Between the valleys, drums and shouts roared, shaking the mountains and rivers. King Pusha gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, his knuckles turning white with overexertion.

In the distance, a large number of people and flags surged one after another, some stopped in place, some people in front continued to move forward, and the cavalry on both wings was also moving. Farther on the hillside, the coalition infantry was also moving according to certain rules. The crowd of 100,000 people is like a huge war machine, moving slowly and making loud noise!

In this backward era of small-scale peasant economy and nomadic herding, countless people showed the highest degree of organization in this era in the battle formation, and also concentrated a large amount of resources within the reach of the productive forces.

Wang Rong stood on the hillside, observing every part of the mist without saying a word. It can be seen that the rhythm of the coalition offensive is very calm. They deployed a force of cavalry on the flank between the front and rear of the Tang Army, monitored the Fourth Division of the First Army of the Pingxi Army, and concentrated their forces on biting the more than 40,000 Tang Army infantry cavalry of the front army between this ravine, and it seemed that the situation was indeed good.

Wang Rong paid attention to the wooden stakes on the battlefield, about 1,200 feet from the front line of the Tang army, where the coalition forces concentrated more than 50,000 infantry and lined up. There are hundreds of phalanxes alone, forming a large array with a wide horizontal plane and a great depth.

The main force of the coalition cavalry was still farther behind, and the cavalry on the two wings of the advancing infantry army had different armor and armor, and they looked ragged, not like the elite cavalry of the Badbeard Army.

In a few moments, the forward infantry of the coalition army continued to advance uphill without stopping, with a strength of about 4,000 or possibly 5,000. Below the hillside, drums beat loudly.

"Whew—"

The vigorous horns sounded in unison, swept through the noisy crowd in the wind, and leaped between countless valleys.

On the hillside, a row of heralds waved the two-color flag in unison with their left and right hands, with a red heart on the left hand and a black heart on the right hand. The red flag is backward and the black flag is forward, repeatedly staggered and danced.

The front of the Tang army was immediately heard from the loud shouting and scolding of the generals. The divisions were suddenly staggered, and the four rows of infantry with spears in front turned and passed between the gaps between the sharpshooters in the back in a queue; Then the heavy infantry in the rear, clad in full armor and armed with swords and shields, moved to the front.

The enemy soldiers, armed with all kinds of weapons, had already come up along the gentle hillside, and countless people trampled the loess into dust, and the strange cry of "wah-wa-wa-la-......" was like a large group of wild beasts rushing out of the mountain.

The officers and men of the Tang Army all widened their eyes, staring at the crowd of people who were getting closer and closer, red-eyed like savages, clothed in iron sheets, holding knives, guns, clubs, and shields.

A general in the crowd above shouted, "Datang will win!"

"Hooray!" The shouts of the armies suppressed the noise on the battlefield.

"Drink!" The heavy infantry, in a neat array, lifted their finely crafted iron-clad wooden shields and placed them on the shields with ring-headed knives in their hands.

A group of enemy soldiers in the middle rushed forward with a shout within a hundred paces, and the chirping sound did not know what it meant, but the people's voices were filled with nervousness, fear, and angry roars.

"Ready!" "Ready!"

The battalion generals drew their swords and shouted.

"Bang!"

With a gong sound, the sharpshooter of the middle battalion raised his bow and crossbow, and there was no need to aim, and there was a string sound of "crackling", and a black rain of arrows flew into the sky.

"Put!" "Put!"

In an instant, enemy soldiers from all over the horizontal area rushed up and killed, and arrows flew up and down in the air. The falling arrows hit the iron armor of the Tang Army, and there was a "clanging" sound, and a miserable scream was heard from time to time.

In the middle place, there were first short-handed soldiers, and between the crowds, there were many people and very dense people, so they only saw swords waving. In fact, people are very slow to swing their weapons, and they are all slashing hard! It was in vain if the force was too small, both sides were holding shields, and the Tang army was also wearing heavy armor.

"Bang!"

A Pusha man shouted and slammed the wooden shield into the Tang army's shield, and with the momentum, the Tang sergeant fell back half a step, and only after holding the horse step did he stabilize his body.

Pu Sha Han immediately picked up the mace and swung it down, and with a "clang", it smashed on the shoulder armor of the Tang soldier on the opposite side, smashing the soldier screamed, and the shield also fell, but immediately picked up the ring head knife and stabbed it at the gap of the Pusha wooden shield, and immediately blood

Splashed him in the face.

A Tang sergeant next to him was stabbed into the breastplate with a knife, screaming loudly.

In front of the Tang army, the queue was turbulent, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the sparks of iron striking shone like gold stars in the yellow dust. The contact area of the fight was very limited, but the sharpshooters on the hillside fired at the approaching Pusha infantry, killing and wounding a lot. The most terrible place to fight ahead, but the most casualties are the deep shots of bows and arrows.

The heavy infantry in front fought bloodily, with crazy enemy soldiers in front and dense ranks of their own families behind, and there was no way forward and backward, so they could only fight desperately!

The military general shouted not far away, "Whoever takes a step back, slash!"

The military band played an impassioned tune with horizontal drums and trumpets, and the scribes of the herald system in each hundred people were also loudly encouraging their morale, the generals were shouting and scolding, and the scribes were praising the soldiers with all kinds of noble words. But none of this can eliminate the bloodshed, pain, and fear of the soldiers.

