Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 563
Beiyuan.

The horse that stepped down was tall and majestic. This is the Dawan horse breed that the emperor sent people to seek from the Western Regions. Although this kind of horse is not as durable as the Hetao horse, and its gallop is not as good as the Hetao horse, it is tall and mighty, especially has a very strong short-sightedness. Time burst.

Moreover, this horse has a good load-bearing ability. The emperor took a fancy to this horse and wanted to breed a large number of this horse as a heavy cavalry war horse.

Luo Cheng's horse is a good one among the emperor's royal horses, and he was given a special horse.

Luo Cheng really likes this horse that stands taller than Luo Cheng, it's too tall.

The war horse lowered its head and shook its head slightly.

In Beiyuan, on a field, two polo teams are getting ready and ready to go.

On one side of the yellow flag is the polo team of Xiaoguo Army, the host of the Sui Dynasty, and on the other side, riding on the white wolf, are the sturdy Turkic soldiers attached to it.

These Khan's personal guards from under the Yin Mountain were given the name of attachment.

Gongsun Sheng, a general who had made several missions to the Turks, once recorded that the weapons of the Turks included bows, arrows, Mingdi, armored knives and swords.Its adornment also has Futu, and above the flag banner, there is a golden wolf head.

The guards are called attached.

Fuli means wolf in Turkic.

Gai Ben was born in a wolf, and he never forgets the past.

The territory ruled by Shibi Khan extends to the desert in the north, Jinshan Mountain in the west, Daxianbei Mountain in the east, and Hetao in the south.After Qimin and his two generations recuperated and rehabilitated, they re-unified the Turks in the east and were extremely powerful. Now they claim to have 40 string-controlling men and a population of several million.

Although the Great Sui was known as the best soldier in the world, with millions of soldiers in the Iron Armor Mansion, the 40 Eastern Turkic cavalry still threatened the Great Sui.

Since Shibi Khan inherited the Eastern Turkic Khan throne from his father Qimin Khan in the fifth year of Daye, he has always been respectful.Like his father, he led his men to mow the grass to open the way ahead of time, and he also shot deer and offered meat for the emperor. When the emperor conquered Tuyuhun and Goguryeo, he also came to watch the battle according to the order, and even invited troops to fight.

But no matter how tame a wolf is, it will always be a wolf.

At that time, Qimin Khan was just a loser among the Khans during the Turkic internal strife. The Sui Dynasty rescued him and placed him in Monan to separate and resist the Turks. Be friendly and let them recover quickly.

Beside Luo Cheng, Shi Xin looked curiously at the Turkic wolf cavalry.He is now the captain of Liaodong County, and he is in command of the three thousand heavy cavalry in Liaodong. He is still quite curious about the Turkic cavalry.

Although it was just a polo match, the two teams were completely equipped for combat.

The Turkic people wear fish-scale armor, the armor is shining, and the quality of this armor is very good.The Xiaoguo army's all-black bright armor, large heart-protecting chest mirror, and iron armor pieces in mountain characters are obviously better than the Turkic armor.

Both sides wear armor and helmets, but they have disarmed weapons such as swords, bows and crossbows, and replaced them with crescent sticks for hitting the ball.

"The Xuanjia cavalry of the Xiaoguo Army is still good-looking, and the third brother is good at training." Shi Xin said to Siye.

Luo Siye was also riding a Dawan BMW, and he just smiled when he heard that the Xiaoguo polo team on the field was from his Xiaoguo Zuoyi Army.

After all, he is a titan who has followed Luo Cheng in battles for several years. After joining the Xiaoguo Army, the soldiers here are the best and the equipment is the best. Standing professional soldiers, with regular food and salary every month, are stationed in Beijing at the same time. As the emperor's guards, their combat effectiveness is very high.

With Siye's original tactics and military training in the Fifth Army, the Zuoyi Army is obviously stronger than the other Xiaoguo Fifth Army.

Say nothing else.

The two polo teams stood there, waiting for the order to be issued, but the Turkic wolf cavalry always had knights moving.But Siye's team of Xiaoguo Xuanjiaqi didn't move at all.

Anyone who understands the military knows how difficult it is to do this.

"Are all the 15 people in the Xiaoguo Army like this?" Luo Cheng asked Siye.

"The 15 Xiaoguo, most of them were recruited from within the pass, and a few were from the strong and powerful sons of the Kanto. 5000 men, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. Among them, there are [-] heavy cavalry and [-] light cavalry."

"Among the [-] light cavalry, there are [-] cavalry archers who focus on crossbow cavalry and shooting, and another [-] cavalry who focus on impact."

Luo Cheng was speechless.

