That day.
The wind is very strong and urgent in Panlong Pass, which belongs to the Shuobei region.
Within a radius of ten miles from Panlong Pass, the air was filled with a strong stench of blood, and the vast yellow earth was littered with the mournful cries of ownerless warhorses.
On the battlefield, blood flowed like rivers and corpses piled up like mountains.
The extremely fierce close-quarters combat between the two sides continues.
Overall, the Longcheng army, led by Prince Chen Huai'an, held an absolute advantage in the battles against the Turkic coalition.
But the enemy had an army of 100,000, a real army of 100,000, and had made thorough preparations and mobilizations before the battle.
As a result, even with their overwhelming advantage, Chen Huai'an and his Longcheng Northern Expeditionary Army could not completely wipe them out in a short period of time.
They simply divided and surrounded the 80,000 Yunhui troops, who were arranged in the Heaven, Earth, and Man Formation, and annihilated them one by one.
At this moment, on the back of the ridge of Wohu Mountain north of Panlong Pass, a long and narrow slope was densely packed with a dark mass of cavalry, the 50,000 iron cavalry personally led by the Turkic Khan Temur.
On the ridgeline, Timur's sunken face was terribly gloomy as he stared silently at the Panlong Pass battlefield three miles away.
"Great Khan, the Han traitors' Iron Cavalry have been mobilized!"
Beside Timur, a Turkic general said viciously, "Arslen, Suril and Ke, along with 20,000 Turkic warriors, are all gone. They've all returned to the Eternal Heaven!"
"Great Khan, what should we do now? Fight or not?"
When questioned by his generals, Timur, the pillar of the Turkic Empire, did not answer, but kept his eyes fixed on the battlefield.
Clearly, for Timur, who was eager for revenge, now was not the best time to lead his troops into battle.
He had been waiting for an opportunity, for Chen Huai'an and his three thousand Dragon City Iron Cavalry to be exhausted and worn out.
Unfortunately, he never got to see it.
In Timur's plan, the 20,000 Turkic cavalry and 80,000 Yunhui infantry were merely pawns in his revenge plan, used as bait to lure Chen Huai'an and his 3,000 Dragon City Iron Pagoda heavy cavalry.
Unfortunately, Prince Chen Huai'an of Jin, a master strategist and decisive leader, had already seen through everything.
He took the bait that Timur offered him, but did not fall into the trap Timur had set for him.
At first, when Timur saw Chen Huai'an personally leading the Dragon City Iron Cavalry into battle, his sunken old face almost broke into wrinkles with laughter.
But he soon realized something was wrong. After Chen Huai'an led his cavalry to break through the flanks of the Yunhui Army, he did not launch a direct attack on the central army.
Instead, they relied on the speed advantage of the Xuanjia light cavalry to surround the Yunhui army, which had set up the Heaven, Earth, and Three Talents Formation, and used the manu equipment carried by the cavalry to shoot at the Yunhui army from a distance.
The Dragon City Iron Cavalry, as heavy cavalry, broke through the flanks of the Yunhui Army's Three Talents Formation in the first wave of attack, and then quickly withdrew from the battlefield to rest and regroup, as if they had guessed that Timur would come to attack.
In fact, for Chen Huai'an, who personally led the cavalry into battle:
In this battle, he did not adopt the same approach he had when he surrounded and annihilated 30,000 Yunhui troops in front of the Longshan camp, where he used a sledgehammer to crack a nut and had 3,000 Iron Pagoda soldiers charge in succession to destroy the Yunhui army's Pingrong Wanquan Formation.
On the one hand, Chen Huai'an did not need to fight a quick battle and annihilate the enemy forces in the Battle of Panlong Pass as he did in the Battle of Longshan, and then lead a large army back to reinforce Longcheng.
In the battle of Panlong Pass, Chen Huai'an had all the advantages of timing, location, and popular support.
After dealing with the two cavalry units of the Turkic coalition, he faced the 80,000 Yunhui Army, which had formed the Three Powers Formation. Under his command were 10,000 elite Qin soldiers and 60,000 Xuanjia infantry, commanded by Wang Jian, one of the four great generals of the Warring States period.
They could easily defeat and wipe out the 80,000 Yunhui troops, so why waste the strength of the cavalry?
On the other hand, Timur, who led 100,000 Turkic troops southward during the internal turmoil in the northwest of the Great Xin Dynasty, has not shown his face since the start of the battle.
Based on Chen Huai'an's understanding of Timur, and considering his father Chen Polu's five expeditions to the northern deserts and his repeated clashes with Timur in previous years, he simply couldn't believe that Timur would entrust such an important battle as capturing Panlong Pass to Liang Erhu, a traitorous general who had surrendered to the enemy.
That old fox is probably hiding somewhere, ready to strike at any moment!
