On the vast Hebei Plain, an ironclad cavalry is speeding through a wheat field, iron hooves recklessly trampling on the seedlings planted by farmers.

A peek at the team showed about a hundred horsemen.

The cavalrymen were clad in iron armor, wielding steel swords in their hands with great force, and occasionally whistled.

Each of them carried a longbow and two quivers on their backs, and the male Jahu was good at riding and shooting, and the quiver they carried was one of their most lethal weapons.

Their horses are also covered with armor, and under the sun, a layer of wax shines, and it seems that the male cavalry's love for horses is not weaker than the love for the armor on their bodies.

Fierce male cavalry flew over the wheat field like locusts.

The people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, holding the farm tools in their hands, and secretly cursing. An old farmer sighed: If this is our soldiers of the Liang Dynasty, they will never spoil our grain so much.

At this time, another cavalry rushed from the opposite side, led by a general, with a black beard, wearing heavy armor, holding a mace, and shouted: "Stop! ”

The cavalry centurion looked up, was shocked, immediately dismounted, and knelt on one knee: "Centurion Abuhanduo, meet General Wuyan!" ”

"Who told you to walk through the wheat field?" Wu Yan Zha angrily threw the horsewhip.

Abuhandor's face was frightened, but he still said, "It's just some Han people's farmland......

Hearing this, Wu Yan jumped off his horse, raised his horsewhip and whipped it, his technique was so precise that the whip could dodge the armor on Abuhandor's body and hit the flesh. He scolded: "Now I am forcibly recruiting two thousand strong men, and it is not easy to appease them, if there is any more unfavorable news into the army, won't it make me lose all my efforts!" From now on, it's just pretending, and you're going to pretend to be a little bit like me! ”

"Yes!"

Wu Yan Zha was still angry, and paced back and forth with both hands on his waist, "Where did you come back from, what did Zhuo Tuo Fengyang let you do?" ”

Abuhanduo rubbed his reddened cheeks and saluted, "General Zhuotuo asked us to go to the villages in the north of Dizhou to catch the strong men. ”

Wuyan looked behind him and wondered, "What about people?" How many strong men have you caught? ”

Abu Handuo looked a little uncertain, and thought for a moment before he said, "Returning to General Wuyan... Not... I didn't catch the strong man..."

"Are you a hundred pieces of waste?" Wuyan said angrily: "Didn't Zhuo Tuo Fengyang tell you the strategy of the big handsome? If a village does not choose to send fifty strong men, and arrest their wives and children, old and young, and drive them into the sheepfold to starve, I don't believe that they will not come out! ”

The centurion knelt down again and said, "The elm village we went to was full of people and dared to resist collectively. So I ordered their village to be burned. ”

Wu Yanzha was furious, and raised his whip again: "Bastard thing! When the prime minister was alive, did you forget what he said! To be kind to the Han people, even if you pretend, you must also pretend to be a little bit like that! ”

The whip rained down and knocked Abhando to the ground.

In this battle of crossing the river, both the north and the south were fully prepared.

In the past, the old prime minister Wen Jitong and Nalan Xin advocated defending from the back, fighting on both sides in a roundabout way, and finally realizing the strategy of a big counteroffensive, but the male Jia Wang disagreed.

Later, the male Jia Wang appointed the fifth prince Wanyan Da Trout as the commander and implemented the front defense plan of Wanyan Da Trout. Although Wanyan Da Trout was born as a martial artist, he is also experienced in a hundred battles, and he has rich combat experience and command experience.

This time he decided to inflict heavy losses on the Liang army along the Yellow River. It would be better if it could be completely eliminated, and if it could not be eliminated, he also prepared a second set of plans. Defending village by village, he gave his tactics what he thought was a good name, "Spider Web Tactics". Once an enemy army falls into the net, they must entangle the enemy like a spider and destroy the enemy once and for all.

Whether he succeeds at the tactical level or not still needs the test of war to know the result, but his strategic thinking cannot be described as inactive.

And the Wuyan in front of him was the head of the army directly under the prime minister, with an army size of 8,000 iron cavalry and 2,000 elite infantry.

After Prime Minister Wen Jitong died of a sudden attack, he lost his support, and the army was broken up by Wanyan Da Trout, leaving him with only 2,000 cavalry to garrison Dizhou.

He said to Wanyan Da Trout: "Lord Wang, although I am Prime Minister Wen's old department, I am loyal to the male Jia country, and I also agree with your positive strategic thinking. However, I also think that we should be more active, not defensive, but take the initiative to attack, cross the Yellow River, and attack Zhengzhou. After taking Zhengzhou, you can go straight to Luoyang.

Wanyan Da Trout held back the anger in his heart and said: If you say this again, I won't even give you these two thousand. To rush in is to find death, and the soldiers you are the girder are all muddy? Last time, Qi Dongyang put out a spear hedgehog formation to deal with our cavalry, didn't we learn enough lessons?

