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“Woo~~”

"Dong~Dong~Dong~Dong~"

"Roar~~"

"Roar~~"

"Roar~~"

The dull drum horn, the passionate wolf howling of Menglu soldiers echoed in the land several miles outside Xuanwu Pass, and the majestic and intimidating momentum rushed towards Xuanwu Pass like a sea of ​​rushing towards Xuanwu Pass.

Well-made collision cars, driven by countless slaves, slowly moved forward. The harsh wooden wheel shaft made people feel a splitting headache and were very irritable.

In addition to the collision car, there are also rows of towering ladders, dark siege towers, and sharp crossbow chariots, which also follow the army.

Of course, there were also scattered machines that were also slowly approaching forward under the pull of cattle, horses and slaves.

The Monroe are in a rising period, and this powerful empire on the grassland is learning and improving advanced technologies at all times. These technologies are learned from the enemies during battles, some are created by themselves and thought hard, and some are obtained from spies.

For example, the siege towers, trenchers, horseshoes and double stirrups used now were all learned from Liu Ce's Far East Army. Especially the pair of stirrups and horseshoes were simply tailor-made for the cavalry of the Grassland Empire.

The people and soldiers of the grassland grew up on horseback since childhood. With their superb riding and shooting skills, they had an absolute maneuver advantage over farming civilization. When stirrups and horseshoes became popular, the cavalry of the Monroe Empire completely liberated their hands and quickly formed a high-speed cavalry unit with bows and cavalry as the main force.

Almost all the cavalry of these bow and cavalry units are wearing only light iron armor that protects the key points, or leather armor, or even not armor. The rhinoceros hornet horse bow is used as the main weapon to lure the enemy's main force to pursue, and then fight back within the range of bow and arrow killing.

On average, a Monroe Bowman can quickly shoot ten to twelve wolf-toothed arrows in one minute. Although the arch of the horse bow is not strong, the shooting with such a fast frequency forms a dense array of arrow rain, which is enough to destroy the will of all opponents.

Since the establishment of various archers, the archers and cavalrymen performed amazingly in the rebellion that killed various tribes in the territory of the Monroe Empire and made countless contributions. The rebel tribes and people became victims of the "Kites" of the bows and cavalrymen, and also made the reputation of the Monroe Archers spread throughout the central grassland as quickly as possible, intimidating the countries in the Western Regions.

Of course, in addition to the reform of bow and cavalry tactics, the Monroe's craftsmanship skills were also progressing day by day, especially in the forging level of iron armor, far exceeding the military camps in all parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In order to learn advanced cold forging technology from Xia people, Tuoba Hongye married his beloved daughter Tuoba Yu to Yuan Tianhao as his concubine and gave countless gold and silver wealth. Finally, Yuan Tianhao offered cold forging technology and sent excellent craftsmen to the Mengluo Empire to help them establish a complete cold forging technology system.

In fact, if Liu Ce had not come from later generations and the craftsmanship of the plate armor was becoming more and more mature and could have been put into production in small quantities, then cold forging technology might be his preferred development direction.

Cold forged armor, as the name suggests, is forged iron at room temperature. Its advantage is that it is lighter than cast iron leaves. The thickness of the armor leaves is nearly two-thirds thinner than hot forged, but its protective power is far better than that of ordinary iron leaves. Ordinary bows and arrows are almost impossible to penetrate them head-on. Even if they drill through the gap, the damage to the soldier's body will be greatly reduced due to the wear of the arrowheads. Therefore, this is definitely a superb forging process.

The current Monroe army has as many as 200,000 cold-forged armors, almost all of them are Hachiman's people or confidant followers. All the newly formed heavy-armored cavalry have been replaced with cold-forged armors, and their combat effectiveness is amazing.

On the other hand, the army was full of corruption everywhere in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even the deduction of military pay for soldiers became the norm, not to mention the replacement of armor and weapons. Whether it is tactical thinking or military equipment, the gap with the Monroe Empire has become increasingly wider and wider.

The 120,000 Mengluo army slowly approached Xuanwu Pass under the leadership of Yuchi Sen. This army, known as the most powerful of this era, vowed to capture the first pass of the Central Plains more than ten miles away in one battle.

When Yuchi Sen and Yuchi Jingyunce walked with the horse on their backs and the central army were full of confidence and fantasizing about making unparalleled achievements, a slave came to report: "Banner, someone in front of him stopped him and said he wanted to meet you, the flag owner, and he was the person from Central Plains who came to my camp a few days ago to negotiate..."

When Yuchi Sen heard this, he glanced at his thumb and said with a smile: "It seems that the Zhongyuan people are here to beg for peace. Bring him over. Thinking of the fact that he has a purple gold token on him, I will not be embarrassed by him. At worst, after the Xuanwu Pass is broken, please leave him a way out..."

The slave shook his head and said, "The flag owner, the Central Plains people brought tens of thousands of Central Plains officers and soldiers, and it didn't seem like they were here to seek peace..."

Yuchi Sen was stunned when he heard this: "Hmm? What are you, a dog slave? The officers and soldiers of the Central Plains took the initiative to come out of seclusion to face our Mengluo army?"

The slave nodded, and the next moment, Yuchisen and the surrounding soldiers looked at each other.

After a while...

"Mother of the Earth, tell me, are the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains crazy? They are obviously sheep, but why do they have to go over with the wolves and jump out of the fence and die on their own initiative?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yuchi Sen's joking words immediately attracted the laughter of his companions around him. Yuchi Jingyun even exaggeratedly put his upper body on the horse's back, and his saliva flowed all over the floor.

