However, now a small half of Qiu Yizhi's original right-hand men have been killed at the bottom of Tongguan, and most of the remaining soldiers have been promoted by him to serve as the general who commands the army, and the team that has experienced a hundred battles no longer exists.

Therefore, when Qiu Yizhi was preparing for battle, he selected loyal and warlike men in the whole army, formed a special team of more than 1,000 people, equipped the most elite equipment neatly, and sent Wei Chi Jiming to teach some martial arts in an assault and use it as an assault force, which was just used in such an anxious situation.

This strange army is really full of sharpness, wearing strong armor and holding sharp blades, and it can enter the enemy's formation in a single assault, and use only a few troops to disrupt the opponent's formation, and it is about to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop and form a counterattack.

Zheng Xin had read many imperial court battle reports, and was quite familiar with Qiu Yizhi's tactics, and in the face of such a situation, he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses on the left flank to boost their morale, temporarily relax the pressure on the frontal enemy army, and concentrate their forces to drive out this enemy squad that was in the formation.

Zheng Xin's trick really worked, and the team sent by Qiu Yizhi who barely entered the enemy formation could no longer gain a foothold in the enemy formation, and after paying two or three hundred casualties, they could only disengage with the enemy army in battle and retreat.

In the process, Qiu Yizhi clearly felt that the offensive in front of the enemy army had slowed down, and this was actually an opportunity for the whole army to counterattack. However, after all, the opponent's strength far exceeds his own, and it is a situation of attacking from both sides, he is afraid that he will attack rashly, so that there will be a vacuum of troops behind him, Zheng Xin will seize this opportunity to separate himself from Zhao Chengxiao's department, and when the time comes, if you can't take care of each other, you will definitely lose.

Zheng Xin saw clearly behind the battle, and saw that although the battle was still anxious, Qiu Yizhi's adventure was not successful, and the overall initiative of the battle situation was firmly in his own hands.

Seeing such a favorable situation, Zheng Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to make the next move, but he heard someone next to him stretch out his hand and point forward, and said, "Your Highness, what do you look at over there?" ”

Zheng Xin looked far away, but saw that Qiu Yi's side suddenly provoked a big flag, and an arrow was pressed on the top of the flagpole, and a bloody human head was picked on the arrow, and the long hair on the head was scattered, but it was dirty by the blood clots formed by dry blood.

Zheng Xin glanced at it, hurriedly looked away, and had already guessed the identity of the owner of his head, but he still had to ask: "Whose head is hanging by the enemy?" ”

The herald officer replied tremblingly: "It seems to be the ...... of Prince Zheng Chao"

When Zheng Xin heard this, the facial features on his face suddenly twisted into a ball, his throat swallowed painfully, and he scolded: "This evil thief of Qiu Yizhi actually did such a violent thing!" What are former enemy generals doing? Don't hurry up and urge the soldiers, attack hard, and take Zheng Chao's head back! ”

In fact, Zheng Xin really wanted to put the reserves around him into the battle at this time, and defeated Qiu Yizhi in one go, but he finally calmed down and did not make such a decision.

Qiu Yizhi is not the kind of villain who has no humanity, he made such a move, and he also made a helpless move in a situation where there was nothing to be done, nothing more than to lure Zheng Xin into anger, and in a fit of anger, he threw his reserves into the attack, exposing the gap behind him, so as to create space for the breakthrough of the lame iron horse.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Xin was not fooled, and the reserve team remained motionless, continuing to use the existing forces to consume each other with Qiu Yizhi.

Qiu Yizhi had no way, and after thinking for a long time, he could only send people to the Bohai people, asking them to divide the 20,000 iron cavalry into 5,000 first, and attack the enemy's right flank and rear, so as to relieve the pressure on the frontal army first.

Unexpectedly, Prince Urton, who commanded the Bohai cavalry, said that the Bohai soldiers did not understand Chinese and did not know the color of the official uniforms, so they could not be used separately, and if they were forcibly divided into troops to fight, they would inevitably injure friendly troops by mistake.

These few words are plausible, but they are just pretexts, and they are nothing more than Urdon's fear that the 20,000 cavalry scattered into the battlefield will cause unnecessary losses, so he is unwilling to obey the order.

Qiu Yizhi is such a smart person, how can Urdon hide it from him with such a cautious eye, but because Ulton is a fan state who came to help the war after all, he can't apply military law, so he can only curse secretly.

Zheng Xin's side had already seen the reality of Qiu Yizhi clearly, and suddenly ordered to change the formation.

He saw that Qiu Yizhi divided the main force into two parts, and resisted with all his might in the left and right directions, so that the battle was already very reluctantly passive. This leads to the positive facing of Zheng Xin, who can only bully Zheng Xin to throw a mouse trap and use the emperor as a shield, but in fact, it is extremely empty, and the root is not the power to launch a counterattack in the front.

Therefore, Zheng Xin waved his banner and ordered the 20,000 idle troops who were guarding against the enemy's frontal breakthrough, and then moved to the right flank to attack the left flank of the enemy where Qiu Yizhi was located. As for the frontal defense, it was in charge of the reserves led by Zheng Xin himself - anyway, Qiu Yizhi had no spare strength to organize an offensive on the front.

The 20,000 fresh troops were all thrown into battle, so that in front of the 40,000 or so people of Qiu Yizhi's department, they faced a force of nearly 100,000. Such a force has exceeded twice his own, making Qiu Yizhi more and more unable to support it.

