In the second year of the first year, in April, Longguan.

Standing at the steep pass and looking to the west, you can see the outline of the Great Snow Mountain. The snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all year round, like the shepherds at the foot of the mountain singing all day long, and the hearts of those shepherds are as sad as he is?

Ma Yue didn't know.

Last year, the whole of Liangzhou began to spread throughout the pre-war mobilization, and the latest batch of soldiers who were recruited have been trained in Longxian for more than a year, and they have enough to understand the meaning of the front and back, and also know what position they should stand in the battle array. Wu Changtun was filled with veterans and participated in a six-month special training for the state military strategy. If this battle is won, Ma Yue intends to make the non-commissioned officer system the norm in the future Liangzhou Army. Ordinary soldiers made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, joined the state school to study the knowledge of the military formation, and after a short period of learning about the battle formation and the royal command, they were released to the army to serve as a low-level officer.

A considerable number of tun commanders and team members who can read and write can ensure to the greatest extent that they can command the robe to change the formation according to the direction of the flag swing and the drumming of the military music in the battle, so as to kill and injure the enemy troops under the condition of protecting themselves to the greatest extent.

At present, the state school in Liangzhou has been basically formed, and a small military strategy institute has been established in the camp of the armored army to teach non-commissioned soldiers and soldiers.

This war and Jia Xu's strategic concept inspired Ma Yue's great ambition, and once upon a time a corner of Liangzhou was enough for him to satisfy.

And now, he has the determination to annex Sanfu, if he can gather the financial, material and human resources of the three counties of Guanyou, he will create a military, civil, and craftsman research and development institute in the ancient Han Dynasty.

At this moment.

Under the Longguan, the winding army marched in formation. Nearly 10,000 foot soldiers have passed through the tall pass, and the strong men in the formation have tried their best to push a heavy ballista cart unique to Liangzhou down the pass, and the Liangzhou armor-covered big ball flutters in the wind, and the knight under the army is wearing a fully armed battle armor, and the black cheeks are covered with enough to block the flowing arrows, and only a pair of cold eyes are revealed all over the body, and the tall horse led by him is also covered with heavy armor.

When these knights passed through the gates, the Han troops guarding the gate could even feel the cold of steel to the bone.

Dressed in a thirty-eight-pound black battle armor, with a twelve-pound iron-handled short axe pinned to the waist, and a Zhang'er riding spear with bamboo and wood on his shoulder, the weight of more than sixty pounds on his body made it difficult for the war horses to bear, causing them to only maintain a combination of foot and horse.

Beside each heavy horseman, he was followed by two unruly men with spears and strong bows and crossbows, these fierce Liangzhou men were wearing fourteen catties of crotch iron armor, and their arms and shoulders were protected by leather armor to ensure maximum horse shooting. Some of them had two-foot swords at their waists, others several short spears tied to their waists, and each of them carried a one-foot-wide round arm shield on his left hand. Their horses, like them, are clad in pliable leather armor.

Under the hips and feet, these cavalrymen sat on the saddle of the high bridge and stepped on the iron horses.

Originally, Ma Yue was reluctant to make these two things, because they were too easy to copy, and as long as they appeared once in war, they would appear in war forever in the future, prompting the war of the late Han Dynasty, which was dominated by foot warfare, to rapidly evolve into cavalry warfare. But when he organized the armored cavalry, he realized that it was impossible for the heavy armored knights to do without these two things. No Takahashi saddle horse could not carry such heavy armor, and no double stirrup heavy riding could not achieve real impact on horseback.

Not every war horse is a good horse, and if he wants to form a heavy cavalry unit, he can only come up with these two things.

Further back, there was a heavy infantry of thousands, their armor heavily armed like that of the heavy cavalry, but with a slightly different composition of weapons. The hoplites did not carry any long-range weapons, they had two two-foot swords at their waists, and in addition to this, they carried more than four feet of long axes on their shoulders that shimmered with cold light.

Fifty ballistae equipped with winches, shooting eight-foot spears, can shoot at a distance of 500 paces, and all men and horses can wear them. It's just that the winding is too slow, and it takes thirty breaths to get on the arrow. In actual warfare applications, deterrence is far greater than attack.

They are the trump card in the hands of Ma Yue, 5,500 people gathered in Ma Yue, gathered state assets and hard training beyond ordinary people to cast the Liangzhou armored army, for the first time with a hideous face in this world, showing the fangs in their mouths to the world.

The whole elite army has marched to the end of the city gate cave in Longguan, followed by the Liangzhou foot soldiers with heavy crossbows and strong bows and the horse team escorting the baggage, Ma Yue was reluctant to pat the newly placed strong crossbow on the female wall at this time, turned his head to look at the faces of the generals in Sichuan, wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, so he had to squeeze out a smile and arch his hand, and said: "Brothers, the little brother will lead the army to the east." ”

Ma Teng let out a sigh, the soldiers and horses trained by his third brother in the deserted military camp north of Longxian County made him feel frightened, it was not an army, it was an iron-armored beast, and they could trample a blood channel on the chaotic battlefield. But even if the third brother led such a force out of the customs, he still didn't have much confidence in this war. He said: "San Lang, think about it again, otherwise don't go out." ”

"It can't be stopped now. Yan'er and Xiaoqing were handed over to their brother to take care of. Ma Yue hugged his brother tightly, the armor on the two of them collided together and made a muffled sound, patted Ma Teng's shoulder armor hard, and said with a smile: "If the war goes well, next time you see my brother, you will be Liangzhou Mu!" ”

After that, Ma Yue said goodbye to the most Zhangjiachuan generals and took Ma Chao down the city.

