Chapter 171: Taishan thief leader Chutian

   In the sixth-tier cavalry battalion in Xiacheng, one hundred high-ranking cavalry were finally trained. They were tall and large, lined up neatly on the plain.

This is a Tier VI cavalry exclusively dedicated to Hua Mulan-Northern Wei Iron Eagle Scout.

In order to build a cavalry of one hundred men, Chutian invested nearly ten thousand taels of silver.

There are a hundred iron eagle scouts recruited only after they have not been trained yet.

There is one war eagle for every hundred iron eagle scout cavalrymen.

War Eagle is a completely unfamiliar prop to Chu Tian.

A war eagle has become the pet of the main general Hua Mulan.

This is a black war eagle with piercing eyes. Its function is similar to that of a military homing pigeon, and it has a certain detection ability.

Hua Mulan stroked her wings, seeming to like the war eagle she got.

There is a war eagle that can assist in reconnaissance, and Hua Mulan’s cavalry has a broader vision. In this way, she can better avoid enemy rangers during surprise attacks.

The existence of    war eagle makes Hua Mulan's cavalry worth at least 20%.

"Lord, do you want to touch it?"

Hua Mulan asked nonchalantly.

Chutian soon understood what she meant by coming over.

The wings of the war eagle have a good touch, but the war eagle doesn't seem to like Chu Tian's petting, and only has a good impression of Mulan and the iron eagle scout cavalry.

Chutian checked the attributes of the war eagle.

[Name]: Battle Eagle

[Effect]: It can be used to send a note; it can understand simple commands and respond to the host.

[Description]: It is said that this is an eagle that the iron eagle scout cavalry obtains inspiration from the eagle hunting culture and is specially trained to assist in their reconnaissance.

【Restrictions】: Only obey the orders of the main general Hua Mulan and Iron Eagle scout cavalry.

Chutian was surprised to see the ability of the war eagle.

The Iron Eagle Scout is a Tier VI cavalry, not strong in combat effectiveness, but its reconnaissance ability is magnified because of the war eagle.

This cavalry is best used to detect and attack the enemy from behind.

Among all the high-ranking cavalry, Hua Mulan’s 100 iron eagle scouts were first recruited, followed by Li Guang’s 200 Western Han archers, Xue Rengui’s 200 Tang elite archers, and finally Hua Mulan’s first. The second team of Iron Eagle scouts.

Crusade against Wu Sangui, Chu Tian will use these high-ranking cavalry.

Wu Sangui may know that Chutian has the Xiliu Camp and the Shooting Camp, but he did not know that Chutian recruited a group of high-ranking cavalry.

This is Chutian's hole card.

Iron Eagle scouts are equipped with Tang swords, short spears, horn bows, saddles and other equipment forged in Shangbi Town.

Expensive horses are not suitable for the iron eagle scouts equipped with light assault. They are the weapons of heavy cavalry and generals.

The war horse used by the iron eagle scout is a gold-class war horse that Xia Liang commissioned a horse dealer to buy from Youzhou Yuyang, with medium speed and endurance. The medium level is pretty good, and the ordinary war horse and silver war horse are inferior.

After waiting for several days, Xue Rengui and Li Guang’s cavalry were also recruited. Except for Hua Mulan’s second team of Iron Eagle scouts, Xia Cheng had 500 high-ranking cavalry and 230 heavy cavalry, becoming two powerful trump cards in Chutian’s hand. .

Dong'an County, Sun Kang, one of the Taishan thieves, received a letter from his younger brother Sun Guan and hesitated.

Chutian proclaimed himself Kaiyang Order and Qi Duwei to replace Zang Ba, and asked him to send the Taishan thief from Dong'an County to Yangdu County, join forces with Zhou Yafu, and defeat Wu Sangui who was entrenched in Ju County.

Sun Kang didn't know whether Chutian would take his military power by this, and he was in a dilemma.

But he had to obey this order again, otherwise Chu Tian might become angry and attack him instead.

Finally, Sun Kang decided to send troops.

Yin Li in Dongguan County, Wu Dun in Qiu County, the two Taishan thieves reacted exactly like Sun Kang, and they responded to Chutian’s call like walking on thin ice. Especially Wu Dun, who lost 15,000 troops last time to 3000 led by Xia Liang. He was terrified of Xiacheng, so he immediately counted his troops and assembled in Xiangyangdu County.

The three Taishan thief owns the territory of three counties, and Chutian has always coveted their territory. If the territories of Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun are annexed, Chutian's territory can be expanded from two counties to five counties.

Dong’an, Dongguan, and Qiu County are smaller than Kaiyang County, and there are still three to four hundred thousand people in a county.

To annex the Taishan thief, Chutian is the overlord with a population of 2 million.

The three Taishan thieves each sent 10,000 people, a total of 30,000 people, and marched violently to Yangdu County.

Zangba and Sun Guan returned to Chutian. They have successfully persuaded the three Taishan thieves to send troops to respond to Chutian’s military action against Wu Sangui.

