"Why do you say that you have no clothes and are in the same comrade with your son? The king of the army has established his troops and repaired my spear and shared his grudges with you..."

In the south of Jiehe Shang City, outside Xuanfusi Castle, inside a wide schoolyard, loud military songs sounded.

As many as six thousand knights, holding horses, wearing half-dressed wart armor, wearing crocodile armor, standing neatly and sing loudly. They did not stand loosely in a group, but formed sixteen battalions and sixty-four teams. Although each knight was holding his own war horse, the queue was still neatly surprising.

At least in the view of Xiao Baoxian, who came to the south of the subdue, it was enough to subvert his usual understanding of the Song army.

Not to mention how fast these knights are doing? Just look at the queues that are standing still, let alone the cavalry of the Liao Dynasty, even the infantry formation of the Daliao guards' personal army cannot be compared with them!

Is it true that the legend of Song Qi cutting a knife and cutting an axe when attacking is true?

In addition, although the five or six thousand riders here are half-equipped, the armor they wear is blue-black and bright, which can illuminate the hair. Are they all wart armor?

6,000 cavalry, everyone is wart armor!?

True or fake?

There are fake wart argents, but they are actually made of high-thiophosphate-crystalline iron and are made according to the process of wart argent. This way, it looks no different from the authentic wart argent, but because the iron is not well treated, it becomes thin and crisp, which is not useful.

However, the war horses led by the 6,000 knights were all so tall that they were at least four feet tall, so they were definitely really good horses!

The war horse with a shoulder height of four feet seven is also a first-class war horse in the Liao Dynasty. Only the most elite cavalry can be equipped with such good horses. However, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty in front of me is one. What's going on?

Are there so many good horses in the Song Dynasty so badly?

When he visited in a mist, he was enthusiastically pulled by Wu Haogu to see "Military Casino". He stood on Xuanfusi Castle, but his eyeball was tightly pressed against the eyepiece of a telescope.

After watching for a while, he was used to the inverted image of the telescope inside, and his attention turned from a strict queue to the cavalry's armor and war horses.

Especially the war horses, Xiao Baoxian was incredible. Although the Song Dynasty now pacified the Western Xia and opened the Western Regions, there should be a lot more channels to obtain good horses. But are there too many good horses in Jiehe Shangshi?

"Master Wu Xuan, are these war horses obtained from the Western Regions?" Xiao Bao first put away his telescope and asked.

Wu Haogu smiled. He had known that Xiao Baoxian must have such a question.

"The stallions were purchased from Persia and Tianzhu," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "but what Xiao Shumi saw today were all war horses raised in Cangzhou."

Didn't he fool people this time? Most of the 6,000 knights here are so-called "Cangzhou knights". They own manors near Cangzhou or Cangzhou, and they raise horses at home. Wuhaogu's Jiehema Farm provides these knight families with low-priced strong horses, and at the same time, they send second-class stallions to mate with the strong horses in order to give birth to tall foals.

After seven or eight years of breeding, the population of hippos (Cangzhou horses) has now expanded to a scale that can provide a large number of high-quality war horses.

Of course, you can take out more than 10,000 (not one man and one rider) tall war horses to equip Hebei New Army cavalry, which is also related to the high "yield rate" of Cangzhou horses that have been artificially bred.

For example, in the horse farms of the Liao and Song countries, without manual intervention, the proportion of horses stocked on the grasslands produces good horses about 5%. If human intervention is used and horses are strictly selected for mating according to the bloodline records, it is possible to increase the yield rate to 20% or even 30%. If Cangzhou horses can meet the so-called "standardization" standard, it is a yield rate of more than 90%. Almost all stallions can grow to a level of four feet, seven feet, and eight feet!

In this way, the cost of obtaining high-quality war horses will be greatly reduced!

However, this "overuse" manual intervention in horse raising also has the disadvantage of insufficient tolerance for horses in harsh natural environments.

If you want to compare explosive power and long-lasting physical strength, Cangzhou horses are better than Khitan's grassland horses. However, if you have to be hard-working, the advantages of grassland horses will be fully demonstrated.

Moreover, the number and cost of grassland horses are still far lower than those of Cangzhou horses. If you want to play raids with no effort, Wu Haogu's cavalry is not as good as others.

However, Xiao Baoxian could not have imagined these. He was a little stupid when he saw Song Jun's wart and Cangzhou horse.

The 6,000 iron cavalry here alone may be worth ten thousand. No, maybe it is the armored cavalry of the Palace Treasure Army!

Although 30% of the Khitans' about 100,000 palace tent troops were armored cavalry, these armored cavalry were a bit of a show. Although the equipment was used to charge, they could never rush up when they really went to the battlefield. The impact force was even worse than that of the Iron Harrier of the Western Xia...

The war horn suddenly sounded like a sob, and I saw the knights holding the war horses without anyone to support them (they were half-fitting and were more flexible). They stepped on the horses and then quickly put the horse spear on their shoulders. This series of movements turned into the flowing water, making people feel comfortable!

