At the beginning of the day, there was indeed a sentry cavalry report: the east gate of Huining City was opened, the Qiang cavalry team had gone out of the city to line up, and the wolf-headed Daxu of Tuoba Bogu had also gone out of the city, with a total strength of about 30,000 horsemen, and had been drawn to the battlefield. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is undoubtedly good news for the generals of the Zhou army, who have been busy for several months, and the results are finally coming out. The Chinese army then gave the order, and the whole army stood by and stood by. The soldiers all knew that the battle was about to begin, and they were all excited and nervous, and the sound of a long exhalation was loud, and even the war horses felt a strange atmosphere, and they snorted uneasily.

After a while, a small black dot appeared on the horizon in the distance, rolling in like a wave, and dust was raised behind the sky, obscuring the sky. Gradually approaching three or four miles away, the Qiang cavalry stopped the whole team, and a Qiang general wearing iron armor and riding a black high-headed horse galloped back and forth in front of the battle, shouting loudly, as if he was training and mobilizing before the battle to boost morale.

"Is that Tuoba Bogu? It's not bad that he has a big dark horse in his crotch! Zong Jingcheng said with a smile.

"That should be the Hequ horse, which is better than the Liao war horse breed, and if we win Huizhou, we can also have it!" Zhang Yue said confidently.

Three or four miles ahead, it was Tuoba Bogu who shouted back and forth before the battle, and now there is no way to retreat, and a decisive battle may be a chance to win a glimmer of life, so he forcibly conscripted the old and weak in the clan, took out the armor and weapons that had been accumulated for many years and equipped them to the clan, and the reinforcements of the Bailan Department and the Zhuoluo Department were 6,000 each, and they were pieced together into 30,000 horsemen.

After shouting, Tuoba Bogu discussed with Pan Fu Duowang, Zhuo Luo Zunli, Dang Jinfu and others with a stern face: "With Dang Jinfu leading 4,000 cavalry to attack the opponent's front army, Zhuo Luo Patriarch leads the headquarters to attack its left army, Pan Fu Patriarch fights the right army, and I lead 12,000 horsemen to follow up in the rear, do you have any objections?" ”

"Excellent! I don't have any opinion! Pan Fu said with a smile.

"Good! Go back to your home camp and prepare! Compared with the rough Zhuo Luo Zunli, Tuoba Bogu was the most worried about this person, so he deliberately separated the two of them, and attacked left and right with two reinforcements, and led his troops to respond in the center, and at the same time supervised the battle.

Sending away the two clan chiefs, Tuoba Bogu looked up at the sky, the sun was overhead, straight towards the opposite slope of the Zhou army, but the light was not very strong, and it only started in the afternoon, and there was no wind.

"Herald! Get ready...... Kill! Tuoba Bogu pursed his lips and waved his hand fiercely, and the vigorous and low sound of the horn suddenly blew, and the whining sound continued to break through the clouds.

In front, Dang Jinfu led 4,000 horsemen to start first, slowly moving forward with a sharp cone-shaped array of sharp arrows, and gradually accelerated to gallop. The Zhuoluo Department in the north and the Bailan Department in the south also rushed out at the same time, like three sharp arrows heading straight for the slope of the Zhou Army's large array. Tuoba Bogu rode 12,000 behind, keeping a distance of more than 200 paces from the front to follow.

Sixteen thousand Qiang cavalry swept forward, the sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder, launched a rapid attack on the Zhou army's array, and soon rushed to the slope that sloped upward, while the Zhou army's army was as calm as a mountain, still waiting for the battle.

"Ready!" Zhang Yue shouted, and the drum of "dong dong dong" in the center of the front formation sounded in a rhythmic manner. Two thousand crossbowmen were arranged in three rows at the two corners of the front army, in an inverted figure-eight shape, with the crossbowmen in front and the archers behind, and the temporary auxiliaries immediately held arrows to help the crossbowmen reload and reload.

After the Qiang cavalry went uphill like a gust of wind, the speed slowed down slightly, but according to the inertia, it quickly approached two hundred and fifty paces or two hundred steps, and at this time the hideous faces of the Qiang riders rushing to the front could already be seen, and the soldiers holding crossbows in front were so nervous that their palms were sweaty, and their breathing became heavy.

One hundred and fifty steps! Zhang Yue's gaze began to become sharp, but he didn't give an order, until Qiang rode a bow and set up an arrow, and the arrows shot were like a burst of small black dots, still standing as calm as Mount Tai. This is only the distance tested by the men and horses in front, and some of the Qiang soldiers may have strong bows.

Porphyrium ...... There was a clanging sound, this distance was still far away, only a few crossbowmen had arrows, but the auxiliaries around them immediately went up, and the formation was still not chaotic at all. In a few moments, the Qiang rode close to one hundred and twenty paces.

