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Approaching the autumn harvest, according to the experience of previous years, the Xia army was bound to attack and plunder, so Jingqiang Village also arranged scouts early to prevent the Xia army from suddenly attacking.

To the north of Jingqiang Village, there are Xingyuan Fort, Yincheng County, and Linzhou City, if the Xia army comes from the north, there should be beacon fire warnings in these places, and there is no need to worry too much that the Xia army will suddenly come to Jingqiang Village.

Jingqiang Village should focus on the west, from Jingqiang Village to the nearest place on the Songxia border is only seventy or eighty miles away, and there is no fortress in the middle, the capture army of the Shenyong Army Division of the left wing of the Western Xia is really going to attack and disturb, and it will not take a day to arrive if the horse gallops.

Being a scout to scout and come to the Song Realm to sweep and plunder a small group of cavalry is actually a very dangerous thing. Because a small group of cavalry is not as easy to find traces as a large group of cavalry, and a small group of cavalry is more mobile and flexible than a large group of cavalry, and after discovering the enemy, they can enter the battle state at any time and can immediately chase the enemy into battle. If the scout's riding skills are not good, it is very likely that after discovering the enemy, he will be chased and killed by the small group of cavalry of the Xia army before he runs back to the stockade to report the news, so Zhong Hao feels that the candidate to go to the west bank of the Kuye River as a scout must have good riding skills.

The best riding skills in Jingqiang Village are Yang Huaiyu and the four Yang family generals he brought, but Yang Huaiyu's status is valuable, and he can't be completely regarded as a person from Jingqiang Village, so Zhong Hao can't arrange what he does.

However, Zhong Hao did not arrange for Yang Huaiyu to go to the west bank of the Kuye River to investigate, but Yang Huaiyu took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the west bank of the Guye River to investigate.

Zhong Hao naturally happily agreed, but he told him over and over again that he must protect his life at all times and never be reckless.

Yang Huaiyu couldn't help waving his hand when he heard Zhong Hao's chattering advice, and said with a big grin: "The younger brother is also skilled in arching and horses, and he just wants to spy on the enemy, if there is any problem, the eldest brother can rest assured!" ”

Zhong Hao saw Yang Huaiyu's indifferent appearance, and couldn't help but feel even more uneasy, if Yang Huaiyu really folded here in Jingqiang Village, Yang Wenguang and Zhong Hao would definitely not be able to explain it.

At that moment, Zhong Hao took out five newly developed grenades, handed them to Yang Huaiyu, and said: "This is the latest 'Heaven-shaking Thunder' developed in our village, each of you can bring one, and you may be able to stop Xia Jun at a critical moment!" Uh, remember to bring the fire fold! Zhong Hao gave his grenade a very bluffing name.

This grenade is detonated by an ignition velvet lead, and it is to be used on a galloping warhorse, and the riding skills of the knight are still very high, but with Yang Huaiyu's riding skills, it should be no problem. If you want a grenade to be more convenient and practical, or is it better to use it by hitting and detonating. However, the technology of impact detonation has not yet been developed by Zhong Hao and several craftsmen. Of course, there is also a simple way, which is to directly use a strong force to blow this grenade hard. However, Zhong Hao has experimented, if this grenade is smashed a hard stone, it can explode one or two out of ten, but the success rate is too low, and there are so many stones on the battlefield for you to drop the grenade. Falling on the ground, uh...... There's no way it's going to explode.

"Is this Earthquake Thunder better than the one in the last test?

"Much better!"

When Yang Huaiyu heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he immediately changed to a flattering smile: "Then big brother, don't forget to give me some Zhenxi Army!" Yang Huaiyu took the initiative to go to the west bank of the Guye River to investigate, in order to help Jingqiang Village, so as to ask Zhong Hao for some benefits. The benefit in his eyes is naturally this earth-shattering thunder.

