When they heard that the other party was Yuchi Gong, a famous general of the Zhao army, the soldiers of the Hedong army of Li Tang were shocked. Since the Zhao army captured Taiyuan, the Tang army has been stationing heavy troops on the Taiyuan border and harassing them from time to time. Although the two armies did not have a big battle, the small battles have continued.

有一次唐军三千步兵围攻赵军一个坞堡,尉迟恭率五百精骑前来解围.当时唐军已是要撤退了,结果尉迟恭率骑兵突击唐军后阵,将唐军一直引以为豪的陌刀阵击破.三千唐军被打得溃不成军,从此尉迟恭之名威震河东.

The subordinate of the warriors said, "General, the Zhao army surrounded us. It's better to surrender now!"

The warrior glared at the other party angrily, drew up his sword, stabbed the man to death with one sword and shouted: "You all fight with me to death. It's time to repay His Majesty with death."

"It's stubborn!" After hearing the swearing warriors shouted, Yuchi Gong ordered the Zhao army to attack.

Although the warrior knew that he was in trouble, he was not afraid. Five hundred of his three thousand men and horses were all elite soldiers brought from Guanzhong, and they were also the second only to the Xuanjia Army and the Northern Imperial Army. The Northern Imperial Army originated from the 30,000 soldiers who followed Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan to the Taiyuan.

These men and horses were born and died with the Tang royal family and made great achievements. Not only were the soldiers very loyal, but they were also very powerful in combat. After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, the court gave these soldiers great gifts. Not only were they granted fertile grain fields in Guanzhong, but some of them were also organized into guard troops in the hands of Emperor Li Yuan. They were called the Northern Ya Imperial Guard, and were also called the Yuan Cong Imperial Guard, and they were stationed outside the Xuanwu Gate in the north of the palace city. The soldiers inherited their father's business and passed down from generation to generation, so they were also called the father-son soldiers.

The warrior immediately ordered Yuan to follow the imperial guards as the backbone, and set up a formation in Hebei, forming a stubborn resistance. The Zhao army attacked on both sides on the shore and down, and the Tang army was still resisting stubbornly. On the small boats in the reeds, the Zhao army soldiers kept hiding into the reeds and hiding in the Tang army to release arrows. The Tang army soldiers ran between the reeds and avoided each other and were very passive.

At this time, the rumbling drum sounded by the Daze. It turned out that the Tang army, King Xiangwu of Li Chen, led the army to come from the lake to support. Li Chen was also careful at the beginning and saw that the warriors failed, he immediately came to support.

On the Zhaoyuqi, the small boats driven by the Tang army soldiers shuttled across the lake, and the drums on the water marsh rumbling. After looking at the water marsh, the Tang army boats were densely packed and countless, and they rushed to fight with the Zhao army's navy from all directions.

On the reeds on the lake, the soldiers of the two armies each drove their boats and appeared from the lake. The small boats driven by the soldiers of the two armies were only five or six people, one was the helm and one was the paddler, and the other three or four were standing on the bow with guns and bows. There were several side signs on the boat, and the soldiers of the two armies hid behind the side signs and shot arrows.

After a while of arrows, the ships rowed and approached, and the two armies immediately turned around and entered a short-term battle. The soldiers standing on the bow of the ship were like chariots fighting in the Qin and Han Dynasties, each holding spears and sprinting each other on the bow.

Soldiers were constantly being shot into the lake, splashing the boss's water. In this cold weather, there was only one dead end if they fell into the lake. However, the Tang army reinforcements were eager to save people and rushed over to the death. The Zhao army soldiers were somewhat inadequate in the water battle and were at a disadvantage.

The warriors were rarely worried about being attacked by the Zhao army on the shore. The warriors finally settled down, but at this time Yuchi Gong led the Zhao army to charge.

Although the mud on the bank of Zhaoyuqi was frozen and hard, it was still not conducive to the cavalry charge. After Yuchi Gong discovered this situation, he immediately used infantry to attack the formation.

"Stay on your feet!"

The warriors roared loudly with their clothes in neatly.

The soldiers of the Tang army held their breath and calmed down. The soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder and raised shield formations. They were about to defend the beach and wait for the main force of the Tang army to arrive in the rear. The three thousand infantrymen of the Tang army took Yuan Chenggong as the center, and on both sides were the Hedong Road Army. They carried the terrain of the lake and formed a one-and-a-half-month formation to welcome the Zhao army.

Because it was a battle against the enemy, the Tang army united as one and showed their determination to be dead, staring at the Zhao army ahead.

"Where is the spear army?"

Yuchi Gong roared immediately. What responded to him was the roar of mountains and thunder.

"Let Tang Jun see my Hedong Jianer's skills!"

"promise!"

kill!

More than 7,000 Zhao troops pressed on like a tide. Zhao army infantry stepped on the ridges of the fields by the lake with cowhide boots, trampling on the ground wet. Under the iron bag, there was a cold gaze, looking at the Tang soldiers in front of them without emotion.

The Zhao army's spear army began to speed up its pace. In front of Yuchi Gong's horse, it looked like a dense array of Zhao army's spears and spears. Rub, rub, Zhao army's cowhide boots stepped on the mud, making a special sound.

"preparation!"

Just like countless exercises, the first row of spear soldiers put the spear flat and horizontally on the ground. The tip of the spear trembled slightly, but the bars were steadily unmoved. These were the results of the Zhao army's military training day after day after day.

