After leaving Xiurong City, the Hu merchants found that the destination of this trip was not the flower world of Jinyang, but the desolate mountains and wilderness in the rugged area to the south, and they were quite suspicious in their hearts.

But they were followed by thousands of brave and powerful Jinyang soldiers, and even if they had any dissatisfied thoughts in their hearts, they didn't dare to reveal them, so they could only obey the order and obediently go south.

When they saw that the number of suspected opponents on the opposite side was far less than their own, the fear in their hearts suddenly dissipated, their words and deeds gradually became arbitrary, and they continued to make all kinds of provocative actions, and they began to fantasize that they could go to Jinyang to receive rewards after ending this battle, but they didn't realize that the expressions and reactions of their companions around them were somewhat abnormal.

When the men and horses of all walks of life saw that the enemy was weak, they all stirred. But Luo Chao, who was in the left rear of the team, ordered his men to slow down and move closer to him, and whispered: "Although there are not many people in this team, the formation is not scattered, and it is definitely not the momentum that the Shihu people can have.

It is not a Jinyang people, it must be the elite of the Western Dynasty and Beizhou, and it is definitely not something that the rabble of these merchant groups can attack and defeat. You have to be careful, don't rush forward to fight! ”

Li Yunxin, who was in his army, approached after hearing this, frowned and said puzzledly: "General, is the elite of the Western Army really so strong and terrifying?" But didn't they lose to the army of the High King a few years ago? What's more, there are only these people, but we have tens of thousands of people! ”

Luo Chao also cared about this little fellow who spoke a friendly country accent and was quite strong and brave, and sighed after hearing this: "You also know that it is the army of the high king that can defeat the Western Army, what does it have to do with these rabble in front of you."

The battle is imminent, you might as well make a deal with you greedy sons and daughters, these thousands of miscellaneous people are used to wear down the enemy's morale, and the real killing move is the Xiurong soldiers on the back road. If you force you to come forward, you will only send you to death, and even if you are lucky enough to survive, I am afraid that there will be no reward!

Although the treasury of Jinyang Mansion is full, it will not be extravagant to you outsiders. Is Lao Tzu a vulgar class? In the old years, it was also a heroic party of Qin Long, but after that, it was idle for many years, these Liuzhou town slaves are the most tyrannical to protect food, if outsiders want to get ahead here, it is really difficult to climb to the sky! ”

Speaking of this, Luo Chao's face that has seen the vicissitudes of life is already full of resentment, he has been dominant in the year of the weak crown, and he can follow the trend after several twists and turns, and his power position has also risen, and he thinks that he is also a hero in troubled times.

As a result, after returning to the Eastern Dynasty, he sat on the cold bench for many years, and was always excluded from important military and political positions.

Under normal circumstances, he would not dare to show this indignant emotion, and he couldn't help but reveal it a little when facing Li Yunxin, a young fellow who had just entered this realm.

Li Yunxin heard Luo Chao's anger, but he was quite happy with schadenfreude in his heart, he really didn't know Luo Chao before, but after some exchanges and getting along, he remembered that this guy was one of the rebels who plagued the countryside of Qinzhou during the Zhengguang period.

Li Yunxin was still young at that time, but he also remembered that the rebellion was so harmful to the countryside, and their Longxi Li clan was even more affected by Li Yan, the assassin of Qinzhou at that time, and was taken care of by the rebels, so that several relatives of the same clan were killed by the rebels, and this Luo Chao was one of the executioners!

After knowing the identity of the other party, he secretly hated this Luo Chao in his heart, but because he was in the enemy territory, he had to use the identity of the other party to cover up a little for his party, so he could only hold his true identity in his arms.

At this time, hearing Luo Chao's indignant words, Li Yunxin whispered again: "I heard that General Yan, who commanded the army, also returned from the Western Dynasty, and saw that he was promoted to the elite and seemed to be highly valued. The general is from the same origin as him, and if he can be taken care of, it will not be difficult to be prominent with the general's talent. If it is difficult to get close to him because of his high position, after the end of this battle, I will go to Jinyang to meet my employer and ask him to give him goods as gifts......"

