"Manguo?" Yue Fei's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "I understand. It seems that Zongbi began to reinvent the Mongol generals. This method of warfare must be the mention of the Mongols. ”

Xiao Shan also said with certainty, "Meng Lie, who died under Han Chang's gun, is a Mongol." Chalar, who had just led the charge with his army, was also a Mongol. ”

However, even after figuring out the tactics of the Jurchen cavalry, Yue Fei felt extremely tricky and unbreakable. You know, decades later, relying on this method of warfare, the Mongols swept almost the entire Eurasian continent. Manguo brought the advantages of the nomads to the fullest. The nomadic man is allowed to ride a bad horse and a strong bow. Agricultural civilization, on the other hand, cultivates professional farmers. They can hold plows and swing hoes, but they don't know how to shoot arrows. Professional farmers can use tall cities and weapons more advanced than the nomads to counter the nomads' strategic advantage. But when the nomads do not attack the cities, but only burn them everywhere in the countryside, they will soon drain the blood of agricultural civilization.

If you want to deal with the Mangus, you can either use the Broken Cavalry, a stronger bow than them, and a faster rate of fire to suppress their projectiles. But this is obviously not something that the Protectors can do. Either the cavalry is broken by foot, and the strong crossbow of the infantry can kill the Jurchen cavalry bow in an instant. However, in the eastern Henan Plain, the iron cavalry was arbitrarily vertical and horizontal, and with the turtle speed of the infantry, it was difficult to block the Jurchens.

Looking at the Jurchen Iron Rider who was arrogant for several miles, Yue Fei suddenly felt at a loss.

Yue Fei felt that there was nothing he could do, but Zong Bi on the other side was not happy. Because he didn't expect Yue Fei's reaction to be so fast. When Zaral proposed this tactic to Zong Bi, Zong Bi was so happy that he almost jumped up. As a general who has experienced a hundred battles, he can't see the viciousness of Mangu.

In the past few days, he has been busy making the Jurchen cavalry familiar with the Mangu Gang, and at the same time he wrote a letter to his eldest brother Zongwang to build a large-scale promotion of the Jurchen cavalry. "As soon as this law is completed, the Central Plains will become a land of Dajin, even if there are ten Yue Fei, there is nothing to do."

In today's battle with Yue Fei, Zong Bi thought that he could take advantage of the Protector Army's first encounter with Mangu, but he didn't know how powerful it was, maybe he could take the opportunity to consume the cavalry of the Protector Army. However, Yue Fei ignored the prestige of the Protector Army's victory in a hundred battles, and actually withdrew his troops, which made Zong Bi a little regretful, and at the same time, he was even more jealous of Yue Fei.

The Protector Army did not take the initiative to attack, and Zong Bi did not dare to take the initiative to attack. Because under the crossbow array of thousands of infantry crossbowmen of the Protector Army, Mangu was useless at all.

Zong Bi stared at the swollen eyes that were beaten by Han Chang, looked at the people's protectors who were not moving, and said with a sneer, "Yue Fei, you are not moving, although you are clever, but you are also poor in donkey skills. From this day forward, my Jurchen cavalry will be a nightmare for your Protectors. ”

The two armies confronted each other until noon, and the Protectors were the first to retreat. Zong Bi did not chase after him, but only divided the 30,000 iron horsemen into 10,000 and divided them into ten teams. Zong Bi gave orders to the ten commanders, so that when they met the cavalry of the Protector Army, they would use the Mangu Gang tactics. When you encounter the Protector Infantry, if you can attack and kill, you will attack and kill, and if you can't attack and kill, you will retreat. The biggest task is to get the ten thousand troops to destroy the countryside and plunder the people.

"Sons! Your task is to bleed, to give me the blood of the people of Yingtianfu. You haven't forgotten how to hunt wolves on the grasslands, have you? ”

The ten commanders shouted, "The fourth prince can rest assured, the slave knows how to fight the wolf!" ”

The Protector Army, which had retreated to Peach Blossom Shop, went out of the camp again the next day to fight, and Zong Bi did not hesitate to fight. But on this day, the Protector Army lined up in front of the peach blossom forest and never launched an attack. The Jurchen soldiers challenged several tentative attempts, but were all shot back by the crossbow.

