Wang Gui looked at these horse lances with some excitement, and he couldn't wait to equip these horse lances to crisscross the battlefield and kill the enemy chieftain at this time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Possessing a horse lance, for the military generals can be a symbol of identity and force, and can also be used as an heirloom in the future, thinking of this, Wang Gui is also ready to make a horse lance by himself, just here are good materials, he hired a craftsman alone, and made a horse lance that can be heirloom at home.

The manufacture of this horse lance really consumes manpower, force and time, with the national strength of the Western Xia and the Jurchens, it is impossible to forge the horse lance, this horse lance plus horizontal knives and strong armor, the cavalry strength of the Great Song Dynasty has doubled.

When Wang Gui thought of this, his heart became more and more excited, as if he had seen tens of thousands of cavalry holding horses and lances across the battlefield.

"The Metropolitan Governor wants to use the equipment of the White Qiantang and then fight with the Great Cannibal, and I hope that Zhao Qian and them can find Afang Palace and find out the situation in the Western Regions!"

When Wang Gui was thinking in his heart, Zhao Qian, who was in charge of exploring the land in the river, had already left the border of the Great Song Dynasty and stepped into the Silk Road between Western Chu and Western Xia.

This time, he took a group of about 100 soldiers disguised as a caravan and headed towards the Western Regions.

Zhao Qian, the leader of this group of 100 people, was born in Qinghe Villa, has old qualifications, and has a high cultivation, and Zhao Hu, Zhao Yuan and Zhao Long are all the same people, these people are Zhao Shu's absolute henchmen, and they were given the surname Zhao.

However, Zhao Qian's qualifications are not high, and when he was a child, he suffered some secret injuries, and his Gang Qi Realm is already the highest cultivation.

However, a year ago, Zhao Shu gathered these teenagers from Qinghe Mountain Villa together and sent them into the thunder water of the Red Copper City, nourishing and tempering their bodies with the essence of thunder water, and supplemented with a large number of pills and ghost fairy thoughts, and finally let them enter the Yin and Yang realm, but their cultivation also stopped there.

At this time, Zhao Qian was carrying all the masters in the army, eighteen Gang Qi Realm martial artists, more than thirty innate martial artists, and more than forty True Qi Realm martial artists, disguised as the guards of the caravan, and most of the people in the caravan were carefully selected, and the weakest ones were all in the Divine Power Realm.

The main person of the caravan is Liu Dacai, the shopkeeper personally selected by Shang Bubao now, who is an old man in his fifties, who has been walking on the Silk Road in the Western Regions all the year round, with rich experience and old methods.

One of the two deputy treasurers is Sura who followed Zhao Shu in the early years, and the other is the Turkic old man Qi Lili who went south to join the Great Song Dynasty.

After this caravan went out from the Great Song Dynasty, it was fully armed, everyone had war horses, and the horses were hung with swords, guns, swords, halberds and swords and shields, and the carriage of the caravan was specially modified, similar to a side carriage, like a small army heading towards the Western Regions.

In fact, the caravans walking in the Western Regions, in order to resist horse thieves and some bandits, are all capable of conscripting and fighting and fully armed, especially when they arrive in the Western Regions, many Hu tribes in the Western Regions also like to plunder caravans, even if they do not plunder, when they are doing business, they also like to buy and sell, if the caravan does not have a certain combat effectiveness, it is impossible to walk on the Silk Road.

Zhao Qian's caravan, plus the guards and men, was only five or six hundred people, which could be regarded as a small army, but walking on the Silk Road could only be regarded as a medium caravan.

On the Silk Road, there are also caravans of the powerful people of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are caravans sent by the big merchant groups, these caravans are often thousands of people, and the guards on their bodies have strong bows and crossbows, and even a small part of the armor, but after these caravans enter the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, these strong bows and crossbows and armor must be registered and confiscated by the checkpoints set up at the border, and when they go to the Western Regions next time, they will be issued again, leaving only the simplest self-defense swords, and these caravans will be inspected along the way, and it is strictly forbidden to equip hard crossbows and armor and other militaristic heavy weapons。

The imperial court is extremely strict with the jurisdiction of these caravans, but out of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court does not care, even if you kill people and set fires outside, as long as you return to the country, pay taxes, and obey the law, you will ignore it, but if there is a little transgression, the officials of the imperial court will not be the slightest polite.

