On the slope of the barren mountain, a group of knights swooped down on horseback, each holding a slender bamboo pole in their hands, while diving, and on the other hand, they beat the grass and tree trunks along the way with the bamboo pole, startling the herds of birds and beasts, and in panic converged to the slope below the mountain, and fled along the river to the distance. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the slope, a young knight, surrounded by seven or eight people, galloped out of the river beach and rushed towards the herd of birds and beasts that were driven down. The young man's upper body is lightly volleyed, his movements are skillful with the bow and string, and he shoots left and right, although he does not shoot the arrow, but most of them can shoot the prey. The knights around him are responsible for guarding on the one hand, leading arrows to shoot fish that slip through the net, and on the other hand, they are responsible for driving away and making the prey more concentrated.

After another moment, seven or eight people swooped down from the other side of the hill, and this group of knights was even more majestic than the young man's side. Especially the first one, holding a bow in one hand, twisting an arrow in the other hand, the action is so fast that it is almost difficult to catch with the naked eye, the bow is full like the moon, and the arrow is like a locust.

In a few moments, the two groups of knights met in the valley of the river, and the most skilled of the knights who set out after him flipped on horseback, spun down on the grass, swooped forward, and in a moment he pulled the young knight's mount under control.

When the young man saw this, he laughed loudly on the horse's back, and dismounted, and then an attendant stepped forward to take the bow and arrows, and set up two more beds. The young man took the arm of the good archer, sat on the grass facing the river, and then pointed at the man and said with a smile: "I have been practicing riding and archery for most of the year, and what I have gained this time may not be inferior to General Han." ”

The good shooter is about thirty years old, his face is purple and red, his beard is thick, and he is full of fierceness between Gu Pan, and when he heard the young man's words, he also had a look of pride in his demeanor, and said with a smile: "The result has not come out, Lang Jun's language is too early!" Although Lang Jun loves this way, after all, the nobles respect the body, and compared to the soldiers who rely on us for food, clothing, and livelihood, they are still a little less focused after all. ”

The boy is Shen Zhezi, compared with a few years ago, the whole body size is excited, and he is already quite an adult. The original delicate and weak appearance is gradually showing edges and corners, in addition to being handsome, his eyes are shining, and now he is wearing light armor and wearing a body, and his style is slightly inferior, but the heroic is strong, and the smile is full of affinity.

The person sitting beside him was named Han Huang, the superintendent of Su Jun's army in Liyang, and he was also a rare warrior among the homeless marshals. Although he is not yet young, he is already a veteran of a hundred battles, and he is second to none among the homeless commanders in Jiangzuo.

Shen Zhezi had contact with this Han Huang, and it was two years ago, when Jiangxia Gongwei Chong had a shipload to transport west to Jingzhou, but was seized by Liyang. Shen Zhezi mobilized his connections to help Wei Chong solve this matter, and it was Han Huang who was in charge of contacting Liyang at that time. After going back and forth, there was a friendship with each other.

In the past few years, although the relationship between Liyang and the center has become worse and worse, it is not completely without contacts. Not to mention the replenishment of various ordnance baggage, just to satisfy the extravagant enjoyment of many homeless marshals, it is completely impossible to bypass the business alliance that is now gaining momentum in Jiangdong. Therefore, Su Jun did not prohibit his subordinates from contacting the Shen family, but faintly encouraged them, and as for the implication in it, they all had their own thoughts.

While the two were chatting, the attachés gradually gathered their prey, and the two piles of prey were stacked together, obviously Shen Zhezi was slightly inferior. What is especially staggering is that most of the beasts hunted by Han Huang were killed with one arrow, and the cluster of arrows either inserted into the eye socket or penetrated the throat, riding the essence of ejaculation, which was really breathtaking.

Shen Zhezi didn't care much about the outcome of the safari competition, as Han Huang said, even if he liked it, it was just a hobby, and it was good to be physically strong, and it was really difficult to compare with the generals of a hundred battles.

