readx; The Anxi army did not meet the battle, but stopped ten miles away, they chased for a day and a night, the soldiers and horses were very tired, and immediately went into battle to their disadvantage, the soldiers of the Anxi army took advantage of this moment of rest, they dismounted and gave the horses water and fodder, and they also hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of dry food to fill their stomachs. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the sound of drums faintly sounded from the position of An Lushan's army in the distance, and a lookout soldier on a high platform shouted: "The enemy army has driven towards us!" ”

Li Qing'an stared into the distance, it was morning at this time, and ten thousand rays of sunlight radiated from the dark clouds, illuminating the loess highlands in the distance, only to see An Lushan's army was moving towards this side step by step, and they also saw the fatigue of the Anxi army, and began to take the initiative to attack.

Li Qingan immediately coldly ordered: "The army is ready for battle immediately!" ”

"Uhhh

The low horn sounded in the sky above the Anxi army, the rumbling battle drum sounded, the soldiers of the Anxi army got on their horses one after another, tightened the reins, opened their bows and arrows, and slowly raised their spears, the biggest advantage of the Anxi army is the war horse, they have hundreds of thousands of war horses in the vast Anxi, Dawan horses, Arabian horses, these excellent war horses make them have the ability to maneuver that is difficult to match in the Central Plains army, plus the Anxi army has experienced a hundred battles, and fought against different countries and races, their strength has surpassed any army of the Tang Dynasty.

The dark clouds closed again, the sunlight disappeared, under the dark clouds, the strong wind howled, and the Anxi army formed a triangular formation, with flags fluttering, armor black, spears forming a sharp forest, full of murderous aura between the gloomy heaven and earth, enough to make any opponent fearful.

The army of Fan Yang stopped three miles away, and the width of the army of Fan Yang stretched ten miles, and the eight thousand crossbowmen lined up in three rows, waiting for them to attack first, so that their bows and arrows could be used.

But Anxi did not attack, both sides were waiting, the left-wing commander Shi Siming was quite uneasy in his heart, and whispered to the deputy general Xue Hao beside him: "Do you see, the Anxi army has no intention of attacking at all, and it is estimated that the marshal's wishful thinking of suppressing the other party with a crossbowman has failed." ”

Xue Hao sighed slightly: "Both sides are Tang Army, who doesn't know the other party's routine?" The handsome always thinks that the other party is a Khitan! ”

"It's still a little different."

Shi Siming shook his head and said, "The Anxi army is all cavalry, this is not the routine of the Tang army, and they seem to have given up the sharpest Modao army, which is worth being vigilant against!" ”

Time is passing little by little, the two sides are facing each other, and neither of them takes the initiative to attack, as if they are testing perseverance and endurance to see who can't hold on first.

At this time, Xue Hao suddenly pointed to the other camp and shouted: "General Shi, the other party seems to be moving!" ”

Shi Siming contemplated a distant look, only to see that the position of the Anxi army began to change, and an Anxi cavalry of about 7,000 people left the main formation and ran diagonally to the left side two miles away from the Fan Yang army, obviously to attack the flank of the crossbowmen.

This is a huge threat to the crossbowmen, if An Lushan does not change the formation, the crossbowmen will be fatally impacted, Shi Siming Huo turned back to look at the main formation of the Anxi army, only to see a team of cavalry galloping in front of the big formation, led by a general with golden helmets and iron armor.

"It's Li Qing'an!"

Shi Siming suddenly recognized it, and he couldn't help but feel timid in his heart, this person was the nightmare of his life.

In front of the Anxi army, Li Qing'an was doing the final war mobilization, he galloped on his horse, the sword in his hand collided on the spear of the soldier, and shouted loudly: "The soldiers of Anxi, the heroes who follow me in a hundred battles, the first battle that will lead us east into Datang today, we must use our lives and blood to prove that we are the strongest army in Datang, heroes, follow me to fight the enemy!" ”

"Fight the enemy!"

The officers and men of the Anxi Army shouted, and their voices were like undulating thunder: "Fight bravely to kill the enemy!" ”

"Left and right wings, arc attack!"

