As soon as the tragic horn sound sounded in the Tang army's main formation, the Tang army's iron cavalry, which was originally chasing Xue Yantuo's rout, immediately turned back and retreated without hesitation, and retreated straight across the shallow Qingshui River, and returned to the formation, leaving only a mess on the north bank of the Qingshui River after the bloody battle, and this skirmish ended in a big victory for the Tang army - when the two sides fought with the same strength, the Tang army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, but killed more than 2,800 Xue Yantuo Khan's elite cavalry, This kind of victory made the morale of Xue Yantuo's more than 200,000 troops suddenly set, and there was not a single sound in the dozen or so phalanxes of the black crows, only the aura of frustration continued to spread.

Morale can not be vented, this truth Arutai is very clear, originally he planned to kill the Tang Army Iron Cavalry together with his own rout, what he was afraid of was that his morale was damaged by the defeat in the first battle, so he did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of his own rout, one is to give the Tang Army a painful lesson, and the other is also to order military discipline, after all, the Khan Court elite cavalry was evacuated from the battlefield without authorization, and killing the rout is also a warning to the soldiers of the whole army, as for the third, Arutai also has his own selfishness, without him, This Khanting pro-guard army is a private army, for some purpose, if it can be eliminated, Arutai will never be soft, at this time can justifiably get rid of this pro-guard army on the battlefield, how can Arutai be very polite, but Arutai did not expect that the Tang army's order would come so decisively, so that Arutai's abacus completely fell into the void, seeing the Tang army's iron cavalry marching away, Arutai hesitated for a while, and finally forcibly suppressed the impulse to chase and kill that kept surging in his heart, Sitting on the back of the horse with a cold face, squinting his eyes, he continued to observe the Tang Army's every move.

It's not that Arutai doesn't want to leave these more than 4,000 elite iron cavalry of the Tang Army, but he just doesn't want to lose the big because of the small - at the same time as the Tang Army's collection horn sounded, the Tang Army's main formation also began to slowly press forward, and there seemed to be signs of an immediate attack, before Li Zhen's strategic intentions were clarified, Arutai really didn't want to mess with himself, if he patronized and ate the more than 4,000 Tang Army cavalry, in case Li Zhen grabbed the fighter plane and sneaked attack, it would be a big trouble - the sources of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses under Arutai were too miscellaneous, There are more than 33,000 soldiers and horses set up by the Western Turkic Khan, as well as more than 70,000 troops of Xue Yantuo Khan's domestic Fugu, Hui, Tongluo, Bayegu and other ethnic groups, and there are only more than 90,000 elite soldiers of Xue Yantuo's own tribe. The composition of the army is complicated, and it is very troublesome to dispatch, not to mention that those small tribesmen can fight a good battle, once the war is unfavorable, they can escape faster than anyone else, which has countless precedents, therefore, Arutai put on a secondary defensive formation, and would rather let the Tang army attack first than move first, and now that the formation has been formed, Arutai does not want to cause chaos in his own formation because of the greed for that little Tang army cavalry.

The attack must be attacked, since the war has begun, there is no reason to give up halfway, just how to attack, this point Li Zhen knows in his heart, it is obvious that it is not a good way to let Chen Wu lead the cavalry to break through, not to mention that he may not be able to break through the strict Xue Yantuo army formation, even if he can impulse the enemy's position, Li Zhen will not take Chen Wu's department to do such a thing, without him, the price is too great, there are several tough battles to be fought next, Li Zhenshi can not bear the heavy damage of the cavalry, yes, As soon as he found out that the Khanting guards were defeated and retreated, Li Zhen immediately ordered the whole army to press, creating a posture of imminent attack, in order to confuse Arutai, and at the same time ordered to blow the call to collect the troops, covering Chen Wu's troops to withdraw smoothly to the south bank, but Li Zhen didn't expect such a withdrawal order, but he saved the entire army of Chen Wu's department, which was really lucky.

"Your Highness, the last general is incompetent, which frightened His Highness." Chen Wu and Gao Heng rushed side by side to the main formation, which had stopped in front of the river bank for more than 20 zhang, and each stepped forward to salute Li Zhen.

