On the fierce battlefield, both warring sides were not aware of the sound of horses' hooves approaching in the valley to the west at first, and only fought hard with the enemy in front of them, doing everything they could to put the opponent to death.

When it comes to the level of armament and military appearance, the thief army as the attacker still has a big gap with the defenders of Guangwu City as a whole, except for the elite troops of the Hao Chieftain's headquarters, many of the Hu pawns are very poorly equipped, and some even rush up with wooden staff and stone spears.

But in addition to the greater number, there is one thing about these Hu pawns that makes people feel awe-inspiring, that is, the kind of outlaw spirit that is not afraid of death that permeates Zhou's body.

Of course, they are not really afraid of death, but they are very aware of their situation. The strong men of those tribes and their respective chieftains, Qu Shuai, provided for them, but they did not.

Only by conquering the city in front of them and rushing into the city to loot can they obtain enough supplies to survive. But if they can't break through the city, they will have no choice but to die, and in this cruel cold winter, on the long way home, those chieftains will never give precious materials to the population outside the tribe's cronies.

Based on this consciousness that countless people in similar situations have awakened with their lives, those Hu pawns will attack with their lives every time they are in battle, and if they retreat, they will die, and if they advance, they will have a glimmer of life.

The cronies of those tribal chieftains have a certain armed base, and their physical strength, morale and other states are also maintained, coupled with the physical consumption of the enemy army by the cannon fodder soldiers on the periphery, they will enjoy the advantage when they are put into battle.

In the face of this kind of opponent who regards his own human life more than the enemy, the defenders of Guangwu City are also miserable.

But seeing the thieves' various defeat-and-lose methods, they also knew that these enemies had no mercy at all, and they would only treat the enemy more cruelly than themselves, so the only way to survive was to fight to kill the enemy in front of them.

Originally, under the unremitting attack of the thief army, the layer of ice shell outside the city wall had broken and fallen off, revealing the rammed city wall itself. However, as the fighting on the top of the city became more and more fierce, the outer wall of the city wall was gradually covered with a layer of blood-colored frost, and some hairs and flesh crumbs were sealed in it, which made people feel only shocking to look at.

The first to notice enemy reinforcements entering the battlefield were the thieves who remained on guard in a few valley passes.

Although most of the troops had already been engaged in siege operations, and those who remained behind had long since become out of formation, they were finally able to use their eyes and ears to speak, and after discovering the enemy's movements, they immediately rushed back to their own positions, and some of the thieves remained in place, retreated to the rear of the horse defense line, and raised their spears to deter the reinforcements that were getting closer and closer.

These reinforcements have been fighting skirmishes such as encirclement and interception against enemy scouts for several days, and when they saw the siege of Guangwu City driven straight into by the thief army, their hearts were also thirsty, and they finally waited for the order of the Governor of Dadu to join the battle, and their mood was very excited.

"Dogs and thieves, dare to stop it! Die! ”

With a roar from the commander in front, the front team fired a volley of bows and crossbows, and shot the thieves who remained in place and intended to resist into hedgehogs. And there are strong men wielding horse lances to pick up or smash the thin and messy rejection horses, so that the people and horses behind can rush to the battlefield unimpeded.

"Finally there is ......"

Liu Aqi, who was supervising the battle in the formation, saw the enemy's reinforcements rushing out of the valley mouth and approaching the battlefield quickly, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, raised his hand and rubbed his somewhat stiff cheeks, hoping that the tense heartstrings would relax slightly, and he prayed silently in his heart, and then ordered loudly: "Mingjin collects the troops, arrays to meet the enemy, spears are in the front, and archers are in the center......"

Under Liu Aqi's shouting order, all the thieves on the battlefield also quickly carried out tactical adjustments, no longer fighting on the front line of the city wall, and took advantage of the fact that the enemy's light cavalry had not yet arrived on the battlefield, and withdrew one after another to move closer to the Chinese army.

But not all of them obeyed the military orders, and the pawns who were consumables for cannon fodder completely ignored what kind of military orders were being conveyed by the rear.

With their lonely courage and paid a terrible price, they finally trampled on the corpses of their companions and climbed to the top of the city, and at any time they could break through the blockade on the city wall and completely take the city, how could they give up!

But this part of the Hu pawns did not belong to the backbone of the main force, whether they retreated or not did not have much impact on the next battle, staying in the city to continue to attack the city can continue to put pressure on the defenders in the city, to avoid them echoing inside and outside.

