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Chapter 124 Formation of Armored Cavalry
Yuyi Town was built on the upper reaches of Rushui in Huaihuang Town. After six towns were set up in the Northern Wei Dynasty, another town named Yuyi Town was established to the east of Huaihuang Town in order to defend Shanggu and Zhuo County.

Therefore, in later generations, after the six towns, there are also seven towns.

From a geographical point of view, Yuyi Town is the main route out of Hebei. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di conquered Mongolia, and Mongolia invaded the direction of the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty. They were all important routes.

Right now, the Turkic people's southward advance has become a foregone conclusion. If Li Chongjiu wants to forge ahead and expand his strength, the power of the Turkic overlord of the grasslands, in the words of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is absolutely invincible.

In the future, Liang Shidu in Shuofang County and Liu Wuzhou in Mayi County will all rebel with the support of the Turks, and Li Yuan and his son will be strong in Taiyuan.It is not safe to go to the grassland or to Yanmen County.

Therefore, if you want to develop, you can only go east to south, which is the place where you can become a hegemony.

After the Cangtou Army Yuyi opened the town, they can walk down the Gushui River Valley from here to Shanggu County.

At present, the situation in Shanggu County is in chaos. Wang Xuba and Wei Daoer returned to Shanggu County with a crowd of 10,000+, and repeatedly defeated the government and army. Now Shanggu County has completely become a place where thieves are entrenched.

The momentum of this group of thieves is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems to be entering Shanxi faintly.

Li Chongjiu learned from the official documents last month that Li Yuan, Pan Changwen, and Murong Luo, the generals stationed in Taiyuan County, are mobilizing troops to fight against the bandits.

According to the history books, Li Yuan relied on Li Shimin to defeat Li Shanfei's invasion. As for what happened to Li Shanfei later, Li Chongjiu didn't remember so clearly.

But for Li Chongjiu, Li Shanfei's defeat just gave him the opportunity to send his army into Taigu County to prepare for the immediate end of the Sui Dynasty.

The expansion of Yuyi Town is the first step.

In the early morning of the next day, the Ministry of Xi set up camp from the north of Huaihuang Town, loaded the tents into carts, and moved all the cattle and sheep away.

The grassland tribes are all environmental protectors, and they are well aware of the dangers of overgrazing, so the pastures are divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, and they often migrate every season, so migration is very common for them.

Xi Bu migrated away, leaving only wooden piles crumbling here and there, and traces of felt bags in circles.

Li Chongjiu also let Lin Dangfeng, Li Hu and the others, except for some who stayed in Huaihuang Town to recuperate, the rest led the caravan and Xibu to Yuyi City.

Li Chongjiu asked Lin Dangfeng to go to Yuyi City, of course, to check whether it is feasible to establish a commercial route from Shanggu County to the fortress.

On the top of the city of Huaihuang Town, Li Chongjiu watched Xibu, the caravan, and the bodyguard go away, and Li Hu sat on the horse and waved goodbye to him.

Every time we separate in this troubled world, there is a possibility that we will never see each other again.

Li Chongjiu was silent for a while, and Ying Hefu, the general of Xi's department, also looked at his clansmen, feeling nostalgic.

Yinghefu said to Li Chongjiu: "General, our 350 Shidexi people are all at your disposal. They are the bravest fighters in the tribe."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "I know, I am going to organize your clansmen and my cavalry together to form three regiments."

"Three regiments?"

"That's right," Li Chongjiu said, "We have a regiment in the Sui Dynasty, which is the two centurions of your Xiren. I already have 150 cavalry warriors. Now I will transfer another 600 horsemen with good horsemanship to the army. In this way, there are three regiments of [-] people."

Hearing this, Yinghe Fu frowned and said: "General, our Xi clan's tactics are different from your Sui army's. If they are mixed together, it may affect the performance of the battle."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about that."

Having said that, Li Chongjiu clapped his hands, and saw a soldier on the side stepping forward holding a Mingguang armor.

Li Chongjiu pointed to the armor and said, "How about this armor?"

Yinghefu took this Mingguang armor and looked left and right, looking like he couldn't put it down, and then said to Li Chongjiu: "Except for the iron armor attached to the Turks, the rest of the tribes have no such thing except the patriarch. There was only one piece in the Dexi Department back then."

Li Chongjiu asked: "Are you so iron-deficient?"

Yinghe Fu said with emotion: "It's not only us who are mocking people, but also this grassland. There are only pastures on the grasslands, no iron, and the Central Plains does not trade iron with us, so it is an iron machete. For people, it is a family heirloom from generation to generation.”

"We only have such a treasured sword in ten households of Xiren. The Han people use iron bows. We only have ox horn bows. As for the iron arrowheads, you have also seen that each person can only carry one or two. It is not for the battle. Never use it lightly.”

"Of course the Turks will have better equipment than us, but they will never be much better. The Turks were forging slaves of the Worms back then, and the scimitars they forged could not be better, not inferior to Sui knives, but unfortunately there are still too few of them. .”

Inhofer looked at the armor and clicked his tongue.

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "Since you like it, I will give you this armor."

Ying Hofer immediately smiled and said bluntly, "Thank you for that."

Li Chongjiu's armor is exactly the [-] pieces of bright light armor that were taken from the warehouse in Yanmen County.

These three hundred pieces of bright light armor are nothing more than a drop in the bucket to Da Sui, and nothing to Yanmen County, but if they are concentrated in a town of Huaihuang, it will be quite remarkable.

Yinghefu caressed the bright light armor, and said happily: "You Emperor Sui, if you are willing to sell this bright light armor to the grassland, you can get at least ten good Turkic horses, or three stunning beauties!"

Seeing Yinghefu's appearance, Li Chongjiu said with a smile, "The Mingguang armor is in my storeroom. I'm going to pick up the elite cavalry of the Xibu and our Cangtou Army to form a team of armored cavalry?"

Yinghe Fu heard the words, his eyes lit up, and said: "Is this true?"

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "For the time being, I only have two hundred armors. If there are more, I won't be able to build them."

Li Chongjiu couldn't help thinking of Luo Yi's [-] armored cavalry in Youzhou, but if the horses were covered with armor, then the load-bearing and explosive power of the horses would be too high.

The horse breeds in northeast Hebei are more suitable for armored riding, but Turkic horses are lacking.

So Li Chongjiu planned to use leather as a temporary outfit for the horses, while the people wore iron armor to form a group of iron cavalry.The remaining two regiments are Qingqi respectively.

For the Sui light cavalry.

Generally equipped with two bows, one hard bow is an iron bow of one and a half stone, not only can shoot far, but also can break armor, this is usually dismounted and shot!

There is also a soft bow with a bow strength of nine buckets, which is specially used for riding and shooting.

Li Chongjiu deployed the Xibu cavalry according to the standards of the Great Sui cavalry. At the same time, he was also well equipped with iron arrowheads, plus a Sui-made ring-headed straight knife.

In this way, the combat power of this Xibu cavalry has more than doubled.
Li Chongjiu is convinced that this cavalry can definitely form a sweeping force against the tribes on the grassland who mostly still use horn bows and stone bone arrowheads.

Note [-]: According to the water records, Rushui came out of the southeast of Yuyi Town, and Rushui is now the Luan River.

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