Chapter 142: Fight in Formation

In the early morning of the next day, when the Liao army once again went out of the camp to line up, the gate of Tongzhou City was also opened, and a group of cavalry took the lead in rushing out, lining up about 300 steps outside the city, followed by the infantry of the brigade.

The soldiers and horses in the city have been continuously killed and wounded, but they have also been continuously replenished, and now they are still maintained at about 50,000 people, this time Li Yuanxiang did his best to take 40,000 people out of the city, leaving only more than 10,000 people to guard the city.

At the same time, Yang Heting also arranged troops, 70,000 people out of the camp, lined up outside the camp, and the soldiers and horses stretched for seven or eight miles, forming more than ten arrays.

Seeing this, the Liao army also poured out, and more than 100,000 people began to line up, and the array that stretched for more than ten miles was laid out, and the three sides formed a triangular battle mode.

The battle was dragged on for a long time, and it took two hours to set up the formation, during which the two sides did not conduct large-scale operations except for the outposts, and they were all hurrying to set up the formation.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

The drums of war on both sides have been sounding, and the solemn atmosphere of the war makes people feel solemn.

In the middle of the Wei army, Li Yuanxiang's Daxu stood on the high platform, Li Yuanxiang was dressed in gold armor and full of military uniforms, looking ahead under the escort of Jiang Cheng and others.

"Li Shuai, the third battalion of the forward has finished eating, and it is ready to attack"

"Attack"

Li Yuanxiang only replied with one word, and immediately a herald rode his horse, walked to the three camps of the forward, and shouted to attack, attack, attack, and the officers of the vanguard began to give the order to advance.

Then the soldiers of the rest of the camp began to eat, one loaf per person, not much, only five points full, and they could not move, they could only stand in place and chew.

"General Chen, the Wei army has struck first"

"Forward to forward, this is a tough battle, there is no possibility of tricks, let the white-clothed army of King Pingnan go up"

On the side of the Liao army, seeing the Wei army moving forward, he immediately ordered that this tough battle could not be avoided, the strength of both sides was about the same, and they were both elites, and only by defeating the other party head-on could they achieve a real victory.

The military order was issued, and the white-clothed army of King Pingnan began to advance one camp, and the Wei army also advanced one camp after another, and the Liao army had to arrange troops to intercept it in order not to let this camp disrupt its main formation.

"Yang Heting's side also moved, send troops to fight"

Soon, Yang Heting saw Li Yuanxiang fighting, and also sent the forward camp to fight, and the Liao army also continued to deal with it.

"The two sides are engaged"

The speed of the advance of both camps was not fast, and the distance of a few hundred steps took a quarter of an hour, during which the two sides fired several rounds, and then thousands of people fought together.

"Send a battalion of cavalry up, don't rush into battle, hang and shoot outside"

Chen Ge watched for a quarter of an hour, in terms of foot soldiers, it was still the elite of the Wei army, and there were few soldiers in white, and it had begun to decline, so Chen Ge immediately increased his chips and sent cavalry to fight.

Two thousand tribal light cavalry went into battle, and they sent a line to cut through the battlefield, and did not charge directly into battle, but threw bows and arrows to attack the Wei army.

"The remaining two battalions of the vanguard went into battle to drive out the cavalry"

Li Yuanxiang continued to order, and then the second and third battalions of the forward advanced forward, separated by a distance of 100 paces, and also began to shoot arrows, the infantry's bows and arrows were farther than the cavalry, and there were many strong bows.

Yang Heting's side copied Li Yuanxiang's order, and also ordered the forward to engage the battle, while Chen Ge's order was also divided into two parts, and the Wei army on both sides was also dealt with.

The Horde light cavalry could not complete the order to disturb the army, and turned into a direct charge, scattering the forward and fighting together.

"The left and right armies came out of a battalion, made a posture of outflanking, and rushed forward"

Li Yuanxiang continued to order, and soon, one battalion was sent out on the left and right sides to move closer to the battlefield.

