Cheng Xiaoyu led the war horse and slowly groped forward in the wind and snow. In this kind of weather, riding on the horse is more painful, and he doesn't walk as he walks. More importantly, running and fighting in this kind of weather is more exhausting. If he encounters an enemy, the side with better war horse strength will naturally have a great advantage.

Whether it's fighting or running away.

The Qin army here is not as powerful as it is very powerful. Over the past two months, the scouts on both sides have been constantly fighting, which has made all the Ming army deeply understand. Cheng Xiaoyu was the border army of Qin before, while the Thunder Army was the pride of the Qin army, and they need to look up to them. They also know that these people are the most powerful among the Qin army.

During this period, most of the people who fought with these scouts outside the city were the Thunder Army. Not many Thunder Army were stationed in the Double Alliance City, and the guards were placed outside as scouts or surprise soldiers.

Every patrol, surveillance, or attacking the Qin people's grain team from Yongdu, they may be intercepted by the Thunder Army. Many comrades in the scout camp lie on this land forever. Their own team alone has changed four. Four familiar faces have disappeared from Cheng Xiaoyu's world forever. Among the four dead people, two are from the original Hulao Army, one from the Qingzhou Army, and the other from the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Thunder Army paid a greater price.

In the words of the captain, those people are just stupid things. Of course, in Cheng Xiaoyu's opinion, although these people are stupid, they are also very powerful stupid things. Cheng Xiaoyu has been a little disgusted recently because the powerful stupid things at the beginning are now becoming more and more smart.

When they met them for the first time, these prides of heaven were riding fierce war horses, wearing heavy iron armor, and bright red cloaks. When they started the sprint, they were really majestic, like a sea of ​​rushing snowflakes rolling behind them like snow dragons.

Without saying a word, the captain gave the first order to run away.

This surprised Cheng Xiaoyu at that time. Didn’t he attack bravely? If he wins, he will receive a reward. After joining the Ming army, Cheng Xiaoyu also fought a lot of battles, from Hulao to the periphery of Yongdu. He was not from his wife who marched across the country. Every time he won a battle, he would receive a reward of money. In the past few months, Cheng Xiaoyu received twenty taels of silver rewards, which was a salary of two months.

Escape is too unfair. Moreover, they are elite scouts. If they escape back like this, I am afraid that everyone will not be able to escape punishment. However, during this period, the captain has established a tall image in the hearts of them. Whether it is public or private, everyone is willing to listen to him.

So when the captain rode his horse around and ran and shouted, almost everyone ran away without thinking.

As it turns out, the captain will always belong to the team.

The Ming army's scouts were not wearing heavy iron armor, but a kind of armor that looked very thin and light. Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know what it was made of. They did not have a cool cloak, and the horses they rode under their crotch were even less tall. They were the kind of wilderness horses with particularly good endurance and cold resistance.

Under the leadership of the captain, everyone ran for about ten miles and then screamed and came back.

At this time, the horse under the crotch of the cool Thunder Army was already gasping for breath. The white air gushed out of the nostrils could be seen from a distance. After that battle, Cheng Xiaoyu admired the captain and provoked his body. A team of Thunder Army, which was more than the number of them, was overwhelmed by them, and only a few people left escaped.

After returning, they received a lot of rewards. Cheng Xiaoyu, as the team leader, got twenty taels at once, because this was the first time that the Ming army fought against the established Thunder Army outside Yongdu City and wiped out the opponent.

However, they also suffered more than twenty casualties. Every living person, led by the captain, put together half of the silver rewards and prepared to donate them to those battle dramas of death.

Although the Ming Dynasty's pension was very high and there were a lot of care for the survivors of the soldiers who died in battle, the captain said that this was the wish of their comrades.

However, since then, there have been fewer and fewer such stupid Thunder Army.

They also learned and grew up in war. The Thunder Army was the elite of the Qin army and carefully selected soldiers. Their only shortcomings were that they fought too few wars, but now, they are growing rapidly in constant failure.

Anyway, Cheng Xiaoyu feels that they are dealing with them more and more. Now that the scouts meet them, there is basically a one-to-one casualty rate. This makes Cheng Xiaoyu very dissatisfied, because although the equipment of the Thunder Army is good, Cheng Xiaoyu feels that there is still a gap compared to them, especially in the details.

He reached out and patted the snow on the leather hat and took down the snow on it.

He wore an iron helmet on his head, but a leather hat. There were two long dog tongues on both sides of the hat, and two thin ropes on it. If tied, he could block his ears and most of his face. The mask was also sewn into the leather hat. After wearing such a hat, only a pair of eyes were exposed.

Although his protective power is far inferior to that of an iron helmet, if he wants to choose, Cheng Xiaoyu would of course choose this warm hat instead of a cold iron helmet.

