Chapter 10 Chapter Two

Red Tide——The charge of the Thunder Cavalry Army seemed to be a red tide coming from the grassland, and the land that this tide flooded left only a lot of bones. The princes saw this tide for the first time in Juluyuan in Suohe Mountain. At that time, the ministers, generals, and soldiers were all horrified, facing this tide as if their souls were out of their bodies.This should not be a tactic that humans can use. They rushed forward without fear of life and death, galloping their horses over the rain of arrows, over obstacles, over the bones of their companions, and desperately slashing the saber on the enemy's head, like going mad on the Shangzhou Icefield Kuafu is also like those red ant colonies in the mountains of Yuezhou with vicious jaws that can bite a whole cow into dry bones.

They were not afraid, so the princes were afraid.In that battle, the Li army's 5,000 thunder cavalry charge defeated the formation of the 70,000 princes' army. In addition to courage, the Thunder Cavalry Army excels in Qingqi maneuvering.Their horses did not wear horse armor, and the cavalry only wore red-orange hard leather armor. The leaders of the Centuries and Thousands wore red-orange flags on their backs as symbols.Light armor and rapidity are the first means for thunder cavalry to win. When the enemy has not yet organized an effective formation, the forward cavalry of this unit has torn apart the enemy's front army and went straight to the center, and the enemy has not yet filled the gap. During the encirclement, the cavalry and archers who assisted the charge suppressed the opponent's actions with a rain of arrows. After a few salvos, the elite sword cavalry warriors of the Thunder Cavalry Army swung their long and narrow sabers to quickly kill the chaotic enemy army.When the gunmen, archers, and sword knights finally converge behind the enemy's formation, there is usually only a field of Shura behind them that has not yet cleared the smoke and dust.

Even as coaches, Xi Yan and Ying Wuyi didn't have the courage to face the red tide.As soon as Lei Qi moved, the two could no longer continue fighting, but whipped their horses like lightning and retreated to the edge of the battlefield.The rushing tide of cavalry is like a huge chariot, and no one can stop its advancing momentum. If it stands still, it will undoubtedly become a reef smashed by evil waves. The first-line cavalry in Xiatang were completely stunned, and they never thought of charging up to fight.When the incident happened suddenly, Xiyuan was completely confused.No army would launch a cavalry charge in a duel between the main generals, and the injury of the black armored warrior on the other side clearly triggered an earthquake-like result.

Xiyuan quickly calmed down. He knew that no matter the training or actual combat experience, the lower Tang cavalry could not compare with the Thunder Cavalry.So he threw the command flag, the cavalry retreated first, and the crossbowmen threw a large array of arrows into the air. The strength of the thunder cavalry can be seen at a glance when the arrow array falls.Ordinary light cavalry did not have heavy armor protection, so it was inevitable to control the speed of the horse to avoid the arrow rain, but the warriors of the thunder cavalry lifted the leather shields on their horses to cover their heads, and continued to advance at high speed against the arrow array.The Xia Tang crossbowmen were not recruited from military families, they were mostly idle youths in the market, and the crossbows they used were not strong enough to compare with the hard crossbows held by the black armored knight who just left the army.When the arrow array leaves the string, it still has a momentum, but when it falls, it is not only difficult to cause damage, it can't even pierce the leather shield.

Ocher-red arrows protrude from the red tide, and the most experienced veterans are gathered at the leading edge of the arrow.The Thunder Cavalry Army has already approached the flag gate of Xia Tang.Lu Guichen pressed Yingyue's knife handle, took a deep breath of the dusty air, and a shiver ran through his body.He looked left and right, and the crossbowmen had already retreated to the central army in a panic. "My son... hurry! Let's go! This is Thunder Rider!" The leader of the Jinwu Guard, Baili Jinghong ordered Fang Shan, who was protecting Lu Guichen all the way, with a trembling voice.

