Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 784 When to Test the True Combat Power

Time really passed quickly, only six days later, Wen Zhongrong and his troops rushed to Jinzhou, Yue Fei quickly handed over the city defense, and the original garrison in the city immediately marched towards Pingliao Village.

He himself led the cavalry one step ahead, and rushed to the front line of Pingliao village all day and night.

The real battle can begin.

"Brother, the Jurchen Tartars on the opposite side have mobilized at least two thousand horse troops in recent days."

The sun has jumped out of the clouds, thousands of rays of light splashed on the earth, and the morning fog dissipated.On the high ground that Alihu peeped at that day, Xu Qing pointed to the city of Liaoxi Prefecture that was already visible in front of him, and said to Yue Fei.

Because of their provocations for several days, the Jurchens obviously realized something.Wanyan Yinshuke, who sits in Liaoxi Prefecture, immediately noticed that something was wrong—Qi Jun was deliberately causing trouble.

After receiving the letter, the Liaoyang government has not come up with a definite opinion.Then Wanyan Loushi has dispatched cavalry to reinforce Liaoxi Prefecture.

Now that both sides are unable to fight a real offensive battle, the two sides are coming and going, and a lot of effort is spent on small-scale cavalry fighting.

Yanjing Mansion has always been able to continuously obtain war horses from the grasslands, and a considerable part of them has been left here, especially after Huarong led the horse army back to Yidu, and the Yanjing Army has no shortage of military expenses and riders , but the number of horse troops is only six or seven thousand.

The two armies fought with a small group of cavalry between Liaoxi Prefecture and Pingliao Village, but they made major and outstanding contributions.

"You lead your troops to stay here, put one or two hundred horses in the open, and hide the rest under the high ground. No orders are given, and you must not move."

Under Yue Fei's order, Xu Qing naturally obeyed everything.Yue Fei raised his head again and looked at a small hill three or four miles to the northeast on the left, where was Quli Chuqing who had surrendered to the Central Plains with Yeluchun.

This man is skilled in martial arts.In the original book, Wang Wenbin, the successor of Leopard's head in Dianshuai's mansion, was singled out and killed.Although he was captured alive by Zhu Dian after the defeat of the Liao army, this does not mean that his martial arts will be weaker than Zhu Dian's boss.Being captured alive in a defeat and being captured alive in a duel are two different concepts.

At the same time, the status is not very high.Just look at his surname to know a thing or two.This man was a subordinate of Wu Yanguang, but when Tanzhou was separated, he did not follow Wu Yanguang to the west. Instead, he followed Yelv Dehong and returned to Xijin Fucheng.It can be said that his relationship with Yelv Chun's family is not very deep.Lu Qian wanted to use the old Khitan generals. If the Yelv clan had Ma Wu enough, then the collateral clan would have to have Qu Li Chuqing.

But even so, Lu Qian suppressed him for half a year before putting him under Yue Fei's tent.

Wang Gui followed Yue Fei, and the two led seven or eight hundred cavalry, quickly surrounded the city of Liaoxi Prefecture, and continued to pierce behind it.

Normal operation, this is normal operation.Liaoxi Prefecture is just a city that cannot be moved. If there is not enough cavalry to match, how can it completely cover the threat of the cavalry of the Qi army?This fact has been clearly revealed since the food in Xianzhou and Qianzhou was burned by fire.

When Wanyan Yinkeshu in the city heard the news that a small group of enemy cavalry had bypassed Liaoxi Prefecture and galloped eastward, thousands of cavalry had already rushed out of the Jurchen barracks outside the city. Under the leadership of Yan Hunchu, he chased after him.

"General, there may be thousands of Jurchen cavalry behind you."

The two teams, one in front and the other in the back, seemed to be arrows flying off the string, flying more than ten miles away in half an hour.

Yue Fei grabbed the horse, but he didn't land on the ground, he just pressed his arm on the horse, and he jumped onto the back of the auxiliary horse.The seven or eight hundred Qi cavalry behind them also stopped, changed their horses, and turned their directions.Wang Gui stood beside Yue Fei and pointed at Jin Bingdao, but there was not much worry in his words.

Others don't know, but he does.Although the cavalry battalion that Yue Fei brought from Jinzhou was not an imperial cavalry, it had extraordinary confidence.For what they wear!

Even though it looks gray and insignificant, it is actually obscured by the gray blouse on his body.The inside of the house is a simple plate armor that is freshly baked.Compared with the artistic plate armors of Europeans who dressed themselves up in different ways in history, the simple plate armors produced by the Qi army are obviously much inferior.

In fact, the composition of the latter also has a strong traditional concept of Zhajia.

The fault was not that the Emperor Lu spoke out directly. The military inspector is probably still worrying about how to connect the miniaturized plate armors together.

The whole new armor is divided into helmet, breastplate, back armor, shoulder armor, upper arm forearm armor, elbow armor, wrist guard, thigh armor, knee armor and so on.It weighs nearly thirty catties.This is a light model, and the heavy model weighs more than forty catties, and its defense is extremely strong, which is much better than the vest worn by an armored cavalry.

But these are all simple versions, and the real full version of the battle armor weighs more than [-] catties.Because in order to protect the body, it is necessary to increase the thickness of the important parts, and even add additional armor, so the defense is extremely strong, but such a heavy vest has no practical significance at all.Even the horses driven by armored cavalry can hardly drag the cavalry wearing such armor to gallop to conflict.

Now the cavalry behind Yue Fei only have breastplate, shoulder armor, arm armor, and elbow armor in the real sense. As for the back armor, thigh armor, knee armor, etc., they are not plate armor, but cotton armor and leather armor. First.

Historically, Westerners began to improve themselves in the 200th century, and only invented the complete plate armor at the end of the [-]th century. Before that, they spent [-] years to perfect this process.

But China doesn't need it.Compared with Europe at the moment, China's forging and armor manufacturing processes are sufficient to complete the manufacture of plate armor.The disadvantage is only iron quality and weight.

And so it is.After the Ordnance Supervisor obtained a large amount of high-quality Hengshan fine iron, Tang Long's master craftsmen had enough water-powered forging hammers and animal-powered forging hammers to use. After repeated experiments regardless of cost, if they could no longer master plate armor, manufacturing, that is dereliction of duty.

But you can't deny that the weight of the full version of plate armor manufactured today is really heavy.With the same protection power, it might be much thicker than the Western plate armor in the official history, but China does not have as many heavy war horses as the West.

This is also the main reason why Emperor Lu will replace the back armor, thigh armor, knee armor, etc. with cotton armor and leather armor.

It's too heavy, even a war horse can't get off it, but can it still have the fighting power of a bird?
"Ang, ang, ang..." Yue Fei pulled up the reins of his war horse, and the horse stood up in the middle of the crowd, neighing with its head held high.A pair of front hooves are hanging in the air and stepping quickly.

"Brothers, it's just a few days before you make contributions. Kill me—" The spear stabbed at the Jurchen soldier.

After the battle armor is manufactured, it must be sent to the battlefield to test its combat effectiveness.Emperor Lu immediately thought of Yue Fei, and now this is the time to test the true combat effectiveness of the plate armor.

(End of this chapter)