The royal palace of Zhongjing City

Su Yan sat at the desk and carefully looked at the document handed over by Kong Chang, the content of the document was mainly the situation encountered by the cavalry troops in the grassland for the first time this year, and when there was a problem, Su Yan would ask Kong Chang, and Kong Chang would answer the question in detail until Su Yan understood the whole thing completely.

What happened on the grassland surprised Su Yan very much, second only to the anti-black alliance that took the initiative to attack the city.

The prairie has always been the key development direction of the Xia State, and the Xia State has continuously penetrated into the grassland by sending cavalry troops to obtain a large number of cattle, horses and sheep, in addition to the population and animal skins and other trophies, but cattle and horses are the most important to the Xia State, and the Xia State needs a large number of cattle and horses to increase its own development speed.

The grassland is not small, it must be larger than the current territory of the Xia Kingdom, but it is not too big, and it certainly cannot be compared with the sphere of influence of the Xia Kingdom.

You must know that the sphere of influence of the Xia State is much larger than the territory, and wherever the people of the Xia Kingdom go and there are no other tribes, it is considered the sphere of influence of the Xia Kingdom, and the area from the city to the grassland is also the sphere of influence of the Xia State for at least three days, and it is almost impossible for nomadic tribes to exist in this range.

Based on the living characteristics of nomadic tribes, Su Yan does not think that there will be too many people on the grassland, after all, a nomadic tribe needs to occupy a large amount of grassland to graze cattle, horses and sheep.

And riding a horse is much faster than walking, the sphere of influence of a nomadic tribe is not small, even if each nomadic tribe is adjacent, but compared to the farming tribe, it is also very scattered, maybe the population of all the nomadic tribes on the steppe together is not much more than the total population of the Xia Kingdom.

Now the nomadic tribes on the prairie are suspected of forming a nomadic tribal alliance like the anti-black alliance, which is not a good thing for the Xia country, and if the Xia country wants to obtain a large number of cattle and horses from the prairie, it needs cavalry troops to confront a nomadic tribal alliance, not a weak nomadic tribe.

A number of nomadic tribes have established a nomadic tribal alliance, and the strength has increased several times, and the number of cavalry troops in the Xia Kingdom is less than 1,300 people, and it is very difficult to destroy a nomadic tribal alliance at a time, and the cavalry troops must expand in scale to gain the strength to destroy one nomadic tribal alliance after another.

Last year, the size of the cavalry unit was only increased by three units, increasing the size of the cavalry unit from 10 to 13, and the total number of cavalry units was less than 1,300.

Originally, the scale of the expansion of the cavalry unit this year was the same as last year, and it was also three teams, but the changes on the grassland were a little insufficient, Su Yan decided to give the cavalry unit greater expansion authority, and the cavalry recruits in this year have been training in the city, with ten people in each city, and thirty people in Zhongjingcheng, and the number of recruits is almost as fast as five hundred.

Lowering the standard a little, it is completely possible to increase the number of five teams in the cavalry unit, Su Yan directly assigned all the recruits to the cavalry unit, and the cavalry unit chooses, if they think that all the recruits are qualified, then all of them will be regularized, if they think that some people are not qualified, then the unqualified recruits will be repatriated to the city where they live.

As long as the cavalry troops themselves are willing, the size of five teams can be expanded at once this year, Su Yan will not care too much, he just hopes that Xia Guo's strategy on the grassland cannot be stopped, and Xia Guo needs to get more cattle and horses from the grassland.

After getting the king's order and walking out of the study, Kong Chang had a smile on his face, the task given to him by Mu Shi was successfully completed, but the expansion of the cavalry troops was not for their selfishness, they were all for the Xia Kingdom to become stronger, but they also hoped that there would be more subordinates for the Xia Kingdom, so that they could obtain more benefits from the grassland for the Xia Kingdom.

Just as Kong Chang was about to return to the city by boat, the Xia cavalry led by Mu Shi was already engaged in a battle with a nomadic tribal alliance.

The alliance of nomadic tribes that fought against the cavalry forces of the Xia Kingdom was called "wolf pack", which means that each member tribe is a wolf, and together they are a pack of wolves, and the wolves run on the steppes and are capable of tearing apart any enemy and prey.

As the name suggests, the wolf pack alliance is very belligerent, often actively seeking out weaker nomadic tribes to attack, until it can no longer find a lone nomadic tribe, and the wolf pack alliance begins to look for a slightly weaker alliance to sneak up on its member tribes.

