Looking at the Jin cavalry that was getting closer and closer, a cruel smile flashed on Tie Liang's face, the iron spear in his hand was tightly clamped under his armpit, and in a flash, he stabbed a cavalryman who was mounted head-on with him off the horse, and the war horse under him did not stop at all and rushed towards the cavalry behind him again, and the iron hooves were raised, trampling the opponent's war horse on the ground.

Almost at the same time that Tie Liang rushed past the opposing cavalry, the soldiers of the 10,000-strong cavalry battalion in the first row rushed over with the same action as Tie Liang.

The 50,000-strong cavalry battalion is the largest concentration of this kind of heavy equipment since the Tiance Army became an army, and I saw the first row of 10,000 people under the command of Tie Liang quickly penetrate Li Siyuan's cavalry, and after joining the rear row of infantry, they did not stop at all, and detoured back on the left and right sides, returning to the starting point.

The speed of the heavy cavalry's charge was not fast, but it carried an indomitable momentum, and no matter what obstacles were in front of it, all of them collapsed under this invincible momentum.

Li Siyuan's more than 20,000 people were scattered by the two charges of the heavy cavalry battalion, and there was no room for counterattack at all. Second, the men and horses organized by Li Sixun were also put into the battlefield after being slightly blocked by the infantry brigade, and before they could react, they were scattered by the 30,000-strong brigade behind.

At this time, the Chinese army reinforcements organized by Zhou Dewei had also entered the battlefield at this time, and the infantry brigade of the Tiance Army retreated very decisively and did not stop this huge cavalry cluster. Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion also returned to the starting point after charging once, and as a result, the most elite troops of the two sides of the Hexi Great War officially faced off at this moment.

"The Hellfire Brigade and the artillery battalion immediately launched to blow up the opponent's formation." Xu Tianxiang of the Chinese army saw that the endless cavalry of the other party's black pressure had arrived, and he did not hesitate to press the killer weapon in his hand, only to see countless explosive bags flying out of the Chinese army in an instant, which was already an improved second-generation gunpowder loaded explosive bag exploded in the crowd, and its power was instantly released.

The leader of the Chinese army this time is Fu Cunxian, who has been guarding Hezhong Mansion for a long time, and is also the general of the Jin army who knows the most from the Tiance army, and he has already known about this kind of explosion when he sees it, but like others in the early days, he came up with only one way to deal with the explosives package, that is, to concentrate his forces regardless of the charge, as long as he rushes into the opponent's camp, this explosion will stop his damage to himself. For this reason, Fu Cunxian did not pay any attention to these explosions that kept ringing in his ranks, but desperately urged his subordinates to speed up the charge, hoping to cross this chaotic death line as soon as possible.

Although Fu Cunxian's method can avoid being set on fire by explosives to a certain extent, the chaos and killing caused by this new weapon have not changed at all, but have added a bit of power because of the concentration of the opponent.

And taking advantage of this chaos, the heavy cavalry battalion of the Tiance Army also began to charge against each other, and with the support of the infantry battalion's rain of arrows that did not want money, this kind of army that exudes steel and death also gradually accelerated its state to the extreme, and collided with the opponent's forward.

Fu Cunxian brought almost all the men and horses of the Chinese army this time, plus the remaining more than 10,000 men and horses of Li Siyuan and Li Sixun, the cavalry charge of more than 100,000 people made this battlefield turbulent, relatively speaking, the heavy cavalry battalion was only less than half of the number of the opponent, but its momentum was not worse than the other party at all. The first three platoons of the first platoon had rushed forward to engage the opponent in close combat, and the last two platoons continued to wait.

Heavy cavalry charges and light cavalry have completely different methods, heavy cavalry charges are generally arranged in a neat formation, row by row continuously, in order to be able to seek this continuous lethality, and because of the power, it is necessary to make considerable space, so after Tieliang's first brigade and the other party received fire, the infantry battalions on both sides also quickly dispatched at this moment, and began to open up the battlefield on the left and right flanks to protect the passage of the two wings, so that the heavy cavalry battalion has a return channel and adjustment time.

The 30,000-strong brigade of the heavy cavalry battalion led by Tie Liang rushed into the opponent's formation like a wild bull, and the spears in the hands of these soldiers brought boundless bloody rain, and the Shatuo people they encountered along the way were like mutton skewers on their iron spears, while the steel-armored assassins on their bodies protected themselves very well, and the opponent's weapons cut down on themselves without any reaction. This speechless way of fighting suddenly blinded Fu Cunxian. The Central Plains Dynasty rarely chose the expensive type of heavy cavalry battalion after experiencing the Sui and Tang dynasties, so the way to deal with the heavy cavalry was about to be lost at this moment, so whether it was Fu Cunxian or Li Siyuan and Li Sixun, who had just picked up a life, they were helpless, and could only watch the other party rampage in their own team without scruples.

