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Chapter 482

The Duhuai River is a silver belt flowing on the Mongolian grasslands. It has raised cattle, sheep and humans in this piece of water and soil. Unfortunately, after a few years, it will eventually disappear on this land with the vicissitudes of the sea and the changes in the earth's climate. It is a very helpless thing.

But now it still has abundant water sources and lush aquatic plants, nurturing the creatures of this generation.

At this time, a cavalry army walked slowly downstream along the Duhuai River.

"Commander, Brigadier Wang Guixiang is here."

Li Dingguo was commanding the troops to move forward, when the scouts came to report, Li Dingguo was a little taken aback when he heard this, and said, "Where is it, I'm going to see Brigadier Wang."

Now that he has entered the system, some rules still have to be followed. Li Dingguo himself was born in the military, and he knows the importance of the discipline concept of superiority and inferiority in an army. up.

You can be crazy outside the system and disobey the organization in various ways, but if you have entered the organization and want to ignore everything and refuse to obey anyone, then it will not work.

If you don’t believe me, look at Sun Wukong, when he was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he was so crazy that none of the gods in the sky could catch his eyes. The majestic Jade Emperor was just a Jade Emperor in his mouth.

But after learning the scriptures, his attitude has almost undergone a 180-degree change. The Jade Emperor is no longer an old man, and the star king in the sky can talk to people politely.

Some people say that Sun Wukong has changed too much before and after, but those who have experienced officialdom or some large-scale workplaces should understand the changes before and after. It is not that people are different, but that their positions are different, so people become different.

Li Dingguo is like this, now he is only the head of the regiment, isn't it a kind of provocation to be rude to the brigade commander?

So Li Dingguo wanted to take the initiative to meet the ceremony, but why Li Dingguo and Wang Guixiang didn't act together was because Li Dingguo started from Shaanxi and rushed directly from Xuanfu to the Duhuai River Basin, so it was faster than coming from Guihua City.

Moreover, this strategic plan is divided into two parts. The first part is to find the logistics transfer station of the Tartars. Secondly, after the logistics transfer station of the Tartars is attacked, the Tartars will definitely bring troops back to aid as soon as possible. At this time, a team is needed. The troops cut off their return aid midway.

So this time the main division of labor was that Li Dingguo's cavalry and Wang Guixiang's cavalry were the main force to find the Tartar's logistics transfer station and destroy it. Li Chaohu led a large army of 5000 people to ambush halfway, and caught the Tartars by surprise.

As for why Li Chaohu only brought 5000 people, the main reason is that Guihua City also needs to be defended, and everyone cannot be brought out. Otherwise, if the Tartars kill their carbines and attack Guihua City, or the restless Mongolian forces on the grassland. Attacking Guihua City is a threat to Guihua City.

Guihua City, as Lantian's most important bridgehead outside the Great Wall, absolutely does not allow any mistakes, so Li Chaohu only brought half of the troops out of the city, of course, half of the troops is enough, after all, the large army of the Tartars is still in Daming. Traveling around, there are not many people left to support the logistics, only a few thousand people.

Li Dingguo tidied up his brand-new Lantian military uniform, and rode a horse not far away, only to see a huge cavalry unit parked in the distance. There were more than a thousand cavalrymen, and these cavalrymen sat lazily on their horses one by one, as if they were not awake.

But Li Dingguo could tell at a glance that these were definitely the elite of the elite.

The skin color of these cavalrymen is generally darker than that of Lantian people, which is obviously caused by living on the prairie for a long time and being exposed to strong ultraviolet rays.

These cavalrymen have a lot of equipment on their horses, but it can be clearly seen that the horses these people ride under their crotch are all BMW horses, and they don't look very tired while carrying the cavalry and a suit of equipment.

These cavalrymen prepared three kinds of weapons, a carbine produced in Lantian, this kind of carbine was also equipped by Li Dingguo regiment, and it was the latest model, which was more high-end than these cavalry equipment. In the event of a conflict, the cavalry in my hand must not be able to defeat the cavalry in front of me.

In addition to the carbine, the cavalry also had a saber. Needless to say, the saber is indispensable. After all, no matter how powerful the musket is, there will be times when the muskets are in hand-to-hand combat. So the best thing to use at this time is not a gun, but a saber.

