Before the battle, neither side knew what tricks the other side would use, and they were also speculating on the formation that the other side would likely use.

Li Bin believes that although the Khitans have suffered repeated setbacks in recent years, they may still use their best tactics to use cavalry to make a central breakthrough in the Tang army.

The response proposed by Li Bin is to "blunt his edge and break his wings"! That is, the central defense and attacking of both wings.

At the same time, Yang Yi did not intend to let the war start according to Yelu Deguang's idea. After knowing that the Khitan had the intention of a decisive battle, he ordered Chai Rong to attack!

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At this time, seven troops had already appeared on the ground in the south of the capital. It can be foreseen that within half an hour, this land would become a mess of "big porridge"!

Chai Rong, regardless of leaving the city to attack Wei from the East China Sea behind, led his troops to the middle section of the Khitan Cone Line. In this "∧" city walled formation with the capital as its peak, Liao soldiers and horses could communicate through the "∧" two wing lines. If the Tang army wants to enter, they must break through the Shangjing City or break through the two wing lines.

The entire left-wing defense line of the cone line stretched for more than 80 miles southeast from Shangjing to the southeast. Twelve large or small fortresses were set up. The terrain between the fortresses was either high or low. Wherever the high was high, the Khitan built sentry towers, with archers stationed on it. To sweep a sentry tower, it would have to pay double damage. In the low-lying areas, the Khitan led the Wolf River water to pour in, forming a semi-natural swamp. This trick was obviously the method of the Han people, and it was done by the Liao and Han army.

There is only one place on the entire left wing line, which is flat and far away from the Lang River, and cannot draw water into it. It is a natural break. In terms of terrain, it is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it happens to be located in the middle of the left wing line. Therefore, the Khitan built a large fort here with stone wood, called Niu Xin Fort. If the Niu Xin Fort can be broken, most of the left wing line of the Liao army will be destroyed!

When Chai Rong had just crossed the Thunder Pool boundary, Yelu Pode ordered five thousand East China Sea Wei to attack, but as soon as they left the city, Shi Jian sent more reinforcements to Chai Rong and calculate the distance. Before Chai Rong caught up with Chai Rong, Wei had to sell his back to the 5,000 Right Army tribe army sent by Shi Jian, so he was forced to turn his head to fight.

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Shiwei is a hunting nation in the northeast and is the predecessor of the Mongols. It has a complex family source, a vast distribution, and many branches. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was known as nine major tribes. From the northeast of the Mongolian Plateau to the northern part of the Greater Khingan Mountains, it even spread to the outer Xing'an Mountains. Some of its easternmost tribes are close to the East China Sea and even Sakhalin Island, so it is called Shiwei in the East China Sea, and is the most wilderness among the various tribes of Shiwei.

It was a group of hunting tribes that were active between the Hei Shui and Baishan Mountains. It bordered the East China Sea Girls and made a living by hunting. The people were tough, but the production methods were extremely backward. Even iron was not common. In recent years, forced by the East China Sea Girls and gradually left the coast of the East China Sea and nomadized in the middle reaches of the Huntong River Basin.

For the Khitans in their heyday, the Donghai Shiwei was a group of natives who captured swans for them, and for the Donghai Shiwei, these people didn't know the general trend of the world. The so-called Tiance Tang Dynasty was also extremely unfamiliar to them. For them, the Khitan was already a distant and powerful central dynasty. They didn't care about their strong loyalty to the Khitan. When the Khitan summoned the tribes to join the army, the Donghai Shiwei tribes had some nerves. They actually gathered thousands of people - this was an incredible population for them and joined the Khitan army.

However, after coming to Shangjing, they were very eye-opening! Shangjing was just a state of prefectures and counties for Han Yanhui from the Central Plains, but for Donghai Shiwei, it was like a legend in the sky. If they did not die in this war, then this battle would be a big profit for them.

Because last winter, in order to improve combat power, Yelu Deguang opened the Shangjing Arsenal for the first time and armed the most wild tribe. The weapons of the East China Sea Wei in the past were the combination of wood, stone and bones! They were extremely powerful and could shoot beasts with arrows made of bones, but the bows and arrows were not strong and the swords were not good. Even the mounts were the kind of mountain horses in the northeast that could only travel through the mountains but were not suitable for plains. What made Yelu Deguang even laughed at was that when Wei Zhong in the East China Sea first came, dozens of people were riding pigs!

