"Shall you say that you have no clothes, and are with the Son? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear, and have the same enmity with the son......"

In the south of Jiehe Shang City, outside the Xuanfusi Castle, in an open school field, the sound of loud military songs sounded.

As many as six thousand knights, armed with horses, half-dressed armor and scarves, stood in a solemn manner and sang loudly. They did not stand loosely in groups, but formed sixteen battalions and sixty-four horizontal formations. Although each knight led his horse, the queue was surprisingly neat.

At least in the opinion of Xiao Baoxian, who came from the south of Weifu, it was enough to subvert his consistent understanding of Song Jun.

Not to mention the horseman's kung fu? Just looking at the queue they are standing still now, let alone the cavalry of Da Liao, even if the infantry formation of the Da Liao guards and pro-army cannot be compared with them!

Could it be that the legend that the Song cavalry was as strict as a knife and an axe, and when attacking, it was like a wall, was true?

In addition, although the five or six thousand horsemen here are all half-dressed, the armor they wear is blue and black, smooth and translucent, and you can see the hair.

6000 cavalry, everyone is a!?

Really?

There are fakes in the carapace, but in fact, it is made of wrought iron with high sulfur phosphorus according to the process of the carapace. This looks no different from the authentic Yakuza Armor, but because the treatment of iron is not good, it is thin and brittle, and it is useless.

But the war horses led by the 6,000 knights are all tall and unsightly, at least four feet seven or eight, they must be really good horses!

The war horse with a shoulder height of four feet seven is also a first-class war horse on the Da Liao side. Only the most elite cavalry can be equipped with such good horses. But the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty in front of him is one horse per person, what's going on?

Are there so many good horses in the Song Dynasty that they are rotten streets?

Xiaobaoxian, who was warmly pulled by Wu Haogu to see the "military exercise", stood on the castle of Xuanfusi, but one eye was stuck to the eyepiece of a telescope.

After looking at it for a while, he had become accustomed to the image of the handstand in the telescope, and his attention turned to the armor and horses of the cavalry in a strict procession.

Especially the war horse, it was unbelievable to Xiao Baoxian. Although the Great Song Dynasty has now leveled the Western Xia and opened the Western Regions, there should be a lot more channels to obtain good horses. But isn't there too many good horses here in Jiehe Commercial City?

"Wu Xuanshuai, these war horses are all obtained from the Western Regions?" Xiao Bao put away the telescope first and asked.

Wu Haogu smiled, he had long known that Xiao Baoxian must have asked this question.

"The stallions were purchased from Persia and Tianzhu," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "but what Xiao Shumi saw today were all war horses raised in Cangzhou. ”

Didn't he fool people this time? Most of the 6,000 knights here are so-called "Cangzhou knights", who own estates in or near Cangzhou and raise horses at home. Every year, the Boundary Hippodrome Farm in Wuhaogu provides these knightly families with low-priced strong horses, and at the same time sends second-class stallions to mate with those strong horses in order to give birth to tall foals.

After seven or eight years of breeding, the population of the Jie Hippo (Cangzhou horse) has now expanded to a scale that can provide a large number of high-quality war horses.

Of course, more than 10,000 (not one person and one horse) tall war horses can be used to equip the cavalry of the Hebei New Army, which is also related to the relatively high "yield rate" of artificially bred Cangzhou horses.

For example, in the herd animal husbandry and horse farms in the Liao and Song kingdoms, the proportion of horses grazing on the grasslands is about 5% without manual intervention. With manual intervention, it is possible to increase the yield rate to 20% or even 30% if horses are strictly selected for mating according to the pedigree records. If Cangzhou horses can meet the so-called "stereotyped" standard, it is more than 90% yield. Almost all stallions can grow to the level of four feet seven or eight!

In this way, the cost of obtaining high-quality war horses will be greatly reduced!

However, this "over-use" of human intervention also has the disadvantage of the horse's lack of tolerance in the harsh natural environment.

If you want to compare explosive power and long-lasting physical strength, Cangzhou horses are better than Khitan grassland horses. But compared to hard-working, the advantages of steppe horses can be fully revealed.

Moreover, the number and cost of grassland horses are still far lower than those of Cangzhou horses. If you want to play a gallop attack at any cost, Wu Haogu's cavalry is not as good as others.

However, Xiao Baoxian couldn't think of these, and when he saw Song Jun's Qizijia and Cangzhou horses, he was a little stupid.

The 6,000 iron cavalry here alone may be worth 10,000, no, maybe the armored cavalry of the 20,000 palace tent army!

Although thirty percent of the Khitan army's 100,000 palace tents are armored cavalry, these armored cavalry are a bit vain, although the equipment is used to charge, but they can't really rush to the battlefield. The impact is not even as good as that of the Iron Harrier of Western Xia......

The trumpet suddenly sounded like a whimper, and he saw that the knights leading the horses did not need to be supported (they were half-dressed and more flexible), and they stepped on their horses and stepped on their horses, and then quickly put the horses on their shoulders. This series of actions, from entering the industry, is comfortable to watch!

