Shi Motian has asked twenty soldiers to wear paper armor, this is Yang Chong's proposal, Qiao Hu researched a new thing, the surface of the paper armor is made of three-inch thick silk cloth or paper, the processing is soft, can defend against arrows, the sword slashing defense effect is inferior to the iron armor, but the durability is not as good as the iron armor, not like the iron armor to withstand repeated impacts and deformation.

But it was enough for the Perak battalion, which was mainly based on explosives, and had few opportunities for hand-to-hand combat, so as not to be killed by head-on arrows; Twenty soldiers calculated the distance and carried the thunderbolt to the outside of the chain, and waited for the companions behind them to light the fuse, and immediately rushed to the opposite side. The cavalry on the opposite side were stupid, how could they have such a fierce and fearless way of fighting, but the bow and arrow could not shoot the opponent, and they hurriedly tried to restrain the war horse, but they were still blown up by the thunder thrown by the opponent, and more than 200 people were killed and injured.

Seeing that the team was about to scatter and flee again, the general who commanded this cavalry shouted from behind: "Press up, rush over, rush over." ”

The cavalry quickly gathered at the shouts of the officers, and squeezed up again despite the formation, and the twenty non-commissioned officers hurried back to take another thunderbolt, and then turned around, and the enemy cavalry was already at a distance of thirty paces. The twenty successive explosions in front of the position were deafening, and the smoke of gunpowder was so thick that it was impossible to see the casualties at all; Shi Mo Tianhe immediately threw out nearly sixty heavenly thunderbolts, and once again blew up the cavalry that rushed up one after another.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, the archers and coachmen automatically worked in pairs, together with the thunderbolts, picked up the thunderbolt and lit it, and threw it outside; The explosion was too close, and the cavalry of the opposing side did not expect the thunder to be so dense, and the whole line collapsed, leaving nearly a thousand corpses and fleeing into the distance. Seeing that there were still 1,000 people after the other party's rectification, he laughed and said: "I have already killed 2,000 people, which is enough, happy, happy." All the bows and crossbows are set up, the weapons are steady, and the time for the decisive battle has come. ”

However, the opposite side set up a formation, did not attack, and waited for more than half an hour before sending a hundred cavalry to shoot tentatively, Shi Motian woke up and said: "General Yu said that the average army will give up the attack if it dies more than three times, and the troops that can still attack after more than fifty percent of the death can be regarded as elite." Now the death rate on the opposite side has reached sixty percent, although it can still attack, but it is timid. ”

Che Bige smiled disdainfully, staring at the opponent's ranger motionlessly, unless the defeat was decided on the grassland, when the number was superior, he would definitely attack endlessly, until he killed everyone on the other side. The two sides fired at each other for a while, and the men and horses on the opposite side all slowly pressed forward again, very carefully, but advancing forward step by step; In the exchange of fire, more than 300 horsemen on the opposite side were shot, but less than 20% of the archers of the guards remained, and the archery skills of the Thunderbolt battalion and the coachmen were slightly inferior, and the situation of the convoy was very bad.

The other party suddenly increased the speed of his horse, rushed to the chain, brandished a spear, a horse lance, and a machete to kill into the circle, but the chain was very strong, and he kept looking at it for a while, so he gave the caravan a chance to return fire; The repeating crossbow in Shi Motian's hand finally worked, killing more than a dozen cavalrymen in three consecutive shots. After paying more than a hundred soldiers, the other side finally cut off the chains, and the general led by him shouted hoarsely: "Kill them all and avenge the dead brothers." ”

The enemy rider shouted, and his momentum instantly rose to the peak; It was okay for him to be wearing a scarlet armor, but Shi Motian had already fallen to the ground with his injuries, and the caravan could stand with less than 200 people. Suddenly, a horn sounded, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the west, and a cavalry appeared on the horizon, rushing up, and the word "Captain" fluttered on the banner.

After the defeat was completed, the enemy general gave an order, and the remaining 500 horsemen withdrew from the battlefield as soon as possible, regardless of the casualties and arrows fired from behind, and regardless of the two or three hundred wounded soldiers not far away, and fled to the south. It was Wei Wentong who came, and he didn't care about comforting Qi Bige, Wei Wentong left 1,000 cavalry to protect the caravan, and pursued it with 2,000 cavalry, and only returned after more than two hours, killing 400 heads.

Qi Bige interrogated the captive, and it turned out to be a soldier of the Yingyang Mansion of Yan'an County, sent by Duan Decao, the county guard; Duan Decao sent a total of 5,000 people, because he grabbed grain and grass twice yesterday and this morning, and each of them was escorted by 1,000 people. Qi Bige asked some more information, and determined that the troops of Yan'an County spent the night in Luoyuan County, Honghua County, and the direction in which the grain and grass were sent away was also Luoyuan County, so Qi Bige turned his head to Wei Wentong.

Wei Wentong patted Qi Bige and said: "Send things to Shangxian first, Luoyuan County is a piece of meat on a chopping board, you can't run away if you put it there, Kou Jiuhui is afraid that something will happen, so he asked me to come." ”

Wei Wentong's team walked seventy or eighty miles, and then met Suo Yanshou's scouts, and the two armies would be united, Wei Wentong and others knew that in the morning, the cavalry of the 1,000 Sui army was carrying the stolen grain and grass back, and they were encountering Zong Luohu's 2,000 horse army, which was recognized by Zong Luohu as a special grain cart for the Hexi army, and was immediately killed. When the two sides were fighting, Honghua County also sent 2,000 cavalry reinforcements, but Luo Shixin, who came later, was killed, and only 200 people fled back to Luoyuan County.

Fang Yanzao asked about the attack on Qilangge and said: "The grain and grass that was robbed yesterday have been transported to Honghua County this morning, and there should not be many defenders in Luoyuan County, so we have to teach these people a lesson." Zong Luohu, go find someone to go to Yan'an County to release the news, and let Liang Shidu take advantage of this. We detained all the salt trucks along the way, saying that there were robbers in Luoyuan County; In addition, the heads of these soldiers were cut off and piled up into a landscape. ”

Thousands of Sui army captives cut off their robes and heads and piled them up into a landscape, and the Hexi army erected a wooden sign next to the landscape, with the front writing "Death to those who betrayed the Great Sui", and the north was the process of the caravan and grain convoy being attacked. With the dispatch of Fang Yanzao, many merchants who transported salt did not change from Shangxian to Chang'an, so that the Hexi army could make a small fortune; These businessmen understand very well that if they don't listen to the advice, if they are killed as spies, they won't even have a place to cry, anyway, the wool is out of the sheep, and the price will increase after paying taxes to Chang'an.

Yanchuan County is not far from Chang'an, under the manipulation of Yang Chong's heart, the news of the grain robbery spread to the nearby cities like wings, regardless of whether the enemy or I both understand that Yang Chong and Yan'an County and other places have a gap between the Sui army, even their own military rations have been robbed, it can no longer be regarded as a friendly army, Yang Chong does not send troops to attack Honghua County is the greatest restraint.

When the Liang division got the news, he was overjoyed, and sent his army to take advantage of the fire to loot and attack the three counties of Luoyuan, Guide County, and Hongde County in Honghua County all the way, and successively occupied the county Zhitiebian City, Tianbaihu City, and Pipa City in the three counties, not only replenishing a batch of urgently needed materials, but also gaining strategic depth space in the west.

(End of chapter)