In the evening breeze, Li Xingzhou sat under the weeping willows by the river, silently touching the blade, a tool steel-level knife. There is no weapon in this world that can compete with it, but killing people does not require such a good knife. The human body is too fragile, and finding a stick can kill people.

Even so, it is still beautiful and charming, revealing a charming and dangerous atmosphere. The sharper it is, the more dangerous it is, the more it makes people's blood bulge.

This is not the first time he has experienced this sense of danger. He has had it in his previous life, but the deeper one is still in Luzhou. Which kind of danger is not comparable to any moment he experienced in his previous life. The battle between the chaos and the blood flows into a river. With a thought of life and death, now he is going north again, and it is still the same. What kind of tension is back again.

"I'm leaving tomorrow and I won't have a good rest." A voice suddenly came from behind. Li Xingzhou looked back and saw that it was Qi Fang. She was wearing simple men's clothes and had greasy face. She obviously had just finished her work from the ferry.

Li Xingzhou smiled and put away his knife, "When I saw you, I remembered my life in Luzhou again. I forgot how I survived that time, but now I feel a little at a loss."

"Ha..." Qi Fang smiled and sat down next to him casually: "At that time, you were so powerful. With a command, no one dared to resist. He went to the meeting alone, scaring the universal immortals so much that he didn't dare to let go. At that time, I was still wondering, how could there be such a reckless and careful person in the world, just like two extremes, reckless and needles hidden in the cotton, but both extremes are on one person."

"So I'm so powerful." Li Xingzhou smiled: "Do you admire me?"

Qi Fang looked at Jiang and didn't say anything. He was embarrassed, "Don't you usually like to talk back? Why don't you talk anymore?"

"Who is talking about? I'm several years older than you." Qi Fang was dissatisfied and said, "I know you seem to be a clever person, do things unexpectedly, and you seem to be in control. But you dare to gamble more than anyone else, and you are just an absolute gambler in your bones.

When you went to the universal immortals, you were just gambled, and playing Suzhou was also gambled. It seemed that you were planning your mind, but in fact you were gambled everything."

"Uh..." Li Xingzhou smiled helplessly, not remembering that Fang knew him so well, "There is no perfect thing in the world. In my opinion, things with a probability of success exceeding 50% can be done. As for what remains to be done, it is nothing more than working hard to increase the probability of success."

"What about this time, are you sure?" Qifang asked him.

Li Xingzhou smiled and said, "Haha, this time it's not with me... Look at Di Zhi, there are fewer people, but they are fighting the front. I have more people, but they are just auxiliary. I told you in Luzhou that I am not the sun, but the moon. No matter how dazzling the moon is, it will not cover up the light of the stars. I can trust you when I speak human words.

I can trust you about the Xixia incident, and I can trust Di Zhi about this Northern Expedition."

Qi Fang looked at him firmly and said for a long time: "Come back early."

Li Xingzhou nodded, "Go back, don't catch a cold, you have a greasy face, go back and wash."

Qifang nodded and returned to the palace with him.

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Li Xingzhou did not trust everyone. Di Zhi's talent was shown little by little, from the rescue of the chariot to the battle in the south, to his research and theory of the new army's tactics.

The elite Khitans and the elite Mongols were theoretically the same. They were both northern nomads, and their favorite tactics were all light cavalry and cavalry attacks, and then the heavy cavalry ended in the end.

In fact, Jingguo is very familiar with this set, but no matter how familiar it is, Jingguo, which is mainly heavy infantry, is difficult to take an effective offensive except for defense.

This set of tactics is advanced in an era when both East and West chose heavy cavalry as the main force, although the advanced nature has been maintained for a short time.

On the Eastern battlefield, the Jurchen Tiefutu and the Iron Harrier of the Western Xia, if there is still a future, Jing Kingdom, who was afraid of being beaten by the Jin Kingdom, is likely to bring out the elite Yue Fei Beiwei Army heavy cavalry like the Song Dynasty.