"You did a good job, this matter is counted in your credit. You two, go with me."

Chutian re-checked the loyalty of Zang Ba and Sun Guan, their loyalty has reached 80, basically there is no possibility of rebellion.

Unless Chu Tian loses to Wu Sangui, their loyalty will decline.

The defeat of the lord is a very serious matter, and his own prestige will be greatly affected, and the ministers are likely to have double hearts.

"Yes!"

Zangba and Sun Guan were finally regarded by Chu Tian as his official subordinates. This time they arranged for them to go out and dispatched them as generals.

"This is the list of the expedition, please check it out."

Fang Xuanling presented the list of crusades against Wu Sangui to Chutian.

A total of four troops formed a coalition against Wu Sangui.

Zhou Yafu, Xueyuecheng, Taishan thief in Yangdu City, and the main force in Xiacheng led by Chu Tian. About 50,000 soldiers and horses were assembled, of which 30,000 were Taishan Army led by Yin Li, Sun Kang, and Wu Dun.

Taishan thief lacks combat power and is not Wu Sangui’s opponent, but it can confuse Wu Sangui and make Wu Sangui unable to judge where Chu Tian’s main force is.

"Go to Yangdu City and meet Zhou Yafu."

Chutian assembled an army outside the city of Xiacheng, and hundreds of military flags of Xiacheng were hunting and hunting in the north wind. As Chutian's army expanded, the number of battle flags used naturally increased.

More than eight thousand soldiers and horses gathered outside Xiacheng.

Mulan phalanx has 100 iron eagle scout cavalry and 2,000 light cavalry.

Li Guang’s phalanx has 200 Western Han archers and 500 light cavalry.

Xue Rengui's phalanx has 200 Tang elite archers, 500 light cavalry, and 230 heavy cavalry.

The reason why Hua Mulan was given more light cavalry was because Chu Tian needed Hua Mulan to make surprise attacks with war eagles.

Xu Sheng replaced Li Guang as Chutian’s army commander, commanding Chutian’s 2,000-member shooting camp. Xu Sheng is a water general and an archer at the same time, barely able to play the effect of a shooting camp.

Chutian's own abilities and characteristics are not strong enough. If one day Chutian had four dimensions like Li Shimin, Chutian would definitely command the shooting battalion himself, without having to find a historical general as his lieutenant.

Then came Zang Ba and Sun Guan, commanding 3000 infantry archers in the battle, of which Sun Guan commanded 500 as the vanguard.

Xiacheng sent few light infantry, not even as many as cavalry, because the light infantry was concentrated in the hands of Zhou Yafu in Yangdu County. As long as they join Zhou Yafu, Chutian will have a large number of light infantry available to use.

Thirty Thousand Taishan Bandits are also mainly used by infantry archers, and they can be used by ordinary infantry.

The low-level infantry archers are always cannon fodder troops, and the cavalry is the master. Unless they are heavy infantry, they are qualified to compete with the knight master.

"Hua Mulan and Li Guang, you two led the cavalry to Hedong. Be careful about everything."

Chutian specially invited Hua Mulan and Li Guang to give orders to them.

"The final will definitely fulfill his mission!"

Hua Mulan and Li Guang agreed at the same time.

The two of them, with a total of 2,800 cavalry, crossed the Yi River and arrived at the nine towns of Hedong that were previously occupied by Zhou Yafu.

Speaking of it, the reticent Zhou Yafu was the general who captured the most towns under Chu Tian's command. After Chu Tian won a major battle, he basically gave it to Zhou Yafu to deal with the aftermath, and completely put down all the villages and towns.

Hua Mulan and Li Guang left the team, and Chu Tian took more than 5,000 people north to join Zhou Yafu and Xueyue.

The troops directly controlled by Chutian are not many, but they are elite. The lineup of generals is probably the most luxurious in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Lingcheng, Ju County, Wu Sangui learned that Chutian had summoned four troops to attack him, and immediately sent troops and horses to deploy along the Yi River.

As long as Chutian’s soldiers and horses cannot cross the river, Wu Sangui can guarantee that Chutian cannot destroy him.

"Please go with me to defend against the enemy."

Wu Sangui was uneasy about Qi Xiaobai staying in Lingcheng, so he hijacked him to garrison by the Yihe River and confronted Zhou Yafu on the other side of the river.

He could already see the banner of Xiacheng on the other side of the river. The banner of Xiacheng was very simple, with only a small seal "Xia", but Wu Sangui felt terrified.

Every time he confronted Chutian, he would be defeated, and Wu Sangui had a shadow in his heart.

On the other side of the river is Zhou Yafu’s 8,000 people, of which 2,000 are Xiliu Camp, who also patrols along the river to avoid being attacked by Wu Sangui.

Both are famous generals, carefully testing each other.

Zhou Yafu is waiting for the arrival of other troops.

The three troops of Taishan thief came first.

Thirty thousand Tai bandits gathered in Yangdu County, and they met Zhou Yafu, who was the lieutenant of Yangdu County.

