After scolding outside Jinling City for an hour and a half, Tian Shaobin, the tired and thirsty deputy commander of Xiaowu, was about to lead the equally tired five hundred cloud cavalry back to the camp to rest, when suddenly a group of Southern Tang infantry soldiers appeared on the horizon further south, the number was between three and four hundred, except for a few soldiers in the front row wearing iron armor, most of them were only wearing paper armor, and it looked as if the Shenwei soldiers who had broken up last night were trying to return to the city. Seeing a group of cavalry blocking in front of the city gate, these Southern Tang infantry soldiers shrank into a ball even more frightened, neither daring to approach nor fleeing.

came just in time, you can't go back empty-handed when you come out, Tian Shaobin said secretly in his heart, and ordered in a low voice: "Decheng and Zhang Dong are outflanked on both sides, and Jiming will scatter them from the front." As soon as his words fell, Sun Jiming, the first commander of the cloud cavalry, who had been waiting a little impatiently, led a hundred cavalry to slowly approach the opposite side, while the cavalry of the other two capitals spread out to the two wings under the leadership of their respective heads, and they would eventually outflank the rear of the infantry, which was a common tactic for superior cavalry to deal with small groups of infantry, and the attacked infantry often could not escape, so the cavalry were in a relaxed mood, as if they were participating in a hunt. The main general Tian Shaobin led two hundred cavalry to watch the battle from afar, on the one hand, to guard against any army suddenly killed in the city to meet this small group of infantry, but Tian Shaobin was very confident that there would be no reinforcements in the city, and he didn't even reply to a fart after scolding for a long time, and he would never have the courage to risk coming to the rescue of such a small army.

Xin Gu, the captain of the Jinfan Military Tooth Barracks, stared at the cavalry slowly coming over with some anger, as a Khitan, he knew very well that the intention of the cavalry in front of him was to kill his own group, but he would never tolerate such an insult, especially when he was still one step away from Jinling City. Since Wu Yingying left, it was okay at first, everything in the Jinfan army was discussed by him and Duyu Hou Xiao Jiu, and the military rations and equipment supplied by the Chizhou camp were also sufficient, but with the newly expanded thousands of Ding Zhuang gradually trained into the army, and the generals at all levels who were inserted in the black cloud capital also gained a firm foothold, the Chizhou camp repeatedly interfered in the internal affairs of the Jinfan army, and the slightest disobedience would delay the distribution of military rations and salaries, and even more, the camp repeatedly transferred the original Jinfan soldiers to the command and transfer, so that they were tired of running for their lives, and half a month ago, they were directly transferred to the right wing under the command of Ma Chengyan, and they were tossed one by one, and the generals with the background of Heiyun Capital, who were exchanged and transferred to the left compartment, did not buy Xin Gu at all with the rank of envoy in the box, and reported directly to the camp if he needed anything, and even reported to the old boss in the original Heiyun Capital.

Seeing that Wu Yan was approaching step by step, and he wanted to eliminate the influence of Wu Yingying in the Jinfan Army, Xin Gu discussed with Xiao Jiu, and simply pulled out the veterans who were still interested in Wu Yingying, so as not to be eaten away by the black clouds step by step, so the two of them gathered a team of nearly 400 people, and in the name of going out to practice, they left a letter and hijacked two sailor ships to go east down the river to Jinling. Seeing that Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu and the others were still unable to return to their hearts, Heiyun Du commanded Yu Yan to have the intention of squeezing them out, and said that he and Wu Yingying were always colleagues in the imperial court, and they would save some face when they met in the future, so they ordered all the departments along the river not to intercept them. It just so happened that Xiao Jiu had walked through the Yangtze River waterway several times before, and he bumped all the way to Jinling City. The night before, he heard the shouting and killing outside the city, afraid of suffering from the pond fish, Xiao Jiuqiang pulled Xin Gu to prevent him from bringing the soldiers closer, and forced himself to endure for a night, the Khitan barbarians could no longer hold back their anger, and most of the soldiers on the left and right were from the Ya military camp, shouting to enter the city, Xiao Jiu couldn't stop him, and he just ran into Tian Shaobin, who was calling for battle outside the city, and the five hundred cloud cavalry he led.

Since the last time he was humiliated in the Black Cloud Capital, Xin Gu has been engaged in anti-cavalry training in the Ya military camp all day long, so this team has shrunk from a marching army type to a battle formation without any panic, Xin Gu specially selected and trained more than 100 long-handled axemen and nearly 200 veterans of the Fang Army holding ten-foot spears according to his own preferences formed a dense phalanx, Xiao Jiu stood in front of the formation with more than 100 crossbowmen.

The approaching cloud cavalry commander made Sun Jiming find that the foot soldiers on the opposite side were not as flustered as expected, although they were in rags, but they were motionless in the face of the pressure of the cavalry rushing, and they didn't even talk to each other, an ominous premonition came to Sun Jiming's heart, but at this moment there was no time to think about it, the infantry crossbowmen in front of him had begun to continue to release arrows, and several cavalry around him were shot by the sharp and ruthless crossbow arrows, Sun Jiming could only clamp the horse's belly hard, and quickly released an arrow towards the foot soldiers, and then put the bow into the bow bag on his side, flattened the spear, and rushed straight forward。

The sound of horses' hooves struck the ears of each Jinfan sergeant, Xiao Jiu commanded the crossbowmen to release three rounds of arrows and then re-lined up through the gap left by the spearmen, the first row of soldiers vigorously propped up the square shields that were half a man high, and the second row of soldiers put huge spears on their shields, ready to meet the unstoppable charge of the cavalry.

