Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 438 The Dangerous Western Regions

All in all, in the Zhenguan period at this moment, singing and dancing are peaceful and prosperous.

All the aristocratic families look forward to this trip to the Silk Road, which can create a new future for Datang and give themselves more lucrative benefits.

But no one expected that this caravan was being targeted when it was still in Datang!
Balikun is the leader of the Western Turks of a tribe near the Balikun Lake.

His ancestors surrendered to the Turks during the period of the Five Husbands, and occupied the Barkol Lake with their backs. Since then, they have become a tribe of the Turks under the name of Barkol.

It is not uncommon for foreigners to refer to mountains as their names and water as their surnames.After all, for those who lack cultural background, it is the most normal thing to name them according to the names around them, and these are often one of the original origins of names, and some traces of history can still be seen in some countries today.

At this moment, Barkol looked at this huge convoy with his slightly sinister eyes.

Generally speaking, the larger the convoy, the less the bandits on the grassland would dare to rob.

Because bandits also pay attention to cost, if the people around you are killed in battle, it is not an easy task to recover.

And during the recovery period, there might be a certain black-and-white guy who swallowed him up, so where can he reason.

This is like a wild animal that lives alone in the jungle, and often dare not be injured.

Because after being injured, the probability of being in danger will increase exponentially, and even the existence at the top of the food chain may be killed.

Therefore, as long as the target is found to be threatening to a certain extent, the thieves generally turn a blind eye and let it pass, and some daring ones try to collect some tolls in the past.

It is also very rare for different thieves groups to join forces to attack a large convoy, because the thieves groups can often exert their combat effectiveness when they act alone.

But if you cooperate with other thieves group, even if you don't have to leave a third of your strength to guard against friendly forces!

It's a pity that Balikun is not a bandit group. Strictly speaking, he is an army of Western Turks.

When the Turks split, they followed the Western Turks to the west, and now that the Tang Dynasty is developing, the Western Turks have not been idle.

Western Turkic Yipidulu Khan killed Shaboluo Yehu, annexed his trilogy, and then destroyed Tocharo.

It can be said that when Yipidulu Khan of the Western Turks was full of ambition, he detained the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, Master Zhang, and sent soldiers to invade the Western Regions and Yizhou.

And because Balikun's own tribe traced back to the Barkol Lake in Yizhou, Balikun rushed into Yizhou as the pioneer of Western Turks, trying to regain the territory that belonged to his ancestors.

It has to be said that although Turkic was lonely, it was enough to be called a pole of the world in the sixth century.

Even though the Eastern Turks were wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks still inherited the glory of the Turks.

Now, Balikun looked at this very simple Chinese convoy, and without hesitation called his troops to charge the convoy.

After all, no matter what kind of guards you have, can you still touch your own army?
Taking ten thousand steps back, I am a cavalry soldier, even if I can't take down the opponent, I can't escape!
"Lieutenant Tian, ​​there is a situation. There are cavalry led by foreigners!" The scout soon discovered the situation and reported it to Tian Changgeng.

"The convoy forms a car formation and buckles the chains to prepare for the attack. Brothers, take out all the guys from the bottom of the car!"

Looking at the situation in front of him, Tian Changgeng looked calm and unhurried. At the beginning, he followed Xue Rengui and even charged 30 Tubo troops. Now this situation is nothing.

The academy soldiers under his command were not joking either. They skillfully pulled out a large shield weighing at least 50 kilograms from the bottom of the vehicle.

These large shields are all wrapped with a layer of burlap, covering their metal figures.

This proposal was proposed by Li Tai, because Li Tai felt that wearing a metal reflective armor as a guard was too arrogant, and it was better to keep a low profile.

Li Tai even prepared some linen materials for this purpose. If the linen on the armor and shield is damaged, he can get some armor to cover himself.

Regarding Li Tai's behavior, Li Jing directly expressed that he was sick, but King Wei had money, so he could do it himself, and Li Jing ignored it anyway.

However, Li Jing gave some plans for these adaptive arms, such as two-handed swords, steel shields, and longbows. He even thought about small crossbows, but because of limited time, he didn't try them out.