Especially the essence of Han Huang's archery, even among the many homeless marshals in the north and south of the river, is second to none, after the defeat of Su Jun in history, this person got rid of it alone, and shot the pursuers with two bags of arrows with his back against the Hu bed, forcing no one to press forward, and waited until the arrows were exhausted before he was collected and killed.

Such a brave warrior is simply a valuable asset that cannot be missed for Shen Zhezi, so he attaches great importance to cultivating friendship with Han Huang. The reason why we meet on the safari ground is to choose an environment that the other party is familiar with, reduce our vigilance, and talk freely to each other.

This Han Huang is also different from Xu Mao, although Su Jun is also full of factions, but under the persecution of the central trend now, there are not many disputes between them, and they all have the same hatred and hatred, and it is difficult to divide and disintegrate. In addition, Han Huang himself has great military achievements and extraordinary force, and he is also one of the most important people under Su Jun.

But Shen Zhezi has always believed that as long as the hoe is swung well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down. Besides, he didn't want to win over the relationship between Han Huang and Su Jun immediately, as long as he could maintain a strong influence on the other party, it was enough for now.

After the victory and defeat were clear, Shen Zhezi asked the servants to collect the prey, first sent it to Zuo Jinzhuang to distribute it to the villagers, and then invited Han Huang to stroll along the river and ask for the skills of riding and archery.

The southerners are not good at riding, not only because of the lack of horses, but also because there is no need for them in daily life. Jiangdong, especially Wuzhong, has many hills and ditches, and can reach all directions by boat, and it does not have the terrain that can be used by large-scale cavalry and flattened with one horse.

Earlier, Shen Zhezi bought a batch of war horses at a high price in Jiangbei, and wanted to try to train a group of cavalry, but with little success. It's not that the southerners don't have the talent to control horses, in fact, as long as they are equipped with stirrups and the like, riding skills are not difficult to master, and the stirrups themselves are an invention used by agricultural groups to quickly master riding skills to counter nomadic groups. For most of the first half of the training, they can also gallop on horseback, but it is really difficult to measure their combat effectiveness.

Horse warfare and infantry warfare seem to be only the difference between having a horse and not having a horse, but in fact it is a complete set of tactical and strategic differences. Jiangdong did not have a cavalry army that shines in the annals of history in ancient times, and military training is not Shen Zhezi's forte, although he spent a lot of energy to build a cavalry team of hundreds of people, but in the eyes of a general expert like Han Huang, he still can't help but sneer at it, and he is useless from head to toe.

Especially after witnessing the battle between his own cavalry and Han Huang's tribe and the defeat, Shen Zhezi could only admit that the traverser was not omnipotent, and gave up the idea of training the local cavalry in Jiangdong.

This is not a difference in physical fitness, but a difference in consciousness, although the various consciousness and skills of cavalry combat can be gradually cultivated through actual combat, but the cost is too high. After a real battle, I don't know how many unqualified people will be eliminated, and the Jiangdong soldiers are not sufficient, and it is really difficult to maintain such a huge consumption.

As for archery, there is no doubt about its importance. Nowadays, all kinds of foot bows and riding bows have greatly improved their power in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms. Huang Zhong's arm strength is amazing, and the bow of two stones can be broken at will. In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the good archer Yang Kan was known as the ten stones of the foot bow and the five stones of the riding bow.

This may be no lack of artistic rendering, Shen Zhezi has practiced for several years, and now he can barely use a stone bow, the power is already good, it can pierce armor within thirty steps, and it has a lot of lethality within a hundred steps, and it is even more powerful if it is projectile.

But it is true that even the Shen family is nowadays, there are not a few people who can use a three-stone bow, and there are not a few soldiers who can use five-stone bows. And this Han Huang in front of him, the three-stone riding bow in his hand refers to which shot, and the power is not much inferior to that of hot weapons.

