Hengshui.

"Bang, bang......" The seed master had already fallen asleep, and was awakened by the sound of an eager knock on the door in his sleep.

"What's wrong?" Before he could get up, he asked in a loud voice. The people under him are all old people who have followed him for many years, and if something major doesn't happen, it won't be so urgent.

"Xianggong, the Tong envoy sent an urgent report, a light cavalry of Liangshan thieves has rushed into Jizhou, and not long ago they attacked General Wang, who has been wiped out."

"What!" The seed master Dao stiffened violently, and his eyes were wide open in an instant.

A group of soldiers and horses of the Liangshan Army had already arrived in Jizhou and killed Wang Yu to the annihilation of the whole army, which was really beyond his expectations. "Okay, good Lu Qian." It really damaged a good general of the imperial court again. It's really hateful!

"Xianggong, we have to send troops to Taoyangdu as soon as possible. The minister sent someone to the police, but he asked the minister to be more vigilant. After this Liangshan thief rode through General Wang, if he went all the way north, whether it was to fight Wuyi and cross the river, he would enter Shenzhou; Or crossed the west from Taoyang and attacked Hengshui, which is a big disaster. ”

The Seed Master Dao summoned the generals in Hengshui City to come, and the brave general Cookies took the lead and said. This person will be unknown in later generations, but if you want to talk about his brother, many people will know about it, and that is Qu Duan.

At present, Qu Duan has also made a name for himself in the Western Army, but in front of the Seed Master, he is obviously not in a position to sit on.

"It doesn't matter. The soldiers and horses of all the departments in Hengshui City are gathered, and there are not 5,000 but 3,000. The land thieves only came with a light horse, how can they withstand my Hengshui? "The way of the seed master is the way of the seed master in the end, and what he said can make those Jizhou officials in Xindu City lose face. Although they may not care.

"It's the North that goes north to the Deep State that needs to be guarded against." Although it is a few thousand cavalry, it cannot be underestimated.

When the planter said this, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, "So far, God will not bless me to get rid of the thief." Once the Liangshan thieves have arrived, how long can the Liangshan thief army be missing? Our army has been fighting hard under the city of Jing'an for many days, and the number of soldiers is exhausted, and it is not enough to resist the momentum of the thief army without rest. The old man intends to collect his troops, accumulate his strength, and wait for the army of land thieves, what do you think? ”

The urgent report informing Liu Yanqing had already been issued, but the current decision was a decision made by the Seed Master Dao after hesitating for a long time. As soon as the words came out, they really caused an exclamation. Even Tan Zhen, the eunuch of the prison army, was taken aback, and the cultivation master was really decisive.

"Think twice. Jing'an City is the end of the strong crossbow, and our western army will be finished when it sees it......"

A piece of opposition, no one is willing to give up the big credit that will be in hand. People die for money, birds die for food, let alone the army?

But how can the mood of the teacher be good? If the two armies of Zhang Suo and Tong Guan are still there, more than 30,000 troops will join the Daimyo's Mansion to stay behind, a full 40,000 or 50,000 people, only defend and not attack, unless Lu Qian is a living immortal, otherwise he will not be able to succeed easily. Moreover, an army of 40,000 or 50,000 people was also a powerful force, so that the Liangshan army did not dare to cross the Daimyo's Mansion to the north without authorization. But now it's all gone.

The Daimyo's Mansion had not yet fallen, but the number of troops in the city was no longer sufficient. The Liangshan army divided a partial division to stay outside the city, and the army could come in a straight line to the north, or it would not throw the garrison of the Daimyo Mansion at all, and the whole army would come, so would Zhang Suo still dare to lead troops to pursue?

"Miscalculated, miscalculated." The planter couldn't stop complaining in his heart. When he heard that the Liangshan army had gathered troops in Yanggu earlier, he was still calm and disapproving. thought that this Liang Shanjun was also "selling his reputation and reputation", rather than sincerely coming to Tian Hu. But who would have thought that he would come to such a hand? A light horse went north, like a sword flying from the nine heavens, and it was devastating.

……

Yellow River, Taoyang Ferry.

Bright torches reflected half of the sky red, and hundreds of boats that had been collected by Lu Qian around them were gathered at the ferry.

The shivering boatmen, frightened, watched curiously as Liang Shanjun was busy up and down their ships.

"Quick, quick, bolt tight, bolt tight!"

"Mao Lao Er lays the raft on the ......"

"Bell, bell, bell, ......and another nail."

"This one more hammer, another hammer, this wedge is not enough!"

On the water surface of the ferry, the cavalry soldiers of the Liangshan Army, incarnated as craftsmen, linked the small boats with ropes and chains, increased their buoyancy with blowing puffed sheepskin bags, and covered them with planks and rafts, just like the shrunken version of the chain boat in the Three Kingdoms script.

One of its renovated small boats is enough to carry ten horsemen across the river. There are cargo ships and transport ships converted from connecting ships, one of which is enough to carry 100 horses.

Just, the reason for the time. Before Lu Qian had completely rebuilt the hundred and ten ships under his command, a western army had already arrived on the other side of Taoyangdu.

Not only did a western army come from the other side of Taoyangdu, but Liu Yanqing also personally led a western army to cross the Yellow River from Wuyi Ferry and press Taoyangdu from the north.