Qiu Yizhi has experienced a dangerous battle situation several times, and knows that only by continuing to grit his teeth and persevering can he have a chance of victory. However, Lin Shuhan, who was exhibiting military affairs beside him, was already frightened, and suggested to Qiu Yizhi: "My lord, it seems that our army is almost unable to support it, please use the Bohai Iron Cavalry quickly!" ”

Qiu Yizhi gritted his teeth and held back, only telling Lin Shuhan not to worry, but he seemed to have fifteen buckets in his heart-he was so nervous that he issued orders from time to time, asking the generals in front to continue to resist Zheng Xin's attack, and anyone who was afraid of the enemy and retreated without authorization would be killed on the spot.

Although his orders were strict, they could not change the huge disadvantage in the number of troops—the defensive formation in front of the whole was getting weaker and weaker, and the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and it was almost possible to smell the smell of blood and sweat emanating from the soldiers on both sides who were in close combat.

Qiu Yizhi hurriedly organized a capable force, wanting to launch a counter-charge again, and strive to catch the opposite side by surprise. But he had already used this trick, and now that he used it again, the opponent was already on guard, and only slightly delayed the opponent's attack, and then quickly dissipated in the rain of bullets.

Seeing that Zheng Xin's right-wing heavy attack was becoming more and more convenient, there were only less than a few thousand men and horses guarding in front of Qiu Yizhi, and it was only by relying on a few generals from the township brave regiment to rush to the front line of the enemy that they could barely maintain their morale and not be defeated immediately.

Seeing this, Lin Shuhan hurriedly persuaded: "My lord, the situation is unfavorable to me, please quickly recruit and transfer the Bohai Iron Cavalry to help in the battle." If you can't do it, you have to retreat a little, otherwise you will be in danger! ”

Qiu Yizhi's brows furrowed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If I take half a step back, the soldiers in front of me will take a step back, and it will be difficult to maintain the defensive line." Mr. Lin, don't worry, I expect that the battle situation will inevitably change! ”

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly rushed to the front of him with a sudden gust of wind, and quickly looked up, but saw an arrow shooting in the direction of his chest, and was about to pierce his body. Qiu Yizhi sat on the horse and tried to dodge, but this arrow was fast and close to him, and it had reached the point where there was no way to avoid it, and he couldn't dodge it at all.

At this moment, Yu Chi Jiming, who was guarding Qiu Yizhi's side, gently and skillfully stretched out two fingers, clamped the arrow, and said coldly: "Little uncle, please rest assured, there is me here." ”

The beads of sweat on Qiu Yizhi's face suddenly fell, and he swallowed his saliva and replied: "That's nature, there is Ji Ming, and no one can hurt me." ”

Although he spoke quietly, he was extremely apprehensive in his heart - although Yu Chi Jiming was strong in martial arts, he did not have three heads and six arms; Even if Yu Chi Jiming really has three heads and six arms, and Zheng Xin fires thousands of arrows, will she really be able to save her life in the rain of arrows?

As soon as his life and safety were involved, even Qiu Yizhi was a little panicked, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to give Urton an order, saying that the time had come, and let their whole army raid the flank and rear of the enemy on the left flank, and after a successful blow, they quickly broke away from the battle and waited for the opportunity to make a second attack.

On the side of Urdon, the prince of the Bohai Sea, he is caught in a complex and fierce psychological struggle. He was afraid that his rash dispatch would cause unnecessary losses to him and weaken his strength; and feared that he would not stand still and lose the opportunity to fight for the fruits of victory; is even more afraid that because of his inaction, Qiu Yizhi's battle will fail, so that Zheng Xin will take the lead in the government, and in turn punish himself for the sins that once stood on Qiu Yizhi's side.

Therefore, when he heard the order from Qiu Yizhi, a heart that was hanging in the air and shaking finally settled down a little, and realized that instead of being anxious behind enemy lines, it was better to make a desperate bet and let himself be the winner or loser of this whole war.

So Prince Ulton personally stepped on his horse, blew the horn, ordered 20,000 cavalry to form a huge spindle array, and rushed towards the flank and rear of Zheng Xin's army that attacked Qiu Yizhi.

Although they are both northern nomads and use cavalry as the core of their country's combat forces, the Bohai Sea is significantly different from the Turks in terms of specific combat methods.

The Turks were good at riding and archery, using light horses as mounts, always keeping a certain distance from their opponents without direct contact during battle, slowly depleting the enemy's vital strength with bows and arrows at a distance, and then launching a final attack when the enemy's casualties increased and morale collapsed.

The Bohai Kingdom produces excellent iron ore, and the Bohai people are also good at creating all kinds of swords, guns and armor, not only the knights on the horses, but even the war horses under the crotch are mostly equipped with hard and thick breastplates. Therefore, during the battle, the Bohai cavalry often formed a dense formation, looking for the enemy's flanks, backs and other weaknesses, and crushed the enemy with an indomitable momentum. This kind of tactics, in the face of the Turkic cavalry that comes and goes like the wind and has more mobility on it, may not have much advantage, and there are few opponents in addition, which is the foundation of the Bohai State.

Therefore, Prince Ulton, who led the army, was extremely conceited about the 20,000 cavalry under his command that had gathered the elite of the Bohai Kingdom, and saw that Zheng Xin's troops were making every effort to deal with Qiu Yizhi in front of him, and pounced on them without hesitation.

Urdon's conceit was not without reason, he commanded 20,000 iron cavalry to rush into the enemy's formation, like a knife chopping tofu to sweep the enemy soldiers down in batches and sweep them down, in the blink of an eye, he stabbed his horse and killed and wounded two or three thousand enemy troops, but the offensive still did not weaken at all, and he was still thrust into the depths of the enemy line.

The battlefield was so chaotic that Qiu Yizhi couldn't see the battle situation in front of him clearly, but from the sharply reduced pressure of the enemy army in front of him, he knew that it must be caused by the successful breakthrough of the Bohai Iron Cavalry and the massive killing and wounding of Zheng Xin's troops.