Chapter 44 The Two Meet

Zu Kuan rode on a strong tall horse, with a set of fine-made scale armor all over his body, and a layer of lock armor inside. He carried a well-made horse, and slowly led the cavalry in the direction of Yongning County.

This time, because their whereabouts were detected by Xing Tianjun's scouts in advance, his plan was exposed, so that a siege and annihilation battle he had planned to turn into a positive confrontation. He was quite unhappy about this matter. As a family who followed Zu Dashou, the general of Liaodong, Zu Kuan also He has long been a general who is familiar with tactics.

However, in the early years, because of the killing of Yuan Chonghuan, the court lost trust in their Guanning iron riders. Originally, a good army was now torn apart by the court. One remained in the north of the capital and was led by Zu Dashou to defend the northern tartar, and part of it belonged to the door of the Wu family, the general of Liaodong. In the area of Shanhaiguan, but these people were transferred to the customs to fight against these thieves. A good Guanning iron horse, by this time, they are no longer as majestic as before.

Fortunately, after all, they are all northern soldiers. Although they have made few achievements in the battle against Jiannu in the north, since they entered Henan, under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, their soldiers and horses are still an invincible symbol.

Those thieves who are becoming more and more happy in the Central Plains, under the front of their Guanning iron cavalry, all the scattered soldiers were defeated and defeated, so that after hearing his Zu Kuan's name, all the thieves all of them avoided one after another. Finally, they cleaned up the large number of thieves in Henan almost. It was not easy to survive. In less than two months, I didn't expect to be transferred to deal with such a so-called Xing Tianjun again.

Zu Kuan didn't pay much attention to this war in his heart. Although he set up such a game, he just wanted to save some energy to completely kill the thief army in the first battle, so that he could go back to the division to rest early. Unfortunately, this time his opponent was very cunning. He didn't jump into the trap he laid, which made him a little upset. .

However, even so, Zu Kuan is still full of confidence in the future war. Since he can't set an ambush, he will come to the first battle and defeat this group of thieves. They are the famous Guan Ning iron riders. How can it be invincible?

Therefore, after coming out of the mountain, he immediately scattered the night under his command, forming a strict warning curtain before the main force, protecting the main force and starting to force in the direction of Yongning.

At this time, these subordinates who followed Zu Kuan also rode on the horse and walked forward slowly. They didn't take the battle seriously at all. Although they looked a little loose, they faintly exuded a strong breath on these iron riders. There was no warning message at present, so he They don't feel nervous at all, but as soon as the warning comes, their gang will immediately become a group of murderous gods, what a bullshit Xing Tianjun. In their opinion, it's still a gang of rabbles. In the face of heroic soldiers like them, it's nothing in their eyes.

However, Zu Kuan is still somewhat curious about this Xing Tianjun. Although he has followed Lu Xiangsheng to suppress bandits in Henan in the past two years, it does not mean that they have no understanding of the war in the Shanshan area at all. He still knows more or less about this Xing Tianjun in southern Shanxi from various channels. I also know that this Xingtian Army is not very famous among all kinds of thieves, but it is a quite fighting thief army. It has defeated the Shanshan army in Shanxi for several times in a row, which makes the officers and soldiers around Shanshan are afraid to hear about it and dare not take action against it. In the past six months, the news about this Xingtian Army has gradually decreased, but there is no Thinking that it was approaching the end of the year, the thief army suddenly crossed the Yellow River and broke into Henan.

Now as a strong soldier guarding Henan, they are the first to be transferred to this area, which makes Zu Kuan look forward to it. He also wants to meet this rumored fierce thief army and see how powerful they are, but as for whether they can defeat them, Zu Kuan But he still has a hundred times more confidence. He just wants to see how long this thief army can last in front of his Guanning iron cavalry.

"Report! General Qi, five miles ahead, it was found that a large army of thieves was coming in our direction. Please make a decision! We have already had a good time with their horses, and we have cut off several of them!" He ran back from the front of the team at night, turned over and knelt in front of Zu Kuan and shouted.

"Oh? Got it! Explore again!" After listening, Zu Kuan rolled his eyelids and waved his hand.

He retreated immediately at night, turned over his body and raised his whip and immediately went to the front of the team again.

"Grandma's! This thieves really had the courage to wrap themselves up. Since they knew that we were coming, they didn't rush back to Yongning County to hide, and even came up to us! My lord, give me five hundred people, and go up and kill them!" A general with the same armor immediately asked Zu Kuan to fight. As soon as the general's voice fell, several generals under Zu Kuan also shouted for war one after another and went to the front to grab the credit.

