Twenty-something horses passed through the boundless night like the wind. Although it was dark, these knights still did not raise fire to expose their whereabouts. A Hexi knight who had spent more than a dozen colds and heat on the battlefield took the lead. His white robe was like a vague white shadow in the night, leading the way forward. Behind him, the twenty-three and four knights were all one man and two horses, followed closely, and Chen Jian, the cavalry officer in the general army of the Great Education Regiment, was also among them.

He was not the command of this Hexi Rangers, but was sent by Ma Zheng, the general army of the General Administration of the Military Education Regiment, to the Rangers in front as an ear-and-earth mission. Ma Zheng, who had been in Shazhou for a long time, knew that the Hexi Army was also actively carrying out reforms.

They were beaten up in the previous wars. Under the urgency and crisis of the country's destruction (theoretically, the country has been destroyed), there is naturally nothing that cannot be reformed. The focus of the Hexi military reform is not only to imitate the Song army to establish the general army computer room and carry out military system reform, but also to strengthen the impact capabilities of the cavalry.

The wheel impact launched by the Song army's knights taught the Hexi army too profound. Therefore, the Hexi army was a bit overcorrect. In addition to practicing the "wheel wall charge" skill of Iron Harrier, the Xiliang cavalry, which acted as Rangers (light cavalry) also provided horse and rifles that could be carried.

In addition, in order to reduce weight to the light cavalry, Zhao Zhongshun, the "reformer" of the Hexi Army, also invented a "forehearted cavalry armor" distributed to the Xiliang cavalry.

The so-called "front heart riding armor" is actually an armor that can only protect the front of the upper body. It also uses cold forging technology and is very strong. After wearing this "front heart armor", it is difficult to get into the front of the knight's upper body. However, the back and limbs are in a state of no protection.

Although the protection of this "forehead riding armor" is not tight enough, it is definitely much stronger than that without protection. It is not much worse than wearing thick leather armor but lacks defense ability. Don't think that leather armor is lighter than armor. Leather armor that can really defend effectively is made of thick cowhide pieces. Sometimes a layer of chain mail is worn inside the leather armor and a very thick cloth shirt. Not only is it overweight after wearing, it is also very inconvenient to move.

If you add a fan-shaped leather and wooden shield to the cavalry, your defense ability should be better than wearing full leather armor!

However, this is just an improvement inferred by Zhao Zhongshun, Xiao Heda and others based on battlefield experience. How effective is it still requires practical experience.

So Ma Zheng sent a lot of military opportunities to the first-level "fire" troops of the Xiliang cavalry, and observed the performance of the Xiliang rangers between the light and heavy cavalry on the battlefield.

The observation result was a bit disappointing. It was not that the Xiliang Rangers performed poorly, but that they performed better after encountering the light cavalry on the battlefield with the Taohua Stone.

It is simply a one-sided massacre. Whether it is setting up a spear to attack or riding a stubborn sheep's horn bow and shooting, it can knock down the cavalry that can't help but kill the peach blossom stone.

One time, he was attacked by his opponent while camping, and he still relied on his sword, shield and spear to kill him. Although he paid the price of one person's death, he killed seven opponents.

Compared with the Xiliang cavalry, these cavalrymen under the Taohua Stone are simply tofu soldiers!

How can you tell whether the knife is good when cutting tofu with a knife? It seems that you have to wait until the legendary elite Turkic soldiers arrive to see if the Western Liang cavalry is easy to use.

While thinking about his thoughts, the Xiliang Ranger leading the way had already stopped his war horses and turned around to roar at Chen Jian who was still riding his horse in Chinese: "Chen Jiyi, Stone City seems to be right ahead!"

Have you already broken into the stone city?

Chen Jian quickly strangled the war horse, then looked up and looked forward.

The dark outline of the city was already in front of me. There were still a few flashes of fire above the city head, which should be torches made by soldiers patrolling the city.

Chen Jian stood up in the stirrups, looked at the outline of the city in the distance, and seemed to sit down on the saddle for a while, and whispered: "Zhi Niang, you're here to kill the stone city. I ran over the way, and didn't even see a whole village... I don't know how many black sweat rebels are in this stone city?"

The leading veteran Hexi asked when he heard this: "Chen Jiyi, isn't it good to have no rebels? The huge city is ours!"

Hearing his words, Chen Jian just smiled: "Old Li, you also see how many dishes that those gangs of ignorant have... This group of people is no match for us at all. If they are strong and clear, they will be able to fight in the Battle of Khotan. There are 1,800 miles to the city of Khotan! The cattle, sheep and cake we carry are not enough to eat along the way.

If the strangers want to defend the city, then a large amount of food must have been accumulated in the city. As long as the city wall is broken, it will be ours.

And if they did not abandon Shitou Town, they would not have given up on Youchangcheng and Kriya... Can we get the enemy because of food?"

"Hehe, Jiyi is Jiyi, it's true that you can see through it more thoroughly than us!"

