On the steppes of East Kipchak, Jinshan Castle is no longer the same as ten years ago.

It's a new year/reincarnation in the Kipchak steppe, the breath of spring replaces the bitter cold of winter, and everywhere is lush green. Even the blue in the sky seems to be better than ever. On the green grassland, there are many tents, like wildflowers blooming on the grassland, and flocks of sheep like white clouds are also flowing on this extremely fat grassland.

In order to receive the arriving Lu Qi army, the Naiman people can be said to have taken out all their family resources. Baruch is recognized as a 'hardcore Kupchak traitor' in the Eastern Kipchak steppes. They were the first to surrender to Lu Qi that day, and later received Lu Qi's favor, becoming the only person to be knighted other than Zhan Keyi. That Chamkra surrendered to one god, and he would not have surrendered.

But although Baruch's attitude was as firm as iron, the entire Naiman tribe trembled when he saw the sudden change in the situation in the west.

Although Zhan Ke Ke Ye attracted the main force of the rebels and pulled away the hatred for them, the Naiman people were not worried that after Zhan Ke Ye hit the streets, the rebels turned around and annihilated them like the sea?

After three or two months of worry, I finally looked forward to the army of the imperial court, and the excitement of a long drought and rain rippled in the hearts of every Naiman.

It's a wonderful feeling. With my father to protect you, your happiness is exploding.

These tents, cattle and sheep were all contributed by the Naiman Ministry. Baruch himself has gathered all the strong women in his hands, not to cooperate with the landing army to fight, but to work full-time logistics.

On the prairie marching and fighting, the soldiers ate either other food, or those cattle and sheep.

In historical China, some Central Plains dynasties often went to the Great Wall to set fire to the borders, not to starve the nomads on the grassland, but to create trouble when they went south to attack the Central Plains.

There is no grass in the distance of 100 miles, and the influence on the nomadic army is great.

The main force of Lu Qi's army took the road of entering Anxi from the Western Regions, and the partial division directly crossed the grassland.

And the prince who is willing to come to this team is really only one of the old Balu Yue. Yang Zhi was the deputy general, and the latter commanded 30,000 iron horses, and there were 10,000 horsemen under the command of the Imperial Commander of the Inner Guang Imperial Palace. Combined with the escort army of Lu Yue, the number of troops is not much, but it is enough to beat the Kupchaks.

The weather is at its clearest, and the sun radiates its warmth in the sky. The mountains and grasslands are bright. On the green prairie, dozens of horses roared past, and the birds and beasts on this grassland soared into the sky. The men on horseback were dressed in shiny simple plate armor and wore steel helmets with white feathers stuck on top of them, the symbol of the Lu Vietnamese Protectors.

He raised his carbine and slammed it. The guns rang out, and a hare was still running fast.

"Hahaha......" A heavy laugh sounded beside Lu Yue, and in the midst of the laughter, a bow and arrow swooped out, and it pierced into the rabbit's body, and the rabbit fell headlong.

A big man in a strong suit laughed, waved the horn bow in his hand proudly, laughed at Lu Yue, and said in fluent sinicization: "Lord Wang, and the bow and arrow are easy to use, right?" The old man has already heard of your magic shot, so it's better to put on a bow and arrow, and let's have a good competition. ”

As a 'descendant', Xiao Heda has made meritorious contributions because of his persuasion, so his small life is still very nourishing, and Lu Qi does not even restrict his freedom. In the early years, I went to Saibei and has been settled on the north bank of the Hetao.

As a general who is good at arching horses, Xiao Heda is not pleasing to the eyes of the muskets in Lu Yue's hands.

Lu Yue helplessly glanced down at the smoothbore gun in his hand, whether it was accuracy or rate of fire, it was really not as good as a bow and arrow. His marksmanship is quite accurate. If he had been shot with a rifled gun, he would have been able to hit an apple at a hundred and fifty paces with one shot. But now he has a smoothbore gun in his hand, a smoothbore gun that is popularized, and the accuracy and range are far inferior to those of a well-made rifled gun.

However, a rifled gun costs ten times more than a smoothbore gun, and the rate of fire is slow, which is a key factor that the former can never replace the latter.

Lu Qi firearms have been developed for a while, although the entire technical level is far from the point of upgrading - then the breech gun first needs to achieve a qualitative breakthrough in chemistry, and it is still very early.

But twenty years of development is not in vain, and Lu Qi's musket performance has improved little by little over the years. From power to range, to the life of the barrel and the weight of the entire gun, to the speed increase in manufacturing and so on, this is all in exchange for countless experiments little by little.

The musket in Lu Yue's hand now is the freshly baked carbine of the Ordnance Supervisor, which is an immature weapon, just because Lu Yue likes firearms, he got one in his hand.

In fact, the ultimate goal of the Ordnance Superintendent's proposition about carbine [fire] is the pistol. When hand-to-hand combat cannot be completely lost, is the pistol the perfect match for the cavalry?

However, although it is an immature work, this smoothbore gun is still very delicately built, and the inside of the barrel is also bored - a very primitive boring machine, with a crucible steel as a drill bit, and repeated boring, the inner wall is very smooth. And its effective range barely meets Lu Qian's requirements, it can hit a horse-shaped target from 50 steps away, and its armor-piercing ability is not weak, and it can penetrate the plate armor after two millimeters at a distance of 30 steps.

In the Ordnance Prison, Lu Qian had reformulated a set of weights and measures that he was more familiar with, but it had not yet been able to cover the civilian population.

Although the power of the carbine is not as powerful as that of a smoothbore gun, it is far superior to the average strongbow and crossbow.

In terms of effective range alone, as well as the power of this gun, Lu Qian felt that it was no longer inferior to the smoothbore guns of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe in history.

But this is a well-made musket, for the prince, and the texture and workmanship are so fine. If it is popularized, the polishing of the inner wall will not be of such high quality.

Lu Yue also laughed, he wasn't going to debate with Xiao Heda on the question of whether the musket or the bow and arrow were good or bad. Because it makes no sense!

With a vigorous ambition burning in his heart, his eyes have never been fixed only on the steppes of Eastern Europe. The warm and rich Central and Western Europe and Southern Europe are the goals he is pursuing!

How can being a king of a steppe nomadic empire be more comfortable as a king of an agrarian country?

He has not forgotten the fate of the Kara people, nor has he forgotten how tragic his cheap grandfather was when the Northern Liao was about to die. There are also the Jurchens in the Northeast, and the Wanyan clan has long been exterminated.

As the heir of the Lu Qi family, the education he received since he was a child and the 'tragic scenes' he witnessed were all telling him the truth that "the nomadic empire is not as stable as the agricultural civilization".

Therefore, even if a large number of nomadic tribes in northern Cyprus followed him to Europe, their final way of life would be like that of Hungary, from nomadic herding to farming and urban civilization.

With such an empire, Lu Yue's brain will be full of wit, and he will hold the bow and horse and not let go.

In this life, people work hard and struggle again and again, and what they ultimately pursue is not only their own success and fame, but also the glory and wealth of their children and grandchildren? Whether it is for himself or for future generations, his will will not change!