At the same time as the wolf smoke disappeared, Li Xuanqing's horn of the Chinese army began to sound throughout the grassland, and at the front of the front corps, the five hundred tower shields and 1,000 iron cast spears with a length of two zhang were gathered by the heavy armor guards on the fixed wooden stakes, and the round shields and spearmen in the back row immediately formed two huge and incomparably large circle formations, and the three groups of archers embedded in the inlay were also all in place, and the longbows were drooping, ready for the final preparations. A small part of these tower shields are newly cast steel tower shields, and most of them are the inventory of the Tiande Army, at this time, Li Xuanqing didn't care about the quality of these old men, and pulled them all out.

At the same time, the cavalry vanguard of the opposing coalition army had also been assembled, obviously surprised that the Tiance army could assemble so early, from the time the wolf smoke rose in the Star Gorge to the time they drilled out of the Yinshan Pass, less than half an hour was not enough for the Han army to assemble. And the people of Huanggas have basically not invaded the south over the years, and they haven't seen that there is no garrison on the Great Wall, why can the Han people react so quickly this time, and dare to go out of the city to fight? All this is incomprehensible to the first warrior of the Dinghu tribe - Tam. And these Han people think that they can stop their pace just by relying on that military array of 10,000 people?

However, with the assembly of the army, more and more troops poured around him, and these incomprehensible phenomena were left behind him, and the Huanggasi people followed the Hui in the early years to participate in the battle to quell the Anshi Rebellion, and they were no longer afraid of the Han people, and the era of the Heavenly Khan a hundred years ago had long passed, and no one was the opponent of the steppe tribe in the field. Therefore, seeing that more than 3,000 people in his vanguard had been assembled, this warrior on horseback began to assemble and charge without thinking about it, intending to rely on the brutal impact of the cavalry to break through the opponent's infantry formation in one fell swoop, and take the city of Xishou before the arrival of the three khans behind.

The assembly place of the Dinghu coalition army was only less than five miles away from the battlefield designed by Li Xuanqing, and the cavalry charge could be completed in less than half a tea time. So almost at the same time that Tamu gave the order to charge, the crossbow formations on the dirt hills on both sides of the frontal corps reacted immediately. Just as the Dinghu cavalry was able to rush through the middle line, a huge piercing whistling sound suddenly sounded in the air, and for a time the sound of the machine spring pulling was endless, and the huge whistling sound was accompanied by small spear-like crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow and ballista with the longest range.

I could only hear the sound of "bang bang bang" on the battlefield, and the galloping horses were put down by thick crossbow arrows, and the cavalry on horseback was thrown out several feet away, and before they could get up after landing, they were trampled into meat by the cavalry behind. The cavalrymen who were directly hit were quick to crash into the others around them with crossbow arrows that passed through their bodies, and a single crossbow arrow could often pass through several soldiers.

Moreover, the position of the earth mountain designed by Li Xuanqing was extremely tricky, and the two feet shot diagonally on the battlefield, this design theoretically did not shoot dead angles, but the cavalry charge organized by Tamu relied on the dense number of cavalry to achieve the maximum effect. At this blockage, the pace of the cavalry on both sides of the front was all disrupted, and the fallen war horse blocked the road of the cavalry charge behind, and could only watch the front war horse and the soldier's body rush forward, and only a few could converge to the middle and rush to the front. For a while, this place was a wolf rushing and spurting, and flesh and blood were splashed.

The second wave of crossbow arrows began to be fired again, and the disorganized cavalry group was once again swept away, and the shrill whistling replaced the shouting of the battlefield, and the two dirt hills, fifty bed crossbows, one hundred and twenty crossbows, and sixty ballistae each whistle would take the lives of dozens of soldiers.

