Six knights lost their horses, and five brave hooked scythes were pierced through their bodies by knights' spears,

The initiative of the hook and sickle made the knights tremble, the enemy has found his Achilles' heel, can this battle continue, the trench and the horse rejection array hindered the horse's maneuver, the speed is not equal to the loss of the strength advantage, without the strength to support the heavy armor alone can not crush the enemy, and the horse that has lost the ability to maneuver is just a prey to be slaughtered in the eyes of the hook and sickleman,

In order to avoid greater losses, the knights retreated halfway, and those knights who had lost their horses were ruthlessly abandoned, they struggled to stand up, drew their swords, picked up their iron shields, and fought foot to defend their dignity, the heavy armor protected them from the enemy's attack at the same time, but also hindered their rapid retreat, the soldiers of the Xining army crossed the trench with hook and sickle spears, and aimed at them was a burst of random pokes, the armor was thick, and the surface was coated with a layer of grease and greasy and abnormal, and they could not find the point of strength, and they could not pierce the heavy armor,

So there was a grotesque picture: the Tang soldiers with thin armor played a cat-and-mouse game around the heavily armored knights who fell off their horses, and the knights chased after them fiercely, and they deftly dodged, because the heavy armor was too heavy, and it was difficult for the knights to catch up with the Tang soldiers who were dexterous, and they held each other for a while, and the knights were ready to escape, and the Tang soldiers and soldiers swarmed up and dragged them over, pushed down, and the knights got up and chased them, and the soldiers ran again, and the knights turned around and wanted to run, and they were dragged over and pushed down, and repeated several times, the knights ran out of strength, and they couldn't move on the ground. When the game ended, the Tang sergeant tied him up and dragged him back to the camp.

Yang Hao was worried at first that they would attack with bows and arrows, but strange to say, these knights seemed to have no interest in using bows and arrows, even if they saw their companions being teased by the enemy, they were indifferent, and the bows and arrows on their bodies were not so much weapons as decorations,

After fighting for a while, the knights adjusted their strategy, gave up the competition for the right battalion, and instead concentrated their forces to attack the Chinese army camp outside the north gate of the iron factory.

Three hundred knights lined up in six rows, rushing towards the barracks like a sea of mountains, the resonance generated by the impact made the gatehouse of the north gate of the iron factory shake, the roof dust fell straight down, Guan Suo was worried that the gatehouse would be collapsed, so he persuaded Yang Hao to retreat quickly, Yang Hao stood still, and a spectacular picture appeared in his mind: on a flat and boundless grassland, the horsemen in heavy armor rushed to the enemy like a mountain and a sea, and the momentum was earth-shattering.

"Protect your lordship, and quickly withdraw." Guan Suo gave an order to the two guards of the Xuanyi Sentinel, and the two soldiers looked at their commander Qin An, and after getting Qin An's affirmation, they forcibly erected Yang Hao and withdrew from the gatehouse.

As soon as the group retreated to the wall, the gatehouse collapsed with a bang, in addition to the vibration caused by the resonance, mainly because the gatehouse was too old.

"Signal." Yang Hao slammed the hands of the two soldiers and ordered the herald to signal the Guan Suo who was ambushed in the grove,

A red smoke rose from the ironworks,

Suo'e, who was lying in ambush in the woods on the west side of the iron factory, saw the signal and shouted loudly: "Copy the guy, get on the horse." "A light cavalry of about 100 men silently slaughtered from the woods behind the heavy cavalry, and each knight carried a bamboo basket with a basket filled with iron water chestnuts for tying horses' hooves.

