Just when Zhao Polu was about to use all means to investigate the infantry city, he heard Li Ye's voice, "There is no need to investigate, the Dashi Guards are in the infantry city."
Zhao Polu hurriedly saluted. Of course he would not question Li Ye's words, but he was a little curious about how Li Ye knew about it.
"Don't be surprised, they have already left the city and are rushing towards Hulun City." Li Ye looked at the vast wasteland outside the city with his hands behind his back, without any emotion on his face, "They are very fast, and they will arrive here around noon .”
When Zhao Polu heard the words, his face straightened, and the guards took the initiative to attack, which he did not expect, which showed that the opponent was very confident.
Moreover, Bushi City and Hulun City are more than a hundred miles away, and the road in between is not easy to walk. The Dashi Guards did not show up yesterday, so they set off today, and they arrived at Hulun City in half a day. The marching speed of the Tiger Guards was slow.
"Ever since we knew that the Dashi Guards were going to fight, the Tiger Guards have been resting in Hulun City for a few days. They are all qi cultivating monks. These few days have made everyone energetic." Zhao Polu said.
The meaning of what he said was nothing more than saying that even if the Dashi Guards were extraordinary, the Tiger Guards would still be able to defeat them.
Li Ye glanced at him, and said leisurely: "The Dashi Guards who came out of the Bushi City have a total of 150,000 people, which is much larger than the Tiger Guards."
Zhao Polu smiled and said: "Your Majesty often says that the outcome of a battlefield is not determined by the number of people. As long as the difference between the two is not too large, the outcome is unknown."
Li Ye was noncommittal, "The will of the New Moon Sect True God has seen how the Spike Army, the Tiger Guard Army, and the Habayashi Army fought. At this time, Marlon dared to let the Guards attack on his own initiative, which shows that he There is a certainty of defeating us."
Zhao Polu was slightly taken aback, it was indeed such a truth.
If there was no absolute confidence in winning, the Dashi Guards who came from afar would not have attacked so quickly. Although with the current combat strength of the Tiger Guards, whether or not the enemy is guarding the city has little impact on the battle, the posture of the Great Food Guards is very strong.
"In Ashu City, the Habayashi Army is also facing the attack of the Dashi Guards." Li Ye continued to say to himself, "There are 350,000 Dashi Guards participating in the battle. There are 50,000 people who don't know where they are going. In other words, Mullen still has reservations."
When Zhao Polu heard this, he couldn't help but blushed and was furious.
Li Ye's meaning has been made very clear, and the Dashi Guards obviously didn't take them seriously. The guards of the Infantry City dared to attack, and Mullen dared not to press all the troops. This is all contempt for their performance.
"Your Majesty, I ask you to go out of the city to form an array!" Zhao Polu was not a talkative person, so he simply asked to go to battle, and he wanted to prove everything eloquently with his actions. If Yang Xingmi was here, he would definitely give an impassioned speech first.
Li Ye didn't have any special reaction, he waved his hand, "Sure."
Zhao Polu immediately took orders and left.
In terms of the current combat power of the Tiger Guards, it is actually not as good as going out of the city to fight. After all, the city head is only so wide, and there are only so many streets in the city, which are not enough to form a formation, and cannot fully utilize the strengths of the strong bows and crossbows of the Chang'an Imperial Army.
The defensive means that the city wall relies on, whether it is high walls and deep ditches, or rolling stones and rolling trees, will not cause many obstacles to Qi practitioners. In the blink of an eye, everyone will be slaughtered at the top of the city, and then the entire city will become a battlefield .
Just before noon, a yellow line appeared on the boundless horizon, which soon became thicker and taller, and became like a wave in the blink of an eye. It was billowing smoke and dust rising from the ground. under the smoke
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It was a black tide, spreading continuously from the loess land, and it didn't take long for it to become a black ocean.
Their rear team disappeared behind the billowing yellow sand, and the entire formation looked like a sea of fire.
At this time, the main force of the Tiger Guards had already assembled outside the city. At a glance, the formation of the phalanx was neat and uniform, forming horizontal and vertical lines. Small formations lead to large formations, large formations contain small formations, and there are passages between formations, which are distinct from each other and integrated into one.
The sea of black flames and yellow smoke formed by the Dashi Guards quickly moved from far to near, coming menacingly.
Li Ye could see clearly from the top of the city that these Crescent Sect monks did not travel with their feet. Each of them is stepping on a blanket-shaped thing, not big, just standing alone, they will not collide with each other, and fly half a foot off the ground.
Obviously, it is a magic weapon, similar to the flying magic weapon of Feijian.
Looking at the speed of this flying carpet, it is no slower than the white bull. No wonder the Guards were able to rush from Baghdad to the Seven Rivers Basin so quickly.
Li Ye's eyes narrowed slightly. Every major monk of the New Moon Sect was wearing full armor with a hooded windbreaker on top of the armor, looking very elegant. Carrying a longbow and quiver on the back, or holding a spear-like blade, or a machete, and an exquisite round shield in his hand.
This is what can be seen on the surface.
From this point of view, this group of Dashi Guards should not be underestimated, with good cultivation and excellent equipment.
However, Li Ye suddenly let out a sneer.
Qi training monks all have magic tools such as storage bags. The difference is only in the size of the space. In addition to the military rations, it is definitely more than enough to put down the armaments such as bows, crossbows, long guns and quiveres. But the Guards wished they could hang weapons all over their bodies and expose all their fangs.
It is to show off, but also to deter.