But no matter what, because the adaptive talent is more about exercising the body itself, as if laying the foundation.

And Feixiong's talent brought about changing its own gravity, and even changing the gravity of the things in its hands, which brought great maneuverability.

Li Jing gradually discovered that it is actually possible to use self-adaptation to form a review-type army like the Yuan Cong Forbidden Army, but because of the unified talent, the command cost can be reduced to a certain extent.

Most countries will not let a talent be a unified talent, because if it is cracked, the legion will be easily destroyed as a system.

But the adaptive talent is to eat equipment instead of talent, so there is room for manipulation.

As for the Flying Bear talent, at least what limits this talent is the environment of the world's essence, as well as the operator's own judgment.

As for the upper limit of this talent, at least Li Jing can't see it, because Li Jing feels that if this talent reaches the extreme, it may allow troops to fly, and troops that can fly may change the mode of war.

Therefore, Li Jing didn't even think about the pattern of heaven and earth essence reaching that level, it would be a waste of effort.

But after Li Jing looked at the cost of training a self-adapted soldier, he decisively discarded this idea, and did not tell Li Tai about it.

After all, Li Jing felt that he had worked for Datang for so long in his life, so he was more or less responsible for Datang. He couldn't let King Wei invest resources in this place for nothing. Other talents can also fight, so there is no need to do so.

After all, if the energy of heaven and earth will no longer increase in the future, then the resources invested by Datang will be in vain, and whose responsibility is that.

However, I felt that it was a pity to give up, and there was some hesitation and hesitation in my heart.

After all, among the talents developed by Liu Jinghua, self-adaptation is used to lay the foundation, and Feixiong's talents can also complement each other.

If weight training is used to train the soldiers' physique and weightlessness is used to strengthen the soldiers' control, Li Jing feels that these soldiers can really improve their basic quality to three talents through long-term training while ensuring food and medical treatment.

The road to mass-training the quality three talents!Li Jing thought about it, was he unwilling to completely discard it.

So I made a banner with the three characters of Xuefubing written on it, and sealed the idea in the pattern of Liujinghua·Inheritance in the way of putting the spirit on things.

Either wait until the essence of heaven and earth develops enough for Feixiong's talent to appear, or this army will at least break through the upper limit of the second talent, or Liujinghua, who is left in the army flag, will continue to sleep.

Tian Changgeng naturally didn't know the twists and turns inside, but when he saw Li Jing making the flag for the academy soldiers, he thought that the entire army had passed Li Jing's test. The most conspicuous position.

At this moment, under Tian Changgeng's orderly command, the entire Academy Corps began to operate efficiently.

The first is the placement of the car formation. Generally speaking, it takes some time to put up a normal car formation.

Most of the cars in the Tang Dynasty were equipped with two wheels and one horse. As for the four-wheeled vehicle, Li Tai wanted to get it out, but the steering gear was still under study, and the required power also gave Li Tai a headache.

After all, there is no steam engine, no internal combustion engine, and if horses are still used, why not use two-wheeled vehicles!

At this moment, under the use of Tian Changgeng's adaptive army, the talent of Feixiong acts on this equipment, allowing soldiers to easily lift or adjust the direction of these carriages, which saves a lot of time for forming an formation.

Of course, because of the energy of the field, the actual reduction effect is not significant.

At least it didn't happen that the entire carriage was lifted directly and put it where it should be placed, but this little bit of emphasis lightened, at least it made it easier and smoother for the vehicle to turn, and this small effect made the organization's operation easier. Much smoother.

"Huh?" Seeing the swift formation of the caravan in front of him, Barry Kun instinctively felt something was wrong.

Because I always felt that the speed of organizing the caravan was too fast, and I had just rushed down with the cavalry, but there was already a car formation in front of me.

Balikun frowned and looked at the car formation, but he saw that the chains were buckled between the cars, which strengthened the team's impact resistance!

"Prepare a strong bow!" Tian Changgeng watched the opponent surround the convoy, but he didn't dare to charge directly, so he immediately ordered the soldiers without any scruples, "Make sure the opponent has no armor, prepare light arrows!"