The people on the hillside in front of them were screaming and shouting to kill, louder than the sound of drumming.

People gasped for breath in their mouths, sweated in the cold air, and spat white vapor. Elite soldiers are first and foremost strong men, because it takes no physical strength to fight to the death! Wearing dozens of pounds of armor, the power of the foot bow is often a stone, and it will be powerful to pull it a few times.

When a marksman heard the shout of "ready", he drew his bow and arrows, took a deep breath and gritted his teeth. At this moment, he saw an infantry brother in front of him slashing at an enemy soldier next to him, and another enemy soldier in front of him picked up his spear and rushed towards him with all his might. In an instant, the archer didn't think much about it, immediately turned his bow and arrow, and shot it with a "snap".

The Tang infantry found that an arrow was suddenly inserted in the forehead of the enemy soldier in front of him, and he was afraid for a while, and looked back, but at this time, the strings of "pop pop ......" in the ranks of sharpshooters sounded, and a large group of people were shooting arrows.

The square flag of the Chinese army has the word "Tang" written on it, hunting and flying in the wind. Wang Rong and his subordinates stood motionless, watching the yellow dust and bloody rain in front of them. The soldiers stood there without going into battle, but their bodies were tense and staring.

Not far away, the drummer kicked his figure-eight feet, holding the drum tightly, looking like he was ready to kill. The shouts on the hillside resounded, creating a "buzzing ......" noise. From time to time, loud shouts could be heard not far away, and the voice of "Deling" was short and powerful, and the tension was unusually high.

At this time, one of the generals turned his head, wanted to speak and stopped, but after all, there was no sound.

Wang Rong had already seen with his own eyes that the second batch of enemy infantry was moving forward in formation, and this time there were more people, maybe tens of thousands! And the fight ahead!

In this situation, the enemy army will invest new troops and replace the first batch of men!

Wheel tactics.

The enemy troops on the battlefield with messy armor and weapons seem to be savages, but they are obviously not real primitives, and their tactics cannot be underestimated. The Western Regions have been fighting for thousands of years, and there are "military advisers" in the coalition army, none of whom are good at stubble, and the country is a real power, once more influential than the Central Plains, and many distant countries in the north regard it as "China".

Wang Rong looked at the signs of order in the chaos on the battle array, and finally spoke: "Order, use siege iron cannons to assist the front-line infantry army!"

"Order!"

After a while, Fan Jun picked up the seal, covered it on a piece of paper, and handed it to a scribe. Soon the scribe hurried out with two heralds with yellow pennants on their backs.

The siege mortar on the gun carriage with a huge muzzle and a stubby barrel is half buried in the earth. A military general took the military order and looked at it, handed it to the military staff on the side, immediately drew his sword, and shouted: "There is a holy decree, the iron artillery battalion fights!" Tell the iron artillery teams to prepare to fire!"

In the midst of the shouting, the soldiers simply tore out the straw paper that was blocked in the muzzle of the cannon, which had already been filled with gunpowder and stone bullets.

The muzzles of the two dozen black holes were pointed diagonally towards the sky. A gong was heard, and a shout was heard: "Release!". Five

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Boom!"

Thunderous tremors rang out one after another, and the earth trembled.

On the gentle slope, I saw white smoke rising in rows one after another, and flames in the smoke

Squirting splendor. The momentum was huge, but the stone projectile did not fly fast, and it was huge, and it flew into the air with a visible appearance, and fell into the crowd of coalition forces with its weight.

Nearly 100 catties of stones fell from mid-air, and below was a dense coalition infantry camp, spread all over the place. The stone cannons could hit anyone at will, and only a few smashed into the open space between the phalanxes.

The entire battalion of iron artillery fired a volley into the dense crowd of enemy soldiers, and the enemy soldiers were killed and wounded dozens of people at once!

The stone projectile fell between the dry and hard loess sand and stones, and smashed the loess dust splashing, like the smoke of an explosion! Some hit people straight away, some cracked, and stones flew up, and one or two people who were unlucky around were injured.

However, the shelling really made Pu Shabing's panic and shock, and they hit them hundreds of feet away, which the ordinary soldiers did not expect.

The scene was very terrifying, on the loess, a soldier was lying there on all fours, his head shattered, and his flesh and blood were splashed on the ground. In another place, the bloody liver and intestines are in a pool of blood. Some soldiers were screaming as they clutched their cheeks when they were hit by stones.

In the large phalanx that Pu Sha had just stepped forward, there was some chaos and disturbance everywhere, and the speed of advance was also slow. People look up at the sky.

However, as soon as the artillery fire of the Tang army rang out, it fell silent, and the iron cannon only carried a battalion of 500 people, and it was also troublesome to clean the gun chamber and reload it in one round.

But it also worked, and the second group of enemy soldiers was stunned by the artillery fire for a while, disrupting the rhythm of the rotational attack. The front line of the Tang army repelled the enemy soldiers in front of them, winning a chance to breathe, and all 100 generals and battalion generals hurriedly commanded their men and horses to retreat in columns. The battalions of the second echelon on the upper side advanced in horizontal formations, with gaps between the battalions, allowing the columns in front to retreat.