Chapter 430: Pioneer Dance
Facts have proved that Li Yuanhui's worries are turning into reality. At this moment, Liu Xuanji is leading nearly 20,000 elite infantry and cavalry of the Yan army to attack the left army of the Tang Dynasty.

This was something that Li Xiaozheng, Yuwen Chengye and others had not anticipated. Your central army was almost defeated!
General Dou Cong of the Left Guard personally led several reserve troops of the Zhechoufu to intercept the attack, but facing the all-out attack of the Yan army, he was still unable to play any role. Originally, the Tang army was suppressing the Yan army, but after Liu Xuanji led the main force to join the battlefield, the situation suddenly reversed.

The Yan army regained the initiative on the battlefield and completely suppressed the Tang army's left wing.

However, even so, the Tang army was still able to barely withstand the attack of the Yan army, and the two sides formed a very tense battle situation.

Infantry and infantry, cavalry and cavalry, charged at each other.

At this time, Liu Xuanji only had the 3,000 Youzhou cavalrymen he had always led personally who had not yet entered the battlefield, while on the left side of the army, 70,000 to 80,000 people from both sides were fighting each other, it was like Asura Hell.

The intensity of this war exceeded everyone's imagination.

Everyone knew that the other side could fight, but they didn't know that they could fight to this extent.

The situation on the battlefield at this time was that on the right side of the army, the two sides formed a balance of power. On the central side of the army, Su Dingbian led 6,000 infantrymen to resist the attack of the Tang army with all his strength, while Yang Kan's 1,000 cavalry rushed into the central army of the Tang army, still several miles away from Li Yuan's flag, and then encountered the infantry formation commanded by Li Sixing and were blocked.

Pei Xingyan behind him blocked his way back, and the Tang army formed a siege.
In the end, Liu Xuanji felt that he could not drag it on any longer and had to quickly eliminate the enemy's left army, otherwise the central army would not be able to hold on.

Three thousand Youzhou cavalry joined the battlefield and completely changed the situation on the battlefield.

Liu Xuanji was wearing two layers of heavy armor and was the first to lead the battle.

After being promoted to the King of Han, the world-famous Youzhou Tuqi became Liu Xuanji's personal army of the King of Han. It still maintained a size of 3,000 people. This was limited by the national strength of Northern Yan. The war horses of the heavy cavalry needed to be strictly selected. Generally speaking, only one war horse could be selected out of ten horses, and only the best war horses could be used as war horses for the heavy cavalry. In addition, their equipment and training level were also top-notch among all the Yan troops.

These cavalrymen were all dressed in black iron armor and helmets, their horses were covered in armor, and they were holding well-made spears and halberds. They held their weapons with both hands and used only their legs to control their horses to charge forward.

The cavalry marched forward, slashing with swords and spears, trampling on horses. The horses collided with human bodies, and then there was a sound of bones breaking. Swords and spears slashed and stabbed as much as they could, causing a large number of casualties in the Tang army. In an instant, blood and flesh splattered, and screams continued.

Upon seeing this, General Liu Zongxun of the Left Guard shouted, "Follow me," and came with hundreds of elite cavalry to block the attack, trying to intercept the enemy's attack diagonally on the flank of the Yan army and buy time for his own infantry to regroup.

When Liu Zongxun led his men to the flank of the Yan army, he looked around and saw a general of the Yan army leading the way, unstoppable. He wore a black animal-faced helmet and black fish-scale iron armor, and rushed to the front like an iron beast.

Seeing the enemy coming fiercely, Liu Zongxun thought to himself that this man was very brave and he must not be careless. He must be a general of the Yan army. He should kill him first to deter the enemy! This will surely curb the enemy's momentum.

Then he called his trusted aides and prepared to rush forward and kill him.

When the Yan general was charging, he also noticed that Liu Zongxun was rushing towards him, and he was only a few dozen steps away. He then stuck his spear into the ground, quickly took out his bow, and shot two arrows in succession. The two Tang knights in the front fell down.

