"Knock knock ......"

The deafening sound of war drums accompanied by the shouts of the Nanzhao sergeants swept like thunder.

And the frequency of the Tang army's sentry cavalry is also becoming more and more frequent, a group of Tang army foot soldiers marching in a unified rhythm, stepping on heavy footsteps from the gate gushing out, they are wearing armor, hanging horizontal swords from their waists, holding bows and guns, under the command of the generals in an orderly formation formation, its momentum is like a torrent of steel, swallowing thousands of miles.

As the commander of the Tang Army, Li Sheng climbed the tower at the beginning of the war, condescendingly overlooking the dense Nanzhao army in the distance.

"The Nanzhao army poured out, and it was a desperate gamble."

Standing on top of the building, the situation on the battlefield can be said to be at a glance for Li Sheng.

The Nanzhao army that rushed directly into the Tang army's formation was obviously its elite Luo Thozi, these sharp soldiers were burly and strong, with knotted muscles, wearing red leather pockets, holding a shield inlaid with rhinoceros skin and copper in their left hand, and holding a scimitar like a waning moon in their right hand.

Behind them are a large group of archers armed with bows and quivers.

Yi Mu Xun was also in this array, he was dressed in gold armor, holding two swords, and there were more than a thousand spear-wielding armor soldiers and a thousand Zampu garrison guards on the left and right.

The Nanzhao army in the east and west directions was not completely a rabble, they had yak tails on their helmets, only wearing short armor that could protect their chest and abdomen, and the Shannan Army and Xichuan Army, which were holding Yu knives, big swords, and spears, and rushed to the two wings of the Tang Army, which also looked quite brave.

In the middle of the eastern, western, and southern military formations, there were 2,000 Nanzhao horsemen with green flags and guns and shovels.

At the moment, the three army formations of the Nanzhao Army, the east, west and south all arrived at the Tang Army's military formation a mile away, and when the strange Mu Xun who was supervising the battle in the rear saw this, his dignified face relaxed slightly, and he believed that with the superiority in troops, it was enough to crush the Tang Army.

"Attack!"

With a wave of his hand, Yi Mu Xun gave the order to attack.

After a while, the sound of drums and horns was loud, and in an instant, the snow that had fallen with light snow was trampled on billowing smoke, and the shouts of the Southern Zhao army were like a tsunami, which swept through the four fields in an instant.

On the side of the Tang army, there was also an earth-shattering shout of killing, and the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed.

In Li Sheng's sight, the Nanzhao army was like a tide, surging madly, and his expression gradually became serious and tense.

"Rapid Shot!"

One hundred and fifty steps, Li Sheng suddenly raised his right arm and shouted.

With his order, the nest car and the soldiers on the building who were set up in the military formation to watch the enemy's situation and convey military orders all raised the order flag.

The generals in the formation saw the order flag and immediately followed and gave the same order.

At this time, the distance between the Southern Zhao army and the Tang army was less than 100 steps.

Crossbow arrows like locusts swarmed out of the Tang army's formation, drawing an arc in the air, falling into the Southern Zhao army's formation, and suddenly, the screams were repeated.

Yi Mu Xun's eyes also shrank, the reason was only because the Tang army used a big crossbow, so that the most elite Luo Thozi under his command suffered unexpected casualties.

Tang Jun, how could he carry so many powerful crossbows?

Yi Mu Xun was suspicious in his heart, but at the moment he was in the situation, he could not afford to think too much, and the most important thing now was to break through the Tang army's defense line and engage with him in a short battle.

"Tell Duan Fuke, don't care about casualties, if the Tang army's front is loosened, you can hold the Yuan (widow, I) military order to mobilize the horse army to charge the battle!"

A strong cold glint flashed in Yi Mu Xun's eyes, and at this time he had nothing to worry about, so he could only make a desperate bet.

Of course, the crossbow arrows of the Tang army could not be endless, taking advantage of the gap between the crossbow arrows of the Tang army, the Nanzhao army killed in front of the Tang army when more than 1,000 people fell and the formation was slightly chaotic.

The archers of the Tang Army retreated from the passage in the middle of the formation, and the spearmen stepped forward one after another, erecting a large shield against the enemy, and spears and spears several meters long penetrated through the holes on the shields.

They placed their spears and spears on the ground diagonally, held them sideways, and then kicked their shields with one foot and borrowed their strength with the other.

The moment the first platoon of soldiers on both sides engaged, their eyes widened, shouting words of courage, slashing, or trying to lift the spears in the hands of the enemy, trying to demoralize the opponent, and then stabbing again. After the first row of soldiers engaged, the second row of soldiers in the rear immediately stabbed with spears from the gap between the friendly troops in front, and the third row of soldiers raised their spears to the top of their heads, thus forming several layers of dense spear walls, making it difficult for the Nanzhao army to overcome.

Even if a brave man pulls away the first spear, he will be knocked down by the second and third spears.

"Poof, poof, poof."

The muffled sound of the blade piercing into the flesh continued to sound, blood splattered, and the confrontation between the two sides, there was no sound of Jinge, only the muffled sound of a spear entering the flesh; There was no cry of blood, only the horror of the rain of blood.

