"Send troops? Have you really decided to send troops?" Orihiko said in disbelief.
For a month, Liu Guangshi stayed in Wulun Village without moving. Zhe Yanzhi always thought that Liu Guangshi was timid and cowardly! Unexpectedly, now he heard the word "send troops"!
"When I, Liu Guangshi, come to the battlefield, why don't I send troops? Don't you want to act with us? Let's go!" Liu Guangshi laughed.
"Okay! Let me see if your Liangshan army is as powerful as the rumors say!" Zhe Yanzhi snorted coldly.
To this day, Zhe Yanzhi still lacks trust in the Liangshan Army! The main reason is that Liu Guangshi's "cowardice" impression is so deep in his heart that he is full of contempt for the entire Liangshan Army!
He followed Liu Guangshi out. Outside, Liangshan soldiers had prepared armor and weapons for him! He put on Liangshan's plate armor, waved the Liangshan saber in his hand, and said: "I'm not used to using swords, give it to me."
Change your weapon!"
Liu Guangshi nodded. After a while, someone took an iron gun. Zhe Yanzhi took the iron gun in his hand, waved it, and said with a smile: "This is a good thing for killing enemies!"
The two of them walked outside with a few soldiers, and Zheyan asked: "Since you Liangshan are going to send troops, why don't you gather now?"
Liu Guangshi said: "We have already gathered and are waiting for you!"
"Oh?" Orihiko couldn't believe it!
Generally, when the army gathers, it will inevitably make a loud noise! Especially for cavalry, it is common for people to fall over when they gather! In the past, when he was in the Western Army, as long as the army gathered, the entire city would be awakened! But now, he followed Liu all the way.
When Guangshi came out, he heard no sound at all. How could this be soldiers gathering?
"Nonsense!" Orihiko said secretly!
When he and Liu Guangshi arrived at the square of Wulun Village, they discovered that countless cavalry were already standing here! Except for the occasional commotion of the horses, there was no sound at all!
"This..." There was an expression of extreme shock on his face!
He carefully observed these Liangshan cavalry and found that all of them were one man and two horses! When he was in Fuzhou, he had heard that some cavalry in the north were like this! But in the Song Dynasty, no cavalry could do this.
One person and two horses! The Great Song Dynasty did not have its own horse-producing areas, and most of them had few horses. Generally speaking, even generals may not have their own horses! In the specialized cavalry team of the Western Army, there were often two or three people and one horse.
, during the battle, one person is the cavalry, and the other two are dedicated to serving the horses!
"Humph, you guys in Liangshan are really rich!" Zhe Yanzhi sneered.
In the Song Dynasty, because there were few horses, the price of horses was extremely expensive! For example, the war horses in front of you cost at least 30 taels of silver each. These nearly 20,000 war horses required hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! Therefore, Zheyan
When I said this, I was filled with jealousy!
"The north produces horses. After we defeated the Liao Kingdom, the number of horses exceeded 500,000! Now there is no shortage of horses in Liangshan!" Liu Guangshi said with a smile.
"Let's go!" Orihiko said coldly.
Someone over there brought Zheyanzhi's war horse over, which Liu Guangshi specially prepared for him! Zheyanzhi turned on the horse, and he gently stroked the hair on the horse's neck. He felt extremely happy! This horse was his first
Riding on it for the first time, it turned out to be so well-behaved! Moreover, this horse has a huge body and must have good physical strength! Such good horses are extremely rare among the Western Army. He had never ridden such a good horse before when he was in Fuzhou!
"Brother Zhe, do you still like it?" Liu Guangshi laughed and moved forward. Zhe Yanzhi snorted coldly and followed Liu Guangshi toward the front!
Behind them, the sound of thousands of horses galloping sounded! Ten thousand cavalry were heading north!
Along the way, you can only hear the sound of horse hooves, but rarely the sound of people talking!
They went all the way north and arrived at Hongde Village in the middle of the night! Early the next morning, they arrived at Xingping Fort! This Xingping Fort was originally built by the Song Dynasty, but during the war between the Western Army and Xixia more than ten years ago,
This Xingping Fort is occupied by the Xixia people! There are currently 5,000 Xixia troops stationed in Xingping Fort, and more than 20,000 armed civilians on the Xixia border are also stationed in this Xingping Fort!
