Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi received urgent information from Xuanyingwei when they were passing through Shenzhou, and Chen Fan had already moved his troops to Shenzhou at this time, but stopped because Qiaoxi's cold worsened.

"Lord, if that's the case, it seems that the battle on Jingnan's side will come to an end." After Li Xuanqing and Chen Fan browsed the information in Chen Fan's camp, Chen Fan smiled.

"But this Ge Cunzhou's courage is big enough, this is betting on both sides that he can complete the task as planned." Chen Fan himself is a conservative person, so he disagreed with Ge Cunzhou's thoughts and said: "The life and death of hundreds of thousands of people are gambled like this, which is not the attitude that a handsome person should have. ”

Li Xuanqing didn't bother to refute this guy's idea of seeking stability in everything, and after carefully comparing the map, he shook his head and said: "He is not betting that both sides can win, but betting that he can take down Chengwei before the partial army on the northern front is collapsed, and then rely on the advantage of the city wall to block Feixue's cavalry army outside Anzhou City." To be able to come up with such a solution in such a short period of time is also considered talented. ”

"Lord, go and see Qiaoxi, there will be no big changes over there in Jingnan no matter what." Chen Fan saw that it was a little late, and began to urge Li Xuanqing to take care of Qiaoxi. It is said that this time Qiaoxi is really sick, his nose is blocked and he has a high fever, and he took medicine and slept after being diagnosed by the military doctor in Shenzhou.

When Li Xuanqing walked into the back tent, Qiaoxi was already asleep, and his face flushed with fever under the candlelight looked like Li Xuanqing was secretly distressed. It is really difficult for her to be married for so long and have been running around with her, almost never staying in one place for more than ten days and half a month, and she has to work hard to study economic development with herself.

"Big brother, are you back?" Li Xuanqing couldn't help but stroke Qiaoxi's cheeks, but she woke her up, seeing Li Xuanqing looking at herself in a daze, struggling to get up but being held in Li Xuanqing's arms.

"Qiaoxi, we won't come out when we go back to Chang'an this time. I haven't had a day of peace with me for most of the year. Li Xuanqing gently stroked Qiaoxi's hair and said softly.

"Big brother, don't worry, Qiaoxi just has a cold, don't worry, it will be fine in a few days." Qiaoxi arched in Li Xuanqing's arms and said with a smile.

"Alright, let's sleep together. Taking you out for a walk tomorrow and getting some fresh air is good for your body. Li Xuanqing put down Qiaoxi, took off his coat himself, and the two began to chat with each other while lying on the bed. chatting and chatting, Qiaoxi began to gradually lose his voice, and his snort after the cold was also a little short, which made Li Xuanqing look stupid.

The two rested in the barracks for a night, Qiaoxi took medicine and felt much better the next day, and Chen Fan also specially instructed the guards to boil a bowl of thick millet porridge with fresh okra side dishes, so that Qiaoxi's appetite also became better.

When Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi left the camp after breakfast, the battle outside Anzhou City officially started, and Ge Cunzhou began to go out of the city to take the initiative to provoke Cheng Wei after arranging everything. Originally, Cheng Wei wanted to send troops to support Chen Yu on the northern front, but was stopped by Hu Xiaosi. Hu Xiaosi told Cheng Xiao that the top priority was to concentrate all forces to resist Ge Cunzhou's offensive and buy time for the cavalry corps on the northern front to annihilate the enemy. For this reason, Hu Xiaosi took out the defensive measures of the Tiance Army. Specific guidance was given directly on the deployment and command of troops. Although Cheng Xiaosi's army is also considerable in terms of combat effectiveness, after all, it has not experienced the edification of such a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people, and it lacks a lot in this kind of arrangement.

Under Hu Xiaosi's guidance, Cheng Xiaosi's formation had a fundamental change compared with the previous wars, and the long-range troops were concentrated and directly under the command of the Chinese army, so as to support the front line at any time. Other field units were also arranged in accordance with the basic formation of the Tiance Army, with the Yuli Formation as the basic formation, and Cheng Wei also arranged the elite pro-guard troops to conceal in the positions of the Chinese army, preparing to counterattack at a critical moment and reverse the situation on the battlefield. The coordination of the pikemen and the sword and shield hands also began to run in urgently. According to Hu Xiaosi's understanding, as long as there are no major omissions in the battle, relying on the strength of more than 80,000 people in the hands of Cheng Xiao, he can still resist the Xuanwu army until the cavalry troops come to help.

The arrangement of troops on both sides was quickly completed, compared to Cheng Xiao's side, which had no combat experience in large corps and needed Hu Xiaosi's on-site guidance, the Xuanwu Army personally commanded by Ge Cunzhou could be said to be extremely familiar, and almost when Cheng Xiao's formation was completed, the other party actually changed the formation directly on the spot with the opponent's formation. Hu Xiaosi didn't learn much about professional battlefield command, and he couldn't see the mystery of the opponent's formation, but in terms of defense, the turtle shell he prepared was actually difficult to break. On all sides, the Chinese army could support at any time, and the front and both sides of the city chose to defend with steady generals.