"If you have such a heart, it is in vain for me to take care of you. But if you want to bribe the swallows, you should be exempted. ”

Luo Chao first smiled at Li Yunxin with relief, and then turned his head to look at the back and sighed: "This disciple was originally a pawn in the Western Dynasty Yuwen Prime Minister's Mansion and a confidant, but he defected here while he was making a worm, just because the minister told him that the wealth was in Qi Zhao.

It can be seen that this fang is greedy for power and has no sense of kindness, and in order to cover up his unrighteous behavior, he is the most ruthless in dealing with the personnel of the Western Dynasty. Every time there is a battle with the Western Dynasty, no prisoners will be left, and people like me who surrender without being defeated in battle are even more hated by them. Other people's words and deeds are the biggest provocation in their eyes! ”

After Li Yunxin heard this, he couldn't help but secretly say that it was a pity, he originally wanted to use Luo Chao to get close to the commander Yan Zixian in the rear and then take advantage of the chaos to attack and kill him, but it was obviously impossible to hear Luo Chao say this.

As if to prove that this statement is true, as soon as Luo Chao's words fell, a herald in the rear formation galloped into this army formation to convey the military order to him: "Yan Dadu supervises General Luo's troops to attack the enemy's flank, and the drum order will be launched immediately, and the fighter must not be delayed!" ”

When Luo Chao heard this, he secretly cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak out against it, so he could only nod yes, and then gather the people of his department again.

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He has been in the Eastern Dynasty for several years, and there is not much left of the original troops, and there is no replenishment at all in a bunch of Jinyang soldiers.

But Yan Zixian was obviously aware of his intentions, because of his extremely harsh temperament towards the personnel of the Western Dynasty, he was not happy that Luo Chao, a descendant, would grow his power under his nose, so he wanted to drive these horses he had just recruited to serve as the front.

These men and horses recruited from outside the Great Wall of Beishan were led by several warlords of the Beishan garrison, and Luo Chao's town of Malingshu was used as a recruiting location, so he had the most Hu soldiers, more than 2,000 people, and these recruited soldiers had the highest horse matching rate, more than half of them had war horses for horse fighting, so they were lined up as the front.

At this time, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to only a few miles, and the opposite side had already lined up the infantry and cavalry battle formation and slowly advanced forward, the armor and sword battle array was square, the first column was the sword and shield soldiers, followed by the spear array, the longbowmen were the last, and the cavalry team was winged behind the sides.

Although Li Tai looked down on these rabble in his heart, he also noticed that the battle formation behind him was calm and neat, so he still did not dare to advance too lightly against the enemy, and planned to break the thief formation head-on with the infantry battle formation, and then rush out with the cavalry on both wings, relying on these routs to destroy the battle formation behind him.

Luo Chao on the opposite side saw the enemy put on such a battle formation, and he felt a little headache for a while, so for the sake of insurance, he decided to send a team to fight in front of him to test the opponent's combat effectiveness.

Here he ordered his troops to pause for the time being, and prepared to send 500 foot cavalry to test first, but the drum order to attack the whole army sounded in the rear army, and even if he wanted to stabilize the rhythm, the other troops followed the drum order to squeeze his troops forward.

The other generals are not stupid, seeing that the other party's array is tightly organized, it is obviously not an ordinary soldier, and it is not suitable for forward and backward transposition in this valley terrain, so naturally those in front will be unlucky.

"If you don't attack now, when will you wait!"

Before Luo Chao could give an order here, Li Yunxin next to him jumped out steeply, waved the long lance in his hand and shouted loudly towards the opposite war, and even the sound of war drums waving in the valley could not suppress this loud shout.

