Far away at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, thousands of miles away from Guangzhou, a horse team was rushing towards Khotan, surrounded by a middle-aged monk in red.

Smoke and dust billowed behind the convoy, and a few miles away, a team of light cavalry was chasing the team of chariots and horses.

A strong and strong old Han man seemed to be the leader of the cavalry team. He had a magnificent purple horse under his crotch. Although the cavalry team was galloping at high speed, the old man was still able to drive the horse and look after it, showing his superb riding skills.

I saw the old man running in front of the monk in red who was running wildly on his horse, shouting: "Alingjing, can you still hold on?"

The monk in red shouted: "Yes! I am going to Khotan to gather believers and come back to rescue the Buddhist believers!"

The old man turned his head and looked at the thousands of Qingqi behind him: "Haha, that old boy Yuchiwei is going to pee in fear when he sees this scene!"

A small mud city with beacons appeared in front. The old man shouted to the people: "Abandon the vehicles and goods to delay them. Let's go towards the mud city. There are grain and equipment hidden there! Let's light the beacons and move reinforcements!"

The monk in red didn't say much, and rode towards the mud city.

The horse team roared through the mud city, and the horse and carriage gang inside suddenly jumped up and down. A man shouted: "Ji Changgong, what happened?"

The old man is Da Su's good friend Chen Zhen, who is fifty-four years old and is now a wealthy man in Hexi.

The Song Dynasty was becoming more and more influential in the Western Regions. Chen Zhen often led his caravans through the Western Regions, not only to the Xizhou Uighurs and the Black Khanate, but also to Khorezm, Seljuk, Gus, Orlanggai,

Been there all.

The caravan has to travel through the countries in the Western Regions, and it cannot do without some strength. As a semi-official force of the Song Dynasty, Chen Zhen gathered a group of Han prisoners under his command, brave, Ningxia law enforcement officer, Hengshan Bubazi, Uighur swordsman,

Tartar savages...

There are almost all ethnic groups, and the size of the caravan reaches 3,000 people. It is a huge force on the Silk Road.

Chen Jichang from Hexi and Tang Silang from Haibei are almost parallel to each other.

Of course, there are also those who promote narrow-mindedness and add a sentence after this slogan - "Hedong Lioness".

Chen Zhen flew off his horse and said: "Geng Laosan closed the city gate and blocked it with the carriage. The brothers took the equipment and went to the city. The black sweat dogs are coming. They want to kill the Living Buddha!"

There was an uproar in the small castle: "Where is the Living Buddha?" "Is he okay?"

The monk in red was helped down by Chen Jichang's horsemen, and he said to everyone: "The poor monk is Alingjing."

The living Buddha Zen Master Yi Xiyang who spread the legend in the West passed away in Jingangya Temple a few years ago. Before his death, he had promoted the Erlin Dharma system to Tubo, Yellow-headed Uighur, Qiuci, Yanshi, Gaochang and other places, and became a Buddhist

The highest representatives in these places.

Before his death, Yi Xiyang passed the mantle to his disciple Alingjing.

The Song Dynasty court gave Yi Xiyang gold and silk, built a large-scale Buddhist temple pagoda to store the relics of eminent monks for worship by believers from all walks of life in the Western Regions, and granted him the title of "Master Ganlu Hongzhen".

He also gave Alingjing purple clothes, gold silk, and an imperial edict, ordering him to inherit the throne of the Living Buddha Zen Master on the West Road.

The living Buddha of Jingangya Temple has a high status among Buddhists in Hexi countries, and everyone in the city immediately paid homage to it.

Chen Zhen rolled his eyes: "Now is not the time to worship, everyone is copying you!"

With these words, he woke up everyone who was still immersed in the happiness of encountering the living Buddha. Geng Laosan quickly called for the clerk to push a van to the door to block the city gate, opened another van, and put the precious silk blankets and other things inside.

He dragged out the things and threw them on the ground: "Beware of the dog thieves firing arrows, the living Buddha should get in the car first and take cover!"

When Alingjing entered the car, Geng Laosan closed the door and shouted: "Wulwin leads the people to burn the beacon fire! Li Dalang leads the crossbow team! The veterans of the new army come out to line up and follow me into the house to get the equipment!"

Everyone moved, and a lazy caravan turned into an efficient and flexible army in the blink of an eye.

A dozen Han people stood up, Geng Laosan waved, and everyone followed Chen Zhen into a mud house.

Chen Zhen drew his sword and peeled off a layer of soil at the bottom of the soil bed, revealing several inlaid wooden boards. He removed the wooden boards and dragged out several boxes from inside.

Opening the box, there were brand new cannons wrapped in oil paper.

In the other two boxes were Huang Chengcheng's ammunition.

In another box, there is a thunderbolt with a wooden handle.

Geng Laosan grinned and said: "You are blessed today. Liu Wu'er, didn't you complain that you retired too early and had no chance to play tricks? This opportunity has come!"

