Outside Luoyang City, the weather is exceptionally sunny, although the cold wind is still biting, but the high sun can still bring a trace of warmth.

It's a pity that in such a good weather, the noble sons of Luoyang can't go out of the city, outside the city at this moment, the two armies of Mingchuang are in full swing, and a big battle is imminent......

On the small earthen bag on the edge of the battlefield, Li Yan was sitting on a small pony, with a large flag embroidered with characters behind him, and more than a dozen guards standing beside him, all of them with tense expressions, staring at the battlefield not far away.

The terrain here is high, which is convenient for overall command, and the army does not have a telescope, so it can only be commanded like this, and it is good to be able to find a high point, although this battle is expected, but Li Yan is still apprehensive in his heart, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and some gilt gold tassels are tied on the wooden stick, which is the "baton" specially made by Li Yan.

Then at this time, his hands kept rubbing the scattered tassels, and his thighs couldn't help trembling, and his heart was already praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

From the perspective of generals, Li Yan and Gao Yigong both lack the ability to command, Gao Yigong is a good hand at charging into battle, but Li Jin has always been doing tactical command, and Li Yan has a lot of theories, but he has never had field experience.

On the side of the Ming army, Wang Shaoyu is a fierce general in the army, although his character is very problematic, but his ability to fight does not need to be doubted, and his subordinates, Tian Hu is a fierce general, Ren Jirong is good at military strategy, Xie Yinglong is good at firearms, all of them are old in the army, and they have many advantages compared to breaking into the camp.

From the soldier's point of view, the disadvantage is even greater, in terms of numbers, the Ming army is full of 5,000 people, and the army is only 3,000, in terms of quality, the level of the reserve army is on par with the general Ming army, and the 300 fully armed family members in Wang Shaoyu's hands are far superior to the elite of the reserve army, and the reserve army is expanding in Yiyang, and there are more than 2,000 raw melons and eggs, and the level is even worse.

Technically speaking, this time the Ming army dispatched a firearms unit, Xie Yinglong joined the battlefield with an army of 400 bows and arrows and a mixed firecracker, and there were also four Franc machines, which was also the first time that the reserve army faced the hot weapons of the Ming army.

The only advantage of the reserve army is the only winner and loser, is Wang Xueli's two hundred cavalry, since he came to Luoyang, Li Yan has been letting Wang Xueli's cavalry hide, and according to Gu Fuguang's return, Wang Shaoyu still does not know that the cavalry of the army has participated in the battle, and currently believes that there are only infantry.

It is also for this reason that Wang Xueli's arrangement is not so particular, neither leaving reserves, nor consolidating the two wings, dividing the troops into three, Xie Yinglong's firearms troops are postponed, his three hundred elite family Ding is in the center, and the front drive is the general Ming army that is no different from cannon fodder in his opinion, three phalanxes from large to small are arranged on the plain, and the red king-shaped banner is hunting in the cold wind.

On Li Yan's side, the troops were divided into three, forming a "product" arranged on the plain, the middle phalanx was composed of the elite of the reserve army, and the newly recruited soldiers were separated from the two wings, so as to reduce the impact of the two wings through this formation, so as not to collapse the two wings.

The unstable Guo Junzhen was also thrown to the front line by Li Yan, but Li Yan was not afraid of Guo Junzhen's defection, because he had received information from Gu Fuguang yesterday and knew that Guo Junzhen was severely pitted by Wang Shaoyu......

Before the war began, Guo Junzhen had already sent a general second only to Liu Wenbing, Pang Tianzan secretly went to Wang Shaoyu to discuss the defection, it stands to reason that this is a great joy for Wang Shaoyu, but Wang Shaoyu's character is really bad.

Five thousand against three thousand, Wang Shaoyu can't think of how he can lose, in his opinion, Guo Junzhen's surrender or not will not affect the overall situation, the only thing that will affect is that he may have to cut a few fewer heads.

So Wang Shaoyu didn't pay attention to it at all, so he detained Pang Tianzan on the spot, and then angrily reprimanded him: "Baofeng can't die when he falls, and the thief is declining and rebellious, this is disloyal and unjust!" Can I be Rong'er? ”

After speaking, he didn't listen to Pang Tianzan's explanation at all, so he ordered someone to cut off his head, killed Pang Tianzan, and ordered someone to hang his head to hit the military spirit of the intruding army.

Guo Junzhen was so angry that he split the case in half with a knife, and then vowed to cut Wang Shaoyu's dog head.

When Li Yan learned about this, he didn't say anything on the surface, and he didn't ask Guo Junzhen about it, but he was happy in his heart, and he saw what he said. The generals with Ming are really playing steadily, and this can be regarded as completely pushing Guo Junzhen to his side.

In order to take revenge, Guo Junzhen took the initiative to lead his subordinates to the front line this time, and Guo's soldiers also resented Wang Shaoyu because Pang Tianzan was killed, and their morale was high, and Li Yan also took advantage of the situation to do this favor.

In this battle, Li Yan has pressed all the old books, except for him, Gao Yigong and these people all went to the front line, especially Gao Yigong, personally wearing armor and holding a spear to stand on the front line to boost morale, and told Li Yan before leaving: "I am the one to kill the enemy, and I am the one to seek the enemy!" ”

This is both trust and responsibility, how can Li Yan not be nervous?

