Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Filthy Affair of Western Xia
Yeli Zhigao, counting from his youth, has been fighting for Western Xia for almost twenty years now.
This armor on his body was passed on to his father by his grandfather, who in turn passed it on to him.
The clay pot will not be broken from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle. Even with the protection of sophisticated armor, the elders and seniors of Yeli Zhigao still died under the bow and crossbow of the Song army.
The tradition of the Iron Harrier is that the father dies and the son succeeds, and he takes over the family armor and becomes a member of the Iron Harrier at the age of sixteen.
After so many years of fighting, with courage and luck, Yeli Zhigao was not injured, and I have to say that the ancestors of the Yeli family blessed him.
But if you have been serving in the Iron Harrier, and if you continue to fight like this, you will die sooner or later. Nori knew this deeply, and he was afraid of that fate.
The Yeli family is a wealthy family in Western Xia, but with the death of Yeli Renrong, this family has gradually declined, otherwise it would not have been reduced to being an iron harrier.
Although the Iron Harrier is composed of the children of the nobles, the real nobles, such as the descendants and the royal family, will not go into battle to fight.
At least it won't act as an iron harrier and be the leader of the charge.
For the sake of himself and his family, Yeli Zhigao must climb up. Western Xia is the same as the Great Song Dynasty, or the world is as black as a crow, if you want to climb up, it is not enough to rely on military merits, you also need people.
He started as a small soldier, and it has been almost 20 years now, but to be the leader of this team of 300 people, there is still a long way to go from the real high-ranking officials, this time, it is an opportunity to get to the absolute nobleman - Brother Richard.
Brother Richard is the younger brother of the Western Xia Emperor, with a high and powerful position, if Yeli Zhigao can climb his thighs, he will definitely soar in the future.
Now is your chance.
Brother Richard is a figure who is both civil and military in Western Xia, he can write poems with a pen, and he can fight on a horse, and he is the most important arm of the emperor, but he has a common problem with men, lustful.
It is said that in Western Xia, with Brother Richard's status, any kind of woman can get it, and he did get it.
Ma Qing's wife was taken by him and pulled into his palace.
Ma Qing is not a Tangut person, but a Han Chinese, originally from Linzhou, and is the most famous craftsman in Linzhou.
The Duzuo Institute is a first-class armament manufacturing institute in the Song Dynasty, which is equipped with wood, lacquer, crossbow, leather armor and so on.
Ten years ago, when he came to Linzhou to rob in Western Xia, he happened to be in the countryside with his wife and children, but he was unlucky and captured.
When he arrived in Western Xia, because of his ability, not only was he not killed, but gradually became the leader of the Western Xia Weapons Supervisor.
If he goes on like this, Ma Qing will accept his fate, he will always live anyway, for the sake of his wife and children, he must also live.
But unfortunately, one day when his wife brought him food, he was seen by Brother Richard, who happened to come to the military to monitor and inspect, and he saw it in his eyes at that time and took it away directly.
Ma Qing's personality is not so tough, and he can only watch all this - most people may be like him, surrounded by knives and guns, how many people have the courage to resist?
In later generations, how many people dare to stand up for a kitchen knife in the face of gangsters? What's more, Ma Qing is not facing a kitchen knife at home, but dozens of murderous sabers.
Ma Qing went home and hugged his head and cried for a few days, but he gritted his teeth and continued to live, not for anything else, but for his daughter.
But after a few days, his wife died. There is a word from Brother Richard's mansion, since your wife is so beautiful, I heard that your daughter is also very beautiful, send it to the mansion and serve Brother Cha.
This completely exceeded the limit of Ma Qing's patience.
He didn't dare, and he didn't have the ability to kill Richard, so he could only choose to escape.
As a master craftsman, Ma Qing is first-class in intelligence and intelligence, so after he ran for five days, Brother Richard found out.
This angered Richard. Which one of the people you fancy can run away.
Ignoring the bitter cold, he ordered the Iron Harrier to go out and arrest Ma Qing and his daughter.
The iron harrier has been on the battlefield for a long time, and there are fast horses and black eagles, and the direction of Ma Qing's escape is not difficult to guess, it must be the Great Song Dynasty, so he chased all the way, and finally found traces of Ma Qing in Dahan Village.
