"Fu Xuan, we are twenty-six years old this year, it is the time of great years, if we are lucky enough to bury our bones in this green mountain, it will not be in vain." Yue Fei pointed the iron lance in his hand at the entrance of the canyon, and said with a particularly complicated mood.

When Yue Fei saw Crescent City, he knew that defending Crescent City would be a mortal situation!

The Crescent City has little food, and the 5,000 defenders of the city have no fighting spirit, but they are afraid that as soon as the golden soldiers arrive under the city, the defenders of the Crescent City will abandon the city and flee.

Yue Fei didn't expect anything from them.

Fu Xuan accompanied Yue Fei to stand on the hill. Both of them led their tall horses.

Looking down from the hill, the plank road winds and circles on the dusk stone wall of the rugged Xingzhou Canyon.

In the summer, the depth of the canyon is a river, the water is three feet deep, the river is turbulent, there are countless reefs, and most of the year, the Grand Canyon is passed by plank road.

The narrowest place of Xingzhou Grand Canyon, the blue sky is a line of gorge, in summer, standing on the canyon, looking down at the feet, the water flows continuously, there is a waterfall not far away, the stream water is crystal clear, cool and bone-clear.

In the gorge, not far apart, there is a stone stuck throat, each card is a waterfall, there is a small stone pool of different sizes under each waterfall, the depth is three zhang and five zhang, and the shallow is one foot. Staggered canine teeth.

During the rainy season, the waterfalls are so spectacular that even apes are difficult to climb at that time, not to mention human walking.

The gorge is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.

But now it's winter! The water surface froze, and the troops of Wanyan Zongwang could completely pass through.

This moat is now the pathway.

There are many low stone houses on the top of the hill in the distance, and behind the stone houses are palaces with golden glazed tiles, shining in the morning sun. According to legend, it was the military camp where Huangchao was stationed at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the racetrack could be faintly seen, and the golden glazed tiles were the Jinluan Hall of Huangchao.

Fu Xuan looked at the topographic map, pointed to the pass at the foot of the mountain with his horsewhip and said: "The south of the canyon is Tianming Pass, even if the checkpoint is in disrepair, it can at least stop Yan Zongwang's footsteps for three to five days. At that time, the front and back flanking attacks, Wanyan Zongwang's army will definitely suffer heavy losses. ”

"Then the north side of the mountain is here, it is the road that Wanyan Zongwang must pass, the Qingtian Gorge with a width of about 100 steps and a length of about 2,000 steps, you can bypass Tianming Pass, and then all the way is a big road, and you can get to Maling Pass in less than ten days."

"Yue Shuai, why don't we go to Maling Pass and hold on? From Xingzhou to Taihang, the mountain road is difficult to walk, extremely rugged, and sticking to Maling Pass can block the purpose of Yan Zongwang's desire to have a round with Zong Han. ”

Yue Fei nodded, and he agreed with what Fu Xuan said.

After looking at the map yesterday, he knew that in the Xingzhou Canyon in winter, it is a thoroughfare, and there is no danger to defend.

The tactics of retreating to Maling Pass are very practical.

But Yue Fei knew the role of Malingguan better.

Yue Fei pointed to the location of Maling Pass and said, "Although we can preserve our strength by retreating to Maling Pass, it also stops the pace of the Seed Army rushing to aid Taiyuan. After all, there is only one pass, and we blocked Wanyan Zongwang and the seed army from rushing to aid Taiyuan. ”

"Blocking Maling Pass will also block the way for the seed army to advance! Dilemma. ”

"When the family army arrives outside Maling Pass, wouldn't it be better for us to go out of the customs and finish attacking Yan Zongwang before and after?" Fu Xuan said immediately.

"Iron Float, people in armor, horse harnesses. It's a great value! "Yue Fei is very envious of the Tiefutu of the Jin Kingdom, which used to be the unique skill of the Han family.

In fact, whether it is the Iron Harrier of Western Xia, or the Tielin Army of Liao, or the Burenjia of the Song State, or even the current Tiefutu, they are all born from the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty, and the smelting technology is in the same vein, all of which are mountain-patterned cold-forged armor.

However, due to the difference in iron ore in various places, the quality of the armor is uneven, among which the Buren armor of the Song people is the weakest.

"If you want to defeat the Iron Floating Slaughter, you will consume a lot of elites, and this is the last place that is not suitable for the Iron Floating Slaughter to charge between the Crescent Moon City of Taihang and the Maling Pass of Taihang." Yue Fei said with a sigh.

His horsewhip pointed to the canyon, which was less than 100 meters wide, and said: "Although the back is all mountainous, the roads are easy to walk and very spacious, and the narrowest place is more than 3,000 steps. This is the perfect terrain! ”

Fu Xuan opened the map and looked at it for a long time, and gave Yue Fei a thumbs up, his vision was absolutely unique.

This is indeed the best place to fight. Wait a minute, to fight in the Xingzhou Gorge? Instead of retreating to Maling Pass?

However, he suddenly thought of Yue Fei's first sentence just now, and he was fortunate to be buried in this green mountain, and his life was in vain, and he finally understood Yue Fei's thoughts.

