Chapter 667: Wanyan's Crooked Horse
The Longcheng cavalry around Murong Chui quickly rushed forward and engaged in a fierce battle with Hegangui's personal guards.

Murong Chui still sat on his warhorse, watching all this coldly, as if he was an outsider, quietly observing the situation on the battlefield.

Under the fierce attack of the Longcheng cavalry, Hegangui's personal guards were quickly defeated, falling one by one in a pool of blood, unable to get up again.

He Gangui was also forced into a desperate situation and was surrounded by Murong Chui's cavalry. Looking around, he found that he had no way to escape.

Finally, when the last guard fell in a pool of blood, He Gangui knew that he had reached the end of his life.

He stopped what he was doing, raised his head, and looked straight into Murong Chui's cold eyes.

"Murong Chui, you win."

"But remember, the bloodline of our He cadres will never be cut off. One day, someone will avenge us."

He Gangui's voice was low and weak, as if it came from another world.

Murong Chui remained expressionless upon hearing this. He slowly raised the saber in his hand, signaling the Longcheng cavalry around him to end the battle.

He didn't want to waste any more time on this man who was already doomed to die.

The Longcheng cavalry also received the order and quickly surrounded Hegangui.

In despair and unwillingness, He Gangui let out his last roar.

However, this roar was quickly drowned out by the noise of the battlefield.

With the final charge of the Longcheng cavalry, Hegangui and his last few bodyguards fell in a pool of blood. Their bodies gradually cooled down and their lonely souls drifted forever on the grassland.

Murong Chui watched all this without any emotion in his eyes.

To him, it was just a war.

He has seen too many separations of life and death and has long been numb.

Now he had a belief in his heart that at all costs, with the help of the supplies obtained from those Cangzhou people, he would let the Murong Xianbei stand firm on this grassland!
Finally, with the death of Hegangui, the entire Hegangui camp fell completely under the fierce attack of the Xianbei army and the Longcheng cavalry.

All the Hegan men were killed or captured, while their elderly, weak, women and children became the spoils of the Xianbei men.

Following Murong Chui's order, the Longcheng cavalry began to clean up the battlefield, confiscate the weapons and supplies of the He cadres, and gather the prisoners of war for custody.

Murong Chui watched all this, and a gleam of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

This battle would not only allow the Murong Xianbei to formally establish their prestige on the grassland, but also serve as a token of their allegiance to Cangzhou behind them.

Only in this way can the Murong Xianbei obtain continuous support from Cangzhou and then rely on it to grow!
"Pass the order down, the army will rest on the spot and clean up the battlefield."

Murong Chui gave the order in a deep voice, his eyes already looking into the distance. This was just a small obstacle on their journey, but their journey had just begun.

Next, we will see how the Wanyan clan of the Jurchens and the Aisin-Gioro clan of the Manchus respond.

At the same time, in the Jurchen Wanyan clan camp located in the northeast of the prairie, the atmosphere was so heavy that water could almost turn into ice.

Wanyan Aguda, the Great Khan of the Jurchen Wanyan clan, sat upright on a tiger-skin chair, with uncontrollable anger flashing between his brows.

The news he just received was like a sharp dagger, stabbing into his heart.

The Murong Xianbei tribe, which had once been chased by them like a stray dog, now dared to go south to beg for peace from the people of the Central Plains. What's worse, they even dared to send troops north to attack the Xianbei Hegan people who were about to fall into the arms of the Jurchens.

"This group of daring Xianbei dogs!"

"They have forgotten who pushed them into despair and who gave them a chance to breathe. Now they dare to unite with the people of the Central Plains to fight against us, the Jurchens!"

Wanyan Aguda slammed the table so hard that the wine cups on the table jumped up.

The Jurchen generals in the tent were all furious and gritting their teeth.

Wanyan Wuqimai, Wanyan Loushi, and Wanyan Jindanzi, the elites of the Jurchen Wanyan clan, all had flames of anger in their eyes.