Li Zhen glanced at the two favorite generals, didn't say anything, just nodded calmly, and casually ordered: "Return to the team, hurry up and rest, go." As soon as the words fell, he no longer cared about how the second general adjusted the men and horses, frowned lightly, looked at the Xue Yantuo army formation on the north bank silently, and thought about a way to break the deadlock, after a long time, he raised his eyebrows, summoned Lin Chenghe to his side, and commanded in a low voice. Suddenly, the poignant horn sound in the Tang army formation sounded again, and the two Tang military teams with thousands of men and horses each began to cross the river, the speed was not fast, but they waded through the water slowly, and did not immediately launch an impact, but stopped on the north bank with their backwater, and what surprised Xue Yantuo's army was even more that the cavalry of these two phalanxes actually dismounted and arranged the five plum blossom formations that were most familiar to the grassland peoples, and actually defended on the spot at a distance of less than a hundred zhang from Xue Yantuo's army, at the same time, A small army of about 2,000 people drove camels full of all kinds of miscellaneous goods across the Qingshui River, and before Xue Yantuo's army decided whether to launch an attack, the Tang army had already begun to build crossbows, trebuchets and other large-scale offensive and defensive equipment on the north bank, and even set aside some people to build pontoon bridges, which was a busy scene as if no one was around.

Is it tolerable or unbearable! Although the men of the steppe knew that the Tang army was strong in combat, it was not strong enough to ignore the heroes of the grassland, seeing the arrogance of the Tang army in such a blind eye, everyone was angry, although they did not dare to attack without an order, but the noisy scolding suddenly resounded in the military formation, even though many generals shouted loudly, but it was difficult to calm the commotion in the army, but Arutai did not seem to see the abnormal movement in the army, and still stood in the middle of the army without moving.

"Brother Arutai, it's not a way to wait like this, attack first, and touch the bottom of the Tang Army, what do you think?" Seeing that Arutai had never given an order, and that the prestige and qualifications of other generals were not enough, he did not dare to disturb Arutai, but the right army governor Sai Na was not afraid of Arutai, and rode his horse to Arutai's side and asked in a low voice, although the tone was not high, but the tone of dissatisfaction was very thick.

Although the Saina Thorn is the newly promoted Right Governor, but in terms of position, he is on an equal footing with Arutai, and this person is also a veteran of the Khan Court and Arutai's cousin, as soon as he opened his mouth like this, Arutai couldn't ignore it, frowned lightly, and thought about it: "It's okay, let Tudu get out of the formation first, and then attack it." ”

Tudu Mi is the big chief of the Hui Hui, Zhenguan fifteen years with the Dadu set to attack Shuozhou, after the Tang army to, this person saw that the situation was not good and immediately led the troops to slip away, never suffered by the Tang Army's blow, these years in order to divide the Xue Yantuo Khanate, did not secretly support the Hui Hui, Tudu Mi took advantage of the situation, successively annexed a lot of small tribes in the grassland, the power rose sharply, with nearly 50,000 soldiers, becoming the second largest tribe on the grassland second only to Xue Yantuo, this time the Khan's court called to send troops to the northern Xinjiang, although reluctant, but to the bottom still dare not come, It's just that he didn't come with a clan, but led 25,000 cavalry to participate in it, and at this time he was lined up in the right flank army formation.

Arutai ordered Tudu Mi to attack the Tang Army, in addition to testing the Tang Army's hand, he may not have the idea of taking the opportunity to weaken the Hui forces, which is well known to Saina, and he didn't break it, just grinned and said: "Okay, brother, this idea is so good." ”

Since the thoughts of the left and right governors are the same, this military order was naturally issued very quickly, but seeing a herald of the soldiers galloping to the right army, and loudly passed the order to the Tudu Mi army, the Tudu Mi who originally held the psychology of watching the play almost blew up his lungs, but the military order was like a mountain, and it was impossible not to obey, so in desperation, he had to gather several cronies and generals together, and after a few words of low command, let the trumpeter blow the order to attack, and more than 25,000 Hui cavalry began to press forward, but the speed was not fast, There was no posture of beating horses and charging, and when they reached a distance of sixty zhang away from the front of the Tang army, with a terrible horn sounded, the Hui cavalry not only did not charge, but half of the soldiers dismounted, and also set up five plum blossom formations, such a strange move immediately caused a slight commotion in the ranks of the Tang army, which was waiting for the battle.