Lu Guichen pressed his saber and immediately looked straight at the oncoming red tide. He said in a calm voice, "Hold on to the crossbowmen and retreat layer by layer. I will be the last to leave." "Then... that all depends on the supernatural power of the son!" Up to now, Fang Shan ignored the order of the king, turned his horse as if he had been pardoned, and fled to the main formation recklessly. Lu Guichen glanced at his back and shook his head slightly.He also knew the king's intentions. Fang Shan said it was to protect him, but his other task was to prevent Lu Guichen from absconding.If there is any change, he has the right to kill Lu Guichen on the spot.But at this time, Fang Shan desperately wanted to escape for his life, and he only hated the appearance of the horse's short legs.

Lu Guichen thought of the warriors in his hometown, those barbarian men had strong wine flowing in their veins, watching them charge was as exciting as drinking strong wine. He squinted his brown eyes, watched the thunder cavalry brigade approaching against the wind, and gently stroked the handle of the knife: "This is the real..." The commander of the Li army and the commander of the right army, Zhang Bo, rushed to the front, brandishing two sabers.With the six-sided banner on his back, he roared like a hungry tiger.But when he rushed to the front of the Tang army, the crossbowmen had already collapsed, and there was only a young man in a barbarian-style leopard fur and Donglu's moon-white heavy armor standing in front of him, holding the long knife at his waist, facing him sideways The momentum of the wind.

"Kill!" Zhang Bo jumped up on his horse, and swung his saber obliquely. Lu Guichen pressed Yingyue's knife handle, and he took a deep breath. This was the first time he pulled out this knife, as if there were ghosts and gods hidden in the scabbard.He made a sudden effort!The knife slid out against the inner wall of the sheath, and there was a buzzing sound! Zhang Bo suddenly felt a murderous aura from bottom to top. Years of experience in the battlefield told him that the opponent did not run away from his long sword.In a blink of an eye, he gave up the attack, the left saber flickered, and the right saber was sealed between the two of them.Lu Guichen stretched his waist, held a knife in both hands, and Yingyue drew a cold wave, facing Zhang Bo's horse's belly.

Under the momentum of a thousand junctures, Lu Guichen split the air and cut the horse. With a sound of "ding", the two knives swung away. Zhang Bo withdrew the attacking knife and swung away Lu Guichen's offensive. Lu Guichen also turned sideways and dodged Zhang Bo's left-hand knife that was pressing the enemy.The first round of offense and defense between the two was inconclusive. Zhang Bo's horse fell to the ground and almost sprained his hoof and wrist. "Dare to confront Liguo Zhang Bo, what's your name?" Zhang Bo shook his swords and shouted loudly.

"Qingyang Department, Lu Guichen!" The two of them only had one chance to share their names, and the Thunder Riders behind them had already culled them.Lu Guichen struck the horse's butt with the back of his saber, and retreated at full speed. Zhang Bo's horse and two sabers were tightly biting behind him.Chi Chao was right behind him, as if pushing the two of them towards the 15,000 light soldiers of the Lower Tang Zhongjun. Fang Shan rushed into the phalanx of light soldiers and was surrounded by his own sergeants, so he felt a little relieved and rolled off his horse.

