Habil also seemed to be worried that Zhao Ziliang would start attacking while his army was not firmly established, so he completed the change of position and deployment in the time he was approaching, and when the two armies stopped after two miles apart, the Khazarian army also completed the final deployment. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The strength of the Khazar army is close to 20,000, nearly 10,000 less than the Western Qin army, so the width of the military array is not as wide as the Western Qin army, and the area is not as large as the Western Qin army, but the momentum is not weak. From the point of view of completing the transformation and deployment of the army on the march, the Khazar Khan King Habir was a man with rich combat experience, and he had the experience of personally leading his troops to fight and charge into battle.

Ma Ling pointed ahead and said, "King, the Khazar army has completed the deployment of the military formation, it seems that this Habil really has a hand!" ”

Zhao Ziliang observed for a moment and said: "I can't let them continue to rest, pass on the order of the king, and order the first part of the escort army to launch a tentative attack to see how Habir responds!" ”

"Yes!" Ma Lan agreed, and immediately nodded to the herald.

The flags and horns began at the same time, and the first part of the escort army began after receiving the order, and the soldiers took out their bows and arrows, lightly clamped their legs between the horse's belly, and the war horse began to move forward, and after a few steps, they began to trot.

At this time, the rumbling war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the first cavalry of the Escort Army, who had already begun to trot, were all enthusiastic after hearing the fierce war drums, and they began to beat the horse's buttocks and urge the war horse to speed up.

"Boom, boom, boom······" After the more than 2,000 cavalry began to charge, the sound of horses' hooves spread like thunder, and the shouts of killing kept coming out of the mouths of these cavalrymen.

Seeing a cavalry rush out of the middle of the Tang army, Habil couldn't help frowning and said, "Didn't the king of Western Qin force Ben Khan to fight a decisive battle with him?" Why did you only send such a small number of soldiers and horses in the first place? ”

A commander next to him shook his head and said, "I don't know what the hell the King of Western Qin is fighting, and we don't know how they fight, maybe it's their habit?" ”

Habil thought for a moment and immediately said: "No matter, let the three thousand heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire meet the battle and attack immediately!" ”

If there are cavalry and infantry, the infantry must be used first in battle, and if the cavalry is used first, then the infantry can only follow behind and eat ashes, which will not play a role. And these 3,000 heavy infantry are supported by the Eastern Roman Empire, so there is no need for nothing, Habil will not be polite and treat them as guests? Don't talk nonsense! What's more, everyone in the world has the mentality of being a friend of the dead and not a poor man, and of course he can't let these three thousand heavy infantry be idle.

"Heavy infantry dismount and line up!" With a loud roar from one of the generals of the Eastern Roman Empire.

When the 3,000 heavy infantry heard the order, they immediately dismounted from their horses, they had already put on their weapons, armor and other equipment, and now they could fight immediately as soon as they dismounted and lined up.

The speed of the assembly was very fast, the war horses were all led away by the cavalry of the Khazar army behind, and the three thousand heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire, who formed a neat horizontal rectangular phalanx, held their shields, held spears, stepped on the drums, and let out a neat roar under the orders of their generals, and met the two thousand cavalry of the Western Qin army who rushed over.

"The infantry stops advancing! Raise the gun! ”

"Boom" fell with a neat footstep, three thousand Eastern Roman heavy infantry stopped advancing, all of them stood their shields on the ground, and put a few meters long spears diagonally on the ground in the direction of the Western Qin army, they were lungeing with both feet, holding the spear in one hand and the grip of the shield in the other, staring at the cavalry of the Western Qin army that was rushing over.

"Shoot the arrows!" About one hundred and fifty meters away, Liang Jin, the general of the first division of the guard army, roared and shot an arrow, and the cavalry of the Western Qin army behind also shot arrows in their hands.

"Whoosh ······"

Seeing this, the Eastern Roman general immediately shouted: "Shield array! ”

All the Eastern Roman hoplites immediately put their shields above their heads when they heard the order, and there was not even a single gap between each shield, only the spears were stuck diagonally on the ground and exposed, and the arrows that flew from them landed on the shield array with a clanging sound, except for a few unlucky ones who were shot in the foot by the arrows, and some of the arrows hit the calves, but they were blocked by the steel plates of the leggings.

Zhao Ziliang could see clearly with a telescope in the rear, this Eastern Roman heavy infantry is worthy of being famous in the West for its super defensive power, and the arrows are basically useless against it!

Zhao Ziliang was not allowed to hesitate, he immediately ordered: "Quickly send an order to let the first division split in two to bypass the two flanks of the enemy's heavy infantry, and shoot back and forth at them from the flanks!" Wang Can, put what you have prepared out to deal with these 3,000 enemy heavy infantry! ”

"Yes, King!"

After a few horns sounded, the first part of the Western Qin Guard, which had rushed fifty miles in front of the 3,000 heavy infantry of the Eastern Rome, quickly separated from the center and rushed to both sides, shooting arrows non-stop, so that those Eastern Roman heavy infantry could not move.

At this time, two hundred Western Qin cavalry divided into two teams and ran out of the passage directly to the three thousand heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire, each team dragged a long iron chain, and between the two long iron chains dragged a thick and long huge steel rake, which was cylindrical and had countless spikes on it, and the two iron chains dragged it on the ground to the three thousand heavy infantry of the Eastern Rome.

