When Shi Hu heard that the Jin army had left the camp, he hurriedly picked up his spear and mounted his horse, and the camp was relaxed to the vicinity of the southern base of the Jin people, intending to come to the front line to command the battle.

The main camp of the Jin army, which was nearly five miles north of the Yao Temple, and between the north base of the Jin people, there was still room for a decisive battle of two or three miles. However, seeing that Wang Ze was sticking to his fortress and did not dare to fight back, Shi Hu moved the camp forward slightly, approaching the north base, and at the same time set up 17 camps, almost surrounding the entire Yao Temple.

There are a total of eighteen camps in the main camp, ranging from sparse to dense, among which the west side of the Yao Temple has the least number of soldiers - you can't easily find enough boats, I am not afraid that you will break through to the west, vainly try to wade through Fenshui and escape into Pingyang City - and then to the east, if the Jin people retreat to Xiangling, they only need to leave thousands of soldiers and horses to monitor and block, and it will be a dead chess in a short time. As for the northwest and south directions of the north and south bases, the strength of the Qiang army is the thickest.

However, early this morning, Shi Hu transferred nearly half of his troops in the south to the north to enrich the northern base, prevent the Jin people from attacking with all their might, and try in vain to recapture its base. At this time, the north base has not yet been policed, and counting its strength, there should not be any big mistakes, so Shi Hu hurriedly galloped outside the south base, in order to supervise Zhang Raccoon and Guo Rong to fight today's battle.

But just approaching the battlefield, he suddenly received an urgent report from Zhang Raccoon, saying that the Jin people had marched south, and at least five or six thousand people had come out, and it was clear that they were not going to pick up the grain, but trying to break through and escape! When Shi Hu heard the news, he was taken aback, but he didn't blame himself for not knowing the enemy, but scolded Wang Ze: "There are no guts and bandits, and you are cowardly!" ”

Immediately sent an order to Zhang Xiong and Wang Hua in the north base, asking them to immediately attack the Yao Temple, and then break through the defense in the direction of the Yao Temple as soon as possible - didn't Zhang Raccoon say that five or six thousand people ran out, then it is estimated that there are still soldiers in ambush in the temple - come to reinforce the battle outside the south base!

Immediately, Shi Hu shook the spear in his hand, and then went to pick up Zhang Raccoon, but the guards next to him stopped him: "The king must not wade into danger lightly!" ”

In fact, Shi Hu is brave and light-hearted, and he is not once or twice involved in danger, for example, a few days ago, he used himself as a bait, galloped outside the base, and lured the Jin people out of the base to attack...... But this bait is indeed delicious, and the hook hidden in it is also extremely sharp, thinking that the dignified Shi Taiwei, the king of Taiyuan, and the governor of Bingzhou are in front of the battle, how can there be no one to protect them? Although in order to lure the enemy, the cover in front of Shi Hu will be slightly withdrawn, but there are naturally not a few elite soldiers lurking behind him and on his side.

No matter how brave Shi Hu is, after all, he is just an ordinary man, even if Zhen is here, if he is alone and has no personal soldiers to cover him, but he is surrounded by the enemy army in a round of fighting and charging, he will still be more than lucky.

Today is different, Shi Huchi went outside the southern base, his original intention was to supervise the formation, not to fight, and he no longer wanted to use himself as bait, so he only carried hundreds of personal guards. In the minds of the subordinates, the situation on the front line is not clear now, if Zhang Raccoon has been defeated, or the defeat is imminent, let's go up here to deliver food to the Jin people! If you send me away, how can you take the risk lightly, my lord?

The soldiers stopped the horse's head and persuaded each other bitterly, Shi Hu shouted angrily: "If I don't go, but the Jin people steal out of the Yao Temple and flee to Jiangyi, you will be to blame!" The junior colonel sent by Zhang Raccoon to report also persuaded: "General Zhang is still fighting, and there is General Guo Er intercepting and blocking in front, how can the Jin people escape so easily?" And they are all foot soldiers, and the king orders the cavalry to chase after them, and there is no reason to do so.

"Take 10,000 steps back and say, in the end, the Jin people escaped into Jiangyi, but the grain and straw were exhausted, and they were chased and killed by my rank, and the morale will fall, I am afraid that within ten days, I will not dare to go north again to catch the king's edge. The king can take the opportunity to attack Pingyang City again, in order to overcome the ......"

When Shi Hu heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said in his heart that this guy has a very clear mind, and he analyzed the battle situation and said-"What is your name?" The small school hurriedly signed up: "The villain is called Ma Chi, and it is the ...... of Youzhou"

Shi Hu interrupted him impatiently and asked, "Is it a Chinese or a Zhao person?" ”

——After Shi Le's name, he ordered an inventory of the domestic household registration, and from then on, all the Hu tribes headed by the Xiongnu and Xiongnu were called "Guoren", and the people of the former Jin Dynasty in the territory were called "Zhao people".

Ma Chi replied: "The villain is a countryman......

