Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 688

"kill!"

Zhang Dawei led [-] cavalry without forming a wedge-shaped charge, and nearly a quarter of the nearly [-] soldiers gathered hastily gathered by Gedo's troops fell off their horses or were killed or injured before the battle. Under the one-sided firepower that ordered to shoot two rounds of long-range bows and arrows, Gedobu had lost most of its archery counterattack ability. In the remaining three rounds of shooting, it was difficult for Gedobu's sparse arrows to shoot. What effect will it have on Zhang Dawei's armored cavalry.

Zhang Dawei's formation of [-] iron cavalry was neat and uniform, and they didn't use the formation to break the formation, because Zhang Dawei believed that there was no need to break the formation at all when dealing with the army in front of him, all he needed to do was slaughter.Therefore, the entire team formed a month arc to hide and kill.

Tashi Dorje was not dead yet. He was shot by an arrow in his left shoulder and right chest. While using his legs to firmly control the horse that was also hit by the arrow and was jumping anxiously, he struggled to pull out his saber. , thinking of his son who had just turned one month old, he raised his head to the sky and roared: "I fought them..."

Tashi Dorji's life ended with this roar. Zhang Dawei led the cavalry to within fifty steps, and they were also rushing forward, and they were about to enter hand-to-hand combat.However, the nightmare of the Gedobu fighters was not over yet. With Zhang Dawei's order, [-] cavalry suddenly replaced their strong bows with strong crossbows, and a wave of crossbow bolts roared towards the Gedobu soldiers like lightning.

At such a short distance, the speed of the arrows of the crossbow is much faster than that of the arrows of the strong bow, and it is more difficult to dodge.

What's more, most of the Gedobu fighters didn't even have shields at all. Before Tashi Dorje could finish his shout, two crossbow arrows pierced his chest and abdomen respectively. He screamed and fell to the buttocks of his horse. He was jumping in pain when he hit the crossbow arrow, lost control, his feet flew backwards, and kicked the dead body of Tashi Dorje about a foot away.

"kill!"

Zhang Dawei drew out his long sword, and the cavalry around him drew out their swords and spears in response, and were ready to charge.They all carry bows on their left, arrows on their right, and iron shields on their saddles, but the iron shields are completely useless now, and they only need to do the final cleaning of the weapons in their hands.

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About a thousand cavalry gathered by Gedo's Department, before they could meet Zhang Dawei's soldiers, most of them were dead, less than [-]. Looking at the roaring Yanzhou iron cavalry, they were already pale, terrified and desperate.

At this time, the chief of the Gedo tribe was terrified, and issued another extremely stupid order-to let the Gedo tribe soldiers turn their horses and flee, but compared with the Yanzhou cavalry who rushed over, they turned around in this situation. Running away, there is no speed advantage, and they are quickly caught up, and they are abandoned in the Gobi grassland by the most stupid way of death for a cavalry——they were hacked to death from behind.

Zhang Dawei gave an order, and the 220 iron cavalry quickly divided into two wings like flowing water, and completely surrounded the more than [-] tents.While Zhang Dawei was riding, he led a hundred cavalry towards the central army, where all the tribesmen of the Gedo tribe were gathering there under the pressure of the four knights.

The women and children held their children's hands and obeyed the orders silently. They grew up in the northwest wilderness where the weak preyed on the strong. They were used to slaughter and plunder. Many of them plundered from other tribes and became part of this tribe. members of the people.

The gray-haired elder of the Gedo tribe stood in front of the tribe with tears in his eyes, opened his arms, and walked forward step by step. After ten steps away, he knelt down on the snow in front of Zhang Dawei with a bang, and wept bitterly: "I am the patriarch of the Geduo tribe. I led people to rob the salt well, killed the officials of the salt department, and offended the great King Xiangfu. My family is willing to die. Please be merciful to the general and spare my people's lives!"

Zhang Dawei put away the long knife and shouted loudly: "Since you have committed suicide, don't blame my prince for being cruel."

The old patriarch touched his head to the ground and kowtowed again and again, his forehead was slammed and bleeding.At this moment, he really regretted it to death, hated his old Han friend to death, that old friend said that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty would never sit back and watch Xiangfu King occupy the eight states in the northwest, he was persuaded by that old friend Now, when he thought about it, although Ye Chen was powerful, he did not belong to his own real army after all. The party's [-] cavalry were just borrowed. The power of Song Dynasty had already been deeply rooted in his heart. It would have to be wiped out, so under the persuasion of that old friend, he didn't want to surrender to Ye Chen at all.

In his mind, since that Xiangfu king had formed a deadly feud with the Emperor of Song Dynasty, it would be difficult for him to last long. He had already figured out that when the army of Song Dynasty arrived, his tribe would clearly stand on the side of Song Dynasty, and even send troops at the right time Helping Song Dynasty will definitely bring a lot of benefits, and it is even very possible to take the salt well that has been snatched for himself.However, he didn't expect that a single thought would lead to the disaster of extermination of the family, but it was too late to regret it at this time.