"What the hell is going on? When did the Han people's crossbow arrows become so powerful? Yu Dili, immediately take your thousand-man army to assault, and be sure to rush over, so that the warriors' arrows have a chance to shoot out, and the knives can cut these lowly Han people. Tamu didn't see the position of the crossbow bolt in front of him, and thought that the Han people had developed some powerful weapon. However, he didn't worry too much, after all, no matter how powerful the crossbow arrows were, they couldn't stop the cavalry's group charge, so after arranging for Yu Dili to lead reinforcements, he was relieved, just the soldiers who died in pain.

At this time, the middle part of the cavalry broke through the shot of crossbow arrows and hit Hu Xiaosi's wooden stake and deer on the bright side, and suddenly a group of people turned over on their backs, and the deer and stake were knocked down and overturned the cavalry in the first row.

The most troublesome thing about cavalry charging is not how many obstacles there are ahead, nor how dense the opponent's bows and arrows are, but the panic caused to the soldiers and horses after their own soldiers and horses fall to the ground, as long as they can overcome this, they are basically elite.

A few rows of deer and stakes could not stop the cavalry charge, and after being knocked over several rows of soldiers, they were also successfully destroyed, although they still continued to act as an obstacle to the rear charge, or at least their lethality was greatly reduced.

At this moment, the drums of the middle army of the Tiance Army became rapid again, and the voices of the leading generals were also heard from the dirt mountains on both sides: "The ballista continues to stare at the original position and shoot, and the crossbowmen are ready to shoot." Three, two, one, shooting. In an instant, hundreds of black feathered arrows suddenly flew out from each of the two dirt mountains, and suddenly blinded the cavalry who had just broken through the barrier and was about to let go. I could only hear the sound of "puff puff" hitting the charging cavalry like raindrops, taking away the fresh lives one by one, and the blood sprayed on the grassland in the early morning, soaking the land that had just thawed.

The crossbowmen continued, throwing with all their might. This time, the roars on the dirt mountains on both sides ignited the audience again, and bursts of arrows rained down on the lives of the charge, blocking the opponent's pace.

"Archers prepare." At this time, Yang Tiancheng's voice came from the frontal corps, which had been calm. The rain of arrows on the earth mountain can only play a blocking role, as time goes by, more and more cavalry began to rush into the battle formation, and the frontal battlefield ushered in a critical moment for the first time, and Hu Xiaosi's arrangement was immediately put to the test.

The sound of "bang bang bang" sounded again, but this time the movement was unprecedentedly loud, many war horses ran and fell to the ground, the huge impact force threw the cavalry on their backs several feet away, and many cavalry were inexplicably hit to the ground by the wooden stakes, deer barricades and anti-cavalry wooden guns that suddenly appeared in front. The most pitiful thing is that Hu Xiaosi, a sinister guy, placed these measures in a disorderly manner on this battlefield with a radius of several hundred zhang, which further aggravated this chaotic situation.

"Archer, projectile." The addition of the three archer groups on the front brought this chaos to a climax, and this distance was also the best range for the archers on both sides, only to see that the five bow and arrow clusters of the Tiance Army took advantage of the chaos of the Dinghu coalition army to burst out bursts of black arrow rain, covering the sky and the sun The black arrow rain even blocked the sunlight, and the piercing sound of metal breaking the air brought a rain of blood rushing up from the sky, and rows of cavalry were put to the ground like cutting wheat. The screams of the soldiers before they died and the wails of arrows from their horses disrupted all the pace of the battlefield.

The Dinghu cavalry in the chaos of "bang bang bang" also began to counterattack, and the whizzing long arrows slammed into the tower shield with a dull sound. The steppe cavalry's housekeeping skills reached the extreme at this moment. Although the tower shield is powerful, but through the gap in the tower shield into the front of the cold arrow has become the biggest threat, the front corps began to step forward one by one, as long as someone is hit by the arrow, the people behind immediately on top, the wounded are also dragged to the rear army for rescue as soon as possible. In order to recruit enough medical officers, Li Xuanqing forcibly brought all the medical staff in Fengzhou City here this time, just in case.

However, this wave of Dinghu's strong attack also stopped there, as the follow-up forces were continuously killed by crossbow arrows, there were more and more obstacles on the road, the speed of the cavalry charge became slower and slower, and fewer and fewer people broke into the battle formation, Tamu's charge was a complete failure, and the enemy's horn horn appeared on the battlefield for the first time.

