Chapter 57: Guo Xiaoke, the Grand Guardian of Anxi

However, happy times are always very short. Just as Li Daozhen was thinking, a burst of rapid footsteps came. Zhou Qing told outside the house: "General, Liangzhou urgently reported!"

Chen Ying was also immersed in the joy of family between father and son, and was interrupted by Zhou Qing. She was slightly displeased. Chen Ying frowned slightly and said unhappy: "Didn't you tell you not to disturb me?"

Zhou Qingqiqi Ai Ai said: "Master, things are urgent!"

Zhou Qing pushed the door open and entered.

Chen Ying glared at Zhou Qing fiercely, and Zhou Qing shivered in fear.

Chen Ying said: "What's the matter waiting for my son to finish his meal!"

Zhou Qing shrank his head and had to leave the house and wait.

Li Daozhen said: "The important thing is important, I will feed my son!"

Chen Ying handed the bowl of egg custard to Li Daozhen and said, "That's good!"

But as soon as Chen Ying left Li Siye's sight, Li Siye opened his mouth and cried loudly.

Chen Ying was stunned when he looked at this scene. Could this be the legendary blood connection?

However, Chen Ying took the urgent report and stood in front of Li Siye.

Li Siye no longer had any worries, but ate egg custard quietly.

Chen Ying opened the emergency report and saw ten lines at a glance.

His face gradually became a little cold.

Li Daozhen felt something strange and asked carefully: "What's wrong?"

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Everyone is evolving!"

“Everything is evolving?”

Chen Ying was filled with sadness at this time. He had been in the Tang Dynasty for more than three years and seemed to have forgotten it. He relied on the foresight and was in a state of chaos, at least he was beyond the reach of ordinary people. Now he is a second-rank general of the army, and even Chen Ying himself is a little arrogant.

However, Chen Ying did not expect that the Western Turks actually learned to use crossbows.

The crossbow is different from a catapult. The crossbow was invented by the Greek Dionysus using mechanics, that is, the torque generated by two tensioned horse hair, leather rope or animal tendons is used as power to drive the crossbow arm to drive the bowstring to eject or arrows.

The Greek-designed crossbow has a sturdy bracket, with the main beam placed on the bracket, and two torsion spring groups are installed on both sides of its front end. Each spring group drives a crossbow arm, and the end of the crossbow arm is connected to the bow string. In the middle of the bow string is a woven mesh bag that accommodates the projectile. The crossbow has powerful power. A good-performance crossbow can throw a stone bullet weighing 1 tarante (ancient Greek weight unit, about 26 kilograms) out of the outside 300 yards (1 yard = 0.9144 meters).

Although the power of the crossbow cannon is even worse than that of the thirteen-shot heavy catapult, it is undeniable that the Western Turks' mastery of this kind of crossbow cannon is the biggest threat to Liangzhou City.

The Western Turks, which originally had no siege equipment, had no choice but to the tall and sturdy Liangzhou City. However, as the war progressed, a group of about a thousand blond blue-eyed slaves appeared in the Western Turkic army. These blond blue-eyed slaves controlled the crossbows and bombarded an enemy building in Liangzhou City, causing dozens of casualties.

The dozens of casualties were not too serious, but it had a fatal blow to the morale of the Liangzhou defenders.

Chen Ying also knew that war has always been the main source of power to promote human technological progress. Because the Greeks had to invent the crossbows in the face of the Carthaginian attack, they had to invent the crossbows. Later, the Roman Empire included the entire Greek into the territory, and this external crossbow became the help of the expansion of the Roman Empire. The Romans improved this crossbows to make it more powerful. The giant crossbows of the Romans could bombard the enemies four hundred meters away to the fortifications, and the spears they fired could nail two or three enemies in densely arranged formations to the ground together.

In addition, the accuracy of the crossbow cannons is also amazing. They can even hit the same place repeatedly. There have been records that the spears fired by the crossbow cannons split the spears that had hit in front into two pieces.

Chen Ying could no longer calm down. At this time, he was in Lingzhou, nearly a thousand miles away from Liangzhou City. Once Li Daozong could not support him and the Western Turks conquered Liangzhou City, the problem would be serious.