Li Qing'an gave an order, the war drums rumbled, the red and blue flags danced on the command platform, this is the order of the arc attack, the Anxi army suddenly launched, only to see the two bottom corners of the triangular formation to the two sides separated, forming two arcs, just like the two horns of the argali, the 40,000 cavalry army formed two black surging frenzy, each of which was several miles wide, and killed the left and right wings of An Lushan, spears and knives, dense like a forest, war horses galloping, dust flying in the air, the momentum was tragic and surging, and the heaven and earth also changed color.

At the same time, a low horn sounded on the right side of the Anxi army, and the 7,000 cavalry deployed on the left flank of An Lushan, led by the general Nan Jiyun, also launched an attack, and they rushed to the flank of the crossbowmen.

An Lushan also saw through the Tang army's attempt, and he hurriedly ordered: "The Tiger Ben army meets the enemy on the flank, and the crossbowmen concentrate on the right flank and shoot the enemy!" ”

A team of 10,000 Fanyang cavalry, under the leadership of the general An Shouzhong, went to meet the Anxi army that was killed from the flank, the two sides were getting closer and closer, the spear tips were shining, the momentum was galloping, Nan Jiyun shouted, "Divide the troops!" ”

He galloped southward, two thousand cavalry riding Arab war horses, followed him around the vanguard of the Fan Yang army, and quickly killed the side of the crossbow army, the excellent quality of the Arab war horse was vividly displayed at this moment, they galloped, bypassed the front of the Fan Yang cavalry, and rushed into the side of the crossbow army that was assembling the right flank with a devastating momentum.

Hundreds of Fan Yang crossbow soldiers rolled to the ground under the powerful cavalry impact, and in an instant, the heads were rolling, blood was splashing, and the wailing sound was loud, the knives and spears were stabbed, the war horses collided, and the war horses galloped wildly in the crowd, and the crossbow army was difficult to resist this extremely sharp Anxi cavalry, and the bow and crossbow formation on the left wing was shattered.

The other 5,000 Anxi cavalry and An Shouzhong's 10,000 tiger army collided violently, glued together, the spear shafts collided, and the long knives struck each other, fighting fiercely.

At this time, the 40,000 main forces of the Anxi army arrived, overwhelmingly rushing to the left and right flanks of An Lushan, An Lushan saw that the crossbowmen on the left wing had lost the meaning of shooting under the impact of the cavalry of the Anxi army, and he immediately ordered, "The crossbow army on the left wing is withdrawn, and the Longxiang army is fought!" ”

After all, Fan Yangjun is also one of the strong armies of the Tang Dynasty, well-trained, although the three thousand crossbowmen on the left flank were disrupted by the cavalry of Nan Jiyun and could not exert the power of the crossbow arrows, they still quickly followed the change of the military flag and retreated, at this time, 10,000 Longxiang spearmen and 4,000 cavalry formed a large array of spearmen who complemented each other, and met the 20,000 Anxi cavalry who killed on the left flank.

Nan Jiyun achieved his goal, he blew his horn, brandished his spear, and led two thousand cavalry to support his own Hanhai cavalry on the flank.

Nanjiyun's Hengfeng slaughtered out, destroying the deployment of An Lushan's left wing bow and crossbow army, making the right wing cavalry of the Anxi army unimpeded, and it was killed in an instant, and 20,000 cavalry launched a stormy attack on the spearmen from all directions like a surging tide.

The spearmen array was trained by An Lushan to deal with the Khitan cavalry, a bit similar to the Macedonian army in the West, mainly using the collective strength to use two-zhang long spears against the cavalry, and the flanks were their weak point, so there were two thousand cavalry guards on each side.

Commanding the cavalry on the right flank of the Anxi Army was Meng Sili, the general of the First Army of Broken Leaves, who was originally Li Siye's deputy general, participated in the Battle of Talas, and followed Li Siye to defeat the Macedonian legion of the Great Cannibal, he was very experienced in how to defeat this infantry phalanx, the key is to defeat the cavalry on both sides first, so as to expose the weakness of the spear formation, and the spear formation can be easily defeated.

Meng Sili shouted loudly: "Concentrate on the cavalry on the left, and the archers shoot the spearmen!" ”

The 10,000 Anxi cavalry attacked like a tide, launching a fierce and stormy offensive, attacking the left escort cavalry in wave after wave, while the 5,000 Anxi archers roamed around the perimeter, stretching their bows and arrows, and the arrows were like flying locusts, and they shot intensively at the group of spearmen...... The cavalry on the right wing of the Anxi army benefited from the retreat of the Fan Yang bow and crossbow army, but the left wing cavalry was intercepted by the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Fan Yang army, the 20,000 cavalry on the left wing of the Anxi army were like thunder, shouting and killing shook the sky, they galloped forward, stirring up the rolling yellow dust, they held a shield in one hand, held a spear in the other hand, and rushed violently to the enemy position in the face of the dense arrow rain, one hundred and fifty paces, the bow and crossbow position of the Fan Yang army began to release arrows, and the overwhelming arrow rain shot head-on to the cavalry of the Anxi army, from time to time the soldiers of the Anxi army were shot over, the war horses fell, and people rolled on the ground, but the rolling cavalry army was still like a black tide, surging, covering and killing Fan Yang's army.

-for-tat, the three thousand Anxi crossbow cavalry who hit the front were also fired at the enemy in the army, and they used the chain box crossbow carefully built by Anxi craftsmen, that is, a wooden box was installed on the crossbow, a box of twelve arrows, after one shot, it could automatically load the arrows, and the cavalry only needed to pull the string in the run, and at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, they could shoot four arrows.

A burst of crossbow arrows were shot at the enemy arrows that flew like locusts, and a large number of Fan Yang's crossbow troops were also shot over, and the distance of one hundred and fifty steps rushed in a blink of an eye, Fan Yang's crossbowmen put down their bows and arrows one after another, and ran backwards, 10,000 Fan Yang cavalry came to meet them, followed by five thousand sword and shield troops and thousands of crossbowmen who had just picked up their spears, fighting together from the side.

'Boom! There was a loud bang on the ground, the two cavalry armies collided like two surging waves, and in an instant the murderous aura confused people's eyes, the soldiers struck each other, the armor collided, and there was a sonorous sound, and the two armies fought fiercely together, shouting and screaming, and the heads fell to the ground, the blood flowed like rivers, and the horses exploded, followed by catching and biting like masters, and crashing wildly, the war was so cruel that the life of the soldiers was as humble as grass at this moment, and an Anxi cavalryman screamed miserably, his head was split in half by an axe, and the blood was splashed everywhere, and the war horse fled with him.

The two burly soldiers fell to the ground together, and the Anxi soldiers held each other down, grabbed an arrow from the ground, and poked it at his forehead, and the other party choked and died on the ground.

But no matter how fierce the left and right flanks are, An Lushan's Chinese army has always stood still, this is the characteristic of An Lushan, the 12,000 Youzhou iron cavalry beside him will not easily participate in the battle, if he will win, his iron cavalry will throw out the battle, to pick the fruits of victory, but if his army is in a disadvantageous situation, then the Youzhou iron cavalry will definitely not attack, their task is to protect their own safety.

At this time, An Lushan was worried, he had already seen that his army was not the opponent of the Anxi army, the same 60,000 people, whether it was a single soldier or a cooperative operation, they could not be compared with the Anxi army, especially the combat experience, there was an obvious gap, although the Anxi army did not use the heavenly fire thunder, nor did they send the Modao army, but the strength of their cavalry was as strong as they had never seen, their weapons and equipment were no different from the Fan Yang army, but their war horses were far from being comparable to the Fan Yang army, Fan Yangjun is a Mobei grassland horse, the horse is short, although it can be long-distance and durable, but the explosive power and impact power are obviously insufficient.

On the other hand, the war horses of the Anxi army are fierce, long and high-backed, with strong and slender legs, whether it is impact or running, they are all strong and powerful, especially they have a kind of high-headed horse, which is extremely fast, An Lushan also faintly guessed that it should be the strongest horse in the world, known as the king of horses, the big food war horse, the Anxi army has been fighting with the big cannibal for a long time, and it is not surprising to have this kind of war horse.

For the cavalry, the war horse is their second life, the quality of the war horse directly determines the strength of the cavalry Obviously, the Fanyang cavalry is not the opponent of the Anxi cavalry, they are suppressed by the Anxi cavalry and have been at a disadvantage. At this moment, a personal soldier beside An Lushan shouted, "Boss, look!" ”

He pointed ahead, his face was full of horror, An Lushan looked at his fingers, and was also surprised, only to see a cavalry from the Anxi army, about 3,000 people, the original tall horses looked very thin under their crotch, the physique of this Anxi cavalry was unusually strong, each of them was wearing heavy armor, even the helmet was tightly sealed, only from the two small holes showed their eyes, everyone held a Mo knife, this army turned out to be the Anxi ace army - Mo Dao Army.

At the last moment, they finally appeared, the Modao army got off the war horse a mile away, and began to line up, three thousand Modao troops lined up like a gable, step by step towards An Lushan's Chinese army, the momentum was as dignified as a mountain, invincible, hundreds of Fan Yang cavalry were strangled into meat by them, An Lushan's war horse retreated a few steps back again and again, he seemed to feel the pressure of this momentum, he tried his best to stabilize his mind, waved his long sword, and shouted: "Li Yueyue, you lead five thousand iron cavalry to meet the battle!" ”

Li Yueyue is one of the four fierce generals of Fanyang, Gao Hui, Li Yueyue, An Taiqing, Sun Xiaozhe, of which Sun Xiaozhe was shot by Li Qing'an in Tongguan, Li Yueyue and Gao Hui are the left and right guard generals of An Lushan, each leading 5,000 Youzhou iron cavalry.

When Li Yueyue heard An Lushan's order, he immediately raised his horn and blew it, dozens of hornmen blew it together, Li Yueyue waved the big knife of the banmen, and led five thousand Youzhou iron cavalry to rush away against the Modao army.

The five thousand Youzhou iron cavalry is a semi-heavy armored cavalry, immediately covered with armor, which can resist bows and arrows, and the cavalry is selected from hundreds of thousands of Fan Yang troops, all of whom are outstanding in martial arts and well-equipped, and have become An Lushan's personal iron cavalry team, rarely participating in battles, but today An Lushan is afraid of the Anxi Mo sword army, and finally ordered them to fight.

Five thousand iron horses galloped, like a stream of iron, and instantly rushed to the front of the Mo Dao Army with murderous energy, 'Boom! There was a loud bang on the ground, and the powerful impact of the iron cavalry knocked hundreds of Mo Dao soldiers to the ground, but the Mo Dao Army behind them stood still like a mountain, they shouted in unison, Mo Dao flew over, and in an instant, hundreds of cavalry were split into thousands of sections, and the stumps were cut off for a while, bloody and pungent, and the people were choked.

The Modao Army is the nemesis of the cavalry, although the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is extremely brave, but in front of the mountain-like Modao gable, they are still helpless, and they are forced by the Modao Army step by step, killing them and retreating again and again, the blade passes, the people turn on their backs, and the blood flows like an infusion.

Li Yueyue was killed in annoyance, he roared, the horse rushed forward obliquely, with the strength of a thousand catties of horizontal knife slashing, his knife actually split the heads of the three Modao soldiers, blood sprayed him, Li Yueyue laughed proudly, the laughter was not over, the two Mo Dao soldiers rushed to the left and right, the blade flashed, his war horse neighed, the two front legs were cut off by Qi Qi, and the coo knocked to the ground, throwing Li Yueyue out more than two zhang away, several pro-soldiers set him up and ran backwards, Youzhou cavalry did not dare to fight with the Modao army head-on, They surrounded the Modao Army from the front and rear, looking for their gaps, but the Modao Army immediately changed their formation, and they were back to back, resisting the front and rear attacks of the Youzhou cavalry.