I think he worked so hard in Liaodong to build three thousand light cavalry, but the emperor's 15 Xiaoguobei and Forbidden Army, only the left army, had two thousand heavy cavalry and eight thousand light cavalry.People's light cavalry is even divided into cavalry archers who focus on riding and shooting, and cavalry who focus on impact.

"Two thousand heavy cavalry, can they fight?" Shi Xin was very interested in heavy cavalry and asked immediately.

Siye smiled, "My two thousand heavy cavalry are all wearing black lacquered lances wrapped in iron, and His Majesty bestowed them with the title of Black lance Longxiang."

Heilong Longxiang, the name sounds very aristocratic.

In particular, everyone is equipped with black lacquered horses, which is not comparable to Luo Cheng's three thousand heavy cavalry.Moreover, their horse lances are still iron-wrapped black lacquered lances. This kind of lance has a characteristic, that is, a circle of iron wire is wrapped under the lance blade.

The function of this kind of iron wire is similar to the red tassel of the red-tasseled spear. It can increase the friction force of the horse after it penetrates the human body. Combat power, but much more advanced than Hongying.

As for Luo Cheng's heavy cavalry, only those above the captain had horses, and the heavy cavalry below the chief of fire used spears.Even the horse lances of the officers usually hang the swallowtail flag on the lances.

In addition to the logo, the swallowtail flag also has the same effect as the iron wrap, but it is obviously not as efficient as the iron wrap.

Iron-wrapped lances are more expensive than swallowtail lances.

People's imperial guards are just cattle, and they can equip whatever is expensive. Looking at their black armor, it is not comparable to Duan Zhixuan's black armor battalion in Luo Cheng's heavy cavalry. This black armor is thicker and stronger.

Just the cloak they wear is amazing, that batch is very windy, mixed with thin metal wires, this kind of cloak is very large, can wrap the knight's whole body, and has a strong anti-arrow effect.

And this kind of cloak, in Luo Cheng's army, only officers above the team level had it.

There are two thousand heavy cavalry in the first army, and the sixth army of Xiaoguo has twelve thousand heavy cavalry. Luo Cheng has some doubts, can there be so many heavy cavalry?

Fortunately, Siye told him that in the Xiaoguo Sixth Army, only Zuoyi and Zuoer[-] had [-] heavy cavalry, and the other four armies each had only [-] cavalry. Calculated in this way, the Xiaoguo Sixth Army only had [-] heavy cavalry. This made Luo Cheng feel better.

Otherwise, if there are two thousand soldiers in one army, then twelve thousand heavy cavalry appear on the battlefield, no matter how many infantry they are, they will only collapse in front of them.

The most powerful thing about heavy cavalry is that it has a strong restraint and strengthening against infantry.

But thinking about Shibi Khan's 40 string-controlling Turkic cavalry, it was enough for Luo Cheng to take a deep breath.

Sibi Khan, who was sitting under the emperor watching the ball, was actually as shocked as Luo Cheng.

When Shibi Khan heard Luo Yi introduce him to the Emperor's Sixth Army of Xiaoguo, he was secretly startled.

The Beiya Imperial Guard Xiaoguo Army has six armies, and the Zuoyi Army, which was born from elite cavalry, has a full [-] Xuanjia heavy cavalry, [-] bow and crossbow light cavalry, and [-] spear light cavalry. , plus [-] elite infantry, plus [-] supply infantry.

This is only one army, and the emperor has six such Xiaoguo armies. Doesn't it mean that the emperor has [-] heavy cavalry, [-] archers, [-] spear cavalry, and [-] elite troops? infantry, and [-] supply infantry.

This is just the Emperor's Beiya Imperial Guard, which is only equivalent to his attached wolf cavalry.

Although Shibi has always been proud that he has 40 string-controlling light cavalry, his son-in-law's wolf cavalry can't compare with the emperor's.

Not to mention, among the emperor's imperial guards, there is also a Nanya imperial guard.

And in all parts of the Central Plains, there are more than one million government soldiers. Only one Luocheng in Liaodong, leading the Liaodong frontier army, can destroy Goguryeo, which has been founded for 700 years and has 30 troops.

Thinking of this, Shibi couldn't help shivering.

It’s true that if you don’t go to Luoyang, you don’t know City University, and if you don’t go to Central Plains, you don’t know how many people there are.

The Turkic nobles around him also wriggled uncomfortably, feeling very uncomfortable.

The emperor took Shibi's reaction into his eyes and smiled with satisfaction.

He clapped his hands, "Duke Yan, let the warriors start to compete!"

Luo Yi nodded and waved, the horns blew, the drums beat, a polo was thrown high, and the two teams finally began to collide and compete!
(End of this chapter)