There was no longer hesitation in An Mingqian's eyes, the Mid-Autumn Festival had arrived. In the past, this was the day when the soldiers of the Yan army went home to reunite with their families, admired the moon and feasted, and it was also the day when he, the prince of the Yan Kingdom, appeased many civil, military, noble, and grassland tribes. Today, however, they are unable to reunite with their families, and the prince is not meeting any civil and military nobles, but enemy soldiers who want to dissect them. The orthodox Xiao clan of the Great Ji Empire.

Tens of thousands of cavalry were separated from the two wings, and the camp seemed to be much empty. An Mingqian even removed most of the flags, and even the remaining flags were horizontal. And now it's getting worse. There was not a man patrolling or standing guard on the barracks. There was no sound of drill or movement in the barracks.

In the eyes of Jiang Yi and Du Bei, there is no doubt that An Mingqian, the crown prince who invaded the south for the first time, could not suppress the rout in the army.

Brother Du, it seems that the opportunity for you and me to make meritorious contributions has arrived. After destroying this Yan army, if you can capture the prince of Yan and present it to Your Majesty, you and I will be crowned marquis, and I will not be able to enter the court in the future. Jiang Yi was also a general who led the troops to fight against the Yan army, and also fought against the Yan army in Shouzhou and Tongzhou. Naturally, it can be seen that the Yan army at this moment is already extremely weak.

Brother Jiang, I feel that something is wrong. It's not the first time you and I have fought against the Yan Thief. In the past, the swallow thieves were so weak that they were exhausted after a few days of attacking. Moreover, the cavalry of the Yan army was strong, even if the battle was lost, they could calmly retreat in the past. Our army rarely takes advantage. Du Bei was more cautious, and was not completely blinded by the weakness of the Yan army in front of him. I was not carried away by the great credit that was about to be received.

Brother Du has a vision, so since this is the case. The younger brother attacked and killed in front, and Brother Du swept the formation here, after the attack, how about the credit for you and me being equally divided? Jiang Yi said warmly.

Whatever Brother Jiang said, the credit for attacking and killing naturally belongs to Brother Jiang. At that time, I am willing to share my soup, and Du will be grateful. Du Bei arched his hand. But in my heart, I began to calculate.

This swallow thief's situation is unknown, and this Jiang Yi is actually greedy for profit and wants to take the credit alone. It is to let him attack and kill, if the enemy is really weak, he can also send light cavalry to chase and kill, and now it is a battle to attack the mountain, and the cavalry will naturally stay. At that time, he led the cavalry to chase the thieves, and he could also get a lot of credit. Let this reckless man go, and if he really loses, he can get away with it.

All the soldiers of the army, follow me to attack the mountain. Leave no one else alone, and go straight to the tent of the enemy's army.

Jiang Yi seemed to see a huge military feats beckoning to him, and without too many obstacles, he rushed to the top of the mountain and broke open the camp gate, and few soldiers in the camp came to resist. Moreover, the soldiers who came to engage in the resistance were also unwilling, and many of them were wounded.

In less than two hours, Jiang Yi's troops captured all the camps on the mountain. Smooth is a little abnormal.

When he looked down, he saw that many people were wrapped in baggage, and a large number of people were carrying baggage on their backs, and herds of cattle and sheep fleeing northward, and they screamed again, complaining that they were slow, and immediately let their men abandon their long weapons and chase them with short blades. When the soldiers heard this order, they were happy to discard their heavy loads so that they could go up lightly to grab the spoils of war and take prisoners.

Seeing that there was no shouting and killing sound coming from the mountain, Du Bei also hurriedly sent someone up the mountain to investigate the situation.

An Mingqian had already cleaned up his personal guards and iron cavalry in the forest at this time, and when Xiao's Xingzhou army arrived, he would teach them what cavalry combat was. And when he saw a group of criminal state soldiers with short weapons, the killing generals came. He almost wondered if his eyes were in the sand.

Although he only has 5,000 cavalry in his hands now, Jiang Yi, who killed on the opposite side, brought tens of thousands of troops, to say the least. But at the foot of the Zalian Mountain, there is already an open field. These five thousand guards can devour almost an infinite number of light infantry. Among his own personal guards and iron horsemen are also heavily armored iron horses. Facing the light infantry who had gradually lost their formation, their own troops were now going up to the beginning of the slaughter.

An Mingqian knew that the fighter plane that Cui Xilie had been waiting for had arrived.

He waved his right hand and made a gesture representing the order to attack. The five thousand iron horses behind him moved.