This is a secret weapon cast with pig iron to deal with war horses, similar to the principle of the four-cone road studs used in later generations to destroy car tires, iron water chestnut has four sharp corners, arranged at 120 degrees, no matter how it is thrown, in the end it is a triangle landing on the ground with a corner facing up, although the horseshoe of the war horse is nailed with a horseshoe, but it can not protect the horse's hooves from the damage of the iron water chestnut, if the horse running rapidly on the battlefield unfortunately stepped on the iron water chestnut, waiting for it to be a certain tragic ending of the horse losing its hooves,

Iron water chestnut is cast with pig iron, which costs a lot of money, so although the battlefield utility is very high, but the equipment of each army is very small, Yang Hao thinks that if this kind of thing is a large number of equipment troops, it is indeed financially unbearable, but it is still used for small-scale special operations, it still has its unique value, so he let Yu recast a batch, mainly equipped in the reconnaissance team of each battalion,

After laying an iron water chestnut behind the heavily armored knights, Suo E hid to the side and attacked with bows and arrows from a distance, the knights did not care about this harassing tactic, and they continued to rush forward.

Although there are trenches and stake formations in front of the Chinese army camp, the terrain is very flat, the knights in the sacrifice of more than a dozen casualties, then rushed open a bloody road, the north gate of the camp was broken, the defenders retreated from the north gate of the iron factory into the factory area with a little resistance, two teams of cavalry came straight to grab the door, but suddenly the horses made a tragic neighing sound, and then the people turned over on their backs,

Yang Hao also sprinkled iron water chestnuts outside the north gate of the iron factory, and the knights only then found out that they had entered a trap that had been arranged, this was an empty camp, there was no one in the camp, but the camp tent was full of dry firewood, and the way forward was blocked by the earthen wall of the iron factory, the earthen wall was neither high nor thick, but the four legs of the horse could not climb up,

The commander gave the order to retreat, the knights laboriously turned their horses' heads, and a string of rockets came out of the earthen wall, igniting the dry wood piled up in the empty camp, and the flames rose into the air, and the frightened horses scrambled for their lives, and there was no formation, the knights rushed and trampled on each other, and there were not a few people who fell off their horses, and there was no enemy to stop them on the way back, but the ground was sprinkled with iron water chestnuts,

One after another the horses fell down with a tragic neigh, the knight who had lost his horse was at a loss, the rope did not block the road, he left a path three zhang wide for the knights, hundreds of knights could only go cautiously along this path, they were led into a valley, the road became narrower and narrower, the terrain became more and more dangerous, and finally there were five roads ahead, and the retreat was sprinkled with iron water chestnuts, and hundreds of Tang soldiers drilled out of the woods on both sides of the valley, each with a pile of dry firewood,

This valley could turn into a valley of fire at any moment, and the heavy armor could protect the knights from swords and guns, but it could not guarantee that they would not be burned to death.

The leader of the knights began to urgently negotiate countermeasures, and after a cup of tea, they raised a white flag, and a yellow-bearded and blue-eyed man came over to negotiate on behalf of the knights, and a gang leader shouted: "The general has an order, if you want to negotiate, you must dismount, lay down your arms, and walk out of the valley one by one, otherwise you will wait to do the burning **." ”

The blue-eyed people retreated helplessly, and after discussing for a while, the knights began to dismount, because there was no help, these knights in heavy armor spent half a day on their horses, and then they put down their weapons and walked out of the valley one by one, the reason why they did not take off their heavy armor was because Yang Hao felt that without horses and weapons knights, heavy armor became a cage to restrain them, and it was easier to guard with armor than without armor,

Yang Hao ordered to bring the blue-eyed man who asked for negotiations, the blue-eyed man knew Chinese, and also understood the customs and etiquette of the Central Plains, and he did not find it difficult to communicate at all.

Yang Hao asked him directly: "You are not from Middle-earth, where did you come from?" ”

The blue-eyed people replied that they were the people of Fula, and the ancestors came to the Tang Dynasty in the Tianbao period, and the Fula was the Byzantine Empire, which was also called the Great Qin or Haixi Kingdom in some ancient Chinese books.

