"Your Majesty, the Tang Army is coming~"

A general dressed in bronze gilt armor, holding a crescent halberd, a green horse under his crotch, and a white feather and gold helmet on his head, reported to the man riding on the frosty white horse.

"I know, prepare to defend against the enemy."

Huang Chao, who was dressed in purple gold and green dragon armor, wearing a three-pronged purple and gold crown, wearing a delicate lion belt around his waist, and holding a frost Qingyun sword in his hand, turned around to comfort his concubine Pang Ruyue who was standing at the gate of the palace after answering Lin Yan, the general of the forbidden army under him.

"Concubine Ai returns to the palace to wait, even if she dies, I will die with you, don't worry."

"Your Majesty~ Don't die."

"I love Jiang Han, but I love you even more."

The Tang army in Hanzhong began to counterattack, and the divisions of the Daoqin Wang in various states also began to step up to Chang'an. Huang Chao, who occupied Chang'an, faced the Li Tang Shatuo army that came from the crusade and prepared to drive the expedition in person.

"Your Majesty, I have no regrets in my life to be your woman. You are still focusing on the major affairs of the imperial court, and the soldiers are still waiting for you. You must ensure the dragon body. ”

"Ai Concubine, I will go back quickly."

Looking at the emperor who was galloping away immediately, Pang Ruyue had a hint of ominous feeling in her heart, and a trace of stability. Because, the man in front of her has never let her down.

……

On the bank of the Wei Bridge, the two armies looked at each other across the river, the drums shook the sky, and the shouts and curses continued to rise and fall.

"Your Majesty, the other party is the soldiers and horses of Shatuo Li Keyong and Xuanwudao."

"Hmm~"

After listening to the introduction, Huang Chao fell into a long thought after saying "um".

Lin Yan saw that his uncle the emperor fell into a long thought, thinking that he was thinking of a good way to break the enemy, so he stood silently next to Huangchao to protect his uncle's safety.

"Shatuo, are they outsiders?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Shatuo clan is a Turkic descendant in the extraterritorial desert, and like the Dangxiang clan, they were later attached to Li Tang of the former dynasty."

"Hahaha, I think that when Li Tang was first built, he was also a fierce general, brave and good at fighting, and now more than two hundred years have passed, Li Tang has been bent over by a woman, drained his kidneys, and sucked his bone marrow. It's no longer domineering. ”

Huang Chao heard that Sha Tuo was the same as the party that came to fight before, so he underestimated Sha Tuo's combat power. By the way, he despised Li Tang again and cheered for his soldiers.

"Ha, ha, ha......"

When the generals around him heard the emperor say this, they also echoed and laughed at Sha Tuo on the other side, and Tang Xizong Li Yi, who was hiding far away in Jiannan Road.

"You are all my fierce generals, all of you are my humerus ministers, today's battle, is the time for you to show your strength, I will cook wine and wait for you to triumph, I will be ready to reward you. Is there confidence? ”

The soldiers in front of him slapped their chests, let out "knock, knock, knock", and then shouted a neat roar, "Hurray, hooray, hooray", deafening.

……

On the other side of the river, in the high-rise buildings surrounded by wide wooden walls, Li Keyong, who was wearing a wide robe of Shatuo, looked at the dense and neatly arranged troops on the opposite bank.

Looking at Fang Zhenzhong, the front row of sword and axe hands held the horizontal knife in their right hand and the Qilin heavy armor shield in their left hand. In the middle stood four or five rows of archers, with quivers on their backs filled with red feathered arrows. In the back row was a group of pikemen, each holding a red-tasseled snow silver spear.

"When did this smuggler have such a powerful army, this equipment is much stronger than our Shatuo warriors."

"General, they are just a group of farmers, dressed like dogs, in fact, they are bluffing, and the silver gun wax head is useless." A bearded man stood up and laughed at the Huang Chaojun on the other side of the river.

"As long as the general gives me 5,000 men and horses, I will ensure that I will kill Chang'an and arrest the smuggler for you."

"Pujia, don't talk big, this time I will give you 5,000 men and horses, but I won't let you confront them head-on, you go upstream to find a place to cross the river, go around to the rear and cut off their food and grass for me, and after three days, we will attack back and forth and annihilate them in one fell swoop."

"General, don't bother ...... so much"

Before Pu Jia could finish speaking, he saw Li Keyong staring back at him, and his voice said, "Huh? "A bang.

This frightened Pu Jia hurriedly knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists and said, "Obey the general's order." ”

Subsequently.

"Li Cunxuan, Li Siyuan listens to the order."

"The end will be."

"Give each of you three thousand men to ambush on the flanks. When my main force is entangled with the other party, listen to my orders, you will kill from the flanks, and intersperse robbery and killing along the Wei River for me, and don't let one person cross the river. ”

"Order."

"The others listened to the order and led your headquarters to rush straight to the opponent's main formation."

"Order."

"Let's all go down and prepare."

……

On both sides of the Wei River, crowds of people are crowded, flags are hunting, and horses are neighing.

Thinking that he could easily take down the Shatuo people, Huangchao did not listen to the advice of his generals, and insisted on letting his army cross the river and line up.

The Shatuo cavalry and the forbidden army of Huangchao all lined up to confront each other.

"Look, I'll just say that the Shatuo people don't have the courage to do anything when we cross the river, and now the soldiers will go and pinch them to death."

The triumphant Huang Chao ordered the whole army to push over.

……

Not to be outdone, the Shatuo cavalry charged towards the slowly advancing Huangchao Forbidden Army. Facing the heavily armored soldiers in front, the cavalry was like crashing into a wall full of spears. The rows of pikemen standing behind the heavy armor mustered up all the strength to poke the spears out in turn, and the blood holes on the opposite side were bleeding nonstop.

