The water flows eastward in Fenglin Pass,

White grass and yellow elm are in the sixty autumns.

All the border generals bear the Lord's kindness,

No one understands the truth and takes Liangzhou.

——————————————Zhang Ji’s “Liangzhou Ci”

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"I don't need anyone to protect me. I'll be wherever Gao Shaoyin is." Du Huangshang was unhappy with the special treatment.

"Changshi Du, if you and I are injured, it will cause harm to the whole situation. It will be protected by the Buddha slaves and stand behind the wooden fence with an arrow." Gao Yue said seriously.

Du Huangshang thought that Gao Yue had made sense, so he agreed.

"General Zhang, how about the crossbowman in the White Grass Army?" Gao Yue asked about the guest general Xuan Run next to him, and was also the shooting general Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi replied that he had taught 200 people, plus the 200 people I brought, a total of 400 people.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you in the middle of the wooden fence. Remember to dig the soil, stuff the fence, and guard against the conflict and trampling of the enemy mule soldiers."

Zhang Xi was ordered to leave.

Gao Yue immediately asked Hou Lan to lead five hundred prefecture soldiers and Baicao Army stationed to defend on the right wing; Cheng Junren led seven hundred prefecture soldiers and Baicao Army stationed to defend on the left wing.

Gao Gu led 800 people to serve as the second squad, and he was ready to support all sections at any time.

Cai Fengyuan led the remaining two hundred soldiers, standing at the end, responsible for protecting the flag of the Pixiu chewing the iron beast, and of course, his and Du Changshi's complete simplicity.

At this moment, Li Xilie, Li Yuanping, and other Huaixi generals stood one and a half miles away from the opening of Hequ, laying up a yellow silk umbrella cover and erecting a leopard tail gate gun flag. He looked at the Baicao Army opposite in surprise, "What is the origin of this army?"

"I heard that I used to be from Bailiyingtian, Jingyuan, and was later awarded the military name of Baicao Army and rushed here from Liangzhou across the Han River."

"What's the matter?" Li Xilie snorted coldly from his nostrils.

From the bottom of his heart, he did not put this new team into consideration: Li Shi's younger brother was also anxious. He heard that he also pulled up the magistrates guarding the mountains of Qianling Mountain and formed a "Ningguo Army".

This main force is Tian Shi’s Baicao Army. How could it be the enemy of the Huaixi Mule Army, who can fight against it?

Under the yellow umbrella, Li Yuanping was also surprised.

If the information is good, isn’t the White Grass Army envoy and Xingyuan Young Master Yin Gaoyue the brother-in-law of the mother he had been thinking about day and night?

At this time, Li Yuanping touched the small jade ring hanging in the mid-sleeved clothes with his hand. It was given to him by Madam Shin. There seemed to be a faint warmth and fragrance of Madam Shin. Yuanping felt extremely upset when he thought of this. He was now trapped in the thief camp, and even his life was worrying since then, and he didn't know how to see Madam Shin again.

At this moment, Xin Jingzhen said to Li Xilie: "Your Highness, don't underestimate the enemy. Watching the Baicao Army establish a formation based on the Hequ River can achieve the effect of one enemy and three, which shows that there are veterans in the military formation inside."

Li Xilie nodded and said that, however, our Huaining army had 15,000 troops, half of which were elite soldiers for a long time. Since the Baicao Army was here, Jia Dan was probably not far away. We had to fight in a hurry, break through the Baicao Army's defense line, and capture Jutan into Nanyang, so that the court would have no choice but to do anything to me.

Then Li Xilie used another attack on the general, "Sigh, Wu Shaocheng and Wu Shaoyang's two brave generals were not in the army, otherwise they would have led the mule army to conflict, and the White Grass Army formation would definitely collapse."

So the mule army soldiers and horses sent An Hua to his blood and volunteered to Ying, "Please ask me for 500 mule soldiers, General Xin will lead another 500 mule soldiers to follow him, so that he can break the enemy in front of him and protect the King of Chu and return to Huaixi."

Li Xilie nodded with satisfaction and said, "Don't be entrusted, I'll give you a thousand mule soldiers." Xin Jingzhen led two thousand mule soldiers to follow the emperor, and let his adopted son Jiang Huaizhen lead a thousand "fake soldiers" who have always been known as the most elite. He passed through Jushui and Shijian Mountain, carried wood, waited for an opportunity to build a floating bridge, and cut off the Baicao Army's retreat.

