Bailiyan (Wei Xian) also drew 600 wounded and sick soldiers, old soldiers, and young children from the Leopard Tao Camp, stayed behind to take care of the horses and female dependents, and at the same time temporarily filled the 600 people of the Xiaocai Battalion into the Leopard Tao Camp. There are nearly 500 Xianguo disciples under Bai He's command, and they are familiar with Sikong Nan, so that the two of them and Su Hong join forces, and there are more than 1,000 people.

Fang Qian, Lu Zhao's second general still has a small 2,000 men and horses, they have never been involved in the battle along the way, Lu Zhao's command is mostly the children of Zhiguo, and several times he was returned by Bailiyan, Fang Qian is a native of Xu Guo, and he is bent on quitting the army. Lu Zhao had already intended to surrender, but he had no chance, and the key was Fang Qian.

"General Fang, this battle is very important, I don't know if the general is willing to fight hand in hand with our army."

Fang Qian was very calm, and said:

"Although Fang is not talented, he still knows about things like submitting a name, so please ask General Wei for orders."

"General Fang is well aware of the righteousness, and I, Wei, deeply admire it. Well, I also invite General Fang and General Lu to charge together after the general Bao Tao's camp when they rush today. ”

"No, obey the general!"

The Central Plains countries have their own characteristics in training and warfare, and Zhiguo is good at "defensive and offensive warfare", using a crossbow with a huge range to the sky, using shield armor and spears as a cover, and killing the enemy with a rain of arrows. Because of the defensive position to destroy the enemy, hence the name "defensive offensive battle".

The sky-high crossbow arrows use triangular pyramid spur arrows with larger length-diameter ratios, and the penetrating force generated by throwing them up to the sky is great, and the thick wooden shield is difficult to resist, and it is necessary to have copper shields and iron shields, so it is difficult to defend with shields.

There is a large grassland in the south of Xu State, the population is medium, and the coordinated operation of horse infantry is the first among all countries, but the population is small after all, and the tactical tactics are relatively conservative.

Sun Guo is a traditional army power, emphasizing military pawns, with a shield equipping rate of as high as fifty percent, and a lot of strong bows, but after all, he was defeated by the Zhiguo Chaotian crossbow array.

The Jin State, like the Sun State, was the tactical thinking of the Continental Army in the early days, and after subduing the Song State and obtaining the superior war horse farm, the Army inherited the tradition of a strong army, and the cavalry learned the Song State horse warfare, and the combat power was highly evaluated. The biggest flaw is the army's lack of combat experience and the conservative strategy of the generals. Even though a large number of middle and high-level generals were trained in the First Battle of Jiangdong that year, they still lacked the experience of fighting large-scale and in-depth battles.

Changsun country is a piece of, thanks to the three seasons of rice a year, its population ranks first in the Central Plains, in addition to the navy, the army is known as a million standing division, two million people wear armor, in fact, it is useless, it is rumored that the black turban army of 100,000 horses will hang its 300,000 troops, killing chickens, dogs, jumping people and turning over on horses, it can be seen how worrying the combat power of the army of Changsun country.

In addition to uniting people's hearts and solving the problem of soldiers, learning from each other's strengths will help understand the tactics of various countries and enhance the combat effectiveness of the vanguard battalion.

Especially in the State of Xu, the people are fierce and good at horsemanship, and most of the generals of the State of Xu who were incorporated by the Black Turban Army separated them from the horses and transferred them out of the territory of the State of Xu, just because they were worried that the soldiers of the State of Xu would rebel behind their backs. In fact, if it can be used, the Black Turban Army's operation in Xu State will be smoother.

The Xian army repaired for nearly an hour, and after they were fed, each person brought only two days' rations, all his personal belongings were discarded, and he hurried to seventy miles away with light clothes.

Song He didn't see any trace of the Xianjun army for three consecutive days, thinking that the Xianjun army must have fled, and most of them couldn't do anything, otherwise they couldn't have thrown down forty or fifty thousand donkeys and horses in a hurry and fled without a trace.

So it was not until the third pole of the sun that the men and horses were urged, and the horses continued westward, and they stayed until about two o'clock in the afternoon, when the scout in front of them returned in a panic, and immediately carried another man on his back, and was already exhausted and unconscious. This person is the messenger sent by the Divine Power Heavenly King, the person has passed out, and he didn't even wake up by splashing two basins of water, and he touched his forehead with his hand, and it was hot:

"It's heat stroke!" Song He said: "Quick, there is a letter to this person!" ”

The guards rummaged up and down several times, and found only one Lingjian.

The front of the Lingjian has the word "Ling" written on it, and the back is usually blank, which is used to write simple commands. After handing over the order, you only need to scrape off the clear order behind the bamboo slip, and you can reuse it, which is very convenient.

There is usually only one order Jane, and the same content reported by the two messengers can be verified left and right, and if there is a discrepancy, the order Jane or the secret letter shall prevail. The messenger captured by Bailiyan did not find Ling Jian, if there was, I am afraid that Song He would have to make another plan.

The writing behind Ling Jian is clear and abnormal, only six words, slaughtering the horses of the Xian army!

The messenger was unconscious, and he didn't know what happened to Shao Ping, and the Divine Power Heavenly King suddenly wanted to slaughter the horse, and Song He couldn't figure it out:

"It's strange, why did the King of Heaven suddenly slaughter horses, could it be that the Xianjun army is going to attack Shao Ping? No, I can't. With the king of heaven in charge, how can he lose Shao Ping. ”

Song He was puzzled at this time, and the generals around him were discussing, and those who opposed the killing of horses abounded. One will say at this time:

"General Song, horses can't be killed!"

"That is, kill the horse, what if the other heavenly kings are angry with the general."

"But the king of heaven has clearly ordered that if you don't kill the horse, you will violate the military order."

