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Chapter 758: Military Exercises, Shocks, and Implicit Threats

The raindrops of beans were strung into a curtain of beads, falling from the air, hitting the ground, splashing small yellow flowers, above the city, the drums and trumpets stopped, and the soldiers stood upright with their guns, allowing the rain to fall on them and hit them in the face. There are not many people in the city www.biquge.info of pen ~ fun ~ pavilion, in addition to the civil and military officials of Dingzhou, there are also guests like Xiao Yuanshan who have been specially invited, and there are also families and businessmen with heads and faces in Dingzhou City.

Although there were many people, due to the influence of this environment, everyone closed their mouths and desperately opened their eyes in the heavy rain, trying to look at the city.

Li Qing didn't have an umbrella, standing barehead in the rain, and everyone else abandoned the umbrella, and the heavy rain drenched the people above the city like a soup chicken, Li Qing is a military general who is a little better than the armor, and those civil officials and squires are a little miserable, and the wet clothes are clinging to the body, which must be quite uncomfortable.

Lu Yiming, who was beside Li Qing, waved his hand and beckoned an official, and said in a low voice: "Tell me to go down and boil some ginger soup, many people in this city are weak, and once the military exercise is over, they will be sick and can't be a director!" ”

Hearing Lu Yiming's command, Li Qing turned his head and said with a smile: "It's still the old way to think thoughtfully, by the way, Iron Leopard, you go and order, after the soldiers who participated in the military exercise below return to the barracks, there must be hot ginger soup waiting for them, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Yes, my lord, I'll do it right away!" Iron Leopard nodded.

Xiao Yuanshan looked at Li Qing and Lu Yiming, who were whispering, with a complicated look on his face.

In the distance of the city wall, in the heavy rain, a loud horn suddenly sounded, which was completely different from the dull sound of the bullhorn in the past, the voice was high-pitched and agitated, and everyone on the city head except Xiao Yuanshan showed excited looks. Apparently everyone knows what it is.

Seeing the puzzled expression on Xiao Yuanshan's face, Li Qing explained: "This is the sound of the military horn of our Dingzhou Central Group Army. ”

In the distance, the military trumpet, apparently playing a tune, suddenly sounded the sound of toms, and the whole city wall seemed to shake a little.

Xiao Yuanshan tried his best to open his eyes wide, looking at the blurred black shadows that were getting closer and closer in his eyes, although the heavy rain was like a note, he couldn't really see it, but he could still tell that it was a neat square.

Tom tom!

Footsteps are uniform. It's like a giant coming in the rain.

Closer, closer. Finally, a twenty by twenty phalanx appeared in everyone's field of vision. In front of the phalanx, an officer dressed in the uniform of Captain Zhenwei held a military flag high in both hands, "The First Battalion of the First Division of the Central Army!" ”

Xiao Yuanshan gasped. He had never seen an army on the march, so neatly kept in formation, a horizontal column of twenty men, as if measured with a ruler, striding in great strides, not in small steps, but in a strange way kicking their legs high and falling heavily to the ground, and the mud on the ground was trampled high and fell on their trouser legs and armor.

The first group to appear in front of them was a troop armed with spears, one by one the polished spears were raised diagonally, almost against the backs of the companions in front, Xiao Yuanshan even thought that as long as the people in front of them were a little slow, the spears in the back would immediately pierce his back.

The march of four hundred men marched to the city in unison, and one of the officers shouted loudly, and the heads of the four hundred warriors turned to the city with a bang, and looked up at the people above the city.

Li Qing stretched out his hand and waved.

In an instant, the four hundred people under the city shouted in unison: "Hurray, hooray, hooray!" ”

Xiao Yuanshan's eyebrows jumped, and he peeked at Li Qing, but saw him smiling, and shouted loudly: "Dingzhou Army, Wansheng!" ”

"Dingzhou Army, 10,000 wins, 10,000 wins, 10,000 wins!"

The soldiers below opened their voices and roared desperately, and their faces showed a look of fanaticism, and their formation was not chaotic at all.

Behind the 1st Battalion, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Division, the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Division, and the 1st Battalion of the 4th Division walked in turn.

Behind the four spear phalanxes, followed by the four sword and shield phalanxes, repeating the previous actions again, the shouts of long live again and again, and the shouts of the Dingzhou army again and again, made the people on the Dingzhou side above the city excited, and every time the soldiers shouted, they also raised their arms in response. Up and down the city, the shouts went straight to the clouds.

Xiao Yuanshan and the others walked past the phalanx, and their faces became more and more pale. According to the military flags that he walked by, he could judge that Li Qing's Central Group Army had four divisions of infantry alone, and according to the Dingzhou army, it was more than 40,000 people.

It seems that God also feels a little scared, the pouring rain just now, the wind blows, the clouds in the air are swept away, the sun jumps out, and a rainbow crosses the north and south.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and it was the world-famous iron cavalry in Dingzhou.

At this time, the line of sight is already excellent, you can see, like the infantry phalanx in front, these cavalry are also twenty by twenty phalanx, before the phalanx, the same Zhenwei captain held high the military flag, the first battalion of the cavalry division of the Dingzhou Central Group Army, behind him, twenty horsemen came together, first small steps forward, then began to trot, and finally began to accelerate, what made Xiao Yuanshan's pupils shrink was that after these cavalry accelerated and sprinted, the phalanx was not chaotic at all. What a lot of riding skills it takes to control the horse so well!

