At the shouting, the tribal warriors quickly gathered, a total of more than 300 cavalry, but including the patriarch sleeping on the mud bank, only seven of them were covered in armor, and the rest were only dressed in the usual rags of grazing, and immediately hung with rudimentary bows and arrows and spears.

These seven armored warriors are Iron Harriers. The style of armor worn by one of the horses is different from that of others, the front chest and back are covered by the whole piece of iron armor, the shoulder pads and knee pads are dense, the body armor is up to the hips, there are five throwing spears inserted in the back, and the waist is tightly bound with a belt. A big gun is hung on the saddle, Cai Jifeng is knowledgeable, so that this kind of ash pole needs to be practiced from childhood to adulthood, and the basic kung fu of a single gun has to be practiced for several years. What's even more difficult is that if no one teaches you the trick of making a big gun, you may not be able to enter the door after practicing for more than ten years. But such a person just appeared in the land of the wilderness.

Cai Jifeng was secretly strange, and asked out loud: "What do you call this warrior?"

He is the dignified Song Dynasty inspector, the son of Cai Kerui, the commander of the Xiazhou Yanei, and took the initiative to ask the name of the tribal warrior, which has given him great honor, who knows that the person is actually indifferent, as if he didn't hear it, and after a while, he turned his head to Cai Jifeng and said: "Are you asking me?" This person's face is like a Zhongyuan Yuan scholar, handsome and heartbreaking, but his tone is indifferent, and his expression is proud, as if Cai Jifeng's words have given him face.

Cai Jifeng frowned, and his confidants were even more angry with the mud Bulai, and shouted: "Bold! Dare to be rude to the Yanei!" casually picked up the iron lance and swept over, and he was about to knock the man off the horse, and then Cai Jifeng would punish him.

Cai Jifeng felt a little bad in his heart, and didn't wait for him to stop it, only to see that the man only turned sideways slightly, and the hand on the saddle was slightly raised, and the spear that was originally placed horizontally in front of the saddle was raised with a bang, blocking the iron lance that just swept to his chest, and it was like a strange python turning over and twisting it, and actually bounced the iron lance in the hand of the mud Bu Lai, and before he could pull out the scimitar on his waist, the cold and shining tip of the gun stopped firmly in front of his throat, and the tip of the gun trembled slightly。

"Stop!" Cai Jifeng's voice was just spoken, his original intention was to let Luo Ni Bu Lai's subordinates be merciful, not to have a dispute with the tribal warriors for this trivial matter, you must know that although these grassland tribes respect the Tuoba clan like gods, but they have always been just a place of bondage, these people do not know the height of the sky, in case of a quarrel, not to mention the big thing of looting the Lanzhou caravan, but also let Cai Kexian and Cai Keyuan's two old dogs see jokes. Who knew that after these few rabbit ups and downs, Cai Jifeng's words seemed to be begging for mercy.

The warrior who used the spear glanced at the mud with contempt, put away the big gun, and when he heard the sound, he was already frightened into a cold sweat, and scolded loudly: "The wolf cub who is not familiar with it dares to point a gun at the personal entourage of Lord Yanai, and does not kowtow to the Lord Yanai to apologize." Having said that, his tone seemed a little lustful, and when he was glared at by the warrior who wielded the gun, the curse stopped abruptly, and he looked at Cai Jifeng with some pity.

Cai Jifeng pretended to be generous and smiled: "Sleeping mud man, my relatives are not inferior in their words, and their skills are not as good as others, so he should be taught a lesson." But this warrior's martial arts are amazing, what is the origin of it?"

Sleeping on the mud bank watched the man ride his horse to the side and join the other tribesmen, avoiding his own group, and said hatefully: "It's just an outsider, and I don't know where it came from. His father came to live next to our tribe more than 40 years ago, hunted every day, and gradually became acquainted with the people in the tribe, and married a woman who slept in the mud, and gave birth to this boy who didn't care about the heavens and the earth, and knew to cause trouble all the time. ”

What he didn't say was that the men of the Sleeping Mud tribe could tolerate others invading this rich land of water and grass, but the foreign man single-handedly and with a big gun knocked more than a dozen tribal warriors off the horse. His subordinates were merciful, did not take people's lives, and the sleeping mud tribe also knew that this person could not be provoked, and after a long time, this evil god also kept to himself, but helped the tribe drive away several groups of enemies who came to fight for the water and grassland, so the tribe accepted him to live here, and over time, this foreign man also married a beautiful Qiang woman as his wife and gave birth to a son.

"Oh?" Cai Jifeng looked at the man's back and sighed with a smile, "I didn't expect that there were tigers and leopards hiding in the recklessness." "I secretly plan how to take this person under my command, young man, there will always be some desires and dreams that cannot be realized in the small wild tribe. Just wait for the completion of the current major matter, and discuss the matter of solicitation in the long run.

His group then ran to three tribes, a total of 800 tribal warriors, including 22 iron harriers, and Cai Kexian and Cai Keshun were the elders, and a total of 100 and 3 iron harriers, 2,000 warriors, plus the iron harriers brought by the three of them and the soldiers of Xia, Yin, and Suizhou, gathered 5,000 cavalry, and the army meandered northward, through the desert, through the Helan Pass into the Saibei grassland, according to the instructions of the grassland tribes contacted in advance, ready to ambush the Lanzhou caravan full of goods.