The blood-invested cavalry attacked in a goose formation, but if you look closely at the middle, they are actually a heavy cavalry protruding from the front, assaulting with a horse lance, while the two chain-armored cavalrymen are on the flanks, holding a long-handled scimitar and armed with javelins. On either side, lightly armed chainmail cavalrymen were armed with short bows and scimitars straddling their horses.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's formation is like a goose marching array, but there is an extra team of assault heavy cavalry in the middle, I don't know why His Royal Highness is in this formation? Cui Xilie said curiously, he is also a person full of military books, especially good at commanding cavalry battles, originally he thought that after leading this Xingzhou army down, he would rely on the wild goose marching formation, row up from both sides to shoot horses, and wait for the enemy army to disperse or retreat before catching up collectively. But I never thought to see this kind of cavalry attack.

This formation is called the Eagle Strike Formation, and it was created by a master.

When the heavy cavalry was about to break into the formation, they threw the noose and tied it to their bodies with the lightly armored chainmail cavalry on both sides, and killed the people blocking in front of them with their horse lances, and the noose of more than two feet directly tripped a large number of light infantry on the ground. Suddenly, Jiang Yi's troops lost their formation and became lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Pikemen, knots in front, archers in the back, sword and shield soldiers to protect the left and right, fast.

Seeing the sudden outbreak of the Yan cavalry, although Jiang Yi panicked, the instinct of the battlefield general was still there, and he immediately wanted to form a phalanx to resist the cavalry. However, he forgot that he was on the hill and ordered the soldiers to come lightly. Therefore, now the sword and shield soldiers have no shields, and the pikemen also carry a short knife.

General, the enemy army is huge, not to mention tens of thousands of iron cavalry. Let's retreat up the mountain. The deputy general persuaded him next to him, and in the current situation, it is indeed impossible to win.

Nonsense, the enemy army has a total of only 30,000 horses, where did the tens of thousands of iron horsemen come from. You are clearly afraid of death, so drag it down and behead it. Brethren, do not mess around. Formation, formation. All the generals and captains gathered their soldiers to form a formation. The enemy army did not have many horses, and it was already a rout. As long as we form a formation to engage the enemy. The enemy will be able to break through quickly, and if we escape, we will all be captured. Jiang Yi is not a junior brother on the battlefield after all, he understands that if he allows the chaos to spread, he, the general, will be the end, and even his life may come to an end.

With his sword in hand, he killed three fleeing generals and lieutenants one after another, and the fleeing soldiers stopped the rout slightly.

Those who retreat die, those who advance live, and those who kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions will be rewarded.

The soldiers' eyes were full of fear, and their faces were tired, and although the rout stopped slightly, even if they formed a battle formation, because they had no spears and shields, it would be difficult to win by relying only on the archers to release their arrows, and besides, the cavalry on the opposite side were all plate armor and chain mail. Unless you shoot with the longbow of the purple shirt wood at a very close distance, it will be difficult to kill them in charge. The purple shirt wood longbow is extremely valuable, and the weight of the purple shirt bow itself is not light, so it naturally belongs to the weight placed on it.

Jiang Yi's generals, especially the town generals, were already full of hatred in their eyes, and the soldiers, captains, and runaway generals who had just been killed were all their subordinates, and even their relatives and ethnic groups. Although they also understood that if the rout of the army was allowed to spread, then the army would inevitably be annihilated, and someone had to stand up to stop the rout and use thunderous means. But for those who dare to do this, there will inevitably be thoughts in their hearts. And on it, discarding heavy objects is also an order given by Jiang Yi, which is associated with this. The town generals had the intention of killing Jiang Yi at this moment.

The adjutant general immediately went up the mountain to ask Du Bei for help, and asked him to bring more weapons and shields down. Jiang Yi continued to give orders, but he didn't know how long he could resist. Because he saw again that the infantry of the Yan army, which had originally been dispersed, had begun to form a formation with other stragglers. In the face of the enemy's combined infantry, cavalry and bow, he did not have the confidence to resist for long.

He was now very remorseful in his heart, why, it was clear that the previous performance of the Yan army this time was really abnormal compared to the past, and when the enemy retreated, it was still in a neat formation, and weapons and armor were not dropped everywhere on the ground. The intention of luring the enemy is actually extremely obvious, why did he, a veteran of the battlefield, actually fall for the scheme?

An Mingqian was very fast, and the infantry archers quickly joined him. Jiang Yi on the opposite side also did not retreat directly, as Cui Xilie expected, but gathered the defeated stragglers to fight in formation.