On the third day, the Protectors challenged again. When the Jurchen cavalry was in full battle, another day was wasted by the Protector Army.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides faced off here for ten days. During this period, Zong Bi kept sending a team of 1,000 people to burn, kill and loot in Yucheng Township. Although the people of Yucheng had already fortified the wilderness under the command of the Protector Army, or hid in the county seat, or hid in the relatively large Wubao village, the casualties were not too great. But Yue Fei would not let the Jurchen cavalry show off their might on the territory of the Protector Army. That would be frustrating for the people.

Yue Fei decisively sent all the cavalry in his hands out, and also divided them into thousand-man teams, and confronted the Jurchen cavalry.

However, this time, the Protector cavalry no longer always raised their sabers and rushed towards the rain of arrows of the Jurchen cavalry. Instead, two infantry single-man crossbows with good crossbows were hung on the backs of each horse. Although this kind of single-person crossbow is not as good as the bed crossbow god arm crossbow, the range is also three hundred and fifty steps, which is much higher than the range of the Jurchen riding bow.

Whenever the two armies met, the Protectors always rushed to 300 paces, raised their crossbows, and swished out ten good crossbow arrows, whether they hit or not, and ran away. Skirmishes like this occur one after another in Yucheng County every day.

Zong Bi gradually felt bad. Over time, the casualties of the Jurchen cavalry increased. On the brutal battlefield, the Protectors' riding skills are also rapidly improving. Five days later, there were already Protectors who could also run wildly, with their single crossbows mounted and turned back on their horses to shoot arrows. On the tenth day, the casualties of the Jurchen cavalry finally made Zong Bi unbearable.

On this day, the casualties of the Jurchen cavalry exceeded a thousand. Almost every Jurchen thousand-person team brought back not news of victory.

"Rubbish! It's all rubbish! ”

Zong Bi thundered in the military tent. 30,000 iron cavalry fought with more than 10,000 cavalry of the Protector Army, and more than 3,000 cavalry were broken in ten days. The Protectors' casualties were greater, but they were on the territory of the Protectors. The Protectors can be replenished at any time. Zong Bi's 30,000 iron horsemen, but if one dies, there is one less. What's more, as time passed, the people of Jingdong and West Road gradually gathered, and all villages and villages organized young and strong, and began to attack and kill the Han'er army occupying the city. And the 800 miles of water that the Liangshan thieves once occupied has now become the shelter of the righteous army on Jingxi Road again. The traitor Li Kui garrisoned Jining Mansion, was familiar with the terrain of Shuibo according to his palm, and led thousands of sailors to attack Shuibo, but was intercepted by Zhang Heng of the boat and led more than 10,000 sailors, and a big battle, Li Kui's navy was wiped out, and he fled back to Jining Mansion almost alone.

Now the sailors of Zhang Heng have become a thorn in Zong Bi's heart. It is precisely because of Zhang Heng's attacks everywhere that there is a group of people on Jingxi Road.

Of course, the bigger opponent is in the peach blossom shop. Yue Fei led the infantry out of the peach blossom forest every day to set up troops. Zong Bi knew that Yue Fei didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, but he didn't want to take the initiative to retreat. Because that would make outsiders talk about it, saying that Zong Bi was afraid of Yue Fei.

"The fourth prince, the head of a thousand households, Abuhan and Zhuo Luhua are back. They said that there was heavy information to report to the fourth prince. Jia Gu Tu said cautiously.

Zong Bi waved his hand lazily, "Let these two wastes in." ”

The reason why Zong Bi called these two people wastes was because Abuhan and Zhuo Luhua went deep into Yingtianfu for more than 100 miles on the sixth day because of greed for merit, but they were lured into the village by a militia and burned to death more than 700 Jurchen soldiers in a fire. Zong Bi almost cut off the heads of the two of them. It's not that Zong Bi doesn't want to go deep into Yingtianfu, the key is that all the people in Yingtianfu are now soldiers, and almost every village has been built into a dock fort. Tens of thousands of cavalry were simply vulnerable in front of millions of people waiting for them.

