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Chapter 155 Facing the Enemy
On the horizon, a black line appeared in the distance.
This black line is getting thicker and bigger, and the ground is shaking more intensely, like an earthquake.
The black line on the horizon became thicker and thicker, and its crawling speed became faster and faster.
Time and space stretched into eternity at this moment. There was a faint sound of thunder coming from the horizon, and the earth beneath my feet was trembling gently.
Li Zhen¡¯s expression changed, as did Xue Rengui¡¯s.
They know that this is a huge cavalry!
Nearly!
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Closer!
When Li Zhen saw the cavalry running in the distance carrying Xue Yantuo's banner, her heart beat violently.
"YoYo¡¡"
Countless shouts came like thunder and tsunami.
Countless horse hooves stirred up dust all over the sky, and the billowing iron currents continued to sprint forward. The cavalrymen raised their sabers above their heads, and the sharp cold light made the darkness of the sky fade away.
If you switch to an ordinary army and face endless enemy cavalry, you will definitely panic, and some will even collapse directly.
However, although the faces of the soldiers behind Li Zhen showed nervousness, they were all calm. These veterans who had survived hundreds of deaths on the battlefield were accustomed to this.
What¡¯s more, everyone knows that as long as Li Zhen is here, the sky will not fall!
Li Zhen carefully observed the situation in the distance, constantly calculating the size of the enemy cavalry in his mind.
" Then Li Zhen was extremely depressed to discover that this Xue Yantuo cavalry had at least 50,000 horses. Judging from the clothes, most of them were wearing armor. It can be seen that they were all Xue Yantuo's elite light cavalry, and even some elite cavalry.
Among the cavalry, both men and horses do not wear armor and are called light cavalry.
A man wearing armor and a horse without armor are fine riders.
Both men and horses are wearing armor and are cavalry.
??Cavalry are the most elite troops. Not to mention foreigners, even the Central Plains army has few. For example, before the Battle of Guandu in the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shao only had 500 cavalry, while Cao Cao only had dozens of cavalry.
When Cao Cao conquered Ma Chao and unified the north, he only had 5,000 cavalry, which shows the importance of cavalry.
For the foreigners far outside the Great Wall, forming cavalry is simply a luxury. In the entire Xue Yantuo, only the Yinan headquarters has a thousand cavalry.
"In fact, the entire Xue Yantuo only has 20,000 fine cavalry. Except for Yi Nan's headquarters, which has 10,000 fine cavalry, the rest are scattered among various tribes.
Li Zhen made a rough estimate that the enemy cavalry in front of him had at least tens of thousands of fine cavalry, and the rest were all light cavalry. It can be said that this time, Xue Yantuo came out with all the best.
It was obvious that these Xueyantuo cavalry were coming for him, but his marching route was very hidden and only a few people knew about it. How could the Xueyantuo people find him so accurately?
Li Zhen¡¯s first thought was - there is a traitor in the Tang army!
Only a traitor can accurately grasp his whereabouts and report them to Xue Yantuo.
Facing the tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo's troops on the opposite side, Li Zhen did not panic, because there was a mountain pass behind him. As long as the mountain pass was defended, the Xueyantuo people's superior strength could not be fully deployed. At most, they could only invest about a thousand people at a time. attack.
So Li Zhen raised her arm high.
The next moment, everyone quickly moved to the nearby mountain pass and formed a formation against the mountain pass. The infantry immediately surrounded the carriages they brought with them in a circle, using the carriages to form a defensive ring.
At the same time, the musketeers lay behind the carriage.
Nearly!
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Closer!
Xue Yantuo's army was only 800 meters away from Li Zhen's carriage ring fortification, and these foreign cavalry continued to accelerate their advance.
Five hundred meters!
Horse hooves are rolling, murderous intent is rising to the sky!
Four hundred meters!
Qianniuwei pushed out a crossbow and placed it on the carriage, ready to attack.
Three hundred meters!
"put!"
