In June of the second year of Jingping of the Wu Dynasty, the situation in the world was in a period of temporary stability and recovery.

After the Jurchens captured Bianliang and plundered a large number of slaves and resources to return to the north, they were digesting and summarizing these resources. Zhang Bangchang, the "Great Chu" emperor who was forced to come to power by the Jurchens, did not dare to covet the emperor's position, and after the Jurchens went, together with a large number of courtiers, abandoned Bianliang and went south, wanting to choose the remnants of the Wu Dynasty as the new emperor.

The departure of the Jurchens did not calm the situation in the north, and the north of the Yellow River was already in turmoil. Sensing that the situation was not right, many of the Wu Dynasty people began to migrate south with their families, slowing them down slightly from the ripe wheat.

As for the many big households north of the Yellow River, those who can go and those who can't go have begun to plan and plan for the future, some of them colluded with the surrounding armies, and some began to support the armed forces to build a private army to save the dead. Among them, there are those who are private and public, and most of them are out of helplessness. Waves of such and such local forces gradually took shape in the northern land under the condition that the imperial court turned a blind eye.

Anyone can see that since the Jurchens went south twice, and even after breaking through Bianliang, the Wu Dynasty no longer had substantial control over the area south of Yanmen Pass and north of the Yellow River. may be able to control the words for a while, but as soon as the Jurchens come, the courage of the military in this place has been broken, and there is no possibility of holding on.

The wheat is about to be harvested, the rice is almost finished, and the emperor who is about to come to power has become a new expectation in the hearts of the people. After the Wu Dynasty experienced such a great humiliation, I hope that he can select talents, make great efforts, and revitalize the national body, and after Cai Jing, Tong Guan and other forces that have been entrenched in the court for many years go, the remnants of the Wu Dynasty The court does have the possibility and space to cheer up, a large number of scholars, and folk warriors. began to run again, hoping to be able to work from the dragon and show his ambitions. Even many people who were originally reclusive, seeing that the state affairs were in danger, have also gone out of the mountains one after another, wanting to revitalize the Wu Dynasty. Make suggestions.

And during this time, people choose about two directions. One is Yingtianfu, which is located east of Bianliang, and the other is Jiangning, which is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

At this time, after the ravages of the Jurchens, Bianliang, the original capital of the Wu Dynasty, was already in a mess. The walls were destroyed, a large number of fortifications were destroyed, in fact. The Jurchens have left since April because there are too many dead people in Bianliang and the epidemic has begun to appear. This ancient city is no longer suitable for the capital, and some officials in the north are interested in rebuilding the court as the capital of the Wu Dynasty at this time. On the other hand, King Kang Zhou Yong, who was about to ascend the throne as emperor, originally lived in Jiangning Mansion, and now everyone is waiting to see where the core of the new court will be placed.

It's a vast world. The Wu Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom are the two sides in the center of the world. Careerists and real power are bustling around, waiting for the next change in the situation, waiting for the game between the two great powers to play again, and the people are looking forward to a longer peace in the cracks of this little tranquility. And on the margins of the unnoticed mainstream, a battle is going on.

Northwest. Gyeongju, Dong Zhiyuan, the oldest birthplace of Chinese farming civilization, is endless. The iron hooves flew like thunder.

Cloudy, ironclad cavalry. It's coming like a giant wall!

Hirayama Iron Harrier.

One of the most terrifying heavy cavalry of all time, the foundation of the Western Xia Dynasty. The total number of heavy cavalry is about 3,000, all men and horses are wearing iron armor, since the establishment of this heavy cavalry by Li Yuanhao, the king of Western Xia, it symbolizes not only the strongest force in Western Xia, but also the nobility and traditional symbols belonging to the party clan. Three thousand iron armor, father to son, son to grandson, from generation to generation, they are nobles, officers, and the country.

For Meile, the big leader of the Iron Harrier, the battle in front of him is not the most difficult battle that the Iron Harrier has encountered, and what will be carried out is just an unremarkable confrontation. The bandit army that came out of the mountains angered Li Qianshun, and more than 70,000 people in the Western Xia camp had begun to pull out the camp and march eastward, but they did not come for this army, but after the loss of Yanzhou, the Western Xia high-level had to give up the plan to immediately advance westward.

Prior to this, the Western Xia had been pressed by the breeder for 20 years, and Li Qianshun was able to open up the situation in the northwest in one war, and the Western Xia had a faint trend of revival. However, this momentum was only halfway through, and after being stabbed from behind, the anger in Li Qianshun's heart can be imagined.

Over the years, because of the combat power of the Iron Harrier, the cavalry developed in Western Xia has long exceeded 3,000, but the real elite among them is the aristocratic team that is the core of the Iron Harrier. Li Qianshun sent his sister out to settle the chaos in the rear in the first battle, so that many Xiaoxiao did not dare to make trouble. Since leaving the Xixia camp, Meile led the cavalry under her command without the slightest delay, all the way to the direction of Yanzhou.

