Seeing the special chariot exclusive to the Emperor Taishang, and seeing the figure wearing gold armor on the chariot, the soldiers of the Yulin Army were all excited, and many soldiers even burst into tears.

Compared with the rest of the Tang Dynasty, these children of the forbidden army who were born in commoners, from down-and-out nobles, and from the Li and Tang clans, have the purest support and love for their king.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty is no longer the prosperous Tang Dynasty it once was, Guanzhong is no longer the rich Guanzhong of the past, and Chang'an is no longer the Chang'an of all countries coming to the dynasty.

And the former children of Guanzhong, the people of Chang'an not only lost the glory they were once proud of, but also lost the happy and prosperous life of the past.

It's not that no one knows what kind of life they had before they were selected into the forbidden army, however, no one really cares if they live or die.

It's not that no one knows what the Emperor Taishang, who was ousted from the throne after only half a year as emperor, brought them something, but, again, no one really cares about their feelings.

Except, of course, for themselves. The soldiers of the Yulin Army knew that the Emperor Taishang was in the army, but they also knew that the Emperor Taishang was not in a good state, and he had fallen into a coma twice from yesterday to today, and even when he set out at the beginning of the morning, the Emperor Taishang was still in a coma.

Although no one in the west gave a clear statement, all the soldiers of the Yulin Army knew one thing, and this battle may be the final battle of the emperor.

The Emperor Taishang may be able to come to the battlefield in person, or he may not, but the soldiers of the Yulin Army have long been fully prepared, and they will fight for the Emperor Taishang and win this battle for the Tang Dynasty.

When he left the camp, the Emperor did not appear. When the enemy army came, the Emperor Taishang did not appear. At the beginning of the battle, the figure of the Emperor Taishang was still not in front of them.

I thought that the Emperor Taishang might not come. However, at the most critical time on the battlefield, when there was no hope, the unexpected arrival of the Emperor Taishang directly ignited all the officers and soldiers of the Yulin Army.

The eyes of all the Yulin soldiers who were not in a state of battle were firmly fixed on the chariot and the figure on the chariot that was not tall, but they admired it incomparably.

"Tang Soul ~ Immortal! Datang ~ Wansheng! Li Chen's hoarse voice was not loud, but it had a unique penetrating power that could make the surrounding soldiers feel Li Chen's tenacious beating heart.

Li Chen's movements did not seem to be fast, and the movements of drawing and swinging the sword even seemed a little sluggish, but everyone saw the resoluteness of Li Chen's movements.

Just like what has happened in the last five years. The emperor, who should have died a long time ago, broke through everyone's expectations again and again and refreshed everyone's cognition.

It brought unspeakable fear to the enemies of Datang, and brought unimaginable confidence and hope to the people of Datang.

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"Tang Soul ~ Immortal! Datang ~ Wansheng! This voice originally came from Emperor Taishang Li Chan. Immediately afterwards, several forbidden soldiers who were escorted by Li Yu and Zhang Taicheng and Zhang Jiaxuan, who were closest to the Emperor Taishang, shouted out and quickly ......

"Tang Soul ~ Immortal! Datang ~ Wansheng! "It started to go on and on. Not all the Yulin soldiers could see Li Yu's existence, but this voice spread throughout the battlefield in the shortest possible time.

The sound of shouting came from back to front. And along with the sound was the chariot carrying the emperor.

Xi felt the cheers of the surrounding people one after another, the mountains roared and the tsunami, felt the extremely reverent gaze of the forbidden soldiers around him, and under the carriage of the chariot, Li Yu, who was walking through the battle array composed of eight oxen crossbows, felt that he had no regrets in this life.

As the chariot went away, looking at the golden back of the Emperor Taishang under the sun, the cavalry at the end of the Yulin Army's battle formation was filled with an indomitable spirit.

As the chariot moved forward, seeing the Emperor Taishang passing by him, the sappers who were the core of the Yulin Army's battle array and held the Eight Ox Crossbow were excited.

As the chariot moved forward, seeing the Emperor Taishang coming to his side, the heavy infantry and cooking soldiers who had collapsed to the ground seemed to be awakened, their bodies were full of strength, and they stood up again one by one, clenching the blades in their hands.

The chariot is still moving forward, but this is still the battlefield after all. After passing through the army formation composed of cavalry, through the position composed of nearly 2,000 engineers, logistics soldiers, and more than 100 eight-oxen crossbows, and through the resting heavy infantry, the chariot finally stopped behind the fiercest battle line.

