Chapter 74: Sortie

Huo Gang waved his hand without moving, these sixteen words were not what he said, but in this world, this is what he said, but more Huo Gang did not explain.

"General, how much dry food do you want to carry? I immediately asked people to prepare. Anno immediately spoke.

Because Wu Ping has returned to Yumen Pass, Anno is in charge of Yangguan, where there are dry food, dairy products, and pickled jerky prepared in advance, especially many of the pickled jerky were captured when Huo Gang defeated the Turkic tribes before.

These jerky are the predecessors of beef jerky in later generations, and they are also the military food of the steppe nomads, but these jerky have no other taste except salt, and they are very hard.

"Carry dry rations for 15 days." Huo Gang thought about it and gave a number.

15 days of dry food is not too much, because these air-dried meats, basically 5 catties of meat can be air-dried for one catty, but when eaten in the stomach, with water, it is basically equivalent to five catties of meat, so each of them does not carry many supplies.

As for the water source, except for the part that he carried when he left, he could only find the water source from the outside world, although there was a shortage of water in the Western Regions, it was not difficult to find water in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, and more importantly, Huo Gang's distance from their attack was not very far.

"Yes, the subordinates will arrange it now." Anno immediately stood up.

"By the way, I also ask the general to forgive his subordinates for making their own claims, I spent a sum of money in Acre City." Yang Lao Wu next to him stood up at this time and said.

"What did you buy?" Huo Gang looked at Yang Lao Wu and asked noncommittally.

"I heard that the enemy was about to appear, and considering that we were mainly archers, I bought back all the iron and arrows in Acre." Yang Lao Wu immediately spoke.

"Good job." Huo Gang nodded, "We will take all the finished arrows, and let the blacksmiths in the family give priority to making arrows." Huo Gang nodded with satisfaction, although Huo Gang knew that Yang Lao Wu and the others were also showing their abilities.

But in fact, in this era, showing ability is also a risk, after all, Yang Lao Wu and they have just joined, if Huo Gang doesn't like him like this, it means that Yang Lao Wu is risking his life.

But of course Huo Gang is nothing, because the communication in this era is too backward, which means that the person you send out must have the ability to adapt to changes, these abilities are very important, only such a person can you rest assured that he can go out and take charge of the party.

If everyone waits for Huo Gang to call the shots in this era, then Huo Gang will be able to manage Yumen Pass and Yangguan at best.

"In the future, as long as it is beneficial to us, we must do it boldly." Huo Gang looked at Yang Lao Wu and said.

"General Xie." Yang Lao Wu also breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way, after we leave, spread the word." Huo Gang added another sentence to Yang Lao Wu.

"Understood." Yang Lao Wu immediately nodded and agreed, after listening to Huo Gang's words just now, he still didn't understand what Huo Gang was thinking.

After the meeting was dismissed, Anno immediately went to prepare supplies, Huo Gang gathered all the troops that could be taken out for the time being, of course, the thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry had not yet been received, and when they appeared, it was the time to surprise the enemy.

The materials were all stored in advance, so it didn't take too long, and after more than an hour, Huo Gang and the others had already finished sorting and lined up.

Everyone here in Yangguan also came out, and everyone came out with a silent expression to see Huo Gang and them leave, but unlike Yumen Pass, Huo Gang didn't say anything to these people, but just said to Anno seriously: "Let's go, the family will be handed over to you." ”

"Please rest assured, General!" Anno said to Huo Gang with a solemn face.

"Please rest assured, General!" Guo Ming and Lu Yanzhen also did the same thing.

"Let's go!" Huo Gang directly turned the horse's head and said loudly.

As Hongyun took his own steps, Huo Zheng and the others who followed behind Huo Gang also drove their horses synchronously, and then Gongsun Lin and others, all the cavalry lined up in four neat queues and walked outside the city.

When Huo Gang was the first to leave Guancheng, the voice of the Spirit of the Jade Gate, which had been silent in his mind for a long time, sounded again: "If the target is detected to take the initiative to attack for the first time, a full set of equipment for the lord will be rewarded, and the equipment will arrive in 15 minutes." ”

Huo Gang was stunned for a moment, there were some surprises, but he didn't show it, speaking of which, Huo Gang's own clothes were the worst, he still had the original Huo Gang's leather armor, and it was also the leather armor that had been sewn many times, not to mention that it was compared with Huo Zheng and Gongsun Lin, even the ordinary soldiers under him couldn't compare!

I didn't expect that my handsome armor actually came at this time, so speaking of which, the spirit of the Jade Gate encouraged him to take the initiative?

Fifteen minutes was not a long time, not long after Huo Gang and they left Yangguan, several horses galloped in the distance, to Huo Gang's surprise, these horses were still carrying flags, these flags Huo Gang was very familiar with, he had received them from the Spirit of the Jade Gate before.

However, even if he saw the flag, four of the guards cavalry who followed Huo Gang still crossed Huo Gang, stopped next to the five horses that were running in advance, and after communicating with each other, they slowly ran over with the other party to Huo Gang.

After the other party came over, Huo Gang recognized it, this was the middle-aged man of the caravan who sent the flag last time, the only difference was that the other party came on horseback this time.

"I've seen the general, I heard that the general went out for the first time, and I came to give the general a set of armor, and I wish the general a victory!" The middle-aged man walked over and said directly.

"Thank you." Huo Gang didn't say anything, this thing wasn't really given by them.

The other party quickly took off the armor from the horse, and Huo Gang also turned over and dismounted directly, and when the other party lifted the armor over, Huo Gang could see that this set of armor was also Mingguang armor, but it was different from the Mingguang armor on Huo Zheng's body.

The Mingguang armor on Huo Zheng's body, those armor pieces are all elongated, and this set of armor pieces on Huo Gang's body are all fish scales, and the middle of these fish scale armor pieces is slightly convex outward, so that the defense is easier to unload, and the defense ability is stronger.

In addition, its helmet is more inclined to the helmet of the generals of the Han Dynasty, with a red tassel fluttering in the wind at the top, and it also has a black side, a red cloak.

When Huo Gang picked up this set of Mingguang armor, he immediately felt the difference, because this thing was much lighter than Huo Gang had imagined.

If it was really alloy steel, according to the volume of this set of armor, the weight would definitely be much heavier than it is now!

But this weight is estimated to be at most half that of steel! It is estimated that its material should be some special alloy, not ordinary steel.