Chapter 427: Counterattack, Ambush

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The two armies are getting closer and closer, two hundred paces, one hundred steps, sixty steps, fifty steps.

The cavalry of the five tribes roared like thunder: "Datang! Datang! Datang! ”

Shouting the name of the most powerful empire of this era, the Hu cavalry of the five tribes also immediately increased their morale. Even if the Tang Empire is not as strong as in the past, it is still an empire admired and feared by these Hu people who are attached to the Tang Dynasty and live in the frontier of the Tang Dynasty. Shouting out the name of the empire made them seem to be injected with a fierce battle intent.

Fighting for the Tang Dynasty, using knives and swords, blood and sweat, in exchange for the fame and wealth given by the Tang Dynasty, this is the dream that every Hu Qi looks forward to the most. Take the reward of the Tang Empire, live in the territory of the Tang Empire, if you can get an official position in the empire, or even marry a woman from the empire, this is the expectation that every Hu Qi dreams of.

Now, the death of these arrogant and boundless wolf cubs of the Shatuo tribe is the time to show the strength of the warriors of the various tribes. In the past, the Shatuo people have always been the most courageous cavalry among the tribes under the empire, and every time the empire is recruited, it is these damn Shatuo people who are the most important, every time they follow the Tang Empire to eat meat and drink soup, they can only gnaw a little bone.

Tuoba Sigong and other tribal leaders have become accustomed to living in the Tang Dynasty, and they yearn for the life of the empire and are unwilling to live that barbaric life again. The damn Shatuo wolf cubs have all been given surnames by the Li Tang royal family, and they can't become descendants of King Zheng, so they are not satisfied. If he Tuoba Sigong, he can also get the surname of Li Tang Tianzi, become a member of the Li Tang royal family, and change his name to Li Sigong.

With such dreams. The bloody battle of Liuhu began.

The two sides have not yet made contact. They were already showing off their excellent riding and archery skills on horseback.

Ten thousand arrows are fired. The cavalry in the front rows of the two armies continued to fall, but not one of them was afraid of panic.

This is the war of warriors, the Shatuo clan is full of contempt in the face of these younger brothers behind them in the past, and when they fought for the Tang Dynasty in the past, these Hu cavalry were always under the jurisdiction of their Shatuo people and obeyed their command. Now, he dared to challenge the bravery of the Shatuo warriors. You'll have to make them pay.

Tuoba Sigong and the others were not afraid of the leaders of the past, and the Shatuo people challenged the Tang Empire by their own death, and now it is they who show themselves to replace the Shatuo people in the empire.

This is a war between a group of wolves for the wolf king, there is no fear, there is no retreat, there is just life and death, swear to the death!

The two armies were less than twenty paces away, and Tuoba Sigong shouted: "Change the spear!" ”

The party cavalry in the front row, which was constantly approaching the Shatuo cavalry, immediately replaced their bows and replaced them with mounted spears. Eight-foot spear in hand. The Tuoba cavalry began to lower their bodies, their spears flat in their right hands. The arm clamped the shaft of the spear.

The figures of both sides became clearer and clearer, and finally the two cavalry slammed into each other, a horse neighed, the spear broke, and the knight fell off his horse and screamed. With a huge impact force, the cavalry often fought with only one move. Whoever stabs the other first with a spear can directly pierce the knight on the horse and stab him off the horse.

The cavalry hedge was perhaps the most tragic battle, and the cavalry who rushed in front often stabbed the opponent to death, but he was also immediately stabbed to death by the other cavalry. Under these violent collisions, as long as you accidentally fall off the horse, you will definitely die. In the cavalry battle, apart from death, almost no seriously wounded survived.

In just an instant, hundreds of elite cavalry fell on both sides of the collision.

The follow-up cavalry on both sides continued to charge, without the slightest fear. There is no wandering, no chasing, there is just the simplest and most tragic mutual charge. Under the gaze of countless Tang troops, the Liuhu cavalry fought desperately and bloodily, showing their most fierce and tenacious side.

The 1,000 cavalry of the Zhenguo Army did not rush up to join the battle group, under the leadership of Zhang Chengye, 1,000 cavalry with 5,000 cavalry on the other side of the battlefield continued to gallop, with branches tied to the horse's tail, raising countless smoke and dust, and the handsome banner of Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army in the middle loomed, which made the Shatuo people nervous, and had to draw out a part of the troops to guard against the flank Li Jing's cavalry to join the war group at any time.

The number of Hu cavalry of the five tribes led by Yu Xuan reached 15,000 cavalry, and they had an absolute advantage, although they were tired, but the Shatuo soldiers were more tired than them. Although for decades, the Shatuo people have been the most powerful among the Hu tribes attached to the Tang Empire, but the five tribes together do not lose much to them.

"Don't fight with them, you will rush all the way to the past and join the army in the big camp!" Yu Xuan saw that the Shatuo people had drawn out a lot of soldiers and horses to join the intercepted cavalry, Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao got reinforcements at this time, but they no longer stopped by force, but began to fight.

Seeing that the Shatuo people were shocked by them, the Wuhu cavalry was even more excited, and once again burst into a loud roar: "Datang! Datang! Datang! Like a pack of hungry wolves, they pounced on the Shatuo people in front of them even more ferociously.

