On this day, Jiang Hexing took Zhang Kai and Zhang Jie to the armory, and heard that the bows and arrows had been made, and a lot of plate armor had been made. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info Jiang Hexing saw the big bow taken out by the craftsmen, which was about the same size as Jiang Hexing, Zhang Kai and Zhang Jie grabbed it first, and watched it repeatedly. Then the two came to the place where the arrow was tested, Zhang Jie took an arrow, took the bow and arrow, and swished to hit the bull's-eye. Zhang Kai pulled the bow repeatedly, but did not release the arrow, and said: "The bow is a good bow, but I'm afraid the speed of the arrow can't be fast." ”

The craftsman next to him said: "The advantage of this bow is that it can shoot far and steadily, especially heavy arrows." ”

Zhang Kai took a heavy arrow, took his bow and arrow, and shot it diagonally, and the arrow flew far forward. When the arrow stopped, Zhang Kai walked over and measured the range of the arrow with his footsteps.

Zhang Kai came back and told everyone: "This arrow shoots 200 steps (take 1. 5 meters is about one step) away, and it is said that the maximum lethality is within 100 steps. It is far superior to other bows and arrows, but it requires a strong archer and a diligent practice to use this bow and arrow. ”

Jiang Hexing and Zhang Jie both nodded, archers are all available for a long time to train, and although they are practicing non-stop now, they are all bows and arrows with low lethality. This kind of giant bow and heavy arrow, it seems that it is necessary to train new soldiers well, and it is best to combine it with mounted archery.

Jiang Hexing looked at the two of them: "Isn't Zhang Meng here?" Why didn't I see him? ”

Zhang Kai said: "The two of us are very busy, now he is in Zhang Luo for family affairs, some time ago he summoned people to do spring ploughing, and recently it seems that he is busy with sheepskin business." ”

"How is he riding and archery?"

"Among the three of our brothers, he has the most strength, he grew up in Bian County, and he began to learn to ride and shoot since he was a child, but now there is no one at home to handle it, so he can only be at home."

"Let him form a light cavalry, mainly cavalry and archery, what do you think?"

The two were overjoyed and hurriedly thanked them. The three of them looked at the production of plate armor together, this production was too slow, and now no army could fully assemble the hair, but the officers began to wear it.

Two days later, Zhang Meng came to see Jiang Hexing, who was very happy to see a small group of tiger heads and tiger brains, with a thin waist and a thin back. Unexpectedly, Zhang Meng introduced another friend of his, saying that he was called Ma Yuan, who was herding sheep in Beidi County, and he was a good friend.

Jiang Hexing was stunned for a moment, Ma Yuan, I don't seem to have heard this name anywhere, and I can't remember it for a while. But after all, it was Zhang Meng's introduction, and Jiang Hexing promised that as long as he came, he would definitely arrange it well. He also told Zhang Meng about the significance of the newly formed cavalry, and asked him to learn from scratch, calm his mentality, and train the light cavalry step by step.

Zhang Meng found 50 young recruits with a foundation in cavalry and archery, used new bows and arrows, and began his military career.

After some time, Wang Ke's sailboat was finally built. The Liao River was surrounded by people, and everyone saw a strange big boat, and there were a few tall logs, and there were some messy ropes on the wood, according to the people on the boat, what was the name of the mast. No matter what kind of pole it is, everyone has never seen it, and I really don't know what this is for running boats, and what is the use of those ropes.

Jiang Hexing gave an order, only to see that the boatmen on the boat began to use ropes to lift pieces of cloth to the mast, the breeze blows, the cloth blows and puffs, pulls the anchor and sets sail, the ship is with the water and the wind, oh, how is it faster than a horse, everyone is surprised to see that this boat is simply flying on the river. The crowd on the shore followed, as if they could catch it if they ran as fast as they could, and the boat ran faster and faster, and the people could not keep up, and saw that the boat was getting smaller and smaller, and then only the mast could be seen disappearing in the river. Some people speculated that there must be a man who knows how to push the boat down, some people say that there must be fish spirits running down there, and some people say that the pieces of cloth are going around the wind and let the wind blow the boat.

People gradually dispersed, the river line stayed by the river, let the river breeze blow, thousands of thoughts, this real big killer, or appeared in an era, history will become really different.