Ge Cunzhou's face became solemn when he looked at Cheng Xiao's formation, but for a veteran general like him, the more he came to the critical moment, the more he tested himself, and he did not hesitate to directly let Wang Yanzhang, who was in charge of the front army, lead the army to attack the opponent's big formation.

"Dashuai, Cheng Wei seems to have a lot of experience in defense, and this formation doesn't seem to have any weaknesses." Zhang Guihou, who stood on the command platform of the Chinese army with Ge Cunzhou.

"I think the people of the Tiance Army have already come, otherwise the other party is basically a one-shot battle in the previous two times with Cheng Xiao, and in addition to the Tiance Army in the north, we are the only ones who have the ability to do this." Ge Cunzhou took a deep breath and said, "In that case, let's speed up a little, you immediately go to the left army, flank the other party, and create opportunities for Yanzhang." ”

When Zhang Guihou heard this, he immediately went to the left army and prepared to flank him. At this time, Wang Yanzhang had already quickly walked towards the Cheng Wei army. When the Xuanwu army crossed the middle line of the two armies, the war drums of the Chinese army suddenly began to hurry, and they were arranged at the junction of the front army and the Chinese army.

This rain of arrows almost blinded Wang Yanzhang, there had never been this kind of arrow preparation in the previous war with Cheng Wei, this is typical of the standard actions of the Northern Tiance Army, how can the small princes in other places have this kind of courage? The two-hundred-year tradition of the Tang army is almost lost to them. However, taking advantage of Wang Yanzhang's stunned opportunity, more and more arrows flew into the sky, nailing more and more Xuanwu soldiers to death.

"Leave these arrows alone, charge me, rush in." Wang Yanzhang looked up to the sky and roared, and led his guards to gallop wildly, leading the other soldiers to bow their heads and rush violently.

The archers began to retreat after five rounds of shooting. There is no way, Cheng Wei's archers are not specially trained like the Tiance Army, and they can follow the main force to snipe in the field. So after the archers retreated, Zhao Wu on the front line raised his spear and beckoned the soldiers on the front line to shoulder their shields to cover the pikemen's charge.

The two armies collided headlong under the city of Anzhou, and countless soldiers were killed in the first wave of the impact, while the follow-up soldiers rushed forward almost stepping on the corpses of the fallen soldiers, slashing and stabbing each other down. In fact, purely from the point of view of the soldiers' combat power, the soldiers trained by Cheng Wei can be said to be almost not inferior to the soldiers of the Xuanwu Army, at least after Wang Yanzhang led the army to break through into the Cheng Wei Army, under the command of Zhao Wu, they fought impressively, and in a short period of time, they almost competed against each other, and there was no disadvantage.

At this time, Hu Xiaosi discovered Ge Cunzhou's arrangement, and immediately asked Cheng Wei to transfer all the archers to his right wing to ambush. Because on the right flank, the banner of Zhang Guihou has appeared. Obviously, Ge Cunzhou wanted to interrupt Cheng Wei's command of the Chinese army by means of a side attack, and then create an opportunity for Wang Yanzhang to surprise the Chinese army and kill Cheng Wei. So Hu Xiaosi's eyes rolled, and he thought of a vicious way, so that all the more than 5,000 archers who had just retreated went to the right flank, and waited for Zhang Guihou to charge and then make a ruthless move.

Cheng Xiao was stunned at first, and then reacted, Hu Xiaosi's move was much better than what he thought before to mobilize the centralized army and personal guards to come forward, saving valuable troops to deal with Wang Yanzhang's offensive.

And Ge Cunzhou immediately asked the deputy general around him to lead the army to join the battle group after Zhang Guihou appeared on the battlefield, and the sharp increase in front-line troops allowed Wang Yanzhang to gradually break free from Zhao Wu's entanglement. On the battlefield, he sacrificed his famous move, gathered the five thousand elite cavalry around him and began to rush towards the Chinese army regardless of the hurricane. In fact, from Hu Xiaosi's point of view, if Wang Yanzhang came to Tiance Army to lead the cavalry, he would definitely be a good hand, and the use of cavalry was comparable to that of several first-line generals of the Tiance Army's cavalry, but it was already a luxury to come to the Xuanwu Army, which was poor in war horse resources, to come to 5,000 cavalry.

"General Cheng, it's up to you now, you immediately lead your personal guards to defeat Wang Yanzhang's cavalry, as long as you defeat the opponent's cavalry, you can drag the battle into a stalemate stage, so that Ge Cunzhou loses the momentum of the offensive, and our army can also greatly boost morale, and the tide of the battle may also be reversed at that time."

