Xiguan army, he should take advantage of the situation to attack, although he had always been afraid of Ganhou's face and fulfilled the agreement with the Xiguan army, but on the battlefield, why should he be stumped by those rules and regulations, even if he really attacked, would Ganhou really turn his face with himself?

Although breaking the agreement has greatly damaged his reputation, he should not have any faith in the thieves under the banner of suppressing thieves.

Whether it is Hou Jingang, Di Renjie, or Gu Liangchen, they are all fierce generals under Zhu Lingyue, the reputation of these people is famous and powerful in the northwest, these generals personally command, but until now, they have not broken through a gap, Zhu Lingyue is quite annoyed in his heart.

The Tianshan army can not be described as not brave in attacking, and since the start of the war, the sound of fighting has not stopped.

In order to fight for the wooden fence, the two sides have been fighting for a long time, the corpses are everywhere, the blood is filled, the smell of blood wafts in the air, and the soldiers on both sides are stepping on the corpses of their comrades and fighting bravely.

Before Zhu Lingyue went to war, he told his officers and soldiers not to despise Chu Huan, but now, Zhu Lingyue faintly felt that he was full of contempt for Chu Huan in his bones.

He was even thinking about whether this strategy was wrong to concentrate superior forces, conduct a decisive battle with Chu Huan's main force, and solve the Xiguan army once and for all, so as to clear his worries?

Chu Huan's main force concentrated on Qingyuan Racecourse, occupied superior forces, and fought a decisive battle with it, once and for all, such a temptation is difficult to refuse.

The battle report is still coming, it is not the news that makes Zhu Lingyue excited, the Xiguan cavalry that attacked the north and south sides have been hit hard, and after three hours, there have been thousands of cavalry dead and wounded, this decisive battle with a strong attack on the weak is still a meat grinder, ruthlessly strangling the soldiers on both sides, Zhu Lingyue's face has become difficult to see.

Half an hour later, there was finally news that made Zhu Lingyue feel a little excited.

On the south defense line of the racecourse, the cavalry commanded by Di Renjie, under repeated attacks, the wooden fence wall has been damaged by Yan zhòng, and there have been several cavalry rushing in, although the back cavalry led by Xu Shao of the Xiguan Army retreated, and the Xiguan Army made up the gap, but thousands of soldiers and horses had to defend the defense line for ten miles, which was still somewhat difficult.

The most important thing is that the defense line of the racecourse, under the fierce fighting of several hours, the defense of the entire defense line can never remain stable, because there are dangerous situations in many places, and the Xiguan army must quickly mobilize manpower to replenish, so that the defense of the entire defense line is strong and weak.

After all, Di Renjie is a well-known general under Zhu Lingyue, the weakness of the Xiguan Army's defense line, of course, he can't not perceive it, when he strangled with the Xiguan Army in a tightly defended place, he looked for defensive defects, and transferred to a weakly defended place at any time with the high-speed mobility of the cavalry to attack, even if the Xiguan Army transferred troops to supplement, but on the ten-mile front, the infantry could not have such an efficient reinforcement speed.

Even if the Xiguan Army can really do it, it won't be long before it will fall into a state of exhaustion.

Hearing the situation in the south, Zhu Lingyue's brows finally stretched slightly.

He only felt that he had thought too much before, no matter what, this was a decisive battle related to the hegemony of the northwest, and it was also his strongest and last enemy in the northwest, and it was the last test for his domination of the northwest, of course, it could not be so easy, although many soldiers were killed and wounded, but the war itself was to die.

Now that progress has been made in the south, even if the north and the front can still hold out to the end, as long as it is inevitable to be breached, the Xiguan army in the entire horse farm will be completely in a state of chaos.

"Zhu Du, General Hou has more than 10,000 horsemen, all of which are used to attack the west, and they are very crowded." Sheng Xuantong next to him said solemnly: "Whether to mobilize some soldiers and horses and move them to the east of the racecourse, there is no need to attack, but it must be used as a containment of the Xiguan army in the east." To the east of the racecourse, there are also thousands of soldiers and horses from Xiguan, if they don't have the pressure to defend, and see that there is too much pressure in the south, will they send people to support? As long as a part of the troops and horses were mobilized to the east to contain them, they would not dare to act rashly, so that the Xiguan army in the south would soon be unable to support them. ”

When Zhu Lingyue heard this, he bowed slightly.

Hou Jingang led the main cavalry force from the front of the more than ten miles long front to attack the frontal defense of the Xiguan army, the formation can not be fully expanded, can only be backlogged in the wooden fence wall to fight, the front of the cavalry can not break through, the back of the cavalry can only do anxious, rather than let the cavalry dry up, it is better to mobilize a part of the men and horses to the east to contain, the Tianshan army is not short of men and horses, Zhu Lingyue's main formation, there are 20,000 infantry, as long as Hou Jingang leads the army to break through, the infantry can rush up at any time.

At that moment, Zhu Lingyue sent someone to give an order, mobilize 3,000 cavalry from the front, and quickly move to the east, so that he could launch several pseudo-attacks, without going all out to attack, and only needed to contain the Xiguan army in the east and not dare to move.

