The source of soldiers from the sixteen cavalry battalions under Liu Ji was very complicated. A large part of them were Hu prisoners of war on the grassland. Although they had already achieved certain combat effectiveness after training by the generals of each battalion, there was still a big gap compared to the Khitan cavalry. From the last battle with the cavalry army under the command of Yelu Amu, the Khitan Youxin King, it can be seen that the cavalry of the Dai'an army is not as good as the cavalry of the Khitan tribe.

However, the infantry battalion under Liu Ji's command is a killer weapon in Liu Ji's hand, especially the infantry battalion is equipped with long wooden guns to restrain cavalry. Now the long wooden guns are equipped with iron gun tips, which has increased the lethality a lot, and the length of the long wooden gun has increased to five meters, and the gun bar has become thicker.

This time in the rescue of Moxi City, Liu Ji almost gave up most of the supplies, but the long wooden guns equipped by the four infantry battalions and the guards battalions were not abandoned, and they were all taken outside Moxi City.

Infantry was originally the foundation of Jin State, and the soldiers of the twelve infantry battalions under Liu Ji were basically from Jin. It can be said that each infantry battalion was Liu Ji's direct troops, the four infantry battalions, Gao Shun, Xu Rong, Li Xin, and Meng Wu, can be said to be the direct troops among the direct troops.

There is no need to say much about Gao Shun's infantry battalion. Now the remaining people of the soldiers who were obtained from the system were assigned to Gao Shun's command. In addition, the four infantry captains of Gao Shun's infantry battalion were Ding Feng, Cheng Yi, Zhao Ben and Shi Jingsi. The four of them were second-rate generals. Ding Feng's military power was 79 points, Cheng Yi's military power was 78 points, Zhao Ben's military power was 78 points, and Shi Jingsi's military power was 79 points. Shi Jingsi was the eleventh national security guard of the thirteenth national security guards of Li Keyong, the governor of the late Tang Dynasty.

Gao Shun is also a second-rate general, with a military value of 78 points. Although there are no first-class generals or top generals in the new camp, after training by Gao Shun and four infantry captains, the current 8,000 soldiers in the camp are now, with the lowest military value above 30 points. In addition, there are real soldiers in the camp who act as backbone, and the new camp is said to be the strongest combat power among the twelve infantry battalions.

Xu Rong's infantry battalion, four infantry captains were Yang Zhi with a force value of 78 points, Xu Ning with a force value of 79 points, Suo Chao with a force value of 78 points, and Kang Junli with a force value of 78 points. Kang Junli was the twelve treasury among the thirteen treasurys of Li Keyong, the governor of the late Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Xin and Meng Wu's two infantry battalions were formed by the defenders of Shangyuan City, Liu Ji attached great importance to these two infantry battalions, and specially transferred Li Cunxu, who had a force of 77 points, Li Cunxin, who had a force of 78 points, Li Cunjin, who had a force of 76 points, and Li Siben, who had a force of 77 points, the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth, who were the governor of Li Keyong in the late Tang Dynasty, to Li Xin and Meng Wu.

Zheng Wei and Wang Ji, the two apprentices of Tong Bin, as well as Sun Ruyue and Niu Zhi, the two third-rate military generals of Yuanyuan City, were also under the command of Li Xin and Meng Wu.

Liu Ji listened to Su Lie's suggestion and did not send cavalry to the front battlefield, fighting hard with the Khitan cavalry. After all, he knew that there was a big gap in combat effectiveness compared to Khitan cavalry.

Instead, the four infantry battalions of Gao Shun, Xu Rong, Li Xin and Meng Wu immediately moved the arranged battle formation forward, and then Liu Ji issued an order to retreat to both sides to the four cavalry battalions on the front battlefield.

At this time, the Khitan army had already invested seven 10,000 teams into the front battlefield. The four cavalry battalions of Chen Wu, Le Jin, Yu Jin and Pan Zhang had already resisted very hard. After receiving the order to retreat, the remaining soldiers of the four cavalry battalions no longer entangled with the Khitan cavalry and immediately retreated to the north and south.

Of course, at this time, a considerable number of cavalry soldiers of the Dai'an Army were no longer able to withdraw and were besieged by a large number of Khitan cavalry and died. The only luck was that the four cavalry captains and sixteen cavalry captains of these four cavalry battalions all escaped and were not trapped in the tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry.

When Yelu Qi, the King of Right Li of Khitan, saw the cavalry of the Dai'an Army retreating to both sides, he did not lead the troops to pursue him, but continued to command seven teams of 10,000 people to rush towards the Dai'an Army's main formation. As for the more than 32,000 Dai'an Army infantry who had set up the battle formation, Yelu Qi did not take it seriously at all.

More than 32,000 Dai'an infantry soldiers from four infantry battalions formed a long battle formation, with two thousand soldiers in the front row, and fifteen rows of infantry soldiers behind the battle formation.

The soldiers in the first row raised the rectangular shield and placed it on the ground, covering the whole person directly. The remaining fifteen rows of soldiers also raised the smaller rectangular shields and formed a protective wall above their heads.

In this way, the arrows shot by the Khitan cavalry at the infantry battle formation could hardly threaten the infantry soldiers protected by the shield. Even if the arrows drilled into the gaps in the shield, they might be blocked by armor. More than 32,000 Dai'an infantry were all wearing armor, and many of them were equipped with iron armor.

Seeing that the archers on their side did not cause any losses to the Jin people's infantry battle formation, the Khitan cavalry did not care, but urged their horses to rush towards the steel battle formation composed of more than 32,000 Dai'an infantry. The way for all ethnic groups on the grassland to deal with the Jin infantry battle formation was to rely on armored cavalry holding heavy weapons to hit the Jin infantry phalanx.

Unfortunately, the Khitans had not seen the infantry battle formation of the Dai'an Army. When the Khitan cavalry approached the steel battle formation less than twenty steps, many identical shouts came from the battle formation, "Super the wooden spear!" "Super the wooden spear!"

Then, between the gaps of the rectangular giant shields in the hands of the first row of soldiers, long wooden guns were stretched out, and four rows of long wooden guns were erected, namely eight thousand, facing the approaching Khitan cavalry at an oblique angle of about 40 degrees. These soldiers from the second row to the ninth row of the battle formation were controlled. The two controlled a long wooden gun, hugged the long wooden gun tightly with their right arm, and their left hands were still holding the rectangular shield high.

At this time, the infantry soldiers from the tenth to sixteenth rows placed the raised rectangular shield on the ground, squatted down, and picked up a bow or crossbow.

The Khitan cavalry saw the long wooden spear that suddenly stood up, but the distance between twenty steps was only a few breaths for the cavalry. Even if they tied the reins of the war horse, they would be hit by the Khitan cavalry following behind.
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