The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 233 Three Rivers and Five Schools
Liu Ming clearly wanted the city of Qinghe County, but he rushed out of the county with his soldiers.

This was indeed beyond Shi Le's expectation, but Shi Le dealt with it quite well. First, he asked the archers to shoot arrows at Liu Ming's army to hinder the opponent's advance.

However, this only slightly hindered the speed of Liu Ming's soldiers. After all, Liu Ming's troops were wearing armor, which made the damage caused by the archers to Liu Ming's soldiers negligible.

But what Shi Le wanted to do was only to briefly block it with archers. He decisively asked his subordinates to carefully select Buddhist soldiers who accepted Fotucheng's teachings to attack.

The vast majority of these people are fanatical believers who are not afraid of death. In a war, as long as they are considered enemies of the Buddha, they will dare to risk their lives to fight the opponent.

Shi Le tried to create a special unit jointly with Fotucheng. If the results were good, Shi Le also planned to conduct large-scale training.

After all, Shi Le could not find an ideological concept that could resist Han nationalism.

Because around the Han people, no nation can create a sufficient sense of honor for its own nation like the Han people.

His own Jie Clan had no choice, and since the Jie Clan had no choice, Shi Le naturally had no choice but to start with religion.

For Shi Le, there are really too few choices he can make. Now that he finally has a religious thought that can at least ideologically resist Han nationalism, he should not worry about so many things for now. If he can use it, use it first. Bar.

And Shi Le also put a lot of effort into these Buddhist soldiers. Although their level of armament is naturally not as good as Liu Ming's war department, these Buddhist soldiers are brave soldiers who are not afraid of death. At least they can hold up Liu Ming's troops. army.

As long as Liu Ming's momentum can be sustained, it will be enough for Shi Le.

Now that he was outnumbered, he immediately asked Guo Ao and Zhao Lu to each lead an army to attack Liu Ming in a pincer attack.

Under the attack of these three war departments, Liu Ming felt that his army's front line was inevitably turbulent.

After all, the soldiers under Liu Ming's command wore only scale armor and held only Mo Dao in their hands.

The scales on the armor will fall off, and the blade on the Mo Dao will have gaps. After all, it is not an invulnerable monster.

But even so, Liu Ming still did not waver and commanded his soldiers to move forward step by step, as if Liu Ming did not want to delay Shi Le, but just wanted to penetrate Shi Le's army by himself.

But in fact, when Liu Ming's entire army was blocked by the fearless Buddhist soldiers and could not advance for even half a minute, Liu Ming lost the chance to kill Shi Le's army.

What Liu Ming is doing now is just as he originally said, but it is just to delay!

At this moment, a scout came over and reported to Shi Le, "A large number of cavalry appeared in the south!"

"Cavalry?!" When Shi Le heard this, he immediately said to Shi Ta next to him: "You lead your own cavalry to stop the opponent's cavalry. Hold it for half an hour, and I will kill Liu Tai's cavalry." The army annihilates!”

"Yes!" Shi Ta heard Shi Le's words and planned to lead the cavalry to stop the attack.

However, Shi Le quickly said to Shi Ta, "If you encounter that kind of cavalry wearing armor, stay away from me!"

Shi He nodded repeatedly when he heard Shi Le's instructions. Shi Le would definitely want to learn from the heavy cavalry that Liu Tai created to charge into the battle.

After all, for Shi Le, the cavalry themselves were the top ones, but Liu Tai brought out a heavy cavalry force, which had an absolute crushing advantage on the battlefield. He had to understand everything he said.

But Liu Xia was separated from the main force of Liu Tai's legion in terms of training and food, so Shi Le really couldn't get any information.

He could only try to restore it based on the words of some of Wang Jun's defeated soldiers, but he only built armor that covered the whole body of the warriors and soldiers, which blocked Shi Le.

You must know that the armor required by heavy cavalry requires a certain degree of flexibility, but it can also be carried by the soldiers and horses. According to the steel standards of this era, basic steelmaking is the entry-level technology, at least for Liu Taiyi At the beginning, steel-making technology was also used.

But the heavy cavalry can be said to have condensed the technological crystallization of the entire era. Let Shi Le rely on his craftsmen to build one piece of armor purely by hand. Two pieces of armor are reasonable, but he wants to use hundreds of steel to make a hundred or two hundred pieces. Armor, let’s not mention the steel filling technology first. The simplest thing is whether there is enough pig iron!

