Liu Zhaosun rode his horse on the official road.
Just like when Hunjiang attacked Xianglan Banner at night, the most elite cavalry were accompanying General Xuanwu at this time.
The horse soldiers are equipped with sharp equipment and are quite lethal.
In addition to cold weapons such as lances and clubs, they are also equipped with firearms for mounted warfare.
As well as the latest killer weapon developed by Kaiyuan Workshop.
Specifically, the equipment of the cavalry battalion is as follows:
Chain mail, cotton armor, lance, big stick, throwing axe, iron bone flower, heavy knife, small buckler, stone mine, tiger squatting cannon, divine fire flying crow, flint hair short gun...
Archery horsemen carried short bows and large arrows. In some circumstances, bows and arrows are more lethal than flintlocks.
For a long-distance cavalry attack, one horse is not enough. All the cavalry soldiers have two horses per person, and some even have three horses per person.
The armor and weapons supplies each person carried weighed dozens of kilograms. During the march, a war horse acted as a walking horse, carrying and transporting these equipment.
Wait before going to the battlefield, then change vehicles and charge.
War horses transporting armor consume less physical energy and are used for charging.
In this way, the cavalry can be guaranteed to be in the best condition at all times.
Liu Zhaosun now owns more than 2,000 war horses.
In addition to the 1,000 horses brought by the Yehe people and 500 of his own, Lin Danhan also presented 800 fine Mongolian horses to General Xuanwu.
Lin Dan Khan was famous for his poverty, and Ming history called him a "poor and hungry prisoner".
This descendant of the golden family lacks everything but horses.
Before setting off, Liu Zhaosun told the Mongols that Hou Jin was very rich and all his money was in the camp outside Shenyang.
Of course, Liu Zhaosun just said this once not long ago.
The Mongolians followed Li Yuchen to attack Houjin's lair. They spent two days in Hetuala and found no hair except ginseng and dongzhu.
However, the kind and simple Mongolian Khan still chose to believe Liu Zongbing.
Liu Zhaosun said that Nurhachi led the four major Baylors to rob all the way from Kaiyuan to Shenyang. They killed countless people and looted countless people. They robbed at least 8 million taels of silver. They also piled up mountains of grain and cloth, and there was no end to the transportation.
He swore to the Mongols in the name of Changshengtian:
As long as Lin Danhan leads his 400,000 cavalry to Hunhe to help his brothers, and beat drums and drums at critical moments, after Hou Jin is eliminated, the two families will share the money equally.
Lin Danhan was very moved when he heard that Liu Zhaosun was going to Shenyang to die this time and that he would be given money.
Moved, the Mongolian Khan generously gave 800 good horses to his allies and encouraged General Xuanwu to go to Hunhe and fight to the death with Jiannu.
Lin Danhan repeatedly promised that his 400,000 cavalry would arrive soon.
The down-and-out princes and grandsons of the Golden Family will not let go of any opportunity to make a fortune.
After Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty fled north, the descendants of Genghis Khan were in a difficult situation and suffered humiliation.
During the Hongwu period, Lan Yu led an army to attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty, defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the fishing sea, and captured countless Mongolian nobles.
The Mongolian Queen Quan was captured. General Lan Yu felt that he should avenge the humiliation of Jingkang on behalf of the Han people, so he sent the Mongolian Queen...
During the Yongle period, Arutai, the Taishi of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and appointed Zhu Di as the co-lord of Han and Mongolia.
After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar tribe, who had always had little dealings with the Manchus, was forced to leave the Tumote tribe. Huang Taiji did not let go of the last Mongol Khan, and chased him from Liaodong to Qinghai, and finally Lin Danhan was forced to death and his eight fortunes were given to the Manchu Baylors.
Only by briefly reviewing the humiliating history of the Northern Yuan Dynasty for more than two hundred years can we understand why Lin Dan Khan supported Liu Zhaosun so fully.
