Chapter 129 Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky

Nangong Min found it funny to see her acting like a puppy guarding its food, "Okay, I've arranged everything for you. No one can touch your horse."

In the following period, Bai Li began the rigorous training of the cavalry.

First, the old cavalrymen taught the soldiers how to mount and control the horses, and then she taught them how to dodge and move on horseback and how to defeat the enemy.

At first, the female soldiers couldn't even climb onto the horses, and Wu Lanzhi fell so hard that her nose and face were bruised and her body was covered with bruises.

"Sister Lanzhi, I, I, I don't have any strength left. I'm really useless."

Bai Li looked over and found that it was a woman named Daya.

Like Wu Lanzhi, she was one of the pregnant women before. It is understandable that the bodies of these women who had just had an abortion have not fully recovered, so their physical strength cannot keep up.

"Don't worry, take a break first and take your time."

"Captain Bai, don't chase me away. I can do it. I will definitely be able to get on the horse today!"

Daya was scared when she saw Bai Li. Bai Li was ruthless and showed no mercy during training.

“I didn’t…”

"Bai Li, Captain Bai, please give her some time. She will definitely be able to do it. She is just... too weak now!"

Wu Lanzhi was afraid that Bai Li would drive the people away, so she pleaded for mercy.

Because only she knew that these women would die if they left the military camp!

"Lanzhi, you look so nervous, and I haven't said anything yet."

"There are a few more with bodies like hers. Please record them for me and let them rest for a few days before continuing training."

"Thank you, Captain Bai!"

"Thank you, Bai Li."

"What are you thanking me for? We are all women, we can understand."

Of Bai Li's two hundred and fifty female cavalrymen, except for the thirty-six women brought by Wu Lanzhi, the rest were women from poor families found for her by Nangong Min.

However, although they came from poor families, they were used to doing farm work and were much stronger than women like Wu Lanzhi. They were the first to learn to ride horses and the fastest to learn archery.

Wu Lanzhi and her friends rested for a few days. Every day, they heard the sisters come back and say that they had learned to ride horses and shoot arrows, and could no longer lie down.

"Sister Lanzhi, if we go any further, they'll steal the limelight. No, I'm going to go horseback riding today."

"I'm going too. I figured out a trick these days. I know how to make a horse behave and let you ride it!"

"What the instructor said was enough, but we didn't understand it."

"Yes, I understand now. You can't use brute force when riding a horse. The horse moved around in pain, so we were thrown off the horse."

"Okay, now that everyone is okay, let's go find Captain Bai."

Wu Lanzhi was happy to see that her sisters had regained their fighting spirit, and she immediately decided to go horseback riding. After all, military merit was their only way out now.

How can they fight if they can't even ride a horse?

It's no wonder that when women fight together, even they are afraid of themselves. Wu Lanzhi and dozens of weak women fell down and got up again, never complaining about the hardship or tiredness. In the horse riding training, they surpassed the female soldiers who started training earlier than them.

Bai Li's cavalry team was officially established, and they trained majestically on the playground every day riding tall horses.

Bai Zongren hurried to find Nangong Min and was a little surprised to see his daughter there.

"Dad, I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Li'er, why do you have time to be here?"

The father and daughter spoke almost at the same time, and only after they finished speaking did they realize that time had passed too quickly.

In a blink of an eye, it has been more than a month since Bai Zongren and others entered the military camp, and it has been a month since the Bai family army returned.

"I've come to the Major General to report that my old subordinates, Ji Huanan and others, have completed their bow and crossbow training and are ready to go into battle at any time."

"That's good. I wonder how the archery team is doing?"

"Report!"

"Come in."

"Dad, you're here too? Li'er, Major General."

"Oh, it's true that if you mention the devil, he will appear."

"What did you say about me?"

"Just now Bai Li was talking about how your archery team's training was going."

"I'm here to report to the Major General that the archery team has completed training and is ready to assemble at any time."

"Alright! With your brave generals and our powerful weapons, anyone who dares to attack us will be killed!"

Nangong Min suddenly became full of heroic spirit, and his aura was so strong that Bai Li couldn't help but look at him sideways.

"Li'er, Li'er?"

"ah?"

"Little sister, you're drooling all over the floor!"

"ah!"

Bai Li wiped the corner of his mouth randomly, and Bai Dalang smiled and moved aside.

“Brother, you…”

Bai Li chased Bai Dalang, and Bai Dalang hid around their father Bai Zongren.

Bai Zongren looked at his daughter's blushing face and seemed to understand something.

It was rare for Nangong Min to see Bai Li blushing. He thought of something and his handsome face turned red.

"Oh, so lively?"

When Captain Mu came in, he saw a scene of people chasing each other.

Bai Li glared at her elder brother and stopped. She knew that Captain Mu must have brought new news.

As expected, Commander Mu said solemnly, "The Ximeng army has arrived in Fengdu, less than a hundred miles from Yuanzhou of our Great Zhou. The emperor has ordered our Qianxi military camp to gather 10,000 troops to support them."

"How many defenders are there in Yuanzhou?"

"Yuanzhou is bordered by the Meng Kingdom to the south, and by the Meng Kingdom to the west, a place the Meng army must pass through. It has always been a battleground for military strategists, so it has the largest garrison, numbering 50,000. The military camp is located on Black Wind Mountain, ten miles outside Yuanzhou City."

Nangong Min opened the map of the Great Zhou Dynasty and examined it with Bai Zongren and others.

"We can set up defenses here and shoot down some of the enemy troops. Then the pressure on Yuanzhou will be reduced by half."

Bai Li pointed to a col with mountain gorges on both sides and a narrow valley in the middle.

"Simon's army is less than a hundred miles away from here. I guess they passed this place and set up camp here."

Namgoong Min shook his head in objection.

"General Li, the garrison commander of Yuanzhou, is a conservative and stubborn defender. I don't think he will risk splitting up his forces to launch an ambush."

He has been leading troops for a long time, so I can understand his approach.

The enemy army is several times larger than theirs. At this time, everyone would choose to rely on the strong city walls to hold on and wait for reinforcements. Who would risk their life to go out and fight the enemy?

"If he doesn't go, can we go?"

"We are two hundred miles away from Yuanzhou. How do we get there?"

"Cavalry, these war horses can travel at least a hundred miles a day, if not a thousand.

It will take just one day and one night, which is just enough time to block Simon's army."

While one-third of the 200,000-man Simon army was on horseback, two-thirds were also pushing carts carrying bows, arrows, shields, and other strategic supplies, so their movement was slow. "Li'er, the cavalry is only a few hundred strong. Trying to stop a 200,000-man army is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot—they're vulnerable!"

Bai Zongren tried to dissuade his daughter earnestly, saying that her idea was too absurd.

"Dad, this is called guerrilla tactics. We won't fight them head-on."

"What guerrilla tactics?"

Bai Li had no choice but to tell them in detail about the tactics used by the Chinese people in her world when they achieved the unification of the world more than a thousand years ago.

"Although this will cause some trouble to the enemy and cost them some troops, once they discover that this is just a small group, they will immediately send a large number of troops to surround you, and you will have no way to retreat!"