On September 14, the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the wind that raged for three days finally stopped, and with the agitated dust landing, the desert returned to the wordless silence of the past, the only difference is that the heat in the past seemed to be blown away by the wind - the wind stopped, but the temperature did not rise much, even the sun at noon can not bring much warmth, as if the work of several nights, the desert went straight from midsummer to early winter.

Time passed minute by minute, in a blink of an eye, it was already the end of the card, the Tang army brigade that should have appeared around the time had never appeared, Liu Whirlwind, who was ambushed behind the sand beam, although his face was calm and still, but he couldn't help but secretly feel a little anxious, he couldn't understand what trick the Tang army was playing, and he didn't even know if the Tang army had reversed the direction of the march again, without him, because of fear of alarming the Tang army, which led to the leakage of the ambush plan, since last night, Liu Whirlwind's department never sent out a ranger to monitor the Tang army's every move, the last news known was that the Tang army braved the wind yesterday to hurry, until it was dark in the place about twenty miles away from the willow garden to press the barracks, according to the Tang army's behavior in the past few days, it has always been the end of the camp, only stopped at the end of the day, how can not Liu Whirlwind be suspicious? At this critical moment of ambush, no matter how annoyed Liu Whirlwind was, he could only resist the urge to send a ranger to investigate, silently lying behind the cold sand beam, observing the movement of the desert in the distance.

Kung fu always pays off, just when Liu Whirlwind was waiting anxiously, a cloud of smoke and dust rose behind a sand beam at the far end of the desert, and a team of more than a dozen horsemen and horses who were obviously vanguard cavalry soldiers came out of the sand beam, and rushed over without stopping at all, and a moment later, a flaming red flag was also raised from behind the sand beam, and a team of heavily armed cavalry surrounded more than a dozen carriages and more than 100 camels full of logistical baggage crossed the sand beam without hurry, and seemed to be unprepared and marched towards the willow garden.

It's coming, it's finally coming! Seeing that the Tang army seemed to be unprepared, Liu Whirlwind's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, and without looking back, he gestured to the pro-soldier lying beside him, and asked the pro-soldier to order the sand thieves to prepare to attack, but he observed the Tang army getting closer and closer without blinking an eye, and secretly judged the best time to attack in his heart, but at this moment, the Tang army brigade, which had been walking unhurriedly, suddenly stopped when it was still about a mile away from Liuyuan, and there seemed to be some chaos in the whole team- In the center of the queue, a carriage broke off and got stuck in the sand, and dozens of Tang officers and soldiers surrounded the carriage, either on guard or busy repairing it, as if the carriage was loaded with important people or things.

Could it be that the person in this carriage is the princess? Liu Whirlwind's heart tightened suddenly, and his pupils contracted involuntarily - this carriage was very luxurious, but the dozen or so carriages owned by the Tang Army were generally luxurious, but it was not obvious that this carriage was very different from others, and even the indentations of all the carriages walking in the sand were almost the same, making it impossible to judge that the carriages were very different, and it was impossible to speculate which carriage the princess was hiding in, and at this time, the Tang Army's vigilance like a great enemy undoubtedly exposed the importance of this carriage, It's just that Liu Whirlwind is not sure if this will be a trap, it is a flaw deliberately exposed by Tang Jun, and Liu Whirlwind is not fully sure of this, he can only secretly keep the shape of this carriage in mind, but he did not give the sand thieves an order to storm this carriage for a while.

The desert march is a difficult thing, although the carriages owned by the Tang army are specially made according to the desert terrain, but they have traveled through the desert for dozens of days, no matter how good the carriage is, sooner or later there will be some failure, this is common sense, but there is nothing to say, but the problem is that this carriage is not broken sooner, it is not broken, it is just before the Tang army is about to enter the ambush circle of the sand thieves, so that the entire Tang army has stopped moving forward, this situation really makes the sand thieves hiding in the sand beams and poplar forests itch their teeth but are helpless, I could only watch the Tang army stop in place and rest.