In the West, famous knights such as the Templars, Hospital Knights, and Teutonic Knights also flourished during this period.

However, these heavy cavalry were all defeated in Mongolia's tactics. During the second Mongolian expedition, they burned down the capital of Poland and attacked the capital of Silesia. King Henry II of Silesia retreated to Legniz and assembled the Polish army, the German vanguard of the Holy Roman Empire, the main force of the Knights and Germany absent from work to fight against the Mongolian army.

The famous Legniz Annihilation War in European history was launched. The reason why it is famous is because it is an annihilation war, just like the position of the Battle of Changping for China, because it is difficult to fight an annihilation war in the field war in the era of cold weapons.

In this battle, the Mongols' tactic was to face the charge of European heavy cavalry. The light cavalry in the front could not resist the front charge and kept running back. Henry II took the opportunity to order his full pursuit.

After the enemy formation was scattered, the Mongolian light cavalry took the opportunity to surround the flanks, and at the same time used the light cavalry's mobility to retreat and entangle the enemy while marching. They quickly shot arrows with a light bow, which was about 30 meters away. The light bow had limited lethality, but the rider placed the target on the opponent's knight's horse instead of attacking heavily armed knights.

European heavy-armed knights could not catch up with the Mongolian light cavalry. When the horses were tired and many more knights were shot to death, the heavy cavalry who had been waiting for the heavy cavalry to attack for a long time. The knights who fell off the horse were bulky and slow to move. They were soon killed by the heavy cavalry who were ambushing the rear with spears, sabers, etc.

In this battle, Henry II was killed in battle, and the main force of the Teutonic Knights was wiped out. The Polish coalition was not injured. More than 25,000 people were killed in battle alone. The real blood flowed into a river, and the tactics of the northern nomadic peoples in Mongolia and Khitan areas were fully reflected.

It’s not that they don’t have heavy cavalry, but that the number of heavy cavalry far exceeds that of other countries, but they use it completely differently.

In the Xia Kingdom, Jin Kingdom, Jing Kingdom, and even Europe, the Arab world, the heavy cavalry are generally used to impact formations, using the terrifying impact force of men and horses to defeat the predetermined formations on the opposite side, and then the subsequent troops take the opportunity to charge.

Among them, the Iron Harrier of Xia Kingdom is the best.

They were covered in cold-forged armor, with facial armor, and armed to their teeth. The horses were also wearing iron armor and connected the horses with chains. Even if the person died on the back of the horse, they would be led by the war horses to continue to rush into the enemy formation.

However, the Mongols and Khitans used heavy cavalry in another way. Their heavy cavalry did not take the lead, but was located behind the light cavalry or flanked by the light cavalry. They first used the light cavalry to harass the enemy's physical strength, tried to kill horses, drag the enemy's formation, and then the heavy cavalry was responsible for harvesting the battlefield.

Faced with this emerging tactic, many people find it difficult to adapt to it for a while, and they are defeated in the face of such tactics.

People say that the rise of machine guns is the decline of cavalry, but if it is just a decline, then firing a gun is enough.

The last glory of the Mongolian Khanate ended with the musketeers of the French Empire, but unlike many people imagined shooting at a distance, the French musketeers were close to shooting.

When riding and shooting, you can only use a light bow with fast and small pulling force. It is not very powerful, and the distance is not far, and it is not as good as a foot-fighting bow. The advantage lies in its flexibility. The musketeer is very powerful, but compared with riding and shooting, it loses in flexibility.

So you must not give up the distance. Giving up the distance is the space for riding archers to play.

Di Zhi's answer was also the reason why Li Xingzhou felt relieved. Obviously, he was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the new army. Faced with how many Khitan light cavalry in the Liao Kingdom won the victory, Di Zhi's answer was as accurate as written in history books - close-up shooting!
Chapter completed!