Nothing incredible. When the military order of the Seed Master Dao came to the front of the battle, none of the front-line generals such as Liu Yanqing and Yang Weizhong were willing. The planter is a person who has fought an old battle, and naturally knows how to resolve the grievances on the front line. If so, he drew a big round cake for Liu Yanqing and other generals - Lu Qian stopped the Taoyang Ferry, and then quickly ordered the elite soldiers to cross the river from Wuyi and go south to attack the thieves. He also said that the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again.

Lu Qian's temptation really offset the unwillingness of Liu Yanqing and others to a certain extent.

Of course, some people thought of the problem of Lu Qian's escape, people are not fools, what are you doing with long legs when your army is coming? King Lu is not Tian Hu in Jing'an City.

Even Liu Yanqing thought of this after the initial excitement. But they didn't expect that Lu Qian didn't escape.

"God bless my Emperor Song Ye!"

The seed master Dao in Hengshui City was excited, and he couldn't control the excitement in his heart anymore. "Saiong loses his horse and knows whether it is a blessing, and Saiong loses his horse and knows whether it is a blessing...... this drink and a peck, a gain and a loss, it is really determined by heaven.

Lu Qian came north with a sword, and he was caught off guard by the cultivation master, and he was so embarrassed that the cooked ducks in Jing'an City would fly away. But this guy is so bold and reckless, only three or four thousand cavalry, dare to stay in Taoyangdu for a long time, and also restructure the ship in a big way, and make a posture of wanting to kill the other side, God really helps me.

I drew a big pie for the front-line departments, but I never thought that it would turn out to be fake. The planter was overjoyed.

Luan Junshi slightly straightened his horse's head, looking at the cavalry of the Western Army a mile away in front of him, his face was grim.

The cavalry of the Western Army is not a waste, these Kansai Han men have been fighting with the party for a long time, and they are still quite capable of fighting, and their combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of the Gyeonggi cavalry.

And the current cavalry of the Western Army is the elite of the Guanguan to quell the chaos, and now they have crossed the Yellow River and gone south to kill Lu Qian, so you can imagine their combat strength.

Luan Junshi raised his hand and touched the corner of his eye, there was an inch-long scar, which was injured by one of them when he led the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to pursue the Western Army's Tanma. In an instant, if he was not lucky, the arrow would have been nailed to his face.

Although Xie Yuan didn't get any better. The sergeant under Luan Junshi threw arrows in a nest, and he was not wearing heavy armor like a foot armor, and when he was running away on a horse, he felt that there were four or five arrows on his body. Although there was leather armor to cover the body, two arrows pierced through the leather armor and shot at the shoulders and backs. At that time, there was a strange pain, which pierced through the heart. But fortunately, he stepped off the horse and ran as usual, without being hit by an arrow.

As a native of Deqingqi of the Hedong Security Army, Xie Yuan joined the army ten years ago. But there is no place for heroes, and ten years of struggle is only a small wait, if it is not for this Hedong chaos, he will not be valued by Zhao Ming, the commander of the Xuanfeng Army under the command of the Seed Master, and will be transferred to the Western Army and promoted to the battalion commander.

More than 150 years after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the establishment of the Song army has long been developed and adjusted from the initial front and rear left and right middle five army formations to six army formations, that is, the front and rear left and right middle armies plus the formation of the front army. The latter is not one in ten, but he is the most elite of the army.

If you use one word to describe it, it is the most appropriate one.

As the battalion commander of the Western Army's Xuanfeng Army, Xie Yuan almost abolished Luan Junshi, a young general with no exact military position and only one eye in the same battalion, which seemed to be nothing.

The difference is only that Xie Yuan didn't expect that the war horse of the Liangshan Army would be a divine horse, and it was no slower than the Hequ horse under his crotch. In this way, it is already a great luck in misfortune to be bitten twice by a swarm of arrows, and not lose a small life.

It is also a loss that the cavalry arrows of the Liangshan Army are all soft bows and light arrows that follow the line of the Song army, and the range is there, but the lethality is not high. Lu Qian remembered that the Mongolian bow was very good, but now there are not even Mongolians. His only strategy was to set up the task and ask the master craftsmen of the Ordnance Warden to create a riding bow that was easy to draw a bow on horseback and shoot arrows, and had a powerful range. Before that, they had to take the line of the Song army - soft bows and light arrows.

Otherwise, Xie Yuan would have died a long time ago.

"Di Di ......"

The sound of the brass trumpet blowing spread throughout the entire ranks, and the cavalry of the Liangshan Army, which was small in 100 people, began to reorganize the queue, lined up in a long formation of five columns, with twenty people in each row riding up and down.

Spears and sabers glistened in the late autumn sun.

The first row of the cavalry was only three feet apart from each other, the front three rows of cavalry - the front and rear rows were three feet apart from each other, and the last two rows were stretched to a distance of ten zhang.

Luan Junshi came ten steps in front of the formation, looking at the cavalry of the Western Army lined up on the opposite side, his eyes were calm. The Western Army was also in full formation, but their ranks were far less neat than those of the cavalry battalion. Each other is equal to each other, and Luan Junshi is full of confidence.

You know, the training of the latter is already changing to modern cavalry. Lu Qian's requirements for them were no longer to be skilled in arching horses, but to be as uniform as an elite infantry army.

Although the cavalry camp at this moment is far from meeting the standard in his heart.