A moment later, the roaring hooves of the horses like a flash flood became louder and louder, and a black line appeared at the end of the desolate river valley plain, spreading out for several miles, like an ant colony, and like a torrent of steel, the momentum rolled like a mountain, and gradually enlarged, and the speed of travel gradually slowed down, and finally stopped three or four miles away. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This should be the most elite family in Qingtang Tubo, the army is well-organized, and the equipment is also good, it is really extraordinary!" Li Duoshou saw Zhang Yue climb up to the high platform where more than a dozen large wooden boxes were piled up next to him, so he also followed, and said with a little surprise.

"That's the front formation, and the back formation should not have iron armor, like the people and horses that Zhuo Luo respected last year, and the equipment is just like that. However, the cavalry and archery skills of the soldiers are good, they have the stamina to fight for a long time, and the cooperation between the squads is also very tacit. Zhang Yue replied indifferently, covering his forehead with his hand, looking at the enemy's large array from afar.

Separated by three or four miles, people's line of sight is already at the limit, and they can only see that the enemy's black horse team is divided into three parts, which should be the left, center and right armies. The side line of the right army is about three miles away from the river, but there is no side Ji, which is about the same distance as the left army side Ji horse team of the left army of the big array from the river bank.

Dense patches of flags fluttered like a dark cloud hanging over the top of the military formation. The flags of Qingtang Tubo are very strange, most of them are black and white triangular flags, and the flags with bright colors should be the military flags of various departments, with some twisted letters on them, which only the Tibetan people can recognize.

"That entourage of Shen Jingang, Shen Wudang, came up!" Zhang Yue stood on the command platform and suddenly shouted, he remembered that Shen Jingang had a deputy named Shen Wudang, and in Yang Xuanli's heavy step group, he should be able to know some Tibetan characters.

Shen Wudang received the order and came over quickly, this guy has an ugly black face, medium stature is not tall, but he is thick and strong, wearing two layers of heavy armor, and two big hammers pinned to his belt, his skills are agile, and he climbed up in three or two clicks.

"Report to the commander! Shen Wuxian is here to obey orders! Shen Wudang's voice was also loud, and Zhang Yue's ears were about to roar.

"What are the small flags that can't be seen clearly, the ones with colorful tassels on them, and the big ones with a yak tail?" Zhang Yue frowned, pointed to the enemy army formation in the distance opposite, and asked.

Shen Wudang was surprised, grinned and turned his head to look into the distance, looked at it for a while, and then turned his head and said, "Go back to the big handsome!" The big silk with colored tassels on it says Qingtang Shangfan, the big silk with the yak tail says Qingtang Dashang, his former army is written with Miaochuan Wanhu, the right army is Shudun Chengxi Brother Wanhu, and the left army is Qingtang Wanhu, ah...... How can there be a thousand households in Haixi! ”

"What Kaixi Chiho?" Zhang Yue is a little strange, he has heard some about the situation of Miaochuan and Qingtang, but Haixi is estimated to be west of Qinghai, which is not clear.

"Haixi is the city of Fuqi, it is said that it is the territory of the monk Lin Zhangon, and he doesn't know much about his humble position!" Shen Wudang scratched the back of his head and said.

"That's it! You're back on the team! Zhang Yue just learned about it, and he was not interested in the newly established Qingtang Tubo. However, listening to what Shen Wudang said, the tribes west of Qinghai came to support, which was also expected.

At this time, in the open space between the two armies, the scout horse team tried to get close to each other to reconnoitre, chasing each other and firing arrows, but the Zhou army scouts were equipped with horned bows and crossbows, which obviously had an advantage, which made the other party have to send additional scout horses to intercept. From a squad of forty or fifty horsemen to hundreds of horsemen, the pursuit continued.

The enemy scouts were all lightly armed, dressed in gray robes, wearing only half-body ring lock armor, and wearing a round spear with a black tasseled iron helmet, which seemed to have no face armor. At first glance, the weapon in his hand thought it was a cavalry gun, but the moment the enemy probed the horse and rushed closer, Zhang Yue saw that it was actually a black swarthy saber about five feet long, with a two-foot-long and short-handled straight blade imitation Tang horizontal knife at the waist, as well as a bow bag and quiver, and there was something hanging obliquely on the back, which seemed to be a spare long-handled scimitar, and it seemed to be a few hooks.

The scouts on both sides fought for half an hour, the enemy army completed the whole formation, the war horses also rested and recovered their strength, the Chinese army finally blew a few short horns, and the enemy right horse team near the river began to move, and about 5,000 horsemen came out at once, and gradually accelerated to the left army side Ji Hao Tianying Division.

"Hah! This Wen Fan is very simple! Unexpectedly, even the temptation was saved, and as soon as he came up, he wanted to contain our horse army, so that he could calmly attack the front of the left army's infantry formation! As soon as the enemy army moved, Zhang Yue also saw the other party's intentions.

Frontal field combat is actually very simple, there are not too many tricks to play, more often it is to fight for strength, but there are also some skills, if you can attack the side Ji, you must not attack the front, so if you can't attack the side Ji, you have to find ways to attack the side Ji.

The left army's infantry formation was all Jingnan army, not mixed with other subordinates, and it was Li Hui who commanded his own men and horses, Zhang Yue had nothing to worry about, he just followed the enemy's 5,000 forward gaze.

The five thousand horsemen were not a whole, but were divided into two inverted triangular conical formations, the first one was about a thousand horsemen, and the latter was very large, and according to empirical observation, it was about four thousand. A series of two waves drifted forward at a very fast speed, but fortunately, it had rained a few days ago, and the ground was slightly damp, and only the sound of horses' hooves like thunder shook people's eardrums, but it did not stir up the dust, and you could see a general situation in the distance.

