On the embankment by the river, dozens of corpses were soaked, turned white, and began to rot.
The long hair floats in the water, swaying with the waves like water plants, which is particularly scary.
This was left behind after the last time the bandits crossed the border, but in January, the bandits came again...
It was also retribution. After walking for dozens of miles along the Red River, the rebels discovered that there were corpses upstream. Therefore, although the camp was stationed at the mouth of the Red River, the water had to be drawn from the Ru River ten miles to the north...
The walls of the two farms were filled with rebel soldiers, each with their bows drawn and spears raised, as if they were facing a formidable enemy. There were hundreds of horsemen parked under the walls, all stationed facing west, looking up with their heads raised.
The smoke in the distance has dissipated, and the three hundred white cavalry have long disappeared, but neither the cavalry nor the infantry on the wall dare to relax their vigilance.
This is three hundred armored cavalry!
Within thirty steps, if an arrow hits the knight's white armor, it will be bounced away?
What else could it be if it wasn't steel armor?
Look at the buckle on the knight's head, the saber on his waist, the square shield on his chest, the faceplate, breastplate of the war horse, etc., all of them reflect the cold light... They are simply made of iron. How can we fight this battle? And all of them are riding big Rouran horses, not to mention the pack horses, not even a shorter pack horse can be seen.
If they hadn't heard these people shouting in Guanzhong dialect from a distance, the rebels would have thought that the Rouran cavalry was coming.
Where did Jingzhou get such powerful soldiers?
It's a shame that before the expedition, both the general and the military strategist lied that the white armor was filled with wood...
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"Where did such a powerful enemy come from?"
In the manor, in a hall that was smoky and exposed to the wind, a tall and thin monk said the same words, his eyes full of surprise.
Definitely not county soldiers or county soldiers.
In the past two months, the rebels have marched through the six counties and seventeen counties of Jingzhou. Ninety-nine percent of the counties have left the city to fight. The guards on the city did not even dare to shoot an arrow down. It is as if they are leaving here right now.
Jingyang City, less than twenty miles away:
In the huge county city, the soldiers hid behind the battlements, not even daring to show their heads...
The group that was led to Chaona County suffered a loss. We never heard of the rebels encountering any obstacles wherever they went, let alone any strong enemies.
Not surprisingly, it was still the same wave of enemies. The rebel army that broke into Chaona last time encountered enemy troops wearing the same white armor as the cavalry today.
But according to the defeated soldiers who escaped back, the total number of enemy troops was only three hundred, and the cavalry was less than one hundred. Were both men and horses wearing wooden armor?
Suddenly it became a perfect match. Where did it come from?
The monk was talking to himself there, while two men wearing fish scale armor stood next to him, looking like rebel generals.
These are two uncles and nephews. The uncle's name is Li Wenzhong and the nephew's name is Li Ji.
The prophecy that Liu Huiwang relied on when he raised his army: "The Liu family is reviving, and the Li family will be the assistant." The "auxiliary" in it refers to the Li family, not the Li family that Li Song mistakenly thought... p>
The uncle and nephew are looking at a corpse on the ground.
This is the armored cavalry that Li Wenzhong sent out just an hour ago. He originally wanted to capture the one hundred white cavalry, but unexpectedly, another two hundred cavalrymen suddenly showed up, each of them equipped with armor, horse, and bow, and strong arrows?<
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Our cavalry is only half-armored, and the horses are not covered with even a piece of linen. There is no way to match such a powerful enemy, so we can only retreat.
Even so, they were all chased by white cavalry, and dozens of them were lost...
This one was shot through the neck with an arrow from behind by an enemy horseman who was chasing him. By the time the horse ran back with the body on its back, the blood was almost dry...
The two looked at each other for a long time before Li Wenzhong shouted coldly: "Pull it out..."
Li Ji squatted down with a sad face, broke the arrow shaft, and took out the arrow.
When he took a look in front of him, his expression changed slightly: "Uncle, it's really a border army..."
Li Wenzhong did not respond, but took the arrow and looked at it with a gloomy expression.
The arrow head is thin and long, about one finger, and the whole body is in the shape of three shuttles.
Looking at the arrow shaft again, it is very heavy. It is actually oak wood that is rare in Longxi... This is obviously an armor-piercing arrow!
Although it cannot penetrate iron armor, it is extremely powerful against leather armor, horses, etc. It is a standard equipment used by border troops in various towns to deal with Rouran people...
But why does it appear in this place?
"Not the border troops!"
Li Wenzhong shook his head categorically, "Without an order from the imperial court, the border troops would be guilty of complicit in treason if they mobilized troops internally... Moreover, I had never heard that the border troops had changed their uniforms, and all of them were wearing white armor, and everyone was wearing iron armor."
Shield, saber?"
"If it wasn't the border army, where could such a powerful force come from, and why did they use such heavy arrows?" Li Ji asked with a look of surprise.
"I don't know either, but they are definitely not soldiers from Liangzhou... Firstly, the road is far away, thousands of miles away. Secondly, if they are really soldiers from Liangzhou, why are they hiding in Chaozhou? They have already sent troops to Jingzhou..." p>
Li Wenzhong sighed sadly, and seeing his nephew's slightly frightened look, he felt angry again in his heart.
He was not angry at Li Ji, but at Liu Huiwang.
The damn bald bandit actually deceived himself by saying that there were only three hundred enemy bandits at most. They were probably formed by county soldiers, and the white armor they wore was all made of pine wood.
The reason why the rebel army was defeated was that they were caught off guard...
Just because I believed what he said, I thought that with nearly a thousand cavalry and four thousand Wu soldiers, wouldn't it be easy to capture the three hundred county soldiers?
I also blame myself for insisting on leaving some escape route. I am worried that if the imperial court becomes too powerful and things go wrong, I can retreat to Liangzhou. I can also flee south or north to Tuguxi or Rouran. But the premise is that the passage from Jingzhou to Liangzhou must be opened, so I volunteered and asked for help...
Now that it's better, the retreat has become a dead end?
Li Wenzhong pondered for a moment, and then he made a decision in just two or three breaths: "For the present plan, the only way is to avoid its sharp edge and retreat to Wu Zhi!"
Monk Faming exclaimed: "We didn't even fight, but General Li was... about to withdraw?"
The monk almost blurted out "I was so scared".
"The white cavalry is fully equipped with men and horses. It's just a word from the general's subordinates. Neither you nor I have seen it with our own eyes. What if it's a lie because he has no intention of facing the enemy?
Furthermore, even if there are only three hundred men and horses, General Li leads an army of five thousand, and ten against one, it should be a victory, right?"
Li Wenzhong was so angry that he laughed, what the hell do you know?
The opponent's equipment is so strong, but he still advances and retreats in a controlled manner. He is not busy when attacking and does not panic when retreating. The general who leads the army is obviously a person who knows his troops.
How could such a person be the first to meet him and send out all the troops at hand?
The 100 in the early stage were clearly scouts, and the 200 later were the vanguard. God knows how many Chinese troops were behind?
If the opponent is all armored cavalry of this kind, and the Wu soldiers formed by forcing and deceiving them, even if they are twenty against one, they will only end in a disastrous defeat...
How could you, a monk who only burns incense and worships Buddha, imagine the power of such powerful soldiers?
But Tutu, the thief, had been given Liu Huiwang's orders to monitor him. Several of his monks were military leaders and brigade commanders, so he couldn't fall out with him just yet...