Zhang Xian and Zhu Wu put their soldiers and horses on the main road on the northwest side of Xinzhou, which is the only way to go north to Fulin and south to Taiyuan.

A large number of military horses must go here, and the cavalry cannot go here, this line runs north and south, vertical and horizontal, but there is no other choice but to pass here.

Xinzhou was not guarded by Jin soldiers, and after looting and scraping the ground, it was directly abandoned, after all, there were few Jurchens, and it was impossible to occupy all the cities along the way.

This is also the main reason why the Jurchens did not occupy Kaifeng in the end, but instead stook countless money and goods to return to the north.

At this moment, Xinzhou is almost empty, except for some people who really have nowhere to go, and those who are physically sick and disabled, they have already run away.

Most of them went to Taiyuan for temporary refuge, and a few went to other places.

Zhang Xian and Zhu Wu finally discussed, if Wanyan Lou's room was really as decisive and far-sighted as Zhao Ta said, he would go south one step earlier, and he would definitely go to Xinzhou first.

So they studied intercepting in the northwest of Xinzhou, and in order to avoid losses, the two hit it off and decided to set up a formation to meet the enemy.

Zhu Wu is a master of formations, although Zhang Xian knows more about ancient formations, but when it comes to the mysteries and mysteries in the middle, there are thousands of changes, but Zhu Wu is stronger than Zhang Xian.

Since he was a child, Zhu Wu has not been busy in the years since he went up the mountain, except for the sophistication of people and dealing with Wu Yong, he is practicing the formation.

The formations he has learned are very complicated, and there are dozens of new formations that he has created over the years, both large and small, ranging from dealing with hundreds of people to tens of thousands of people.

And Zhang Xian has also created several formations in the past two years, except for the one used in Western Xia, and he has created the most proud work at the moment, called the Ten Thousand Army Destruction Array.

This is a large array, which can deal with 10,000 people, or tens of thousands of people, depending on how many soldiers are in the formation, it is more ruthless than the one used in Hexi before, so it is called destruction.

He immediately talked about this formation to Zhu Wu in detail, and Zhu Wu was overjoyed after hearing it carefully, and said that he also had a similar one, which was similar to each other, and it was really the same avenue.

He took out his own one, which turned out to be called the Zhujun Killing Array, and the two of them compared, and sure enough, they took the same road, with the same strengths and characteristics, but the disadvantages were not the same, just to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and fuse a perfect army-breaking array.

The two of them continued to discuss, and finally synthesized a new formation, called the Ten Thousand Armies Destruction and Killing Array, referred to as the Ten Thousand Armies Killing Array.

Then the drill was arranged on the official road in the northwest of Xinzhou......

After listening to the report of the three-hundred-mile scout, Zhao Ta couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

It turned out that many girls were found in the territory of Taiyuan City, and they were really suspicious.

The so-called suspicious soldier means that he doesn't know where he came from, where he went, and what he did.

The scout said that there were about three or five horses, and the number was not much, but it was by no means a horse, a few thousand eight hundred, and a large number of thousands, all of them were elite horsemen, and some of them were not wearing leather armor, but were wearing iron armor.

Normally, ordinary cavalry wear leather armor in order to pursue flexibility and convenience and the speed of coming and going like the wind, and Zhao Ta's modification of his own light cavalry is just to inlay some iron sheets and steel sheets in the vital places outside the leather armor, not full body armor.

But the scout said that the Jurchen suspicious soldiers actually had full body armor, and this was no longer a light horse.

A name popped up in Zhao Ta's mind, and it was the three characters of the kidnapper horse.

Could it be that this medium cavalry has also come out?

Zhao Ta's eyes narrowed, and in his memory, the abducted horse was the existence of the exclusive wing guard of the Iron Floating Massacre, and when the Iron Floating Slaughter charged, the abducted horse protected its left and right wing directions.

In the battle between Zhu Xianzhen and Tiefutu, Zhao Ta didn't see the kidnapping horse, and thought that this kind of medium-sized cavalry had not been created by the Jurchens, but he didn't expect that there was already one.

In fact, if you think about it, Wanyan Zongbi can bring 10,000 Tiefutu to Tokyo, and Wanyan Zonghan can't have anything special, so this kidnapping horse should be his most important means.

The kidnapping horse is not a light horse, nor a heavy horse, but a medium cavalry, the kidnapping horse has no complete equipment, only the person is wearing armor, but the horse body is no other protection except for the horse's eye and the horse's belly.

The human body is wearing a very light and thin steel armor, this thin steel armor is also called piercing armor, and the general wears a chain armor different, because the pursuit of light weight armor is not rigid, flexible activities, so the various parts of the armor are not locked together, but tied up with a tendon rope, and there is a slight elasticity between the movements.

This kind of piercing armor has a variety of parts such as a headband, a stump, a shawl, a garment, a body armor, etc., which is generally composed of one or two hundred iron armor leaves, and the weight usually reaches about seventy Song catties, which is converted into more than eighty catties in later generations.

