Luluokou is a valley mouth in the northwest hilly area of Baiyu Mountain, located opposite the Dongchuan River valley, a tributary of the Baima River on the border of Ling and Yan, and this Dongchuan tributary river is two zhang wide, the spring and winter seasons coincide with the dry season, and there is still a layer of thin ice on the river surface that has not yet melted. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After crossing this valley, the road was flat and the march was very convenient, so Li Guangyan's 20,000 soldiers camped in the leeward valley east of the valley, and built a simple trestle bridge over the river with cowhide ropes and big trees, and sent his brother Li Guangxin to lead 5,000 soldiers to set up a village on the west bank of the valley, intending to wait for the Xiazhou side to bring cattle, sheep and grain and grass supplies to march again.

Li Guangyan only got the news at noon on the 28th, and in the afternoon, the Zhou army of the Zhou army rode 12,000 steps to 20 miles away, and Li Guangyan urgently dispatched 3,000 horsemen to cross the river, and ordered Li Guangxin to join the headquarters, and a total of 5,000 horsemen to intercept in a wide valley five miles away on the west bank.

Li Guangxin had just led his troops to a gentle slope in the valley to line up, and the 3,000 horsemen of the Zhou army's forward horse team happened to have entered the valley, and they immediately lined up three miles away to meet the battle, but they did not seem to have the intention of taking the initiative to attack.

Li Guangxin observed carefully, this Zhou army horse team was well-equipped, all the soldiers were dressed in jet-black iron armor, and there were six fine iron short guns stuck upside down on their backs, and they knew at a glance that they were Huizhou soldiers. Li Guangxin heard Zhe Ge Zhi say that this kind of short spear can easily break through armor within 30 steps, and the Zhou army called it "armor piercing cone". However, it is better to see than to hear, and Li Guangxin decided to go out of a battalion to try it first.

"Look! Xia Suijun is moving! The deputy regiment of the first regiment of the Ma Army of the Zhenyuan Army saw the movement of Xia Suijun in the distance, and was eager to respond, but Yan Chengwang did not speak.

Since the Hehuang War, Xuan Chongwen, Zong Jingcheng, Xue Wenqian, Hao Tianying, Ming Jinpeng, Li Duofu and other quite brave veteran officers have been transferred away, the current chief general of the Zhenyuan Army is Quan Daojin, and Yan Chengwang, who is a little less qualified, is responsible for the daily training of the horse army, and after the war at the beginning of the year, a horse regiment was expanded, with Liang Zhiyi and Dang Congkuan as the main and deputy leaders, and the scout battalion Feng Jianjie was transferred to the regiment leader, and the deputy regiment leader was still Dang Jinfu.

"It's just a battalion, if you're interested, let's fight!" After a while, Xia Suijun had left the team, and Yan Chengwang smiled and said that he was going to give Yiqian a chance.

This Yiqian originally joined the army in Tangzhou with Chen Jia, and was a tooth soldier under Zhang Yue, and Chen Jia is now the military capital, Yiqian is still a regiment leader, although this level is also equivalent to the military capital, but if there is no excellent ability to fight a good battle, it will be difficult to correct the army expansion in the future. In the military, seniority should also be discussed, but more attention should be paid to officers' ability to manage the army and combat ability.

"Okay!" At the same time, Yan Chengwang also sent his own soldiers to pass the order, and the soldiers of the first regiment and one battalion of the Zhenyuan Army drove their horses away with the command of the battalion, and accelerated with the deputy regimental doctrine of Qian beating horses.

A battalion of Xia Suijun rushed down from the gentle slope, taking advantage of the geographical advantage to lift the horse speed, like a whirlwind galloping wildly, the party soldiers on the horse were wearing light armor, holding a small square shield in one hand, and holding high the scimitar made by Xia Suijun in the other, and some even came from the Liao army and the Northern Han Dynasty, some were uneven.

At the same time, Yiqian also galloped to meet the battle, but the speed of the horse did not increase for a while, and when he saw that the enemy cavalry was approaching three hundred paces, he shouted an order: "Ready!" Then put down the reins of the horse, controlled the horse by his legs, reached out from the waist of the multi-functional pendant vest tied to the iron armor on his body, took off the loaded horn bow crossbow, and quickly wound the horse while galloping, turned his head to scan the left and right, and the soldiers on both sides behind him also made these preparations.