It sounds like the Wolf Pack Alliance is huge, but in fact, the scale of the Wolf Pack Alliance is not very large, with only four member tribes and a total population of nearly 8,000, which can gather 2,500 cavalry troops composed of all adults at any time.

The population of the Wolf Pack Alliance is indeed not large in the Xia Kingdom, and the number of residents in the city is a little more than that of the Wolf Pack Alliance, but the Wolf Pack Alliance is not a small alliance in the entire grassland.

The total population of the nomadic tribes in the prairie is hundreds of thousands, and among the nomadic tribal alliances, the first large-scale nomadic tribal alliance anti-black alliance belongs to the most populous of the alliances, you must know that the total population of the anti-black alliance is 19,000 people, if they are all large tribal alliances like the anti-black alliance, then there are only a dozen or twenty alliances left in the entire prairie.

In fact, there are more than forty tribal alliances in the steppes, and there are also a number of nomadic tribes that have not joined the alliance and are constantly moving away from the western and northern parts of the steppe.

The smallest alliance of nomadic tribes has only two member tribes and a total population of less than 3,000, and compared to such a alliance of nomadic tribes, the alliance of wolf packs is indeed not small.

Now the cavalry troops of the Xia State are fighting with the wolf pack alliance with a population of nearly eight thousand, if it were not for the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom gathered together, Mu Shi really did not want to fight with the nomadic tribal forces with such a large population, once it was night, it would definitely be a big trouble for the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and if they were not careful, there would be more casualties.

But with more than 1,200 heavily armed cavalry in hand, Mu Shi was confident that he would defeat this alliance of wolf packs.

The war of the Xia cavalry forces against the Wolf Pack Alliance began when the Xia cavalry troops raided the residence of one of the member tribes of the Wolf Pack Alliance.

The leader of this tribal alliance was suddenly attacked by the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and the leader immediately chose to abandon all his belongings and fled with all his clansmen on horseback.

Seeing that the enemy had all fled and could not catch up, Mu Shi chose to garrison on the spot and sent cavalry to drive back the cattle, horses and sheep scattered around the residence in a unit.

When one of the member tribes was attacked, the other member tribes immediately gathered their men to support them.

"If there is an enemy who dares to attack our wolf pack alliance, we must kill all the enemies and let them know the power of our wolf pack alliance."

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

When the ranks of the four member tribes of the Wolf Pack Alliance converged, an army of up to 2,400 cavalry was formed, and with such a large army at hand, they believed that they would be able to defeat the incoming enemy and reclaim what had been stolen.

The army of the Wolf Pack Alliance rushed towards the area where the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom were located, and the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom were also preparing for battle under Mu Shi's orders.

The spies of the cavalry unit of the Xia Kingdom used the telescope made by the Ministry of Industry to reconnoiter the situation of the wolf pack alliance army from a distance, and judged that the number of the wolf pack alliance army was between 2,000 and 2,500 horsemen.

After receiving the report of the spies, Mu Shi immediately decided to let the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom fight head-on with the army of the Wolf Pack Alliance, and the ratio of the number of the two sides was one to two, for the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, one person killing two enemies could wipe out all the enemies.

The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom have an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, with a longer range and more powerful bows and arrows, and leather armor with high defensive power, after entering the range of the bows and arrows of the Xia cavalry, a cavalry can shoot up to four arrows, which is enough to defeat the wolf pack alliance army.

Mu Shi's order is a little dangerous for the Xia cavalry troops, in fact, there is a safer battle plan, in the face of the incoming wolf pack alliance army, the Xia country cavalry troops can pretend to escape, and then slow down and wait for the wolf pack alliance army to enter the range of the Xia country cavalry's bow and arrows, keep a distance, you can shoot multiple arrows, and the arrows shot by the wolf pack alliance cavalry can not cause damage to the Xia country cavalry troops at all.

However, choosing a safe plan can't kill and injure as much as a somewhat dangerous plan, considering that the number of enemies is within an acceptable range, Mu Shi still chooses a somewhat dangerous head-on battle plan.

"The enemy is coming, brothers rush with me!" Mu Shi waved his saber and took the lead in rushing towards the wolf pack alliance army, in the process of advancing, Mu Shi put on the black area, and the other Xia cavalry had already put on their face armor before setting off, with face armor, the chance of Xia Guo cavalry being injured in the face would be greatly reduced.

"Haha, the enemy didn't choose to run away, so many people actually dared to fight with our wolf pack alliance, once they killed this group of arrogant enemies."

"Black war horses, black clothes, how can this enemy be so similar to the black tribe cavalry that defeated the anti-black alliance in the rumor?"