Ma Teng opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.

He didn't say it, in fact, he didn't want to be a Liangzhou pastor so much in his heart. He didn't say it, in fact, he thought it was good to have a younger brother who was a Liangzhou pastor.

He didn't say that he had never had any ambition to dominate the world in his heart, and he didn't even want Ma Yue to start such a war to defend the Han family at the cost of his life.

He was afraid that people would laugh at others for being poor and short-minded, so he didn't say anything.

But he was still uneasy in his heart, he pressed hard against the female wall to look at the smiling face of Ma Yue beckoning under the city, and he suddenly remembered in his mind that day many years ago, Ma Yue wanted to go out of Zhangshan to see the world, that year he was standing in place and looking at the young little bean with a smirk on his face and waving with white teeth...... Ma Teng has always been like this, he goes wherever he is pushed by life with the flow. He did what he had to do. If there is ambition, when he was still a young man who carried a firewood knife to enlist when he saw the imperial court's recruitment list, he wanted to go home alive and drink a bowl of bad wine brewed in the depths of winter; When he became a county lieutenant, he hoped to train the county soldiers in a decent manner; When Han Sui rebelled, he hoped that he could block Han Sui's attack, and if he couldn't stop him, he would save his life and follow the rebellion.

It's just that he has a younger brother who serves in the court, and he doesn't dare and can't rebel, so he fights with Han Sui to the end.

His younger brother is not like him.

He stood there from afar and watched his brother wave goodbye to him, while his brother always longed for the bigger world. It's just that now the tall locust tree has become a towering city, and more than 50 outlaw caravan guards have become more than 20,000 elite and powerful Liangzhou warriors.

The army meandered through it, so far away that only a vague shadow could be seen, and the black daze could not be seen. Ma Teng turned his head, pretended to wave easily, and said, "Go home!" ”

The generals of Liangzhou walked down from Longguan in a noisy manner, Ma Play pulled him two steps behind, and just when he was puzzled, Ma Play stood on tiptoe and whispered a sentence in his ear, which made the smile on his face instantly freeze.

"Brother, Li Zhan didn't return to his station that day, and now the bandits under him have exploded." Ma Wan said that he carefully glanced at Cheng Yin Chengyi and the others in front of him, but fortunately they were still shocked by the armor army formed by Ma Yue, and no one looked back for the time being, so Ma Yu continued: "On the day San Lang left, I saw that the ranger named Sun Yi who led seven or eight Guifeng out of Sichuan. ”

Ma Teng's eyes widened suddenly, and in the blink of an eye, he returned to normal, took a long breath and glanced at Ma Yu, and said in an almost inaudible voice: "Monkey, don't tell anyone about this." ”

Ma Yu suppressed his voice and said: "I know this, the key is what to do with those horse bandits, no one will be a scourge sooner or later!" ”

Ma Teng glanced at Ma To, shook his head and sighed: "San Lang's heart is really ...... Ruthless. ”

"Even if San Lang doesn't kill, I'll do it when I go back to find an opportunity this time, that bastard dares to use a knife with me!" Ma Yu looked angry, and when he walked to the city, he turned his head and asked: "San Lang is gone, what to do later, the old brothers will know sooner or later." ”

Ma Teng took two steps with a calm face, and then said: "Go back, your jurisdiction is close to Li Zhan, find some reason to level his piece, and kill all the horse bandits." ”

"No!"

After that, Ma Teng turned his head again and ordered: "Remember to find someone about the same size and pull your face off...... You know how to do it, right? ”

"Don't worry, big brother, I know how to do this." Ma Yu nodded, and said with a vicious and greedy smile on his face: "Then his defense belongs to me, right?" ”

Ma Teng nodded heavily, let out a sigh, and suddenly hooked Ma To's shoulder and laughed loudly, causing the generals in front to look back. Cheng Yin took off the felt hat on his head and asked, "What's so interesting, big brother will also tell us." ”

"Fang Cai asked Ma Monkey, what would happen if the enemy on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang was an armored army like San Lang's subordinates." Ma Teng said with a sneer on his face: "Do you know what the monkey said? Monkey, you tell them, what did you say? ”

Ma Yu squinted his eyes and glanced at Ma Teng, and said with a bored face: "That's it, what's so funny, I said I can beat a few I don't know......"

"You can blow the horse monkey, how many can you fight, I don't think you can beat any of them!"

"What about the back? What about the back? ”

A group of Liangzhou men coaxed on the side, and Ma Yu said angrily: "If you want to deal with such a monster, you can smash me to death by pulling people off the horse with a suit of armor, where can I see them beating me!" ”

"Hahahaha!"

The Liangzhou horses galloped in early spring, and the hearty laughter of the Liangren men spread far away in the grassland.