Liu Wuer was assembling the Sky Thunder, and said with a smile: "Tou Geng has been out of the army for too long, and his courage has gone away. You shouldn't rush to let Ulwin make trouble, let the brothers have fun first!"

Today's Zhentian Lei has been improved. There is an iron piece on the shell, which can be easily hung on the belt. The wooden handle and the projectile body can be disassembled. The projectile body, detonator, and wooden handle are usually stored separately, and can be temporarily used when needed.

Assemble.

In addition to improved safety, this also has the advantage that a circle of projectiles can be tied to a thunderbolt to create a more powerful cluster thunderbolt.

Everyone was laughing and chatting, some were assembling the Thunderbolt and hanging it on their belts, and some were loading bullets into the magazine.

Chen Zhen put helmets on everyone's heads and cursed: "You desperate killers must first be on guard against arrows!"

The cry of killing could be heard outside the house. Chen Zhen finally put a helmet on his head and picked up the gun: "Let's go!"

Seeing Chen Zhen go out, Liu Wuer touched his elbow to Geng Laosan who was loading the magazine into the gun: "Geng Tou, do you think that after this trip, old hero Chen can still be released by my wife?"

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Geng Laosan laughed so hard: "How did I hear that even this time he escaped secretly?"

Everyone was laughing, and Liu Wuer was laughing so hard: "Then you will have to be chained when you go back this time!"

The castle is very small, square in shape, no more than thirty steps vertically and horizontally, but because it is located on a hill, it has a wide view.

Although the mud wall is only two feet long, with the hill bonus, it is still quite difficult to attack.

The killers drove the van to the city wall and climbed onto the roof, where they could stand and shoot.

The Black Khan army below the city was shooting at the top of the city. The distance was only fifty steps, and the people and horses were quite dense.

The musketry team came up with a barrage of fire, mowing down dozens of people including men and horses.

The sudden explosion caught the Black Khan Army off guard. However, this cavalry army had good combat power and responded very quickly. They began to use cavalry and archery tactics and fired arrows around the small castle.

The bows and arrows of the Black Khan Army were very weak, and there was nothing they could do to capture the castle fifty steps away. Geng Laosan watched beside Chen Zhen for a moment and said to Chen Zhen: "Ji Changgong, these are not light cavalry."

When a cavalryman in black was taking an arrow and setting it on the string, his horse slowed down, and Chen Zhen knocked him down with a shot: "What do you say?"

Geng Laosan said: "If it is a light cavalry, the bow power should be at seventy paces. These people's weapons are lances, flails and leaf hammers, and the bow power is so weak, and their boots are all high-end goods, so

They are heavy cavalry without armor."

Chen Zhen spat in a low voice: "Is this an iron kite?"

There is actually nothing wrong with this. The heavy cavalry iron kite of the Xixia army was not their own creation. In the process of expanding their territory to the west, they encountered the heavy cavalry troops of the Kara Khanate. They have never broken through Shazhou since then.

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The Xia people turned to invade the western grassland area of ​​the Liao Kingdom, and formed the Iron Kites imitating the heavy cavalry of the Black Khan Guards, which had caused them great losses.

The Kara Khanate at that time was not the same as it is today. The heavy cavalry was numerous and better equipped. It was good at using hammers. It once defeated 700,000 "barbarian aliens" encouraged by the Liao people with a force of 40,000.

"Christian" tribe.

Geng Laosan said with sharp eyes: "Absolutely."

"No wonder their horses are so fast." Chen Zhen couldn't help but feel a little scared when he thought about the speed of these cavalry troops. He and his subordinates' top-notch Hexi horses were almost overtaken by them.

But in this case, there is no way to start the battle. The opponent is not a fool and will let the elite heavy cavalry attack the city without armor. Their tactics must be to escape and then wait for the people in the castle to leave the city and escape eastward.

When the time comes, use horse speed to pursue.

Geng Laosan blew the metal whistle, and then blew three short blasts to call the gunmen over.

Liu Wuer is also a clever guy. The first thing he said when he came over was: "Geng Tou, this doesn't look like Qingqi."

"Did you see it?" Geng Laosan said: "If it is a heavy cavalry, it must be led by a general. They don't know that our guns can shoot three to four hundred steps. Maybe we can have a chance to take advantage."

"Now start working in groups of three, pay attention to valuable targets, launch volleys, and try to kill them! If you dare to bully the living Buddha, you will have the courage to eat a bear's heart and a leopard's courage!"

"yes!"

The commander of the Black Khan Army at the bottom of the fort seemed to understand that such an attack was useless. He blew his horn and retreated a hundred steps away to regroup.

Now even Chen Zhen could see clearly that these black cavalry below were indeed heavy cavalry.

It's very simple. The formation of heavy cavalry is wider in front and thinner in depth, while the opposite is true for light cavalry.

He quickly grabbed Geng Laosan and said, "Go and tell the brothers, don't kill the main leader, just beat the people around him."

"Why?"
Chapter completed!