The Boy with The Dragon Tattoo

Chapter 23: Iron Cavalry

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"General Zhang sees that the lives of the people are overwhelmed, the people are not living, and the hatred of the country and the family is coming to his heart, and he secretly pledged himself to kill the Mongols in this life."

Although Mo Lao San was impoverished, but these words turned out to be majestic and majestic. A few coins in the crowd were thrown into the bowl, Mo Laosan regained his bowed back and bowed his back, bowed his hands and thanked the broken bowl, then raised his head and continued:

"Once this general was patrolling the road with swords and horses, he saw three Mongolian cavalrymen returning to the barracks with a group of Central Plains. There were only adult men in the group, no old, young women and children. Presumably this Mongolian soldier was afraid of burden. Killed them all, leaving only these adult men and brought them back to the barracks for enslavement. This general rushed forward, apart from anything else, a sword split a Mongolian soldier in half, and another Mongolian soldier rushed forward. He was cut into two pieces by General Zhang. The remaining Mongolian soldier saw his strength and fled on horseback. General Zhang chased him wildly. After running several hundred meters, he chopped him down with his horse and man."

"General Zhang carried the head of the Mongolian soldier and led the warhorse back, cut off the shackles of a dozen people in this group, and let them flee for their lives. All the people in this group were looted from various places by the Mongolian soldiers. Every family member died tragically. In the hands of the Mongolian soldiers, they all witnessed the violence of the Mongolian soldiers. At that time, the Mongolian cavalry soldiers were strong at horses and shooting, and all of them had the ability to score one to ten. Small groups of Song Dynasty officers and soldiers often fled when they heard the wind. The ordinary people saw it. I couldn't even escape, let alone resist. At this moment, I saw General Zhang, like a god descending to the earth, and instantly hacked to death three Mongolian cavalry. They were shocked to the heavens and bowed down one after another."

"General Zhang ordered them to escape. The Mongolian army disappeared and returned to the camp with three sentinels. They must send a large army to search for them. Maybe they will retaliate by burning, looting, and looting."

"One of these captives was sensible, and he refused to get up and kowtow again and again:'Although the world is big, it is full of Mongolian cavalry. With Mongolian soldiers, there is no place for Han people. Even if we can survive today, we will still live in the future. It is unavoidable to die. Rather than endure the humiliation, it is better to stand up and fight against the Mongolian soldiers. The hero is so majestic, Xiaoyuan followed you from birth to death and killing the Mongolians." Everyone agreed. "

"General Zhang frowned and said:'I am used to being with one person, but it is inconvenient if there are too many people.'"

"That humanity: The entire Central Plains has been reduced to the Mongolian iron hoof. My benefactor will save me today, and the Mongols will come again in the future, and we will no longer have our lives. It is no different from my benevolence who killed me by his own hands. Just hacking us to death on the spot is better than dying by a Mongol knife."

As soon as General Zhang heard this, he said right away, you can follow me, but you have to agree to one thing!

We have fallen to this day. It is purely the cowardice and incompetence of the Song Dynasty government. The officers and soldiers do not seek to resist the enemy and save the country, but only know that they oppress the people. I, Zhang Jue, disdain to join them. Zhang Jue and the Mongols have an antagonism, my lifelong wish is not to crack the earth and seal the land, but to kill the Mongols!

If my brothers are with me today, he can only fall into the grass. No matter what happens in the future, one day he will die without a place to bury him. If you can accept it, everyone will worship together, and we will become brothers in the future. If you can't accept it, you can just go away.

The crowds who spoke with General Zhang Dazhi were excited, and they all raised their arms and shouted, in this life, I would like to fight with En Gong from the south to the north, not to crack the earth, but to kill the Mongols!

At the moment everyone bowed to worship, and General Zhang gave them the horses and weapons stolen from the Mongolian soldiers.

Zhang Jue told the people that the reason why the Mongolian cavalry ran the world was that they grew up on horseback and were good at riding and shooting. On the other hand, they have been nurtured in an environment where the weak and the strong eat the strong since they were young. The soldiers in the Central Plains are incomparable. In terms of individual combat capability, these Mongolian soldiers are not invincible in the world, but they will retreat when they are strong, and they will go up when they are weak. They live in no fixed place, relying on strong soldiers and horses to advance and retreat freely. Therefore, others cannot do anything about it.