"You trash! Why did you leave Shizi behind and run back by yourself?" Xiyuan rushed down the dirt hill, furious, ignoring the difference in military rank between the two, and roared loudly. Fang Shan was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, he found that thousands of Lei Qi elites were chasing Lu Guichen and approaching the middle army of the Tang Army on a fast horse. "My son... my son himself doesn't want to back down." Fang Shan stammered. Xi Yuan ignored him, gritted his teeth suddenly, and threw a small red flag.The low-pitched horn sounded, and the sergeants on the earth mountain waved a big red flag with all their strength, and the phalanx of the Lower Tang Zhongjun with 5,000 people slowly retreated. "Young general, do you want to save the son?" said a commander of the personal barracks. "It's too late!" Xiyuan locked his eyes on Lu Guichen who was in the distance, "I know what he is going to do, and you should follow my orders without delay. Huai!" As the central army's phalanx retreated, the left and right wing phalanx immediately appeared to protrude, and a huge open space formed in the center, and the pocket surrounding the thunder cavalry was formed.Xiyuan turned his head, ran vigorously, and panted back to the mountain like a leopard climbing a mountain, pushed away the sergeant in front of him, stared at the distance, and clasped his fingers on the ring box. On the small black flag in the middle, the fingers are full of cold sweat. "How far?" he asked the sergeant who was watching. "Two hundred... no, one hundred and eighty feet, one hundred and forty feet... Li Jun's advance is too fast!" The sergeant shouted. Xiyuan's whole body was stiff, and the blood vessels were throbbing under his eyelids.It was the first time he commanded a large formation of thousands of troops, and on his shoulders was the life and death of the 20,000 troops of Xia Tang.The usual self-confidence was thrown to the back of his mind at this moment, and his chest seemed to be pressed by a stone. "Your Majesty is in danger, if you let the Li army advance, you will reach the Chinese army!" The commander clearly saw that the distance between Zhang Bo and Lu Guichen was only a few horses' lengths away. "Back off! Tell you to back off!" Xiyuan clasped the command flag tightly and remained motionless. A row of screaming arrows flitted across the sky, Zhang Bo raised his head suddenly, and saw bright purple flames burning on the arrows, which was particularly eye-catching even in daytime. "Ambush?" Zhang Bo was slightly startled. Lu Guichen turned around suddenly on his horseback, and threw all the iron light in his hand at Zhang Bo.This is a technique he learned from the Daliu Camp, and he hid it in his boots before this expedition, just in case.The iron light he used was no more than half a foot long, and it was cast with three iron edges, which was enough to penetrate light armor, and he didn't need to draw a bow to shoot an arrow, so it was an excellent sharp weapon when he was close. "Okay!" Zhang Bo yelled, circling the sword dance, and the two swords brought up two balls of iron light, rolled in all ten iron lights, and scattered them all. In the short moment Zhang Bo blocked, Lu Guichen spurred his horse to work harder, extending the distance between the two to more than ten feet.When Zhang Bo was about to chase again, he suddenly saw billowing smoke and dust.The retreating Tang Jun all turned back and pushed towards Lei Cavalry. Tang Jun's left and right flanks also outflanked the rear. A huge formation of 15,000 people formed an iron barrel, and Lei Cavalry's leading cavalry archers and lancers were trapped surrounded. Zhang Bo took the horse and looked around hesitantly, Lu Guichen had already rushed into the formation of Xiatang Qingbing.He turned around immediately, and looked at Zhang Bo from a distance, and then the line of sight between the two was cut off by the huge shield erected by Tang Jun. "Qingyang, Lu Guichen." Zhang Bo read the boy's name. He remembered the name.This young man who seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old had a calmness far superior to his peers, and he might be a formidable opponent in the future, and he actually came from Qingyang, an ancient tribe in the extreme north. "Lancers! Get out of the way!" Zhang Bo raised his knife.He was not worried. With the fighting power of the Thunder Cavalry Army, there was almost no army in the Eastern Land that could contend.Tang Jun is too naive to rely on the hastily erected shield wall to block Lei Qi's iron hooves. He gave the order, and the slightly chaotic Thunder Cavalry immediately calmed down.The Lancers retreated a little and rearranged their formation, forming a neat column of spears. With a loud roar, the column of two hundred men rushed towards the barrier of the wooden shield together.Hundreds of long spears pierced the shield, and the shield wall, which was nearly one person tall, retreated slightly, withstood this round of impact. "What?" Zhang Bo was shocked. He is familiar with the war horses that his subordinates ride, each of which has the blood of barbarian fierce horses, and they are as ferocious as wild beasts hunting.But with the strength of these war horses, they couldn't break through the shield wall maintained by manpower. Thousands of sharp spears protruded from the gaps in the shield wall.The