That's right! Pig! Wild boars that they have been domesticated by unknown means!

So Yelu Deguang had to change their bows and arrows, swords and even horses!

In terms of weapon quality, the equipment obtained by the East China Sea Wei was almost the worst, but compared to their original equipment, it had already crossed more than one level. Therefore, when the East China Sea Wei participated in the war, it was similar to the country people entering the city. It was full of freshness when he came to the Khitan in a daze. However, after getting the Khitan's full dressing, he became grateful to the Khitan, so he worked very hard to fight this time.

After they left the city, they only knew that the Khitan master asked him to fight the troops to attack, but when they walked halfway, they found that someone was attacking him. These Donghai Weishu had no military qualities and did not even have the concept of strictly obeying orders. Fighting for them is just fighting, but one advantage is that they are brave. Some people attacking themselves from behind, so they forgot their original purpose and turned around and fought!

Last winter, Linhuang Mansion suffered extremely heavy losses. In the absence of various supplies, many tribes lost their physical strength in the bitter cold due to insufficient supplies. However, Donghai Shiwei may be the most cold-resistant nation in Shangjing. Their skin is not much worse than that of wild beasts. The winter in Linhuang Mansion is nothing to them. On the contrary, the food sent by the Khitan is enough for them, so among the tribes in Shangjing, they retained quite good spirits and physical strength. At this time, they fought back and attacked the 5,000 troops sent by Shi Jian in a disorganized manner.

This is not a battle, but a group fight.

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If the East China Sea Shiwei faces the long-range shooting troops in the Central Plains, they will fall into pieces before they can take them off. If the East China Sea Shiwei faces the main force of Yingyang, even if there are only five hundred cavalry, it will be enough to drive them into pieces. If the East China Sea Shiwei faces Xi Sheng's Modao Battle Axe formation, then a pile of moving meat will walk towards the meat grinder by itself.

But the opposite was the Mobei tribe army under Shi Jian's command. In terms of tribal civilization, they were one level higher than the East China Sea Wei, but they were three points lower in terms of brute force. They already had the concept of "war" in their minds and knew what the "competition for hegemony" between Tiance and Khitans was like, but their morale was very low, which was different from the East China Sea Wei who was grateful to the Khitan. They just went to the desperate situation and surrendered to the Tiance Tang army.

Therefore, the two teams had just clashed and were not used to the war horses replaced from the Khitan, and they were passive. They were hit into several pieces. Five thousand East Sea Weishou faced the northern tribes of the Tang Dynasty. That was a big battle of 10,000 people. These East Sea Weishou came out of the distant mountains because of the countless small tribes. The most common fight they saw was hundreds of numbers. Now they were suddenly in such a large battle.

However, the biggest advantage of these arrogant and savage people is that they are not afraid! People who do not feel afraid on the battlefield will quickly adapt to it. Five thousand people almost follow their respective instincts, hundreds or even dozens of people fighting for their own battles! They are not used to riding horses, so they simply jump down and fight!

Their racial characteristics are too obvious. They just don’t look at each other. They can tell the enemy with their noses. Anyway, if they are not their own family, then kill them!

Therefore, after the initial chaos passed, it quickly gained the upper hand.

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At about this moment, five thousand Bohai cavalry arrived.

The Bohai Sea is a major tribe in the northeast. The people of the Mohe established the Bohai Kingdom during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and at its peak, they unified almost half of the Northeast. Just as the Republic era called all ethnic groups in the territory Chinese, in the Bohai Kingdom era, all citizens who identified with the Bohai Kingdom also became Bohai people - not only their main ethnic Mariner.

Bohai has long surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and worshipped the culture of the Tang Dynasty. Compared with the indigenous people like Donghai Shiwei, the Bohai people have a much higher level of civilization. During the two hundred years of their founding, they fully imitated the rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty and learned Chinese. Wearing Hanfu and writing Chinese characters, the Chinese version is extremely popular. In addition, their race is similar to that of the Han people, and there is a high possibility that there are mixed Chinese people. If a similar person is put together with a person in the Central Plains, Zhang Mai may not be able to tell who is the Han people!

For Shi Wei, the Khitan was a "high country" with a developed civilization, while for the Bohai people, the Khitan was a barbarian. The ability of Khitan civilization to make rapid progress was not only due to the Han culture, but also related to the conquest of the Bohai Sea.

