Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 269 Will meet a good talent
Despite the recent encounter, the Khitan did not take advantage of it.

But Yelvjing is still full of confidence in the Khitan warriors.

Because there is still an ace army in his hand that has not been dispatched.

Iron Harrier.

Many people think that the iron kite is Xixia's special forces.

In fact, the iron kite was the elite of the Khitan elite at the earliest.

There is a record in "Zizhi Tongjian": In the second year of Qi Wang Kaiyun's fortune in the later Jin Dynasty, the Khitan master ordered the iron harrier to dismount from all sides, pull out the antlers and enter, and fight with short soldiers to attack the Jin army.

At this time, the grandfather of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Xixia, was still a fertilized egg!

It's just that Xixia saw that Khitan's elite iron harriers are powerful, like harriers fighting birds, the name has a beautiful meaning, so they even imitated the name.It was also improved. Originally, the Khitan Iron Harrier was just a man wearing iron armor.

Seeing that Xixia's iron harriers were powerful, the Khitan also improved their own iron harriers and changed their name to Iron Forest Army.

It's just that the northern region is bitterly cold, and Northwest Malaysia has strict requirements on the environment. During non-wartimes, they have to be fed refined grains from time to time, and the cost of captivity is extremely high.The cost of building an iron harrier is enough to support four or five times the number of ordinary cavalry.

Therefore, Yelujing didn't have many iron kites, but they were all trusted by the nobles, and every knight was a warrior.

Yelu Xiezhen went out and asked for orders: "The last general is willing to go!"

This future general of the Khitan has performed well in the encounters these days, advancing and retreating freely, and has already shown the demeanor of a famous general.

This time Yelujing went south to rescue Nanjing, and the biggest harvest was this Yelv Xiezhen.

Yelujing said: "I will send three thousand iron kites to listen to your restraint, and to cooperate with your tribe's army. It must be decided in one battle..."

Yelu Xiezhen was overjoyed, the prestige of the iron kite was well known to him.

With the gathering of soldiers and horses, Yelu Xiezhen stepped out ahead of the crowd.

On the opposite side, Luo Youdu saw that two teams of cavalry had come out from the Khitan army formation.

Luo Youdu smiled and said to Murong Yanzhao: "Commander of the Deputy Capital, it's up to you next! Show them some color, let them know what a real hero is."

Murong Yanzhao has a resolute face, for a person like him, good face is better than life.

This is especially when setting up a military order in front of Luo Youdu, so you have to behave well no matter what.

Murong Yanzhao is tough and tough, but he still has some care to sit in this seat, and he understands the matter of hugging his thighs.

Luo Youdu and Zhao Kuangyin have a good relationship on the surface, and Murong Yanzhao and Zhao Kuangyin grew up wearing a pair of trousers, with one hand already wrapped around Zhao Kuangyin's thigh.Just hug Luo Youdu again now.

The Great Zhou army, isn't he walking sideways?
With the sound of dull and intensive battle drums, Murong Yanzhao's Five Thousand Front Army marched towards Yelu Xiezhen with a roar.

The two leading troops approached like lightning, and were about to enter the effective range of the Khitan soldiers.

Yelu Xiezhen calculated the distance, feeling a little bad in his heart.

The enemy's lineup is really too loose.

The Central Plains soldiers have always paid attention to formation in combat, and the opponent's formation is a conical cavalry formation, which is a formation suitable for cavalry assault.

But when rushing towards him, the cavalry formation was in a mess by itself, scattered, not much different from the scattered formation they specially dispersed for shooting and retreating.

This hasn't been fought yet, self-disruption?

Nothing like Journey of Hundred Battles.

"Could it be that they want to compete with us in riding and shooting?"

Such thoughts flashed in Yelu Xiezhen's mind, his face suddenly changed, and a thing came to his mind... a riding crossbow.

Yelu Xiezhen has followed Xiao Siwen for many years, and has a deep knowledge of Central Plains culture.He doesn't like Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, but he is very interested in the biographies of historical figures, especially about wars.

He knew that the cavalry of the Han and Tang Dynasties mostly used crossbows. They used crossbows to make up for their weaknesses in riding and shooting. They fought against the Huns and Turks who were good at riding and shooting, and the effect was excellent.

It's just that riding a crossbow is expensive and difficult to load on horseback.There are few chances to shoot a second arrow on the battlefield, and it is very easy to be captured by the enemy.

That is to say, the Han and Tang Dynasties, where economic strength coexisted, were generally equipped. In the more than [-] years since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been very few cases of riding crossbows into battle.

"Is the opponent equipped with a crossbow?"

All these thoughts, only in a flash, Yelu Xiezhen reacted and shouted loudly: "Scatter, scatter left and right!"

Crossbows are more powerful than bows, have a longer range and are more accurate.

If you really want to shoot at each other, you will definitely suffer.

At the moment when the Khitan cavalry dispersed, countless crossbow arrows and flying stones came overwhelmingly like locusts!

The sound of thousands of crossbow bolts piercing the air gathered together, forming streams of air whistling, echoing across the entire battlefield.

The hundreds of Khitan cavalry rushing to the front wailed instantly, and most of them fell off their horses without even saying a word.

The Khitan cavalry in front wearing ordinary leather armor couldn't resist the force of the crossbow arrows, and some of them were even directly pierced by a crossbow arrow.

Some of the iron kites at the rear were unlucky enough to harm the fish in the pond.

Although the iron armor is thick, it still can't stop the crossbow arrows!

The crossbow pierced through the iron armor and pierced into the body.

