Li Jiqian learned literature and martial arts since he was a child, and after raising the banner of the anti-Song Dynasty, he paid special attention to the development and growth of cavalry.

At the age of 17, Li Jiqian led 100 dead soldiers to the Songpan area and stationed in Gouwo Huangliangchuan to develop his own power in the Qiang and Tubo ethnic groups; When he rushed to Qinglou in Liuxiang Town to indulge, he negotiated with Wei Qingming, deputy superintendent of Qingshichuan Horse Husbandry, to buy 2,000 military horses and paid a deposit.

Just as Li Jiqian was waiting for Wei Qingming's good news and preparing to deliver the military horses, the situation took a 180-degree turn; Wei Qingming (Wei Baimao) and another deputy eunuch stirrup-shaped (horse one-eyed) were captured by the supervisor Qin Feng in conjunction with Liu Min and Grandpa Huo.

Fortunately, Wei Baimao and Ma One-eyed had an inside line, and the soldiers who killed the guards in the cell rushed to Gouwohuang Liangchuan to meet Li Jiqian; Li Jiqian and the demon monks Weng Lian Gulu and Weng Lian Luqi cooperated with Wei Baimao to kill the horse herding supervisor, intending to annihilate Qin Feng in one fell swoop and take the horse herding prison over.

However, it backfired, and Li Jiqian and them rushed to the red pine forest on the White Crane Grassland; was killed by the officers and soldiers led by Lu Chengyu and Qin Feng, and many of Li Jiqian's men died.

Li Jiqian took care of his life and left all the things about buying a horse behind, and the deposit was lost.

However, after Li Jiqian fled back to Pingxia City in Xiazhou, he was surrounded by many tribes of the Dangxiang clan, and many tribes of the Dangxiang clan sent war horses; Li Jiqian formed a cavalry team of 2,000 iron cavalry, known as the "Iron Harrier".

The Iron Harrier is extremely brave and swift; There was no law in the haunting, the defeat and escape were victorious, and the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty suffered a lot.

Li Jiqian created the "Iron Harrier" and passed it to his grandson Li Yuanhao, becoming the trump card of China and even the entire Eurasian continent; The Iron Harrier promoted Li Yuanhao to become emperor.

The scale of the "Iron Harrier" was not very large at the beginning, and later it developed into a 3,000-strong heavy cavalry corps.

The Iron Harriers are divided into ten teams of 300 people each; The team has a captain, and the captains are all fierce generals.

The captains of the 10th Iron Harrier Team were: 1 Meile, 2 Lang Yu Yi, 3 Fine Rewarder Buried, 4 Linu, 5 Miscellaneous Familiar Qu Ze Gu, 6 Kuma Cai Lang Luo, 7 Fine Mother Qu Be, 8 Li False Shift Rock Name, 9 Fine Mother Wei Ming, 10 Wu Luo Bury Cloth.

Iron Harrier is Li Jiqian's guard army, and it is also the "front army" that charges into battle.

The Iron Harrier is well-equipped, and it cannot enter with good horses, heavy armor, and thorns, and it does not fall even if it is dead with a hook and rope.

In case of battle, the iron cavalry will break through the formation first, and the chaos will impact it; The infantry marched on horseback.

With the passage of time, the Iron Harrier was able to throw off the Jingsai Army of the Great Song Dynasty and the Tielin Army of the Liao State a few streets.

At that time, in the world, the Iron Harrier was also an invincible fierce cavalry in the world; If that army encounters the Iron Harrier, then the spell begins.

The selection method of the Iron Harrier is basically hereditary, and the father's armor is passed on to the son; The son's armor was passed on to his grandson, and the inheritance of his ancestors from generation to generation created the martial arts that flowed in the blood.

The iron harrier walks for a hundred miles, thousands of miles and periods, and is the most able to come and go suddenly, if the electric shock clouds fly. Whenever they encounter an enemy in the place where they gallop on the plains, they often use iron harriers to think that they are rushing soldiers.

The Iron Harrier mostly uses fish scale formations in combat and adopts wolf pack tactics; Jian'er is a formation in which squads gather one by one and then rush towards the opponent's defensive formation.

The rules on rewards and punishments for the Iron Harrier are very detailed, and there are fifteen ranks in the army.

