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Seeing that the two commanders had agreed to start, the flag officer issued an order. Soon, a team of black-helmets and black-armored cavalry slowly appeared opposite the school ground. Almost as they appeared, it immediately caused a commotion in the infantry formation. Xin Gu, who was standing on the stage, even shouted: "Don't you know how to bully me? There are so many horses, and there are still thirty."

Ji Yan smiled but did not answer. The captain named Ma Chengyan, who was under his command, appeared on the general stage again and immediately replied: "I heard that Captain Xin is from the northern country, why don't he know that the cavalry is a three-horse system? Although the number of people in my Heiyun Town is small, each cavalry has a war horse, a pack horse and a daily passenger horse. Ten cavalrymen are exactly the same as the number of thirty horses."

Xin Gu was a solid person. He knew that most of the Khitans and female cavalry had three horses, and some elite cavalry each had as many as five or six horses. He stopped refuting afterwards, but just snorted angrily. Chen De's heart sank. Seeing that the cavalry opposite the school ground stood far beyond the range of the infantry's bow and arrow, sorting out the charge formation in an orderly manner. It seemed that he wanted to kick the gun formation directly. Although only ten of the thirty horses were real war horses, there were also a large group of blacks in the formation. The few cavalry were invisible in the middle of the horses, whistling in their mouths, whistling whips in their hands, and slowly moving forward. When they were about to approach the range of the lethal range of infantry bows and arrows, the cavalry began to urge the horses to accelerate, and at the same time they were lowered and hid behind the horses.

Even when standing on the stage to watch, the horse's sprinting momentum was quite amazing. Sand and dust accompanied by thunderous hoof points, rolling like a black storm, to destroy everything in front of it. Chen De thought to be about to be encountered, but the gun array in front of the horse's scattered was already a little loose, and the dozens of arrows emitted sparsely could not delay the speed of the horse's striking impact. Instead, the soldiers holding bows in the formation were a little busy.

Seeing the horses getting closer and closer to the gun array, Chen De only had a glimmer of hope left in his heart. He hoped that the knowledge he had read on the Internet that horses would take the initiative to avoid sharp objects was the truth. However, when he saw the running horses crashing straight towards the gun array made of fifty tiny soldiers, he was completely desperate.

The storm that was not expected shattered the flesh and blood reefs so violently. The gun formation formed by the Fifty Jinfanya Army collapsed when the horses were still five steps away. Several soldiers in the front row instinctively avoided the backwards and caused a chain reaction. The three well-trained cavalrymen in the first row took the plane to protrude out of the horses. They rushed in from the gap in the gun formation without paying any casualties, and they beating the infantry with iron sticks condescendingly. The Jinfan Army almost collapsed in an instant, and most of the soldiers had almost no resistance.

The horse was panicked, and in the end, they were either knocked down or put down their swords and guns and sat on the ground with their heads in their arms. In the end, only one of the Jinfan soldiers who were still standing was surrounded by five or six cavalrymen. This man was very brave and swept the horse's legs under the barrel. The cavalry was unable to approach him. After knocking the other Jinfan soldiers down, they were waiting for the group to beat the guy who dared to resist. This man looked like a hero who didn't suffer any loss in front of him. He put the big gun on the ground in a daze, and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms.

He was defeated, and so miserable. Chen De's face turned pale and could not say a word for a long time.

Ji Yan laughed unconcealedly, patted Chen De on the shoulder and said, "Chen Sanqi, your knowledge is good, but if you use military service to fight, I would say something more, it would be too strong for scholars to be angry."

Chen De bowed helplessly and said, "General Ji won."

"It's so refreshing!" Ji Yan clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Then I'll bother General Chen to lead the Jinfan Army to transport the baggage and guard the Shaanxi Village." He paused his voice and said: "But I won't take advantage of it. I heard that the Jinfan Army lacks armor and bows and arrows. In order to facilitate your defense of Shaanxi Village, Heiyun can hand over to you 200 sets of iron armor, 300 crossbows, 30,000 arrows, and 10 more war horses."

Chen De thought that this was a typical slap and stuffed sweet dates. The ancients were also very smart, so they had no choice but to thank him with a wry smile and ordered Xin Gu to rectify the soldiers who were beaten to the ground to receive the armored war horses. The group left in disgrace with the sarcastic eyes of the black clouds.

On the way back from Heiyundu, seeing that Chen De's face was dark and the soldiers who were intimidated by the power of Heiyundu's army also lost their energy when they came. Xin Gu muttered: "If someone is asked to take action, he will definitely hit him."