However, this method may be useful for the army of the Black Khanate, but for the Tiger Guards, it is a bit unrealistic.
To the surprise of Li Ye and Zhao Polu, after the Dashi Guards approached, they didn't intend to stay, and when they were five miles away from the Tiger Guards' formation, they still flew at an undiminished speed.
The opponent is going to launch an offensive directly!
Even if they are relying on the flying magic weapon to travel, Qi training monks themselves are not tired, but they will consume some energy after standing still for a long time; even if the wasteland is vast, they have already set up their formation during the march, and there is no need to make more temporary adjustments. But such a direct attack would be somewhat inconvenient.
Such an arrogant posture was the only one Tang Jun had seen on the battlefield.
Zhao Polu, who was standing above the battle formation of the Tiger Guard's middle army, was almost pissed off by the Grand Master's guards, and he even laughed out loud afterward.
He raised one hand and shouted in a deep voice, "Standard arrow!"
The three rows of Tiger Guard soldiers in the front line, under the order of the captain, drew their bows and arrows, retreated and stretched their strings, and shot three rows of arrows with red water chestnuts. The arrow slid through a graceful arc in midair, and landed 1,800 steps ahead.
1,800 paces, this is the range of the Tiger Guard's magic weapon, the bow and crossbow.
Before the magic weapon crossbow appeared, the heavy crossbow in the infantry had the furthest range of the Fuyuan crossbow, which could reach 300 steps. Today, the development of the magic weapon bow and crossbow in the Tang army has gone through more than five years since the magic weapon bed crossbow in Yangguan, and the shooting range has increased to six times that of the Fuyuan crossbow, which is really nothing.
The Dashi Guards turned a blind eye to the arrows nailed to the ground, and had no intention of stopping in front of them.
Not only that, but with a tsunami-like roar, the aura burst out in the Dashi army, and the dazzling white light even
Covering the yellow smoke, their speed suddenly doubled, and they rushed towards the Tiger Guards with the momentum of charging!
Zhao Polu stared at the Dashi army with cold eyes. He saw that the other party took off the long bow on his back, and stretched the bowstring on the flying carpet, relying on not having to run by himself.
After scolding, Zhao Polu drew out the horizontal knife, pointed forward, and ordered: "First round, shoot, get ready!"
The soldiers of the Tiger Guards adjusted some parts of the heavy crossbow in front of them according to the order. A crossbow is different from a bow. The bolts fired are straight lines and cannot draw an arc in mid-air. However, the heavy crossbow, a magic weapon in the Tang army, can be simply adjusted according to needs, and the flying method of the crossbow can be changed at will.
With the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Tiger Guards bowing and pulling strings in unison, the entire army formation moved, like a wave caressing the sea.
Zhao Polu's eyebrows were low, and when he saw the Dashi army approaching the position of the arrow, he shouted loudly: "Let it go!"
The muffled sound of a hundred thousand bowstrings gathered together, like a muffled thunder, and the sound of crossbow arrows piercing through the air combined together made the hair stand on end. When the crossbow arrows flew through the air and landed in the formation of the Great Food Army, they just rushed past the position of the arrows.
The soldiers of the Dashi Guards all put away their longbows and raised their round shields.
The round shield is not big, but it forms a huge light shield, protecting the Crescent Cult monks behind. The powerful crossbows of the Tiger Guards, which can shoot through even the parapet wall, just hit these light shields with a circle of ripples on them, and did not penetrate through them!
The crossbow arrows and flowing clouds in the Tiger Guards' formation flew out one after another, and the yellow sand filled the sky, and there was a meteor shower after another. The Dashi Guards, who wanted to find a gap to shoot arrows to counterattack, did not find a chance.
Hit by the meteor shower composed of 100,000 crossbow arrows of the Tiger Guards, even the city towers would collapse, and even the city walls would be completely changed. defense.
Zhao Polu's complexion gradually became serious.
This is the first time since the army of pure qi training monks entered the battle, the strong crossbow in the army did not achieve the desired results.
With a distance of 1,800 steps, relying on the flying carpet, the Dashi Guards passed by in an instant. After the Tiger Guards fired eighteen waves of crossbow arrows, the damage caused to the Dashi Guards was almost negligible. .
Although at the end, the light shield in front of the soldiers of the guards had obviously begun to show spider web-like cracks, and it seemed that it would collapse after a long time, but it would definitely take a while to continue the attack.
The Tiger Guards had no time to fire their crossbows.
"The magical weapon of the New Moon Sect is so powerful?" Zhao Polu was surprised. The powerful crossbow, a magical weapon in the Chang'an Forbidden Army, has never met an opponent since it was first released.
"It seems that Ma Lun's guards are not just a group of Qi training monks, but a real elite army." Seeing this, Li Ye had a preliminary understanding of the combat power of the guards.
The reason why an elite army is an elite army is that, in addition to orders and prohibitions and tough actions, the primary factor is excellent equipment. The biggest difference between the army of Qi training monks and a group of Qi training monks is that the magic tools they use are not in the style of Jianghu, but fit the needs of the battlefield.
From this point of view, the Guards have reached the point where they are comparable to the Tiger Guards.
"Shield array!" Seeing that the Dashi Guards had put away their round shields and started holding guns in both hands, Zhao Polu ordered the soldiers to put away their crossbows and prepare for close combat.
Being able to break through the rain of arrows from the Tiger Guards head-on, Zhao Polu also admitted that the Dashi Guards did have the qualifications to attack the Tiger Guards head-on.