In fact, when Wulun Village was just captured, the Xixia garrison in Xingping Fort was also in panic. They were afraid that Liu Guangshi's army would continue to move north! But since then, Liu Guangshi's army has been staying in Wulun Village, one after another.
It's been over a month, and Liu Guangshi's army has not moved! Therefore, the Xixia garrison in Xingping Fort is now extremely lax!
When Liu Guangshi's 10,000 cavalry suddenly arrived, the defender of Xingping Fort was shocked! He hurriedly ordered his soldiers to guard Xingping Fort! However, Liu Guangshi's cavalry only passed by Xingping Fort and did not attack Xingping Fort at all!
By the time Liu Guangshi's cavalry had roared away,
Only then did the guard of Xingping Fort react. He hurriedly ordered his soldiers to pursue him! Xixia is also a land of horses, and the 5,000 defenders also often mounted cavalry. Now these 5,000 cavalry began to chase the Liangshan cavalry! It’s just that the Liangshan cavalry was too fast.
, now it’s 10 miles away!
"General, they have gone far! Do we still want to pursue them?" a captain from Xingping Fort asked breathlessly.
"Chase! Of course we have to chase!" the guard of Xingping Fort said anxiously.
There are countless Xixia villages behind them, and there are countless party people there! If they just let the Liangshan army go, I am afraid that the people in the villages behind will suffer! So now, even if he abandons Xingping Fort
We must also pursue the Liangshan army!
They kept chasing after them, but Liu Guangshi's cavalry didn't stop at all!
In the evening of that day, they passed by Papaya Fort again! There were more than 3,000 soldiers in Papaya Fort! The guard of Papaya Fort immediately ordered the soldiers to pursue the Liangshan Cavalry!
On the morning of the third day, Liu Guangshi's army passed by Lepan Town again. At noon that day, they passed by Hedao Town!
They kept going north, passing more and more fortresses and forts, and more and more pursuers behind them! Gradually, the number of pursuers reached 40,000! Twenty thousand of them were from Xixia
The army, and the other 20,000 people are Dangxiang people on the border! The Dangxiang people are a race of horses, and many Dangxiang people have horses in their homes, so they are all cavalry behind them!
"Liu Guangshi, what are you going to do? Now there are more and more pursuers behind us, and they will catch up with us sooner or later!" After staying on the road for several days and nights, Zheyanzhi was extremely exhausted, and now he was angry.
road.
"Don't worry! Our Liangshan warriors all have two horses, and our horses are the horses with the best endurance carefully selected! For the time being, they can't catch up with us!" Liu Guangshi said.
"They will catch up with us sooner or later!" Orihiko said coldly.
At this moment, he was angry and afraid. They had rushed into the Xixia Kingdom so rashly. If they were surrounded by the Xixia army, they would be dead! He really didn't understand how Liu Guangshi used his troops! Before, Liu Guangshi kept asking him
Bragging about how strong Liangshan's army is and how high his military capabilities are seems to be a joke now!
"Come here, notify Wang De! Let him lead 5,000 troops to the east and burn all the villages and fortresses in the east!" As night fell, Liu Guangshi suddenly issued an order!
As his order was issued, in the shortest time, his army was divided into two parts! 5,000 of them followed Wang De towards the east, while Liu Guangshi himself took the remaining 5,000 people in a surrounding hill.
Hidden!
After they hid, the soldiers hurriedly rested, and the horses also rested here! At this moment, except for the sound of people eating and horses chewing grass, they could no longer hear any other sounds.
"What on earth are you going to do? If you don't run away now, you are asking Wang De to lead people to burn down the villages in Xixia?" Zhe Yanzhi lay beside Liu Guangshi like a dead fish while cursing in a low voice.
"I asked Wang De to burn down the villages in Xixia in order to lure all the pursuers behind us!" Liu Guangshi said.
"What about us? Shall we take the opportunity to escape back?" Orihiko asked.
"Ha...what nonsense are you talking about! We have spent so much effort to get here, is it just to let Wang De attract the rest of the people, and we escape back? Do you think this is possible?" After several days of traveling, Liu
Guangshi was also exhausted, but at this moment he was laughing dumbly.
"Then what are you going to do! Tell me quickly! I've had enough!" Orihiko said sternly.
"Let's rest all night! Tomorrow morning, after the troops and horses have regained their strength, we will go to Tiandu Mountain!" Liu Guangshi said with a smile.
"What? Tiandu Mountain!" Zheyanzhi was surprised again.