"General Chen, the White Army is defeated"

The Wei army went out to fight on the left and right, and the white-clothed army was extremely frightened, afraid that they would be surrounded, and they were defeated in panic, and the Wei army began to drive away the defeated soldiers.

"Let the rout disperse to the left and right, send out a battalion of wolf soldiers, and crush the enemy's advance"

"Yes"

The herald quickly went to the herald, the front camp dispersed, and the three thousand wolf army began to fight head-on, and the Wei army forwards saw that the wolf army was dispatched, and hurriedly wanted to form a whole team to block the wolf army, but it was too late to hurry down, and before the team was finished, the wolf army had already rushed up, and suddenly the three battalions of the forward army suffered heavy losses and were directly defeated.

"The left and right armies lined up on the spot to cover the retreat of the forwards, and the rear battalions were ready to collect the rout and continue to fight again"

Li Yuanxiang was expressionless and continued to order, even if the striker suffered heavy losses, he could not waver in any way.

A battalion of the left and right armies lined up on the spot, blocked the heavy cavalry with spears, and continued to shoot with bows and arrows, and the wolf army lost speed after breaking the forward, so they could only withdraw and reline on the side.

"Beat the flag, let Yang Heting move closer to me and drive away the enemy"

"Yes"

"General Chen, Yang Heting is moving closer to Li Yuanxiang"

"Order the remaining white-clothed troops to go up and separate Yang Heting"

"Yes"

Chen Ge's side also made corresponding strategies, and the remaining white-clothed troops of King Pingnan advanced and stopped Yang Heting's men.

"Let Yang Heting continue to send troops"

"Yes"

"Yang Shuai, Li Shuai ordered, let's continue to send troops"

"The left and right armies will each send out two battalions and advance to the enemy's main position, and then order a battalion of cavalry to prepare, and the enemy cavalry will appear and drive me away."

Yang Heting looked at the situation on the battlefield, and also sent soldiers and horses, and two battalions of soldiers went out to fight and advanced to the main formation of the Liao army.

"It's interesting, it's interesting for the master to make a move, let the right army fight, a battalion of foot soldiers, a battalion of cavalry"

Chen Ge looked at the situation in front of him, the two sides had invested a total of forty or fifty thousand people, strangled together, and the coaches on both sides were also constantly increasing, and the war was intensifying.

The first battalion of the right army of the Liao army often moved forward, and the cavalry had already rushed out, and a battalion of cavalry on Yang Heting's side also appeared, and the cavalry of the two sides began to fight.

"The cavalry came out a little early"

Li Yuanxiang looked at the cavalry fighting in the distance, and said in his heart, but he didn't stop it, and he couldn't stop it.

"Li Shuai, the battle formation of the two armies on our left and right has been defeated"

"Stand down, we're not moving, the bed crossbow is ready, the trebuchet is ready"

The two battalions of the left and right armies had been fighting for almost an hour, mainly because the bows and arrows had run out and could not stop the cavalry, so Li Yuanxiang ordered a retreat.

Originally, it was an orderly retreat, but I didn't expect it to be chaotic while walking, the enemy army took advantage of the situation to cover up, Chen Ge immediately ordered "come out of the second battalion of cavalry, be fast, drive the rout and rush into battle"

Chen Ge seized the opportunity and immediately ordered, this was an excellent opportunity, if a battalion of the left and right armies of the Wei army could break the main formation, this battle could be won.

"Shout, let the rout retreat to both sides, don't retreat for thirty steps, kill me"

Li Yuanxiang watched the rout rush towards the Chinese army in a panic, his face was also gloomy, the training on weekdays did not allow the rout to rush into battle, but now they are in a hurry to flee for their lives, and almost everyone has forgotten.

"Back to both sides, both sides"

There were hundreds of soldiers in front of the Chinese army, shouting at the rout, but the distance was too far, and there were cavalry chasing and killing behind, and every one of them listened.

"Shoot"

The Chinese archers began to shoot the first round of arrows, and the Wei rout was shot and killed by hundreds of people, and the rest of the rout came to their senses and quickly ran to both sides.

"My lord, what should we do?"