Li Keyong didn't expect that the cavalry of these five tribes would work so hard for the Tang Dynasty, he forgot that their Zhu Xie clan had worked hard for the Tang Dynasty for several generations, and he just hated these Hu cavalry for being too stupid. In a fit of rage, Li Ke personally led the cavalry to kill.

The Shatuo cavalry fought the cavalry of the five tribes in a bloody battle, and the sky was dark.

After the infantry in the Tang army camp saw the arrival of reinforcements, the original despair had already turned into surprise. Zheng Congyan saw that the cavalry who came to help was so strong, and he couldn't help but laugh, waved the jade sword in his hand forward, and shouted: "Where are the generals!" ”

The generals responded to the order, and Zheng Congyan waved his sword: "Beat all the war drums to cheer for the army, blow the horn of the charge, pass on the commander's order, the whole army counterattacks, and kill all the rebels!" ”

The whining horn continued to sound violently, and the sound of the battle drums also vibrated majestically.

The generals of the Tang Army, who were still struggling to support the front line just now, jumped up one after another, waved their swords and shouted forward: "Attack, attack, attack!" ”

"Kill the Shatuo dog!"

The Tang army, who was still alive in a desperate situation, was full of morale at this time, and the exhaustion and hunger of the whole body were temporarily swept away, carrying spears, horizontal knives, and shields, rushing out of the dilapidated camp like a tide, and bursting out of a noisy roar to kill the Shatuo people.

As soon as Li Ke's cavalry blocked the impact of the cavalry of the five tribes, the Tang battalion infantry behind him, which was already dying, rushed out again, directly allowing Li Ke to suffer the enemy on his back. At this time, the situation had gradually become unfavorable to the Shatuo army, and what particularly worried Li Keyong was that on the side of the battlefield, the banner of Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army was fluttering there, and in the countless smoke and dust, a cavalry was there.

He was very jealous of Li Jing, although Li Jing had not fought a few decent wars with them since he entered the Jin Dynasty. But Li Jing was the most feared of all the Tang generals, because the other Tang generals basically fought against him and were all defeated by him. Only this Li Jing is quite cunning, not only like a cunning fox, but also like a poisonous snake that has been hiding in the grass and preparing to give him a fatal blow.

Li Jing uses soldiers and likes to take advantage of the situation and seize people with power. Every time it is not moving, it is just like thunder. Just like the current battlefield, Li Jing's thousands of cavalry have always been on the side of the battlefield and have always refused to join the battlefield, which makes Li Keyong divide a part of his troops and horses to deal with it at any time. The flag fluttering on the battlefield is like a sharp sword hanging over his head, and he can never know when he will fall, so he has always threatened him.

"Restraint, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for us, it is better to temporarily retreat to Shanyang City to rest for a while." Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Li Youjin hurriedly rushed to propose, "At present, the grain and grass of the Tang army have been burned by us, and the Tang army also suffered heavy losses in the first battle last night. ”

Li Ke groaned for a while, and while he was groaning, his one-eyed kept staring at the Li Jing Shuai flag on the flank of the battlefield. In the end, he still cared about Li Jing's cavalry, so he had to decide to collect his troops and return to the city.

The horn sounded to collect the troops, and the 15,000 cavalry of the Shatuo army went out of the city to fight, and at this time there were still 10,000 cavalry, 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry were killed and seriously wounded, and they were left on the battlefield.

Although Li Keyong estimated that they had killed at least a number of Tang troops, they still failed to defeat the 40,000 Tang infantry. Although he was unwilling, now that Yu Xuan and Li Jing had arrived, Li Keyong did not dare to take risks and continue to fight.

Although the Shatuo people retreated, they were worthy of being the elite division of a hundred battles, and they retreated in an orderly and orderly manner. The cavalry of the five tribes originally wanted to take advantage of the enemy's retreat to directly defeat the Shatuo people, but because they were too aggressive, they were suddenly killed by Li Ke with a return rifle, and they almost collapsed because they rushed to the front of Helian and Tuoba to hold their heads.

Zheng Congyan hurriedly sent an order so that the five tribes should not pursue, so he let Li Keyong collect his troops.

Seeing that the Tang army was no longer pursuing, Li Keyong led 10,000 cavalry to rush to Shanyang City. When the soldiers and horses arrived at the city, the defenders of the city saw that Li Keyong was returning to the city, and hurriedly opened the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.

The cavalry of the front army had already entered the city, and Li Keyong personally reared the palace all the way, but at this time he was still in the rear army. Riding on the horse, Li Ke was full of confusion, thinking about how to solve the current situation, when he suddenly heard a shout of killing in front of him.

couldn't help but change his face drastically, and he hurriedly looked up, but he saw that he didn't know when the road started, and the south gate of Shanyang City was actually in chaos, shouting and killing.

"My lord, the big thing is not good, Shanyang City was taken by Li Jing, just now the Zhenguo army pretended to be our army guarding the city, let our front army enter, and then suddenly blocked the city gate with a boulder, and now the former army Xue Zhiqin and three thousand cavalry are completely blocked in the city." Li Siyuan rode his horse, pale and frightened.

"What!" Li Ke's eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse, "How is this possible?" Li Jing was obviously still in the Tang army camp dozens of miles away, but how could he quietly steal our city, and set up an ambush here to lure us 3,000 soldiers and horses into the city? (To be continued......)