Water Margin people

"The Xixia people have used this tactic of wearing heavy armor. It's called the iron kite, but the armor of the iron stupa is stronger and heavier than the iron kite!"

Lu Zhishen looked at the armor and said, thinking that when he was in the Western Army, he had seen Xixia iron kites. These heavy armored cavalry made the Western Army suffer a lot, and ordinary bows and crossbows could not hurt them at all.

"Can an ordinary soldier wear this kind of armor really?"

Sun An weighed the weight of the armor. It doesn't matter if he wears this kind of heavy armor, but ordinary soldiers don't have such great strength.

Hua Rong shot an arrow at the iron armor, leaving only a scratch.

"Ordinary hard bows can't shoot through. If you want to effectively kill the enemy, you need at least a bed crossbow. Armor-piercing arrows may not work."

Hua Rong shook his head and said, the defensive power of this heavy armor is comparable to that of a shield.

Du Po swung the Zhangba Snake Spear in his hand and stabbed straight at the armor, but he still couldn't break through the defense and could only shake his head.

"What the master said is true. The armor of the Iron Buddha is similar to that of the iron harrier, but it is better than the iron harrier. Only a few of the Nuzhen can wear such a heavy armor to fight."

Xu Guanzhong looked at Lu Zhi and smiled deeply.

"Girls really? Are there still mature girls?"

Ruan Xiaowu asked curiously.

"Yes, Jurchens are divided into raw Jurchens and mature Jurchens."

Xu Guanzhong nodded.

"The earliest people living in Liaodong were the Sushen, Yilou, Wuji and other clans. Later, Yelu Abaoji wiped out the Bohai Kingdom and called the Heishuimohe people the Jurchens."

"At that time, the Jurchens were real barbarians. They wore animal skins and carried sticks. They couldn't even build a decent house. Most of them just lived in caves or shacks."

"Yelu Abaoji moved some of the Jurchens to the south and incorporated them into the Liao nationality, and they were called mature Jurchens; the Jurchens who stayed in their hometowns were not registered in the Liao nationality, and they were called Sheng Jurchens."

Xu Guanzhong first introduced the situation of the Jurchens.

"Wanyan Aguda, who raised troops against the Liao Dynasty and established the Kingdom of Jin this time, is Sheng Jurchen, but in fact, Sheng Jurchen and Mature Jurchen have conspired for a long time to raise troops this time."

Xu Guanzhong spoke again.

"Wanyan Aguda said to the outside world that he was humiliated by the Lord of Liao at the head fish banquet, so he rose up to resist, but Jurchen is originally a sub-clan of the Khitan people, so what is verbal humiliation at the banquet?"

"The real problem is the Khitan people's oppression of the Jurchens. Every year, the Khitan people demand a large amount of horses, bead, raw gold, ginseng, mink fur, deer antler, pine nuts, and young girls from the Jurchens. Dongqing."

"The land of black water where Yurchen lives is inherently harsh, with limited output every year, and the Khitan people demand too much. The ministries of Yurchen have long been unable to bear it."

"The Mature Girls are even worse. The Khitan people directly treat them as slaves. They let them do all the hard work, and the Khitan people are only responsible for enjoying themselves."

Xu Guanzhong looked at Sun Lei and said.

"It turned out to be like this. I said how Wanyan Agu beat a small tribe to defeat the Liao Kingdom so quickly. It turned out to be a long-planned plan. This is the survivor of several lifetimes."

Sun Lei nodded and said, the rise of a nation cannot take a day or two.

"Although the Jurchens have just established their country, their strength should not be underestimated. Liao, Xixia, and Song may not be their opponents. Brother, please look at this armor. It is the result of various technologies."

"Part of this iron-smelting technology comes from the Central Plains, but it's not exactly the same. There are also iron-smelting skills from the West. My brother has inquired about it. The Liao people introduced the iron-smelting technology from the Western Regions through the grasslands, but the Liao people feel that the work of making iron is too much. Dirty and tiring is not what nobles should do, so they handed everything over to Mature Jurchen, which made Mature Jurchen's iron smelting technology advance by leaps and bounds, creating this kind of armor worn by iron stupas."