According to the statement of the blue-eyed people, his ancestor Yali Mountain was originally the armor maker of the Byzantine Emperor, specializing in the development of armor and weapons for the emperor and members of the royal family, because of his outstanding contributions, he was regarded as a marquis by the Byzantine emperor, in order to be able to make the best armor in the world, the Marquis of Yali Mountain decided to travel around the world to learn the most advanced manufacturing technology, and the Byzantine Emperor agreed to his request,

For more than ten years, the footprints of the Marquis of Yali Mountain have traveled all over West Asia, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, visiting famous masters and craftsmen, and the skills are becoming more and more mature, during the Tianbao period, he led a delegation of 300 people to the Tang Dynasty, he presented to the Tang Emperor a set of luxurious armor made of gold and inlaid with a hundred gems, won the emperor's favor, and got the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with the best armor craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty, they were also allowed to go to the Tang Dynasty's arsenal to observe, consult the collection of clothing and armor atlases of government offices at all levels, The trip to the Tang Dynasty benefited the Marquis of Yali Mountain a lot,

In order to thank the Tang Emperor for his generosity, the Marquis of Yali Mountain presented Emperor Xuanzong with thirty sets of fine iron plate chain armor, which is a kind of heavy cavalry armor, which is better than all the armor protection of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor let the dragoon guard wear this new style of armor to compete with other forbidden troops, and won repeatedly, under the influence of the minister, the Xuanzong Emperor, who was so happy, ordered to use this armor to form a heavy armored cavalry of three thousand people,

During the Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty was strong, the formation of the heavy armored cavalry was very smooth, two years later in the twelfth year of Tianbao, the heavy armor regiment was officially formed into the army, divided into three battalions, the number of nearly four thousand, the soldiers are one in a hundred elite soldiers in the army, Emperor Xuanzong was very partial to this cavalry, often sent the general Gao Lishi to send melons and fruits to the army to condole, the envoys of the vassal state who came to Chang'an to pay tribute all took it as a great honor to watch the heavy armored cavalry drill, and the people who saw it were all shocked, and their hearts were broken in the Tianwei of the Tang Dynasty,

The Marquis of Yali Mountain also received extremely high courtesy and real rewards.

But the good times didn't last long, two years later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and the missions from all over the country evacuated Chang'an, and the retinue of the Marquis of Yali Mountain also persuaded him to leave Chang'an, but the Marquis of Yali Mountain refused, he wanted to see how powerful the heavy armor he designed was in actual combat.

At first, Emperor Xuanzong did not use this strange army, until the rebels captured the eastern capital of Luoyang, Emperor Xuanzong ordered the iron army to be transferred to Tongguan, Feng Changqing, Gao Xianzhi was convicted and beheaded, Ge Shuhan commanded the army, under pressure, led 200,000 troops to fight, the first appearance of the heavy cavalry ended in a fiasco, 3,000 pieces of armor did not return, 200,000 Tang troops were also wiped out, the general trend has gone, Chang'an shook, the emperor patrolled Shuzhong, the envoys of various countries fled,

The Marquis of Yali Mountain set off to return to China with infinite resentment, but when he walked to Anxi Town, he suddenly changed his mind, he was determined to return to the Tang Dynasty, and he must make the best armor in the world for the Tang Emperor to help the Tang Dynasty regain its military prestige, Chang'an fell, the crown prince Li Heng Lingwu proclaimed himself emperor, Yali Mountain rushed to Lingwu to meet Li Heng and asked to continue to serve the Tang Dynasty, Li Heng was busy recruiting troops to quell the rebellion, how could he care about making armor,

The marquis felt a little discouraged, after Lingwu was idle for a while, he took his entourage to Jiulian Mountain, prospecting, ironmaking, and burying his head in the development of his new armor, the Anshi Rebellion completely changed the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty, and no emperor appreciated the armor of the Marquis of Yali Mountain, Shunzong succeeded to the throne, the Marquis went to Chang'an to sell his armor again at the age of eighty-nine, the weak emperor was busy reforming internal affairs, and had no time to take care of these details, the Marquis felt completely cold, he returned to Jiulian Mountain, and never went out,

A month later, the Marquis of Yali Mountain died of illness in the basement of the cold castle with infinite regret.