"Marshal, 3,000 people each? In this way, the left and right flanks add up to 6,000 people, and the central army formation will only have 4,000 people left, and the defensive strength of the formation will be too weak! ”

Tan Daoji waved his hand: "There are still 4,000 people, there are still more than 4,000 people left in the front left and right fronts, and they are not paper paste!" ”

The order was carried out, and the 6,000 infantry were divided into two parts to reinforce the left and right wings, and with these 6,000 people as a new force, the Liu Song army, which was defeated and retreated on the left and right wings, finally stabilized its position, and the two sides were inseparable, and no one could help anyone for a while.

Time flew by, and the battle continued until mid-afternoon.

Zhao Junsheng saw that it was not early at this time, and if the war dragged on, he was only afraid of a night battle, and the cadres were not afraid of night battles, but Liu Songjun was afraid of night battles, but the battle had been fought all day, and the soldiers were already sleepy.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Junsheng ordered: "Chang Kun, give you two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry, you attack the cross-section of the lower left corner of Liu Songjun from the left flank, and after defeating them, go directly to attack the cross-section of the lower right corner of Liu Songjun, and then lead the troops back after the end!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Chang Kun took the order and left, and soon set off with two thousand Xuanjia iron horses, and the cost of raising one Xuanjia iron horse was quite high, which was equivalent to raising three light horses.

Therefore, the number of Xuanjia iron cavalry in the cadre army is not large, and there are only 5,000 cavalry when the battle is full.

Chang Kun's two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry were too dazzling, the swarthy armor on the cavalry, and the armor on the war horses were shining in the light, and as soon as they appeared, they immediately attracted the attention of the generals and colonels of Liu Songjun.

"What kind of cavalry is this?" The soldiers of Liu Songjun in the central formation had a lot of discussions.

When Tan Daoji found out that this cavalry was coming towards the right flank of his large formation, his heart immediately lifted.

Chang Kun did not continue to attack his left flank under Tan Daoji's guess, but stopped on the left flank, and the two thousand Xuanjia Iron Cavalry began to form a formation, facing his right front cross-section.

"Not good!" Tan Daoji had a bad premonition, he wanted to order the right front to be directly commanded, but he had to trust Gao Jinzhi, the general who led the troops in the right front.

Gao Jinzhi's face was solemn, and he immediately ordered the army to turn to face the two thousand black-armored cavalry, Chang Kun didn't give him much time.

"Sons and daughters, take up your spears, follow me to break you, kill—"

No one shouted loudly, and everyone followed Chang Kun without saying a word, lined up in a dense and neat formation, and rushed to the right front of Liu Songjun.

"Boom ······" The sound of the hooves of the heavy cavalry galloping is completely different from that of the light cavalry, it is calm and powerful, and the two thousand heavy cavalry run out of the momentum of ten thousand horsemen.

The sound of thunder rolling, the soldiers of the Liu Song army were frightened by this momentum one by one, their faces turned pale, some of them were holding short films and simple knives, some were holding spears, and some were holding bows and arrows.

"Shoot the arrows—" Gao Jinzhi immediately roared when he saw the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry rushing into the range of the bow and arrows.

"Whoosh ······" Thousands of arrows flew out, densely falling on the Xuanjia iron cavalry, just a jingling sound, no Xuanjia cavalry fell from the arrow, three waves of arrows shot over, and there were very few people who fell from the arrow.

"Hiss-" Gao Jinzhi gasped, he realized that he was in trouble, and shouted hoarsely: "Spearmen steady, steady, those who take a step back, slash!" ”

The overwhelming momentum came to the face, and the soldiers of Liu Song's army were cold one by one, and they didn't obey the call.

"Boom-" The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry collided with the infantry phalanx combining the spear array and the shield and sword soldiers, and this not dense formation was knocked out of a big gap on the spot, and the spears blocking the front of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry were all broken, and the sword and shield soldiers were knocked out one after another, spitting blood and smashing on the comrades behind them.

If you use a spear array to deal with the charge of the light cavalry, the light cavalry will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and the sand will be broken, but the spear array is against the heavy armored iron horse, and the vest of the war horse may be pierced by the spear, but it is more likely to slide away after the impact, you must know that this kind of vest is not made of armor, but a whole plate vest stamped, and the front chest, head, neck, legs, and abdomen of the war horse are covered with smooth vests.

The shaft of the spear could not withstand the powerful impact of the heavily armored iron cavalry at all, and was broken.

Chang Kun's two thousand Xuanjia heavy cavalry smashed the right front of Liu Song's army in a devastating way, and Liu Song's general Gao Jin escaped from the death of his army, thinking that he had been in the army for more than 20 years, experienced hundreds of battles and battles, and never felt so close to death.

When he got up from the ground, the pain all over his body was unbearable, and when he looked back, he saw that the Xuanjia heavy cavalry of the Qianjun army had rushed over, and his men were scattered and fled, and the corpses, banners and swords on the ground were scattered all over the ground.

The Xuanjia heavy cavalry did not return, but came to the cross-section of the left front part of the Liu Song army, no surprise, since the Liu Song army in the right front could not resist the charge of the Xuanjia iron cavalry, the left front naturally could not resist, and the four thousand men and horses left in place were also crushed.

Chang Kun returned to his base with the power of victory and the Xuanjia heavy cavalry in a circle.

"It's getting dark, it seems that we have to hurry up, I hope that this last blow can break the heart of Liu Songjun's formation! The order was given to the remaining 2,000 Xuanjia heavy cavalry to set off from the middle road and attack the enemy's central military formation! ”

The remaining 2,000 Xuanjia heavy cavalry began to assemble in front of the Chinese army, and soon they were ready to go, this time led by Li Bao himself to charge.

