Song Niu, as the vanguard, led 20,000 former troops, and according to the plan, drove back the enemy scouts who might be hiding around, cleared nearby obstacles, and cleared the field for the follow-up army.

As soon as the five battalions of the front army lined up, they heard the sound of war drums in the distance.

The sound of the drums accompanied by the desolate sound of the trumpets spread in all directions.

Although Song Niu is a small square marshal, but the battlefield experience is indeed extremely rich, when he attacked Qingzhou before, Jiufang Qu Shuai died in battle, Song Niu relied on his military exploits to fill the vacancy of a Qu Shuai.

The soldiers below are also able to fight well.

When he heard the sound of drums, he immediately secretly screamed that it was not good, and quickly ordered to form a formation.

The huge army formation spread out, the soldiers were like rocks, standing on the field outside the falling horse city, the battle array stretched for several miles, the swords and guns were like wheat ears and halberds like hemp forests, and the flags covered the sky and the earth.

However, these 15,000 men and horses are not all his men and horses, and there are other three armies who have also joined in, and the first cooperation is not a special tacit understanding.

Therefore, by the time the enemy rushed to the face, their battle formation had not yet been set.

The soldiers of the Heavenly Master in the first two rows were directly slashed and killed by the enemy.

However, this group of enemy troops is not the real Yuzhou army, but the captured soldiers of the Tianshi Army, who have only practiced for more than ten days to arrange their formations, and under the drive of a small number of Yuzhou army soldiers, they forcibly rushed forward.

In Liang Song's eyes, this group of captives is cannon fodder, and he doesn't have so much food to feed tens of thousands of prisoners, so they only eat one meal these days, and they are already a group of hungry ants who are struggling to survive, not even as good as a rabble.

Therefore, even if they had the upper hand, they were still stopped by Song Niu's vanguard army.

Without armor, as long as they were stabbed, they fell to the ground.

They were frightened and retreated.

"I can't retreat, rush me!"

At this time, the Yuzhou army, which was mixed in it, was equivalent to the role of the supervising team, and when they saw the prisoners retreating, they slashed over with a single sword.

With wolves in front and tigers in the back, the situation was suddenly chaotic.

The sound of war drums in the city was endless, and countless wrestlers with big shoulders and round waists held drumsticks high to beat the cowhide war drums, and the thick drums echoed throughout the battlefield.

Liang Song looked far away, and with his strength, he could already see that the situation was chaotic.

Immediately instructed Shi Meng below: "It's your turn." ”

"No."

Two thousand Xuan leopard horsemen galloped out of the city, and after that, they were followed by thousands of soldiers, this group of people was the real elite of the Yuzhou army, all in armor.

At this time, Song Niu's vanguard army was still fighting with this group of prisoners, and they started a fierce hand-to-hand combat.

In the shouting and killing of the mountains and tsunamis, the terrible screams of the soldiers came and went, blood burst out in bursts, and sharp spears and broadswords reaped the lives of this group of weeds on the battlefield.

And Song Niu's vanguard army obviously occupies the absolute crush.

However, as soon as Song Niu finished wiping the blood splashed on his face, he saw the sand and stones of the earth shake, and the sound of horses' hooves came from not far away.

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

When they looked up, they saw a rain of arrows coming towards them.

I can't distinguish between the enemy and the enemy in the rain of arrows, whether it is the Yuzhou army, the prisoners or the Heavenly Master army, all of them are within its killing range.

"Poof."

"Puff puff !!"

A round of arrows rained down, and countless lives were harvested.

After the cavalry of the Xuanbao cavalry finished shooting a round, they also rushed to their faces at the speed of war horses, and the cavalry put their bows on their backs, drew their broadswords at their waists, and killed the crowd.

The battlefield was already in chaos, the formation had long been chaotic, and in this case, in the face of the cavalry charge, there was no room for resistance.

Anyone who was not wearing the same armor was all under the attack of the Xuan Leopard Cavalry.

The captives, the Heavenly Division, they fell one after another like wheat in the field.

Just when Song Niu still wanted to try to resist, he wanted to turn the tide of the battle with the power of one person.

"Knock Knock"

The marching drum sounded, the Yuzhou infantry poured up, in the chaotic environment, Song Niu's vanguard army, couldn't tell how many people came, but they could see that this group of Yuzhou infantry was all armored, and it was a hoplite without any gaps.

One of the leading generals was dark-skinned, burly and tall, holding two pumpkin copper hammers, wearing a red iron armor, and a fiery red robe hunting in the wind.

With a hammer, the person who was hit flew dozens of meters away, and overwhelmed a large area, killing him on the spot.

Even the soldiers of the Heavenly Master Army in armor had no power to resist.

The other side has already launched an order to "capture the flag and behead the general".

Although Song Niu could rush up and fight one-on-one with the other party, when he saw the vanguard soldiers around him who began to flee one by one, he could only grit his teeth and order a retreat.

Because even him, once he is surrounded, the final result will be difficult to escape.

With Song Niu's order, the pro-military battalions around him also began to retreat on a large scale.

At the same time, at the head of the city, Liang Song gave the order to withdraw his troops.

Because he saw that this thief army was just a group of vanguard troops, and the main force was still behind, so it was not suitable for pursuit.

