Winter is about to pass soon, today is the New Year's Eve, and in a few days it will be the annual New Year's Day. After the Spring Festival, everything will revive.

Li Fei was preparing to cook in person at home to prepare a New Year's Eve dinner. He also invited Lu Xin, Du Fu and others to drink together, celebrate the New Year happily and welcome the arrival of the New Year.

Unfortunately, before I could eat a bite, something bad happened.

"Journalist, news came from the Khitan border that the market that traded horses and Anton Soup was attacked by Khitan cavalry. More than 100 good horses traded and more than 20,000 kilograms of wine in the warehouse were robbed. In addition, more than 300 soldiers guarding the market were killed and injured, and more than 500 innocent people on the border were slaughtered!"

"Damn the Khitan!" Li Fei's face turned pale.

"Mr. Jiedu, this must be because the Khitans saw our intention to obtain war horses, which made people attack the border market where we traded, and did not want to continue to let the Khitan good horses flow into our Anton."

"Hmph, it would be fine if I robbed the market and killed the soldiers guarding the market, but I slaughtered more than 500 innocent people in Anton, which was simply inhumane. If I included the three thousand Anton people slaughtered by Khitan Huaixiu Khan when I first arrived in Anton, I would have had two blood debts!" ​​Li Fei said angrily.

"We may not have time to spend this year well. The cold winter is about to pass. I think An Lushan will not wait until the Khitan grass carp grows green grass again to feed the Khitan war horses. I believe that before the New Year, An Lushan will send troops to fight against the Khitan, Uluo, and Pugu. At that time, we will take the opportunity to carry the Khitans behind and will recover these two blood debts!" ​​Li Fei's face turned cold and he said with murderous intent.

If An Lushan's ambition is not counted, An Lushan is indeed a rare general who is very good at fighting wars.

Although An Lushan also led Hedong Road and transferred the three troops of Hedong, Fanyang and Pinglu, his strength had exceeded the three divisions of Khitan, Uluo and Pugu, An Lushan was very good at judging the situation and was not in a hurry to fight the three divisions of Khitan. Even if the three cavalry provoked, he did not attack, but dragged the whole winter!

Li Fei guessed that the grassland in the cold winter was deserted, and the war horses spent the winter by relying on the forage accumulated before winter. Because the accumulated forage was limited, they would definitely not be allowed to be eaten by the war horses. They could only keep the war horses between not being hungry and full. In one winter, the war horses would have to spend a whole circle.

The three divisions of Khitan, Uluo and Pugu are all nomadic peoples, and their combat power is mainly on cavalry and war horses. When riding more powerful war horses, the strength of the cavalry naturally also has to be discounted a lot. On the other hand, An Lushan himself has the support of the entire Tang Dynasty behind him, and there is nothing to lack, one rises and the other goes down. The end of winter is the most favorable opportunity for An Lushan to fight.

"The Jiedushi is wise! The blood debt must be paid for blood!" Lu Xin said excitedly. For him, not only the blood debts that slaughtered the people twice, but also the blood debts that he almost died last time, he had to find an opportunity to get the Khitans to pay them back.

"In this way, the generals are stepping up the training of soldiers, especially cavalry, and I believe they will be used soon!" Li Fei's eyes were filled with cold light.

After making a decision to give the Khitans a sword in the back of the three decisive battles between An Lushan and Khitan, Li Fei took Anton's generals to take action and make preparations in all aspects.

Since you are planning to insert a knife from behind, you must focus on cavalry with strong mobility.

The Tang cavalry, with bows and crossbows, horses and spears, fighting and fighting, and wearing fish scale armor, can definitely be called the most equipped and most combat-effective cavalry in the world today. In the Battle of Talas, the 6,000 fully equipped Tang cavalry, plus more than 20,000 soldiers, dared to be strong and 120,000 Arab coalition forces.

Even when facing a fierce nomadic cavalry like the Khitan, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty's Iron Cavalry is calculated by fighting against three.

Anton originally had more than 2,000 Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, but when Lu Xin inspected the border, he was attacked by Khitan Huaixiu Khan and 20,000 Khitan Cavalry. The two thousand Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty who followed Lu Xin to inspect were almost wiped out. When Li Fei really took over, Anton's Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was only a few hundred people left.

Now a winter is about to pass. Although Li Fei relied on Andong Soup to make a line to exchange for nearly 10,000 good horses from all sides, and selected 5,000 of the best ones, forming 5,000 Andong Iron Cavalry of the Great Tang Dynasty, the standard weapons of the cavalry were not perfect, and he could only barely collect armor, horizontal swords and crossbows, and less than one-seventh of the horse spear used for cavalry charges.

During this period, the steelmaking workshop and the weapon workshop worked day and night, making steelmaking and building horse spears, etc.

Iron is made of steel by refining hundreds of times. The ultimate reason is that many harmful substances in iron are removed through refining hundreds of times. In fact, in modern times, through scientific judgments and applications, iron no longer needs to be made of steel through refining hundreds of times.

When Li Fei was still in Chang'an City, he had been continuously guiding his eight blacksmiths for several years and had successfully passed the technique of directly cultivating steel in just one or two times.

With the reduction of the steps of refining hundreds of times, the output of steel can suddenly increase by dozens of times, making it less difficult to refine steel than ordinary iron. Li Fei's weapon workshop is not short of steel.

"The horse spear he built without a hundred tempers is not inferior to the ones of the court. It's incredible." Lu Xin held a horse spear in his hand and tried it a few times, then sighed.

"The Weapons Shop has started to build horse spears day and night a few days ago. I believe that at least three thousand iron cavalry can be equipped in a few days." Li Fei said with a smile.

"That's great. In this way, our Andong Iron Cavalry no longer has to train and sprint with long sticks." Lu Xin smiled in surprise.

"It should be that our Andong Iron Cavalry does not need to start a war with the Khitan with a long stick. There has been news that An Lushan gathered 200,000 horse and infantry troops in the Xi territory on the Pingzhou front line. I believe that it will soon enter the Khitan and fight with the three Khitans and other coalition forces. At that time, it will be our Andong Iron Cavalry's turn to attack and pay the blood debt from the Khitans. Maybe in these few days, our Andong Iron Cavalry will also go on a battle. For this battle, I have prepared not only a horse spear, but also two other large killing weapons!" Li Fei suddenly said mysteriously.

"Oh? Are the other two big killing weapons mentioned by the Jiedushi, which was the last time that helped Jiedushi defeat the Khitan cavalry attack and kill Qu Sulu?" Lu Xin was very quick-thinking and immediately thought of the battle with the Khitan cavalry on the way to Andong. To this day, he has not been able to figure out how Li Fei could defeat the attack of nearly 500 elite Khitan cavalry, and also killed Qu Sulu, the general of Huaixiu Khan, and suffered a lot of casualties. So when Li Fei said this, he immediately thought of it.

"Not bad!" Li Fei naturally refers to the Divine Arm Crossbow and Gunpowder. Although the two killing weapons are his trump cards and cannot be easily shown to others. But since Lu Xin has followed him and Lu Xin is an important general of Anton, the Divine Arm Crossbow and Gunpowder must be equipped to enter Andong's army, and it is impossible to conceal Lu Xin.

"Is there such a big killing weapon? I can't wait to see it!" Lu Xin's eyes lit up and he was unbearable.

"You will see it soon!" Li Fei said with a smile.

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