614 heavily armored cavalry, hoplites

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At first, he even boldly only wanted to come up with a hundred foot soldiers, Li Zixiao thought that he only needed to send out, and the team under his command with a hundred foot soldiers was enough to defeat Li Zicheng's thousand foot soldiers.

However, in the end, Li Zixiao was worried that in that case, the hundred people who fought on their side would also lose a lot.

After all, this time Niu Jinxing proposed, but the fight to the death, to kill until one side is completely dead, he didn't want his team to lose too much, so he added another hundred people.

You must know that at this time, the total number of Li Zixiao's team is only 500 people.

"Okay, Li Zixiao, let's start!"

At this time, Li Zicheng also fully understood Niu Jinxing's intentions, and a trace of annoyance in his heart also put it down and said to Li Zixiao.

Then, Li Zicheng directly turned his horse back, because he was already impatient to go back and select a thousand elite soldiers, ready to slap Li Zixiao's face later.

"Damn, let you dress up for this king, and only send two hundred soldiers to be ashamed, I really think that Lao Tzu's elite soldiers are muddy, or do you think that all your subordinates are heavenly soldiers and generals!

Since you don't have firearms, your Li Zixiao's men and horses will be like that in the eyes of this king, and the people who will kill you will be killed later, see if you are still scared. ”

Li Zicheng, who turned the horse back, thought this in his heart at this time.

Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing had similar thoughts, thinking that this was because Li Zixiao looked down on them and thought that Li Zixiao was too arrogant.

Looking at Li Zicheng's impatient return, Li Zixiao somewhat guessed Li Zicheng's thoughts at this time, and a faint sneer appeared on his face.

"Drive!"

Immediately, Li Zixiao also dialed his horse to return to the quartz side, and then took the quartz and them back to the rear of the White Dragon Army.

Just when Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng openly met under Kaifeng City, and the armies of both sides quietly confronted each other outside Kaifeng City, this frightened Chen Yongfu, Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and other officials in Kaifeng City.

"What is Li Zixiao going to do, he dares to openly meet with the leader of the anti-thieves, is he going to conspire with the thieves to rebel?"

At this time, Chen Yongfu roared loudly on the south wall of Kaifeng with an angry face.

At the same time, at this time, Chen Yongfu was extremely panicked in his heart.

He is really worried that Li Zixiao and Li Zicheng have joined forces, although theoretically it should not be, but there are no absolutes in the world, who can say for sure.

"Mr. Chen, pay attention to your words and deeds, before there is no factual evidence, it is very unwise for you to slander a second-class general of the imperial court like this."

At this time, Ding Qirui, who was on the side, heard Chen Yongfu's impatient words, and couldn't help but remind him.

"Yes, thank you, Lord Ding, for reminding me. But don't you think what Ben said is wrong? Now the thieves are coming to the city, and they are the leaders of the anti-thieves who must be exterminated by the order of the imperial court.

And now, since Li Zixiao has already brought his troops, he didn't hurry up to defeat these thieves when they had the advantage.

But he openly met with the thief leader Li Zicheng, what was he Li Zixiao thinking, this article alone was enough to convict him of collusion and rebellion, and a capital crime of rebellion. ”

At this time, Chen Yongfu still did not forget to dig a pit for Li Zixiao, set up a trap for Li Zixiao in advance, and seized Li Zixiao's meeting with Li Zicheng to make a fuss.

At this time, Chen Yongfu did this completely to prepare for a rainy day, once Li Zicheng was really forced to retreat by Li Zixiao this time.

At that time, he can use this charge to deal with Li Zixiao, so as to ensure that Li Zixiao cannot enter Kaifeng.

"General Chen, I also agree with what Inspector Ding meant, before you find out the truth of the matter, you have to be cautious in your words and deeds, Li Zixiao is also a second-class general in the imperial court."

At this time, even Gao Mingheng, who had partnered with Chen Yongfu before and was stationed in Kaifeng, couldn't help but say to Chen Yongfu.

Unlike Chen Yongfu, who thinks so much, and other Ming generals and officials, including the surrounding Gao Mingheng, are also very puzzled by Li Zixiao's meeting with Li Zicheng at this time.

But they still remember that if Li Zixiao hadn't suddenly led his troops to appear before, it is estimated that Kaifeng would have been conquered by Li Zicheng at this time.

This alone is enough to show that Li Zixiao will never be in the same boat with Li Zicheng.

As for why Li Zixiao met Li Zicheng at this time, there must be his reasons, and at this time, they can't doubt a meritorious person.