"The tribe of Dijinze has sent troops. Chase handed over the silk silk sent by the carrier pigeon to Wu Yingying, and then analyzed, "The hussar detachment wandering at the northern foot of Yinshan has not yet found the enemy's traces, and the party members may be secretly stationed in a canyon at the southern foot of Yinshan. ”

Wu Yingying glanced at the secret report and said with a smile: "Okay, the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind." This time, Captain Xin led the hussar battalion out of the fortress first, and after meeting with the ranger detachment at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, he pretended to be a steppe nomadic tribe to monitor the enemy's movements, and Xiao Xiaoxiao led the four battalions of foot soldiers including the baggage battalion to escort the goods on the road. Three days later, I set out with my army. The four battalions of foot soldiers, including the Chase Daiya Barracks, stayed in Lanzhou. He paused, looked at Xiao Jiu and said: "This time, in order to prevent the party members from being vigilant, the main cavalry force led by me is about two days away from the caravan, Xiao Jiu, you bring two thousand foot soldiers, can you withstand the siege of six thousand cavalry for several days?"

Xiao Jiu said in a deep voice: "As long as the arrows are not exhausted, and the dry food and water are endless, it will not be a problem for many days." "In the previous battles, he was arranged by Wu Yingying to stay in Lanzhou, and this time he got the opportunity to fight out of the fortress, and he still played a key role in luring the enemy, which can be regarded as getting what he wanted.

Wu Yingying nodded, looked at Cai Jian and said, "In order to be perfect, the twenty crossbow cars trial-made by the craftsman battalion were handed over to the baggage battalion, just to test the effectiveness in battle." ”

This crossbow car is based on the Yuanrong repeater made by Zhuge Wuhou in Shu, and the original pattern was handed over to Wu Hero by Xiao Jiu. Wu Yingying felt that the original Yuanrong crossbow did not have enough power to shoot arrows and could not penetrate the heavy armor, so he ordered the craftsman to change the back of the repeater to fine iron forging, and the components inside were also changed to iron as much as possible, and the size of the entire Yuanrong crossbow was also several times larger than the original. However, the iron arrows used were shorter and thicker than before, and the shape was between a projectile and a normal crossbow arrow, and the arrows were made of pure iron, but the arrows were heavier than before. Don't seek far, only close penetration. The final repeater has a piercing power that exceeds that of an ordinary strong crossbow within 50 steps, and the number of arrows fired in a burst has also doubled. However, the entire Yuanrong crossbow was also much heavier than before, and it could not be carried in battle by the physical strength of the soldiers alone, so the craftsmen of the baggage battalion simply placed it on the side box car and became a heavy crossbow on the vehicle.

Wu Yingying said to Xin Gu again: "The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, a hundred battles will not be defeated, and the opportunity for success or failure this time depends on the hussar battalion detachment to grasp the battlefield situation," after speaking, he pointed to the map hanging in the hall and said, "To go north from Dijinze, you need to cross the desert and avoid the Fengzhou Zheshi, and you can't get too close to the Khitan forces in Shuozhou and Yunzhou." The most likely marching path of the Dangxiang people is to march along the west bank of the Yellow River through the desert, and then through the Yin Valley Road, and there are not many valley roads suitable for the action of the cavalry in the foothills of Yinshan Mountain, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Central Plains and Mobei have repeatedly fought around these shortcuts, and there are beacons on both sides of the valley to indicate the entrances and exits. Hussar camps should focus on the exits of these important mountain trails. As soon as a large group of party cavalry appeared, they immediately reported to me and Captain Xiao, and at the same time stared behind them from a distance, but did not get close to arouse the other party's vigilance. ”

"The last will understand. Xin Gudao, staring at the map, this is still based on Wu Yingying's instructions, ordered to wander the cavalry at the northern foot of Yinshan to draw back, although not very accurate, but has marked a number of mountain roads in the west of the Yinshan Mountain Range suitable for the army to enter and exit.

After the Khitan people got married, they seemed to be more calm than before, and Wu Yingying patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and said, "This important task will be handed over to Captain Xin." He turned his head and said to the captains: "The enemy is strong and I am weak, this time the army is on the march, and the battalions of the Wulanzhou army go all out to break the enemy's army, and they must not expose their tracks all the way to the march. Without the permission of the battalion, soldiers were not allowed to take water, chop wood, herd horses, hunt, or light fires, and could only feed on the dried meat and dry food they carried with them. ”

"Yes. All the generals suddenly received the order, and their faces showed excited and excited looks, although the Central Plains Imperial Court disdained the five states of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, and Jing, which were entrenched in the Dingyan army, but for the soldiers of the battalions in the local Lanzhou, it was tantamount to a fat sheep. Whether it is the Great Liao or the Great Song Dynasty, it is too big for Lanzhou, which has an army of less than 10,000 people, even if it wins the battle, Lanzhou can be exhausted just by fighting to the death.

But the Tuoba clan's Dingyan army is different, Tuoba clan's army is estimated to be only tens of thousands at most, and it is still scattered in various states, now Cai Kerui has just died, Cai Jiyun and Cai Jifeng can't subdue his uncles, the five states are in their own ways, just give Lanzhou a good opportunity to break through, as long as the five states are taken, the place is thousands of miles, there are deserts and high mountains, and the room for maneuver has increased greatly. The ancestors of the Tuhun army were originally attached to the Central Plains from the Hehuang together with the Tuoba clan, everyone was working for the imperial court, the Tuhun children were getting poorer and poorer, and the Tuhun clan was expanding day by day after the Tuoba clan won the difficult army, and the Tuhun army was extremely red-eyed.