The main content of the reward is that those who kill more than one enemy in battle can be rewarded, and the more people killed, the more rewards.

But if he kills an enemy and then is defeated, he cannot be rewarded; Those who capture enemy soldiers, horses, armor, flags, drums, and gold, with a total of more than 100 pieces, will be rewarded; The more captured, the greater the rewards, including the capture of enemy women and children.

In the siege battle, the first to climb the enemy's city, the one who breaks the city; Those who were able to resist the enemy after the Xia army defeated the battle and made the whole army retreat safely; Those who are able to report the number of people who have falsely reported the number of captures and kills.

Those who have meritorious service in leading the way, those who have defeated the battle but whose guards and teammates can defeat the enemy's front; Those who defeat the enemy's front and defeat the enemy.

The method of reward is according to the loss of people, horses, armor, flags, drums, gold, etc. in the war, after the merit and crime are offset, the merit exceeds the crime, and the reward is divided into grades, some are added to the official, and some are rewarded with different amounts of gold and silver bowls, gold and silver belts, clothes, saddle sheaths, tea silks, etc., as well as honorary titles.

The main contents of punishment are: those who do not dare to flee in battle; Those who defeat the battle in battle, and those who do not march, fight, or rendezvous at the prescribed time and place; Those who do not help each other in the war, and those who abandon their own people, horses, armor, flags, drums, and gold in the war, and the number exceeds a certain limit; Those who falsely report the number of captures, kills, and the purchase and sale of the first rank; Those who engage in favoritism or malpractice or lax inspection, resulting in false reports; Conversely, the false accuser will also be convicted.

When the main general is killed in battle, or when the flag, drum, or gold is lost, the guards, leaders, escorts, and personal followers of the department must be severely punished.

During the battle, the Cha army left the chief general without authorization; and those who do not understand the war.

The means of punishment were: death, imprisonment for life, hard labor, cane and tattooing, seizure of military power, reduction or dismissal of officials, fines for horses, etc.

Brigadier General Kou Li Jiqian's iron harrier son bravely recounted, Zhao Guangyi almost dropped his jaw bone; Stared at Kou Zhun in a daze: "Why is Yan Aiqing so familiar with Li Jiqian's iron harrier!" After Aiqing said this, I personally instructed the formation of the Great Song Jingsai Army can only go to look at other people's necks! ”

Kou Zhun bowed and said: "The minister once worked in the Yongxing Army, followed the main general to Xia, Jing, Sui, Yin, and Wuzhou several times, and also dressed as the people of the five continents to witness the training and battle of the Iron Harrier, and Li Jiqian's command of the Iron Harrier to defeat the Tielin Army of the Liao State opened Weichen's eyes; Wechen has the above words! ”

Kou Zhun said and raised his arms and stretched his spirit: "The minister is not showing off the power of Li Jiqian's iron harrier to the emperor, but putting the actual situation out for us to be vigilant!" ”

After Kou Zhun finished the above words, he fixed his mind and said: "One of the main reasons why the Celestial Empire has not been able to completely annihilate Li Jiqian in the past few years is that this guy has paid attention to the construction of the Iron Harrier!" ”

Song Taizong bowed his head and was silent, Kou Zhun stretched his neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued: "In the face of such a strong opponent, the imperial court is helpless; had to give Li Jiqian the title of Yinzhou Observer and give the name Zhao Baoji; It also opens up a mutual trade field in Shaanxi to facilitate the trading of goods! ”

Kou Zhun said impassionedly at the end: "The imperial court first loosened and then tightened, and the tight and loose military strategy did not have much effect on Li Jiqian; What's even more unreasonable is that if you don't succeed in fighting, if you can't win, you will make a wish to the official; made this guy find out the temper of the imperial court, so he retorted so unscrupulously! ”

Song Qi picked up Kou Zhun's words: "The court must pay attention to Kou Laoxi's conclusive words, and according to the views of the ministers, they must be tough on villains like Li Jiqian; Destroy it! ”

As soon as Song Qi's voice fell, he saw Lu Chengyu and asked: "Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to lead a group of officers and soldiers to Xia, Yin, Jing, Yu, and Sui" to encircle and annihilate Li Jiqian.