It was annoying for the carriage to break down during the march, but Li Zhen didn't care at all, without him, the carriage was out of his order, how could he care, the ambush in Liuyuan was expected by Li Zhen, in fact, as soon as he turned out of the sand beam, Li Zhen had already noticed the kind of murderous aura floating in the air, as for the possible ambush location of the sand thieves, Li Zhen, who had already thoroughly eaten the terrain around Liuyuan, knew it in his heart, and didn't care much about it, but, Li Zhen will not play one less play, no, Li Zhen, who was originally walking in the forefront of the army, immediately turned his horse's head as soon as he received the news that the carriage was out of line, and led the generals to hurry to the side of the carriage.

"What's going on?" Li Zhen, who had a serious face, jumped off the war horse and drank knowingly.

"Back to Your Highness, the carriage is out of turn, and it will be difficult to repair it for a while." When a coachman-like palace guard saw Li Zhen arrive, he hurriedly stopped what he was doing, hurriedly ran forward, nodded on one knee, and reported respectfully.

"Humph!" Li Zhen tightened her face, snorted, looked up at the sky, ignored the coachman, walked straight to the carriage, looked at the damaged carriage, frowned and ordered: "Come on, drive the spare carriage over." ”

Li Zhen gave an order, and his own guards rushed a carriage to the front, hurriedly vacated the goods on the carriage, and transferred them to the camel's back that was vacated due to the exhaustion of baggage, the dazzling array of silk, jewelry and other things flashed in the sun, and the sand thieves hiding in the dark were enthusiastic and heartbeat, but Liu Whirlwind did not look at those valuable things, but stared at Li Zhen's words and movements, and waited to see Li Zhen take out a woman from the carriage, Liu Whirlwind was finally able to conclude that the woman in Li Zhen's arms was the princess Yue who was hiding in the Tang army and had never shown her face, and secretly wrote down the carriage where the princess was, and quickly issued a battle order - as soon as the Tang army entered their own ambush circle, each team would do whatever it took to attack the carriage where the princess was, if it was best to succeed in a battle, if not, then withdraw from the battle according to the original plan and retreat to Xingxing Gorge.

The Tang army moved quickly, but in a few moments, the woman suspected of being the princess was replaced with a carriage, and the damaged carriage was ignored, and even no one was left to repair it, so the carriage was parked on the side of the road, and the army drove again and slowly walked into the ambush circle of the sand thieves.

"Blow the trumpet! All the army is attacking! Seeing that the Tang army was unprepared, Liu Whirlwind finally couldn't bear it anymore, rushed down the sand beam, jumped on his own war horse, shouted, and rushed up the sand beam with a horse, and then, a terrible horn sounded, and the sand thieves who had been waiting impatiently poured out from their respective ambush sites - the sand flying camel department rushed out of the poplar forest and went straight to the left flank of the Tang army, and the Liu whirlwind department that was a little far away rushed down from the sand beam, and with the downward momentum of the tall sand beam, it continued to accelerate and directly take the right wing of the Tang army, Tried to flank the Tang army at the same time as Sha Feihuo's troops.

Ha,, it's really here! As soon as Li Zhen heard the horn, he knew that the sand thieves had attacked, and he didn't even bother to look at the sand thieves who were surging out, so he took the bright silver spear from the victory hook, raised the gun, and shouted: "Arrange the formation, kill the enemy!" Suddenly, the loud horn sounded in the Tang army, and the originally neat team suddenly changed, and the men and horses marched through the line in an orderly manner, and without counting the breath, a strange formation had been formed, but seeing that the head and tail of the Tang army had shrunk one by one, they had been grouped together, forming an irregular circle formation - facing Liu Whirlwind, who was rushing a mile away, was composed of three strict cavalry formations composed of more than 800 Tang cavalry, and the knights on the horse did not hold swords and spears, but all opened their bows and arrows, and the sharp arrows flashed in the sun with the cold light of death, The general at the top of the queue was Chen Wu, the royal army; Facing the sand flying camel that rushed out of the poplar forest, the guards with more than 400 guns led by Li Zhen himself were lined up in a cone-shaped assault formation, and the remaining 700 royal palace guards were guarded on the front and rear wings, and the whole formation was like a deformed circle, large on the left and small on the right, which was weird.

