According to the established rhythm of the contemporaneous army, the overture of the war is often played by the earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves and the smoke and dust in the sky, and this battle is no exception.

The afternoon sun shone on the ground, making the marching Tang army feel a little lazy.

I don't know when, the enemy scouts who had been looming around the rear of the army had disappeared, making the soldiers feel a little uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, the battles they had experienced before were not enough for them to perceive the danger.

And any experienced general would not ignore this abnormal sign, and the two Kansai generals immediately sent someone to report to Pei Lian, and at the same time sent scouts to investigate the surroundings, and ordered the officers under their command to be ready to meet the enemy's attack at any time.

It's also a pity that they are not the commanders of the army, and a lot of time is wasted on saliva back and forth.

Moreover, the large and bloated rear army is also desperately slow to react.

When the smoke and dust spread in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves was already faintly audible, the rear army of the Tang Army seemed to wake up.

The Tang army on the periphery barely stopped in the hoarse shouts of the generals, raised their shields, set up their spears, and protected the flanks of the army.

Even Li Shentong had repeatedly warned his generals to beware of a sneak attack by the enemy, and made a lot of arrangements, especially in the speed of the march, he kept his pace down, did not advance quickly, and pulled the army away.

No matter how well it can be arranged, it cannot change the fact that the Tang army is too bloated and slow to respond, and the combat strength of the various units of the Tang army is uneven.

At the time of war, if the Tang army has the opportunity to reorganize and fight, this shortcoming can be covered up with strong troops.

However, the enemy they faced was the most adept at athletic warfare, and the shortcomings of the Tang army became more and more obvious in this kind of encounter.

The array was uneven, the various armies lacked a minimum tacit understanding, and chaos began to spread to the entire army on the flanks of the Tang army like contagion.

It seemed that in just a moment, all kinds of noisy sounds came together and resounded in the sky.

Of course, the Tang army, which had been prepared for a long time, would not fall into chaos before seeing the enemy's figure, and this was only the first time they were attacked, which made the Tang army, which had not yet entered the rhythm of the war, panic.

In fact, at this time, the most panicked person was not the Tang army soldiers, but Pei Lian, the main general who was supposed to lead them into battle.

What Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and his face did not change, what was calm in battle, and if the command was determined, he was far away from Pei Lin at this time, and the psychological preparations he made before were useless at all.

Because he didn't know what to do, what to give when the enemy came.

The sound of the request in his ears made him even more at a loss, more than 100,000 troops surrounded him, and before the battle, the main general of the army panicked......

Of course, there is nothing strange about it, the literati lead the troops, nothing more than that.

Pei Lin can also be regarded as a hero who went south with the army to capture Chang'an, and he was even more above the generals, but then again, these have nothing to do with military merits.

If he had a deep plan and was able to fight habitually, there would not be so many people who were dissatisfied, and Liu Wenjing would not dare to repeatedly provoke in front of him.

It can be said that at the time of the first battle, the performance of the rear army of the Tang Army was so bad that it was almost impossible to describe.

The Tang Army, which lacked the effective wisdom of the Chinese army, almost fought on its own, but fortunately, Li Shentong arranged it quite meticulously and did not directly expose the entire flank of the rear army in front of the enemy, otherwise, this battle of thousands of iron cavalry may have to create a miracle on the battlefield.

The cavalry came quickly, accompanied by the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, and a group of horsemen came on horseback, and when they came closer, they turned their direction slightly and crossed not far from the flank of the Tang army.

They bent their bows and arrows, and the hum of the bowstrings resounded in the earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves, and the arrows rained down like locusts, and the black pressure rose into the sky.

"Raise the shield, raise the shield, don't move, don't move."

"Archers prepare, archers prepare......"

The sound of one after another continued to sound in the Tang army, but it was almost drowned out by the sound of horses' hooves and all kinds of noisy sounds.

The arrows rained down, the shields clanged, and the popping sound of the arrows entering the flesh immediately sounded continuously, and the Tang army fell to the ground, and the screams became louder in an instant.

No more rhetoric, no more intrigues.

The cavalry of the same generation used the most cruel and direct and brutal way to simply kick off the war.

The attacks are wave-like, with almost no interruptions.

Thousands of cavalry of the same generation lined up in several columns, galloping continuously from the flanks of the Tang army, and the arrows continued to rise into the sky, like a lingering spring rain above the Tang army's head.

But the scene is terrifying, the Tang army has paid a very heavy price for the previous chaos, the shield is not raised in time, and the shield is not tightly covered.

The Tang soldiers gathered in one place fell down one by one like a wheat field blown by the wind, and the blood stained the ground under their feet red after a few moments.

When thousands of cavalry swept by, a clear line was drawn on the flank of the rear army of the Don army, where countless corpses lay down, the wounded were howling desperately, and the living were holding their shields and trembling on their heads.

