Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 476 Wilderness Encounter

These recruits recruited in the border area, as Zhongping said, do not have the concept of a country, but they have the concept of a group.

As a disciplined force, the most important thing is of course discipline.

In three days, 500 people were recruited from the Huayin area and around Haoshuichuan, plus the Xixia soldiers who had surrendered, a total of more than [-] people.

Five thousand new recruits were all settled in the heavy cavalry camp outside the city. For the time being, Qin Ming led [-] heavy cavalry and [-] light cavalry for intensive training.

Good Shuichuan City was handed over to Lin Chong for defense. Lin Chong and Qin Ming echoed each other, and the food and grass were sufficient, which can be said to be as solid as gold.

Chai Lin, Wu Yong, Pang Wanchun, Lu Da and others led the personal army battalion, the light cavalry battalion, plus [-] light cavalry from Zhongping, more than [-] people and [-] horses, rushed to Liangzhou Prefecture.

Liangzhou is an important city in Xixia, guarding the main route of the Silk Road, where the grasslands are fertile, the land is fertile, and the population is relatively large.

When the army went out, Zhong Ping volunteered and Niu Gao led the cavalry to explore the road ahead. The horses rode in rotation, and all the small luggage was on horseback.

A group of people travel very fast, 120 miles a day.

Camping at night is also different from the usual army. There is no need for fences, just dig a few and bury tree stumps, and pull barbed wire to finish the job.

But this kind of barbed wire is extremely difficult to deal with. Once a cavalry does not know how to break in, it is difficult to get out.

Along the way, the caravan followed like a shadow, selling cattle, sheep, and grain in large quantities.

Chai Lin and others carried a large amount of seized gold and silver, and the camel team of the cooperative caravan was eager to sell supplies to the Cangzhou Army.Marching all the way, there is no shortage of supplies.

Along the way, Zhong Ping was very surprised.

Said: "Niu Xianfeng, why are your prairie horses so powerful, they can really run. There is enough energy for more than 100 miles a day."

Niu Gao was very proud: "See, our dark horses are the fastest running horses on the prairie. Their iron-shoeed horses are too small."

"Iron hoof horses are relatively short, but they run really fast, but I think iron hoof horses are weak, and light cavalry can only wear light armor."

"Report, enemy troops are found ahead."

A group of cavalry ran back, and a cloud of smoke and dust billowed in the northwest direction.

Woo hoo, hoo hoo.

The whirring of horns is shocking.

The enemy who came was about [-] cavalry, fighting the banner of Xixia.

Niu Gao took a telescope to observe carefully. This group of people were riding horses, wearing sheepskins, and holding machetes or simple maces in their hands.Very few were equipped with bows and arrows.

Zhong Ping said, "Let me see."

He took Niu Gao's binoculars to watch carefully, and said: "This is the conscripts of Xixia, that is, a team of herdsmen. They have no armor, and they don't even have many bows and arrows."

Niu Gao yelled: "Brothers, come to work, get ready for the crossbow, and give them a bath first."

Zhongping's two hundred cavalry are the elite of the Western Army, and they can also ride and shoot. Although they don't have crossbows, they have bows and arrows.

The group turned around and ran eastward slowly.

The two hundred Xixia soldiers, thinking that the Song people were going to escape, laughed wildly one by one.

Kind of puzzled, but this is not easy to ask.

After all, the tactics of the Western Army are different from those of the Cangzhou Army.

A group of people deliberately slowed down the speed of the horse, and the Xixia people followed behind.

Everyone twisted their waists while running, raised the steel arm crossbow in their hands, turned around and shot.

Puff puff puff, puff puff.

Arrows rained down.

Five hundred against two hundred, plus the arrows shot by Zhongping's two hundred cavalry.

In just one round, one hundred and twenty Xixia soldiers fell.

Just now I thought that the Song people had escaped, but now I know that I have been fooled, and seventy or eighty Xixia cavalrymen turned around and ran away under the rain of arrows.

run?where to run.

Niu Gao led his men to hang up their crossbows and change their bows, chasing after the enemy and shooting.

Moreover, the five hundred cavalry's arrows are too scary, and the accuracy of Pegasus reaches 30.00%.

That is to say, if you shoot three arrows, one will hit the enemy.

A mere seventy or eighty enemies were wiped out in one round of cavalry and shooting.

Only the ownerless horses were left on the battlefield, wandering there at a loss.

Looking at my own side, no one was killed in battle, only a few wounded by arrows were being bandaged.

Niu Gao whistled, a centurion went forward to check, and two centurions stood guard.

The two centurions went down to clean the battlefield, and the horses and weapons were seized, which belonged to luggage and had to be turned in.

But the gold, silver and soft things that the enemy carried with him were all put in the baggage.There are not many, and there are three burdens of gold and silver.Quite a lot.

Niu Gao said: "We can't let the brothers in the Western Army laugh at us for being unjust, kind brothers, let the brothers share this burden. We share the rest."

It is commendable that the gold, silver and soft are all so harmonious and there is no fight.

Niu Gao didn't get any points, Zhong Ping was curious and asked, "Brother Niu, why don't you get some."

Niu Gao curled his lips and said: "It's all floating money. The capture of these two hundred horses will reward each of them with a few taels of silver. But we don't fight for money. We have to follow our brother for the country, for the nation, and for the sake of the country." Our children and grandchildren will open up a wider living space."

"This, how is this possible. Is your Cangzhou Army so rich?"

"It's more than rich. The rice of the Cangzhou Army is piled up like a beach, and the salt of the Cangzhou Army is piled up like a hill. A young general like me has three hundred acres of rice fields, which can produce two rice crops a year. It's more than 30 catties. My mother and I are the only two in my family, and we don't do anything every day and don't worry about food and drink." Niu Gao said with a grin.

The so-called Chong Ping wanted to beat him. It was not easy to eat a meal of sorghum noodles and steamed buns from the Western Army all year round. The rice in the south of the Yangtze River was good, but the transportation was troublesome, whether it was from Huguang or Sichuan.

According to the map of the caravan, fifty miles ahead is Liangzhou City.

Niu Gaoxun sent people to find a place with a more suitable water source, arranged to cut down trees, and waited for the army to arrive so they could light a fire for cooking.

In the previous battle, more than 20 Xixia people were captured.

These are all at the herdsman level, without such strong willpower, they all surrendered.

Under interrogation, it turned out that Liangzhou city guards sent them over to spy.

I usually heard that Song people were cowardly, and thousands of people would be chased by hundreds of Xixia people, so their generals wanted to capture hundreds of war horses. This is how the scene just happened. Unexpectedly, they kicked on the stone slab, causing heavy casualties. Almost all were shot to death with bows and arrows.

These herdsmen admire the strong, and when they see those who are more ruthless than them, they behave like cats.

"Send a small team to meet the army and come to station. Let's make some hot soup here first."

"Yes."

The march of the brigade was not so fast, and by the time they caught up, the sun was already in the west.

Niu Gao came to report and said: "Liangzhou City is another fifty miles away. In the afternoon, we fought with a small cavalry team from Xixia, wiped out 180 enemies, and captured [-] horses and several weapons."

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(End of this chapter)