A few days later, 10,000 soldiers arrived, and it was Luda who led the team.

Luda saw Zhao Ta fall to the ground and bowed, and Zhao Ta helped him up: "Why is Zhishen here?" ”

"Lord Wang, Liu Duhu said that it is enough for him and Commander Lu to be in Hexi, so let his subordinates come over to help Lord Wang."

Zhao Ta smiled, Huangzhou, Kuozhou and other places really don't need any fierce generals who can fight at the moment, as long as they defend carefully, Liu Suiyun sent Luda over at this time, which solved his urgent need.

At present, he not only has few soldiers, but also a shortage of generals, most of them are Du Yan, Zhang Xian, Xu Ning, Shi Jin, and Li Yanxian, among which Shi Jin is not yet by his side, and now he has gone to Liangzhou from Yongzhu, and he will be stationed in Xiliang Mansion with Lu Jiang to build a rear defense line.

So he was happy when he saw Luda at this time, and laughed: "Liu Mengshu didn't send you, I still want to trust him, now that Yu Xixia has gained a firm foothold, the next step is to deal with the iron harrier, it is the time of lack of people!" ”

Lu Danai was born in the old Western Army, and he naturally saw through the current situation at a glance, and Huizhou had already occupied it, so the next thing was not to point to Xingqing Mansion, and it was impossible to fight everywhere in the east, and he would definitely go directly to the north, so there was a good chance that the other party would send Iron Harriers and Bubazi to come and block it.

"Lord Wang, do you have a countermeasure for the Iron Harrier?" Ruda asked.

Zhao Ta shook his head and said with a smile: "Let's talk about it back in the division." ”

At this time, he was in the Huizhou military camp, and after arranging those recruits, Zhao Ta took Luda and others back to the Military Supervision Division.

After sitting down in the lobby, Zhao Ta looked at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Luda: "Although this king has one or two thoughts about the iron harrier here, but after all, he has never seen the appearance of the heavy horse, so it is not good to finally decide, Zhishen, you were originally in the old army of the old breed, have you ever seen the appearance of the iron harrier?" ”

Hearing this, Luda got up and hugged his fists and said: "Don't hide it from the prince, the iron harrier and Bubazi's subordinates have all seen it, and they are quite impressed." ”

"Oh?" Everyone in the hall looked at him one after another, you must know that the Iron Harrier is too famous, after all, it is the only heavy horse in Song, Liao, Xixia and even the surrounding countries, and it is known as an invincible existence.

And if you want to break this kind of heavy cavalry, you can't just rely on what you can imagine out of thin air, and it is best that someone who has been in contact with this cavalry can show up and say, grope to find its weaknesses, and then find a countermeasure together.

Zhao Ta's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he pressed his hand against Luda: "Zhishen just sit down and say." ”

"Yes, Lord Wang!" After Luda sat down, he began to talk about the characteristics of this iron harrier, and he spoke in great detail, and even some of the characteristics of Hengshan Buzi were also said.

The origin of the name Iron Harrier is actually very simple, the Harrier is a small bird of prey, and the helmet of the Iron Harrier cavalry is somewhat similar to the Harrier, for a reason.

In addition, the harrier this bird walks a hundred miles, thousands of miles and periods, the most able to come and go, if the electric shock clouds fly, the charge is fast, and it is described as a soldier who rushes to rush forward, and it is called the iron harrier by this heavy armor.

As the most elite troops of Western Xia, the Iron Harrier belongs to the armor and cavalry, in addition to being the special escort of the Emperor of Western Xia, it is also the front army that charges into battle, riding on the men and horses are armored, well-equipped, and the weapons are mostly heavy guns or iron bones, and the soldiers and horses are twisted with hooks and cables, even if the soldiers are killed, they will ride on the horses and not fall down, blocking the horse charge.

There are a total of 3,000 Iron Harriers, divided into ten teams, each team has three hundred, and each of the ten teams has a captain, all of whom are party aristocratic elites, with hereditary military positions, and have been trained in armor since childhood, so that they can maintain strong combat effectiveness for several generations.

The tactics of the Iron Harrier in the war are relatively monotonous, mainly the front army charging and ramming.

However, although the tactics were monotonous, they were very effective, and the equipped iron army was rampant, and the opponent couldn't stop it at all, and after the charge, the opponent was probably directly defeated.

In this era, a strong and brave cavalry, especially heavy cavalry, is often far better than a large mediocre crowd, because the front is particularly important when the two armies clash in the war, once the front is frustrated, it is very likely that the army on the rear line will lose its will to fight, and the heart will be timid, and eventually produce a terrible "herd effect", which will lead to the collapse of the whole line.

And the Iron Harrier can just highlight this role and break the opponent's striker.

