According to Gai Jiayun's deployment, the infantry and cavalry of the Tang Army were under unified command, Gai Jiayun was the commander-in-chief, responsible for the overall command, Tian Renwan, the commander of the soldiers and horses, was responsible for assistance and staff officers, the chief general of the Southern Route Army, Fumeng Lingcha, was responsible for commanding all the cavalry, and Sima Shadezu, the deputy general of the Southern Route Army and marching army, commanded the heavy cavalry corps, and under the care of Fumeng Lingcha, Zhao Ziliang was responsible for commanding the left wing of the light cavalry corps.

Mo Rongting, the chief general of the Northern Route Army, was responsible for commanding all the infantry, Yang Tai, the guard of Yanqi Town, was in charge of commanding the Modao Army, Wu Dayong, the deputy envoy of the Qiuzi Army, was in charge of the spear and shield infantry, Yuan Tong, the deputy envoy of the Khotanese Army, was in charge of commanding the sword and shield infantry, and Li Fei Yuanli, the general directly under the Dadu Protectorate, commanded the bow and crossbow troops.

The two sides of the enemy and our military formations were separated by two miles, thousands of flags and ribbons of various colors were blown in the air by the breeze, and the air exuded the smell of nervousness, suffocation, and slaughter, and the recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time were trembling, their palms holding their weapons were wet, and beads of sweat were on their foreheads. In such a situation, the smell of a large amount of sweat and the smell of feces excreted by the war horses no longer seems unpleasant.

Zhao Ziliang and his two dynasties together have experienced hundreds of battles, and they can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, but it is also the first time to experience such a large battlefield scene, with a total strength of more than 100,000 horses on both sides, and a war of this scale has not occurred in nearly 20 years.

This battle for the Tang Dynasty is to declare that the hegemony of the Tang Empire in the Western Regions cannot be blasphemed and violated, and if it wins, the gradually declining influence of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions will rise again, and if it is defeated, the Tang Dynasty will completely lose control of the Western Regions; For Tuqishi, this is a war related to the fortunes of the country, and if he wins, Tuqishi can completely get rid of the control of the Tang Dynasty, and dominate the Western Regions from then on, and if he loses, he will completely become a vassal of the Tang Dynasty. And it is difficult to turn over for a long time. Therefore, both sides will give their best in this battle.

The infantry of the Tang Army formed a fish scale array, a phalanx in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and the front end of the fish scale array was the Mo Dao Legion, and Yang Tai, the town guard of Yanqi Town, who was responsible for commanding the Mo Dao Legion, personally held a big Mo knife and stood at the front of the military array, followed by more than 100 elite servants holding Mo Dao. Behind is the neat Modao phalanx.

The left and right wings and the middle phalanx are the spear and shield infantry and the sword and shield infantry, the front row is the spear and shield infantry, the second row is the sword and shield infantry, the third row is the spear and shield infantry, and then the sword and shield infantry, and so on, so that the sword and shield infantry and the spear and shield infantry cover each other, and the sword and shield infantry are equipped with bows and arrows.

The rear formation of the fish scale formation is the location of the commander of the Tang Army, where the formation between soldiers and soldiers is dense. There are not only elite infantry, but also cavalry protection, and the heavy armored cavalry of the Tang Army is deployed here.

In the formation of the fish scale array, there are Tang Army bow and crossbow troops in the gap between each column of soldiers, and the bows and crossbows used include Fuyuan crossbows, arm crossbows and other bows and crossbows with ultra-long range.

On the left and right flanks of the fish scale array, there was the Tang Army Light Cavalry Corps, and Zhao Ziliang led the left wing light cavalry to ride and stand in front of the left wing light cavalry, holding the reins in his left hand. Holding the golden nail jujube lance in his right hand, he observed the military formation of the cavalry army in front. From time to time, he looked back at the situation of the Tang Army behind him.

After looking at it for a while, he took out his monoculars and continued to observe, and the observed situation made him wonder very much, whether it was the Tang army or the Tuqi army, there was no reserve arrangement, and no reserve war was arranged. It's like gambling to win or lose, that's stud! Both sides press all their hole cards at once.

Of course, this is caused by the military thinking of the East, so in the war in the East, the requirements for the commander's command ability are very high. The coach must constantly adjust the attack and defense strategy during the battle, and must know the formation well, be able to know it by heart, and be able to change the formation as he likes. If the soldiers do not know the generals, the soldiers will not know the soldiers, then the war will be difficult to win, the Song Dynasty in order to prevent the military generals from separating the towns, they often change the leading generals, and the commanders in foreign wars are generally temporarily assigned, which is the embodiment of the generals who do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals.

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help sighing, this is the sadness of the position is too low, knowing that this kind of one-time pressure on all the hole cards is not advisable, but he has no way to change, at this time even if he wants to go to Gai Jiayun to suggest it is too late, fortunately, whether in terms of momentum, morale, equipment and combat power, the Tang army has an absolute advantage, victory is certain, but it is only the price to pay and the size of the results to win.

And Zhao Ziliang scoffed at Gai Jiayun's heavy cavalry phalanx in the back formation, in this kind of terrain, and in the case of this scale of two sides, the heavy cavalry phalanx can only be put in the front to charge the formation to give full play to the maximum power of the heavy cavalry phalanx, but he is just a guerrilla general, and it is already very good to be able to command the left flank of the light cavalry troops under the care of Fu Meng Lingcha, where is he still qualified to dictate the way the commander arranges the troops?