Lin Tinglong has been outside the Saiwai for a long time, and has seen a lot of grassland battles, at this time, when he saw the actions of the Hui Army, he immediately understood the plan of the Hui Army, for fear that Lin Chenghe would suffer a big loss if he was unprepared, so he hurriedly rushed to Lin Chenghe, who was staring at the Hui Army's every move, and said in a low voice: "Commander Lin, the thief is going to fight on foot." ”

"Hmm." Lin Chenghe snorted softly, but did not say anything special, without him, Lin Chenghe is a handsome talent in the army, how can he not see Hui Hui's calculations - the reason why Hui Hui listed such formations is just because he was worried that once the battle was unfavorable, the Tang army would take advantage of the situation to chase and kill, this is just reserving a back road, but he didn't take it to heart, reason and simplicity, no matter how many troops there are, what can they do?

"Commander Lin......" Lin Ting saw Lin Chenghe's relaxed and calm appearance, he was really a little relieved, opened his mouth, and waited to be persuaded, Lin Chenghe raised his hand, stopped Lin Ting's words, and ordered with an expressionless face: "Pass the order: the whole army will stick to its own position, and it is not allowed to pursue and defeat the enemy without authorization." ”

"Yes, the last will obey." Lin Ting saw that Lin Chenghe had already made a decision, so he didn't dare to say anything more, so he gave up the order and went to convey it according to the row without mentioning it.

The Hui army moved very quickly, and the formation had already been set up in only a quarter of an hour or so - the Hui army in front of the two phalanxes of the Tang army listed five plum blossom formations that were exactly the same as the Tang army, and there were 5,000 cavalry on each side to suppress the formation, as for Tudu Mi himself, he led more than 3,000 cavalry to line up behind the formation, and the two armies were quietly facing each other sixty zhang apart, without a trace of sound, in the depressing atmosphere, time seemed to be frozen, and under the dense battle clouds, the scorching sun also dimmed.

"Cavalry attack!" Tudu Mi looked at the Tang army array with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and gave the order to attack, but when he heard a whining horn, more than 10,000 cavalry on both sides of the Hui army column immediately rode out, but did not charge the Tang army array, but circled only more than 30 zhang away from the Tang army, stretched out his bow and arrows, and shot a wave of feather arrows at the Tang army's array, and the Tang army, which was hiding behind the horses forming the "Great Wall", was not to be outdone, and also counterattacked with bows and arrows, and a battle of shooting began. But seeing tens of thousands of feathered arrows shuttling through the air, covering the sky and the sun, roaring back and forth, dense as flying locusts, it stirred up a bloody storm and rain in an instant, and the screams became one.

The same is the bow, the bow in the hands of the Hui cavalry is just a riding bow, its power, range, and accuracy are compared to the standard infantry bow in the hands of the Tang army, which is a cut worse than the boss, plus the Tang army has the cover of the war horse wall, this field is shot down, there is no doubt that the Hui cavalry suffered a big loss, and this is only the time of a pillar of incense, and the Hui cavalry who fell from the horse with arrows is as many as five or six hundred, but the Hui cavalry is fighting endlessly, and does not rout backwards, but constantly sprinkles the rain of arrows on the Tang army array, In particular, the attack on the war horses lined up in front of the Tang army's array was strengthened, and after several rounds of arrow rain covered, the meat shield composed of thousands of war horses was finally declared useless, and the dying war horses were lying all over the ground, and the sound of wailing resounded in the sky.

Seeing that the meat shield wall in front of the Tang army's array had finally been opened up dozens of gaps, Tudu Fan waved his hand excitedly and ordered loudly: "Blow the trumpet, the front army presses, and those who break through the enemy formation first will be rewarded with thousands of cattle and sheep, and hundreds of horses, and those who dare to retreat without permission will be killed!" As soon as this order was given, the Hui cavalry that was originally galloping in the Tang army array immediately withdrew to the two wings, and more than 10,000 Hui soldiers of the front army poured out from behind the war horse wall, braving the rain of arrows shot by the Tang army and soon lined up into three neat phalanxes, with the sound of the horn, the roar swept towards the Tang army array like a wave, and the roaring shouting and killing even overwhelmed the whistling sound of the arrow rain.