On the morning of 23 June, the two armies met on the edge of Dong Zhiyuan.

Neither the cavalry nor the oncoming Black Flag Army slowed down. At the end of the field of vision, the two armies can see each other like a black line extended, the sky is overcast, the banner hunting, the scout light cavalry released has experienced several fights before seeing the opponent's main force, and after the defeat of the Yanzhou army, the iron harrier went all the way east, and encountered all the rout troops from the east, they also knew that this army of 10,000 people from the mountains was an out-and-out bandit enemy.

This kind of cognition did not have much effect on the general of the Iron Harrier, and when he noticed that the other party was actually killing bravely in this direction, in addition to saying a bold word, it could only be said that this army was stunned by repeated victories - he was not without doubts in his heart, in order to prevent the other party from manipulating the terrain, Meile ordered the whole army to detour for five miles, turn in one direction, and then charge slowly towards the other side.

I saw that on the other side of the field of vision, the army of the black flag was in a strict formation, the spears in the front row were lined up, and the soldiers in the front row held the giant blades of the horses, and walked towards the iron harrier step by step, the steps were as neat as if stepping on the heartbeat of a person.

When the two armies faced each other like this, in fact, as a general, there was not much choice but to charge - at the very least, the Iron Harrier especially had no choice.

There are many things that are decided, often without giving much time. Everything in the past few days has been fast-paced, the Black Flag Army's Yanzhou is an incomparably fast pace, the killing all the way is an incomparably fast pace, and Meile's attack is an incomparably fast pace, the meeting of the two sides. It's falling into this rhythm. The other party did not hesitate to set up a front-facing formation, and his morale was high. As a heavy cavalry, the iron harrier faced a formation of mainly infantry on the terrain of Dong Zhiyuan, and if they chose to hesitate, then they would not have to fight in the future.

What's more, the tactics of the Western Xia Iron Harrier have never been too exquisite. Once you encounter an enemy, gather in small groups and charge towards the opponent's formation. In the case of not too harsh terrain, no army can hold back the crushing of such heavy cavalry head-on.

The trumpet blowing in the opponent's formation first lit the fuse, Meile looked at her, waved her hand and ordered, and then, the horn of the charge sounded in the Western Xia military formation. Immediately, the iron hooves galloped. Faster and faster, like a huge wall, thousands of iron horsemen rolled up the dust on the ground, and the sound of hooves roared, and the mountains and seas came.

The front was about to step into a stone's throw away, and Sisterle faintly saw the opposing army running backwards in the rear, and he felt that something was wrong. But at such a distance, if there is really a trap ahead. The Iron Harrier is not without the ability to change formations or directly rush to the past. And the other party turned around, and his sharpness had been lost. As soon as the distance passed, the other side was to experience slaughter - in the past, he had not seen such whimsical enemies who made the army turn around and then push away the horses, and often died more quickly.

Something flew in the sky. And then it fell......

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Half an hour ago, the Black Flag Army.

Gao Lei walked forward while rubbing the tip of the spear with the stone chip in his hand, and at this time, the spear was so sharp that it could reflect light.

Front, back, left and right. They were all running companions, and he handed the stone chips in his hand to the companions next to him, and he also unloaded the spear and waved his hand to polish it.

They all knew that it would not be long before they would face the Iron Harriers of Western Xia.

"Lao Tzu is in Yanzhou and killed three people." The bluestone of the sharpening knife intersected with the tip of the spear, making a clear sound, and the companion next to him rubbed it a few times, handed the stone chip to the person on the other side, and spoke to Gao Lei in his mouth, "You said that you can kill an iron harrier this time?" ”

"After Xia Village, have we ever been afraid of anyone?" Gao Lei lowered his head and said, his voice dull. At this time, the blood veins in his whole body were moving, he felt a sudden sound in his head, and his vision trembled slightly. Running is purely instinctive, and everyone in front of you, left and right, almost like that. You can't do it without running.

Since they killed through Yanzhou once, what they will face next is not a miscellaneous army, but this world-famous heavy cavalry. There is a nervousness brewing in everyone's hearts, but there is a pride in the tension: maybe we can really press this heavy horse over.

The feeling of being indifferent to the Jurchens outside Bianliang City has been indifferent, and at that time, there were people fleeing all around them, even in the face of the strongest army in the world, how strong they were, in people's hearts, there was actually no concept. After Xia Village, everyone probably had some pride in their hearts, and when they broke Yanzhou this time, the emotions in everyone's hearts were a little surprised. They never imagined that they were already so powerful.

This kind of strong self-confidence is not blindly obtained because of the bravery of a single person, but because they have all understood in Xiao Canghe's simple lecture that the strength of an army comes from the strength of everyone working together, and the trust of each other in each other, so it is strong. And now, when the results of Yanzhou are in front of them, they have begun to fantasize about how strong the group they belong has become.

