Chapter 96: Pack it all up
The horses were thundering, but the flags were not flying, and the riders on the horses looked quite tattered.
But if you look closely, you will find a lot of problems.
Not only are these people's war horses too superb, aren't they? Not only are they sturdy and strong, but there is also a spiritual light in the eyes of the horse, carrying the rider and two huge packages but still running like flying without getting tired, this kind of good war horse is nothing to see one or two, and it is too strange to see thousands of horses at once.
At the same time・・・・・・ this group of rogues didn't bring more horses, just one for each person, and there was no extra spare horses.
"That's a bit out of the ordinary!"
Lying on the top of the hill, a young man dressed in the same tattered clothes looked down, watching this cavalry roar away, and the questions in his heart became more and more.
"Could it be that there is still a small group of centaurs with extra war horses hiding elsewhere?"
With such a guess in his heart, while thinking about how to report it to the leader when he went back, he lay down in place and did not move, wanting to wait for a while to see what else changed, but after lying for a long time there was no one else passing by, with a question mark in his head, the young man left the mountain lightly, and then disappeared as if he had flown away.
Looking at that cavalry again, it is naturally Yulin Cavalry.
Ma Chao and Tai Shici rode side by side, although the war horse was very bumpy, but it had no effect on the two of them.
Not to mention the role of stirrups and other things, with the riding skills of the two, they can move freely on horseback without these auxiliary things, not to mention that there are now these artifacts, and at the same time, the war horse has become very intelligent after special cultivation, and it is extremely human.
So Tai Shici was still able to move freely on the horse, and he didn't say anything after glancing back, but Ma Chao on the side laughed when he saw it: "Ziyi doesn't have to pay attention to it, it's just a thief!"
The boundaries of the state are extremely chaotic, in addition to Zhang Yan, there are several bandits, these bandits are entrenched in the mountains everywhere, it is extremely difficult to deal with, Yuan Shao has been trying to clear the place after occupying the state, but he can't free up his hands at present, so these bandits are living a happy life.
However, in Ma Chao's opinion, this group of thieves will not live long.
Not to mention Yuan Shao, who has already defeated Gongsun Zhan and freed up his hands, even if Yuan Shao can't clean them up, when the imperial army arrives, these thieves will either be exterminated, or take the initiative to come out to be an ordinary person, and there is absolutely no third way waiting for them.
Because His Majesty now takes the matter of "suppressing bandits" very seriously, he does not mind sending his most elite soldiers and horses to deal with those thieves who are like chickens and dogs, even if they consume a lot of food, grass and ordnance for this, he does not care, just to be clean.
As he spoke, everyone had already reached the destination of this trip, and looking at the almost undefended cities and counties in the distance, Zhang Liao suddenly felt that this battle was a farce at all.
On one side, there was little defense, and at the same time, it did not expect to be attacked by the enemy so quickly, so it was unprepared.
The other side is all elite, although the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, but because the other side is unprepared, it just happened to catch the other side by surprise.
There was nothing outside the city that hindered the cavalry assault, and there were not enough soldiers on the towers, and even the city gates had not had time to close—it was possible to close the gate in a hurry, but there was nothing behind the gate, and the gate was simply a thin plate for Zhang Liao and the others.
"Meng Qi!"
"General rest assured!"
Ma Chao slapped his horse out, flicked the spear in his hand, and drew his right hand as if he had drawn another section from the end of the spear, and then held the javelin in his hand, after condensing his strength, but seeing the white light on the javelin, as Ma Chao threw it forward, a brilliant light went straight to the city gate. ...,
With a loud bang, the huge city gate was blown open by this blow, and the huge city gate flew a long way into the city, crushing some of the soldiers who were rushing into meatloaf.
"With me Ma Mengqi here, it's not too difficult to attack the city with cavalry!"
Smiling proudly, Ma Chao rushed forward by himself, the two thousand Yulin cavalry under his tent had already followed, put away the bow and arrows and pulled out the ring knife on his waist casually, Yuan Shaojun on the city wall only saw a brilliant sword flash, and it seemed that a silver river suddenly appeared in front of him, rushing towards the city gate under his feet.
Looking at the city gate that is no longer in shape, the city tower under his feet can not give everyone a sense of security at all, and he wants to shout something with his mouth open, but he finds that he doesn't know what to say at all.
Just a moment of stunned, a dense rain of arrows smashed down the head and face, this time everyone didn't have to worry about it, the rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun directly shot most of the defenders on the city tower.
"How is that possible? so far?"
A captain who was lucky enough to avoid a rain of arrows stared at the enemy who shot the rain of arrows from a long distance, and the fact that he could still shoot to the top of the city wall at such a distance made him feel that he was having a nightmare at all, because what had happened today was beyond his knowledge.
