Wang Yu, the Wuzhou observer and commander of the Shengjie Army, put on a scarlet cloak outside his battle jacket, half-wrapping his thick and slightly short body. Tomato △ □ net ○ --'.x'f'q-

Although the genealogy can be traced to several ministers in the Tang Dynasty, but the power eunuchs at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the division of feudal towns, as well as the ruthless killers of Huangchao and Zhu Wen, what kind of family background is also wiped out, if the descendants cannot come out in the imperial examination, then they have to join the army as a "red guy".

Neither from Jiangmen background, nor with powerful relatives, Wang Yu can do a state to observe such a high-quality military minister, firstly, he is also strong in martial arts, and he is well-versed in poetry and books, and secondly, he is also a good time for his luck to be too strange and his life is hard enough, and he caught up with Tong Guan to split the elite of the Western Army and set up another victory in the elite army, so he became Tong Guan's henchman.

Kaifeng people, humble backgrounds, only these two are enough to make the Western Army disdainful, not to mention that Wang Yu is still a private person promoted by Tong Guan and reused specifically for the purpose of splitting the Western Army?

Therefore, in the Liao Army, when the generals of the Western Army met Wang Yu, they were polite but barely greeted him with a sentence and a half, and those who were old in their own seniority simply straightened their chests and pretended not to be able to see it.

Wang Yu also knew that he and the Western Army were not all the way, and he would inevitably be more precipitous and more unsociable.

However, Liu Yanqing, who is now in charge of the Huanqing Army, has taken refuge in Tong Guan's side, and Wang Yu has to express a little bit of Han Zun, who is valued by Liu Yanqing, so with Han Zun's identity as a martial arts doctor and deputy envoy of regimental training, he and Wang Yu are on the bank of the Baigou River, suppressing the Minzhuang team that transports military funds.

According to the military system of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the establishment of the first army was no more than 30,000 soldiers, of which the horse army was only 6,000, and the rest were all foot soldiers.

This is just a number on paper, in fact, in order to deal with Zhao Ji's "peaceful and prosperous era" of "Fengheng Yuda", and in order to let the civilian officials have a few more ways to get started, the central military cutters and local salaries have already become a fait accompli that everyone has the ambition to acquiesce into. The rules of the Great Song Dynasty have always been strong and weak, and the local finances have basically been sucked up by the various transfer divisions, even if the empty salary is not happy. On the contrary, the Metropolitan Gate Control Army justifiably turned the Gyeonggi Army into a private property.

In addition to the front division of the palace in order to fill the façade, the gate control army also selected some tall generals to enter the Tianwu army, the Japanese army, and the arch saint army, and the rest of the military horses known as the gate control army, in fact, sixty percent of them were empty salaries. The remaining forty percent also became the private slaves of the Bianliang Jiangmen, and poured into all walks of life in Bianliang City, whether it was handicrafts or transportation, and even the large granges outside Bianliang City were also taken care of by these nominal Gyeonggi garrisons. This kind of army, which is nominally a soldier, but is actually inferior to a contractor, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's "genius" serf army can be compared to one or two.

The military and politics have become this kind of ghost virtue, and the Western Army has followed suit, and the generals drinking the blood of the soldiers have certainly been the only way for the generals to make a fortune since ancient times, but the Western Army still has to guard against the Western Xia that is already dying and the two states of Lingxia are not coming out, so the empty salary is basically on the auxiliary soldiers and the craftsmen who follow the army to make a fuss.

Therefore, the two cavalry armies of Shengjie and Huanqing brought out by Wang Yu and Han Zun naturally did not have many coachmen and horsemen who were specifically responsible for transporting military funds, and there were not even half of those who were commonly known as "thieves with the army" and were assigned to do hard labor in the army. Under such circumstances, Wang Yu and Han Zun could only set up an envoy through Xuanfu and levy Minzhuang from Xiongzhou to transfer military funds.

Naturally, the soldiers and nobles are the first to move quickly, and the transfer of military funds cannot all rely on the people to push the cart towards the territory of Liao, mainly a few big horse gangs in Xiongzhou, connected with some groups of horse dealers, which have become the free foot force of the Shengjie Army and the Huanqing Army to enter Liao.

The horse gang is no better than the army, these people shuttle between Song and Liao, and they look like serious merchants in the city, but when they get to the wasteland, they may become horse thieves. Even if they have never been horse thieves, the people who run the merchants have some free and loose tendencies, and except for the big shopkeeper of the horse gang, ordinary people really can't command these unruly goods.