Luda spent half an hour talking about the various characteristics of the Iron Harrier, and then talked about the time he had encountered on the battlefield before, it was really difficult to fight, under the charge of the Iron Harrier, it was simply invincible, no matter how many military horses, there was only dodge and retreat, but once it did so, it would lose the opportunity, completely passive, and ninety out of nine battles would be lost directly.

Hearing this, all the generals also understood that if they want to break the iron harrier, they must be able to withstand the first wave of the opponent's impact, and if they can't resist everything, they can use stratagems to see if they can destroy the other party.

But this is by no means an easy task, because the Pingxia Iron Harrier is still followed by Yokoyama Bubazi.

According to Ruda, this Yokoyama Bu Bazi is simply not like a human, Bu Bazi is a foot army, but it is as fast as flying, and once it fights with the Iron Harrier, it runs all the way from behind.

Although the iron harrier is a little heavy, but after all, it is a cavalry, and the horse is the best war horse, and it gallops very fast, but in this way, Hengshan Bubazi only relies on his legs in the back, but he can do it without being thrown off, and when the iron harrier collides with the enemy and enters the fight, he can catch up with the front to protect it as soon as possible, which shows how strong this army is.

Zhao Ta nodded at this moment and said, "I don't know if the Seed Master Dao has a way to deal with the Iron Harrier?" ”

Luda said: "Lord Wang, the old breed has come up with a way to use a hammer and axe and other heavy weapons to directly hit the horse's belly and ribs, but this first wave of impact is really difficult to bear, most of the time before the shot, the person is knocked out, and there is no chance to use a blunt weapon to hit the horse's body."

Zhao Ta thought about it, but this is also a good method, according to the normal historical development, later when Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others broke the Jin State abduction Ma Tiefutu, they used this method, blunt weapons smashed the horse's ribs, and long knives cut the horse's feet.

However, at that time, the step armor had been fully formed, and it could resist the charge of some heavy armor, but at this moment, where was the complete step armor, and it was not even half as good as the later one.

Zhao Ta said: "Although the old method is feasible, but there is no corresponding infantry armor protection, it is not as good as our army with 10,000 rattan armor soldiers, rattan armor This thing has strong defense and elastic toughness, and when encountering heavy cavalry charges, it can be slowed down somewhat." ”

The characteristics of the rattan armor do make it stronger than many armors, except that the movement is slightly less flexible after wearing, the protection ability in all aspects is actually not weaker than the iron armor, especially the kind of crude plate armor, which cannot be compared with the rattan armor.

However, the long manufacturing time, complex maintenance methods, and high maintenance costs of rattan armor, once damaged, are almost impossible to repair, which also makes it destined to become a mainstream defensive item on the battlefield.

If you don't have money, or even time, you can't afford to play this thing, even if it's the Western Army.

Everyone nodded yes when they heard the words at this moment, and felt that the vine armor soldiers could indeed resist a wave of charges from the Iron Harrier.

But then the doubts came, what is the use of resisting alone, how to break the iron harrier is the most important, the rattan armor soldier is a shield knife soldier, holding a rattan card in one hand and a short knife in the other, this configuration is difficult to hurt the mounted cavalry.

Luda said: "Lord Wang, although the rattan armor soldiers have strong defense, their attack methods are too simple, so the short knife ...... I'm afraid it's hard to cut the feet of the iron harrier. ”

Zhao Ta sighed when he heard this: "This is exactly what I am worried about, I am going to replace some of the weapons of the Vine Armor Army, but I always hesitate whether it is better to change to a long knife, or a hook and sickle is suitable, but no matter what it is, it has to be made new, and I can't use the solid system." ”

This was discussed with Li Yanxian and Xu Ning, and he also considered using a blunt weapon to beat him, but after thinking about it, he still chose a safer long soldier to attack the horse's feet.

The effect of blunt weapon beating is definitely stronger than that of a long soldier attacking the horse's feet, often hitting it squarely, it can shatter the internal organs of the armored horse, and kill it directly, but this method is extremely unsafe for the soldiers, and they may be knocked to the side before they can shoot, so the three of them discussed and gave up this option.

Because there are really few soldiers under him, they can't withstand too much attrition, especially the rattan armor soldiers, if they really want to ride on the heavy cavalry, people will be damaged, not to mention, even the rattan armor is bound to be destroyed.

At present, this 10,000 vine armor is the trump card in Zhao Ta's hand, although he sent someone to Dali to find Duan Siyan before he sent his troops, and wanted to order another 10,000 pairs of armor, but there are also a number of old vines on Dali Mountain that can make armor, and the manufacturing cycle of this thing is long, Duan Siyan replied to him, and he was not sure when it would be completely delivered, it was possible in a year, two years, or even three years, which made Zhao Ta scratch his head a little.

After three years, the daylilies are cold, what is the use of delivering at that time? However, Duan Siyan also said that as long as the number of 100 pairs is achieved, people will send them first, so that a little delivery is better than saving up and sending them together at the end.

