The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

From this point of view, Zhu Biao's father, Zhu Chaofeng, obviously has good vision and means, and knows how to prepare for a rainy day.

In comparison, Hu Sanniang's father Hu Taigong was not so shrewd. Originally, Hu Taigong was a little dissatisfied with his daughter who used swords and guns like men all day long. This time Hu Sanniang wanted to go to Qinglong The emperor became a general and went to fight on the battlefield. This made Hu Taigong even more furious. He wanted to lock Hu Sanniang in his home and not let him go out.

It's a pity that Hu Sanniang had already made up her mind to come to the Qinglong Empire. When she returned home, she just informed her father and elder brother. Before her father could use any means to lock her up at home, Hu Sanniang ran away.

After these four people officially joined Ye Tianlong's command, they naturally started to practice the martial arts taught by Li Rufeng, just like the heroes who had just joined before. This is also the reason why these four people stayed in the Qinglong Empire. After all, Li Rufeng was the one this time. Responsible for guarding the country.

At this time, Ye Tianlong's side had already fought all the way to the city of Sunuo in the Kingdom of Swadia. Ye Tianlong was originally ready to attack the city directly, but not long ago, he received a letter of invitation from King Haraus and wanted to Ye Tianlong and his army are invited to fight on a plain near Sunuo City.

King Haraus specially chose this place for the decisive battle, obviously wanting to maximize the destructive power of his heavy cavalry.

Ye Tianlong was aware of the other party's thoughts, but he still chose to agree to the other party's request. After all, during the previous attacks on those cities, too many civilians were coerced by the army of the Kingdom of Swadia to join the defense of the city. Among the team, after the cities were captured, the civilians in each city suffered heavy losses.

So this time since King Haraus wanted to have a decisive battle with him on the plain, he simply agreed to the other party. After all, if the decisive battle was in the wild, the civilians in the city would no longer be accidentally injured.

And since the two sides have decided on the location of the decisive battle in advance, Ye Tianlong naturally has to set up some defense lines and positions for his side in advance. Otherwise, when the time comes, he will face a large number of heavy cavalry troops from the Kingdom of Swadia and fight on this plain terrain. It will definitely be difficult to get up.

At this time, He Cheng and a group of teammates were working hard to dig trenches. Although the shovels handed out above were made of fine steel, He Cheng and the others were still having a hard time digging. This is because as the temperature gets lower and lower, and a lot of snow melts into snow water during the day, the ground is basically frozen hard now, making it extremely difficult to dig.

After only digging for more than an hour, He Cheng felt that his arms were sore and numb. Fortunately, someone else came over soon to take their place.

What surprised He Cheng was that there were many women among the soldiers who came to replace them. Even the leading officer was a woman.

Perhaps it was because He Cheng's eyes stayed on the tall female officer for a long time, so the other party noticed it, turned around and glared at He Cheng and cursed: "What are you looking at! Have you never seen a woman?"

Because the other party's military rank was captain, which was much higher than He Cheng's, He Cheng didn't dare to talk back when the other party yelled at him.

He Cheng's company commander Dong Lian also noticed this scene and immediately stood up and explained to his men: "Sister Jiang, don't be angry. It's not that my little brother has never seen a woman, but that he has never seen you. Such a beautiful female officer!”

"Hmph! You can talk!" Hearing Dong Lian say this, the female officer couldn't help but have a smile on her face.

Afterwards, the female officer waved her hand and said proudly: "You men! Most of them still look down on us women and think we women are not as good as you, right? I'm going to show you today, we Female soldiers are no worse than your male soldiers!"

While the female officer was making bold remarks to everyone present, company commander Dong Lian also quietly introduced the identity of the female officer to He Cheng.

Speaking of which, this woman is a distant relative of brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun! So he was recruited by the two brothers in the first batch, and he became a soldier of the Qinglong Empire very early.

And because Ye Tianlong, the emperor of the Qinglong Empire, often talked about the equality of men and women and that women can hold up half the sky, this female soldier named Jiang Jundi obviously really believed these words, so she has been working hard since becoming a soldier. , their performance on the battlefield is often braver than that of most male soldiers.

It was precisely because of his desperate energy that he was promoted to captain so quickly.

While listening to his company commander's introduction to the female officer, He Cheng watched as the other party led his soldiers and continued to work hard in the trenches they had not finished digging. He even kept saying that he wanted to work. The progress exceeded that of He Cheng and other male soldiers.

Seeing the other party's performance, He Cheng thought to himself that this woman was too winning! Why do you have to compete with male soldiers in everything? However, if the other party is not such a strong and competitive character, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get ahead in the army.

While Ye Tianlong was seizing the last moment to build a defense line, King Haraus had almost assembled his troops.

