The drums outside the White Horse Temple were thundering, and the people in the temple heard the movement, and they were also busy preparing for the war.

At this time, the troops in the White Horse Temple included more than 3,000 light cavalry brought by Li Tai from Yique, as well as more than 2,000 soldiers such as Han Xiong who crossed the mountains and rushed to the meeting of Piling.

More than 5,000 foot riders and horses leaning on the building of the White Horse Temple are worthy of a battle, after all, even if the other side has tens of thousands of people, each round of offensive can only be put into combat of only a few thousand, and any more military formations will appear too thick and clumsy, and it is difficult to make changes on the battlefield.

Today's White Horse Temple was probably rebuilt during the Cao Wei period, and although it was repeatedly damaged by war, it was also repaired. Therefore, the entire temple is still relatively intact today, but some Buddhist halls and walls have also collapsed.

There is a section of collapsed and damaged place in the middle of the wall on the east side of the White Horse Temple, and after Li Tai led his troops to settle in the temple, he did not order a delicate and complete repair, but only cut down the trees in the temple and set up a fence to barely isolate the inside and outside.

In addition to the historic buildings, there are many thick pine and cypress trees growing in the temple. Probably because these trees grow in the Buddhist resort, they have not been cut down and damaged.

It's a pity that now that Li Tai has come here, he will naturally not be polite to these trees, and directly cut them down for suitable uses.

Anyway, even if these trees are left, they will only survive to future generations as a background board for young ladies to wear Hanfu to check in, and who would know that there was a wonderful fate between a big man like him in history.

By this time, the drums outside the temple had already sounded a second time, and it was getting faster and faster, which meant that the time for the enemy to attack was getting closer and closer. Usually at this moment, the enemy's battle arrangement is also laid out, and the enemy's offensive focus can be determined through the layout of the formation.

At this time, Li Tai stood on the high pavilion in the temple and saw that the enemy infantry was mainly gathered in the direction of Kim Yong Cheng in the east, and in the south and west were cavalry advancing from the banks of the Luoshui and Gushui rivers.

Obviously, as the Thorn History of Northern Qiluo Prefecture, Zhu Hunyuan still knows a lot about the damage to the building of the White Horse Temple, and the gap in the wall on the east side of the temple is not to mention that Li Tai has not been carefully repaired, even if it has been renovated, it is still a weak point in defense.

After all, there is no super-effective building adhesive like cement concrete, and even the construction of earth ramming plate requires a process of dry reinforcement. In short, it is only necessary to focus the attack on the eastern section of the temple wall, and the White Horse Temple is a long temple, the contact between the east and west sides is longer than the front, and the defenders need to be more spread out to fully defend it.

As for the cavalry deployed on the other two sides, it was naturally to prevent the men and horses in the temple from escaping. This standard encirclement of three missing one position seems to have left a northern exit, but to flee to the north can only go straight to Mengjin, and in the end, there is the Yellow River blocking the way, which is still a dead end.

But judging from this battle, Li Tai knew how strong the enemy's commander-in-chief Ke Zhu Hunyuan wanted to kill him. But in fact, in his heart, he really didn't think that there was such a big hatred between him and Ke Zhu Hunyuan, after all, Lao Tzu offended a lot of people, and you are the oldest!

As the enemy's battle opened, along with the sound of drums, the White Horse Temple, a Buddhist resort, was also greatly disillusioned, and the atmosphere of slaughter was directly full.

Li Tai walked down the high pavilion, and at this time, a thousand elite horsemen had already assembled and finished putting on armor.

When he saw Han Baohu, who was also standing in the queue and still carrying his own horse lance, Li Tai was slightly stunned, raised his hand and pointed at him with his finger and pulled it to the side slightly, signaling him to go out and stay in the temple and not follow him out to kill the enemy.

There is always a shelter in the temple, but there are no eyes on the battlefield outside, and Li Tai can't take good care of him. He didn't mean to underestimate Han Baohu, but this kid was only a thirteen-year-old boy after all, and it was still a little uneasy to follow him to the battlefield like this.

When Han Baohu saw this scene, his mouth was deflated, and he turned his eyes away directly, simply ignoring Li Tai's instructions. The young man's temperament is to be strong, he has been following General Li in and out for the past few days, but when it comes to the battle, he stays in the temple, which is tantamount to escaping from the battle, and it is a cowardly behavior that Han Baohu must not accept!

Li Tai's face sank when he saw this, and at this time, Han Xiong next to him also saw this scene, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug his fist at Li Tai and said in a deep voice: "Whose son is not flesh and blood?" But since you are wearing this robe, you can't retreat from everything.

It is his honor for this little boy to be appreciated by the general, and I believe that he will be able to make great achievements and glorify his ancestors in the coming year, but if he folds this small array, he can only blame him for not having a long life, and he has no complaints against others! ”

Hearing that Han Xiong was so open-minded, Li Tai didn't say anything more, went straight to the front of the military formation, and then buckled the saddle and turned over and rode his war horse, at this time, all the soldiers in the rear also got on their horses.

"Attacking from inside and outside, the location is different, but killing the enemy in battle is the same. The thieves are stubborn, let them open their eyes again today, our army often wins, and it is not a waste of fame! ”

Li Tai waved his hand to the soldiers who stayed in the temple, and then waved behind him, and took the lead in riding out of the temple gate, and then all the soldiers also chased after him.