Hearing Tian Changgong's order, the Xuefu soldiers inside decisively took out their big bows and began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

In an instant, arrows were shot out one by one from the hands of the Xuefu soldiers, and the initial speed of the arrows was astonishingly fast.

Barkol, who was surrounding the convoy and wanted to pry the convoy apart, never expected the speed of the arrow to be so fast. If it wasn't for luck, the arrow was a head taller than him, and he would have died immediately.

But the guards around them were not so lucky. The astonishing speed brought by the swift arrows directly penetrated the soldiers' bodies, and the clothes on their bodies could not have any defensive effect against such arrows at all!
"Take the clansmen, retreat...retreat!" Barkol, who saw this scene, did not hesitate and chose to retreat decisively.

Because the performance of this caravan is too abnormal, regardless of the speed of organizing the car formation, or the lightning-fast arrows, this should not be the combat effectiveness that an ordinary caravan can display.

If you can't take down the opponent now, then choosing to retreat is the correct decision.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, we might hit it, don't waste arrows!" Tian Changgeng said loudly.

However, he looked at the Western Turkic cavalry who fled away on horseback, and said with a bit of regret, "You run really fast!"

Even Li Jing considered for a long time whether to choose the crossbow or the infantry longbow to complement the long-range strike of this army, but in the final decision, Li Jing still chose the longbow.

Because my goal is to rush towards the third talent. Under such circumstances, if it really reaches the third talent, the long-range ability of this army is definitely not inferior to any top archers.

Especially when bows and arrows shoot each other, relying on a suit of armor, the shield archer can fully express: "Let's shoot passionately!"

But before growing into a three-talented army, you can't count on the accuracy of this thing due to the complex variables brought about by gravity changing arrows.

This thing is purely based on feeling and experience, as long as you don't shoot the arrow that turns back, it will be fine.

However, whoever pursues accuracy in archery on the battlefield, isn't it all covered by arrow rain, and then see if you can catch a few.

Even so, Li Jing still gave Tian Changgeng instructions, that is, to shoot arrows with reduced gravity when encountering those without armor, and to shoot arrows with increased gravity when encountering armored ones.

As for the variables brought about by the increase or decrease of gravity, you can explore by yourself. As for the hit rate, you can directly follow the full-coverage saturation strike, and don’t count on other modes if you want to hit the target.

However, the impact force of arrows shot with heavier arrow weight will continue to increase, while the speed of arrows shot with lighter arrow weight will continue to increase.

However, if the arrows fired with reduced weight hit some troops with thick armor, they may be bounced away. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as being in vain.

As for which arrow to use in specific circumstances, it is up to Tian Changgeng to judge for himself.

"It's really reassuring to have such a powerful army with us!" Bellos couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief seeing Tian Changgeng leading the academy soldiers to easily expel the Western Turkic troops.

To be honest, generally speaking, if this army dares to charge such a large caravan, it basically has some skills.

But this time the opponent only tried a little and chose to withdraw, which shows that the strength displayed by Tian Changgeng's army made the opponent really feel afraid, and he really didn't dare to stay longer!

"Prince Belus, you're being polite, it's just my job!" Tian Changgeng calmly replied, "Keep going!"

And Tian Changgeng secretly shook his head in his heart, and felt a bit of a pity looking at the direction Barkol left, and also felt a headache about the Silk Road.

I haven't even left the border of the Tang Dynasty yet, yet I was able to encounter robbers from other races!

If you go to Persia and hand over the supplies to Persia, how much trouble will you encounter along the way.

After all, Tian Changgeng understood a little bit why King Wei called him down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and such a commercial road needed a more comprehensive army like himself to escort him.

Although the road ahead is long, the thick steel armor on his body can bring him incomparable peace of mind and confidence.

At least no matter what kind of opponent you encounter on the road ahead, as long as you crush it by yourself!

When Tian Changgeng's caravan hurriedly met with the Western Turkic army, Guo Xiaoke, who was in charge of stationing in the Western Regions, also reported the news that the Western Turks were attacking the Western Regions.

Then he led the Tang army to resist the attacks of the Western Turks again and again, and shed his last drop of blood in order to maintain Datang's power in the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)