After the laughter stopped, Bi Mao, the Legend of the Condor Heroes, asked, "Master, give me three thousand men, and now I will kill all the sheep that are ignorant of the sky and the earth!"

Yuchi Sen shook his head and said, "No need. Since this Central Plains man is so brave and dares to invite an invitation in front of the formation, how can we, the noble and brave Monroe, be underestimated?

Yuchi Jingyun, please look forward to the army for me. Bi Mao, you bring a hundred personal soldiers with me and go to see the Central Plains man. Seeing that at this point, what else can he say!"

Yuchi Jingyun hurriedly advised: "Brother, be careful that the enemy is cheating..."

Yuchi Jingyun smiled and said, "It's just tens of thousands of sheep, and you dare to use tricks in front of hungry wolf? Don't worry, I believe that the people in the Central Plains will not be unable to see the situation clearly, and they are so stupid.

If they really have any abnormal movements, you immediately order the army to launch an offensive and step them all into meat paste. Do you understand?"

Yuchi Jingyun nodded and watched Yuchi Sen and more than a hundred personal soldiers gallop towards Huangfu Zhai's location.

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"I thought you wouldn't lead the army, but I didn't want you to take it seriously and lead the troops to seize the pass..."

This is the first sentence that Yuchisen heard after seeing Huangfu Zhai.

Huangfu Zhai carried his back with one hand and held a bronze mirror in his hand. His calm and composed attitude made Yuchi Sen feel dissatisfied.

However, when he looked at the tens of thousands of troops behind Huangfu Zhai, his originally nervous heartstrings calmed down, Ce and the horseback said proudly:

"Sir, you won't want to rely on the tens of thousands of mobs behind you to resist my army of tens of thousands of troops, right?"

Huangfu Zhai wiped the bronze mirror in his hand and was still very calm: "Let me think about why you suddenly sent troops to attack Xuanwu Pass," he said.

Is it because you think the situation in Xuanwu Pass is unstable and lose your combat effectiveness due to lack of food? And the reason why you make such a wrong judgment,

Just because the last time I was in your account, you got some unexpected clues from me, and then decided to send troops to Xuanwu Pass regardless of everything.

I think I can achieve a battle and make the first contribution to the Central Plains, is that right?"

Yuchi Sen's expression was reduced. It was obvious that his thoughts had been touched by Huangfu Zhai, but he did not hide them, but said with a smile:

"Yes, since the people of the Central Plains are suffering from famine, it only means that your Great Zhou court and the government are incompetent. Instead of letting the people continue to suffer, it is better to let me replace them in the Mangrots,

When I, the Menlo people, will definitely let the people of the Central Plains have enough food and no longer have to suffer for famine. Wouldn't that be great? Why should I be so ignorant of the praise?"

Huangfu Zhai snorted: "Then I want to ask, how much food and grass did you carry with you this time to provide relief to millions of victims in the northern part of the Central Plains? Have you done this?

Don't try to lie to me. When I asked you for food that day, when I revealed the situation in the mainland of Central Plains to you, I also discovered something.

That is, the food you have gathered outside Xuanwu Pass this time will definitely not exceed two months. If you are allowed to enter the pass like this, I am afraid that the people in the north will be bleeding and drifting, just like hell."

"How did you learn that our army had eaten less than two months of food?" Yuchi Sen's tone was surprised when he heard this.

"It was as expected that this kind of words was asked with your stupid head. Think about what did the people in your tent shout when I asked you to borrow food?" Huangfu Zhai asked while wiping the bronze mirror.

Yuchi Sen immediately fell into memories and suddenly remembered that someone in the tent shouted rejection. That person seemed to be Yuwen Zhou?

"Remember?" Huangfu Zhai saw Yuchi Sen's expression and knew that he had already remembered something. Then he continued: "Now, it's up to you to think about it carefully, why did that man suddenly suddenly refuse to borrow food?

Is it a pure coincidence that I was angry at my rude behavior, or is it that I already had a second thought? Or is it actually a hidden stake hidden inside you Monroe?

I won't tell you the answer, but I gave you the opportunity to choose. You can now guess what the purpose of that person doing this is?

Is it any impact on your military service today? If you really can't figure it out, you can go back and confront him by yourself, but be quick, maybe all this you do today is what he is happy to see..."

Yuchi Sen fell into deep thought again. He recalled the performance of Wen Zhou in the past few days, which was indeed intriguing. He especially supported the dispatch of troops to attack Xuanwu Pass, but he only gave 13,000 troops, and refused to come and attack together on the pretext that the camp must not be left unattended. Is there really any mystery in this?

"Have you figured it out? What are you going to do next? Should you continue to send troops to seize the pass or return the same way?"

However, Yuchi Sen has not responded to Huangfu Zhai's questioning.

Bi Mao, who was next to him, couldn't stand it anymore and said to Yuchi Sen: "Master, don't listen to the words of the Central Plains human beings. He is clearly delaying our march and immediately ordering the army to attack Xuanwu Pass..."

Yuchi Sen nodded and said, "Yes, how could I be sowed by the people of Central Plains? After I get the Xuanwu Pass, it's not too late to discuss with Yuwen Zhou carefully!"

"Is this the answer you came up with thinking?" Huangfu Zhai said with a faint mockery, and then waved the bronze mirror in his hand, "Then I can only say that you will be defeated and feel ashamed. Look at your feet,

It has been covered with grease, and the wind is now facing north. As long as I get a little fire, you and your army of more than 100,000 will surely be invisible!"
Chapter completed!