At the head of Xinxiang City, Taishou and Taiwei and other Xinxiang civil and military officials are still standing here, and the cavalry who have gone away have already seen the traces, and even the dust has fallen to the ground.

The infantry army outside the city has already converged, and the infantry army of a total of 8,000 people has completely blocked the entire Xinxiang Beicheng periphery, even if Kang'an comes back with the Beiyuan cavalry now, there is nothing to do about Xinxiang City.

The heralds who left Xinxiang have long since left. Today's Xinxiang City is more than enough to defend the city and not enough to attack, it is okay to protect Xinxiang and my own city, but the villages, markets, and small towns outside can be taken care of, let alone exterminate these grandsons of the Northern Yuan. Therefore, Xinxiang Taishou sent this group of heralds, first, to inform other places of the appearance of 5,000 Northern Yuan cavalry here, and to exterminate them with the strength of everyone, and secondly, to ask for help from Zhongnan City, after all, in this battle, the Xinxiang City infantry army was killed and wounded nearly 3,000 people, and the Northern Yuan cavalry scared Xinxiang Taishou's careful liver so much that it was a frightened heart.

The Northern Yuan cavalry retreated, and I don't know if it will come back, and none of the officials in Xinxiang City dared to propose to reinforce the reinforcements that ran away, not to mention that there were still a large number of corpses outside the city that needed to be disposed of, so the 8,000 infantry army was ordered to clean up the scene while on guard, and only after completing it could they return to the military camp in the city.

In the city, more than 1,000 gangs of the Qianchu Gang were jointly guarded by the Jinyi Mansion and Dali Temple, and the various sects were ready to move but no one was moved, especially after the disappearance of the Northern Yuan cavalry outside the city, even the gangsters and unemployed vagrants wandering the streets disappeared, and the Jinyi guards on the streets let them know that the time of the purge had come, and who could survive in this crisis time depends on the usual way of life, as long as someone dares to beat a rake at this time, the Jinyi guards will dare to give you a lot of hats out of nothing and then clean you up, and the emperor has always turned a blind eye to this kind of local obvious opportunity to clean up the forces in the rivers and lakes。

On the official road, no one was dissatisfied with the adjutant general's terrible roar, and every soldier was running desperately, and he couldn't even care about maintaining the formation, just asking for the cover of his comrades in place first, and then speaking, fighting against the cavalry troops in this wilderness, wandering outside the big formation is a sign that you are one step ahead!

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, and the figures are getting clearer and clearer, but the number is not much, only more than a thousand people, but most of them are one person, two horses or even three horses, and this is how the rumbling horses' hooves come from.

According to the news from the buffalo, there are five thousand cavalry on the other side, here are a thousand, and there are more than a thousand dead and wounded outside Xinxiang City before, and the cavalry besieging the general is only more than two thousand, although it is still more than one person in his own family, but thinking about the glorious image created by Feng Yishan, the deputy general is still full of confidence that he has won most of this battle, and he doesn't know that the Feng Zhuang owner who has no last resort in his heart is still waiting for his help！

When the Northern Yuan cavalry came to the periphery of the infantry formation, they slowed down their horses, did not approach, only kept a stone away, and began to run in a circle around the infantry formation.

The circular cavalry formation of the Northern Yuan cavalry became more and more felt the more they ran, and the more they ran, the more neat the formation became, and the deputy general's face changed after two laps. He recognized the most common rogue tactic used by this nomad, the "Ring Cavalry Formation". The cavalry runs in a circle, can always keep a certain distance from you, shoot with a bow at a close distance, and prepare for aiming at a distance, which has excellent accuracy and good firepower durability.

The speed of the Northern Yuan cavalry became more and more stable, and the cavalry raised the cavalry bow and picked it up and put it down. The lieutenant knows that they are adjusting their formation, speed, angle, distance, etc., and when they are ready, they will be greeted by a continuous rain of arrows. It's not impossible to fight against this kind of circular cavalry formation, but you need to use some tools and chariots, but you don't have anything now.

The anxious lieutenant general watched the horse speed of the Northern Yuan cavalry become more and more stable, the beads of sweat on his forehead fell like rain, and the three generals around him circled around him, and suddenly one of the generals said, "Lord Adjutant General, why don't we use the tortoiseshell formation to defend it!"

"How to defend to the death, a little retract and they will forcibly attack, when the time comes, in the face of the cavalry charge, there is no strategic space, how can we hold it. The adjutant said irritably.

The general pointed at the soldiers... The shield said, "Lord Adjutant General, we came out this time to deal with the Jianghu people, and the soldiers brought three kinds of shields, one is a small round shield hanging on the arm, the other is a half-body square shield held in one hand, and the third is a large battle shield that requires several people to work together." ”

The adjutant general said impatiently, "I know this, but what's the use!

