Chapter 620 Haidong Overlord III
The horse team started moving forward again, stepping on ice and snow, and the horse's hooves were sturdy.
This time, the 2,000 "army" of Wanyan's army were divided into two, with Aguda and Oliyan, plus Zhao Zhongge, a total of 204 heroes, and everyone changed their war horses and put on armor. Oliyan led the team forward unscrupulously. The heroes of the team held the stubborn goat horn bow in their hands, carrying a hardwood rifle on one shoulder, and a Khitan-style straight-back arc-blade knife, bronze bones and short axe hanging on their waists. They were really murderous.
Although the number of people in the Wanyan tribe is not large, their equipment is quite good. Over the years, they have continued to fight and gradually controlled the daughter-born tribe in the Huntongjiang River Basin, and thus monopolized the fur, harrier and eagle falcon to a certain extent. Therefore, when facing the Bohai merchants, they have a certain bargaining power and their income is guaranteed. And they don’t need to save money, silk, and various luxury goods, and they don’t need to save money to buy a house to pay for the tiger water. The men of the Wanyan tribe never get a wife because they don’t have a house... Even if they can’t get one, they will grab one!
Therefore, the fur they sold, the raw harriers and the eagle falcons they exchanged, except for the living food and a small amount of cloth and silk, were all things that armed themselves. In other words, the tiger water Wanyan team almost devoted all the GDP to military activities.
Their life, students, production and reproduction are all about the word "tick"!
So although the tiger water Wanyan tribe is poor, there are all kinds of stubborn sheep horn bows, hardwood horse rifles, Khitan-style big swords, bronze bones and hand axes, but there are fewer armors. However, there are more than 1,000 pairs, which is enough to arm the 2,000 female warriors who went to the expedition this time to half of the armor.
In addition, the horses of the female straits are quite good. Although they are fishing and hunting people, they also have the tradition of farming and raising livestock. Because the size of the horse raising herd is not large or small, it is more conducive to breeding, and the fishing and hunting life and frequent tribal fires also require tall and strong horses. Therefore, the quality of the female straits at this time exceeded that of the Khitan horse and Qingtang horse, and it is considered the first-class horse breed in the East. In the Wanyan tribe, there are some good horses with shoulder heights of four feet eight and four feet nine.
After having a tall and strong war horse, the heavy cavalry of the female Shimao played armor-worn charges more easily... Oh, this statement is not true. At least, there are no heavy cavalry, light cavalry, archers, spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in the Tiger Water Wanyan team. They are all "all-round soldiers". They get on and off the horse, shoot arrows, fight and chop people with hand-to-hand combat, and do whatever they want!
So a soldier who pressed the tiger water Wanyan division can actually be used as a few people! The 2,000 people brought out by Wanyan Yingge this time are actually the effect of 2,000 armored cavalry plus 2,000 bow cavalry plus 2,000 archers plus 2,000 spears/sword and shield hands plus 2,000 auxiliary soldiers! If it were the Song army and the Liao army, they would have to use 12,000 people to do their work, and most of the effect was not as good as theirs.
Not to mention, the logistics line needed by the 12,000 army alone is enough to drag people down. And these 2,000 daughters of the barbarians are basically not required to move between the white mountains and black waters. Now, because the heavy snow has not melted, the soldiers of the Wanyan tribe go out with dry food and horse materials. If it were the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, 2,000 fishing and hunting people could be maintained by hunting.
In addition, these mountain hunters have very good physical strength and can endure long-lasting hard fighting! The average physical fitness is definitely higher than that of the nomadic Khitans and the slogans, not to mention the Han and Bohai people who farm and trade. If the Han army did not meet them, 12,000 people might have been dragged down by 2,000 people!
Another thing surprised Zhao Zhongge and Ma Kuo, that was that when the team of the Hushui Wanyan team went out to fight and rob, few people fell behind. No matter how far or fast they walked, even like this two-day and two-night marching, it seemed that many people were lost. Moreover, most of the lost people would walk home by themselves!
Therefore, in terms of the quality of soldiers, logistics support, and weapons and equipment, the Wanyan team is outstanding! The claim that Abaoji had "the Jurchen is invincible" back then was obviously not without reason.
However, they also have weaknesses, that is, they have too few people and have not been baptized by real wars. The individual soldiers are first-class in quality, but they are vulnerable to gather together. They are actually very common between the northern grasslands and the white mountains and black waters. For example, the group of stupas who rebel every year but have no lead in making a fortune, their individual soldiers are better than the current Khitans, but they still cannot beat the Khitans.
Although there has never been a real battle, the more than 200 people who were with Zhao Zhong Ge were obviously very experienced soldiers. When the team came to the edge of an endless forest, the front team's Uriyan team dispersed, pulled out a sparse horizontal lineup, and carefully entered the woods. Each soldier held a whistle that could make a sharp whistle, and could send back the news of the enemy at any time.