Wang Fangyi roared.
The next moment, countless huge crossbow arrows attacked the enemy cavalry from a distance with a whistling sound!
"flutter!"
A crossbow arrow instantly pierced the neck of a Xue Yantuo war horse. The powerful force of the crossbow arrow immediately flew the war horse up, and then hit the war horse behind him that was charging forward.
The cavalrymen on two war horses were directlyIt was smashed under the corpse of the war horse, and blood spurted from the mouth.
¡°Bang bang bang!¡±
After a series of crossbow arrows, hundreds of Xue Yantuo's cavalry who were rushing at the front fell to the ground, and the attack could not help but slow down.
After Xue Yantuo entered the Liao Dynasty, a tall and mighty general wearing armor stared into the distance. This man was Yanmang, the eldest son of Xue Yantuo Khan Yinan.
Yanmang is the eldest son of Yi Nan, and he has been fighting with his legitimate son Bazhuo. This time, Yi Nan got the news, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty attacked Xue Yantuo in separate groups.
Among them, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, led a Tang army of about 5,000 people into the grassland, preparing to attack Xue Yantuo.
So Yi Nan decided to capture the thief and the king, and strike preemptively to kill Li Zhen first. In this way, the Tang army on the east road would be leaderless and would collapse without a fight.
After defeating the two Tang armies, the Xi, Turks, and Khitans can win without a fight.
Yi Nan had already heard about Li Zhen's annihilation of the Three Kingdoms, and knew that Li Zhen was a rare military genius. Therefore, Yi Nan believed that only by eliminating Li Zhen first, the Tang army would lose its best commander. Without a leader, Xue Yantuo had a chance to win.
Because the matter was so important, Yi Nan sent 50,000 elite troops, including 15,000 elite cavalry, to deal with Li Zhen, in order to annihilate Li Zhen's tribe with overwhelming force and gain the initiative on the battlefield.
In order to be able to lead troops on expeditions, obtain military exploits, and win Yi Nan's appreciation and trust, Yan Mang and Bazhuo started fighting openly and secretly. After some competition, the eldest son Yan Mang obtained the command of the operation and was ordered to lead an army of 50,000 men. Attack Li Zhen.
In order to win with one blow, Yanmang had been lying in ambush nearby for a day. When he saw Li Zhen and his troops arriving, Yanmang immediately selected the most elite Xue Yantuo soldiers to rush forward, preparing to defeat Li Zhen's troops with thunderous momentum. .
However, what Yanmang did not expect was that in the face of such a powerful impact, Li Zhen actually stood up and repelled his first wave of attacks.
"Lamang was furious and said, "Come forward and capture Li Zhen alive and reward you with a thousand sheep. If you kill Li Zhen, you will reward him with five hundred sheep!"
Sheep represent wealth in the grassland. Five hundred sheep can definitely enable a family of five grassland herders to live a worry-free life.
As soon as Lamang said this, the morale of Xue Yantuo's army was greatly boosted, and they once again launched a second wave of fierce attacks towards Li Zhen's position.
And this second wave of rush is more violent than the first wave!
"Whoops!"
The cavalrymen in front of Xue Yantuo fell down, and those behind them rushed up again, constantly approaching the Tang army's chariot formation.
In fact, Yan Mang was not a fool. The reason why he set the battlefield at the mountain pass was because he had an ambush on the other side of the mountain pass so that he could attack the Tang army in two attacks.
Seeing that the Tang Army¡¯s chariot formation was ahead, Xue Yantuo¡¯s cavalry opened their bows and shot arrows. However, these arrows could not reach the Tang Army when they were far away, and when they were close, they were blocked by the sacks on the Tang Army¡¯s chariot formation.
At this time, Xue Yantuo¡¯s cavalry discovered that the Tang Army¡¯s cart completely blocked the attack route of the war horses. If they wanted to defeat the Tang Army, they could only dismount and fight on foot (Remember this site¡¯s website address: www.hlnovel.com