"Rush, kill in!" Although Liu Whirlwind was in the middle of the sprint, he did not forget to observe the behavior of the Tang Army, seeing that the Tang Army was moving extremely quickly, he secretly admired it in his heart, and also knew that the current battle was not so easy to fight, in the face of the arrow array discharged by the Tang Army, Liu Whirlwind knew that it was not easy to break through, but it was a pity that at this time he had already launched with all his strength, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to retreat, so he simply made a heart, put his tall body tightly on the horseback, waved the scimitar in his hand, and gave the order to attack with all his strength in a loud voice, and more than 2,000 sand thieves behind him also did the same. All of them lay on their horses, blindly letting their horses rush wildly, trying to carry the baptism of the Tang army's arrow rain, and then killed into the Tang army, and went straight to the carriage where the princess was.

Compared with the crazy impact of Liu Whirlwind's department, the Sha Feihuo department killed from the poplar forest force is a little chaotic, in addition to the fact that it is unable to achieve uniformity because it is launched from the forest, the main thing is that they can see the strict formation of the Tang army from afar and feel the murderous aura that soars to the sky, the sand thieves can't help but have some timidity, and the bold outlaws killed the past, but the timid ones slowed down their horses, and the whole team dragged into a long line. Instead of the fan-shaped assault tactics often used by the sand thieves, Rao is the sand flying camel desperately trying to control the queue, how can the sand thieves themselves not be well-trained soldiers, and how can they adjust in a short time, so that the sand flying camel killed from the poplar forest looks extremely messy.

Waste is waste! Damn, can't even fight an ambush, what a fucking bunch of idiots! Li Zhen looked at Sha Feihuo's department with disdain, who was desperately trying to adjust the formation while charging, smiled coldly, raised the bright silver gun in his hand, and roared: "Kill!" As soon as the words fell, he kicked the belly of the ** jujube red horse, and rushed towards the Sha Fei Camel in the lead, and the four hundred cavalry behind him immediately launched and roared forward, and the Tang cavalry that was originally swimming in the front and rear wings of the circle immediately changed formations, surging rapidly, shrinking the formation again, shrinking the circle by nearly one-third, and forming a tight circle again.

Although Li Zhen launched quickly, it was the right wing led by Chen Wu who took the lead in fighting with the sand thieves, and saw that Liu Whirlwind's department lined up in a standard conical cavalry assault formation to kill the generals, but Chen Wu was really startled - the cavalry formation is changeable, fan-shaped, goose-shaped, linear, round formation and even conical formation are all customary formations, the most difficult of which is the cone assault formation, only a strong army that has been tempered can lay out this formation, which is the formation that can give full play to the powerful assault ability of the cavalry, which requires not only equestrianism and the bravery of the soldiers, There must be strong discipline and strict training, even the grassland people who are very good at equestrianism are rarely able to deploy this formation, but now this sand thief can also discharge this formation in the middle of the march, which really makes Chen Wu sigh, but well, sigh to sigh, when it is time to die, Chen Wu will not be soft at all, seeing that the thieves are getting closer and closer, and soon they have rushed to a distance of about two hundred steps, Chen Wu shouted violently: "The last two rows obey orders, half up, shoot!" ”

With Chen Wu's order, the cavalry in the back two rows of the Tang army almost fired their bows and arrows at the same time, and more than 500 feather arrows flew up from the Tang army formation at a forty-five degree angle, falling from the sky like flying locusts, covering the Liu Whirlwind who rushed wildly, the dense arrow rain roared through the space, and after it fell, it was the central area of Liu Whirlwind's department, and the unlucky sand thieves could only take the small round shield resting on the saddle on their heads, trying to block the baptism of the arrow rain, how could the round shield used by the cavalry was not big, and they couldn't take care of the horses if they could take care of people, This rain of arrows was about to fall, and it immediately shot down dozens of horsemen in the center of the cone formation, causing chaos in Liu Whirlwind's department.

