Before dawn, the barracks were already busy, the soldiers were burying the pot to cook, the white air was wafting, and the fragrance was coming to the nose.

Zhao Ta ate a bowl of buckwheat noodle soup cakes, a cooking cake, and gnawed two lamb bones, and then went out of the account.

Outside at this time, the flags were waving, the wind was blowing, the sound of armor and weapons grinding was endless, and the black pressure of the soldiers and horses was endless.

The Bai Ba and Bai Zhan brothers saw Zhao Ta leave the tent and hurriedly came over to help him put on his helmet and armor.

After a while, Zhao Ta finished draping, wearing a Xuanqing moon-grabbing helmet on his head, wearing a dark night star-grabbing armor, and on the victory hook bird wing ring, there was a black sun extinguishing spear, covered with half of the Xuanxi robe, and the cyan daze behind him.

He shook the barrel of the gun in his hand, this black sun extinguishing gun is an iron gun, the barrel of the gun is extremely hard, it can't shake at all, only the tip of the gun trembles slightly, if you don't look carefully, you can't distinguish it at all.

This set of armor and weapons was found in the arsenal built by Emperor Taizong when he was a child, and there was a mark next to it at that time, saying that it was left by the iron spear Wang Yanzhang.

Emperor Taizong's arsenal is full of armor and weapons of some famous generals during the Spring and Autumn Turbulent Times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

At the beginning, it was okay, Taizong cherished it, and asked people to wipe and maintain it diligently, but later Emperor Taizong Bintian, and the follow-up officials were not good at martial arts, so they were gradually abandoned.

When it was passed to this dynasty, many of them were rotten and rusty, and they could no longer be used, because this set of armor and weapons on Zhao Ta's body was the most valuable set of them, and it was tightly wrapped and properly raised with oil at that time, so it was well preserved, and it was one of the few that could still be used.

This set of armor can be called treasure armor, ordinary blades and arrows, can not be pierced at all, even if it attacks the gap between the armor links, it is difficult to go very deep, even if it is injured, it is not easy to be fatal, if you want to break this armor, you probably have to sharpen the iron like a clay weapon, or a blunt weapon with heavy force and so on.

And the black sun extinguishing gun is said to be an iron gun, but in fact it is a steel gun, the iron is easy to bend and rust, and it is not suitable for weapon handles at all, but most of the metal heavy rods of weapons are forged with steel and refined.

The head of this gun is different, it is made of black black iron, which is extremely hard and sharp, even if it is an iron plate, as long as it is strong, it can poke a hole.

Zhao Tan sat on a lamp walking alone for thousands of miles, and Li Yanxian came over to report the military situation, he nodded after listening to it, and explained a few words, Li Yanxian went to Du Yan to say, and the army began to move forward slowly.

The cavalry walked in the head, and the two sentinels rushed eastward, acting according to the plan, to copy and provoke the Western Xia army, while the other team charged ahead, and first drove out of the twenty-mile boundary, allowing the infantry to breathe and arrange the empty time.

In Zhao Ta's plan, it was enough for the infantry to only move forward for twenty miles, and then set up some obstacles, no matter how many they were, to make some inconvenience to the iron harriers.

But it's just inconvenient, don't think about digging trenches and the like, it's absolutely too late in time, if you dig in advance yesterday, then the other party's scouts are not vegetarians, it is impossible not to find out, and when the time comes, the trench has become a constraint on their own actions.

The two cavalry teams to the east, Li Yanxian and Xu Ning, led the cavalry of the outpost vanguard, Du Yan, and Zhao Ta and Zhang Xian Luda pressed in front of the Tengjia Army and marched north.

Twenty miles away, it was a road field, with hills and hills on the left, and a wasteland on the right to the Jingsai Military Division, full of gravel, no fields to plant, and few weeds.

At this time, the outpost led by Du Bao had already run away and disappeared, and Zhao Ta immediately ordered the regular infantry behind to go out and arrange an obstacle defense.

The obstacle or something doesn't have to be too complicated, it's just rolling wood antlers and the like, sprinkle some on the wilderness, it can't be too obvious, it's too obvious and the other party is not stupid, the iron harrier is bound to refuse to hit first, but to call the foot to open the way, or other infantry in front, get rid of these things, and their own side is doing useless work.

The infantry army was arranged for about half an hour, and the scouts from the north sent back the first military information, Zhao Ta opened it and looked at it, his eyebrows couldn't help but rise, the Western Xia army had reached half of the journey, and the vanguard led by Du Yan had not yet run out of seventy miles, and had not yet met the opposite side.

Last night, the distance between the two armies was about one hundred and fifty miles, and this scout ran to half of the road in advance, slowly walked up quietly, and as soon as he found that the wind was blowing, he quickly withdrew to report the news.

