The equipment of the light cavalry of the Great Food Army is much lighter than the heavy cavalry, there is no horse armor, the knight only has light leather armor and leather helmets, equipped with riding bows and scimitars, when the leading general saw a phalanx of Tang infantry holding a big knife appeared on the hillside in front of him, he immediately ordered everyone behind him to take out bows and arrows and release arrows at the Tang Army Mo Dao Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Whoosh" A rain of arrows shot out.

Zhao Hu's eyes froze, and he shouted: "Its Xu Rulin!" Guard-"

After hearing the order, all the soldiers of the Mo Sword Army slowly moved down the hillside, and met the light cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed up, the whole formation was as neat as the trees in the woods, and at the same time they waved the big Mo knife in their hands neatly, and the rain of arrows shot by the light cavalry of the Great Food Army from below was swept down by the sword forest, and only a few soldiers were shot, but they were blocked by the armor, making a clanging sound.

The Great Food Army shot three rounds of arrows from the light cavalry on the mountain, and they were all swept down by the Tang Army's Modao military knife forest, with little effect, almost no casualties to the Modao Army, at this time, the two sides were about to collide together, only to see Zhao Hu shout again: "Motionless as a mountain!" ”

The Mo Dao Army stopped with a "boom", and the light cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed over on the opposite side also collided, and the sound of weapons colliding kept sound, and the war horse hit the blade, and the Mo Dao Army in the first row was hit by a huge impact force, but it was not crushed, and it stood firmly.

At this time, the light cavalry of the Great Food Army behind was still rushing upward, and the contact between the two sides was densely crowded, and the soldiers of the Modao Army had to stick their knife sticks diagonally on the ground as a support to withstand the pressure of the other party.

Greeting shouted again: "Advance like a wall - split!" ”

Hearing the order, the soldiers of the Modao Army in the front row immediately raised the Modao and took a step forward, and the Modao in their hands slashed from top to bottom, and the figure of "poof, poof" kept ringing, and one by one the light cavalry of the big food army was suddenly split in half with people and horses, and blood splattered out.

Immediately afterwards, the second row of the Mo Dao Army followed up to take over the first row of the Mo Dao Army, took a step forward past them, and under the command of Zhao Hu, the light cavalry of the Great Food Army behind them was cut into two, one row after another, and the speed was slowly moving forward, neither fast nor slow, and it never stopped.

The front road was blocked, the back road was cut off, and the light cavalry of the Great Food Army who rushed up the hill could not advance or retreat, and were trapped in place to become lambs to be slaughtered, the scimitars in their hands were short, and the Mo Knife of the Mo Knife Army was long, without the assistance of speed, these Light Cavalry of the Great Food Army could not cut the soldiers of the Mo Knife Army on horseback, and could only watch the Mo Knife of the Mo Knife Army slash into their bodies.

"Oh, Allah, what do I see?" Said in the rear of the Great Food Army saw an infantry phalanx of the Tang Army slowly advancing from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and after a flash of sword light, the light cavalry under his command was split like a watermelon, red and white sprayed everywhere, and in a few breaths, several rows were cut down.

Said had a deep sense of powerlessness at this time, he thought that he would use the impact of the heavy cavalry to penetrate the Tang army's formation, and then let the light cavalry that followed him kill the main general of the Tang army and crush the Tang army's command center, so that he could defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect the Tang army to deploy such an infantry with equal defensive and lethal power around the command center.

At this time, it was impossible to order the withdrawal of this light cavalry, which had less than five hundred men left, they were already under siege, and now they were dead, and there was no way to save them.

Said looked at it again, the heavy cavalry under his command was also divided and surrounded by the light cavalry of the Tang Army, and they were being surrounded and annihilated, and he could only use his own 500 guards now, but these 500 guards almost did not play any role in this battlefield with more than 30,000 troops, fortunately, he still had 2,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry in Hengros City, if he was holding on and waiting for reinforcements, he should be able to support for a period of time, and the grain and grass that could originally support the 10,000 army for a month can now support two months.

Although he felt the pain of blood in his heart for the loss of 3,000 heavy cavalry, but the matter had come to this point, he could only give the order to retreat.

Said quickly fled the battlefield with the only remaining 500 guards, but Zhao Ziliang didn't intend to let him escape back so easily, he immediately ordered the men and horses in front to divide into 3,000 light cavalry to pursue, and the rest of the horses stayed behind to continue to surround and annihilate the Great Food Army.

This battle was fought from early morning until noon, but the battle to encircle and annihilate the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army lasted for a whole day before it was completely over, the 3,000 ironclad heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army were killed as high as more than 1,800 horsemen, and only 1,200 cavalry were captured, and the large number of light cavalry killed was more than 2,600, and only 400 cavalry were captured.

The battlefield was cleaned up late at night, and Zhao Ziliang saw Zheng San enter his camp to report on the losses and captures after the battle.

"General, we lost more than 4,000 light cavalry this time, most of them are soldiers and horses of ten tribes, countless wounded, and we can't count the number for the time being, these are almost all caused by the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Army, our cavalry did not contact the enemy, so we only lost eight cavalry, the Modao team lost one hundred and two people, and Zhao Hu suffered some minor injuries. We captured 1,200 heavy cavalry, 400 light cavalry, 2,200 heavy horses, 2,100 light cavalry horses, 2,400 complete heavy cavalry suits, 5,600 scimitars, 2,600 riding bows, 500 intact leather armor, and 10 days' worth of food, gold and silver for the 6,000 army."