If it is a regular cavalry, this little chaos is nothing, as long as the people in the main formation adjust a little, they can recover quickly, but unfortunately the sand thieves are always sand thieves, it is impossible to have such a strong adjustment ability, a little chaos has been magnified by the poor performance of the sand thieves, the originally good conical assault array has been loosened, and before Liu Whirlwind can make an adjustment move, he saw Chen Wu wave his arm again and give a second order: "All of them are there, three shots, the target thieves' horses!" ”

This order, but seeing that the cavalry of the first row of the Tang Army unceremoniously shot the arrows that had already been prepared in a flat shooting posture, more than 200 feather arrows were pressed very low, and the target was the war horses of the sand thieves who had no means of defense - the sand thieves used to use straight-handled scimitars, not the spears used by the Tang soldiers, the blade was short, and it was impossible to block the feathered arrows shot at the war horses. Especially Liu Whirlwind, the front-runner who rushed to the forefront.

Not good! Liu Whirlwind is worthy of being a giant thief across the desert, as soon as he saw the posture of the Tang Army's bow, he guessed the intentions of the Tang Army, how dare he continue to move forward to test the toughness of the **war horse**, hurriedly took the horse's head, and avoided the oblique stab, he himself avoided the enthusiastic greeting of the Tang Army's arrow rain, but the sand thieves who followed him were not so lucky, but when he saw that more than a dozen war horses rushing to the front were shot into hedgehogs, wailing and rolling to the ground, the sand thieves on the horse were overturned to the ground, and were immediately trampled into meat by the cavalry rushing up behind, In this way, the cone formation that had already appeared chaotic was already chaotic at this time, but the performance of the Tang army was still not over, the Tang army in the first row had just finished shooting arrows, and the second row of Tang troops who had already re-entered the Xuan shot a rain of arrows again, and then the Tang army in the third row also followed, taking advantage of the moment when the cavalry in the back two rows shot arrows to block the impact of the sand thieves, the cavalry in the first row had already opened their bows and arrows again, and so on, the arrow rain never stopped, and the poor sand thieves who were desperately charging rushed for a long time, Except for the corpses of men and horses left behind, they could not cross the distance that was only less than a hundred steps left.

Fury! Liu Whirlwind, who was lucky enough to escape the baptism of the Tang army's arrow rain, saw his elite cavalry fall one after another, and the anger in his heart suddenly ignited, completely forgetting the plan arranged before - if he couldn't fight, he would retreat, but planned to play with the Tang army, and shouted: "Change the formation, arrange it in a fan-like pattern!" The sand thieves who got the order immediately turned their horses' heads, braved the rain of arrows of the Tang army, roared along the front of the Tang army's formation, circled in the distance, turned into a fan-shaped array, and relied on the advantage of numbers to attack the Tang army again.

At the same time that Liu Whirlwind was in trouble, Sha Feiluo was also complaining, although he had already expected that the Tang army was extremely fierce and its combat power was unusually comparable, and he also knew that Li Zhen was the name of the three armies, but there was still a trace of luck - Li Zhen's soldiers and horses were only more than 400 horses, less than a quarter of his own department, Sha Feicamel was counting on being able to capture the king first with an absolute advantage in numbers, take Li Zhen in one fell swoop, and completely extinguish the resistance of the Tang army, however, Sha Feicamel's abacus fell into nothing, As soon as the forwards of the two armies came into contact, Sha Feiluo knew that he had miscalculated - the courage of the Tang Army was by no means something that the sand thieves could resist, but now the two sides had already handed over hands, if they retreated, it would not be a feint but a rout, and the losses would definitely be much greater, and the only chance to retreat was to withstand the impact of the Tang Army's first wave first, and then stabilize the position, so that there was a chance to get out safely.

Weak, it's too weak! As soon as Li Zhen killed into the sand thieves, the bright silver spear in his hand picked off more than a dozen horses one after another, and the sand thieves who looked fierce together were no different from lambs under Li Zhen's hands, not to mention the last move, they couldn't block it, the guns started and fell, the sand thieves turned over on their backs, and they were picked up and flew into the air. Suddenly Li Zhen lost interest in killing, and did not care about the fleeing sand thieves, Li Zhen led more than 400 horsemen to rush straight to the whole team of sand thieves, at this time, suddenly heard a loud roar: "Hugh is rampant, take your life!" A bald man rode out on a tall black horse, holding a black and heavy iron rod, roaring and galloping towards Li Zhen, the hideous face and the vigorous muscles all over his body and the murderous roar suddenly made Li Zhen stunned for a moment......

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