Just when Xuan Chongwen summoned the four marshals of Hehuang to meet in Lanzhou and discuss preparations for war, far away in the north of Xiazhou in the northeast, there is a small lake between the north of Qiwu Mountain and the Wumaosu saline-alkali Gobi Desert, called Woyebo, the north shore of the lake is saline-alkali land, but the west bank and the south are large pastures, and the best war horses in Xiazhou come from here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the west bank of the lake was camped, and flags were planted all over the towering camps, and the guards were heavily guarded. Two or three miles outside the camp, more than a dozen infantry phalanxes spread out for a very long time, about 6,000 people, and in the distance, there were two cavalry teams of more than 1,000 people, galloping back and forth to stir up the sky full of dust and fog, chasing each other and shooting arrows, but the arrows that fell to the ground obviously had no arrows.

On a gentle slope, around the left and right of the Chinese army is a cavalry team of about 2,500 people, the soldiers are elite soldiers, among which there are even 500 heavy horses, called "iron harriers", equipped with the Li family for several generations to accumulate the whole body heavy armor, the war horses are also fully draped, the cavalry is connected by iron chains, looking down from a high place, the whole horse team is like a big discus as a whole.

Li Guangrui, who was in his thirties, was born with a narrow forehead, high cheekbones, sunken eye sockets, long and thin cheeks, and a tall and thin figure dressed in the dark and dark iron-colored Qingtang heavy armor that only Qingtang Qiang had in his possession, and the smooth mirror-like armor glowed with a bit of dazzling light. He suddenly beckoned backwards, and an armored officer hurriedly dismounted, trotted over and bowed.

"Fei listen! It is said that in the third year of Guangshun, you fought against that Zhang Tu in Yanzhou, and now these 7,000 infantry troops are so trained, can you confront them head-on? ”

"Go back to the Yanei! At that time, the general was ordered by General Tuoba Suzhi to go south with the digging of Chengtong, and it was the horse team that took the battle, and the infantry formation had never been seen! "This officer is Fei Tingchunli, and now he has been the commander of the all, but he is from the bottom, recommended by Tuoba Suzhi, and Tuoba Suzhi is on the side, Fei Tingchunli can't help but turn his head a little apprehensively.

It is also ironic to say, Xia Sui Dangxiang has always been reluctant to submit to the Central Plains court, but everywhere to learn from the Central Plains, the regular town army establishment is the same as the Great Zhou, but the tribal soldiers are commanded by the eight families, in order to facilitate the command is often a tent of ten people for ten commanders, in turn is a centurion, a thousand commanders, which is almost the same in the Liao army.

The military establishment of the nomads is like this, and it is also the Liao State that sat down to teach the later Jurchen, Mengwu Murowei and other savage tribes, each according to the Khitan script to imitate and design their own characters, thus giving birth to civilization, and finally brewed the Yashan tragedy, enslaving the Central Plains for more than 100 years.

The current eight departments of the party have not really formed a royal power, and naturally they do not have their own writing, but they are based on the Li family. Who called the Li family since the Tang Dynasty generations of handsome, repeatedly added to the king of Xiping County, with the nominal ruling power, over time, naturally gradually growing, overpowering other departments, at will to recruit the young and strong of the various departments for use, in this case, the royal power has actually quietly sprouted.

Tuoba Suzhi listened, tilted his head and muttered for a moment, and said: "The training time of our infantry army is still short, and the equipment is also a little worse, and the ones that were exchanged from Taiyuan are all old equipment, and they are okay with training, but if they want to fight in the field, or attack the city, they are still far away." But don't worry about Yanai, the infantry army can also form a formation, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, and it is already good to be able to do this. ”

"This is 7,000 foot soldiers selected from 20,000 town soldiers, and 2,500 tooth soldiers, plus iron harriers, it is only 10,000 elite soldiers, which is still too few! It depends on how many armors Brother Ning can bring back. Li Guangrui said with some regret.

Brother Ning is Li Guangyan's nickname, it has been almost two months since he went to Datong Mansion, and he has not come back yet, and the entourage of mules and horses has brought back a batch of old weapons and armor from Taiyuan, but what Li Guangrui wants is the iron armor of Liao, so as to equip the 10,000 elite soldiers in front of him.

