Here Tararidan was just about to open his mouth, when suddenly a sense of crisis hit his heart for no reason, and he subconsciously squatted and tilted his head, and felt a strong wind hit his head.

"Take!" A white feather smoke branch four-edged arrow was deep in the pillar of the city tower behind Talaridan, and the white arrow feather was trembling by the strong residual force.

Immediately afterward, the screams and the dull sound of arrows entering the flesh continued to sound, and Talaridan stayed where he was for a while.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! It's the Tang Army! Unazi was the first to react and opened his mouth to shout. No less than ten Shi Guo soldiers had been shot down around him, and the arrows that pierced through the stone country's traditional leather armor made Unaqi reflexively feel familiar fear. Quadrangular Arrows! A four-edged arrow unique to the Anxi Army!

"It's not the Broken Leaf Army! It's the Anxi Army! This is the arrow of the Anxi army! Unazi's facial muscles twisted together viciously, and almost crazy roars poured out of his throat.

"Smack!" The creepy scream was drowned out by a crisp slap. Unazi seemed to have finally woken up from his madness, and looked at his master in front of him in a daze.

"Shut up!" Tararidan's eyes erupted with fire, "Where did the Anxi army come from!" No way! Shoot the arrows! Shoot back! ”

Suddenly, Said stepped forward with an arrow and pressed it to Tararidan: "Here we go again!" ”

"Peng!" Another dense rain of arrows struck the city in a perfect parabola. However, this time, many Shi Guo soldiers had been alert and hid under the arrow stacks, and only a dozen people were shot down.

Syed didn't care about decency, and pulled Tararidan to hide under the nearest arrow stack. It was the first time he had encountered a regular Tang army, and this way of greeting him who had not seen him was really shocked, and at this moment his face was pale, and a trace of panic crossed his eyes.

"Your Majesty! Just now your subordinates said that it was the Anxi Army? ”

Tararidan, who was a little frightened, secretly propped up his upper body and looked at the other side of the river from the lookout, but it was still a blur of smoke pressure, and he couldn't see the flag clearly, and he didn't know how many Tang troops were coming.

"It's impossible to ......" As soon as he said half a sentence, Tararidan suddenly stopped, and the previous uneasiness invaded his heart again.

What's going on?

The third wave of arrows rained by, and the soldiers of the Shi Kingdom defending the city snuggled under the bunker, and none of them dared to stick out their heads to look at the city.

"Boom ......" seemed to be a series of muffled thunder coming from the east bank of the Talas River. Immediately afterward, Talaridan seemed to hear a faint sound of water.

Tararidan's heart moved, and despite the pull of Said and Unazi, he stood up violently.

As far as the eye can see, the Tang army is crossing the river on horseback! On the military flags held high, the Chinese character of Douda is written - "Tang"!

"Archers release arrows! The enemy is crossing the river! Tararidan furiously furious, turned around and roared.

The archers defending the city of Shiguo quickly entered the firing position and took advantage of the condescending position to start shooting. The Tang army in the river seemed to have been prepared, and they set up the shields they carried with them to resist the ruthless bows. The Tang army in the first row carried a large square shield, which was protected by the horse's head, while the cavalry in the back row mostly carried a small round shield, which was very skillful in resisting the flying arrows at a 45-degree angle. As it was, some of the arrows continued to shoot into the gaps between the shields at extremely tricky angles, and the sound of water, arrows, muffled grunts, the sound of arrows shooting at the shields, the sound of knights falling from their horses, and the mournful sounds of horses were constantly intertwined, and the waters of the Talas River began to dye red.

The three rounds of one-and-a-half-stone longbow shooting have temporarily exhausted the strength of the Tang Army's archers, not to mention that they are now in the river, moving slowly, and they can't stop, so they can only be bullied by the other party for a while.

Although this section of the Talas River is not deep, it is also dozens of zhang wide, and it is even slower to cross the river in the rain of arrows. Ashina was silent, and kept pinching the horse's belly. He felt that something was wrong in his heart, looking at the scale of the enemy's bow and arrow counterattack, it didn't look like there were only five hundred people. Could it be that the information is wrong? But now, even if the intelligence is really wrong, there is no way out for him!

Talaridan, who had calmed down, frowned and looked at the situation in front of him, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"General Said! Prince Ben thinks it's better to transfer your troops stationed in Xicheng over! ”

After carefully estimating the number of Tang troops, Said, who had returned to normal at the moment, shook his head in confusion: "Your Majesty, are you too careful?" The Tang army is only a thousand people at most, and it must have come from Broken Leaves. As long as we keep shooting arrows at the top of the city, they can't get any close. Or should the focus of defense be on the west side of the city! ”

Talaridan was silent for a long time, and suddenly picked up an arrow under his feet: "General, have you seen this?" ”

Said shook his head hesitantly, remembering Unazi's previous scream, and his heart skipped a beat.

"This kind of arrow, I am familiar with...... We Shiguo people are very familiar with it! Tararidan's voice was filled with unforgettable hatred, "This is the four-edged arrow of the Anxi Army!" ”

Said's facial muscles twitched: "Impossible! This must be a suspicious tactic of the Broken Leaf Army! The Anxi army had already fallen into the encirclement of General Ziyad at this moment, how could it be possible to appear east of Talas? There must be a fraud in this......"

