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Because the tiger wolf axe was too heavy, if Lu Zheng was wearing heavy armor and riding a horse with an axe on his back, the horse would not be able to run fast at all, so he simply used a horse alone to carry the tiger wolf axe.

Outside the tent, a cavalry contingent of fifty-two men had now been assembled. This temporary vanguard is all selected by soldiers with strong combat power in the army. Among the soldiers were those who were in the cavalry battalion and those who were in the infantry battalion.

This team has Yue Fei as the team officer and Lu Zheng as the deputy team officer, and their team has two tasks. The first task was to convey the detailed information of the military movements of the two provinces in Hebei and Hedong to the guards of Yanmen Pass to stabilize the morale of the army. The second task is to reach Yanmen Pass as quickly as possible, participate in the battle to defend the pass, and wait for the arrival of the army.

Lu Zheng and Yue Fei led the horses to stand at the front of the team, and Liu Ge led the lieutenants and officers to review and see them off.

Liu Ge came to Yue Fei and Lu Zheng and looked at the two young men in armor and uniforms.

Liu Ge closed his eyes, took a breath, opened his eyes again, and said slowly: "The situation at the border is dangerous this time, you two lead the crowd to rush to help, and I will lead the army to arrive later!" ”

Liu Ge stretched out his hand to the guards next to him, and the guards stepped forward with two big bows and two quivers.

Liu Ge took the two big bows and quivers in the hands of the guards, and personally handed them to Yue Fei and Lu Zheng: "These are two excellent three-stone big bows, I will give them to you two now, use them to kill the enemy!" ”

Yue Fei and Lu Zheng took the bow and arrow, clenched the bow and fist with both hands: "Xie Dashuai!" ”

Liu Ge glanced at the two of them deeply again, and said, "Let's go!" ”

Yue Fei and Lu Zheng turned on their horses, took fifty elite iron horsemen, rushed out of the camp on horseback, and rushed to Yanmen Pass overnight.

Along the way, the iron horses were speeding forward at full speed.

This time, the team is all one person and one horse. Unlike when Lu Zheng was in the grassland, there was no shortage of horses, just one person, two horses, three horses, and the horse's endurance was still super strong.

Because it has not been able to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, the main production area of war horses, Dahua's war horses are becoming more and more scarce. The war horses supplied by Dali have too poor endurance to run long distances.

Lu Zheng and Yue Fei and their party galloped at full speed for more than two hours, and most of the war horses were already tired. Only Lu Zheng's own Mongolian horse brought by the grassland is still fierce and fierce, without the slightest fatigue.

At this time, the team came to a relatively open place, Yue Fei observed the terrain, and then ordered to rest.

Lu Zheng led the two horses, came to Yue Fei, and said, "Brother Fei, why is Dahua's horse endurance so poor?" It's only been less than two hours, and the horse can't run? ”

Yue Fei sighed and said, "Dahua originally had two horse-producing lands, but now one of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is in the hands of the Khitan, and the other is in the hands of the Western Xia. As soon as we left the Great Wall and went to Saiwai, it was mostly plains and open land, and there were not enough cavalry, so we could not fight the nomads outside the Saiwai Horse, so we could basically only defend it, but not pursue it. ”

Lu Zheng was silent for a while, and then said: "I have heard of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures for a long time, my family also runs a fur business, and I often go to the Mongolian steppe to trade, horses are indeed forbidden goods, and even the Jin Kingdom can't get by, no wonder Dahua lacks horses......"

Yue Fei walked up to Lu Zheng's horse, stroked the mane of Lu Zheng's sturdy Mongolian horse, and said, "Your Mongolian horse is an excellent horse. Although it is not as tall and burly as the big horse in the land of big food, its endurance is first-class. ”

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "I have a friend, her horse is a high-headed horse of Dashi, and it is indeed a very divine horse!" ”

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng suddenly remembered Kurlan. The two-month appointment between himself and Courland is coming soon. It's a pity that I will never be able to go to Kaifeng Mansion. When I have a chance in the future, I will explain it to Courland, I guess it will be ...... It's inevitable that you will be slashed......

Yue Fei took out the kettle, took a sip, handed the kettle to Lu Zheng, looked at the tiger wolf axe on the other horse, and said, "Brother, your big axe is very heavy, right?" ”

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "The big marshal said that this axe is three hundred and eighty pounds, and it was captured on a previous battlefield, Brother Fei, do you want to try the feel?" ”

After all, Yue Fei is also a young man, and he is only nineteen years old now. Moreover, Yue Fei was originally good at martial arts, and he was very interested in weapons and other things.

Yue Fei's eyes flashed, and he said, "Okay, I'll give it a try!" ”

Lu Zheng untied the rope tied to the big axe, took the tiger and wolf big axe from the saddle, put the blanket wrapped around the axe on the horse's back, and then put the big axe on the ground, motioning for Yue Fei to come and get it.

Lu Zheng didn't dare to hand the axe directly to Yue Fei, he was afraid that if Yue Fei couldn't hold it, it would not be good if he was injured.

Yue Fei came to the axe, took a slight stride, grabbed the handle of the axe with both hands, and lifted it hard, and the big axe left the ground.

Then Yue Fei weighed it with both hands, then let go of one hand, holding the axe with only one hand, and then swung it a few times.

Lu Zheng's eyes were already straight, Yue Fei was able to pick up the axe, Lu Zheng was not surprised at all, this was expected. But Yue Fei could wield an axe with one hand, and Lu Zheng didn't expect it.

