Born in Siberia and heading south along the Mongolian Plateau, the cold air from the north blows quietly across the Guanzhong Plain in the early morning, bringing the bitter cold to Guanzhong.

The morning sun in winter awakens the sleeping earth with the cold sun, the horse's hooves beat the frozen hard earth, and a flaming red flag is fluttering in the wind, and the name of "Shence Army and Riding Capital" on it is very dazzling.

Li Xu rode on the horse, his mood was no longer as enthusiastic as when he just left the city, and his mind was focused on the next battlefield changes.

Can his more than 300 cavalry really turn the tide of the battle upside down?

Li Xu didn't dare to guarantee that anything would really change, but since it came out, he had to let these more than 300 people play their due role.

Today, before dawn, Li Xu personally led the knights selected from the Shence Army to set off from Baiyujing, crossed the Xianyang Bridge to the north bank of Weishui, and marched west along the wide Weishui.

In order to hide people's eyes, the banner is still the banner of the Shence Army, and it does not put on the posture of the Son of Heaven's personal expedition.

Fortunately, it was an internal battle, and the supply along the way was quite smooth. After leaving Bai Yujing early in the morning, having breakfast in Xianyang County, and feeding the horses, Li Xu and his party set off again. It's early winter, and the Qianmo on both sides of the road has already been harvested, revealing bare fields.

The surrounding countryside was all tense and slaughtered, and the farther west I went, I gradually encountered some fleeing pedestrians.

The cavalry officers of the Shence Army stopped several of the refugees and asked them about the situation in the west.

According to the refugees, the Tibetan army has passed Yixian and the martial arts generation, and the scouts in front have already rushed to Xianyang.

In other words, the open area in the shape of a horn mouth on the Guanzhong Plain was already within the plundering range of the Tibetan army. In this situation, the knights of the Shence army immediately followed the emperor to speed up and march west as soon as possible, hoping to cut off the Tibetan people's march route as soon as possible.

The Shence army has sufficient horsepower, and although the number of people in the whole team is small, the prepared war horses are still quite sufficient.

Towards mid-morning, Li Xu led the knights up a small hill, one of the few flat lands on the vast plain on the north bank of Weishui. The emperor, who had a keen sense of the five senses, saw the first Tibetan army.

The encounter was very sudden, and the two sides were about four or five miles apart.

It was a group of about 1,000 men, with many black and cyan banners, marching along the wide Weishui River, which was loose in formation. Everyone rode horses, and some of them carried the plundered supplies

With the neighing of horses, the knights of the Shence army lined up around the emperor, and they also saw the Tibetan army marching in front of them.

"Your Majesty, thief. "Liu Wudang, the spearhead of the Shence Army, who was once in charge of guarding the Xuanwu Gate, followed behind the emperor with a banner. This expedition with the emperor was regarded as an opportunity for the Shence army to turn over, and it was indispensable to fight the dragon. Liu Wudang, who had made a contribution to the door, smoothly occupied a place and served as the rider who held the flag for the emperor.

"I see it. Li Xu was wearing a heavy Mingguang armor, with a large piece of tanned black leather plate on the outside, and a heavy armor strung with willow leaf armor pieces inside, and black tassels fluttering in the air on the black hood.

"Have you heard of the legend of Guo Jing's little red horse?" the emperor turned his head and looked at Liu Wudang, who was holding the banner.

What a little red horse, what Guo Jing, Liu Wudang's words have not been heard less, I have never remembered any famous general surnamed Guo, and Guo Fenyang, who quelled the Kanto Rebellion, is not called Guo Jing.

"You," the Emperor said, separating himself from the queue with his horse's belly. "They all follow Liu Wudang. ”

The emperor's horsewhip pointed at Liu Wudang, who was waving the banner.

"I'll go ahead and meet them for a while, and you stay here and don't move, until I disturb their ranks, and then you wait for my signal to rush through together. ”

The emperor explained a few more words to Liu Wudang, and then he instigated the black horse under his crotch to rush towards the Tubo army.

This Tibetan army was an elite force under the throne of the great minister Shang Dongzan, and their mission was to cross Wugong County and march further north to the vicinity of Fengtian County and plunder the countryside there. Fengtian County is also the mausoleum of the emperor of the Yu Dynasty, and if it can be looted there, it can deter the Yu people.

The commander of this detachment, Mr. Bodhi Liuzhi, was a Tibetan nobleman who loved eagles, yaks, barley wine, rode horses to drill into the tents of the herdsmen under his command, listened to the moans of his wives, and felt the tightness and strength of these strong women.

Since Mr. Bodhi-ryu's grandfather, his family has been an important auxiliary to the family of the Great Minister Shang Dongzan.

Of course, this is just Mr. Bodhi Liuzhi's own feelings. Because if the Bodhi Liuzhi family can be regarded as the right-hand man of Shang Dongzan, then Shang Dongzan should be the incarnation of the thousand-armed Guanyin.

"What's the situation?" Bodhi Liuzhi saw a Yu army knight leave his comrades, rushing in the direction of his brigade with a long cavalry gun in his hand, this scene was very bizarre and made Bodhi Liuzhi wonder what was going on.