When the enemy's horse team began to accelerate, the three thousand cavalry of Hao Tianying's army also formed a dense conical formation and crossed the front of the left army's flank, appearing in the open space between the battlefields. However, a group of about 500 horsemen remained in the same direction, and they hit the front of the enemy.

A round of crossbow arrows was shot at more than 100 paces, and the enemy overturned more than 200 horsemen sporadically, and the enemy could also return fire when they reached seventy or eighty paces, and the two sides fired arrows at each other, at this time each had some damage, but at thirty paces, the horses in red robes and black armor roared in unison, and at the same time threw a round of armor-piercing cones, and the enemy's front row instantly overturned a piece. But in the next moment, the Fan Cavalry actually threw a short gun and fired back, which also caused some damage to his own horse team.

What a surprise...... Zhang Yue saw it from a distance, his pupils shrank suddenly, the corners of his mouth sobbed, and then his face was expressionless, and he continued to stare at the left front. At this time, a shout came, and the backward squad met the enemy's front, and it was not clear who the officer was, but it was certainly not Hao Tianying, who actually broke into the enemy formation at once, blocked it, and the momentum of the enemy's forward rush slowed down.

In just a few breaths, the more than 2,000 horsemen of the front team also approached the enemy's rear formation, but the enemy's rear formation also began to turn at this time, slightly offset, barely facing the front, but it seemed a little chaotic, and the triangular pyramid was also crooked.

Soon, after a round of arrow rain, it was still thirty paces that the party threw the armor-piercing cone first, and the enemy then fired back a round, and the already side threw another round, and then they collided and fought.

"Huh? The Fan people actually have a piercing cone! Now Li Duoshou finally saw it, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's just a small wipe! It took them about twenty-five steps to cast, and it was probably not made of steel, but of wood. With the elongated team, there was only time to throw one round, and there were up to 1,000 in the first few rows. And we are also in the top five rows, but we can cast about 1,500 in two rounds, and we still have an advantage! Zhang Yue pursed his lips, he didn't expect this trick to be learned so quickly when he fought with Zhuo Luozun last year.

There were too few people in the rear team that fell, and it seemed that they were trapped in the front of the enemy after breaking in, but the back team was like a bamboo from the beginning, cutting waves and waves, breaking through the enemy formation, and the middle of the line was still throwing through the armor cone, all the way forward to continuously expand the advantage, and the first wave of impact easily broke out of the formation, and the inertia rushed forward for two hundred steps and began to turn around, but when it came back, it cut the enemy again in an oblique direction.

Zhang Yue couldn't see clearly from too far away from the Chinese army, but the left army was only two or three miles apart, but Li Hui saw it very clearly, the long-handled swords of the horse team were extremely powerful, and they stretched out the outside to drag the knife by the horsepower momentum, so they cut countless enemies. The enemy's saber is short and out of reach, and it always seems to be blocking, and it is often violently shaken off the horse with a swing of the sword.

There are also sabers with long handles, but the damage to your new cold-forged armor is also limited. The enemy horse team except for the front row is wearing leather armor, covered with half-body ring lock armor, and the back is shoddy leather armor, which has little defense against the sharp swords.

Whining...... With the sound of the trumpet, the enemy saw that the decline was beginning to move again, and about 2,000 horsemen came out to support first. Three thousand horsemen came out from behind, and the equipment seemed to be much better, and they rushed directly to the left army's infantry formation, and sure enough, the horse team that came out first was used as a lead.

The horse army of Hao Tianying's department was brought out by himself with one hand and one foot, Zhang Yue had nothing to worry about, and although the three thousand horse army transferred out by the enemy army was still light cavalry, they were all wearing ring lock armor and carrying a five-foot saber.

"Herald! Remind Li Hui! The three rejecting horse formations, the latter one should be strengthened again, and the focus should be on protecting the side. Also, there are no reserve reinforcements! ”

The Jing Nanjun fought a few battles when he was in charge of Ruan, even when he fought Gyeongju Shufan, it was also ugly, and Zhang Yue was most worried about the left army, so it was assigned to his headquarters, which was convenient for Li Hui to dispatch.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that I didn't send a Chinese saber and axe hand to supervise the battle, and I don't know if Li Hui arranged it himself. Since Zhang Yue led the troops, he has never sent swords and axes to supervise behind, and there is no need to do so after the military supervision system, which is almost unimaginable in other festivals.

"Order!" Yang Xuanli responded under the command platform stacked with wooden boxes, took a small red triangular tooth flag for heralds, and handed it to an escort to send the order.

Zhang Yue continued to stare at the direction of the left army, thinking in his heart that if the left army was not supported, the former army's Xuanchong and Cultural Department would really have no troops to support. And the right army has only six regiments, and it has to deal with potential enemy forces, which depends on Bian Ji.

In a trance, Zhang Yue suddenly found that after becoming the coach, he was always a little worried and inexplicably nervous every time he was about to fight. Because at this time, in each local battlefield, all I can do is calculate the strength of the troops and entrust them to the competent generals, and I can't intervene in my eyes at all, and I feel that my strength is useless.

In the final analysis, it is still a problem of battlefield communication, the efficiency of the herald is still poor, and there is really no good way except for the flag, but the distance of more than two and a half miles, coupled with bad weather such as wind, rain, snow and fog, it is difficult for the flag language to be effective, it seems that a battlefield lookout who understands the flag language professionally and is equipped with a telescope is needed to deliver news to the commanders of the large formations of the various armies, so that they can truly control the entire battlefield.

(To be continued.) )