The sky was at noon, and the sun at the end of April had begun to take shape, and the Qingzhou soldiers who had been fighting from last night to the present were exhausted. The Ziqi soldiers who came from afar to help were also physically and mentally exhausted, they were originally going to stop the Zhendong Army under Bochang City, but who expected that they had not yet entered Qingzhou, and Tanma reported that the Zhendong Army was already moving rapidly towards Qingzhou. After the last discussion, Zhang Chan and Lu Hongyi discussed, and then took a shortcut and went straight to Qingzhou.

By noon in the bloody battle, both the Qingzhou soldiers and the Ziqi soldiers were already exhausted. Unexpectedly, seeing that victory was hanging by a thread and within reach, Li Jing's Zhendong Army suddenly arrived.

Although Wang Yanwen has no brains, when it comes to bravery, he is also a few under Wang Jingwu, especially he is also Wang Jingwu's nephew, so when he was sent to intercept the Zhendong Army, Wang Jingwu felt that there was nothing wrong. His idea was to let Wang Yanwen first block the momentum of the opponent's reinforcements, prevent them from inserting into the battlefield, and then transfer the soldiers and horses of Ziqi Erzhou, who were climbing the mountain, to flank the Zhendong army. The Zhendong Army has 5,000 reinforcements, and there are 10,000 soldiers and horses in the two divisions.

Wang Jingwu didn't think that the soldiers and horses of Ziqi Erzhou could defeat the Zhendong Army, but he didn't need them to defeat the Zhendong Army, as long as he entangled the Zhendong Army, even if it was only for half a day, he could capture the valley that could no longer hold it and capture Song Wei and others alive.

As a result, Wang Yanwen rushed up with the Qingzhou cavalry, but he was immediately covered by the two iron currents of the crane and the flying horse.

The Crane Cavalry was Li Lingfu's trump card against Duli Town and Beisha City, and he always thought that this cavalry had never been defeated in a cavalry battle. Moreover, this is a cavalry army based on horse bandits, as a fierce army, and there are many Khitan, Xihu, Jian, Goguryeo, Murowei, Turkic, Tiele and other Hu knights. The Crane Army was dispatched every time. can all be carried home.

They often attack in small groups. Harassment and looting. It is often possible to attack ten at a time. After the assembly, their power was even more terrifying, on the frontal battlefield, one-on-one, no cavalry in Liaodong was their opponent. With one against two, you can also have the upper hand, and sometimes you can even win with one against three. The most powerful time, Li Lingfu led a thousand crane cavalry against a Khitan tribe with 3,000 tents. Three thousand tribes. At least five or six thousand warriors could be pieced together, but in that battle, a thousand crane control troops completely defeated the Khitan tribe and captured the entire tribe as slaves.

In Liaodong, the Crane Army was not only the most elite cavalry, but also a slave catcher that terrified many small tribes. Many small tribes of the Hu tribe were often raided by them, and then thousands of people on the tribe were directly captured as slaves.

The crane cavalry has always maintained a scale of less than three thousand men, because their requirements are too high. Although the 3,000 Crane Control Army died in the battle of Duli Town, 800 remained, but it was not because they were weak.

Although Duli Town fought a battle, there were only eight hundred of the Crane Army left. But they were not defeated by any army of soldiers and horses, but defeated in the streets and alleys of the city. Under the fire.

The newly built crane control battalion has been supplemented with many Hu cavalry, and has re-reached the size of 2,000 people, although it is now divided into two battalions, but there are actually 400 old crane control cavalry in the flying cavalry battalion.

The two battalion leaders marched side by side, and the two thousand men and horses were all dressed in fiery red robes and red patent leather armor. He wore a fiery red cloak on his shoulders, and the helmet on his head was equally dazzling. While galloping, they held crossbows in their hands, twelve horses in a small triangular formation, and a thousand horses formed a huge arrow.

The sky darkened slightly, and the sunlight in the sky shone on the blood-like armor of the cavalry, reflecting a dazzling blood-colored light. A breeze swept by, flags were hunting, and battle robes were flying.

Li Juyi rode his horse at the front of the battle array, he held the snowy saber in his hand, looking at the infantry phalanx that was being hastily laid out in front, his calm gaze did not have a trace of emotion. Raising the saber in his hand high, all of a sudden only thunderous hoofs were heard in the entire charging formation.

His hand waved forward fiercely, and suddenly the cavalry of the crane control battalion behind him burst out with an earth-shattering roar: "The crane is invincible!" ”

Not to be outdone, the flying cavalry battalion on the other side also broke out with a shout: "Flying Cavalry Shenwu!" ”

Two thousand cavalry saddled and jumped on horseback, and the torrent of iron cavalry rushed violently towards the Ziqi soldiers who were blocking in front of them. The horse's hooves roared like thunder. Although the Ziqi soldiers were desperately arrayed, less than 3,000 of the 10,000 Ziqi soldiers were barely assembled, and the rest were still running down the hillside, chaotic like a flock of sheep.

The array of 3,000 people was not small, and there seemed to be no end in sight to the row, but the two cavalry battalions composed of the old crane cavalry were not afraid.

The 3,000 men and horses blocking in front of the cavalry were three battalions belonging to Zhang Chan of Zizhou, and due to the rush of time, these three battalions, which were originally used as reserves for attacking the mountain, were hurriedly assembled to block the advance of the cavalry. The men of these three battalions could feel the terrifying momentum of the oncoming cavalry of the Zhendong Army at this time. These cavalry were originally a battle-hardened crane control army as the core, and each of them was a battle-hardened veteran. Now there are those naturally fierce Hu cavalry to join the supplement, making the whole cavalry more wild and unrestrained.