Seeing that the menacing 100 cloud cavalry could not bargain in the front, with the gesture of the commander, the cavalry group flexibly divided into two in front of the infantry formation, like a pair of pincers, and fiercely clamped towards both sides of the infantry formation. The commander made Sun Jiming swallow a mouthful of smoke and dust from the cavalry in front of him, and shouted with all his strength: "Kill." ”

But to Sun Jiming's surprise, the formation of the infantry army that was raided on the side did not collapse, and the infantry on both sides directly turned around on the spot, still aiming the long spear tip at the cavalry that had slowed down, and more than 100 foot soldiers with long-handled heavy axes killed directly from the gap of the spearmen, and cut down the horses as if they were crazy. The fallen cloud cavalry barely had time to get up from the ground before they were crucified to the ground by the foot soldiers who rushed up from behind.

This is the elite, Sun Jiming almost hated his underestimating enemy, he issued the order to retreat, desperately turning the horse's head, wanting to withdraw from the battlefield before being entangled by the foot soldiers, and then join more cavalry and charge again. But the general commanding the infantry on the opposite side was obviously a madman, and the infantry in the front row actually abandoned the strict formation, and mingled with the approaching cavalry with their spears, while the soldiers with long-handled axes kept greeting the horses. The cavalry took advantage of the condescending advantage to draw out their sabers and cut the foot soldiers around them, but found that there was another layer of thin paper armor worn by these foot soldiers, which was actually difficult to cut through. The rest of the cavalry had no intention of fighting again, and they were desperately urging their horses to flee from the hellish battlefield, and in the panic, more than a dozen people were shot off their horses by the crossbowmen who were still firing arrows. In the end, only a dozen cavalrymen managed to get out of the melee with the foot soldiers, and more than 80 people, including the commander Sun Jiming, were killed in the short and chaotic battle, leaving only the slashed horses paralyzed on the battlefield and constantly wailing. At this time, the two hundred cavalry, who had originally stretched far to the flanks and rear of the two flanks in order to outflank the scattered foot soldiers, did not even have time to change their formation, and continued to circle in a large circle.

After stabbing to death a wounded horse lying on the ground and weeping continuously, Xin Gu licked the horse's blood splashed on his cheeks, the fishy and pungent smell seemed to stimulate his ferocity, he glared angrily at the two hundred cavalry led by Tian Shaobin himself between himself and the south gate of Jinling, and shouted: "Ya barracks, form a formation, advance, hack these grandsons and rush into the city!" After speaking, without waiting for the others to react, he walked forward with a big axe, and the soldiers were also inspired by the victory just now, and they lined up to follow behind, with the spearmen in front, the long axe hands in the ranks, and finally the crossbowmen commanded by Xiao Jiu stumbled behind, winding the crossbow as they went. A startling scene on the battlefield took place, the foot soldiers actually charged the cavalry. Some of the soldiers of the Ya military camp were still shouting while running: "The Ya military camp, there is no advance or retreat." "The voice is high-pitched and uncidone.

Before Tian Shaobin had time to feel sorry for the Yun cavalry army who died in battle, he was surprised to see that the Southern Tang infantry who had just fought a battle actually rushed towards him in a formation under the leadership of that madman-like general. From the battle just now, Tian Shaobin already knew that the foot soldiers on the opposite side were definitely not the Divine Guards who were killed last night, if they had this will to fight, the five thousand Song troops who first touched Jiang would have been chewed to the point that there would be no scum left. From the past combat experience, Tian Shaobin also knows that it is difficult for the cavalry to win well against the elite infantry soldiers who shake the formation, even if the Khitan iron cavalry encounters the Northern Han infantry in the formation, they can only harass and fight with cavalry and shooting, consume their sharp energy, and wait until the foot soldiers are tired and intersecting, and the arrows will only launch the final impact when they are clean, which is also the reason why Cai Ling in the Han Dynasty only relied on 5,000 elite infantry soldiers to fight and fight under the siege of 100,000 Hun cavalry, and was able to retreat from the hinterland of the desert to the Great Wall.

If he is the same as Pan Mei, Cao Han, and even Cai Huaizhong, Tian Shaobin will not hesitate to let the cavalry behind him get out of the way and let these crazy foot soldiers go back to the city, but as a Taiyuan general, in addition to being a small suit and looking down on people's eyes, he must also show courage and ability far beyond the general forbidden army generals in order to have a chance to be promoted. Thinking of this, Tian Shaobin's mind couldn't help but float through the gloomy and jealous eyes of those forbidden army generals on weekdays, he sighed knowingly, lifted the reins of the horse, raised his right hand and made a gesture of preparing to charge, and then rushed out with a horse, but the cloud cavalry who had just been killed by the robe Ze and their eyes were blood-red did not give so much thought, most of these good families in the border counties were fellow villagers and friends, wow wow screamed and slammed the horse's belly, and under the revenge, several cavalry almost instantly surpassed the commander's horse's head.

The Southern Tang defenders at the head of the city were almost dumbfounded as they watched the two men and horses charging at each other at the same time, as if two fierce floods were pouring down from different mountain tops, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and at the moment when they finally collided together, almost all the soldiers at the head of the city later swore that they heard a loud "bang" in their ears.