Chen De said angrily: "Do you think you are an ordinary soldier? If you want to be a general, you must be a enemy of thousands of people who win every battle. It is not a common man who only knows how to fight with others!" Although Xin Gu was dissatisfied, he knew that this guy was not happy and stopped talking. Chen De himself felt that he was angry at this straightforward person, but he felt uncomfortable. He reached out and patted Xin Gu's shoulder and said: "The tall buildings are rising up in the ground. Our new army has just become successful. We need to train well. In time, it may not be impossible to compete with Heiyun for a long time."

He turned his head and said to the soldier who finally put down his big gun: "What's your name?"

The man raised his head and said, "Some family's surname is Li and its name is Si." After saying that, he did not lower his head, but stared at Chen De provocatively.

At this time, Chen De had carefully seen the soldier of the same name as Daqin Zai, not only had a gentle name, but also had a very gentle appearance. He had a tall figure and white face, and was also calm in temperament. No wonder he knew the current situation when he was surrounded by the Black Cloud Cavalry in the end, and chose to put down his big gun instead of fighting with courage and stubbornness. In the end, he was beaten to death.

This person is a talent, but it is difficult to convince. Chen De thought to himself, and did not care about Li Si's rude gaze, and smiled and said, "You have the courage to know the current affairs. Li Si, you will be my personal guard in the future." After that, he patted his shoulder hard, and gently pinched the horse's belly and galloped forward.

Li Si was not flattered at all. He flashed lightly when Chen De patted him on the shoulder, and finally clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for your appreciation." Then he followed Chen De's horse on his own initiative, as if he had been his personal soldier for a long time.

After arriving at the camp, Xiao Jiu looked at ten large chariots and ten war horses loaded with armored crossbow arrows, and greeted them with a smile, and kept saying, "Heiyun is worthy of being the strongest soldier in Jiangzuo, and he is so generous." He did not care about the tiring and dirty work of transporting Heiyundu and guarding the Shaanxi Village Camp. It was natural for such an external army to resist the elite imperial guards.

The failure of this time, the use of infantry cavalry was very touched by Chen De. He realized that he was not commanding the cannon fodder in the game, but real people with flesh and blood, concern and fear. Fortunately, this time he only conducted an angry confrontation exercise with Heiyun. If it was really against thousands of elite cavalry of the Song army, his more than 2,000 infantry would have been explained.

So Chen De increased his training for soldiers, making it impossible for 2,500 infantrymen to have the ability to fight against cavalry. Chen De could only use his only ten war horses to increase the battlefield simulation training of anti-cavalry impact on the military camp of 500 people, and let someone hang the thick wooden stakes horizontally, pull them up and smash them up at ten spearmen lined up. If they fired their guns together and no one retreated, they could barely stop the sweeping of the wooden stakes.

In the momentum, if someone hesitates or is uneven in the battle, and the formation is smashed by wooden stakes, the whole team will be punished. The punishment is to push the wooden stakes together, or each person will receive twenty military sticks. After a month, the spears of the Yajun Barracks were replaced countless times because of their breaks, and the soldiers' limbs were also trained to become much thicker. The soldiers who were ugly and defeated in the black clouds gradually felt that the galloping horses that were rushing towards the front were not corporal punishment or military sticks at all.

After the Yajun Barracks reached the state of a gun that was almost whistling in front of the locomotive, which could move consistently, Chen De conducted a promotion training for them through various obstacles in a square formation.

At the same time, the soldiers in the former and rear camps also stepped up training of three-stage crossbow shooting techniques, sword and shield confrontation, and queue training in cooperation with the Ya military camp.

In September of the sixth year of Kaibao, the camps and camps in the southwest of Shengzhou in the Song Dynasty, Cao Bin led a 100,000 army to advance eastward. After three months of training, the Jinfan Army was already familiar with military orders and tactics, and barely seemed to be an army. Early this morning, the Dechang Palace envoy Liu Chengxun sent a batch of supplies to reward the soldiers, and also brought the imperial edict of the king Li Yu to ask Liu Yan and Chen De to send troops to meet the enemy immediately. According to the previous agreement, Chen De's Jinfan Army, as a vanguard, would set off by boat in advance, attempting to arrive at Shaanxi Village before the Song army captured Chizhou, and cooperated with Heiyundu to use this as a base to raid the Song army's retreat.

