The soldiers of Liangzhou really showed what it means to be truly brave and not afraid of death in front of the Western Turks.
Even though they knew they were about to die, they still moved forward bravely and attacked the enemy's lines one after another.
How many Liangzhou soldiers did not even touch the enemy's clothes, but just glanced at the enemy and fell directly on the charging road.
But it was also because of the sacrifices of these people that subsequent members were able to set up battle formations.
The collision between arrow arrays, although the Liangzhou Army was not as good as the Turkic Army, it could still cause damage to the Turkic Army.
At the very least, the situation at hand is not about being passively beaten.
Some soldiers of the Turkic army were shot in vital parts by arrows and died on the spot.
Some were injured by arrows and fell to the ground screaming.
But as the second wave of arrows arrived, those who fell to the ground before they had time to escape were immediately shot into hedgehogs.
This is the battlefield.
When arrows rain down from the sky, even the most experienced veterans cannot escape.
Even if you hide under a corpse, the arrow will penetrate the corpse and kill the person below.
And here we are.
The Liangzhou Army finally broke through the most difficult road.
There are much fewer corpses here, and there is no mud soaked with blood on the ground.
Here, the war horse can already run.
This is great news for the Liangzhou Army.
Not long after, the Western Turks' first line of defense was defeated by the Liangzhou Army.
Almost all the 500 Turkic troops stationed on the defensive line were killed.
But the Liangzhou army was not feeling well either.
They came here at the cost of eight hundred casualties.
You must know that every cavalryman in the Liangzhou Army has a hard time getting here.
They were all carefully selected and trained by Li Chengqian.
But now, after just breaking through one of the enemy's lines of defense, a total of 800 people were killed.
Liu Qi even didn't know how to face Li Chengqian after returning.
Of course, now This is not the time to think about that.
It would be better for 800 people to die in battle than for everyone to die here.
Therefore, after breaking through the first line of defense, the Liangzhou Army rushed straight to the second line of defense without any hesitation.
Jia Yanzhang also didn't expect that the other party would take such an offensive.
You must know that the Turkic Army and the Liangzhou Army are completely different concepts.
The archers of the Liangzhou Army were cultivated, while the archers of their Turkic Army were born.
Almost everyone in the army from top to bottom is an expert in archery.
To put it bluntly, even the cooks in the army are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
But under such circumstances, they still dared to charge into battle.
Isn't this suicide?
But how could he know?
The current Liangzhou Army is completely numb, numb to the battlefield and to life and death.
They forgot everything.
Forgot what fear is.
Forgot what death is.
They completely ignored the Turkic army's arrow formation and charged desperately.
At this moment, the cavalry at the forefront was getting closer and closer to the enemy's second defensive line.
From the first two hundred steps, to the later one hundred steps, fifty steps, and twenty steps.
In the end, the Liangzhou Army cavalry who rushed at the front had already fought against the opponent.
At such a close distance, the archers on the Western Turk side could not continue to fire arrows.
They were not afraid, and under the command of the captain, they put away their bows and arrows, drew their sabers, and started hand-to-hand combat with each other.
Seeing this scene, Liu Qi, as the commander of this Liangzhou army, did not hesitate at all.
He suddenly drew out the long knife from his waist and shouted angrily: "Kill!"
Following the words, he took the lead and charged into the enemy army.
And when he saw his own general, he was filled with anger
Well, how could those cavalry hesitate?
They followed closely behind them, roaring and killing the enemy.
Liu Qi was also a martial artist.
The fighting skills on the battlefield are as pure as fire.
For a moment, he showed a brave and invincible posture.
But because his armor was obviously different from other soldiers, the Turkic army quickly realized that this man was a general.
At the moment, all the firepower is focused on him.
Fortunately, he had a group of guards around him who risked their lives to protect him from the knife, otherwise he would have died countless times.
In terms of long-distance warfare, the Liangzhou Army was inferior to the Western Turks.
But once they fought their way out of that miserable place, the Liangzhou Army was really not afraid of a head-on confrontation with the Western Turks.
The fighting did not take long, and a large number of Turkic troops had already fallen, and the second line of defense became precarious.
Moreover, the Liangzhou Army's offensive did not slow down because of this, but instead became more sharp.
A hundred cavalrymen can create a momentum like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, and a charge of a thousand cavalrymen is like a stormy sea.
And in the chaos of the battle, the Liangzhou Army's fearless and intimidating momentum was truly terrifying.
Even if his chest is pierced, he will die with the enemy.
Even if the abdomen is scratched, the opponent will be strangled to death with his intestines.
Such a brutal fight chilled the heart of the Turkic army, which had always been brave and skillful in fighting.
On the eve of the collapse of the front, the people who had not yet participated in the battle could no longer hold on and began to retreat one after another.
As a result, faults appeared in the Turkic army camp.
The soldiers in the front were fighting bloody battles, while the soldiers in the rear began to retreat as a whole.
The vacuum zone in the middle grew larger and larger, and finally formed an open space twenty or thirty steps wide.
Seeing this scene, Jia Yanzhang did not hesitate: "Kill them."
Following his words.
The two military formations around him advanced together. After advancing in front of the Turkic soldiers whose battle lines collapsed and fled backwards, they almost without hesitation began to wave the sword in their hands.
Who would have thought that the brothers who rushed up to kill him were not here to kill the enemy with him, but to kill him.
Amidst the sound of iron weapons piercing flesh, hundreds of the defeated Turkic army did not die under the sword of the enemy, but died in the hands of their compatriots.
Although this situation seems cruel and inhumane.
But it is also something that must be dealt with in war.
Accepting defeated soldiers will at first shake the morale of the army, and at worst it will directly disrupt one's own formation.
And killing one's own deserters also has a great deterrent effect.
Let them not dare to run away, so they can go up and fight the enemy desperately.
Moreover, if the deserters break up the formation, the enemy will easily take advantage of it.
You know, the Liangzhou Army is a cavalry force.
If these people were to speed up, it would be another way to commit suicide.
Jia Yanzhang's tactics are very simple. Even if he uses people to fill in, he will not give the opponent enough distance to attack.
The correct way to fight against cavalry is to engage in close combat with the opponent.
At this moment, the Turkic army's military formation was advancing, and the weapons in people's hands were mercilessly waving at their own deserters.
But as more and more deserters were killed.
Some of the Turkic army camps began to become chaotic.
The deserters actually started to fight with their fellow soldiers who were blocking them, and there was a moment of chaos.
at this time.
Suddenly there was a sound of thunder from the east.
And the earth began to tremble slightly.
Jia Yanzhang has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he feels something is wrong at this moment.
After a moment, his expression suddenly changed: "No, enemy reinforcements have arrived."
However, when he reacted at this time, it was obviously too late.
Before he finished speaking, he saw a cavalry figure flying the Dragon Flag of the Tang Dynasty appearing on the hillside not far away...