On the night of January 29, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the camp of the border army under Liu Ji was still in Jiangzhuo County, Mingzhang County, Qianzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the camp Liu Ji's cloth tent, at this time the atmosphere is solemn, Liu Ji and the generals under his command, the face is not too good, today during the day encountered the Hu cavalry battle, Liu Ji has just established the cavalry team, all at once lost five hundred and twenty-three horses, of which nearly five hundred people were directly killed, and dozens of others were seriously injured, many seriously wounded people are after healing, can no longer go to the battlefield, and even whether they can survive is a problem, this is not counting the cavalry that was slightly injured in the battle.

Liu Ji said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect the Hu cavalry to be so fierce, originally after the attack of the infantry array, the Hu cavalry was left with about five hundred cavalry, but our cavalry fought with it, but lost more than five hundred cavalry, and finally the Hu cavalry escaped nearly two hundred cavalry!" By the way, do you know what kind of Hu people this is? ”

Cheng Yi immediately said: "Lord, these Hu cavalry are from the Lou Fu clan, and they can be regarded as the elite cavalry of the Lou Fu clan, our cavalry has just been formed, and many cavalry have just learned to ride a horse. ”

Cheng Yi had been in the border army of the Great Jin Dynasty for several years, and he was very familiar with the situation of the various ethnic groups in the grassland.

Liu Ji wanted to go to the border of Qianzhou, and also made an understanding of the situation of various ethnic groups on the grassland, the Lou Fu tribe belongs to a very large nomadic people on the grassland, there are hundreds of large and small Lou Fu tribes, once the Great Khan of the Lou Fu royal court issued a rallying order, only one Lou Fu tribe can gather hundreds of thousands of cavalry.

And the grassland nomads of such a scale as the Lou Fan people, on the vast grasslands in the north of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are several, and even the grassland nomads who are stronger than the Lou Fan people There are three, that is, the three strongest nomads on the grassland, the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Khitan.

Thanks to the contradictions between the various nomadic tribes on the grassland, wars often break out between tribes and tribes, plundering each other's population, wealth and pasture through wars, and even between various tribes of the same nation, it is inevitable to plunder each other, otherwise if the nomadic groups on the grassland unite together, the Great Jin Kingdom would have been destroyed by the Hu people long ago.

For more than 400 years, even when the Great Jin Dynasty was the most powerful, in the face of the nomads of the northern grasslands, they could only passively defend, so that the cavalry of the various nomadic tribes of the grasslands did not dare to easily go south into the territory of the Great Jin Kingdom to kill, burn and loot.

Now that the national strength of the Great Jin Dynasty is weakened, the various nomadic tribes of the steppe are either alone or united, constantly invading several northern states of the Great Jin Dynasty, plundering wealth and population, like Liu Ji They encountered this force of six or seven hundred Lou Fu cavalry, at this time in the northern states of the Great Jin Dynasty, it can be said that I don't know how many!

"Did you catch a live mouth? Is there any backup for this Lou Fu cavalry? Hearing that it was the cavalry of the Lou Fu clan, Liu Ji hurriedly asked with a little worry, he knew the strength of the Lou Fu clan, if the Lou Fu cavalry encountered was only the vanguard of a large number of Lou Fu cavalry, then Liu Ji and they would have to quickly find a place to hide, even if there was a tens of thousands of Lou Fu cavalry, at this time entered the territory of Jiangzhuo County in Mingzhang County, Qianzhou, Liu Ji would not be surprised.

Le Yi said at this time: "Lord, we have caught a total of fourteen seriously injured Lou Fu cavalry, fortunately, among the soldiers we recruited in Qianzhou, there are soldiers who understand Lou Fu's words, after the interrogation of Lou Fu cavalry, the Lou Fu cavalry that we are fighting with belongs to a Lou Fu tribe called Qingmu, this Qingmu tribe can only be regarded as a medium-sized tribe, the entire Qingmu tribe has about 6,000 cavalry, this time only more than 700 cavalry entered the territory of Dajin and looted, and the leading commander has died under the knife of the Su Lie brothers!" ”

After a pause, Le Yi continued: "In addition, the seriously injured Lou Fu cavalry also confessed that their Lou Fu cavalry had just entered the Qianzhou Territory, and they had not gained anything, if it were not for our border army, they were ready to continue to the south, and they would not return to the grassland until they plundered enough wealth and population." ”

Liu Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly, this Lou Fu cavalry should have entered Mingzhang County from Ju'an County, and they didn't gain anything in Ju'an County, so it means that the situation in Ju'an County at this time is definitely very bad.

However, even the county town of Jiangzhuo in Mingzhang County has become a ruin, and you don't need to think about it to know what the situation will be like in Ji'an County, which directly borders the grassland.

Liu Ji sighed and said: "It seems that we want to gain a foothold in Chengyin County, Jue'an County, Qianzhou, it is not so easy, today we only encountered more than 700 Lou Fu cavalry, so we lost more than 500 cavalry, if the number of Lou Fu cavalry becomes 7,000, then our border army will be dangerous!" When we arrive in Chengyin County, not to mention 7,000 Hu cavalry, even if it is 70,000 Hu cavalry, we may encounter it, alas-"

Su Lie said at this time: "Lord, in this encounter, although our cavalry is much weaker than the Loufu cavalry, the infantry formation has performed well, even if it reaches Chengyin County, with the five thousand foot soldiers in our hands now, it is not for anyone to slaughter!" As for the cavalry, we can only train slowly, after all, we Jin people belong to the farming people, compared to the nomads who have lived on horseback since childhood, they are inherently inferior to the cavalry. ”

Liu Ji nodded, he was very satisfied with the performance of Le Yi, Liu Pi, and Gong Du's troops today, more than 700 elite Lou Fu cavalry were hit on the head in front of the large array composed of more than 1,000 infantry soldiers under his command, and the loss of the infantry formation was minimal, it seems that if he wants to gain a foothold in Chengyin County, Gui'an County, Qianzhou, he still has to rely on the 5,000 infantry under his command for the time being.

In addition, the long wooden spear jointly researched by Liu Ji, Su Lie and Le Yi had a very good effect in this actual battle, and the infantry array could block the impact of more than 700 cavalry, and the long wooden spear was the first to work.

This time with this Lou Fu cavalry, although Liu Ji's cavalry lost more than 500 people, but the war horses did not lose so much, plus the capture of the war horses of the Lou Fu cavalry, the number of war horses in Liu Ji's hands did not fall but rose, now there are almost 1800 war horses, some Lou Fu cavalry with 2 war horses or even 3 war horses, so the number of war horses captured in this battle is quite a lot.

However, Liu Ji was not allowed to continue to expand the number of cavalry, relying on the cavalry that had just been formed in his hands, he could not compete with the elite cavalry of the nomadic tribes of the grassland, and he still used the infantry formation of foot soldiers to make Liu Ji's heart more stable.