Horse on the World

Chapter 423 Thunder Strike
In the early morning, Dingzhou City, which had been noisy for most of the night, finally fell silent. The red lanterns hanging under the eaves were shining brightly, drifting left and right with the morning wind, like a winding galaxy in the sky, lighting up the entire Dingzhou City.

Ten miles outside the city, Nuoqia's [-] barbarian cavalry and Li Qing's [-] personal guards who had just been transferred back were already ready to go.The torches stretch for miles, reflecting each other with the lights of Dingzhou City.

The [-] barbarian elites are mainly Bai cavalry. These cavalry are well-equipped, and they are hardly inferior to the most elite cavalry of Changsheng Battalion and Xuanfeng Battalion in Dingzhou. Today they are still uniformly equipped with scimitars, riding Bows, spears, one man and two horses, if the flag they were flying was not the Dingzhou military flag, at first glance, people who don't know why would think that the barbarians have revived again.

Li Qing's three thousand personal guards are the essence of the Dingzhou army as usual, and their equipment is much better than that of the barbarian cavalry. The five-shot crossbow, especially their armor, is specially made, and its protection is much stronger than ordinary armor.These three thousand personal guards are basically at the level of Lieutenant Yunhui, and the proportion of ordinary soldiers is very small, and their commander is naturally the one-eyed general Tang Hu.

Nuo Qia stood beside his horse, looking at the ten thousand tigers under his command, but he was full of emotion in his heart. After more than a year, he was about to step on the battlefield again, but this time he was fighting side by side with his former life and death enemy. There is nothing better than this.

Nuo Qia firmly remembered Bayar's words before he was alive, Li Qing should not think about dissenting for a day, and the barbarians are now living and working in peace and contentment, which made Nuo Qia understand more in his heart that if he wants his people to live in Dingzhou If you want to gain more dignity, you and your soldiers must exchange for it with their blood. If you want to weaken the hatred between the two clans, it cannot be done in a short time, and the simplest thing is to live together on the battlefield. To die together, when a few big battles are fought, the barbarians and Dingzhou soldiers who were originally separated from each other will complete the transition from strangers to comrades-in-arms, to friends. When victory comes, when these Dingzhou soldiers return to their places, they will Drive more people to be more friendly to the barbarians, and the barrier between the two races will gradually be diluted.

The sound of horseshoes sounded in the distance, and Nuoqi'a's spirit was lifted. Marshal Li arrived. He stood up straight and straightened his armor.The sound of horseshoes was approaching, and dozens of horsemen galloped forward. It was Li Qing who was guarded by Tang Hu and Iron Leopard. Seeing Nuoqia, Li Qing laughed and got off his horse, strode up to Nuoqia, and said with a smile: "General Nuo, it's Li Qing's fault for letting you pass through the house without entering. I think Princess Neveu is scolding me again, hahaha!"

Nuo Qi'a clasped his fists and said: "The commander-in-chief is joking, Nafu is no longer what he used to be, and now he is going to be a mother again, so he is more stable."

Li Qing patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and said: "Really? That's right, people will change, General Nuo, this time we can make a big deal, are you ready?"

"Wish to be the leader of the commander, go through fire and water, and will not say no!" Nuo Qi'a said seriously.

"Okay!" Li Qing said. "Go here to expand the territory and make contributions. General Nuo, you can tell your subordinates that they are also Dingzhou soldiers now, so they will enjoy the same treatment as the original Dingzhou soldiers. As long as they have credit, the original Dingzhou army has it." , they will all have land, houses, nothing less.”

"Thank you, Commander!" Nuoqia thanked.

"Let's go!" Li Qing gave an order, [-] cavalry, tens of thousands of horses raised their hooves, and rushed towards Luo Feng Changqi like a wind and lightning.

In Luzhou, ever since Lu Zhaoting was kidnapped by the Dingzhou Statistics and Investigation Department in the territory, Luo Feng and Changqi were snatched away, and the tens of thousands of troops Chen Bing bordered, Luzhou Marshal Xu Hongwei knew that he had been targeted by Dingzhou. He regretted it so much that he secretly hated himself for being bewitched by the Lu family, and stepped into this murky black hole without knowing how deep it was. The Lu family is a hungry tiger, but why isn't Li Qing in Dingzhou a hungry wolf?But there is no medicine for regret in the world, for him now, he has no choice but to tie himself more firmly to Lu's chariot.

Rapidly expand Luzhou's standing army from [-] to [-]. Fortunately, Luzhou is not short of money, and he himself is very rich. The soldiers' armor and weapons are supported by Lu's support, but they can make up for it. It’s hard to say, even if Xu Hongwei is not very familiar with military affairs, he also knows that it is impossible for a group of farmers and craftsmen to become qualified soldiers in a short period of time, but now he is in a hurry to go to the doctor. He can't do it.

Along the lines of Chen County, Kang County, Moling, Sangzhu, and Suning, he deployed the original [-] standing army and [-] new troops here.But whether Li Qing's elite cavalry can be sealed, even the bravest fighter in Luzhou feels sad.