The first to arrive at the battlefield was naturally the light cavalry troops, and Li Yantou, as the vanguard general, saw that the thief army was still in a hurry, so he ordered to charge the enemy formation.

Thousands of light knights galloped past the enemy's line, their bows in their hands, and half of their arrows were thrown into the enemy's line.

The enemy's battle formation, which had not yet been solidly formed, suddenly became a little chaotic, and there was no lack of cowardly pawns who retreated straight into the formation, making the battle line of this army as uneven as a wolf tearing a dog biting.

"Enter the battle, kill the enemy!"

Seeing that there were large and small gaps in the thief army's formation, Li Yantou also seized this opportunity immediately, and seized the horse lance to take the lead in rushing into the corner of the enemy's flank.

The horse lance in his hand was like a dragon out of a hole, although the enemy in the formation also raised his spear and planned to assassinate and counterattack, but the blade of the spear had not yet reached the opponent, and he had been pierced and smashed by the lance.

The long-grown horse lance flew up and down in the enemy formation, and the invincible sharp edge opened up a flesh and blood road several zhang wide, and under the Ouroboros of the rear men and horses, the corner of the enemy formation was cut off from the formation, and hundreds of Hu pawns were forced to kill.

Seeing that the distance between them and the men and horses of the headquarters was getting farther and farther away, they were also panicked, and they were about to desperately move closer to the main formation, but the light cavalry went and returned all the way, the sharp blade pierced their bodies, and the iron hooves stepped straight over them!

"What a ferocious enemy ......"

The soldiers in the thief array saw hundreds of fresh lives, and they were swept away by the enemy army like chopping melons and vegetables within a few dozen breaths, except for the bloody stumps and broken arms and flesh and mud on the ground, there was almost no more evidence that those Hu pawns ever existed.

"Hold the position, don't move! As long as my array is solid, it will be difficult for the enemy cavalry to break the formation......"

The army was filled with the shouts of the commanders and chiefs, but these words were really weak compared to the one-sided slaughter that had fallen before, and the Hu pawns who were lined up in front of them retreated into the formation, refusing to face the enemy's front head.

Taking advantage of this majestic deterrence, Li Yantou even led his troops to repeatedly intersperse around the enemy's military formation, and every time he swept by, a group of frightened soldiers were wrapped up in the enemy's formation, making the enemy's formation more and more compressed and chaotic.

"The number of enemy troops is small, don't panic! Hold ...... The left flank spreads out, spread out, let my cavalry kill! ”

Although the enemy army on the battlefield was divided into two parts, there were also tens of thousands of horses gathered around Daxu, and the number far exceeded the more than 1,000 light cavalry of Li Yantou.

But now all the troops are panicked and in a commotion, all kinds of orders and dispatches are not implemented at all, the battle array is chaotic, and even the Chinese army is surrounded by the chaotic fluctuations in the formation and retreats more than ten zhang.

Seeing that the panicked soldiers were about to get out of control, Liu Aqi simply ordered the supervising team to wave the butcher's knife at the overly restless soldiers in the formation.

Under the deterrence of this command, the battle formation of the thief army began to gradually settle down from the inside to the outside, but the outer formation had been destroyed, and as far as the eye could see, a whole circle of stumps and broken arms were thrown around the battle array, at least more than a thousand Hu pawns died in the rapid rush of the enemy just now.

Seeing that the position of the thief army was gradually stabilizing, and there was no fighter opportunity to take advantage of it for the time being, Li Yantou stopped fighting and led his men and horses to move straight to the vicinity of Guangwu City on the south side of the battlefield.

At the head of the city, Li Mu and other defenders also saw Li Yantou's brave performance of repeatedly interspersed with painful attacks against the enemy's formation, and their mood was greatly excited, and they slashed and killed the stubborn Hu pawns on the city head even harder.

"Sons, quickly defeat the thief army at the head of the city, go out of the city to meet the reinforcements of Li Dadu, and continue to kill the enemy side by side! The thieves are rampant, and they will attack me, if they are not killed, they will be able to strengthen our army! ”

Seeing Li Tai's strong army on the battlefield outside the city, Li Mu was not only happy and excited, but also a little surprised in his heart.

As the assassin of Dongxia Prefecture, he was accidentally surrounded by the thief army in Guangwu City with superior forces, and his face was already a little disgraceful.

