Chapter 328: The Battle for Central Plains Begins

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The key point of the cone formation is to break the sharpness of the vanguard! If the enemy can resist, its edge will be blunted; but if it can't resist, then breaking the enemy is like tearing paper, a central breakthrough directly penetrates the head!

The 20,000 elite cavalry composed of the Khitan Pishi Army and the elites of the Western Xia and grassland tribes, on the flat land of Qingshui River, there is no terrain restriction. It can almost be said that they are simply invincible.

"Good, good, very good!"

Seeing that his opponent is such an elite, Bian Xiang, who has not shown his face since he went north to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, laughed wildly-he laughed very happily because he could finally let go and fight!

On the other side, although his enemy is the ace of the battlefield, the armored heavy cavalry, Yelu Zhan Ge has no fear. He roared fiercely and was full of fighting spirit!

Perhaps it felt the passion of the master, the lion onion also screamed "Herodulu".

The unity of man and horse, the momentum is like a rainbow!

Yelu Zhange's indomitable attitude infected all the soldiers of the coalition army. It seemed that the strong man who had intimidated the north for more than 200 years and the powerful nation that ruled the northern desert for more than 200 years were back!

Why was Khitan not good? !

This powerful king was still as powerful as ever!

The two sides had not yet clashed, but the murderous aura that came to their faces had already made many soldiers of the Yuan army weak in their legs and feet.

The soldiers of the Iron Buddha Left Army did not.

They were the strongest group of men in the Yuan Empire!

They had feelings. Therefore, there would be times of weakness!

But they were even braver. Under the might of the coalition army, they showed only fearlessness!

We are the Great Yuan, how could we be herbivorous slaves!

We are the Great Yuan, we are originally war-loving heroes!

How did the territory of the Great Yuan come from?

Which inch was not fought out by bloody battles? !

Today, here will be no exception!

Then there was the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Western Xia, the Jin Dynasty, and the entire world that the Yuan iron hoof could reach!

"Ho-ho-ho!"

"Ho-ho-ho!"

"Ho-ho-ho!"

Strange guttural sounds came out of the mouths of the soldiers of the Iron Buddha Left Army, just like their war songs!

Obviously, the Iron Buddha Left Army was also ready for the fight!

In the duel between the two powerful armies, there was not much to say.

An arrow shot away!

Yelu Zhange finally stopped suppressing his 20,000 elite cavalry. A large number of cavalrymen began to run quickly, and then quickly approached the Iron Buddha Left Army!

The same was true for the Iron Buddha Left Army!

Almost without any stop, Bian Xiang and Yelu Zhange fought.

Bian Xiang's body immediately swelled a lot!

Yelu Zhange turned into a half-orc with a tiger head and a human body!

Unexpectedly, Bian Xiang and Yelu Zhange waved their hands at the same time. They didn't chop but smashed, using the back of the giant axe as a hammer.

"Boom!"

After a burst of air, a large area around Bian Xiang and Yelu Zhange was overturned!

At the same time, neither Bian Xiang nor Yelu Zhange could kill the other.

The horses staggered, and Bian Xiang and Yelu Zhange rushed into each other's army.

Not waiting for the enemy's attack with chevaux de frise and antlers, not using shields to delay the enemy's horse hooves, but cavalry against cavalry, horse against horse!

Strong against strong! Hard against hard!

Twenty thousand elite cavalry of the coalition army broke into the left army of the Iron Pagoda in a cone formation!

Of course, you can also understand it as five thousand left army of the Iron Pagoda breaking into the 20,000 elite cavalry of the coalition army.

The sabers of the warriors of the coalition army chopped the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty, and the swords and spears of the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty pierced the warriors of the coalition army!

Bian Xiang and Yelu Zhange swung the giant axes in their hands frequently, killing everyone they could see.

Kill!

Kill!

Or kill!

After the clash, the Iron Buddha lost more than a thousand men, while the 20,000 elite cavalry of the coalition lost at least four or five thousand men.

