"Shi Guard, your scimitar is good, I see that your eighteen horsemen are all two knives per person, dare to ask three thousand Yanyun Iron Cavalry, but everyone has this knife?" Luo Cheng broke the embarrassment and asked.

Shi Meng's face was still red, and there was no longer the arrogance in his eyes, as if he had been suppressed by Luo Cheng's twenty-three-pound horse lance, he replied, "Our knife is called the Full Moon Scimitar, at first our Yanyun Iron Cavalry only had eighteen horsemen at the beginning, and then Luo Huben slowly selected the elite, took us to fight against the Saiwaihu people, and trained this team of men and horses with blood and fire, knives and swords. ”

"Once, when we were fighting against the Khitans, we broke through a tribe and found that the warriors of this tribe were all good at using knives, and they were all scimitars. Later, after we interrogated the captives, we learned that there was an open-pit iron mine where the Khitan tribe was located, so the people of this tribe had always been good at smelting iron, and the iron they practiced was called iron iron, and the knife cast was an iron knife, which was very sharp. And their swordsmiths have improved from generation to generation to create a scimitar that is perfect for immediate combat. ”

"This kind of sword is bent like a full moon, and after continuous improvement, it is more suitable for immediate combat, and it does not even require the knight's own strength, and the enemy's head can be easily cut off by the impact of horses alone, which can well make up for the shortcomings of the Khitan body size and strength, so that they can improve their combat power in battles with the Turks, Murwei, Goguryeo, etc."

As he spoke, Shi Meng also pulled out a scimitar and handed it to Luo Cheng to watch.

This knife is said to be like a full moon, but in fact, it is still a bit exaggerated.

The curved part of the blade of the knife is long and stretched, and the part close to the handle of the knife is still straight, not longer than the part close to the handle of the scimitar, so as to ensure that you will not injure yourself by mistake, when the cavalry rushes into the enemy formation, you can easily pull out the scimitar on the side of the saddle, with the momentum of the horse, it is easy to cut off the enemy's armor, which greatly saves the physical strength of the cavalry.

"No need to chop, no need to cut?" Qi Fat asked.

"No, pull out your scimitar, open it, and rush through it with the speed of your horse, this force is enough to easily cut through the armor and cut off the head."

Shi Meng said and demonstrated the use of the action.

Luo Cheng also tried a few times with the scimitar, this knife is not heavy, about less than three catties, in Shi Meng's words, this kind of knife does not need to be chopped, so it does not need to be too heavy. The scimitar blade is more suitable for mechanics, which is a slash kill.

I have to admire the Khitans, who not only refined the extremely famous iron, but also created an extremely sharp killing weapon, the Macimitar.

Compared with the horizontal knives used by the Sui army, this kind of scimitar is obviously more in line with human body mechanics, and it is easier to exert its power, which can be described as twice the result with half the effort.

The melee combat used by the cavalry of the Sui army was still a horizontal knife, but it was shorter than the horizontal knife of the infantry, but the straight-edged horizontal knife was obviously not as suitable as this scimitar.

The horizontal knife is a right-angled single-edged blade, which is more suitable for dealing with the strong armor defense since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and has a very strong armor-piercing effect, while the scimitar of the Khitan people obviously takes a different path, and it is obviously very effective against the nomadic tribe cavalry who lack iron armor on the horse.

"The men of the Khitan tribe, everyone has a double scimitar, and later Luo Huben also let the captured Khitan blacksmith make scimitars, and our Yanyun Iron Cavalry also learned the Khitan tactics, and everyone has double knives. Since equipping the scimitar and using this method of warfare, in the later battles with the Turks and other Hu people, our Yanyun Iron Cavalry has been even more powerful. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Meng said a little proudly, "Our Yanyun Iron Cavalry is a cavalry archery Turk and a scimitar to imitate the Khitans, but we also have the battle methods and military formations of the masters of the Chinese dynasties, so we are the strongest, and no one can stop us." ”

"Master Yi's long skills to control Yi, Luo Ya will get it." Luo Cheng also had to praise Luo Yi, in just ten years, he was able to start from scratch and practice a rampant Yanyun Iron Horse, which is not something that anyone can do.

