It is the most painful time to be born in Xixia in this era. The fate is like being cursed, and there is no happiness at all.
Li Yuanhao gradually changed the system under the suggestion of Zhang Yuan and Zheng Hao, changing the nomadic system to a military system. The individual belongs completely to the country, even if it is a nail in the family!
During the recruitment process, there must be at least two males in the family, aged between fifteen and below sixty, one of whom will serve as a regular soldier and the other as an accompanying soldier to do miscellaneous tasks. Several prefectures and towns near Xingqing Mansion were tasked with guarding the capital, and sometimes three or four people would be sent out!
Every time there is a war, every family's food must be contributed to the great Majesty without any return. In addition, the family's fattest cattle and sheep will be handed over, and the most dazzling war horses will go with the army. . What the people of Xixia fear most is not floods, droughts, locust plagues, nor wind, hail, rain and snow, but His Majesty's brutal military force!
Damn Zhang Yuan and Zheng Hao, ever since His Majesty had these two traitorous Han ministers at your side, it turns out that you only need one man to fight, and you don’t even need to bring food. A battle can have up to 10,000 men.
Now, there are hundreds of thousands of people fighting at every turn, and there are still a few tribes where strong men can be seen, all of them are old people and children, while women have to protect the safety of the tribes! Every time there is a war, not a single grain of food is left at home, and all the cattle and sheep left behind are lambs. Can these cattle and lambs be slaughtered? Unless someone on the grassland doesn’t want to live anymore, who would eat next year’s meat source first this year!
These two people are finally dead! On the day Zhang Yuan vomited blood and died, it is said that the Dangxiang people slaughtered the fattest sheep in their family and offered sacrifices to the gods, because their suffering was always difficult to overcome!
What I never expected was that Zhang Yuan and Zheng Hao died, but their cruel system remained! Your Majesty has learned how to use the power of the whole country to fight for him! In the past, there was a limit to asking for family property, but now the grain collector comes and searches the house! Even the suckling lamb was taken away!
The knife-like north wind and the cold ice and snow arrived earlier than in previous years. Every day, old people in the tribe froze to death in the dilapidated tents because of insufficient food and insufficient clothing to keep out the cold. Lambs need milk and water, and children also need milk and water. Looking around, there is no grass on the earth. Without food, humans and cattle cannot squeeze out even a drop of milk or water. In the end, they will starve to death!
Xike is a herdsman from the tribe at the foot of Zhilangrou Mountain. Her husband was recruited by His Majesty to fight with the Han people. She was left with two infant children and a mother-in-law with limited mobility at home. There were no other males in the family.
On this day, the sky turned cloudy early, and a chilling north wind began to howl on the grassland. Unsurprisingly, it would start to snow after the sun completely set. Xi Kezhi coaxed the child first, and then went to the sheepfold to add a handful of dry food to the sheep. There was not much dry food left at home. She did not dare to go far to collect fodder during the day. After all, someone had to watch the house, otherwise The sheepfold will be emptied out in a short time either by humans or by wolves. .
After scattering the last handful of fodder, she was about to go back to the tent to heat some grass root tea for her mother-in-law to drink. She said that her mother-in-law looked old, but she was actually only in her forties. His Majesty stipulated that men can be exempted from military service when they reach sixty years old, but party items How many people can live to be fifty? If you live to the age of forty, you will be considered a virtuous person in your life.
After the Han people blocked Shangfu, a place of trade, the Dangxiang people could no longer buy tea. Many old people had weak stomachs, and their stomachs became as bloated as balls after eating meat and drinking milk all year round. They could only pull some grass roots from the grassland and boil them. Instead of tea, it can barely relieve bloating.
The clouds in the southeast were getting bigger and bigger, and she was wondering why the clouds were spread on the ground instead of hanging in the sky today. Also, this cloud is moving so fast, rushing towards me like a tide!
Not a cloud! It's the army!
Is Your Majesty's war over? It hasn't been many days since this expedition, so why did you come back so quickly? War with the Han people usually lasts for more than a few months. The Han people are the best at delaying until you fight decisively!
call out! An arrow shot through the air and pierced her shoulder with a pop!
Seeing the blood-soaked clothes, she finally realized that these were not the troops of her own party members! Could it be the Han army? Jingyuan City is still hundreds of miles away from Tubo! It can’t be a Tubo!
Xi Kezhi covered the arrowhead with her hand. The pain made her eyes go dark. It was not yet dark but the sky was full of stars. There was a continuous ringing in her ears. When she came back to her senses, there was only fear in her eyes! The man at the front of this army wore a bronze mask on his face, and his ferocious fangs were like a wolf in the Tengger Desert. He could take away the souls of the herdsmen with just one look!
For many years, they were the only ones who invaded the homes of the Han people, killing their men, robbing their women, taking away their property, and taking their cattle, sheep, and livestock. The Han people have tried their best to protect their homeland, and now this bloody scene has also happened to the Dangxiang people!
The person wearing the mask is none other than Di Qing! Behind him is Liang Chuan's second ace, Guan Jing Cavalry!
For half a year, this team made of steel has been with the horses every day. They eat, drink and eat almost all on the horses. If the horses are sick, they have to find a veterinarian for them. When they fall asleep at night, they have to worry about whether the horses will catch cold. The disciples of Guanzhong know that this horse is more valuable than them.
