Wu Haogu's condition was a bit strange, that is, to send people to watch the battle according to Hushui Wanyanbu, including observing the military appearance and training of Wanyanbu, as well as their engagement with the Goryeo.

In the words of later generations, it is to send a military observation team to the Wanyan Ministry!

The same condition was also mentioned by Wu Haogu and Wu Yanzhong, the secret envoy of the Goryeo State-the Great Song Dynasty needs to understand the combat power of the Goryeo army before further developing the friendly relations between the two countries! If Goryeo really has the strength to rise on behalf of Liao, then everyone will be a brotherly state in the future......

Regarding Wu Haogu's request, Wanyan Aguta and Wu Yanpet all agreed. The Great Song Dynasty and the Shengnuzhen are not bordering at all, so naturally they can only be friends and cannot be enemies. And the Goryeo Kingdom has always had the ambition to restore the prosperity of Goguryeo, although it is a vassal to the Liao State, but it always regards the Great Song Dynasty as a potential alliance object, and naturally does not care about showing its great military might to the Great Song Dynasty.

"Daofu, the dispatch to the Goryeo Kingdom to watch the military appearance is none other than you, although the Goryeo Kingdom is small, but it is also a state of etiquette, and the food is similar to that of our Great Song Dynasty, there should not be much suffering from water and soil, but the sea route is a little difficult."

These words were said by Wu Haogu and Tong Guan when they rode their horses out of the city on a safari together.

His equestrian skills are much better now than when he "first arrived", and he can already take off the reins of his hands and walk with his legs alone. You can use the bow with your hands free, so when you ride out of the city today, you brought a buffalo horn bow with you, and there is a sack hanging behind the saddlebag, which is full of arrows.

Buffalo horn is the best bow arm material of this era, and this bow used by Wu Haogu is a composite bow that the best bow craftsmen in Kaifeng Province spent several months making and debugging - a bow made of horns, wood, and tendons bonded together layer by layer. It is the best bow, although the bow arm is not long, it can be used on horseback, and the number of stones is not high, only seven and a half buckets, but the power is more than the ordinary stone long wooden bow.

The so-called three-point arrow is the name of a spliced arrow shaft. Bamboo is used in the south, willow in the north, and birch in the north. The rod is two feet long, the rod is one inch long, and its large end is also. Where the bamboo arrow cuts four or three bamboos, glue them, and cut them through the knife and round them. Lacquer and silk are wound at about two ends, and the name is "three uneven" arrow shafts - the arrow clusters made with this arrow shaft are also the best in the arrows.

In addition, the same "three uneven" arrows should be divided into three types: heavy arrows, light arrows and whistle arrows. Heavy arrows have a thick body, a large weight, and a wide arrowhead, which is used for close shooting. The light arrow has a slender body and light weight, and the arrow is slender and slender, which is used for long-range shooting. The whistle arrow is a whistle that is used to transmit signals.

However, Wu Haogu only brought heavy arrows today, because he could only accurately hit targets within a few dozen paces now, and he couldn't shoot at all if he was far away.

The combination of the buffalo horn bow and the three uneven arrows is of course expensive, and only the princes in front of the palace can equip such a good thing in the Song army.

Units that are really fighting on the front line are basically not equipped with such good things.

Tong Guan is also the same as Wu Haogu today, and he also brought his own bow and arrows out of the city, the same configuration of buffalo horn bows and three uneven arrows - although the troops are not very equipped with this kind of good thing, the wealthy officers will still equip themselves.

Therefore, Lin Chong, Zhou Yunqing and Ximen Qing, who accompanied Wu Haogu and Tong Guan out of the city, are also this kind of "luxury" equipment.

In fact, if you want to ensure the quality of such complex and expensive "artwork" level equipment, only wealthy soldiers can bring their own equipment. Otherwise, it must have cost the imperial court a high price to equip low-quality fakes......

The purchase of buffalo horn bows and three-point arrows by private individuals who paid their own money is undoubtedly the best way to establish a bow and arrow manufacturing industry and improve the level of bow and arrow manufacturing.

Therefore, Wu Haogu is now thinking about setting up a "bow and arrow grand prix" in Jiehe, and taking out 50,000 to 100,000 yuan as a prize every year to attract the citizens of Jiehe to practice archery and buy high-grade bows and arrows.

At the same time, Wu Haogu also plans to make archery a part of the recruitment examination for public servants in Jiehe Shang City. In the future, if you want to be a public official of the boundary river, you must shoot a good arrow!

And Wu Haogu himself also practiced it, taking horseback riding and hunting as the most important entertainment activity - if you want to shoot a horse's ass elsewhere, you will accompany your boss to eat, drink and have fun, and here in Jiehe, you have to accompany the head of state to ride a horse and shoot arrows!

If you can't even shoot arrows on horseback, then I'm sorry, the Führer doesn't look down on you!

Tong Guan is obviously a figure that can be seen by the Führer, his posture on horseback is extremely chic, he chose a stallion with a little grumpy temper today, and he is not careful to look at the road, and he looks straight up on horseback as if he is playing equestrian skills (this is the real kung fu of doing light cavalry), and he is also distracted and Wu Haogu talks about the mission to Goryeo.