"My lord, the soldiers can't, but the land can, although the grass is overgrown here, the soil is soft, and it is extremely easy to dig holes, as long as the soldiers retract back, insert the battle shield into the ground, and put spears on the shelf, so that the layers are densely packed with fish scale shield formations, and the thousands of Northern Yuan cavalry want to forcibly charge the formation is just a fool's dream. ”

The adjutant general groaned, he really couldn't think of a better way, this is better than standing here and waiting for the rain of arrows of the Northern Yuan cavalry to shoot him to death one by one!

At this time, the infantry of each fruit has already lined up the shield array, the big shield is in front and the small shield is behind, the spearmen, knife soldiers, archers, etc. are hidden in the shield array, and as soon as they listen to the order of the deputy general, they will find the magic in it, and the denser shield array means a larger protective area, and their own security will be higher, so they ordered the troops to pull out the formation and retreat slowly.

The commanders commanded the troops in the rear to cover each other and retreat together so as not to leave a usable gap for the Northern Yuan cavalry, and the large battle shields and shields were connected one by one, until the entire shield array was connected, and the head of the hundred households immediately ordered the battle shield to be inserted into the ground, and let them frantically dig the soil to strengthen the roots of the shield, and one by one the spears stretched out from the gap in the shield, turning the shield array into a huge steel hedgehog. In this way, a forest of steel composed of circles of battle shields was formed, and the soldiers who used half-body shields put their shields on the upper parts of the front and rear battle shields, covering the sky of the whole army, and completely turning it into a steel fortress. From the outside, the whole shield array is like a fish scale into a diamond-shaped small array next to the small array, because the shields are placed diagonally, so that when the cavalry collides, it is mostly facing the sharp side of the shield, rather than the wide front, the casualties caused by the same impact are much greater, and the power of the cavalry impact is much smaller.

The fish scale shield array was arranged, and the deputy general walked in the gap between the shield walls, checking the quality of the shield array, and the Northern Yuan cavalry was not in a hurry when they saw this change, and the circular cavalry formation was reduced a little, and the continuous rain of arrows began to fall, and the hula fell on the shields with a loud sound.

The lieutenant general commanded the archers to take advantage of the gap in the rain of arrows to raise the square shield above their heads to color, but even if the strong bow in the hands of the archers was stronger than the riding bow, the difficulty of moving the target shot made the hit rate plummet, and most of the arrows were missed to the ground, and only a few cavalry were unlucky enough to be shot, which attracted bursts of mocking roars from the Northern Yuan cavalry.

The adjutant general knew that the soldiers would not be able to hold out for long in such a posture, and because of the coverage of the shield array, they could not see how the casualties were under the rain of arrows just now, but they could only insist on counterattacking, because he knew that if he did not bravely counterattack, his morale would be quickly lowered, and then this battered shield array would not be able to hold on, and he and the others would face a massacre.

Liu Changshan led the three hundred cavalry that had regrouped together to fight with the Northern Yuan cavalry in the woods, not knowing that his infantry was facing a severe test, so he only cared about stabbing a Northern Yuan cavalry to death with his own guards and rushing to the next one.

Feng Yishan felt that something was wrong at the moment when a large number of Northern Yuan cavalry appeared, there must be a master in this group of Northern Yuan cavalry, and he guessed every step of his move, and now he directly ambushed himself and others, if they let them succeed, this Xinxiang area will become their world.

Feng Yishan ignored the ridicule of the comer, and commanded the guards to continue to move forward with him, because he knew that the masters were over there, and the distance was not far, and he would definitely come here to rescue after knowing the changes in the forest.

But the Northern Yuan people were obviously unwilling to let Feng Yishan run away like this, as soon as he raised his leg, seven or eight arrows shot at him, and the Yanyun Eight guards protected him in the middle and brushed the two swords to block them, they were safe, but the white-clothed monk Xuan Ying of Kuching Temple was not so good, and the tricky arrow fell into his leg headlong, and he could only dodge with a long stick in embarrassment.

Two guards stepped forward to set up Xuan Ying and ran together, a dense rain of arrows... Flying by them, and in the blink of an eye, a few more arrows were hit, so anxious that Xuan Ying pushed them away again and again to let them go first, Feng Yishan couldn't give up the two guards, so he could only turn around and protect them to go together.

At this time, the Northern Yuan cavalry had already pulled out the scimitar and killed it, and the boss dragon knife in Yan Yunba's guards was about to leave first as soon as he carried Feng Yishan, but Feng Yishan stubbornly refused, raised his hand and shot over a Northern Yuan cavalryman with a flying needle, shouting, "Let's go!"