Dou Jiande and Luo Yi seemed to have forgotten last night's sneak attack and counter-sneak attack, but they just remembered what they said about fighting to the death.

It was nearly noon, and the two sides finally set up a position on the plain on the north bank of the Sanggan River, and the 80,000 troops of Dou Jiande's side all appeared.

On Luo Yi's side, only 2,000 people were left to defend the Youzhou camp and 2,000 people to defend Zhuojun City; Even so, the troops led by Youzhou were less than 20,000, including 2,000 heavy cavalry, 3,000 light cavalry, and the rest were shield soldiers and archers and other infantry soldiers in their early 10,000s.

The Youzhou army occupied a hillside, and below the hillside was a wide plain; On that plain, Dou Jiande's army had already set up a position, and the distance between the two sides was only two miles.

The Youzhou army on the hillside could clearly hear the war drums on the opposite side, and could clearly see the banner of the enemy army on the opposite side.

Geographically, the Youzhou Army has the upper hand.

Luo Yi was setting up his binoculars at this time, looking coldly at the enemies on the plain, ready to wait for them to rush closer.

"Kill!"

In the distance, there was a sudden shout from Dou Jiande's army, and the momentum was huge, and then their war drums began to sound; With the increasingly dense drum beats, Dou Jiande's army began to slowly move towards the location of the Youzhou army.

"Is this coming?" Luo Yi shook his head and put aside this thought, and turned his head to look at the soldier behind him.

Under the pressure of Dou Jiande's army, the faces of the recruits changed, and their faces should be more panicked, and some even stood on their feet; Fortunately, the veterans were indifferent and just looked coldly ahead.

Luo Yi turned the dock with his hand, raised his spear and shouted, "Brothers! Once those Jizhou thieves on the other side break the city, burn, kill and loot, do everything, your relatives are in the city, are you willing to let them die under the butcher's knife of those Jizhou thieves? Are you willing to give away your possessions? Are you willing to let your wives and daughters be humiliated by those guys? ”

"I don't want to!" Someone shouted back in the array, and then thousands of people responded in unison, and the sound resounded through the heavens and the earth.

"Since you don't want to, you can only pick up the swords and guns in your hands and fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

The soldiers in Youzhou raised their weapons one after another, responding loudly to Luo Yi's agitation.

It seems that only with such a heartless shout can we temporarily let go of the fear in our hearts and calmly face the upcoming battle.

"The Chinese army striker, out!" With Luo Yi's shout, the war drums on Luo Yi's side finally sounded.

Driven by the sound of drums, Xue Wanche led three thousand light horsemen to quickly rush down the hillside.

Unlike Dou Jiande, who on the opposite side, put out a strange formation that was not in the military book, the formation that Luo Yi put out was a typical phalanx.

Wei Tingshuai's 1,500 shield soldiers and 3,000 archers were in charge of the right flank, while the army on the left flank was 2,000 heavy cavalry led by Xue Wanjun; The forward of the Chinese army is led by Xue Wanche, and Luo Yi sits in the Chinese army and controls the overall situation.

In this formation, Luo Yi adopted a strategy of thick left and thin right, and put the main direction of attack of this battle on the left side, where the ace troops - Yanyun Iron Cavalry were piled up.

Although Luo Yi's Chinese army has more than 10,000 people, most of these people are recruits, and even if they have participated in the Youzhou Army for more than a year, they are veterans, and the combat effectiveness of more than 10,000 people is obviously not comparable to the 2,000 heavy cavalry led by Xue Wanjun.

Luo Yi put the old and weak soldiers in his own formation, which seemed to be amazing on the surface, but it was nothing more than that; The reason why he did this was nothing more than to attract Dou Jiande's attention to the middle and prepare for the strong attack of the left flank.

Of course, in order to attract local artillery fire, bluffing is a must, so Luo Yi sent gorgeous light cavalry at the beginning.

The Youzhou army has a total of 5,000 cavalry, including 2,000 heavy cavalry, this force includes 2,000 soldiers and more than 4,000 war horses, and the auxiliary soldiers who assisted these heavy cavalry also reached a terrifying 2,000 people.

There is no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry, but it also requires a considerable price to train them, and the entire Great Sui only trained 5,000 people at the beginning; Now Youzhou maintains these two thousand heavy horses, and the pressure is not small, if they can't exert the corresponding power, then there is really nothing to say.

Of course, because of the failure of the sneak attack last night, this heavy cavalry force is now nearly a hundred people less.

As for the rest of the cavalry, they were all rangers, and the rangers wore leather armor and had no armor on their horses.

They can't match the heavy riders in terms of weight and defense, and if anything, they have the only advantage, maybe it's speed.

The Chinese army led by Xue Wanche had a total of 3,000 forwards, and although they were light horses, so many war horses galloped and charged on the plain, and the momentum was unprecedentedly amazing.

Luo Yi watched expressionlessly as his vanguard troops rushed towards the position of Dou Jian's German army on the opposite side, and he didn't have any worries about the early stage of this battle.

Officers and soldiers have always been one against ten against the rebels, and now Luo Yi is facing Dou Jiande, and he has inexplicably put his position back to the official, which is probably also a distorted idea of longing for victory?

