Cheng Xiaoyu led the war horse and slowly groped his way forward in the wind and snow. In this kind of weather, riding on a horse is more sinful, and it is better to get off the horse and walk. What's more, running and fighting in this kind of weather are more exhausting of war horsepower, and if you run into the enemy, the side with better horse strength will naturally have a great advantage.

Whether it's fighting, or running away.

The Qin army here doesn't have soft persimmons, it's very powerful. In the past two months, the scouts on both sides have been constantly fighting, which has made all the Ming troops deeply understand. Cheng Xiaoyu used to be the border army of the Qin State, and the Thunder Army was the pride of the Qin army, which they needed to look up to, and they also knew that these people were the most powerful in the Great Qin army.

During this time, most of the scouts who fought against them outside the city were the Thunder Army. The Thunder Army is not stationed much in the Twin Cities, and is more often used as scouts or surprise soldiers by the guards.

Every patrol, outpost, or attack on the Qin people's grain team from Yongdu may be intercepted by the Thunder Army, and many comrades in the scout camp will lie on this land forever. Just his own team, there have been four changes. Four familiar faces disappeared from Cheng Xiaoyu's world forever, and among the four people who died, two were from the original Tiger Prison Army, one was from the Qingzhou Army, and one was from the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Thunder Army paid a greater price.

In the words of the captain, those people are some stupid forks, of course, in Cheng Xiaoyu's opinion, although these people are very stupid, they are also very powerful stupid forks. Cheng Xiaoyu has been a little bad lately, because those powerful stupid forks at the beginning are now becoming more and more shrewd.

The first time they suddenly encountered them, the pride of these days, riding fierce war horses, wearing heavy iron armor and bright red cloaks, when they launched a sprint, it was really very majestic, as if the mountains were overwhelming, and the snowflakes rolled behind them like snow dragons.

The captain didn't say a word, and the first order he gave turned out to be to run.

This surprised Cheng Xiaoyu at that time, wasn't he bravely attacking? If you win, you will have a reward. After joining the Ming army, Cheng Xiaoyu also fought a lot of battles, from the tiger prison to the periphery of Yongdu, but it was not the Taiping parallel army that came over, every time he won a battle, there would be a reward to be sent down, in the past few months, Cheng Xiaoyu got twenty taels of silver, which is two months' salary.

Running away is too dishonorable. And they are elite scouts, so if they flee back like this, I am afraid that no one will be able to escape punishment. It's just that during this period of time, the captain has established a tall image in the hearts of these people, and everyone is willing to listen to him, whether it is public or private.

So when the captain turned around and ran and shouted, everyone almost ran away without thinking.

It turns out that the captain is always on the team.

The scouts of the Ming army were not wearing heavy iron armor, but a kind of armor that looked thin and light, Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know what it was made of, they didn't have a cloak to pull the wind, and the horse they rode under their crotch was not tall, it was the kind of wasteland horse with particularly good endurance and cold resistance.

Under the leadership of the captain, everyone ran for about ten miles, and then they came back with a howl and killing.

At this time, the war horse under the crotch of the Thunder Army was already panting. The white breath coming out of the nostrils can be seen from afar. After that battle, Cheng Xiaoyu admired the captain. A band of Thunder, outnumbered them, was wiped out alive by them, and only a few of them fled back.

After going back, they got a lot of silver rewards, and Cheng Xiaoyu, as the captain of the team, got twenty taels at one time, because this was the first time that the Ming army had fought against the formed Thunder Army outside Yongdu City and annihilated the other party.

However, they also suffered more than 20 casualties. Everyone who was alive, under the leadership of the captain, gathered half of the bounty together, ready to donate it to those who died in battle.

Although Daming's pension is very high, and he also has a lot of care for the bereaved families of soldiers who died in battle, the captain said that this is the heart of their comrades.

But since then, there have been fewer and fewer such stupid Thunder Army.

They also learned and grew in the midst of war. The Thunder Army is the elite of the Great Qin army, a carefully selected soldier, their only shortcoming is that they have fought too few battles, but now, they are growing rapidly in continuous failure.

Anyway, Cheng Xiaoyu now feels that they are getting more and more dealt with. Now that the scouts run into them, it's basically a one-to-one casualty rate. This made Cheng Xiaoyu very dissatisfied, because although the equipment of the Thunder Army was good, compared with them, Cheng Xiaoyu felt that there was still a gap, especially in the details.

Reaching out and patting the snow off his fur hat, he patted the snow off it.

He wore not an iron helmet, but a leather hat. There are two long dog tongues on either side of the hat, and two strings on them, so that if you tie them, you can cover the ears and most of your face. The mask is also sewn into the leather hat, and when you wear such a hat, only one pair of eyes are exposed.

Although his protection is far worse than the iron helmet, if he had to choose, Cheng Xiaoyu would of course choose this warm hat instead of the cold iron helmet.