"Put!" Zhang Yue sat on the horse's back, shouted, and waved his hand violently. Having learned from the experience of the previous two times, you can't let the enemy cavalry rush too close before firing arrows, which will shoot a wave of arrows less.

The three rows of crossbowmen on the left side of the "Click...... deducted their swords at the same time, and the three rows on the right also released arrows, and thousands of powerful arrows shot out at the same time, whistling and pounced on the enemy cavalry, penetrating the round shield and iron armor of the cone of the Qiang cavalry formation, and the blood sprayed and the miserable howl was endless.

The Qiang rider who rolled forward overturned as many as six or seven hundred, and the cone head part disappeared as if out of thin air, and while being trampled by the follow-up people and horses, it also brought over more people and horses, and the vicious circle continued. Until all these fallen obstacles were trampled into flesh and blood.

Later, they rushed closer to a hundred paces, but they did not act as cones, and they were not equipped with iron armor, they were basically leather armor, and each hand was covered with a round shield of raw cowhide. This is another wave of cross-fired arrows, so close, the powerful crossbow arrows instantly make them string sugar gourds, or people and horses are pierced by sharp arrows,

The closer the Qiang cavalry charged, the greater the casualties, there were always thousands of falls in each advance section, to a distance of seventy or eighty steps, although they could also shoot arrows to fight back, but the strong archers in the front row of the Zhou army also joined in the arrows, the density of arrows was greater, and the more overturned in the gallop, the forward of the Dang Jinfu Department had suffered more casualties, and the entire horse team became thinner, and the people and horses in front of them overturned a piece, so that the soldiers behind were panicked, lost their ground, and were at a loss.

"Kill!" Dang Jinfu didn't expect the Zhou army's bow and crossbow to be so strong, and his heart became cold, but at this time, he was advancing and retreating, roared angrily, and led his troops to rush to the front.

Forty or fifty steps, the last wave of arrows shot out, Dang Jinfu fell with the front team, but at this time no one cared about him, and was soon trampled by the follow-up horses' hooves, and the four thousand horsemen of the Qiang soldiers were only a few hundred, and at the same time lost the commander, all of a sudden he roared in horror and ran around. More than a dozen riders rushed to the front of the crossbow array, and were quickly overturned by the strong archers behind.

The front army was bleeding in front of the battlefield, the crossbowmen shot calmly, the spear and shield in the back stood still, and the left and right armies shouted to kill, and the Zhuo Luo Department and the Bailan Department Qiang Cavalry had already collapsed the sharp corners of the two armies' large formations from the side, like a wave hitting the reef, trying to break through the front row of gun and shield formations, and Feng Jiye and Zhi Congruan were still able to resist, but there were certain casualties.

The 12,000 horsemen of Tuoba Bogu only followed up for a mile and stopped, because the front was uphill, and there must be a section of flat ground for the horses to accelerate. At this time, I saw that the Bailan Division in the north and the Zhuoluo Division in the south were fighting very well, and each wave of rapid impact made the enemy formation sink a little, and a few more charges could open the gap.

It's just a pity that the Zhou army also has a horse army in the back to bite the two central armies, so they can't afford to invest at one time, and they are pinned down by the cavalry of the Zhou army, so the progress is very slow. The left and right armies of the Zhou army also took this opportunity to adjust calmly, constantly drawing troops to reinforce them, and also sent some crossbowmen to counterattack on the side, consuming the strength of the two divisions little by little.

At this time, the 4,000 cavalry in the forward were almost wiped out, Dang Jinfu himself had been killed, and the hundreds of cavalry who ran back were completely frightened, fleeing in all directions like headless flies, and they couldn't even tell where the main formation was.

"These weak things, shoot them for me!" Tuoba Bogu was furious, and his eyes wanted to burst into flames.

Hearing the order, the two Biaoqiang cavalry rushed out, surrounded those routs and hunted them one by one, and there was no one left in an instant. Tuoba Bogu looked back at the clan soldiers behind him, and saw that some were ashamed, some were angry, and some were disdainful, so he showed a satisfied look. This is also a cruel means of boosting morale, as long as the clan soldiers are not afraid to fight, Tuoba Bogu will be much more at ease.

"Herald! Send 2,000 cavalry to reinforce the Bailan Department and Zhuo Luo Department, and send another 3,000 to the front of the formation, and I personally lead the troops to attack the follow-up, and be sure to defeat the front of the Zhou army in one fell swoop. Tuoba shouted the order, through the temptation, he had already seen the strength of the Zhou army's crossbowmen, and secretly glad that he had not made a desperate bet before, but now he couldn't help but try it.

The long horn sounded again, and two thousand horsemen, one south and one north, left the team, and Tuoba Bogu led the formation to suddenly rush out with horses, divided into two parts before and after, and directly attacked the front of the Zhou army. (To be continued.) )