The reason why Lu Chengyu said this was the result of his discussion with Liu Min in advance; Lu Chengyu did not expect that as soon as his plan to travel west with Liu Min was born, the emperor asked the minister to discuss the issue of Li Jiqian in the court; Lu Chengyu borrowed this east wind.

Zhao Guangyi saw Lu Chengyu's invitation, and immediately became excited; Once again, he stood up from the dragon chair on the Danqi and said, "Donkey, you want to ask Yingwei to annihilate Li Jiqian!" ”

Lu Chengyu grabbed the wat board in his hand tightly and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen is asking Ying to go and encircle and suppress Li Jiqian!" ”

Zhao Guangyi pondered for a moment, stared at Lu Chengyu and said, "The horse is sure to encircle and annihilate Li Jiqian!" ”

"For the sake of the Great Song Dynasty for thousands of generations, it is necessary for the ministers to go to the soup and fight the fire!" Lu Chengyu said impassionedly: "Li Jiqian is already the biggest threat to the northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the ministers love the soldiers like sons and make good use of the art of war; I believe that the border crisis can be resolved! ”

When Zhao Guangyi saw Lu Chengyu say this, he couldn't help but talk eloquently: "Since the horse has the spirit of serving the country with loyalty, I will allow you to lead the army there!" ”

Zhao Guangyi said, calling out the privy envoy to issue a military talisman to Lu Chengyu; He also said: "The horses and horses of the Ten Thousand Arrays Diagram formulated by me in the Battle of the Gaoliang River can be carried with me, and when the time comes, I will deploy the troops according to the signs on the Ten Thousand Arrays Map!" ”

Seeing Song Taizong say this, Lu Chengyu bowed again and said: "The ministers obey the order, and they must deploy troops according to the emperor's ten thousand array maps!" ”

Lu Chengyu said this, but he felt ridiculous in his heart; He had heard Liu Min speak; Song Taizong's 10,000 arrays are rigid and rigid, and the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing; How could a map of ten thousand arrays drawn earlier affect the situation between the enemy and us.

However, Lu Chengyu is a sleek person after all, and he admires Zhao Guangyi's Ten Thousand Array Diagram so much that he throws himself to the ground; But I already had an old idea in my heart.

When Lu Chengyu was at Yanmen Pass, he studied the "Pingrong Ten Thousand Arrays" issued by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty to Yang Ye.

The Binh Jung Wanquan Array consisted of three phalanxes, each led by a general. Each formation is five miles each, and the circumference is twenty miles, counting seven thousand two hundred steps. The three formations were separated by one mile, and the total width of the array was seventeen miles.

In these three phalanxes, there were 110,000 and 40 infantry, 30,650 cavalry, 1,440 chariots, and 240 lookouts, for a total of 140,930 soldiers.

In order to protect these three main phalanxes, the Song army also set up four cavalry phalanxes on the outside of these three main phalanxes, that is, in the four directions of front, rear, east and west.

Among them, the left and right flank armies were of the same configuration, each with two columns of cavalry, one hundred and twenty-five teams in the front, each team of fifty horsemen, a total of six thousand two hundred and fifty horsemen; The rear column was also one hundred and twenty-five horses, each with thirty horsemen, for a total of three thousand seven hundred and fifty horsemen. There were 10,000 horsemen on the left and right flanks, a total of 20,000 horsemen in the two formations, and 650 horsemen on the other side.

The front and rear formations were of the same configuration, and there were two columns of cavalry in each column, sixty-two teams in the front, fifty horsemen each, a total of three thousand and one hundred horsemen. There were also sixty-two teams of thirty horsemen in each team, making a total of 1,860 horsemen, and forty horsemen in the rear. There were 5,000 horsemen in each of the front and rear formations, making a total of 10,000 horsemen.

In terms of weapons, the cavalry was equipped with cavalry spears, sabers, maces, bone dots (weapons similar to hammers), etc.; The infantry was armed with machetes, spears, bed crossbows (large repeating crossbow machines), bows and arrows, shields, etc.

It can be seen that in this Pingrong Wanquan Array, whether it is staffing or weapon matching, Zhao Guangyi has been striving for perfection, and has even reached the extreme.

In a word, as long as the enemy dares to come, this phalanx will definitely let you have no return!

However, Lu Chengyu believes that if Song Taizong's "Pingrong Ten Thousand Arrays" can defeat the enemy, it can only be a kind of nonsense......