Tian Jing transferred 3,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry from Qi Tai and Leping to Xie County to assemble, and now there are less than 10,000 horses and horses with the soldiers and horses he withdrew from Pusaka. Although there is still a big gap in the number www.biquge.info of military horses compared with Liangzhou, Tian Jing is at least confident that he will fight.

This time, Tian Jing did not choose to defend the city, but relied on the county seat to meet the enemy. It is necessary to meet the Liangzhou soldiers and horses on the battlefield to see the victory and defeat.

This is not because Tian Jingtuo is big, mainly because on the one hand, the county seat is low and difficult to defend, and the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou are equipped with siege equipment, which is not conducive to defending the city; On the other hand, the Hedong soldiers and horses retreated from Puban to Xie County, and it seemed that the situation was unfavorable to the Hedong army, but the Hedong army also eliminated five or six thousand Liangzhou soldiers and horses. Therefore, Tian Jing felt that the Hedong Army had the strength to fight.

Although it was a head-to-head confrontation, Tian Jing also made some preparations in advance, such as thistles, sacrificial horse pits, etc., although he did not expect these to change the situation of the entire battle, but at least they could increase the probability of victory.

Li Dao and Guo Yan took 20,000 soldiers and horses along the way and carefully marched to Xie County, only traveling 50 miles a day, just to save physical strength.

On this day, when I finally arrived at the county seat, I saw the flag of the Hedong Army fluttering from afar, and greeted each other in formation.

Li Dao and Guo Yan never imagined that the Hedong Army would give up defending the city and choose to fight in the field. In this way, the large number of siege equipment that had been prepared became a burden. It turned out that in order to prevent the siege equipment from being destroyed by a sneak attack, it was carefully protected in the middle of the team. Now that he was about to engage the enemy, he had to move his siege equipment to the back of the battle.

Tian Jing saw that the Liangzhou army's formation was in chaos, and immediately began to mobilize troops and horses.

Leping's 1,000 light cavalry as the vanguard, rushed out first, not to break the enemy, but to disturb the enemy to the greatest extent.

Zang Shun's Hu cavalry lieutenant battalion and Qi Tai's 3,000 Hedong lieutenant battalion soldiers and horses, mainly spearmen, followed the cavalry as the front army, and attacked the enemy's central army. Li Meng, Wang Fang and Zhang Bao's three colonels, swordsmen, swordsmen, and shield bearers were in front, and crossbowmen were behind, slowly advancing to stabilize the Chinese army. The 1,000 cavalry under Tian Jing (left behind by Zhang Ji) protected the right flank of the army, while the left flank was not protected by cavalry. The five hundred cavalry under Wu Fang's command were called elsewhere.

When Leping's soldiers and horses rushed towards the enemy, they caused a brief riot. After the cavalry fired two rounds of arrows, because there were no spears and heavy armor, they could not directly impact the enemy, so after Leping let out a roar, the soldiers and horses behind him turned with him and continued to disrupt the enemy's flank. Leaving the frontal battlefield to the infantry behind.

If the Liangzhou army was well prepared and there were archers to press the formation, the forward of the Hedong army would definitely not be able to rush to the front of the formation so easily, but it was precisely at the moment when the enemy army was adjusting that the spearmen in the vanguard immediately rushed up. The clash of spearmen is the simplest, but the scene is also the bloodiest. It's to step up, get out of the gun, put the gun away, step up again, get out again, and put away the gun again. There is only offense and no defense. Only the weak-willed side will be the first to collapse, and when the time comes, as long as it retreats, it will become a rout of the whole army.

Tian Jing's forward was certainly brave, but the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou were not a rabble after all, although the soldiers in front of them fell, Li Dao and Guo Yan still immediately controlled the situation. Begin to deploy a counteroffensive.

All the siege equipment that could not be moved was abandoned, and the infantry phalanx was organized to meet the enemy first. And in order to stabilize the situation, Li Dao and Guo Yan both pressed their own guards and horses. I believe that I will be able to withstand the attack immediately.

On the flank, the 3,000 Flying Bear Army believed that they would be able to disperse the enemy's cavalry and come up to support. Li Wei saw through Tian Jing's mind and knew that he wanted to attack when the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou were originally unstable, but after all, there were many soldiers in Liangzhou and few troops in Hedong. As long as it can withstand the first round of attacks, then the Hedong Army has nothing to fear.

Just as Li Wei thought, the form of the battlefield was developing in the direction of favoring the Liangzhou army. The attack of the soldiers and horses in Hedong has been blocked. Now Guo Yan is giving the order to transfer the team behind him. And seeing that the Flying Bear Army had driven away the cavalry to the east of the river, they began to attack the enemy's forward from the flank.

The spearmen in the forward line of the Hedong Army had begun to waver and were slowly retreating. At this moment, a cavalry of the Hedong Army appeared out of nowhere, and directly chose the opposite wing of the Flying Bear Army to attack. Although the cavalry was small in number, they all carried torches, and it was obvious that they were coming for the siege equipment that had just been abandoned.

The Liangzhou Army did not react for a while, and it was impossible for the Flying Bear Army to immediately switch from the left flank to the right flank. With this delay, the cavalry of the Hedong Army had already rushed in and threw torches on the siege equipment.

Most of these instruments were made of wood, and after a while, they were all on fire. The Liangzhou soldiers and horses in front still knew how to dodge, and many of the soldiers and horses in the back didn't know what was going on.