Zhang Dawei was too lazy to chat with him, waved his hand, and said calmly: "Chop off his pig's head."

Immediately, a cavalry dismounted from his horse and came forward with a bloody saber. The surrounding Yanzhou cavalry armed with sabers robbed the tiger, and none of the Gedo tribe men and women dared to act rashly.They watched as the knight came forward, raised the knife in his hand, chopped off the head of the family head, grabbed his hair, lifted the head up, and threw it in front of them.

Zhang Dawei said again: "All the men who are taller than the wheel are killed, and then all the weapons, felt tents, cattle, sheep, horses, and people of wealth will be brought back to Yanzhou!"

Half an hour later, most of the Geduo tribe were killed, and a small number of them fled before Zhang Dawei formed a siege.

At this point, the Geduo tribe has disappeared from the mountain depression, and everything has been swept away. Only pieces of blood and miserable corpses remained in the grassland
Under the feet of Zhang Dawei's lieutenant, Zhou Yu, there was a large area of ​​blood stained the sand. It was late autumn and early winter, but flies from nowhere were stubbornly spreading on the blood, like a black blanket.

A tired head came over, clasped his fists to Zhou Yu and said, "General, we have already intercepted and killed 160 seven Geduo people!"

Zhou Yu nodded, and said, "It's been more than two hours since there was any trace of the Gedo tribe, neither the children nor the woman."

Zhou Yu kicked the sand on the ground, startling a large swarm of flies, and waited until the cloud-like swarm of flies landed again: "Search a hundred miles to the east, and go all the way north after arriving at the Geduo tribe. Wait for another day, if If there is no fish that slipped through the net, we will return to Yanzhou directly to report."

Dutou bowed and said yes, and then went to convey Zhou Yu's order.

Zhou Yu led [-] cavalry to the place where the vultures were circling, opened the skirmish line and swept across.

Where vultures hover, there are bound to be dead bodies. All carnivores on the wasteland know this truth, but many humans who don't know vultures don't know it.However, Zhou Yu knew about it, so what he drove out the most were not people, but groups of wild wolves and various wild beasts.

Zhou Yu is extremely clever in this point——using these driven beasts as the forwards, he formed a very different forward spy.

You know, with the existence of these wild beasts, those Moge tribe Tibetans hiding in the grass or behind the hills have nothing to hide... There are no beasts in the wilderness with bad noses. Zhou Yu and the others can only rely on their eyes. However, these wild beasts can be discovered by the Gedo tribe people in various ways.

The most important thing is that the goals of these beasts are exactly the same as Zhou Yu's goals. Even if some clever beasts flee to both sides, they will be deterred by the cavalry with bows and arrows and continue to follow the established route.

In the past three years, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Huaxia Weifu has achieved business throughout the world, especially directly monopolizing some industries, making money continuously every day and every month.When Zhao Kuangyin was alive, Ye Chen had to give half of the profit to Zhao Kuangyin to enrich the internal treasury.Now, of course, this huge sum of money no longer needs to be handed over to Zhao Dezhao, it can be said that he has accumulated a huge wealth.After conquering the five states, they obtained a large amount of savings from the treasury of the five states, and at the same time, the gold mines in the Sancha Valley were continuously mined. It stands to reason that there should be no shortage of money.

However, it is not.

First of all, three thousand Huaxia Guards, killers, more than 2000 well-organized spies, and some civil and military officials followed Ye Chen to the Northwest, which is a barren place compared to the Central Plains and Jiangnan. To build a home, according to different levels, houses and houses are of different sizes, whether to build or buy, the cost of this alone is more than 200 million.

Secondly, 60 Dangxiang cavalry left Hengshan Grassland, ran for 200 miles, killed three or four thousand, and worked hard to take down the five states. As a result, they were not only prevented from robbing food, silver, and all kinds of property, they were also not allowed to play with women , and in the eyes of the hatred of the Han people, while forcibly controlling his anger and murderous intentions, he helped Ye Chen garrison the Qizhou for nearly two months, and then Ye Chen asked them to guard the gold mine for him, deterring the six The military stronghold is still under guard in the northwest frontier.Although, during this process, the two overlords of the party, Tuoba Gelu and Li Guangshun, forcibly suppressed it, but if Ye Chen didn't provide enough food, silver, and supplies as rewards, even Tuoba Gelu and Li Guangshun would find it difficult to suppress it. Thousands of fierce soldiers will inevitably mutiny over time, and the consequences will be unimaginable, not to mention that the Holy Church is secretly watching, and will never let go of the opportunity to use methods such as demagogy, provocation, and spreading rumors.In short, Ye Chen gave a considerable reward to the [-] party cavalry.Specifically, Ye Chen borrowed from the mercenary system of later generations to give [-] party cavalry a monthly commission of [-] guan, and allowed them to buy and sell food, clothes and other daily necessities in the eight states at will and send them back to the tribe.It has been more than three months now, which means nearly [-] million expenditures.

(End of this chapter)