Zu Kuan sneered: "I don't know what to do, bastards. I'm afraid these Shanxi guys are new to here. I'm afraid they don't know how powerful we are. They actually bumped over so straight. I'd like to see what the thief eats and grew up. Don't worry. Since they are here, they can't leave. Wait a minute. Are you guys afraid of not fighting? They are all cheered up. Let's also speed up and meet them. Since they bump into each other without knowing it, let them see the power of our Guanning iron riding! In this battle, we will completely kill them and go directly into Yongning County! The provincial Mr. Wang came to grab the merits!"

After listening to this, the generals responded loudly and drove their horses into their respective parts one after another. They shouted loudly at the generals under their hands, so that they could cheer up and speed up their march.

The horns in the army immediately sounded in unison. The soldiers sitting lazily on the horse suddenly sat up straight, shook the reins one after another, accelerated the pace of the war horse, raised a piece of dust on the road, and rolled forward.

The distance of five miles is really nothing at the feet of the cavalry. Although they accelerated their speed, in order to cope with the next war, the two thousand officers still maintained a certain speed and preserved the horse's horsepower, but in the team, the scattered atmosphere had disappeared at this time, one by one. The soldiers all had an arrogant face and adjusted their weapons on the horse's back.

The quality of Guanning's iron riding equipment is probably the most powerful in the world today. Under the accumulation of countless money in the imperial court, compared with ordinary officers and soldiers, they basically have armor for everyone, and all of them are iron armor, and their defense is quite high. This is also the way for their soldiers and horses dare to rush forward. In.

Moreover, the weapons they are equipped with are also different from other cavalry. Among the Guanning iron cavalry, the most common weapons are not cold weapons such as knives, spears, horses or knives and sticks commonly used by ordinary cavalry. Under the countless investment of money from the court, Guanning iron cavalry has basically realized the equipment of hot weapons. The vast majority of soldiers carry a three-eyed hammer with a long pole in their hands. When they are rushing into battle, the tactic they often use is to cast a three-eyed hammer to the enemy's array continuously before receiving the enemy. After dispersing the opponent's formation with dense lead, they waved it up and use the three-eyed hammer as a heavy weapon such as a long-handled hammer. Yes, it was smashed, which often caused the enemy to be defeated in chaos.

And such a method of warfare, although it may not be effective in the face of extremely fierce post-golden tars, at least their Guanning iron cavalry is the only soldier and horse in the world who dares to fight head-on with Jiannu in the wild, so they are using such tactics to deal with inferior equipment. When the exiled people's army, it can be said that they have tried again and won the battle. Even the rare thousands of heavy cavalry of Gao Yingxiang, who were the best equipped among the exiles army in the past few years, were still beaten and discarded armor when they met them.

So with such a record, when these Guan Ningbing heard that Xing Tianjun was approaching them, they were not nervous one by one. While marching on the horse's back, they began to take out the medicine gourd at their waist and began to fill up the three eyes in their hands.

Half an hour later, a scarlet flag suddenly jumped on the distant horizon. As the officers and soldiers marched, rows of soldiers with various feathers began to appear on the horizon, blocking the way of the officers and soldiers.

At this time, the night of the two armies and the scouts finally began to collect, robbed the robes of their casualties, began to retreat back to the two wings of the array, and disared and gasped one after another.

Before the two armies came into contact, the night of these officers and soldiers and the scouts of the Xing Tianjun had already fought with each other on a small scale several times. What surprised these arrogant officers and soldiers was that this time they did not take much advantage in the battle with the thieves' scouts, although After several fights, they have a certain advantage, but the scout performance of this thief army is not bad. They have always been tentatively attacking them, and they have always suppressed the night of their officers and soldiers, so that they can't go too far ahead and spy on the deployment of the Xing Tianjun, so that although he We found out that Xing Tianjun was bumping head-on towards the officer army, but there was no way to break through the warning curtain of Xing Tianjun's scouts and explore the military situation before approaching the main force of Xingtian Army. Such a performance surprised these people who were usually arrogant at night, so that they had to gradually shrink the search line and maintain The distance between each other, so as not to be broken through by the scouts of the Xingtian Army and get close to their main soldiers.

At present, after the two armies have approached the visual distance, their tasks are over. They turn their heads one after another, scold each other a few times, and withdraw to rest in this array.

Zu Kuandima came to the front of the army and looked in the direction of the Xingtian army's array. However, as he glanced through the opposite Xingtian army's array, the contempt and slow expression on his face all the way gradually stopped, and gradually changed into a solemn face, even his loose shoulders and waist, here At that time, it also tightened up.