Chapter Thirty-Six: The Pursuit of God's Speed

Jieli looked at Luo Yi coldly, his face was already full of murderous intentions, as long as Luo Yi made any words or actions that made him dissatisfied or unwilling to listen, he would kill him.

Although Jieli has fallen so far, he is also a generation of heroes. It is undeniable that the Eastern Turkic vein has reached the strongest peak in his hands, but he met the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin, which also doomed him to tragedy.

Jieli has always been very envious of the talents of the Central Plains, not to mention the amazing and brilliant Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng and others, even if Zhao Deyan is useless, he is also a first-class figure in the Turks. As a former prince of the Central Plains, Luo Yi has a flawed personality, but he still has considerable attainments in military affairs, and he is cunning in his old soldiers, daring to fight and kill.

For Luo Yi's original service, Jieli was initially overjoyed, regarded him as a confidant, hired him exceptionally, and directly allocated him more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, so that he could be trained according to the tactics of the Han people and make it a sharp weapon on the battlefield.

Luo Yi also did not live up to Jieli's expectations, and his training results were excellent. Especially in the battle with Tuli, Luo Yi showed extraordinary combat ability and made great contributions to his defeat of Tuli.

In the face of Luo Yi's excellent performance, Jieli even had the intention to train him to become the pillar of the Turks: first, because Luo Yi has his talents, and secondly, he also has the implication of buying bones with a thousand gold, he wants to let all the Central Plains know that he is thirsty for talents, just like Cao Mengde in the Three Kingdoms period, he can accept talents in an eclectic manner, no matter what he committed in the Tang Dynasty, as long as he has the ability, he can be reused here.

But Luo Yi was disgusted by Luo Shixin's appearance, and he also saw Luo Yi's face clearly.

Jieli doesn't blame Luo Yi for losing to Luo Shixin. He knew Luo Shixin's ability, and it was not a surprise to lose to him, and he didn't blame Luo Yi for running away. This man who is not greedy for life. Not being afraid of death is certainly commendable, but being afraid of death is not a very shameful thing. Jieli cares about Luo Yi's attitude, he takes a fancy to Luo Yi's ability and believes in him, but Luo Yi has always regarded himself as an outsider and Turkic as a tool for promotion.

Jieli could already imagine that he had successfully escaped this time and was placed under the Western Turks. What will happen. According to Luo Yi's urine nature, nine out of nine will directly turn his back on him and switch to the Western Turks. Rather than develop to that point, it is better to strike first. lest evil be left behind. He had already made up his mind when he fled, and when he successfully escaped and arrived in the Western Turks, he killed Luo Yi. lest he do evil.

Now Luo Shixin is chasing and killing to the nearest place. Just let Luo Yi make the last little contribution to him in order to repay his weight.

Luo Yi was so angry that his body trembled, his face was like earth, and he was sweating like pulp, he couldn't have imagined that Jieli would push him out as an outcast at this time, and his attitude was so resolute and unquestionable.

"Killing wolves all year round, but today the wolves are scared of the eyes......" Luo Yi looked at Jieli sadly. He sighed, "I'll go!" ”

Jieli said to a personal guard beside him: "You lead three thousand to follow Luo Yi, if Luo Yi is slow to kill." What kind of slippery trick, kill him first. Your son, I will raise him as if he were a parent! ”

The guard did not hesitate, clenched his fist and hit his chest, making an expression of not being afraid of life and death.

Jieli said to Luo Yi again: "You transfer another two thousand from your army and follow behind." Life or death depends on whether you are brave enough or not. After a pause, he sneered, "You are the stupidest hunter I have ever seen." ”

Luo Yitie blushed and didn't say a word!

led the 3,000 soldiers allocated to him by Jieli, and then called the 2,000 elites he had carefully cultivated, and fiercely slaughtered the Tang army that rushed to the rear.

Luo Yi twitched the reins of his horse, and with the determination to die, he swarmed up.

Jieli is extremely clever in this hand, using the 3,000 soldiers and horses loyal to him as the storage of Luo Yi, so that he cannot play conspiracy, and at the same time leaves him a little chance and hope for life. If Luo Yi uses the two thousand soldiers he trained to play tricks, he may not be able to defeat three thousand people, and all of Luo Yi's current soldiers are Turkic, let them kill each other, even if Luo Yi is their leader, at this delicate time, he can't do the order and prohibition.

Faced with this situation, there is only one way out for Luo Yi...... Kill through.

Only by killing Luo Shixin's army can he have a glimmer of life to escape.

If he can really kill Luo Shixin's pursuers, Jieli doesn't care if Luo Yi is dead or not.

Luo Yi is greedy for life, and in the face of this threat of death, he can only seek a glimmer of life with his greatest strength to help the Turks intercept Luo Shixin.

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Luo Shixin himself was a cavalry general, a general who was good at using cavalry. When he was young, he herded cattle for large families and trained them to ride on their backs. So when he joined the army, Zhang Xutuo looked down on Luo Shixin as young and thin, and felt that he couldn't wear armor or ride a horse, but Luo Shixin put on armor and got on the horse, riding like flying, which made the three armies admire.

