In November, Li Yu, the king of Guangping, and Li Siye, the king of Xiliang County, mobilized a large army of 120,000 and held a swearing-in meeting on the west plain of Wugong County.

Li Yu, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, of course, has to lead by example and personally command, although he has no experience in this, but last night Li Siye had already written the battle plan, and he spent half an hour memorizing it, just to show his face today.

Although he had prepared in advance, Li Yu couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, and naturally it was impossible to recite the full text with emotion, and the interference in the words was stiff, making people feel like they were memorizing the lines when they heard it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's battle will definitely defeat the rebels and recover Chang'an, and the three armies will be rewarded on the day of success." He took out the arrow from the quiver and shouted below, "Zang Xiye! ”

Zang Xiye came out of the front fork hand: "The last will be." ”

"Order you to lead the Flying Tiger Cavalry as the vanguard of the left flank, responsible for reconnoitring the enemy situation and assisting the left side of the Chinese army."

"Whoa!"

"Duan Xiushi!"

Duan Xiushi also stepped forward: "The end will be." ”

"Order you to lead the Han Navy as the vanguard of the right flank, responsible for assisting the right side of the Chinese army."

"Whoa." Duan Xiushi stepped forward to take the token and retreated into the queue.

Li Yu shouted again: "Guo Ziyi! ”

Guo Ziyi stepped forward with his crossed hands: "The last will be." ”

"Order you to lead the Shuofang army as the rear army to prevent the enemy from attacking behind the enemy's back."

"Oh," Guo Ziyi bowed to Li Yu and crossed his hands, and then turned his head slightly to face Li Siye who was standing beside Li Yu, and nodded in support.

Li Yu drew out his arrows one by one, and ordered the friendly troops who came to support, such as the Qarluq cavalry and the Bahanna cavalry, and ordered them to follow Zang Xiye's left flank and Duan Xiushi's right flank respectively, which could be regarded as a supplement to the cavalry team.

He took out the last arrow from the pot and turned his head to look at Li Siye: "Doctor Li." ”

Li Siye hurriedly turned to him and crossed his hands in front of his chest: "The last general." ”

"You are in charge of the infantry and artillery battalions of the Three Towns as the Chinese army, and you will act together with the commander and march south of Weishui to Chang'an!"

"Whoa!"

The three armies marched forward in a mighty way, marching along the Qinling Mountains from the Yixian Post Road, and because the Tang army carried too much baggage, the cavalry had to slow down, and could only march more than 40 miles a day.

Fourteen days later, the Tang army arrived in Xianyang via Xingping, and the Tang cavalry sent to report that the rebels had set out from Forbidden Garden and Chang'an. Li Siye ordered the team to slow down, and ordered Yan Xiaosi to spread out the artillery battalion and march together. Oxen pulled artillery wagons through the fields that were loose in winter. The cavalry passed through the ditches on both sides of the field, and behind them they hung hunting flags, thousands of which were like layers of cumulonimbus clouds.

The design structure and continuous expansion of Chang'an City make its city defense capacity extremely low, and the more prosperous and wealthy the super-large capital, the more it cannot hold on. Not to mention that Qujiangchi makes the city have a big gap, it is said that on the outer city wall with a circumference of nearly 70 miles, the overall deployment of troops is a huge problem, and the siege team only needs to find a few random points to attack, and then suddenly change the direction, which is enough to make it difficult for the defending general to take care of it. But once the Tang army is put into the city to fight, the people of the two counties of Chang'an Wannian hate them for rebels, and they will definitely help the Tang army to fight against rebellion together, and then they will fall into the vast sea of people's war.

Therefore, Li Guiren and An Shouzhong unanimously decided to take the initiative to attack like last time, take the initiative outside Chang'an City, and wait for the Tang army to send them for a head-to-head confrontation of blood and fire.

The strongest combat strength in the Tang army was none other than Li Siye's Hexi, Beiting, and Anxi armies. As long as the cavalry of Tongluo and the Luoluo River were concentrated to attack the central army of the Hexi Army and defeat it, the rest of the enemy army would naturally retreat and flee.

The two sides finally set up an array on the Xiliuyuan on the other side of the soap river, and Li Siye ordered the Chinese army to wave the flag to stop the ranks, and set up a large hollow formation of three or seven in front of the enemy, while the cavalry overlapped around the hollow array like fish scales. Part of the Shuofang Army of the rear army put up a glaive formation, Guo Ziyi was firmly in the middle, he hoped that the enemy army would come behind and sneak attack, and also let Li Siye see that the strongest in the world was not necessarily the Anxi army.