The cavalry did not shout loudly when they charged, and most of them crouched on their horses to avoid the oncoming wind.

However, at this time, Luo Yi faintly heard the shouting of Ben Fang Erlang on horseback; His mind was in a trance, and on top of this fateful battle array, he couldn't help but think of the past.

The reason why he was able to become a general and climb to a high position was completely because he fought hard with one knife and one gun; Of course, this is also related to His Majesty's support, if it weren't for His Majesty's love for his martial arts, he would not be where he is today.

Your Majesty is a great kindness to yourself!

I don't know how sad Your Majesty will be when he leads the troops to make trouble?

But who would know that the reason why I, Luo Yi, am like this, is just to survive!

At this time, the light cavalry led by Xue Wanche had rushed to the front of Dou Jiande's central army, and they had to face the most elite troops of the Xia State led by Su Dingfang, most of whom had participated in the battle to ambush Xue Shixiong.

In the face of the charging of the enemy horsemen, these people did not have the slightest fear on their faces; They just clenched the weapons in their hands tightly and looked straight ahead.

The officers of the army set their eyes on the flag on one side, and once an order was issued from above, the flag displayed the flag language.

The earth trembled as the enemy cavalry swept in, and the drum orders conveyed by the sound of war drums were no longer very reliable, and they could only trust their eyes for the time being.

"Vertical grass!" After glancing at the flag, the team members turned their heads and shouted loudly.

Under their orders, the soldiers raised their spears diagonally upwards and erected them on the ground.

These spears were more than a foot long, made of hardwood, and a spearhead made of stainless steel was placed in front of them, and they stood on the ground, like a forest of cold light, sending a message to the enemy horsemen rushing in front of them, as long as they collided, no matter how brave you were, you would die without a place to bury.

"Archers, out of line!"

Archers came out of the back row, drawing carved arrows from the quiver and silently resting them on the bowstrings; Then the bowstring is pulled in unison, and the arrow is diagonally upward, ready to go.

Although Xue Wanche has the courage of ten thousand people, he has done a lot of things like riding alone to kill the enemy general and then calmly returning, but he is not just a martial artist who fights with blind blood and bravery.

Although he rushed towards Dou Jian's German army with the courage to go and never return, Xue Wanche was always watching the changes in the local battle formation, he didn't care about the oncoming wind at this time, and opened his mouth and shouted, "Turn!" ”

After Xue Wanche shouted this order, he immediately skillfully stopped the forward rush, turned around sharply, and ran towards the left side in parallel with the enemy's Chinese advance in front of him.

"Uhhh

The soldiers who followed closely behind Xue Wanche blew the horn, and the entire cavalry changed direction, and a large amount of dust and smoke flew up, like a gray mist rushing straight in front of Dou Jian's German army.

He led only light cavalry and not heavy armor, and it was impossible for him to rush straight in in the face of a well-prepared infantry phalanx; In such a situation, if it is a strong attack, it can only give them a lot of achievements.

Light cavalry is good at surprise attacks, not strong attacks like heavy cavalry.

The spear array and the arrow array are the nemesis of the light cavalry.

The vanguard of Dou Jiande's Chinese army was selected from those brave men, who were no strangers to fighting on horseback; However, at this moment, they finally opened their eyes to what a real cavalryman was.

The performance of the Youzhou military horse team in front of them proved who is the real number one elite cavalry in the world, they galloped back and forth in front of their own phalanx and changed direction at will, but the formation was not chaotic at all, and the cavalry team of 3,000 people was like a person.

Many of the soldiers in Dou Jiande's army opened their mouths wide and watched in amazement as the enemy cavalry galloped back and forth in front of the formation, even forgetting that they were in the middle of the battle formation.

"Whoosh! Sou! ”

The 3,000 light cavalry led by Xue Wanche finally launched a real attack, and they bent their bows and arrows at close range, unscrupulously wielding their sharp weapons at the enemy formation.

Caught off guard, the gray rain of arrows brought down the soldiers of Dou Jian's German army like wheat, and many people let out a muffled snort, and hundreds of people were hit by arrows in an instant.

Fortunately, these soldiers on the front line were all experienced in battle, and although they suffered a sudden and heavy loss, they were still able to hold their posts, and no one retreated out of fear.

From this point of view, the quality of Dou Jiande's vanguard in the Chinese army is on a par with the elite soldiers led by Wang Shichengchu.

"Kill!"

Xue Wanche put away his bow and arrows, and with a shout, he drew his long knife and rushed towards the enemy line in front of him, which had become sparse, and the three thousand horsemen behind him followed closely behind, rushing towards the enemy formation like a tide.

To deal with the infantry army's formation, the Youzhou army has long had a set of effective combat plans, just like now.

Relying on their excellent equestrian skills, they allowed their horse teams to gallop back and forth beyond the range of the enemy line, and some even tied grass or branches behind the horse's tail and dragged them to the ground, raising a large amount of smoke and dust to obscure the enemy's observation.

After slowly approaching the enemy position, the whole army fired at the enemy position with a unified horse bow and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy; Then take advantage of the enemy's damage and panic to launch a charge and crush him in one fell swoop.