Zhong Hao rolled his eyes at Yang Huaiyu and said, "With your reminder every now and then, I want to forget, but can I forget?" Don't worry, your town will be indispensable to the Western Army! ”

Yang Huaiyu was overjoyed, took the five earth-shattering thunders, and took the four generals from his family to the west bank of the Kuye River to investigate.

Of course, Zhong Hao in the north of Jingqiang Village couldn't completely ignore it, and he asked Cui Feng to take a few soldiers with the best riding skills in the war battalion to the sentry.

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As soon as Zhong Hao heard the sound of earth-shattering thunder, he immediately made a decision and asked everyone in Jingqiang Village to immediately retreat to the village.

Since Yang Huaiyu and the others detonated the earth-shaking thunder, it means that Xia Jun must have been discovered, and it should be possible to be bitten by Xia Jun and unable to get rid of it, and the situation should be very critical to use this earth-shaking thunder.

After everyone entered the village, Zhong Hao climbed to the corner tower in the northwest corner of Jingqiang Village and looked at the pontoon bridge on the Guye River in the distance. This pontoon bridge was built by the craftsmen of Jingqiang Village with ropes and wooden planks, and is the only road connecting Jingqiang Village to the west bank of the Kuye River.

The pontoon bridge is six or seven miles away from Jingqiang Village, in fact, Zhong Hao stood on the corner tower and could only see a very blurry image, as for the soldiers of the war battalion sent by Zhang Yong, he only saw a few big black spots. In the Song Dynasty, one mile was three hundred and sixty steps, and one step was five feet, which was slightly longer than the city in later generations. Later studies said that when a person looks at a person at a distance of four kilometers, he can only see a black dot, and he can't see it any further. Although the distance from the corner tower to the pontoon bridge is less than four kilometers, it is not much worse.

Although Zhong Hao couldn't see it really, he still looked at the pontoon bridge with concern.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but miss the telescope of later generations at this time. In this era, there was glass, Zhong Hao felt that it should not be difficult to polish the convex lens and concave lens, and if he tested it more, he might not be able to build a telescope. Zhong Hao secretly thought: In the future, we must make a telescope, this thing is still somewhat useful in the war. If the other side cannot see clearly the deployment of its own troops, but the other side can see the situation of the other side clearly, it will certainly take advantage of it.

Everyone was anxiously waiting for the arrival of the Xia army, and the soldiers of the war battalion on the wall couldn't help but clench their weapons in their hands. Although eighty percent of the Xia army would not attack the wall, but for the first time opposite the Xia army, the soldiers of the war camp were still nervous.

Zhong Hao was also a little anxious, mainly worried about Yang Huaiyu and them, afraid that they would have an accident. Zhong Hao regretted a little that he let Yang Huaiyu go to the west bank of the Guye River to investigate, if he only let the four generals of the Yang family go, he wouldn't have to be so nervous.

Wang San, who was standing beside Zhong Hao, knew that he was nervous about Yang Huaiyu's safety, and couldn't help but persuade: "Don't worry, Yang Jiaotou is skilled in bows and horses, and strong in martial arts, and he will definitely be fine!" Originally, Zhong Hao wanted Wang San to follow Cui Feng to the north to investigate, but Cui Feng was afraid that Zhong Hao would have no one to take care of Zhong Hao's affairs here, so he asked him to stay to protect Zhong Hao.

"I hope so!" Zhong Hao held on to the battlements of the corner tower, looked into the distance and said.

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However, Zhong Hao didn't wait too long, and after just a cup of tea, many fast-moving black dots appeared in his field of vision.

Zhong Hao tried to keep his eyes open, barely distinguishing that the five black dots in front were still some distance from the large black dots behind, and Zhong Hao's heart relaxed slightly.

Seeing that the five black dots in front of the pontoon were about to arrive, two muffled sounds came, and the large black dots behind were a little sluggish, and the five black dots in front took the opportunity to cross the pontoon.

After the five black dots crossed the pontoon bridge, several more black dots joined in and rushed towards Jingqiang Village together.

