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Xiao Ta looked at the three groups of nebula sweeping over, calm and without any fear...
"How is the battle situation of the former army?"
"The chief governor took advantage of the danger of the hills and formed a tiger-wing formation to block the enemy, supplemented by 200 Wuhan Iron and Steel chariots, 200 yellow birch crossbows, 200 black-lacquered crossbows and 100 jumping crossbows to block the enemy at the city." Sima, the marshal of the general's mansion, hurriedly reported, "The enemy cavalry repeatedly attacked the formation and were all repelled, but the chief governor said that because the soldiers rushed to a hundred miles and fought fiercely for another six hours, they were exhausted and might not be able to hold on for a long time. Please ask the deputy marshal to encircle and annihilate the enemy in Xishan Valley as soon as possible so as to free up their troops and assist the front army."
"How is the battle in Xishan Valley?"
"The enemy's troops are estimated to be around 20,000, and the number is too large." The marching Sima showed a worrying expression. "Although we set up the formation in time and had the help of the gunners, and once severely damaged the enemy, the enemy was too strong, not afraid of life and death, repeatedly reorganized the queue and attacked repeatedly, and his will was amazing. The two-wing cavalry were entangled by the enemy and could not launch a pincer attack on the enemy, causing the battle to fall into a stalemate."
"How many fireballs do the Gunners have?"
"Three hundred fire caltrops and two hundred thunderbolt fireballs. In order to save fireballs, the gunner army has reduced the number of launches, which directly led to the failure of the flying dragon formation. There have been two failed array transformations and severely damaged.*"
Tabu also frowned slightly, and was very dissatisfied with the attack effect of the gunners.
The marching Sima sighed, "Whether it is a rocket or a fireball, after it is launched, more than half of it can explode. No wonder the firearms have been ignored. It seems that their deterrent effect is far greater than the actual combat effect."
Ta Bu was also very disappointed, looking towards Xihe. The Yanyun militia, who was responsible for the main attack on the rebels, was surrounded. I wonder how long Yelu Chen Tunu could last?
"Yelu Aba's horse army has retreated to the rear of the central army and is reorganizing the team." The marching Sima looked at Ta Bu's with admiration on his face.
The central army was not disturbed by its own people, thanks to the right wing of the central army setting up the Heavenly Formation. The Heavenly Formation is round and square inside, which is the main formation of the marching combat field. When the deserter rode his horse, the ground formation was activated, and its outer circle was circularly arranged with shields, forming a fortress like a copper wall and iron wall. The fortress rotated, and the war horses ran with it, and immediately removed all the impact. Not only did it protect the battle formation, but it also protected the central army, but it also successfully introduced the escaped horse army to the rear of the central army.
This kind of formation deployment was all done by Ta Buye. He seemed to have a premonition. He seemed to know that Yelu Aba would find it difficult to stop the rebels, and just deployed the Heavenly Formation on the right.
"The rebels are coming quickly." The marching Sima hesitated for a long time, and finally persuaded him, "Deputy Marshal, it's not safe here, should he retreat a little?"
Ta Bu shook his head too. It was the critical moment of the war, so you must not move the Chinese army's flag.
"I'm telling the monk slave to suspend the use of the gunner army, lure the Jin army into the flying dragon formation first, and then attack with the thunder fireball. Be sure to severely damage the Jin army." Tabu also sneered, "I don't believe that the Jurchens are all made of iron, so attack me hard. See if the Jin people's horse army is powerful or my gunner army is powerful."
"Then Xiao Degong was sent to dispatch the palace tent army and gave the rebels a fatal blow."
The rebel army quickly approached the Liao people's central army.
The half hour that Li Hu and several commanders agreed to have passed, but everyone threw this agreement behind them. Now the rebel army has defeated the flanks of the Liao army, and the Jin army has attacked stubbornly on the other wing, dragging the main force of the Liao army. Both sides have formed a pincer attack on the Liao army. Victory is right in front of us.
The Liao people's heavenly formation is facing the attack.
To break this battle formation, the horse army has no advantage, and it depends on the infantry to forcibly break through the formation.
Luo Qinghan commanded the five coalition forces and took the Tian Formation directly. Zhang Gao'er and Li Jin each led their troops to attack and kill first. The King of Hell and the Thunder Army were like two sharp arrows, roaring fiercely, and inserted wildly, and immediately nailed into the Tian Formation. The iron and iron walls were pried open a gap. The Black Mountain Army, the Shenlong Army, and the Yunshuo Army took the opportunity to kill.
Gao Baolong led the first army of the Tiger and Lie Cavalry, and Mu Taoli led the second army of the Tiger and Lie Cavalry, immediately following the coalition forces. Arranged formations from left to right and prepared to break through the formation.
Dong Xiaochou commanded the four battalions of the Hell Army and followed in turn. Suddenly, he heard the sound of trumpets, and then he heard the roar of galloping horses in the darkness. In a blink of an eye, a huge horse army rushed out of the darkness, aimed at the Hell Army and killed it with thunder.
The resentful army caught off guard.
There were five coalition forces attacking formations, with Huliqiu cavalry in the middle defending the Liao rear army on the left and the Liao front army on the right. It should be foolproof. Unexpectedly, there was a cavalry ambushing in the dark between the Liao Central Army and its flanks. This was too unexpected. Logically, when the Liao flank cavalry was surrounded just now, it should have appeared and provided support. Unexpectedly, the Liao army commander was abnormal and endured. When the rebel army relaxed its vigilance, it took it out and gave a fatal blow to the resentful army.
The Xianzhan was the first to be hit. Before he could turn around and form the formation, the Liao horse army had already arrived.