"It's just a hundred steps, rush, hit the main formation"

The cavalry generals of the Liao army who were chasing the enemy made up their minds, at this time, Chen Ge couldn't see them even if he gave the order, the distance was too far, and at this time, the generals on the front line needed to comprehend the commander's orders on their own.

"Eighty steps, bed crossbow, shoot"

When the cavalry entered the eighty paces distance, twenty bed crossbows were fired immediately, and the adult's thigh-thick crossbow arrows were fired, and whether it was a man or a horse, it could be pierced directly, and even three or four could be pierced.

"Archer, five rounds of rapid fire, put"

The bed crossbowmen stepped forward to install the crossbow arrows and re-twisted the crossbow strings, while the three columns of archers behind had already begun to throw arrows, not flat shots, but rapid throwing, and the rain of arrows continued to shoot towards the Liao army, and a large number of Liao troops were shot off their horses.

But the distance was very close, and there were still a large number of Liao troops who broke through the barrier of the rain of arrows, knocked away the shield soldiers in the front, and rushed into the Chinese army formation.

"Kill"

broke through the archers, and on both sides were sword and shield soldiers, strangling the cavalry that had lost their speed, especially Li Yuanxiang arranged a lot of masters in this area, and he killed them extremely fiercely.

"Let that battalion of wolves charge"

Chen Ge also saw that the light cavalry did not rush the main formation of the Wei army, and immediately let the previous battalion of wolf troops continue to charge, before there were 3,000 people, and now there are more than 2,000 people, they began to increase the speed of their horses and rushed towards the main formation.

"The left and right armies quickly converged, let go of the horses, and the spear battalion resisted"

Li Yuanxiang smiled, and finally lured a wolf army to be fooled, and the two armies on the left and right immediately closed together, and began to place rejection horses about ten steps in front of the formation, and then pikemen appeared, these spears were longer than the spears in ordinary combat, at least three meters, forming a thorn formation.

"General Chen..."

"Shut up, I want to eat my wolf army, see if you have this tooth, step out of three battalions, advance"

Chen Ge shouted angrily, now that the speed of the wolf army has been raised, he can't stop if he wants to, the inertia is too great, but he can still make amends, and the infantry of the three battalions began to advance rapidly.

On the wolf army's side, when they saw the rejection of the horse in front of them, the soldiers in front became frightened, but they couldn't stop, so they could only close their eyes and lie on the back of the horse.

"Boom"

More than a dozen heavy cavalry collided with the rejection horse and knocked the rejection horse away, and then more heavy cavalry collided with the spear formation and were stabbed into strings, although there were wolf troops who broke through the spear formation, but the number was too small to break at all, and a battalion of wolf soldiers was killed and wounded.

However, they also opened a gap for the follow-up infantry, and the infantry soldiers were about to engage in battle, and the archers on the Wei army's side had already shot many rounds, their arms were numb, and the bows and arrows had become sparse, so they could only fight the infantry soldiers.

"It's entangled, okay, the left army will press it again, and the immortals will fight"

"The Liao army pressed the main force, the Chinese army sent out a battalion, the left and right armies all went out, the immortals went out, and then the whole army of Yang Heting rushed out and crushed its right army"

Li Yuanxiang saw that the main force of the right army of the Liao army had moved, and he had almost pressed all the troops, except for a battalion of personal guards, all the soldiers and horses in his hands had been pressed.

"Eldest princess, Lord Jiang, it's time for you to fight, defeat the main force of the enemy, disperse them and charge into battle, and we will win"

"Ask the people of Xiange and follow me"

"Tsing Yi Guard, the soldiers of the army, follow me"

Li Hongsleeve flew up directly with the immortals of the Immortal Pavilion to stop the immortals of Tongtian Courtyard, while Jiang Cheng also rushed towards the enemy with the innate martial artists of the Tsing Yi Guard and the military department.

"The whole army charges, the target, the enemy army is in a big way"

On Yang Heting's side, he also rode a fast horse, with a finger of the big knife, all the remaining soldiers and horses were pressed, and he himself took the remaining cavalry to charge at the enemy.