Chapter 428: Bloody Battle in Suizhou

The Anxi army did not fight forward, but stopped ten miles away. They chased after them for a day and a night. The soldiers and horses were very tired and immediately put into battle was not good for them. The Anxi soldiers took advantage of this moment of rest and dismounted their horses to drink water and feed them, and fed them a few bites of dry food to fill their stomachs.

At this time, drums came faintly from the position of An Lushan's army in the distance, and a lookout soldier on the high platform shouted loudly: "The enemy has come to us!"

Li Qing'an stared into the distance. It was morning, and thousands of sunlight shone out from the dark clouds, illuminating the loess highlands in the distance. An Lushan's army was moving towards this side step by step. They also saw the fatigue of the Anxi army and began to take the initiative.

Li Qing'an immediately ordered coldly: "The army is ready for battle immediately!"

"Woo——"

The low trumpet sounded over the Anxi Army, and the rumbling fighting drums were ringing. The Anxi Army soldiers boarded their horses, tightened their reins, posed bows and arrows, and slowly raised their spears. The biggest advantage of the Anxi Army was the war horses. They had hundreds of thousands of war horses, Dayuan horses, and Arab horses in the vast Anxi Army. These excellent war horses gave them the maneuverability that the Central Plains army could not match. In addition, the Anxi Army had experienced many battles and fought against different countries and races, and their strength had exceeded any army in the Tang Dynasty.

The dark clouds closed again, the sun disappeared, under the dark clouds, the strong wind whistled, the Anxi army formed a triangular army formation, the flags were floating, the armor was black, and the spears formed a sharp forest, full of murderous aura between the gloomy heaven and earth, enough to make any opponent scared.

The Fan Yang army stopped three miles away. The Fan Yang army stretched ten miles wide, and eight thousand crossbowmen lined up in three rows, waiting for the battle. They were looking forward to Anxi launching the attack first so that their bows and arrows could exert their power.

But Anxi did not launch an attack, both sides were waiting. The left wing chief general Shi Siming was quite nervous and whispered to the deputy general Xue Hao beside him: "Did you see that the Anxi army has no intention of attacking at all. I guess the general's wishful thinking of using a crossbowman to suppress the opponent's wishful thinking was dashed."

Xue Hao sighed slightly, "Both sides are Tang army, who doesn't know the other party's routine? The general always thinks that the other party is a Khitan!"

"It's still a little different."

Shi Siming shook his head and said, "All the Anxi Army are cavalry, this is not the routine of the Tang Army, and they seem to have given up the sharpest Modao Army. This is worthy of vigilance!"

Time passes by little by little, and both sides confront each other, and neither of them takes the initiative to attack, just as if they are testing perseverance and endurance, and it depends on who can't hold on first.

At this time, Xue Hao suddenly pointed to the other party's camp and shouted: "General Shi, it seems that the other party is moving!"

Shi Siming focused on looking from a distance and saw that the Anxi Army's formation began to change. Anxi cavalry of about 7,000 people left the main formation and ran diagonally to the left side two miles away from Fanyang Army. It was obvious that they were going to attack the wings of the crossbowman.

This is a huge threat to the crossbowman. If An Lushan does not change the formation, the crossbowman will be hit by a fatal impact. Shi Siming suddenly turned around and looked at the main formation of the Anxi Army. He saw a team of cavalry running in front of the formation, led by a general with golden helmet and iron armor.

"It's Li Qing'an!"

Shi Siming suddenly recognized it, and he couldn't help but feel timid in his heart. This person was his lifelong nightmare.

In front of the Anxi army, Li Qing'an was making the final mobilization of the war. He rode his horse and ran, colliding on the soldiers' spears in his hand, shouting loudly: "The soldiers of Anxi, the heroes who follow me to fight for a hundred battles, will today turn us east into the Tang Dynasty. We must use our lives and blood to prove that we are the most powerful army in the Tang Dynasty. The heroes, follow me to fight the enemy bravely!"