If we want to fight against the Mongolian cavalry, we must adopt the same strategy as them, and we must treat them with their own ways. When encountering a large group of Mongolian cavalry, we will avoid it, and we will kill when encountering a small group of lonely cavalry. It.

At the moment, this group of people began to gallop across the northern part of the Central Plains. In half a year, they also killed hundreds of Mongolian cavalry and rescued countless refugees.

This general was nurtured in the Mongolian army all the year round, and he naturally understood the Mongols' living habits and military strategy. He knew that if he wanted to be invincible like the Mongolian cavalry, he must govern the army strictly. Therefore, he urged his subordinates to train hard for shooting, shooting and hacking, and formulated stricter military discipline than the Mongolian cavalry.

In order to avoid worries for the future, it is stipulated that after each battle, the army shall distribute part of the looted grain to refugees. If any joiner, only adult males will be accepted, without women and children.

Even so, more and more people joined, and there were many supporters. These people had a deep hatred with the Mongols, so they fought bravely. In addition, General Zhang also taught all the skills to everyone, the team quickly developed and expanded. With thousands of cavalry, wherever there are Mongolian cavalry, they will be there. The scope of their activities goes deep into the territory of the Mongol Empire, even as far as Yu'er Lake.

With the growth of the team, their targets have gradually shifted from guerrilla fighters to some small Mongolian cavalry units. After several years of battle, the army's combat power has greatly improved, even more fierce than the Mongolian cavalry of the same size.

It turned out that this General Jue was a blacksmith and was proficient in forging. He thought that although his brothers were brave in fighting and not afraid of death, they were still far behind the Mongols who were proficient in riding and killing since childhood. In order to reduce the casualties of his subordinates, he specially built equipment specifically to restrain the Mongolian cavalry.

This picture of General Jue went on an expedition with the Mongolian army when he was a teenager. He knew the skills and habits of the Mongolian soldiers, shooting and hacking, so he ordered people to forge iron armor to cover the most vulnerable parts of the horses, except for the regular cavalry combat weapons. In addition, each person is also specially equipped with a long-handled hook spear, which is clamped under the armpit when charging, and the spear head is straight forward with the horse's body, or stabbed or hooked, and the Mongolian cavalry is often jabbed under the horse before getting close. As a result, the combat capability has greatly increased, because it has defeated the Mongolian cavalry many times and gradually gained fame. Because this army has no name and is so mysterious, people call it an iron cavalry based on its combat characteristics.

Soon, this non-official and non-civilian military armed forces attracted the attention of Genghis Khan. This winter, after annihilating a Mongolian squad of thousands of people, Genghis Khan was furious, led the army and sent two of the best under his control. The generals Zhebei and Subeietai were the pioneers, chasing the cavalry.

With Zhang Jue's skill and ability, the Mongols can never catch up with him. But now the team's growth is no longer what it used to be. There are already a team of thousands of people under his team. With the addition of baggage, food, and looted spoils, the speed of progress has been greatly slowed down. In addition, many generals began to carry their families with the army, so facing the elite Mongolian cavalry who were lightly outfitted and cavalry, the team no longer had the flexibility to be as fast as electricity.

Although General Zhang explicitly forbids his subordinates to bring family members, and he has never married, he is helpless in his kind heart and cannot be cruel to deal with these brothers who were born to death with him. As a result, this army lost the mobility that it relied on, and the troops of the brigade couldn't cover up as before. It was quickly overtaken by the lightly armored Mongolian cavalry. After several battles, the cavalry suffered heavy casualties. Most of the heavy equipment was lost, and only a thousand people remained.

The Mongolian cavalrymen also paid a huge price. Two Qianhuhou were beheaded, thousands of cavalrymen were killed and numerous wounded. The cavalry had a mortal heart up and down. Everyone died in the battle to the end, and no one was alive as a prisoner.

The cavalry fought and retreated, and finally retreated to what is now northern Shaanxi, in an unnamed hill, surrounded by the 20,000 cavalry regiments of Zhebei and Subei'etai.