It's just that Jing Wu doesn't want the Mo family to collapse, but he may not be willing to cut his own flesh to feed the Mo family, a behemoth.

Even if you can win a big victory, there will always be a loss of military and financial strength, and from the perspective of a country's interests, you still need to think long-term.

Although Jing Wu has been friendly with the Mo family since its establishment, the people's hearts are fickle and current affairs are unpredictable, and no one can guarantee that the Mo family can always be Jing Wu's allies, and will not reflexively become Jing Wu's enemy.

Therefore, if only some small tricks and the might of the large army forced the Tang army to retreat, it would naturally be the result that Jing Wu wanted to see the most.

But is Xiang Chu the one who will back down?

Gao Changgong shook his head with some regret, although this was the first time that the two of them had met in front of the two armies, he had already known this rookie general of the Tang Kingdom from the book given to him by the spies, and he knew very well that Xiang Chu's temperament had always been as hard as iron, and it was a hundred times more difficult to say that a person with such a temperament was a hundred times more difficult than snatching a strange girl on the street to go home.

Not......

Gao Changgong lowered his head and smiled, as if he felt that it was a little funny for him to think like this, after all, he had such a stunning face, not to mention robbing girls on the street, when he liked to hang out on the street in the early years, how many times was he almost eaten alive by the girls in red dresses and green silk all over the street......

"Xiang may be about to disappoint General Gao...... Sure enough, Xiang Chu said in a resolute tone: "Jing Wu wants to maintain the balance of power of the four countries, so as to solve a series of problems such as the unstable internal foundation of Jing Wu and the turmoil in the court, but what I want in the Tang Kingdom is to break the balance of power and take advantage of the chaos, so I ...... At all costs. ”

Gao Changgong looked up to the sky and sighed: "The people have been stable for only a few years, does General Xiang have to burn this war all over the world? General Xiang is not afraid of setting himself on fire?"

"Natural selection, the law of the jungle is the unchanging principle of heaven. Xiang Chu's smile grew thicker, with a bit of arrogance, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle.

Maybe he'll catch fire, maybe he'll fall to the bottom one day, but he doesn't care, because as long as he lives, he'll have to show his majesty in the air, showing his claws to the trembling lambs or rabbits below.

It's not that he's sure he'll win, it's just that he never imagines himself to be defeated one day.

If you can't talk about it, you can only go to war.

Li Mo slowly approached Xiang Chu's side, the Shenwu Heavenly Army behind him had been reorganized, and its might had not diminished except for some soldiers who were not fully armored.

But he was still a little worried, and whispered: "General, something is not right, just such a good opportunity, Gao Changgong actually did not lead the army to raid, for fear of fraud." ”

Xiang Chu looked at Jing Wujun's formation and moved his lips slightly: "People like Gao Changgong are always difficult to deceive. ”

Li Yu nodded, the elite of the Shenwu Heavenly Army was not only in the excellent armor, but also in the subtlety of the formation, which was unimaginable to ordinary people.

The Shenwu Heavenly Army seemed to be chaotic just now, but there was still a hidden killing motive in it, even if the Jing Wu Army was nearly 90,000, once they rashly attacked, the Shenwu Heavenly Army would seize the opportunity to change the formation to counter the Jing Wu Army, and then use the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry to kill a bloody road......

However, Gao Changgong did not rush forward as he expected, but was unhurried and did not move, and even the distance between the two armies did not change by half a minute.

No wonder there's a saying that it's more troublesome to know your enemies than smart enemies.

Gao Changgong, who was born in Jing Wu, was very aware of the flaws of the Shenwu Heavenly Army and the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, that is, speed, even though the Shenwu Heavenly Army had a solidity that other infantry armies could not match, and the sharpness of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry was enough to compete with the Black Cavalry, but the heavy armor and shield also greatly slowed down their speed.

In the face of the Qingzhou ghost riders who are like the wind, their side can't easily get rid of them, and even the Qingzhou ghost riders don't need to confront them head-on, just relying on their speed to harass them on the side, which can make them exhausted and in trouble.

"If you can break through the blockade of the Jingwu army, take Junshan all the way to join the other Tang armies, and Xingzhou side...... There may be a turnaround. Xiang Chu frowned slightly and thought about it.

Li Yu took a deep breath and hurriedly asked, "What does the general want to do?"