And this is only the beginning, once the war begins, it will not stop again......

Li Po gave the cavalry generals the greatest autonomy, and led thousands of cavalry to harass the rear army of the Tang army and cut off the grain route of the Tang army.

And Xue Wanche, who is bent on making meritorious achievements, needs to use a perfect battle to show his leading talent, so is there a better choice than killing and wounding more enemy troops?

The parallel cavalry, which circled the horses and returned, once again used the unique way of cavalry, quickly swept over the flank of the Tang army, repeating everything before.

This time, the Tang army finally shot arrows in response, and several unlucky guys were shot on the horses, but only one person was hit by his companions' horses, and the rest rolled up from the ground, grabbed the arms of their comrades, turned over and ran on the horse's back.

This is enough to make many people desperate for skillful equestrianism, a unique job to save their lives in war.

After two times, after the first wave of casualties, the Tang army seemed to have finally come to its senses, and the generals tried to control the soldiers, let them step forward to fill the vacant positions, and put the shields up densely.

The archers are also constantly on the move, ready to inflict damage on the enemy.

The contest between the infantry army and the cavalry is finally on the right track, which shows that the Tang army is not a soft persimmon, and it is impossible for thousands of cavalry to easily shake the Tang army's military formation.

The military in this year is different from the usual season, and they also have quite strict military discipline as a constraint, although the main general is incompetent, but they are not a chaotic army that is about to collapse after all.

And this raid and harassment battle, starting from the afternoon, in less than half an hour, the casualties of the Tang army finally became smaller, and the casualties of the cavalry began to increase.

Now the sharp weapons against the cavalry, in addition to the fortified city and the same cavalry, I am afraid that there are archers.

Arrows flew back and forth in the sky, people shouted and horses neighed, and smoke and dust covered the sun.

The cavalry scattered on behalf of the army, like wolves, patrolled the rear army of the Tang army, once there was a gap, they would immediately rush up and bite it, and then rely on the advantage of the war horses to quickly move away, without giving the Tang army too many opportunities to kill and injure them.

This is not a classic raid and harassment operation, because the Tang army has almost no worries about the grain route being cut off, and the grain and grass are actually protected in the army.

But the cavalry of the same generation was under the command of Xue Wanche, but it still caused a lot of trouble to the Tang army, and it couldn't catch up, and it couldn't take advantage of these cavalry.

The entire rear army, more than 100,000 people, gradually stopped.

The middle army and the people on the other side of the army were all nervously staring at the eastern periphery of the slaughter, but they could see nothing but smoke and dust.

At this time, Li Shentong sent someone to inquire about the battle situation.

This question is good, originally I just wanted to know the situation of the rear army encountering the enemy, and there was no intention to blame, but Pei Lin was anxious, his mind was blank before, and after knowing that the enemy army was only a few thousand, not a large team, he was a little ashamed in his heart.

was asked by Li Shentong again, and finally became a little annoyed and angry, and gave a very stupid order.

He ordered 3,000 cavalry in his army to go into battle and cooperate with the infantry to defeat the attacking enemy.

If the Tang army is elite enough, this is not a ridiculous military order, but the Tang army cavalry boasts that it can fight, but compared with the iron cavalry of the same generation, hehe......

The cavalry of the 3,000 Tang Army was originally on the right flank of the Chinese army, but in fact, it was also set up to prevent enemy attacks, which would send troops from the flank, but it would not take much effort.

The commander of the 3,000 cavalry was Liu Xuanying, the former lieutenant of Jiangjun, who was later reappointed as Sima of Jiangzhou to join the army, which can be said to be an authentic Pei disciple.

Being able to lead 3,000 cavalry, this identity is almost indispensable, and as for whether he can lead the troops to charge and kill, there is no need to doubt it, after all, he is also the military governor of a county.

But if you want to say how talented he is, and how much experience he has in leading cavalry expeditions, that's nonsense.

The real cavalry generals can only be born in the borderlands, and now in addition to the merger of the two states, in fact, there is only the northwest left.

He has been staying in Jiangzhou to guard the door of the Pei family, and compared with the cavalry generals under Li Po's command, he is not at the same level at all.

The three thousand cavalry troops came out of the flank, almost hitting Xue Wanche's arms.

It's like falling asleep and you bring you a pillow.

In fact, there was no need for Xue Wanche to give an order, Shi Da, who bore the brunt of the attack, immediately led his troops to retreat, away from the flank of the Tang army.

It can be seen that a person's experience is the key factor for a person's achievement, and in many cases, talent has to be ranked behind.

If each led a thousand cavalry to fight at this time, even those heroes and heroes who were passed on by word of mouth later would almost have to be taken off by Shi Da.

Like Liu Xuanying, it is even more of a problem, Shi Da's instinctive reaction is to lead these thousands of cavalry to chase them out.

(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )