"General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still twenty miles!"

"General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still fifteen miles!"

"General Lang, the chasing soldiers are near, and there are still ten miles!"

"Stop! The back formation becomes the front formation, and the battle is in place! ”

As soon as Tian Ainu gave the order, the Tang army that was marching in a hurry immediately stopped, and the entire army reversed its direction, and the rear formation changed to the front formation, and rested in place.

They had already sent cavalry back to Mingweishu to ask for reinforcements, but Mingweishu only had 2,500 cavalry, and they were still uncertain whether the defenders would dare to risk the possibility of being swallowed up by the other side with an extra force of fresh force, so that Mingweishu could further defend the danger of being emptied.

Whether reinforcements come or not, without reinforcements now, they will have to rely on themselves.

On the avenue, only those old and weak soldiers and the men who were originally only responsible for feeding the horses and cooking continued to march quickly in the direction of Mingweishu, and everyone else stopped, and the original rear formation was densely packed with archers and crossbowmen, followed by melee infantry such as jumping and strange soldiers.

The whole army is arranged in echelons, this is not out of the orders of Tian Ainu, but the Tang army's habitual formation to meet the enemy, each echelon of the Tang army is like a phalanx, but inside each phalanx, spearmen, sword and shield hands, etc., form a small wedge-shaped formation.

In fact, even though Xu Yisheng was hit by an arrow in the buttocks and didn't want his subordinates to see his embarrassment, it was a bit strange that he still refused to show up at this critical juncture, but now all the Tang troops were nervously looking into the distance, waiting for the Turkic soldiers who rushed over, and no one thought about this unreasonable place.

Tian Ainu tugged at the corner of the curtain and looked at the movement outside.

The reason for their hasty retreat was because they had heard that the other side had an army of 100,000 men, which was far beyond the strength of his 5,000 undefendable soldiers and horses, and the soldiers already knew this. So the Turkic soldiers have not yet arrived. has already taken the lead, and the officers and men of the Tang Army have a somewhat worried look.

Tian Ainu frowned when he looked at it, and said in his heart: "It is said in the book of soldiers." The two armies clashed, and the morale of the first thing was how to resist the attack of the Turkic cavalry? ”

She thought about it. Said loudly: "Gu Zhou, Liang Si'er!" At this time, Deputy General Xiao had already gone to the front to personally command, and the other Tang Army generals Tian Ainu really didn't know about it, but fortunately, Fang Cai still remembered the names of these two pro-soldiers, so he shouted at them.

These two people are Xu Yisheng's personal soldiers, and they are really guarding nearby, as soon as they heard her shout, they immediately ran over, and Tian Ainu said: "The enemy is now, and the brave are born." What is the use of being afraid of death! Tell the brothers to puff up their chests and sing a song. Strengthen our courage! ”

"Whoa!"

Tenainu didn't know what songs they usually sang. But knowing that there must be a military song in the army, sure enough. Gu Zhou and Liang Sichuan gave the order to go, and a moment later, the majestic singing voice resounded through the snowfield:

"The four seas are the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Not to mention the clothes, it will be successful today......

Looking back at Qinsai, he was as low as a horse, and gradually saw the Yellow River flowing straight north. Tianwei rolls up the jade door stopper, and the Hu people are all singing for thousands of miles!

The four seas are surrounded by the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Not to mention the clothes, it will be successful today......

The Lord is holy and opens, and the ministers are loyal to Dayou; After you look at the Yange, it is the Taiping Autumn ......"

Groups of warriors raised spears, war bows, and sabers, and even struck each other with swords and shields, beating the beat, and sang the mighty and majestic "Great Array Music!" with their rough and heroic voices! ”

The singing rushed to the night with a heroic spirit, and the morale of the officers and men of the three armies was suddenly greatly boosted.

In the middle of the song, a black line appeared on the horizon of the distant snowfield,

In the song, the black line turned into a rolling torrent surging,

In the song, the horse is like a dragon, the man is like a tiger, and the hoof is like a war drum.

In the midst of the song, the Turkic warriors raised their swords and formed a glittering forest!

In the song, the crossbowmen and archers shot out the arrows that had been stored in their hands for a long time, either flat or upward, and the arrows shot towards the Turkic army that pounced on them like a storm.

Dead bodies were everywhere, and the war horses that had lost their masters no longer galloped forward desperately, blocking the way for the knights behind to charge, making their momentum slow down slightly, Xiao Ningfeng had a hideous smile on the corner of his mouth, waved his hand fiercely, and roared: "Shoot again!" ”

The banner rolled up, and the second rain of arrows shot out again.

The Turkic soldiers on the opposite side attacked a distance closer, and at the same time, a large number of Turkic soldiers were shot dead, and the corpses and ownerless war horses further frustrated their attack speed, their original attack speed was simply unstoppable, but at this time, it was no longer the kind of momentum that could make people have no courage to resist, and the original sharp attack formation also became scattered.

The Turkic cavalry roared loudly, and the Turkic cavalry, who were riding their horses forward, suddenly divided left and right, and rushed towards the vast snowy field.