Those five black dots should be Yang Huaiyu and them, Zhong Hao loudly ordered Zhang Yong to let him command the soldiers of the war battalion to open the gate of the village and welcome them in. In fact, without his orders, Zhang Yong had already sent someone. Zhang Yong still admired these leaders of his own war camp very much, so he naturally sent someone to hurry up.

The distance of six or seven miles was not half a cup of tea for the galloping war horse, and soon Yang Huaiyu's face clearly appeared in Zhong Hao's field of vision, and Zhong Hao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The soldiers of the war battalion put down the suspension bridge, and received Yang Huaiyu and the five soldiers of the war battalion who went to cut the ropes of the suspension bridge into the village, and quickly twisted the suspension bridge and landed on the huge door latch.

Yang Huaiyu asked the two generals to take the mounts of five people to wipe the sweat and feed the beans. War horses need to be carefully cared for, such a long-distance gallop, war horses must sweat a lot, it is autumn at this time, the wind has been a little cool, once stopped and did not wipe the sweat in time, the war horse is prone to cold. Moreover, the war horse galloped so fast, it must consume a lot of physical strength, and it also needs to eat some beans to replenish physical strength.

Yang Huaiyu himself took two other generals to climb the wall. Cui Feng went to the north to spy on the outpost, although Zhang Yong had fought, but he was always charged as a big soldier, and he did not command the defense of the city. If the Xia army really attacked the wall, I am afraid that Yang Huaiyu and them would have to help command the defense.

Zhong Hao saw Yang Huaiyu and the three of them climb the wall, hurriedly greeted them, and arched his hand towards them: "A few people are tired, and all the people in Jingqiang Village in the next generation have thanked them here!" ”

Yang Huaiyu still didn't care and smiled: "Big brother is polite, what is this!" Hehe, the big brother's earth-shattering thunder is really good, it scares those thieves a lot! ”

Zhong Hao immediately asked about the details of Yang Huaiyu's sentinel.

It turned out that Yang Huaiyu had been sentry on the west bank of the Guye River for the past few days, and he had not found Xia Jun's whereabouts a few days ago. This morning, I happened to encounter a group of Xia cavalry of about 300 people galloping eastward, and the direction in which they were going was obviously going straight to Jingqiang Village.

Yang Huaiyu and the others were afraid that it would be too late to report the news when they came back from the detour, so they thought of using the earth-shaking thunder to warn, and of course they also had the idea of testing the power of this earth-shaking thunder. At that moment, Yang Huaiyu followed the side of this Xia army cavalry, ignited three earth-shattering thunderbolts and threw them over.

The effect is really good, because the formation of this team of party cavalry is relatively dense, the earth-shaking thunder exploded in the middle of the team, and the **** iron nails, iron thistles, iron sand, etc. injured many Xia army's war horses, and of course also injured some party cavalry. The killing of these killers is secondary, the key is that the huge explosion made the horses of this Xia cavalry completely frightened and scattered in all directions. The record of this earth-shattering thunder in the first actual combat is still quite good.

Although Zhong Hao almost caused Ma to be shocked when he tested gunpowder for the first time, Yang Huaiyu had a lot of opinions. However, Zhong Hao felt that the war horses of Jingqiang Village still had to adapt to the sound of gunpowder explosions, and the future wars would be inseparable from firearms. Therefore, in the following time, Zhong Hao started with a small amount of gunpowder explosion, and slowly trained the ability of the war horses of Jingqiang Village to adapt to the sound of gunpowder explosions, and now the war horses of Jingqiang Village have basically adapted to the sound of earth-shaking thunder explosions.

At this time, the cavalry of the Xia army was frightened, and the team was in chaos, if Yang Huaiyu and they had a hundred or ten cavalry, they could rush over and win the battle and harvest the first rank of the party's cavalry. It's a pity that Yang Huaiyu and the others only have five people, and the only thing they can do is to return to Jingqiang Village as soon as possible, and they are powerless to defeat this Xia army cavalry.

