Da Wei Chun

Chapter 114
North of Jingyang City, Honghe Bay.

Dozens of bubbling, whitish corpses that had begun to decompose lay on the embankment by the river.

The long hair floated in the water, swaying with the waves like water plants, which was extremely terrifying.

This was left after the bandits crossed the border last time, 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 full of rebellious soldiers, all with bows and spears, as if they were facing an enemy. There were hundreds of horses parked under the walls, all of which were stationed facing west, looking up.

The smoke and dust in the distance had dissipated, and the three hundred white cavalry had long since disappeared, but no matter whether it was the cavalry or the infantry on the wall, they still did not dare to relax their vigilance.

This is three hundred armored cavalry!
Within thirty steps, the arrow hit the knight's white armor, and it was bounced away?

What else could it be if it wasn't steel armor?
Look at the pockets on the knight's head, the saber on the side of the waist, the square shield on the chest, the visor and breastplate of the horse, all of which reflect a cold light... They are all made of iron, how can this battle be fought?
And all of them are riding big Rouran horses, let alone rough horses, not even a shorter pack horse.

If they hadn't heard these people shouting Guanzhong dialect from afar, the rebels would have thought it was the Rouran cavalry attacking.

Where did such a heroic soldier come from Jingzhou?
It's a shame that before the expedition, the general and the military adviser still lied that the white armor was made of wood...

……

"Where did such a powerful enemy come from?"

In the manor, in a burning, smoky and exposed hall, a tall and thin monk said the same words, his eyes full of surprise.

Certainly not the county soldiers and county soldiers.

In the past two months, the rebels have traveled all over the six counties and seventeen counties of Jingzhou. Ninety-nine out of ten counties and counties, not to mention going out of the city to fight, the guards on the city dare not even shoot down an arrow, just like leaving here now. Jingyang City, which is less than twenty miles away:

In the huge county town, the government soldiers hid behind the battlements, not even daring to show their heads...

The one that was led to Chaona County suffered a disadvantage, and never heard of where the rebel army went or encountered obstacles, let alone a strong enemy.

Not surprisingly, it was still the same wave of enemies. The rebel army that turned against Chaona last time was also wearing the same white armor as those cavalrymen today.

But according to the rout soldiers who fled back, the enemy army was only three hundred in total, and the cavalry was less than one hundred. People and horses were all wearing wooden armor?

Suddenly he became a well-rounded man, where did he come from?

The monk was talking to himself, and beside him stood two men wearing fish-scale armor, who looked like generals of rebellious soldiers.

These are two uncles and nephews, the uncle is called Li Wenzhong, and the nephew is called Li Ji.

The prophecy that Liu Hui and Wang relied on for his army: "The Liu family will be revived, and the Li family will be the assistant." The "assistant" in it refers to this Li family, not their Li family that Li Song mistakenly thought...

The uncle and nephew were looking at a corpse on the ground.

This is the armored cavalry that Li Wenzhong sent out an hour ago. Originally, he wanted to take down the one hundred white cavalry. Who would have thought that the other party suddenly appeared with another two hundred cavalry, each with armored horses and strong bows and arrows?

The cavalry of one's own side is only half-armored, and the horses are not even covered with a piece of sackcloth. Where is the opponent of such a powerful enemy, they can only retreat.

Even so, they were all chased by the white rider, and dozens of riders were damaged...

This one was chased by an enemy cavalry who shot an arrow through his neck from behind, and when the horse came back carrying the corpse, the blood was almost drained...

The two watched for a long time before Li Wenzhong shouted coldly: "Pull it out..."

Li Ji squatted down with a sad face, broke the shaft of the arrow, and took out the arrow.

When he put it in front of his eyes, his face changed slightly: "Uncle, you are really a frontier soldier..."

Li Wenzhong didn't respond, but took the arrow and looked at it with a gloomy expression.

The arrowhead is thin and long, with about one finger, and the whole body is in the shape of three shuttles.

Looking at the shaft of the arrow again, it was very heavy to handle, and it was made of oak wood which is rare in Longxi... This is clearly an armor-piercing arrow!
Although it can't shoot through iron armor, it is extremely powerful against leather armor and horses. It is the standard equipment used by the border troops in various towns to deal with Rouran people...

But why is it here?
"It's not a frontier soldier!"

Li Wenzhong shook his head resolutely, "There is no imperial court order, and the border generals are complicit in the crime of transferring troops internally...and I have never heard that the frontier troops have changed their outfits, and all of them have been replaced with white armor, and everyone is equipped with iron armor." Shield, saber?"

"If it weren't for the frontier 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, but it's definitely not Liangzhou's county soldiers... One is far away, thousands of miles away, and the other is really Liangzhou soldiers, why hide there? They have already sent troops to Jingzhou..."

Li Wenzhong sighed sadly, seeing his nephew's faintly frightened appearance, another wave of anger arose in his heart.

It was not Li Ji who was angry, but Liu Huiwang.

The damn bald bandit actually lied to himself that there were only three hundred enemy bandits at most, probably formed by county soldiers, and the white armor they were wearing was all made of pine wood.

The reason why the rebels were defeated was because they were caught off guard...

It was only after I believed his words that I thought that with nearly a thousand cavalry and four thousand five soldiers against three hundred county soldiers, wouldn't it be easy to capture?
I also blame myself for thinking about leaving some way out, worrying that if the court becomes too powerful and things go wrong, I can retreat to Liangzhou, and I can also go south or north to Tuguhu or Rouran.

But the premise is that the passage from Jingzhou to Liangzhou must be opened up, so I volunteered and asked for orders...

Well now, the way out turned out to be a dead end?
Li Wenzhong groaned for a while, and after only two or three breaths, he made a decision: "For the current plan, we can only avoid the edge and withdraw to Wuzhi!"

Monk Faming exclaimed: "He didn't even fight, but General Li was... going to withdraw?"

The monk took a chance and blurted out "I was scared out of my wits".

"White Cavalry is well-armed, it's just a claim by the general's subordinates, you and I haven't seen it with our own eyes, what if it's a lie that he has no intention of meeting the enemy?

What's more, even if there are only three hundred men and horses, General Li has five thousand troops. With ten enemies and one enemy, it should be defeated, right? "

Li Wenzhong was laughed out of anger, what the hell do you know?

The opponent's equipment is so strong, but still advances and retreats with certainty, not rushing when attacking, not panic when retreating, the general who commands the army is obviously a person who knows how to fight.

How could it be possible for such a character to send out all the troops in his hand when he met him for the first time?

The one hundred in the early stage were clearly scouts, and the two hundred after that were the pioneers who opened the way. God knows how many Chinese troops there are behind?
If the opponents are all armored cavalry, with the five pawns formed by coercion and deception in their hands, even if they are twenty against one, it will only end in a disastrous defeat...

You, a monk who only knows how to burn incense and worship Buddha, how could you have imagined how powerful such strong soldiers are?
But this thief bald was given Liu Huiwang's intention to monitor him. Several monks under him are military leaders and brigade commanders, and they can't turn their faces for the time being...

(End of this chapter)