At this moment, there was a crisis on the left flank of An Lushan's army, and the cavalry guards on the left side of the spear array were killed by the cavalry of the Anxi army, revealing the left side of the spearman array, which was the weakness of the spearman array, Meng Sili roared, "Hit the left side of the spearman array!" ”

The cavalry of the three thousand Anxi Army surged up, the impact was like a storm, and in an instant they rushed away from the position of the spearmen, and the large array of spearmen, which had been killed and wounded and attacked by the bows and arrows of the Anxi Army, finally could not hold on, and the formation was in chaos, showing signs of collapse.

At this time, the horn sounded again in the distance, the Anxi army drum sounded like thunder, Li Qing'an gave the order for the final attack, he personally led 10,000 of the most elite cavalry, shouting and killing the sky, the war horse galloped, the horse's hooves rolled, like a storm under the dark clouds, swept towards the Chinese army of An Lushan.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Shang immediately said to An Lushan: "Dashuai, you must withdraw quickly now, otherwise, Dashuai will have to worry about his life." ”

An Lushan's face turned pale, he didn't say a word, climbed into the carriage and shouted: "Withdraw the army immediately, to Yanfu Wharf!" ”

His carriage galloped forward, seven thousand guards surrounded him and ran towards Yanfu Wharf more than 20 miles away, as the commander fled, the morale of the Fan Yang army suffered a heavy setback, the spear array was the first to collapse, and then the right flank was defeated by the impact of the Anxi army, and finally routed, and the rout of the left and right flanks made the Fan Yang army defeated like a mountain.

"Kill!"

The Anxi army shouted to the sky, morale was greatly boosted, chasing the enemy army to cover up and kill, the defeated soldiers of the black pressure were fleeing for their lives, they trampled on each other, suffocated, trampled to death, not far from the east is the Yanfu River, the river is about five zhang wide, there was originally a wooden bridge, but An Lushan has demolished the bridge after escaping the bridge, the defeated soldiers have nowhere to escape, they have jumped into the river and swam in the water, most of the Fan Yang army does not know the surname of water, countless people drowned in the river, the corpses actually blocked the river, the human pillow, the corpses piled up like a mountain, it became a bridge of corpses, The defeated soldiers behind them stepped on the corpses of their comrades and fled to the opposite bank, only to hear groans, screams, and cries, and everything seemed to be frenzied, terrifying and chaotic.

The news that Li Qing'an killed the prisoners of war made these poor soldiers dare not surrender, just run desperately, the land of Suizhou, everywhere is scattered and fleeing Fan Yang rout, but they can not escape far, they were caught up and surrounded by the Anxi cavalry, the rebels are all killed, in the end, most of the desperate Fan Yang army had to kowtow and beg for mercy, Li Qingan led 10,000 elite cavalry to chase An Lushan, they quickly whipped their horses, galloped in the howling wind, less than half an hour, they chased to Yanfu Wharf, Yanfu Wharf was crowded, Everywhere were war horses discarded by their masters, dozens of large ships were crowded with soldiers fleeing for their lives, one large ship had capsized, and a huge whirlpool swept hundreds of soldiers into the bottom of the Yellow River.

10,000 Anxi cavalry came overwhelmingly, the big ships went off the shore one after another, rowing to the opposite bank, the soldiers who did not get on the boat, either knelt down and surrendered, or fled along the river bank to both sides, at this time, Li Qing'an saw An Lushan's carriage, a horseman was about to drive away, Li Qing'an pointed at his sword, and shouted: "Take him!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers swarmed up and surrounded the carriage, and the groom was so frightened that he raised his hands and shouted, "Spare your life!" Spare your life! ”

Li Qingan urged him to step forward and asked sharply, "Where is An Lushan?" ”

The groom trembled and pointed to a boat in the river: "An Dashuai and Gao Junshi have all boarded the boat, and they are the first to leave." ”

Li Qing'an slowly rode his horse to the river, staring at the big boat in the river, An Lushan's boat had turned into a small black spot, Li Qing'an couldn't help but sigh secretly, 'In the end, he was escaped by this guy, it seems that God will not stop him for the time being!' ’

(To be continued)