Yuan Peng breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at it for a while, and then decided to lead the reserve team to implement a detour, detour back to the back of Ma Chao's department, so that Ma Chao's department would not come and go. Ma Chaobu is the most powerful of the tridents attacking the big phalanx, as long as the Ma Chaobu is defeated, Huangfu Song still has a great chance to turn defeat into victory.

Yuan couldn't help but be proud of his wit and strategic vision.

But just as Yuan Peng waved the flag and ordered the reserve team to go with him to rescue the large phalanx, he first heard two drums above the camp of the Xiliang army; Then I heard the sound of warning drums from the large camp a few miles behind Takaoka, which the reserve had occupied.

Hearing the warning from his own battalion, Yuan Peng was shocked, and hurriedly set his eyes on the entire chaotic and smoke-filled battlefield, and did not see any troops of the Xiliang Army attacking the reserves. Yuan Peng sighed, but then thought that the warning drum was coming from the big camp, and the big camp was behind.

Yuan Peng hurriedly turned his head to see that under Gaogang, where the reserve was located, there was a group of Xiliang cavalry of about several thousand, opening up their formation and attacking the reserve.

Yuan Peng was so shocked that he didn't have time to think about where this enemy army came from. Now he had to engage this sudden enemy army first, and there was no time to rescue the Chinese army that was already in danger.

Yuan Peng hurriedly ordered the reserve of 7,000 cavalry to rush down to Gaogang at a rapid pace, and with the help of Gaogang's height of several zhang, he could accumulate extremely fast charging speed and powerful potential energy. Yuan Peng thought that relying on this, he should be able to quickly defeat this enemy army.

But soon, what happened next gave Yuan Peng a slap in the face.

Taking advantage of the fact that Yuan Peng and the reserve team could not react quickly in a short period of time, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry actually rushed to the back of the Chinese army, blocking between the reserve and the Chinese army. In other words, unless Yuan Peng can break this group of enemy troops, he will not be able to rescue the Chinese army.

What surprised Yuan Peng even more was that this enemy army, fifty steps away from Gaogang, actually got off their horses en masse, drove away all the horses, and acted as infantry!

This enemy army, as soon as they got off horseback, quickly spread out their formation, and the soldiers with shields rushed to the front, and under the loud shouts of a lieutenant general, they were the first to gather together and merge into a shield wall. The length of the shield wall actually surrounded most of the high hill. At the same time, the spear-wielding soldiers were immediately in position, each cooperating with the shield bearer, holding the spear in both hands, and countless glowing spear heads pierced out of the gap between the shields, or were neatly mounted on the shields.

And after the spearmen, there are the axemen who hold the broken golden sword, or the axe, or the hammer. Their mission was to meet the enemy cavalry as they broke through the shield wall and kill the enemy cavalry who rushed into the formation.

And after the knife and axemen, there are the crossbowmen in a neat arrangement. The crossbowman has the range of the crossbow equipped, so that the archer stands first and the crossbowman last. Among the crossbowmen, the crossbowman with the arm is at the front, and the crossbowman with the waist is at the end.

The whole formation is arranged just right, and there are no flaws. Yuan Peng knew that if he wanted to break the formation, he would have to pay huge casualties. But when I thought that if I couldn't rescue the Chinese army and sit back and watch the defeat of the Chinese army, then the whole army would be defeated.

Yuan Peng had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead his army to charge towards the enemy's infantry formation. But the reserve had just begun to charge when it was shot by the crossbow arrows of the Xiliang army, and dozens of people fell. The reserve rushed down to the high hill, and the crossbow arrows and bows were more dense, so that the horses of the seven thousand cavalry of the reserve team would fall dozens of people for every few steps they ran.

However, fortunately, the distance was too short, and the reserves of the official army still quickly rushed to the front of the Xiliang army's infantry formation. Under the leadership of Yuan Peng, the cavalry of the officers and soldiers jumped on their horses one after another, intending to break through the shield wall. However, the infantry of the Xiliang army kept arrows on one side and spears on the other, blocking a group of officers and cavalry who were the first to charge in front of the shield wall. As soon as the cavalry galloped, it was like firing a bow without turning back. The officers and cavalry rushed into battle one after another like beasts of prey.

This put tremendous pressure on the 5,000 infantry of the Western Liang Army, but the infantry of the Western Liang Army still fought to the death and withstood the fierce impact of thousands of troops and horses. The horses of the reserve of the officers and soldiers crashed into the shields, and some of the shielders behind the shields were shocked all over their bodies, and they did not flinch at all. The pikeman stretched out his spear to stab the cavalry of the officer's reserve, and because of the huge impact, the palm of the spear was rubbed into the skin. Even so, the formation of the Xiliang Army was not broken.

However, the reserve force had 7,000 cavalry, and the infantry of the Xiliang Army that had suddenly landed on the battlefield was only 5,000. Yuan Peng frantically organized his troops, resisting the rain of arrows shot by countless bows and crossbows, and continued to charge into battle, and soon some officers and cavalry broke through the formation one after another, stepping on more than a dozen shields on the ground.

The one who commanded this foot soldier was Duan Xuan. Seeing that the formation was showing signs of being broken, Duan Xuan shouted to the sword and axe hand to destroy the enemy cavalry that rushed into the formation, and at the same time ordered the shield bearers on both sides of the gap to merge left and right to fill the gap.

There were not many cavalrymen who could break through the shield bearers and pikemen in a row, and as soon as they rushed in front of the sword and axemen, the speed slowed down a lot, and immediately the Xiliang saber and axe men rushed up, or cut the horse's legs, or split the cavalry. Soon, all the officers and cavalry who rushed into the formation fell.

Yuan Peng hurriedly urged his troops to charge, but there were still few cavalrymen in the reserve who could rush into the enemy's formation. And under Duan Xuan's command, shield bearers and pikemen will fill the gaps in time, the knife and axe men will be responsible for dealing with the enemy cavalry rushing into the formation, and the last archers and crossbowmen will never stop shooting arrows even if their fingers are scarred by the bowstring. They adopt a three-stage shooting method, shooting arrows in waves, maintaining a continuous rain of arrows.

In this way, although the formation of 5,000 Xiliang infantry soldiers, under the impact of the 7,000 cavalry of the official reserve, has been precarious and crumbling, it has never collapsed. And because they were hit by a rain of arrows in the distance, stabbed by spears in front of the formation, and slashed by swords and axes in the middle of the formation, the casualties of the officers and cavalry rose rapidly. The foot soldiers of the Xiliang Army, who have not been broken, have fewer casualties.

The larger number of cavalry could not break through the formation of fewer infantry, which made Yuan Peng furious, and he madly ordered his troops to rush forward in waves, but in exchange for the corpses that were scattered in front of the enemy formation.

After charging for a long time, the reserve lost more than 2,000 horsemen, in exchange for the loss of more than 300 shield bearers in the Xiliang army formation, which made the shield wall shorter and thinner. Not only that, because the reserve is composed of soldiers from the family. Seeing that the casualties were so large, these people could not break through the enemy's position, and their morale plummeted. For Yuan Peng's orders, he became more and more negative.

Yuan Pan looked up and sighed, could it be that the sky wants to destroy the official army!