The Bohai Sea was destroyed by the Khitan, so they only hated the Khitan country. They feared the strength of the Khitan, but looked down on the Khitan. The Bohai people's attitude towards the Khitan was actually no different from the Han people in the Central Plains. The Khitan's attitude towards the Bohai people was similar to that of the Han people in the territory. They have always suppressed, used and restricted them. It was not until last winter that they had to arm the Bohai people a lot after losing a large number of troops from the northern desert.

The life created by the Bohai people in their heyday was close to the Han people in the Yanyun area. The food delivered by the Khitan was delicious, but the Bohai people thought it was pig food. Therefore, the Bohai people's attitude after getting equipment was different from that of the Donghai Shiwei. Most people were not grateful for it. They were not very happy to fight against the Han people, but they had to fight due to the situation.

This is a nation that already knows order and order, and it is also an army with relatively complete military organizations. If the East China Sea Shiwei is a group of mobs, then the Bohai Army is a relatively qualified ancient army, but the morale of these five thousand Bohai Seas is like a lazy worker. They have been trained but are unwilling to engage in hand-to-hand combat!

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Originally, the Five Thousand East China Sea Army had stabilized their position and gradually gained the upper hand. However, after the Five Thousand Bohai Army approached, they did not immediately cause a one-sided situation on the battlefield. They did not even rush into the battlefield to respond to the East China Sea Army Wei. Instead, they gradually approached in an encirclement posture, as if they were helping, and as if they did not help, they were too cautious.

And just before they fought with the 5,000 Tang northern tribes, the five thousand Tang army front troops had arrived.

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Last winter, the northern Mo tribe surrendered to Tiance on a large scale and Yang Yi was able to tame it, which led to a large number of northern Mo tribe cavalry in the current southern expedition army. These northern Mo cavalry were of different levels of obedience, loyalty and combat effectiveness. Among them, the original left-road army, which now became the front, did the best under the integration of Chai Rong.

Among the five armies, Yang Yi could not invest too much time in this regard. Guo Zhang, Wei Fei, Yelu Antuan devoted most of his energy to pioneering and sweeping. Murong Yang was so anxious that he only had Shi Jian, only Shi Jian, who put in a relatively complete effort in this area. However, Shi Jian's talent was limited after all, and he did not have the charm of Zhang Mai and Yang Yi. He did not have the command and management art of Guo Wei and Guo Shiyong, so the Mobei tribe in his hands did not really melt under Tiance. Only Chai Rong devoted himself to this whole winter, and used his unique way to make many alien races return to his mind, and turned some of them into considerable combat power under Tiance. Now, the five thousand-person brigades of the tribe army driven by the Former Lu Army are obviously much higher than the five thousand tribe army sent by Shi Jian.

The five thousand-man teams of the Tiance Front Army, each thousand-man team, had an orphan army and a hundred-man team that broke up and became its backbone. Most of these backbone soldiers who knew nothing last year, and now even the lowest-level orphan soldiers suddenly had at least ten subordinates. Their faces could not hide their green mouths, and their eyes longing for war were excited. After training last winter, the order was already guaranteed to be enforced, and their combat orders were far above the five thousand Bohai Army. Therefore, as soon as the confrontation was conquered, the Bohai Army was defeated step by step, and although it would not collapse soon, it had fallen into a clear disadvantage.

At this time, the East China Sea Wei and the Bohai Army had already fought with the two tribes of the Tang Army of Tiance and tied together in the south of Shangjing. Twenty thousand people formed a huge and chaotic battlefield. The East China Sea Wei was in the east, and they gradually adapted to the large-scale battle and slowly eroded westward. The five thousand-man teams of the Tiance Army of Tiance were in the northeast. They kept pressing the Bohai people to fight, and the two in the middle were at a disadvantage at the same time. The battlefield of the 20,000 people was deformed like a dough that was kneaded on both sides. In one side, the East China Sea Wei roared excitedly. The Bohai people found that there was no way out of retreat and were forced to fight. The young commanders of the Orphan Army used the mixed roar of Hu Han to command their subordinates to attack.

At this moment, the 10,000 Bohai army that arrived detour from Qiandemen arrived on the battlefield one step earlier than the 10,000 tribe troops sent by Shi Jian. These 10,000 people were not cavalry, but infantry - and were the few horse-riding infantry among the Liao army. They rode horses and gathered after they arrived on the battlefield. Because they did not need mounts after entering the battle, they could spare no effort when they were on the way.