When fighting hand-to-hand, muskets are not as good as burning sticks.

In addition to these two, the most conspicuous thing placed there is the compound bow.

The compound bow is the most important equipment of Wang Guixiang's cavalry brigade, even more important than the musket. It is not a problem for this army to have no musket, but it cannot do without the compound bow.

Although the carbine is easy to use, it is too inconvenient to change the bullets immediately, so Wang Guixiang's cavalry brigade will only use the carbine when the distance is far away, and replace it with a compound bow when it is close.

The strongest tactic of Wang Guixiang's cavalry brigade is the kite tactic. With the powerful mobility of the cavalry and the ultra-long-distance shooting of the compound bow, the enemy is beaten like a mouse.

Over the years, Wang Guixiang's men fought against the Mongols on the grasslands, against the Tatars who fled to the grasslands, and even dealt with the Uzbek, as well as the Tatars who came from Liaodong to spy on the military situation.

After encountering Lantian's cavalry brigade, these ethnic groups who were supposed to be on horseback were all honest and honest, and they were collapsed by the kite tactics of the Lantian cavalry brigade many times.

Of course, the Lantian Cavalry Brigade also suffered casualties during this period. After all, these Mongols and Tatars also have some talents, especially the Tartars. I don’t know if it’s the so-called blessing of the gods. more than other nations.

This may be the destiny, just like in the Three Kingdoms period, there were four famous generals, and one of them was brave enough to be unworthy, and there were countless people with a force value of [-] or higher.

And there are quite a few masters like Tartars, and Tartars even gave these people who are skilled in bowing and horses a famous name, Condor Archers.

What is an eagle shooter? It is a ruthless person who can draw a hard bow on a horse and shoot down all the big eagles in the sky.

But even if such a ruthless person came to the grassland and near Guihua City, he was hunted and killed by the Lantian cavalry, and more than one of them.

Of course, such masters have hunted and killed a lot, and the Tartars also know that Lantian is terrible, so they no longer send eagle archers to investigate the situation in Guihua City. After all, eagle archers are also considered a rare resource here in the Tartars. It can be regarded as the existence of Batulu, who died tragically in the city of Guihua, and did not bring back any information, which is considered a waste.

This is the strength of this army, an existence on the grassland that is more ferocious than the Tartars and Mongols.

Li Dingguo looked at the team in front of him, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, he didn't expect Lantian to have such a terrifying cavalry on the fort.

"alert!"

Li Dingguo was thinking on this side, and suddenly he heard someone in the cavalry brigade yell, and the next moment all the cavalry were stupefied. Unsheathed, his eyes fixed on Li Dingguo who was about to approach, and an invisible murderous aura fixed on Li Dingguo.

The hairs on Li Dingguo's body stood up, it was a feeling of being stared at by a beast.

"My own, my own, rest, rest."

Just when the cavalry were on alert, a man who seemed to be the leader waved his hands and said, "Everyone, rest, it's okay, our own people, our own people."

Speaking of this, the man rode his horse to Li Dingguo, saluted him and said, "Hello, Commander Li, I'm next to Zhang Haoke, Lieutenant Commander Wang."

Upon seeing this, Li Dingguo immediately replied, "Adjutant Zhang, where is Brigadier Wang?"

Hearing this, Zhang Haoke said: "It's resting. The brothers have been driving for a day and a night, and they are all very sleepy. Take a rest and sleep for a while."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo pointed to the surrounding soldiers and said, "Are all brothers sleeping on horseback?"

After hearing this, Zhang Haoke said: "Well, this is the basic skill of our brigade. Let alone a standing horse, it is a running horse. Some of us can sleep, but sleeping on horseback can only be done temporarily. Resolving sleepiness is not a means to relieve fatigue for a long time."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded and said, "So that's the case, I've been taught."

Zhang Haoke said: "Come on, Commander Li, let's go see the brigade commander."

As Zhang Haoke said, he led Li Dingguo around the cavalry who were resting in front and came to the back. Wang Guixiang was sitting on a big rock at this time, beating his knees with both hands. This horse had been riding for a long time, and its legs were injured first. no.

This down-to-earth feeling is still very comfortable.

"Brigade Commander, Li Dingguo, Captain Li is here."

Zhang Haoke looked at Wang Guixiang guiding Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo saluted, "I have seen Brigadier Wang."

