Zhang Liao and Tai Shici led 2,000 cavalry and arrived outside Zhangye City at dawn.

The city of Zhangye was filled with flames, and huge flames rose into the sky from time to time. The firelight shone on the bloody battlefield, making every figure in the battlefield sway like a beast with teeth and claws.

Fierce fighting sounds, loud horn horns, rapid and violent war drums, and noisy shouts all came together to form a huge roar, as if the god of death in hell opened his bloody mouth and continued to fight.

Laughing and roaring.

Zhang Liao saw from a distance that the Han flag on top of the city was still fluttering in the firelight, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

The troops sent back by Beigong to rescue Du Yeze turned out to be just like Beigong's own character, pretentious and timid, so that both Zhang Liao and Taishi Ci misjudged the time. They originally thought that these high-profile Qiang people would be eager.

They rushed into Tonozawa and fell into an ambush encirclement. As a result, these guys were inexplicably delayed on the road for two more days before they wandered into the encirclement...

Don't even mention the frustration of seeing your prey about to fall into a trap. You can't be impatient or move around.

Taishi Ci, who came later, saw the Han army flags in the firelight from a distance and let out a sigh of relief.

Fools all know that it is not difficult to defeat an opponent in the Gobi desert. It may only require a single charge, but it is not so easy to surround the opponent and completely destroy them. If you don't look in one direction,

, the news would have been leaked. If Zhang Liao and Tai Shici had not joined forces to block these Qiang people in the place where Wuwei was approaching, it is impossible for these Qiang people to have escaped and reported the news to Beigong.

If Beigong knew that Zhang Liao Tai Shi Ci was coming, would he still insist on attacking Zhang Ye? Maybe he would, but he might also just disperse into the desert...

In that situation, it would be useless to pursue them even if they did not pursue them. Pursuing and killing them would not achieve much, and if they did not pursue and kill all the garrisoned troops, they would not be able to deal a heavy blow to the Qiang people. The ones who would suffer the most would be Zhang Liao and Taishi Ci.

Unlike now, although Beigong knew that reinforcements might come, he didn't know that the Han people would come so quickly, so he didn't have much preparation...

Of course, there are still some scouts on the periphery of the Qiang people, but those nomadic scouts, who are not professional at all, were swept away by the elite hussar scouts along the way, coupled with Zhang Liao Tai Shi Ci's galloping all the way, these

The Qiang scouts could not serve as an early warning at all.

Zhang Liao turned to look at Taishi Ci, who was also looking at him. When their eyes met, they knew what the other meant...

The Qiang people went crazy...

Zhang Ye might be able to choke...

No need to wait for Jiuquan...

There are some risks now...

But Zhangye...

It might be more troublesome when day comes...

One sentence per person, speaking quickly.

so……

Attack side.

Drive it away.

good!

Attack the flanks, not flank them.

If they spread out their array and encircle them, it would be possible to annihilate all the Qiang people. However, Zhang Liao and Tai Shi Ci led the leading cavalry with only two thousand people, while the Qiang people besieged the city on all sides, with a total number of at least ten thousand or twenty thousand. If they wanted to encircle and annihilate ten thousand people,

If you can't swallow it, it will be dangerous.

It's not that the number of reinforcements led by Taishi Ci is not enough, but that the rapid driving consumes a lot of horse endurance, so the two thousand are just the first, and there are cavalry following the route of the two of them.

Compare? Taishi Ci slowly waved the iron halberd, and then pointed it forward.

Zhang Liao laughed and nodded, OK, whoever takes the flag first and kills the general wins!

Without saying anything, Taishi Ci gently kicked the horse's belly and took the lead in leading the men and horses forward. Zhang Liao also waved and led the team to set off simultaneously.

Taishi Ci couldn't hold back his rising fighting spirit. Since the Battle of Yecheng, Taishi Ci had almost never fought any decent battles, or in his mind, those small-scale battles.

, it’s like scratching an itch at the other end of the spectrum, so uncomfortable.

The sound of horse hooves gradually sounded, gradually became louder, and then became overwhelming.

Taishi Ci lay on the back of his horse, his body rising and falling rhythmically as the horse galloped. He even closed his eyes and listened to what the wind was saying in his ears, as if he was feeling the battle with all his heart.

The fun of galloping before.

As we get closer and closer to Zhangye City, we can clearly hear the killing cries and screams on the battlefield, the clash of swords and guns, the horns of horns below the city, and the sound of war drums on the city. We can also clearly distinguish the floating

The smell of blood in the air, the burnt smell of burning trees, and the smell of tragedy and pain permeating the battlefield.

Beigong was very excited. He stood near the city with high spirits. He felt that his ability was stronger than that of Beigong of the previous generation. Was Beigong of the previous generation able to conquer the Han people's big city so smoothly?

Beigong saw more and more Qiang people climbing up the city wall, and more and more Qiang people rushing into the city gate. A feeling of overwhelming emotion surged up, and his face showed joy.

smile, but this smile did not last long. He suddenly found that the war horse beside him shook its neck uncomfortably, then raised its head and hissed, moved its hooves wildly, and shook its head and tail.

Beigong subconsciously began to look around, feeling vaguely that something was not right.

Zhang Liao slowly sat upright from his horse, shook off the red tassel on his spear, spun out a huge spear flower, and then roared loudly: Blow the trumpet, move forward at full speed!

