The road from Tangquan Town to Jiudou Mountain is not very easy to walk, and it is too small to go over the mountains and mountains.

There was only fifty or sixty miles between the two, and the whole army walked for most of the day.

Looking at the Jiudou Mountain in the west, there is a path in the center lined with dense forests. It was already dark, adding a touch of terror to these eeriely quiet woods.

If the robbers want to set up an ambush, this is undoubtedly the best place to go.

According to the local people, after walking two miles, you will reach the foot of Jiudou Mountain, where the terrain is gentle, and a large plain is in front of you, which is not suitable for these robbers to fight.

Tang Ning's buttocks didn't hurt too much, and the soldier who was in charge of beating him showed mercy, and the thunder was loud and the rain was small when the twenty sticks went down. After these two days of recuperation, now I can't jump up painfully when sitting on the bench.

And Sun He is not so well treated, lying on the board car, and his ass is still rotten. Thinking about it, he also hated Wang Zhi very much, looking at his appearance of gritting his teeth every day, he knew that after he was injured, Wang Zhi would be unlucky again.

In order to appease a group of soldiers, he offended an imperial city official, and he didn't know whether Wang Zhi lost or earned this deal.

He took out the folding fan from his boots and opened it with a bang, and a group of soldiers around him who were holding stinky feet applauded, saying that the adult was worthy of being a young hero, and he was brilliant in writing, and even the action of opening the folding fan was so handsome, which was really breathtaking.

Tang Ning couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, raised his eyebrows and asked Captain Xuanjie, who was standing aside: "Lord Captain, depending on the situation, the things in your car are about to come in handy, can't you let me see what it looks like?" ”

Captain Xuanjie still said in that tough tone: "If there is no order from the transfer envoy, no one will want to spy on the secrets of our army. ”

"What you say is too ugly, what do you call our army. I'm also a member of your army, look at me, I'm also an overseer.

If the transfer envoy and Liu Gongshi are not there, I will be the commander of this team. Am I not qualified to do that either? ”

Captain Xuanjie looked at Tang Ning like a stool, and after snorting coldly, he ignored him.

Tang Ning was bored with himself, touched his nose, and had to close his mouth.

Captain Xuanjie is a military attache of the eighth grade, and he is also a fictitious title, and the real position of this guy in front of him is even higher than that of Captain Xuanjie.

As a superintendent from the ninth grade, although he has a lot of power, he can't kick his nose too much.

Just like the relationship between Zhizhou and the general judgment, the Zhizhou has a high grade, but it has to be constrained by the general judgment everywhere. Although the power of general judgment is very large, he is also unwilling to offend the magistrate who crushes people to death at the first level.

The relationship between Feng Tao and Zhang He is like this, and the relationship between the Xuanjie captain and himself in front of him should be the same.

This is a very interesting place in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, many officials with insufficient grades have great power and can scare people into peeing their pants, and many high-grade officials who make people bow down but do not have much power.

It's a bit strange to hear birds chirping in the middle of the night, and needless to say, this is how other robbers communicate with each other.

Tang Ning and Captain Xuanjie became nervous as soon as they heard this voice, Guo An saw that Tang Ning glanced at him, so he nodded, turned over his horse, and rode along the whole team, while shouting, asking all the soldiers to prepare for battle.

Although the military discipline of the Xiang army was lax, it was also trained in military affairs.

As soon as the officers and generals at all levels gave the order, it didn't take long for the Xiang army to form a military formation one by one.

Some stood near the grain and grass carts, some stood by the side of the senior generals, and some held shields to both sides of the road.

Although it is sparse and unshapely, the formation can at least be seen.

Tang Ning was very excited: "Hurry up, put out the Eight Bull Crossbow!" Otherwise, it will be too late to swing it in a while! ”

Captain Xuanjie was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Tang Ning was very anxious: "You are still laughing here, wait for a while others rush in, your eight-bull crossbow is not ready, you are a serious crime if you lose the battle!" ”

Captain Xuanjie rarely gave Tang Ning a good face, and said with a smile: "Supervising the envoy, there are no eight-bull crossbows in our army." ”

"Huh?" Tang Ning blinked, then closed his fan and lit the roadway covered with tarpaulin: "What's on that car?" ”

"Since the overseer wants to see it, it doesn't hurt for the captain of the school to show it to the superintendent......"

Before he finished speaking, suddenly there was a fire in the woods on both sides of the road. I heard a loud voice crane his neck and shout, "Brothers! Rush! Kill officers and soldiers! Grab the food! Rush! ”

Then there was an earth-shattering shout of killing, and black shadows suddenly burst out of the woods on both sides, killing together with the assembled van army in an instant.

Some people rush too fast and accidentally lose their heads. Tang Ning looked at the dead human head on the ground, rolled his eyes, and almost fainted.

Fortunately, Guo An came back in time, kicked the man's head out of the way, and held Tang Ning and said, "Lord Governor of the Fortune Envoy!" Are you alright? ”

Tang Ning tried to pull the corners of his mouth, and showed a smile and said, "I...... It's okay......"