"What to do? Could it be that my Xiang Chu will still be afraid that I will not succeed in a battle on the field? Pass the order, the Xuanjia heavy cavalry will contain the two wings of the Jing Wu army, and the whole army will press on it, so be sure to tear a hole in it!" Xiang Chu's laughter suddenly became cold: "I need a chance to face Gao Changgong, as long as Gao Changgong is dead, all that remains is a group of rabble......

"The general wants to kill Gao Changgong?" Li Yu was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect Xiang Chu to hide his murderous intent so much in this situation, "But...... With all due respect, the general has just fought with Wang Xuanwei, and the loss of qi and blood is not small, and if he fights Gao Changgong again at this moment, I am afraid it will not be easy to win......"

The halberd had been held in Xiang Chu's hand again, and he raised it with one hand to draw a sharp arc in the air, and his expression was a little eager to try: "How can you know if you don't try?" Not to mention...... It doesn't have to be my own hands. ”

Gao Changgong and Xiang Chu's brief conversation failed to dilute the murderous atmosphere between the two armies after all. In the final analysis, the seeds of enmity between the two countries have long been planted deeply, and now goodbye, the seeds have grown into towering trees with teeth and claws, and naturally both sides have the intention of not bending.

In a great battle of southern invasion, how many widows and widows did Jing Wu suddenly add? Many soldiers in the ghost cavalry in Qingzhou were ruined because of the disaster of the soldiers, and such a monstrous blood feud could only be repaid with blood.

"The enemy is close! 200 steps!

The arrow cracked, like a string pulled to the limit, and let out a terrible cry, and a black cloud rose into the sky, turning into a black torrential rain, and splashed down.

The outermost shield of the Shenwu Heavenly Army had already been raised high, like an indifferent and hard stone wall, blocking the clanging sound of collision and the sharp edges out of the wall.

With the offensive of the rain of arrows, the forward troops of the Jing Wu army marched forward bravely, the two armies were not far apart, and finally collided after a hundred steps, and the shouting of killing was loud for a while, and the noise on the vast wilderness shook the sky again.

Qin Ke and Abu found another high slope suitable for observation, and climbed to the highest place just to get a panoramic view of the entire battlefield.

But what shocked him was that the Jing Wu army was nearly twice as numerous and its morale was high, but it still failed to gain the upper hand in front of the brave Tang army.

The two elites of the Shenwu Heavenly Army and the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry did not live up to the Tang Kingdom's vigorous cultivation over the years, even if the crossbow arrows of the Jing Wu Army rained down, they could not cause them enough damage, and when they attacked forward with all their might, it seemed to be like a stream of iron, invincible.

Seeing this fierce Tang army, Qin Ke also felt a little chill in his heart, one can imagine how desperate the Mo family cavalry was when facing this army before.

However, the chariots brought by Gao Changgong along the way did play a role that could not be ignored, and these sturdy objects had hidden mechanisms, and once they reached a predetermined position, they would protrude sharp steel drills from the bottom and pierce deep into the earth, becoming a strong barrier for the Jing Wu army to move.

If it weren't for the fact that these barriers withstood the tidal wave of the Tang army, the forward of the Jingwu army would have already collapsed under the onslaught of the Tang army.

And after the initial panic, the Jing Wu army also stabilized again, and in the rumbling of war drums, they gradually showed their minions.

As an army that has always trained the Tang army as an imaginary enemy, the Jing Wu army's ability to deal with the Shenwu Heavenly Army is obviously more skilled than the Mo army, and this proficiency is not only reflected in the chariots specially used to resist the impact of iron armor, but also in the weapons and military formations of the Jing Wu army.

The weapons used by the Jingwu infantry were not uniform, and the unified army formation was carefully divided into several parts, excluding the crossbowmen in the back row, the shield soldiers in the front row who specialized in shield-holding defense, and the back row of spearmen waiting for the right moment to pierce with spears, and after the two, there were also heavy axemen.

The heavy axemen carrying the huge plate axe had not yet bloomed their sharpness at this time, and the armor they wore was far less heavy and thick than the Shenwu Heavenly Army, and even when facing the first round of impact of the Shenwu Heavenly Army, they were as wooden as rows of expressionless stone statues.

But if the Shenwu Heavenly Army despises them a little bit because of this, it is really a big mistake.

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