Horse on the World

Chapter 761 The shock of the military exercise and the hidden threat

Bean-sized raindrops strung together into bead curtains, falling from the sky and hitting the ground, splashing small yellow flowers. On the top of the city, the drums and horns stopped, and the soldiers stood upright with their guns, letting the rain fall on them. Hit them in the face.There were quite a few people in the city, besides civil and military officials from Dingzhou, there were specially invited guests like Xiao Yuanshan, and there were even prominent families and businessmen in Dingzhou city.

Although there were many people, affected by the environment, everyone kept their mouths shut, opened their eyes desperately in the heavy rain, and looked hard at the city.

Li Qing didn't open an umbrella, and stood upright in the rain with his head bare, and everyone else abandoned their umbrellas. The heavy rain drenched the people on the top of the city like drowned rats. It's better for a general like Li Qing to wear armor, and those civil servants And the squires are a bit miserable. It must be quite uncomfortable to have wet clothes clinging to their bodies.

Lu Yiming, who was beside Li Qing, waved for an official, and said in a low voice: "Order, let's make some ginger soup, many people in this city are weak, don't let the military exercises be over, they will fall ill and can't serve as directors! "

Hearing Lu Yiming's order, Li Qing turned his head and smiled and said, "Old Lu is still thoughtful. By the way, Iron Leopard, you go and order that after the soldiers participating in the military exercise return to the barracks, they must have hot ginger soup and so on. Follow them, make no mistakes!"

"Yes, my lord, I'll do it right away!" Iron Leopard nodded.

Xiao Yuanshan looked at Li Qing and Lu Yiming who were whispering, with complex expressions on their faces.

Far away from the city wall, amidst the heavy rain, there was a loud horn sound suddenly. It was completely different from the dull sound of the bullhorn in the past. .Obviously everyone knows what it is.

Seeing the puzzled expression on Xiao Yuanshan's face, Li Qing explained: "This is the bugle call of our Dingzhou Central Army."

The bugle in the distance was obviously playing a tune, and when the last note fell, a booming sound suddenly sounded, and the entire city wall seemed to shake.

Xiao Yuanshan tried his best to open his eyes wide, looking at groups of relatively blurred black shadows that were getting closer and closer, although it was raining heavily and he couldn't see them clearly, he could still tell that they were neat squares.

tom tom tom!
The sound of footsteps was uniform.Like a giant coming through the rain.

Closer, closer.Finally, a twenty-by-twenty square formation appeared in everyone's field of vision.In front of the phalanx, an officer wearing the military uniform of Lieutenant Zhenwei held up a military flag with both hands, "The First Battalion of the First Division of the Central Army!"

Xiao Yuanshan took a deep breath.He has never seen an army that is so neatly maintained during the march. The rows of 20 people seem to be measured with a ruler, and they are striding forward like a line. They are not advancing in small steps, but very fast. Strangely, they kicked their legs up high, and then fell heavily on the ground. The mud on the ground was trampled and flew high, staining their trouser legs and armor.

The first group to appear in front of them was a troop armed with long spears. The polished spears were raised obliquely, almost touching the backs of the comrades in front. Xiao Yuanshan even thought that as long as the people in front stepped a little As soon as he slowed down, the spear behind him would immediately pierce his back.

The 400-man team walked down the city in a uniform step. An officer roared loudly, and the heads of the 400 soldiers turned to the top of the city with a bang, and looked up at the people above the top of the city.

Li Qing stretched out his hand and waved.

In an instant, 400 people in the city shouted in unison: "Long live, long live, long live!"

Xiao Yuanshan's eyebrows twitched, and he peeked at Li Qing, but saw him smiling and shouting loudly: "Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng!"

"Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"

The soldiers below opened their throats and roared desperately, all of them showed fanatic expressions, even so, their formation was not in the slightest disorder.

Behind the first battalion, the first battalion of the second division, the first battalion of the third division, and the first battalion of the fourth division walked by.

Behind the four phalanxes of spears, followed by the four phalanxes of swords and shields, repeating the previous actions again and again, the shouts of long live, and the shouts of Dingzhou army's victory again and again, let the city head Those who belonged to the Dingzhou side became excited, and every time the soldiers shouted, they also raised their arms to respond.Up and down the city, the shouts went straight to Yunxiao.

Xiao Yuanshan and the others followed the phalanx one by one, and their faces became paler and paler.According to the military flags that passed by, he could judge that Li Qing's central group army consisted of four divisions in terms of infantry alone. According to the configuration of the Dingzhou army, there were more than [-] troops.

It seems that God also felt a little scared. The torrential rain just stopped, the breeze blew past, the clouds in the sky were swept away, the scorching sun jumped out, and a rainbow stretched across the north and south.

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes sounded. It was the famous cavalry troop in Dingzhou.