The chariot stopped, and the infantry who were carrying the enemy charge did not look back, but they knew that their king was standing behind them, fighting alongside them.

In the way of Xi's journey, all the soldiers of the Yulin Army have unconsciously reached a state of true peak.

The chariot stopped. After feeling the state of the chariot, Li Yu focused his gaze on the sword blade, and used the last trace of strength to point the sword blade forward.

The lips opened slightly, as if to tell something, the lips opened slightly, as if to tell something, but the voice was weak enough for others to hear.

With a smile of longing and hope, Li Yu looked ahead, and he seemed to see the blood-red Tang flag planted in every corner of the map in his heart.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Yulin Army, Emperor Taishang always maintained a heroic posture, pointing his sword forward, pointing out the direction of the attack for everyone.

However, on top of the chariot, Zhang Jiaxuan and Zhang Taicheng, who were supporting Li Yu, were already in tears.

Only the two of them who were closest to Li Yu in the west heard Li Xu, the voice of the emperor in the last moment of his life, which was almost inaudible.

"The last general, Li Chen, live up to his mission!" As a prince for twenty-five years, he has been on the throne for half a year, and he has abdicated for five years.

At the moment when the chariot stopped and Li Yu completed his last mission, Pei Zhi finally gave the final order under the handsome banner of the Yulin Army.

The trumpets sounded again, the trumpets of preparing for battle were heard, and the red and black flags began to shake wildly.

Hearing the sound of the military horn and seeing the command of the military flag, the sappers and logistics soldiers in the dense battle formation of eight oxen crossbows quickly entered the battle state.

In front of each eight-bull crossbow stood a standard-bearer holding a red flag. With the transmission of the order, the standard-bearers raised the flags in their hands, the sappers quickly loaded the crossbows, the winches tightened, and the sound of readiness came to the ears of the standard-bearers.

Unlike usual, this time there was no unified instruction, no unified launch, and when the eight-bull crossbow he was in was ready, the red flag was waved down heavily.

Due to Pei Zhi's order, before launching, the elevation angle of all the Eight Bull Crossbows had been neatly adjusted to forty-five degrees, which was equivalent to the maximum range of the Eight Bull Crossbows.

The hard, thick, swarthy bolts of the Eight Bull Crossbow flew straight into the sky with the command to fire. To tell the truth, from the very beginning, including Liu Pi, including Nima Bazaar, and even many sergeants in the anti-Tang coalition army, military academies and non-commissioned officers all knew that there were some eight-bull crossbows in the Tang army.

Although the initial number was not too large, it caused great damage to the anti-Tang coalition forces in the offensive.

A few salvos alone caused hundreds of casualties. As the general of the Jiannan Army, Liu Pi sometimes shoots the Eight Bull Crossbow flat, but this thing is essentially a siege machine, and the rammed earth city wall can even be shot directly into it.

For people, far from the power is excessive, even if you wear heavy armor, there is no possibility of survival.

What's even more terrifying is that at the speed of the eight-ox crossbow, it is impossible to dodge at all, and strings of human-shaped sugar gourds have caused a huge psychological burden on the anti-Tang coalition forces from the very beginning.

Fortunately, the Yulin Army only used this thing as a weapon to fill the gap between the battle formations, and did not use it on a large scale, and as the battle progressed, the density and intensity of the Eight Bull crossbow shots also decreased.

After the small counterattack of the Yulin Army, the Eight Ox Crossbows of the Yulin Army disappeared. Subsequently, with the rapid retreat of the Yulin Army's foot soldiers, the battle quickly entered the stage of pursuit.

As the chase progressed, everyone in the anti-Tang coalition army, including Liu Pi and Nima Bazaar, completely forgot about the powerful eight-bull crossbow behind their brains.

In the process of chasing in the west, the 40,000 pursuers composed of the Tubo army, the Qianjian Southern Army, and the Nanzhao soldiers had already reached the appropriate shooting range.

However, the number of other parties' outpouring of nests obviously exceeded Pei Zhi's expectations. In order to wait for the Emperor Taishang, and at the same time let more anti-Tang coalition forces into the firing range, Pei Zhi did not order the Baniu crossbow to shoot at the first time.

Instead, he quietly changed his tactics, changed the elevation angle of shooting, and then waited quietly, waiting for the Emperor Taishang to start speaking, and waiting for the morale of all the soldiers of the Yulin Army to reach its peak.

It's just that Pei Zhi's change plan has sharply increased the pressure on the pawns in charge of blocking on the second line. At full strength, they were only 2,000 men, and what they had to defend against was an enemy who numbered 40,000 and was demoralized like a tiger descending from a mountain.