Leaving the city for a thousand steps, slowing down, trotting, and then moving forward in small steps, at this time, it happened to be directly below Li Qing. The flag was raised violently in the air, and with a bang, almost at the same time, four hundred sabers were unsheathed and held high above their heads, and the voice of Banzai sounded again.

The people of the city were now fully agitated, and they kept stomping their feet and shouting.

As the horse team walked by, the flag waved in the air, and with a bang, four hundred sabers were sheathed at the same time.

Li Qing turned his head, looked at Xiao Yuanshan and said: "Patriarch Xiao, what I just saw was the performance of our Dingzhou Army's queue, and then I want to ask Patriarch Xiao to take a look at the performance of our Dingzhou Army's chariot soldiers and baggage soldiers. ”

Xiao Yuanshan exhaled, "No wonder the Dingzhou soldiers are powerful in the world, Xiao has led soldiers all his life, and it is the first time to see such a neat army, what advice Li Dashuai said is to make Xiao humiliated, Xiao just opened his eyes!" However, Xiao has one thing that he is puzzled about, since it is a military exercise, what can be the use of this heavy soldier? ”

Li Qing laughed, "My Dingzhou baggage soldiers may not be the same as other places, Patriarch Xiao will understand at a glance." ”

After the military formation passed, the field was quiet for a moment, and as the loud military horn sounded again in the distance, everyone saw the black crowd in the distance rushing over, in groups of two, pushing a chariot.

The chariot was about half a man tall, similar to a two-wheeled carriage, except that the whole body was covered with iron sheets, and on top of the body, some were equipped with scorpion cannons, and some were equipped with a hundred rounds of crossbows.

A total of two hundred taels of chariots rushed to the open space under the city, and with an order, one after another chariots were combined together, forming a semicircular moon array, and the charioteers immediately began to get busy, the sound of Kaka kept ringing, and in a moment, the body was connected one after another, forming a whole.

But the moon formation was formed, the soldiers did not stop, but quickly loaded the long-range weapons loaded on the chariot, in the dazzled by everyone, the soldiers were already loaded, one soldier stood in front of the car, stretched out his hand to pull the wrench, made a firing trend, the other is to pull out the two long handles of the chariot, as soon as they were pulled out, the people in the city found that these were actually two spears that seemed to be short. Obviously, this is for the Rider to use in close combat after the ranged weapon has lost its effectiveness.

After the drill, the officer gave the order, and all the soldiers held spears in their hands, turned to face the city, and raised their spears in their hands.

"Dingzhou Army, Wansheng!"

After the three shouts, under Li Qing's wave of his hand, the charioteers dismantled the chariot formation with the same speed, and ran away in groups of several people.

After the charioteers, there were wagons whizzing, all covered with thick tarpaulins, and they rushed to the bottom of the city, and the carriages stopped, and everyone could see that they were all kinds of different parts. The baggage soldiers who accompanied the carriage quickly unloaded the contents of the carriage and began to assemble it.

As these objects were installed one by one, everyone could already see that this was Dingzhou's trebuchet and heavy weapons such as the Eight Ox Crossbow.

In less than a pillar of incense, there were already dozens of trebuchets under the city, and hundreds of eight-bull crossbows had been installed.

With a pale face, Xiao Yuanshan looked at these powerful weapons, his hands trembled slightly, in the Slope Valley Fortress, they had obtained a batch of such weapons, but unfortunately, the loss of these weapons was too great, and Dingzhou did not give Youyan many replacements on the key parts of this trebuchet that could be assembled at any time and was easy to carry, once these parts were damaged, these weapons would become waste in Youyan. He had seen the range and calibration rate of the Dingzhou trebuchet much longer than the average trebuchet. But it was the first time that the baggage soldiers of Dingzhou could assemble so many trebuchets in a matter of moments. Now, even the eight-ox crossbow can be assembled and applied at any time, which means that the trebuchet weapon will no longer be limited to siege and defend cities, but can be applied to field battles.

Seeing the baggage soldiers pack up their equipment and drive the carriage away, Li Qing smiled and said, "Patriarch Xiao, next I want you to see our Dingzhou infantry battles, horse battles and other field tactics!" ”

Xiao Yuanshan nodded stiffly.

Lu Yiming on the side said with a smile: "It's a pity, the Changsheng Battalion and the Whirlwind Battalion are still on the way, and they don't have time to come back to participate in this military exercise, otherwise Patriarch Xiao will be able to see the duel between our strongest cavalry in Dingzhou!" ”

Li Qing laughed, "It's okay, if Patriarch Xiao doesn't feel that the next cavalry drill is not enjoyable, we can let the Changsheng Battalion and the Whirlwind Battalion come back and give Patriarch Xiao another performance!" ”

Xiao Yuanshan reluctantly smiled: "No need, the whirlwind camp of the Changsheng Camp is famous all over the world, you don't need to look at it to know how powerful they are, Dingzhou Iron Cavalry, invincible in the world!" ”