Chapter 18 The Strongest Iron Cavalry in Liaodong
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In the winter of the fortieth year of Jiajing, the violent north wind howled in Liaodong:
"Long! Prosperous! With the roar of a great earthquake, a cavalry with black horses and black clothes and black armor lined up in a neat queue, like a raging black dragon, galloping on the snow-covered Liaodong Plain.
The iron cavalry was the first, wearing fiery red bright light armor, wearing a phoenix-winged lion swallowing helmet, and a pitch-black horse in his crotch, which was particularly conspicuous among the cavalry. Occasionally raise your head, and your eyes are full of light. Behind him, two young men wearing iron leaf chain mail and a vicious wolf-devouring helmet followed.
The 800 black-clothed cavalry behind the three of them were all wearing well-made pitch-black leather armor inlaid with iron sheets, lined with cotton armor, wearing octagonal iron leaf helmets, each wearing warm cotton gloves, and carrying a three-eyed firecracker. Although the whole team galloped at top speed without any chaos, they still lined up in a neat queue, closely following the three riders in front.
"Stop!" Suddenly, the person wearing the fiery red bright light armor at the front pulled the reins of the horse, and with an order, the knights behind him all reined in the war horses, and the team returned to silence in less than a few minutes.
At the front of the procession there was already a camp, a low wall made of simple tree branches, and a few dilapidated tents scattered around. One by one, thin Jurchen men and women dressed in shabby animal skins, staggered in and out of it, their faces full of despair and numbness.
"Enemy attack!" At this time, the sentry of the camp realized that the enemy was coming, and tried to make a terrible shout, and the camp, which was as quiet as stagnant water, suddenly exploded. After a period of commotion, about 300 young men rode horses and came to the outside of the camp with bows and arrows in hand, staring at the terrible group of creatures in front of them, their faces full of horror, and their whole bodies trembled.
"Hehe, it seems that you don't know who we are? Monk King! Stand up my banner! The young man in Mingguang armor smiled, and when he looked up, he showed a delicate face, it was Li Rusong!
"Hehe" The monk behind him smiled, turned his head and waved his hand, and the two knights holding huge bamboo poles behind him immediately erected a black bottom, embroidered with a wolf head with a bloody mouth!
"It's the wolf banner! It's Li Rusong, the king of Yama in the dangerous mountains, who is here! As soon as they saw this banner, all the Jurchens immediately shouted in panic, and no longer had the courage to resist, so they rolled their saddles and dismounted and knelt down in the snow and begged for mercy.
"Well, there are still a lot of smart people!" With a faint smile, Li Rusong glanced at Cheng Yi behind him, who understood, and immediately stepped forward to give orders.
After a while, all the people of the entire Jurchen tribe, regardless of men, women, and children, packed their bags, demolished the camp, and left in the opposite direction of the dangerous mountain.
"Whew! This is the last tribe, Yizi, monk king, let's go home! Slowly breathing in the cold air, Li Rusong turned his head and smiled and said to the monks and Cheng Yi behind him.
After three years of recuperation, the dangerous mountain has become its private property under the management of the Li family father and son, with a total of 6,000 soldiers, all of whom are the only ones of the Li family and the father and son.
The three disciples left behind by He Xinyin are also first-class talents:
Li Xiangyu is good at planning and responsible for the construction and development of dangerous mountains, and is shrewd and capable. He set up two military villages on the left and right of the mountain, one dedicated to mining iron ore to make iron and cast weapons, and the other mining saltpeter mines, which were crucial for the manufacture of gunpowder, and finally made the mountain self-sufficient ordnance.
Niu Hua is good at farming, loyal and honest, with the help of Li Rusong, made a lot of agricultural tools suitable for farming in eastern Liaodong, so that the intensity of the people's cultivation is greatly reduced, the land area continues to expand, and the grain reserve is estimated to be used for more than three years.
Zhang Zhixin is good at medicine, and under her teaching, the number of military doctors in Xianshan has increased to 30, which basically solves the problem that there are no doctors with red injuries in Xianshan.
There are also many people who are helping the dangerous mountain city to flourish in their own way.
However, Zhang Zhixin, a little girl, is virtuous and dignified on the surface, but she is actually eccentric in her heart. Not long after he arrived in the dangerous mountain, he had a hot fight with Gu Xiuer and others, often playing tricks on Li Rusong and his hair. Every time she took her maid Taotao, boiled a lot of stinky medicines, and forced Li Rusong and others to "test the medicine" for the people of the dangerous mountains.
"What a pity! In two more years, I will be able to sweep the entire Liaodong, Wang Gao, you really know how to pick the time! On the way back to the dangerous mountain, Li Rusong looked at the sky above him and muttered to himself.
The rival Wang Gao is back, this guy has once again increased his strength after three years of burning, killing and looting, and his eyes have once again fallen on the dangerous mountain city!
Wang Gao, Qing Ganu, and Meng Gelu led 50,000 allied troops to attack the dangerous mountain, but it was soon detected by Liu Changchun's Ye Buzhi, and suddenly the dangerous mountain was once again covered with battle clouds.
In the past three years, because of its unique geographical location connecting North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, the dangerous mountain has a strong army, the nearby small tribes and horse bandits dare not intrude, and the name of wealth is almost universally known, so Wang Gao will go out to invade the dangerous mountain.
And it is impossible to rely on Wu Huan this time, because this time of year is the time of large-scale Mongol invasion, and there is no army to be deployed in the entire Liaodong, and the dangerous mountains must face the combined army of Wang Gao, Qing Jianu, and Meng Gelu alone.
"Brother, brother, I didn't kill Wang Gao's bastard last time, this time I don't plan to let go of this suffocating grandson" Cheng Yi smiled coldly and said lightly, as if he was just facing 50,000 bandits, and he didn't take the Jurchen coalition army in his eyes at all.