In fact, the Yulin Army on the second front was indeed under unimaginable pressure, in the midst of the charge, although the opponent's organization and tactics had been disintegrated, but the huge number and high morale made the opponent fearless of death.

Although there was no systematic organization in the west, row after row of enemies died in front of the battle formation, but a group fell, and soon another group rushed in front of them.

Although the situation of the battle has developed in an uncontrollable direction, if such an offensive can continue, it will actually be fine for the anti-Tang coalition forces.

Although the infantry of the Yulin Army in a defensive state is not much damaged, it is impossible to be completely uninjured, as long as it continues, if there are no variables, it is only a matter of time before the two thousand infantry soldiers are destroyed.

It's just that what Pei Zhi hopes for is exactly that. Two thousand against forty thousand, although the number is very different, but it is difficult for the opponent to crush the front in a very short time.

Of course, under the brave and fearless charge, the battle formation of the infantry of the Yulin Army was not unshaken, and under the repeated impact, the heavy infantry, mainly the riflemen, also began to fall one by one.

The fall of the heavy infantry, which is the core of the defensive line, means that the battle formation is at risk of collapsing at any time. However, at the most critical moment, Li Yu provided unparalleled spiritual strength to the most advanced foot soldiers.

When the heavy infantry falls, the light infantry follows, and in this order, when the light infantry falls, the archer behind him makes up for it, and when the archer falls, the crossbowman throws away the crossbow and picks up the horizontal knife to make up for it...... It's just that the Emperor Taishang can bring more than just spirit.

Encouraged by the already exhausted heavy infantry and cooks, they held back the line before the light infantry was completely annihilated.

Although at this moment, more of them are supported by spiritual strength, but this has stabilized the front in a short period of time.

Continuous attacks and successive defeats, although they did not affect the offensive of the anti-Tang coalition forces who were in a state of euphoria, did not know tiredness, did not know pain, and were not afraid of death, but the way forward was finally cut off.

The route in front was cut off, but the soldiers and horses in the rear continued to follow, which made the anti-Tang coalition soldiers and horses, which numbered as high as 40,000, inevitably crowded in the narrow area before the second battle formation of the Yulin Army.

Xi's formation, which was originally chaotic because of the charge, was twice as chaotic at this time. The Tubo Army, the Qianjian Southern Army, and the Nanzhao Soldiers, these come from different sources, have different purposes, and belong to different soldiers and horses at the beginning You have me, I have you.

In this state, it is clear that there is no such thing as command, system, and order. Liu Bi understands the principle of not chasing after the poor, and the current state is obviously the most likely reaction to excessive pursuit.

Liu Bi understood this truth and the consequences, and he even guessed the other party's possible purpose. In fact, before sending a second group of 20,000 people to pursue, Liu Bi had thought about it, but under the praise of Nima Bazar, Liu Bi floated.

Of course, more importantly, he didn't expect the other party to dare to gamble like this! The other party in the west not only dares to gamble, but also really has the capital to gamble.

He saw the change in the opponent's battle formation, the change in morale, and also saw the chariot and the golden figure on the chariot.

He saw it, but he didn't understand, even if the Emperor Taishang came in person, wouldn't it really be bad to make the flesh and blood turn into King Kong?

Then, the war situation developed to the current state that made him feel powerless. The army that has been released cannot be controlled, and the sudden withdrawal of troops will not only not be able to take back the soldiers and horses, but may cause the pursuing soldiers in front to fall into chaos.

In the face of the chaos ahead, in the face of the counterattack that the other party may launch at any time, after understanding the danger, Liu Bi also began to quickly adjust the deployment.

First of all, Liu Pi's faction, which also sensed that the situation was not good, led 5,000 Tibetan elites to step forward, preventing accidents and restoring as many soldiers and horses as possible.

At the same time, Liu Pi sent his cronies to lead nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to hold the road to retreat in the rear. Liu Pi himself stepped forward in person, preparing to gather and retreat as quickly as possible those remaining Jiannan troops who had been disabled in the previous battle.

According to Liu Pi's order, Nima Bazar led the five thousand elites of his body to quickly step forward, and just when his people reached the edge of the chaotic soldiers and horses, countless eight-bull crossbows had already flown down from the sky.

Looking at the huge crossbow bolts flying from the sky, Nima Bazar's mind went blank. Looking at the huge crossbow bolts flying from the sky, Liu Bi knew that he had lost this battle!