Therefore, after Chen Huai'an led the Longcheng cavalry formation to break through the two flanks of the Yunhui Army's Heaven, Earth, and Three Talents Formation, he ordered the Longcheng Iron Pagoda and Tiger Leopard Cavalry to leave the battlefield and stand by, while the Xuanjia Light Cavalry used man-mounted weapons to shoot at the Yunhui Army's central army and garrison from a distance.
Anyway, these 80,000 Yunhui troops are already surrounded by the Longcheng Northern Expeditionary Army, so it doesn't matter if he leaves them to be slaughtered slowly; he's not in a hurry.
Unlike Chen Huai'an, who was strolling leisurely, Timur was already extremely anxious but didn't know what to do.
At present, the three thousand Ironclad Cavalry of Longcheng are strong and well-equipped, and there is another Han army force that can be easily identified as elite cavalry to support them.
If Timur were to launch a rash attack, he would not be absolutely certain that he could wipe out Chen Huai'an's Longcheng Iron Pagoda with his 50,000 Turkic cavalry in one fell swoop.
If Timur were to turn back now, his southward campaign would become a laughingstock among the Turkic tribes, a colossal joke that would result in him losing both his wife and his army.
Right here at Panlong Pass, in just a few days, more than 50,000 Turkic warriors had fallen forever on this land.
As the Great Khan of the Turks and the overlord of the steppe, if Timur were to stand idly by and watch his empire suffer heavy losses, he probably wouldn't be able to sit on his wolf-head chair for long.
Now, Timur has lost his former ambition and can no longer utter arrogant words like "Emperors take turns, this year it's my turn."
All he could think about was how to keep the wolf-head chair, the symbol of the grassland overlord, from being taken away by others.
At this point, Timur couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Alas, he had underestimated Chen Huai'an, the useless prince in the eyes of the world!
After a long while, the sounds of battle cries on the battlefield of Panlong Pass gradually subsided.
Timur, who had been closely monitoring the battlefield, suddenly had two sharp glints flash in his cloudy eyes.
He finally got his chance to fight his way into the battlefield!
On the battlefield of Panlong Pass, Liang Erhu, the commander of the Yunhui Army, seeing that defeat was inevitable and that reinforcements had not yet arrived, finally made up his mind to lead the central cavalry to break through the encirclement and face the Longcheng cavalry that surrounded the Yunhui Army.
Meanwhile, Chen Huai'an, who had been detached from the battlefield, and his Longcheng Iron Cavalry, also moved quickly upon hearing the news, mobilizing all their forces to rush straight towards Liang Erhu's central cavalry.
The next moment, Timur decisively ordered: "All troops, attack!"
In a short while, the 50,000 Turkic cavalrymen hidden on the back of the ridge of Wohu Mountain climbed to the top of Wohu Mountain in unison.
Subsequently, under the personal command of the Great Khan Timur, they swept down with overwhelming force, their dense charging formation heading straight for the Panlong Pass battlefield.
The 50,000 Turkic cavalry, in the instant they charged forward, seemed to transform into a sharp dagger, piercing straight into the back of Chen Huai'an and the Longcheng cavalry.
Clang!
Thump thump thump!
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves was like a thunderclap on a flat plain. The iron hooves of the warhorses struck the ground, and the entire yellow earth of Panlong Pass trembled.
Seeing this, Liang Erhu, who was leading the central cavalry of the Yunhui Army in a breakout, laughed wildly to the sky: "Hahaha, Heaven has not forsaken me, Liang Erhu! Heaven has not forsaken me, Liang Erhu!"
Three thousand steps!
Two thousand five hundred steps!
Two thousand steps!
In the blink of an eye, the 50,000 Turkic cavalry, arriving with the force of destruction, were only two thousand steps away from the battlefield of Panlong Pass.
Suddenly, the Longcheng cavalry, who were relentlessly pursuing Liang Erhu, changed formation.
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen split in two during the charge, then drew a peach shape across the vast battlefield before regrouping and launching a counterattack.
In the blink of an eye, they changed their direction of attack and faced the 50,000 Turkic cavalrymen who were swooping down from Wohu Mountain in an attempt to ambush the Longcheng cavalry army.
Prince Chen Huai'an of Jin, wielding a halberd, charged at the forefront on a yellow horse, followed by three thousand heavily armored Iron Cavalry of Longcheng, then ten thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and bringing up the rear were twenty thousand Xuanjia Light Cavalry.
Chen Huai'an, charging forward on horseback, pointed his halberd and shouted domineeringly:
"All generals of the Longcheng Northern Expeditionary Army, follow me! Slay the Turkic commander and cut down their great banner!"
"Follow me on six expeditions to the northern deserts, and march straight to the royal court!"
"Six expeditions to the northern deserts, straight to the royal court!"
"Six expeditions to the northern deserts, straight to the royal court!"
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