However, the three of them didn't know how to do it, but Li Keyong and Zhou Dewei in the rear quickly thought of a way to restrain the heavy cavalry, and the herald also found Fu Cunzhen and a few people when Tie Liang rushed through the middle line of the opponent's formation.

And the three of them didn't have time to think about anything else at the moment, so they immediately quickly adjusted the formation according to Li Keyong's instructions, and after retreating the remaining men and horses a little, they set up a strange large formation, half of which dismounted and turned into infantry, clustering around the remaining 50,000 cavalry, forming a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry.

This scene was also quickly discovered by Yang Tiancheng on the front line, and sneered: "It seems that Li Keyong still knows a little about heavy cavalry, but are the casualties of this method too great?" And am I really a vegetarian? The war drum corps immediately ordered the front army to change formation. ”

With his words, the entire front army of the Tiance Army also changed formations like the other party under Yang Tiancheng's order, and the formations chosen by both sides were almost identical, mixed with infantry and cavalry. The infantry brigades on both flanks of the Tiance Army and the heavy cavalry battalion in the central position also formed a huge mixed infantry and cavalry formation in an instant, and fought against the opponent.

At this time, the battlefield situation is also very clear, the cards in the hands of both sides are almost on the table, the Jin army is playing wishful thinking is to use the cavalry in the mixed infantry and cavalry formation to contain the opponent's heavy cavalry, so that the infantry can find the weakness of the heavy cavalry battalion around the cavalry - the horseshoe, and launch an attack, so as to consume this army with almost no shortcomings little by little.

In fact, this method of dealing with heavy cavalry can be said to be almost the same way, and if you don't pay attention to it, it may be that the opponent has not finished up, and you will be defeated by the opponent first, you must know that the infantry in front of the heavy cavalry battalion has a much lower chance of winning than the cavalry. And at this moment, Li Keyong's thinking in the face of the powerful attack power of the heavy cavalry has also entered a misunderstanding, only thinking about how to find the opponent's flaws, and ignoring his own advantages, the speed advantage of the light cavalry, if his idea at the beginning is to use the unparalleled speed advantage of the light cavalry in his hand to fight guerrilla warfare with the Tiance army, then it is very likely to put Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion useless. However, it was too late to say anything at this time, and Yang Tiancheng would not give the other party any opportunity to adjust at all. Almost at the same time as the infantry brigade and the heavy cavalry battalion were merged, a direct order was given to the charge.

However, at this time, although the Jin army did not think of its biggest advantage, the speed of formation adjustment was not inferior to that of the Tiance army, and almost at the same time that Yang Tiancheng issued the attack order on his side, the horn on the opposite side also sounded at the same time. The strange queue formed by the two sides collided for the first time at this time.

However, compared to the Jin army's distraction of explosives packs and continuous crossbow shooting, the offensive formation created by Tie Liang and Li Tianyi was much less worried. As the heavy cavalry battalion rushed into the enemy formation, the infantry brigade also formed a squad and fought a one-on-one duel with the opposing infantry.

If it is a cavalry, except for the heavy cavalry battalion, a monster that the Jin army can't find a way to deal with, the Shatuo people are almost not afraid of anyone, in fact, this nomadic cavalry basically has no opponent in the cavalry duel. But the Shatuo people who got off the horse lost their former prestige when they became infantry, and no one was the opponent of the Central Plains Dynasty than the infantry, and the war in the Central Plains for thousands of years was basically dominated by infantry, and this instinct that penetrated deep into the bone marrow allowed the infantry led by Li Tianyi to crush the opponent almost one-sidedly. The infantry led by Li Siyuan himself could not cooperate with the cavalry at all, and the infantry on the other side had no strength to fight back, how could they still have a chance to attack the heavy cavalry battalion. These infantry around the cavalry of the heavy cavalry battalion guarded their masters like hunting dogs, and any opponent who dared to come forward was torn apart in an instant, and even some infantry had time to sneak attack the cavalry of the Jin army after the opponent was killed by themselves. And the Jin army is obviously not prepared for the mixed tactics of infantry and cavalry, although the formations are mixed together, but there is no tactics to deal with, resulting in a huge problem in the coordination of infantry and cavalry on the front line, the two are still fighting according to their own tactics, there is little cooperation between the two sides, and even many infantry in the battle still naturally think that they are cavalry, and the soldiers of the Tiance Army caught this flaw, almost as soon as the two sides contact, the victory and defeat of this battle were also divided in an instant.