Li Tai is not as good as him in terms of qualifications and position, and there are no more elite people under his command than him, and it is indeed touching to come to the aid of righteousness, but if Li Mu can't seize the change of the fighter plane and strive for some outstanding performance, it is inevitable that he will be even more ashamed.

So while encouraging the soldiers to fight bravely at the head of the city, he also dispatched a group of elite men and horses to prepare to wear armor, just to kill these Hu pawns on the head of the city, and then went out of the city with heavy armor to fight back, trying to win back some face.

After taking a quick look at the latest situation on the battlefield, Li Tai ordered Li to lead a group of men and horses, cut straight to the north along the periphery of the battlefield, and put on a posture of wanting to wipe out the thief army on the battlefield.

The thief army on the opposite side gradually stabilized after experiencing the initial panic, and when he saw Li Tai leading his troops to the battlefield, the originally tense heartstrings were even more relaxed, because he saw that Li Tai's troops were far less powerful than his own side, and he felt a little contempt in his heart.

When they saw Li Tai's posture so arrogant, several Hu chiefs, who felt humiliated, couldn't help but jump to their feet and curse, and even instructed their cavalry to rush to the opposite side in formation, wanting to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to come to the last wave of raiding and plundering.

But as soon as these people came within range, they were greeted by a wave of lost shots.

Li Tai can be regarded as having accumulated a lot of experience in fighting with Jihu, and he knows that no matter which Jihu is a person, he has a common characteristic, that is, the rate of being defeated is not high. Therefore, when fighting with Jihu, other armed weapons are not too important, but long-range offensive weapons such as bows must be rationed first.

Of course, under normal circumstances, even if he has such experience, he may not be able to have sufficient rations, otherwise Li Mu will not almost fail in the thief formation because of the light enemy, although Ji Hu is so-so, but the Western Wei army is far from being arrogant.

However, Li Tai directly led his troops north from the scene of Baishui Dayue, and a major content of Dayue was field hunting, so naturally a large number of bows and weapons were prepared in advance. Yu Wentai's big hand allocated and the Metropolitan Water Administration already had preparations for the reading of materials, so Li Tai naturally wanted to get enough bow and equipment for the army.

Although this thief army was much stronger than the ones Li Tai had fought before, it was only in numbers, and this characteristic did not improve much. Therefore, when these light cavalry soldiers had just entered the firing range, they were immediately knocked down by a batch of shooting.

The thieves wanted to replicate the hunting moment of Li Yantou and his men before, but they didn't expect to take the initiative to send people to the head, and there were many cavalrymen who rushed out of the battle to kill, but there were almost no who could really impact the enemy formation.

When the situation is beyond the conventional understanding, the feeling of oppression suddenly comes back to my heart.

Seeing that the opponent was not afraid of the light cavalry's charge, Liu Aqi ordered the formation of a large array of swords and shields, and at the same time the cavalry withdrew its wings and lined up on the battlefield with the infantry formation, wanting to once again drown the opponent on the battlefield with the superiority of troops.

When he saw the formation of the thief army spread out and divided into various places, Li Tai frowned slightly, and even ordered the team to speed up the pace and advance towards the enemy's central military position.

He is not afraid of being surrounded by the thief army, no matter how big the encirclement of this kind of uncontrollable cone power is, the effect is limited, but after the thieves and horses are scattered, it will be difficult to gather and encircle and annihilate, so he has to quickly destroy the enemy's Chinese command system.

On the battlefield, both sides carried out their own arrangements and arrangements in their favor, and the encirclement of the thief army soon opened more than half, as if a fierce beast's huge mouth was slowly opening and closing, trying to engulf thousands of Li Tai's troops.

Li Tai's men and horses were not far from the position of the enemy's Chinese army, and when the enemy's drumming suddenly turned agitated, and the troops on the battlefield accelerated to encircle, Li Tai also gave the order to attack.

Fifty soldiers in the army turned over and dismounted, each putting on their battle armor, and at the same time there were auxiliaries next to them to put on armor for their respective mounts, and soon fifty heavily armored cavalry armed to the teeth appeared on the battlefield, and rushed straight towards the enemy's Daxu, although the speed was not too fast, but it was unstoppable, almost effortlessly chiseled through the enemy's Chinese defense line, like a red-hot iron tong pierced straight into the condensed wax block, and the obstruction in front of him was irretrievably dissolved.