With a wave of his hand, Liang Chuan actually assigned three horses to each of them! Three horses! Yao Yuan, who was so anxious that the Tianxiong Army was so anxious, entered Liang Chuan's tent many times to clap the table with him. Liang Chuan just said, three horses can fight for a month in turns. Is it possible for a man to carry a horse when one horse is exhausted?
Now every soldier of the Guanjing Cavalry treats Liang Chuan as his biological father, fearing that his father will take their horses back if he is unhappy. During military training, the horses are replaced when they get tired. People are made of iron, so you have to practice everything from equestrian riding to sword skills!
How many cavalry did the Song Dynasty have? This is Liang Chuan's great kindness to them. Once they are trained, they will become the most elite troops in the Song Dynasty. Who wants to spend their whole life being a mistress? Who doesn’t want to be a master?
In just a few months, their skin was burned away layer by layer by the scorching sun, and the cold wind blew the tiger's mouth open and then healed it. Liang Chuan laughed and said that three pounds of soil in the morning was not enough to replenish it in the afternoon! After practicing riding, practice archery! The archery skills pass the level and the sword skills surpass each other! Three thousand people had to pass the competition with the Khitans from the intelligence team before they could truly become a member of the cavalry!
What touched them the most was that everyone in the Tianxiong Army was assigned a set of cold-forged armor! When someone is alive, armor is still there, when someone dies, armor is back! One man and three horses, with cold-forged armor on his body, and a divine arm bow in his hand, what should the world have to fear!
Di Qing was proud of Su Wei's command arrow, and led the Guanjing cavalry all the way to the west, marching quickly along the Roulang Mountains, marching three hundred and one day before appearing outside Jingyuan City. The elite of Jingyuan City was following Li Yuanhao and was surrounding them. Huaidejun, there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city.
Starting from Li Yuanhao's grandfather, from the moment Jingyuan City was occupied by the Dangxiang people, the Han people did not bring the war to this land. The Dangxiang people mistakenly believed that the weak Han people would never get back the land they lost, leaving The soldiers in the city are just to deter lawless elements. Where can there be war?
When Di Qing's troops roared in, two hundred strides away, they first picked up the divine arm bows strung diagonally on their horses, and some picked up hard crossbows, nocked arrows, and fired at least three volleys. These three rounds of volleys ensure that after three hundred strides, at least two-thirds of the people in front will fall!
Many people couldn't even find their weapons. Guan Jing's cavalry took out the machete from his waist, and the blade slashed along with the horse's momentum. The heads rolled to the ground, and the gate of Jingyuan City had no time to close. Let Guan Jing's cavalry rush into the city. Where is there any strength to fight in the city? Some stubborn party members picked up their swords and slashed at the chests of these Han people. With a bang, the sword broke, and there was no scratch left on the armor. Down!
The defensive power of cold-forged armor is not inferior to that of infantry armor, but its weight is infinitely lighter than infantry armor. This can be regarded as the best in the world!
The knives in the hands of the poor party members were sharpened. They finally realized the helplessness and despair of the Han people before they died. Just like wild wolves entering the sheepfold, the sheepfold could not escape death after all!
"No man will be left alive, no old man or child will be killed!" This war does not talk about who is right or wrong. The centuries-old grudges can no longer be explained by right or wrong. How many Han people died under the butcher's knife of the party members. At that time, they did not distinguish between Old people and children!
Xi Kezhi raised her hands feebly, wanting to stop these evil wolves and protect her children, but she found that she could do nothing. Not even men could protect this tribe and this city. After the massacre, there was a fire, and the raging fire burned Everything that this army could not take away was gone.
In this battle, the Guanjing cavalry wiped out more than 3,000 enemies and cut off the left ears of the party members. Dozens of people in the army were injured, but they were all able to continue fighting, and no one was killed! The fire in Jingyuan City burned for a day and a night, and was slowly extinguished under the cover of winter snow. Di Qing led people to rob the cattle and sheep, cut off the fattest legs of the cattle and sheep, and hung them on the other two spare horses. After they were dried, they were directly used as meat. Dry food!
When Li Yuanhao received the military report of a fire in the rear, he hurriedly led his troops back to Xixia. When he saw the ruins of Jingyuan City, his body seemed to have been drained dry. The city he had worked so hard for generations was reduced to ashes!
"Where are the people? Where are the armies of Han bastards?"
"Your Majesty, this army came and went like the wind. It didn't stay for a moment. It seemed like it was heading west!"
"Do you know how many people there are in this army?"
"Looking at the horse manure on the ground, there must be more than 10,000 people!"
A tingling and cold feeling suddenly swept through Li Yuanhao's body, heading west! This will cost him his life! All his troops are placed in the left compartment, and the military commanders in the right compartment are all old, weak, sick and disabled! Ten thousand cavalry! The racecourses of the Song Dynasty have long since disappeared. Where did the 10,000 cavalry come from? If there were really so many, the following military commanders wouldn't have to resist. It would be impossible to stop this well-prepared elite!
The bastard Han Chinese seemed to be waiting for me to leave home, and then raided my old nest!
"Hurry up!"
