Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 194 Blood Debt with the Khitan People

Winter is coming to an end soon, today is New Year's Eve, and in a few days it will be the annual Spring Festival, and after the Spring Festival, everything will recover.

Li Fei is preparing to cook himself at home, making a small New Year's Eve dinner, and invited Lu Xin, Du Fu and others to have a drink together, happy to have a small year and welcome the arrival of the new year.

It's a pity that something bad happened before I even took a bite of the meal.

"Master Jiedu, there is news from the Khitan border that the horse and Anton shochu market was attacked by Khitan cavalry. More than 100 good horses traded and more than 2 catties of wine stored there were robbed. In addition, more than [-] soldiers guarding the market were killed or injured, and more than [-] innocent people on the border were slaughtered!"

"Damn Khitan!" Li Fei's face turned livid.

"Master Jiedu, it must be that the Khitan people saw our Anton's intention to obtain war horses, so they attacked the border market where we trade, and they don't want to continue to let Khitan's good horses flow into our Anton."

"Hmph, it's nothing more than robbing the market and killing the soldiers guarding the market, but then slaughtered more than [-] innocent people in Anton. It's completely inhuman. The [-] Andong people slaughtered by Xiu Khan are already two blood debts!" ​​Li Fei said angrily.

"Maybe we don't have time to spend this year well. The cold winter is about to pass, and it is impossible for Anlu Mountain to wait until the Khitan grass carp grows green again and feed the Khitan people's horses. Presumably, Anlu Mountain will send troops to fight against Khitan a few years ago. , Wuluo, Pugu and other three decisive battles, when the time comes, we will take the opportunity to show the Khitan people behind their backs, and we will definitely recover these two blood debts!" ​​Li Fei said with a cold face, full of murderous intent.

If you don't count An Lushan's ambition, An Lushan is indeed a rare leader who is very good at fighting.

Although Anlu Mountain also led the Hedong Road, gathered the soldiers of Hedong, Fanyang, and Pinglu, and their strength has surpassed the Khitan, Wuluo, and Pugu tribes, but Anlu Mountain was very good at judging the situation and was not in a hurry to fight Khitan and other three decisive battles, no matter how provocative the three cavalry, he did not attack, but dragged on for a whole winter!
Its main purpose, as Li Fei guessed, is that the grasslands in the cold winter are deserted, and the war horses survive the winter by relying on the forage accumulated before winter. Because the accumulated forage is limited, they must not let the war horses eat. In a short period of time, after one winter, the war horse must lose a full circle.

The Khitan, Wuluo, and Pugu tribes are all nomads, and their combat power is mainly in the cavalry and horses. If they ride thinner horses, the strength of the cavalry will naturally be reduced a lot. On the other hand, An Lushan himself has the entire army behind him. With the support of Tang's national power, there is nothing lacking, and the end of winter is the most favorable time for a decisive battle for Anlu Mountain.

"Master Jiedushi is wise! Blood debts must be paid in blood!" Lu Xin said excitedly.For him, not only the blood debt of massacring the people twice, but also the blood debt of his almost dying last time, he has to find an opportunity for the Khitan people to pay it back.

"In this way, the generals will step up training soldiers, especially cavalry, I believe they will be used soon!" Li Fei's eyes were cold.

After making the decision to stab the Khitan people in the back at the time of the decisive battle between An Lushan and Khitan, Li Fei took Anton's generals into action and made preparations in all aspects.

Since it is going to be stabbed from behind, it must be dominated by highly mobile cavalry.

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, with bows and crossbows far away, horses for sprinting, horizontal knives for fighting, and fish scale armor, are definitely the best equipped and most effective cavalry in the world today. At the beginning of the Battle of Talas, Six thousand well-equipped Tang cavalry, plus more than 2 soldiers, dare to fight hard against 12 Arab coalition forces.

Even in the face of fierce nomadic cavalry like the Khitan, the combat effectiveness of the Tang cavalry is calculated on the basis of one enemy and three.

Anton originally had more than 2000 Tang cavalry, but when Lu Xin was inspecting the border, he was attacked by Khitan Huaixiu Khan with [-] Khitan cavalry, and the [-] Tang cavalry following Lu Xin's inspection were almost wiped out. At that time, Anton's Tang cavalry had only a few hundred people left.

Now that the winter is about to pass, although Li Fei has obtained nearly ten thousand good horses from various nomads by relying on Anton shochu to make threads, among them he has selected five thousand best horses to form the five thousand Tang Anton cavalry, However, the cavalry's standard weapons were not perfect, only the armor, horizontal knives and crossbows were barely assembled, and the cavalry used less than one-seventh of the horses for charging.

During this period of time, the steelmaking workshop and the weapon workshop are rushing to work day and night, making steel and making horses and so on.

Iron is smelted into steel, and the reason is that many harmful substances in iron must be removed through smelting. In fact, in modern times, scientific judgments and applications have made iron no longer need to be smelted. steel.

When Li Fei was still in Chang'an City, after several years of continuously guiding the eight blacksmiths under his command for experiments, he had successfully passed the technique of directly tempering steel with only one or two smelting.

By reducing the number of refining steps, the output of steel can be increased dozens of times at once, making steel no more difficult than ordinary iron, and Li Fei's weapon workshop is not short of steel.

"Your Excellency Jiedushi doesn't need the steel that has been tempered a hundred times, and the horse lance he forges is no worse than the imperial court's. It's incredible." Lu Xin said with a sigh after holding a horse lance for a few times.

"Weapon Workshop has started building horses day and night a few days ago. I believe that in a few days, at least three thousand cavalry will be able to equip them." Li Fei said with a smile.

"That's really great. In this way, our Anton Cavalry will no longer have to practice sprinting with long sticks." Lu Xin smiled pleasantly.

"It should be that our Anton cavalry don't need to fight with the Khitan with long sticks. There has been news that An Lushan has assembled 20 horse infantry in the territory of the Xi people on the front line of Pingzhou. I believe that we will soon enter the Khitan and fight with the Khitan Waiting for the decisive battle between the three coalition forces, it will be our Anton cavalry's turn to attack the Khitan people. Maybe in the next few days, our Anton cavalry will also go out. For this battle, I will arrange for us Dong Tieqi is not only preparing a horse, but also two other big weapons!" Li Fei suddenly said mysteriously.

"Oh? The other two big killers mentioned by Lord Jiedushi, are they the ones that helped Lord Jiedushi defeat the Khitan cavalry attack and kill Qu Sulu last time?" Lu Xin thought very sharply, and immediately thought of Li Feilai. Anton's battle with Khitan cavalry on the road.To this day, he has never been able to figure out how Li Fei's [-] guards wearing leather armor can defeat the attack of nearly [-] elite Khitan cavalry and even kill Huaixiu Khan's general Qu Sulu , and there were not many casualties, so when Li Fei said it, he immediately thought of it.

"Not bad!" Li Fei was naturally referring to the magic arm crossbow and gunpowder.Although the two big killers are his trump cards, they should not be easily shown to others.But since Lu Xin has followed him, and Lu Xin is an important general of Anton, the magic arm crossbow and gunpowder will be equipped in Anton's army after all, it is impossible to hide Lu Xin.

"Is there really such a big killer? The subordinates can't wait to see it!" Lu Xin's eyes lit up, and his heart itched unbearably.

"You'll see it soon!" Li Fei laughed.
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(End of this chapter)