Wear leather gloves on our hands. The gloves are not thick and have warm animal hair inside. Half of these gloves are exposed on the outside, which not only keeps warm but does not affect the flexibility of the fingers.

Every soldier had a horse lance, which was an expensive thing. In the past, Cheng Xiaoyu only saw the senior generals in the army possessing this weapon, but in the Ming army's scout camp, there were only one hand. Earlier, he saw that the cavalry in Zhuifeng Camp had thousands of people, and they were all one hand, which shocked him. How much does it cost to build such a large number of horse lances!

In addition to the horse spear, there is also a saber. Unlike the ring-headed sword used by the infantry, the sword they wear is thinner and longer, and the entire blade has a beautiful arc. More importantly, it is sharp enough. The last time he fought with the Thunder Army, Cheng Xiaoyu used this saber to easily break the opponent's iron armor, and broke the man's belly with one knife. In the end, his knife broke into pieces and made him feel distressed for a long time.

In addition to these, there are many gadgets on their bodies and horses. Those things look inconspicuous, but they can save lives when necessary.

These are standard equipment, each of which has them. In addition to these, scouts are also allowed to have their own unique weapons, and can even customize them with the quarconian according to their needs.

In short, after joining the Ming army, Cheng Xiaoyu understood what an army that was armed to the teeth. Compared with the Ming army, the so-called excellent equipment of the Thunder Army can only be said to be a scumbag. And this is just the standard configuration of the Ming army. I heard that the equipment of His Majesty’s personal army, the Fiery Death Camp, is the best in the entire army.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and when it came out, it was only a few inches thick, but now it was over its ankle. Snow is the most annoying thing for their scouts. Because it would slow down their speed, and in the snow, it would be harder to hide in the snow. Only when it no longer snows and the wind blows for another day will the snow be frozen and the impact will be smaller at that time.

Cheng Xiaoyu stood up straight, and the war horse behind him stopped obediently, lowered his head and arched the snow with his mouth, hoping to find some food to come out from the snow, but when the floating snow outside was frozen, Chen Xue was frozen below, so naturally there was nothing. The war horse arched Cheng Xiaoyu with his mouth. Cheng Xiaoyu touched a handful of beans from his pocket and placed it beside the horse's mouth. The horse rolled his tongue, rolled all the beans into his mouth, and slowly chewed it. Cheng Xiaoyu took out a small flat pot and took a sip. A heat immediately surged from his lower abdomen, and a warm current surged throughout his body.

This is a strong wine. Only when they come out to patrol at night will they deliver a small pot, which looks like two taels. In such a weather, no matter how well equipped it is, it cannot stop the bone-thrusting cold wind.

Such weather can really freeze people to death.

Things like spirits were not available before. I heard that it was because the Ming Dynasty had a bumper harvest this year and there was too much food to pile up, so it was used to brew a large amount of this spirit. This spirits were not sold outside, and were mainly distributed to the army.

This kind of wine, Xiaoyu, has never been drunk before, and most of them are the kind of sour and light-flavored things. A small sip like this can make the whole body heat up. Now it has become the favorite of the heroes in the army. Unfortunately, if you didn’t go out to patrol at night, you wouldn’t be able to get it.

Feeling some heat on his body, Cheng Xiaoyu turned around and glanced at his ten subordinates, most of them were like him, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go!"

After walking a few more steps forward, Cheng Xiaoyu suddenly stopped. A corpse fell to death in the snow several steps ahead. Cheng Xiaoyu immediately became alert. With a raised hand, the ten team members behind him turned over and horses. With a choke, they pulled out their saber and quickly dispersed their formation.

Cheng Xiaoyu walked up slowly. It was an old man who looked like he was in his forties or fifties, and he was wearing only one single dress. In such weather, he had already lost all his breath and kicked him, and his whole body was frozen and hard.

This is a commoner. The only place nearby is Shuangliancheng.

Cheng Xiaoyu frowned. Why did the Qin people in Shuanglian City run out in such weather? And they are ordinary people? Will there be an army?

He turned over the horse, pulled out the saber, made several gestures, and more than ten people scattered into a fan shape, slowly searching forward. Less than half a stick of incense, messy footprints suddenly appeared in front of Cheng Xiaoyu.

Many people were very close to them. Cheng Xiaoyu jumped off the horse and squatted beside these footprints. Before the snow could block these footprints, he bent down and gently blew away the floating snow.

There are many footprints, including the patterns of Qin military boots.

Cheng Xiaoyu frowned even deeper, and he couldn't think of why this was the case. He was lying forward like a dog on the snow, constantly examining the footprints extending forward.

There are a large number of ordinary people, and very few of them are in the army.
Chapter completed!