The reinforcements of the Tang State have arrived in Muma City in the area of Gouerbo, which is still more than 60 miles away from Guyuan City.

When Yelu Li Hu heard the report, he had to temporarily stop continuing to attack the city, leaving Xiao Wei to continue to lead the Xi army to continue to besiege the outside of the city, and personally led the main Khitan force and the eight divisions of Yelu Keli and Jelu Sasa to meet the battle.

On the ninth day of the first month of January, Li Qiqin led 50,000 northern cavalry troops to Yangcheng, which was only less than 20 miles away from Yang'erluo, and the camps of the two sides were far away.

In the early morning of the tenth day of the first month, with the horn sounding in the camp of the Chinese army, the Tang army began to leave the camp under Kaiyang City one after another. The snowy grassland on the dam, the cold wind, with the sound of horses' hooves, the original silent field has been trampled into a mess.

After the cavalry general Li Cunshuo led the forward cavalry to leave the camp, he stood on the tower of Yangcheng City and watched Li Qi then walked down the city, surrounded by hundreds of guards and cavalry, and got on his horse and left the city.

The Chinese army came out of the camp, and after converging with the Chinese army, the Nine Great Flame of the Son of Heaven was raised high.

Li Qi wore a bright yellow armor with a strong style, and he was wearing a red coat, and he immediately stood under the banner majestically. The Son of Heaven's personal expedition is the most morale-boosting tactic, at least the soldiers around him are looking at him with reverence.

"All the troops are leaving!"

After completing the entire formation of the 20,000 Chinese army composed of the forbidden army and the Shanbei cavalry, Li Qi ordered in a deep voice.

Lu Wenjin, the envoy of the middle gate who followed behind, raised his right hand when he heard the order, and the herald next to him raised the order flag and waved it immediately.

When the Chinese army of the Tang army came to the battlefield southwest of Yangerluo, the more than 10,000 cavalry of the front army led by Li Cunshuo fought with the 20,000 cavalry of Jeruzaba. Li Qi rode his horse to a small hillside, and even though he was more than five miles away, he seemed to be able to hear Li Cunshuo's roar from the desperate battle in the chaos of the army.

This veteran has been working the grassland all his life, and Li Qi is ready to transfer his two veterans Li Sifeng back to Jinyang after the end of this battle, and give a hot spring house in Xinzhou to live in retirement.

After observing the situation on the battlefield, Li Qi put down the telescope in his hand, and the battle had just begun, and he could see what the results were. It's just that as soon as his banner of the Son of Heaven appeared, it seemed that there was some panic in the direction of the Khitan army. Yelu Lihu definitely didn't expect that he would bring him a surprise, and he always thought that he was still confronting Yelude's army on the Youzhou front.

"What is Li Cunshuo shouting?" Li Qi looked at Lu Wenjin beside him and said.

"What he said was a discouragement word: The Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty has already arrived in person, and he will not surrender to the whole Xu'er clan!" Lu Wenjin replied with a smile.

"Oh, it's even more imposing to shout it in Chinese again." Li Qi muttered.

Lu Wenjin smiled after hearing this, and was embarrassed to squeak.

"The whole army will go two miles ahead, and when the Khitan army is defeated and retreats, our army will break through Li Hu's Chinese army." Li Qi said softly.

His self-confidence is now very strong, and it is impossible for Li Cunshuo's more than 10,000 armored cavalry to lose to more than 20,000 steppe cavalry wearing leather armor.

He Quan, who was following him, saw that Li Qi had already begun to ride his horse forward, so he decisively pointed the order flag in his hand forward, and shook it up and down twice, signaling the entire Chinese army to move forward two miles.

On both sides of the Chinese army, Li Sifeng's left army and Song Tinghao's right army front also began to engage the Khitan flanks.

Now, Li Qi's Chinese army was only six or seven miles apart from Yelu Lihu's Chinese army, and between them, the 30,000 cavalry troops on both sides were in a mixed group, and Li Cunshuo's troops were divided into three parts, and rushed left and right in the enemy's military formation. The Tang army was well equipped, and Li Cunshuo's 3,000 pro-army even wore vests, and after he broke through the enemy's front army, he did not dare to directly provoke Yelu Lihu's Chinese army, but turned back and began to fight back.

