Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 88: The Battle of Chengjing (Part 2)
The archway at the street entrance collapsed.
Immediately afterwards, several adjacent commercial buildings collapsed one after another. There was a huge smoke and dust. Countless bricks and wood blocks piled up like a hill, blocking the retreat of the long street.
The anxious and frightened expression on the face of the grassland cavalry general turned ferocious. He held his scimitar and looked at the Tang army who still maintained their charging posture and stopped retreating.
The dark prairie cavalry no longer retreated.
On the chaotic street, more snagging ropes suddenly appeared, entangled with the hooves of the Tang Heavy Cavalry.
Tang Qi fell heavily to the ground. The heavy armor collided with the hard ground, making a dull sound, and blood flowed from the gray armor.
More Yan troops appeared in the buildings on both sides of the street, and they began to shoot arrows at the Tang troops. The arrow rain suddenly became violent, and several feather arrows were shot into the edge of Tang Qi's armor at the same time.
From time to time, buildings collapsed and lay across the street, becoming an insurmountable obstacle for heavy cavalry. Some cavalrymen and their mounts were completely buried by the collapsed buildings and could no longer stand up.
This is indeed an ambush.
But it was not the Tang Army and the Yan Army who joined forces to ambush the prairie cavalry.
Instead, the Yan army and the prairie cavalry teamed up to ambush the Tang army.
The heavy cavalry of Xuanjia of the Tang Dynasty was invincible in the world.
Can you still be invincible today?
The general of the Tang Army looked at his subordinates who kept falling. His voice was as cold as the snow on Min Mountain. He looked at the Yan Army on both sides of the street and the prairie cavalry on the opposite side and said, "Kill them all and we can go out.
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Ambushes occurred all over the city.
The Tang army suffered an extremely heavy blow, but they still charged fearlessly. With the anger of being betrayed and the sorrow of the sacrifice of their comrades, they waved the simple knives in their hands, stabbed the spears in their hands, and continued to charge.
The Northeast Frontier Army Front Camp faced the most difficult situation on the long street, with the largest number of enemies coming in like a tide. Those prairie barbarians with terrifying shooting skills seemed to be unable to kill them all no matter how hard they tried.
But is there any real enemy in the world that cannot be killed?
All Tang Qi have a belief, just like the general said, as long as we kill all the enemies in front of us, then we will naturally be able to get out.
The screams of fighting and dull crashes kept ringing on the long street, like a tide of grassland cavalry and Yan troops. They were actually afraid of being killed by Tang cavalry. In the wide area where the two streets intersected, there appeared
A gap.
The front camp general handed the cut-out sword to his left hand and said in a deep voice: "Continue to charge!"
As long as he rushes out of the long street, Yan State will no longer be able to organize an effective interception. Then he can lead his sons back through the East City Gate according to the general's prior plan.
He did not look back. He also knew that of the more than a thousand heavy cavalry under his command, less than half were left.
This was the most severe blow that Tang Xuanjia's heavy cavalry had suffered in decades. But he was not sad because he believed that every cavalryman under his command had killed at least several times his enemy before dying.
That's enough.
This way you can hold your chest high and go back proudly.
The general of the front camp picked up the reins of his horse, rode forward, and slashed a steppe cavalryman in half with his sword and arrow, and then suddenly moved forward through the rain of blood.
Suddenly, his right hand, which was holding Ma Zheng's injury, became a little stiff.
The horse, which was already a little tired, stopped.
The hundreds of Tang cavalry behind him also became silent.
The prairie cavalry had already been killed by them, and their formation was in a mess. They were scattered in all directions.
However, the gap that seemed to allow Tang Qi to leave has been filled by the cavalry.
The cavalry also wore black armor, but compared to the Tang cavalry, those armors were painted with complex lines of golden runes, making them more eye-catching and brighter in the night.
In the world, there are only two types of cavalry that are qualified to compare with the Tang Xuanjia heavy cavalry.
One is the elite cavalry directly under the Golden Horde.
Another type is the cavalry of the Xiling Temple.
There are even rumors that there are thousands of temple guard cavalry that are invincible.
For countless years, probably in order to avoid upsetting the secular imperial power, the number of cavalry guards in the Xiling Temple has been strictly controlled within a thousand cavalry.
However, it seems now that this is obviously a statement made by the Xiling Temple to deceive the world.
Because at this time, the number of guard cavalry of Xiling Temple appearing across the long street has exceeded the number of thousand cavalry.
The front camp general squinted his eyes slightly, raised his visor, and looked across the long street.
He wiped the blood from his face, was silent for a long time, and then suddenly burst into laughter.
"I have wanted to prove one thing all my life. You cavalrymen in Xiling are only equipped with riding boots. I never thought that before I died, I would have such an opportunity."
The front camp general's laughter gradually subsided, he slowly raised his sword and said, "Who is willing to accompany me to kill?"
The hundreds of Tang cavalry behind him responded in unison, showing no fear and only the will to fight to the death.
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At the restaurant.
Xian Zhilang looked at the city in the night, holding the cool railing tightly with his hands, his knuckles turning slightly white.
He squinted his eyes and was silent for a moment. He gradually loosened his right hand and tapped his fingers on the railing in sequence.
When he tapped his ring finger, he stopped tapping, and then he issued three military orders.
"The front camp is dispersed, the ban on entering people's houses is abolished, and people are killed at will. We must hold on until dawn."
"Each battalion rushed to the east city gate within half an hour. The route and tactics were opposite to the pre-war arrangements."
"The Guards Camp will follow me to the palace."
The officers and messengers in the restaurant were stunned for a moment before starting to separate.
With the quality of the Tang army, this moment of stagnation should not occur, but even they need time to digest the contents of Xian Zhilang's three military orders.
Letting the vanguard battalion disperse would be tantamount to letting them die in order to buy time for the rest of the cavalry battalion to escape.
"We have lost."
Xian Zhilang looked at the crowd and said: "Then you have to lose beautifully. If there are still people alive among you after this battle, remember to leave a message to Her Royal Highness the Princess. This battle was defeated because of trust. Now the whole world has conquered the Tang Dynasty, then
The Tang Dynasty can no longer trust anyone except the Tang people."
After saying this, he glanced at the Yan general.
That Yan general is one of the most important generals of the Yan Kingdom, otherwise he would not be qualified to appear here.
The Yan general smiled miserably, drew his knife and committed suicide.
Xian Zhilang walked down to the restaurant.
Dozens of Tang soldiers armed with simple knives came out of the night and watched their surroundings with vigilance. They knew very well that since they were ambushed, the general must be the first person the enemy wanted to eliminate.
But Xian Zhilang didn't want to wait to be killed by the Yan people.
His third military order already indicated his choice.
He will take the Guards Battalion to the palace in the east.
He is going to see Prince Chongming.
Either kill the other party, or be killed by the other party.
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