The five thousand foot soldiers were divided into ten phalanxes, and they stood in a staggered manner. Each phalanx consisted of five hundred, but it was divided into pikemen, sword and shield men, and crossbowmen.

And behind the phalanx of foot soldiers, three thousand cavalry stood on horseback.

This is Jianchang.

It is the location of Zuo Jin Wuwei Xue Chong.

Since Han Qi arrived in Jianchang and set a strategy with Xue Chong, Zuo Jin Wuwei began to retreat in great strides, until he retreated to the first line of Jianchang, Jianyuan, and Suizhong.

But here, the Tang army had to fight, a real battle.

Because if you continue to retreat and avoid fighting, you can't say that you are a battlefield veteran like Deng Jingshan and Zhang Zhongwu, even if you have a little experience in the army, you will be aware of the problems inside.

How can there be a reason to retreat to the location of their own Chinese army and still not send a target?

Don't say that they are the invincible, invincible, and prestigious Tang Army in the past, even if it is changed to any force, they will not allow such a thing to happen.

If it really happens, it can only mean that there are ghosts.

Therefore, the battle of Jianchang must be fought, and it is a real and tragic battle.

"Here, we want to let Deng Jingshan know that our previous retreat was just to concentrate our vital strength to teach him a lesson here, not to be afraid of him." Han Qi said with a smile: "So, in Jianchang, we not only want to beat Deng Jingshan to hurt and fear, but also let him understand that the Tang army was his nemesis in the past and is still his nemesis." ”

Xue Chong laughed: "Today, let the pacification envoy see the heroic nature of these eight thousand men of our Zuojin Wuwei." ”

"We'll see!" Han Qi smiled and nodded.

The 8,000 people in the battle under the city can be said to be the essence of the entire Zuo Jin Wuwei, and they are the courage of tens of thousands of Zuo Jin Wuwei.

A few miles away from Jianchang City, tens of thousands of Liao troops also stood solemnly, and on a high platform erected, Deng Jingshan stared at the outline of Jianchang City opposite.

A few years ago, he was surrounded here, and then after consulting with the Tang army, he led his personal guards to get rid of it, but left tens of thousands of subordinate troops on the left and right to the Tang army.

This is the shame of his life.

Today, he's back.

He wanted to wash away his previous shame with victory.

"The soldiers are lined up outside, the city gate is wide open, Xue Chong is bullying us and can't beat it!" Seeing the arrogant opening of the city gate on the opposite side, Deng Jingshan was slightly angry in his heart, but he still smiled to himself and looked back on the left and right. "He retreated all the way here, didn't he just want to have a decisive battle with us here, a few years of lying on the salary and tasting the courage, just for the sake of today, generals, today's battle, Xianxue past shame, I hope you will live up to me, and you will not live up to the King of Liao."

"Originally worked for the Great General. Defeat the Tang Army, occupy Jianchang, and capture Xue Chong alive! On the high platform, more than a dozen senior generals bowed in unison and said loudly.

Deng Jingshan waved his hand: "Generals, go and kill the enemy, I will cheer for you!" ”

The generals got off the platform, turned over their horses, and ran to their subordinates.

On the high platform, Deng Jingshan slowly walked to the edge, where there was a cowhide drum, and around the high platform, in front of hundreds of bare-armed men, there was also a similar big drum.

Deng Jingshan picked up the drumstick, raised it high, and fell down with a bang.

Hundreds of big men also raised their drumsticks, and the sound of more than 100 big drums at the same time immediately spread far away with the sound of the wind.

On the city of Jianchang, dozens of trumpeters held the unique military horn of the Tang Army, with their feet apart, standing on the battlements, one hand crossed their waists, and the other hand raised the military horn to their mouths, and the red cloth tied to the military horn fluttered in the wind.

The sound of the rousing military horn suddenly sounded.

Under the city, the infantry phalanx, the pikemen with guns in both hands, raised and fell in unison, and each time they fell, they were accompanied by a low roar.

Behind them, the sword and shield soldiers stood solemnly, holding a shield in one hand to their chests, and the other hand was slashing, the back of the knife striking the shield, each blow accompanied by a low roar.

The roar was not loud, but the voices of thousands of people came together and it was thrilling.

Luo Hongxin rode on the war horse, slowly swept past the thousand cavalry he led, and the family heirloom horse lance in his hand was raised diagonally, colliding with the spears of the cavalry in the front row stretched diagonally into the air one by one.

Running from one end to the other, and then speeding back from the other, back to the front of the group, he raised his lance sharply.

"For all peoples!"

"Open the peace!"

Thousands of knights responded loudly.

Here the roar fell high, and on the other side, the roar of another thousand-man cavalry team rang out at the same time, and then, a third thousand-man cavalry team.

After three shouts, the three cavalry thousand-man teams slowly moved forward under the leadership of their respective generals. Walk through the infantry phalanx.

On the city of Chengchang, the sound of the military horn became more and more excited, and when a very high tone fell after a few turns, above the city, countless drums sounded.

Luo Hongxin broke his horse and accelerated, and took the lead in jumping out of the gap in the infantry phalanx.

"For all peoples!"

"Open the peace!"

