Li Ye had always had a question before.

When Gao Xianzhi led the army outside Talas City to fight against the Great Food Army, with the combat strength of the Tang Army at that time, why did he attack for five consecutive days and did not break the Great Food Army. At that time, the Mo Dao Formation in the Tang Army was the sharpest in the world, and no one could match it at all, not even block it.

Now seeing the battle situation in front of the city, he has a preliminary answer in his heart. The Crescent Sect monks are indeed extraordinary, and this kind of courage and light-heartedness makes them not retreat lightly, even if they suffer heavy casualties.

When he first recovered Hexi, Li Ye had seen the Tubo warriors, those who lived in the poor mountains and bad waters of the plateau, and were desperate to survive all the time, were indeed more fearless of death than the people in the Central Plains Antai land.

But they were still much worse than these Crescent monks.

The root cause of this is the difference in beliefs.

These Crescent monks are not only firm in their beliefs, but also fanatical in their hearts. From the moment the Crescent Moon Sect appeared, it was a scripture book in one hand and a long sword in the other, which was destined to be its expansion and combativeness, which was not comparable to ordinary sects.

At this point, the Liberation Gate and the Daomen are too moderate and conservative, and there is a kind of meaning that a small wealth is peace, once a certain territory is obtained, it is either an internal struggle for power and profit, or self-expansion, and there is no wild nature to continue to expand.

This is one of the reasons why Shakti was defeated by the Crescent Sect.

Li Ye looked at the front of the two armies that were killing together, and his eyes gradually sharpened.

After the Crescent Sect monks broke into the front line of the Tiger Guards, the offensive momentum was much heavier, although the Tiger Guards formation was broken, but in fact there were not many casualties, and for a while, the soldiers on both sides fell into a scuffle.

Li Ye saw that Zhao Poyu flew to the front, and under the other party's order, the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army behind the melee quickly organized the formation and pushed the big shield formation up again. The Tiger Guards who were fighting in front did not hesitate, and retreated behind the big shield array.

The Great Food Guards wanted to follow the Tiger Guards and take the opportunity to attack the Great Shield Array. Of course, this is unrealistic, and the Tiger Guards are well-trained, so how can they give them this opportunity and keep them out.

As the small formations stabilized their positions, the defense line of the big shield array was re-established, and the entire Tiger Guard front returned to the posture of an iron wall. This made the monks of the Great Food Guards all look like crazy, with red-eyed monsters roaring, and they are like beasts constantly rushing into the Tiger Guard's big shield spear array.

They had just paid a heavy price, they had finally captured the Great Shield Formation, and before they could let go of their hands and feet to fight, they had returned to their previous situation, how could they be willing? Although the Crescent Sect monks died bravely, the death of their comrades would arouse the anger of the warriors everywhere.

Seeing this, Li Ye said to King Qi: "It seems that Zhao Poyu doesn't need our guidance, he is very sober." ”

King Qi disagreed: "If the generals of the Tang Dynasty are only brave and only know how to rush forward and kill, and have no brains, then there can be no glory in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Ye smiled and bowed his head.

Looking at Zhao Poyu's command, Li Ye knew that the other party did not think about immediately attacking the Great Food Guards, but made up his mind to defend first, and use a stable military formation like Mount Tai to consume the combat power and blood courage of the Great Food Guards.

When the other party is tired, that is the time for the Tiger Guards to counterattack, and it is also the easiest time to win. It may take three or five days, or ten and a half days, or even longer. But the combat power of the Great Food Guards is worth waiting for the Tiger Guards.

After seeing the opponent's combat strength clearly, Zhao Poyu can quickly and accurately judge the situation of both sides and make the appropriate countermeasures, which is the quality that generals must have. Let Li Ye also be satisfied.

Again, the defense has a natural advantage. As long as the two sides are equal, the attacker will have to pay a double price for the result. Otherwise, it is also in the art of war

I won't say that ten will be surrounded, five will be attacked, and multiple will be fought.

Without the superiority of troops, there is no qualification to attack.

The battle was in full swing.

Although the outside of the city is not a desert, it is also a desert area, and the fighting of qi cultivators, even if they deliberately control the overflow of spiritual energy, try not to stir up smoke and dust, at this time, the soldiers in the front are all tossing and moving in the wind and sand, leaping up and down.

Very few people can kill the enemy with a few swords, the armor of the monks on both sides is not ordinary, it is full of defense, magic knives and swords are cut on it, and it is no different from ordinary swords cut on iron armor, it is difficult to break the armor with three knives and two knives, not to mention the existence of a round shield - the soldiers of the Tiger Guard also have a small round shield.

Only when a long sword stabs or a spear stabs directly, it can pierce through the opponent's body.

The soldiers of the two teams fought head-on, and often had to fight hard for half a sound before someone on the other side could fall. In this case, the consumption of qi is extremely large, and even a qi cultivator cannot fight for an hour without interruption. It is often a fight for half an hour, and the comrades behind will come up and replace them in turn.

Ordinary soldiers will fight in a melee later, but in the later stage, the Qi cultivator will become a melee battle. Compared with the former, the latter moves more neatly and is more convenient for command and mobilization.

However, in Li Ye's view, any fight, to the extreme, is still inevitable in a melee situation. It's just that for the Tiger Guards and the Great Food Guards, this limit is a bit high and difficult to reach.

That's how evenly matched the fight is.

The number of troops put into the battlefield by both sides is more than 200,000, but it is the peripheral queue that really fights in formation. In addition to the reckless rush into the formation of the Great Food Guards before, which caused a large number of monks to be damaged, the subsequent monks were killed and wounded only in the hundreds or thousands.

"Now the problem has come to the side of the Great Eclipse Guards, if they want to break through the Tiger Guards' Great Shield Spear Formation, they must leap into the formation and pay the price of several times or even nearly ten times the casualties. ”

Li Ye looked at the battlefield and said, "But if they don't do this, they will never want to enter the formation, and if they want to shake the big shield spear formation head-on, it is simply unrealistic." If they don't give up the attack, the Great Shield Spear Formation will also cause them more casualties than the Tiger Guards. ”

King Qi said: "The Great Food Guards are attacking with great momentum, and the whole army must be determined to defeat the Tiger Guards." Now that their attack has been frustrated, there is no way to take the Tiger Guards' battle formation, and there will inevitably be a gap in the monks' hearts. If the offensive cannot be maintained, it will be a big blow to morale.

"At this time, even if you know that the attack will pay a heavy price, in my opinion, the Great Food Guards can only continue to attack. That way they still have a chance to win. Otherwise, the situation will not be good for them. ”

Speaking of this, King Qi laughed, "This is also the price they need to pay if they dare to attack my Tang Dynasty King Division head-on without saying a word." ”

Li Ye snorted and agreed with King Qi's judgment.

Then he smiled and said: "This war is to be won and lost after all, and it is better to take the initiative to attack than to wait for others to attack, at least you can seize the initiative." In fact, even if the Great Food Guards retreated, they might not have much of a problem, as long as they could adjust their mentality. ”

The Great Food Guards need to realize that the Tang Army is different from the enemies they have encountered before, and change their usual pride mentality of treating the world's elites as dung. In this way, they will give up the offensive and wait for the Tiger Guards to attack, and the situation will be much better for them.

King Qi understood what Li Ye meant, and frowned slightly: "If that's the case, can the Tiger Guards break through their battle formation?"

This question is critical and deadly.

Li Ye was noncommittal.

With King Qi's fiery temperament, in the face of Li Ye's behavior of selling Guanzi, he didn't even ask questions.

She also knows very well that it is not clear at the moment.

The offensive capability of the Great Food Guards has been reflected, but the defensive capability has not been revealed much at the moment.

After all, the Tiger Guards have the means to press the bottom of the box, and the Great Food Guards may also have them, and none of these will be exposed in the early stages of the battle. Because once the means of pressing the bottom of the box are used, but no results are achieved, then the victory basically does not belong to you.

In the sky above the battle formation of the Great Food Guards, Ali had a gloomy face, looking at the queue of the fierce battle between the two armies without saying a word.

In his eyes, the battle formations of the two armies were two lakes that suddenly squeezed together and made waves at the boundary, and it was also the raging sea that crashed against the solid reef and splashed in a line of waves.

There is no doubt that the battle was fierce. With every blow of the monks on both sides, a dazzling aura of light erupted, a shot was like fire, a slash was like a moon, and a shield separated the two worlds of air explosion and calm waves.

However, the lake of the Great Eclipse Guards has never been able to swallow the lake of the Tiger Guards, and the huge ocean of the Great Eclipse Guards has never been able to submerge the reef, so it can only splash in vain.

"Deputy Commander, if we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to take down the Tang Army today!" said a senior monk anxiously.

Ali pondered for a moment and shouted: "Attack with all your strength and order the monks to cross the Tang Army's shield array! As long as a shield array appears in the future, no matter how much it costs, they will all jump over! I don't believe it, the Tang Army's battle formation is really impregnable, and it won't be chaotic!"

"Yes!"

After the military order was issued, the Crescent Sect monks once again organized their forces and jumped over the shield array to fight into the Tang army. This time, they improved their tactics and were no longer satisfied with jumping over a shield array and breaking into the front of the Tang army. Every time the Tang army appeared in a battle formation, they would jump directly over and continue to move forward.

In this way, the monks of the follow-up Great Food Guards will continue to follow up and join the battlefield. They paid extremely heavy casualties, and the corpses on the ground gradually increased, and the yellow sand in many places was stained dark brown with blood.

However, more and more monks of the Great Diet Guards joined the ranks of the battle, and the two warring sides spread from the front to the center, and the situation suddenly became chaotic, and the large and small battle formations in front of the center began to fight.

Ali's eyes flashed with essence, and he secretly said in his heart: "The Tang Army is indeed extraordinary, if you want to defeat them, it is not an easy thing to achieve, you must pay a price, even a big price."

"I have the advantage of 50,000 monks, and I must make the most of them, and I can afford to pay the price of the leap. In the face of such a fierce offensive, can the Tang army's battle formation really be stable? Let me see what kind of means the most elite army of the Tang Dynasty has to press the bottom of the box!"

He knew very well that in today's battle, even if he could not completely break through the Tang army's formation, he must achieve some results, otherwise it would be very detrimental to the morale of the army. If it really can't break through the Tang Army's formation, then it is also necessary to stimulate the last means of the Tang Army's battle formation, so that it is convenient to make targeted arrangements in the coming day and win the final victory.

Zhao Poyu saw that the Great Food Guards had adopted this extreme tactic, they didn't treat the monks as human beings at all, they didn't take human lives seriously, and they had to go deep into the Tiger Guards formation step by step when they filled the corpses, and their eyes sank.

He knew that he couldn't let the Great Food Guards maintain such a ferocious offensive, otherwise the Tiger Guards, who were inferior in strength, might not be able to hold their positions in the coming day, even if they could hold on today.

The Tiger Guards fought for victory, not really blindly clinging to it.

He looked at Ali from afar, his eyes were fierce, and he sneered: "Since you want to know how powerful the Tiger Guard Army is, then I will let you see what the Tang Dynasty is heroic!"