The 10,000 tribe troops sent by Shi Jian were still three arrows away from the battlefield. The 10,000 Bohai infantry had been assembled. This is a well-trained northern infantry. The swords, halberds, bows and arrows are fully equipped. Although they cannot be compared with Xi Sheng's Modao Battle Axe Forum, they are already a relatively complete combat system. They came from the northwest and formed a half-moon shape to the southeast, approaching step by step around the five thousand-man teams of the Tiance Front Army, using the long sword to prepare to slash at the five thousand-man teams. At the same time, facing the defensive formation from the southwest, they piled up unused horses on the outermost periphery. The second layer was a thousand spears, and two thousand archers were behind the spears.

Before the 10,000 tribes entered the range, the Bohai Infantry Regiment had already shot the first round of shooting towards Tiance's five thousand-person teams.

The young generals and schoolmen of the Orphan Army saw it and shouted: "Shield protection, shield protection!"

The weapons of these five thousand-person teams are not advanced, but more than half are equipped with a wooden shield. The young generals of the Orphan Army used Guo Shiyong and Yang Yi to train their self-reliance in Luntai, and their half-body tilted very standard. The small shield naturally protected most of their vitals.

Two thousand feather arrows fell from the sky. This indiscriminate attack was actually extremely accurate. If effective protection could be carried out, the damage could be almost reduced to nearly zero. However, while all the orphan army generals were speechless, more than 30 people from the northern desert were still caught.

Under the order, the two thousand archers in Bohai issued a second round of arrow rain. This time, the five thousand-man teams of the northern part of the Mobei region had better protection than the first time, and only more than ten people were dismissed. However, it still caused a certain amount of chaos in the northeast. The Bohai Infantry Regiment had already advanced and waved his long sword to slash at the five thousand-man teams!

That's right, it's a long sword! It's similar to a long sword with Mo Dao! Although there are only 500 people in the core, it's still instantly trapped under the wings of the surrounding spear!

The Bohai Sea was not only a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, but for a long time it was the throne of the Tang Dynasty. The king of the country was both the king and the governor of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, not only its culture, but also its martial arts were deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty. The Bohai and the Khitan had a long-term grudge and entanglement, and they were hostile to each other since the Tang Dynasty still existed. The war lasted for hundreds of years, so they naturally learned the sword forging techniques of the Tang Dynasty and the long sword infantry tactics that used infantry to defeat cavalry.

However, the relationship between the Bohai people and the Tang Dynasty cannot be compared with the four Anxi towns. The Tang Dynasty allowed them to learn and imitate the army's system, but did not teach Mo Dao's secret of not passing on it. Therefore, this long sword formation is very similar to the Mo Dao Battle Axe Array, both weapons and formation advance and retreat. But it is still not the real Mo Dao Array.

Even so, when the long sword was trapped in the formation, the five thousand-man teams suffered a lot! The heavy infantry that could hold on to the position was not at all disadvantage when fighting the cavalry. It can even be said that after losing the speed advantage, the light cavalry had no advantage in the long sword infantry!

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This place is far from the Tiance Central Army. Even after Yang Yi and Li Bin boarded the observation stage, it was difficult to see the situation here carefully through the Qianli Mile Mile. But from afar, thousands of sword lights were seen advancing like walls. It shone among the cavalry, which made Yang Yi think of his comrade who could no longer meet again!

"Is that Mo Dao?" Yang Yi asked.

Li Bin couldn't see clearly, and said, "It seems to be."

"After the demise of the former Tang Dynasty, Mo Dao seemed to have disappeared in the Central Plains. I didn't expect that this tactic would still be retained in both the east and the west!"

"Looking at the flag, it should be the Bohai people." Li Bin said: "The northwest belongs to Longyou Road, the northeast belongs to Hebei Road, Anxi and Andong Protectorates are all far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains. Perhaps some of the essence of the Central Plains being burned by war are retained."

Yang Yi said: "If there is a Modao Formation in the Khitan, it should be famous. Why have you never heard of it before? Besides, according to the news from the rear, the Khitan Iron Cavalry suffered a great loss under Xi Sheng's men! If they had a Modao Formation themselves, how could they be unprepared?"

In fact, Yang Yi's thinking is a bit inverted by cause and effect.

