Deep in the alley of Fushun Fang.

Shao House.

Ye Rou entered the door of the house and finally tore off the mask of sadness.

Suppressing her excitement, she walked under the classroom window and looked inside.

The boys shook their little heads and read the scriptures in childish voices.

Shao Qing was talking to a student about something in front of the case.

The sunlight swept into the room, dyeing a few patches of gold from his ivory-white Confucian robes.

The gold also illuminated the scroll in his hand, and the reflection on the paper reflected the angularity of his face, showing the decisiveness of killing that was usually deliberately hidden.

"After all, it's still our Daliao man, and no matter how much he wears the clothes of the southerners, he can't hide the heroic spirit of the grassland man."

Although Ye Rou was secretly talking to herself, this determination was very resolute.

On weekdays, the neighbors occasionally got the benefits of Shao Qing's visit to see a doctor, and when they saw Ye Rou who went out to buy, some of them cared about national affairs and boasted that they had seen the world, and they couldn't help but compliment a few words: "Your husband, that elegant demeanor is exactly the demeanor of my great Song Dynasty scribes. ”

Every time like this, while Ye Rou was polite and polite on her face, she couldn't help but sneer in her heart: The arrogant Southern Dynasty, Brother Xiao Qing was born a great Liao nobleman, who rarely gives your emperor to remember the forbidden palace of eating, drinking, and Lasa! Besides, where did he see the weak chicken of the scribes of the Southern Dynasty?

Ye Rou was in a trance, Shao Qing had finished explaining to the boy, looked up and glanced at her outside the house, and then looked at the leak next to the case. The bronze bowl had just sunk, indicating that it was another hour.

"It's early noon, you all go to the stove and ask Lu Gang to get a meal."

Shao Qing announced the end of class, and watched the dolls suddenly come to the spirit one by one, and ran away with joy, before getting up and pacing out of the house.

"Sir!"

Ye Rou is like those cats who play at a super level and take back double prey for their masters, and they can't hide the smugness between their eyebrows.

Shao Qing said lightly: "I asked Lu Gang to cook a lamb backbone radish soup cake today, and you go to the stove to bring it." Oh, don't add buttermilk to it, I'm trying to eat it more lightly these days. ”

Ye Rou responded, quickly went back and forth, took Shao Qing's lunch, and entered the study.

"Lu Gang is still distributing food boxes to the students, and he will come in a moment."

Shao Qing nodded: "You talk about it first." ”

Ye Rou burst into joy and said excitedly: "I thought that for that person, it was just to climb the friendship first, and slowly talk when we met, but I never thought that he would ask me today if I would like to go to the bow and crossbow courtyard to help cook." Doesn't that mean that I can directly see the place where the Song people made weapons? ”

Shao Qing had just seen Ye Rou's expression in the courtyard, and had expected that she would have made a breakthrough, and when he heard it at this moment, he was also surprised and happy.

The sooner you get the French style of that thing, the better.

At the beginning, his adoptive father promised him that he would send him to Kaifeng City, without killing people and setting fires, and completing two things, that is, he could return to the north and support his mother, and he would never force him to enter the office, marry and other things. He and Ye Rou's sister completed the first thing - to train well-trained Liao spies in Kaifeng City. Now, he and his subordinates have to do the second thing......

Get the Divine Arm Crossbow.

In the era of cold weapons, fighting in the wilderness without walled fortresses, cavalry strength is the king.

The wheels of history are rolling, and in the Liao, Song and Xia eras, the tactics of cavalry combat are no longer light cavalry duels when the Han and Xiongnu confront, but heavy armored cavalry.

When the Jin State had not yet risen, the famous heavy armored cavalry units of the Liao, Song, and Xia Kingdoms were the Tielin Army (Liao), the Jingsai Army (Song), and the Iron Harrier (Western Xia).

The Jingsai Army of the Great Song Dynasty was founded in the period of Taizong of the Song Dynasty. At that time, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, who was suffering from border troubles, personally supervised the construction of a heavy cavalry with all troops from Yizhou, Hebei.

The Jingsai army was full of 3,000 men, each of whom was equipped with five horses, and when they went into battle, they were heavily armoured from men to horses, and their weapons were crossbows and spears. Since ancient times, there have been fierce generals in the land of Yan and Zhao, and these Yizhou soldiers can each shoot a hard bow of 200 catties, which is extremely strong.

Although the number of the Great Song Jingsai army was small, but the combat power was amazing, never tasted defeat in the battle against Liao, several times chased the Liao army to the end, lost the armor, the Song army captured tens of thousands of horses and returned triumphantly.

Therefore, without meticulous and meticulous research, people will also talk about "the Song army is an instigated army", which is very unobjective.

A neighbor who was not weak at the beginning of the country will also force an enterprising northwest wolf to become strong.