Yes, this Jiang Yi gathered the troops and helped us just right. If they were to flee in all directions, it would be quite difficult to chase them down with our five thousand iron horsemen. Looking at the military formation on the opposite side, although there was a formation, but they were all holding short knives, a smile appeared on An Mingqian's face.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, our army has not won this battle. Looking at the formation, there should still be many of them on the mountain, and they formed a formation to wait for reinforcements on the mountain, and the opportunity must not be lost. When to strike immediately. Cui Xiyeol's eyes were vicious, and the scarlet in his eyes disappeared as he watched the bloody battlefield, revealing a chilling blue.

The archer moves forward, and the captain takes aim on his own, freeing the arrows.

Soon, feathered arrows began to appear in the sky, and at this time, the archers of the Yan army were only about fifty paces away from Jiang Yi's troops. The Yan army fired arrows in a formation of hundreds of people, and there was no rain of arrows in the sky, but although the Yan army, which had always been good at shooting, was not strong, the harvest of life was extremely fast.

Instead of a regular use of soldiers, no one dared to put the archers in front at all. Because archers, like cavalry, are not light infantry, and they can go to the battlefield after two or three months of training. Qualified cavalrymen and archers require two to three years of training and are highly prized technical troops. In the front, if it is attacked by cavalry, the casualties must be extremely heavy. But at this moment, Jiang Yi's troops, who were only light infantry, obviously could not pose any threat.

In addition to the shooting of 2,000 longbowmen, there were also many chainmail cavalry on both sides who were firing arrows with short bows. The wails of the wounded and the screams of the dead all shook the morale of Jiang Yi's troops. At this moment, Jiang Yi and the high-ranking generals around him could only use the soldiers as a human wall to block the ubiquitous arrows.

General, why haven't the reinforcements come yet? It's been almost an hour, and it's going on like this. The brothers are going to be killed by them.

Jiang Yi's ears didn't know how many times this kind of cry sounded, and he also became upset at this moment. I couldn't help but look back over and over again, Lao Du, for the sake of the two of us belonging to the imperial court, this time you have to pull your brother no matter what.

And this time when he turned around, Jiang Yi really waited, and he saw endless smoke and dust rising on the mountain behind him. He suddenly felt that the gods were still protecting him.

Soldiers, brothers, reinforcements have arrived, rush forward to kill. Jiang Yi roared loudly.

For more than an hour, the longbowmen also began to lose their strength. Everyone had already fired at least thirty arrows, and when they saw that the opposite side was beginning to charge, they began to retreat slowly under the leadership of the captain, knowing that the enemy could not be killed by the cavalry on both sides.

General Cui, there is smoke and dust on the Zhalian Mountain, and it seems that the enemy reinforcements have been killed. Let's change our army.

There is no hurry, the terrain here is conducive to the deployment of our cavalry. Our army should first send sentry cavalry to check the rear, there are not many cavalry in the criminal state army, and the sentry cavalry should quickly check the rear, if there is no invincible cavalry to surprise and outflank. Our army can only let go and kill this group of enemy troops. Cui Xilie said slowly.

Well, the archers returned to their base to get their arrows, and the sword and shield soldiers supported the guards on both sides. The cavalry on both flanks took turns firing arrows to harass the enemy.

The noon sun has reached the middle of the day, and under the gorgeous sun, there is a river of blood, which is extremely dazzling. The offensive of both armies had begun to ease, and the midday sun would double the physical drain. Although the faces of the soldiers of the Yan army were stained with blood and mud, they swept away the bad luck of retreating for a few days, but their eyes were extraordinarily spirited.

And the soldiers of the Criminal State Army had unstoppable fatigue on their faces. They had never rested well for several days, and their exhaustion had all exploded at this moment, looking at the fatigue of the soldiers in front of them. Jiang Yi knew that after the sun set slightly at noon, he was afraid that it would be difficult to take the Yan army's charge.

However, reinforcements were delayed. Jiang Yi looked at the formation that was about to unfold on the opposite side, and he understood that the reinforcements would not come down.

The whole army charged, General Du had already killed behind the enemy, we hurried to kill it, and together with General Du, we attacked back and forth, and captured An Mingqian alive.

Capture An Mingqian alive.

A small number of cronies also began to shout, leading the whole army to start shouting. But they all shouted weakly.

Seeing that the soldiers began to charge, and after engaging with the Yan army, Jiang Yi immediately got on his horse and ran backwards without turning his head.