"Oh......" looked at Shi Hu's expression, slightly disappointed. If this Ma Chi replied that he was a "Zhao person", it was estimated that Shi Hu would be able to pull out his knife on the spot and cut one knife in two. The ostensible reason is: You are a primary school, or a Zhao person, how can you be qualified to talk to me? is so rude, how can we correct our military discipline if we don't kill? But the real reason is: a special elementary school can analyze things, so clear, almost more than Lao Tzu, how can this kind of goods stay? !

In this world, in addition to Emperor Zhao Tianwang and Mr. Pei, there is also half of Mrs. Zhang, who dares to be stronger than me?! And even if these two and a half, except for the king of heaven who is my uncle and can't touch him, if Mr. Pei falls into my hands, and if Mrs. Zhang has a handle and is caught by me, it will be killed......

It's a pity that Ma Chi replied that he was a "Chinese", so it was not convenient to do it immediately. Shi Huxin said It doesn't matter, I wrote down your name, and I will check it carefully after the war, this country is still divided into three, six, nine and so on, if it is a Qian, you can't kill it in vain - Shi Le keeps a close eye on each of his kind, and the total number is not much anyway...... If it is Tuge, Huns, or even Zahu, just find an excuse to take their lives.

So he pressed down the killing intent for the time being, and glared at Ma Chi: "What is the front line, is it possible for Zhang Raccoon to prevent all the Jin people from highlighting the Yao Temple?" Why don't you hurry up and find out the reward?! ”

Ma Chi thought that he could be appreciated by the king of Taiyuan by talking eloquently - mainly because of his low status, and he was not Shi Hu's direct subordinates, and he did not know enough about the character of the king of Taiyuan who was jealous of his ability (the Book of Jin described Shi Hu as "there are brave tactics and those who fight with themselves in the army, and they are easy to harm them, and they have killed many people before and after") - who wants Shi Hu to be completely unhappy, but he scolded him sharply, Ma Chi was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated, and the rat jumped away.

By the time the horse galloped back to the front line, Zhang Raccoon had been completely defeated......

It turned out that Zhang Raccoon jumped on his horse and raised his spear to fight Wang Ze, Wang Ze missed the arrow, and was about to raise the spear to greet him, and he didn't want to be mentioned by a personal soldier: "General, look!" He looked in the direction pointed by the soldier, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, his movements were so slow that he was knocked in front of him by Zhang Raccoon Dog, and the spear was distracted and stabbed.

Wang Ze's mount had not yet started, and it was impossible to drive the horse to dodge, and it was too late to raise a spear to block. In desperation, he had no choice but to scream, followed the spear's momentum, leaned to the side, and disappeared from Zhang Raccoon's field of vision.

Zhang Raccoon missed a spear, but also forced Wang Ze to fall off the horse, his own mount was still galloping, and he couldn't stop his footsteps, so he jumped out. He took one hand freely, took the reins, and controlled the mount, wanting to slow down a little, so that he could go back in a circle, and recover a spear, and take Wang Ze's life—you are fully armoured, and this heel falls off the horse, and it is not so easy to get up, right? However, it is necessary to prevent his own troops from rushing up to cover ......

Thinking very well, who expected that he had just turned the horse's head, and he had not yet turned completely, and suddenly the golden sound broke the wind behind him. Zhang Raccoon didn't care at first - he rushed hard enough, his subordinates didn't keep up, he was completely alone, trapped in the enemy formation, at this time there were opponents in all directions, maybe where to send a move, it was normal - a backhand spear was blocked, but he felt that the move was quite heavy. This isn't an ordinary creep, who is it?

Hurriedly turned the horse's head, and it happened that the opponent's second spear stabbed again, and Zhang Raccoon returned again, and it was not until this time that he finally saw it clearly-Damn, when did Wang Ze get up? Not only did he get up, but he also sat firmly in the carved saddle, with a spear in his hand, no dust on his armor, and no crooked helmet...... Didn't he fall off his horse to avoid my attack? Could it be that scene is all a hallucination?!

Of course, Zhang Raccoon did not hallucinate, but Wang Ze did not really fall off the horse. In fact, it is very simple to say, if Zhang and Wang are more equipped than the equipment, Zhang Raccoon is inferior to Wang Ze, so he will make such an "oolong".

What is it? Exactly - stirrups.

The predecessors of stirrups have been around for centuries, such as the kick glove, stirrups, and unilateral stirrups, but they were not really revolutionizing riding combat until Pei Gai "invented" the bilateral stirrup. Pei Jun's bilateral hard pedals were originally mostly made of hardwood, but later found that they were not good, the strength was still too low, and it was very easy to be stepped on, so when Pei should stabilize Guanzhong and become slightly wealthy, they were all changed to hardwood stirrups with iron sheets.

The main function of the previous leg cover and unilateral stirrup is to assist the horse, just like carrying a horse stone. The unilateral stirrup must be removed after mounting, otherwise it is difficult to maintain balance; The foot cover can barely be used as a real stirrup, but it is a pity that it is too soft, which is not convenient to borrow strength, and it is easy to entangle the soles of the feet in case of distress. As for the toe stirrup, which is prevalent in some parts of the subcontinent, Peggai had racked his brains in his previous life to figure out what it did—other than to increase the risk of a broken big toe.