Outside the borders, the imperial court tacitly acquiesced in or even encouraged the arming of caravans, because the caravans of the Western Xia and Jurchens were heavily armed, and when they encountered the caravans of the Great Song Dynasty, they would even disguise themselves as robbers, and if the caravans of the Great Song Dynasty were too weak, they would not be able to open up the Silk Road in the Western Regions.

Zhao Qian's caravan departed from Yanjing, passed through Taiyuan, then entered the Hetao, and then entered the territory of Western Chu into Ganzhou and Chaidan.

Although it is not closer to the land of Ganzhou from Guanzhong, it is the closest way from Yanjing to the Silk Road. Everyone walked very fast, just a few days from the West Chu walked over, in the territory of West Chu, the caravan of the Great Song Dynasty will be advantageous, this is also the influence of the Western Chu pro-Song Dynasty, at the same time the West Chu hopes to attract more business travel of the Great Song Dynasty into the West Chu, so it will no longer set up checkpoints at the border to collect taxes, between walking, just like the Great Song Dynasty in general, but the things spent along the way by the business travel, but let the road along the way prosperous, West Chu collects the taxes of those merchants, than just set up a card to charge is much more cost-effective, after all, now Guanzhong and Ganzhou a section of the Silk Road are in the Great Song Dynasty, if the West Chu charges, the business travelers around Yanyun will not go to the West Chu。

Over the years, Ren Dejing has gradually de-partyized in the territory of Western Chu, moving towards the system and facilities of the Great Song Dynasty, and many places are more like the Great Song Dynasty than the once barbaric Western Xia.

"Zhao Huwei, we will enter Ganzhou after a while, Ganzhou and Delete Dan were given to me by the Western Xia Dynasty to the Great Song Dynasty, the personnel are mixed, the Han people, the party Xiang, the Turks and the Hui people are all mixed in, the personnel are complicated, now stationed in Ganzhou is Wu Ling, the younger brother of General Wu Jie, who is also brave and good at fighting, good at bows and crossbows, and guarding the city very strictly, do we go to visit?"

After the centurion Yan Feng reported the situation in Ganzhou, Zhao Qian waved his hand and said: "Ganzhou is mixed, if our identity is known, it is not beautiful, let's find a place to live! ”

When Zhao Qian spoke, he discussed with Liu Dacai and others about today's garrison.

"My lord, the land of Ganzhou is mixed, but under the auspices of the prefect Ma Jing and Teng Zhao, it has also been appeased, this is the place where the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty and even the Western Chu business and travel meet, which has led to the prosperity here, and the Great Song Dynasty has also set up a lot of warehouses here, we can get a lot of information about the Western Regions here, and we can also negotiate with some Hu tribes to recruit some mercenaries to protect us. ”

Liu Dacai, who was in charge of the operation of the caravan, said very seriously, and when he heard Liu Dacai's words, Zhao Qian frowned and said worriedly: "Recruit mercenaries?"

The deputy shopkeeper smiled and said, " Lord Commander, recruiting mercenaries can allow us to avoid unnecessary fights, and can also hide my strength, the number of mercenaries is only more than a hundred people, in fact, the real role is similar to that of guides, those mercenaries are all land snakes, and it can also allow us to avoid unnecessary fights, especially after we cross the Heishui River, it is the Gansu military division of Western Xia, these Western Xia soldiers are very unconvinced that Western Xia ceded the land of Ganzhou, and often secretly make trouble, and even collude with horse bandits, with the mercenaries of these tribes, it will be fine. ”

"Well, the two of you can discuss these matters. Zhao Qian was cautious in his heart, and when he heard that there were not many people, he didn't think much about it.

When Zhao Qian was preparing to enter Western Xia, Zhao Shu of the Dragon Head Hall sent a team of secret guards and people from the Heavenly Ministry to prepare to build a palace around Xiliang Mansion, and Zhao Shu himself was also summoned Zhao Ding and others who returned from Fusang. (To be continued.) )