Hearing this, Luo Chao immediately frowned, and before he could scold Li Yunxin for making his own opinion, he saw that this disciple returned his hand and poked it directly! Fortunately, in his years of riding career, some stress reactions have become his instincts, and even if he rolls back to the horse, although he falls off the horse, he finally avoids this fatal blow.

However, a flag bearer next to Luo Chao did not have such good luck, and was deeply chilled by Li Yunxin's spear, and the battle flag also fell into the rear array. This vanguard flag, which was meant to announce to the men and horses behind where the advance was going and to direct the direction of their attack, was now toppling steeply, causing great confusion in an instant.

However, this is not the most fatal, for most of the merchant forces, because of the lack of experience in the battle formation, they are not very sensitive to the change of the flag order, and they only feel that the war drums have sounded, so they just rush forward to kill. But just as they were marching forward and trying to fight, their companions suddenly slammed their butcher knives at them!

At this time, in the valley, with the sound of the drums of the charge, the battle began in an instant, but it did not take place between the enemy and us, but the merchant groups that filled the valley and fought each other. Such an unbelievable scene is shocking.

When Li Tai saw that his eldest grandson had appeared in the enemy formation and had turned against him, he was also shocked for a while and almost lost his ability to think, Rao is how superior his intelligence is, and it is difficult to figure out what happened in a short time, but he understands that this is an excellent opportunity, and immediately does not care about the cooperation of both offensive and defensive infantry and cavalry, and directly ordered: "Attack, the whole army attack!" ”

The enemy formation, which had fallen into fratricidal warfare, was already in disarray, but as the cavalry of Li Tai's troops rushed forward, they immediately broke and fled to the rear, and the chaotic rout soon spread to the whole army.

"No return, no ......"

The soldiers who supervised the battle in the rear still had to try to stabilize their position, waving their long staff and whipping the soldiers who fled backwards, but they were quickly slashed and killed by the panicked soldiers, and the corpses were pushed down and trampled in an instant, and soon turned into a mass of flesh and blood.

"What happened? How so? ”

Yanzi, who led the elite men and horses to sit in the rear, was a little dumbfounded for a while when he saw this scene.

Although he had long known that these temporarily recruited Hu Shang armies were not reliable, after all, the number was here, even if they were not capable of defeating the other party, they could always fight back and forth for a period of time, consuming the opponent's manpower, he really didn't expect the situation to turn so quickly, and the two sides had not even had substantial contact, and these Hu Shang armies fell into chaos and collapsed.

Surprised, the hood on his head was snatched off by himself, revealing the sparse and messy hair on the top of his head. But he didn't care if this appearance was unsightly, so he just ordered loudly: "The front array team will attack, and the rear team will quickly put on their armor, and these routs must not be allowed to rush out of the Red Ridge!" ”

After the Chichen Ridge, although the mountain road is still rugged and winding, the intersection passages have become more numerous, and it is difficult to block them again, and several of the trails can also lead directly to the city of Jinyang, so Yan Zixian did not dare to release these scattered soldiers out of the Chichen Ridge no matter what, so as not to affect the situation around Jinyang.

However, he also thought of underestimating the enemy because he saw that the enemy was outnumbered, and he felt that there were Hu Shang armed forces at the forefront, so that the elites of his troops could enter the battle in the best state without ordering the soldiers to be armored.

Now that the defeated soldiers have rushed directly into the front team's formation, it is obviously too late to make armor again, so they can only let the front team soldiers temporarily resist it, and the rear team will be armed with armor as soon as possible to form a stronger defense line.

"The envoy, the last general will live up to the mission! As long as you rush out of this valley, there will be few obstacles to the thieves ahead! ”

After jumping back in front of the battle, Li Yunxin did not rush inward to kill, but quickly gathered nearly 100 subordinate soldiers on the left, and waited for Li Tai to lead his troops to attack against one side of the mountain wall, and by the way, Luo Chao, who was lucky not to die but was left behind, was captured, and when Li Tai rode his horse, he strode forward and shouted.

