Chapter 29: Welcoming Reinforcements
Soon 34 crossbowmen with the arms of the Cub Army appeared in front of Lu Yan, and these crossbowmen wore hoods and were decorated with red cherry blossoms. He wears one-piece gray iron armor, which is woven from dense armor leaves.
He wore a wat headband around his waist, a shawl on his shoulders that reached his chest and back, and a black patent leather arm guard on his arm. He wears long crab boots and gray shin armor on his calves.
This is the famous archery armor of the Song Dynasty, weighing nearly thirty kilograms, second only to the infantry armor, and almost the heaviest armor among the crossbowmen of all dynasties.
In addition, they are armed with crossbows and carry quivers, which contain 30 arrows.
Everyone was heavily armed and looked imposing to the extreme.
"Sima Nan has seen adults."
One of the Piggyback Sergeants stepped forward and said.
Lu Yan nodded, told him something, and led them towards Zhenjiang Fort.
Of course, these people were taken by Feiwei to explain to Mao Wenlong.
Not long after entering Zhenjiang Fort, Mao Wenlong sent his own soldiers to discuss the matter.
Lu Yan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly put on his clothes and armor and followed.
After entering the hall of Tongfu, Lu Yan found that he was sitting in the hall with a smile on his face, and other military attachΓ©s at all levels were sitting on both sides of the hall, and Sima Nan was also among them, and he was the first.
Sima Nan smiled slightly when he saw him, and then nodded.
It didn't take long for all the military attaches to arrive, and many people were very surprised to see the strange Sima Nan at the top, not knowing who he was, and he was so courteous to Mao Wenlong.
Mao Wenlong smiled and introduced to everyone: "Come, let me give you a look, this is Sima Nan, Leader Xue sent Sima Nan to lead 68 horsemen to help this time." It's just that the leader of Xue couldn't come right away because he was fighting with another horse thief. But he has
Promised, soon hundreds of riders would come to our aid. β
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but feel relieved. They are alone overseas, and what they are most afraid of is that there are no reinforcements, but they didn't expect that they would be a group of horse thieves.
"This official has added Sima Nan as the president of Qian, Sima Nan will be our brother in the future, if anyone dares to trouble him in the future, don't blame this official for being polite."
Mao Wenlong said sharply.
Everyone hurriedly responded, after the battle in the early hours of this morning, they all realized that this gang of horse thieves was quite powerful, how could anyone dare to trouble them.
Only Lu Yan smiled bitterly, his subordinates seemed to have higher official positions than him, what is this called.
So then Mao Wenlong personally set up a banquet and feasted Sima Nan with the generals.
Moreover, Mao Wenlong ordered Chen Zhong to personally arrange accommodation for those cavalrymen, and at the same time ordered people to kill pigs and sheep to send them to those new soldiers, which must not chill their hearts.
So the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves and staggered.
Just when everyone was eating happily, a close confidant of Mao Wenlong rushed in.
"Report to your lordship, just now I visited the Malay newspaper and found an enemy army fifteen miles away from Zhenjiang Fort."
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be shocked.
"Call that scout in, I'm going to ask him personally."
Mao Wenlong said with a solemn face.
"Yes, my lord."
Soon a soldier walked in, and Lu Yan recognized this man, who was also one of the 200 people who came from Quang Ninh with them, and it is said that he once did not collect money at night, and was later accepted by Mao Wenlong as a family member.
"Li Yi, this official asks you. How many men and horses, how many cavalry, and how many infantry are of the enemy, you can tell this officer in detail. β
Mao Wenlong asked directly to the point.
"Lord Qiqi, because the enemy sent out the villain to chase and kill the villain, the villain is not particularly clear, but the enemy has about more than 100 cavalry and 500 infantry."
The man recounted all the things he had discovered.
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, could it be that this group of reinforcements did not join forces with that Miao Yizhen.
But even so, they dare not take it lightly, how to say that they are more than 600 foot riders, at least in terms of numerical strength far above them.
Seeing this, Lu Yan gave Sima Nan a look.
Sima Nan understood, so he stood up and said, "Lord Qiyu, I have something to say here. β
"Sima Qian always has something to say."
Mao Wenlong said with a gentle face.
"When I first arrived, I received the position of President Qian, and I was really ashamed in my heart. He is willing to lead his men and horses to kill this enemy army. β
Sima Nan said.
Hearing this, there was an immediate uproar in the hall.
With 68 cavalry against 600, these people really don't take that group of Han troops seriously.
Although in their eyes, those people have average combat effectiveness, but they were also from the Ming army before, so they are so confident.
Mao Wenlong's eyes flashed, and he said with some hesitation: "Isn't your number too small?" β
"Then I am willing to send the three adults Gan Fly, Feiwei, and Ji Chang and their subordinates to help."
Sima Nan said immediately.
Mao Wenlong kept thinking in his heart, Feiwei, Ji Chang and their subordinates were originally the people of the group of horse thieves.
And Sugar Fly and his men are also deeply involved with the group of horse thieves, and they are basically people from the horse thieves faction.
