Chapter 196 Seven Hundred Riders

Xue Bing looked at the small cage in front of him with joy, and his hands were touching it from time to time, as if he wanted to uncover the black cloth.

However, after understanding some of the ways to use the carrier pigeon from Xin Chang, he had to suppress this idea.

But he learned from Xin Chang that when the pigeon was carried with the army, in order to prevent it from treating other places as its home, it usually had to cover the cage with black cloth so that the pigeons inside could not see the surrounding scenery, so that it would naturally not recognize a completely unfamiliar environment as its home.

Zhang Ren suddenly sent a pigeon. Thinking of the speed of communication of the pigeon, Xue Bing suddenly came up with a solution. He could use the convenience and speed of the pigeon to make an appointment with Zhang Ren in advance for the place to hand over the supplies.

Then, using the power of the cavalry, he rushed to the agreed location before the agreed date, so as to successfully receive material supplies.

This practice is similar to later airborne troops who contact the command center when they fight behind enemy lines and agree on the airdrop location for material supplies.

However, later generations used planes to deliver supplies, but Xue Bing meant that Zhang Ren sent troops to deliver supplies.

The advantage of this is that the agreed location can be determined based on the situation at that time and the location of the troops.

Then use the carrier pigeon to quickly send information such as the designated location and the required number of materials to Chang'an, and then rush to the designated location to receive materials.

However, the disadvantages are also very large. Especially during the Three Kingdoms period, a cavalry unit with nearly a thousand people, especially a unit with bows and arrows as the main means of attack, required a huge amount of materials.

It is definitely not a few soldiers who can carry it. In this way, the location of the place where the supply is handed over has certain limitations - it must not be too far away from Zhang Ren's troops.

Otherwise, Zhang Ren sent a army and crossed the territory of Cao's army with a large amount of food and grass supplies. Even if he could rush over smoothly, there would not be much food and grass left. And it would also expose the position of Xue Bing's army.

Another point is that if the Cao army discovered the place where the materials were handed over, and the Sichuan army soldiers were not enough to protect the food and grass until Xue Bing's troops arrived, or they thought they would be captured by Cao's army before Xue Bing arrived.

Then, the only way is to endure the pain and destroy it.

As Xue Bing means, it means that flammable objects are mixed into this batch of materials. As long as the troops find out, they will burn them to ashes with a fire. Especially food and grass are the most important.

Because the Cao army who came across the Yellow River also needed a lot of food and grass. Because in addition to the ones carried by themselves, the supply of this army needs to be carried by other troops across the Yellow River to transport it over.

With this in mind, Xue Bing would rather destroy the food and let everyone eat it, than agree to send a grain of food to Cao's army camp. Of course, if it is poisonous, it would be a different matter.

However, although there are so many disadvantages, it is still much better than before. Xue Bing immediately decided to implement his plan.

After all, if Zhang Ren and his troops resisted this Cao army alone, the probability of Chang'an being lost is too high. And if Chang'an is lost, the possibility of Tongguan falling will rise sharply. This is all Xue Bing is unwilling to see it.

Now, he can use other methods to entangle the Cao army in this route and buy time for Liu Bei to completely occupy Yongliang and other places, so he will not hesitate anymore.

After hearing Xue Bing's explanation, Zhao Yun said, "Although Zihan's method is good, it is still very dangerous. He led more than a thousand troops to resist Cao's army, this..."

Xue Bing smiled and replied, "It's not just a certain army! After all, even if my army can make the Cao army a headache and cannot move forward, if the enemy divides the troops into two groups, entangles our army and continues to move forward, there is nothing we can do! With the number of Cao army, this is feasible.

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Zhao Yun said: "Is there any other way for Zihan to deal with it?"

Xue Bing said: "I wanted to ask General Zhang Ren to lead a group of troops. The troops went out of Chang'an to block the Cao army's way westward. During this period, I could be defeated or retreated. However, this army harassed for a while, and was wary of Cao's division of troops.

Also, we can bypass the main force of Cao's army and attack their long supply line."

Seeing that Xue Bing had made up his mind, Zhao Yun stopped dissuading him. Then he said, "What else do Yun do?"

Xue Bing said: "Zilong just needs to continue to lead his troops to Qinchuan and help the king defeat Xu Huang's army earlier.

Then you can save Bing from danger!" After saying that, Xue Bing stood up and said, "Let's go and see what Zhang Ren has sent!" So he went out of the hall with Zhao Yun to check what else Zhang Ren has sent to him besides sending food, grass and soldiers...

In the following days, Xue Bing devoted himself to selecting suitable soldiers. Because of his tactics, he had extremely high requirements for soldiers. In addition to having skilled immediate skills, he also had to be proficient in bowing techniques.

This first one is easy to deal with. After all, Liu Bei's army has few horses, and everyone who can be selected as a cavalry is good at it immediately. But with this second one, the number of people has decreased dramatically.

