Chapter 726: Meeting on a narrow road

On the grassland, there were scouts cruising everywhere, including border troops, Jurchens, and the cavalry of the Wolf Castle.

Qilian Mountain has become the focus of attention in the world, but at this time, it is surprisingly calm, so calm that it is a bit unremarkable. Even when the scouts caught up, most of them confront each other from afar, but they are unwilling to raise their swords to rush to kill.

The water of Aishui Lake is sparkling. The lake stretches for dozens of miles and nourishes nearby water plants. At both ends of the lake, it just happens to be the garrison of Wolf Castle and Jurchen Cavalry. When the army stationed, they will choose to camp in the lake oasis. Without water sources, tens of thousands of people have a big problem in making and making water for food and water, so this lake has become the center line of confrontation between the two sides from the beginning.

A team of scouts were racing horses along the lakeside. The closer they were to the lake, the higher the viscosity of the aquatic plants. When the horse stepped in, it immediately formed a puddle the size of a horse's hooves. Fortunately, the aquatic plants were very resilient, so they were not worried about falling into the mud, but they would bump a lot when walking.

A scout team officer in the lead had a Ru sword inserted between his waist, a Ru Zhang on his chest, a Fan Yang hat with an iron shell, and a red scarf under his neck. He sat upright on the horse, adjusting his sitting posture as the horse under his seat trembled. His military boots and spurs stepped on the stirrups, and his movements were very standardized. The scouts in the back team only had to look at the sitting posture to know where the team officer came from.

The cavalry captains from the Horse Army Division are like this. Every movement is extremely standardized. They are obviously useless riding movements, and they also keep them harshly. Such people all have a sense of pride, but they also have a sense of stubbornness. For example, when slowing down the horse, they don’t have to sit up straight. Tension will obviously increase the consumption of physical strength, but they just want to tense, as if they are competing.

However, the scouts in the back team admired this kind of person. Such people are often the most reliable partners on the battlefield. Their stubbornness in their bones often brings an indescribable sense of security to the soldiers in the team.

The tense captain was named Xia Yan, a very weak name. In fact, if you look at his face carefully, you can tell from this firm face that it still has a bit of scholarly spirit. This temperament is a bit complicated, which is another difference between the captain and the cavalry.

After studying in the Wubei Academy for two years, Xia Yan directly dropped out and was assigned to the Ma Junsi. Then he arrived in Xixia and immediately became a team officer of the 36th Scout Team. His task was very simple, to patrol the shores of Aishui Lake to prevent Jurchens from ambushing.

This order is a bit confusing. The Jurchens are in the desert and are good at riding horses. But it is a fantasy to let them set up ambush in swimming. However, the command of the Horse Army Division is different from other places, and they all use experience and intuition to arrange defense elsewhere. However, as a force that the Martial Arts Academy is completely controlled by the military school, the entire army is filled with instructors and lieutenants. Therefore, the deployment of defense tasks they formulated is very dogmatic. If you have a lake, you should send scouts, which is what the teachers in the school said. Since they have said it, this must be taken into account. Even if the Jurchens are all landslides, they must send scouts.

So for more than half a month, Xia Yan's task was the easiest. When he woke up early every morning, he immediately took his team's brothers from the Wolf Castle and patrolled back and forth along the lakeside. Scouts elsewhere might even meet the scattered cavalry or scouts of the Jurchens, but here he could not even see a ghost. After repeated repetition, the scouts in the company felt tired of it.

Only Xia Yan, the "stupid guy", followed the steps, neither complained nor said anything about the complaints in the team. It was just that the sun came out of the camp and returned to the camp. When the time came, he should patrol wherever he arrived, and wherever he was to fall off the horse, he ordered the brothers in the team to fight the half-man-high reeds. The only advantage here is that he could occasionally encounter hares. If he ran into the trap, even Xia Yan would be excited. Everyone bent his bow and arrows, chased them, and then led his bow to shoot. After entering the horse army commander, no one of them had weak riding skills. As for Xia Yan's riding skills, he was even more advanced. As for the tenth, he could nail the hare to the ground as soon as he loosened the bow and riding strings. However, many times he did not take action, but asked his subordinates in the team to shoot and took the opportunity to practice their bow and riding methods.

At this time, the sky was gradually darkening. Looking around, thousands of red glows in the sky flashed with yellowish yellow and scattered on the lake surface. The rippling lake surface was waving with thousands of golden scales. The sky was already early, and Xia Yan was roughly accurate in the location and time here. He knew that one more stick of incense could reach a nearest reed bush in the Jurchen camp. There, if you look from the high ground, you could see the bonfires in the Qilian Mountains and the Jurchen camp at the foot of the foot of the mountain.

However, they will not continue to move forward, but will immediately return to the fort. The stay will not be too long, otherwise the sky will become completely dark and you will easily lose your direction in this vast grassland.

At this moment, a cavalier in the team suddenly pointed to the distance and said, "Look, what is that?"

Xia Yan looked up and saw the direction of the Jurchen camp, and dozens of cavalry pegases rumbling over.

Xia Yan was not surprised. As a scout camp, it was common for him to hit the enemy's scouts, and he could even be described as a common occurrence. However, the route they were patrolling was really remote and they could not see Jurchen scouts at ordinary times. Why did so many people suddenly come at this time? He became alert and cheered up and said, "Get closer and take a look."

He brought a dozen knights to the other side to approach the other side. The other side obviously noticed them and ran towards them, approaching a little. With the dim light, Xia Yan immediately felt something was wrong. The other side was not a scout. The knowledge taught in the school and the experience in the army immediately made him think this.