Another reason why Guo Ziyi put out the Glaive Array was that he was worried that Li Siye's strange hollow phalanx would be overwhelmed by the enemy, and when the time came, his Glaive Array would not be affected by the rout to the greatest extent and would be able to play a role in turning the tables.

There are six rows of seven hollow phalanxes, the first row facing the enemy is the rifle, which is used to block the charge of the cavalry, and the horses in the charge will dodge when they see the bright tip of the knife, the second row is the shield soldiers, when the enemy horses stagnate and begin to attack with bows and arrows, the shield soldiers come forward to cover each other with the rifles, and the four rows in the rear are all crossbowmen to attack the enemy in the charge.

Li Siye and Li Yu's Chinese army Qiqi is behind the hollow phalanx, which is also a slightly flattened and long hollow array, but the one guarding the front of the formation is the famous Modao team.

In the center of the hollow array is a basalt heavy cannon covered by felt cloth, and there are thirteen guns lined up in each array, such a configuration actually has a certain danger, the soldiers can feel the flames blowing over their heads, in case the cannon blows up or malfunctions, the most dangerous thing is the person standing not far in front of the cannon.

In order to simulate the authenticity of the battlefield, he deliberately asked Yan Xiaosi to test the cannon behind the neatly arranged soldiers, so as to train them not to be intimidated by the thunderous cannon.

The Tang army was the first to have two cavalrymen on both sides of the line, and they drew their bows on their horses and shot arrows, and the advent of the artillery age would make this way of shooting only rituals.

The rebels placed the cavalry in the center as the main force, but the infantry on the flanks, and once the attack began, the cavalry would become the front of the entire army, and if the enemy army could drill a gap in the large formation, the entire formation would be completely destroyed.

An Shouzhong was also about to send someone to shoot arrows to set a position, Li Guiren hurriedly said: "Don't be deceived by Li Siye, you have forgotten that there is a sharp weapon in his army that can explode, and the range is also very long, we will retreat two hundred steps back, so as not to be attacked by him suddenly." ”

The rebels began to slowly retreat, and Li Siye ordered the hollow phalanx to advance, including the artillery and ammunition trucks in the phalanx.

"Don't withdraw! Tongluo cavalry stepped forward and attacked the enemy's main formation! The rest of the army is distancing itself from the enemy! ”

The battle began in a moment of surprise, as the rebel cavalry in their ear-turning helmets charged forward, deliberately widening their distances to prevent being hit by a dense barrage of cannons.

The Xuanwu cannons in the Tang army's array ignited the twists, and the hundreds of cannons spit out thunderous flames in turn, which exploded in the charging enemy, the horses fell to the ground, and the soldiers on the horses were crushed off their right legs, and they howled like pigs. Many of the horses were frightened and slowed down, causing the charge in the rear to be blocked.

Yan Xiaosi stood in the hollow array in the center, waving the red order flag and ordering the artillerymen to clean the chamber, charge, and twist, and the whole process seemed unusually long. The rebel cavalry picked up speed and charged towards the hollow array.

Ma Pho, who commanded the hollow array, waved the banner and ordered the front row of foot lance men to squat half-way, put the tail of the lance against the soil, and the lance stabbed forward at a 45-degree angle, and the crossbowmen in the back row began to shoot arrows at the cavalry rushing over. The rebel cavalry rushed closer, slowed down, and pointed their horned bows at the lancers, trying to open the hollow phalanx.

Ma Pho immediately waved his banner and ordered Leap Forward with his shield to protect it, while the crossbowmen continued to throw arrows from behind.

Yan Xiaosi commanded the soldiers to replace the shells with iron strips and load them into the muzzles, and waved the flag to Ma Phosphorus, who immediately commanded the front row of the phalanx to retreat to both sides, exposing the muzzles of the seventy guns in front of the enemy.

The enemy cavalry began to charge forward, and they had to seize this golden opportunity to overturn the barrels of the enemy's fire-breathing cannons and kill all the people who operated them. Yan Xiaosi silently recited the distance in his heart, ordered someone to light the twist, and began to wait for the enemy cavalry to quickly approach.

After the first two rounds of shells, they mistakenly thought that if they rushed fast, the shells would only explode behind them. At this moment they have rushed to the artillery, and the dawn has come.

The seventy Xuanwu cannons in the front row spewed out blazing flames, countless hot iron filings and lethal fragments erupted from the muzzles, and the cavalry who rushed to the front turned directly to the ground, the bodies of people and horses were like rags, and countless scars were torn by iron sheets, and a row of corpses of men and horses were piled up in front of the Tang army formation.

Li Guiren was in a hurry, and hurriedly ordered: "Tell the cavalry to withdraw, and the Luoluo River and Tongluo cavalry must not be lost!" The infantry is on the move! ”