Li Bao took out two big axes and shouted: "Follow me to defeat Liu Song's army, and the victory will be decided in one battle!" ”

"Kill—"

The same heavy cavalry, the same number, the same tight and neat charging formation.

Tan Daoji's face changed, he looked left and right, and shouted: "Everyone is steady, no one is allowed to take a step back, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

Li Bao rushed over with two thousand Xuanjia heavy cavalry with overwhelming momentum, and the soldiers and generals in the left front and right front of Liu Song's army had already collapsed, and they could not organize to intercept his two thousand heavy armored iron cavalry at this time.

Under the leadership of Li Bao, these two thousand Xuanjia heavy cavalry rushed to the front of the central army of Liu Song's army without any resistance.

Suddenly there was a loud shout from both sides: "Pull-"

With a "whoosh", a thick long rope blocked the way of the Xuanjia heavy cavalry charge.

Li Bao couldn't react, and even led the horse down, and the Xuanjia heavy cavalry behind him were also tripped by this thick and long tripping rope.

For a while, people turned on their horses, the knights wailed miserably, and the horses neighed in pain.

About 200 Xuanjia heavy cavalry were tripped and suffered heavy casualties, and the 1,800 Xuanjia cavalry behind stopped in front of the tripping rope.

The charge of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry was completely contained, Zhao Junsheng frowned, then sighed, and ordered: "It's a failure!" It's not early, the order, Mingjin collects the troops, the departments retreat in turn, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks stay behind! ”

"Dangdangdang······" The sound of gold rang out.

Li Bao, who got up from the snow, jumped like thunder, picked up two big axes and cut the thick tripwire into two pieces, but what did this do? This place is too close to the central military formation of Liu Songjun, and there is not enough acceleration distance to organize the men and horses to charge, and Tan Daoji will not give him so much time to form the team, and the sound of gold in the rear comes in time, otherwise he really doesn't know what to do.

"Father, the cadres have withdrawn their troops, should our army take the opportunity to chase and kill?" Tan Yi asked Tan Daoji.

Tan Daoji was relieved to see the orderly retreat of the cadres and soldiers, but secretly said that it was a pity, and said: "The retreat of the cadres is orderly, not chaotic, we lack cavalry, not only can we not please catch up, but we may also be taken advantage of by the cadres to counterattack!" Summon, collect the troops and return to the camp, count the losses! ”

On the way back to the camp with Zhao Junsheng and his soldiers and horses, Guo Yi came to report on horseback: "King, I just received a battle report from General Gao Xu, he has led his army to capture Kaiyang, and is waiting for further orders from the king!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was overjoyed when he heard this, "Go back to the camp first and then do your thoughts!" ”

Back at the camp, Zhao Junsheng first let the soldiers rest, had dinner, and then convened the generals and officials to discuss the matter.

"My lord, the losses have been counted, more than 3,100 infantry killed and more than 2,300 wounded, and more than 2,200 light cavalry killed and more than 300 wounded; One hundred and fifty-two horsemen were killed and thirty-two were wounded! ”

Zhao Junsheng heard the result of this battle loss, frowned and said, "This king believes that the losses of Liu Song's army are much heavier than ours, but what is the use of this? Their strength was twice as large as ours, and our army was unable to break their formation in the end! ”

Wang Huilong stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Great King, the minister doesn't see it that way, although the Liu Song army is outnumbered and powerful, but the composition of the troops is too mixed, the command is not smooth, and there is no cavalry to compete with us, this is their great weakness, they can resist our attack today, what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" The last general believes that their losses today are three times or even four times that of ours, and that they can block it for a day or two, and it will never be possible to stop us from attacking several times in a row, and that the withdrawal of troops is doomed, and then our army can take advantage of the situation to pursue and kill! ”

At this time, in the central camp of Liu Songjun, Tan Daoji listened to the battle damage reports of the officials under his command.

"The number of infantry killed in our army reached more than 17,300, more than 5,200 wounded, and the cavalry lost ······ Gone! ”

Tan Daoji's face turned pale in an instant, although he had a hunch in his heart that the casualties this time would be very large, but he never expected that the casualties would be more than 23,000 people.

"Impossible, how can there be such a large number of casualties?" Tan Yi shouted.

The official said with a bitter face: "The battle has been too long, and the injuries of many soldiers are not fatal if they are treated in time in peacetime, but this time many injured soldiers did not receive timely assistance on the battlefield, plus the weather is cold······

This war lasted all day, even if a good person stood in the wind and snow all day, he was afraid that he couldn't withstand it, not to mention the wounded soldiers, such as many soldiers who were injured by arrows, as long as they took off the arrows, cleaned the wounds and bandaged them well, they could survive, but this time the wounds were not treated for a long time, and the wounded soldiers bled too much and lost serious heat, so they naturally couldn't stand dying.

"Newspaper—" A messenger ran in panting, threw himself on the ground, struggling but unable to get up.

"Pick him up and give him a bowl of hot soup!"

After the messenger was poured a bowl of hot soup, he finally relieved himself and reported to Tan Daoji: "Commander, the big thing is not good, the cadre army sent a partial division to sneak attack and break through Kaiyang City, with about more than 10,000 troops!" ”

"What? Get the map! ”

A map was spread out in front of Tan Daoji, and when he found that Kaiyang City was on the main road between the north and the south, his eyes suddenly fell black.

"Handsome, handsome······"