Chapter 173: Go Forward
The 20,000 troops led by Chen Le were all light horses, whether they were equipped or horses, they were all the best in the world, that is, they all wore two kinds of weapons, one was a greatly improved arc scimitar, the other was a horse chopping knife, and they were all wearing bows and arrows.
When these 20,000 people were in Xu Jing, Chen Le practiced that they all taught the weapon spectrum obtained from the system, and also taught the formation obtained from the system, so it can be said that once these 20,000 people charge in the plain area, unless the heavy cavalry can stop them, the same number of other troops is not their opponent at all.
As for the heavy cavalry, which is extremely money-burning, it is simply a fool's dream to form an army of tens of thousands, just because of the value of armor and horses, a heavy cavalry is enough to top a hundred light cavalry, and as a knight of heavy cavalry, at least he must be infinitely powerful and have a certain amount of martial arts, such a person can already be a general in some conventional armies, who wants to be a heavy cavalry?
Therefore, it is great that a country can form a team of several hundred people in the heavy cavalry, and it is simply impossible to form a formed composition.
Chen Le's 20,000 light cavalry killed all the way, and although there were injured among them, no one was lost, so they went straight into the country of Hunu.
He entered the marginal area of Hunu, which was sparsely populated, with no ordinary people, and even Hunu's soldiers were scarce.
Seeing this, Chen Le sneered in his heart, and he ordered loudly: "Someone come, pass on my general order, and rush to the nearest city from here!" ”
The Hunu Kingdom is the largest country in the Western Regions, accounting for half of the territory of the entire Western Regions, but the Western Regions is already sparsely populated, and there are most of the Gobi Desert, so there are many small countries, there are dozens of them, Hunu is the lord of the alliance, has always led these small countries, and proclaimed himself the lord of the Western Regions.
The entire Western Regions can really wrestle with Hu Nujiao is only the Western Regions Protectorate, but this kind of desolate place is really not interesting to attack each other and grab territory, Hu Nu knows that the Western Regions Protectorate intends to be in the Central Plains, and the Western Regions Protectorate also knows that Hu Nu is not very interested in his own territory, so although the two occasionally fight, in the end it is not over.
The cities in the Western Regions are not like the Central Plains, but they are often just adobe cities, although some of them are very large, but they can't help but rush to kill.
Chen Le had a guide, knowing that the nearest city from here was more than twenty miles away, he abandoned the heavy grain and grass, rushed all the way to kill, there must be a place to rest, he didn't believe that Hu Nu would not react to his arrival, but he had not completely angered the other party.
Chen Le came to this adobe city with soldiers and horses, and couldn't help laughing.
This city is less than three zhang high, and the whole body is composed of yellow sand and a special loess, which is very different from the city of the Central Plains.
This city should be an acropolis, there are no ordinary people in the city, only soldiers guarding the city, but this city is not big, according to Chen Le's estimates, there are only two or three thousand people at most.
At this moment, the city was already full of soldiers from the Hu Nu Kingdom, and the Hu Nu people, who seemed to be leading the generals, opened their mouths and shouted: "The army of the Xu Dynasty has stopped!" ”
Chen Le motioned to Li Cunxiao on the side to answer, and Li Cunxiao immediately shouted: "Da Xu Anxi Festival has made General Chen arrive, and if you don't leave the city yet, please surrender, you can still spare your life!" ”
When the general Hunu at the head of the city heard this, he was immediately furious and shouted: "I, Hunu and you, have always had a good water and not a river, and you want to take the road to go to the Western Regions to protect the palace yourself, what does it mean to come to besiege my Hunu city?" ”
Chen Le nodded slightly when he heard this, it seems that this Hu Nu country does know its intentions, and the previous interception of Loulan soldiers and horses should also be from Hu Nu's hands.
He didn't speak, but quietly took off an iron-backed longbow, then bent the bow and set up an arrow, and shot out directly with a green dragon out of the water!
Chen Le's archery skills are rare in this world, how can a small Hunu general dodge, this arrow hit the chest of the Hunu general, and the Hunu general immediately fell backwards and died, and the city was suddenly in chaos.
Seeing this, Li Cunxiao immediately rushed forward, Chen Le's soldiers and horses discarded all the baggage and other things, and there was no sharp weapon to attack the city at all, but at this moment, Li Cunxiao came to the city gate alone, and he actually waved a lance to fight!
The city gate weighed by this adobe is just composed of heavy wooden planks, not at all like the big city of the Central Plains is wrapped in iron sheets, and there are thousands of jin gates capped, Li Cunxiao is already a first-class military general at the moment, and he is infinitely powerful, but more than a dozen guns actually smashed this city gate, seeing this scene, Chen Le quickly ordered the cavalry to rush forward and follow Li Cunxiao into the city.
This battle was so bloody that the Hu Nu soldiers never expected this army to be so fierce, almost no one escaped from the city, and all of them were slaughtered!
Because this city is a border city, there is not much food in reserve, but fortunately, the Hunu people like mutton, and there are a lot of live sheep in the city, and there are many war horses.
Early in the morning of the second day, Chen Le sent people across the border to go to the Western Regions Protectorate to communicate, he didn't want to lead troops directly, although it has been rumored that the outside world has always been a big heart, and he has not changed his flag for 30 years, and he has not stood on his own for 30 years, but this is just a rumor, who can know what the real situation is over there? After all, it was a region the size of a vassal state, and even if the population was small, there were an army of 200,000 people, and the situation inside was complicated and unknown, and he must not go there easily.
The person Chen Le sent out this time was Chu Hu, after all, Chu Hu was an official of the imperial court, and he was the official position of the fifth grade, and he could speak on behalf of Da Xu, and Chu Hu was also the person with the highest official position around him, Li Cunxiao and Zheng Xuanguan were not as big as him, and Cheng Tie, Shi Yumo, and Zeng Jieban were all white and unconvincing.
Chu Hu only brought five relatives to go, but Chen Le handed him a copy of the holy decree, he had two copies of the holy decree, one bright and one dark, he handed over the decree to Chu Hu, and also told him not to show the holy decree if he saw that something was wrong, but to find an opportunity to run back, if things were going well and there was no doubt, then show the holy decree.
Chu Hu is coarse and fine, and he is convinced by Chen Le, so Chen Le is very relieved to send him to do this.
This city is only fifty miles away from the border between Hu Nu and the Western Regions Protectorate, but the Western Regions Protectorate is long and narrow, Chu Hu is afraid that it will take a few days to come and go, and Chen Le is bound to not be able to defend this earthen city, so the two made an early appointment on the time and place of meeting in a few days.