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The proactive attack of the Scythe Gunman made the knights frightened. The enemy had found their own fatal weakness. Can this battle continue? The trench and the horse-rejecting formation blocked the horse's mobility. If they could not achieve success, they would lose their strength advantage. Without the strength to support the enemy, they could not crush the enemy with heavy armor alone. In the eyes of the Scythe Gunman, the horse that had lost its mobility was nothing but a prey to be slaughtered.

In order to avoid greater losses, the knights retreated halfway. The knights who lost their horses were ruthlessly abandoned. They stood up with great effort, drew out their swords, picked up iron shields, and fought a arduous in-fight to defend their dignity. While protecting them from the enemy, the heavy armor also hindered them from retreating soon. The soldiers of the Xining Army crossed the trench with hook and sickle guns in their hands, and pointed it at them in a mess. The armor was thick and the surface was coated with grease and greasy surface. They could not find the point of focus and could not pierce the heavy armor.

Then a weird picture appeared: the Tang soldiers with thin armored soldiers surrounded the heavy armored knights in groups and played the cat and mouse game. The knights came to chase them, and they ran around and avoided them skillfully. Because the heavy armor was too heavy, it was difficult for the knights to catch up with the Tang soldiers with agility. So the knights were about to escape, and the Tang soldiers rushed forward to drag them over and knock them down. The knights got up and chased them, and the soldiers ran away again. The knights turned around and wanted to retreat, but were dragged over and pushed them down again... After repeated many times, the knights sweated heavily, exhausted their strength, and lay on the ground and couldn't move. After the game, the Tang soldiers tied them up and dragged them back to the camp to the birds.

It is strange that although all of these knights have bows and arrows, they have never been used. It seems that they have no interest in using bows and arrows, and even if they see their companions teased by enemies, they are indifferent. The bows and arrows they carry are more like decorations than weapons.

After a while of fighting, the knights adjusted their strategies, gave up the fight against the Right Battalion, and instead concentrated their forces to attack the Central Army camp outside the north gate of the Iron Factory. Compared with the terrain of the Right Battalion, the front terrain of the Central Army camp was flat, which was easier for the Iron Armored Cavalry Group to charge. With the degree, there was strength. When the power arose, victory followed.

Three hundred knights were lined up in six rows, rushing towards the Central Military Camp like a sea of ​​resonance. The resonance generated during the impact caused the gate tower at the north gate of the iron plant to shake, and the dust on the roof fell down. Guan Suo was worried that the gate tower would collapse, so he advised Yang Hao to retreat quickly. Yang Hao stood still, and there was a magnificent picture in his mind: on the flat grassland, thousands of heavily armored knights rushed towards the enemy like a sea of ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

"Protect the general and retreat quickly." Guan Suo gave an order to the two guards in the Xuanyi whistle. The two soldiers looked at their commander Qin An. After getting Qin An's affirmation, they forcibly raised Yang Hao and evacuated the gatehouse.

As soon as the group retreated to the wall, the gatehouse collapsed with a loud bang. In addition to the vibration caused by resonance, the main reason was that the gatehouse was too old.

"Signal." Yang Hao shook off the hands of the two soldiers and ordered the messenger to signal to Guan Suo who was ambushing in the woods.

A red smoke rose in the iron plant.

Suo'er, who was ambushing in the woods on the west side of the iron plant, saw the signal and shouted loudly: "Search the guy and get on the horse." A light cavalry of about a hundred people quietly rushed from the woods behind the heavy cavalry. Each knight had a bamboo basket, which was filled with iron horns for horse hooves.

This is a secret weapon cast with pig iron to deal with war horses, which is similar to the principle of four-cone nails used to destroy car tires in later generations. The iron horn has four sharp corners, arranged at 12o degrees. No matter how it throws it, it will eventually hit the ground with one corner facing upwards. If a war horse running on the battlefield unfortunately step on the iron horn, it will definitely be a tragic ending of the horse stumbled.

The casting of iron horns is expensive, so although the battlefield is very effective, there are very few equipment from each army. Yang Hao is interested in the unique value of this thing in small-scale special operations, so he gritted his teeth and asked the fish to recast a batch, mainly for the reconnaissance teams and fire camps of each battalion.

After Soe set up iron horns behind the Heavy Armored Knights, he hid on the side and raided them with bows and arrows. The Knights didn't care about this harassment tactic, and they continued to rush forward.

Although there were trenches and wooden stake formations in front of the Zhongjun camp, due to the flat terrain, the Knights broke through a bloody road after suffering more than a dozen casualties. The north gate of the camp was broken, and the defenders retreated from the north gate of the iron plant to the factory area after a little resistance. Two teams of cavalry came straight to grab the door, but suddenly the war horses neighed, and then the people were overturned.

Yang Hao also sprinkled iron horns outside the north gate of the iron factory.

Only then did the Knights tragically find that they have fallen into a trap that had been laid out. The Central Army camp was simply an empty camp, with no one in the camp, but the tent was full of dry firewood. The road ahead was blocked by the earth wall of the iron factory. The earth wall was neither high nor thick, but it still couldn't climb up with the four legs of the horse.

The commander issued the order to retreat, and the knights turned their horses hard. A string of rockets appeared on the earth wall, igniting the dry firewood piled in the empty camp. The flames soared into the air, and the frightened war horses rushed to escape. Without formation, the knights collided and trampled on each other, and there were not a few fallen horses. There were no enemies to stop the way back, but the ground was covered with iron horns.

