69. Siwa cavalry

"General Chen, you also practice together."

"What?!" Chen Yong was taken aback, he knew that he was a general who did not live up to his name, he had never exercised at all on weekdays, where could he endure this kind of suffering, so Zhiwu said, "Lord Wang, I will ...... when I think of me."

"Hurry up and get the โ–กโ–ก." Yu Junyan didn't wait for him to finish before interrupting, "This king doesn't want you to be the first person to lose his head." โ€

Chen Yong was frightened by his words, although he felt that he had the support of the Queen Mother, he didn't dare to do anything to himself, but judging from the situation that he easily killed two people just now, this King of You'an County is simply killed, and the emperor sent him to Shaliucheng, which is a dead end with no return, listen to him, as long as this battle with the Xiwa people is lost, he will pull everyone here to do the funeral, and when the time comes, he will die horizontally and vertically, and the fish will die and the net will be broken, what will he be afraid of, the queen mother, the emperor, It seems that if he doesn't help him defend Shaliu City this time, he will also die here.

Yu Junyan no longer paid attention to Chen Yong, โ–กโ–ก picked and stabbed one by one, and shouted angrily: "Kill!" โ€

"Kill! Kill! Kill! โ€

Everyone shouted together, and for two whole hours, Yu Junyan even waved the height of the โ–กโ–ก, which made everyone admire that this thin-looking prince had such good arm strength. During this period, a few soldiers stopped, and Yu Junyan killed them as he said, and the rest of the people didn't even blink their eyes when they watched him kill, so frightened that they couldn't even get out of the atmosphere, gritted their teeth and waved the weapons in their hands.

When he returned to the room after the exercise, Chen Yong was so tired that he couldn't even hold the brush, he felt that if he continued the same, he would definitely be tortured to death in Shaliu City, and wanted to write a letter to the Queen Mother for help, but there were people around the city gate who met Junyan, in case he intercepted the letter, I am afraid that he would carry a sword to ask for his life at that time. Chen Yong thought about it for a long time, threw the brush on the table, and he began to regret that he shouldn't have taken such a hot potato, instead of filling his stomach, he scalded his mouthful of bubbles.

"You're very angry today." Su Yuheng leaned against the wall and looked at Yu Junyan, who was washing his hands, and said, "You killed five people on the first day you came to Shaliu City, and those soldiers looked at you as if they were monsters. โ€

Yu Junyan said lightly: "To rectify the army, we must first establish military prestige and strict military discipline, those people are used to being casual, if I don't kill chickens and monkeys, where can I expect them to go into battle to kill the enemy in the future?" โ€

Su Yuheng said with a smile: "Your chicken-killing monkey not only set an example of those monkeys and monkeys, but even Chen Yong, a big horse monkey, was scared by you." Looking at his appearance today, โ–กโ–ก swinging like a sentence, but he didn't dare to stop, and he felt funny when he thought about it. โ€

Yu Junyan gently flicked Su Yuheng's head with his wet hand that was not wiped: "I can't laugh at all in the current situation." The foundation of the ironclad army is even thinner than I imagined, and if it goes on like this, how can it be the opponent of those Siwa cavalry. โ€

Su Yuheng asked, "Are those Xiwa cavalry difficult to deal with?" Gives you such a headache? โ€

Yu Junyan nodded and said, "The people of Xiwa grew up in the steppe, and it is said that the people there, both men and women, have grown up on horseback for as long as they can remember. When the men there reach a certain age, they will select and tame a horse of their own from the herd, and then they will grow up with the horses and horses, intimate, for them, the horse is their legs, so on the battlefield, they sit on horseback and charge into battle with two swords, as if their legs are as flexible as they are, and compared to them, the number of horses in the Yuan Kingdom is far less than that of Xiwa, and our cavalry will only run in with the war horse before going into battle to kill the enemy, so they are not their opponents at all. โ€

Su Yuheng frowned and said, "According to what you said, there is no possibility of victory for our cavalry to fight head-on." What if the sword goes off the rails? You think, the road from Xiwa to Shaliucheng is long, and they must need a large supply of food and grass for long-distance combat. โ€

Yu Junyan said: "You are right about this, the so-called soldiers and horses do not move the grain and grass first, and the biggest hidden danger in long-distance combat is that the grain and grass transportation cannot keep up, but nomads like Xiwa, their food is very different from ours." โ€

"Oh? What's the difference? Su Yuheng was a little strange, and suddenly asked as if he remembered something, "By the way, what did you once make in the palace...... What the...... Jerky? โ€

"Yes, that's it." Yu Junyan replied, "The Xiwa people marinate the meat with salt and spices, and then dry the marinated meat into jerky, so that the meat will not spoil for a long time, and the staple food is also something similar to baked dried bread." This kind of dry food is not easy to spoil and is easy to carry, and each of their cavalry can easily carry a few months of dry food before going on the march, and can drink mare's milk if they are thirsty, so we must be able to withstand their attack before their grain and grass are exhausted. โ€