This kind of armor is not as protective as normal chain armor, but it is more than ten times stronger than leather armor, leather armor can only protect against some arrows that have lost their strength, or knives that have been blunt, and the defense against other weapons is minimal, and the damage reduction is almost negligible.

But this kind of piercing armor can be defended against all weapons, even if it is a blunt weapon that breaks ten times with one force, it also has some effect.

Although the horse is not protected by armor, the horse's head is wrapped in leather, and only the eyes are exposed, and the horse's belly is the same, which has more survivability than a normal war horse.

This kind of medium cavalry design is very targeted, that is, it rushes to restrain light cavalry, and it can also be heavily armoured.

The extra seventy or eighty pounds are actually nothing to the cavalry, after all, unlike heavy armor, which has an extra weight of several hundred pounds, and the cavalry can withstand these more speeds as long as they select some slightly better war horses.

Zhao Ta's expression was a little gloomy, the previous plot was wrong, because of the battle of Zhu Xianzhen, I only saw the Iron Floating Massacre, but I didn't see the Kidnapping Horse, and I thought that this kind of cavalry Jurchen was not created, after all, the thin armor also requires a certain amount of technical content and craftsmanship, the Jurchen originally did not have these, and the real appearance of the Kidnapping Horse and the Iron Floating Slaughter were actually in the Southern Song Dynasty, after the Jurchen had a certain accumulation.

But now it has all of them, apparently it has completely inherited Liao's forging technology, and it has been integrated and developed again in a short period of time, and even the skills have exploded, so it appeared early.

A wise man thinks a thousand times, there must be a mistake, Zhao Ta shook his head self-deprecatingly.

Originally, from the fact that Tiefutu did not have a kidnapping horse to protect the wings, it was judged that the other party's abduction horse was not made, but there was actually no problem, because these two things were originally complementary to each other.

The abducted horse was born in response to the Iron Floating Massacre, and its characteristics of restraining light cavalry were actually to prevent the enemy's light cavalry from bypassing the Iron Floating Massacre from both wings to attack the Chinese army.

It's like the relationship between Iron Harrier and Hengshan Bubazi, but who would have thought that these two would be separated, one was used by Yan Zongbi, and the other was used by Yan Zonghan.

Perhaps it was the result of a compromise between various forces within the Jurchens?

Originally, the clarity of the struggle between the various forces of the Jurchen should have been after the death of Wanyan Wu Qimai, but the sudden backstab of Wanyan Agu back then had been used as a catalyst to imperceptibly advance this kind of struggle, so ...... Zhao Ta touched his chin, should this be a good thing?

He ordered the army to be suspended and stationed in place, and before he had figured out how to deal with the kidnapping horses, he could not easily rush in, after all, according to normal logic, the number of kidnapping horses must be more than that of Tiefutu.

According to conservative estimates, since the Jurchens can afford to be equipped with a money-burning heavy armor like the Iron Floating Massacre reaching tens of thousands, then the abducted horses will be at least twice as large as the Iron Floating Massacre, 20,000 or even more.

Under the kidnapping horse, the kind of light cavalry he modified, there is no advantage at all, and there are fewer men and horses than the other party, so he has to find other ways to break the enemy, instead of colliding with the opponent with one mind......

At this time, Xu Ning led the army straight to Shizhou, Shizhou was in the west of Hedong Road, and formed a triangular position with Fulin Erzhou and Taiyuan.

The Jurchens did not attack Shizhou, and after all the border cities were down, they rushed south from Xinzhou to Taiyuan, which gave the Zhe family a chance to breathe.

The Zhejia family accepted a part of the Western Army that had been defeated back from Yandi, and the Yandi West Route Army was not like the East Road, where there were only more than 20,000 people left, who were brought back by Chong Yanchong and Wu Jue, but were divided into several parts, and most of the people who did not die ran back one after another.

Among them, there are those who defect to Linzhou, those who defect to other states, and those who defect to Taiyuan are the most, with nearly 10,000 numbers.

As for the generals of the Western Route Army, the casualties were also very heavy, but they were stronger than the Eastern Route Army, Yao Gu, Yang Keshi, Yang Weizhong, He Xu, Wang Yuan, Jiao Anjie, Liu Guangguo, Cookie, Ji Jing, Wang Yu, Wu Zihou and many other handsome generals were killed in battle.

Xin Xingzong's two younger brothers also died on the battlefield, but the seed master and Zheyan came back, and the three major generals and some young men from other families also ran back, unlike the East Road, only Chong Yanchong and Wu Jue were seen.

This actually proves that on the one hand, there is too much difference in strength with the Jurchen army, and on the other hand, it is also the evil result of wanting to compete for merit when he was in Liao.

Before the sixteen states of Yanyun were recovered, Emperor Daojun thought about dividing them into two roads, Yanshanfu Road and Yunzhongfu Road.