Two days later, the sailing ship carried the sea fish and salt bought back from Liaodong County, and the trial voyage was a complete success. Jianghehang arranged to build a cargo wharf on the Liao River, mainly for sailing ships.

The sailboats sold like crazy all of a sudden, and the merchants who showed their strengths, you ordered 3, I ordered 2, and soon the orders were scheduled until the end of the year. Jiang Hexing didn't want to ask about this detail, so he asked Wang Ke to take over the work of the sailing shipyard and let him start studying the four-wheeled carriage.

The work is progressing in an orderly manner, and people's days are also seeing hope, because day by day is getting better, the roads are better, the houses are better, the food is much better than before, in short, there are changes every day.

Spring is always short-lived, and the weather is starting to get a little hot. Early summer has come, Zheng Yi came to the office and brought a shocking news.

Zheng Yi said: "He Wang, according to the report of our spies in Fuyu Wangcheng, Fuyu sent people to Fuyu and Xianbei half a month ago, they seem to have made some big moves, and Fuyu has signs of gathering troops. ”

"Did Xianbei make any moves? What about Buben Buyeong? Jiang Hexing asked nervously.

"Xianbei hasn't made any moves yet, it's just that several big tribes there seem to have gotten together recently and are discussing something, and we guess it's related to us. The Fuyu we fought is the same root, and the current king is called Gao Zhili, who used to grow up with Fuyu. Later, he followed his mother to Buyeo, and was made the son, and later succeeded to the throne. Although they are at odds with each other, they are very likely to send troops now that we are fighting against them. In addition, it seems that Baekje Fuyu also sent people. ”

Jiang Hexing's fingers tapped lightly on the table, and said slowly: "Xianbei and Wuhuan are originally a family, and many Wuhuan people ran to Xianbei last year, and they are very likely to retaliate." As for Fu Yu, they were also beaten by us, with their current strength and vegetarian character, it is estimated that they will not give up. I used to think that it hurt to beat them, and let them know that they would be able to live in peace if they were afraid. They want to take revenge, okay, they want to teach us power, and we'll give them some color. You go back and continue to collect information, Xianbei is far away from us, and Fuyu is not close, the most important thing is Wu Kui, we have made great efforts, and we must take good precautions against Fu Yu. ”

Zheng Yi nodded and went back to continue collecting information.

Jiang Hexing immediately convened all the generals to discuss, Zhang Jie, Zhang Kai, Li Xiaoquan, Li Xiaowu, Ma Biao and others, after Jiang Hexing finished speaking Zheng Yi, everyone was not angry, but when they saw the excitement, they were all gearing up, as if they were going to fight tomorrow.

Jiang Hexing talked about his thoughts, and now they have not yet taken action, so we have made preparations in advance, and we are ready to fight on three sides at the same time, which is difficult and stressful, and now the whole army is only about 15,000 people, and the distribution of troops must be focused, and the focus is on dealing with Fuyu. The other two roads are mainly defensive, and if the enemy comes to the cavalry, they will mess up their ranks with clouds and thunder, and then give a lesson so that they dare not make mistakes. If the infantry attacked, it would cut off its support, make it powerless to fight, concentrate its forces on eliminating Fuyu as soon as possible, and never give them a chance again.

Everyone felt that it was feasible, and sent Li Xiaoquan in the southeast direction to monitor the pawn and Fuyu, and prepare to wait for work, if they had any abnormal movements, they would give them a deep lesson with lightning speed. Zhang Kai was sent to the northwest to monitor Xianbei's movements, and Zhang Meng and Ma Yuan were under the command of Zhang Kai. In addition to the city defense, the rest of the troops were all moved to the junction with Fuyu, and when Fuyu moved, he attacked with Wu Kui in two ways and completely ate Fuyu.

Xianwu City began to get busy, and the soldiers of all units were full of energy after half a year of rest, and they all wanted to prove themselves on the battlefield. Zhang Kai took Zhang Meng's horse reinforcements, as well as a division of cavalry, and a company of mine-throwers, and marched to the northwest. These are all newly equipped cavalry, but the officers are all veterans, and their combat effectiveness is naturally extraordinary. Their logistics are supplied by Zhangwu City, and they are not far away. Li Xiaowen prepared the logistics materials early, Zhang Kai was very happy, thanked Li Xiaowen, and led the troops to the border. Send out spies to find out the news.