Zhou Yafu's army is very strict and everything is in order. Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun came to Zhou Yafu's army and couldn't help feeling uncomfortable.

Zhou Yafu's style of ruling the army is incompatible with the style of Taishan thief. This is the gap between the regular army and the bandits.

"Please stop the three soldiers."

The guards in the Zhou Yafu barracks stopped dozens of guards carried by the three.

Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun looked at each other and seemed to be a little confused about whether to step into Zhou Yafu’s barracks. They were worried that Chu Tian deliberately used the banner of crusade against Wu Sangui, summoned them here, set up a banquet at the Hongmen, killed them all, and then seized their military power.

Their intelligence is not high, but they are not fools.

In the end, the three chose to believe in Zang Ba and Sun Guan, thinking that Chu Tian would not use such methods to kill the three. Among them, Sun Kang is more at ease, because his younger brother Sun Guan has already taken refuge in Chutian. If Chu Tian killed him for no reason, Sun Guan would definitely betray him.

The three people walked into Zhou Yafu's barracks and saw two thousand elite Xiliu camp soldiers training.

In the cold winter, the two thousand Xiliuying soldiers were divided into two teams. One team practiced bows and crossbows and the other practiced halberd shields. The army was neat and morale.

The three Taishan thieves couldn't help being afraid when they saw Xiacheng's real elite.

Their 10,000 Taishan thief is not estimated to be the opponent of 2,000 Xiliuying.

"The army that defeated me that day was only three thousand new recruits. If she had three thousand such troops in her hands at the time, why use a strategy to cover up directly, I will definitely lose."

When Wu Dun saw Xiliuying, he became more afraid.

Zhou Yafu was checking the map in the camp, and seeing the arrival of the three Taishan thief leaders, he just said indifferently: "The three, please lead troops to station by the river, and throw out all your flags, stretch for dozens of miles, and confuse Wu Sangui. As for food, will It will be supplied by Yangdu County. I hope that during the war, your soldiers and horses will not rob the civilians of Yangdu County, otherwise they will be dealt with in accordance with military law. Can you understand?"

"understand."

The three Taishan thieves quickly agreed.

According to Zhou Yafu's character, it's really not just joking with them. Once the Taishan bandits rob civilians, Zhou Yafu is likely to put them all to death.

Military law is ruthless.

Thirty thousand Tai bandits formed a camp by the river, and according to Zhou Yafu's instructions, they stretched for dozens of miles, and the flags covered the air.

Zhou Yafu’s Xiliuying changed defense from time to time with the Taishan thief, and Wu Sangui on the opposite side was disturbed, unable to determine where Zhou Yafu’s main force was.

So Wu Sangui had to learn everything, and he also ordered the Taishan thieves under him to line up for dozens of miles, hiding among them with professional soldiers, and fighting against Zhou Yafu.

Taishan thief and Zhou Yafu were waiting for Chu Tian to arrive. During the period, Xueyue brought 4,000 people to support and joined forces with Zhou Yafu, and the momentum became even greater.

Finally, the main force of Chutian’s Xiacheng arrived, and Zhou Yafu, Xueyue, Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun came out to greet them.

This is the first time that the three Taishan thieves, Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun, have seen Chutian Their original leader Zangba has become Chutian's tribe, which means that Chutian is already a new one. The leader of the Taishan thief.

In order to show the power of Taishan thief, Chutian specially ordered Xue Rengui to lead 200 Tang archers and 230 heavy cavalry at the forefront of the army.

High-headed horse, iron armored horse armor, magnificent, powerful, powerful mountain thief!

Sure enough, Sun Kang, Yin Li, Wu Dun and other Taishan thieves were terrified when they saw these two elite cavalry soldiers.

If the Chinese army was assaulted by such a cavalry, the 30,000 Taishan thief might collapse immediately.

The existence of high-ranking cavalry and heavy cavalry also showed the Taishan thief of Chutian's powerful financial resources. Without huge financial resources, you can't afford such a good cavalry!

The elite cavalry led by Xue Rengui gave the Taishan thief a disarm, and Chutian’s exclusive troop, the Shooting Battalion, arrived. Everyone carried an excellent longbow on their backs. They were equally powerful and unstoppable.

In the eyes of low-level arms, the soldiers of the Shooting Battalion are marksmen.

After showing their power to Taishan thief a little bit, Sun Kang, Yin Li, and Wu Dun took the initiative to see Chutian and respected them.

The logic of the Taishan thief is very simple. Whoever has the big fist has the right to speak.

They regard Chutian as the new leader of the Taishan thief.

So, behind a bunch of titles such as the first lord of the Eastern Han District, Tian Khan, Kaiyang Ling (self-appointed), and Qi Duwei (self-appointed), Chutian had another title of Taishan thief leader.

Chutian was also very helpless. Except for the Taishan thief Changyan who was beheaded by Wu Sangui, the other Taishan thief seemed to surrender to him. The title of the Taishan thief was worthy of the name.