Undoubtedly, in this duel, the king of armored heavy cavalry on the battlefield had a slight advantage.

But what can be done?

Yelu Zhange did not want to defeat the Iron Buddha Left Army. What he wanted was to break through the Iron Buddha Left Army's defense line, and then break through the Yuan Army's central army, kill or capture Jiang Hongfei alive, and win this decisive battle.

Now the most difficult hurdle has passed, and next...

Just as Yelu Zhange was about to rush into the Yuan Army's infantry to carry out a massacre, the small crane wing formation, under the command of Zhu Wu, Hua Rong, Wang Bing and others, quickly separated to the left and right again.

The next moment, another 5,000 heavy cavalry suddenly rushed up from the rear of the Yuan Army!

This heavy cavalry, also tall and strong, with armor on both men and horses, also looks like a pagoda made of cast iron, indestructible and like a steel behemoth on the battlefield.

——Iron Buddha Right Army!

Yelu Zhan Ge never expected that the Yuan army would be so extravagant as to have two armored heavy cavalry!

After Hu Yanzhuo led the Iron Buddha Right Army to appear, he first fired a round of volleys at the elite cavalry of the coalition army that had just fought a life-and-death battle with the Iron Buddha Left Army.

Before the battle, the Iron Buddha Right Army shot and killed nearly a thousand elite cavalry of the coalition army.

The momentum of the elite cavalry of the coalition army could not help but weaken.

And at this moment,

The Khitan family lived in the clouds and sand, and the old carriages were like water and the horses were like dragons.

In spring, the grass is ten thousand miles long, and the peonies and peonies are red.

The big Hu pulled the carriage and the small Hu danced, playing the Hu Pipa to tune the Hu girl.

I have been wandering around for a spring and have not returned home, and I have my own tent to block the wind and rain.

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The "Khitan Song" played in the Khitan language came from behind.

This "Khitan Song" originally describes the nomadic hunting life of the Khitan people, showing that the Khitan people are good at singing and dancing, vigorous and martial, and bold and unrestrained.

But at this time, the song has a strong sense of reminiscence.

It reminds the Liao people, especially the Khitan people among them, of their Khitan ancestors, the former glory of their Great Liao Empire, their embarrassment of fleeing from north to south and from east to west, and their wives and daughters enjoying the pleasures of the despicable Jurchens and Han people...

Now they have nowhere to escape, and the only thing left is to fight with their backs to the river.

Many coalition soldiers, especially the Liao people among them, and especially the Khitan people among the Liao people, seem to be possessed by their invincible ancestors!

Yelu Zhange's spiritual power is fully opened again, and he is full of murderous aura. He looks up at the big flag with the words "Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty" flying not far away, and his fighting spirit is even more full!

"Hirolu!"

The lion horse also let out a roar that could be heard throughout the battlefield!

Immediately, one man and one horse turned into a mad dragon that looked down upon the world and rushed straight towards the Iron Buddha Right Army, no, to be precise, towards the Iron Buddha Right Army's chief general Hu Yanzhuo!

The Khitans behind Yelu Zhange also followed Yelu Zhange with fighting spirit and continued to charge, wedge into the Iron Buddha Right Army...

Infected by the Khitans, the coalition soldiers also charged again without hesitation!

But at this moment, a strange rhythm suddenly sounded on the battlefield. It was a poem that came from the rear of the Yuan army and floated far away in the temporarily windless battlefield.

The voice was desolate, as if it was filled with nostalgia, and in the nostalgia it was filled with determination!

It was Wang Changling's "Out of the Frontier"!

The bright moon in the Qin Dynasty and the pass in the Han Dynasty, the people who had marched thousands of miles had not returned.

But the flying general of Longcheng is here, and he will not let the Hu horses cross the Yinshan Mountains.

When he came to the frontier, a man of blood was ready to die on the battlefield!

Come on. Hulu!