"Mo knife hand out of battle!" As soon as he saw the Hui army change formation, Lin Chenghe, who had been silent, finally gave the order to engage the battle, as the horn sounded in the Tang army array, more than 2,000 Mo swordsmen walked out of the rear formation, and soon formed two knife walls in front of the array, firmly pressing the formation, and the shield knife hand covered the archers and continued to rain arrows at the charging Hui army, although they also shot a lot of Hui soldiers, but they could not curb the momentum of the Hui army's charge, and the Hui army that rushed like a tide soon overflowed the open space in front of the array of the two armies. Kill before the Tang Army array.

"Raise your sword!" Ge Xia, who had been promoted to Guoyi Lieutenant since the Battle of Baiyehe, looked coldly at the Hui army that was about to rush to the front, his face twitched, his eyes widened, and he let out a loud roar, his hands shook, and the thick Mo knife had been raised high above his head, and the Mo knife hands who had won the order did not dare to slack off, and raised their knives one after another, and thousands of Mo knives stood up like a forest, and the snowy blades flashed with the cold light of death under the scorching sun.

"Kill!" The Hui army that rushed forward waved their scimitars, regardless of the continuous rain of arrows in the Tang army's array, desperately slashing the remaining wall of war horses in front of the Tang army's formation, and finally cut down all the war horses to the ground at the cost of five or six hundred lives, and then rushed through the horse corpses lying on the ground, and rushed towards the Tang army's Mo knife team.

"Out of the knife!" Ge Xia, who was standing in the middle of the Mo knife team, roared violently, and suddenly the Mo knife like a forest roared and slashed down, and under the blow of more than a thousand Mo knives, the surging Hui army was like a wave hitting the shore and was smashed into pieces, under the blade, the flesh and blood flew up, and the stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky, and in the screams, the nearly 1,000 Hui officers and soldiers who rushed to the forefront instantly became broken corpses, and then the red-eyed Hui officers and soldiers were not intimidated by such a tragic scene, taking advantage of the moment when the first row of Mo knife hands did not have time to collect their knives, Bravely rushed forward, trying to catch the Tang army by surprise, but it was a pity that the Tang army Mo swordsmen in the second column rushed forward at this time, and after a wall of knives like a wheel, the Hui officers and soldiers who dared to cross the pile of horse corpses were swept away in an instant.

Counting the officers and soldiers who were shot by the archers of the Tang Army, it was only a little more than two quarters of an hour before the start of the war, and the Hui Army had lost more than 2,000 troops. As soon as this order was given, the Hui cavalry who had just withdrawn to the formation immediately galloped on horseback, and rushed along the two wings to kill the Tang army array, and in the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the earth trembled, and the smoke and dust were rolling, and the murderous spirit burst into the sky.

Seeing that the Hui cavalry was desperate, Lin Chenghe sneered, waved his hand, and ordered loudly: "Order: In the hands of the shield knife, the Mo knife team retreats to both wings, be sure to block the impact of the enemy cavalry, and those who dare to take a step back, kill!" As soon as this order was given, the Tang Army's shield swordsmen, who were originally listed behind the Mo Dao team, immediately rushed forward, took over the defense of the Mo Dao team, and strangled with the Hui infantry who rushed to kill, while the Mo swordsmen concentrated on the two wings and arranged them in three rows, facing the Hui cavalry that rushed to kill like thunder.

The distance of sixty zhang is really not too far for the Hui cavalry galloping on horseback, this horse accelerated, and in an instant rushed to the front of the Tang army array, close to the central battlefield that had already been a melee, like two rolling dragons to the Tang army's two wings that had not yet been completely lined up, the momentum was terrifying.

The Hui cavalry came too fast, so fast that the Tang Army Modao team, which had just withdrawn to the two wings, didn't even have time to discharge a complete three-row configuration, seeing that the enemy cavalry had already arrived, Ge Xia, who was busy deploying the queue, couldn't help but be anxious, and simply didn't care whether the queue was made or not, and shouted: "All raise their knives and kill!" As soon as the words fell, he took the lead in swinging his knife violently, slashing at a Hui cavalry who rushed over in front of him, the blade passed, the people and horses were broken, and the blood was sprinkled in the air in the screams, although the men and horses died, their momentum was still there, and they collided with Ge Xia alive, and Ge Xia couldn't help but dodge to the side, but at this moment, before Ge Xia raised his knife again, a Hui hundred-household chief had already rushed to the front, and the scimitar in his hand was like a snow chain towards Ge Xia's head and slashed down......

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