At this time, the line of sight is very good. It can be seen that, like the infantry phalanx in front, these cavalry are also a [-] by [-] phalanx. The First Battalion of the Cavalry Division of the Central Group Army, behind him, came twenty cavalry riding side by side. They first stepped forward in small steps, then began to trot, and finally began to speed up. The formation was not in the slightest disorder.What kind of riding skills are needed to control the horse so wonderfully!
Taking a thousand steps away from the city, slow down, trot, and then move forward in small steps. At this time, it happened to be directly below Li Qing.The army flag was raised high suddenly, with a clatter, and almost at the same time, four hundred sabers were unsheathed and raised above their heads, and the voice of long live sounded again.

The people in the city were completely excited at this time, stomping their feet and shouting.

The cavalry passed by, the military flag waved in the air, and with a clatter, four hundred sabers were sheathed at the same time.

Li Qing turned his head, looked at Xiao Yuanshan and said, "Patriarch Xiao, what you saw just now is our Dingzhou Army's parade performance, and next, I want to ask Patriarch Xiao to look at our Dingzhou Army's chariot soldiers and heavy soldiers. It's shown, Patriarch Xiao is a great expert, so you must give me some pointers!"

Xiao Yuanshan let out a breath, "No wonder Dingzhou soldiers dominate the world. Xiao has led his whole life of soldiers, and this is the first time he saw such a well-groomed army. What Commander Li said would make Xiao feel ashamed. Xiao just opened the door. Vision! But there is one thing Xiao doesn’t understand, since it’s a military exercise, what’s the use of these heavy soldiers?”

Li Qing laughed, "My Dingzhou heavy soldiers may not be the same as other places, Patriarch Xiao will understand at a glance."

After the army passed by, the field was quiet for a moment, and as the loud bugle sounded again in the distance, everyone saw a dark crowd running towards them in groups of two, pushing a chariot .

The chariot is about half a person tall, similar to a two-wheeled carriage, but the whole body is covered with iron sheets. On the body, some are equipped with scorpion cannons, and some are equipped with a hundred-shot crossbow.

A total of 200 chariots rushed to the open space below the city. Following an order, the chariots joined together one after another to form a semi-circular crescent formation, and the chariot soldiers immediately began to get busy , The sound of Kaka kept ringing, and in a short while, the car bodies had been connected together one after another to form a whole.

However, the moon formation was formed, and the soldiers did not stop, but quickly loaded the long-range weapons on the chariot. Amid the dazzling crowd, the soldiers had already finished loading, and a soldier stood in front of the chariot, reaching out to pull Hold the wrench and make a tendency to launch, and the other is to pull out the two long handles of the chariot. Once pulled out, everyone in the city realized that these were actually two spears that seemed to be shortened.Obviously, this is for the chariot soldiers to use for melee combat after the long-range weapons have lost their function.

After the drill was over, the officer gave an order, and all the soldiers turned to face the city with spears in their hands, holding their spears high.

"Dingzhou Army, Wan Sheng!"

After the three shouts, under Li Qing's waving signal, the chariot soldiers dismantled the chariot formation with the same swift speed, and ran away in groups of several people.

After the chariot soldiers, there was a roar of carriages. These carriages were covered with thick tarpaulins. They rushed to the bottom of the city. When the carriages stopped, everyone could see that they were all kinds of different parts. .The heavy soldiers who came along with the carriage quickly unloaded the things on the carriage and began to assemble.

As these objects were installed one by one, everyone could already see that they were heavy weapons such as Dingzhou's trebuchet and eight-ox crossbow.

In less than a stick of incense, dozens of trebuchets and hundreds of eight-ox crossbows had been installed under the city.

With a pale face, Xiao Yuanshan looked at these powerful weapons, his hands trembling slightly. In the Xiegu Fortress, they had obtained a batch of such weapons. Unfortunately, these weapons were too worn out, and in Dingzhou, they could be assembled at any time. There are not many replacements for the key parts of the portable trebuchet. Once these parts are damaged, these weapons will become waste products in Youyan.He has seen the range and calibration rate of Dingzhou catapults much longer than ordinary catapults.But it was the first time that Dingzhou's supply soldiers could assemble so many trebuchets in a short time.Now, even the eight-ox crossbow can be assembled and applied at any time. What does this mean? It means that the weapon of trebuchet will no longer be limited to siege and defense, but can be applied to field battles.

Watching the heavy soldiers pack up their equipment and drive the carriage away, Li Qing said with a smile: "Patriarch Xiao, next thing I want you to watch is our Dingzhou's foot battle, horse battle and other field tactics!"

Xiao Yuanshan nodded stiffly.

Lu Yiming on the side laughed and said: "It's a pity, the Changsheng Battalion and the Xuanfeng Battalion are still on the way, and it's too late to come back to participate in this military exercise, otherwise Patriarch Xiao will be able to see the duel between our strongest cavalry in Dingzhou !"

Li Qing laughed, "It's okay, if Patriarch Xiao thinks the next cavalry drill is not fun, we can let Changsheng Battalion and Whirlwind Battalion come back and give Patriarch Xiao another performance!"

Xiao Yuanshan forced a smile and said: "No need, the reputation of Changsheng Camp and Cyclone Camp is known all over the world, you don't need to look at them to know how powerful they are, Dingzhou Iron Cavalry, they are invincible in the world!"

(End of this chapter)