A strong cavalry unit is terrible, and if this elite cavalry is still fierce and wild and not afraid of death, it will be a nightmare for all armies. The two battalions of the crane and the flying cavalry marched hand in hand, and between the whistling, they always reflected the fierce fighting spirit like a tiger and a wolf, which made the Zizhou soldiers in front of them feel that they were a group of poor lambs in front of the wolves, and they trembled.

The shaking of the earth under their feet made those Zizhou soldiers stand unsteadily, and their vests roared in their ears. The neat cavalry charge queue, like two towering mountains that are galloping, is rapidly slamming towards the Zizhou soldiers.

The soldiers in the front row of the Zizhou soldiers had dry mouths, and the screams in their hearts were blocked in their throats but could not come out, and the countless crossbow arrows of the cavalry of the Zhendong Army had already fallen into their array, and countless soldiers fell to the ground with arrows. Hu Cai, who rushed to the front, rushed to the front of the array, and only then galloped away like two torrents of left and right before crashing into the spear on the formation.

Rows and rows of cavalry rushed in, followed by rows of arrows. Those Zizhou soldiers also fell one after another, as if they were as vulnerable as paper paste.

"Kill!"

When the cavalry all shot several arrows, the speed of the charge also weakened, and the array of Zizhou soldiers was already full of holes. At this time, Li Juyi and Guo Zhenhai, who were in command, did not hesitate to order to rush directly into the array of Zizhou soldiers, like a pack of wolves entering the flock.

In the midst of this overwhelming offensive, the three Zizhou barracks couldn't even block it for a moment, and they were already overwhelmed by this torrent of red iron cavalry in an instant.

After penetrating the three Zi barracks, Li Juyi and Guo Zhenhai did not continue to slaughter the Zi soldiers who had already dispersed. They did not love to fight, but one left and one right, in the sound of iron whistles and horns, quickly regrouped their troops on the battlefield, set up a position, and continued to charge forward, this time they dealt with the other seven battalions of Ziqi Erzhou soldiers and horses who had just come down from the mountain.

Zhang Chan, the assassin of Zizhou, is Wang Jingwu's brother-in-law, and he is also from Qingzhou Yabing, who once served as a soldier and horse envoy in front of the ya, and can be said to be Wang Jingwu's most staunch ally. He hurried to his aid, bringing with him all his belongings, five thousand soldiers and horses. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, three battalion leaders had already been defeated.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Chan immediately shouted and rushed over directly with his remaining two battalions. Qizhou Assassin Shi Lu Hong is Wang Jingwu's maternal uncle, and at this time he also saw the danger of the situation, and immediately rushed behind Zhang Chan with the Qizhou soldiers who had just rushed down the mountain.

It was too late to line up against the enemy, and the 7,000 Ziqi soldiers faced the 2,000 cavalry of the Zhendong Army, and the two armies collided head-on.

Li Juyi and the others also saw that the Qingzhou soldiers outside the valley were still storming the valley, and they knew that Li Jing in the valley was about to be unable to support it. At this time, the most fierce side was brought out, and the cavalry and infantry began to hedge. It was like two tideheads colliding head-on, stirring up countless splashing waves, which were not only the sparks splashed by the swords and guns of the soldiers and horses on both sides, but also the blood splashed on each body by the swords and guns.

Zhang Chan and Lu Honghong are both very brave, but bravery does not mean victory.

In front of the rapidly charging cavalry formation, the Ziqi soldiers were not considered elite, and they had been hurrying for another day, and the exhausted soldiers were no match for the cavalry at all. Often their weapons have not yet met the cavalry, and the cavalry of the Zhendong Army have already been trained to chop scarecrows and stakes thousands of times, and with a wave of the snow save, there will inevitably be a Ziqi soldier who will be chopped to the ground, and then trampled into broth by countless iron hooves.

In less than a while, the Zhendong Army had already inserted into the army of Ziqi soldiers like a red-hot iron hammer. In front of the cavalry, the Ziqi soldiers fell in pieces, just like the rice waves blown by the wind. The cavalry behind desperately followed, and in front of them, whether it was a sword and shield soldier or a spearman, in front of this raging, they were kicked to the ground one after another, and the entire huge array was torn apart.

The crane control battalion and the flying cavalry battalion seem to be competing, one left and one right, together into the Ziqi soldiers, the same indomitable, unstoppable!

In the end, Zhang Chan and Lu Hong's plan to rely on the superiority in numbers to block the cavalry completely failed. After the Crane Battalion and the Flying Cavalry Battalion pierced through the seven thousand Ziqi soldiers on the left and right, they didn't turn their heads, and continued to accelerate their charge, killing Wang Jingwu directly.

Wang Jingwu was horrified, and hurriedly ordered the Qingzhou soldiers to turn around and face the battle, trying to try to have a front and rear encirclement with the Ziqi soldiers. It's just that the Ziqi soldiers are not the opponents of the cavalry of the Zhendong Army, and the Qingzhou soldiers are also not good, charging and charging again, and the torrent of cavalry like a tide washes the array of Qingzhou soldiers over and over again, and finally breaks through after the most reluctance.

Li Jing in the valley also led thousands of remnants of the valley to kill at the right time, Wang Jingwu was unwilling to continue to fight again, at this time there were bursts of horns sounding, and a soldier and horse were killed again on the horizon in the north, and the first few flags were the silver spear battalion, the guard battalion and the flying eagle battalion, the three battalions of the Zhendong Army infantry battalion. Although Wang Jingwu was unwilling, he had to lead his troops to retreat in a hurry.

Li Jing led the Zhendong army to chase and kill all the way, the corpses killed were all over the field, the Qingzhou soldiers and the Ziqi soldiers ambushed the corpses for ten miles, the battle deaths were countless, 20,000 soldiers and horses, and only less than 15,000 people retreated to Qingzhou City. (To be continued......)