His words were quickly conveyed into a military order, more than 100 soldiers of the Huaqiang Army rushed out of the formation, pulled out the saber on their waists and were about to slaughter those wounded soldiers of the Tang Army, and the soldiers on the front line could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and pick up their faces, some people wanted to take the water cylinder tied around their waists, and wanted to drink saliva and slow down, after all, after experiencing the high-intensity battle just now, everyone was sweating profusely, and their hearts were beating like flying, this rare opportunity to rest, we must seize it, so as to face the next wave of battles.

Suddenly, a burst of arrows flew from the front of the side, and many soldiers fell in response to the arrows, only to see a new large group of Tang Army hoplites, holding lances in formation and pressing, with hideous faces and fierce eyes, and shouted: "Wang Laoxie will die immediately, Wang Laoxie will die immediately!" ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed, and he nodded: "So that's the case, turn attack!" ”

Wei Zheng nodded thoughtfully: "Yes, just like a wheel, after an army has attacked, it quickly moves sideways instead of retreating, and the other army in the horizontal immediately follows up and attacks the front instead of the flank, so that the speed of their rotational attack is much faster than the ordinary retreat up and down, so that our army will not have a chance to breathe at all." ”

Wang Shichong gritted his teeth, staring motionlessly at the two phalanxes that were already fighting in front of him, this time the Tang army rushed up with a fresh force, full of physical strength, and the first two phalanxes of the Huaqiang army had been fighting for about a moment just now, and it was a high-intensity and rapid puncture without intermittent, this time they fought again, obviously the frequency and speed of the puncture were far less than just now, the enemy attacked three guns, and here they could probably fight back twice, and soon, the casualties of this side exceeded the Tang army on the opposite side, the first column of the gunners, and people kept falling, Nearly a third of the people have lost their ability to fight, or have been killed or wounded.

Wang Shichong said loudly: "Quick, the archers in the second formation behind will take fifty steps forward, and the arrow rain will cover." ”

Wei Zhengqi said: "Lord, isn't it forbidden to rescue each team?" Is it okay for the archers to move like this? ”

Wang Shichong gritted his teeth: "No way, seeing that the first formation of lancers is about to be unable to withstand it, if the front army is scattered, then the rear formation will be broken even if it does not move, each with two thousand archers to cover the front cover, and the infantry of the first formation alternately cover the retreat, and delay the attack of the Tang army by retreating distance!" ”

Li Shimin's eyes were shining, watching the front line gradually move forward, bursts of arrow rain rose into the air, pouring into the space where the two sides were fighting, more than ten steps between the two armies were full of feather arrows, and for a while, the vanguard of the Huaqiang army was slowly retreating step by step, and if the Tang army wanted to attack forward, it would rush to shoot down many sergeants with feather arrows, and even many feather arrows flew from the rear of the side and shot the backs of some soldiers, resulting in a slight delay in the speed of the follow-up of the side. Almost so that the soldiers in the front row could only watch the distance between the enemy and their own side getting wider and wider.

Hou Junji sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity, the enemy's physical strength is about to run out, we just need to add more strength to defeat them, but give cover to the archers in the rear, so that they can continue to retreat, the king, please give the order, send out cavalry to assault, you will definitely be able to break up their formation!" ”

Li Shimin shook his head: "No, there is no need, the enemy has retreated, although the formation is basically not dispersed, but it has retreated more than 100 steps, the order, continue to rotate, the third formation of the crossbowmen in front, first shoot the enemy in a straight line, they are obviously going to use the two teams of the second formation to replace the first team, once the enemy changes formation, the archers all throw away the bows and crossbows, rush forward with big swords and battle axes, bite with them, fight fiercely!" ”

Wang Shichong's brows were tightly locked, seeing that the third rotation of the other party had been launched, and a large number of Tang Army archers had already turned to the front row, facing Yang Gongqing, who was still slowly retreating, almost staggering with the second formation of the second formation in the rear, Guo Shiheng's two armies kept shooting directly, and dozens of Huaqiang army soldiers with feather arrows on their bodies fell down in response to the arrows, and almost every time they retreated, they would leave a lot of corpses.

Wang Shichong nodded: "The third formation of the enemy army is replaced by archers, and he must want to take advantage of the change of formation of our army to step forward and fight hand-to-hand, and give the order, the first formation will stop in place, and hold the front with a big shield and shield wall, and the crossbowmen in the formation will come forward and shoot at the enemy, so that I can firmly hold the same place!" ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "Your Majesty, we have been fighting for more than half an hour in front, and our army's first formation has suffered more than one-third of the casualties, and its momentum has declined. ”

Wang Shichong said expressionlessly: "You can't change it now, you have to die on top of the original position, as long as you move, the enemy will cover up, let the archers of the second formation enter the front line in batches to reinforce, and gradually add oil, none of the infantry on the front line are allowed to move, if there is a person who turns his head to look back, the rear team will kill the front team, and the back pawn will kill the front pawn, even if he dies, he must die in the defensive position for me!" ”

Shen Guang gritted his teeth: "Dashuai, do you really want to see the brothers fall one by one like this?" Please give the order, let's counterattack once, the enemy army is just some archers, as long as you use cavalry to assault, you will definitely repel them, and when the time comes, cover the rotation of the former army and redeploy the formation! ”

Wang Shichong said coldly: "It's easy to assault, but how can you withdraw it?" The number of cavalry of the Tang army exceeds ours, and if they have one point of archers, the rear cavalry will be able to stick up, and we have no space and distance for cavalry assault like this now, once we stick to it, we can't retreat back if we want to, for the sake of the thousands of people in the front army, lose our cavalry, how stupid it is! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Shichong's eyes flashed: "Ci is not a general, I have made up my mind, carry out the military order!" ”

Wei Zheng shook his head and blew the horn in his hand, Wang Shichong sighed softly, looked at the far south, and muttered, "Is it too late?" ”

Li Shimin looked at the battle situation in front of him expressionlessly, the first-line array of the Huaqiang army had formed a shield wall several miles wide, which was full of bows and arrows of the Tang army, and from time to time from the back of the shield wall, there were bursts of arrow rain, sprinkled in the Tang army's archer array, and people kept screaming and falling down with arrows, and for a while, arrows came and went in the air, and even the sun was dark.

Li Shimin hooked the corners of his mouth: "Wang Laoxie really would rather die than retreat, and he doesn't change formations, he just wants to grind time, pass orders, continue to rotate, the third formation will move sideways this time and go around to the side of the enemy's front formation, give me an attack on the flank of the enemy formation, and after the fourth formation turns over, he will rush the enemy line with a lance, this time, give me a complete defeat of the enemy's front army!" General Hou, General Duan, you go and command in person! ”

Speaking of this, Li Shimin turned his head to look in the direction of Luoyang Nancheng behind him, and his eyes flashed: "Is it still too late?" ”