Chapter 607: The Snow Begins to Melt

After reaching an agreement with Ashina Huo'er, Fan Guoshi began to recruit the Feng Cavalry again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info This time, the scale is much larger than the last time, and 80,000 new Selector Riders are directly recruited, plus the 20,000 left before, making up the number of 100,000.

Ashina Huo'er saw that Fan Guoshi was so capable, and in only ten days, he pulled up a decent cavalry, and couldn't help but nod his head again and again. Eighty thousand usable cavalry were screened out from hundreds of thousands of young and strong men, and Fan Guoshi sent his officials to arrange such a complicated work, and the arrangements were in an orderly manner and not chaotic at all.

Don't look at it as a simple show for Fan Guoshi, if the nobles of the Ashina family are replaced, it will have to drag on for more than a month before he can barely form an army.

In the past ten days, Fan Guoshi not only recruited 80,000 recruits and organized them into an army, but also issued armor, war horses, sabers, bows and arrows to each of them. All aspects involved in this cannot be explained clearly in a few words. Without considerable ability, it is impossible to accomplish it.

Although these inferior and lowest-class people who were recruited to enter the Xuanfeng Cavalry had a humble status in the Tuliao State, they all ate mixed rice on the grassland after all, and their ability to eat with riding and archery was quite familiar. So as long as they mounted their horses, picked up scimitars, and brought bows and arrows, they could immediately transform into elite cavalry.

This point, even the Dingbei garrison regiment can't do it.

While Fan Guoshi was vigorously recruiting and selecting forward cavalry, he did not forget to secretly expand the elite "Storm Guard" to increase the strength of his personal guards. From this point of view, you have to admire Fan Guoshi, in such a short period of time, not only to complete a new round of army expansion, but also to spare time to get some benefits for yourself.

So far, Fan Guoshi has two elite cavalry in his hands, one is the 5,000 ironclad elite cavalry commanded by Wu Switch. Soon after this cavalry was annexed to the Tuliao State, it was firmly in the hands of Fan Guoshi, and no matter how difficult it was, he did not hand over this cavalry.

It stands to reason that Wu Switch should have been the commander of the Crashing Army, and since his uncle Chiren died in battle, Wu Switch has taken over the position of commander of the Collision Commander Army. But later, as the battle situation developed, almost all of the colliding troops died, and Wu Switch and the ironclad elite cavalry under his command became the only remaining collapsing troops.

Wu Switch is a shrewd man, he knows that if he has no backer, sooner or later he will have to die for the Tuliao Kingdom like his uncle Zu Chiren. After Zu Chiren defected to the Tuliao State, he was treated as a expendable by the Tuliao Emperor and directly placed at the forefront of the confrontation with the Dingbei garrison, and finally was defeated and died. No one spoke for Zu Chiren in front of Emperor Tuliao, and he had no other way out than to fight to the death.

Wu Switch didn't want to repeat the mistakes of his uncle Zu Chiren, but he didn't understand Tuliao dialect, and he couldn't talk to Tuliao nobles, and his choice was only the Fan Guoshi from Pingzhou. At that time, Fan Guoshi was not injured, and it was the time when the sky was high and powerful, and he didn't say a word in the Tuliao country, and he was also above 10,000 people under one person, so it was natural to bless such a small cavalry.

Relying on his years of experience in the Pingzhou officialdom, Wu Switch keenly observed that although Fan Guoshi was in a high position and could command 100,000 golden wolf cavalry, he did not have a real henchman who belonged to him.

In the end, Wu Switch decided to choose Fan Guoshi as his backer in the Tuliao State and secretly took refuge. Sure enough, after Fan Guoshi secretly summoned Wu Switch, he listened to his request to work and was overjoyed!

At that time, Fan Guoshi casually mentioned it to Emperor Taizu of Tuliao, saying that he needed a team of guards. Emperor Taizu of Tuliao immediately agreed, and allowed Fan Guoshi to choose among the golden wolf cavalry at will.

In the end, Fan Guoshi didn't ask for a golden wolf cavalry, but just chose such a useless Pingzhou surrendered cavalry in the eyes of Emperor Taizu of Tuliao as his escort. At that time, Emperor Tuliao was still a little reluctant to go, and later gave Fan Guoshi a lot of praise as compensation.

Later, Fan Guoshi was seriously injured and his strength was greatly damaged, and in order to protect himself, he was forced to give up all his military power and no longer command the Golden Wolf Cavalry. But even in such an embarrassing situation, Fan Guoshi still kept the cavalry under Wu Switch's command and never handed it over.

At that time, Emperor Taizu of Tuliao didn't look down on this Pingzhou surrendered cavalry with only more than 3,000 people, so he didn't force Fan Guoshi anymore.

Later, Ashina Huo'er was in charge of the army, and he did not order Fan Guoshi to hand over this cavalry. The reason is just like the original Emperor Taizu of Tuliao, Ashina Huo'er did not look down on the surrendered cavalry of the Ping Zhou Dynasty at all. What good can a group of gutless defeated soldiers who surrender? It's good to let Fan Guoshi take it to fill the façade, so as to save his heart.