Because of this, even if the next thing to face is the Iron Harrier, everyone is slightly nervous, but more fanatical and cautious rush over.

Look around, everyone is there!

As for the tactics of war, since three days ago, everyone has been repeatedly scrutinizing them under the leadership of the officers. And the cooperation on the battlefield has been done as early as Xiaocanghe's training. During the two or three days of marching, even the lowest soldiers of the Black Flag Army chewed dozens of possible situations in their hearts.

When that army arrived, Gao Lei rushed forward as scheduled, and his position was in the row behind the sabers. In the rear, the horse team came in a hurry, and the fighters of the special regiment quickly dismounted, turned over the boxes, and began to arrange, and more people from the rear poured up and began to shrink the entire column.

The Iron Harrier changed the direction of the attack, and Gao Lei and the others also ran and changed the direction. Even with the deduction of changing formations, Gao Lei still held the spear in his hand tightly, and put on an impeccable posture facing the war horse.

“…… The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, if there is a problem in the rear and you can't change the formation, can you, as the front, retreat? Do you still have the confidence to face the Iron Harriers when the support provided by the companions behind you can't defeat them!? Do you rely on your companions, or do you rely on yourself!? ”

This is something that the people above have repeatedly emphasized in the course of a few days of deduction. Everyone is also mentally prepared, and at the same time, they are confident that there is no one who is instigated in this military formation. Even if they don't change the formation, they are confident that they will overturn the Iron Harrier, because only by overthrowing them is the only way out!

Standing in the second row, a huge military formation has been formed, and in the field of vision, the existence of individuals is insignificant and indescribable. Ahead, the iron rider came in a flying voice. Thousands of iron horsemen stretched out in a formation as long as a hundred zhang, constantly speeding up, like a huge wall, shaking the field. The Iron Harrier Heavy Riders of Western Xia were not chain horses, they did not hook each other with hooks, but on each iron horse, the war horse and the knight's iron armor were twisted with each other. Under such a charge, even if the knight on horseback has died, the war horse under his crotch will still carry the corpse and follow the brigade charge, which is also such a charge, so that it is difficult for any troops in the world to confront head-on.

Blood was pouring through his body as if it were burning, and the order to retreat came, and he grabbed his spear, turned and sprang out with the procession, something flying high above their heads.

The thing fell forward, the horse team had not rushed over, the huge explosion flame rose, the flame was not completely put away when the cavalry rushed, an iron harrier rushed through the flames of the explosion, unscathed, the rear of the thousand horses shook the ground, there were several packages in the sky still flying out, Gao Lei stood up again, turned around, the position around him, was already full of long things, and among them, there were several iron round barrels, facing the sky at an elevation angle, the first thing to be shot out was the package in this vat.

The second package fell into the horse team, followed by the third and fourth shots, a huge wave of air impact, spreading, at that moment, the space seemed to be deformed, Gao Lei stood there with a spear in his hand and looked ahead, he couldn't see anything, but someone in the rear next to him was shouting: "Go away!" Go away! Go farther away......" Gao Lei turned his head, and then felt a loud noise, his head was confused, his vision was shaking, buzzing, and when he looked ahead, his ears could no longer hear the sound.

More than a hundred elm cannons, firing almost simultaneously!

On the other side, when the first package fell and exploded, the sister in the military formation suddenly let go of a heart. The iron harriers were not afraid of the firearms of the Wu Dynasty, the iron armor on their bodies was not afraid of the explosion waves, and the horses that had been in battle for a long time were not afraid of the sudden explosion, but the next moment, something terrible happened.

Boom Boom

Countless explosions sounded almost at the same moment, impacting, a hundred feet long on the huge wall, countless flowers bloomed, the explosion of air waves, black smoke, flying debris, mixed flesh, iron armor, in an instant like a sudden gathering of huge waves, in front of everyone, in the blink of an eye, expanded, raised, raised, soared into a monstrous momentum, engulfing the entire front of the iron harrier.

The first and second columns had been swallowed up, and the cavalry of the third, fourth, and fifth columns were still galloping in, and in the blink of an eye, they swooped into the great wall. According to the experience of the past, it was just a barrier of smoke and dust.

The Iron Harrier Squad Leader Nagu roared and rushed into the dim area, and the moment his vision tightened, something smashed towards his head, and with a bang, he crashed away at high speed and flew to the rear, but in a flash, it looked like a severed hand with iron armor. Before he could react in his head, something exploded behind him, and his voice was swallowed up by the wave of air, and he felt the war horse under his crotch fly up slightly—this should not have happened.

The huge impact came in the next moment, the war horse smashed to the ground with him, a man and a horse flew a long way forward, he was pressed by the war horse, the entire lower body, pain and numbness were two sensations that existed almost at the same time. He had broken out of the barrier, and the land, which had been ruled by the sound of hooves a moment before, had been replaced by another voice, and he lay there, trying to struggle, and in his last vision, he saw the magnificent scene like countless flowers blooming...... (To be continued.) )