"Well done! Continue to get on the horse and kill the enemy, and then talk about things in detail after the battle. ”

Li Tai didn't have time to ask Li Yunxin about the other kinds of farewell, and threw a pair of fine armor to him before and after, with a smile of appreciation between his eyebrows, and pointed to the subordinate soldiers who had withdrawn from the defeated army one after another and stood against the mountain wall, and laughed: "All the soldiers are not afraid of hardships and dangers, go deep behind the enemy, kill the enemy, make meritorious contributions, and make a name for themselves today!" Break the thief army with me, create a feat together, rush! ”

As the men and horses hidden in the Hu Shang armed forces converged and gathered one after another, Li Tai's men and horses became stronger, and they rushed forward on horseback, and no enemy dared to stop and return to the battle, chasing and killing all the way, and the flesh and blood corpses were scattered all over the valley, making the valley even more red. And the defeated soldiers in front are like sheep driven by tigers and wolves, just blindly fleeing forward, hoping to escape.

The men and horses of the Yanzi Xian Department hurriedly responded, and the first few columns were quickly disturbed and entangled by those routs.

Although those routs did not dare to turn back to resist the enemy, their instinct to survive made them doubly irritable and fierce, and the front of them was blocked, and they couldn't help but wield knives and slash, using both hands and feet to fight their way out.

In ordinary times, how could these merchant group armed forces be the opponents of the battle-hardened and well-trained Jinyang soldiers, whether it was individual bravery or military formation, none of them were on the same level, not to mention that the armed level of the Jinyang soldiers far exceeded these civilian armed forces.

But now the mutation happened to catch people off guard, whether it was a well-trained elite soldier or those who were defeated, they were all in a state of mind at this time, at a loss, and they each responded with instinct.

Those Jinyang soldiers may have the courage of an enemy, but what they are facing is not a rational person who knows how to advance and retreat, but a person who has already broken through the madness, even if they knock down the opponent's sword and staff, they still wave their hands and feet to grab and kick, and even pounce and bite with their teeth, one by one, like a ghost.

After Li Tai led his troops to rush here, seeing that these pawns were scuffling and fighting, and it was difficult to distinguish for a while, he naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and directly ordered his subordinates to lead the crowd forward to perform indiscriminate archery skills.

The distance between the two sides was already very close, because of the disturbance of the Hu Shang rout, it was difficult for those Jinyang soldiers to organize an effective counterattack against Li Tai's troops, and at this time they were completely exposed to the range of the cavalry bow, and as the arrows were missed, there were a large number of casualties.

In this most entangled formation, the corpses of the Eastern Army who were shot were stacked in layers in the valley, they were all brave and strong, but now they were shot one after another without the power to fight back.

As the killing continued, the casualties increased, and the battle line here gradually could not be maintained, seeing that the robes were like weeds, the Jinyang soldiers who were facing the front also joined the rout team one after another.

But in the valley ahead, there was a sudden sound of iron hooves, and the whole valley seemed to be earthquaked, and even the mountain walls on both sides were thrown down by the sand and gravel that shook with this majestic sound.

Li Tai looked up on horseback, and saw a group of 300 heavy horsemen in two front and back, lined up, slowly rushing towards the valley from the valley mouth behind, and he couldn't help but gasp.

The mounted heavy cavalry is the absolute king of the battlefield in this era, no matter what the battlefield situation is, once the mounted heavy cavalry into the battle sequence is put into battle, it will bring great changes to the battle situation.

Li Tai saw that the other party was put into the equipment and heavy riding, and his heart sank. Although he also had this armed formation, he did not carry heavy armor because he was not in the enemy territory and could not carry too much baggage.

Originally, the enemy army here had been killed a little frightened, but with the completion of their own heavy cavalry and into the battlefield, the original panic mood was also alleviated, and after recovering the array, they also attached themselves to the mountain wall to avoid the front of the heavy cavalry, and quickly formed an army in the rear after the heavy cavalry charged.

