The next day, August 9, at the beginning of the day, the general of the Dangshan Army led more than 2,000 cavalry of the "Hunting Battalion" and slowly rode out of the vast forest.

"It was a nice night......

Ji Yan, the general of the "Hunting Cavalry Battalion", moved his arms on horseback and said to his own general with a chuckle.

As soon as the words fell, another general of the "Hunting Cavalry Battalion", Le Qian, echoed with a smile: "This reminds me of when we were still in Dangshan, but unfortunately, there was no such enemy army as our opponent at that time......

The generals of these two cavalry battalions couldn't help but sigh a little.

After all, even if they belong to one of the 'six battalions of the garrison', their living areas and conditions are very different. Among them, the most privileged life is undoubtedly the Junshui Army stationed in the suburbs of Daliangjing, which not only has a wide school field, but also can freely conduct war simulation training in the surrounding plains.

And the rest, aside from the "Suiyang Army", it seems that "Fen Cheng Sai", "Chenggao Pass", and "Nanyan" are all the frontier defenses of the Wei State, although the conditions are not as good as the Junshui Army, but due to the relationship between the Chu State, the Sanchuan Nationality and Korea, the three border defense places where the Wei State is heavily stationed will not feel boring and boring.

Only the Dangshan Army stationed in the Dangshan area in the hinterland of the Wei State had neither superior conditions nor as an opponent of the enemy, and their only imaginary enemy was the "Suiyang Army" led by Nangong, a general of the Song State, and one of the "six battalions of the garrison".

Yes, Wei Tianzi made the Dangshan army garrison in the area of Dangshan in the hinterland of Wei, just to prevent Nangong, the general of the Song State.

But the problem is that no matter how often Nangong is rumored in public opinion that there is a possibility of rebellion, it can be hindered by the promise made by Wei Tianzi when he recruited him ten years ago, as long as this guy does not take the initiative to raise troops to make a rebellion, otherwise, the army of Wei will not be able to take the lead in attacking the Suiyang army.

As a result, although the Dangshan Army has always used the 'Suiyang Army' as an imaginary enemy in the past ten years, there is no one who can really be called an enemy.

Coupled with the constraints of conditions, therefore, when the soldiers of the Dangshan Army used to conduct war exercises in the Dangshan area, they could only divide the army under their command into two, one side played the role of the invading enemy, and the other side played the role of the defenders, training and exercises in the huge mountainous area of Dangshan.

I have to say that since the opponent of the exercise was Tongze, who was also the Dangshan Army, the so-called war exercise of the Dangshan Army was actually a "hunting each other" throughout the entire area of Dangshan, and sometimes the date of an exercise was as long as a month.

There is no way, after all, the two sides know each other well, and their strength is similar, if they want to win in the exercise, they must fight patiently, and only the most patient side can become a hunter, not a prey.

In contrast, the cavalry of the more than 2,000 Qiang and Qiang tribes who were lured into this forest by them last night were simply 'unqualified prey' in the eyes of the cavalry of the Dangshan Army.

No, after they lured the other party to the depths of the forest last night, they started hunting each other, and as for the difficulty, it was simply a novice entry level for them, and there was no challenge at all.

But it is undeniable that abusing a novice of the enemy army on the battlefield is not a bad thing for veterans, no, the cavalry of the Dangshan Army's "Hunting Battalion" who have obviously "hunted" for a whole night, but they seem to be in good spirits and full of interest at the moment, as if they want to have another army to serve as their sparring partner in the forest.

You know, they've only been resting in the forest for about an hour.

However, looking at Sima An's expression, he didn't seem to be satisfied with the results of the hunting camp under his command, and the reason was that in last night's hunting, a small number of "prey" escaped from this hunting ground, which made Sima Anxin, who had always held the belief of "********", very dissatisfied.

By the way, as far as Zhao Hongrun saw and felt, the general Sima An seemed to have some "perfectionist obsessive-compulsive disorder", striving to be meticulous in everything and unable to tolerate incompleteness.

"There is a Virgo daughter-in-law Cancer author in the code words of the broken thoughts: Virgo perfectionism, that is simply strict with others, lenient with oneself!! In terms of meticulousness, Cancer is a virgin! Well, well, Cancer is indeed a lazy cancer patient...... At least one of the Cancer authors has a lazy cancer attack from time to time.'"

Therefore, after learning that a number of mixed cavalry of the Qiang and Qiang tribes had escaped from this forest, Sima An felt uncomfortable.

Looking at the gloomy expression of his own general, Ji Yan and Le Qi glanced at each other and subconsciously shrank their heads.

Because he had a hunch that when this battle was over, when they returned to Wei in triumph and returned to the garrison of Dangshan, there was a good chance that the great general in front of him would give them an impressive drill, and tell them to survive in the mountains and forests of Dangshan without any rations, as they had done in previous exercises, and defeat the object of the exercise.

Of course, the exercise is nothing, the key is the punishment of the losing side.

Like why the loser's side is running around the Dangshan mountain mausoleum that is often dozens of miles away, or asking the loser's side to bear the drinking water problem of the whole army for a quarter, picking up water from the distant mountain stream and dumping it in the pool on the mountain to meet the drinking water needs of the entire Dangshan army, don't doubt that Sima An, the great general, can do it.