"Is Du Bao's team running so slowly? It shouldn't be! Zhao Ta touched his chin and thought, he didn't run out for seventy miles, what was he doing? I looked like a rabbit before, and there was no shadow of the legs, but I didn't expect to meet the enemy yet.

But since the enemy army has already run half of the way, then without further ado, this side must hurry up and prepare for war, as for Du Bao's right not to consider, after all, the ranger is mobile, it is extremely difficult to be surrounded and annihilated by the other party, and according to Du Bao's temperament, he will not give the other party a chance to outflank, but I don't know what he is doing with his soldiers and horses at this moment.

After Zhao Ta finished thinking, he began to ask Zhang Xian and Luda to command the troops to line up, at this moment his subordinates were all infantry troops, and the rattan armor was naturally in front, and there was a piece of rolling wood or antler fork next to each one as a cover, which could share part of the cavalry's impact.

And along the left side of the hill, there are ordinary infantry crossbowmen, these ordinary infantry are all wearing cloth armor, no rattan armor and iron armor, not even leather armor, can not be lined in front of the battle, can not hold the blade and the Western Xia cavalry fighting, can only rely on the mountains to fight, once the heavy horse comes, hide and escape in the hills.

But for the current situation, they are already excellent equipment at the moment, you must know that it is almost impossible for an army to maintain all the armor after several major battles, unless it is a victory, not a defeat, and a war to nourish the war, in order to maintain the integrity of the armor.

Zhao Ta has indeed not tasted defeat since he led his troops into Western Xia, so even ordinary soldiers under his command have complete armor and complete blades, and even the captains and battalion commanders are wearing high-grade leather armor, and the guard commanders are all iron armor, which looks like the new army when they first set out on the expedition.

And these more than 30,000 infantry are all lined up at this moment, just to deal with the iron harriers and foot soldiers.

There are 3,000 iron harriers, although I don't know how many Bubazi there are, but Zhao Ta asked Yuan Guo, Yuan Guo said that the total number was about 10,000, and I don't know if all of them were brought, even if Zhao Ta was all transferred by Brother Richard, then it would be more than 13,000 soldiers and horses.

This is the main force of Western Xia that he is currently dealing with, and some other light cavalry and conventional infantry troops are not afraid, after all, after the war, these are going to rush to the front, as long as the iron harrier is destroyed, and the foot is full of feathers, then the other armies will not be shocked and defeated immediately, and they are afraid that they will lose their confidence and fighting spirit, and it will be difficult to fight again.

After the formation of troops was almost finished, he saw Luda jump down from his war horse and said loudly: "Lord Wang, I will go to the front to meet the enemy!" ”

Zhao Ta looked at Luda, Luda did not have rattan armor on his body, but he had iron armor, iron armor was much heavier than rattan armor, which may be a burden to others, but it was nothing to Luda, Luda was born with divine power, and he had more and less burden on his body, the heavier and lighter he was, and he might not be aware of it.

As for the iron armor has no toughness, the rattan armor has toughness, which may be the key to saving the life of the heavy cavalry for ordinary soldiers, but Luda is full of tendon flesh, and the iron armor is attached to the body, and the muscles are elastic, so it is naturally not a problem.

Zhao Ta nodded: "Zhishen is careful, you don't need to rush into the charge, you just need to use the hook and sickle method, just resist the enemy on the spot!" ”

Ruda nodded: "Lord Wang, please rest assured, I just need to kill the Iron Harrier and Bubazi, and don't risk ahead." ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "Go ahead!" ”

Luda grabbed a hook sickle nearly two zhang long, hugged his fists and said, "Lord Wang, then I'll go!" ”

After all, even though he was wearing armor, he was still as nimble as an ape, jumping straight forward, and in a moment he was at the forefront of the hook and sickle array.

Zhang Xian hit his horse at this time and said: "Lord Wang, my subordinates have also marched into the formation, and I also ask Lord Wang Ye to return to the rear handsome flag." ”

Zhang Xian wanted the governor to advance and retreat the whole army, so naturally he couldn't get off the horse, Zhao Tan nodded, and Zhang Xian also went inside, but he moved forward by leaning on the hills, adjusting the position and direction of the soldiers in the formation as he walked.

Zhao Ta looked at it for a moment, turned his horse's head and went back, and went straight to the Shuai Banner, he sent troops to Longyou this time, and did not take the blood-colored guards led by Shen Fei, and the guards of 100 people were all guarding the mansion in Xining City, at this time, there were only a dozen cavalry soldiers under the Shuai Banner, and the Bai Ba and Bai Zhan brothers were also among them.

Seeing him coming, the two immediately greeted the front, Zhao Ta waved his hand, Ma Zhiqi, and said lightly: "Just go to a high place to watch the battle." ”

Then, the group began to move towards the nearby mountain bag......