"This kind of armor is so heavy that most people can't wear it, but girls are an exception. They live in the white mountains and black waters all year round, and their physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people. Wearing this kind of armor is like adding wings to a tiger. There are also Liaodong war horses, which are different from Mongolian horses. , The horses of the Western Regions are delicate, and the horses of the Liaodong are large in size, strong in endurance and adaptability, and they are not affected by wearing armor. When the two are superimposed, they become the Iron Buddha that swept the Khitan people."

Xu Guanzhong pointed to the armor and said, Tiefutu came into existence by various chances and coincidences, which is a great threat.

"I heard that Xixia iron harriers also learned from the Western Regions, they like heavy cavalry very much!"

Sun An said, Western Xia borders the Uighurs in the Western Regions, and I heard that they like to wear armor all over their bodies, even horses.

"It's really possible!"

Sun Lei nodded and said, the West at this time should be in the period of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Crusaders should be marching eastward. People there really like the army shock tactics, and heavy armored cavalry is the best choice. Will use my brain.

"It seems that the Jurchen is really difficult to deal with."

Li Zhu frowned and said, the Jurchens now have both combat effectiveness and elite equipment, and it's really hard to deal with it under the superposition.

"Fortunately, my brother has a far-sighted vision. Liangshan has such a sharp weapon as cannons. Mountains and rocks can be broken with a flick of a finger. Even this iron armor can't stop it."

Seeing the heavy faces of the crowd, Xu Guanzhong said the good news, the artillery was designed to defeat this kind of heavy armored cavalry, no matter how thick the armor was, it couldn't hold it.

"It's a pity that the artillery is too heavy, and it is not very convenient to use."

Sun Lei shook his head, the current artillery is far from being able to control the battlefield, especially when dealing with agile cavalry, the Jurchens can have heavy cavalry and iron pagodas, and they must have light cavalry as cover.

"According to the observed information, the Jurchens dispatched a thousand iron stupas, three thousand kidnappers, and the rest are servants!"

"Brother, the Jurchens will attack Liaoyang City in two days. If you are interested, you can go to the mountain next to Liaoyang to have a look."

Xu Guanzhong said.

"Can you see it?"

Sun Lei was very interested. The Jurchens were able to sweep the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Song Dynasty in just a dozen years. He was very curious about the Jurchens' combat power.

"There is a high mountain in Liaoyang City, which can overlook the battlefield. The mountain is close to the Liao River and can be withdrawn at any time."

Xu Guanzhong nodded and said, he has already surveyed the terrain, and originally planned to go to see it by himself, but now that Sun Lei is interested, he naturally invites Sun Lei to go.

"Okay, let's go and see together then!"

Sun Lei nodded.

"What's going on in Liao Kingdom?"

Sun Lei looked at Xu Guanzhong again and asked.

"Since Xiao Hanjianu and Zhang Lin were defeated by the Jurchens, the Liao Kingdom has not responded. The soldiers and horses are all on the Zhongjing Road, and it seems that they are preparing to abandon the Tokyo Road."

Xu Guanzhong said.

"So bearable? Give up the entire Liaodong Plain?"

Sun Lei frowned and asked, Liaodong is a piece of fertile land, and among the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom, the Shangjing Road and Xijing Road are also stabilized. If we abandon the Liao Kingdom, it will not only hurt our vitality, but also lose our face.

"Brother, since the Jurchen army started, the Liao Kingdom has been defeated one after another, with heavy casualties. Seeing that the Khitan people are so unbeaten, the rest of the dependent tribes are also alienated. Now the Liao Kingdom can mobilize very limited troops."

Xu Guanzhong explained that the Liao army was not all Khitans, and foreign races in the country would be recruited as servants in wars. In the past, no one could fight against the Khitans, but now the Jurchen stood up and beat the Khitans. Will listen to the Khitan people again.