Whether it is the unknown thing that directly destroys the city gate with white light, or the rain of arrows that start shooting the soldiers defending the city from a great distance......
In fact, after several years of cultivation, the arm strength of the soldiers of the Yulin Cavalry has long been far beyond ordinary people, and after the strong arm strength, the strong bow that could not be used before is the same as a toy in their hands, and the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court recruited craftsmen to deliberately make a large number of more powerful bows, which met the needs of the Yulin Cavalry.
But the strong bow is not a cabbage, where is it so easy to make? The five thousand strong bows of the Yulin Cavalry almost consumed the production materials stored by the imperial court, which barely met the needs of the Yulin Cavalry, and according to the current rate of progress of the Yulin Knights, this batch of strong bows will be eliminated in no more than three years at most.
Liu Xuan has already asked the Refining Division to step up research on how to use the Xuanmen method to make a more powerful strong bow, it is best to make some modifications based on the current longbow, Liu Xuan did not make any suggestions in this matter, he just wanted to see if the Refining Division could solve some of the more difficult difficulties independently.
This can be regarded as an exam for the refining department.
In short・・・・・・ Yulin Cavalry is only showing some of its strength at present, but even if it is just so, it is not something that ordinary defenders of a county town can parry.
What's more, the elites in this county town have all been taken out by Yan Liang, and there is not even a general who can suppress the scene, in this case, when Ma Chao rushed to the city with the cavalry and was about to enter the city, it is not difficult to understand that the soldiers defending the city said that they surrendered.
"Tsk!"
Looking at the group of soldiers in front of him who had no will to resist at all, Ma Chao felt very bored, but at the moment he didn't have the energy to pay attention to these guys, but continued to rush in with the cavalry, and then grabbed a person who looked like a captain in his hand, and asked with one hand the person's armor: "Where is the treasury?"
The lieutenant was carried in the air, his face was already pale with fright, and when he heard the young general's question, he didn't hesitate at all, and blurted out everything he knew.
Not only the treasury, but also the location of the government office, workshop, arsenal and other places have not been missed, Ma Chao heard this person and threw this person to the ground casually: "spare your life!" patted the horse and ran in the direction of the grain depot.
As for the arsenal, that was the goal that Tai Shici wanted to solve, and Zhang Liao was controlling the entire county during this time - he didn't care about the people in the city or these defeated soldiers going out to flee, because even if there were no people to report the news, it wouldn't be long before Yan Liang and Wen Chou would be able to realize the plan and turn around to rescue. ...,
What he has to do is to hurry up and finish what he is going to do: "Don't worry about the fields or anything, let's just go over and deal with it before we leave!"
The fields cannot be in the city, most of them are outside the city, and some are not close, so priority is given to solving the goals in the city.
Empty the arrows in the arsenal, as for the rest of the weapons, it is better to solve the problem, as long as you throw them into the quiver, the quiver will automatically divide it into arrows.
Watching the Yulin knights go in and keep filling their quivers, Tai Shici felt that the scene in front of him was particularly interesting.
The huge arsenal is enough to arm 10,000 people on the spot, and there are countless arrows, salamina and other things, which are stored in the arsenal for a long time to be easily accessible at any time, and now they are all cheaper.
In comparison, the warehouse on the other side of the grain storage is much more troublesome - Liu Xuan has the intention to equip the Yulin Rider with another package dedicated to storing grain, but as far as the current manufacturing capacity of the Refining Division is concerned, it takes too much time to make such a thing, and the long manufacturing cycle and inability to mass produce it restricts his idea, so at present, the Yulin Rider can only carry grain.
Because of this, there were not 5,000 horses in the regular establishment of the Yulin Cavalry, and each soldier was equipped with an extra war horse to carry rations and water, but this time the raid did not bring the extra war horses.
After all, in the original plan, there was no such big lot.
Only a small part of the grain in the grain depot was taken, and Zhang Liao and the others saw that the soldiers had re-brought enough rations, so they immediately ordered the grain and grass to be burned along with the storehouse.
At the same time, the replenished Yulin cavalry scattered and began to destroy all the workshops in the city, and when all this was done, it was already dusk, Zhang Liao did not let the soldiers rest, but directly gathered the whole army and left the county seat, and took advantage of the situation to ravage the surrounding fields again - it can be expected that by the autumn harvest, Anyi is afraid that even his own grain and grass needs will not be enough.
After calculating the time, Zhang Liao found that the time was enough, so he called Ma Chao and Tai Shici in front of him and asked: "I estimate that Yan Liang should have received the news and rushed back, and Wen Chou should also come here, and the next thing we have to do is ambush...... Who do you think would be the right ambush?"
Ma Chao waved his hand indifferently when he heard this: "Why do you want to do so much?