During the attack, the entire army was pressing over and almost attacking the city. Both sides were entangled and fought each other and couldn't stand it. It was not so easy to retreat at this time.

With Shi Yi's order, the four gates of Hejian City opened, and all the Lu Long troops chased and bit Cheng German troops tightly. They did not give them the opportunity to get rid of it easily, and they would not have the opportunity to line up to fight against the cavalry.

This made Li Che unable to let the five thousand men of the last reserve team turn around and block the Khitan cavalry that was attacking like a crazi wave. The infantry team of thousands of people needs to turn around and arrange a formation. It is not easy to do? Before they formed a tight formation, the archers were not fully in place at all. The long-range attacking feather arrows shot into the sky in a sparse manner, which was just a tickling for the cavalry running all over the mountains.

In an instant, the formation of the five thousand palace soldiers was chasing and cutting by the cavalry, and it became a situation where the head and tail were difficult to fight each other. Infantry faced the cavalry, there was a huge disadvantage in nature. When the cavalry and the horses were crushed strongly, it was difficult to kill the enemy, even if the infantry was slightly blocked.

The only way for infantry to deal with cavalry is to form a close military formation, first killing and injuring the enemy with a bow and crossbow, then relying on shield formation, spear and flesh and blood to delay the enemy's attack speed, and finally entangle with cavalry that have lost their speed.

But now, no point in the Cheng German Army can do.

Seeing that the five thousand soldiers who were blocked were almost collapsed in the blink of an eye, Li Che's eyes were red immediately. If the cavalry were allowed to kill them, today's German army would be destined to be destroyed.

"Transfer the order, Wang Mingren and Li Bo gather all the soldiers to cut off their backs to resist Shi Yi. The guardians of the palace retreated into the camp first." Li Che roared loudly, and the drummers beside him waved the drumsticks and beat the drums desperately. The flag bearers desperately danced flags of different colors to convey the orders.

"All cavalry, follow me!" Seeing Wang Mingren and Li Bo stopping their backs, teams of soldiers began to gather around them. Li Che raised his horse spear high and shouted sternly.

Five hundred cavalry shouted in unison and rushed towards the Khitan cavalry in the distance.

Like during normal training, Li Che formed a conical impact lineup for the vanguard of the vanguard, and unswervingly faced the Khitan cavalry ten times their size.

Although the Tang Dynasty had reached its most declining time at this time, this does not mean that the military governors who held military power were also weak, nor does it mean that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were very weak. On the contrary, when the Jiedu governors were in charge of their own affairs, these soldiers who were nominally Tang soldiers were quite powerful.

This has a certain similarity to the late Han Dynasty. Later historians summarized that all dynasties were destroyed by weakness, while the Han Empire died due to strength. Even in the era when the Han Dynasty completely destroyed its country, the Han army guarding the frontier could still beat the surrounding foreign races at will.

The Han Dynasty was not destroyed by foreign enemies, but was consumed by his own people.

The Tang Dynasty is roughly going through such a stage. The central empire is weak, but these military governors are all strong. After Zhang Zhongwu was unable to find his teeth when he fought the Khitan, he turned around and looked at the supreme chair in Chang'an City.

Chinese civilization, as long as there is no internal chaos, no self-killing, but unanimous external forces, they can always sweep across the eight desolates and six unions. Just like now, although Li Che only has 500 cavalry, he still has the courage to launch a counter charge when facing 5,000 Khitan soldiers. This is a kind of arrogance rooted in the bones of the Tang people. The Tang Dynasty's foreign wars rarely suffered. Even if the goal is not reached for the time being, he will try every means to gather strength to revenge. Just like the expedition in the early Tang Dynasty

Goguryeo attacked in April and returned in October. In half a year, the Tang army captured ten cities, migrated 70,000 residents of Goguryeo, beheaded 40,000 enemy troops, and died no more than 2,000 people. Although he later had to retreat due to weather supplies and other reasons, overall, this was a war of great tactical victory and strategic failure. Goguryeo was also destroyed by the Tang Dynasty's strong general Xu Shiji twenty years later, and finally returned to China in the northeast corner.

At this time, the foreign tribes were filled with fear from the Tang army in their hearts. It was not only now that the Khitans, as Zhang Zhongwu's mercenary, had the courage to attack so many Tang troops.

In fact, in their eyes, no matter which military governor it was, the army under their jurisdiction was the Tang army.

Li Che's five hundred cavalry rushed into the Khitan cavalry, and they inserted it into tofu like a red-burned tong, as if they were unstoppable. They killed horizontally along the direction of the Khitan rushing, creating a space that allowed the soldiers who were divided and surrounded by the Khitan cavalry to retreat.