After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Okay, you first send people to classify these things, and send people to strictly guard them, especially the heavy cavalry horses and heavy armor of the big cannibals, without the consent of this general, no one should want to fight it, understand?" ”

Zheng San promised: "Understood! ”

Zhao Ziliang has always wanted to form a light cavalry corps that can be used for long-distance running, full of endurance, and adapting to various environments, he also wants to form an ironclad heavy cavalry corps.

The main enemy of the Tang army is the Tubo and steppe Turks, so there are only a small part of the heavy cavalry in the Tang army, and the thickness and protection of the knight's armor and the horse armor are far less than the heavy cavalry equipment of the Great Food Country and the Byzantine Empire.

Zhao Ziliang is not short of money now, nor is there a shortage of light cavalry war horses, but a lack of war horses suitable for heavy cavalry, this kind of war horses need to be tall and strong, explosive power and sprint speed are extremely strong, you can buy some strong Ili horses, but after all, Ili horses are not as good as big horses, and it is most suitable to use tall and sturdy high-grade war horses in big horses as all the war horses of heavy cavalry, and now he has captured more than 2,000 horses, which is still not enough, but this can also be used as the basis for forming heavy cavalry, and so many heavy cavalry equipment have been captured, It only needs to be re-forged by the blacksmiths to make it suitable for the height and style of the Tang Army. This is also the reason why Zhao Ziliang is so nervous about this batch of captured war horses and heavy cavalry equipment, and he will never allow others to fight them.

The impact of the heavy cavalry of the Great Food Country is what Zhao Ziliang has seen with his own eyes, three thousand ironclad cavalry can actually kill 20,000 light cavalry, this impact is simply appalling, when these iron cavalry charged, they actually killed and injured nearly three thousand people, which made him determined to set up the heavy cavalry as soon as possible, as for the quantity and quality, and then slowly find a way to improve it in the future.

Zhao Ziliang summoned the leaders of the tribes, made a brief report on the battle losses, captures, and prisoners, and appeased the tribal leaders who had suffered considerable losses, saying that they would make some additional compensation after the battle, so that they felt better and did not complain.

The next morning, Zhao Ziliang led 15,000 men to attack the city of Henglus, leaving 10,000 men in the camp to guard the grain, grass, prisoners, and booty.

Now there are more than 4,000 people in the city, and Zhao Ziliang brought 15,000 people this time, the siege and siege of the city is more than enough, when the Tang army arrived under the city, Zhao Ziliang ordered to surround the east gate, the south gate and the north gate, leaving the west gate alone, which is called "encircling three and one" in the art of war, there is a gate not surrounded, so that the defenders do not have the courage to fight to the death.

The city of Henglus, the lord's mansion.

Said was a little anxious at this time in order to arrange the city defense, the loss of more than sixty percent of the troops made him start to beat the drum in his heart, the strength of the Tang army is too strong, and the Tang army commander Zhao Ziliang looks young, but the use of soldiers is extremely sophisticated, he went out of the city this time not only did not take advantage, but also returned defeated, only hundreds of light cavalry broke through the encirclement and fled back.

Henglus City is not a very tall and strong city wall, the people of Shi Guo did not store much ordnance and materials to defend the city here, so now to defend the city, the need for defending the city ordnance and materials is pitiful, and the Tang army came too quickly, and they did not have much time to prepare.

Zhao Ziliang's siege deployment made Said understand that if he did not have the determination to live and die with the city, the only way to survive now was to retreat with the army from the west gate to the desert to the west, and return to the Great Food Country through the desert, but the desert in the west stretched for hundreds of miles, and it was not easy for an army of more than 4,000 people to pass through, and if it was not done, it would be wiped out in the desert.

Said, who was observing the Tang army's siege deployment on the east city gate, inspected the city defenses, and saw a general under his command walking quickly with an extremely embarrassed centurion, only to see that the centurion still had an arrow stuck in his back, and came to salute him with great difficulty: "Lord Governor, the Tang army sent a cavalry to raid Baishui City, and our army's 3,000 cavalry in Baishui City were defeated by the Tang army in the middle of the night, and his subordinates and more than 70 people escaped, but they were attacked by the Tang army's scouts near Henglus City, Only his subordinates and two subordinates escaped through Simon! ”

"What, Whitewater City was attacked by the Tang Army?" Said's brain buzzed, and he was so dizzy that he almost collapsed, but two guards still supported him.

He settled down and hurriedly asked, "How many people escaped?" ”

The centurion shook his head and said, "The subordinates don't know, but the subordinates are sure, we have suffered heavy casualties, and it should be less than five hundred if three thousand people can escape alive!" ”

Said listened to the centurion's words and muttered: "It's over, the occupation of Baishui City is equivalent to completely cutting off our back road, with the Tang army blocking in Baishui City, even if all our 10,000 garrisons in Sogdia (Zhaowu Kingdom) arrive, I am afraid that we will not be able to break through the Tang army's defense line in Baishui City in a short time." Now if we want to retreat, we can only retreat out of the West Gate to the desert to the west, and how many of them can return to the country alive depends on luck! (To be continued.) )