It was only because Nanzhao had the cruel military law of swords in the back and execution, and they still pushed forward tirelessly, so that the spears and spears in the hands of the front row of the Tang Army were stained with blood, as if soaked in the smelly and sticky plasma, which was disgusting.

Of course, although the Tang army has the upper hand in the situation, it would be a big mistake to say that the Nanzhao army has shown its defeat on this basis.

It must be known that engagement is not the same as engagement, in fact, only two or three percent of the two armies are in the front and engage the enemy, and the rest are either sitting in the formation with their blades in their hands, or resting and watching in the rear to recuperate.

And only when the generals in the front are killed, they will join the battle.

It was Li Sheng who did not take it lightly because his own side had the upper hand on the battlefield ahead, but instead dealt with it more and more cautiously.

He knew that the real battle had not yet begun, and it was still very early, just like a cheetah lurking in the dark, once it attacked, it would definitely give the enemy a fatal blow.

Sure enough, when the battle situation in front gradually calmed down, there was finally an abnormal movement in the front army of Nanzhao.

A heavily armored foot soldier wearing a tiger skin suddenly killed, the number was not much, only a few hundred, but the momentum was terrifying, as soon as he rushed into the front battle formation, the gun and shield line of the Tang army's front army smashed into pieces, so that the Tang army's front line could not help but spread out to both sides, and a notch appeared.

However, Li Sheng's tight cheeks slowly began to stretch, and when Li Xun saw this, he pointed to the shelter in front of him and said with a smile: "My lord, Yimu Xun is in a hurry, and even the most elite soldiers in his country have been dispatched. ”

Li Sheng nodded, an indifferent and cold expression appeared on his face.

"Pass the order, shrink the formation."

Li Xun was taken aback, and he couldn't understand: "Why is this, once the formation is contracted, our army will lose the initiative, and it will be difficult to turn against the guest when the time comes."

It's better for me to lead the Mo Sword Army to fight with the platoon. ”

When the marching camp army fought with Lun Weeping Zang and Shang Yelu before, they had captured hundreds of heavy armor, and Li Sheng used this to select elite soldiers, and took Mo Dao from the arsenal of East and West Erchuan to form a Mo Dao army of hundreds of people.

Li Sheng shook his head when he heard this: "Don't you hear that Tian Ji is a horse race, how can there be a reason for the upper horse to the upper horse?" ”

Li Xun was stunned for a moment, as if he understood something, and his face changed suddenly: "My lord, what do you mean...... With the middle of the horse, shrink the formation, so that the soldiers and horses sit in the wilderness, cold and cold, and when General Han's strange troops arrive, then send the upper horse to attack his lower horse, internal and external attack, and destroy it in one fell swoop? ”

Li Sheng smiled and bowed: "Even if you are a smart kid, I don't know which of your brothers can inherit my strategy of war and inherit my mantle." ”

When Li Xun heard this, his face was embarrassed.

"My lord, didn't you pass on everything you learned in your life to Hachiro?"

"After all, Hachiro's surname is Guo, not Li...... Alas, I don't know what happened to him and Han Bingma, I hope this kid won't live up to my expectations. ”

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And after Han Min and Guo Ying, who had been hiding in the Xiaoxianggong Ridge in the rear of the Nanzhao Army for several days, learned that the battle had started in front of them, they also led their troops to quietly touch a hill a few miles behind the Nanzhao Army.

After looking carefully for a while, Guo Ying also understood the situation on the battlefield, the Tang army was holding the camp on its back, while the Nanzhao army was desperately attacking in front, and the Tang army was resisting day by day, and the situation seemed very stale.

It may seem dangerous, but it's not at all.

The Tang army's various flags fluttered non-stop, and the heralds with feathers on their backs rode horses and galloped back and forth, and under the command of Li Sheng, 30,000 Tang troops were like arms and fingers.

Every time the front was shaken, there was always a new force to join the battlefield to stabilize the military formation, and the Nanzhao army could not attack for a long time, coupled with the lack of food and clothing, and the morale gradually declined.

Its offensive is also getting weaker and weaker, and even if Yimu Xun changes a few groups of new forces to go up, it has not been able to reverse the decline.

By the time the battle reached the chieftain, the sun had turned west, and the Southern Zhao army still could not take the Tang army front after all.

Seeing this, he had to withdraw his troops, pack up the wounded soldiers, and rest for the time being.

It's just that they flaunted their might all day, how could the Tang soldiers allow them to withdraw so easily, and even launched a counterattack under the leadership of Li Sheng.

Of course, this is also part of the plan.

Li Sheng and Han Min had two battle plans at the beginning, one was to take advantage of the darkness of Qiannanzhao to withdraw troops from inside and outside, and the other was to launch a night attack.

At this moment, seeing that Li Sheng was pinning down the Nanzhao army from the front, Han Min was not ambiguous, and immediately led his troops to pounce on the relatively weak left soldiers and horses of the Nanzhao army from the rear.