Hu Yanzhuo issued an order to teach the 5,000 iron pagodas on the right to line up in a row, with 50 horses in a row, and the iron rings were chained, and the 5,000 linked cavalry were divided into 100 teams to lock.

Under the leadership of Hu Yanzhuo, 100 teams of iron pagodas, 50 horses ran together, and they could not help but move forward. The linked horses rushed forward on the endless grassland. It was like a hundred giant meat grinders!

Hu Yanzhuo used the secret art of sound transmission to shout: "Charge, kill! Run over!"

Yelu Zhan, who had already turned into a half-beast, began to go crazy, waving a huge axe and smashing down at Hu Yanzhuo!

At the line between life and death, Hu Yanzhuo did not hold back, and hit with two whips in his hands, and hundreds of light whips densely covered Yelu Zhan!

Unexpectedly, Yelu Zhange did not hide, but relied on the armor on him and Shizicong and their own strong defense to resist all the light whips of Hu Yanzhuo!

At the same time, the giant axe in Yelu Zhange's hand continued to slash at Hu Yanzhuo!

Hu Yanzhuo, who was fighting with all his strength, seemed to have nowhere to hide.

Fortunately!

At the last moment, the Kicking Snow Wuzhui horse under Hu Yanzhuo's crotch made a small drift cleverly, and the giant axe brushed Hu Yanzhuo's left rib!

"Puff!"

A stream of blood gushed out from Hu Yanzhuo's left rib!

When the two horses met, Hu Yanzhuo ignored the serious injury on his left rib that was so deep that the bone could be seen, and waved the double whips in his hands repeatedly, killing every barbarian he could see. "Hundred Victory General" Han Tao and "Tianmu General" Peng Qi were on his left and right, and they all fought hard!

And Yelu Zhange also rushed into the chain horses!

Yelu Zhange chopped with his giant axe, row after row, and chopped down eleven groups of linked horses in a row, and then he and his lion onion were drowned by the linked horses...

"Xiluolu!!!"

The lion onion let out its last wail before dying.

Someone took over Yelu Zhange's command and even led the coalition's elite cavalry to charge on his behalf.

But after being strangled by the linked horses, only three to five thousand elite cavalrymen, whose momentum had already weakened, rushed to the defense area of ​​the small crane wing formation.

The crane wing formation is strong at the two tips and weak in the center.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei and his ministers chose to use this formation was to first defeat the two wings of the coalition, and the task of the central force was to eliminate the coalition's impact, which is "blunting its edge and breaking its two wings".

When the two wings of the coalition were broken, the Yuan army would close together and be able to encircle and annihilate the coalition's most elite troops.

But the coalition forces dared to fight with the cone formation, hoping to "cut out the heart and behead", that is, Jiang Hongfei's head was the ultimate goal of the coalition forces, and the key to their victory.

Before the decisive battle, the cavalry harassed, and during the decisive battle, "beheaded and heart-cutting" was a common trick of the nomadic cavalry in Mobei, which would continue until the Mongolian cavalry era during the Genghis Khan period.

Unfortunately, the Yuan army was still stronger.

After the three or five thousand elite cavalrymen, who were at the end of their strength, ran into the small crane wing formation, the heavy armored shield soldiers defended, and the long spear soldiers stabbed and killed. Later, even the sickle spearmen and heavy hammer giant axe soldiers who had destroyed the iron kite rushed up to surround and kill under the leadership of Xu Guanzhong and others.

Just in front of the central army, the Yuan infantry and the coalition forces that had slowed down launched a life-and-death battle.

In response, Jiang Hongfei and others smiled slightly, because the general situation was set.

As the saying goes, it is useless for cavalry that can't run.

Its edge has been blunted!

In addition, the coalition forces still had too few troops.

In order to maximize their offensive power, Yelu Yanxi, Li Liangfu and others gave up the two wings and gambled everything on the central army with the Yuan army.

It must be said that the commanders of the coalition forces were still very courageous.