Seeing that the black-armored general had changed his bow and arrow, Liu Zongxun led a group of warriors and rushed forward, hoping to catch him off guard. But the man rode away on his horse, occasionally drawing his bow and shooting, killing several Tang cavalrymen in succession.

The Tang army cavalry and others rushed to the place where the man inserted the spear, and saw that the spear was well-made. They wanted to take the spear down, but several people tried to pull it out but failed.

The Yan general also joined the Yan cavalry and rushed back. Liu Zongxun saw this and led his troops to meet them. The Yan general rode up on horseback, pulled out the big spear that the Tang cavalry had been unable to shake before, and then he leveled it and rushed towards Liu Zongxun.

The two horses met and the two spears were raised at the same time.

Liu Zongxun was also a fierce general of the Tang army. He had followed Li Er in countless charges into battle in his early years. He did not hesitate at all because of the opponent's bravery. He completely disregarded his own safety, shouted forward, and used the momentum of the warhorse to straighten his long spear and stabbed forward.

Even the Yan general on the opposite side was slightly surprised by such fierce performance.

At this time, the two sides had rushed to a close distance, and there was no time to avoid the stabbing of the spear. They just stepped aside and shouted at the same time, intending to shock the other party's mind. Then the two spears collided, also making a clanging sound.

After this blow, Liu Zongxun felt as if his arms were hit by heavy hammers. He could no longer hold the long spear in his hands and had to let it drop.

However, the extremely brave and fierce general of the Yan army was not affected at all. He retracted the spear in his hand and swept it horizontally, directly hitting Liu Zongxun's shoulder and back, almost knocking him off his horse.

The lance directly broke his shoulder armor and there was a cut on his shoulder, which was bloody. Fortunately, Liu Zongxun dodged in time and avoided most of the force, otherwise he would have died directly.

Seeing this, his trusted followers rushed forward to protect him and retreated with their leader. While Liu Zongxun was running away, he did not forget to look back. Who on earth was this? So brave? He should not be an unknown person.
But when he saw the flags carried by the cavalry behind the man, he was convinced.

"General Han Wang Liu"

It turned out to be Liu Xuanji, the King of Han of Yan! No wonder he was so brave.
Liu Zongxun's failure to block the attack also meant that the Tang army's left army was unable to withstand the charge of the Yan army's cavalry.

Especially Wei Wang Li Xiaozheng, who was in the central army, was completely panicked after seeing the scene in front of him.

His usual bravery was nowhere to be found. Li Yuan told him not to interfere in the command of the army and to let Yuwen Shangshu do it. He was still obedient this time and did not interfere with the command of Yuwen Chengye, Liu Zongxun, Dou Cong and others. However, just like last time, he turned around and ran away when he saw that the situation was not good!

This team is elite, but it depends on who leads it. Li Er and his elite guards can be said to be invincible.

But facing a coach who flees in the middle of a battle, no matter how elite the troops are, they will collapse.

The impact of Li Xiaozheng's escape without fighting was very great. In fact, if it weren't for his fleeing, the left army would not have been defeated even if it was defeated. But when the commander ran away, the morale of the rear army was dispersed. If the rear army was dispersed, could the front army still hold on?
Dou Cong, who was commanding the vanguard army, cursed loudly when he saw this situation, but it was no use. He could only join the fleeing with his personal guards.

When the Yan army saw the Tang army's defeat, their morale was greatly boosted. Dongfang Di, Lou Daiwen, Zhao Xiang, Kuai En and other brave generals fought bravely, and the soldiers also burst out with extremely powerful fighting power.

On the other side, Liu Xuanji withdrew the Youzhou cavalry from the battlefield, and promptly gathered more than 10,000 cavalrymen under the command of Hulu Mingyue and Zhang Shiwu. He did not let these teams join the ranks of chasing and killing the left army of the Tang army, but led these tens of thousands of cavalrymen straight to the central battlefield.

"My fellow men of Yan and Zhao, follow me to capture the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty alive!"

(End of this chapter)