Six thousand crossbow soldiers took turns to shoot rapidly. One group of two thousand people finished shooting and loaded the arrows. The second group of two thousand people also shot two thousand crossbow arrows, and then the third group of two thousand arrows shot out. This
At this time, the first group raised their crossbows and fired quickly, and they took turns shooting arrows again and again.
A batch of dense crossbow arrows were fired into the enemy group. Although the cavalry of the Great Food Army had shields, the war horses did not resist. They were constantly hit by arrows and suddenly fell to the ground. Both the man and the horse were killed by the cavalry behind them.
Swallowed.
Groups of cavalrymen of the Great Food Army were knocked off their feet by crossbow arrows. The casualties continued to increase, from hundreds to thousands. When they entered within 150 steps, the Tang Army began to shoot flatly.
The number of people quickly climbed to 1,500, and soon exceeded 2,000.
When the casualties approached 2,000, the food army finally reached fifty steps away. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The drums of the retreating crossbowmen sounded, and the 6,000 soldiers picked up their spears on the ground and retreated quickly.
When all the crossbowmen were withdrawn, a large and bright Mo Dao formation was revealed, and two thousand heavily armored Mo Dao warriors were ready to fight.
They were arranged in two rows. All the heavily armored soldiers were half squatting. The Mo Dao was pointed upward at a 45-degree angle. The tail of the Mo Dao was pressed tightly against the ground. The bright Mo Dao was like a dense forest of knives, shining in the sunlight.
The next large area sparkled so brightly that people couldn't even open their eyes.
This is one of the most effective means to deal with the enemy's cavalry attack, and it is also the bloodiest means. The cavalry finally rushed up. The cavalry in front was frightened when they faced the forest of gleaming knives. They tried desperately to rein in their horses, but they couldn't do it at all.
Unable to restrain themselves, the powerful inertia of the cavalry behind pushed them towards the forest of swords. The soldiers' faces were twisted in fear and they screamed together.
'Puff puff!'
With a series of stabbing sounds, countless war horses and soldiers were knocked into the forest of knives. The long sword pierced the bodies of the war horses and men, killing thousands of people on the spot.
The bodies in front piled up, and the cavalry from behind rushed up again. At this time, Li Siye shouted, "Change the formation!"
The heavy armored infantry did not move, but they swung their swords at the enemy's horse legs. In an instant, blood spurted out, and the horses fell to the ground neighing miserably. Their front hooves were cut off, and the cavalry tumbled to the ground.
The heavy armored infantry immediately stood up and slashed down with a sword, cutting all the fallen soldiers into two pieces.
The enemy's attack finally stopped. Two thousand Mo Dao soldiers advanced like a wall, trampling on corpses all over the ground. Wherever they passed, the cavalry were cut into pieces. The ground was covered with flesh, blood, internal organs, and human and horse corpses were mixed together.
, can no longer tell whether it is a human or a horse.
The heavy armored infantry was too powerful. The cavalry army of ten thousand people could not withstand the frontal attack. They were killed and retreated steadily. The number of soldiers also dropped sharply from ten thousand to three thousand, including those who were killed by the crossbow array.
Two thousand people.
Gao Xianzhi immediately ordered, "Attack the enemy infantry on the left and right wings!"
"Woo! Woo!"
A deep horn sounded, and Li Ye raised his long spear and shouted: "Brothers, kill me!"
Li Ye wore a bronze mask on his face, and his appearance was particularly ferocious and terrifying. He galloped on his horse, and five thousand cavalry followed him and rushed out, shouting loudly: "Kill--"
The five thousand cavalry included two thousand Broken Leaf Cavalry and three thousand Bukhan Naning Yuanjun. They followed Li Ye and charged into the enemy's infantry formation of ten thousand people.
Li Ye was like a fierce tiger. Wherever he passed, heads were rolling and flesh and blood were flying. It was unstoppable. They fought through a bloody road and divided the ten thousand infantry into two parts. The cavalry was divided into teams, and the cavalry was divided into two parts.
The formation runs and divides.
The cavalry has a commanding position over the infantry, has superior weapons, but the cavalry is also afraid of the infantry forming a formation. Once the infantry forms a formation, they will not be able to deal with the cavalry alone.
Li Ye soon discovered that he had been a little too hasty. His tactics did not meet expectations, but instead led to increased casualties among soldiers. Although his tactics were correct, he divided and surrounded the enemy as soon as possible. If the opponent was a weak brigade, this could be done.
However, the opponent was an equally elite and powerful army. The Tang army's cavalry was broken into pieces prematurely. Instead, it was surrounded by the opponent's infantry and concentrated its forces to defeat them one by one.
He should first concentrate his forces into an iron fist, disperse the enemy troops, and then divide and encircle them.
Li Ye felt regretful and immediately ordered: "Blow the trumpet and assemble!"