This time, not only his subordinate cavalry, but also all the infantry phalanxes also let out the same roar at the same time.

Three thousand cavalry jumped out and rushed to the opposite side, and on the opposite side, the cavalry of the Liao army was also rushing in like a tide.

Behind the cavalry, five thousand left Jinwuwei foot soldiers, followed closely behind the cavalry, and took steady steps forward. And the crossbowmen in their ranks raised their arms and stretched their crossbows, pointing diagonally into the air.

With a bang, thousands of crossbow arrows flew into the air, passed the charging Zuojin Wuwei cavalry, flew into the air, and then turned back and shot at the surging Liao cavalry.

The infantry and cavalry of the Don Army fought in concert.

The infantry would never wait for the cavalry to have a result before going into battle, they followed closely behind the cavalry, and when the Tang cavalry came out of the formation, the opponent's cavalry that rushed forward would fall into the array of Tang infantry soldiers.

These patchwork formations were traps for hunting the enemy's cavalry.

This kind of coordinated operation requires extremely strict discipline requirements for foot soldiers. Because the speed of the cavalry on both sides is still extremely fast after staggering and fighting, the foot soldiers need to use their flesh and blood to meet the impact of the opponent's cavalry, and the casualties that the phalanx at the front will suffer are self-evident.

This is the use of a phalanx of huge casualties in exchange for an advantage in the form of the entire battlefield.

Once the enemy's cavalry falls into this trap, there is almost no chance of escape. The phalanx of infantry will form a complete slaughter against the cavalry, while the own cavalry will turn around and strike a fatal blow from the back of the enemy's cavalry.

There are two ways to break this tactic, one is that the cavalry is extremely sharp, and can ignore the enemy's infantry phalanx, and once again kill the infantry phalanx through the formation. The other adopted the same tactics and entangled the cavalry of the Tang Army with foot soldiers.

Deng Jingshan could only hope that his cavalry would be able to penetrate the Tang army's infantry phalanx. He knew very well that if he adopted the same tactics as the Tang Army, he would definitely not achieve the effect he wanted. Because most of the Liao army is not like the Tang Army's all-professional soldiers.

The soldiers of the Tang Army were completely out of work, and their daily work was to train and retrain.

And this, it takes a lot of money.

The Liao army could not compete with the Tang army economically. This kind of cost is enough to drag down the economy of the Liao, except for the descendant troops, the vast majority of them still use the government soldier system.

The second is the soldier's equipment. The foot soldiers of the Tang army were fully armoured, and in this regard, the Liao people were even more incomparable. The steel required to make a suit of armor was enough for them to build a dozen knives and dozens of spearheads. There is only one way to expect the Liao army foot soldiers with simple armor on their bodies to resist the charge of the Tang cavalry, and that is to exchange a large number of human lives.

Deng Jingshan, of course, was unwilling.

But Deng Jingshan is not without advantages. He has more cavalry, and the impact will be stronger. At this time, under the city of Jianchang, his forces also had an advantage. According to his estimates, there will not be more than 20,000 Tang troops in the current Jianchang City, because in Jianyuan and Suizhong, there is clear information that the Tang army also has a part of the main force stationed there.

The coaches of both sides have their own plans, of course, to implement it, it still depends on the performance of the generals and all the soldiers.

The two armies met in a narrow way, and the brave won.

The cavalry collided with each other, and the 3,000 Tang cavalry collided head-on with the 5,000 Liao cavalry. Three black arrows plunged headlong into the sea of red.

Luo Hongxin pursed his lips, his upper body leaned forward slightly, the family heirloom horse lance in his hand leaned forward, and when he felt a slight pressure on his arm, he drank for a while, and the horse lance pole suddenly bent out of an arc, and in front of the lance, a Liao cavalry was pierced on it, and with the lance rod straightening, the person also fell among the horses.

Thousands of cavalry fought against each other, and with every engagement, someone would fall off their horses.

It's a long time to say, but on the real battlefield, the staggered passage of the two armies happened in just a few moments, and the cavalry at the head of both sides had already penetrated the formation.

In front of the Tang army was a large open space, and the infantry of the Liao army were still beating drums and shouting in the distance, Luo Hongxin continued to move forward, and after running for a distance, Le Ma galloped to the left, went around in a circle and ran back.

He saw the ass of the cavalry of the Liao army.

And the cavalry vanguard of the Liao army, when they came out of the formation, less than a hundred steps away from them were the Tang infantry phalanx.

The first thing that greeted them was the baptism of crossbowmen, and countless crossbow arrows were shot out horizontally. The galloping war horses overturned countless times. The cavalry of the Liao army withstood this rain of arrows and accelerated their advance.

The pikemen shouted, slammed the tail of their spears into the ground, held the front of their spears in their hands, raised them diagonally, and then they were resigned to their fate.

The horses slammed into each other.

The gun breaks, the man flies, the horse falls, and the knight falls.

The phalanx of foot soldiers at the front collapsed in an instant.

But the sword and shield bearers and crossbow archers after the pikemen took advantage of this little bit of space, and with a roar, they had already swung their swords and killed them.

The knife rises, and the hoof breaks.

Shield dance, leg break.

Arrows fly, people fall.