The quality of Shi Le's craftsmen was actually no worse than Liu Tai's, but the foundation of the entire system was much worse than Liu Tai's.

Just like the technology of blast furnace ironmaking, it is a blessing to be able to forge pig iron in Shile's hands.

For Liu Tai, he invested his resources in coal from the beginning so that he could find stable and sufficient energy.

With sufficient energy and higher temperature, even if the blast furnace is used to make iron, the quality, output, and efficiency of the pig iron forged by Liu Tai will be stronger than that of Shi Le.

If Shi Le wants to build heavy cavalry, building a few heavy cavalry is the limit. After all, other places require a lot of steelmaking.

With limited resources on hand, using Baidu Steel on weapons is more efficient than using it on armor.

But for Liu Tai, with the careful mining and application of coal and the successful breakthroughs in various steel technologies, his efficiency has become very high whether he is producing steel or forging steel into various appliances.

In the end, the essence of this world is just to throw stones farther and boil water faster, so as long as you start with the energy and materials themselves, the technology you need can be quickly realized at high temperatures.

So he arranged for Xijian to develop the coal resources in Tangshan and asked Ge Hong to analyze the elemental properties of steel.

The Coal and Steel Company built by Xi Jian continuously provides high-quality coal. The element properties analyzed by Ge Hong allow the front-line craftsmen to better understand the principles of things. The effects of this have been effectively fed back to themselves. of military strength.

For Shi Le, Baishang Steel was extremely precious, but for Liu Tai, steel with the same strength could produce more than ten tons of molten steel every day.

If plate armor were not too bulky and did not meet Huaxia's pursuit of both dexterity and armor, I could wholesale plate armor myself.At least in terms of the production process, fish scale armor is more cumbersome than plate armor.

This is also true. In Shi Le's view, Liu Ming's army must have been built with Liu Tai's hard work.

But in fact, fish scale armor has long been the standard equipment of Liu Tai's army. Except for one army, Yueqi!

At this moment, when Shi Ta led Shi Le's cavalry, which was constantly being replenished like an undead army, on the horizon, he saw the fastest cavalry under Zhou Ping's command, Yue Qi!
The position of Yueqi is similar to light cavalry, so they are the only army that does not wear fish scale armor and chooses leather armor.But if we underestimate them because of this, then any cavalry who encounters them will suffer!
Because although the Yueqi were positioned as light cavalry, Liu Tai used the volley tactics of the Mongolian cavalry to build them.

Zhou Ping did not object to this, and even went to find horses with excellent endurance, soldiers with excellent riding and shooting, and armor-piercing arrows that even Liu Tai's fish scale armor might not be able to completely defend, and filled a three-arrow pot with them. .

In addition to the armor-piercing arrows, they only had three special steel knives around their waists. These scimitars determined that they could only use the cutting method to attack a certain corner of the opponent's formation like a dragonfly touching water. to attack.

But in general, this is not needed, because the salvo itself is enough to make people uncomfortable!

Shi Ta, who was charging forward at this moment, originally thought that Yue Qi would fight him head-on.

But in fact, Wei Xiong only walked to a suitable distance and fired the first wave of arrows. The entire army made an almost ninety-degree turn and ran in another direction.

Shi Ta's army actually suffered such a wave of arrows. The cavalry were more or less wearing leather armor. Although they were somewhat injured by the armor-piercing arrows, they could still withstand it. After all, none of the soldiers who went to the battlefield had yet to suffer. hurt.

As long as the opponent's armor is excellent, the damage caused by ordinary arrow rain is quite limited. Even if the cavalry uses armor-piercing arrows, it cannot change the armor's excellent defense and damage reduction against arrows.

However, soldiers wearing armor and helmets can only sustain limited damage, but under such a covering rain of arrows, there must be an unlucky man or an unlucky horse who suffered a big loss under this rain of arrows.

This made Shi Ta feel unparalleled anger, and without any hesitation, Shi Ta said: "Chase!"

Shi Ta led the elite cavalry to pursue Wei Xiong's army. Wei Xiong turned around and ran away without any hesitation. There was only a slight hesitation, but it was all a misjudgment of the frontal combat effectiveness of his cavalry.