He and Li Yuanping led more than 10,000 infantrymen to the rear, and served as the cover of Anhua and Xin Jingzhen.

Amid the shocking shouts, the Huaining Army Mule Army skillfully changed its formations, the flags, drums and horns echoed each other, and quickly divided them into several attacking groups according to Li Xilie's instructions, and then slowly pressed towards the Hejing where the Baicao Army lived.

"Here's here!" Behind each section of the earthen walls and wooden fences, Xuan Run and Baicao's crossbowman stared at the eyes, then stepped on the crossbow with his feet and turned the strings one by one. After getting up, he slightly faced the crossbow, and his body lies down, looking at the mule soldiers attacking through the gaps in the wooden poles.

Zhang Xi shouted: "The enemy can only fire a crossbow if it is thirty steps away from me, and those who violate it will be killed!"

"Tread the junction and trap the formation!" Anhua shouted loudly at the head of the Huaixi Mule Soldiers who were rushing forward, instructing his troops to maintain the formation and attack the wooden junction of the Baicao Army.

Xin Jingzhen, with more mule soldiers, rushed forward and followed Anhua's troops about a hundred steps, and formed several horizontal formations. Once Anhua made a gap, he would follow up and tear them apart, squeezing and driving all the poor infantry of the Baicao Army into the jujube and kill them all.

At this time, groups of black mule soldiers covered in armor had reached a distance of hundreds of steps outside the wooden fence.

The Baicao Army could clearly see the other party’s people and the mule under its crotch.

The mule soldiers in Huaixi all ride the so-called "hors and mules", with big heads, big ears, slender limbs, and very obeying orders. This makes thousands of mule soldiers close together and maintain a dense and orderly formation. Once the war is about to be held, these horses and mules all grow their mouths, revealing their crimson teeth, making a "angang" sound like a donkey, which is very loud and powerful.

At this moment, behind the wooden fences on the left and right wings, the soldiers of Hou Lan and Cheng Junren's troops had begun to shoot arrows. The arrows shot from both sides were mixed with whistling sounds, crossing into the formation of mule soldiers. The Huaixi soldiers who were charging were humming one after another and fell into the mule's arrows. However, more mules covered their bodies with thick felt cloths, and after experiencing the baptism of the battle formation, they often had arrow feathers inserted on the felt cloths, but they still carried their masters to continue to rush.

Soon, the black tide-like mule army threw down a group of corpses and reached fifty steps from the wooden fence. The "crash" of the Huaixi soldiers squirted the ear-pressing cloth under the casket, and raised the iron fork, bone and spear in their hands to prepare for a surprise attack.

Hundreds of mule hooves stepped on the soil, and the mule's "Anangang" tweeted with donkeys and horses, which was very terrifying.

"Start a crossbow!" Xuan Run's Zhang Xi jumped up at this moment, waved his arm, and the toothed soldiers behind him hit several sounds of wooden scepters.

Behind the wooden fence, all Xuan Run and the white-grass crossbowmen stood up from the shallow pit, and the raised crossbow machine arrows were all pointing at the mule army that was rushing towards them.

The direction of arrows shaking, the expressions of the mule soldiers' faces were clearly visible - fierce, hideous, and rare, and many other terror that appeared when they saw the crossbow team.

"Shit!" Waves of crossbow arrows popped up vigorously.

Then the moment they were completely nailed into the forefront of mule soldiers like a rainstorm. The queue of hundreds of mule soldiers suddenly rose and fell violently. Then the people and mules were swaying: some were lifted down, some were holding the necks of the mounts and rolling forward together, and some were swaying on the back of the mule for a few times before covering the wounds of the crossbow arrows with their hands. Seeing their blood flowing everywhere, they lie down on the saddle and died.

"Wooden crossbow, wooden crossbow!" Zhang Xi shouted again.

At this time, the crossbow team put down the crossbow, then pulled out the crossbow made of bamboo and wood from the waist or back, plucked the bone pieces on it, and instantly shot another close-range shot.
Chapter completed!