Time is too late, thinking of this. Chen Ying looked at Li Siye reluctantly, looking at Li Daozhen and said, "I'm going to the Wild Boar Ridge Military Camp. I'll come back tonight!"

Li Daozhen looked at Liangzhou's emergency and was also a little anxious, and asked, "Is there any problem with my eldest brother?"

"If you want to believe him, this small scene won't help him!" Chen Ying gently kissed Li Daozhen's forehead and turned to the outside of the city.

At this time, the hard days of those soldiers from Hebei finally came.

When Chen Ying arrived at the Wild Boar Ridge Camp, it was already noon. The soldiers lined up to have a meal, and some of them started to wash in front of the pool after dinner.

Duan Zhigan, who was responsible for training the new army, welcomed Chen Ying with a group of entourage.

"We will pay homage to General Chen, General Chen is mighty!"

Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "How is this, what are the qualities of these soldiers?"

Hearing this, Duan Zhigan sighed with emotion: "It's really good. Although he looks thinner than the Guanzhong soldiers, he is the man of Yan Zhao. Where is the foundation? As long as I give you three months to the last general, I will give you an elite soldier, not weaker than the elite soldiers of the Dingyuan Army!"

"Three months!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The plan needs to change. I don't have three months to give it to you. Anyway, these soldiers have basics. I will give you ten days to familiarize themselves with our military discipline and training, and then we will take it out to fight."

"Ten days?" Duan Zhigan said in embarrassment: "Will there be too few?"

"There are quite a lot!" Chen Ying pointed to these soldiers and said, "If it were a group of farmers who had never seen blood, ten days of training would obviously not be enough. However, they were not ordinary civilians. They all followed Dou Jiande, from Hebei to Shandong, from Shandong to Henan, and the worst of them had seen blood. What's more, the situation in Liangzhou is not good now. The Western Turks have siege equipment. Although these equipment are not enough to destroy Liangzhou City, this general cannot gamble the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. The most troublesome thing is that the Western Turks seem to have a tendency to increase their troops. They kill people, rob families and rob houses, and do all kinds of evil. This general is very worried about this. Besides, good soldiers are all made. No matter how hard the soldiers trained by soldiers who have never seen blood, they are not as good as veterans. I don't want to spend so much money to eventually raise a bunch of blood-threatening soldiers!"

Duan Cheng sighed and said, "If they are allowed to go to the battlefield in ten days, many people will die!"

"It's not that fast, it's almost a thousand miles from Lingzhou to Liangzhou!" Chen Ying pointed at the soldiers who looked straight and started walking in line and said, "We arrived from Lingzhou to Liangzhou. I will give you twenty days of march. You can marching while training. In this way, when you arrive in Liangzhou, they should train for a month, and it's almost done!"

Duan Zhigan said: "I will understand!"

Chen Ying asked again: "By the way, are there any good seedlings among these Hebei soldiers?"

"Good seedling?" Duan Zhigan hesitated: "If you want to talk about good seedlings, there are really a few, one of them is Guo Xiaoke. That guy is the thorn. He has been challenging him continuously in one day, the team leader, the brigade commander, the brigade commander, the deputy lieutenant Guo Yi, and the wizard commander. There is no point in saying that his skills are very good. Whether it is bows and arrows, or equestrians, they are very good, just a little thorny!"

"It's good to have a thorn. This general likes a thorn the most!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "We are in the army, we don't want a group of good babies. The army has no blood and no temper. What's the point? Who... Guo... what?"

"Guo Xiaoke!"

"Who?" Chen Ying said in surprise: "Guo Xiaoke?"

Duan Zhigan said in confusion: "Have you heard of his name?"

"No..." Chen Ying's words must have been insincere. In fact, he was not a historical expert, and he was not all clear. Famous generals in the Sui and Tang dynasties were more famous than Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Luo Shixin, and even Luo Yi.

Chen Ying knew Guo Xiaoke's name, and mainly went to Beiting (the King of the Northern Xiongnu Shanyu, now in Jimusar County, Changji, Xinjiang) to visit. He saw the stone statue of Guo Xiaoke and knew that he was the second Grand Protector of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, and he was also the Grand Protector who died in office and died in battle.