Yang Huaiyu and the others turned their horses' heads, took advantage of the chaos of the Xia army, and galloped towards Jingqiang Village.

However, the Xia army's cavalry's ability to control the horses was really not bad, and after the chaos after the explosion, it was only a short time before more than a hundred cavalry controlled their horses, and under the command of a commander, they quickly formed a formation, following Yang Huaiyu's tracks, and chased after them!

Yang Huaiyu didn't expect that more than 100 Xia cavalry would control the horses so quickly, and he was afraid that Jingqiang Village would not have enough time to react, so he took the Xia cavalry around in a big circle before rushing to the pontoon bridge.

Yang Huaiyu's riding skills of the five of them are good, but these more than 100 Xia cavalry who can quickly control the frightened horses after the earth-shaking thunder explosion are naturally excellent in riding, Yang Huaiyu and they have not thrown off this cavalry several times along the way, and they have been chasing towards the pontoon bridge.

Along the way, the two sides are indispensable to arrows and arrows, although Yang Huaiyu and they are few, but they have been pulling a distance of an arrow from the Xia cavalry, the Xia cavalry has not been able to catch up, the arrows of the Xia cavalry are difficult to effectively kill Yang Huaiyu and them, and Yang Huaiyu They shoot arrows backwards, the Xia army is galloping against the arrows, but they are more at a loss, and Yang Huaiyu They are all wearing good armor, so no one was injured, but shot down a lot of Xia army pursuers.

Yang Huaiyu saw that he couldn't get rid of them, and he was afraid that they would follow him across the pontoon bridge, so he threw the remaining two earth-shattering thunderbolts out. These two earth-shattering thunderbolts once again caused the Xia cavalry to startle, causing a burst of confusion, blocking the Xia cavalry for a while, and Yang Huaiyu and the others took the opportunity to rush over the pontoon bridge. And the soldiers of the war battalion who guarded the pontoon bridge and received Yang Huaiyu were also able to take the opportunity to cut the rope of the suspension bridge.

Yang Huaiyu himself didn't care about what he said, but Zhong Hao was terrified when he heard it, looking at the white marks left on the armor by the wolf's tooth arrows on Yang Huaiyu's body, Zhong Hao couldn't help wiping a cold sweat, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's really a bit thrilling, it seems that it's really not easy to be a scout!" ”

Yang Huaiyu said with a smile: "It's not easy, in the future, the eldest brother will have more and more junior brothers, and there will be no danger!" ”

Zhong Hao said with a smile: "In the future, the earth-shaking thunder will have to be, how many are you willing to have!" ”

"That's good! With this thing, you will be bold in the future! ”

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Although the rope of the pontoon bridge on the Kuno River was cut, it only cut the east bank of the Kuno River, and the one on the west bank was not cut, and the rope was still tied to the giant wooden stake on the west bank of the Kuno River, but the wooden planks fixed on the pontoon bridge were washed away by the water. With that rope in place, it wasn't too much trouble to rebuild the pontoon.

The cavalry of the Xia Army, which was chasing Yang Huaiyu and them, did not take too long to control the frightened war horses, and after a quarter of an hour, they successively controlled their respective war horses and came to the pontoon bridge on the west bank of the Kuye River to assemble.

Not long after, when the earth-shaking thunder exploded for the first time, the more than 200 Xia cavalry who were left behind also came to the pontoon bridge on the west bank of the Kuye River and joined the more than 100 Xia cavalry who arrived here in advance.

The commander of the cavalry sent several of his men to swim across the river with ropes, re-tied the ropes of the pontoon bridge to the huge wooden stakes on the east bank, and sent men to find planks to put on the pontoon.

By the time Zhong Hao and the others looked out after lunch, they had already found that the Xia cavalry had all crossed the Kuye River, and after gathering in formation, they galloped towards Jingqiang Village.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but hurriedly put the soldiers of the war barracks on alert and be ready to fight at any time! (To be continued.) )

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