At this time, just a few dozen miles to the north, Du Yan was galloping forward on the mountain plain with two thousand cavalry, the speed was not very fast, and each horse had a branch tied to its tail.

In this way, the smoke and dust in the rear were swept away, and when you watched from a distance, you couldn't see how many soldiers there were, and at this time, the season was hot and the soil was light, and the dust did not disperse for a long time, and the dust was flying, just like an army of tens of thousands.

As he ran, a scout came to report that he had found the enemy of Western Xia a few miles away, and Du Yan immediately smiled and said: "Sons, go with Ben to see what the iron harrier looks like!" ”

The cavalry behind immediately shouted excitedly.

Du Yan waved the snake spear in his hand, hit the horse and rushed forward, laughing: "Remember not to fight, just run, don't let them catch up!" ”

About five miles to the east, Xu Ning was moving forward with a cavalry, which was to harass the flank position of the Western Xia army, which was also mainly harassment, and did not fight, just to confuse the opponent's army, so that the other party could not figure out how many men and horses there were.

Five miles to the east, Li Yanxian led two thousand cavalry forward, intending to go around to the rear of the Western Xia army and wait for an opportunity to backstab.

But this is not easy, after all, the other party must be scattered around the main army to probe horses, radiating in all directions, and will warn when they see it.

However, this is not an idle hand, and he can't go around and retreat to join Xu Ning, keep an eye on the opponent's flank, and don't ask the other party to use any tricks.

Li Yanxian led the troops to rush forward, about fifty or seventy miles, and suddenly heard the sound of horses running in front of him, and his expression changed greatly, and he hurriedly ordered a defensive and withdrawn formation behind him.

Then, the sound of horses' hooves in front slowed down, and it was obvious that he had also discovered this team, and began to be cautious, and after about a few dozen breaths, Li Yanxian saw that just above the wilderness in the distance, a sentry appeared on the horse.

He hurriedly raised his monocular to take a look, and saw that it was also a cavalry, but there were not very many people, and when he got closer to the other side, he secretly calculated in his heart that this army seemed to be about the same as his side, all of them were one or two thousand.

Putting down the binoculars, Li Yanxian frowned slightly, seeing that the other party should have the same idea, and wanted to go around the rear of the front army to sneak attack, but he didn't expect to collide with his own house.

At this time, the army horse was slower, and seemed to be looking at this side, but it did not look afraid, and still approached forward.

Li Yanxian couldn't help but snort coldly when he saw this, if the other party was too powerful, he couldn't say that his own side would immediately fight and retreat, but it could be seen that the other party's military horses were similar, and the other party was not a heavy armor, they were all ordinary light horsemen wearing leather armor, so there was absolutely no reason to be afraid.

The cavalry under him are all special cavalry specially modified by Zhao Ta, which is more comprehensive than ordinary light cavalry armor, and the weapons are more handy, and everyone is equipped with archers and crossbows.

Li Yanxian saw the military horse approaching, and couldn't help but come to the front of the team with a sword, and shouted: "Where is the team in front of you blocking the way, the heavenly army is coming, don't hurry up and get off the horse and be bound!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the bell ringing in the cavalry formation opposite, and a red horse came out in a row.

Li Yanxian stared here, but saw that it was a female general who came out of the queue, and couldn't help but show a surprised look.

I saw that the female general on the opposite side was born with a face like a crown of jade, eyebrows like a spring mountain, and apricot eyes and autumn waves, which was quite moving.

Then he wears a flying vulture silver helmet, radiant, wearing fish scale fine armor, covered with emerald green woven flower robes, with a silk on his waist, a thin waist and arms, very neat, and a sword is inserted behind his back, which is even more charming under the arm.

Li Yanxian was a little stunned unconsciously, and his heart was so happy that he was jumping around, and for some reason he couldn't stop being rare, so he secretly said to himself, this woman is pleasing to the eye, I have to be captured alive!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "The yellow-haired girl opposite, looking at your female generation, I can't bear to kill you, I tell you, I will be the commander of the army under the command of King Qin of the Great Song Dynasty, and the official residence ...... Gao Pin, there is one less lady in the room at the moment, if you obey the official and become rich for life, I don't know what to do? ”

The female general was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she couldn't help but be so angry that her willow eyebrows rose upside down, her apricot eyes widened, and she scolded: "Song thief! Dare to ask your aunt and grandmother for cheap, you look good! After that, the embroidered big knife in his hand was waved, and he actually rushed up, intending to slash Li Yanxian.

Li Yanxian laughed, rushed forward to dodge a knife, and shouted: "Yellow-haired girl!" What skills do you have, call you a lady, this is the general will lift you, you don't toast, don't eat, punish wine, and move a knife! ”

He also used a big knife in his hand, and slapped the knife sideways with a "woo", and the two suddenly fought in one place.

(End of chapter)