At the rear of the military formation, the position where the commander sits is a wooden high platform, standing on the wooden high platform can see the general situation of the entire battlefield, Gai Jiayun is sitting in the middle of the high platform, on both sides are dozens of guards in full armor, the four corners of the high platform are inserted with the word "cover" flag, behind the wooden frame is placed on the written diameter of a large drum up to one meter long, dozens of musicians on both sides put the mouthpiece of the horn to the mouth, the thick copper horn of the horn is dragged on the wooden floor, Fumeng Lingcha, Yang Tai and other generals are standing on the left and right sides of Gai Jiayun to observe the Tucai army formation.

After the deployment of the military array was completed and all the troops were in place, Gai Jiayun didn't want to delay time, this battle would have to be fought sooner or later, if he didn't make the first move and take some of the lead, he raised his hand and pulled out an arrow from the thick bamboo tube on the front desk and shouted: "Li Fei Yuanli, order the bow and crossbow troops to move forward and form a horizontal phalanx in front of the military formation!" ”

The crossbow unit does not include the sword and shield infantry that carry ordinary bows and arrows, and the crossbow troops here are full-time troops, which are units that use large crossbow arrows, volcanic crossbows with ultra-long range, and arm open crossbows.

"No!" Li Fei Yuanli took the order and agreed, turned around and walked to the side to let his herald start to give orders in flags.

The order was quickly issued by the flag bearer in the flag language, a big drum rumbled under the vigorous beating of a drummer, and the on-site commanders of all arms and battalions who heard the drum turned their heads to look at the rear, and saw the exclusive flag bearer belonging to the crossbowmen playing the flag, and the deputy general of the on-site command of the crossbow unit immediately shouted: "The crossbowmen are forward-"

The crossbowmen carried the quiver on their backs, and carried huge crossbows and large bows in a neat march through the middle of the spear and shield and sword shield infantry, and soon walked to the front of the entire army formation, and lined up in a horizontal dense phalanx under the command of the deputy general of the bow and crossbow troops.

In the Tucai Shi army formation, the fire-spitting fairy sitting in a huge carriage drawn by several war horses saw that the Tang army's formation moved, and the first to move was the long-range strike bow and crossbow troops, his brows couldn't help frowning, and after thinking for a while, he quickly ordered: "Order 10,000 cavalry on the left and right wings to attack the left and right wings of the Tang army, as long as we can break their flanks, we can encircle them!" ”

"Yes, Khan!"

The order was given quickly, the desolate trumpets blew, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Turquoise army moved, and the movement of the 20,000 cavalry was simply overwhelming.

Zhao Ziliang began to be nervous and excited, he held the golden nail jujube yang lance and was eager to try, the war horse Wuli also began to be furious, his front hooves kept digging the ground, he raised his blade and shouted: "The left wing light cavalry all bow and arrow ready-"

Just when the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Tuqi Shi rushed halfway, Gai Jiayun issued the order, and the order was issued, and the light cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Tang army went out to meet the enemy, and they were only allowed to win, not defeat!

Gai Jiayun also knew that if the cavalry on the left and right flanks could not resist the attack of the 20,000 cavalry of the Tucai Shi, the Tang army would be in danger of being surrounded, and as long as the encirclement was completed by two-thirds, the Tang infantry who were surrounded in the middle would inevitably be panicked, and then the entire army formation would be disrupted, and once the army formation was in chaos, the command system would fail, and the defeat would be decided.

Finally waited for the order to attack the enemy, Zhao Ziliang put the golden nail jujube yang lance on the victory hook, took out the treasure carving bow from the bow bag, and pulled out three arrows from the quiver and put them on the bowstring, the legs clamped the horse's belly, the front hooves of the war horse rose into the air, and the hind legs exerted force, and suddenly rushed out, and roared: "Kill-"

"Kill—"

Behind him, 6,000 light cavalry followed Zhao Ziliang in a longitudinal formation to kill the turquoise cavalry coming from the opposite side, and when he was about to enter the range of the riding bow, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Release the arrows - free scattering"

When the words fell, the three arrows were shot out at the same time, and the cavalry of the Tang Army behind them also began to release arrows one after another, and a large number of arrows flew into the air with a "buzzing" sound.

The rain of arrows fell, and the turquoise cavalry that rushed to the front fell like dominoes in an orderly manner, and Zhao Ziliang and the Tang cavalry behind him kept pulling their bows and arrows, pulling their bows and arrows.

The Turgish cavalry was not idle, although the Tang cavalry took advantage of the long range of bows and arrows and released their arrows first, killing and wounding a large number of Turgish cavalry who rushed in front, and the Turgish cavalry who rushed behind began to fire back with bows and arrows after the Tang army also entered the range of their bows and arrows, and the Tang cavalry also began to suffer casualties.

The arrows kept flying over his head and ears, Zhao Ziliang's face was resolute, seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, he immediately put the treasure carving bow into the bow bag, took out the golden nail jujube yang lance and shouted: "Change weapons, prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

・・・・・・The cavalry of the Tang Army and the cavalry of the Turk Cavalry collected their bows almost at the same time and picked up various weapons.

The general who rushed to the front was a commander of ten thousand people, with a face full of flesh and fierce spirits, holding a long copper stick in his hand, he was about to smash it on the top of Zhao Ziliang's head, but Zhao Ziliang's weapon was much longer, and the head of the lance suddenly stabbed out, and the opponent was pierced through the chest before he could smash the copper stick, and his body was pierced on the head of the lance.

Zhao Ziliang held the golden nail Zaoyang lance to provoke the opponent's corpse to sweep left and right, and the cavalry behind was swept down one after another.

The two cavalry finally collided together, and Zhao Ziliang shouted while attacking to clear the obstacles ahead: "Follow me, don't care about anything else, just move forward and kill-" (To be continued.) )