Wei Xiong ran away decisively, but because he chose a horse known for its patience, the carefully selected explosive horses of the Shita Cavalry almost closed the distance with Wei Xiong at an extremely fast speed, and it seemed that they could catch up at any time. superior!
At this time, although the horses of the Weixiong cavalry were still running, they turned their heads and shot arrows towards the sky. Only God knows how many arrows they could hit. As for the lethality, it was even more mysterious.

But it is undeniable that this sudden arrow still affected the speed of the Weixiong cavalry to some extent, hindering them slightly and slowing down their speed.

Shi Le watched as the gap widened, and felt that he had run far enough. He asked the soldiers to stop slowly, and planned to let the cavalry go. He would go back first and continue to guard Shi Le's flanks!
The next second, another wave of arrows fell from the sky. Originally, Shi Shi didn't care. After all, what soldiers are afraid of arrows these days?

But immediately, bursts of wailing sounded, because these were not arrows at all, but crossbow arrows!

Each crossbow arrow is longer than a human arm and thicker than a thumb. This kind of crossbow arrow is simply not something that armor can withstand.

If a person is hit, he will pass directly through his body, and if a horse is hit, he will be directly pinned to the ground.

He thought he was just taking a breath, but the other party keenly seized the opportunity to catch his breath and gave him this blow.

The next second, a group of cavalry rushed out. He originally thought it was a group of horse archers that returned.

But in fact it was not, but an army wearing fish scale armor, rushing over from the flank at this moment!

At this moment, the army was in chaos. Shi Shi didn't even have time to command the entire army. The generals of the opposing army came at him with their horse spears.

Shi Ta fought in a hurry, unable to show his strength beyond six or seven points, and was directly stabbed to death by Ge Xin!

This cavalry is in complete chaos!

"The Yue cavalry pursues! The Tun cavalry retreats! The army continues to advance!" Zhou Ping gave the order decisively.

Liu Tai looked at the soldiers of the Shesheng Camp, who were more or less out of strength after shooting the arrows, and asked Zhou Ping, "How many arrows can this kind of crossbow shoot with the soldiers' physiques?" "

Zhou Ping heard Liu Tai's words and replied, "This kind of crossbow requires one person to draw the bow, one person to set the arrow, and one person to shoot the arrow. Normally, with the soldiers' physique, if they take turns to bear the rebound force of the soldiers, they should be able to withstand six arrows."

As for more, the soldiers would have to fight with their lives, because their bodies would be difficult to bear at that time. "

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded and said to Zhang Ping, "I understand, let's continue attacking Shi Le, Liu Ming is still waiting for us!"

Without any hesitation, Zhou Ping followed the path of Yueqi's pursuit and led the entire army towards the battlefield.

But in this brutal pursuit, Liu Tai finally saw the power and terror of Yue Qi.

Facing the fleeing cavalry at this moment, Yue Qiu seemed to be a patient hunter, chasing after them unhurriedly, and the arrows in his hands began to work at this time.

Arrows shot out one after another, reaping the lives of the last deserters. If any of the deserters' horses stopped, they would decisively pull out their sharp blades and slash them directly on the bodies of these cavalrymen. The next second, other cavalrymen would cover the tops. One knife.

The speed of the army never stopped, but the fallen enemy had been torn apart even to the bones.

As long as these deserters are overtaken by the cavalry, they will definitely be slaughtered. However, if they escape, they can keep a small distance at the beginning, but as the horses' endurance is exhausted, they are still overtaken by the Weixiong cavalry.

Either armor-piercing arrows or scimitar blades, these deserters were hunted down at zero cost. It can only be said that this army is really suitable for hunting down. Only the cavalry with good horses under them fell in this escape. I saw Shi Le's army!

"Help...save...save..." These cavalrymen saw Shi Le as if they were seeing the savior.

At this time, Shi Le looked in disbelief at the Jingqi who had just run out. How could he come back in defeat so quickly? Where was Shi Le?
At this moment, with the return of Yue Qi, Liu Tai and Zhou Ping appeared on the horizon with their army.

Seeing that Shi Le was still fighting with Liu Ming, resulting in the uneven formation of the army, Zhou Ping did not hesitate at all, and directly attacked with about [-] soldiers imitating the Three Rivers and Five Schools.

Liu Tai now has a headquarters of about [-] soldiers, including Liu Xia's heavy cavalry, all of which Liu Tai throws into the battlefield according to the emerging fighter planes.

Suddenly there was no words from both sides, and Shi Le's troops and Zhou Ping's troops strangled together.

(End of this chapter)