What is even more cruel is that these punishments are additional punishments based on the normal training of the whole army, and they are simply inhumane.

Thinking of this, the two generals, Ji Yan and Le Qian, glanced at each other, and the former lowered his voice to divert the topic.

"General, estimate, His Royal Highness King Su is probably about to arrive in Yucheng at this moment, should we join him?"

Hearing this, the gloomy expression on Sima An's face slowly dissipated, and after thinking for a while, he frowned and said: "Let's go to converge, Your Highness's army is now full of infantry, and according to some estimates, there are still two or three thousand cavalry, I am afraid that something will happen." ”

"The merchant army has those 300 repeating crossbows, what can happen?"

The expressions on the faces of Ji Yan and Le Qian were a little strange.

Thinking about it, you must know that the ambush battle in Yaling Gorge the night before yesterday made these proud Dangshan soldiers dare not underestimate the merchant water army anymore.

Well, to be precise, I don't dare to underestimate the new repeaters carried by the merchant navy army, which were developed by the Smelting Bureau.

That's a powerful weapon!

"By the way, General, you have a pretty good relationship with His Royal Highness King Su now, can you get some crossbows from His Highness?"

Ji Yan asked tentatively.

This question undeniably made Sima An's heart pound.

In fact, he had thought about it many times, but in the end, he regretfully gave up.

"The smelting bureau's repeater...... It is indeed a powerful weapon, but it is not suitable for my Dangshan army. Sima An explained to the general with a regretful face.

It's no wonder that as a hot-blooded soldier of the Wei State, how could he not like the latest weapons in his country?

But the problem is that the Dangshan Army is a mountain soldier, and their previous training methods, as well as the tactics of "quick attack" and "sneak attack", make the weapon of the repeater crossbow of little help to them.

Like that kind of repeater, suitable for frontal battlefields, or as a defensive weapon for city fortresses and border fortresses, if it is used in offensive battles, to be honest, the daily travel speed of the merchant and military carts and crossbows alone is enough to make Sima An have to give up this powerful war weapon.

About an hour later, Sima An led the hunting camp to return to the area of Ruocheng and joined Zhao Hongrun's army.

As Sima An and others expected, after a day and a night, Zhao Hongrun finally arrived in the area of Ruocheng with the two infantry battalions of the Dangshan Army and the Shangshui Army, and when Sima An and others arrived to join them, Zhao Hongrun's "advance army" had already been deployed outside the city of Luocheng, which caused a very strong reaction from the local Qiang and Qiang tribes.

"Huh? Have you fought against the Yin Rong of the Land? ”

Before meeting Zhao Hongrun, Sima An saw Bai Fangming, a general under his command who was in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, and asked suspiciously.

After all, Sima An saw a lot of Yin Rong corpses wrapped in sheepskin jackets in this vicinity.

"Confrontation?" Bai Fangming grabbed his hair and said with a wistful expression: "If it seems that the way of fighting in Yaling Gorge can be regarded as a confrontation, let's just let it be." As he spoke, he shrugged his shoulders and added: "Anyway, I just watched the Shang Shui Army set up the repeater crossbow, and then those Yin Rong on the opposite side rushed out without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and then there was a 'puff puff', and then, my sergeant was responsible for mending a knife on the dead corpse, and cleaning up the battlefield by the way." ”

He spread his hands, looking a little helpless.

And Sima An also felt a little helpless after hearing these words.

Because he found that beside the Shang Shui Army, which had crossbows and other sharp weapons of war, the infantry battalion of their Dangshan Army was simply reduced to a miscellaneous escort.

This is not at all in line with the elite name of the Dangshan Army!

"What about Your Highness?" Sima An asked.

Bai Fangming lazily pointed behind him, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm hesitating because I want to attack Ruocheng." ”

Sima An frowned when he heard this, and said in his heart that the matter had come to this point, and His Royal Highness King Su was still hesitating to attack Yucheng?

If you don't conquer the city as soon as possible, will you have to wait for the arrival of the army of the Qianjiao tribe, so that the two Wei armies here will fall into a situation where they are attacked from the back?

Thinking of this, Sima An calmed his face and walked in the direction that Bai Fangming was pointing.

Sure enough, he didn't go far, Sima An saw Zhao Hongrun sitting on a saddle with his eyes closed, just as Bai Fangming said, His Royal Highness King Su closed his eyes and folded his arms, as if he was indeed hesitating to give the order to attack Yucheng.

Seeing this, Sima An stepped forward, clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, isn't it the strategy you proposed to conquer the city, Your Highness?" Why hesitate now? ”

Hearing Sima An's inquiry, Zhao Hongrun opened his eyes, and wanted to say hello to the general, but when he saw the general's frowning appearance, he knew that the other party had misunderstood, so he smiled bitterly and said: "The general has misunderstood, this king is not hesitating whether to attack Luocheng, this king is just hesitating, if 'that weapon' is used in this Luocheng, will it be a little ...... Too cruel. ”

"What weapon?"

Sima An was stunned, and then he remembered that the Shang Shui Army was not only a war weapon like a repeater.

In addition to the full 500 repeaters, the merchant army also had 300 catapults! (To be continued.) )