Li Xuan stood under the city gate, surrounded by Qianniu Guards on both sides, and there was a wailing on the avenue in front.
I don't know how many Tubo cavalrymen were knocked upside down by the suddenly thrown iron caltrops, and their blood flowed profusely. It was a horrible scene.
Even Brenzan Blade on the other side was shocked when he saw this scene.
Blenzan Blade's face turned completely gloomy, and he finally realized keenly that he seemed to have done something wrong in the matter before him.
He shouldn't attack the city gate directly. Although only King Nanchang and Qianniu Guard are under the city gate now, who knows how many methods they have in the invisible place.
Brenzan Blade was not someone who gave up easily. He turned sideways and gave an order. The next moment, a group of cavalry in white cloaks beside him rushed across the stone bridge like the wind. A series of orders were quickly passed in. In the ears of the Tibetan cavalry ahead.
Soon, all the Tubo cavalry dismounted, tore off all their cloaks, wrapped them around their long knives, and then swung them toward the ground.
On the ground in front, the caltrops had been completely swept aside.
The trebuchet on the city wall had stopped moving. After all, even though Li Xuan had prepared caltrops in advance, the trebuchet dropped several times and the entire ground was almost filled, and there was no more caltrops left.
The Tibetan cavalry used their cloaks and clothes as brooms to sweep aside all the caltrops.
In a very short period of time, these caltrops had been turned into piles, and at the same time, their path to Li Xuan was opened.
Just when he was about to sweep away the thorns on the ground, a cold voice sounded again: "Archer, shoot!"
Li Xuan gave the order, and the next moment, in the courtyards on both sides, the crossbowmen who had reloaded their crossbows raised their crossbows again.
The next moment, countless crossbow arrows were fired directly into the air. In the blink of an eye, two handfuls of arrow rain had formed, one on the left, one on the right, one south and one north, flying towards both sides.
Everyone on the city wall saw the rain of arrows falling on the Tibetan cavalry who were about to sweep away the thorns, instantly causing countless blood and casualties.
But more people also noticed that this time the crossbowmen fired, directly ignoring the Tibetan cavalry in front, and began to hunt the Tibetan cavalry on the north and south sides.
At the moment when the Tubo cavalry on both sides of the north and south were blocked, Li Xuan's cold voice sounded: "Thousands of ox heavy cavalry, attack."
With a "boom", the heavily armored Qianniu Guards had already raised their long spears and rushed towards the Tibetan cavalry in front.
At this moment, more loud footsteps sounded between heaven and earth.
Further away, under the city walls in the north and south directions, there were 750 cavalrymen on each side, rushing towards the back of the Tibetan cavalry at full speed.
Right guard cavalry.
The 1,500 right-guard cavalry who had been hiding for a long time finally appeared.
Or that is not accurate. Among the 1,400 cavalry, 1,000 are well-trained right-guard cavalry, 100 are from the Jinwu Guards of Chang'an, and 400 are from the 3,000 Hangzhou Guards. Select the soldiers who are best at cavalry and horizontal warfare.
These people had been unable to hide before, but now, they all ran out at once.
From the back of the Tubo cavalry, they rushed out fiercely.
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Brenzann Blade on the other side, seeing the appearance of more than a thousand cavalry, his original solemn expression completely relaxed, and even flashed a trace of disdain and sneer: "You have brought out all your last cards so early, really. Those who don't know how to die. Send an order, the cavalry from the north and the south will outflank the Tang army's cavalry from behind, and they must be wiped out."
Brenzan Blade gave an order, and his soldiers immediately took the order and rushed towards the north and south directions at extremely high speed.
Of the three thousand Tibetan cavalry today, 500 were originally left in the upper reaches to attack the south gate in a detour; the other 500 cavalry went down the Tao River and crossed the Tao River from the stone bridge on the north side to threaten Taozhou. North Gate.