The possibility of technology diffusion of bilateral hard stirrups is many times stronger than that of gunpowder, and since the cavalry of the Pei army has popularized this thing, there is no reason why the Hu army and the Qian army cannot find it. It's just that Pei Jun's use of this thing is a military order, and there are no strict regulations in other families, and whether it is used or not depends on personal preference. Besides, most of Shi Zhao's soldiers raised their own equipment, and the government refused to spend money to issue stirrups to all cavalry, right?

As for Zhang Raccoon Dog specifically, he prides himself on his excellent riding skills, and he doesn't look down on this kind of thing at all, and feels that only the waste that is difficult to survive on horseback for a long time will be used. So Wang Ze can use stirrups to play with flowers on horseback, and he has no concept at all.

So what tricks did Wang Ze play? In the later generations, it is actually not too difficult to move, that is, the so-called "hiding in the stirrup".

Zhang Raccoon stabbed him with a spear in the chest, and Wang Ze didn't have time to dodge or block, so he could only instinctively get rid of one stirrup and turn over and fall, but relying on the support of the stirrup on the other side, he didn't really land, but just temporarily hid on the side of the mount to avoid the spear. If he really turned over and fell off the horse, not to mention the armor on his body, he couldn't easily struggle, and as soon as Zhang Raccoon flicked the horse's head, he might pick up a spear and take his life. Even if he gets out of trouble because of the protection and rescue of the subordinates, the main general will fall into a rut, which will inevitably affect the morale of the soldiers under his command.

But he didn't really fall off the horse, and the two horses were separated by a mistake, Wang Ze immediately twisted his waist and stood up, pressed the carved saddle with his hand, and instantly turned back to the saddle bridge, and circled the horse in place to chase Zhang Raccoon. In fact, this trick was neither Wang Ze's quick wit, nor was it "invented" by himself, and the credit has to be credited to Zhen Sui.

Zhen Manzi was originally a southerner, not used to riding horses, until he was a general in Xuzhou, he got a mount, and he practiced every day. However, Zhen Sui is still not used to horse warfare, and feels that only by stepping on the ground with both feet is the most secure, and it is also the most convenient to exert force......

Zhen Sui often fights in the army, but he rarely encounters opponents. Wang Ze and the others were beaten by him in a hurry-are you really looking for us to practice martial arts, or do you just want to beat people to vent your fire-, so he proposed, get on their horses, let's ride and fight, and see if you Zhen Manzi can still shake off his majesty on the horse!

At the beginning, Zhen Sui was indeed deflated because of this, originally one person could fight four generals on foot, and after getting on the horse, one person could fight at most two - it had to be a general like Wang Ze who was not good at riding skills. But gradually, Zhen Sui's riding skills became stronger and stronger, Wang Ze and others couldn't say that they couldn't stand still, just in terms of riding, they were still steadily surpassed by Zhen Sui, and even fell far behind. Wang Ze sometimes thinks: This is the so-called "one law and ten thousand laws", right? This barbarian is born to be a strong man, and as long as he is willing to practice, there is nothing that he can't learn......

Oh, but so far, Zhen Sui is still not as good as Pei Xiong in the technique of horn resistance - come on Pei Xiong!

Pulling back and saying that Zhen Sui was naturally good at martial arts, so he figured out all kinds of tricks on horseback without a teacher, and "hiding in the stirrups" was one of them. And Wang Ze, who used to be Zhen's deputy and experienced his old fist, naturally "stole" this trick.

was forced to come today, which was unexpected. Zhang Raccoon was a rough man with a poor brain, so he was immediately stupid, suspected that he was dazzled, and hallucinated...... His heart was uncertain, and he was slow to make moves, and he was killed by Wang Ze with several spears, so that he only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back. In addition, he charged too fiercely and lacked personal guards to protect him, so he was accidentally shot up by a small soldier from the flank, piercing Zhang Raccoon's mantle, although he did not hurt his muscles and bones, and it was inevitable that there was a hot pain in his arms.

Zhang Raccoon knows that it is not good, one wrong move, every step is slow, and it is difficult to reverse the defeat, let alone grab back the first move? was forced to look at a gap, dodged Wang Ze, and rode away towards the original starting place. Zhang Raccoon's retreat frustrated the already demoralized soldiers, and the array immediately collapsed and fled in all directions.

Wang Ze didn't chase either, hurriedly restrained his subordinates, and went to catch up with the main force - this can't be delayed, fortunately, it's just Zhang Raccoon, even if he doesn't play any "hiding in the stirrup", he will have a tie with him at most, and if Shi Hu catches up...... Wang Ze didn't dare to imagine it!

Let's say that Zhang Raccoon was defeated, Ma Chi arrived and asked Zhang Raccoon: "How is the battle?" The king will listen to the reward. Zhang Raccoon gasped and replied, "The battle situation...... It's okay, it's okay, you can report to the king, I will rush forward, and General Guo will attack Jin Kou, and I will be able to firmly tie it up, waiting for the main force to come to help......"

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