Leather gloves are worn on his hands. The gloves are not thick, with warm animal hair inside, and half of the ten fingers of this glove are exposed, which not only keeps them warm, but also does not affect the dexterity of the fingers.

Each soldier has a horse lance, which is an expensive thing, in the past, Cheng Xiaoyu only saw that the senior generals in the army had this kind of weapon, but in the Ming army scout camp, it was one in everyone's hand. And earlier he saw that the cavalry in the Wind Chasing Battalion, thousands of people, were actually one by one, which shocked him. How much does it cost to make so many horses!

In addition to the lance, there was also a saber, which, unlike the ring-headed knives used by the infantrymen, was thinner and longer, with a beautiful arc throughout the blade. What's more, he's sharp enough. The last time he confronted the Thunder Army, Cheng Xiaoyu easily broke through the opponent's iron armor with this saber, and disemboweled the man with one sword. In the end, his knife broke and made him feel distressed for a long time.

In addition to these, there are a lot of gadgets on their bodies and horses, which look inconspicuous, but when necessary, they can save lives.

These are all standard equipment, and each of them has it. In addition to these, scout soldiers are also allowed to have their own unique weapons, and can even order them from the quartermaster according to their needs.

In short, after joining the Ming army, Cheng Xiaoyu understood what it means to be a force armed to the teeth, compared to the Ming army, the so-called sophisticated equipment of the Thunder Army can only be said to be scum. And this is just the standard configuration of the Ming army. I heard that the equipment of His Majesty the Emperor's pro-army Agni Death Battalion is the crown of the whole army.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and when it came out, it was only a few inches thick, but now it was below the ankles. Snow is what their scout soldiers hate the most. This slows them down, and in the snow, it's harder to hide. Only when there is no more snow and another day of wind blows will the snow freeze hard, and then the impact will be less.

Cheng Xiaoyu stood up straight, and the war horse behind him also stopped obediently, bowed his head and arched the snow with his mouth, hoping to find something to eat from under the snow, but arched the floating snow outside, but Chen Xue was frozen and hard underneath, so naturally there was nothing. The war horse arched Cheng Xiaoyu with his mouth, Cheng Xiaoyu took a handful of beans from his pocket and put them in the horse's mouth, and the horse's tongue rolled, rolled all the beans into his mouth, and chewed it slowly. Cheng Xiaoyu took out a small flat pot and took a sip gently. A fiery heat immediately surged up from the lower abdomen, and the warm current surged all over the body.

It's spirits. Only when they come out to patrol at night will they give out such a small pot, which looks like two taels. In such weather, no matter how good the equipment is, it can't stop the bone-chilling wind.

In this kind of weather, it can really freeze people to death.

I heard that it was because of the bumper harvest in Daming this year, and there was nowhere to pile up the grain, which was used to make a large number of this kind of spirits, and this kind of spirits was not sold outside, mainly distributed to the army.

This kind of liquor Cheng Xiaoyu has never drunk before, most of it is the kind of sour and light taste of wine, like this, a sip of a small sip can make the whole body heat up, and now it has become the favorite of the heroes in the army, but unfortunately, if you don't come out to patrol at night, you can't catch it.

Feeling some heat on his body, Cheng Xiaoyu glanced back at his ten subordinates, most of them were the same as him, and Shouhe nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go!"

After taking a few more steps forward, Cheng Xiaoyu suddenly stopped, and a few steps in front of him, a corpse fell to death in the snow. Cheng Xiaoyu immediately became alert, raised his hand, and the ten team members behind him turned over and got on the horse, choked, and pulled out the saber and quickly dispersed the formation.

Cheng Xiaoyu walked up slowly, it was an old man, who looked forty or fifty years old, covered in top and bottom, wearing only a single coat, under such weather, he had no breath at all, stretched out his feet and kicked, and the whole person was frozen.

This is a common man. The only place where there are still ordinary people in the vicinity is Shuanglian City.

Cheng Xiaoyu frowned. How did the Qin people in Shuanglian City run out in such weather? And still ordinary people? Will there be an army?

He turned over on his horse, drew his saber, and made a few gestures, and more than a dozen people spread out into a fan, slowly searching forward. In less than half a pillar of incense, in front of Cheng Xiaoyu, there were suddenly messy footprints.

Many people, very close to them, Cheng Xiaoyu jumped off the horse and squatted beside these footprints, the snow had not yet covered these footprints, he bent down and gently blew away the floating snow.

The footprints are varied, and there are also patterns of Qin people's military boots.

Cheng Xiaoyu's brows furrowed even deeper, he couldn't figure out why this was the case. He crouched forward like a dog on the snow, constantly examining the footprints that stretched forward.

A large number of ordinary people, very few of whom served as soldiers.

Standing up and looking in the direction of the Twin Cities, he seemed to understand something.