And the northwest generals have been multiplying for a hundred years, and there are many children of each family, even if the territory of Wulujiahe East Road is very large, but the actual location is just like that, and it will not change because of the territory, so this looks like the two roads of Yandi that are going to be extra are immediately stared at by the various generals, and they all want to stuff their own children in.

The Great Song Dynasty served on the side of the road, it is not enough to rely on the background, you must have military merits, even if you fold, breed, and Yao are the same, it is impossible to get ahead without military merits, so before the start of the war against Liao, a large number of generals entered the army, and after the sixteen states of Yanyun, many of them did get official positions.

But the Jurchens seized the Yan land, the Song army was defeated, these children who had positions in their bodies were miserable, even if they really had some skills, they were useless, the defeat was like a mountain, the rout of more than a thousand miles all the way, some of the battle deaths were seen by others, it was good to have news results, many of them died in the chaos of the army, and the people around them were also killed in battle, and finally no one was born, and no body was seen.

Before Xu Ning left, Zhao Ta analyzed these situations for him, so that he had a good idea of the situation of the Western Army at the moment, and in addition to contacting Shizhou, if time permitted, go to the Jinning Army to meet the division in person, and let him go to Taiyuan with him.

The Jinning army is a little more west of Shizhou, and the two are not too far apart, but the two families are not combined, but they are doing their own thing.

The breeder brought back seven or eight thousand men and horses from Yan, harassed the Linzhou area from time to time, and counterattacked Fuzhou several times, but all failed.

Xu Ning was not familiar with the road to Hedong, and under the leadership of the two brothers Zhiwu and Zhigang, he went westward in a roundabout way, and ran for an unknown amount of time, and also collected some guerrilla rebels along the way, before finally approaching Shizhou......

After Yan Lou wrote a letter to Bali, he sent people to Linzhou overnight, and in the early morning of the second day, he began to order the burning of the city.

Although Fuzhou is not the capital of Hedong Road, nor is it the largest, the fortifications in the city are the most Hedong Road, even more than Taiyuan.

Most of these fortifications are built of wood, dry and flammable, and the houses at this time are mostly wooden, and the general folk houses are also adobe, but the large mansions of a little higher scale, many of them are wooden, and after Yan Lou's room gave an order, in a short time, the entire Fuzhou city was reduced to a sea of fire.

Then he took people out of the city, originally wanted to gather the speed of pulling out of Linzhou in the west, after all, there were only a few soldiers and horses at the moment, only five thousand, but after groaning, he felt that the soldiers were fast, they were all cavalry, or the faster the better, even if he encountered the Song soldiers who were scattered, he could also crush the past, even if he could ask to come and intercept it, it was not his opponent at all, take 10,000 steps back, even if he didn't want to fight, his horse was fast, and he could still do it if he walked around.

Thinking about this, he no longer waited for the speed, and set off directly to the south and went to Xinzhou.

This is the fastest way, if you go west to the Jinning army and Shizhou, then it will be far more than half, and the two places are occupied by the Song army at the moment, and they will also be obstructed, not to mention how much time can be delayed.

As for going east to Daizhou, it will be more than half, and it will even be necessary to take the road of multiplication, and there is no need.

The distance from Fuzhou to Xinzhou, if the cavalry marches, it can be almost reached in a day's work, but his subordinates are not like ordinary cavalry, all of them are fast horses, they set off early in the morning, and they are already close to the thirty-mile boundary of Xinzhou City in the afternoon.

At this time, Tanma came back to report, saying that Xinzhou was ten miles away with flags and flags, and there were gongs and drums, as if a Song soldier was blocking the way.

Wanyan Lou Room frowned when he heard this, and immediately asked someone to take the map to watch, the terrain of this Hedong Road is complex, high in the northeast and low in the southwest, and the terrain is mainly mountainous and hilly, which almost occupies most of it.

Moreover, many places are covered with loess, the mountain plateau is undulating, and the river valley is vertical and horizontal, and the landform is very rugged and difficult.

Wanyan Lou room while looking at the map look a little hazy, this Xinzhou ten miles away is the most complicated place in the round, originally this side of the mountains vertical and horizontal, east of Taihang, south, west, north also have mountains, no less than a dozen.

In addition, there are several big rivers, there are Fenshui system and Hutuo River, and ten miles north of Xinzhou City is not only a main road, but also a dangerous road.

"But what banner does the Song army play over there?" Wan Yan Lou asked the scout lightly.

"General, it's barely legible, it should be a Chinese fold."

"Fold the word ......" Wan Yan Lou Room slightly relaxed his eyebrows, if it is the Fold family, it is better to say, I am afraid that the soldiers from the Tokyo side of the Song Kingdom will go north, but it is a little unlikely, the soldiers and horses on the Song side should be in a hurry to relieve the siege of Taiyuan, how can they still divide the troops here.

With this done, he ordered the scouts to probe again, and then commanded the army to slowly move forward. (End of chapter)