Immediately afterwards, the knights on the horses began to form a team and march in for the first time. The team of each team is responsible for arranging the formation, arranging the horizontal team into a phalanx, and then the team is leading the team in front, and the team is pressing the formation in the back, and begins to move around the castle of Xuanfusi at a fast pace.

Although the speed is not fast, the strict formation and uniform pace still surprised Xiao Heda, who was watching.

This is the legendary "go on the wall, fight on the wheels", right?

"How? This cavalry is still available, right? Wu Haogu glanced at Xiao Baoxian, who was pale, and said with a smile, "Although they are not as good as the cavalry under Gao Xuanshuai and Zhang Jiaoyu, they can be regarded as good on our side of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

What the!? And there's more!?

Xiao Baoxian was right to think about it, Wu Haogu was at the bottom of the four famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty. His cavalry is not as good as Gao Yu and Zhang Yuan's cavalry, and it should be. If you count Tong Guan's cavalry, the Song Dynasty now has more than 20,000 armored cavalry, right?

Although there are not as many armored cavalry as those of Liao, the combat effectiveness must be stronger!

Xiao Baoxian is not completely ignorant of military affairs, if he doesn't understand it at all, he won't be afraid. So when he saw that he was running around the city wall, his speed was getting faster and faster, but the formation did not become too scattered, and his face turned pale.

The armor of the people is good, the war horses are good, and the equestrian skills do not seem to be bad, and the formation is maintained so well, which means that they often train.

looked at Wu Haogu, the end of the four generals of the Southern Dynasty, he didn't spend money to buy it......

This side of the boundary river is not easy to fight!

Xiao Bao sighed first, and then swept Wu Haogu's left and right with his eyes.

Wu Haogu understood what he meant, and said in a low voice: "Except for Olga, everyone else retreats from the city wall. ”

"Whoa!"

The generals who followed Wu Haogu all went away, and on the wall of the tall Xuanfu Si fortress, only Wu Haogu, Xiao Baoxian and Olga who were guarded by the sword were left.

"Xiao Shumi, with such cavalry, can you waive 500,000 yuan a year?"

"What!?" Xiao Baoxian almost didn't jump up, he hadn't opened his mouth to blackmail, Wu Haogu took the preemptive action and wanted to exempt the New Year's coin.

"Is Wu Xuanshuai serious?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "The missions of more than ten overseas countries are entering Beijing from Haizhou, and they are going to present the honorific title of Emperor Genghis to my court officials." The official family owns the four seas, how can they still donate New Year's coins like your country? ”

"Hmph," Xiao Bao snorted first, "I probably have to go north to Yanyun and seize the land of Yanshan in my Great Liao, right?" ”

"Xiao Shumi's words are serious." Wu Haogu smiled, "Does Xiao Shumi think that the 6,000 cavalry in front of him can crisscross the land of the Yanyun Plain?" ”

Yes!

Xiao Baoxian's forehead was dripping with cold sweat. Jiehe Shang City is only 200 miles away from Xijin Prefecture, and there are waterways connected during this period, and it is not an insurmountable natural hazard.

If the Song army relied on the waterway to advance, and then had such cavalry to cover it, it would be no problem to rush to the city of Xijin Mansion.

As for whether it can capture the castle of Xijin Prefecture...... The question is, are the guards and pro-soldiers of Nanjing Dao reliable now?

Xiao Baoxian's heart is beating drums!

"Wu Xuanshuai, do you really want to go to war?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "My Great Song Dynasty has always valued peace, and I don't seek war, but I am not afraid of war!" ”

Why is there no Western Xia and the Qarakhanid State that are precious for peace? Xiao Bao said in his heart: How could someone send more than 10 million taels of silver from thousands of miles away to value peace?

Song people are so shameless!

"Wu Xuanshuai," Xiao Baoxian said with a dark face, "My son of heaven can say, if you don't give an additional 2 million taels, he will personally command the army of one million, and the soldiers will be on the borderline." ”

Wu Haogu smiled and shook his head, "Then we have to wait until December, right?" It's only January now, and the boundary river is thawing, and after a while, it will be surging. Can you Da Liao still compete with our Da Song army? ”

That's impossible, Zhao Ji is Emperor Genghis! With the four seas, of course, the navy is invincible. A group of Khitan grassland herdsmen fainted when they got on the boat.

"Could it be that the two countries really want to abandon their friendship and turn the boundary river into a river of blood from now on?"

Wu Haogu waved his hand and said with a smile: "How can it be so serious? Xiao Shuxiang, this time the incident is just a person in the upper position to fight for face...... My official family is about to become Emperor Jisi, so it's not good to pay tribute to Da Liao in front of overseas countries, right?

As for your family, most of them are also face-saving. Hundreds of thousands of millions, what kind of money is it to Da Liao? Just one of the Sriwijaya City Bosses in my dynasty can earn more than one million a year. So this matter can only make them confront each other across the boundary river for a few months......"

"Wait, who do you say is going to confront you across the Boundary River?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "Of course it's the Great Liao Heavenly Son and the Great Song Heavenly Son!" If the Great Liao Emperor was personally conquered, how could Emperor Genghis not come to the Jiehe? ”

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