"Even if it is the cavalry of the Black Tribe, we don't need to be afraid, our wolf pack alliance is stronger than the Black Tribe, and with so few enemies, it is definitely not our opponent."

"Rush."

The wolf pack alliance army had more than 2,400 cavalry, and the Xia cavalry troops had more than 1,200 cavalry, and the two cavalry units had launched a charge, and the Xia cavalry took out their bows and arrows early.

One hundred zhang

Eighty zhang

Sixty zhang

Forty zhang

When the distance between the two sides was only forty zhang, the Xia cavalry shot the first wave of arrow rain, which was a distance of forty zhang, the bow used by the Xia cavalry and archers was no longer the early bamboo bow, and now used a composite bow that was better than the bamboo bow, the maximum range was close to fifty zhang, but it was best to shoot arrows at a distance of forty zhang to maintain enough power.

A rain of arrows composed of more than 1,200 arrows was shot out by the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and they quickly crashed into the army of the Wolf Pack Alliance.

"How did the enemy shoot arrows so early? Are they crazy......" The words ended, and two arrows pierced his body.

More than 1,200 arrows fell into the army of the wolf pack alliance that was rushing in a dense formation, and even more than 400 people were hit by arrows.

The sudden blow of the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom directly blinded the cavalry of the Wolf Pack Alliance, and there was only one thought left in the minds of those who were not hit by arrows: "How did the enemy's arrows come from such a long distance?" ”

In just a few breaths, the second wave of arrow rain arrived, and the distance between the two sides was closer, this time more than 600 people were hit by arrows, and two waves of arrow rain rained, and almost half of the 2,400 people of the wolf pack alliance army were hit by arrows, and they suffered heavy casualties.

The second wave of arrow rain fell, and only those who were not hit by the arrows reacted, most of them lowered their bodies and wanted to dodge the arrows shot by the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and a small number of people panicked and shot arrows at the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom from a distance of more than 20 zhang, their bows and arrows could not reach this range at all, and even if they could have this range, they would not have enough power to bring harm to the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom.

No one in the wolf pack alliance army chose to escape, now both sides are in a state of sprinting, the formation of the two cavalry teams is relatively dense, one person suddenly wants to retreat, it will only lead to confusion in the formation or be directly hit by other sprinting companions, they only have two options left, one is to continue to charge, the other is to collectively deflect the direction, the cavalry troops cannot directly stop and retreat.

The Wolf Pack Alliance chose to charge, and even if they died in the charge, they did not want to be shot in from behind by enemy arrows.

After the second wave of arrow rain fell, only a few breaths, the third wave of arrow rain followed, and the distance between the two sides was closer, but most of the cavalry of the wolf pack alliance army chose to use the body of a horse to shield themselves from arrows, and a wave of arrow rain fell, and the number of arrows dropped to less than five hundred.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was about to enter the range of the bow and arrow of the wolf pack alliance army, and the cavalry who could still shoot arrows in the wolf pack alliance army were ready to shoot arrows, and at the moment when they shot arrows at the Xia cavalry troops, the fourth arrow rain of the Xia cavalry troops arrived.

In the face of the approaching arrows, the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, whose bodies were mostly wrapped in leather armor, were not afraid at all, and the distance was already so close, the cavalry put down their bows and arrows one after another, and instead drew their sharp sabers and rushed towards the wolf pack alliance army.

"We're done!" This was the thought of the last leader of the Wolf Pack Alliance at this time, the other three leaders had been seriously injured or killed directly in the four waves of arrow rain of the Xia cavalry, and the only remaining leader was also hit by an arrow in the arm.

The leader looked around, the wolf pack alliance army was two thousand four hundred, and now the cavalry that can continue to fight may be less than four hundred, and many young cavalry have been frightened and have lost the courage to fight, it is the first time they have seen such a tragic scene, and it is the first time they have encountered such a clan being shot by the enemy, and their hearts have collapsed under the arrows of the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom.

"Kill!"

More than 1,200 Xia cavalry collided with less than 400 wolf pack alliance cavalry, and the wolf pack alliance cavalry slashed at the Xia country cavalry with a bone knife, but was easily blocked by the leather armor, and the Xia country cavalry slashed at the wolf pack alliance cavalry with a copper knife backhand, directly into the flesh for three points.

In just over twenty breaths, the last cold battle ended, and under Mu Shi's order, all the Xia cavalry stood on the battlefield on horseback, seeing off the group of enemies in front of them who would rather die than retreat.