But the problem is that if the Yuan army resists the fierce attack of the coalition forces, the coalition forces will surely lose.

Soon, the left and right armies of the Yuan army, under the command of Chen Ke, Chen Xizhen and others, opened fire at full force to break the two wings of the coalition forces and surround the main force of the coalition forces.

The Beiwei Army, Ma Yijun, Ma Sijun, Ma Shisanjun and Tabai Army, Ma Bajun, Ma Shijun and Ma Shierjun of the Qiyan and Kerey tribes, which had already defeated them, were led by Du Fu, Yue Fei, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Qin Ming and other generals, as well as Lu Junyi, Liu Qi, Sun Li, Guan Sheng, Mi Xian and other generals, and attacked the left and right wings of the coalition forces respectively.

As for the 10,000 or 20,000 Qiyan and Kerey troops outside the encirclement and the thousands of troops who had just escaped from the two wings of the cone formation "∧", Chen Ke, Chen Xizhen and others could no longer take care of them.

——In such a large-scale decisive battle, it is impossible to completely annihilate one side on this unobstructed plain, especially when the other side is all cavalry.

It can be said that Jiang Hongfei has completely achieved the results he wanted by eating up all the 40,000 to 50,000 troops trapped in the encirclement.

After the encirclement, the left and right armies of the Iron Buddha, the Po Di Army, the You Yi Army and the Sheng Jie Army, as well as Jiang Hongfei's personal army, began to chase and kill the coalition forces outside the encirclement to prevent them from attacking the encirclement of the Yuan army.

At this time, the other cavalry can dismount and shoot the surrounded coalition soldiers with bows and crossbows.

Of course, the main force to slaughter the coalition forces is still the infantry.

Long spears, sickle spears, crossbows, hand hammers, giant axes, all means of killing the enemy can be used to attack the surrounded coalition forces from all directions...

The coalition forces in the encirclement were like lambs to be slaughtered, dying in large numbers, with corpses everywhere and blood flowing like a river. Their blood even dyed the Qingshui River red for a long time...

Of course, the coalition forces in the encirclement also organized several counterattacks to break out of the encirclement.

Unfortunately!

All their counterattacks were disintegrated by the Yuan army, which took the absolute initiative.

The massacre continued...

Jiang Hongfei never gave the coalition forces a chance to surrender.

Until the surrounded coalition forces were killed to less than 8,000 troops, and these less than 8,000 troops were killed to collapse, Jiang Hongfei ordered to stop and surrender.

The Qiyan tribe, the Kerey tribe and other fish that escaped the encirclement had already fled under the attack of the Iron Buddha Left and Right Army, the Die-breaking Army, the Youyi Army, the Shengjie Army and the Imperial Army.

As for Yelu Yanxi?

Not surprisingly, he fled again.

However, just when Jiang Hongfei thought that the coward Yelu Yanxi might have to bother him for a while, something Jiang Hongfei never expected happened.

That is, Li Yanxian, Yang Zaixing, and Luo Yanqing, who were sent by Jiang Hongfei to make a big detour to the rear of the coalition forces and prepare to use the Thousand Years Kill on the coalition forces, actually captured Yelu Yanxi, Li Liangfu and others.

It turned out that in order to prevent the Yuan army from detouring to their rear and using the Thousand Years Kill to defeat them from behind, the coalition forces dug thousands of large and small pits along the way.

In order to avoid these pits, Li Yanxian and his men could only expand the scope of the detour.

As a result, Li Yanxian and his men failed to catch up with this decisive battle.

Just when Li Yanxian and his men were frustrated, the scouts found Yelu Yanxi and Li Liangfu, who had escaped from the battlefield, and more than 2,000 of his men.

Li Yanxian and his men were overjoyed. When Yelu Yanxi and his men stopped to rest, they rushed forward and captured them all.

After this battle, Jiang Hongfei's hometown Dading could finally go south to compete for the Central Plains without any worries...

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