At this time, when the war horses are galloping, no longer ordinary soldiers who are starting to kill the enemy, but at least they are small schools. Fortunately, most of these soldiers know how to use bows and arrows, but they have never tried to use them immediately.

Xue Bing has no time to conduct training now, so he has to select some cavalrymen who are not too outrageous to shoot arrows in the target direction.

After picking left and right, there were only less than 700 soldiers in the cavalry unit that originally had more than 2,000 soldiers meeting Xue Bing's requirements. However, this number made him very satisfied.

The rest of the war horses were recruited, which just happened to meet the requirement of one man and three horses. In this way, the cavalry's mobility could be guaranteed.

In addition, when Xue Bing counted the land supplies sent by Zhang Ren, she found that there were actually three hundred crossbows inside, which made Xue Bing very happy and hurriedly equipped all the three hundred crossbows for his cavalry unit.

In addition, there were five hundred crossbows in his own army, and Xue Bing also recruited 400 of them, and made up 700 of them, which happened to be one by one for each person.

However, the troops carrying a large number of crossbows did not carry a large number of crossbow arrows, but were still equipped with a large number of ordinary arrow branches.

The reason is very simple, because of the inconvenience of the crossbow. This weapon designed by Zhuge Liang is not very convenient in terms of weight and use.

Especially when loading crossbow arrows, it is particularly difficult and cannot be loaded immediately. Therefore, when fighting continuously, the function of the crossbow is far less powerful than that of infantry.

Therefore, Xue Bing decided to let his 700 cavalry bring a small number of crossbow arrows, and it was enough to use it as a weapon for a powerful strike. Ordinary attacks still depend on longbows.

Xue Bing's troops were recruited and reorganized for five days. Until the morning of the sixth day, Xue Bing finally saw the results of his busy life in the past few days.

When two thousand one hundred war horses and seven hundred elite soldiers appeared in front of him, Xue Bing grinned.

Zhao Yun even said on the side: "It's the first time I have seen such a cavalry unit in the army for decades. Perhaps it's more appropriate to call it hundreds of hunters riding war horses."

There were three war horses standing beside each knight. A giant crossbow was hung on these three war horses, and a bag of crossbow arrows were hung on the other side. The bag was specially made, with fifty crossbow arrows inside.

The other horse was hanging a bow, and many arrow pouches were hung on both sides, and there were still a lot of arrow branches inside. The last horse was hanging a few bags.

It was impossible to tell what it was from the outside, but Xue Bing knew that everything contained edible dry food. In addition, there was a kettle hanging around the neck of each horse, and it was naturally filled with water.

Let’s look at these knights. Compared to their war horses, these knights have a lot more equipment. Everyone is wearing soft and light leather armor.

There is a long bow on his back, a big knife hanging on his waist, and an arrow hanging on his back. There is nothing else.

Looking back at Xue Bing, he saw that he was wearing silver armor.

The red cloak and the blood dragon serpent were all with him. Zhao Yun then said with confusion: "When Zihan first explained this army to Yun, he only said that the most important thing about this army is lightness and speed.

Although those war horses brought a lot of things, they probably consumed a lot after one battle, and they lost three horses, which didn't take much effort. But even so, the soldiers could only wear leather armor to increase their speed.

Why did Zihan wear all over his body?"

But Xue Bing smiled and replied, "Zilong forgot that Bing's mount is a curly red rabbit? With the strength of this horse's feet, even if Bing is covered with all his body, it is beyond the reach of these ordinary war horses.

And Bing has another horse, and when the Red Rabbit horse is tired, it will change and ride it. With the Red Rabbit's divine horse, it only takes half a day to recover.

Zhao Yun smiled. He said, "But I forgot that Zi Han is the Godly Horseman who is the world!" Then he said, "When will Zi Han set out?"

Xue Bing said: "Since the integration has been completed, I will lead the army to set off. And a few days ago, I had already compiled a letter and sent someone to Chang'an. General Zhang Ren's troops left Chang'an and set up a formation in the north of Chang'an to shock Cao's army.

"After saying that, he said in his heart: "At the same time, I also wrote a secret letter to recall the 100 Feiyu Army scattered in Chang'an and Tongguan." This was not said to Zhao Yunzhi, because he felt it was unnecessary.

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Since that's the case, Yun will lead the army to set out early tomorrow morning, hoping to arrive at Qinchuan as soon as possible!" Xue Bing did not speak, but just nodded silently.

At this moment, Mi Fang, dressed in leather armor, walked to Xue Bing and said respectfully: "General, everything is ready. Should you set off?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Bing said to Mi Fang, "Go!" After saying that, he said goodbye to Zhao Yun, got on his own Red Rabbit Horse, and took the lead in looking out of the city. Seeing this, the seven hundred cavalry received Mi Fang's order, and immediately followed him and ran out of the city one after another.

But these seven hundred cavalry, because one man and three horses, were no different from two thousand cavalry in terms of momentum. After running out of the city in a mighty manner, Xue Bing and Mi Fang simply checked the direction and rushed towards the position of martial arts.
Chapter completed!