This is why Wang Yu and Han Zun have to stare at the Baigou River, several groups of people are mixed together, this order is probably not good, in case these people in the horse gang suddenly make something in the middle of the transfer of military funds for some old grievances, cut off the heads of these thieves and birds, and delay the military situation!

But the truth was far beyond Wang Yu and Han Zun's expectations, whether it was a pack horse full of grain bags or a cart loaded with all kinds of materials needed in the army, it was actually in a regular order, and followed closely after the vanguard army that crossed the frozen river.

Wang Yu, a military general who climbed up from below with both hands and feet, knew very well how important the transfer of military funds was to a military horse, and knew even more about how cumbersome the work of transferring military funds was. The grain officer is conscientious and conscientious, and he only says the word "good" at the top, and he has military merits or something, but he doesn't share much profit. But once something goes wrong, the coaches like to learn the unpopular means of calming the military spirit of Cao Mengde and others, and they want to borrow the first to use it.

Wang Yu left in a hurry this time, and the staff of the Shengjie army's military Sima and other clerks did not bring out a few, and he also knew that these small officials in his army were not such materials that could do things. He glanced at Han Zun, who was beside him, but he was surprised, and said secretly in his heart: "Liu Yanqing is not a top general in the Western Army, and he is only able to lead the troops, but he is not lost, but I didn't expect that there are such talents in the Huanqing Army!"

On the side, Han Zun looked at the transport horse team, and also stared at it for a moment. However, his style was much more straightforward, and he directly stopped a man who ran before and after: "These transfer carts and horses are very orderly!

The man saw Han Zun dressed up, and saw him with an iron-clad head on his head, knowing that there was at least an ambassador in front of him, so he hurriedly said: "Don't hide it from the general, this is the manager of the famous Jade Qilin family in Hebei, and Yan Xiaoyi, the prodigal son of everyone on the rivers and lakes, arranged us together, so as not to miss the major event of transporting grain and grass!"

Han Zun listened to the words "Jade Qilin", and then smiled and said: "Which is the Sprinkle Family Road, it turns out to be the famous Jade Qilin Lu Yuanwai in Hebei! Since it is his family, no wonder there are such good means! You go, as long as you are loyal to the king's affairs, and in the future, you will be able to make a name for yourself!"

The man sold well in front of Han Zun, and he didn't dare to entangle more, so he confessed his guilt and went in a hurry.

Han Zun glanced at the well-organized convoy again, and then smiled at Wang Yu and said: "Wang observes, now that we have crossed the Baigou River, we have never seen a remote horse ridden by one person. The rumored Zhuoyi Erzhou Yizhi should also have seven or eight points true. Now that the back road transfer is so useful, it seems that this time to the north, you and I should make a lot of profits!"

Before he finished speaking, Wang Yu's eyes sank, and the sword on his waist came out of its sheath with a bang, and the horse chopping sword forged by a famous craftsman in Cizhou was extremely heavy, but it rolled up a piece of silver light in Wang Yu's hand, covering Han Zun's whole person!

The sword light flashed, but there was a loud sound of gold and iron, and an axe with a blade not very wide and a handle not very long was just opened by the sword in Wang Yu's hand, and flew out upside down with the blade of the sword, and fell straight to the ground!

Sergeant Song, who was in charge of escorting the convoy at the rear of the convoy, issued the first and final warning: "Enemy attack! Someone is copying our rear road...... Ahh

The screams began, followed by the sound of sharp blades tearing muscles and blunt objects smashing bones.

Han Zun's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw that among the soldiers who were constantly lodging on the back road, short men in dark black armor were wielding broad-bladed heavy axes that were about the same height as them, and swept over like chopping melons and vegetables. Regardless of whether it was a man or a horse or a man with a horse in front of them, this group of dwarf men just waved the broad-bladed heavy axe in their hands, and in the blink of an eye, they cut through the leather armor and cut the flesh and skin, and only the sound of sore teeth breaking under the blade of the axe kept ringing!

Some of the Song sergeants on the back road reacted, and immediately picked up the cowhide drum from behind the saddle and beat the drum desperately to warn. In the sound of the drums, there was also a stack of orders from Wang Yu: "The horse army is forward, press down the transfer cart and the horses must not be scattered! Those who panic and want to disrupt the formation will be killed! The rest will line up in an arrow formation and force these heavily armored Liao soldiers back!"