At this time Wang Guixiang stood up and returned a salute: "Li Dingguo, hahaha... I heard from the brothers in Lantian a long time ago that there is a hero Li Dingguo in northern Shaanxi. It is really lucky to meet him today."

Li Dingguo didn't expect Wang Guixiang to treat him so politely, so he smiled and said, "Brigade Commander Wang is very polite."

Wang Guixiang smiled and said, "Why are you being polite, you are called a hero out of youth, hahaha."

As the two sat down, Wang Guixiang rubbed his legs and said, "I've been riding for too long, and I like the feeling of stepping on the ground. My county lord once told me that our cavalry is very good, but we are not down-to-earth." what.

Hearing Wang Guixiang's words, Li Dingguo chuckled, followed by his adjutant Zhang Haoke, who brought two bowls of hot mare's milk and said, "Use it slowly, both of you."

Wang Guixiang smiled and said: "Come on, Dingguo, we don't have anything to eat when marching and fighting, just make do with this mare's milk, don't dislike it."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo laughed and said: "What do you dislike? When I was fleeing famine in northern Shaanxi, if I could drink a sip of mare's milk, I would be so beautiful, hahaha..."

Said that here Li Dingguo took a sip of mare's milk, and there was actually tea in it, Wang Guixiang said: "Our cavalry has been in the grassland for a long time, and it is difficult to eat vegetables. The county lord said that we lack some vitamins, so he thought of using hot The method of making tea with mare’s milk is supplemented, let alone it works.”

Li Dingguo laughed and spit out the tea leaves in his mouth when he heard this, but Wang Guixiang took a mouthful of mare's milk, chewed the tea leaves in his mouth and swallowed them.

Seeing Wang Guixiang eating tea, Li Dingguo felt a little admiration in his heart. These men stationed on the grassland are real warriors, and they should be the most elite troops in Lantian.

Li Dingguo thought, Wang Guixiang had already drank a bowl of hot mare's milk into his stomach at this time, and then picked out two dried yaks from his bosom, handed one to Li Dingguo, and began to chew on his own.

When the food was almost finished, Wang Guixiang looked at Li Dingguo and said, "How are you doing, have you gained anything these days?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "We have searched along the upper reaches of the Duhuai River for the past few days and have not found the location of the transfer station for the Tartars. The transfer station of the Tartars should be near here, or downstream, because the Tartars have come to the river to fetch water."

After hearing this, Wang Guixiang said: "Well, if we find large-scale horseshoe prints, it means that we have entered the living area of ​​the Tartars. Next, we only need to spread out enough cavalry scouts, and we will definitely find the Tartars in transit. Standing, this is a good thing, at least it proves that our general direction is not wrong."

Wang Guixiang said, Li Dingguo said: "That's right, I have sent more than 100 scouts to look for it this morning, I think there will be news soon."

Wang Guixiang heard this and said: "Well, the Huaihe River Basin is very large, and more than 100 scouts are not enough. In this case, I will send another 200 people, and let's do a carpet search."

"Carpet?"

Li Dingguo didn't understand the meaning, Wang Guixiang said with a smile: "You still have a short time with the county lord. After a long time, you will know what it means. The carpet is that kind of wool blanket. The so-called carpet search is to rush towards the wool blanket. , leaving no dead ends.”

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "So that's the case, it's quite image."

The two were talking, and Wang Guixiang said: "Come here, find two hundred scouts to search downstream along the Duhuai River."

"Yes."

After hearing this, the adjutant immediately went to find [-] experienced scouts. In terms of scouts, these cavalry scouts who had been in Guihua City for a long time were the most powerful. He is very familiar with the environment here, and even when encountering enemies, in a one-on-one situation, he might not lose to these Tartars who obviously have physical advantages.

When the cavalry was sent out, Li Dingguo said a few more words to Wang Guixiang, and then left Wang Guixiang's camp. As soon as he left the camp, Wang Jiadong greeted him and said, "How is it?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "Lantian County really has hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and this Wang Guixiang is very human."

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong laughed and said, "This is a good thing. The more experts there are, the easier it will be for us to fight."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo smiled and said: "That's right, let's go back and get ready. We have found the Tartar transfer station, so we can show our skills."

Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "Okay, that's exactly what I mean."

(End of this chapter)