Zang Shun and Qi Tai, who were commanding at the front, saw the fire and knew that this was the signal to retreat, and ordered the forward to retreat. Seeing that it was separated from the enemy at a certain distance. The Hedong Army took out a handful of thistles from his body and threw it in the direction of the enemy, turned around and ran.

And the soldiers and horses of the three colonels of the Chinese army have also been prepared, separating the Chinese army, giving up a distance of ten tents wide, and allowing the forward to retreat.

The soldiers and horses of Liangzhou chased fast, and when they stepped on the thistle, it hurt so much. There was another big chaos, and after this delay, the forward of the Hedong Army had already run away.

After the spearmen of the third colonel of the Hedong Army and other forwards withdrew, they immediately closed the formation, the sword and shield men pressed the formation, and the archers fired. The Chinese army retreated while shooting, and the formation was basically not chaotic.

Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't expect the Hedong Army to rush quickly and withdraw simply. And because his team adjusted the formation at the beginning, and then the equipment caught fire and the thistle terrestris blocked the way, it was chaotic three times, and these three times not only killed and injured many soldiers, but also missed the best opportunity to counterattack.

Now we can't let the enemy hold back their noses and go, we must take the initiative. Li Dao immediately asked the standard-bearer to give orders to the Flying Bear Army, so as to avoid entanglement with the cavalry of the Hedong Army and directly impact the enemy's right flank. Li Wei had observed the formation of the Hedong Army before the battle, and there was no cavalry escort on the right flank, once the Flying Bear Army defeated the Hedong soldiers and horses from the right side, then the victory of the battle was decided.

The Flying Bear Army is the elite of the Liangzhou cavalry, as long as it can rush to the front of the infantry, it can definitely tear a hole in the enemy's right flank, and then crush the enemy army with a devastating force. Not only did Li Dao think so, but his younger brother, Li Li, the commander of the Flying Bear Army, also thought so. He led the cavalry to take the lead, and when he saw that there was still a distance of more than ten zhang to rush to the front of the Hedong army, he ordered everyone to raise their cavalry guns and prepare to charge.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden change at this time, Li Li only felt that the horse had lost its front hooves, and his body was thrown out like a kite with a broken string. "It's a trap!" It was too late for Li Li to think about it, he only felt that his body was stiff and fell straight into the pit, and the huge impact seemed to break through the internal organs, and then countless knights and horses fell into the pit, and the sound of people screaming and screaming was endless.

But Li Li didn't have a chance to listen anymore, and the huge body of a horse smashed into the place where Li Li was lying. The commander of the Flying Bear Army died tragically in this way.

Li Dao in the rear was shocked when he saw it, and in desperation, he hurriedly withdrew his troops. The archers of the Hedong Army kept using arrows to harvest the lives of those soldiers who had not yet had time to retreat.

Tian Jing knew that he had won today, but he didn't know that there would be no such opportunity next time. Just as Tian Jing was about to collect his troops and return to the city, the defenders in the city suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted, it turned out to be billowing smoke rising from the sky behind the Liangzhou army.

Tian Jing looked at the direction of the smoke, and it was estimated that there was a fire in Beishan between Biancheng and Jiexian County. The heart said: Could it be that Xu Huang has moved? It seems that it is time for the battle of Hedong to come to an end.

Xu Huang led 3,000 soldiers and horses to hide in the mountains east of the river, waiting for the opportunity to change the tide of the battle. Don't look at Xu Huang who was full of confidence when he received the order that day, in fact, no one knew the pressure in his heart.

Tian Jing gave himself the most elite troops and the best weapons and equipment, if these 3,000 people could not play a key role. Then Tian Jing's Chinese army is likely to be wiped out in the battle with the Liangzhou soldiers, and both the emperor and the people of Hedong will fall under the iron hooves of the Liangzhou army.

Xu Huang had been waiting for the enemy to make a mistake, but Tian Jing set up an ambush in the valley outside Puban City, which on the one hand hit the Liangzhou soldiers and horses, and on the other hand, made Li Dao and Guo Yan become cautious everywhere. Even if the Liangzhou army left grain and grass in the city, it also left 8,000 soldiers and horses to garrison.

Xu Huang knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and if the enemy didn't make a mistake, then he had to create his own opportunities. From the day when Li Dao and Guo Yan's army went north to Xie County from the north of the city, Xu Huang sent the cavalry under Li Kang's command to block the news between Li, Guo Daying and the city.

Whether it was the military report from the city to the north, or the order from the camp to the city, it was intercepted by Xu Huang. Now it is no one else who is responsible for defending in Defective City, it is Li Dao's nephew Hu Feng. Xu Huang knew Hu Feng's ability, and knew that if he wanted to capture the flawed city, he could only outwit the enemy.

Since there are many soldiers in the Defective City, then draw out the soldiers and horses in the Defective City? Xu Huang decided to set fire to Beishan, giving the defenders of the city the illusion that Li and Guo Qianfeng were in ambush. Beishan is between the city and the county, and it can be reached in half a day from the city. If it was another general, he might still hold on to the city and wait for Li and Guo to return to the army. But Hu Feng is different, he has been leading troops for a long time, and he has the ability to be arbitrary. If he thinks that Li and Guo's soldiers and horses have been ambushed, he will definitely bring troops out to respond.

Xu Huang's strategy was to set fire to the mountain, wait for Hu Feng's soldiers and horses to go out of the city to the vicinity of Beishan, and take the opportunity to ambush and eat Hu Feng's soldiers and horses. Then let his soldiers and horses change into the clothes of the Liangzhou soldiers, pretended to be a rout to deceive the defenders of the city to open the door, and then burned the grain and grass of the Liangzhou army, forcing Li and Guo to retreat.