Although they were shouting Liao soldiers, Wang Yu and Han Zun had only one thought in their minds: "The Liao people have always been dominated by cavalry, when will there be more heavy armor soldiers in battle with giant axes and heavy armor?"

What's more, at a glance, those heavy armored soldiers holding giant axes as if entering a no-man's land were not wearing the most common step armor of Song Liao's foot soldiers, nor were they the Mingguang armor often worn by officers, but they were pieces of heavy armor assembled from fine iron plates with slight arcs, and the iron helmets on their heads that were filled with iron horns and covered their heads and faces looked like moving iron bumps.

A step armor weighs sixty pounds, and a stout northern man can't wear it at all, let alone wear such a heavy armor and wield a giant axe to fight. But seeing that those short men wrapped in heavy armor were only afraid that the heavy armor on their bodies would at least weigh more than a hundred catties, but they could still swing a giant axe and rush into the Song army array like a windmill, such brute force was already terrifying and terrifying, and Wang Yu noticed one more thing at the moment, he just used his sword to open the flying axe, and his own horse cutting sword made by a famous craftsman in Cizhou has already added a gap to the boss!

At this time, Wang Yu's mind calmed down, and he just waved his hand at Han Zunyi: "The enemy is not the Liao, and the Liao's weapons are not so sharp! If it is hard, we will not be able to fight this group of barbarians covered in iron! When the arrow array is shot from a distance, the horse army is disturbed, and these heavily armored soldiers are tired and tired to death!"

Wang Yu's vision can be regarded as old and spicy, like this kind of army wearing heavy armor and fighting with heavy weapons such as giant axes, hammers, maces, etc., the Han family is not absent. It's just that this branch of the army has extremely high requirements for the quality of soldiers and armor and armaments, but except for the frontal battle between the two armies, there is no place to play a role, and it is a chicken rib arm with extremely low mobility and poor price, which belongs to the unique product of the traditional tactical thinking of "throwing a lot of money and fighting a dumb war" in the era of cold weapons.

Since the Renzong Dynasty, the Western Army has been dealing with the Western thieves who rode camels in the Western Xia and the Tibetan tribes in the Qingtang Dynasty who liked to fight in the grass valley, and they absorbed a lot of the style of the Tibetan people in terms of tactics. At this time, this kind of Fan tactic was used by Wang Yu on these heavily armored traps of unknown origin.

Wang Yu's response was already swift, but it would take time for the forwards of the Shengjie army and the Huanqing army to return in time to help, and before the Song army could organize an effective defensive counterattack, the hundreds of heavily armored barbarians had already broken into the chariots and horses that were transporting military supplies!

These people who transferred military funds for the Shengjie Army and the Huanqing Army were originally horse gangs running in the Song Dynasty of Liao. Although Song Liao is about a brotherly state, but there are no major wars on the border, but the conflicts caused by the grass valley are continuous, who dares to run the trade route of the Liao country, who is not courageous, who does not have some unclear blood stains on their hands?

At that moment, a horse dealer shouted, grabbed a bull horn bow, and shot at a heavily armored brute. However, the arrow only deflected off the mirror-smooth heavy armor, and then fell.

On the contrary, it was this kind of resistance that aroused the ferocity of those heavily armored brute soldiers, and I saw a flash of axe light, blood splashes, and the horse dealer broke into two with a bow!

The horse gang is not a military army after all, although everyone has done the things of fighting and making cameo appearances as horse thieves, but at such an overwhelming and sinister moment, the courage of blood and qi comes and goes quickly. Several of the most slippery horse dealers had already looked sideways at the Song army escorted around, and began to make up their minds to slip away:

"What does this have to do with us? It is said to be for the country, but if the horses are scattered, the capital is broken, and the lives are lost, and the government does not have much money to pay for the funeral, this book will be a big loss!"

"There is no Tianzun in the south, there is no Bodhisattva in the south, and we are blessed to escape this catastrophe, and in the second half of our lives, we will eat fast at home, enter the temple and burn incense, and then do not make this business!"

In the midst of this chaos, there was a young horse dealer who was wrapped in a thick leather robe and a frost-proof mask and felt hat on his head, so he couldn't see his original appearance. The young horse dealer, however, was carrying a long package behind him, and was trembling slightly.

The package was sealed very thickly, but there was still a warm current flowing out of the cracks in the package, and in that warmth, there were several extremely light and clear aromas emitted in the cold wind. The horse dealers around this young man, who were originally a little at a loss, smelled the fragrance but suddenly calmed down a few points!