After joining the army, the commanders and leaders are all cavalry troops, famous for using horses, and they have a strong experience in using horses, plus the ideological soul after crossing, and they have a certain understanding of cavalry. This modern experience, combined with advanced cavalry knowledge, and an all-encompassing military master. The combination of the three factors makes his attainments in cavalry quite profound, no less than Li Shimin.

The most important thing for cavalry is mobility, and a cavalry with mobility is the real cavalry.

Throughout history, the most mobile cavalry has been the Mongol cavalry. Although Luo Shixin, as a figure with imperial and Han thoughts, did not like the barbaric and murderous Mongol Yuan Dynasty, it was undeniable that they were powerful in that era. During the period of Temujin and Kublai Khan, the Mongols were unparalleled in the world when it came to field warfare.

But in terms of details, the real strength of the Mongolian cavalry may not be comparable to the cavalry of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the Chinese cavalry of the Han and Tang dynasties can be better than the Mongolian cavalry in terms of strength and equipment, but there is one thing that the Mongolian cavalry surpasses.

That's mobility.

The mobility of the Mongol cavalry was unmatched in its time, and the speed with which they marched was astonishing. They are able to appear in incredible places at incredible times to give their enemies a deadly blow. I remember that there was a time in history when the Mongol general Subutai went on an expedition to Europe, and when he led the Mongol cavalry from the Ruska Pass across the Carpathian Mountains and appeared under the city of Gran in the Danube Valley, it took only three days. You must know that these two places are not only covered with snow, the terrain is treacherous, and there is no way to go, in the face of such a situation, the Mongolian cavalry can still march 600 miles in three days, which is really extremely terrifying.

The fact that the Mongols have such speed is of course related to the extremely tough and hard-working character of the Mongols, but the real reason for their success is the Mongolian horses.

Mongolian horses are short in stature, slow in speed, and far less able to overcome obstacles than the tall horses of Europe, and are very different from the Hequ horses trained by the Han Dynasty using Western war horses. But Mongolian horses are the most endurable horses in the world, and their requirements for the environment and food are also the lowest, whether it is in the alpine deserts of Asia or in the plains of Europe, Mongolian horses can find food at any time.

For example, if an ordinary horse wants to travel far away, it must be fed the best fine food and raise a body of fat before it can run long distances. Once the fat is exhausted, it must be replenished again, otherwise no matter how good the war horse is, it will not be able to withstand the long-distance attack. The Mongolian horse is different, it does not need to be supplemented with refined grains to nourish its fat, and it can maintain a certain marching speed even if it gnaws snow residue and eats tree roots and bark.

Because of understanding this paragraph, Luo Shixin attaches great importance to the selection of military horse breeds. The war horse that charges into battle, as long as one is enough, the war horse used to run and use the march to pursue is the Mongolian horse first, and the horse that has Mongolian horse blood and is long in endurance is the main horse without Mongolian horse.

Luo Shixin has a horse idiot Hu Si Zheng in his hand, Hu Si is the apprentice of Zhang Wansui of the Shi Bole Zhang Wansui, who is proficient in the art of taming horses and raising horses, and can accurately distinguish the breeds of various horses, and can see what horses are good at, and classify and train them.

Because Luo Shixin attaches great importance to the speed of the cavalry, when he transferred the surplus war horses to the Tang Dynasty, he left behind the war horses that were long in hardship and hard work.

So speed is his strength on the march.

In order to improve the speed, Luo Shixin also specially trained the cavalry to sleep and rest on the horse: the soldier slept on the back of the horse, and let the horse move at a certain speed on its own. Although the speed is not fast, it can shorten the distance of tens of miles between each other during the rest time of the two sides. When Luo Shixin was exercising such an ability, he could lose half a life of the cavalry.

The Central Plains people, who were accustomed to sleeping on their backs on their backs, let them sleep on horseback, which was really a kind of torture.

Luo Shixin also knew that the Central Plains people had the advantages of the Central Plains, and it was impossible for them to be able to eat, drink, and sleep on horseback for days and days like the Mongols, but the rest skills on horseback to recuperate and recharge were necessary to master, and he also forced the soldiers to train in this ability.

Can't sleep, no problem!

Then don't sleep today, if you don't sleep for a few days, drowsiness will come up, don't say it's on horseback, even if you can sleep on Wodao Mountain.

As for falling off the horse, tie yourself to the horse......

With this inhumane training method, the cavalry under his command forcibly mastered the ability to sleep on the back of a horse and hold the horse's neck.

It is because there are war horses that are good at running and can endure hardships and stand hard work, and there are soldiers who can live and rest on horseback, and they are chasing very fast.

Even if Jieli went ahead for most of the day, it only took Luo Shixin four days to catch up with Jieli's large army and throw off Li Shiji, who was chasing together.

The speed of the pursuit was so fast that even Jieli could not have expected it.

Of course, in addition to the sufficient strength of their cavalry, they also had a great relationship with Pei Qingyi, Wang Hu, and Hou Jie, who blended in with the Turkic fugitives and pointed them in the right direction. (To be continued......)

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