Chapter 032 Air Force

A month later, Mo Bing Yuan Yun returned. Brought back a harvest that far exceeded expectations, more than two million taels of silver, as well as a large number of ordnance and war horses. All the big and small bandits in Qinghe County let the two of them clean up.

Looking at the carts of ordnance and silver, Qin Feng smiled so much that the corners of his mouth reached the root of his ears. If you have money, you can do things, and more than two million taels of silver are life-saving money for him now. And a large number of ordnance also just filled the lack of armory. Especially war horses, a good war horse on the market now sells for about four hundred taels of silver, and there are very few goods. He had been planning to form a cavalry battalion, but he was suffering from the lack of war horses, so he did not implement it. Now Yuan Yun and Mo Bing have brought back nearly two hundred fine horses at once, which can be regarded as solving a big problem.

Moreover, Young Master Yuan also brought back a piece of news that made Qin Feng even more excited. The barbarians have scout eagle riders, and they have absolute air superiority in fighting against the Zhao army. Whether it is reconnaissance, pathfinding, or fighting with the main ground forces, they are all very tough. When they were guarding the city at Blackstone, they suffered a great loss from the Eagle Riders.

When Yuan Yun went to Wulong Mountain, more than two hundred miles west of Qinghe County, to suppress bandits, he happened to encounter bandits who were robbing a village. So he led his troops to correct all the robbers on the spot. The villagers were grateful to Dai De and had to set up a banquet to reward the Qin family. So the team stayed in the village for the day to repair.

At the time of the dinner, two huge white eagles flew into the village and took away the two calves of the villagers.

The eagle was incomparably large, with its wings spread out to be more than two feet wide, much larger than the barbarian's black eagle. A calf of more than 100 catties can be caught in the sky without difficulty.

Yuan Yun, who had suffered the loss of eagle riding at Heishi Pass, had the idea of this eagle eagle at that time and asked the people in the village where the eagle came from.

An elderly hunter in the village told him that the Oolong Mountains stretched for more than a thousand miles, and the deepest part of the mountain was an endless snow-capped peak.

These eagles are called snow sculptures and live on top of snowy peaks. On weekdays, they feed on snow deer, goats, and even snow leopards in the snowy mountains. Occasionally, when there is little food in the mountains, they will fly to the vicinity of the mountain to hunt large livestock such as cattle and sheep of farmers. Fierce temperament and great strength.

There are many of these huge snow sculptures on top of the snow-capped peaks deep in the mountains. The old hunter told Yuan Yun that there were once hunters who went into the mountains to hunt and picked up the eaglets that fell from the cliffs and brought them back to the village to be domesticated by themselves. However, this bird of prey has an amazing amount of food, and it is extremely fierce, and it is useless to raise it, and then it is released back into the snowy mountains.

Hearing Yuan Yun say this, Qin Feng also became excited. If this bird of prey can be tamed to form a snow sculpture cavalry, it can fight against the barbarians' eagle cavalry. However, he didn't know anything about taming beasts, so he didn't know what to do.

At this time, Lu Tieshan's honest voice sounded in the crowd.

"I know about this little bird. We are everywhere in the ice and snow of Kunlun Mountain. ”

"Little bird, do you call the snow sculpture that can catch the cow to the sky a little bird?" Young Master Yuan was very helpless and looked at Lu Tieshan, who was like a giant.

"It's not a bird, what else can it be. Our Lu family has lived in the depths of the Kunlun Snow Mountains for generations. Kunlun Mountain is the ancestor of the mountains in the world, and there are many rare birds and beasts in it. The rich people in our family are bored, and what they like most is to play with birds and insects. I am most familiar with this kind of thing. ”

"What are you talking about? "Young Master Yuan couldn't believe his ears. Playing with birds and insects is indeed the most enthusiastic entertainment of rich people. But is this giant eagle played by people, and it's almost the same.

"Yes, our rich people love to play with these little birds. The whole body is snow-white, beautiful and smart. If you train well, you can learn to say a few words in a human voice, which is very fun. ”

"You feed the snow sculptures as parrots. What are you playing with that tease?" Young Master Yuan's eyes were about to fall to the ground.