"Great Khan, these stray dogs of the Xianbei tribe were forced to flee everywhere by us before, but now they dare to show up again."

"We must punish them severely and let them know how powerful we, the Jurchen Wanyan clan, are!" Wanyan Jindanzi punched the pillar and said hatefully.

"Yes, we can't let them be so arrogant!"

"We, the Jurchen Wanyan clan, have formed an alliance with the Manchu Aisin-Gioro clan to overwhelm the grasslands. No one has ever dared to provoke us like this. I will not be a human being if I don't take revenge!"

Wanyan Yindanzi, the younger brother of Wanyan Jindanzi, was also angry.

However, amidst the anger of the crowd, Wanyan Wuqimai and Wanyan Loushi remained unusually calm.

They knew that there must be some unknown secrets behind the actions of the Murong Xianbei this time.

In particular, they received support from the people of Cangzhou, which had to make them wary.

"Khan, calm down."

"There must be something fishy about the Murong Xianbei's actions. We can't let anger cloud our heads and blindly launch an attack, which will only put us in a passive position."

Wanyan Wuqimai spoke slowly, his voice carrying a hint of calmness.

"Wu Qimai is right."

"I think we should find out their strengths and weaknesses first, and then make plans. If we attack rashly, if those southerners have set a trap, it will only cause us heavy losses."

Wanyan Loushi, who had been sitting there, also echoed.

When Wanyan Aguda heard this, although he was still furious, he knew that they were right.

"So in your opinion, how should we deal with this?"

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice:

"In my opinion, we should first send out a cavalry to test the strength of the Murong Xianbei."

"Also, we can discuss with the Aisin-Gioro clan to see what their plans are."

Wanyan Wuqimai raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice.

Then he looked towards the edge of the tent, where Dorgon, from the Aisin-Gioro clan of the Jurchen Manchu ethnic group, was sitting quietly with his eyes closed.

"Okay, let's do it."

"Wanyan Jindanzi, Wanyan Yindanzi, you two brothers, lead a thousand crooked horses and another ten thousand cavalrymen of my Wanyan clan to the south to test the Murong Xianbei."

Wanyan Aguda nodded in agreement, and then also turned his gaze to Dorgon in the corner.

"As ordered!"

Wanyan Jindanzi and Wanyan Yindanzi responded in unison, with excitement gleaming in their eyes.

The Guaizi Ma and the Tiefutu who were intercepted by Su Ye are collectively known as the "hard army" of the Jin Dynasty.

Fan Zhongxiong's "Northern Records" records that according to what Zhongxiong saw personally, there were 50,000 soldiers in Nianhan Camp and 10,000 soldiers in Lousu Bojin Camp, all of them marched in front with spears, known as the Hard Army, and all the men and horses were fully armored.

What is mentioned here are the vanguard troops among the 2.4 troops, not all of the Jin troops, which is about in total. They all have horses and armor.

Of course, this is only the Jin Army's Western Army, so the Jin Kingdom has more powerful troops than this number.

The equipment of the Crooked Horse is "armor only covers half of the body, with slight knee pads, and the vest is also very light". Their protection is inferior to that of the Iron Pagoda, and they rarely dismount to fight, but they also have considerable infantry combat capabilities.

Compared to Iron Pagoda, Crooked Horse uses bows and arrows much more frequently.

When the Iron Pagodas participated in the battle, the Crooked Horse were often placed on the two wings to play a supporting role. "The Iron Cavalry were the left and right wings, called Crooked Horse, and they were all Jurchens."

But when facing an opponent that is not strong enough, the Guaizi Horse can also fight alone.

For example, in the Battle of Yishui, the famous Jin general Wanyan Loushi defeated the Western Xia army, which was said to have as many as 1000 troops, with only 3 cavalrymen by retreating and then ambushing. With the help of reinforcements, he inflicted heavy damage on the opponent. Judging from the mobility of the cavalry under Wanyan Loushi in this battle, they should have been medium-armored cavalry.

(End of this chapter)