Strolling all the way to the Shen family's weapons workshop, a high-walled, heavily guarded manor between the two hills. Today, there are hundreds of craftsmen and nearly 1,000 handymen in this workshop all year round, responsible for making bows, spears, ladder carts and other ordnance. The scale seems to be very large, but in fact, the production is not very high, on the one hand, this place is too close to Gyeonggi, if the movement is too large, it will inevitably make people reverie. On the other hand, Shen Zhezi has high requirements for the quality of ordnance.

Nowadays, all kinds of equipment that can be called ordnance are not simply cutting wood for knives and splitting bamboo for guns, and the creation of a single bow has many processes and takes more than half a year. If such a bow is built and well maintained, the service life is extremely strong. Even a simple bamboo bow can be used for years after a set of processes. As for the more high-quality Zhemu horn bow, the service life is often measured in more than ten years!

Perhaps because Jiangdong was not as turbulent and fighting as the Central Plains, the southerners were inferior to the northerners in the craftsmanship of building ordnance. At present, the hundreds of craftsmen in this workshop are all accumulated by Shen Zhezi in the past few years, and the investment is huge. Seeing the production process of these craftsmen and the power of the ordnance they created, Shen Zhezi felt that it was boring to open the golden finger again.

For a long time before, the Han people were able to suppress foreign races, largely relying on the development of the military industry. It is well-equipped and can directly increase the combat effectiveness of individuals.

Later generations talked about the Wuhu Chaohua, and they always exaggerated and exaggerated how strong the fighting power of the Hu people was. But nowadays, through Shen Zhezi's own observations and listening to many homeless marshals tell their personal experiences, the combat effectiveness of the Hu people is not so strong that it is against the sky, especially at this stage, and even slightly inferior to the Han soldiers. Han Chinese accounted for a large proportion of the army of the Qianghushile, and they were also the main recipients of the remnants of the beggar army.

Even in the history books, there are many records, although the northern land is raging, but there are still many dock walls, as few as a thousand people, more than thousands or even tens of thousands of people gathered together to defend the stronghold, which can resist the attack of Hulu for more than ten years or even several generations!

The brave blood flowing in the bones and blood of the Han people has never been inferior to Hulu, especially after the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the combat effectiveness of individuals has never fallen behind in the face of Hulu.

As for the erosion of the situation as a whole, there are many reasons for this, and a simple one-sided emphasis on Hulu's strong combat effectiveness is disrespectful to the facts and a kind of contempt for the ancestors.

Tyranny and cruelty do not mean being powerful, but rather a kind of lust that has never been declared. A group of maggots can disassemble and disintegrate a dead elephant, which is not the strength of maggots, but the inaction and non-resistance of elephants.

Now in Juzhang and Qu'a, there are nearly 2,000 households in the Shen family. Although the number of people is large, it is a scale formed in batches and over time, and it is scattered among the many manor properties in the two counties. Except for a very small number of people who are in charge of the overall situation, it is difficult for outsiders to know that the Shen family has gathered a huge amount of manpower here.

The production capacity of more than 2,000 shady households is much stronger than that of small households because of the more efficient group operation and division of labor, and they are fully able to support the military of more than 1,000 people. However, because of the proximity to Gyeonggi, Shen Zhezi did not dare to disregard the feelings of the center and mobilize a large group of men and horses to practice day and night, so the training of soldiers was scattered in various manors, among which the most important training was melee street fighting.

Once a war really breaks out, these soldiers can be mobilized as soon as possible and enter Jiankang to protect the Shen family's various industries in Jiankang City. Unless Su Jun planned to completely tear his face with the Shen family, he would never dare to deliberately attack the Shen family.

This is the paradox of the current situation, they dare to rebel, but they dare not completely offend a powerful wealthy family. As for the more flexible operation on this basis, it is also the main purpose of Shen Zhezi and Su Jun's generals to maintain a good personal friendship.