Moling is the center of this line of defense. Luzhou general Xu Ji's central army is stationed here. Ten thousand standing troops and ten thousand new troops are ready to prepare for the attack of the Dingzhou army.

A few days ago, small-scale enemy sentry cavalry appeared in various counties at the same time. The number ranged from a few to dozens of people. The defense line sent cavalry to kill these scouts, but the effect was not satisfactory. You have fewer people, and these Dingzhou scouts will turn to the enemy and take the initiative to attack. One person dares to attack an opponent with dozens of people, but when you have more people, they will run away. One person is equipped with two horses. These sentries are nothing but smoke and ridicule for the chasing soldiers all the way. can not get.For a while, morale was even lower,

Xu Ji ordered the counties to stop attacking, and let these sentinels come and go freely. Knowing the art of war, he knew that it was impossible for Dingzhou soldiers to attack at the same time on such a wide horizontal plane. There must be only one main direction of their attack, but this main attack point will be Where is it?Various counties sent out large-scale sentry cavalry at the same time, and the opponent was spying on the truth. It seemed that they wanted to find a weak point, and the blow worked.Xu Ji had no choice but to order his generals to defend the city to the death. The enemy on the opposite side was the Dingzhou army that defeated the barbarians that had plagued Chu for hundreds of years in a field battle, and was known as the most powerful army in the world. , He has no confidence in fighting the enemy in the field.Only the high city walls can give him a little bit of confidence.

But when he saw the thin city walls of Moling, Xu Ji had the urge to scold his mother. The commander only thought about raising money, and never had the idea of ​​being prepared for danger in times of peace. Most of the city walls in Luzhou were like Moling. After Moling, although a lot of manpower and material resources were mobilized to heighten and strengthen the city wall, but the original foundation was too weak, and it was not easy to make a qualitative change in a short while.

God bless!Xu Ji could only ask Mantian God and Buddha to show mercy.

In March, the signs of war were already obvious. To Xu Ji's surprise, the main attack point of the enemy army was actually chosen at the location of the Chinese army where he stationed a heavy army, Moling. The enemy obviously did not take himself seriously. It is necessary to destroy the center of the defense line in one fell swoop, thereby smashing the entire defense line.The other counties on the line of defense are all stationed with new troops, and their combat power is insufficient, and only their own Moling has a little bit of strength. Obviously, the enemy has also seen this. Immediately smeared the soles of the feet with oil and fled away.

Surprised, Xu Ji was also aroused into anger, since he underestimated himself so much, then come, even if Luzhou soldiers are not as elite as yours, but relying on the city wall, they are not without strength.

Under the city, many trenches were dug in a criss-cross pattern. On the open space, there were horses and antlers everywhere, and barbed wire was hidden in the grass. Xu Ji's tactical thinking was to defend, and then defend.

These days, standing on the high city wall every day and looking at the distant horizon has become a compulsory course for Xu Wei, and his mood has become increasingly anxious. The whole Moling is filled with an atmosphere of uneasiness. But when it comes to facing the world-famous Dingzhou soldiers, every soldier still feels anxious.

Three days later, smoke and dust appeared in the distance, and immediately, a knight holding a banner swept out of the smoke and dust, and then the second and third, more and more cavalrymen appeared in Xu Ji's field of vision .

"It's finally here!" Xu Ji sighed secretly, "Ring the bell for warning, get ready to fight!"

The alarm bell sounded at the sound of Moling, and the whole city was in a hurry. Countless soldiers rushed to the top of the city, hid behind the stacks, and stared at the more and more cavalry troops in the distance.

Amidst the smoke and dust in the distance, there were still cavalrymen pouring in continuously, and the frontmost ones had arrived not far from Moling City. The horses watched the movements of the soldiers holding the flags ahead.

This flag-carrying soldier was extremely skilled in riding. He galloped wildly, seemingly ignoring the criss-cross trenches in front of him. When the horse barely reached the edge of the trench, it made a beautiful oblique turn. The horse stepped on the edge of the trench and turned away. The soil stepped on fell into the trench, and the Luzhou soldiers on the city let out a cry of surprise, and the knight threw the big flag in his hand violently with the help of horsepower. Amid the whistling sound, the big flag With the sound of the wind, it was deeply planted in the open space under the city, and the banner was unfurled, hunting in the sound of the wind.

Immediately, the knight turned his head to look at the city, gave a high thumbs up to the soldiers on the city, then turned around and pressed down hard. Amid wild laughter, he beat his horse away, not far away, his companions Then he cheered loudly, and several knights came up to meet him, surrounded him like a hero and returned to the queue.

Plant the flag!Xu Ji took a long breath. This is a common challenge method used by the barbarians in the grassland. Unexpectedly, after fighting against the barbarians for several years, Dingzhou soldiers also learned this trick.But now they want to demonstrate more to themselves.

A large number of soldiers were still approaching in the distance. These soldiers got off their horses at a very far distance, and then began to organize the formation. After a while, in Xu Ji's field of vision, neat infantry phalanxes appeared one by one.Even the infantry in Dingzhou were equipped with camel horses. To be able to do this, Xu Ji was not only envious, but also fearful.And behind the infantry, a carriage full of things covered by a curtain was driving towards this side.

(End of this chapter)