"Try to fight the enemy!"

The soldiers of the Anxi Army shouted, and their voices were like undulating thunder: "Try to fight the enemy bravely!"

"The left and right wings, attack in an arc!"

With Li Qing'an's order, the war drums rumbled, and the red and blue flags danced on the command platform. This was the order for arc attack. The Anxi Army suddenly launched, and the two bottom corners of the triangular formation separated to both sides, forming two arcs, just like the two horns of agar goat, and the 40,000 cavalry army formed two black surging crazes, each of which was several miles wide, heading towards the left and right wing runs of An Lushan. The spear and sword were densely packed like a forest, the horse galloped, and the dust flew in the air, with a tragic momentum, which made the heaven and earth change color.

At the same time, a low horn sounded, and the seven thousand cavalry deployed on An Lushan's right wing also launched an attack under the leadership of General Nan Jiyun. They rushed towards the flank of the crossbowman.

An Lushan also saw through the Tang army's intentions, and he urgently ordered: "The Hu Ben Army faced the enemy on the flanks, and the crossbowmen gathered on the left wing and shot the enemy!"

A group of 10,000 Fan Yang cavalry, led by general An Shouzhong, fought against the Anxi army that was running from the flank. Both sides were getting closer and closer, with the spear tips shining and the momentum was booming. Nan Jiyun shouted, "Divide the troops!"

He rode his horse southward, and two thousand cavalry riding Arab war horses followed him around the vanguard of Fan Yang's army and rushed to the side of the crossbow army. The excellent quality of the Arab war horses was fully displayed at this moment. They galloped at lightning, bypassing the vanguard of Fan Yang's cavalry, and rushed into the side of the crossbow army that was gathering on the right wing with a destructive aura.

Fan Yang's crossbow soldiers rolled to the ground under the impact of powerful cavalry. In an instant, people's heads rolled, blood splattered, and wailed in a circle. Knife slashed spears, war horses collided, and war horses galloped in the crowd. The crossbow army could not resist this extremely sharp Anxi cavalry. The crossbow formation on the left wing was hit by a scattered scattered.

The other five thousand Anxi cavalry and An Shouzhong's 10,000 Tiger Army collided, and they were stalemate, spears collided, and long swords fought fiercely.

At this time, the 40,000 main forces of the Anxi Army arrived and rushed towards the left and right wings of Anlushan. When Anlushan saw that the left-wing crossbowmen had lost the meaning of shooting under the impact of the Anxi cavalry, he immediately ordered, "The left-wing crossbow army retreats, and the Longxiang army faces the battle!"

After all, Fan Yang's army was also one of the strong army of the Tang Dynasty. It was well-trained. Although the three thousand crossbowmen on the left wing were disrupted by Nan Jiyun's cavalry and could not exert the power of crossbow arrows, they still quickly retreated with the changes in the military flag. At this time, ten thousand Longxiang spearmen and four thousand cavalry formed a large formation of infantry and cavalry-related spearmen, and the 20,000 Anxi cavalry who came to the left wing fought.

Nan Jiyun achieved his goal. He blew the horn, waved his spear, and led two thousand cavalry to support his flank Hanhai cavalry.

Nan Jiyun's horizontal peak broke out, destroying the deployment of An Lushan's left-wing bow and crossbow army, making the right-wing cavalry of Anxi Army unimpeded, and instantly arrived. 20,000 cavalry launched a storm-like attack from all directions like a surging sea tide.

The large spear formation was trained by An Lushan to deal with the Khitan cavalry. It was somewhat similar to the Macedonian legion. It mainly used collective strength to use a two-meter-long spear to deal with the cavalry. The flanks were their weakness, so there were two thousand cavalry guards on both sides.

The commander of the cavalry of the Anxi Army was Meng Sili, the general of the First Army guard of the Sailye Army. He was originally Li Siye's deputy general. He participated in the Battle of Talas and followed Li Siye to defeat the Macedonian Legion, which had been a great cannibal. He was very experienced in how to defeat this infantry phalanx. The key was to defeat the guard cavalry on both sides first, so that the weakness of the snatching formation was exposed, and the snatching formation was easily defeated.