After all, it was Richard's private matter, he couldn't and didn't need to dispatch all the Iron Harriers for one person, he wasn't so bold and powerful.
However, the iron harriers in a team of three hundred people are enough to deal with Ma Qing's father and daughter.
He wants to show Ma Qing what the consequences of offending him Brother Richard are.
Yeli Zhigao is happy, and he is finally going to catch Ma Qing. After completing the task assigned by Brother Cha, and it is also a private matter, he will definitely be able to leave a good impression in the heart of the emperor's younger brother, and he will definitely be able to break away from the iron harrier in the future and restore the glory of the Yeli family.
But at this time, I suddenly saw the black sculpture in the sky shattered.
This surprised Ye Li Zhigao.
What the hell, why my bird is gone.
The iron-beaked black eagle is the best assistant of the iron harrier. It is extremely important to be able to detect the enemy early, discover the enemy's location, and discover the enemy's ambush on the battlefield, whether in the era of cold weapons or ***.
The black eagle is the flying robe of the Iron Harrier, but now it is inexplicably dead.
It's so completely dead.
This made Noritoshi angry, and at the same time vigilant.
They didn't expect to meet the Song army in Dahan Village, so they didn't arrange for the horses to check around.
Who would have thought that this day was freezing, there would be a Song army to rob the Western Xia, and now there is nothing to rob, the winter is the most scarce time for materials, is the Song army coming to rob the bottoms of the Western Xia people?
It's impossible to think about it, the Great Song Dynasty is much richer than the Western Xia, so they don't look down on the tattered clothes of the Western Xia people.
Because of this, Yeli Zhigao was even more surprised.
He immediately gave up searching for Ma Qing's father and daughter, and immediately formed a team to prepare to meet the enemy.
The Iron Harrier's equipment is carried with him. They have five horses in one person, otherwise how can they make a charge after a long journey?
The three hundred iron harriers were all experienced in a hundred battles, and none of them panicked, and calmly dressed themselves and their horses.
In less than a cigarette, the three hundred iron harriers were ready to charge.
Yeli Zhigao came to the entrance of the village and saw the three hundred folded family troops in front.
Three hundred, a small meaning.
If it weren't for the Song army's massive attack, he wouldn't be afraid.
Three hundred iron harriers against three hundred Song army infantry is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.
Liang Zhi's soldiers are not cavalry yet. Although horses are not cavalry, at least not heavy cavalry, because horses are not equipped.
In this way, the horse could not even run far before being killed by the crossbow bolts from the opposite side.
Liang Zhi could only put down the formation and wait for the opposite side to rush into formation.
If you can keep it, you can survive a few, but if you can't keep it, you have to die.
Iron Harriers have always been dispatched in teams, a team of 300 people, and when I saw an Iron Harrier, there were at least 300 people in the front village.
Yeli Zhigao doesn't need to talk nonsense, he will fight first.
The iron harriers rushed out of the big cold village and lined up in front of the village.
Three hundred iron harriers, facing three hundred folded family troops from afar.
Liang Zhi's heart sank.
I'm afraid I'm going to die in Western Xia this time.
Three hundred iron harriers, in normal combat, are five times and ten times the Song army's infantry array, and now they are only three hundred people, one-on-one, and there is no chance of winning at all.
Iron Harriers, both men and horses, are heavily armoured. Those armors were all handed down from ancestors, and they were constantly repairing the damage and replacing them with more refined armor pieces, so that even the far point of the Divine Arm Bow could not be penetrated.
To block the Iron Harrier, the Song army used bed crossbows and trebuchets.
It's just that he didn't bring any of these two things - he just went out to rob, and he didn't fight, so why did he bring such heavy equipment.
Now it's okay, three hundred people, only a hundred divine arm bows, how can this stop the iron harrier from rushing into battle, I'm afraid that if one charges, there will be only a few people left on my side.
It's not okay to escape, not to mention that this is the territory of Western Xia, and the scattered Song army will definitely be killed by the Western Xia people, so they can't run away.
They are infantrymen, with dozens of pounds of armor on their bodies, how can they run? Want to get on the horse? When it was time to get on the horse, the opposite side rushed over.