In other words, Sima Nan just wanted to use the original horse thieves to repel the incoming army, if those horse thieves were all as good at fighting as the more than twenty Iron Eagle sharps, plus the three marksmen such as Gan Fly, it seemed not impossible to repel the incoming army.
Although Mao Wenlong thought so, he couldn't say so.
But he still refused to allow it, and insisted on going into battle together, otherwise it would be chilling to let his men watch from the sidelines.
After Sima Nan asked repeatedly, he found that Mao Wenlong still did not allow it, and finally retreated to the next best. Ask him and Sugar Fly and others to be the vanguard, and design the cavalry to destroy the enemy.
After Mao Wenlong listened to his plan, he agreed.
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The blue sky was as clean as if it had been washed, so clean that there was not a single cloud in sight.
Under the scorching sun, a cavalry formation of about 600 people was rapidly advancing along the main road towards Zhenjiang Fort.
Tong Er rode on the horse and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then scolded and said, "This weather is really hot, and I can't let people live." It's just that those Ming soldiers are still restless, and I don't know what happened to Master Tong. β
This morning, the rout of Zhenjiang Fort ran to Shuangshan and reported that a group of Ming troops had attacked Zhenjiang Fort at night.
After hearing the news, the soldiers who came out to suppress the righteous people were shocked.
So they asked Miao Yizhen for help, hoping that he could join them to return to Zhenjiang Fort.
But Miao Yizhen refused to agree, insisting that the situation was unclear, because he would find out the situation first.
Hearing Miao Yizhen's reply, Tong Er scolded directly.
When the situation is discovered, Zhenjiang Fort will be finished, and he Miao Yizhen is simply greedy for life and afraid of death, and he does not dare to send troops.
When they have repelled this group of enemies, they must sue them fiercely before the Great Khan.
But as we got closer to Zhenjiang Fort, some of those routs returned one after another.
In order to shirk their responsibility, these routs exaggerated the number of Ming troops to thousands.
This really made Tong Er feel frightened, if the Ming army really had thousands of troops, they would also send food to the enemy with this little bit of men.
For a moment, Tong Er felt hesitant, and the closer he got to Zhenjiang Fort, the more confused he became.
At this time, the cavalry under his command, Qian Zongyun, said: "My lord, let's take a rest first." Ten miles ahead is Zhenjiang Fort, the soldiers have traveled so far, coupled with such a hot weather, even if they arrive at Zhenjiang Fort, I am afraid they will not be able to reach Zhenjiang Fort
You have the strength to fight. β
Yun Zong thought about it, and just as he was about to order the soldiers to camp and rest, a soldier suddenly said, "My lord, look at it." β
Miao Yizhen hurriedly looked in the direction he was pointing, and found that a soldier was lying on his horse and rushing towards him, and the soldier seemed to have an arrow stuck in his body.
Seeing this, Yun Zong's face was solemn, "It's the Tanma I sent out." β
The war horse slowly walked in front of Tong Er, and Tong Er and Yun Zong stepped forward to inspect his injuries.
It was found that an arrow had been stuck in his throat, a real arrow through the throat.
Seeing this, Tong Er and Yun Zong couldn't help but gasp, the enemy is really not simple.
Being able to ride at high speed on a horse at night without an arrow through the throat is definitely something that only an archer can do.
"Looks like we're going to have to be careful!"
Yun Zong said with a gloomy face.
Tong Er also nodded, and at this time, more than forty horsemen slowly appeared in the distance.
Seeing this, Tong Er couldn't help but be shocked.
"Alert!"
"Array!"
The forts hurriedly lined up in a panic, and hundreds of cavalry also stepped forward to face the enemy.
lest the enemy suddenly charge and scatter the unprepared burghers.
The cavalry did not seem to have any intention of charging, and their horses were not fast, but slowly formed a half-moon formation, approaching the team.
Tong Er and the others clenched the weapons in their hands, their faces were gloomy as water, ready to deal with the enemy's attack.
"Damn, what are you afraid of with only forty or so riders? Or I'll kill him with my cavalry! β
Yunzong said.
"These are Mongolian cavalry, where did the Ming army get so many Mongolian cavalry."
Tong Er said with a puzzled expression.
The Mongols are a people on horseback and are good at riding and shooting, which is everyone's impression of the Mongols.
Seeing this, many people's faces became cautious.
In comparison, the Ming army's riding skills were much worse than those of the Mongols.
But the cavalry slowly stopped in the distance, and then rode out of the crowd.
Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but wonder what the enemy wanted to do.
The cavalryman was not very fast, and stopped about 150 paces away from them, and then he began to bend his bow and arrows.
I saw that the arrow was like a meteor, and the arrow quickly pierced the throat of a rider.
"Ahh
The cavalryman let out a grotesque scream and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Tong Er and Yun Zong both gasped.
If the enemy targets them, they won't be able to dodge the arrow.
Unable to hide, they quickly made a judgment.
Thinking of this, they deliberately retreated again and again, until they stopped next to the infantry.
I saw that the cavalryman kept bending his bow and arrows, and each arrow was an arrow in the throat of a cavalryman, without exception.
The cavalrymen were horrified and retreated, fearing that he would aim his bow and arrow at him.
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