Li Taizi led his headquarters to follow the rear of fifty heavily armored cavalry, deeply embedded in the enemy's formation before the formation of the encirclement, and opened left and right, the soldiers rode their horses bravely, and carved a blood-colored firework on this battlefield with bows and knives in their hands!

Fifty heavily armored cavalry had a definite target, constantly launching an assault on the enemy's Chinese army, and although the thieves were defending and resisting hard, the flesh and blood still could not stop the steel-forged killing machine.

Liu Ah shouted hoarsely to the men and horses to come back to help, but he still had a weak heart to see those heavily armored cavalry getting closer and closer to him, so he could only order his own soldiers to carry the big rope and move backwards.

As the source of the thief army moved, the offensive of Li Tai's men became more and more fierce. Without effective dispatch and command, the formation of the thief army spread out was very stiff and difficult to move, and the troops in various regions could not effectively respond.

Li Tai did not participate in the front-line battle again, but climbed to the high post where the former thief army Daxu was located surrounded by his own soldiers, overlooking the battlefield here, and ordered the soldiers to carry out various clutch dispatches through the sound of drums and horns, outflanking and dividing the thieves on the battlefield and annihilating them one by one.

When the initiative on the battlefield changes, it is undoubtedly a disaster for the passive side.

Even if the strength of the thief army still far exceeded that of Li Tai's side, because there was no sensitive and effective coordinated scheduling, it was completely a panicked stress response, and the people and horses had already fallen into the embarrassment of fighting on their own, and they could not match the organized and efficient harvesting and killing.

When all efforts fail to reverse the decline, collapse becomes inevitable. The rout of tens of thousands of horses, Li Tai is also the first time to see the scene, only to see all kinds of dust around him, crowded, all kinds of chaotic sounds are endless, such a chaotic scene, for a while even he has lost the overall judgment and control of the battlefield, and it is difficult to give orders to the subordinate generals to intercept and kill and encircle at the first time, so he can only stand here and let the commanders of the troops everywhere play their own role.

"Dig the gates quickly! Drop the ropes at the head of the city and go out to kill the enemy! ”

In Guangwu City, when Li Mu saw that the main force of the thief army outside the city was defeated by Li Tai's attack, he suddenly became anxious, although there were still some thieves on the city wall that had not yet been cleared, but he couldn't hold it back, and urged his subordinates to go out of the city to fight. He is not greedy for merit, but just hopes to save the lost face by fighting side by side.

The whole line of the thief army collapsed and soon returned to the rear of the camp, there were still some reserve men and horses and old and weak women and children in the camp, when they saw the black pressure of the rout army rushing towards the direction of the camp, the men and horses left behind in the camp did not have the courage to go out of the camp to help in order to save the battle, but were busy collecting the supplies in the camp and then fled across the camp.

"Young master, our army has been defeated, Liu Duhou and other guards will retreat after the young master goes out of the camp to converge......"

Several Chinese soldiers rushed into the big tent in the camp in an embarrassed manner, and said to Liu Kuzhen, the young master in the tent.

When Liu Kuzhen heard this, his face suddenly turned pale, and he muttered: "This stupid slave, this stupid slave still boasts...... Fortunately, I only said that I would accept his daughter after I won, so naturally I don't count it now! How many guards are there outside the camp today? ”

"There are still five hundred elite soldiers, enough to escort the young master to evacuate!"

After hearing the sergeant's confession, Liu Kuzhen shook his head again and again: "Nonsense, the evil slave still wants to lie to me!" Tens of thousands of troops are still invincible, how can hundreds of guards protect my safety. I won't go, I can't go out, the camp is full of enemies, stay in this big tent, I'm still a prominent nobleman, and when I leave the camp, how am I different from those lowly soldiers? ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly ordered all the guards outside the tent to enter the tent, and surrounded him, and did not allow these soldiers to wear armor and arms, but wrapped a lot of silk brocade around their bodies, and more on their own bodies.

"I am a noble man of the clan, and a living mouth is more valuable than a dead body. Even if the enemy's soldiers do not distinguish the severity, they will not bear to pierce me with swords and spears when they see the brocade around me. It's much safer for you to protect me with peace of mind than it is to run away from the camp! ”

After making these arrangements, although Liu Kuzhen was still worried, he still sat down in the big tent and had already written a fate for himself to be captured by the enemy.