"It's not some snow leopard, snow bear or something like that. Grab two of them and put them in a cage for them to fight, and the rich people of our clan will bet on them. It's a big bet. You can make a lot of money after a fight. ”

"Damn, crickets. You keep the snow sculpture as a parrot, and the snow bear and snow leopard as a cricket. Cow x, indeed cow x. "Not only Young Master Yuan, but everyone present had black gas on their heads. This Kunlun Lu family is indeed a wealthy family left over from ancient times, and even ordinary birds and insects can play at such a height.

"Then do you two have this hobby? I don't know if you can train this snow... Oh no, little bird?" Qin Feng asked with a look of infinite admiration like a high mountain.

Lu Kuohai was a little embarrassed, his black face turned red, and he smiled: "We... Both of us are poor in our clan. I don't have the money, I can't afford to play with these tall things. ”

"But we still know how to train birds. After all, we often do things for those rich masters, and we have seen a lot. Lu Kuohai's face was filled with yearning for the life of the rich man in their clan.

What kind of person Qin Feng is, he can see Lu Kuohai's thoughts at a glance.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't played before, as long as you know how to train. Then please ask the second master and the eldest young master Yuan to go to Oolong Mountain for a trip. Get me as many birds like this as I can. As long as you do this well, I guarantee that you too will become rich in the clan. Qin Feng pointed to the countless gold, silver and jewelry brought back by Yuan Yun and Mo Bing, and told the brothers of the family very surely.

"Yes, as long as you have money, it's easy to do. Hehe, when we have the money, we will go back and gamble with the rich people. Hey... Hey.... The Lu brothers seemed to see themselves holding a large pile of silver, shouting and gambling beside the cage.

Early the next morning, Young Master Yuan and the Lu family brothers went straight to Wulong Mountain with a hundred sergeants. Originally, Mo Bing also wanted to go, but the newly established Five Elements Armor Battalion needed him to train in swordsmanship, and there was also the training of the scout team and the assassin team that could not be stopped, and the matter was too much to stay in Qinjia Village.

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The county guard Huang Hong was quite dedicated, and in a month's time, he mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized in Beiming County to deploy defenses east of the Wei River. The total strength was about 75,000 men. At the same time, a large number of civilian workers were recruited to build fortifications on the beachheads east of the Wei River where several barbarian armies were likely to cross the river.

Along the coast, all the shallows and docks where land can be landed are built countless large and small arrow towers. The city is connected by a series of low walls, with ballistas on the low walls, and a large number of catapults behind the walls. The shoals were covered with sharp stakes and chains that prevented large ships from coming to shore. On the shore are countless sharp thistles and bamboo sticks stuck upside down in the sand. Huang Hong was born in the army, and the fortifications were well built.

However, this guy did something that made Qin Feng extremely headache. In order to make it as difficult for the barbarians to cross the river as possible, he sent people to the west bank of the Wei River to burn all the wharf ferries along the river. and burned all the villagers' fishing boats.

There were no boats on the other side, and the people who wanted to escape to the North Underworld could not cross the river. Moreover, in case the Zhao army in the north wants to retreat to the north and there is no way to retreat.

Moreover, with the strength of the barbarian army of tens of thousands, even if there was not a single boat on the Wei River, they could quickly build a large number of ships. This approach can do far more harm than good. Moreover, Qin Feng had a hunch that sooner or later the northern realm would all fall, and tens of thousands of Zhao troops were very likely to retreat to the northern underworld. If there is no boat on the Wei River by then, those Zhao soldiers will really have no way forward, and there will be pursuers in a desperate situation.

Therefore, as soon as he heard the news that Huang Hong was going to burn the boat, Qin Feng immediately ran to the camp of the Northern Underworld Army on the east bank of the Wei River to stop it. But it was too late, and hundreds of ships, large and small, were almost burned out. In the end, it was not easy to snatch more than 50 ships from the sea of fire.

Facts proved that Qin Feng's judgment was right. A few months later, it was precisely because of Huang Hong's seemingly smart decision that the tragedy of 8,000 Black Flag Army soldiers spilling blood on the Weihe River beachhead and the Black Flag Army commander Qi Yun was killed in battle. And the more than 50 ferries he grabbed really became the only escape channel for tens of thousands of Zhao troops.