"Ke Province, our family is a horseback servant, are you afraid of the bottom of the danger? This deputy envoy to Goryeo to view the army, our family should be decided. ”

The envoy who went to Goryeo to watch the military appearance must be a good man who is famous outside the Donghua Gate, and Tong Guan can't do it.

"That's great," Wu Haogu smiled, "but the lower officials won't let the mission take risks, and now a three-thousand-gauge sea ship is being built in the shipyard of Jiehe Merchant City, which is extremely sturdy, driven by oars, and can gallop on the sea no matter what the wind direction is." When the big ship is built, it will be used to load the military envoy to Goryeo, and it should be safe. ”

This 3,000-gauge ship was part of a series of transactions between the Wu family and Wu Haogu, and the shipwrights sent by the Wu family began construction in the shipyard of Jiehe Shang City. Wu Haogu himself participated in this project - he and Du Wenyu drew the drawings of the warship (there were hundreds of copies), and also had people build a model of the ship according to the drawings and conduct experiments on the Jiehe River.

"Then our family will be more at ease." Tong Guan smiled and nodded, "Then dare to ask the guest province, who is allowed to watch the real army of the birth girl?" ”

"That's a secret envoy, but you can't work with the servants and ministers." Wu Haogu smiled, "Wait until you see Mr. Murong and Brother Zhong to ask them." ”

Tong Guan smiled and asked, "Mr. Murong and Brother Zhao Zhong also came to hunt with us?" ”

"There are also the Imperial Knights they trained, a total of 1,000 people, who will hunt in the wilderness south of the Boundary River for a few days, let's follow and take a look."

Tong Guan raised his eyebrows: "That's the Heavenly Family's own soldiers!" Our family must have seen it. ”

"Good! Then let's hurry up and hurry. ”

……

A new tent was set up to the east of the Jiehe merchant city, south of the Jiehe River, near the sea.

This camp is very different from the ordinary Song army camp.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Song army is not strong, the kung fu of camping has always been not weak, and there are ditches, barriers, horse rejections, deer barricades, and lookouts, all of which are readily available, even if it is a small camp, it is not enough to make a city.

However, the camp was very scattered, and there was a lot of open space in between. The trench is narrow and shallow, and the fence is hasty. Only the watchtower was built more seriously, and the tall and large one stood in the center of the camp.

In the eyes of the generals and officers on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, this camp is absolutely unqualified. However, if you are in the Jiehe Commercial Market to appreciate the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty Aguta, you will know that this village is still well.

Because this is a barracks for cavalry, the open space in the camp is for the cavalry to assemble quickly and advance and retreat freely.

A fortified fort that was too strong was completely redundant, because the cavalry was not originally intended to defend the camp. If the real cavalry is used well, it will not let the opponent get close to its own camp at all - with the reconnaissance ability of the light cavalry, it is long overdue to find out the reality of the opponent.

If you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will go, how can there be a reason to stick to the camp?

Outside the camp gate, the sound of hooves was heard. The sergeant on duty at the gate of the village subconsciously widened his eyes, took out the buffalo horn bow, held it in one hand, and took out a three-dimensional arrow from the quiver in the other.

This kind of vigilant appearance does not seem to be in the land of the Great Song Dynasty in the peace of the world, but as if it has reached the front line of a fierce battle.

It was a cavalry rider who rode far away, wearing a wide-necked leather robe, a red battle jacket, a leather hat, and leather boots, and swaggering on his horse.

Entering the camp gate, the knight on his horse slowed down and walked to the largest tent in the camp, then turned over and dismounted, threw the reins to the armor guards outside the tent, and then walked quickly into the tent.

"My subordinate Ma Zheng has met Mr. Murong and Professor Zhao."

After entering the big tent, the knight saluted the two men in official uniforms who were holding tea bowls and talking while drinking tea in the tent, and then said: "There are about fourteen or fifteen horsemen, who are coming along the official road, and they are about ten miles away from the camp at present. ”

The two people in the tent were Murong Wangwu and Brother Zhao Zhong. The two of them really have the spirit of standing on the last shift, and now, they are seriously training Zhao Ji as a knight. Moreover, it came according to the standards of the tent soldiers of the Liaoguo Palace, and took the path of mixing light and heavy.

The knights of the East are different from the West, they all have to master both riding and archery and horsemanship, so they are not important in terms of skills. Of course, there is still a distinction in the use of troops-the priority will be the first priority.

Light cavalry is a must, searching, covering, harassing, covering, pursuing, all have to rely on them, without which it is difficult to conduct field battles. The heavy cavalry, on the other hand, is based on the sufficient number of light cavalry, and is the decisive force on the battlefield.

As far as the current Song army is concerned, in addition to the Western Army, which consists of enough light cavalry, the cavalry is only in name, and the knights who can play riding and shooting can only be said to be rare, and they are scattered everywhere, or as a head of the sect, or as a low-level military attaché, and almost no one is a serious light horseman.

As for the heavy cavalry, it is simply stored in the number left over from the early Song Dynasty. Those so-called forbidden army elite riders, riding a horse galloping can't do it to fall down, what kind of formation are they rushing?