"General!" Tararidan let out a loud shout, stopping Said from continuing, "I suspect that the Anxi army is divided into two ways this time!" Our face-to-face enemy at the moment, there is a good chance that the ** is the real Anxi Army! The soldiers of our Shiguo have been entangled with the Anxi Army for many years, and this feeling will not be wrong! ”

Said hesitated for a moment, and Tararidan added in a solemn tone: "General, if Talas is broken from the east, then what's the point of us holding on to the west of the city?" ”

Before the words fell, Said, who was facing the east, had already changed color!

Talaridan didn't know what was going on, and quickly turned around. Looking at this, I can't help but gasp!

After the previous 1,000 Tang soldiers and horses left behind dozens of corpses, they had all crossed the river, but at this moment, on the east bank of the river, a large group of Tang soldiers appeared!

When the first banner of the word "Li" was waved in the wind, Li Siye arrived!

"Herald! Let Majid lead his team of 1,000 men to quickly come over! "This time, there is no need for Talaridan to ask, Saeed has already shouted the order with all his might!

The three thousand well-equipped Tang Army, whether it is the Anxi Army or not, this is definitely a hard bone that cannot be gnawed!

Said regretted it a lot, if he had known that it was the result now, then he would not hesitate to pull all his subordinates to the west bank of the river to prevent the Tang army from crossing the river! Now that the opportunity has been lost, the vanguard of the Tang Army has gained a firm foothold!

Ashina Zhe's face was gloomy, and his wolf-like eyes stared fiercely at the head of Talas.

"Battalion Captain, General Li has arrived."

"I know!" Ashina waved his hand angrily, "Captain Xi!" Array! ”

"Array?" Xi Mugao suspected that he had misheard, he had come to ask for a charge! Taking advantage of the fact that General Li has not crossed the river yet, he can rush quickly, and he can save some face, right? What if the ancestral grave smokes and really lets yourself rush down? Isn't your current formation tantamount to admitting that you have suffered a setback in the siege?

"Array!" Ashina Duzhe has replied to a qualified battalion lieutenant, "I don't know what went wrong, anyway, the defenders of Talas now are not something that our people can gnaw!" ”

Feeling the coldness emanating from Ashina's body, Xi Mugao couldn't help but shiver. This boss of the opposite sex can't help but contradict himself again and again!

"Yes!" Xi Mugao answered loudly, then turned his head and shouted, "Cloth-shield array!" ”

The former army of Shule had been maintaining the posture of standing a shield defense, and now when they heard the order of this cloth shield array, they immediately gathered in an orderly manner to form a long snake formation, and the huge square shield was erected high in the front line, and the round shield protected the oblique top, leaving a river beach about ten zhang wide.

The arrows at the head of the city had largely stopped, and Talaridan saw that it had had little effect, and no longer made useless attacks.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other from an open space of about 150 zhang.

Although the situation was calm, the atmosphere was more depressing.

Li Siye's follow-up troops began to cross the river one after another, and at the same time, the thousand-man army led by Said's Majid also hurriedly moved from the west of the city to the east gate against the root of the city wall.

Said looked at the Tang Army's river-crossing troops in surprise, there were more than two thousand! After a panicked glance at Tararidan, Said finally took the initiative to issue his first sensible order of the day: "All the cavalry of the West City will return to defend the East Gate!" Ride fifty miles to the west, and report back immediately if you find any traces of the enemy! ”

That's right, his Sayyid's task was to block the way for the Anxi army to retreat eastward, but only if he held Talas and did not get it to the Don army!

And, most importantly, the Tang Army under the city is definitely not the Broken Leaf Army! How could there be so many Tang troops in Broken Leaf City? There is only one answer - the Anxi Army!

When Li Siye crossed the Talas River and saw the banner at the head of the city, especially when he saw the great cannibal cavalry who had hurried to his army to form a formation, the shock in his heart was not at all small compared to the Yide and Tararidan.

Big cannibal! It's actually the cavalry of the Great Eat!

Didn't you say that these grandsons were still wandering around in Tuozhi City?!

Look at the formation in front of you, there are three thousand people! It's all cavalry! Could it be that Gao Gong's plan has been seen through?

On the city wall of Talas, groups of Shiguo soldiers struggled to push the city guard cart and desperately transported it to the east gate. This kind of city defense vehicle is actually a catapult, in the past, the Anxi army skillfully used this siege equipment, and the defenders of the stone country who beat the city of Tuozhi cried wolf, Talaridan remembered this vividly, and simply made a lot of imitations, although I don't know how effective the actual combat is, but at least it can give his subordinates a little confidence - this thing was also high-tech at that time. It's just that in order to guard against the Anxi army coming from the west, all the city defense vehicles were transferred to the west gate, and now they have to move to the east gate, and the soldiers who pushed the carts scolded the commander for being ridiculous.

Li Siye also had bitterness on his side, thinking that the soldiers stationed in Talas City were at most a few hundred stone soldiers, except for a few crossbows (that is, the famous bed crossbows), he didn't bring any heavy siege equipment at all. How do you know that there are several times more defenders now, and there are still a large number of big food cavalry, what should I do now?

Can't wait any longer, the stone ** at the head of the city is busy running back and forth, I don't know what to dispatch, anyway, there won't be any good fruit to eat, it's better to take advantage of the sharp spirit of his own troops, kill him first!

Glancing at Ashina Zhe from a distance, Li Siye's eyes widened, his anger sank, and he shouted:

"Mention!"