Meng Sili shouted loudly: "Concentrate on attacking the left cavalry, and archers shoot the rafters!"

The 10,000 Anxi cavalry attacked like a tide, fierce and stormy attack, one wave followed by another to attack the left guard cavalry, while the five thousand Anxi cavalry wandered around the periphery, laying their bows and arrows, and the arrows were like locusts, and they were densely shot at the group of spearmen.

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The cavalry on the right wing of Anxi benefited from the retreat of Fan Yang's crossbow army, but the cavalry on the left wing was intercepted by Fan Yang's strong bow and crossbow. The 20,000 cavalry on the right wing of Anxi were like thunder, and the shouts of killing were shocked. They rushed forward and stirred up rolling yellow dust. They held a high shield with one hand and a spear with the other, and rushed violently towards the enemy's positions in the face of the dense rain of arrows. At 150 steps, the crossbow positions of Fan Yang's army began to shoot arrows, and the overwhelming rain of arrows shot towards the cavalry on the Anxi army. From time to time, the soldiers of Anxi army were shot overturned, and the war horses were knocked down, and people rolled on the ground, but the rolling cavalry army was still like a black tide, surging and surging towards Fan Yang's army.

The three thousand Anxi crossbows that were striking in front also fired at the enemy's formation in the army. They used a chain crossbow carefully created by Anxi craftsmen, that is, a wooden box was installed on the crossbow, a box of twelve arrows, and after one was shot, it could automatically load arrows. The cavalry only needed to pull the string while running, and at a distance of 150 steps, they could shoot four arrows.

Flying crossbow arrows were shot towards the enemy arrows that flew towards like locusts. Large pieces of Fan Yang's crossbow army were also shot over, and a distance of 150 steps rushed to the blink of an eye. Fan Yang's crossbow soldiers put down their bows and arrows and ran back. Ten thousand Fan Yang cavalry came to fight, followed by the five thousand swords and shield troops and thousands of crossbow soldiers who had just picked up their spears to fight from the side.

‘Boom!’ There was a loud bang in the ground, like two surging waves colliding. In an instant, the murderous aura was confusing people's eyes, soldiers and swords attacked each other, armor collided, and there was a clanging sound. The two armies fought fiercely, shouting and screaming, the heads fell to the ground, blood flowed into a river, and the war horses exploded. They caught each other like their masters and bit each other, and the war was so cruel that the soldiers' lives were as lowly as grass at this moment. Anxi cavalry screamed, and their heads were split in half by an axe, and white plasma splattered everywhere. The war horse carried him to flee.

Two burly soldiers met each other and fell to the ground together. The Anxi soldiers held each other down, grabbed an arrow from the ground, and pointed it at his forehead and poked it down. The other party choked and died tragically on the ground.

But no matter how fierce the left and right wings fought fiercely, An Lushan's central army was still standing tall. This is An Lushan's characteristic. The 12,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry beside him will not participate in the battle easily. If he will win, his Iron Cavalry will throw in the battle to pick the fruits of victory. But if his army is in an unfavorable situation, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry will never attack. Their task is to protect their own safety.

At this time, An Lushan was worried. He had already seen that his army was not an opponent of the Anxi Army. There were also 60,000 people. Whether it was individual combat or cooperative combat, they could not compare with the Anxi Army. In particular, there was a clear gap in combat experience. Although the Anxi Army did not use the Sky Fire Thunder and did not send out the Modao Army, the strength of their cavalry was as strong as he had never seen before. Their weapons and equipment were no different from that of the Fanyang Army, but their war horses were far from comparable to that of the Fanyang Army. Fanyang Army was all Mobei horses, with short horses. Although they could last long distances, their explosive power and impact power were obviously insufficient.