Hu Xiaosi's words are undoubtedly the most appropriate for the current situation. Cheng Xiao's face became solemn when he heard this, he took the long knife handed over by the guard, turned around and got on the horse, and said to Hu Xiaosi: "General Hu, my Chinese army will be handed over to you, and today the commander will definitely let Wang Yanzhang's cavalry stay in place." The guards will kill with me. ”

Cheng Wei's personal attack also greatly boosted the morale of the Cheng Wei army, which had been suppressed and beaten, and the 20,000 personal guards intercepted Wang Yanzhang at once under the leadership of Cheng Wei, and the two sides fought in Cheng Wei's army.

"Qin Kong, immediately take your hands to touch it, send me the war horse of Wang Yanzhang's cavalry, and cooperate with Cheng Wei to see if you can kill Wang Yanzhang." Hu Xiaosi instructed Qin Kong to quietly appear on the battlefield with more than 200 people inside the Xuanying Guard, and these secret guards armed with special crossbow arrows began to follow Hu Xiaosi's instructions to target the war horses of Wang Yanzhang's cavalry in the fierce battle, and this time directly blinded Wang Yanzhang's cavalry, and 5,000 people began to continue to attrition under the blow of this group of teams that were looking for trouble with war horses. Cheng Wei also decisively seized this opportunity, almost looking for those fallen Xuanwu troops to attack, and Wang Yanzhang's assault force weakened rapidly.

"The Drums gave me everything I could to let everyone know that it was a critical moment." Hu Xiaosi raised his head to the sky and roared, leading the war drum corps to convey an inexplicable momentum with one after another rapid drum beats, encouraging the soldiers to move forward.

Cheng Wei heard the rapid drums of his Chinese army in the fierce battle, and the long-lost blood began to permeate his heart, and he couldn't help but shout with the drums, he was the backbone of Cheng Wei's army, and the roar of the commander made the soldiers around him attack more fiercely, completely blocking Wang Yanzhang inside. Originally, this trick Wang Yanzhang tried and tested repeatedly against others, but at this time, it lost its usefulness, and once the speed of the cavalry slowed down, it would inevitably be killed by the superior infantry around him.

Ge Cunzhou also noticed the abnormal movement of Cheng Xiao's army in the distance, this inexplicable momentum made his face more and more solemn, and after hesitating a few times, the right hand he waved finally rose, and sent the last remaining army around him to the battlefield, to set off from the right flank, preparing for a three-way attack.

When Ge Cunzhou was preparing for the third attack, Zhang Guihou also officially started fighting with the right flank of Cheng Xiao's army, but the rain of arrows fired by the 5,000 archers arranged by Hu Xiaosi made this attack almost stillborn. Zhang Guihou, who personally led the charge of the team, was shot in the shoulder by a cold arrow and fell off his horse. This accident almost completely disrupted Zhang Guihou's troops. And Li Yang, the Cheng Wei army arranged on the right flank, took advantage of the situation to lead the army to attack, and directly went against the trend and caught Zhang Guihou off guard.

Zhang Guihou, who returned to the war horse with the support of his personal guards, almost spurted out a mouthful of blood when he saw this scene, and he fell to the ground in an instant, and the forward of his troops was completely disrupted by the archers of the other party, and the continuous rain of arrows caused a terrifying killing, and the unprepared Xuanwu soldiers fell to the ground in pieces, and the entire attack formation was completely disrupted. And Li Yang's charge also happened to be at this point, so that this chaos was continuously amplified.

After Hu Xiaosi helped Li Yang open up the situation with the archers, he mobilized half of his men and began to return to the Chinese army to join the encirclement and suppression of Wang Yanzhang. Because Ge Cunzhou's actions made everyone understand that the last force of the Xuanwu Army on the battlefield had already been put in, and if he couldn't quickly defeat Wang Yanzhang's heart, he would inevitably be surrounded by the other party on all sides and the center would bloom.

Therefore, Wang Yanzhang, who was about to rush towards Cheng Wei and kill the other party, suddenly felt that something was wrong, only to see that a dense rain of arrows suddenly appeared in the sky again, and at the critical moment of the battle between the two armies, this wave of arrow rain completely disrupted Wang Yanzhang's cavalry team, and the last spirit was also consumed in the fierce battle that had been delayed for half an hour. On the other hand, although the Cheng Wei army is facing an absolute disadvantage at this moment, its morale continues to rise, and it reaches a climax after Cheng Wei takes the lead. In the short distance of dozens of zhang that Wang Yanzhang rushed towards Cheng Wei, there were already more than a dozen ordinary soldiers who were ready to fight with Wang Yanzhang with the mentality of dying together.

The sound of "puff puff" continued to sound in this area, and those cavalry continued to the end because of their large size, and the cavalry of 5,000 people was less than 30% of them by this time. After discovering the change in the number of opponents, Cheng Wei could even directly deploy troops to completely surround himself.

"The whole army assaulted and killed Cheng Wei for me." Wang Yanzhang saw that his team was getting smaller and smaller, and began to pour blood into his pupils, regardless of the fact that he rushed towards Cheng Xiao. But he didn't find the dozens of crossbows and crossbows that were raised around him. 10