"Immediately light the smoke and rockets, and order the cavalry corps on the left and right flanks to immediately encircle Fu Cunxian's brigade." Xu Tianxiang quickly left the command platform at this time to join Yang Tiancheng, and said: "Tiancheng, end the battle, Li Keyong's rear army is estimated to not be put into battle." ”

Yang Tiancheng also sighed and said with a wry smile: "I'm actually not afraid that he will enter the battle, but I'm afraid that this guy will find the weakness of the heavy cavalry battalion." At that time, the next battle will not be easy to fight. ”

"No, Li Keyong took out all his family resources in this battle, if he can encircle and annihilate Fu Cunxian's brigade, then Li Keyong's military strength will basically be annihilated by us, and even if he finds out, what can he do? Let's give a herald. Xu Tianxiang shook his head and waved his hand to let the guards behind him light the smoke rocket, but he saw that a bright and loud column of colorful smoke suddenly appeared in the air, and it flew quickly into the distance, dragging a long tail.

This kind of smoke rocket can reach a distance of tens of miles, and its long smoke column can be long-lasting, which is the best weapon for transmitting orders and messages on the battlefield. Moreover, the battle has been fought so far, Chen Yu and Wu Huan on the left and right flanks have actually arrived at the battlefield long ago, waiting for the orders of the Chinese army in hiding. However, Chen Yu's team arrived at the battlefield, in fact, Li Keyong already knew, his idea was to defeat the middle army of the Tiance Army and then turn around and defeat this partial army, in order not to let the other party interfere with him, he also deliberately left 50,000 rear troops just in case. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the other party would put his troops into the battlefield one step ahead of him. Moreover, the appearance of Wu Huan's cavalry corps on the right flank was beyond everyone's expectations.

And at the same time that Xu Tianxiang ordered the release of smoke rockets to notify the two wings of the corps to join the battlefield, all the troops of the Chinese army of the Tiance Army were also put into the battlefield at this moment, and the two infantry battalions that had been hidden as the Chinese army since the beginning of the war also appeared at this moment and joined the Chinese army brigade that surrounded and annihilated the Jin army on the battlefield.

And the action of the Tiance army also instantly made Zhou Dewei understand what was going on, and hurriedly came to Li Keyong's side and said: "Lord, the Tiance army is ready to encircle and interrogate them, quickly order them to withdraw, and at the same time let the sons of the rear army lead the army to come forward to respond, and then the whole army will retreat and fight again on a later day." ”

Zhou Dewei's words made Li Keyong a little puzzled, his battlefield insight ability was still a little worse than that of a wise general like Zhou Dewei, but soon he also discovered that something was wrong, Chen Yu's 30,000 people, who had been monitored by himself, appeared on the battlefield and blocked Fu Cunxian's flank, and the cavalry battalion in the middle also began to detour back to his front, apparently preparing to cruise and prepare to intercept his own reinforcements.

And at the same time, there was also smoke and dust in the direction of the south on the left, and the formation brought up by the cavalry charge made him instantly understand that this was the killer weapon of the Tiance Army ambushed outside the battlefield, and this kind of infantry and cavalry coordination arrangement was not at all something he could deal with. Li Keyong also understood in an instant that the other party's thoughts since the start of the war were to use the heavy cavalry battalion to attract his attention, so that he could press the main forces on the frontal battlefield, so as to ignore his two wings, so that he could not only encircle and annihilate his main army when the situation was good, but also flank his own two wings when the situation was unfavorable, so as to reduce the pressure on the central position. What a good means. However, what they did not expect was that they still had 50,000 cavalry in their hands, and they could still put them into battle.

Thinking of this, Li Ke exuded a scorching cold light in his single eye, and immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Dewei, you immediately press the whole army with Cunqiao and lead the rear army, be sure to rescue them for me, and then we will lead the troops back to Merge State." ”

Li Keyong and Zhou Dewei's method is undoubtedly the best way to deal with the situation at this time, but they all underestimated the minds of Xu Tianxiang and Yang Tiancheng, which is the determination to find a way to annihilate Li Ke with the main force rather than pay the price.