At this time, several knights ran by the lake in the distance, and when they arrived nearby, they were stopped by the rangers, and soon let go, and rushed to the gentle slope to dismount, trotted up and said, "Report to the Yanei!" Brother Ning is back! I brought a lot of armor and arrived at the mouth of the Great Wall in Hengshan. ”

"Good! If you don't come back, you'll miss the time! Li Guangrui was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Tuoba Suzhi to stay and continue to preside over the training, and led 300 horsemen back to the state city early the next morning.

It was nearly noon when he returned to the city, and Li Guangrui was not in a hurry to see his father, but sent someone to inform Li Guangyan to come over, and he went to the treasury in the north of the city first.

Walking into the warehouse compound built of loess, when I arrived at the governor's room, I saw my youngest sister Li Guangwen pestering the clan uncle who was in charge of the treasury to ask for a bow and arrow, but the old clan uncle didn't dare to agree to her at all. The second son of the fine seal family, who secretly admires the younger sister, also took his sister fine seal Qiyue to help the first emperor, begging each other bitterly.

"Nonsense! This batch of armor is very useful, even if it is a bow, not a single arrow can be moved! Li Guangrui stood at the door and scolded loudly, so shocked that several people in the hall looked at it together.

Especially the fine seal of Qiyue, perhaps because of the Xianbei bloodline, this girl's skin is better than snow, her lips are red like fat, she stares at a pair of beautiful big eyes, unfortunately her long hair is slightly yellow, she is already seventeen years old and no one has taken a fancy to it, Li Guangrui wants to be accepted as a concubine, but there is no Tibetan family at home who refuses to agree, so this matter has to be delayed.

"Brother Ning came back yesterday evening and promised me, why did you stop you and ignore you!" Li Guangwen is about fifteen or sixteen years old, with black hair curled up with a gold hairpin inlaid with beads and jade, combed fine hair and tied with red silk bows, a light blue cotton lapel half-sleeved robe made in Yanzhou, a moon-white Shu brocade left waist over-the-knee short skirt, and yellow calfskin boots, looking lively and pretty.

"I promised you, but it will take a few days to give it to you!" Li Guangyan then came in, and when he heard it, he laughed.

"I see, do you want to let them choose first, and then give me the rest? No, you have to give it to me now! Li Guangwen immediately guessed and stomped her feet coquettishly.

"Who said that? When it rains on the road, the bow arm chords are back to the tide, and they have to be dried for a few days! Li Guangyan replied, and saw that Li Guangrui had gone out first with a black face, so he hurriedly followed.

"Brother Ning! Then I'll go to your house and have a look! Li Guangwen turned her head to the fine seal and said, "Sister Qiyue! Let's go! He loves to pretend to be majestic! ”

Entering the warehouse, there were hundreds of large wooden boxes neatly stacked inside, Li Guangrui ordered the guards to open a few, drew knives, guns, bows and arrows and big shields to look at carefully, quite satisfied, and opened another separate stacked box, which was full of standard iron armor made by the Xi craftsman in the north of Yanshan in Liao, but it looked worse than the Qingtang armor.

After the inspection, Li Guangrui remembered something and asked, "Have you ever been to Beijing?" Did you see Yelu Jing, the emperor of Liao? ”

"Nope! It was too far, I was afraid that it would be too late, so I went to Datong Mansion first, but Yelu Tart Lie returned to Shangjing and was not there, so he was received by Cui Xun and sent someone to escort him to Youzhou, and waited for a few days for Xiao Siwen to come back, accompanied by Yelu Wuqian, who went south to inspect the house, was very interested in our request, and had decided to go to Yelu Jing and prepare to send troops on a later day. ”

"Excellent! The time has come for revenge and blood hatred, and Yelu agrees, then the matter is basically a foregone conclusion, and we must speed up the training of the clan soldiers! Li Guangrui was ecstatic in his heart, and the defeat of Huining in Guangshun for three years made him angry, and he finally waited for the opportunity to be ashamed. (To be continued.) )