As the coach said, the scouts are different from the cavalry team. There are many biggest differences. For example, horses, the cavalry team focuses more on steady war horses, and endurance is very important to the cavalry team. Scouts often have more majestic horses. Although endurance is focused, explosive power is more important, because scouts may encounter enemies at any time, and their purpose is not to rush, but to immediately escape from the siege and return to report the news. Therefore, scouts often choose the latter horse horses. They do not walk fast during patrols and keep their horse power. When an emergency occurs, they can use the short explosive power of the horse to distance themselves from the opponent.

Although the Jurchen cavalry who were sitting in front of him were not real from a distance, the speed of their full strength was obviously different from the scout's war horse.

In addition, scouts often do not carry too many weapons, nor do they wear heavy armor. Most of them do not even wear leather armor, which is to reduce their own weight and reduce the burden on war horses.

The opponent's cavalry was wearing leather armor. Although the leather armor was not heavy, it had complete swords, guns, bows and arrows, and was obviously fully armed.

Xia Yan frowned and strangled the horse vigilantly. The seated horseman stood up, and his hind hooves were almost sinking into the muddy aquatic plants. Herodol's voice stopped. He quietly took out the bow and arrow behind him and said loudly: "Take the bow."

The dozen cavalrymen behind him immediately took out their bows and arrows, paused silently, and gathered behind Xia Yan.

The Jurchen cavalry was still approaching, which violated the common sense of scouts. The role of scouts is not to fight, but to observe. No matter which country's scouts are, they follow this principle. Even if they encounter scouts from the other side, they will keep looking at each other at a certain distance to determine whether they are just cruising cavalry or vanguards of the army's path exploration. After making a judgment based on this, they will go back to report.

"No, don't let them get close!" When the Jurchens broke into a distance of two hundred feet, Xia Yan immediately noticed something strange. The other party was aggressive and had even pulled out the bow and arrow behind him. Someone took out the battle knife high, which was a signal to fight.

In dealing with such an enemy, Xia Yan immediately became the backbone of the entire cavalry team. Everyone began to rush out with Xia Yan slanted. They did not wear armor, and there was nothing but a long bow and a pot of bows and arrows. If they were close contact with the opponent, they would be afraid that everyone would not get in.

Their horses exploded quickly and rushed out diagonally. Just outside the opponent's range, the opponent had already bent his bow and scattered, but there were no casualties. Taking advantage of the opponent's time to get the arrow, Xia Yan shouted: "Slow the horse and shoot back!"

The war horse paused slightly and slowed down the horse's speed. The Jurchen cavalry behind rushed after him and happened to enter the range. More than a dozen people swung around as the war horse ran, clamping the abdomen of the war horse with their legs to maintain their balance. They bent their bows to point at the Jurchen cavalry chasing behind them, and then hissing sounds sounded, the bowstrings trembled, and more than a dozen sharp arrows were like meteors crossing half an arc in the air and shot into the Jurchen cavalry team. In an instant, a Jurchen fell down from the horse.

Xia Yan and his teammates couldn't help but cheer, but they didn't dare to stay. They immediately accelerated the horse and ran forward quickly.

The Jurchens were angry, and seven or eight Jurchens with bows and arrows were bent and shot, but they ran away again in this sprint. Although they shot a scout in the Ma Junsi in front of them, they were only injured in their flesh and allowed them to escape easily.

Seeing that the other party had ejaculated for a round, Xia Yan shouted loudly: "Forty-five degrees of slant, there is a good wind there!"

More than a dozen war horses instantly made a difficult and changed direction while galloping, and missed the Jurchens by a hundred feet away. Then more than a dozen people bent their bows together and shot another rain of arrows. This time, they did not hit the Jurchens.

But anyone knows that the initiative in the battle is completely controlled by the scouts of the Ma Junsi.

The Jurchens obviously did not expect that the other party was so powerful, and they all showed an incredible look. At this time, their blood and energy also surged up and rushed towards them frantically, trying to get close to each other.

Although the Jurchens are good at riding and shooting, their real advantage is to charge and be in battle. They are not familiar with this kind of round-robin style. Even among the ten Jurchens, there will be no more than three of them wearing bows and arrows. Most of them think this thing is a burden and will only be used when dealing with infantry. As for dealing with cavalry, they are still charged. After all, when the horses are running at high speed, they have to shoot and move quickly, because the nations that are used to being on horseback cannot reach this level. Even if some warriors can do it occasionally, it is only a few.

However, the captain and the cavalry of the horse army commander were different. From the beginning of entering the camp, they not only exercised their ability to control the horses on horseback every day, but also kept shooting, archery targets, shooting chickens and ducks. Some coaches were reluctant to buy chickens and ducks to let them ruin it, so they made them get the arrow clusters on the arrows and divided into two teams to fly each other to fly.

It is a pity to practice like this, but at this time, the advantage is to be taken advantage of. As long as the Jurchens are not allowed to get close to them, these rangers will always be invincible immediately.

After a few rounds, Xia Yan was excited and gradually realized that he had some confidence in the rhythm of the battle. Many of the knowledge in the school merged into this real situation and quickly figured out a lot of experience. While leading the scout to shoot the opponent's archer, he led the team to stay away from the opponent as much as possible when he was calculating the opponent's preparation for shooting, and firmly occupied the position of the wind. After a few rounds, he killed four Jurchen cavalry without losing one person.

Seeing this, the Jurchens were also shocked. This was their first encounter with such a small-scale battle. Who would have thought that the other party was so powerful that the leader was in such a state of cavalry. In desperation, they had to wave their hands. The dozens of cavalrymen fled to the camp in a hurry.

Xia Yan did not pursue, but instead pulled the horse to the Jurchens' corpse and asked someone to search. Four corpses along the way, took their swords, guns, bows and arrows, led their war horses, and searched for some broken silver. Among them, a letter fell into Xia Yan's hand.
Chapter completed!