Water Margin people

"Report, General, enemy reinforcements are coming from the other side of the mountain range! There are about three thousand heavily armored soldiers."

A soldier ran into the barracks to report.

"Are you coming?"

Lu You was not surprised, because the enemy was waiting for reinforcements at the foot of the mountain.

"I gonna go see!"

Xin Qiji immediately became interested when he heard it, but he had no interest in modifying the ship's anti-aircraft guns at all.

"It's too far. If your army gets there, the enemy will have already discovered it!"

Lu You shook his head.

"I'll just take a small team with me! I'll just go and take a look, I won't fight yet!"

Xin Qiji said that it would definitely not be possible for his large army to charge over there, but it would be no problem for a small group of people to go over there.

Lu You frowned slightly, feeling somewhat uneasy. If Xin Qiji got impulsive, he might act like a general on the battlefield and disobey orders, and lead dozens of people to attack the enemy's formation.

"Okay, take care of yourself."

Lu You looked at Xin Qiji and gave him instructions.

"Don't worry, bro. I know."

Xin Qiji patted his chest and promised.

But the more Xin Qiji said this, the more worried Lu You became. It was as if he was giving up on that news and that promise.

Lu You didn't say anything else. Xiao Jiasui's intention in sending Xin Qiji over was very clear, which was to let him go out and not cause trouble in the military camp.

Xin Qiji was overjoyed and selected a hundred people and crossed the river to the north.

"General, did General Xin bring too few people?"

A lieutenant general looked at Lu You and said, there are tens of thousands of enemies over there.

"He knows what to do!"

Lu You waved his hand. Although Xin Qiji was reckless, he was not a fool. The one hundred soldiers around him were armed to the teeth. If these soldiers wanted to leave, the enemy could not stop them.

After crossing the river, Xin Qiji headed north along the path. His target was the enemy's heavily armored infantry.

There are plains between Venice and the Alps. They used to be large tracts of farmland, but with the spread of the Black Death and the coming of war, these fields have become deserted.

"Such a good place is left barren, these people are really wasting it!"

Xin Qiji said with great sorrow that the terrain here was flat, the land was fertile, there were mountains and flowing water, and it was difficult to find such a good place even in the Central Plains.

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On the mountain roads of the Alps, there was a constant sound of metal clashing, and the heavy cavalry was slowly advancing.

These heavy infantrymen were dressed in shiny armor, wrapped tightly from head to toe, and held weapons such as swords, axes, and hammers in their hands.

"Are these the enemy's heavily armored infantry? They look similar to the Xianzhen Camp!"

Xin Qiji was standing on a hillside, watching with a telescope the heavily armored infantry marching in the mountains. These people were wearing heavy armor and walking very slowly.

"They march without taking off their heavy armor. How scared are these people?"

A soldier said, heavy armored infantry only wear heavy armor when fighting, so isn't it torture to wear it while marching?

“These people are not simple!”

Xin Qiji said as he looked at the heavily armored infantry.

"What did the General find out?"

Everyone looked at Xin Qiji and asked.

"Look at these enemies. Although they walk slowly, their steps are steady. How far have they come? And they are still able to maintain this pace. How can these people be simple? I'm afraid that the Xianzhen Camp is just like this."

Xin Qiji pointed at the enemy in the distance and said.

The soldiers then realized that the enemy must have walked thousands of miles and was still able to march normally. Their physical fitness had already crushed most people.

"Also, if you look closely, these people are very tall and strong, almost seven feet tall!"

Xin Qiji spoke.

The conscription system of the Song Dynasty in the early years had clear regulations on the height of soldiers, requiring applicants to be between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 5 inches (1.8 meters). "Really! How come they are all so tall?"

The soldiers said in surprise, because the distance was too far, they had not noticed the height, these people were generally a head taller than them.

"Giant troops?"

The soldiers looked solemn. If it came to hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield, height and weight would give them an absolute advantage.

It’s not that there were no soldiers in the Qi army who were nearly seven feet tall, but these soldiers were assigned to different teams and were not concentrated like this.

"I don't know how defensive these armors are. Can they be penetrated with one shot?"

Xin Qiji began to think, and he was already thinking about how to defeat these enemies.

"These armors look very thick and shiny, and there are also iron shields! I'm afraid they are difficult to penetrate!"

One of the soldiers spoke.

"The armor of the Crusaders last time seems to be similar to this, just a thin layer, and a shot will make a hole in it."

Another soldier spoke up and said that they had killed so many Crusaders last time and they had also carefully studied the enemy's weapons and armor.

"Why think so much? Just try a few and you won't know."

Xin Qiji spoke.

"We understand!"

The soldiers immediately understood what Xin Qiji meant. They had followed Xin Qiji for so long, so they immediately understood what Xin Qiji meant.

The soldiers quietly approached the heavily armored infantry, and near a valley, Xin Qiji led the soldiers to the enemy's rear.

"It's getting late, and the enemy needs to rest too. Just get a few of them in the rear and leave!"

Xin Qiji gave orders to the soldiers.

The soldiers immediately moved forward with daggers in hand.

The heavy infantry had begun to rest. These Westerners had no habit of setting up camp, they just lit fires and sat around them.

At this time, the heavy armored infantry also took off their helmets and began to chat around the campfire.

Some people ate and drank too much and thought about going to the toilet. As soon as they left the team, their necks were slashed by a sharp knife and then dragged away. All traces on the ground were wiped out.

Soon, there were eight corpses of heavily armored infantrymen in front of Xin Qiji.

"Great, let's go and try it out!"

Xin Qiji was very satisfied and immediately took the corpses away.

After passing through a forest, Xin Qiji tied the bodies of the heavily armored infantrymen to the trees and started shooting with a gun.

"General, they've penetrated all of them!"

The soldiers spoke up after checking, and found that the armor was full of holes, and the bullets had penetrated into the dead bodies.

"These Western armors look thick, but in fact their defensive capabilities are average. They are OK against swords, but they are a joke against guns."

Xin Qiji looked at the holes in the armor in his hand. Experiments proved that these heavily armored infantry were a joke in the face of truth.

"Let's go to the mountains and take another look!"

Xin Qiji lost interest in these heavily armored infantry and decided to go to the mountains to collect more intelligence.

“Ding ding ding… ding ding!”

A soldier immediately started sending a message using a portable telegraph to report the situation here.

"General, Military Advisor Xiao told you to be careful."

The signalman spoke immediately.

"Okay, let's go!"

Xin Qiji laughed and led his people away.

In the early morning, the heavy armored infantry gathered and prepared to set out, but the news that eight people were missing spread quickly. The officers immediately began to get up, but these eight people seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Unable to find anyone, the team had no choice but to continue marching, but everyone was in high spirits. (End of this chapter)