On the other hand, the Anxi Army's war horses were fierce, with a tall back and agile and slender legs. They all seemed strong and powerful in both impact and running. Especially one of them had a high-headed horse with extremely fast speed. An Lushan also vaguely guessed that it should be the strongest horse in the world. The Great Food War Horse, known as the king of horses, has long fought against the Great Food War Horse, so it is not surprising that it has such a war horse.

For cavalry, war horses are their second life, and the merits of war horses directly determine the strength of the cavalry. Obviously, the Fanyang cavalry is not the opponent of the Anxi cavalry.

At this moment, a personal soldier beside An Lushan shouted, "Master, look!"

He pointed ahead with a frightened face. An Lushan looked at him with a finger and was also shocked. He saw a cavalry coming out of the central army of Anxi Army, with about 3,000 people. Originally, Gao Jun's war horse looked very thin under their crotch. The Anxi cavalry was extremely tall. Each of them was wearing heavy armor and tightly tied with helmets. Only their eyes were exposed through two small holes. Everyone held Mo Dao in his hand. This army turned out to be the Anxi Ace Army - Mo Dao Army.

At the last moment, they finally appeared. The Mo Dao Army got off the horses a mile away and began to line up. Three thousand Mo Dao Army were lined up like gables, step by step towards An Lushan's central army. The momentum was as heavy as a mountain and invincible. An Lushan's war horses took a few steps back. He seemed to feel the pressure of the mountain. He tried his best to calm his mind. With a swing of his sword, he shouted: "Li Riyue, you lead 5,000 iron cavalry to fight!"

Li Riyue was one of the four strong generals of Fan Yang, Gao Hui, Li Riyue, An Taiqing, and Sun Xiaozhe. Among them, Sun Xiaozhe was shot and killed by Li Qing'an in Tongguan. Li Riyue and Gao Hui were An Lushan's left and right guard generals, each leading 5,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

When Li Riyue heard An Lushan's order, he immediately raised his horn and blew it. Dozens of horn hands blew together. Li Riyue waved the Banmen sword and led five thousand Youzhou iron cavalry to rush away against the Mo Dao Army.

The five thousand Youzhou iron cavalry are half-armored cavalry, and they are armoured and can resist bows and arrows. The cavalry is selected from hundreds of thousands of Fan Yang soldiers. They are all outstanding in martial arts and well-equipped, and become An Lushan's personal iron cavalry team and rarely participate in the battle. However, today An Lushan is afraid of the Anxi Mo Dao Army and finally ordered them to fight.

Five thousand iron cavalry galloped on horseback, like an iron stream, and instantly rushed to the Mo Dao Army with murderous intent. With a loud "boom!", the powerful impact of the iron cavalry rushed hundreds of Mo Dao Army to the ground, but the Mo Dao Army behind them remained as if they were as tall as a mountain. They shouted in unison, and the Mo Dao Flyed, and instantly split hundreds of cavalry into thousands of segments. For a moment, the broken limbs and body were broken, bloody and pungent, making people breathless.

The Modao Army is the nemesis of the cavalry. Although the Iron Cavalry in Youzhou is extremely brave, they still have no choice but to do anything in front of the Modao Mountain wall. They are forced step by step by step by the Modao Army and they are retreating step by step. When the blade passes, people are overturned and horses are overturned, and blood is flowing.

Li Riyue was so angry that he was killed. He roared, rushed forward with a horse and slashed across the knife with all his strength. He stabbed the three Mo Dao soldiers with all their blood. Li Ri was so proud that he laughed loudly. Before the laughter came, the two Mo Dao soldiers, one left and one right, the blade flashed by, his war horse neighed miserably, and his two front legs were cut off at the ground. He threw Li Riyue out more than two feet away. Several personal soldiers raised him and ran backwards. The Youzhou cavalry did not dare to fight the Mo Dao soldiers head-on. They surrounded the Mo Dao soldiers from front and back to find their gap, but the Mo Dao soldiers immediately changed their formation. They were back to back to resist the front and back attack of the Youzhou cavalry.