When the Tang army saw the impact lineup used by Zhao army like the sea tide, the lineup was slightly unstable.

The warrior ordered Yuan to follow the imperial guards as the commander, and ordered any soldiers who showed their timid behavior to be killed. The Tang army stabilized their positions and shouted: "Shoot and prepare arrows!"

The Tang army's cavalry was called Yue Qi, and the rest were called staircraft and spear. Each Zhechong Mansion had a staircraft lieutenant who taught bows and arrows, so the Tang army's arrow formation was famous. The Tang army's infantry soldiers stood behind the shield formation, raised a stone and five buckets of long bows, looked up at the sky forty-five degrees, and faced the Zhao army's spear formation.

"shoot!"

With a command from the warrior, the arrows broke out from the strings and flew out from the heads of the soldiers holding the shield in front, shooting straight towards the Zhao army's soldiers. You must know that a qualified Tang army archer must shoot six arrows within ten breaths. Each soldier kept on his hands, and his fingers hooked the bowstring and buzzed, and he shot six or seven arrows in one breath before he was exhausted.

The Tang army archers covered the Zhao army soldiers in front of them, but after seeing the shooting results, the warrior said in a lost voice: "The Zhao army's armor is so exquisite!"

That's right. You should know that the Zhao army's soldiers have always been well-equipped. The first three rows of soldiers who were trapped in the formation were all wearing two layers of armor, one with an outer cover and the other with an inner cover. A story circulated in the Tang army said that Li Shimin was good at shooting and could penetrate the five armors with one arrow. But these five armors were definitely just armor, not iron armor.

Under two levels of iron armor, it is difficult for the Tang soldiers who are good at shooting through. In fact, not only are the armor strong, but each soldier of the Zhao army has armor on his neck and face. To be precise, it is not only airtight.

Therefore, under the attack of the Tang army's arrow formation, the first three rows of Zhao army only fell down a few people. Instead, the second row of Zhao soldiers with only one layer of armor had more casualties than the front row.

Just when the warrior was surprised, the soldiers of the Tang army were also surprised. Tens of thousands of arrows shot out, killing only so many people. Looking carefully at the infantry formation pressed by the Zhao army, under the guidance of the two-meter-long red battle flag, the soldiers of the Zhao army swarmed and rushed towards him, like a floating wave of up and down, with red tassels on the soldiers' heads, as if countless fires were shaking in the wind, and the iron armor of each soldier gathered together as if like a sea of ​​metal, with cold light flowing, and my heart was chilling.

This is simply a phalanx of infantry that was smashed with money. Although the Tang army's military troops were much better than the previous opponents of the Zhao army, such as the grassland cavalry and the Hebei Rebel Army, they were very well equipped, but they were still a little different from the Zhao army. Only the equipment of the Yuan Cong Imperial Army can be comparable to that of the Zhao army.

Now the Zhao army's spear formation is approaching the Tang army. Now the Zhao army's strength is more than twice that of the Tang army, and the siege is very rich.

Under the dense spear formation, the Zhao soldiers half-sided, and a spear blade came towards them, and the tip of the spear was hitting the shield. Several more courageous Tang soldiers rushed up, but were directly stabbed by the spear poked from all directions.

Seeing this scene, the Tang soldiers immediately gave up this kind of bird-like fighting style and could only use a shield to cover the vital points up and down of their bodies, then waved the long sword in their hands and slashed like a headless fly. However, this prevented the front row gun array but could not prevent the rear row gun array.

The tip of the spear pierced through the gap between the long shield swords from time to time, and penetrated directly into the body of Tang Jun. The spear spear pierced through the armor and inserted it into the body, stirring the bones and flesh, then pulled it back hard, and then blood flowed out cheaply. The soldiers of Tang Jun fell to the ground as if they were exhausted.

Now the attack of the Zhao army's gun formation is like a wild boar arching around, pushing it hard with its head and squeezing it inside. In a blink of an eye, the Tang army's shield formation was broken.

"Best, don't be afraid, you die faster if you are afraid." The generals of the Tang army kept cheering their subordinates. But the soldiers did not listen to him. The Tang army's troops on both wings were crushed by the Zhao army's front and retreated step by step into the lakeside. The soldiers in front began to disintegrate, and the front was defeated more than a hundred steps back. The soldiers retreated in front were only squeezed with the soldiers behind.

Behind the soldiers in the rear was the lake, and they hurriedly shouted to the front: "Don't squeeze anymore, you'll go to the lake any more."

The soldiers in front ignored it. In their eyes, the Zhao army in front was even more terrifying. They crowded down the lake and splashed with water, and hundreds of Tang soldiers were trapped in the lake.

In the Tang army's formation, the Yuan Cong Imperial Army, the central government, was in equal measure with the Zhao army in front, and did not retreat at all.

"Hold on for a while!"

The warrior shouted at the top of his lungs. Now the Zhao army's boat troops were retreating on the lake, and the Tang army's water reinforcements could arrive in a while. But now the Zhao army's superior forces were like crushing ducks, crushing the left and right troops into the lake.

Only Yuan Cong Imperial Guards are still struggling to support the warriors.

But the good days of the Warriors were over, and the retreat of the left and right wings completely isolated the Central Yuan from the imperial guards' infantry phalanx.

The Zhao army turned around and attacked from three sides. No matter how elite the Tang army was from the imperial guards, they could not withstand the three-sided attacks of the Zhao army. The moment the front collapsed, even the brave soldiers lost their fighting spirit.
Chapter completed!