But even if it is a unit of 100 pairs, the first 100 pairs may be a year later at the earliest, so Zhao Ta still cherishes the existing rattan armor in his hand in his heart and refuses to waste a little.

When Luda heard Zhao Ta's words, he thought for a while and said: "Lord Wang, my subordinates saw the iron harrier on the battlefield, and looked carefully at its equipment, the vest hung down to the top of the hooves, and under the action of running, the long knife was not easy to cut, or the hook and sickle was more convenient." ”

Zhao Ta nodded when he heard this, how far the Iron Harrier's equipment was covered, it was the doubt in his heart, and it also decided what kind of weapons and countermeasures he wanted to use against the Iron Harrier, he had asked Yuan Guo before, but where did Yuan Guo know, even if Yuan Guo had stayed in Xingqing Mansion, he had never seen this heavy armor, and now there was a description from the person who Lu Da had seen, so it was naturally convenient to deal with it.

"Okay, then switch to a hook and sickle!" After speaking, he looked at Xu Ning.

Xu Ning is a master of hook and sickle guns, not only his marksmanship is amazing, but also he is good at teaching others.

"Lord Wang, since you use a gun, you have to change the size of the gun head and the length of the sickle, and you must hurry up to create a new gun." Xu Ning was busy at this time.

Zhao Ta said: "Hasn't Tang Long arrived yet?" ”

Xu Ning said: "It is estimated that in the past two days, he can't help the broken jade building in Xining, before the army set out, he begged me and the prince to ask for his life, and wanted to make contributions with the army, but I was counted down, and now I think it's better to take it directly with me at that time, so that I can listen to it at any time." ”

Zhao Ta nodded, this Tang Long is Xu Ning's cousin, his ancestors made a living by building weapons, his father was the governor of Yan'an Prefecture, but after his father's death, because of his natural gambling, he lived in the rivers and lakes, and lived in Wugang Town.

That year, Huang Gu stole a large piece of Xuantie from Old Master Huang to play with the Jade Building, and wanted to make a Xuantie sword to use, but because there was no master of making weapons, Zhao Ta thought of this Tang Long.

At that time, Xu Ning was already under his command, and according to the normal development, this Tang Long would later design Xu Ning to earn Xu Ning in Liangshan, Zhao Ta thought that since this was the case, it would be better to get this person over directly, and save those troubles in the future, so he asked Xu Ning to call this Tang Long to Tokyo, and after building weapons for Huang Gu, he made him live in the broken jade building.

But this Tang Long has no other great skills except for striking iron, he is plain and loves to gamble, although he is good at fists and feet, his martial arts are not high, and he has no sense of existence, but he is also Zhao Ta's subordinate after all.

Now that he wants to build a special weapon to deal with the iron harrier, Zhao Ta naturally thought of this Tang Long, so he asked Xu Ning to write a letter to call here, and now it has been a few days, and it is estimated that he will arrive in Huizhou soon.

At this moment, it was preliminarily decided to use the hook and sickle to deal with the iron harrier, Zhao Ta was somewhat relieved, so he dispersed to the hall to discuss, and asked everyone to perform their duties, but Xu Ning and Lu Da were left behind, and let the two of them carefully compare the iron harrier vest shape, and the length of the hook and sickle was appropriate.

A few days later, Tang Long had already come to Huizhou, and he began to open the furnace to make iron and create a special hook and sickle spear head with great fanfare, while the others also hurried to train the army, and the city and outside the city were busy non-stop, and it was very lively for a while.

On this day, after Zhao Ta taught Yuan Ying marksmanship, he sent her to continue to go to the prison to persuade a few people to surrender, and her family wandered to the back garden of the Prison Division.

At this moment, in the middle of summer, but the Hexi Mountains are not so hot, Zhao Ta sat in the small pavilion drinking tea and enjoying the flowers, saw the bees flying and butterflies dancing, coming and going, and suddenly thought of the third stone wall on the island.

According to Shigong Jintai, it is a hidden picture of the ancient martial arts Kunpeng Three Phantom Palms, and the third stone wall corresponds to the Third Phantom Palm.

He found that the current scene was somewhat similar to the third stone wall, but it was a pity that the stone wall was not in front of him, and could not reflect each other.

But looking at it, Zhao Ta couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and a strange look appeared in the depths of his eyes, and he suddenly realized that the stone wall of the Three Illusion Palms was the same, and it was clear that all his martial arts were in line with the vision in front of him.

He couldn't help but get up from the pavilion, walked slowly past the front of the flower garden, and then broke a branch, three feet long, and shook slightly, as if holding a sword in his hand.

Then look at the depths of the flowers, butterflies and bees flying, flowers fluttering with the breeze, small insect wings fanning lightly, Zhao Ta couldn't help but play a swordsmanship.

This sword technique was extremely slow at first, but it only became as fast as a white rainbow in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, those butterflies, bees, and flowers all turned into powder, and the breeze blew and dissipated......

(End of chapter)