"Woo——"
The horn sounded, and the cavalry began to regroup around Li Ye, and soon they gathered more than 2,000 people.
Pei Xiu pointed to the northwest and shouted, "Xu Jian's army is surrounded over there!"
Li Ye shouted to the flag bearer: "Follow me!"
He rode his horse to kill in the northwest direction. The flag bearer, escorted by more than a dozen cavalry, ran closely behind Li Ye. More than 2,000 soldiers followed the general's flag and ran toward the northwest direction.
Li Ye wielded his armor-piercing spear and charged into the enemy army, slashing left and right, stabbing back and forth, killing more than 70 Dashi soldiers in a row. In fact, he also hit three arrows in a row, but the Dashi's bow and arrow could not penetrate Li Ye.
With his armor and precious clothes, he was safe and sound.
The soldiers of Dashi looked at the general of the Tang Army as if he was possessed by a demon. Everywhere he went, his heads were chopped off, or his heart was stabbed. Killing people was like cutting grass. In addition, his bronze mask looked ferocious, and the soldiers of Dashi were frightened.
When they saw him coming to kill him quickly, they turned around and ran away, shouting: "The dark demon is coming to kill! Angra is coming to kill!"
The Dashi soldiers are all Khorasan people. They originally believed in Zoroastrianism and later converted to the Dashi Cult. However, the devil they fear most is still Angra, the demon in charge of darkness.
Li Ye broke through the encirclement of 2,000 enemy troops and saw the surrounded Xu Jian and more than 300 Bakhna cavalry. They originally numbered 500 people, but more than 150 of them had been killed.
Xu Jian saw Li Ye and shouted: "General, save us!"
Li Ye killed dozens more people, rushed to Xu Jian, and shouted sternly: "Take your brothers and follow my team, don't get separated!"
Xu Jian led his men to join Li Ye's team. Li Ye continued to rescue other Tang troops, constantly rescuing the besieged soldiers. More and more Tang troops followed him, and soon they broke through more than 4,500 people.
He gradually regained his strength.
This time, Li Ye no longer dispersed. He led more than 4,500 cavalrymen like sharp swords to kill left and right in the enemy's infantry formation. The Dashi infantry also continued to gather to confront the Tang army's cavalry. Both sides were evenly matched and fought fiercely.
, entered a stalemate stage.
Li Ye's left wing and Cheng Qianli's right wing each fought a fierce battle with 10,000 infantry, while the 30,000 cavalry of the Great Food Army had lost 10,000, leaving only 20,000 cavalry, fighting fiercely with Gao Xianzhi's 26,000 main force.
At this time, the main force of the Tang army began to have an advantage in numbers, especially the two thousand Modao army, which was unstoppable. They killed the enemy's flesh and blood wherever they passed, just like a harvester harvesting wheat. Pieces of large food cavalry were chopped off by their swords.
Next, in just half an hour, another five thousand people were killed by them.
The main cavalry of the Great Food Army only had 13,000 people left, and the 20,000 infantry only had more than 10,000 people left, with nearly half of the casualties.
Ziad said anxiously: "Captain, we are defeated by the Tang army. If we don't retreat, our entire army will be destroyed!"
Abu Muslim saw that although the army could still fight, the losses were too heavy. If it continued to fight, the entire army would indeed be destroyed. He felt extremely regretful. He would have known that the 30,000 troops from Baishui City would also be brought with him, and that he would use 80,000 troops to deal with the Tang army.
I underestimated the enemy.
Helpless, he had no choice but to sigh, "Send the order for the entire army to retreat!"
"Woo--Woo--"
The horns kept blowing, and the food army began to retreat in an orderly manner. They quickly gathered into a large army and retreated in order.
Gao Xianzhi saw that the opponent's position was stable and that if he pursued hastily, he would be defeated by the enemy. He immediately ordered: "Pass my order, no pursuit is allowed!"
The cavalry galloped to deliver the order, "The commander-in-chief has an order, no pursuit is allowed! The commander-in-chief has an order, no pursuit is allowed!"
The Tang army resisted the urge to pursue and watched the food army retreat away.
In this battle, the Tang army defeated the main force of the Food Army with a small number and defeated nearly half of the enemy and annihilated more than 24,000 enemy troops. However, the Tang army also suffered nearly 6,000 casualties.
Li Ye's army also suffered nearly a thousand casualties, including more than 600 soldiers from Bukhanna and more than 300 soldiers from Suiye Tang Army.
The wounded soldiers were sent to Talas City for treatment, and the army also retreated to Talas City for a short rest in preparation for the army to continue southward to Baishui City early tomorrow morning.
Li Ye was visiting his more than 200 wounded soldiers to calm their emotions.
At this time, a soldier came to report, "General, two young women came from outside the city. They said they had something urgent to tell the general. They said the owner is Jinshan Aling!"