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On the grassland, there are scouts everywhere, there are border troops, there are Jurchens, and there are very * horse army cavalry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Qilian Mountain has become the focus of attention in the world, but at this time, it has come out of a strange calm, and it is so calm that it is not quite like words.

Even when the scouts bumped into each other, most of them confronted each other from afar, but they refused to raise their knives and rush to kill.

The sparkling waters of Aishui Lake, which stretches for dozens of miles and nourishes nearby aquatic plants, happen to be the garrison of the Wolf Fort and the Jurchen cavalry at both ends of the lake. When the army is stationed, they will choose the lake oasis to camp, there is no water source, and the food and water of tens of thousands of people are a big problem" So this lake has become the middle line of the confrontation between the two sides from the beginning.

A group of scouts were fighting horses along the lakeside, and the closer they got to the lake, the higher the viscosity of the aquatic weeds.

A scout officer at the head of the team, with a Confucian sword in his waist, a Confucian medal in front of Xiong, wearing an iron-shelled Fan Yang hat, and a red scarf under his neck, sat on the horse with the whole person, adjusting his sitting posture with the shaking of the war horse under the seat. His military boots spurs were on the stirrups, and the movements were very regular, and the scouts in the rear team only had to look at the sitting posture to know where the officers came from.

The cavalry captains who came out of the horse military division are like this, every action is extremely standardized, it is obviously some useless riding movements, they also keep it harshly, this kind of person is full of pride, but with a kind of stubbornness, such as when slowing down the horse, the body does not have to sit up straight, "stretching the body will obviously increase the consumption of physical strength", but they just want to be tense, as if they are competing.

However, the scouts of the rear team admire this kind of person, such a person is often the most reliable partner on the battlefield, and a stubborn energy in their bones often brings an indescribable sense of security to the soldiers in the team.

This tense lieutenant is called Xia Yan, a very weak name, "Actually, if you look carefully at his face", you can see from this resolute face that there is still a bit of bookishness. This temperament is somewhat complicated and is another difference between a lieutenant and a cavalryman.

Xia Yan studied in the Wubei Academy for two years, "he was directly assigned to the Ma Military Division, and then when he arrived in Western Xia, he immediately became an officer of the 36th Road Scout Team" His task was very simple, to inspect the shores of Aishui Lake to prevent the Jurchens from ambushing.

This order is a bit confusing to say, it is true that the Jurchens are in the desert and are good at riding horses. But letting them swim in the water and set up an ambush is a fantasy. However, Ma Junsi's command is different from other places: "Elsewhere, defense is arranged based on experience and intuition. However, as the force completely controlled by the Armed Forces Academy, the entire army was filled with sect leaders and captains from top to bottom. Therefore, the defense tasks they have formulated are very dogmatic. If there is a lake, scouts should be sent" This is also what the leaders in the school said, since they have said it, we must take this into account, even if the Jurchens are landlubbers, they must send scouts. Starting

Therefore, for more than half a month, "Xia Yan's task is the easiest", every morning when he got up, he immediately took his brothers out of the wolf castle and cruised back and forth along the lakeside. This repeated repeatedly, even the scouts in the team felt tired.

There was only Xia Yan, stunned, step-by-step, neither complained, nor did he say anything to the team Feng's complaints, "just sunrise out of the camp" and sunset back to the camp, where to inspect at which hour, and where to get off the horse, he ordered the brothers in the team to hit a dozen half-man-high reeds. The only good thing here is that you can occasionally encounter hares, if you bump into "even Xia Yan will move, everyone bends their bows and arrows together, Pegasus chases, and then leads the bow to shoot." Those who have entered the Ma Military Division, which riding and archery kung fu is not weak, as for Xia Yan's riding and archery skills, it is even more superb, "ten haves**" As soon as his bowstring is loosened, he can nail the hare to the ground. However, many times he did not shoot, but let his subordinates shoot, taking the opportunity to practice their archers.