That's it, Fan Guoshi has kept Wu Switch and these cavalrymen until now. Over the years, the ironclad cavalry under Wu Switch's command has gradually expanded to more than 5,000 cavalry.

However, Fan Guoshi never seemed to intend to pull this cavalry into the battlefield, and he just didn't know what mission to send them to carry out all day long.

Another elite cavalry in Fan Guoshi's hands is the recently established "Charging Guard". For this cavalry, Fan Guoshi would rather lack than abuse, and recruit people extremely strictly. First of all, the first is that you must be loyal to him alone. The second is that combat capability must be prominent.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to re-recruit the Xuanfeng Cavalry, Fan Guoshi secretly expanded the Charge Guard to more than 5,000, all of which were composed of the inferior and inferior citizens of Tuliao who were desperate for him. Even, Fan Guoshi deliberately found some inferior and inferior people who hated the Ashina family, recruited them into the stormtrooper guard, vigorously cultivated and co-opted them, and instilled the concept of a future mixed with himself.

I have to say that using Fan Guoshi's means to win over these inferior and inferior people who have low status and live in poverty is really easy to capture.

Until two years ago, the Tuliao Kingdom had continued to expand abroad, conquering many tribes on the steppe. Up to now, there are less than a million high-class Ashina families in the Tuliao Kingdom, but there are more than four million low-class and second-class people.

When Ashina Huo'er recruited the Golden Wolf Cavalry, he must also take into account the number of young and strong men in the clan, and should not be too reckless. Otherwise, the insufficient number of males in the Ashina tribe will affect the continuation of the tribe.

On the other hand, Fan Guoshi recruited to select the front rider, but he didn't have these scruples. Anyway, in the eyes of the nobles of Ashina, these inferior and inferior people are not much better than cattle and sheep, and they are also daily consumables. Moreover, the number of these inferior and inferior people is huge, and some of them are consumed, which can just make the Ashina nobles feel at ease.

After Fan Guoshi re-pulled up the 100,000 Xuanfeng cavalry, he divided 80,000 of them and handed them over to his second son Fan Zhongju, and took them out again, and continued to invade the Dingbei garrison. The remaining 20,000 will be left as a spark for the next conscription, and it will be reserved for the establishment.

After happily patting Fan Zhongju on the shoulder, encouraging him to fight bravely, and sending him to the battlefield, Ashina Huo'er still stood still and led the army to defend the city of Tongwan. In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to move, but he can't move.

Today's golden wolf cavalry, before they learned to defend the city, was forced to face the fierce and invincible male division of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment. Rao is Ashina Huo'er is full of wisdom, and in the face of this situation, he is helpless. But in the field battle with the Dingbei garrison regiment, the Golden Wolf Cavalry never won, Ashina Huo'er knew it very well in his heart.

If you don't dare to fight with the Dingbei garrison regiment, you can only defend the city, but the golden wolf cavalry will not defend the city and fight.

In fact, according to the original general trend of the world, with the world's first elite golden wolf cavalry, and Fan Guoshi, who has both civil and military powers, the Tuliao State will gradually and smoothly dominate the world and establish a new powerful dynasty.

The Golden Wolf Cavalry, as long as they maintain their fierce offensive ability, do not have to learn how to defend at all. Defending the city? Kidding aside, the Golden Wolf Cavalry never needed to hide behind a high wall and shiver like those incompetent Pingzhou soldiers and horses.

However, at this moment, just when the whole country of Tuliao began to dream of dominating the world. The Dingbei garrison was suddenly born, and on the back of the powerful and invincible Tuliao State, it slashed a knife and cut off the dream of Tuliao State to dominate the world.

The Dingbei Garrison Regiment not only interrupted the sharpest wolf tooth of the huge giant wolf of the Tuliao Kingdom with one punch: the Golden Wolf Cavalry. Even the courage of the Golden Wolf Cavalry was broken. Now, they were even so frightened that the Golden Wolf Cavalry only dared to rely on the city to stay still, and did not dare to go out to fight with the Dingbei garrison regiment in the field at all.

Ashina Huo'er knew very well that his cavalry was no match for the Dingbei garrison at the moment, so he refused to go up to fight at all. But he also refused to sit still, he has been studying the tactics of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, trying to find the flaws in it and turn the situation around.

Although so far, the Dingbei Garrison Regiment has never been defeated, Ashina Huo'er never believes that there are any invincible soldiers and horses in this world, even if it is a powerful and invincible Dingbei Garrison Regiment, there must be flaws to be found.

Ashina Huo'er's plan was to wait for himself to find the flaw in the Dingbei garrison before fighting it, so as to establish victory and defeat in one fell swoop.

Until then, Ashina Huo'er would easily not engage the main force of the Dingbei Garrison again, at most, he would only send small cavalry to invade constantly, so as to delay the advance of the Dingbei Garrison.

It was different from Ashina Huo'er's idea that he still wanted to rely on the Golden Wolf Cavalry to defeat the Dingbei garrison. Fan Guoshi planned to rely on the tall walls of Tongwan City to drag down the Dingbei garrison.