Abuhan and Zhuo Luhua bowed their heads and walked into the military tent, knelt on their knees, and said loudly, "The slave has seen the fourth prince. ”

"I heard you have important information?"

Abuhan nodded, "Fourth Prince, today Zhuolu Qianhu and I bypassed Yucheng County, but we met a baggage convoy of the Protector Army transporting weapons thirty miles west of the county. There were more than 100 carts, all of which were filled with steel crossbows and arrows. In order to prevent the convoy of baggage from entering the city overnight, we sent 300 cavalrymen to and fro in front of the convoy, and frightened the convoy of baggage, and they formed a large circle around the cart, and did not dare to move at all. Zhuo Luhua and I came back to report the news. ”

"Is that so?" Zong Bi's eyes lit up. He knew that Yue Fei on the opposite side didn't have many crossbow arrows anymore. Because the two sides have been fighting against each other in the past few days, the Protector Army no longer uses strong crossbows to suppress their positions. It seems that Yue Fei also thought of this, so he asked Ying Tianfu to send so many crossbows at once. More than 100 carts can hold at least one million crossbows and tens of thousands of crossbows. Hey, Ying Tianfu seems to not only have strong financial resources, but also extremely developed weapon manufacturing.

No, this batch of crossbows must be snatched. Zong Bi quickly made a decision.

That night, the most experienced Jiagutu of the Zongbi faction led 5,000 elite golden cavalry, under the guidance of Abuhan and Zhuo Luhua, quietly left the camp, turned ten miles north, avoided the scouts scattered by the peach blossoms, bypassed Yucheng County, galloped wild for thirty miles, and finally arrived at the position of the Protector Army car camp trapped by the 300 Jurchen cavalry.

Abuhan and Zhuo Luhua were right, the baggage transported by the Protector Army was indeed extremely rich. When Jia Gu Tu looked at it, he felt that there were almost two hundred carts. Each car was loaded high and covered with coarse cloth. Only a few large carts with loose covers revealed a series of black and shiny crossbow arrows, and a delicate single crossbow.

However, Jiagutu quickly frowned, and suddenly whipped on the top of Abuhan's head, and scolded loudly, "Minion! Is this the elite of the Protectorate? This is simply the militia. More than a thousand cavalry of you two are enough to capture them, and if you have to let Lao Tzu run overnight, it's really damned! ”

Indeed, the thousands of Protectors who transported the baggage were old and small, and they were not elite at all. It was obviously a militia unit from Ying Tianfu. The leader of the convoy was an old man with a gray beard, and a little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old leaned against the old man. Nearly 200 carts were connected together to form a hollow car array. Thousands of militiamen, each armed with steel crossbows, hid behind their vehicles. Someone kept shouting, ordering the soldiers to be vigilant and beware of the surprise attack of the newly arrived Jurchen cavalry.

Jia Gu Tu sneered, "Even with these rabble, dare to face my Jurchen Iron Horse?" Hmph, I really don't take my golden warrior seriously. Boys, it's getting dark. I command you to take down this Protector before dawn. Also, don't kill that little girl. That little girl is so beautiful, just enough to give it to the fourth prince to vent his anger. Offensive! ”

Thousands of Jurchen cavalry shouted and rushed towards the chariot formation from all directions.

At this moment, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl suddenly picked up a firework from the cart and lit it, and a brilliant fireworks soared into the sky, brilliant in the light darkness of dawn. As soon as the fireworks disappeared in the sky, a firework suddenly lit up at the head of Yucheng County. Soon, a firework also lit up in the sky above the Peach Blossom Shop's Protector Barracks. Yue Fei stood in the barracks of the peach blossom shop and muttered, "Ran Taigong, Ran Qing, I hope that the car formation can really block the impact of the golden dog." ”