The distance was too far, Habir only saw that after the two thousand Western Qin cavalry split into two and bypassed his three thousand heavy infantry, they began to shoot arrows back and forth back and forth at the heavy infantry phalanx, but the effect was not great, and about two hundred cavalry rushed out from behind to surround the heavy infantry phalanx in the shape of a goose, what effect could this have? Habil directly ignored the two hundred Western Qin cavalry that appeared later, he felt that he couldn't let the two thousand Western Qin cavalry always bite the heavy infantry, so he immediately ordered his general: "Send two thousand elite cavalry to deal with the two thousand cavalry of the Western Qin, and don't let them shoot arrows at the heavy infantry phalanx when they have time to crush them!" ”

"Yes, A. Thorn Han!"

The Khazars increased their strength again, which was immediately seen by Zhao Ziliang, and he found that the two thousand Khazar cavalry that rushed out were heading towards the first part of the escort army, and he immediately ordered: "Order the first part of the escort army to give up encircling and shooting the enemy's heavy infantry, and directly meet and defeat these two thousand Khazar cavalry!" ”

"Yes, King!"

"If you're thirsty, bring me a bowl of tea!" Zhao Ziliang said and continued to observe the situation on the battlefield, both sides of the flanks have not moved, only the Chinese army has two or three thousand people everywhere, fighting, like gambling, you can't bet all your net worth as soon as you get on the field before you figure out the details of the other party, that is a brain-dead behavior.

The guards brought a bowl of tea, Zhao Ziliang drank it, and saw that the thousands of people sent by each side of the Chinese army had not yet been decided, and the right flank of the Khazarian army began to launch a full-scale charge.

Ma Lan immediately reminded: "King, the Khazars have launched an all-out attack on our left flank! ”

"See!" Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "This Khazar has migrated to the West for so long, how come they haven't learned the West's practice of keeping reserves in the war?" Order, the left-wing Bai Xiaode Department, send the first, second and third departments to meet the battle, and the fourth and fifth departments are on standby! ”

"Yes!" The herald immediately agreed, and the secretary next to him quickly recorded Zhao Ziliang's order with pen and ink, and recorded the command order of the leading general on the spot on the one hand to check in the future to see if there were any errors in the command, on the other hand, it is also for learning and discussion afterwards, and there is also an extremely important role, the commander can check in time which soldiers and horses have been sent out, which is still on standby, which helps the commander to command the battle, after all, there are too many numbers of tens of thousands of armies and departments, Commanders sometimes can't remember which numbers of troops have not yet been dispatched and which numbers of troops have already been dispatched, and if they forget, they will immediately remember it when they look at the records.

After Bai Xiaode got the military order, he immediately pulled out his waist knife and pointed forward: "The first, second, and third divisions will attack to meet the enemy army, kill—"

"Kill—"

Six thousand cavalry on the left wing of the Western Qin army were dispatched, and the total strength of the Western Qin army was more than that of the Khazar army, so there were more soldiers and horses on the left flank, this time six thousand cavalry were dispatched, and the right wing of the Khazar army was only six thousand people.

And at this time, the duel between the Chinese army has changed, and the two hundred Western Qin troops dragged the huge steel rake in a goose-shaped formation to the two wings of the three thousand Eastern Roman heavy infantry, and the huge steel rake in the middle was dragged towards the heavy infantry phalanx at a very fast speed!

The Eastern Roman general was horrified when he saw it, could it be good to be hit by this thing? He immediately wanted to order the heavy infantry to retreat, but it was too late to retreat, and Habil didn't give them the order to retreat, they couldn't retreat at all, and now they could only pray that God would forbid the heavy infantry phalanx to withstand the onslaught of this thing.

"Oh God, what is this?" A large number of Eastern Roman heavy infantry in the front row saw the steel rakes rushing at high speed through the gaps in their shields, and they were all so frightened that their faces were pale, and their limbs trembled.

The centurion in the front row was also frightened, but he knew that he could not be afraid, and immediately shouted: "Don't be afraid, stand your shield on the ground to block it, quickly climb the shield and stand on the ground to block this terrible thing, and the soldiers on both sides quickly pull out your short swords and cut the iron lock!" ”

With a loud "boom", the steel rake finally crashed into the shield array of the Eastern Roman heavy infantry in the front row at a very fast speed, and the Eastern Roman heavy infantry in the front row were knocked to the ground together with the shields, some were knocked down by the shields, and some were hit by the spikes on the rollers.

The steel roller is like a huge stone mill, under the rapid horseback pull of the two teams of Western Qin cavalry, it swept through the Eastern Roman heavy infantry phalanx at a very fast speed, and the heavy infantry phalanx was completely vulnerable in front of this huge steel roller, where the steel roller passed, a large piece of corpse was crushed into a meat pie on the ground, and a large amount of blood splashed on the ground, flowing on the ground, staining the grass on the ground red.

The shield phalanx of 3,000 Eastern Roman heavy infantry was actually broken by these two hundred Western Qin cavalry with steel rollers, and caused them extremely heavy losses, after this crush, the surviving Eastern Roman heavy infantry was less than 500 people, and these people who survived were also tripped by iron chains, and it was extremely difficult to get up, in order to survive, these Eastern Roman heavy infantry had to touch the heavy armor on their bodies, discard spears and short swords, but can they survive on this battlefield without protection?