Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 191 Great Tang Regal
The cold wind howled, eyes full of withered yellow eyes.In the wilderness, a cavalry pawn was lying on his horse's back, frantically stimulating the horse under his crotch with spurs, but unfortunately, the speed did not increase at all, the horse's abdomen was already dripping with blood, and its horsepower was exhausted.

instigate!
instigate!
Behind him was the figure of an arrow piercing through the air, and the cavalry moved left and right, but an arrow still hit his thigh.

"what!"

He gritted his teeth and grabbed the rein desperately. If he fell off, he would definitely die. These people don't want to be captured. He has seen many companions die by their swords.

His eyes gradually blurred, his hands and feet gradually became numb and he lost consciousness, and his body instinctively leaned on the horse's back. Finally, an arrow landed on the horse's buttocks, and the horse neighed and fell to the ground.

A dozen or so cavalry came up and chopped off his head skillfully. The rest packed up their horses, stripped off the dead man's armor, and searched for his belongings.

"Hey, another poor ghost!"

A soldier looked at the horse and said to the team leader: "Gu team is right, this horse can't be used anymore!"

"Let's see if we can bring them back to the camp, and we can exchange some money for killing horses and taking meat!"

"promise!"

These people are the cavalry of Zuo Xiaowei, and the bloody killing starts with these scouts.

As is the custom of His Majesty the Emperor, when a battle is fought, the battlefield is covered first. Li Ye sent cavalry from the two armies, a total of more than [-] people, to invest in this area of ​​dozens of square kilometers.

This is a good job. There is a reward for killing a scout. From the very beginning, it was [-] guan, and it has dropped to [-] guan now. There are still people vying for it.

The reason is very simple, the scouts' horses and armors can be exchanged for money from military personnel, and the property on the scouts is naturally the private property of these sergeants.Divide evenly in groups of ten or 20.

The soldiers of this era, His Majesty the Emperor, can't count on how high their consciousness is. All captured should be returned to the public.

As for looting the enemy's floating wealth, Li Ye could only ignore it.

After a battle, the few scouts of these scouts can earn more than a dozen guan, while the brave ones can earn forty or fifty guan.

But the effect is also obvious. Like wolves, this group of cavalry followed their blood to search for the enemy's scouts. Many people even formed a team to wait around the enemy's army formation. Whenever a scout came out, they would be surrounded and killed.

Not long after, Cai thief Qin Zongxin realized something was wrong, and sent more than a hundred scouts to inquire about the news, but none of them came back. He is now deaf and blind, and has no news of Luoyang, which is twenty miles away.

He didn't even know where the forward Zhang Xuan was, and the whole world fell silent.

Qin Zongxin had an ominous premonition, so he hurriedly summoned the former general Qin Xian and said, "It has been an hour, and there is no report from the sentry. If the enemy troops attack, I am afraid that something unexpected will happen. I want to camp here to find out good news before proceeding. What do you think?" Sample?"

Qin Xiandao: "Soldiers are expensive and fast. General Zhang is already under the city of Luoyang. We just need to catch up. Eighty thousand troops join forces. What worries does the general have? As for the sentry, we will send people to investigate."

After sending out four or five teams of cavalry, five or six hundred cavalry, someone returned with their remains.

"Marshal, there are a large group of cavalry outside besieging and killing our scouts!"

"What? How many people?"

"I don't know, it's everywhere. If you are humble, you will encounter three rounds of interception, and all four robes will be lost."

Qin Zongxin closed his eyes slightly, took a long breath, and suddenly shouted: "Tell Yang Delin to come over!"

Yang Delin is a fierce general under Qin Zongquan's command. He is unparalleled in riding and shooting. He leads the strongest assault force in Qin Zongquan's hands, the three thousand horse army.

Qin Zongxin knew very well that sending out waves of scouts was undoubtedly sending heads to these people, so he could only send a large group of cavalry to see what you would do.

"Yang Du Yuhou, the commander-in-chief ordered you to send a captain with [-] cavalry to inquire about Luoyang along the way, as well as Zhang Zhen's location."

The round trip of more than twenty miles would take half an hour if it is fast.

"promise!"

"The whole army stops advancing, alert!"

"promise!"

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In the western suburbs of Luoyang City, Peiqiao Town.

"Your Majesty, the bandit Qin Zongxin has stopped! Three hundred cavalry have been dispatched, and Commander Zhu Ye has already gone to fight in person!"

Li Ye nodded. Whenever there is a big event, there is calmness. His Majesty the Emperor has a plan in mind, and he is very at ease.

The first step in the battle was to eat up Zhang Zhen's [-] forward infantry. As for Qin Zongxin, as long as he was blocked on the avenue, Zhu Zhen and Gao Wenmin's troops had already set up an army formation on the avenue.

Although most of Luoyang is surrounded by plains, you can walk everywhere, but except for the avenues, the rest are covered with ravines and trees.

This is also the importance of the ancients marching and fighting and guarding the main traffic routes.

At this time, under the city of Luoyang, Li Kexiu's Hedong Army had already formed a formation with Zhang Xuan's army.

Li Kexiu said to Wang Rulin: "General Wang, in this section, attack the enemy from the front. If you charge from the back, the enemy will be defeated. What do you think?"

Wang Rulin shook his head and said, "Our army is new, so we can't charge forward!"

Li Kexiu said: "There is no need for the general to charge into battle, just feign attack on the flanks and rear, and prepare more arrows to shoot."

That's fine, Wang Rulin clasped his fists and said, "The last general's order."

Li Kexiu has been in battle for a long time, and he is very clear that even if this group of masters does not fight, just standing there is no help for him.

Wang Errulin's mentality is very relaxed, fighting on foot and cavalry, the initiative is entirely on the cavalry side, coming and going like the wind, advancing and retreating freely, the enemy has no cavalry, this is the biggest weakness.