It was brave and almost stupid for a knight in a weak team to attack his own brigade alone.

"The shooter dismounts, and the rider follows the shooter. Bodhi Liuzhi immediately commanded the standard-bearer beside him, and the sturdy men standing beside him immediately issued the chief's order.

The black flag, which symbolizes the Bodhi Liuzhi, moves first, drawing an arc in the air at a certain speed, which indicates that the whole army should move from a marching state to a combat state.

Then a small green pennant swayed, and then a red square flag painted with white birds moved. The pennant symbolizes the archer, the red square flag symbolizes the rider, and the green color means the archer is in front and the red flag means the rider is behind.

After the command of the banner, the Tibetan army, which was originally marching on a war horse, immediately responded.

The archers flipped off their horses. Archers on foot have an advantage over mounted archers in range, not least because their bows are larger and have more elastic potential energy to accumulate. Moreover, archers on foot can use the strength of their lower backs to assist in shooting, while archers on horseback mainly rely on arm strength.

Bodhi Liuzhi had already seen the cavalry behind the black cavalry, and those people had formed a wedge-shaped formation shaped like a "boar's head", which was the usual formation of the cavalry before charging, and it was obvious that the other party seemed to want to take advantage of the opportunity to surprise him.

It was a serious mistake to continue to position in a line-up formation when the flanks were threatened by cavalry, and Bodhi Liuzhi decided to put forward a defensive formation with the archers in front and the riders in the rear.

There were many more Tibetan troops behind the Bodhi Liuzhi, and he had time to accompany these cavalry for a little longer.

Then the next situation told Bodhi Liuzhi that he was thinking too much.

The black horseman on his horse galloped to a halt about a stone's throw away from his formation.

Li Xu held the spear in his hand, grabbed the reins and stopped in front of the front line of the Tibetan army, and carefully watched the formation of the Bodhi Liuzhi, which was actually a learning process, and he could observe the tactics of the Tibetan army according to the other party's response.

The Tibetan army of about 1,000 people in front of him was about 200 people wide in a phalanx, and at the front were almost 300 archers, all of whom were armed with huge single bows, and the black feather arrows in their hands were placed on the bowstrings.

Behind the archers were riders in heavy armor and metal helmets, and in Li Xu's opinion, these cavalry standing behind could provide good protection for the archers in front, because if their own cavalry rashly charged the archers in front of them.

At that time, the retreating archers could hide behind the Tibetan cavalry, and the Tibetan cavalry could also entangle their own cavalry, buying time for the infantry further behind to join the battle.

Li Xukong grabbed the reins and instigated the horse to slowly walk into the range of the Tubo step archers.

The horse's hooves slowly stepped on the hard winter earth, and Li Xu could hear the sound of the nail leaves on his body gently hitting each other. The swarthy horse under his crotch snorted uneasily, and the emperor slowly moved to the flank of the Tibetan army.

This is a deliberate provocation to the archers of the Tibetan army, testing their patience. However, these archers were unmoved, and they still had to face the Yu Dynasty knights on the knoll not far away, which was their main object of defense.

Soon, Li Xu's first opponent, a Tibetan rider could not tolerate the emperor's flank outflanking, so he directly instigated his war horse and rushed towards Li Xu.

The emperor turned his horse's head, exposed his back to the Tibetan warriors who rushed over, and instigated his war horse to run in the direction of the Yu army knights' formation.

The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and it was clear that the emperor's seemingly cowardly behavior had excited the Tibetan warrior who had carried out the expulsion mission, and he shouted and waved his spear, ready to pierce the emperor's heart.

Then Li Xu stopped the war horse, turned around, the Tubo warrior who rode the horse and charged was simply a slow-motion video in Li Xu's eyes, the emperor gently stretched out his left hand and held the spear of the Tubo warrior in his hand, and then shook it slightly, and a strong force whipped the Tubo warrior's chest, pulling him off the horse alive and falling heavily on the hard ground.

Li Xu raised his left hand, raised the spear he had just snatched, and then threw it forward, and the spear went directly through his chest, and with a miserable howl, he nailed the Tibetan warrior who was lifted off his horse to the ground.

The image of the emperor's bravery immediately caused a burst of cheers from the Shence army in the distance, although everyone had seen the emperor's mighty scene of throwing Cheng's father-in-law as a burlap bag, but at that time they were hostile to each other, and they had no intention of appreciating such a heroic posture.

Now that they are finally able to experience the majesty of Jin Wuwei's grandson fox and fake tiger, the knights of the Shence Army are very emotional.

"I told you a long time ago that this time it's just nine lives and one death. Liu Wudang, who was holding the banner, boasted at the robes around him: "What kind of battlefield is the work of a fierce general, didn't you see that our Majesty smoked that thief like playing, I think, these 1,800 people are not enough for Your Majesty to clean up." ”

The wisdom of the Shence army's halberd attracted the admiration of the comrades around them, and then they saw the emperor's more exaggerated performance, after seizing the lance and killing the Tibetan warrior, the emperor turned over and dismounted, untied the carved bow with his left hand, and drew a feather arrow from the quiver on the saddle with his right hand, and walked towards the Tibetan army step by step.