Seeing this situation, Xiao Ningfeng couldn't help but show a smug smile in his eyes, he ordered loudly, with an order, the battle flag waved, and the Tang army on the left and right wings expanded forward, expanding into an arc, protecting the two wings of the army, stretching his bow and arrows, and waiting for the battle.

The two Turkic cavalry, like two sharp scimitars, ran away from the avenue with oblique stabs, and followed an arc towards the snowfield, and if their original foothold was, the end point of this arc was the middle and front of the retreating Tang army.

It seems that they also know that the Tang army left in the Zuihou side is the weakest in combat power, and at the same time, cutting off a long dragon Tang army is equivalent to copying the back road of the Tang army, and at that time, the Tang army walking on two legs has no way to escape in this vast snowfield, only to be slaughtered.

The two Turkic soldiers who were diagonally copying towards the snow field were whipping like rain, desperately whipping the mount under the crotch, but found that no matter how they urged, the speed of the mount under the crotch was getting slower and slower, as if the horse's hooves were stuck in the mud, and they couldn't run forward.

The Turkic cavalry was a little startled, and their momentum suddenly slowed down, but this situation did not go away, and crumbling holes continued to appear in the snow fields on both sides. Like a monster's mouth. Suddenly, a few people and horses were swept in.

It's so horrible that you don't know what you're up against, and you don't know when it's going to happen. The Turkic cavalry, frantically rushing to the left and right, reined in panic their horses. Looking in horror at the flat snowfield ahead, the snow was as far as the eye could see, and the wind blew the snow as smooth as a mirror. There was nothing unusual to be seen on it, but who knew if one step would be swallowed by the monsters underground.

The Turkic soldiers in front ushered in the third rain of arrows, and they used their lives to fight for further opportunities for their comrades behind, but the Turkic soldiers behind did not take advantage of this opportunity, they all reined in their horses, looked left and right in horror, and did not know what was happening.

On this snowy area, there are now two lakes, Baitinghai and Hutuze. But the two lakes were originally connected, and at that time they were called Yuhaizi, and the whole lake was very huge and magnificent. But then the water source dried up. The land is exposed in the middle, and it is divided into two lakes.

The original large surface of the lake has since been turned into saline land. The section of road that Tang Jun is now walking on was flanked by embankments higher up in the lake, and the road surface in this place is the least strong, and there are many roads that look normal and flat, but in fact they are a layer of soil formed by the condensation of sand and salt soil over the years, and the bottom is empty.

And the hole below is not only one layer, it may be a honeycomb terrain formed by the superposition of many layers of hollows, the situation below is very complicated, you don't know how deep it is, so if someone falls, even if they don't die, there is no way to save them, they can only sit back and ignore them.

The garrison here and the people nearby knew the situation of these ghost domains, and they didn't dare to approach them at all, so Xiao Ningfeng showed a smug smile in his eyes as soon as he saw them rushing towards the Death Ghost Domain, sometimes a little shepherd boy driving a sheep in this kind of ghost place can disappear with a "bang", and it is strange that these Turkic soldiers gallop on fast horses without accidents.

The panicked Turkic soldiers tried to turn their horses back, but in some places they were okay when they came, and there were clear horseshoe prints on them.

This suddenly frightened the Turkic army like headless flies on the snowfield, and walked with fear where there were horseshoe prints, and even more fearful where there were no horseshoe prints, and they walked cautiously, for fear that they would trample a big hole in the ground as soon as they got up.

At this time, the soldiers on the left and right flanks began to shoot and hunt all the time, they did not hurry, they aimed at the target accurately and then shot an arrow, these border soldiers were good marksmanship, every time the arrow hit, the Turkic soldiers who did not flee and did not fight were shot off their horses.

Seeing this scene, the Turks on the front avenue also knew that there was something strange in the snowy fields on both sides, and did not dare to send soldiers into the field again, but mobilized archers with strong arms to shoot at the Tang army.

As soon as they opened their bows, the archers and crossbowmen of the Tang army immediately retreated, and the men holding the foot shields more than one person high rushed forward, erecting a large spear into a strong wall, and the crossbowmen of the Tang army hid behind and shot out from the gap, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.

Tian Ainu sat in the car, listening to the battle report sent by Gu Zhou, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, she pretended to be vague just now, and had already asked Liang Si'er, knowing that such a dangerous saline-alkali ground was only two miles in radius, and the Turkic cavalry would have a headache to deal with whether they came around from a distance or repeated their old tricks on the way to continue to retreat.

The problem is that the Turks don't know how big such a collapse area is, and they don't dare to send troops and horses to try indiscriminately, so that there are two natural dangers on both sides to block the pursuing troops for her, and it will be much easier to do it with only one passage behind. Tian Ainu immediately ordered: "Leave the rear team but the enemy, and the rest of the men and horses continue to retreat!" ”

When Gu Zhou heard this, he said in surprise: "General Lang, those brothers who stayed in the rear team...... Don't we care? ”

Tian Ainu was in a good mood at the moment, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Stupid! Retreat calmly, don't panic, take a hundred steps back, line up to wait for the enemy, and then order the remaining men and horses to retreat to a hundred steps behind us and line up to wait for the enemy, the two teams cycle back and forth, slowly retreating! Also, order the post man again, and quickly go to Mingwei to move the rescuers! ”

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