Zhu Lingyue suffered for more than half an hour, and there was no good news from the north, but news came from the south, "Our army broke through the enemy's defense line several times in a row, but was killed by the opponent's cavalry, and is currently in a state of stalemate, but the Xiguan cavalry has also suffered a lot of losses." ”

"Report, Lord Governor Qiqi, General Hou's headquarters has opened several gaps in the defense line." A horse galloped over, "The enemy's defense line is in danger, and the general Hou ordered the villain to report to the governor, and it will not take until dawn to break through the frontal defense line of the Xiguan army." ”

"Good!" Zhu Lingyue shouted, his whole body was full of Tai, and he said happily: "Tell General Hou to attack with all your might, and the governor will respond at any time in the back, and once you break through, attack on all fronts!" The soldier was about to turn his horse's head and leave, when Zhu Lingyue said again: "Tell Hou Jingang, the southern defense line will soon break through, don't fall behind Di Renjie." ”

"The villain obeys!"

Zhu Lingyue's hand that had been holding the handle of the war knife finally let go, only to find that his palms were full of sweat, although he tried his best to keep calm on his face, but the sweat in his palms still betrayed his inner tension after all, there is no doubt that he understands the meaning of this battle very well, and he really cares too much, even in the state of absolute superiority of the crowd, he is still nervous.

Feeling the sweat in the palms of his hands, Zhu Lingyue naturally couldn't show himself in front of Sheng Xuantong, in front of his subordinates, he had always been as calm and comfortable as possible, so he raised his hand to straighten his clothes, but he had already wiped the sweat of his palms on the placket quietly, and then smiled at Sheng Xuantong: "Xuantong, what you said before is good, King Kong's temper is arrogant, but he still has real skills." ”

Sheng Xuantong smiled, and finally said: "Zhu Du, until now, our casualties are not small, and the Northwest Army has never moved, should we also let them go up and fight?" ”

"Have they arrived at their intended location?" Zhu Lingyue has always paid attention to the battle ahead, but he forgot that Ganhou was also very active in this battle, and he had already divided his troops to help.

Sheng Xuantong immediately said: "Mu Dongqing, the general of the Ganhou Department, has already arrived in the north, and he is in the back to deal with Gu Liangchen, and Lu Dao has also arrived in the south, both of them have 5,000 men and horses in their hands, and they can order to attack at any time." ”

Zhu Lingyue stroked his beard and smiled: "Xuantong, do you think you should let the Northwest Army kill at this time?" ”

"Our army has fought hard until now, and there are many casualties, and it is time for Ganhou to bleed."

"It is precisely because of the hard fighting until now that it is not appropriate to let the Northwest Army go out lightly." Zhu Lingyue said softly: "Ganhou is poor and afraid, he is greedy, he wants to lose less soldiers and horses, but he also wants to open his mouth after the war, he asked for Jinhe Erzhou as his fief, it is just land, do you really think he is content like this?" ”

Sheng Xuantong seemed to understand something, "Zhu Du is saying that after the war, he will open the lion's mouth when it comes to rewarding meritorious deeds?" ”

"What do you think?" Zhu Lingyue smiled coldly, "After conquering Xiguan, equipment, property, food, horses, and even salt, do you think he will honestly watch from the side?" ”

"The Admiral understands." Sheng Xuantong suddenly realized, "We already have the victory in our hands, if we let his people fight at this moment, he will inevitably publicize this matter after the war, and when the time comes, he will say that the Xiguan Army was defeated by their Northwest Army, and he will naturally dare to open his mouth to Zhu Du Lion without fear." If he is allowed to stand still and does not make any military achievements, no matter how thick-skinned he is, it is not easy to ask for it indiscriminately. ”

Zhu Lingyue smiled slightly, "Actually, those things are nothing, but if our army lays down the horse farm and annihilates the Xiguan army, our Tianshan army will definitely be a morale shock after this battle, and it will be of great benefit to our army." Xuantong, sometimes it's not like you have to be helped by someone for everything, and you have to pay a price for people to do things! ”

Sheng Xuantong bowed slightly, "If I knew this was the case, I didn't have to promise Gan Hou before, just let his soldiers and horses stand by in place." ”

"That's not what you say." Zhu Lingyue said with a smile: "Since we have formed an alliance with him, it is natural to make him feel that we regard him as our own family, and it is not a bad thing for him to transfer troops to help...... After all, he still has a lot of strength in his hands, there is no need to have a conflict in the open, to deal with this kind of person, use a soft knife to slowly consume it, we still have to satisfy him on the face. ”

"Hey, Zhu Du, what's the situation?" Sheng Xuantong suddenly frowned, "Look at ......!" He pointed ahead, and Zhu Lingyue had already seen clearly at this time, on the side of the racecourse, there were many arrows with fire shooting into the sky.

"What's that?" Zhu Lingyue couldn't help but press one hand on the hilt of the knife, "What the hell is Chu Huan doing again?" ”

Sheng Xuantong's expression became solemn: "Zhu Du, shooting a rocket into the sky is generally a signal, the Xiguan army in the racecourse is distributed around, and the military order cannot be unified, is this rocket sending any signal to the Xiguan army?" ”

"It's all like this, what other tricks do they have?" Zhu Lingyue said this, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, in his eyes, Chu Huan was not a good type, he was cunning and cunning, and now that a rocket suddenly appeared on the side of the racecourse, it must be extraordinary.