Stop Wanyan Zongwang's troops at the Grand Canyon! Block at least three to five days!

Then wait until Chong Pu arrives and annihilate Yan Zongwang.

"That's heavy cavalry! Yue Shuai! Fu Xuan's hands were shaking, there were only six thousand of them, and there were a bunch of chariots that had not been tested on any battlefield.

The other party is the founding elite, at least 20,000 elite cavalry, not to mention 2,000 Tiefu Tu!

Although the narrow terrain is not conducive to the deployment of the main force of the remaining kidnapping horses, these two thousand Iron Floating Slaughter are enough to tear through their defense line with one charge!

Yue Fei nodded and said, "That's a heavy cavalry!" It's a pity that my Great Song Dynasty doesn't have heavy cavalry. Otherwise, the heavy cavalry will hedge and defeat the enemy. ”

What is the power of the ironclad army with people in armor and horse harnesses?

In the past, the former Tang Shizong Emperor Li Shimin attacked Dou Jiande with 500 Xuanjia troops and 100,000 soldiers!

The heavy cavalry is so fierce.

With a total of more than 500 kilograms, and with a speed of five steps in an instant, everywhere you go, it is like a giant hammer that cuts through all enemy formations!

The heavy cavalry was configured as a load-bearing horse for the charge, one horse for the carriage of horse armor, and one horse for the carriage and alternation with the consignment horses. It is called the three horses.

The amount of supplies consumed was about sixteen times more than that of an average foot soldier.

The mountain-patterned cold forging armor has an excellent defensive effect on all kinds of weapons, except for the heavy crossbow, there is no weapon at all that can effectively break through this iron armor.

On the basis of the outer armor of the Xuanjia Army, Tiefutu added a layer of inner armor, and in the compartment, it was padded.

Even if the infantry armored heavy infantry wants to block the charge of the heavy cavalry, it is the same way of fighting.

Blunt weapon armor piercing is good, but the cost of blunt weapon production is extremely expensive, the head is heavy, and there is no long-term training, how can it be possible to operate a blunt weapon as expected?

Train five blunt soldiers, and you can probably train one heavy cavalry.

If you have the money to train blunt soldiers, why not train heavy cavalry?

Blunt weapon soldiers are only used to break armor, and due to speed and other reasons, blunt weapon soldiers can not achieve a one-for-one battle loss ratio.

The use of heavy cavalry is also very simple.

The light cavalry flanks harassed, disrupting the enemy's formation, and the heavy cavalry slowly accelerated, unleashing a thunderous blow, the final blow, and crushing the opponent.

In the face of absolute strength, any bells and whistles are useless.

Such is the power of heavy cavalry.

Each heavy cavalry is worth about thirty oxen, and the soldier himself needs a lot of long-term training to become a heavy cavalry rider.

This is also one of the reasons why Yue Fei chose to fight the opponent in the canyon, the opponent's light cavalry and horses could not be deployed, which was extremely beneficial to them.

Your own chariot formation will not be disturbed by the opponent, and you can block the pace of the enemy's heavy cavalry.

The relatives and officials are all wearing armor, all of them are foot armor, compared with the Iron Floating Tu, the defense is not too weak, the heavy infantry against the heavy cavalry, they fight to consume the elite of the other party, and when the planting is Pu, it is enough to harvest the light cavalry.

The terrain here is particularly unfavorable for the cavalry, it is a river, although the ground is frozen, but it has passed the beginning of spring, and the ground has become a little warm.

This is a geographical advantage.

Fu Xuan looked at the terrain of the canyon and knew that if he wanted to complete the strategy of leading the army to aid Taiyuan, he had to stop the other party here, but he asked a little puzzled: "The heavy cavalry is the weapon of the country, invincible, why do Western Xia have iron cavalry, and our Great Song Dynasty only has infantry troops?" ”

With 5,000 heavy cavalry, Wanyan Zongwang can be so arrogant?

Drive more than 3,000 miles and go straight to Bianjing?

Yue Fei shook his head, some things can be said, some things can't be said, the heavy cavalry is very powerful, but it is also one of the main inducements that led to the secession of the feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.

The consumption of heavy cavalry is too great, and raising a heavy cavalry of 10,000 people is equivalent to raising an elite army of nearly 200,000 people.

The consumption was too great, and the wealth of the former Tang Dynasty could not afford to support a large-scale Xuanjia army, so in order to reduce the financial burden, they chose to replace the land with the way of Yulu, and the army held the financial power.

In the former Tang Dynasty, the military system was indeed extremely powerful, but the feudal towns were divided, and the people were not able to make a living.

The fusion of military power and financial power will only breed the separatist power of feudal towns. It is not conducive to the unification of the country.

Yue Fei knew very well why the Great Song Dynasty did not have heavy cavalry, not without horses, twenty years ago, Qingtang became the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Qingtang horses are no worse than the horses of the Jin people, why don't we have heavy cavalry?

It is because of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the fall of military power, a fear from the bones, so that the Great Song Dynasty has no heavy cavalry.