Chapter 465 I Have a Plan

"Master Marquis, we have made a clear count. Excluding the injured horses, a total of 2,132 intact horses have been seized this time." At this moment, Chen Ming came over with the booklet and handed it to Chen Ming with both hands. ink.

Chen Ming is Chen Mo's secretary and joins the army, specializing in drafting documents, recording commendations and other important tasks in the army.

The seized materials listed below will be classified and summarized by Chen Ming.

Chen Mo asked Sun Meng to call Shao Jinneng and Wei Qing, and said to them: "The horses captured this time will be raised by you, the Cavalry Guards."

Chen Mo handed the booklet to Shao Jinneng.

After reading this, Shao Jinneng felt happy. With more than 2,000 war horses, if used properly, he could build another 700 cavalry.

"Thank you, Lord Marquis." Shao Jinneng bowed his hands to Chen Mo with excitement on his face.

Chen Mo didn't speak, a greedy desire arose in his heart. If he could swallow up Jin Xia's East Route Army, he would be able to create a real cavalry.

The kind that includes light cavalry, armored cavalry, and half-armored cavalry.

Chen Mo's face paused slightly, and then he said to the generals: "Today we defeated the enemy greatly and captured the enemy's camp, which is already a great victory. Tomorrow, when the whole army is slowly advancing on foot and cavalry, we will first defeat this group of Jinxia barbarians." Drive out of Gaozhou. Food and wine have been prepared in the camp. Come to the camp for a feast."

After talking, Sun Meng, Shao Jinneng, Changfen and the Jiangdong Army generals returned to their camp.

Chen Mo returned to his commander's tent and said: "This march also allowed us to roughly understand Jin Xia's military strength. Now we use our own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses. Many offensive attacks are not as good as the others."

Xia Zhining frowned and sighed: "It's a pity that their cavalry is too fast to catch up. If they catch up, they can defeat their main force in one go."

Now that we have exposed the power of the red artillery and defeated them in one fell swoop, do you think they will be scared and run away. "

"No." Chen Mo shook his head and said: "Now that it has been confirmed that Jin Xia attacked the Song Dynasty on two fronts, the east and west. Then these two routes will eventually converge. If the east route army ran away or dragged If it takes too long, it will delay the meeting with the Western Route Army."

Xia Zhining understood what Chen Mo meant and immediately said: "You mean, although they ran away today, they will still come back to fight us."

Chen Mo nodded: "If they want to go south, they have to pass through Qingzhou. We just need to advance slowly."

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After Jinxia's East Route Army retreated from Guanshan Plain, they retreated all the way to "Yao'er City".

Yao'er City is the closest city to Guanshan Plain and is under the jurisdiction of Gaozhou.

After returning to Yao'er City, Timur immediately went to check on the soldiers who were injured by the loud noise.

In the wounded soldiers' camp, there was a wailing in the camp.

The medical treatment in Jinxia is not as good as that in the Song Dynasty. For ordinary soldiers who are not warriors, once they are injured in a large area, or even a deep stab wound, they will most likely die after being infected.

"General."

"General."

After Tamerlane came in, all the wounded soldiers said respectfully.

Timur waved his hand and asked the treating doctor, "What's going on?"

The doctor looked at the wounded soldiers but did not say anything clearly.

Tamerlane understood what the other party meant and walked out of the wounded barracks, followed by the doctor.

Outside the wounded barracks, the doctor said: "Most of them are penetrating injuries, and some have injuries to internal organs, which are beyond human control. Whether you can survive or not, we can only leave it to fate."

"Penetrating injury?"

Timur's eyes flashed.

"My subordinates took this out from the wounds of some wounded soldiers." The doctor took out a piece of iron with blood stains on it and handed it to Timur.

"Iron sheets?"

"Yes, I suspect that these penetrating injuries were caused by this iron piece." The doctor said.

"But how could this piece of iron cause the loud noise before?" Timur was a little confused.

The doctor said: "In my opinion, this piece of iron is the broken fragment of something, and it should belong to the thing that made the loud noise."

Timur looked solemn.

They were all defeated and retreated to Sou'er City, but they still didn't know what caused their defeat.

However, there is no aura of innate spiritual energy on this iron piece. It should not be caused by some kind of magical power, but by a weapon.

The latter is often the scariest.

Timur picked up the iron piece, smelled it, and immediately said, "What does this smell like?"

"It should be sulfur." ​​Sulfur is also a kind of medicine, and the doctor is quite familiar with the smell.

"Sulfur." ​​Tamerlane murmured: "Isn't this medicine?"

He really couldn't find any clue.

In the camp of Jinxia Zhongjun, all the generals and staff were dejected.

It is said that the unknown is scary. This morning's battle was the most terrifying one for them. The loud noise was so deafening that they stood behind it.

Yelu Tongku and Kuimu were shot and killed one after another in this battle.

Seeing Tamerlane coming in, the last fourth-grade general under him, Tiemutie, who was also Tamerlane's nephew, said: "General, this Chen army has great fighting power, and with the help of that strange thunder, it can defend the city." Consolidating strongholds is not what we are good at. Once we maintain a stalemate for a long time, we will probably suffer too many casualties and it will be unsustainable."

Tie Mutie already called the loud noise a strange thunder.

Timur did not say anything until the leader sat down, then he said: "The reason why we lost today's battle is this strange thunder. This strange thunder should be emitted from Chen's army. It will make a loud noise and break after landing. Our soldiers died on the broken iron pieces of this strange thunder."

Timur threw the iron pieces on the table in front of him, and then continued: "Although this strange thunder is powerful, it can only kill dozens of people at most at a time. The main reason is that the loud noise is something we have never heard of. The war horses have not been trained to such sounds and are easily frightened. Once the war horses are frightened, the charge formation will be difficult to maintain."

Timur summarized the failure. There is no means of defense at present.

"General, if we block the ears of the war horses and cover their eyes, can we avoid it?" said a general.

"Not appropriate. Many cavalry commands need to be conveyed to the warhorse through verbal commands. Blocking the horse's ears will only hinder yourself. Cavalry emphasizes "unity of man and horse" and fights through mutual understanding between man and horse. What's more, the sound of the strange thunder is so loud that it is difficult to block it." Someone retorted.

"Then why not just deafen the horse's ears directly."

"This is simply a bad idea."

"If you say this won't work, then how can we resist the strange thunder of the Chen army? It's better to retreat."

"Think about it more, there is always a way."

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While the generals were discussing, Tuoba Zhu, who had not spoken, said to Temur: "General, I have a way, I don't know if I should tell you."