Zhang Zhen didn't know that he had already sent several troops to report Qin Zongxin's situation, but nothing happened. Wang Rulin's four thousand cavalry put too much pressure on him.

While arranging the formation, he ordered people to set up antlers on all sides to resist horses.

Originally, when the two armies were fighting, he only needed to put the strongest combat power in the front line, but now, he had to dispatch troops to defend on all sides. There was not enough shields and horses, so he could only use heavy armor to fill the gap. Put some people in front as human shields.

Li Kexiu was right. Even if Wang Rulin didn't have to do anything, he only needed to put the cavalry on the battlefield, which would be the greatest support for Li Kexiu.

Four thousand cavalry, what a huge force.

The enemy doesn't know where the cavalry will charge, so they can only fortify everywhere.

Besides, many of Wang Rulin's troops are heavy armored cavalry!
Under Zhang Xuan's nervous eyes, the cavalry moved, and the Hedong Army was slowly pressing on the general formation.

Cold sweat oozed from Zhang Xuan's forehead, and it was only when he arrived in Luoyang that he realized that the Marshal's calculation was a bit wrong.

"Qin Zongxin, if you don't come again, I will be in trouble."

instigate!
instigate!instigate!instigate!
The cavalry shot a round of arrows, because the distance was a bit far away, only a few arrows fell into Zhang Mi's army formation, and there were a few screams.

In fact, Wang Rulin's cavalry attracted most of Zhang Yu's attention, while the Hedong Army received much less attention.

After a while, the Hedong army and Zhang Mi's army joined the battle.

"kill!"

The cavalry from the east of the river were brave and brave, and the infantry did not give way too much. The rate of armor on both sides was six to seven out of ten, and they were about fifty paces apart, shooting arrows at each other in the formation.

There is no need to think about the defense of the flanks and back of the Hedong Army. All the shield soldiers and swordsmen are directly in the front, the spearmen are behind, and then there are three rows of archers behind, and the swordmen will be sandwiched among them.

However, Zhang Yu's army could not. Instead, they mainly deployed shield soldiers and spearmen on the flanks and back to prevent the horse army from charging into the formation.

In this round of arrows, Zhang Xuan's army suffered greatly. The arrows fired by the archers were less than [-]% of the opponent's Hedong army, and their defense power was not as good as that of the Hedong army.

"shoot!"

"Shoot again!"

Li Kexiu is sensitive to see the weakness of bandits, how can he let this opportunity go, round after round of arrows are flying all over the sky, even for heavily armored soldiers, armor is not omnipotent, there are always gaps and places that are not covered, and suddenly they are More than a thousand people fell to the ground.

Zhang Xuan was about to burst into tears, if he shot like this, without fighting with his soldiers, his side might be defeated.

"Soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy."

Zhang Xuan raised his shield and shot arrows, and the soldiers next to him raised their flags and followed closely.

"Rush over, and the enemy soldiers will be defeated!"

"Kill over, brothers, enter Luoyang City, I allow you to slaughter the city for three days!"

The commander personally rushed to the battle, and promised a reward. In this era, for soldiers, what is more attractive than massacring a city? Countless money and women are at your disposal.

When Cai thief was in a low period, he suddenly rose up.

Li Kexiu shook his head. He didn't issue any general orders. The battle formations are facing each other. The side that takes the initiative to attack will suffer. As long as the Hedong army sticks to the shield formation, the archers in the rear can shoot calmly and kill the enemy's rear. The enemy will not last long. hold.

"kill!"

"puff!"

The spearmen stabbed back and forth from the gap, and each time they stabbed one person.The swordsmen were busy besieging the enemy troops who rushed into the shield formation.

Zhang Xuan took the lead, charged up his strength, knocked away the shield soldiers in front, rushed into the formation with his personal guards, rushed back and forth, blood was seen on the sword, for a while, the army formation here was a little loose, but that's all That's all.

Without the commander's order, shield soldiers and swordsmen have surrounded him, and more and more people have surrounded him.

Li Kexiu frowned. Although Zhang Xuan was brave, he was brave enough. If he killed the opponent's general, there would be no need to fight this battle.

By Zhang Xuan's side, some personal guards had already noticed that although the commander rushed into the formation, the other soldiers failed to keep up, and the Hedong army surrounded more and more.

"Marshal, get out first, or it will be too late!"

"Guard guard!"

Zhang Xuan shook his head and said: "Withdrawing is death, if you don't withdraw, there is still a chance of life."

"kill!"

Make the gap bigger and let more soldiers enter the battle to fight the Hedong Army. Just as Zhang Yujun and the Hedong Army were attacking each other, Wang Rulin sensitively observed that the Cai thief Zhang Yujun had already separated from the rear army because of the advance of the front army. , leaving a gap of more than ten steps.

The warplane is here!

Lieutenant General Hu Guangming also saw it, and hurriedly said: "Commander Wang, give the order!"

Wang Rulin didn't speak!
"Your Majesty despises us, because we can't fight, if we don't have combat achievements, how can we tell the difference!"

Wang Rulin took a long breath and said, "It's fine for the soldiers not to blame me!"

"We all wish to honor the command of the king!"

Wang Rulin narrowed his eyes slightly, knowing that the opportunity must not be missed, the gamble was worth it, he looked at the soldiers, and shouted: "Everyone, follow me to the battle!"

"kill!"

Four thousand cavalry rode their horses galloping like a landslide and tsunami.

In the Hedong army formation, Zhang Xuan had a small climax at first, and a steady stream of soldiers entered the formation, occupying a certain local advantage. At this moment, he felt the ground shaking, and the deafening shouts of killing immediately made him pale.

(End of this chapter)