"Shao Ping's situation is unknown, the messenger is unconscious, who knows what happened, rashly kill the horse, what if he makes a big mistake."

The generals disagreed, and Song He hesitated.

What the generals said is not unreasonable, the horses are not owned by the Divine Power Heavenly King alone, if they are all killed, Song He will bring 35,000 or 6,000 war horses, and there are more than 10,000 on the bank of the Yongxing River, but only 50,000.

There are at least more than 50,000 war horses in the Ye Xin Department of the Xian Army, and more than 30,000 horses on the banks of the Yongxing River. If all the horses were brought back, most of the Xian army's westward advance would have been in vain.

After thinking about it and hesitating, the majority of those who did not approve of killing horses were in the majority, and Song He had a hard time making up his mind, and decided to gather the generals to discuss the long-term.

The battle situation is changing rapidly at this time, the opportunity is fleeting, Song He's department has 16,700 horses, and it is more than enough to kill 40,000 or 50,000 horses in ten minutes, and now a tea kung fu has passed, and there is no action for a long time, the Baili Yan pioneer battalion has been killed fifteen miles away at this moment, and the scouts of the Black Turban Army found out about the situation, and fled back in a panic to report the news to Song He, at this time, the two armies were only less than seven or eight miles away.

"What, you can see clearly!" Song He asked in astonishment.

"General Yu, what your subordinates see is true, it is indeed the main force of the Xian army, which is divided into three directions, from the left, the center and the right, and is coming westward, not to mention that there are twenty or thirty thousand people!"

Song He remembered the order of the Divine Power King to kill the horse at this time, and suddenly realized that he gritted his teeth with hatred:

"Quick, kill the horse, kill the horse!"

The order to kill the horses was transmitted to the battalions, and the Xian army had already arrived five miles away, and the rolling dust was overwhelming, and with the naked eye, you could clearly see that tens of thousands of cavalry were coming to kill the black press.

"General Song, the Xian army has arrived, and it's too late to kill the horses, hurry up and fight!" One will say.

Song He Dao:

"Command all the armies, kill me!"

"No!"

Five miles is a few minutes, which is not enough for Song He to unfold his headquarters, let alone slaughter tens of thousands of horses. The Xian army came from the left, center and right, intending to encircle and eliminate the Black Turban Army, and then killing the horses at this time was tantamount to seeking a dead end.

Song He tried to take advantage of the buffer area that still had four or five miles of land, and quickly pulled the men and horses to the west to disengage from contact with the Xian army. The Xian army is a long-distance attack here this time, the physical strength of the horses has almost bottomed out, and not all the soldiers on the battlefield have the opportunity to change horses on the spot, as long as the main force of the Xian army can be led to the west, and the pursuit of the Xian army is exhausted, and then the chance of winning a counterattack is greater.

The tactics of the Xian army, Song He had seen it with his own eyes, first rushed with one force, and then divided left and right, eliminated one of them, and then eliminated the other, the combat speed was extremely fast, and it was difficult to react. Only by gathering people and pulling them away, and then launching a counterattack with leisure and hard work, can they not be interspersed and divided.

Unexpectedly, the Xianjun army attacked from the left, center and right in three directions, and did not intend to intersperse and divide at all, and Song He mistakenly gathered the men and horses together to pull westward, but was taken advantage of by the Xian army.

Baili Yanqin led the middle route army of 8,000 people, fed salt in advance on the way, drank water, the marching speed was not fast, and the horse's endurance was maintained excellently.

The moment he met the enemy, he unfolded the men and horses linearly, and put out a glaive array, like a tiger's mouth. Ye Xin led the southern wing to bypass Song He's left flank, Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu led their troops to bypass the northern flank, and the two men and horses went left and right to cut off Song Hexi's escape route, and surrounded Song He's troops before and after, like a huge pocket, almost all of the Black Turban Army was packed in.

There were many Xian soldiers, plus Fang Qian and Lu Zhao's troops participated in the battle, there were still 24,500 people who could fight, seven or eight thousand more than Song He. Song He tried to get out of the battle unsuccessfully, but fell into a heavy siege, but he was also in chaos.

There were no crossbowmen on either side, and the 16,700 people of Song He's department took the defensive position and formed a square formation on the spot, and the Xian army surrounded them, but they could only fight hand-to-hand.

At the beginning of the battle, the two armies were killed, extremely indistinguishable, the black turban rebels waited for work, and their physical strength was stronger than that of the Xian army.

Baili Yan saw that it was not a way to go on like this, the cavalry of the two armies actually confronted each other on the spot like infantry, and it was difficult to advance an inch, and the mobility of the cavalry was completely lost, relying on fighting to attack and defend.

"Listen to the brothers of the Leopard Tao Battalion, they all dismount with the general and cut the legs of the enemy's horses, quickly!"

At the sound of an order, hundreds of horizontal sword men dismounted and gathered together.

The cavalry on both sides was deadlocked, almost motionless in place, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from defeat. The Leopard Tao battalion is equipped with half of the horizontal knife, and the horizontal knife hand has chain mail in the light leather armor, and the upper body is almost invulnerable, breaking into the middle formation to cut the horse's legs.

The advantage of the horizontal sword, the speed is so fast, in the blink of an eye, thousands of horses cut off the legs of the horses, the cavalry lost their horses, and in the blink of an eye became infantry.

Baili Yan cut the horse's legs all the way, Xu Jin led the troops to rush all the way back, the enemy soldiers tried to gather to block, but hundreds of people in the Baili Yan Department had chain mail, although a sword cut down said that it cut through the light leather armor, but it was blocked by the chain mail, invulnerable, compared to the horizontal knife, a knife cut off the sword armor Qi Broken, directly cut off the head, without dragging mud and water.