There are only two thousand cavalry in Brenzan's hands now, and these two thousand cavalry have already exceeded one thousand. They were thrown on the opposite river bank, and more than half of them were damaged.
Now, the number of cavalry around Brenzan was no more than a thousand, but he still did not hesitate at all. He waved his hand forward, and more Tibetan cavalry rushed onto the stone bridge and directly killed the Tang army on the other side. .
Go straight ahead without turning.
Because in front of them, the one hundred thousand oxen guard heavy cavalry headed by Li Xuan had returned to a vertical column and charged fiercely toward the less than two hundred cavalry in front.
A thousand oxen riding heavy horses will stop if they don't move, but they will move as fast as thunder.
The Tibetan cavalry, which was less than twice the size in front of them, had already been beaten by crossbows and traps, and was very exhausted from torture.
The sudden movement made the Tubo cavalry a little unable to react. They had just drawn their long bows and had not had time to set up the bows and arrows.
At this time, the heavy armored cavalry had already rushed in front of them, and the eight-foot-long sword instantly penetrated the chests of the Tubo people, and then knocked them up hard.
Blood mist immediately flew up in the air.
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The battlefield was cut into several pieces in an instant. There were two hundred Tibetan cavalry in front of Li Xuan, and there were more than two hundred Tibetan cavalry left on the left and right sides.
On the stone bridge, there were cavalry rushing across the bridge quickly, and on the other side of the stone bridge, Brenzan Blade led less than a thousand cavalry.
On the north and south sides, a thousand cavalrymen were outflanking Taozhou City from upstream and downstream.
It can be seen that Brenzan is very patient. He is using his two thousand cavalry to directly attract Li Xuan's attention, and then calmly mobilizes a thousand cavalry from top to bottom to hunt the north and south, and get the last of Li Xuan's hand. The 1,500 right guard cavalry stabbed fiercely in the back.
Originally, Li Xuan was hunting the Tibetan cavalry on the battlefield, but now it was the Tibetan cavalry that was hunting Li Xuan's right-guard cavalry from the outside.
I don’t know why, but Li Xuan, who was very patient at first, started to become a little impatient at this time.
He personally led the heavy armored cavalry and killed the Tibetan cavalry in front of him through the gap of a foot-wide pit.
The long sword flashed past the throat of one Tubo cavalry in the blink of an eye, and then landed on the throat of another Tubo cavalry as lightly as a dragonfly dripping water.
As soon as the blood started flying, the heavy cavalry was already rushing forward quickly. Before more Tubo cavalry could see clearly, the man had already fallen off the horse, with only his throat a little bright red.
In order to avoid crossbow arrows, the Tubo cavalry were dispersed.
The cavalry charge is relatively scattered. Not many people can be as strict as Li Xuan's Qianniu Guards in their formation requirements.
In a very short time, they had already lined up.
At the beginning, Li Xuan charged forward with the zhangba long spear in his hand to clear the way. The long spears in the hands of the Qianniu Guards on both sides were raised at the same time, and then they stabbed fiercely into the Tibetan cavalry on both sides.
They did not disperse at all, but followed Li Xuan, who was fighting at the front, and rushed forward, forward, toward the stone bridge.
From a distance, it looks like a centipede raising its sickle.
Through the flying blood, Li Xuan's eyes fell on the Brenzan Blade opposite.
At this moment, Brenzan's face showed great horror. He had figured out Li Xuan's goal. He was going to rush onto the stone bridge and block it.
As long as the stone bridge is blocked and the Tibetan cavalry reinforcements cannot be sent across, then on the other side of the stone bridge, the Tang army's cavalry will have an absolute advantage of 1,500 against 500 in a short period of time, and the Tang army can kill at will.
As long as the Tang army kills these 500 Tubo cavalry, then more than 1,500 Tang army cavalry will face less than 2,000 Tibetan cavalry.
With the city as a support, they were almost invincible.