"The Turkic cavalry, the Khitan scimitar, and the iron armor of the Central Plains, these three are combined, and naturally the unparalleled Yanyun Iron Cavalry has been achieved. Qi Fat arched his hand.

"Captain Qi guards the Wuyuan Hetao with the head of the fish, so that the Turks do not dare to graze horses on the plug, and we also admire this majesty of Yanyun Iron Cavalry." Shi Meng also replied.

The way they flattered each other was disgusting, but Luo Cheng knew that the two sides were indeed famous.

"Yanyun Iron Cavalry, Fengzhou Town Soldiers, just think about the appearance of your Wei Town, it makes people fascinated." Luo Cheng sighed.

Looking at the clouds and sky, Luo Cheng said, "I don't know if it will be peaceful along the way, do you think there will really be Goguryeo people?" ”

"On the west bank of the Liao River, there are many Goguryeo people."

"Then if the Goguryeo people attack, can we stop it?" Luo Cheng asked the two with a smile.

"That's a lot." Qi Fatzi glanced at the marching team, six thousand people.

2,000 soldiers, 4,000 people, although there are only 2,000 soldiers, but their equipment is quite terrifying, it is said to be an infantry regiment, but in fact it is a luxury regiment with heavy iron cavalry, light cavalry, heavy infantry, and heavy crossbow infantry.

It's just that in terms of actual combat experience, it may still be slightly insufficient, and it has not been polished by the real big war.

"How many people does Captain Qi think we can stop?"

Shi Meng said bluntly, "Without five thousand Goguryeo cavalry, don't try to swallow us." If we were to be seriously wounded, it was estimated that 3,000 Goguryeo cavalry would be enough. ”

"Three thousand Goguryeo cavalry can seriously injure us?" Luo Cheng was a little surprised, he thought that with so much equipment, he should be more combative.

"Three thousand beats you two thousand, can you not be completely annihilated, shouldn't you be proud?"

"What is there to be proud of." Luo Cheng shook his head.

When you just come out of Huaiyuan, you can still see some town forts along the way, and there are tuntian outside the forts. But the further northeast you go, the more desolate it becomes.

The grass is deep and the forest is dense.

It's a barren place.

Once this is also a fertile soil, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, according to the Yan Kingdom of Hebei Province has continued to expand to the north and east, while expanding, the Yan people continue to build the Yan Great Wall in the new place.

The Great Wall of Yan starts from Zhangjiakou in the west, passes through Inner Mongolia Duolun and Dushi in the northeast, and passes through Hebei Weichang and Chaoyang in Liaoning in the east, and reaches the Kaiyuan on the east bank of the Liao River.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains court had also expanded to the central part of the Korean Peninsula, and the four counties of Liaodong included the Liaodong Peninsula and most of the Korean Peninsula.

Generations of ancestors went to the frontier, immigrated to expand the land, and multiplied here.

The reason why the Han Dynasty is great is inseparable from the continuous expansion of the territory of the Han people, the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions, opened up the Lingnan Baiyue, opened up Liaodong and many other places.

It was only later at the end of the Han Dynasty that the world was in a scuffle, although there was a brief unification of the Jin Dynasty in the middle, but after the short unification, it was the more chaotic Wuhu Chaohua, and the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the great division of three hundred years, which made the Western Regions, Liaodong and other places gradually lost.

At that time, countless Han people who pioneered the frontier either returned to the Central Plains, or were ruled by foreign races, and even many people were slowly integrated into the nation, and even their ancestors have long been forgotten.

The prosperous Liaodong has also become desolate.

In the past, the fertile fields were thousands of miles away, but now they are just a wilderness, because the war is approaching, and the hundreds of miles by the Liao River have become a no-man's land that chickens and dogs do not hear.

For ten days in a row, they were all safe.

Day 11.

Early in the morning, Luo Cheng did not pull out the camp and set off, on the contrary, the camp was still desperately reinforcing the camp.

Afternoon.

The horses' hooves were thundering.

Luo Cheng stood on the arrow tower erected high in the camp and looked into the distance.

I saw the wilderness in front of the camp, dusty, and people and horses looming!