Seeing this, Captain Xuanjie sneered, then tore off the tarpaulin on the car and shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, wear armor! Fight the enemy! ”

It wasn't until this time that Tang Ning didn't know that what was on these five cars was not a Ba Niu crossbow at all, but another killing weapon of the Song army, Bu Ren Jia.

It may be inconsistent to say that it is a killing weapon, but in fact, Burenjia is a kind of defensive weapon for the soldiers of the Song Army.

The foot armor composed of 1,825 armor leaves weighs 70 catties and is not allowed to be worn by non-warriors. The skirt reached the underside of the knee, and the layers of armor blades stacked upwards with the helmet completely protected the soldier's head, revealing only the two eyes.

Perhaps in order to facilitate the movement, the infantry armor does not have a matching arm armor, and the arm armor needs to be matched by the soldiers themselves. However, even so, most of the soldier's body has been tightly protected.

Tang Ning saw that the soldiers wearing infantry armor were all tall and strong men. With the cooperation of two people, each strong man quickly put the entire step armor on his body.

He picked up a long-pole broadsword similar to the Blue Dragon Glaive from the car, and then killed the robbers in front of him.

The Bu Ren Jia of the Song Dynasty and the Tiefu Tu of the Jin Dynasty. Although it is slightly inferior to the heavy armor of the European Middle Ages, it still reaches the extreme of hoplites of this era.

"Not only spearmen and swordmen, but archers also have matching foot armor. It's just that this place is too narrow for archers to play, otherwise it would be very good to let the overseer meet the heavily armed archers under the captain. ”

Captain Xuanjie, dressed in armor, said as he buckled his helmet to his head. When he reached out and took the long knife, his equipment impressed Tang Ning too deeply.

Death. This was the first thought that popped into Downing's mind after seeing the neatly assembled hoplites.

The appearance of the Bu Ren Jia directly changed the entire battle situation, even if the robbers' brains were big, they could not have imagined that there would be a Bu Ren Jia in a team of soldiers escorting grain and grass.

Because among the hundreds of thousands of perennial border troops in the Great Song Dynasty, there are only less than 100,000 sets of infantry armor.

Driving a tank to crush ants, this is Tang Ning's most intuitive feeling of the defensive role of the infantry armor.

A soldier in foot armor only had to do two things, and that was to move forward, slash once, and move forward again, slash again.

At this moment, Tang Ning found that he seemed to have a misunderstanding of the Song Dynasty, a weak dynasty recorded in historical records.

The Song Dynasty, which had eight ox crossbows and infantry armor, and even had the initial use of gunpowder, lost the battle most likely not because the level was too good, but because the enemy was too strong......

The hoplites were fierce enough to ignore enemy attacks, but they were too few in number.

Counting Captain Xuanjie himself, Tang Ning counted for a long time, but he didn't count the fifty-one person.

This led to the robbers cleverly bypassing the heavily armed soldiers who were immobile and rushed directly into the camp.

The place where Tang Ning was located was the middle of the team, and there were not only five carts loaded with foot armor, eyebrow sharp knives, and moon covering knives, but also many carts loaded with grain and grass.

This place should be the top priority of the enemy's attack, even if it costs more, as long as these five truckloads of armament are snatched, it will be worth it.

Captain Xuanjie and his elite guards here, also to prevent the enemy from directly attacking and snatching away the armament.

Tang Ning began to regret why he had come here, and one after another corpses fell in front of Tang Ning's eyes. There are robbers, and there are soldiers.

He took out the repeating crossbow made by Gong Yihuan and held it in his hand, but if there was a robber who was close to him, he would deduct the machine and shoot the robber directly to death.

Rao was like this, and when all the spare arrow boxes on his body were used up, there was still a group of people rushing towards him.

The spear in Guo An's hand danced straight to the spark, and every time he shot, a robber would fall down holding the tip of his throat.

"Protect the Envoy!" Guo An saw that there were more and more people next to the car that Tang Ning was leaning on, so he shouted angrily.

swept the spear in his hand, and was about to turn his head to rescue Tang Ning, but suddenly felt a strong chill hit behind him.

So he was busy rolling on a lazy donkey on the ground, and when he looked back, he saw a shirtless man.

He didn't look very old, but there was murderous intent in those eyes.

He pointed at Guo An, who had just gotten up, with the tip of his knife, grinning and just about to speak, when suddenly a box soldier rushed over and stabbed him straight at him with a pen knife.

He frowned, turned around and kicked the soldier out of the way.

Then he turned around and looked at Guo An, who had that cool movement and expression, and was just about to speak, when two soldiers came over with a pen knife.

He was furious, and after dodging the attack, he slashed to the left and right, and slashed the two soldiers to the ground, covering their backs, and screaming.

After snorting coldly, he continued to point at Guo An with the tip of his knife, and then said, "You ......"

As soon as he spoke, seven or eight soldiers screamed and killed.

The man fled......

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