At this moment, a crisis occurred on the left wing of An Lushan's army. The cavalry guards on the left side of the gunman formation were killed by the Anxi army, revealing the left empty space of the gunman formation. This is the weakness of the gunman formation. Meng Sili yelled, "Impact on the left side of the gunman formation!"

The three thousand Anxi cavalry rushed up, and the impact was like a storm. In an instant, they rushed out of the pirates' formation. The large array of pirates, which had been killed and injured and had been attacked by the Anxi army's bows and arrows, finally could not hold on. The formation was in chaos and there were signs of collapse.

At this time, the sound of trumpets sounded again in the distance, and the drums of Anxi were like thunder. Li Qing'an issued the final order to attack. He personally led 10,000 most elite cavalry, shouting and killing sounds shook the sky. The war horses were rushing at lightning, and the horse's hooves rolled, like the strong wind under dark clouds, sweeping towards An Lushan's central army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Shang immediately said to An Lushan: "Master, you must retreat quickly now, otherwise, the Master will have to worry about his life."

An Lushan's face was pale. He didn't say a word, climbed onto the carriage and shouted: "Retreat the troops immediately and go to Yanfu Wharf!"

His carriage was racing, and seven thousand personal guards surrounded him and ran towards Yanfu Wharf more than twenty miles away. As the commander escaped, Fan Yang's morale suffered a heavy blow, and the spearhead formation collapsed first. Then the right wing lost to the Anxi Army and finally defeated the attack. The defeat on the left and right wings made Fan Yang's army defeated like a mountain.

"kill!"

The Anxi Army shouted loudly, and its morale was greatly boosted. They chased the enemy and rushed away. The black defeated soldiers were fleeing desperately. They trampled on each other, suffocated and trampled to death. Not far from the east was the Yanfu River. The river was about five feet wide. There was originally a wooden bridge, but An Lushan had already demolished the bridge after escaping the bridge. The defeated soldiers had nowhere to escape and jumped into the river to swim. Most of the Fanyang Army did not know the nature of the water. Countless people drowned in the river. The bodies blocked the river. The human body was buried, and the corpses were piled up like mountains, which turned into a corpse bridge. The defeated soldiers behind stepped on the corpse of their companions and ran to the opposite bank. Only groans, screams, and cries were heard. Everything seemed crazy, terrifying and chaotic.

The news that Li Qing'an killed the prisoners of war made these poor soldiers dare not surrender, and they just ran away desperately. On the land of Suizhou, there were Fan Yang's defeated soldiers who were running around in all directions, but they couldn't escape far, so they were chased by the Anxi cavalry and surrounded them. All the rebels were killed. In the end, most of the desperate Fan Yang army had to kowtow and beg for mercy.

Li Qing'an led 10,000 elite cavalry to chase An Lushan. They whipped their horses and galloped in the whistling wind. In less than half an hour, they chased to Yanfu Wharf. Yanfu Wharf was crowded with war horses discarded by their masters everywhere. Dozens of large ships were filled with escaped soldiers. A large ship had already capsized, and a huge whirlpool swept hundreds of soldiers into the bottom of the Yellow River.

Ten thousand Anxi cavalry came overwhelmed by the sky, and the big ships left the shore and rowed to the other side. The soldiers who did not boarded the boat either knelt down and surrendered or ran to both sides along the river bank. At this time, Li Qing'an saw An Lushan's carriage. A groom was about to escape. Li Qing'an pointed a knife and shouted: "Catch him!"

Hundreds of personal soldiers rushed up and surrounded the carriage. The groom was so scared that he raised his hand and shouted, "Give up your life! Give up your life!"

Li Qing'an urged him to step forward and shouted sternly: "Where is An Lushan?"

The groom pointed to a boat in the river tremblingly and said, "Mr. An and Military Advisor Gao are both on board and are the first to leave."
Chapter completed!