Lin Danhan hoped that Liu Zongbing could defeat Hou Jin in one fell swoop, so that he could grab something by the way, teach Horqin a lesson, and let all the ministries know who is the real master of the grassland.
It's the golden family.
Of course, historically, Lin Dan Khan's ambitions were not limited to this.
The last Mongolian Khan dedicated his life to restoring the glory of the Golden Family and completing the unification of all Mongolian tribes.
It's a pity that he has great ambitions but few talents, makes enemies everywhere, and encounters a perverted opponent like Huang Taiji. In the end, his country is ruined and he dies, and even his eight wives are divided by Huang Taiji.
Fortunately, with Liu Zhaosun's intervention, Lin Danhan's fate may not be so tragic.
The dying Huang Taiji had no intention and was unable to snatch away Hu Duntu's Fujin.
At some point, Kang Yingqian, who was riding on horseback, had a new type of stone mine in his hand.
This bold and careful old man took the stone thunder and looked at it carefully. He felt that it looked like a purple clay teapot in his study, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch the handle of the teapot.
"Don't!"
"Master Kang, don't, don't pull that ring."
If they are not careful, the two of them will be hit by hundreds of iron nails, their flesh and blood will be mutilated, and they will die on the road leading to Ping Liao's career.
Kang Yingqian withdrew his finger from the pull ring. Feeling that this warrior's utensil was boring after all, he threw it away and threw it to Liu Zongbing.
Liu Zhaosun caught Shi Lei, his heart beating violently.
"General Liu, why did you bring so many rare things? I have never seen them in Kaiyuan. It seems that Song Yingxing and the others have concealed a lot of inside information from me. I need to talk to him carefully when I get back."
Kang Yingqian said, reaching out to touch the sacred fire flying crow inserted in Liu Zhaosun's saddle.
"Kang Jianjun, this, swoosh! He took people to the sky."
Seeing Liu Zhaosun's serious expression, Kang Yingqian knew that he was talking nonsense again, and he put his hand back.
When Mao Yuanyi was casting the Hongyi cannon, Song Yingxing was not idle either. Under his careful design, Kaiyuan Workshop upgraded the stone thunder.
The stone shell was replaced with a wooden structure, a wooden handle was added, and the internal gunpowder capacity was increased.
Finally, the craftsmen installed a flintlock-like turning machine inside the stone mine, and changed the original ignition detonation to a pull-fire detonation.
Since then, the Stone Mine Game has some characteristics of modern grenades. To put it simply:
After the explosion, people may really be killed.
In short, the improved stone thunder is no longer the original kind of defective product that weighs three or four kilograms and cannot be thrown at all. It is only thrown out occasionally to defeat the enemy.
Similar to Shi Lei, Song Yingxing also made improvements to the Divine Fire Flying Crow.
To put it simply, the newly designed rocket is larger, has more gunpowder, and has a longer flight distance. It can reach three miles, which is comparable to the Hongyi cannon, but of course it is much less powerful than the latter.
Most importantly, the rocket's shooting accuracy has been greatly improved.
At least there will no longer be the weird situation where the rocket immediately turns 180 degrees and shoots towards the launcher after being ignited.
Liu Zhaosun patiently introduced various new weapons in the workshop to Kang Yingqian, from the divine fire flying crow to the mine cannon, and from the flintlock short gun to the light tiger crouching cannon.
Kang Yingqian lost interest after listening for a while. Whether it was a short flintlock gun that could penetrate double armor or a squatting tiger cannon with a longer range and more power, they could not arouse the interest of this civil servant.
Kang Yingqian waved his hand and finally put down the short flint gun aimed at Liu Zhaosun.
He remembered that his good brother Qiao Yiqi from Kaiyuan was still suffering, and couldn't help but sigh:
"General Liu, you asked Mao Yuanyi and the others to kill Huang Taiji with a single shot from the Hongyi cannon in Kaiyuan. Isn't this too ridiculous?"