Immediately afterwards, the knights who boarded the war horses began to complete the team and enter the first time. The teams and the archers of each team were responsible for sorting out the formation, sorting the horizontal team into a square formation, and then leading the team in front, archers behind and pressing the formation, and starting to move around the Xuanfusi Castle at a fast pace.

Although the speed was not fast, the strict formation and uniform pace still surprised Xiao Heda who was watching.

This is the legendary "Entering like a wall, fighting with wheels"?

"How? Is this cavalry still available?" Wu Haogu glanced at Xiao Baoxian with a blue face and said with a smile, "Although they are not as good as the cavalry under the command of Gao Xuanshuo and Zhang Zhizhi, they are also OK in our Song Dynasty."

What!? There are even more powerful ones!?

Xiao Bao thought first, that's right. Wu Haogu is the last among the four famous generals of the Song Dynasty. His cavalry is not as good as Gao Qiu and Zhang Yuan's cavalry. If Tong Guan's cavalry is included, the Song Dynasty now has about 20,000 armored cavalry?

Although there are not as many armored cavalry as the Liao Kingdom in terms of quantity, their combat power must be stronger!

Xiao Baoxian was not completely ignorant of military affairs. If he didn't understand at all, he wouldn't be afraid. So when he saw running around the city wall, his speed was getting faster and faster, but the formation did not become too dispersed, his face turned pale.

Their armor is good and their war horses are good, and the horsemanship seems to be bad, and the formation is maintained so well that it means that they are often trained.

After seeing Wu Haogu, the last of the four generals of the Southern Dynasties, he didn't buy it for money...

It’s not easy to fight on the Jiehe side!

Xiao Bao sighed first, then glanced at the left and right of Sweet Wu Haogu with his eyes.

Wu Haogu understood what he meant and whispered: "Others except Oliga, everyone else went back from the city wall."

"Here!"

All the generals who followed Wu Haogu left. On the tall Xuanfusi Fortress wall, there were only Wu Haogu, Xiao Baoxian and Oliga, who were guarding the sword.

"Shumi Xiao, can he save 500,000 yuan a year with such cavalry?"

"What!?" Xiao Baoxian almost jumped up. Before he could extort, Wu Haogu took the initiative and wanted to exempt him from the annual monies.

"Does Wu Xuan take it seriously?"

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "More than ten overseas missions are entering Beijing from Haizhou and will present the title of Emperor Genghis to our officials. The officials have all the worlds, how can they still offer annual tribute like your country?"

"Hmph," Xiao Bao snorted first, "I probably want to attack Yanyun in the north and seize the Yanshan land of our Great Liao Dynasty?"

"Xiao Shumi's words are so serious." Wu Haogu smiled, "Xiao Shumi thinks that the 6,000 cavalry in front of him can traverse the Yanyun Plain?"

able!

Xiao Baoxian had cold sweat dripped from his forehead. Jiehe Shang City was only 200 miles away from Xijin Prefecture, and there were still waterways connected during this period, which was not an insurmountable natural danger.

If the Song army relies on waterways and there is no problem with such cavalry to rush to the city of Xijin Prefecture.

As for whether we can capture Xijinfu City... the question is whether the guards and soldiers of Nanjing Road are reliable now?

Xiao Baoxian felt agitation!

"Shipman Wu Xuan, you Song really want to start a war?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "My Song Dynasty has always regarded harmony as the most important thing. I don't want to fight, but I don't fear war!"

Why are the Western Xia and Karakhanate gone without peace? Xiao Baoxian thought to himself: How could someone travel thousands of miles to send more than 10 million taels of silver?

The Song people are so shameless!

"Ship Wu Xuan," Xiao Baoxian said with a dark face, "My emperor is saying that if you don't give an extra 2 million taels, he will personally command a million troops, and the troops will be in the forefront of the river."

Wu Haogu shook his head with a smile, "Then you have to wait until December, right? It's only January now, the Border River is thawing, and in a while, it will be surging. Can you Da Liao compete with our Da Song naval army?"

That is impossible. Zhao Ji is Emperor Genghis! He has all the worlds, and of course the navy is invincible. A group of grassland herders in the Khitan will be dizzy when they get on the boat and will be beaten.

"Does the two countries really want to abandon their enemies and turn the boundary river into a blood river from now on?"

Wu Haogu waved his hand and said with a smile: "How could it be so serious? Xiao Shuxiang, this time the matter is just a fight for face by the superiors... Our official family is about to treat Emperor Genghis as soon as possible. It is impossible to pay tribute to the Liao Dynasty in front of other overseas countries, right?

As for your emperor, it is probably a face. Hundreds of thousands or one million, what is the money for the Liao Dynasty? Just a Sanfoqi Maritime Warehouse of our dynasty alone can make more than one million a year. So this matter can only be made by them across the boundary river for a few months..."

"Wait, who do you think you will confront each other across the boundary river?"

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "Of course it is the Emperor of the Great Liao and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty! If the Emperor of the Great Liao personally fought, how could Emperor Genghis not come to the Bianhe River?"
Chapter completed!