After repeated rushing back and forth, there were more and more Khitan cavalry falling under the swords of these 500 cavalrymen, but more and more troops were dismissed. When Li Che completed such a cross-sectional attack for the third time, there were less than two hundred cavalry behind him, and the Khitan cavalry falling under the blades of him and his subordinates had already exceeded 500. Thousands of Khitan cavalry were actually frightened by this cavalry team of hundreds of people, so that when they saw them rushing, they immediately scattered and avoided.

This made Shi Yi, who led his men out of the city to fight, so angry that he was filled with smoke from his orifices.

"Come, go and tell Yelu Qi that if he can't complete the commander's mission, he will wait and lose his head!" Shi Yi called his personal guard and shouted angrily.

In Shi Yi's eyes, these Khitans were just a knife in the hand of the Grand Marshal. If the knife was not sharp enough, then there was no need for him to exist. The Grand Marshal had room for a good knife to choose again.

Yelu Qi, the leader of the Khitan Siwandan tribe, did not feel humiliated at all after hearing the message from Shi Yi's personal guards. Instead, he shuddered. Over the years, Zhang Zhongwu's Lu Long army has given them too many painful memories. Many tribes have been destroyed by the entire clan because of disrespect to them and even because of an inconspicuous tribe. Such things are everywhere, so that the Khitan tribes are now afraid to breathe in front of Zhang Zhongwu.

Shi Yi is a general under Zhang Zhongwu's command. His personal guard Shi Yi learned a perfect match in an angry tone and angry look. Even if it was just a personal guard in front of Shi Yi, he looked like a proud prince in front of Yelu Qi.

"Please give back to General Shi, Yelu Qi will not disappoint him." He bowed respectfully to the personal soldier, watched the guard snorting from his nostrils and turned around and left, then turned around, lifted the whip and slapped the generals around him indiscriminately, "Didn't you hear General Shi's words? If you can't complete the military order, no one can survive. Blow the trumpet and attack."

The sound of the ox horn sounded in every corner of the battlefield. When the sound of the ox horn sounded differently, the Khitan cavalry who was still away just now suddenly seemed to have changed. Even if only three or five people gathered together, they would dare to launch a desperate attack on Li Che.

Because the command issued by the horn just now was a command that would leave without returning if it failed.

Li Che immediately suffered unprecedented pressure.

"Major General, let's go. If you don't leave, it will be too late." Seeing the Khitan cavalry rushing towards you from all directions, Li Che's personal guard shouted loudly.

"There are so many soldiers who have not withdrawn from the camp."

"If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave. No matter how many soldiers there are, there is no matter how important the major general is. Everyone, follow my orders, protect the major general, and retreat in the direction of the camp." The personal guards held Li Che's reins and pulled the horse back.

Li Che looked at the majority of the soldiers who were still left on the battlefield, closed his eyes in pain, and lifted the blood-stained horse spear and rushed towards the direction of the camp.

Another team of Khitan cavalry came towards me.

Li Che roared loudly, and stabbed the horse spear quickly. When his chest was about to stab the person in front of him, the spear rod shook and the enemy's corpse flew away. The horse spear swept across the head, and the plot above the spear head cut through the throat of the side. The horse spear that had returned after half a circle was pressed against the top of the Taishan Mountain. The spear rod hit the Tianling cover of another enemy and pushed the opponent's head back into his neck.

Li Che finally withdrew to the camp, but the 500 cavalry he had trained for many years, and less than a hundred people could come back with him. But they still used their own strength to protect thousands of soldiers from retreating to the camp. On the other side, Wang Mingren and Li Bo also gathered all the soldiers to block Shi Yi's counterattack, and protected about 5,000 soldiers from the palace to retreat to the camp, but the rest were left outside the camp and became the prey of Lu Long's army and Khitan soldiers.

From victory to failure, the interval between them was only about an hour. When the fence of the camp was closed and teams of archers were guarding the fence, the Cheng German army could only watch their companions slaughtered by the enemy outside the camp, and fell to their knees and surrendered to the enemy.

Li Che's eyes were blood red, and he knelt on the ground with one knee, punching him hard on the ground.

"Wang Feng, you are a bitch. Li Che can escape the difficulties of today and will definitely crush you to ashes in the future."

There is only one reason why the Khitan cavalry can suddenly attack from Gaoyang, that is, where did the Zhenwu Jiedushi Wang Feng have a big problem? Either Wang Feng surrendered to the enemy or he was defeated by the enemy. The previous reason is obviously more believed.

Beside him, both of Wang Mingren and Li Bo, with blood-stained faces were extremely ugly.

In this battle, they were defeated miserably.

There were less than half of the four thousand soldiers who could withdraw to the camp, and about 10,000 soldiers who returned to the camp, including thousands of wounded soldiers who had retreated first after being injured in combat.
Chapter completed!