At this time, the sky has gradually darkened, "Raise your eyes and look around, the sky is full of red glow, flashing pale yellow and sprinkled on the surface of the lake, and the sparkling lake is shining with ten thousand golden scales under the breeze. It was not too early, and Xia Yan had roughly the right location and time here, "I know that if you walk another stick of incense, you can reach the nearest reed bush of the Jurchen camp, where if you look at it from the high ground, you can see the campfire in the middle of the Qilian Mountain and the Jurchen camp under the mountain."

However, they will not continue to advance, "but immediately return to the fort, and the stay must not be too long", otherwise the sky will be completely dark, and it will be easy to lose their direction in this vast pasture.

At this time, one of the knights in the team suddenly pointed into the distance and said, "Look, what is that?" ”，

Xia Yan raised his eyes and looked over, and saw the direction of the Jurchen camp, and dozens of cavalry flying horses came over.

Xia Yan was not surprised, as an officer of the scout battalion, it was common for him to bump into the enemy's scouts, and it could even be described as commonplace. It's just that the route they patrol is really a bit remote, and they don't usually see Jurchen scouts, why did so many people suddenly come at this time? There was vigilance in his eyes, and he said, "Take a closer look." ”

With more than a dozen knights Pegasus approaching the other party, the other party obviously also discovered them "also ran towards this side, getting closer, through the dim light, Xia Yan immediately felt that something was wrong" The other party was not a scout, and the knowledge taught in the academy and the experience in the army immediately made him have this idea.

As the head of the sect said, the scout team is different from the cavalry, and there are many major differences, such as horses, the cavalry team focuses more on stable war horses, and endurance is very important to the cavalry. The scout's horse is often a little more powerful, although the endurance is emphasized, but the explosiveness is more important, because the scout may encounter the enemy at any time, and their purpose is not to rush, but to immediately get out of the encirclement and go back to report the news, so often the scouts will choose the latter's horses, usually not fast when patrolling, "have been accumulating horsepower, and wait until there is an emergency" can use the horse's short-term explosive power to distance themselves from each other.

And the Jurchen cavalry in front of them, hundreds of battles away, although the war horses sitting down could not be seen from a distance, "but looking at the speed of their full run, it is obviously different from the scout's war horses."

On top of that, scouts tend not to carry too many weapons and "don't wear heavy armor."

Most of them don't even wear leather armor, this is to reduce their own weight, but also to reduce the burden on the war horse.

The cavalry on the other side was wearing leather armor, although the leather armor was not heavy, but the swords, guns, bows and arrows were complete, and they were obviously fully armed.

Xia Yan frowned, reined in the horse vigilantly, and the man who sat down stood up, his hind hooves almost sinking into the muddy water and grass, and Herod paused. He quietly took out the bow and arrow behind him, and said in a loud voice, "Take the bow." ”

More than a dozen cavalrymen behind him immediately took out their bows and arrows, and silently paused before their horses gathered behind Xia Yan.

The Jurchen cavalry is still approaching" This also violates the common sense of scouts, the role of scouts is not to fight, but just to observe, no matter which country's scouts, they all follow this principle, even if they encounter the other party's scouts, they will keep a certain distance and look at each other to determine whether they are just wandering lone horsemen or the vanguard of the army to explore the way, and after making a judgment on this basis, they will each go back to return.

"Not good, don't let them come close!" When the Jurchens broke into a distance of two hundred zhang, Xia Yan immediately noticed something unusual, the other party was violent, and even pulled out the bow and arrow behind him, and someone took out the war knife high, which was a signal to start fighting.

Dealing with this kind of enemy, Xia Yan immediately became the backbone of the entire cavalry team, and everyone began to rush out with Xia Yan starting to rein in their horses diagonally, they had no armor on their bodies except for a pair of longbows and a pot of bows and arrows.