One war horse after another fell down in a tragic cry, and the knights who lost the war horse were at a loss. Soe did not block the road, and he left a three-meter-wide path for the Knights. Hundreds of knights could only retreat carefully along this path. They were led into a valley. The road became narrower and narrower, and the terrain became more and more dangerous. Finally, there was no way forward. If you wanted to return it, you found that the road was covered with iron horns. Hundreds of Tang soldiers emerged from the woods on both sides of the valley, and each of them was surrounded by a bundle of dry firewood.

This valley may turn into a fire valley at any time. The heavy armor can protect the knights from the damage of swords and guns, but it cannot guarantee that they will not be burned to death by the fire.

Several leaders of the Knights began to negotiate emergency countermeasures. After a cup of tea, they flaunted the white flag. A yellow-bearded and blue-eyed man came to negotiate as a representative. A team leader shouted: "The commander has an order. If you want to negotiate, you must dismount, put down your weapons, and walk out of the valley one by one. Otherwise, you will be waiting to burn**."

The blue-eyed man retreated helplessly. After everyone discussed for a while, the knights began to dismount. Without the help of the entourage, the knights in heavy armor took half a day to get off the horse. Then they put down their weapons and walked out of the valley panting. The reason why they did not let them take off their heavy armor was because Yang Hao felt that the knights without horses and weapons had heavy armor became a cage that restrained them, and having armor was easier to guard than without armor.

Yang Hao ordered the Blue-eyed Man who requested negotiations to be brought over. The Blue-eyed Man knows Chinese and the customs and etiquettes of the Central Plains, so he does not feel difficult to communicate at all.

Yang Hao asked him directly: "You are not Middle-earth people, where did you come from?"

The Blue-eyed Man replied that they were Fuqian people, and their ancestors came to the Tang Dynasty during the Tianbao period. (Fuqian is the Byzantine Empire, and some ancient Chinese books are also called Daqin or Haixi Kingdom.)

According to the Blue Eyes, his ancestor Yali Mountain was originally a armor maker for the Byzantine Emperor's emperor, who was responsible for the development of armor and weapons for the emperor and royal family members. Because of his outstanding merits, he was named a marquis by the Byzantine emperor. In order to create the best armor in the world, the Marquis of Yali Mountain decided to travel around the world and learn the most advanced manufacturing technology. The Byzantine Emperor agreed to his request.

Over the past decade, the Marquis of Mount Yali had traveled to West Asia, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, and visited famous masters and craftsmen, and their skills were becoming more mature. During the Tianbao period, he led a delegation of 300 people to the Tang Dynasty. He presented a set of luxurious armor made of gold and inlaid with one hundred gems to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, winning the emperor's favor and getting the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with the best armor-making craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty. They were also allowed to observe on-site at the Tang Dynasty's arsenal and check the garment albums collected by the official offices at all levels.

The trip to the Tang Dynasty benefited a lot from the Marquis of Mount Yali. In order to thank the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty for his generosity, the Marquis of Mount Yali presented thirty sets of excellent iron-plated chain mail to Emperor Xuanzong. This is a kind of heavy cavalry armor, which is better than all the armors of the Tang Dynasty. The emperor asked the Dragon Cavalry Guards to wear this new armor to compete with other imperial guards and win repeatedly. Under the instigation of the ministers, the Emperor Xuanzong, who was very fond of his achievements, ordered to use this armor to form a heavy armored cavalry of 3,000 people.

During the Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty was strong and the treasury was abundant. The formation of the heavy armored cavalry was extremely smooth. Two years later, in the 12th year of Tianbao, the heavy armored cavalry was officially formed, with a total of three battalions, with a total of nearly 4,000 people. The soldiers were all elite soldiers in the army selected from one hundred miles away. Emperor Xuanzong was very fond of this cavalry and often sent general Gao Lishi to the army to express condolences. All the envoys of the vassal states who came to Chang'an to pay tribute were honored to watch the heavy armored cavalry regiment. Everyone who had seen it was shocked and was determined by the power of the Tang Dynasty.

The Marquis of Mount Yali also received extremely high courtesy and tangible rewards.

But the good times did not last long. Two years later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. Missions from all over the country evacuated Chang'an, and the entourage of the Marquis of Mount Yali also advised him to leave Chang'an. However, the Marquis of Mount Yali refused. He wanted to see how powerful the heavy armor he designed was in actual combat.

After Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi were convicted and beheaded, Geshuhan was under pressure and led 200,000 troops out of Tongguan to fight. The heavy armored cavalry ended in a crushing defeat when they appeared, and 3,000 men and women had not returned. The 200,000 Tang troops were all wiped out. The situation was over, Chang'an was shocked, and the emperor patrolled Shu. Envoys from various countries fled.

The Marquis of Mount Yali set out to return to China with infinite melancholy, but when he walked to Anxi Town, he suddenly changed his mind. He was determined to return to the Tang Dynasty and make the best armor in the world for the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to help the Tang Dynasty revitalize its military power. Chang'an fell, and the prince Li Heng Lingwu became emperor. Mount Yali rushed to Lingwu to meet Li Heng and expressed his willingness to continue serving the Tang Dynasty. Li Heng was busy recruiting troops to quell the rebellion, so he had no intention of dealing with the creation of military armor.

The Marquis was neglected. After living in Lingwu for a while, he lived in seclusion in Jiulian Mountain, looking for minerals, smelting iron, and working hard to develop his new armor. The Anshi Rebellion completely changed the fate of the Tang Dynasty, and no emperor could appreciate the armor of the Marquis of Yali Mountain. Shunzong succeeded to the throne, and the Marquis once again went to Chang'an to promote his armor at the age of 89. The weak emperor was busy in reforming his internal affairs and had no time to take care of these details. The Marquis felt discouraged, and he returned to Jiulian Mountain and stayed in his door from then on.

A month later, the Marquis of Mount Yali died in the cold basement of the castle with infinite regrets.
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