However, this caution seems a bit redundant to Brother Zhao Zhong. He knows that the old forest in the mountains and rivers of Tokyo can "eat people". Who dares to go in if you are not the most powerful hunter? Besides, it is the time when winter and spring are intersecting, and God knows how many hungry beasts are waiting for the meal!
Moreover, the old forest is as boundless as the sea. Not to mention thousands of people, tens of thousands of people scattered into it is similar to pouring a few buckets of water into the sea. They soon lost their direction... Therefore, when the Khitans marched between the White Mountains and Black Waters in previous years, they usually did not dare to break into the big forest.
Brother Zhao Zhong followed Wanyan Aguda's team to drill into the old forest. The old forests here in the northeast are all made of tall trees, with few low shrubs and relatively large spacing between trees. If the horse control technology is good enough, you can gallop in the woods.
Because Brother Zhao did not have the surname Zhao at home, he was a bandit for a while and often rode his horse through Yanyun's forests, so he could still keep up with Wanyan Aguda's team.
He found that although Wanyan Aguda had only more than a hundred men, he was very well-organized when used. The team of more than a hundred men was not simply arranging one or two columns, but was divided into two groups in front, with the front and the back, and everyone was ready to shoot arrows at any time. The back hall was behind, which was specifically looking at the back path. If someone was in the limelight, the people in front would turn around and run away, and they were responsible for the response. These women in the forest were a little careless in some aspects, but they were very flexible on the battlefield. Even if they were defeated by their opponents, the main force would often escape.
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Just when 2,000 "heartless" children, Nao Barbarians, came in the blast of the cold wind, Xiao Haili was really sleeping soundly. He was almost exhausted and could not hold on!
Although he is not the Khitan who eats vegetarian food and chants Buddha's name (actually Xi people), he is not the Khitan who was in Abaoji's generation. When did he suffer such suffering?
He set up an ambush on the banks of the Yazi River three days ago and caught thousands of Khitan pursuers off guard. He was killed indefinitely and captured a lot, but he also knew that he did not have enough strength to fight against the entire Liao Dynasty. So after cleaning the battlefield, he immediately turned to Taibai Mountain.
After a day of transfer, a barbarian came out of nowhere and was clenched all the way.
Xiao Haili was also careful enough, worried that the girl was born with a large group of Liao soldiers, so he did not dare to stop and fight, nor did he dare to rest, and ran away with a lifeless run. But for some reason, the girl was born and pursuers kept biting her.
Even when Xiao Haili and his subordinates were exhausted and left behind occurred in large numbers, the Buddha finally blessed him and a blizzard was coming!
Xiao Haili was relieved now. He knew the current Khitan soldiers very well. He could pursue them in such ice and snow for two days. It would be impossible for them to fight against the wind and snow... If the Khitan soldiers were still so awesome, they would have destroyed Song Tunxia long ago.
So Xiao Haili was very relieved to find a forest that could cover the wind and snow to camp.
However, he is a Khitan who is more capable of fighting, and he is a very talented person. Even when the wind and snow are approaching, he did not forget to arrange the most reliable team to lead the team to guard the situation. He also cut down some trees and sealed the side of the forest. Of course, he did not forget to arrange archers to guard the trees behind the cut down.
At this point, he could finally have a good sleep and think carefully about where the team should develop in his dream?
When I was dreaming that I was sitting in the forest of the mountains and eagles roaring at the snow field, and was having a hundred chicken feast with a group of leaders who had planted grass with him in the nest of Taibai Mountain, I felt a "earth shaking" and shaking.
"What's wrong? An earthquake?"
When he opened his eyes suddenly, he found that several confidants were shaking him!
"What are you doing? Do you want to sleep?"
"Mr. I can't sleep anymore, the pursuers are here!"
A man reported in a panic.
"What?" Xiao Haili was stunned and stunned, "The snowstorm is not coming?"
"Come on, the wind is getting stronger and stronger outside."
"Then they are still here?" Xiao Haili sat up suddenly, "Who is the soldier?"
"It's a group of girls! About a thousand people."
"What? More than a thousand children have? " Xiao Haili was so upset by the news. "I didn't mess with them again, they bullied me."
"Langjun, what should we do?"
Xiao Haili glanced at the questioner: "What else can I do? Of course I have to beat him!
By the way, where did those girls come from?"
“Southwest.”
"Southwest... let's have a good time?"
"Going the wind!" Some of my subordinates understood what Xiao Haili meant, "Langjun, we are going to have the wind, they are going to have the wind."
"Okay!" Xiao Haili slapped his chin, "I don't want to hit those barbarians, they sent it on their own!
I passed on my orders to wear armor and prepare for war. Except for the Dizi Department, everyone will go to war!"
Chapter completed!