Although he was not killed immediately, he also lost his combat effectiveness.

Yelu Xiezhen turned his head and looked back, within the effective range of the crossbow, he saw unowned horses running around, and the wounded horses neighed sadly or went mad or fell down, throwing the Khitan soldiers on their backs to the ground.

Yelu Xiezhen's heart was dripping with blood, this meeting alone cost hundreds of subordinates.

But he has no time to take care of too much at the moment.

The cavalry in the Central Plains were equipped with riding crossbows, but they never won with riding crossbows. Instead, they used crossbow bolts to tear open a hole.

really!

After firing the crossbow bolts, the Central Plains cavalry on the opposite side gradually gathered into a conical cavalry formation while moving, and began to accelerate their impact.

Yelu Xiezhen put his heart on the line and made a countermeasure.

Duizi!

Use your own tribal soldiers to contain the opponent's impact, use your life to return to the disadvantage, and then use the iron kite to break through the enemy's formation to gain an advantage!
Yelu Xiezhen roared loudly, stabilized the turbulent soldiers, gritted his teeth, and swung the mace to urge the horses to charge.

The two cavalry teams collided heavily.

The outcome is judged.

The small cavalry of the Khitan tribe, facing the brave cavalry on tall horses, has not yet formed an organizational system, and the result can be seen at a glance.

Murong Yanzhao yelled loudly: "Run over, run over directly, smash through this group of scum."

Murong Yanzhao knocked a Khitan cavalryman to the ground, with a glimmer of anger in his eyes, these beasts are really fucking desperate.

While sprinting, he discovered that the opponent still had [-] cavalrymen who hadn't moved.

Murong Yanzhao had experienced hundreds of battles, and he also noticed Yelu Xiezhen's exchange tactics at the first time. He left [-] cavalry of [-] to block the opponent's rest.

As long as the opponent's cavalry has not acted, they can kill the cavalry blocking in front of them, and they can directly rush to the [-] cavalry on the opposite side in three directions to stabilize their advantage.

But the opponent's resistance was tougher and tenacious than he imagined.

From behind, Luo Youdu looked at the situation on the battlefield, watching Murong Yanzhao take the lead with his crossbow cavalry and gain the initiative on the battlefield.

Luo Youdu's heart was slightly sour.

Crossbow cavalry is undoubtedly a weapon on the battlefield, but the price/performance ratio is too poor.

Although the crossbow cavalry is compact, but the smaller the crossbow arrow, the more difficult it is to make, and the better the materials needed to exert its power.

The cost of cavalry crossbows is higher than that of infantry crossbows. When it comes to practicality, cavalry crossbows are obviously not comparable to infantry crossbows.

That is to say, Huainan was recovered, life became easier, and four thousand cavalry crossbows were made.

As soon as the news spread, Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde, and Luo Youdu were instantly moved and begged Guo Rong for it.

However, although the Dianqian Division, the Guards' Division, and the Imperial Camp Division also belong to the Imperial Army, there are still differences between closeness and estrangement.

Dianqiansi is the army guarding the palace, which is Guo Rong's personal guard.

There is still a certain difference between the imperial battalion division who guards the imperial city and the guards who guard Gyeonggi.

All four thousand cavalry crossbows were dispatched by Guo Rong to the Dianqian Division.

Murong Yanzhao got two thousand, which is very precious.It was not willing to use it in the previous encounter.It was not until today that the unique skills at the bottom of the box were brought out.

However, compared to Murong Yanzhao's attack, Luo Youdu felt that the opponent's response was more exciting.

In the midst of the battle, the Khitan general showed extraordinary military standards by making contingency decisions in an instant.

"Attacks beautifully, defends wonderfully, and you really meet a good talent!"

Luo Youdu couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Pan Mei was also convinced, and said: "The enemy general detected the crossbow riding based on the change of formation of the commander of the deputy capital, otherwise it would not have become so fast. If it hadn't been dispersed in time, the casualties would have been even greater."

Luo Youdu smiled and said: "Compared to this, I appreciate the courage of the opponent's general in a flash. If it weren't for this, the deputy commander of the capital will make a great contribution this time."

in their conversation.

The Khitan iron kite had already started to move, facing the two thousand cavalry left behind by Murong Yanzhao.

It is also a northwest horse that is good at assault, and it is also a one-in-a-million warrior.

The two sides collided fiercely with each other, and blood spurted and corpses, stumps and broken arms fell from the horseback to the ground...

The battlefield is like a meat grinder, taking away fresh lives.

Looking at the Khitan iron kite whose combat power was faintly better than that of Murong Yanzhao's, Luo Youdu's eyes flashed a strange color, this must be the Khitan's trump card.

Sure enough.

Fortunately, Murong Yanzhao had rich experience, so he kept an extra eye and didn't attack all of them.

Otherwise, it is possible to turn defeat into victory for the opponent.

It's also really interesting, this group of reckless men are usually more brainless than the other, but when they go to the battlefield, none of them are fools, and they are more capable of fighting than the other.

Pan Mei looked at the battlefield and reminded: "The left and right wings are a bit expensive, do you need to send troops to support?"

Luo Youdu shook his head and said: "We are in the upper hand in the current situation. The opponent has not yet sent reinforcements, so we are inconvenient to act lightly. After the opponent is unable to hold on and move first, we will take corresponding measures according to their movements."

"Maintaining the status quo!"

Pan Mei felt that it was reasonable, so she stopped talking.

Luo Youdu looked in the direction of Baoguang Temple, hearing the movement, they had already started fighting.

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