During Ye Tianlong's previous attack on the city, he had wiped out a total of about hundreds of thousands of troops from the Kingdom of Swadia, so now there are still more than 500,000 troops left in the hands of King Haraus.

In terms of military strength, it is still more than that of Ye Tianlong. After all, in order to defend the cities he just captured, Ye Tianlong has been sending out troops to garrison along the way. So far, he only has about 100,000 troops left. Only one-fifth of King Haraus's strength.

However, even if he had an absolute advantage in military strength, Haraus did not have much confidence in the victory of this battle. In order to maximize the combat power of the tens of thousands of heavy cavalry in his hands, he and Ye Tianlong specially stayed together in Sunuo City. There was a fight on the plain in the distance. And he has also mobilized most of the elite troops from various places. It can be said that they are really going all out.

Early the next morning, King Haraus looked at the assembled troops and decided to officially start the war. At this time, he had assembled fifty-three troops, including more than 40,000 heavy cavalry troops. There are also about 20,000 light cavalry. Most of these light cavalry are mercenaries. After all, the Kingdom of Swadia itself mainly cultivates heavy cavalry, and there are very few light cavalry.

In addition to a large number of cavalry units, this large army also included thousands of musketeers equipped with matchlocks and an artillery unit of more than 300 people equipped with ten bronze cannons.

From this perspective, the Kingdom of Swadia has actually entered the firearms era. Unfortunately, its opponents are stronger, and its equipment level has almost reached the level of World War I in the real world.

Fortunately, the Blue Dragon Empire only had about 100,000 troops, which was far less than the Kingdom of Swadia. Only then did King Haraus feel that he had a slight chance of winning, and was ready to fight with all his strength.

An army of more than 500,000 people consumes an astonishing amount of food and grass every day. Even a big city like Sunuo cannot support it for too long. Therefore, after the troops were assembled, King Haraus did not delay any longer. He directly led the army to the agreed battlefield.

At this time, Ye Tianlong's side was naturally ready for war. Not only had the trenches been dug, but several barbed wire fences were also laid out at the front of the position to slow down the enemy cavalry's advance and provide relief to their own soldiers. Strive for more opportunities to fire.

He Cheng's company was the first batch to fight. There were about 40,000 people fighting with them. Another 40,000 people were arranged to fight in the first round, and the last 10,000 people were in the hands of Ye Tianlong. The reserve team, most of which are veterans, are extremely powerful in combat. Once there is a danger somewhere on the battlefield, Ye Tianlong can lead the reserve team in his hand to directly block the hole.

"Phew! What a damn weather it is! It's so cold! The enemies on the opposite side really know how to choose the day. They don't move out early or late, but they have to move out today!" He Cheng whispered to himself while trying to move his body.

It's no wonder that He Cheng complained so much. It was because it snowed heavily again today, and the temperature suddenly dropped to about ten degrees below zero. It can really be said that a drop of water turned into ice.

Even not long after breakfast, He Cheng now felt that the calories in his body were being consumed rapidly, and he was a little hungry. In addition, the bodies of these soldiers were covered with snowflakes in a short while, and each of them turned into a snowman. generally.

In order to maintain his body temperature, He Cheng took advantage of the gap before the battle to take out a piece of abnormally spicy beef jerky from his arms, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it slowly.

As he ate some beef jerky, He Cheng not only felt that the chill in his body was dissipated a lot, but even his brain, which had become a little stiff due to the low temperature, suddenly became active due to the heat.

Just at this moment, He Cheng also faintly heard the sound of horse hooves. He stuck his head out of the trench to check, but found that there was a vast expanse of white in front of him, and he could not clearly see the enemy's situation.

On the other side, King Haraus looked at the heavier and heavier snowfall, but he couldn't help sighing in his heart that God was helping me. After all, such heavy snow would definitely greatly affect the enemy's sight. In this way, the enemy's sight would be greatly affected. The advantages of firearms cannot be fully utilized.

In addition, with such a heavy wind and snow, the opponent's combat airships should not dare to go to the sky, which also caused the opponent's air power to lose at least 30%.

With excitement, King Haraus first sent out the light cavalry, mostly composed of mercenaries, to test the enemy's firepower. At the same time, he also cleared the barbed wire along the way to facilitate the heavy cavalry under his command. Troops charge.

The dispatched light cavalry naturally knew that they had become cannon fodder, but they did not dare to refuse King Haraus's order. After all, the opponent's hundreds of thousands of troops were watching there! If they dare to say no, the other party will definitely lead an army to destroy them first.

Speaking of which, these mercenaries were hired by King Haraus at a high price from places far away from the Azure Dragon Empire.

Because those places are still far away from the Qinglong Empire, and the speed of news transmission in this era is very slow, few people have heard of the power of the Qinglong Empire. Therefore, after King Haraus spent a lot of money, it was easy for him to A bunch of cannon fodder was tricked.