"General Chen, the military situation is urgent. Your Majesty asks the general to quickly choose a day to send troops. Seeing that the weather is getting colder, this is a batch of winter clothes sewn by the Empress and the palace maids. I wish the general a success." Liu Chengxun said with a smile, as if Chen De was not an enemy who had repeatedly beaten him to report in front of Li Yu, but his own good friend.

Chen De had to resist the disgust and said with a smile: "The army is outside, and the food, supplies and other matters in the rear are entrusted to Brother Liu. When the day he returns to the army, I will definitely ask for merit for Brother Liu."

Liu Chengxun immediately took Chen De's hand and replied passionately: "As long as the Yangtze River waterway is clear, General Chen wants people to give them things and things. Even if the treasury is empty, he will never let the soldiers in front of him be fed and fed." Then he looked around and approached Chen De's ear and whispered: "Be careful when General Chen and Heiyun Army go to war together. Although Heiyun is good at fighting, the reputation of the battlefield is very high, regardless of the friendly army. General Chen must not be a stepping stone for others to increase their ranks."

Chen De didn't know what he meant, and asked in surprise: "What happened? If Heiyun didn't care about the safety of our army, what should we do?"

Liu Chengxun smiled slightly and said with his ears again: "I met General Chen as soon as I saw him. I don't care about the deep words. General Chen needs to judge the situation. If it is impossible to do anything, he will retreat first. With Your Majesty's trust in General Chen, at most it will be a small punishment."

Chen De thought to himself that Nan Tang was destroyed in the hands of these people, but he had to look moved and said, "Thank you for your advice. If there is really that day, I hope Lord Liu will give me more good words to you in front of His Majesty."

Liu Chengxun smiled and said, "This is naturally." Seeing that Chen De seemed to be moved, he didn't say much, and he also talked about some things in the palace. It was rare for the harem's harem to sew clothes for the soldiers who went on the expedition, which shows that His Majesty has high hopes for the Jinfan Army.

Chen De smiled and said goodbye to him, and came back to distribute winter clothes, supplies and other items to Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu and others.

Although other soldiers were asked to choose first, the concept of hierarchy still made everyone consciously leave a most exquisitely embroidered robe to Chen De. This was a red brocade robe with patterns embroidered on the chest and behind the back, while the belt was made of quaint fish and dragon patterns, which looked particularly majestic after wearing it.

Compared to Xiao Jiu's appreciation of fine stitches, Xin Gu frowned while picking up the winter clothes of brocade fabric, "These clothes are not resistant to wear and will soon rot in the wild, far less than the fur coats in the north." Chen De smiled and said, "This is not a big prairie. There are few camels, horses, cattle and sheep, so you can wear whatever you have." Then he turned to Xiao Jiu and said, "The war is about to go to war. Have our army's weapons, armor, and supplies equipped with all the items?"

Xiao Jiu frowned and said, "The rewards in the palace, plus the divine guards and the armor handed over by the Heiyun army, our army now only has 200 pairs of iron armor and 531 pairs of leather armor. Most of the soldiers do not have armor. The Song people's bows and crossbows are strong. As long as two or three rounds of arrows are released, the soldiers without armor will probably be injured."

Chen De touched his chin and said, "What you said makes sense, but I see that the Jiangnan army, except Heiyun and the elite soldiers of the Divine Guard, almost all of them are armed. It is an exception to be able to issue more than 700 pairs of good armor as newly established troops as our army."

Xin Gu said: "If there is no armor and there is a horse, the cavalry will kill him all at once. Before the Song people could release three-wheeled arrows, they were washed away. Unfortunately, there were even fewer horses."

Chen De looked at the Khitan who didn't open the pot and asked Xiao Jiu again: "Do you think the Song people's crossbows are so powerful? In addition to adding armor, there are other ways to defend themselves? Or can our army keep moving beyond the range of the Song army's crossbows, and then fight in the night to win?"

Xiao Jiu said: "If it is so easy to win with hand-to-hand combat, what are the fears of the Song army? However, in addition to the powerful bows and crossbows, the Song army also has infantry and cavalry specializing in hand-to-hand combat. If our army blindly wants to get close to hand-to-hand combat, it is afraid that it will be difficult to break through the enemy's front formation. Not only will it be killed and injured by the enemy's rear formation, but both wings and rear formations are also susceptible to raids by Song cavalry." After saying that, his face darkened.

Chen De thought to himself, his grandmother, the Song people already have such an advanced routine of multi-army cooperation. What did I do when I traveled through time? He said in a depressed manner: "The Song army's tactics are so powerful, is it possible that our army has no chance to win?"