The two sides approached at the same time, and it was only a moment to cross the distance of a hundred paces, and in the roar of the horses' hooves, it was useless to shout orders, and more often they needed tacit understanding. When the winding was completed, there were only one hundred and forty or fifty steps left, Yiqian took the crossbow machine and aimed ahead, and when he found a target at random, he buckled the hanging knife, and the opposite horse overturned in response, and the soldiers behind him immediately understood, and followed with the crossbow shooting.

The arrows rushed like locusts in the sound of breaking the air, and the people in the Xia Sui army horse team shouted that the horses neighed, and hundreds of soldiers fell from their horses with arrows, and the echelon was in chaos. When they reached a hundred paces, getting closer meant an increase in the accuracy of their shots, and they suffered a heavier blow, and the five hundred cavalry lost almost half.

The hedging of the two horse teams is non-stop, and it is close to 100 steps in a few breaths, taking advantage of the fact that the Zhou soldiers re-hung the crossbow machine and took off the shield to defend, the Xia Suijun party horse team began to shoot arrows and shoot back, but the accuracy of the corner bow outside the hundred steps is not very good, and the Zhou army's iron armor is not sophisticated, and the arrow is 12 out of 10, and the patience is over when the flesh is not deep, and the real unlucky person who is fatally injured is only about ten horses.

The bow and arrows are wound quickly, so the rate of fire is much faster than the crossbow, and at fifty paces Xia Suijun shot two rounds of arrow rain, but soon tasted the armor-piercing cone thrown by the Zhou army, and even the people and horses were strung into sugar gourds.

After two rounds, only a small half of the 500 Xia Sui horse team remained, and the surviving soldiers saw their companions constantly howling and falling off their horses, and jumped down in horror and let out a terrified roar. But when the horses ran, the close-range horse team could not turn around at all, and they were greeted by pieces of swords stretched horizontally.

Under the sword of the Zhou army's horse team, only one hedge, Xia Sui's army was defeated in formation, but the Zhou army rushed over and quickly turned around, and after the second harvest, only a rolling and wailing man and horse were left on the ground, struggling in vain in a pool of blood.

"Ho...... Ho...... Ho ......" The Zhou army's horse team let out a cheer of victory, turned around again, and looked for the remnants of the Xia Sui army who were not dead on the battlefield to mend their knives one by one.

Accustomed to seeing countless horse team training times to shoot and kill grass men, coupled with nearly ten years of experience in battle formations, Yan Chengwang was not surprised by this result, at this time, he looked indifferent, smiling, and turned a blind eye. Seeing that Yiqian led his troops to return to the team, Yan Chengwang smiled and made a gesture of wrapping his hands around him from afar, and then raised two more fingers.

This is a code word that the two battalions of horses are outflanked from the left and right, of course Yiqian understands, nods with a smile, and after taking the first battalion around the array, he finds the commander of the sixth battalion to give a simple order, and the two battalions quietly retreat to the way they came.

On the gentle slope three or four miles away, Li Guangxin, who was stationed on his horse to watch and lead his troops, had a very ugly face; judging from the battle of this small team, although his own strength was 2,000 more than the Zhou army, it was absolutely difficult to take advantage.

If you fight, you may lose a lot and come back defeated. Don't fight, the Zhou army will drive directly to the bank of the river to attack the military village, and it will be too passive if you insist on defense. Like most of the nomads who invaded the Central Plains, although the Dangxiang Qiang people learned some half-understood farming techniques from the Guanzhong people in the Li Tang Dynasty, they did not want to be naturalized, and they only knew how to attack and charge on horseback, and were not good at defense at all, so Li Guangxin was instinctively unwilling to retreat to the military fortress.

The Zhou army retreated with a small victory, still lined up at the other end of the flat ground in the narrow valley, and when it was about a moment, the Zhou army seemed to lose patience and constantly sent soldiers out to insult and provoke, but the same Ma army just did not take the initiative to rush into battle.

Li Guangxin was also faintly aware in his heart that if the whole army rushed down, he would not be cut off by the Zhou army's horse team, but he didn't want to think about it, and was scolded by the Zhou soldiers in anger, and led more than 4,000 cavalry to rush down from the left and right, trying to charge at high speed so that the Zhou army could not raise a crossbow and release arrows. (To be continued.) )