"Hmph, I hope Li Zixiao doesn't get together with the thief, otherwise Ben will never let him go."

Chen Yongfu saw that Ding Qirui, Gao Mingheng and others all said so, and they didn't add fuel to him at all, which made him very unhappy.

But in this case, he couldn't continue to black Li Zixiao, so he simply snorted coldly and left a cruel word.

"General Chen, why don't we send a soldier out of the city at this time, get in touch with General Li, and ask why General Li wants to meet with the thief Li Zicheng, won't everything be clear?

It's better to do this than to speculate here, if we end up wronging General Li, they will be our savior!

If that's the case, let the soldiers and people in Kaifeng City know, they will be dissatisfied; Let General Li and his subordinates know, they will also be chilled. ”

At this time, Yang Wenyue stood up and proposed.

"Lord Yang's proposal, I think it's okay, only send out soldiers to contact General Li, so that the thieves will not be given a chance to enter the city."

Gao Mingheng on the side smiled and nodded, agreeing.

"I also agree that we should get in touch with General Li, if we can maintain communication, we can better deal with the thieves together."

Ding Qirui also nodded slightly, expressing his approval.

Seeing that at this time, Yang Wenyue, Ding Qirui and Gao Mingheng actually reached a unity of opinion, and Chen Yongfu almost had a crooked nose.

But the identities of the three of them were there, and at this time, Chen Yongfu didn't dare to turn his face at the same time as the three of them, and finally could only agree to Yang Wenyue's proposal.

"Okay, just send a famous soldier out of the city to contact Li Zixiao, and the official wants to see how he plans to quibble." Chen Yongfu said very unacceptably.

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At this time, Li Zixiao outside the city didn't know that he had not yet entered Kaifeng City, and he had already been guarded and framed by Chen Yongfu.

However, even if Li Zixiao knew about Chen Yongfu's sinister intentions, he would not take it seriously.

Chen Yongfu, whose subordinates were basically disabled by Li Zicheng, Li Zixiao never regarded him as his opponent at this time, because he was not qualified enough.

"Quartz, go to the back, let the bulls gather together, now it's their turn to play."

At this time, under the protection of Quartz and other guards, Li Zixiao immediately asked Quartz to gather the special team of five hundred people after returning to the White Dragon Army's main formation.

Stomp, stomp!

Soon, a team of 500 people appeared in front of Li Zixiao.

It's just that when this team appeared, the eyes of the surrounding White Dragon Army soldiers all showed envy and shock.

I saw this army of 500 men, of which 200 were cavalry and 300 were foot soldiers.

But these cavalry were no ordinary cavalrymen, and each of them was wearing a new and bright set of bright light armor, covered in armor, wearing helmets and iron masks, revealing only a pair of eyes.

The war horses they rode were also covered with a layer of armor and horses in their hands, which was completely a heavily armored cavalry!

And next to this heavily armored cavalry, there were three hundred foot soldiers, and these foot soldiers looked more like tin cans at this time.

In fact, they are all wearing heavy and sophisticated step armor, and they are holding a particularly long big knife in their hands, if there are people who have studied history deeply, they will definitely recognize it, it is the Tang Mo knife.

"Mingguang armor, Ma Shuo, Song Dynasty infantry armor, Mo knife, this heavy armored cavalry I built should not be inferior to the Xuanjia army of the Tang Dynasty.

This hoplite army is in no way inferior to Yue Fei's Beiwei army (the Beiwei army is not all cavalry, but also foot soldiers, and they are the most elite in the Yue family's army).

This can basically be regarded as the strongest cavalry and infantry weapons and equipment in ancient China. ”

Li Zixiao looked at the five hundred soldiers walking towards him, with a smile on his face, full of appreciation.

That's right, it's appreciation.

I have to admit that such a combination of heavily armored cavalry and hoplites, although the number is small, still gives people a huge sense of oppression.

Li Zixiao asked the senior craftsmen of the arsenal under his command to spend more than two years and spent him a lot of silver.

Coupled with Li Zixiao's guidance, Li Zixiao finally restored the building process of Mingguang armor, Mo knife and Song Dynasty step armor.

Then, Li Zixiao ordered the creation of the first batch of such armor, and on his whim, he created this 500-man armored heavy cavalry and hoplite.

Mingguang armor, needless to say, is definitely a typical representative of ancient Chinese armor and the pinnacle of armor in the era of cold weapons.

After the Mingguang armor was manufactured by Li Zixiao, he once did a test, and it was difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate the Mingguang armor at all, and it could only be shot through at close range if it hit the arm and other non-critical positions.