Li Shun walked into the tent at some point and listened quietly to Chen De and the other two people to discuss. At this time, he couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Our barbarians in Shu all use vine armor. Not only is it difficult to get in with swords and guns, but it is also very light and powerful!"

Li Si, the personal soldier behind Chen De, glanced at him and said, "You are from Shu. Don't you know that Zhuge Liang burned the vine armored soldiers? As long as you use rockets, the vine armored soldiers will be wiped out immediately." After he finished speaking, Chen De suddenly felt a thought flashing through his mind. At this time, Xiao Jiu apologized to Chen De: "He is young and short-sighted, sir..." Chen De waved his hand to stop him and continued, thinking about the thought just now twice in his heart. A sense of ecstasy surged into his heart, and shouted, "Yes, vine armor, vine armor is available!"

Xiao Jiu's face was a little embarrassed. He had to protect Li Shun in everything, but the battle was not tolerated, so he could only hold his fists and said, "Sir, the vine armor is indeed afraid of fire. As long as the Song army uses rockets, all soldiers wearing vine armor will be unlucky."

Chen De looked at him and said after a while: "Do you know that there is something called Huohuan cloth in the Western Regions? This thing is not afraid of fire and is also insulated. If it is used to cover it outside the rattan armor, wouldn't it be a perfect match?"

Xiao Jiu had no idea what Chen De was talking about at this time. Li Si and Li Shun were staring at Chen De. Obviously, they had never heard of any cloth in the world that was not afraid of fire. Xin Gu, a Khitan, slapped his head and shouted: "I have seen this thing. It's best to use it as a tablecloth. No matter what filth it is, it will be burned on the fire and shake off the ashes and then turn it white like snow."

"Have you seen this thing?" Chen De didn't expect that Xin Gu, who seemed to be the least knowledgeable, actually knew about the huoan cloth, that is, modern asbestos. After seeing Xin Gu nodding affirmatively, Chen De said: "Then go to the sea market to find out if there are any merchants from the Western Regions selling this thing. If there are, we want them all, and we must grab them even if they grab them."

Xin Gu replied loudly, and immediately ordered a pair of soldiers to pull out a cart. Haishi in Jinling is a place where foreign merchants in the Western Regions sell various rare treasures from foreign countries. It is also a place where generals such as Xin Gu wander around on a daily basis. He had already seen a lot of such things selling from a merchant.

Chen De and Xiao Jiu continued to discuss the preparations for various weapons and supplies to go to the expedition. At about evening, they saw Xin Gu coming back dejectedly. Most of the treasures in the Western Regions were rare items in Jinling, so although there were not many, they searched the entire Haicheng and found only a few exquisitely patterned fire cloths, which were only enough to cover the vine armor of dozens of soldiers.

Seeing Chen De suddenly feeling lost, Xiao Jiu said, "Don't worry too much. If we talk about fire prevention, I also have it in Middle Earth. But I didn't think that I could complement each other with the vine armor just now."

Chen De couldn't believe his ears and shouted at Xiao Jiu: "Is this serious?"

Xiao Jiu smiled and said, "Of course, you just need to make wheat flour or rice flour into a paste, add resin and apply it on paper armor. Ordinary rockets will be difficult to ignite. Paper armor is often used in Shuzhong and Jiangnan. Paper armor is flammable, so if you use this technique, you will ask an old soldier in the army, and you may know this way to defend rockets."

Chen De was very excited when he heard this and continued: "Then the vine armor is the inner and the paper armor is the surface. It is not only light and sturdy, but also fireproof, but so?"

Xiao Jiu smiled and said, "That's right."

The two laughed together. Although this compound armor that had never been tested in the world had not been tried, they suddenly felt that not only had hope of solving the problem of Jinfan Army lacking armor, but also this light and sturdy armor was likely to become a weapon to defeat the enemy.

Due to the lack of iron armor and leather armor, rattan armor and cotton paper armor are commonly used in the Jiangnan army. Because rattan armor is afraid of fire and ordinary cotton paper armor is not strong enough, regular troops do not want to wear it. A large number of them are piled up in the treasury. Chen De wrote a letter to the Ministry of War and wrote a book to show his good news to him. He picked two thousand sets of rattan armor and cotton paper armor that could be worn from the treasury.

After everything was ready, Chen De led 2,500 Jinfan soldiers to Jiangning and headed to Shankou Village, Chizhou.

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