Chen Ying never expected that the future Protectorate would actually run to his army to be a soldier. You should know that the Protectorate of Anxi Protectorate was at the second level in the Tang Dynasty, and controlled the "comfort, conquest, confession, and punishment of the surrounding nations, all of which were in charge of their rule."

In fact, the Anxi Protectorate is the real Anxi King. The Anxi Governor's Office has four towns and seventy-nine military prefectures. When it was its strongest, it had an area of ​​almost five million square kilometers. However, due to its vast land and sparse population, the actual population is not large.

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Bring Guo Xiaoke over and let me see!"

Duan Zhigan immediately ordered a personal soldier to go to the military camp to find Guo Xiaoke.

Not long after, Guo Xiaoke came to Chen Ying under the leadership of his personal soldiers. Chen Ying looked at Guo Xiaoke and saw that he was seven feet and five inches tall, slightly shorter than Chen Ying, but he was much stronger than Chen Ying. His muscles were bulging, as if he wanted to break the military uniforms on his body.

When Guo Xiaoke looked at Chen Ying, he was both excited and nervous. What was so excited that he could finally see the military god of the Tang Dynasty. Among all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, there were many people who had never seen Chen Ying, but almost no one had ever heard of Chen Ying's name.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the Turks were like the early Han Dynasty, which suppressed all the mountains above the Central Plains. However, since Chen Ying debuted, he beaten them hard when he saw the Turks, which made Turks doubt their lives. He will win every battle. This is the label on Chen Ying. The key is that Chen Ying has also made countless veterans lose face. Compared with Chen Ying, these veterans, at their fifties, have all lived to dogs.

Guo Xiaoke was also very nervous because he showed his sharpness. One day, in fact, half a day, in just two hours, he played six consecutive games, and the level below the lieutenant was only matched by fist and foot skills. Guo Xiaoke easily won without any effort.

However, when he reached the level of Deputy Guard Guoyi and Zhechong Duwei, he not only had to compare fists and feet, but also archery and marching formations. Although he also won, he wiped out countless people's face. Guo Xiaoke was worried that Chen Ying would cause trouble for him.

Guo Xiaoke did not dare to be negligent and saluted respectfully: "I am humble in the position of Guo Xiaoke, see the general!"

Chen Ying smiled faintly, looked down at Guo Xiaoke, and pinched his muscles with his hands. After a while, he nodded: "Is it a good piece of material... have you seen blood before?"

Guo Xiaoke said: "Report to the general, yes. I used to follow the Mi Duke in Wagang and killed many people, not one hundred, at least eighty."

Chen Ying smiled slightly when he heard this: "So you were killed by a hundred people? Didn't you brag?"

Guo Xiaoke said: "I didn't brag, I shot fifty or sixty of them with an arrow, and twenty or thirty of them with a knife. I didn't count carefully. Anyway, I have never killed anyone outside the battlefield."

When he heard that Guo Xiaoke had actually shot fifty or sixty people to death, Asuna Smo said unhappily: "You brag? Do you think you have three heads and six arms?"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Is it true or false? I don't know if I try it?"

"Try it, what will the general plan to try?" Guo Xiaoke asked with a look of hope.

Chen Ying stretched out his hand and pointed to the ready-to-move Ashinasmo and said, "Each of you has a horse and a pot of arrows. First, remove the arrowheads, dip the arrows in white paint, two pairs of five hundred steps, and attack at the same time. Isn't it clear at a glance who is higher and lower?"

Although the arrows that were removed from the arrows would definitely not be able to penetrate the armor, the bows used by both of them were hard bows, and once they hit the face or throat, they could still get injured or killed.

However, the two agreed with Chen Ying's opinion very much. Asanosmo quickly removed the arrowhead and dipped the arrowhead into the white paint.

Guo Xiaoke also held an iron-tied bow, a quiver on his back, and turned his horse on his back.

Two men and two horses, slowly retreating.

When everyone saw that Guo Xiaoke was going to compete with General Chen's personal soldiers, they immediately surrounded him and watched the battle between dragons and tigers.
Chapter completed!