As soon as he thought of the spearmen of the Liang Dynasty, Wanyan Da Trout felt a headache, especially when he encountered the iron-armored spear hedgehog array, it was simply a nightmare for the cavalry.

The well-trained Beam Ironclad Soldiers, wearing heavy iron armor, cannot shoot through ordinary bows and crossbows, and it is difficult to damage them from a long distance. In close combat, they form a circle, with shield-fighting swordsmen on the outer, spearmen in the middle, and crossbowmen on the innermost.

As soon as the cavalry rushed over, the hedgehog array could still stretch out under the feet of the tripping horse, and in an instant, the cavalrymen turned over on their backs and fell to the ground in pieces, and they could not give full play to the characteristics of cavalry at all.

Therefore, Qi Dongyang only relied on 50,000 soldiers and horses, and in the case of lack of food, he was still able to resist the 150,000 army of Nanjia for three years. It is not a miracle of war.

At the same time, he also scared the big trout.

Wuyan Zahan had also heard that the Han people were in a strong formation, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, and he soon got the information that at this time there was a new army stationed across the river, and it was said that this recruit army could not even afford to wear leather armor.

The vultures were overjoyed.

He has been in the army for more than ten years, half of which has been spent on the battlefield, and he understands the importance of equipment all too well.

Since the opponent does not have a hard iron armor to protect himself, then he can give full play to the specialty of the male Jia man archers, shoot arrows from a long distance, and slash at close range, just like chopping melons and vegetables.

This kind of asymmetrical equipment can easily crush the fighting spirit of the opposing army. Often, a third of the kills will cause the enemy army to collapse.

Such an enemy is not to say that 10,000 people are coming, but even 20,000 people, and he is not afraid of being fierce.

Of course, it's okay to brag strategically, but when it comes to tactics, you can't be sloppy.

He gave the order to capture the strong men and expand their strength.

The Han people are unwilling to work for the male Jia, this is an overall emotion, if any kid goes to join the army and helps the male Jiaren to fight the beam, the whole family can't raise their heads in the village.

The male population is actually not large, but only six or seven hundred thousand. This also includes the elderly, women and children. Removing these people, basically half of the people who can join the army have joined the army. Once the male king advocated that all the people should be soldiers, but the old minister Wen said that men have joined the army, how to reproduce offspring? Aren't there fewer and fewer men?

"Hahaha, I don't even have leather armor, I see how he sets up with me, hahahaha!" Back at the Luhe camp, Wuyan Zha laughed with a wine bottle in his hand, pointed to the map and said, "Push these Han strong men to the river for me." Prepare bows and arrows for them, and shoot them at me as soon as they begin to cross the river. If the other party rushes over, let them fight the Han people first, and when the set is disrupted, our iron cavalry soldiers are divided into three ways, I will lead a thousand horsemen to attack from the middle road, and Zhuo Tuofeng Yang and Adiemao will each lead five hundred horsemen to outflank them from both sides and wipe them all out on the shore! Hahaha! ”

"General Wuyan, what if the Han people are disobedient?" Adjutan-admiral, Natanhun, asked cautiously.

"Disobedient?" Wu Yan glared fiercely and said: "Bring me all their family members, if you are not obedient, kill them in person!" ”

"But we don't have so much food to feed so many families..."

"What kind of food do you want? Am I going to keep them alive? Wu Yan stood up, walked out of the military tent, looked at the dragon saliva jin, and everyone walked out, he pointed to the other side and said: "The Han boats have already been prepared, and the troops have also gathered, and I see that the crossing of the river is a matter of these two days." Just grab some children and prepare some chaff for them. When the time comes, the distance is far anyway, and the strong men can't see whether those children are theirs or not. When the time comes, if there is a disobedient person, I will cut one down, I don't believe they won't give me my life! ”

Hearing this, the deputy general Natanhun frowned and said nothing, he felt that this battle should not be fought like this. After thinking for a long time, he said humbly: "General Wuyan, I think that with the cunning of the Han people, they will not force their way from here. Or, they will divide their forces to cross the river, and we can't put all our forces here. Dizhou City and Bohai City should also deploy troops. ”

"What did you say?" With a look of uncertainty on his face, he pointed to the other side of the river and said, "Don't you see so many flags? Don't you know the battle flag of the Han Chinese? Count it yourself and you'll know how many people there are. ”

Natanhun shook his head and said, "This is also the cunning of the Han people, they often use the number of flags to confuse each other. In today's situation, we must not lose a city to them. Once they get their footing, it's very bad for us. Because we have few people, and we are not good at attacking and defending cities. On the contrary, it is suitable for mobile combat. If I lead my troops to the Bohai Sea and are surrounded, you lead the tiger and wolf iron cavalry to the Bohai City, where the terrain is flat, wouldn't you just kill you? ”

As an old partner, Wuyan Zahan still knows his deputy general better, and Natanhun was also picked up by him. He was still a little self-aware, knowing that his mind was not as good as that of the lieutenant. So he followed Natanhun's advice and assigned a force of 500 men to Bohai City. And the person who led the team was the deputy general Natanhun.