In the face of the Central Plains Dynasty in the east, which could not be underestimated, the Western Xia naturally had to continue to strengthen its iron cavalry strength.

The heavy cavalry of the Xia people was called the "Iron Harrier".

The Iron Harrier, the first was the personal guard of the Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao, with thirty teams and 100 horsemen in each group, so the number of members was similar to that of the Great Song Jingsai Army. As the war in Song and Xia intensified, the iron harrier began to dominate the battlefield.

When the two armies started the war, the Iron Harrier took the lead in charging as a "front army" by relying on the iron armor body that the men and horses could not shoot with arrows and knives. What's more, the rule when the Iron Harrier charges into battle is that the iron hinge binds the knight and the horse together, so even if the knight dies in battle, the iron horse still rushes to the ground, which is like a nightmare from hell.

But the Iron Harrier finally came across a divine arm crossbow born of hatred.

During the reign of Emperor Xining of the Song Dynasty, Li Hong, a Han craftsman who lived on the border of Song and Xia, is said to have died in the massacre of the Xia people because of the death of his family.

Li Hong traveled thousands of miles to present the manufacturing method of the divine arm crossbow to the Song court. After being built under the supervision of the inner chamberlain of the Divine Sect, the Divine Arm Crossbow became the most powerful light crossbow machine in history that could be carried by a single soldier and could reach a range of more than 200 steps. Moreover, it can not only shoot through the cold forging armor on the Xia people, but also shoot multiple arrows like a heavy bed crossbow when defending the city.

To contain the cavalry, it is the range and penetration of crossbow arrows. With the Divine Arm Crossbow, the Iron Harrier of Western Xia suddenly lost its invincible power.

When he first arrived in Kaifeng City, Ye Rou once asked Shao Qing: "My Da Liao's Tielin Army is also a heavily armored elite cavalry, I don't know what will happen when the Tielin Army clashes with the Xia people's Iron Harriers?" ”

Shao Qing showed no interest in discussing the competition of the Liaoxia cavalry: "The Great Liao and the Xia people have already been married, instead of imagining the duel between the Tielin Army and the Iron Harrier, it is better to worry, whether it is the Liao army or the Xia army, even if they both wear cold forging armor, they will also have to face the Song people's divine arm crossbow." And the greater disaster is that the Jurchens have the potential to rise, and they are better at riding and shooting than the children of the Liao people today. If one day the Jurchens put on heavy armor and form an iron cavalry, and then start a rebellion, what will our Da Liao do to compete with it? ”

Only by stealing the Song people's divine arm crossbow to create a French style, let the god arm crossbow go north to arm the infantry cavalry soldiers of Da Liao.

The border army of the Great Song Dynasty was highly disciplined, and those who carried the divine arm crossbow and lost it were beheaded. If the army is defeated and there is a possibility of being captured, the leader of the team can order the dismantling of the crossbow on the spot. The biggest feature of the Divine Arm Crossbow is that perhaps due to the complex gear structure, once disassembled, the Xia people cannot restore it without drawings. Therefore, according to the fact that Da Liao secretly continued to detect the armaments of Western Xia, the Xia people had indeed not imitated the divine arm crossbow.

The construction method of the divine arm crossbow is a high-level secret in the bow and crossbow courtyard of the Royal Ordnance Supervision of Kaifeng City in the Great Song Dynasty.

Shao Qing did not hide the intense joy on his face when he heard Ye Rou's progress.

Hurry up and send the French style of the divine arm crossbow to my adoptive father, and repay his kindness, I will no longer be a Liao person, and it doesn't matter if I am a Song person or not.

I'm like a light traveler who has nothing to do in the world, catching up with her and asking her, "I'll take you out of Tokyo, okay?"

Ye Rou saw Shao Qing's innocent excitement of returning to his childhood, and only said that he might be valued by another point or two in his heart, so he decided to fight for more advantages for himself.

"Sir, when I was arguing with Na Yang today, I saw the person who looked like a waiter in the palace and went to Yao Niangzi's restaurant to order dishes. Yao Niangzi looked at her swift behavior. After eating the prescription prescribed by my husband, the illness really got better quickly. ”

Shao Qing raised her head, her joy faded slightly, and she looked at Ye Rou calmly, waiting for her to continue.

"There is an outstanding son-in-law who is also helping Mrs. Yao, directing the servants and maids to carry it, and talking to Mrs. Yao for a while. After I separated from Yang Zuotou, I went to see the lively idlers and inquired, it turned out to be the palace prince's courtyard, and a banquet was held in the palace of Suining County. Oh, that son who didn't wear an inner service uniform was Shiro Zengfu. ”

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(I'm so happy to write about the cavalry of the Cold Weapon era that I have always liked.) You are also welcome to take a look at my last book of historical and military-themed "Tang Dusk Clouds", which contains many war scenes of the Tang Army and the Tubo Army)