This Liao army was like a scattered sea of roaring in the sky and whistling in the sky. Its momentum was so majestic that it made people feel devastated.
"Boom...", the camp exploded immediately, and the soldiers scattered, flew wildly and fled.
Xianying was in the middle, with Yanying in front, Qianying and Houjinying behind. The Liaogong Tent Army rushed forward diagonally, entered from Xianying, and then chased the fugitives behind, killing Qianying and Houjinying directly.
The collapse speed was too fast. Xianying rushed to Qianying and Qianying rushed to Houjinying. In just a few breaths, all three battalions of the resentful army collapsed. Some of them fled towards the central army, trying to escape into the horse army and get shelter. The large group of people were chased by Liao cavalry, killed and poked, trampled, and the soldiers who were both scattered and fled at high speed to the Xihe Valley and the Xihe River.
The Liao Palace Tent Army was fully deployed, like a shocking craze, and then chased and killed.
Countless soldiers of the resentful army died under the iron hooves of the Liao army.
Li Hu was shocked and urgently ordered the second army of Huli, Mu Taoli, and Guo Yaoshi, to quickly rush to help and follow the Liao army to kill. In any case, they could not attack the Xihe River and cut off the rebels' retreat.
"Order the commanders of each army to supervise the battle himself, tear open the enemy's formation, smash it, and kill it."
Luo Qinghan and the commanders of various lines were red in their eyes, and each led their troops to attack wildly. Dong Xiaochou didn't care about other battalions of the resentful army, commanding the front-line Yan battalion to rush to the Liao army's battle formation and attacked with all his strength. Since the resentful army was defeated, it was impossible to gather in a short time. It would be better to seize the time to defeat the Liao formation and break into the Liao army. As long as you defeat the Liao army and cut down the Liao army's flag, you still have a three-point chance of winning in this battle.
The outer edge of the Heavenly Formation was an iron-shelled turtle, which was invulnerable to the sword and gun. The inner formation was a man-eating beast. The dense arrow formation made the rebel army almost breathless. However, the iron turtle finally could not stand the technique of siege of wolves. The shield wall was the first to break a big hole for the Yunshuo army commanded by Ying Qin. The horse thieves behind the mountain went crazy and smashed the iron shield with a big iron hammer, a big iron axe, and a giant wolf mace, and forcibly tear open the gap. As soon as the hole was opened, people rushed in, and the iron wall immediately turned into an earth wall. In a blink of an eye, it was like a destruction, and the iron wall collapsed.
The sky formation is round outside and square inside, and the outside is broken inside and supplemented inside. When the iron wall of the copper wall is broken, the square array inside has been transformed into a formation, and it is another array with round outside and square inside.
The rebels complained and had to grit their teeth and attack again.
The resentful fleeing soldiers rushed into the Xihe Valley.
The Liao people's palace tent army then arrived.
The two battalions of the resentful army on the hills on both sides were fired wildly under the command of Tieying, but this could not stop the Liao army, and they continued to advance and got closer and closer to the Xihe River.
Mu Taoli and Guo Yaoshi commanded the horse army to pursue desperately, but there were too many fleeing soldiers, and they all rushed around like headless flies, running around, greatly delaying the pursuit speed.
The two commanders were so anxious that they shouted and shouted. If the Liao army rushed to the Xihe River, defeated the blocking army, entered the commander's camp, and cut down the big flag, this battle tonight would be a complete overturn.
Mao Jun and the officials of the General Office were shocked.
Without saying a word, Huang She ordered the General's Mansion to move back quickly and first remove the officers of the General's Mansion, and the General's Battalion moved with him, but the big star could not move and he had to defend the big star.
The Mao army immediately ordered the seventh general of the Third Army, closest to the General's Mansion, to be transferred to the east bank of the Xihe River to form a formation, and block the killing head-on. The fifth general of the Third Army and the sixth general of the Third Army immediately withdrew from the Xihe battlefield and returned to the rescue urgently.
"I urgently told Gao Yuan that the Fourth Army was responsible for surrounding and killing the Xihe battlefield. The captives who had already surrendered were immediately taken away from the battlefield. The Liao soldiers who were still fighting stubbornly should be killed as soon as possible, so as not to waste time."
At this time, Chai Yun directed the civilians to push the baggage cart up. Time was too tight, and only dozens of large trucks were pushed onto the hills, but with the river embankment and two obstacles on the hills, they should be able to withstand for a while and hold on to reinforcements.
Huang She suddenly thought of something, "Call, shout immediately, and ask the escaped soldiers to escape along the ice river, up and down, as long as they don't hit the formation."
The soldiers of the General Commander's Battalion, the officials of the General Commander's Office, and thousands of civilians shouted at the top of their voices.
The seventh general of Hu Lie rushed over and lined up behind the chariot array.
At the same time, the escaped soldiers also arrived. After a few miles, they ran away quickly, with an incredible speed. When the escaped soldiers heard the shouts, they immediately fled along the ice river, some running upstream and some running downstream. The surging escaped soldiers suddenly split into two and disappeared rapidly.
When the Liao Palace Tent Army arrived, the war horses did not slow down and killed the Xihe River and the rebels on the other side of the Xihe River.
Tian Fu commanded the seventh general to bravely block the enemy. For a moment, the sound of killing was like thunder and arrows were like rain.
Mu Taoli and Guo Yaoshi arrived quickly. A group of palace tent troops turned around to fight. Thousands of cavalry and soldiers fought together, killing them so hard that they could fly.
Tieying also chased after the two battalions of resentful troops, and launched an attack from the left and right wings of the Liao army, fighting to the death to intercept them.
Chapter completed!