The archers, who were hiding in the rear, threw their bows and arrows three feet in front of the heavy armor in turn, forming a fire suppression, isolating the cavalry that rushed in from the cavalry that followed the charge.

The cavalry who had escaped the rain of arrows saw this, and as soon as the horse touched the heavy shield and was stabbed by the spear, with the help of the horse's momentum, he threw himself high and crossed the shield wall in front. After landing on the ground, he picked up the waning moon scimitar he carried with him and ran towards the archers.

The two rows of axemen standing in front of the archers saw the advancing cavalry and bravely rushed forward to fight them.

……

"Marshal, it's time to let the two men and horses in ambush come out, our cavalry casualties are too serious."

When an adjutant general saw that his Shatuo cavalry charge was blocked, he proposed to Li Keyong to let the cavalry ambushed on both sides attack.

"Banner commander, pass my general order, let my two sons attack."

After the wind sounded a sortie flag, the 6,000 cavalry lying in ambush on both sides rushed along the banks of the Wei River like a rolling flood.

When the Huangchao Forbidden Army saw the cavalry in ambush on both sides, it instantly shrank into a circular formation, and the spears stretched out, like a hedgehog covered with thorns, wrapping itself properly to resist the invasion from the outside.

"This Yellow Nest rebel army is in an orderly manner! It's really a tough bone, no wonder it can hit Chang'an. ”

Looking at the large array in front of him, responding so quickly to the cavalry that came out of the assault, Li Keyong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I don't know who the other party's main general is?" ”

"Back to the general, the main commander in the opposite formation is Meng Kai."

"He is a rare handsome talent, and the training of this iron bucket array is moderate, and it is neat and tidy."

"General, the casualties on our side are a bit serious, but the other side has died a lot more than us, you see that their circle formation is shrinking, it should be scared, should we let the infantry of Xuanwu Town attack and take them down in one go."

"You're wrong, they're not afraid, but to strengthen the thickness of the defense, this kind of circular array is called the Tianmen Array, when Taizong conquered Liao, Xue Rengui used this circular formation to kill the Korean people."

"Pass the order down, don't attack, throw from the periphery. Let them see the archery skills of my Shatuo cavalry. ”

……

After receiving the order, the Shatuo cavalry began to roam around and shoot arrows. Riding on a horse, with the help of the momentum of the horses running, the bows and arrows of the Shatuo cavalry shot farther than the side of the Huangchao army, and suddenly the side of the Huangchao army suffered countless casualties.

Huang Chao, who was far away on the other side of the river, also saw the projectile of the Shatuo cavalry, and watched his soldiers fall in the formation one after another, but the Shatuo cavalry left unscathed after shooting the arrow, and was very angry.

"Mingjin collects his troops and withdraws."

After Meng Kai heard the sound of gold on the other side of the river, he ordered a circle formation to lean against the river, forming a semi-circle formation at the bridgehead and slowly retreating.

"General, they're going to retreat."

When Li Cunmiao saw that the other party was about to withdraw his troops, he led his 3,000 men and horses, ready to rush up and bite the other party, but a burst of arrows like a torrential rain at the head of the bridge blocked it ten zhang away.

……

In today's battle, both sides left corpses all over the ground, and neither of them bargained.

The Huangchao camp, in the tent of the Chinese army, is on the handsome seat.

"Meng Kai, in today's battle, our forbidden army has played majestic, but it is not like pinching melons and cutting vegetables as imagined, and we have suffered heavy casualties."

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to take responsibility."

"Hey, I didn't blame you, I just saw the heavy casualties of the forbidden army, and I was a little distressed, this is my heart."

Lin Yan, who was standing on the side, looked at Meng Kai who was kneeling on the ground, and felt contempt in his heart. Thinking that he didn't win the first battle against a group of barbarians, then the opportunity to replace Meng Kai came.

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to lead 5,000 troops to attack the Tang army tonight. They've come from afar, and they're fighting us when they're not in the middle of the line, so they'll be unprepared tonight. ”

Lin Yan continued to talk about his thoughts, taking this opportunity to take the military power from Meng Kai.

"Your Majesty, burn their grain and grass with fire oil tonight, then they will retreat without a fight."

Huang Chao looked at his own nephew and heard that he wanted to attack the Tang army tonight and burn the Tang army's grain and grass. He said with praise: "General Lin's plan is good, then I will give you 5,000 men and horses, and go and burn their grain and grass for me tonight." ”

After giving the order, Huang Chao told everyone to retreat. Standing up on his own and looking at the buckskin map behind him, where a conspicuous red circle was marked.

"Li Yi, Li Yi, you are running so fast. If I don't get rid of you, it will be difficult for me, the Great Qi Country, to bring the people of the world to their hearts. ”

……

On the other side of the river, in the camp of the Don Army.

"Father, today our Shatuo cavalry fought bravely, but the casualties were heavy, just counted, 1,670 people died, 2,200 were seriously injured, and there was no plan for minor injuries." Li Cunqiao reports.

"Hey, this Meng Kai is a good general, why bother to be a thief?"

"Your Majesty, I heard that this Meng Kai is also loyal to the queen, but because of the lawsuit that year, he was wronged and imprisoned, and later Wang Xianzhi rioted, and after capturing the county seat, he followed Wang Xianzhi, and then switched to Huangchao. However, according to the spies, this person is not trusted by Huang Chao. Li Ke said with the military advisor beside him.

"Oh? There is also this kind of thing, can it be recruited, after all, Li Tang is orthodox, and he will not be able to last long. ”

"You can try, if not, you can also provoke the relationship between him and Huang Chao."

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."

Then Li Keyong looked at the generals in the tent.

"Cheer up tonight to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp."

"Yes!"

In a big war, neither side has taken any advantage, but the balance of victory has tilted.