Iron Dynasty

When the soldiers of the Cangzhou camp saw Xiao Ming arrived, they trained more and more diligently.

Looking at these simple soldiers, Xiao Ming said to Lu Fei, I'm afraid you will enter the grassland again.

The barbarian army is dispatched? Lu Fei couldn't help asking at this time.

Xiao Ming nodded, Yes, the scouts are here to report that the Blood Wolf Tribe has assembled an army and is heading towards Cangzhou City with the aim of destroying the new city wall. This time the barbarian army is mighty and the rear is bound to be empty. good time.

Hey, the last will be waiting to go to the grassland to retrieve some war horses. Your Highness, I will call the troops to set off now. In addition, these new recruits will be brought along this time. The best training is actual combat. Our cavalry is much more familiar than before. Lu Fei said.

Can they? Xiao Ming looked at these recruits who had only been training for a month with some concern.

His Royal Highness, we are basically fighting night raids, and we won't fight the barbarians right away. It is enough for these recruits to be able to ride horses. Lu Fei said.

A month is enough for these soldiers to learn to ride a horse. After all, it is relatively easy to simply ride a horse. The real difficulty is to be able to make various movements on the horse's back.

And in this regard, the soldiers of the Great Yu Kingdom are not comparable to the barbarians.

Because of this, the cavalry of the Great Yu Kingdom always suffers when fighting against the barbarian cavalry, because the barbarians have the ability to turn around and shoot arrows while running away, and they are very flexible on the horse, and the violent movements will not fall off the horse's back. Come down, as if glued to a horse.

However, the cavalry of the Great Yu Kingdom would not be able to, and would often fall off their horses.

However, what Lu Fei said this time is not without reason. Only in actual combat can we train troops the fastest, and at the juncture of life and death, people can stimulate their greatest potential.

Considering that this attack on the grasslands was not a frontal battle, and that these recruits were led by veteran Youzi, he nodded.

After all, in this era, sometimes a strong man is a soldier, and training is far from easy.

After talking to Lu Fei about this, Xiao Ming went to Niu Ben again. This time Xiao Ming decided to let Niu Ben stay in Cangzhou City. After all, the defenders of Cangzhou City needed him to command.

During this time, the Qingzhou Army also moved from Qingzhou to Cangzhou, and the troops in Cangzhou City even exceeded the scale of the last Cangzhou battle.

After all, the war is no trivial matter, and there can be no negligence. Xiao Ming must be prepared.

Since the last general will not lead the troops out, two cavalry are also needed to go out to the grassland this time, so who will lead the other cavalry? Niu Ben asked.

Lu Fei said loudly at this time: The commander recommends Lei Ming. This kid is from Youzhou and is very familiar with the area of ​​Youzhou. This time the commander can avoid the barbarians in time or rely on his guidance.

Niu Ben nodded. Although Lu Fei is a thorn, he has always been a decent person, and he will not be cronyism. So, this thunder must have something special.

There are too few cavalry generals now. He also brought a few excellent generals in the team this time, but these generals are all veterans, not from Youzhou. This Xiao Ming's purpose of training Guan Ning's iron cavalry this time does not match.

He then said: His Royal Highness intends to train the Guan Ning iron cavalry, and this cavalry will promote a lot of Youzhou generals. Since this is the case, let the thunder come on.

Xiao Ming nodded. He had also been in touch with this thunder, and he was a little smart. Youzhou will continue to harass the barbarians in the future, which requires someone to be stationed in Cangzhou.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei still have to sit in Qingzhou to lead the overall situation, and they can only be handed over to Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

And Xiao Ming has his own set of development strategies for Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

Very simple, let Guan Ning Tieqi grow independently.

In the future, he will indulge Guan Ning's iron cavalry to burn, kill and loot on the grassland. If he wants to expand the scale of Guan Ning's iron cavalry, he will have to let them go to the grassland to grab horses and come back to train recruits.

This will be a very wild cavalry, but in order to prevent loss of control, Xiao Ming will still send Chang Shi to enter the Guanning Iron Cavalry. The behavior of this army can be wild, but its thinking cannot be wild. The army must be controlled by him no matter what. hand.

He didn't want this Guan Ning cavalry to eventually become the Guan Ning cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

After assigning the generals to go to the grassland this time, Niu Ben asked Lu Fei and Lei Ming to go back to rectify the soldiers and prepare to set off.

On the other hand, Niu Ben, Xiao Ming and Zhan Xingchang climbed the tower to arrange the next defense.

The purpose of the barbarians this time is not to attack the city, but to destroy the city wall. Xiao Ming believes that Bei Shan definitely does not want to consume too much of his strength in Cangzhou City at this time.

Therefore, after deliberation among the three, they decided to bombard the barbarian army indiscriminately, regardless of the consumption of ammunition.

After all, Cangzhou City had already stocked up a lot of gunpowder during this time, so there was no need to worry about running out of ammunition as much as last time.

That night, Niu Ben and Lei Ming took the cavalry to enter the grassland from the cave in the dark of night. According to the news from the scouts, the barbarian army will arrive at the city of Cangzhou tomorrow.

The next morning, Xiao Ming and others got up early. The craftsmen who built the city wall had all retreated into the city, the Qingzhou army entered the trenches, and the trebuchets of the Cangzhou army were ready.

A war is imminent.

His Royal Highness, here we come. At noon, Niu Ben pointed to the distance and said.

Through the telescope, Xiao Ming saw the barbarian army that was pressing down like a dark cloud. Looking at it, the entire sky was covered in darkness, and the slave soldiers were walking at the forefront.

These slave soldiers are dressed in shabby clothes and carry a variety of weapons.

After the barbarian army appeared, the atmosphere of the battlefield was unprecedentedly stagnant, and every soldier was tense, waiting for the barbarian to sound the horn of attack.

Woooo... The low horn horn sounded on the grassland.

The barbarians drove the slave soldiers to attack the ditch outside Cangzhou from 500 meters away.

On the city wall, Luo Xin stood in the middle with a red flag in his hand and frequently uttered semaphores. The artillerymen reloaded and aimed according to the semaphore.

Fire!

Xiao Ming gave an order, and a hundred artillery pieces on the city wall roared in unison, and the shells were concentrated at the slave soldiers who were charging.

Ah... A series of screams sounded.

The cannonballs caused a blood mist in the crowd. Although the slave soldiers were spread out as much as possible, the bouncing of one hundred cannonballs on the ground still killed and wounded a large number of slave soldiers.

Although these slave soldiers knew about the artillery in Cangzhou City, many of them saw it for the first time. Before many soldiers could react, they saw a string of people fall down beside them, all of them looking miserable.

And when they looked forward, they saw that the soldiers who rushed to the front of the ditch suddenly flew up with an explosion, their limbs shattered, and the sky rained blood.

Immediately afterwards, there was only the scene of flying limbs in their eyes, and there was only the sound of thunderous explosions in their ears.