improvised defense of the huge square wooden shield was being adjusted extremely quickly. Zhang Bo couldn't see the changes behind the wooden shield clearly, but judging from the fluctuations from the shield wall, Tang Jun continued to strengthen the shield wall.Then the second layer of wooden shields was erected on top of the first layer of wooden shields, raising the shield wall to the height of the two men.The Tang crossbowmen between the wooden shields threw random arrows to scare off the Li army from destroying the shield wall. Before Zhang Bo could gather his team, the Thunder Cavalry he brought had already been buried in a huge wooden city.He couldn't imagine how strong this city wall made of shields was, but it was absolutely impossible to break through it with light cavalry.He began to regret that his contempt towards Tang Jun and the young warrior's temptation made it impossible for his troops to take advantage of Red Tide's charge. At this time, the shield wall vibrated slightly, and with the friction sound of the machine gun movement, Zhang Bo watched helplessly as the solid giant wall slowly pressed towards him with thousands of spears.There was a panicked neighing of horses in the wooden city. At this time, Zhang Bo suddenly heard the sound of drums! A black horse galloped to the foot of the mound, Xiyan's battle suit was tied around his waist, and the armor was covered with dust, and he hurried up the mound. "Uncle." Xiyuan felt relieved for a while. Before Xi Yan could explain, he pulled out a white flag and threw it down the hill.The sergeant who held the big flag immediately began to wave the huge white flag. Dozens of white flags with a height of more than ten feet were waving on the dirt hill, and they could be seen from ten miles away. "Uncle, could it be..." Xiyuan was shocked. Originally, they had sealed off all the vanguard's Thunder Riders in Mucheng, and they were about to wipe them out.Xi Yan ordered the banner to be played, but Mucheng stopped moving, that is, let Lei ride a way out. "Did you hear the drumbeat?" Xi Yan looked ahead and shouted in a low voice. Only then did Xiyuan notice the heavy drums of war in the distance.The sound of the drums was still in the distance at this time, not very loud, but when they were beating slowly, there was a soul-stirring force.Xiyuan followed his uncle's gaze, and saw a slight smoke rising in the distance, the red-red cavalry phalanx slowly engulfed the yellow-green grassland, and the sound of drums followed.The Lei Qi in Mucheng was still in a state of panic, but at this moment, he quietly pulled back his horse, formed a circle to protect himself, and pointed his spear at the surroundings. "Bring the drum!" Xi Yan shouted. A battle drum was placed in front of Xi Yan, and he picked up the drumstick and beat it lightly, hitting a series of drum beats.The Liguo cavalry who had approached a mile away slowly stopped, and the opponent's drum stopped for a while, and then they hit several times in a very deep and slow manner.Xi Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly picked up the drum, and hit it with all his strength, the sound of the drum was deafening. Xi Yan threw down the green flag.Tang Jun's shield wall shook slightly, opening a gap facing the north hole.Only then did Zhang Bo see clearly that the back of the shield was fixed by a cart with heavy supplies, so it was impenetrable, and neither horses nor manpower could shake the shield wall pushed by carts and machines. Zhang Bo was silent for a moment, then turned back and bowed slightly towards the distant earth hill.He couldn't see Xi Yan under Mo Se's banner, but just thanked the person who gave the order.But Xi Yan could see him from a high place, Xi Yan smiled slightly, and also bowed to salute. Zhang Bo raised his saber, and the vanguard Thunder Cavalry formed a formation, and slowly retreated from the gap.Then let go of the horse's hooves and headed north. Zhang Bo was the last to ride. He held the knife in both hands and rode the horse backwards and left slowly.It wasn't until the two sides were twenty feet apart that Zhang Bo turned his horse and chased after his plan.There is no more drumming from the north, and it turns to beating gold. Xi Yan remained silent. "General!" Lu Guichen asked, he had already rushed to the dirt hill. "I know what you're going to ask. Li Jun Leiqi's charge is a world-famous two-stage charge. It has always been divided into two layers. If you charge continuously, even if the 2,000 people in the vanguard are surrounded, the thousands of people behind will follow. Keeping up is enough to destroy our army," Xi Yan said in a low voice, "but since Ying Wuyi has no intention of losing the two thousand pioneers, we will live in peace with each other." "If you leave the army and come back..." "The fighting spirit is exhausted. If we don't persecute him, the Li army will not come back. The Chinese army will still erect a shield wall to guard against it," Xi Yan said, "Li Gong's intention should be to follow the agreement between me and him and return to Shang. Yangguan. This chance encounter, a small battle, and each of them can retreat safely without bloodshed, is not a bad ending." Xi Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Ji Ye? Where is Ji Ye?" Lu Guichen and Xiyuan were startled and woke up suddenly. They hadn't seen Ji Ye since the war started.