After changing to a flintlock pistol for testing, Li Zixiao found that the flintlock pistol could not shoot through the plate-like armor on Mingguang Armor's chest from twenty paces away.

As for the Song Dynasty foot armor, Li Zixiao was even more shocked, it turned out that he knew that the most sophisticated foot armor in China appeared in the Song Dynasty.

It is no wonder that the Song Dynasty lacked horses, which is well known.

Therefore, the Song army was mostly foot soldiers, so they tried every means to strengthen the defense of the foot soldiers to fight against the cavalry of Liao and Jin in the north.

This makes the Song Dynasty's infantry armor extremely sophisticated, definitely not inferior to Mingguang armor, and he is more suitable for foot soldiers to wear.

Back then, the reason why Yue Fei was able to make several northern expeditions was that the Yue family army under his command was able to defeat the elite cavalry of the Jin Dynasty.

They relied not only on being well-trained, but more importantly, they were wearing the most sophisticated infantry armor in the era of cold weapons.

At the same time, if you look at the armor of the Western world, it will be far behind, otherwise the Tang Dynasty would have been able to rely on tens of thousands of horses to crisscross a large territory west of the Western Regions.

If you go to see how far the Tang army went on an expedition to the west, you will definitely feel extremely shocked, and even a little unbelievable.

It's just that this set of Mingguang armor and Song Dynasty infantry armor weigh dozens of catties, but they are not ordinary cavalry or foot soldiers, which can be withstanding.

In addition, in the era of the late Ming Dynasty, there were not many people who were particularly strong because of malnutrition.

In order to gather these five hundred people, Li Zixiao selected them from the entire army of the White Dragon Army.

Fortunately, it was in Li Zixiao's White Dragon Army, and the soldiers of the White Dragon Army were generally able to receive very high military salaries, so that their lives had already been improved, and their physique had also improved a lot.

If you change to the Ming army or the thief army at this time, if you want to get together such a team, you can wear dozens of pounds of heavy armor, and you can also go into battle to kill the enemy's soldiers, there are definitely not many.

What's more, the cost of such a set of Mingguang armor and Song Dynasty Buren armor is too expensive, so that Li Zixiao, who is not short of silver in his hand at this time, can't afford to build it!

Otherwise, he would not have ordered the production of these five hundred sets of armor to be suspended, which was too much money.

Li Zixiao's cost of building these 500 sets of Mingguang armor and Song Dynasty infantry armor was enough for him to build 3,000 flintlock pistols, or more than 2,000 sets of ordinary white dragon sergeant armor.

The reason why Li Zixiao built such a team was because of a little feeling in his heart, and on the other hand, he thought that maybe he could use them at some point.

At least Li Zixiao felt that whether it was mounted cavalry or hoplite, it was still very effective in dealing with the cavalry that the Tartars were proud of.

Their only weakness is their lack of mobility.

But if two cavalry are charging head-on, or if they are allowed to cut into the enemy foot camp.

Li Zixiao believed that a 1,000-strong armored cavalry could easily cut through a 10,000-strong light cavalry or defeat tens of thousands of foot soldiers.

It's not a fabrication, it's something that happened in history.

Because, Li Zixiao has personally practiced in the White Dragon Army.

Without using a flintlock pistol, he asked Luo Chao to transfer out a thousand White Dragon Army cavalry and two hundred heavily armored cavalry to do a drill.

As a result, their final judgment was that Luo Chao's 1,000 cavalry was defeated, while the 200 heavy armored cavalry suffered only a dozen casualties.

When a light cavalry rides a war horse against a horde of invulnerable, tank-like monsters, it's a nightmare.

Perhaps, the only way for the light cavalry to defeat these mounted cavalry was to take advantage of their rare mobility.

This is also the main reason why light cavalry gradually replaced heavy cavalry in the later period of history.

Also, it's easier to build light cavalry, and it's enough to create three or four light cavalry with one mounted heavy cavalry.

It can be said that at this time, Li Zixiao wants to build another heavily armored cavalry or hoplite, and it is absolutely inappropriate to rely on them to fight the world.

But Li Zixiao doesn't completely think that these heavily armored cavalry or hoplites are completely useless at this time.

As long as the world has not fully entered the era of thermal weapons, these armored heavy cavalry and hoplites can still play a good role at some specific moments.

For example, now, Li Zixiao plans to send a hundred heavily armored cavalry and a hundred heavy infantry into battle to fight against Li Zicheng's thousand elites.

Li Zixiao believes that they will definitely give Li Zicheng a big surprise when the time comes.

(End of chapter)