Their horses were explosive and rushed diagonally, just outside the range of the opponent, and the opponent had already bent his bow and scattered without casualties. Taking advantage of the other party's efforts to take arrows" Xia Yan shouted: "Slow the horse" to shoot back! ”

The war horse slowed down the horse slightly, and the Jurchen cavalry behind hurriedly chased after it, just into the firing range "More than a dozen people turned around under the running of the war horse" used tui to clamp the belly of the war horse to maintain the balance of the body, bent the bow and pointed at the Jurchen cavalry chasing behind, and then sneered "The bowstring trembled, and more than a dozen sharp arrows were like meteors in the air across the arc, shooting into the Jurchen cavalry, and in an instant, a Jurchen fell from the horse."

Xia Yan and his teammates couldn't help but cheer, but they didn't dare to stay, and immediately accelerated their horses and ran forward quickly.

The Jurchens were furious, and seven or eight Jurchens with bows and arrows bent their bows and shot them, but they sprinted and ran away, although an arrow hit a horse military scout in front, but at the end of the crossbow, it only hurt the flesh and skin, so that they easily escaped.

Xia Yan saw that the other party shot a round, and he was also very bold, and shouted: "Forty-five degrees oblique, it's a tailwind over there!" More than a dozen war horses instantly made a difficult gallop to change direction, and the distance with the Jurchens was parallel to the distance of a hundred zhang and missed, and then more than a dozen people bent their bows together, and shot a rain of arrows, this time they did not hit the Jurchens.

But everyone knows that the initiative of the battle is completely in the hands of the Ma Junsi scout team.

The Jurchens obviously didn't expect the other party to be so powerful, "It's all incredible gods, and at this time, their blood and qi also surged" frantically rushed over, wanting to get closer to the other party.

Although the Jurchens are also good at riding and shooting, their real advantage is to charge into battle, and they are not familiar with this kind of circle play, and even among the ten Jurchens, "there will be no more than three who really wear bows and arrows, and most of them think this thing is a burden" and only use it when dealing with foot soldiers. As for dealing with cavalry or charging, after all, under the high-speed running of the horses under the seat, to shoot at the fast-moving target, "is that their people who are accustomed to being on horseback cannot reach this level." Even if there are a few warriors who can do it once in a while, after all, only a few.

However, the lieutenant is different from the cavalry of the Ma Army Division, from the beginning of their entry into the camp, in addition to exercising their ability to control war horses on horses every day, "that is, constantly leading the bow and shooting, archery targets" shooting chickens and ducks, and even some instructors are reluctant to buy chickens and ducks to let them spoil, so they let them get off the arrow clusters on the arrows, and divide into two teams to ride each other's horses and shoot each other.

Such training is unspeakably miserable, but at this time, the advantages are brought into play, as long as the Jurchens are not allowed to get close, these rangers will immediately and always be invincible.

After a few combinations, Xia Yan, who was moving, gradually found that he had a little grasp of the rhythm of the battle, and the knowledge in many schools was integrated into this real situation, and he quickly figured out a lot of experience, while leading the scouts to shoot the opponent's archers, while leading the team to try to stay away from the opponent when he calculated that the opponent was ready to shoot, and firmly occupied the position of the downwind, and after a few rounds, he actually killed four Jurchen cavalry without losing one person.

Seeing this, the Jurchens were also shocked, "This kind of small-scale battle is the first time they have encountered it" Who would have thought that the other party was so proficient in cavalry and archery that a burly leader led by him had no choice but to beckon, and these dozens of cavalry reined in their horses and fled to the camp in a hurry.

Xia Yan did not pursue, but reined in the corpse of the Jurchens and asked someone to search it."

The four corpses along the way, "took their swords, guns, bows and arrows, led their war horses", and searched for a little broken silver, among them, a letter fell into Xia Yan's hand.

This close-fitting collection, with a warm body temperature on the letterhead, has two crooked handwriting written on it