Li Qi squinted at the marshal banner of Yelu Li Hu on the dirt mountain opposite, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The two sides are separated by more than 700 paces, but this distance is within the best range of the current artillery.

"Tang Jian, are your artillery ready?" He turned his head sideways and asked softly.

"Your Majesty, fifteen artillery pieces are already in place and are adjusting the angle!" Tang Jian, who was standing on the ground, replied with his hands clenched into fists.

The gun carriage was heavy and had to be dragged by three horses, and the gunners had already unloaded the gun carriage and arranged it on the hillside. The horses and banners of the Chinese army on Li Qi's side were covering the enemy's line of sight and covering the artillery team.

"All the muzzles of the guns are aimed at Yelu Li Hu's Chinese army commander's banner, it doesn't matter if you can't kill Hu Li, the important thing is to smash the enemy's commander's flag! Special Li Hu, the old man sees you fight once and again, and he will teach you to taste something new every time, until you beg for mercy! Li Qi scolded a few words casually and vented the sulking in his heart.

Originally, he was going to take Youzhou in one fell swoop, but he was stirred up by Yelu Deguang, basically the original plan was yellow, and Shi Jingjiao and Zhao Dejun, two fools, were still traitors as always.

This result made Li Qi feel like he had swallowed a fly, and he was disgusted.

"Report to Your Majesty, the cannons have been prepared!" After a few more minutes, Tang Jian reported loudly.

The fifteen guns had all completed their preparations for firing, and the chambers were filled with one and a half pounds of black powder, and finally a fist-sized solid bullet wrapped in deerskin was stuffed into the muzzle. This artillery with a caliber of 12 centimeters has a maximum firing range of 1,300 meters, and now the distance from the enemy's center is about 800 meters, which is in the optimal firing range.

Li Qi nodded, and did not say anything, he was now just waiting for the enemy's front army to show defeat, and then he personally led the forbidden army to break through the Khitan army.

The front army of the Khitan army has been scattered by Li Cunshuo, and the defeat is revealed. Suddenly, a piercing gong sounded on the battlefield. When the frightened Murowei cavalry, who had already been killed by Li Cunshuo, heard the order to retreat, they immediately turned their horses' heads and quickly retreated towards the sides of their own Chinese army.

Li Qi raised the cavalry gun in his hand: "The whole army is assaulting, I am invincible!" ”

"The whole army is assaulted, and I am invincible!"

"Hooray!" ……

The shouts of killing were earth-shattering, and tens of thousands of Tang cavalry began to charge towards the Khitan military formation......

Li Qi didn't wait long, as soon as he joined Li Cunshuo's cavalry, he heard a series of loud noises behind him, and more than a dozen black cannonballs crossed his head and smashed into the area around the Chinese army banner of the Khitans. The first round of shelling was unsuccessful, and although the shells caused great confusion to the enemy's Chinese troops, they did not hit the enemy's Chinese banner.

Tang Jian frantically urged the artillerymen to start filling the barrels with gunpowder again and stuffing them into the shells. Because the cavalry of this side had already begun to charge, only time was left for them to carry out two rounds of artillery bombardment. The guns did not have time to adjust carefully, and a second round of shells was fired.

This time, by mistake, a cannonball finally hit the flagpole of the enemy's flag, and the huge battle flag of the main general broke and fell to the ground in an instant......

"The enemy army has been defeated, rush!"

"Capture Li Hu alive!"

The cavalry generals Yuan Ren, Zhang Qianzhao, and Zhang Chenghua took the lead, each leading 3,000 heavy cavalry to break through the Khitan army formation.

Seeing the Shuai Qi falling, the Khitan army, which had been waiting for the battle, suddenly saw that it was scattered, and was directly broken into the big array by the Tang army. Now it doesn't matter if Yelu Li Hu dies or not, the Khitan cavalry that has lost the command of the Chinese army is like a headless fly, and can only fight on its own.

Li Qi was also the first soldier, with more than 10,000 heavy armored cavalry followed behind Yuan Ren and them, frantically rushed towards the Khitan army, and Li Cunshuo, who had been fighting for nearly an hour, immediately turned his horse's head after a slight adjustment, followed Li Qi's Chinese army, and began to charge again......

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