Dong Wen closed his eyes and suppressed his anger coldly. He was not angry when a clan uncle died. Angry, he suddenly realized that he had been deceived by a commoner. This is not an ordinary grain and grass carriage, but something used by common thieves to stop horses.
In the first battle, more than 6,000 cavalry were lost.
"Lord, retreat." The Liangzhou general stood by and spoke cautiously.
Dong Wen did not answer, but raised his head and looked at the sky above his head. After a fight, it was already noon. The spring sunshine was very soft, shining on his body, but it still couldn't drive away the chill.
"Lord, my fifty thousand infantry from Liangzhou have arrived!"
Upon hearing this news, Dong Wen suddenly opened his eyes, with the madness of a gambler on his face.
"Send the order, with 20,000 infantry in the lead, march to 300 steps away, with the big shield in front and the bow in the middle. Shoot all these carriages to death! Li Mi, you go this time!"
"Follow the order!" Beside Dong Wen, a tough veteran clasped his fists and accepted the order.
"Liang Qi is behind. As soon as these carriages are broken, we will immediately pursue the Shu army!"
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The long flag with the word "Li" flutters in the wind under the sand dunes.
"Liang General Li Mi, a native of Wuwei County in Liangzhou, once defeated ten thousand Xiqiang soldiers with three thousand spears and shields."
Xu Mu nodded, without any contempt in his eyes. In such troubled times, except for some princes and grandsons of Shiyin, those who can become generals of a battalion are not ordinary people.
"Dong Wen's intention is that the infantry break the formation, while the remaining more than 30,000 cavalry are waiting for the opportunity to move behind."
"No problem." Xu Mu was full of confidence.
As early as just now, he had asked Wei Xiaowu to change the flag order.
"Hoo, ho, ho."
On the sandy ground of a flat river, the Liang infantry holding a square formation pressed against the Queyue formation step by step amid the clang of their armor.
The dust that filled the sky was mesmerizing people's eyes for a while.
"Raise the shield! Center the bow!" Veteran Li Mi shouted angrily while riding on his horse.
The people in the front row abandoned their weapons, raised their side shields with both hands, and stood in front. The archer behind started to hold the bow with one hand and put the other hand on the quiver.
"Yin Dutou, Liang Gou is approaching!"
Yin Hu, who was wearing a mask, had cold eyes. The range of the long bow is much longer than that of the Shuzhou repeating crossbow. In other words, as long as the Liangzhou infantry is closer, the Queyue Formation will only be beaten.
But Yin Hu believes that his chief helmsman has far-reaching plans and should take this aspect into consideration.
As expected, Yin Hu hadn't even given the order yet. In the crescent moons at both ends of Queyue Formation, there was suddenly a rush of horse hoofbeats. When Yin Hu turned around again, he discovered that at some unknown time, thousands of Shuzhou Qingqi appeared coldly in the dust. The outline of Chang Wu.
The leader is Dou Tong, wearing a face-covering helmet and a white cloak stained with sand, and he is full of power.
"Normally speaking, the largest cavalry general in Shuzhou should be Chao Yi, followed by Chai Zong and Wei Feng. But I have kept all three of them useful. Lao Dou once sold horses for a living, and there are also scattered horse farms in southern Shu. There is no problem with a light cavalry." Xu Mu said on the sand dune.
"The master uses people to dispatch, and he has the appearance of an overlord."
"Wenlong...you are getting better and better in your speech. You will praise me after you win. You and I will watch the battle first."
Under the sky, Dou Tong raised the spear in his hand. The spear was gleaming with cold light, and it had a fishtail wing, just waiting to poke the enemy, so that it could be easily returned and stabbed again.
"People in the world say that there are no horses in Shuzhou. Sons and gentlemen, carry your guns for me and tell these cold dogs who is the real iron heel in the world!"
"Separate the two wings and rush over for me!"
At both ends of the Crescent Formation, tens of thousands of Shu cavalry lined up on two wings, taking a circuitous route and charging toward the Liangzhou infantry.
Li Mi, who was holding the battle, raised his head and was shocked.
"Send the order to change the formation, change the formation immediately! Step and bow, lock the target to the left and right wings!"
The original Liangzhou infantry was aiming at the Queyue Formation directly ahead. But he didn't expect that at this time, a Shu Cavalry would come out from between the left and right wings.
Li Mi's response was already very timely. It's a pity that on the flat terrain, coupled with the light cavalry, the ten thousand Shu cavalry were extremely fast. They pointed their spears and circuitously came from the left and right wings, roaring and killing them.
Only scattered flying arrows were fired, and Shuqi's fish-tail spear had already cut holes among the 20,000 Liangzhou infantry.
"Come here, send the order quickly! On both sides, quickly line up shields to block the horses!" Li Mi shouted until his voice became hoarse.
"The spear took a roundabout way and smashed Liang Gou's formation!"
The Shu cavalry on the left and right wings kept charging back and forth. After several rounds, Liangzhou's 20,000 infantrymen, who were originally murderous, became a panic.
Under the protection of more than a hundred personal guards, Li Mi cried out sadly while riding on his horse.
On the dunes. Xu Mu, who had been observing the battle situation, spoke in an unhurried voice.
"Master Wei, wave the flag and ask Lao Dou to step back."
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Dou Tong, who was excited to fight, looked up and saw the flag order, but he had no desire to fight. After passing the order, he quickly led the vast Shu cavalry and ran away from the battlefield.
The 20,000 Liangqi who were killed at the back were left alone. So much so that the Liangzhou cavalry general who led the troops pointed at the retreating troops of the Shu cavalry and cursed.
"Protect the infantry and retreat."
Li Mi was riding on the horse, his face full of self-blame. When he returned to his base camp and saw Dong Wen, he dismounted and knelt down, drew his sword and was about to kill himself to apologize.
Dong Wen scowled and kicked the sword away from Li Mi's hand.
"Tell me, the king, can you recognize the formation in front of you?"
"My lord... I have never seen this kind of formation. It's a bit like the Crescent Moon Formation, but it looks very strange. It's not just the bows, but also the rangers. I guess there are even other hidden soldiers."
Dong Wen frowned, holding back the anger in his heart, and helped Li Mi up in front of him.
"My lord, it is difficult to change this formation. It must have been set up by the commoner thief earlier. He has been...waiting for my lord to come over."
"Li Mi, do you mean to withdraw?"
Li Mi remained silent. Retreat or not, how dare he say such a thing.
Dong Wen raised his head and glanced at the sky. For a moment, he felt his chest became even more irritable. Being defeated by civilian thieves twice in a row gave him a sense of fear in his heart.
This weird formation, the Shu army that appeared in Liangzhou, and the Tibetan army that didn’t appear yet——
Dong Wen gritted his teeth.
"Send the order, the army will return to Lingju Pass and make plans again!"
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After watching quietly for a long time, Xu Mu's tone became cold.
"Dong Wen is about to withdraw his army. Come when you want and leave when you want. This is a tour of the Qing Palace."
"I told you earlier, he can't leave and drags the war into the night. We, Shuzhou, are going to destroy this Liang army! Master Wei waved the flag and asked Dou Tong to go out and bite the Liang dog's tail!"
With infantry accompanying them, even if Dong Wen wanted to withdraw his troops, he must first protect the infantry. Under the intrusion of Dou Tong and the damage to morale, the retreat would only become slower and slower.
…
Under the sky full of dust. Thousands of Shu riders, like a pack of wolves, constantly harassed and hunted down.
"Common thief! You have bullied me too much!" Dong Wen rode on his horse, raised his gun and roared.