Li Taizi led his men and horses to retreat slowly, and he did not dare to confront these heavily equipped heavy horsemen head-on, and while retreating, he ordered the infantry in the rear to quickly form a battle formation, and lined up in front of the mountain walls on both sides, each with spears to meet the enemy, as if the two lines erected on both sides of the mountain wall often rejected the horses.

The heavy cavalry on the opposite side was arranged in a line, covering the entire space in the valley horizontally, obviously to squeeze Li Tai's men and horses out of the valley, so as to buy time for the remnants of the rear to reorganize and assemble. Although it is not the best time to invest, if you do not go into battle to strive for a turnaround, and wait for the rout to expand, it will be a complete failure.

However, in the face of Li Tai's two-character long snake spear array, the coverage of the heavy cavalry is far from enough, only the two wings of the edge may be affected, but such a single heavy cavalry charge is really not very deterrent, and the stabbing spear in the oblique is picked out, once or it can be bearable, and it is inevitable that people will turn over on their backs after two or three times.

However, because of its strong inertia, the heavy cavalry charge was by no means able to stop if it wanted to, and just after it rushed into a dozen zhang, there were heavy cavalry horses on the edges of both sides that were overturned, and as the front of this gun array tightened, it was like clinging to the edge of the gnawed teeth. Although he also killed and injured more than a dozen enemies who were too aggressive, his own losses were even greater.

"Gather the team!"

Yan Zixian, who personally led the heavy cavalry charge, knew that this terrain was not suitable for heavy cavalry into battle, but he had no other better choice, and originally hoped that the enemy general might not react quickly and seize the opportunity to turn the tide of the battle, but now it seems that he is obviously thinking too much.

The opposing light cavalry battle formation was still gathering in front, while there were thousands of speared infantry on the mountain walls on both sides of the rear. If these soldiers form a battle formation to block the retreat, then his team of heavy cavalry will become a lone army here, and the situation will inevitably be more dangerous.

But Li Tai naturally didn't give him the opportunity to readjust the tactical rhythm, once the heavy cavalry stopped, it was a tin can placed on the battlefield, except for a little harder, there was no advantage at all, that was afraid of a bird!

"Kill back, smash these iron walnuts!"

At his command, the horse lance pointed to the north, and all the light horsemen turned their horses and rushed back to the battlefield.

"Thieves are looking for death!"

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was rapidly approaching, it was difficult to regain the speed when charging again, but it was in vain to consume horsepower, so he simply ordered the soldiers to dismount and meet the thief army, so that they could save back their horsepower and avoid being divided.

So far, Li Tai has also discerned who is the one who gave the order, and when he galloped closer, he waved his arms with a lance in both hands and smashed it at Yanzixian's head.

Yan Zixian is also a strong brave general, after seeing this, he is not afraid, his legs are straddling the ground, the lower plate is steady and sinking, the same two hands are holding the lance, and he is waiting to unload the big lance that has been smashed down, and he is picking it aside, but the power contained in this big lance is beyond his imagination, and his left shoulder collapsed, and the capacity is not enough, although he has also successfully unloaded this trick, and then it is too late to counterattack.

Li Tai carried the momentum of the galloping horse to no avail, and he couldn't help but be surprised that the Eastern Wei Dynasty really had a lot of brave generals, he could attack this move, but he might not be able to afford it, but this enemy general could cope with it without hindrance.

He was a little unwilling in his heart, and took advantage of the wrong body to turn around and twist his waist back to pick the stab back. The swallow was about to take a step across the lance to block, but this step out, the lower plate was steeply unstable, and the pocket was picked up by the lance, revealing the sparsely haired skull.

Sure enough, people with less hair can become stronger?

Li Tai had a slight reverie in his heart, and Zhu Meng jumped on the horse behind him, and with Li Tai's previous offensive, he waved the swallow to stop the waist and pull him away, and when he was still in mid-air, this Meng general was already vomiting blood from his mouth and nose, and as soon as his body landed, he was stabbed to death by Li Tai, who was back on the horse and had quick eyes!