This is the real purpose of King Nanchang.
Above and below the city, those who saw this clearly had incomparable horror in their eyes.
Chang Li moved straight forward, and a Tubo cavalryman had been stabbed hard by Li Xuan and flew out.
The huge force swept across, and several Tubo cavalry nearby had been swept down directly.
The next moment, Chang Jian stabbed forward again. The Tubo cavalry who had just rushed out of the stone bridge was stabbed directly and flew back in an instant.
Countless Tubo cavalry were sprinting wildly, trying to cross the stone bridge and join their companions, but they were blocked by Li Xuan and Qian Niuwei's heavy cavalry.
The cavalry that is cut off from each other and the cavalry that is still linked together are two different concepts.
Once the stone bridge is cut off, it means that the Tang Army cavalry formed a cutting and surrounding Tubo cavalry, and then killed them. Without being cut off, there were still more than 1,500 Tang Army cavalry against the Tubo cavalry of almost the same size.
Not only that, the Tubo cavalry in front of them are all real veterans of many battles, but those Tang army cavalry, although they are elite right guards, have not actually fought on the battlefield many times. With the same number, the Tubo cavalry has a great advantage.
But now, this advantage has been completely offset, and the reason for all this is only one person, and that is Li Xuan.
"Charge, charge, charge!" Brunzan Blade yelled crazily, his eyes filled with blood: "Kill him. As long as we kill him, we can kill all the Tang people."
The stone bridge was narrow and could only allow three cavalry to charge at a time.
Although Li Xuan stood at the end of the bridge, there were nine heavy armored cavalry beside him. The Zhangba long spear in his hand kept thrusting forward and then retracting.
Li Xuan was nailed to the end of the bridge. When the other cavalry charged, he rested. When the other cavalry retreated, he blocked all the pursuing troops.
In just a moment, a pile of dead bodies had fallen on the bridge. There were Tibetan cavalry, Qianniu Guard cavalry, and more of them were war horses.
At this moment, the one hundred thousand oxen cavalry behind Li Xuan, except for leaving more than ten people to assist Li Xuan, the other cavalry were already frantically killing the Tubo cavalry on both sides. At the same time, the loud sound of horse hoofs was also heard. There was a sound coming from behind the Tubo cavalry.
The main force of the Tang Army's cavalry arrived on the battlefield.
The long branches were raised, and blood filled the air.
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With a "ding" sound, a short arrow passed through the body of the cavalry in front of him, and then shot hard towards Li Xuan's cheek.
Li Xuan quickly turned his head, and the short arrow was directly nailed to Li Xuan's tiger head. The powerful force made Li Xuan tilt his head even more.
At this moment, two long knives slashed hard at Li Xuan's chest.
But at this moment, Li Xuan didn't even look at it. The long spear in his hand had jumped up quickly and pierced the chests of the two Tubo cavalry in front of him like lightning.
The man took a step back slightly to avoid the long knife that passed in front of him.
Not even a single arrow came from the Tubo people, but most of them were directly blocked by Li Xuan's Mingguang Armor. The only one they could really attack was Li Xuan's face, but unfortunately, Li Xuan's reaction was too fast, and the Tubo people Human bows and arrows cannot hurt him at all.
But fortunately, under the constant barrage of bows and arrows, Li Xuan finally retreated.
Li Xuan retreated, took one step back, and already exited the stone bridge.
The faces of the Tibetan cavalry showed ecstasy.
At this moment, Li Xuan's cold voice sounded: "Send the order, crossbow soldiers, attack."
Li Xuan gave the order, and almost in the blink of an eye, the sound of the drums at the city gate suddenly changed.
The next moment, on both sides of the city gate, the courtyard gate was actually opened at the same time, and thousands of crossbowmen carrying crossbows rushed out quickly.
It's like a goddess scattering flowers, but what they scatter is the lives of the Tubo people.
(End of chapter)