Su Yuheng frowned and said: "Our horses naturally can't be compared with the horses on the grassland, so even if they are consumed by the Xiwa people, they will not have any advantage at all." โ€

Su Yuheng picked up the brush and drew on the paper: "What if you don't ride a horse?" โ€

"That's even more unacceptable." Yu Junyan took the brush from Su Yuheng's hand, drew it on the paper, and denied, "You see, their cavalry is like this, the blade is outward, holding the knife on the horse, riding the horse and rushing forward, once our soldiers are not riding, the position where they hold the knife is just right to cut off the heads of the soldiers!" โ€

Su Yuheng looked at the sketch drawn by Yu Junyan and muttered in a low voice: "How familiar does this picture look like...... I'd like I'd seen it...... By the way, if you're fighting on a horse, it's easier to use a knife than a โ–กโ–ก, right? โ€

Yu Junyan nodded: "That's a good thing to say, but an inch is short and an inch is dangerous, I'm worried that the casualties will be even more severe." โ€

Su Yuheng saw that Yu Junyan was quite tired after a day of practice, so he didn't continue to ask, and pulled him to the bed early to rest.

At night, Su Yuheng had a dream, in the dream he went back to his childhood, that year, he was inexplicably seriously ill, during the sick bedridden, his sister would come to visit him every day, until one day, his sister did not come, he thought that his sister was delayed, and he would definitely come to see him the next day, but after waiting for another day, his sister still did not come, and later, he learned from the mouth of the next person that his sister drowned and could no longer come to see him......

Suddenly, there was a dazzling white light in front of her, Su Yuheng was forced to cover her eyes, and when the white light disappeared, Su Yuheng opened her eyes and found herself standing on her sister's mourning hall. My father and mother cried together, and my young self didn't seem to understand the meaning of life and death, but when I saw my parents crying, I unconsciously cried. He stepped forward to touch his sister's face one last time, but was disappointed to find that he couldn't touch her at all.

"Dreams, always dreams......"

Su Yuheng sighed softly, walked out of the mourning hall, and a light rain suddenly fell in the sky, and the rain passed through his body and fell to the ground, proving that this place was an illusion that did not belong to him.

Continuing to move forward, Su Yuheng saw a ruined temple.

"Strange, there shouldn't be a temple at the door of the house, right ......" Su Yuheng was talking to herself, a small figure holding an umbrella passed through her body and hurriedly ran towards the broken temple, Su Yuheng followed behind and walked in, and saw a familiar figure. An emaciated old beggar leaned against the wall, while his young self was serving the same meal from a bamboo basket.

"Master, eat it while it's hot."

"I'm not your master." The old beggar spoke, hoarse and harsh, worse than the sound of sawing wood, and it was thought that the shocking wound in his neck had damaged his vocal cords.

The young Su Yuheng looked up at the old beggar and said seriously: "You teach me kung fu, you are my master!" โ€

The old beggar shook his head and said, "You saved my life, and often brought me food and clothing, you are my benefactor, I taught you kung fu, just to repay your kindness." โ€

"But...... If I don't call you Master, what will I call you? โ€

"I'm a beggar, so just call me a beggar."

"How's that going to work?!" The young Su Yuheng felt that such a name was too disrespectful, and tilted his head and thought, "I want to think about it......"

Su Yuheng chuckled: "Let's call it senior." โ€

"I'll call you senior!" The young Su Yuheng patted his thigh and said.

The old beggar couldn't see the change in expression on his face, but nodded slightly: "Whatever you want." โ€

How could a good person dream of this. Su Yuheng thought silently in her heart, dreaming of her parents and sisters, dreaming of her predecessors, could it be that I am really homesick?

Su Yuheng looked at his young self being instructed by his predecessors to do kung fu one by one, and he walked casually in the broken temple, and suddenly saw a few pieces of crumpled paper on the bedding that his predecessors had laid out on the ground for sleeping, and some lines were simply drawn on them, and the appearance of those lines was ......

"That's right!" Su Yuheng woke up suddenly, and his shout startled Yu Junyan, who was sleeping beside him.

"What's wrong? What's right? Yu Junyan got up and asked.

Su Yuheng didn't have time to explain to him, got up and walked to the bookcase, lit the candle, picked up a brush and drew on the paper.

"Yuheng, what are you drawing?" Yu Junyan got up curiously, put on his coat and walked over, and when he saw Su Yuheng's graffiti on the paper, his face immediately became solemn, "Yuheng, what are you?" โ€

After Su Yuheng finished the picture, he unfolded it in front of Yu Junyan: "Jun Yan, look, if this is the case, will our soldiers be able to resist those Xiwa cavalry?" โ€