Now the number of success or failure lies in Wang Xueli, who is detouring, Li Yan looked at the blue sky, and prayed secretly, in order to avoid being detected by the Ming army, Wang Xueli had to go around a big circle to raid the Ming army, naturally, time is the most precious thing, and Li Yan is trying to gain time at this moment!

"Knock knock" accompanied by the dull war drums, the phalanx of the Ming army began to move slowly, that's right, Wang Shaoyu couldn't hold his breath, and took the lead in attacking, five thousand against three thousand, wouldn't it be shameful not to take the initiative to attack?

In fact, Ren Jirong and Xie Yinglong were opposed to directly pressing up, and they advised Wang Shaoyu to let the firearms troops shoot first, and strive to disrupt the phalanx of the invading army, and then carry out a surprise attack, so that they could be done once and for all.

As a result, Wang Shaoyu not only didn't listen, but also beat Xie Yinglong for disobeying the military order, and angrily reprimanded him: "Could it be that this official doesn't know the soldiers? ”

Xie Yinglong was beaten, and he resented Wang Shaoyu even more, and in a fit of anger, he simply stood by with the firearms troops, watching Wang Shaoyu fight, I won't play with you anymore!

Wang Shaoyu didn't think that Xie Yinglong could change anything, he didn't care at all, anyway, a wave of A would be over if he went up, the numerical advantage, the quality advantage, he couldn't think of how to lose.

Then, in fact, he was wrong, when the Ming army rushed to a place more than a dozen steps away from the reserve army, they began to step on the traps one after another, these traps are small pits one by one, and there are sharp bamboo thorns or sharp weapons buried at the bottom of the pits.

This is a trap set by Li Yan overnight, and the proud Wang Shaoyu did not send anyone to investigate and familiarize himself with the situation on the battlefield at all, he was like a reckless man, and he invested all his belongings without any scruples.

The continuous injuries caused the formation of the Ming army to begin to scatter, and the traps arranged by the army were very elegant, and there was no regularity, but random arrangement, which made the Ming army have to be cautious at every step, for fear of stepping on it, and the phalanx would naturally be messy when the speed was different.

Moreover, the trap is arranged with less on both sides and more in the middle, and the Ming army subconsciously began to move closer to the middle, and the phalanx, which was originally appropriately spaced, instantly became crowded, which also greatly reduced the pressure on the recruits on both wings.

Soon, the phalanxes of the two sides collided together, and the battle of spears was lackluster, nothing more than two ways: stabbing and slapping, dense spears intertwined, and in an instant there were screams.

The spear of the army has been lengthened, but the spear of the Ming army is to be shortened, resulting in a battle between the two sides, and the spear of the army instantly pierced several soldiers in the front row of the Ming army.

The first to meet the enemy is Guo Junzhen and Huang Junbu, Guo Junzhen calmly commanded the soldiers to assassinate in the center, and from time to time loudly encouraged morale, Guo's soldiers are all fighting hard battles, and the tolerance is very strong, and the Ming army stabbed, more than 30 casualties were unwavering, continued to numb the stab, the front row fell, the back row made up for it, and continued to assassinate until the morale of one side completely collapsed.

Huang Jun was a little more brave, he rushed directly to the front line with a spear, he had experience in spear fighting, skillfully dodged several stabbing attacks by the Ming army, and after carrying a few times with armor, he raised his hand a few times, and stabbed three or four Ming soldiers to death before and after.

Li Yan looked at the scorching battle line, his heart was also full of anxiety, after thinking for a moment, he still made up his mind, the command staff in his hand drew a circle in the air, and suddenly the two heralds quickly got the order to convey.

A rhythmic beat of drums followed, and the 100 archers in the rear line were given the order to bend their bows and shoot three rounds.

The battle lines of the two sides are scorched, and the projectile will inevitably be injured by mistake, but Li Yan is arranged on the front line with the elite in armor, while most of the Ming army does not wear armor, which also leads to the rain of arrows.

The feather arrows rained down into the dense phalanx of the Ming army, and instantly shot down a piece of the Ming army, these Ming troops may not be fatal, but the wail after being shot by the feather arrows was enough to disturb the morale of the army, and at the same time, the fallen Ming army also made the Ming army's formation more scattered.

Wang Shaoyu, who was watching the battle, looked at the current situation and immediately realized that if this continued, the forward troops would collapse.

The troops can not be deployed, the numerical advantage can not be reflected at all, but the dense front gives the archers of the army a stage to shoot wantonly, with the first three rounds of shooting, the archers of the army are probably in the right direction, the arrow rain behind is more accurate than the first round, and it happens to shoot in the middle of the Ming army, digging a forbidden area of life between the Ming army fighting in front and the Ming army waiting behind.

Finally, some people in the Ming army couldn't hold back, and began to throw away their blades and run back, one drove a few, a few drove dozens, and the Ming army behind was confused, looking at the rout in front, they also dropped their weapons and started running, and the entire Ming army's formation was shaken.

It's not the way to go! Wang Shaoyu looked at the Ming army that was about to collapse, and knew that he had underestimated the enemy, but as a general, he still had a cool head, and immediately made a decision and issued two orders.

First, he asked Xie Yinglong's firearms troops to press forward and immediately open fire on the intruding army, disrupting their formation.

Second, he personally led 300 elite soldiers to press forward to curb the wave of the Ming army's rout and escape no matter what.

That's right, as a family unit, you have to cut off your own people's heads far more than your enemies......