Hearing the sound of the horn, everyone in the Tiance Army breathed a sigh of relief, and the participating troops began to rest and recover their strength. On the one hand, Hu Xiaosi, who had already been waiting for the battle, led the soldiers into the battlefield at the first time of the opponent's retreat, while taking the uninjured war horses out of the battle formation, and on the other hand, he seized the time to replenish the damaged defense facilities, re-excavated the horse pit, and even sprinkled countless thistles and triangular nails at the forefront. These things were actually available in ancient times, but no one noticed their value, but Li Xuanqing specially asked the logistics department to bring a lot of them, and they were all used at the moment.

The Tiance army was busy repairing the battlefield, and the Dinghu coalition army also ushered in its own large army, and the three Great Khans sitting in the back also arrived with the main cavalry of the three divisions. I saw that the black smoke cloud appeared on the battlefield again, and countless nomadic cavalry dressed in gray-brown clothes began to assemble, this scene made all the Tiance Army soldiers present gasp, and also made the faces of the commanders and generals begin to be solemn.

In the center of the Dinghu coalition army, under the high fluttering daxu, Tamu was reporting the battle situation, just now the coalition army did not even touch the shadow of the other party, it lost thousands of people, and hundreds of people were seriously injured, which made the three tribes who were already exhausted fall into a very embarrassing situation.

"Tahi Khan, what do you think you should do now?" The Wutu tribe is the weakest of the three tribes, and it has little say in it, so seeing this scene, he asked the Khan Tashi of the Dinghu tribe in the middle. The Dinghu tribe sent the most troops this time, and half of the 10,000 cavalry of the coalition army were from the Dinghu tribe, so as soon as his words came out, the Khan of the Tuhu tribe also looked at him for a moment.

Tahi can sit in the position of the Khan of the Dinghu tribe, whether it is ability, city government or scheming, he naturally knows the current grim situation, and originally wanted to take advantage of the Han people's surprise to grab a vote and leave, but now he was discovered inexplicably, and it seems that the Han people are very well prepared, even if they can grab the materials and go back if they continue to fight, the loss of the tribe's strength is too great, and they will become the mouth of other tribes. Moreover, the royal court let his three tribes come to Yinshan, which is already the greatest mercy, if he is defeated or annexed by others, the royal court will not come forward.

This step further and taking a step back are related to the survival of the three tribes, and Tahi's face changed and he was silent for a long time. The two khans of Utu and Tuhu around him also knew what Tashi was thinking, their strength was lost more in the war of the Uighurs, the original two medium-sized tribes were defeated by only more than 20,000 people, and most of the people were old, weak, sick and disabled, if this battle was lost, then the tribe could be declared non-existent.

"Tam, concentrate the most elite warriors of the coalition army, crush the opponent's army at all costs, take the city in front, and then negotiate with the Han people, and our three tribes will migrate here as a ranch to settle the clansmen." After a long time, Tahi suddenly gritted his teeth and said viciously to Tamu, who had been kneeling in front of him. As soon as his words came out, the other two Great Khans looked at each other and nodded. Tahi's method is really good, as long as he defeats the Han people in front of him, he can occupy the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, so that he can not only protect himself from being swallowed up by other tribes, but also find a pasture with abundant water and grass, so that the tribe that has been traumatized by the war can rest and recuperate, and even get a large number of Han slaves and wealth. In this way, not only can the tribe be preserved, but also the royal court can avoid accountability, and even the entire Hetao area can be occupied in a few years. Legend has it that the Han people were in the civil war and had no time to come to this bitter cold land, isn't this just the opportunity for these nomads themselves?

Thinking of this, the other two Great Khans hurriedly asked their own soldiers to follow Tamu to transfer troops, draw the most elite cavalry, and even draw all the essence of the entire Chinese army and the rear army, making up a huge cavalry cluster of 6,000 people.