"Humph! I estimate that if I take down this suffocating grandson's head, my father will be nine out of ten when he becomes the deputy chief soldier of Liaodong. After you returned, you immediately announced: All battalions will cancel all vacations, and they will be divided into three routes to hold the dangerous mountains and the military fortresses on both sides, and the whole army will be on drills and guard. The Jurchens deserve to die! Without the slightest emotion, squeezing out a few words from between his teeth, Li Rusong led the iron horsemen under his command to quickly return to the dangerous mountain like a black wind.
At the same time, three hundred miles from the dangerous mountains:
"Li Rusong! This time, this leader will capture you alive and release the hatred in my heart! Looking at the majestic army in front of him, Wang Gao said viciously.
Three years ago, in the first war, he can be said to have lost home, not only offended the Hada tribe and the Yehe tribe, lost troops under the dangerous mountain city, but also forced to hand over all the slaves, which made his prestige in the tribe plummet.
However, Wang Gao is worthy of being a generation of heroes, and after returning to the tribe, he quickly killed a group of elders and stabilized his position. Taking advantage of the fact that Liaodong was beaten by the Mongols, he led elite men and horses to burn and loot everywhere. used the hard-earned money of the people of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the lives of countless Ming people, in exchange for the understanding of the Yehe Department and the Hada Department, and expanded the strength of his tribe.
As soon as the success is done, Wang Gao has made tens of thousands of Liaodong people killed or displaced for his own ambitions, and his behavior has completely angered Li Rusong, even if he doesn't come, Li Rusong is ready to find his bad luck!
"Brother! The enemy was found in front, and it was the cavalry under Wang Gao! At this time, Liu Changchun, who was in charge of the army's intelligence collection, suddenly came to Li Rusong on his horse and shouted loudly.
"Haha My son! There is a Tartar in front, kill with Ben Shuai! With a wild roar, Li Rusong drew his sword in his hand, turned his horse's head, and shouted at the knight behind him.
"The strongest iron cavalry in Liaodong, invincible!" Hearing Li Rusong's words, a touch of fanaticism flashed on the faces of all the knights, and they excitedly waved the fire gun in their hands and shouted feverishly.
Immediately, the 800-man iron cavalry quickly merged with the fifty people wearing leather armor under Liu Changchun's command, followed Li Rusong closely, keeping the horses under his crotch at a constant speed, like a dark cloud pounced on the enemy army in front.
After a while, there was a trace of the Jurchen cavalry in the distance, about nearly a thousand people, each with two horses under their crotch, holding strong bows and crossbows.
"Kill!" Just when the distance between the two sides was 200 meters, Li Rusong roared angrily, the war horse under his crotch accelerated, and he pulled out a long knife and pounced on the enemy.
The black-clothed knight behind him immediately dispersed at this moment, preventing the fire gun from accidentally injuring himself when he was about to fire, holding the fire gun in one hand and the lit paper medium in the other, and quickly approached the Jurchens with superb riding skills.
"Boom!" Just when the two sides were close enough, 800 three-eyed firearms opened fire almost simultaneously, which caught the Jurchen cavalry off guard, and hundreds of people fell off their horses screaming, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.
At this time, the Ming soldiers had already held the three-eyed fire gun with their backhands, and directly used it as a mace, and smashed it according to the Jurchens. In close combat, the Jurchens' long knives were either smashed by the heavy "mace" before they reached the sleeves of the Ming army, or they were smashed and the long knives were smashed without weapons.
Only a few well-equipped Jurchen cavalrymen could dodge the "mace" of the Ming army at the moment of misalignment, and take the opportunity to slash at the soft abdomen of the cavalry with a scimitar. It's a pity that Li Rusong had long expected the Jurchens' hands, all the cavalry's abdomen was inlaid with iron pieces, and the scimitars made of inferior iron of the Jurchens could not be cut at all. In the first round of fighting, the Jurchens were defeated, and the formation was rushed by the Ming army, and the Ming army was almost unscathed, and quickly assembled, intending to attack again.
"Tartar! I am a dangerous mountain Li Rusong! Who dares to fight with me! Looking at the frightened Tartar in front of him, with a frightened look on his face, Li Rusong was suddenly full of pride, and the blood-dripping long knife in his hand pointed directly at the Tartar, and loudly invited him to fight.
"It's Li Rusong, the king of Yama in the dangerous mountains! Look at the wolf banner! Many of the Tartars knew Chinese, and when they heard this, they were shocked and shouted in panic.
Three years ago, in the dangerous battle of the mountain, the Tartars learned through their own channels: everything was Li Rusong's strategy, and it is said that all the Tartar captives were eaten by this person after Ling Chi Cun and so on.
It is said that the Han people said that the king of Hades was the most terrible god, so the Tatars gave Li Rusong the nickname of the king of the dangerous mountain Yama.
Now that he has met the king of Yama in the dangerous mountain, who has the courage to fight with the king of Yama? As soon as he fought just now, he was beaten by King Yama's men and had no power to fight back, and now he heard the name of King Yama even more heartbroken. All the Jurchen cavalry immediately turned their horses and ran, without the slightest courage to fight.
"Jurchen Tartars are sheep! I'm an iron rider in Liaodong! ”
"It's a wolf!"
Hearing the roar of the Ming army behind him, all the Jurchen cavalry were scattered, and they were busy galloping their horses.
At this moment, the name of the strongest iron cavalry in Liaodong changed hands, and a cavalry that had ruled Liaodong for thousands of years with the name of the strongest began to gradually come out of the background, bringing a terrible nightmare to the Jurchens and Mongols in Liaodong for thousands of years!