At such a moment, he could accept Edward's mission without hesitation.
And Edward didn't expect that this guy would agree so happily.
But he didn't show any surprise, instead he looked at Pate with pretense of appreciation and said, "On behalf of thirty thousand brothers, thank you."
After speaking, he summoned a few more of his own soldiers and gave them the same mission.
And he ordered them to follow Pat closely to protect his safety.
After a few soldiers arrived, Pate did not hesitate at all and galloped forward on horseback.
Edward's eyes were fixed on Pater, and at the same time he also ordered the artillery to prepare.
When Pate and his soldiers disappeared into the crowd, he immediately gave the order to open fire.
Boom! Boom! Boom! ??
Bursts of explosions rang out from Ansa's main formation.
Huge projectiles flew into the sky and then landed in front of them eight hundred steps away.
And that was where the fiercest fighting between the two sides took place.
Many Western Turkic soldiers did not react and were directly overturned by the flying shells.
Of course, there are also many Unsa soldiers who are slow to respond.
For a moment, both sides were blown away at the same time.
At the same time, Pate finally ran in front of the 30,000-strong crowd.
He passed Edward's orders directly to the other party.
And those few people looked at the direction where they were being bombarded by artillery fire and sighed.
Immediately afterwards, several people also immediately conveyed the order to retreat under artillery fire to their subordinates.
For a time, Ansa's military formation began to slowly move to the south.
The Western Turkic soldiers who were resisting them gradually became unable to withstand the enemy's artillery fire and the fierce impact of the Ansa soldiers.
And seeing such a scene, how could Li Chengqian sit back and ignore it? He also immediately asked someone to blow the trumpet.
When they heard the howling tune, Kamachin and Hu Yanzheng in the crowd immediately looked towards Li Chengqian.
When the two of them looked up, they saw two big flags waving behind Li Chengqian.
Looking at the flag, the two of them instantly understood what Li Chengqian meant.
Without a moment's hesitation, the two of them ordered their subordinates to evacuate their current positions immediately.
And just after the two of them withdrew, the front troops of the Angsa Army were completely out of the way and began to flee in the direction of their own formation.
But at this moment, Datang's artillery fire, which had been quiet for who knows how long, started again.
But their target this time was not the opponent's artillery position, but the fleeing crowd.
There is no need to elaborate on the power of Tang Dynasty artillery.
With such a dense position of the opponent, just one round of bombardment created a huge vacuum zone in the opponent's military formation.
Seeing such a scene, those Ansa soldiers were even more frightened.
The crowd went crazy and ran in the direction of the formation regardless of the situation.
But is this formation safe?
Li Chengqian had actually foreseen such a scenario.
So before coming, he told Kamaqin and Hu Yanzheng.
As long as the enemy uses such life-threatening tactics, they will immediately spread out to harass the enemy.
At this moment, these guys also listened to Li Chengqian's words and acted exactly like this.
As I said before, you are faster among the seven or eight Western Turks.
It only takes a dozen seconds, or even a few seconds, to fight your way out of the enemy's formation.
At this moment, the Western Turkic sergeants are taking advantage of this advantage to continuously attack the Ansa front army.
Attack and harass.
The distance between the front army and the rear army was only 800 steps.
But at this moment, the distance of 800 steps is as insurmountable as a natural chasm.
Seeing this scene, Edward, who had already ordered to stop the bombardment, had to use artillery again to suppress the Western Turks' pursuit.
But the formation of the Western Turks became very scattered at this moment, and they were all fighting with Angsa's front army.
A round of artillery fire from Angsa can knock down one or two Western Turkic cavalry.
But there will definitely be more Ansa soldiers lying beside the Western Turkic cavalry.
Compared to him, Li Chengqian's approach was much smarter.
He still adopted the previous strategy, using artillery fire to cut off the enemy's escape route, and then led the infantry to fight with muskets.
As for the troops of the Western Turks, they were all arranged by him to pursue the enemy.
In this way, accidental damage to friendly forces can be greatly avoided.
And under the bombardment of Datang's artillery fire and Ansa's artillery fire one after another, Ansa's front army also suffered heavy losses.
Among them, many people died under our own artillery fire.
Perhaps these people would never dream of it.
One day he would receive the same treatment as his enemy.
They will also die under the same cannon as the enemy.
But despite this, it didn't stop them from wanting to escape.
At this moment, they had advanced from the original distance of 800 steps to less than 400 steps.
But these last hundred steps to death became their death line.
After reaching this distance, Edward had to order the bombardment to stop.
But this also gave the Western Turkic cavalry an opportunity.
You must know that since the retreat of these former soldiers, the Western Turkic cavalry has been following them, mixing with their crowd. >
At this time, the shells went out, and it was their time to show off their skills.
Kamachin took the lead and charged into the crowd with his mace, and the cavalrymen also went crazy to kill the enemies around them.
At this moment, the Western Turks were like hunters driving cattle on the grassland.
As long as you seize the opportunity, you will rush into the crowd with various weapons and wave them around.
When the impact of the war horse slows down, he immediately rushes out of the crowd, takes a breath and fights again.
Under such an offensive, the Angsa army was almost beaten silly.
They don't know what they should do now.
Should I pick up a gun and shoot?
You should still stop and engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
Of course, more people choose to continue running away.
Because they know that as long as they get behind their own formation, the enemy will have nothing to do against them.
However, the Western Turks were not fools. When they saw that the opponent was approaching the opponent's main formation, they all retreated and rushed towards the enemies blocked by artillery fire.
At this time, Pat also successfully returned to Edward with three former army generals.
The three of them looked at each other, then looked back involuntarily.
When they saw the scene behind them, the three of them almost cried.
Thirty thousand people left the camp in great force, but now less than one-third have returned.
More people are still struggling under the artillery fire and strangulation of Datang and Western Turks.
Seeing such a scene, the three of them bowed their heads and remained silent.
Seeing this, Edward also sighed lightly.
Then, he comforted the three of them and said: "We will fight back, and we will definitely be able to avenge our brothers."
Hearing this, the three of them raised their heads and looked at Edward.
At this moment, not only did they not get any comfort from Edward's words, but they also felt very mocked.