Besides, Li Xiaoquan also took his own division of men and horses, and marched towards the southeast, that is, the north of Xuansu County.

Jiang Hexing took Ma Kai with him, and Li Xiaowu headed north.

When Jiang Hexing was still on the road, the war broke out first, it was Zhang Kai who first met the Xianbei cavalry, just 500 miles north of Zhang Kai from Zhangwu City, the spies came to report, and the Xianbei cavalry came in front. There were more than 2,000 Xianbei soldiers, and they were in a hurry to rush south.

Zhang Kai asked about the terrain, this is all grassland, it seems that there is only hard fighting, called a few regiment commanders, plus Ma Yuan and Zhang Meng discussed. Ma Yuan made a suggestion, first contact, then defeat, lead to a place, concentrate the cloud thunder, and then give a fatal blow.

After discussing with a few people, they all felt that this method could be tried. It's just that who brought Xianbei here, several people rushed to go, and then Zhang Kai designated Chen Gang as the head of the regiment, he was an old man who followed the river as soon as he became an army, with rich experience and great achievements.

Chen Gang happily led one of his regiments, about 1,000 men and horses, to the north, and after walking less than 30 miles, he found that the opposite side was dusty and the earth trembled slightly.

Chen Gang stopped the cavalry, lined up the battle team, rested for a while, and waited for the arrival of the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people also found Chen Gang and them, especially Chen Gang, under the sun, the plate armor of the whole body was shining, the adult shouted, and the Xianbei people rushed over, seeing that Xianbei's bow and arrow were about to be able to shoot them. Chen Gang gave an order, and the whole army turned around and ran south.

The bows and arrows of the Xianbei people behind him continued to fall to the ground, and there were also those who shot the cavalry, and now there is armor all over the body, although most of them are the armor of the husband's people, after all, the bow and arrow are too far away, and they have lost their lethality, and there are basically no serious injuries.

Seeing that there are 10 miles of running, the Xianbei people may continue to run long distances, continuous acceleration, I am afraid that they are tired, and they are getting farther and farther. Chen Gang slowed down again, Xianbei people saw that the naked eye in his mouth was about to fall, and he was regretting, who knew which way the gods were moved, and the meat himself was sent to his mouth again. The Xianbei people continued to accelerate the sprint, Chen Gang also turned his head, and with a burst of sharp shots, the Xianbei people on the opposite side fell off their horses one after another, seeing that the Xianbei people reorganized their weapons and killed the generals again. Chen Gang gave an order, and in addition to throwing a few corpses, the team continued to gallop south.

The Xianbei people felt that the cavalry on the opposite side was not strong, at least the lethality of the bow and arrow was not great, except for the surprise attack just now, the loss of some men and horses, the frontal attack, their own combat power was stronger. The confidence of the Xianbei people came up, and they chased 5 miles in one breath, there was a forest on the opposite side, seeing that group of people entered the woods, the Xianbei people did not dare to be careless, they knew that many ambushes were in the woods, and they carefully searched for a long time to know that the group of cavalry, just now only shook on the edge of the woods, and went directly south.

The Xianbei lord once again ordered the pursuit at full speed, and some people began to fall behind, mainly because the horses could not stand the long and fast run, and they encountered the enemy when they were already tired, and they galloped all the way. Some of the horses were already panting and began to sweat, some of the Xianbei people who cherished their horses slowed down, and some of the eager to snatch things were whipped immediately, and they had to defeat the cavalry on the opposite side.

After running for another 5 miles, the Xianbei people found that the group was resting, they were eating dry food, and the horses were eating forage. The Xianbei people were furious, and under the order of the adults, they immediately whipped up, drew their bows and arrows, and shot forward, but unfortunately they were still a little far. Seeing that they were about to catch up again, the group began to run south again. The Xianbei people's war horses are basically sweating, this is the second war horse in exchange, but unfortunately there is only this one under him now. They knew they couldn't go too fast, or the horse would have to run to death. Who knew that the people in front saw the Xianbei people slow down, and they actually ran forward unhurriedly, and ran forward for about 5 miles, and the group suddenly accelerated and disappeared.