Bohai originally had long sword infantry, but for various historical reasons, it did not show amazing power in front of the Khitan. After all, blocking wars like the horse-loving land were formed under specific historical conditions. If the Khitan had known that the Modao Battle Axe formation would cause such a strong damage to the cavalry, Yelu Deguang would not have had a head-on impact even if his head was pinched by the door panel. He would definitely use the advantage of light cavalry to attack and harass him. Of course, Yelu Deguang at that time would probably not have thought that he would be defeated head-on.

After Tiance suffered a great loss, he suddenly remembered that the Bohai surrendered army, which had already been destroyed by the Khitan, seemed to have similar troops, so he paid attention to it and mobilized it to Shangjing City.

But this is a unit that has been destroyed for decades. No matter how much Yelu Deguang wins over and comforts him, he cannot have the spirit of fighting to the death as the Modao Battle Axe Array under Xi Sheng. In addition, Tiance's Modao Forging and the sword formation tactics were passed down from the four towns of Anxi, which belongs to the authentic inheritance. During the Tiance period, due to the huge investment of manpower and material resources, the weapons were improved to a certain extent. The Bohai long sword was just a simulation, and it became increasingly abandoned after the country was destroyed. As soon as it advances and retreats, the actual combat power of the two was incomparable.

Even so, this Bohai Infantry Regiment still showed its outstanding combat power and overwhelmed Yu Zi among several troops that had been put into the battlefield!

When its 500-long sword formation attacked the five thousand-man teams in front of Tiance, the 10,000 northern tribe cavalry from the Tiance Right Route Army had also entered the range of the Bohai Infantry Regiment.

"change!"

The infantry regiment issued a Chinese order.

Two thousand archers turned their heads and pulled the bow in the order.

"shoot!"

Another round of arrow rain, but this time it flew towards the 10,000 northern tribe cavalry from the southwest.

Amid the screams, dozens of people were caught in arrows and fell to the ground and rolled. Before the cavalry approached, there was another round of arrow rain. The arrow rain weakened the offensive of the cavalry in the northern tribe of the desert. The third round of arrow rain did not shoot out. They had already rushed, but what was blocking them was ten thousand war horses!

On this special battlefield, this group of horizontal war horses became the best interceptors, making it impossible for the northern mourning tribes to trample on horses' hooves. When the speed slowed down, it also lost its speed advantage when facing infantry.

The Bohai Infantry Regiment, facing west, advanced a spear and stabbed the tribe army in the northern desert. There were 800 sword soldiers in the infantry regiment, but they were used as a reserve force to attract them.

Compared with the East China Sea Wei and this Bohai Infantry Regiment, the two are completely different. If the East China Sea Wei is still in the stage of brute force fighting, this Bohai Infantry Regiment is a compound combat unit with multiple arms. As for its combat command, there are rules for advancing and retreating. If it can ensure its enthusiasm for combat, it is not an exaggeration to call it elite.

"This group of Bohai people are fighting well!" Yelu Deguang nodded slightly when he went to the top of the capital.

Although these Bohai soldiers were just defeated generals of the Khitan, the army that could compete with the Khitan for two hundred years was not comparable to the mobs that the Tiance Army had just gathered. The Bohai Infantry Regiment, which was attacked on both sides, still had a clear advantage without giving full efforts!

During the century-long confrontation with the Khitan, they were very familiar with how to fight the cavalry. While using gun spear formations to resist the 10,000 tribes in the northern Mobei, gradually consuming their momentum and physical strength, while using long sword formations to continuously attack the five thousand-man teams in the northern Mobei. As for the two thousand archers, they no longer fired archery rain, but instead shot accurately at close range.

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The ministers of the Jin Dynasty (latest period) who had been seriously sinicized in later generations once said that when evaluating the reason why the Mongols repeatedly defeated the Jin army, the reason was that the Mongols "rely on the power of the north, based on the skills of China" - from a certain perspective, the current Khitan is the same.

On the one hand, the Liao people maintained the combat methods of the Northern people being good at horses, and on the other hand, they obtained various war skills and equipment inventions of the Han civilization. Before they were corrupt, they had an amazing combination of troops in the era of cold weapons.

At present, the power of the Tang army in Tiance is the opposite. They are both "relying on China's skills and the power of the Western Regions"!

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"The ten thousand soldiers on the right cannot defeat this Bohai Corps." Yang Yi put down the Qianli Mile Mile again and said.

At the same time, Shi Jian has also issued a request to ask whether to add troops.
To be continued...