Beigong's eyes widened and he looked into the darkness in surprise. He didn't know which army this was and why it suddenly appeared here. But he was familiar with the horn, and it was the sound of a pure horn, so he

Like all Qiang soldiers, when they first heard about it, they subconsciously thought it was their own reinforcements.

Could it be that the Qiang people from the Qilian Mountains have arrived?

But why does Beigong feel that his heart is beating so fast and chaotically?

The huge horn horn sounded again from the depths of darkness, accompanied by the roar of galloping war horses. An atmosphere of tension and fear instantly enveloped the hearts of every Qiang soldier in the city. The mysterious and terrifying sense of fear overwhelmed them almost

It was almost suffocating. And the closer the sound of these horse hooves got, the more uneasy the Qiang people became.

Brother! Beigong’s younger brother yelled from the side, something’s wrong! Something’s wrong! They’re not our reinforcements!

Beigong suddenly realized that he was very close to his own army formation. If these guys were still blowing charge trumpets, they were either enemies or ghosts! Even if they were Qiang people who really knew how to blow the trumpet, they were still Qiang people who belonged to the enemy!

Beigong's expression changed drastically, and he roared at the top of his lungs: Defend! Prepare to defend! This is a surprise attack from the enemy, a surprise attack...

The Qiang soldiers in the distance were at a loss and didn't know what was happening.

One moment they were happily rushing into the city, and the next moment there were horn horns and the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the city. Although it is true that these fighting screams near Zhang Ye obscured part of the sound of horse hooves, making Zhang Liao and Taishi Ci's surprise attack more effective.

There is a certain degree of suddenness, but in fact the Qiang people are disorderly and have not received much training. The panic when encountering unexpected events is the key point when the entire situation begins to change.

With systematically trained soldiers, even if the sound of galloping war horses has drowned out all other sounds on the battlefield, and even if the inner fear has begun to spread in the darkness, the muscle memory of long-term training will still make these

The soldiers made corresponding changes according to the training orders and assumed postures to face the enemy.

But the problem is that the Qiang people don't understand this, and most of them haven't received any training.

This is the biggest and weakest problem of all nomadic peoples. Before they formed a military system, all their soldiers relied on instinct and fierce spirit to fight their way out of the deep mountains and old forests.

The first generation is usually the most powerful, and then down the generations, the final people are not much different from my Eight Banners disciples in the Qing Dynasty, they can only be talkative...

Therefore, at the moment, even if Beigong shouted his throat out, the chaotic Qiang people still could not gather together immediately to attack Zhang Liao and Tai Shi Ci. Even though Zhang Liao and Tai Shi Ci's troops had traveled a long distance, their numbers were still far away.

is lower than the total number of Qiang people...

A knight soared out of the darkness, a halberd shining coldly in the air.

Taishi Ci laughed, his laughter full of desire and excitement for fighting: The great man will win! Kill!

The next moment, the voices of countless people also sounded: The great man is victorious!

kill!

The sound of killing suddenly rang out, shaking the entire dark night.

More cavalry soldiers heard the shouting, and they followed with all their strength and shouted, Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!

The Han cavalry was like a flood that broke through a dike, roaring, roaring, and roaring all the way, carrying the sound of wind and thunder all over the sky. With a thunderous momentum, it destroyed the Qiang troops outside the city.

On the city wall of Zhangye, the soldiers on both sides have become ferocious beasts. They are entangled together, tearing at each other, hacking with knives, chopping with axes, poking with spears, and biting with teeth.

Bodies were everywhere, blood was soaked all over the ground, and even started to drip down along the gaps in the blue bricks.

The Qiang soldiers who climbed up the city wall were stunned by the troops of Zhang Liao and Tai Shici who appeared from the darkness. They stood on the city wall and stared dumbfounded, lying on the bloody battlements, unable to believe their eyes.

They even started shouting nervously, but no one knew what they were shouting about.

Beigong below the city was also shouting nervously. He called for archers, called for cavalry to charge, and called for the Qiang leaders to respond quickly. However, behind him, to the left and right, there were no archers or any cavalry in neat formation.

, because it was for the purpose of attacking the city, basically most of the Qiang people dismounted and concentrated under Zhangye City, and changed into assault infantry with swords and shields. Around Beigong, only Beigong himself was left.

Some of the guards...

Huge cheers erupted from the city of Zhangye, more Han soldiers and Han people rushed forward, and the oppressive Qiang people retreated step by step.

The Qiang soldiers who were relatively close up and down the city wall had already begun to turn around and run wildly to both sides, trying to avoid the sharp edge of the Han cavalry.

Zhang Liao's spear was like a rolling python, shooting a Qiang shield soldier in mid-air who had no time to escape. The inferior wooden shield fell apart under the huge impact, and the Qiang shield soldier screamed in agony.

Flying in the air and falling heavily, it was like a dull thunder. Although the sound was not loud, it was like a heavy bass drum, beating heavily in the hearts of the Qiang soldiers, making people tremble.

Kill...

The Han cavalry shouted and waved their swords fiercely. The horses under them were galloping and roaring, ramming into all enemies who blocked their progress. The Qiang soldiers were like small boats in the stormy sea, and like boats in the strong wind.

The fallen leaves were helpless and weak. They were brutally ravaged by this huge force that suddenly came from the darkness, trampling, hitting, and slashing. They had no power to fight back at all.

It was not even found that the Han cavalry was much smaller than their number...
To be continued...