After Yue Fei danced a few times, he exclaimed, "It's really a good axe!" It's a pity that it's a bit too heavy to use for a long time. It would be great if it could be a hundred pounds lighter. ”

After speaking, Yue Fei handed the axe to Lu Zheng. Then Yue Fei walked up to his horse and took off a horse lance and a large gun from the weapon hook.

Yue Fei stretched out his hand and handed the horse lance to Lu Zheng, and said, "A few days ago, I entrusted the blacksmith in the camp to help me make two weapons, brother, you can also try it!" ”

Lu Zheng put down the axe and took the horse lance handed by Yue Fei. This lance is also made of stainless steel, the shaft is about two battles long, and the head of the lance is like a long sword with half a wide section. This horse lance is slightly heavy, and it is estimated that it will weigh more than 100 catties!

Lu Zheng didn't know the horse lance, and after waving it a few times, he felt very good at it, and said, "Brother Fei, what a weapon!" Is this a spear? But it doesn't look like it. ”

Lu Zheng didn't know Ma Li, and Yue Fei didn't think it was strange, after all, Lu Zheng had just joined the army, and I heard that he used to be a young master from a merchant family.

Yue Fei smiled slightly and said, "This is called a horse lance, it is a weapon used on horses, as long as the strength is enough, it can break heavy armor." If you don't have enough strength, you won't be able to pick off the enemy, and you will be hurt by the reaction when you use the steel lance, and you may also be taken off the horse, unless you only stab and let go of the weapon. ”

Lu Zheng nodded and handed the horse lance to Yue Fei. took the big gun in Yue Fei's hand again, and took a closer look, this big gun was basically the same style as his own big gun, and the weight was about the same.

Yue Fei laughed and said, "Before returning your big gun that day, I had already asked the blacksmith in the camp to see your big gun and copy it according to your big gun. ”

Lu Zheng waved a few times, also laughed, and said: "I knew that you liked my big gun, but my big gun was given by someone else, otherwise, I would have given it to you a long time ago." ”

Yue Fei came over and patted Lu Zheng on the shoulder, and said, "In the past few days, I already know who you are. You gave up your position in the cavalry camp, and my brother didn't thank you properly. ”

Lu Zheng also patted Yue Fei on the shoulder and said, "You and my brother are going to kill the enemy on the battlefield together, so why be polite." ”

Yue Fei nodded, looked up at the sky, and said, "Well, our brothers still have a long way to go together, and there are still many battles to fight together. Let's go, it's time for us to go. ”

The two packed up their ropes, gathered the team to count the number of people, and continued to ride their horses in the direction of Yanmen Pass.

After two days of long-distance running, Yue Fei and Lu Zheng's team finally came to Yanmen Pass.

The guards of Yanmen Pass were very unhappy to see that only so many reinforcements had come. When Yue Fei took out Liu Ge's letter, a smile appeared on the guard's face.

Yue Fei and Lu Zheng listened to the introduction of the guard general and immediately understood the current war situation.

The army of the Jin State was encamped two hundred miles away, standing still, and the specific purpose and movement were not clear.

Now it is the Khitan army of the Liao State that is attacking Yanmen Pass. The Liao State sent a total of more than 50,000 troops this time, with the second prince Yelu Yali as the commander, and the fifth prince Yelu as the vanguard, intending to take Yanmen Pass.

When Lu Zheng heard the name Yeluding, his eyes flashed with a ray of essence.

Lu Zheng remembered that when he was in the Jin Kingdom, the Khitan woman who saved his mother and Qingqing, and the Khitan man who spoke to him at the end. When the man left, he said: My name is Ye Luding, if you go to Daliao, just find someone and ask.

No wonder you can just find someone to ask, it turns out to be the fifth prince! It's just that I don't know what kind of character that woman is, isn't it the princess of Khitan?

Lu Zheng sighed in his heart: I didn't expect to fight with them......

The Khitan army has been attacking Guancheng for more than ten days in a row, and there have been casualties on both sides of the attacker and defender. It's just that a few days ago, there was a sudden and extremely fierce offensive, which caused Seki to almost be lost.

The defenders invested almost all their forces, and after a whole day of fighting, they could barely repel this ferocious attack.

But after this battle, now the strength of the guards in Guanzhong has consumed more than half, and there are countless casualties.

If the Liao army makes another such attack and reinforcements cannot arrive in time, Yanmen Pass is likely to be lost. Not to mention that two hundred miles away, there are still a large number of Jin troops stationed, and their intentions are unknown.

Lu Zheng and Yue Fei, under the leadership of the guards, came to the city wall of Yanmen Pass. As soon as he got on the city wall, what caught Lu Zheng's eyes was corpses and a mess everywhere. The city's guards were now too few to clean up the bodies.

These corpses were lying on the city wall like that, some of them were Dahua soldiers and some Khitan soldiers. The blood had already stained the stone bricks on the city wall red, and when I walked, my feet sometimes slipped, because the ground was also full of blood, and now it was frozen into ice by the cold weather.

Lu Zheng couldn't figure it out, it was said that winter was not suitable for the army to fight. Why did the Liao State choose this time to attack Yanmen Pass? Moreover, the Jin Kingdom has also sent troops, and now it is stationed two hundred miles away, and the troops are not moving, what is this going to do?

"Uh......h Woo...... Woo......"

At this moment, a low trumpet suddenly sounded from outside the city walls.

The guard's face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly shouted: "The Liao soldiers are going to attack the city!" Hurry up and get ready for battle! ”