On the battlefield, Shi Meng saw the other party fleeing, and instinctively wanted to order a pursuit, but soon heard the loud sound of a golden gong in the rear.

Mingjin withdrew his troops.

Orders and prohibitions are the most basic thing for a strong army.

Whether it was the Xuanbao cavalry or the infantry of the Yuzhou Army, they immediately stopped their advance.

Only the remaining captives who were still alive looked around blankly, not knowing whether to follow back to the city or run in the direction of the Heavenly Master Army.

However, they didn't hesitate for too long, they were more rushing in the direction of the Heavenly Master Army.

Seeing this, Shi Meng began the greatest possible extermination.

……

A few miles away, the middle army and the rear army of the Heavenly Division Army, who were still behind, heard the sound of drums, and Lu Yonggang, as the commander-in-chief, changed his face, this was the enemy's war drum.

He immediately ordered a formation and sent scouts to investigate.

When the news of the scouts came, saying that the vanguard army had started a war with the Yuzhou army, Lu Yonggang suddenly looked surprised.

The Yuzhou army actually dared to go out of the city to fight?

After all, in order to not know the specific situation of each other's troops, first of all, to probe the troops, and then to engage in preliminary battles and conduct tests.

But for the sake of the current troop strength is unknown, it takes a lot of courage to go directly out of the city to fight.

And judging from the current situation, it is obviously the most stable to defend the city.

Thinking about the meeting, Lu Yonggang hurriedly ordered Huang Da and Chen Mo to lead troops to reinforcements.

Auxiliaries are like that, where they need to be filled.

However, when Chen Mo and the others rushed away, Song Niu retreated back with less than half of the men and horses, his face gloomy.

……

It's past noon.

Thirty miles away from Falling Horse City, there were soldiers of the Heavenly Master Army wearing Xuan armor, and military flags at all levels were erected high.

A clearing that has been carved out.

"Spare your life, Lu Shuai spare your life, we are also forced."

“.”

The re-thrown captives knelt in row after row, desperately begging for mercy.

However, in the face of this group of prisoners who were also the Heavenly Master Army, Lu Yonggang was unmoved, and ordered: "Cut!" ”

"Don't, don't"

The military order was issued, and the soldiers of the Heavenly Division Army who acted as executioners were already standing behind them, and as the swords in their hands fell, blood mist splashed everywhere, and human heads rolled down.

Lu Yonggang knew that they were forced, but they still had to die.

More than half of the vanguard army was killed and wounded, and someone had to carry this.

Moreover, Lu Yonggang clearly knew what kind of virtue the soldiers of the Heavenly Master Army at the bottom were, they could only win, and they kept winning.

If you lose a loss, especially in the first battle, it will be a big blow to morale.

"It was they who caused them great casualties, as believers in the Heavenly Master Sect, they actually took refuge in the imperial court and pointed their blades at us, which is unforgivable." Lu Yonggang said loudly.

The soldiers around him spread what he had said to the surrounding areas.

"Suffering, corruption, bullying, famine are all brought by the imperial court.

We and other small people have suffered a lot, the officials are corrupt, they wantonly bully us, the world is in drought, there is no harvest, and the taxes are heavy, just because the princes and magnates are arrogant and lascivious, greedy and happy.

We waited for the small people to rise up, but we just wanted to go to Tianchuan and ask for justice from the high Song Emperor, but in exchange for killing us.

If the court is unfair, we will overthrow the court, and if the world is unfair, we will destroy the world.

The lives of the soldiers of the thousands of heavenly divisions must be repaid with blood by the officers and soldiers in the fallen horse city. ”

"Victory!" Lu Yonggang pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted.

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

The soldiers below echoed and shook the sky in unison.

The low morale caused by the defeat of the vanguard army was actually pulled back under Lu Yonggang's "speech".

"Something." Chen Mo watched from afar, apologizing in his heart for his previous "underestimation" of Lu Yonggang.

It seems that the Heavenly Master Army can develop to such a large scale, and it seems that it is not just taking advantage of the situation, and there are many capable people inside.

I still have a long way to go on "this road", and I still have to see and learn more.

After regaining morale, Lu Yonggang immediately convened a meeting of officers at all levels.

In the military tent, Lu Yonggang asked Song Niu to recall the whole process, but summed up the experience of failure.

Song Niu admitted that he had underestimated the enemy.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the other party dared to go out of the city, and he was caught off guard, and he didn't even set up a battle array.

And the other party's battle is indeed beautiful, layer by layer, ring after ring, and the most important thing is that he is not in love with war.

Chen Mo took the booklet and recorded it all with charcoal, this is all experience, you have to learn.

After summing up the experience, Lu Yonggang talked about what to do next.

First of all, this Falling Horse City is definitely going to be fought.

They are different from the Yuzhou army, the longer the time drags on, the lower the morale will only become, especially if they have fought a defeated battle at the beginning.

Besides, winter is coming.

The weather is bitterly cold, which is even more unfavorable for them.

Unless they disobey the order of the Heavenly Master and withdraw from Yuzhou.

Therefore, we must take down the Falling Horse City as soon as possible while the morale is still there.

Everyone began to discuss the way to attack the city.

ps: There will be a chapter of the alliance leader's addition in the early morning.

(End of chapter)