The only thing that can be done now is to wait to the death, wait for the opposite side to charge, and see if you can kill a few iron harriers.
Killing one is enough, killing two earns one.
As a soldier, Liang Zhi has long had this awareness. Early death and late death, it's all death.
It seems that today is the time of his death.
Ye Li Zhi raised his saber high and swung it down hard, and the three hundred iron harriers began to charge.
Against the infantry of the three hundred Song Army, it is too extravagant to charge the battle with three hundred iron harriers. And the current terrain cannot be fully formed, and the iron harriers are divided into two waves.
In the first wave, there were 100 people, and 10 people were in a horizontal column, making a total of 10 columns. The remaining 200 people don't need to form a formation, just wait for the Song army's defense to be broken, and go up and cut it at will.
The heavy cavalry rushed into battle, and in this time and space, the earth shook the mountains.
Every soldier of the Folding Army tensed his muscles and stared at the approaching enemy.
The Iron Harrier and the men and horses were all covered in heavy armor, and even the face was covered with iron armor, like a devil released from hell, drowning in the mountains.
These three hundred people are also elite, otherwise they would not dare to go so far into Western Xia, although they knew that they were invincible, but no one wavered.
They are all battle-hardened, and to run away at this time is to die.
Fleeing is also death, fighting is also death, and the Zhejia army would rather die in battle than flee for their lives - in fact, they know that they can't escape.
The Iron Harrier is getting faster and faster, and as soon as it gets close to the range of the bow and arrow, both sides will start firing arrows, but this round will not do much damage.
The Song army is also fully armored, and with the protection of the shield, most of the arrows will be defended.
The real killer of the Iron Harrier is to rush.
This Great Song Dynasty is still the Great Song Dynasty on the earth, and it also follows Newton's three laws, the iron harrier is connected with people and horses, plus a heavy armor, and then connected to each other by iron cables to form a whole, this kinetic energy is obviously unlikely to be carried by the Song army's human flesh.
If it can be carried by it, it does not conform to the laws of physics.
Only energy for energy, with bed crossbows and trebuchets head-on, but now they have none.
The soldiers in the front row fell to their knees on one leg and crouched on the ground, with a huge shield in front of them protecting their entire body, and from the gap in the shield, a long iron spear stretched out, like a hedgehog.
In Qin Mu's opinion, this is like half of a gasoline barrel, with the iron sheet facing the enemy, and many spear heads poking out densely on the oil barrel.
I think with my heel and I know that I can't bear the impact of the iron harrier.
Zhe Meifeng's little face turned pale at this time.
Three hundred infantry against three hundred iron harriers, it is impossible to stop, I am afraid that I will die this time, what a pity, I haven't worn the clothes and boots of the red line sister, and I don't have a red line sister's makeup bag.
However, the daughter of the folded family is not greedy for life and afraid of death.
Zhi Meifeng patted Qin Mu on the shoulder easily, and said, "Young Master Qin, I'm in front of you, if I die, you will die, if I don't die, don't forget to make me a set of red line sister's outfits, I want them all." ”
Qin Mu was stunned, this little lady is a cow, it's all at this time, and she is still thinking about clothing and cosmetics, she is simply a talent!
This sentence moved him very much, a woman, such a young woman, actually carried the danger for a stranger who had only known him for a few days and had no friendship, so that Qin Mu didn't know what to say.
Before he could think about it, Zhe Meifeng rode on a war horse and prepared to fight.
Qin Mu hurriedly grabbed her leg and said, "Thank you, thank you." ”
He is really grateful to Zhe Meifeng, not ordinary people do it.
"Also, I promise you, I'll give you a full set."
When Zhi Meifeng heard Qin Mu's words, she laughed and said, "Young Master Qin, thank you!" Then he urged his horse to come to the front of the battle.
Since you want to die, then die a heroic point. Hiding behind the battle is not Zhe Meifeng's character, and she can't embarrass the Zhe family.
The Iron Harrier is getting closer and faster, and the first round of archery is about to begin.
"Come on," Zhe Meifeng shouted: "Zhe Jiajun, fight with me!" ”