Liu Zhaosun and Kang Yinggan reined in their horses and moved forward slowly. The fine cavalry passed by them and saluted General Liu one after another. The faces of these young horse soldiers were filled with the desire to fight.
Liu Zhaosun glanced at Kang Yingqian and laughed:
"During the Saarhu period, the slave thief shot Du Zongbing to death with one arrow. Later, the slave thief shot Zhang Xianzhong to death with one arrow. Don't you think this is absurd? I am planning to kill the slave chieftain with the red barbarian cannon. Lord Kang thinks it is absurd. , what’s the point?”
After the battle in Kaiyuan, a prisoner with a yellow flag confessed that Juniper was indeed shot in the face by Baya and killed with an arrow.
Kang Yingqian also knew about this, but he didn't know who Zhang Xianzhong was.
Just as he was about to ask, Jin Yuji rode forward. Kang Yingqian pushed back two steps. Jin Yuji whispered to Mr. Liu:
"My lord, the Chinese Guards have captured two Jiannu sentries. Do you want to interrogate them?"
Liu Zhaosun waved his hand and said:
"Behead him immediately without delaying the journey."
Tieling is about 140 miles away from Shenyang. If the horsemen spare no effort, they can reach it in one day.
However, it is impossible for infantry. Even if the soldiers under Liu Zhaosun have iron will, they cannot complete the journey in one day.
In later generations, a certain army flew to capture the Luding Bridge and marched 160 miles day and night. This was the limit of the human body, and the equipment burdened by a single soldier more than three hundred years later was also different from what it is now.
Even if Liu Zhaosun gives an order, these soldiers will rush to Shenyang as soon as possible even if they are exhausted.
However, Liu Zhaosun was not prepared to let these elites waste their lives in order to challenge the limits of individual marching in the Middle Ages.
And even if they could rush to Shenyang and reach the Hunhe battlefield in one day and one night, the soldiers would be exhausted and face the Houjin soldiers who were ten times their strength. In the end, they would only be destroyed.
There are many kinds of bravery, but never letting a soldier die in vain.
Some of the equipment of the pikemen can be carried by the auxiliary soldiers.
Liu Zhaosun planned to march a hundred miles today and arrive at Xiaocaitaizi Village, about forty miles away from Shenyang, in the evening, and then rest the entire army.
Choose an opportunity to launch an attack on the Houjin Army in Shenyang, preferably at night.
Once the army approaches Shenyang, it will be difficult to keep it completely secret, so General Liu Zhaosun personally led 5,000 cavalry to attack the Jin soldiers behind the Hunhe River in advance.
The gap between cavalry and infantry was about two hours.
On the same day, Liu Zhaosun handed over the command of the soldiers to General Deng Changxiong, and Burhanggu continued to cover the flanks of the soldiers.
Liu Zhaosun personally led 1,200 elite cavalry, as well as Lin Dan Khan's vanguard cavalry, a total of 5,000 cavalry, speeding southward regardless of horse power.
At dusk that night, before the sun set over the Hun River, they finally arrived in the north of Shenyang City.
Outside the white-pole soldiers formation on the north bank, the dark Hou Jin army was still firing arrows and muskets. The armored soldiers and coated rat tails were like the beards of banyan trees in the south, swaying in the wind.
Liu Zhaosun observed for a long time, but did not find the golden dragon tapes made by Hou Jin Khan.
He suspected that Nurhaci was besieging Zhejiang soldiers at the east gate.
He did not accept the report all night, and for the whole afternoon, Houjin Khan sat under the golden dragon cloth on the north bank of the Hun River, staring at the Hun River in a daze, as if he was watching the fish in the river.
"Watching fish? Is the slave chief still in the mood to watch fish?"
"Don't he know he's a big fish?"
After listening to the report, Liu Zhaosun smiled coldly.
"It's better to retreat and weave a net than to envy the fish in the abyss."
"Tonight, I will make a big net to catch this big fish."
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he looked up at the sky and saw that it was getting late.
"Rest where you are and follow my officer's night attack after dark."
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