Although the Dingbei Garrison Regiment has a siege weapon like the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, Fan Guoshi believes that the power of the Earth-Shaking Thunder is limited, as long as he can strengthen the city wall thick enough, even if the Dingbei Garrison Regiment uses the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, it will be difficult to directly blast the city wall.

And Fan Guoshi relied on a large number of plundered Pingzhou craftsmen in his hands to create a large number of defense equipment, waiting to deal with the Dingbei garrison in the future.

In addition, another important reason why Fan Guoshi insisted on defending the city was that the Ashina people disdained to defend the city, and they thought it was the work of cowards. As a brave and fearless Ashina nobleman, he should ride a war horse, wield a snowy sword, draw his bow and arrows, and mercilessly rush his opponents, how can he hide behind the city wall and secretly use those city defense equipment like a coward?

God knows that you, the Ashina nobles, don't dare to join the Golden Wolf Cavalry to fight against the Dingbei Garrison Regiment now, and you still dislike that defending the city is a coward?

Of course, Fan Guoshi was very happy with this kind of Ashina nobles, because in this way, he could take advantage of the situation to organize a group of soldiers who were specially used to defend the city without the participation of Ashina nobles.

Although Ashina Huo'er evaded the command of this army of soldiers and horses soon after Fan Guoshi organized this garrison, Fan Guoshi still put enough sand into it to ensure that at least one of the city gates was in his hands at the critical moment.

On the side of Tongwancheng, in order to deal with the attack of the Dingbei garrison, eighteen kinds of martial arts have been used. The North Garrison Regiment was still acting unhurriedly according to the plan.

After the tenth fort was repaired, it was already late May. The grasslands began to warm up and the snow began to melt. The Dingbei garrison began to make full preparations for the battle to deal with the intrusion of the Tuliao cavalry.

With the completion of the tenth fortress, the Dingbei garrison regiment also temporarily stopped advancing. According to Commander Liu's calculations, Ashina Huo'er would never let the Dingbei Garrison continue to advance so smoothly, and would definitely lead a large army to fight.

The Dingbei garrison began to prepare nervously for battle, waiting for the Tuliao cavalry to come.

At the end of May, the scout cavalry of the Dingbei garrison finally saw the shadow of the Tuliao cavalry again, but according to the report of the scout cavalry, this soldier and horse did not look like the golden wolf cavalry.

Commander Liu asked his junior brother, "Didn't you say that the Golden Wolf Cavalry is now equipped with standard armor and scimitars?" Why is it that in the past two days, according to our reconnaissance cavalry report, this cavalry has all kinds of equipment and everything? Or are they all the style of the armor of the Pingzhou Dynasty? ”

Li Deyi couldn't answer, so he had to go to reconnoiter himself.

This time, it was Commander Liu who miscalculated, and the large force of nearly 100,000 Tuliao cavalry who came was not the elite capture army under Ashina Huo'er, let alone the Golden Wolf Cavalry.

This army of soldiers and horses is the 80,000 selected forward cavalry led by Fan Zhongju.

Fan Zhongju, as always, broke all the cavalry into pieces, only brought a thousand cavalry with him, found a safe corner and squatted in the distance, waiting for the selected front horse to bring back the head to himself.

In the face of the scattered fighting style of the Tuliao cavalry, Li Deyi quickly found a countermeasure after a two-day adaptation period.

He and Li Wuving were two people, each leading three hundred of the most elite cavalry of cultivating the original qi, and the two groups of men and horses worked in shifts, patrolling day and night for twelve hours.

The rest of the cavalry was divided into three parts, with three fortresses as strongholds to guard against the invasion of the Tuliao cavalry.

In this way, Li Deyi and Li Wushu effectively attacked the invading Tuliao scattered cavalry, and the results were quite good.

During this period, Li Deyi also caught several prisoners, and through the veteran Gao Shou and his apprentices, he pried out the location where Fan Zhongju was hiding, and rushed straight over, trying to capture the thief and capture the king.

It's a pity that this Fan Zhong is very vigilant, surrounded by five layers of scouts, once he finds that there is a disturbance, he immediately turns around and runs, absolutely without hesitation.

Although Li Deyi defended it well, the large-scale intrusion of the opponent still caused considerable trouble to the northern garrison.

Not to mention anything else, those elite cavalry who are responsible for patrolling every day are a little overwhelmed by their physical strength. Li Deyi had to replace two shifts with three shifts, and arranged two separate days for the cavalry to let them rest in shifts, so as to maintain continuous patrols day and night.

Moreover, although Li Deyi is tightly guarded, there are still loopholes. The 80,000 Xuanfeng cavalry was reduced to zero, and the intrusion on the Dingbei garrison was simply pervasive. Even, fifty miles outside Dingbei County, the shadow of Xuanfeng riding was found.

You must know that at the foot of Dingbei County, I haven't seen the enemy's soldiers and horses for many years. This time, the Xuanfeng cavalry actually wandered all the way to the vicinity of Dingbei County, which also sounded the alarm for the two commanders of the garrison regiment.

They must find a new way to deal with this pervasive infestation.