As for the soldiers in the left-behind temple, at this time, they couldn't help but shout loudly: "Always win, always win!" ”

There is a soil slope that covers an area of several acres and is nearly two zhang above the ground level at the highest point in the position of more than half a mile southeast outside the gate of the White Horse Temple, originally there was a high tower called Qiyun Tower. However, the tower has long since been damaged and has not been rebuilt, and only this large platform of the tower base is left in the rammed earth.

After Li Tai led his troops out of the temple, he did not directly pounce on the enemy army's formation, but rode his horse to this dirt slope, and then the soldiers relied on this dirt slope to quickly pull the horse array, and looked at the enemy army formation slowly approaching here with a calm expression.

The soldiers of the Qi army who were advancing the array also saw this scene, and Ke Zhu Hunyuan, who was supervising the battle from the eastern army formation, frowned slightly after seeing this, and then ordered the formation flag to be changed, so that the cavalry of the southern route would divide a thousand-man brigade to take the lead in attacking, trying to drive the enemy's cavalry team back to the temple.

At the same time, he also made the infantry battle formation here shrink slightly, so as not to be attacked by the enemy and scatter and rout.

The enemy army had already advanced a few miles outside the White Horse Temple, and after receiving the military order, a cavalry team in the south quickly broke away from the brigade and rushed straight to the dirt slope.

In the face of this fierce enemy cavalry, Li Tai did not retreat, but ordered the 200 shooters in the formation to be in front of the formation, drawing bows and waiting to shoot.

Because the horse lance is too large, it is generally difficult to balance the bow in battle, so the team is specially equipped with 200 shooters as a priority force on the battlefield to strike and disrupt the enemy's formation. The commander of this shooting battalion under Li Tai is Yu Wengui, the son of Yu Wengui, who once inspired him to form a special combat team of this kind.

Yu Wenshan is also a general, he is proficient in martial arts, and he is also very attentive to the training of shooters. At this time, seeing the enemy cavalry rushing towards him, Yu Wenshan, who was at the forefront of the formation, shouted loudly: "Shoot!" ”

In a very short time, the archers had drawn their bows and fired two arrows. There were also horse archers in the enemy team who were twisting arrows and bows, but they did not expect that the range on the opposite side was still long, and dozens of horsemen or men or horses fell to the ground with arrows when they landed.

The first dozens of horsemen were hit by arrows, which naturally greatly affected the formation of the whole team, for fear of being rushed down by the enemy, the cavalry in the team hurriedly shot a chirping arrow to the side, and the knights heard the sound when they turned their horses to go in that direction, and swept around the front of the dirt slope, ready to fight back again.

Li Tai didn't pay attention to this team that was attacking in front of him at all, his eyes were only firmly locked on the infantry battle formation advancing forward from the east. The entire battle array was divided into two parts, front and back, with more than 5,000 people, making it the largest battle array on the entire battlefield.

Coupled with several other formations, Zhu Hunyuan invested tens of thousands of horses in this first round of offensive, which shows that it is by no means a tentative attack, and there is a posture that wants to finish the battle.

This also allowed Li Tai to be sure that it seemed that the variables he was expecting had indeed happened, and it had caused great psychological pressure on Ke Zhu Hunyuan, so he would launch a large-scale attack against the previous one.

The enemy cavalry that had swam to the flank regained after a short rest, but was still repelled by the shooters. No way, in the case that both sides are elite warriors, any slight advantage can make the difference. Li Tai's subordinates are high-level and waiting for work, so they will naturally not be easily dispersed.

But the enemy cavalry team did not give up, but bypassed the high hill of the soil slope and directly stopped in front of the White Horse Temple, isolating Li Tai's team from the temple.

After all, the White Horse Temple is not a regular military building, and there are no facilities such as horse faces and city walls, although the enemy cavalry is very close, it is difficult to effectively attack it in the temple.

But this was not the point of the battlefield, seeing that the enemy infantry was getting closer and closer to the broken city wall to the east of the White Horse Temple, several dull sounds suddenly erupted in the temple, and several black arcs smashed straight from the temple to the enemy formation outside the city.

Boom, boom, boom!

The end of the arc landed in the enemy's military formation, and even if a thunderous crash broke out, it turned out to be a huge cannon, and anyone who was hit by it, even if he had heavy armor, all broke his tendons and fractured, and spit blood from his mouth!

"It's Heyang cannon, Heyang cannon......"

Some Qi soldiers who had experienced the previous battle of the river bridge shouted in panic, and the Qi soldiers near the landing point of the cannon were even more shocked, not only because they saw the power of this cannon with their own eyes, but also because of the strange shape of this cannon stone.

A general wearing scaly armor had his abdomen sunken by the cannon, and the cannon stone embedded in his abdomen was actually a Buddha's head several times larger than a human head. That Buddha's head was originally a compassionate face, but now it is covered with blood, like a hideous rakshasa!

"Kill! Break through the thief formation and capture the enemy general! ”

Li Tai naturally would not give up this opportunity, and took advantage of the fact that the enemy army was in chaos after this blow, and directly ordered the team to rush towards the enemy army formation.

(End of chapter)