The Xianbei adults were furious, the whole army attacked, and ran forward for a while, and the Xianbei people looked at it and didn't rest, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to ask for horses. The whole army slowed down, and at this moment, a group of people in silver shining armor, a group of three, holding cloth bags in their hands, rode horses from all directions to surround the Xianbei army. Xianbei people laughed, this group of people is really interesting, there are no knives, no bows and arrows, and no spears, but the armor looks powerful, but how can they fight the enemy, seeing this group of people throw hard one by one, Xianbei people looked down and saw that it was a cloth bag, and the people around laughed. Some Xianbei people sent a few bows and arrows, and although they hit people, they all seemed to fall to the ground, which is really good armor. Everyone reacted, wouldn't it be good armor to leave this group of people?

Just when someone made up their minds to chase these people, they suddenly heard a huge thunder of "knock, knock, knock" sounding all around, and people's ears seemed to be unable to hear the sound of a week anymore, and they were deaf, and the horses could no longer control it, and they flew around, running and jumping, and one by one the knights fell off their horses, and the smoke was thick all around, and they could no longer see clearly.

After a while, the smoke gradually faded, and the Xianbei people who were still on the horses saw that they were surrounded by cavalry, each with a bow and arrows, coming towards this side, and in the front, there was a person, with silver-white armor all over his body, and the same as the person who threw the cloth bag just now, except for the eyes, the whole body was surrounded. Holding a particularly large bow in his hand, more than a man long, and the bow and arrows were also four feet long, I saw him bend the bow, put on the long arrow, and with a whoosh, a Xianbei leader fell off his horse. Why is it so far away, Xianbei people can't believe their eyes. But when he saw the group of men and horses behind him, like him, and the bows and arrows were fired, some of them fell off their horses. There were people on the left and right holding long knives, shouting something and rushing towards the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people had just seen the surrounding situation from the thick smoke, and bows and arrows and long knives were on their bodies.

ambushed, some Xianbei people realized that staying here is only a dead end. Xianbei turned the horse's head and began to gallop north, if you can run one by one, you can't care about anything else, it's important to save your life.

Zhang Kai led a large group of men and horses to ambush beautifully, almost annihilating the Xianbei people, looking at the dead corpses on the ground one by one, and the frightened war horses one by one. More are trampled by horses, many Xianbei people, without saddles, were jumped by the startled horses and fell to the ground, never had a chance to stand up again, one by one the war horses stepped over their heads, and soon were trampled beyond recognition.

Zhang Kai counted the battlefield and found that Zhang Meng was gone, and there were horse aids. Zhang Kai thought about it, he saw Zhang Meng just now, he could go there.

After another half a day, the sound of horses' hooves came from the north, it turned out that after Zhang Meng's first wave of attacks, the sabre team had completely entered the Xianbei team, and the bow and arrow were not used.

Sure enough, the horse aid calculation was really accurate, they flew forward, and the Xianbei people they encountered on the road were solved with sabers, and the Xianbei people were frightened by the bow birds, which could withstand their slashing like this. Then as an ambush, a Xianbei man came, a bow and arrow, until he could no longer wait for the Xianbei people's rout, and then went all the way to the south to collect Xianbei war horses, collecting more than 500 horses.

Zhang Kai was not only overjoyed, but also impressed by this horse aid. When he first came, no one paid attention to him, just gave it to an ordinary petty official, but he didn't expect that today's petty official made great contributions, and basically this battle was completely annihilated.

Zhang Kai set up camp on the spot, continued to monitor the Xianbei people, and widened the scope of the spies' reconnaissance to prevent any eventuality.

Then Zhang Kai wrote a detailed battle report, focusing on asking for credit for this horse aid, hoping that Jiang Hexing could promote talents without sticking to one pattern.

A few days later, Jiang Hexing saw the battle report written by Zhang Kai, and promoted Ma Yuan to battalion commander and Zhang Meng to battalion commander. Chen Gang and others were promoted to a higher level and recorded a great merit. The reward was passed back to Zhang Kai, and the whole army cheered.