Chen Jian smiled proudly, "Let's rest today, wait until dawn to sweep around... See if you can find one or two villages that have not been burned yet."

"Good!" The veteran of Hexi, called "Old Li", greeted the cavalry behind him, "As soon as the order is taken, the first rank, the second rank, the third rank dismounted, and the fourth rank was alert!"

"Here!"

...

The bonfires began to appear on the grassland south of Stone City one after another, with a bunch of them in the east and a bunch of them in the west. At a glance, you can tell that there were a lot of small groups of Peach Blossom Stone Rangers who arrived.

Mahmoud Berry climbed up to the walls of Stone City, staring at the sparks under the night, frowned slightly.

The "Gulam" cavalry on the Peach Blossom Stone is very powerful! And there seems to be a lot of people. The group in front of me is afraid that there will be no less than a few hundred people.

During these days, the rangers sent by Berry (all tribes and urban militias) suffered heavy losses. More than 200 people have returned to heaven one after another. Although this is a very glorious thing, Burke from Stone Town still protested, saying that Mahmoud Berry was wasting the life of the warriors in vain.

Why do fools who only know how to make money in Shitou Town and don’t know how to train militias don’t know the importance of reconnaissance? As long as you can figure out the enemy’s military strength and supply situation, what’s the point of losing more than 200 lives?

But now there is no life and the enemy situation has not been discovered. The warriors sent out have not even seen the army of Peach Blossom Stone, and they have already seen the omnipotent Allah... If they could see the army of Peach Blossom Stone coming in a large number of cattle and sheep, Mahmoud Berry might have changed his decision to stick to the Stone City.

Mahmood Berry could not withstand the protests from Stone City and retreated all the Rangers scattered outside Stone City. Although he was a high-ranking official in Khotan, he was a Gulam warrior after all, and the chief of Stone City was a Knight Ikta. The former was a slave of the Khan, and the latter was a master of the same clan of the Khan clan.

Although the Gulam warriors in many Tianfang Cult countries can develop power, there is no such phenomenon among the Karakhan court. After all, the Karakhan court cannot afford too many Gulams because it is too poor. There are only two or three thousand Gulams in total, and half of them are still there. Of course, they cannot rely on them to rule the country.

So Berry didn't dare to offend the Iqta Knight class in Stone City too much... Otherwise, his official position would not be able to be.

Mahmoud Berry breathed a long sigh, "Tell me my order, and the whole city will be alerted... In addition, another team of Gulam soldiers will be sent to the city of Khotan to report the situation here to Khan.

Tell Khan that the enemy on the peach blossom stone is very powerful, and we cannot defeat it with field battles, and are ready to defeat the enemy by using the method of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. At most one month, the enemy's food should be exhausted. I hope that Khan's troops will arrive in Shitou Town at that time."

It has to be said that General Gulam is still very professional. He did not place all his hopes on the clearing of the fields, but made preparations for both sides. If the Song army withdraws the rations within a month, he will win.

If they have not withdrawn, it means that the Song army has a way to solve the logistics difficulties.

Then Stone City probably needs "Lion Khan" to lead a large army to rescue the siege...

...

"Reporting to the general military plane, a large number of soldiers who rebel against the black khan were found on the Stone City!"

At noon the next day, Ma Zheng, who finally led the army out of the mountains, got the latest military newspaper: Hei Khan rebels did not give up Shitou City. What Ma Zheng feared most was not the enemy defending the city. No matter how strong the city was, it exploded in ten days and half a month... What he feared most was that the enemy abandoned the city and walked away. Khotan was too vast. It was more than 2,000 miles from east to west!

"Have you mastered the surroundings of Stone City?" Ma Zhengfa asked.

"It's completely mastered!" The preparation general of a Hexi cavalry who had returned to Ma Zheng replied proudly, "Outside the stone city, there are all my Han cavalry, and there is no more cavalry."

"Okay!" Ma Zheng smiled, "You are doing a good job! When you break the stone city, you will give your Xiliang cavalry a day first!"

It is necessary to let go of robbery... Not only did the Western Liang cavalry adapted from the Western thieves want to rob, but even a Han mercenary directly under Ma Zheng also wanted to rob. They worked hard for so long and went so far, just to make a fortune?

Moreover, if the Hei Khan rebels along the way were not robbed all the cities along the way, wouldn’t the two brothers Zhao Qianshun and Zhao Zhongshun easily raise the property to repay the debt? They can’t let them pay off the debts of the King of Hell!

"I am thankful for the general army!" Then the small official of the Western Liang cavalry claimed thanks.

Ma Zheng laughed a few times and raised his voice: "I'll send orders to the three armies, and the Black Khan rebels are in the Stone City... The Stone City is already the item in our army's pocket! Wait until the city is broken and let it rob for three days!"

The army that had just walked out of the mountains was just when the people were so angry that they immediately cheered when they heard Ma Zheng's order.
Chapter completed!