Chained horses are to connect the cavalry together and string the horses into a formation with iron chains.

In the original time and space, in the later Song Dynasty, Yue Fei once broke the abduction horse of the Golden Vulture Technique. The kidnapping horse is "through Wesso, the three of them are connected", which is roughly similar to the "chain horse" in Meng Lang's mouth at this time. It can be said that the chain horse, that is, the prototype of the kidnapping horse.

The reason why Pu Mao and Meng Lang attacked Luoyang was that Luoyang was a fortified city, with many soldiers and enough food, and Murong Wutai fought bravely, one of the reasons for this; It was blocked by the chain of horses of the Wei camp in the north of Luoyang City, which was the second reason.

This chain horse is not an invention of Murong Wutai, nor is it the usual cavalry tactics of the Murong clan, but a creation of Murong Zhan.

Although the Wei soldiers are known for their bravery, Murong Zhan's current opponent He Hun is also fierce, and even in terms of combat effectiveness, those people under He Hun are stronger than Murong Xianbei's soldiers, so Murong Zhan is currently in Yanzhou, mainly on the defensive. Since he was on the defensive, in order to fight against the cavalry and infantry of the He Hun evil department, especially the first-class elite of the He Hun evil department, the cavalry infantry, and the "Gaoli Janissaries", Murong Zhan had to make some changes to the original tactics of the Wei soldiers, so he had a "chain of horses".

In other words, the "Serial Horse" was originally used by Murong Zhan to deal with He Hun's evil forces.

But at least for now, this tactic is still very easy to use, and it is indeed to block the evil tribe of He Hun in Gaoping County, and Murong Wutai learned from it and used it in the defense of Luoyang.

At this time, it was difficult for Qin Bing.

In the past few days, the Qin soldiers besieged Luoyang several times, but each time they were forced to retreat by the 3,000 horses that came out of the Wei camp in the north of the city. But it was said that the primary tactical requirement of the cavalry was mobility, and the Wei soldiers connected their cavalry together, which was equivalent to abolishing their martial arts and abolishing the mobility of their own cavalry, which should be beneficial to the Qin soldiers, why were they repeatedly forced to retreat?

The reason is simple.

Just imagine, three thousand armor riders, connected with each other, marched forward in formation. In this case, not to mention that people and horses have armor, it is difficult to kill, even if the Qin soldiers shoot and kill the Wei soldiers and knights on the horses, or even if they kill their war horses, but because of the connection of iron chains, the war horses will still be dragged forward, that is to say, the iron armor formation formed by the three thousand armored horses still exists.

The black pressed armor array moved forward slowly, although it was slow, it was unstoppable, like a dark cloud pressing overhead. The selected daredevils charged against the dark clouds, trying to crush this formation, but even if they desperately killed some of the enemies in the front row of the formation, they could not continue to go deep because of the obstruction of war horses and iron chains, and finally had to drop the corpses all over the ground under the guns and arrows of the enemy cavalry, and retreated.

No matter how brave a soldier is, when he sees this scene, he will probably feel powerless, and he will inevitably be forced to retreat repeatedly.

In order to crack this array, Pu Mao racked his brains, but there was no good solution.

Hearing Meng Lang say that he had a plan, Pu Mao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "What is the policy?" ”

Meng Lang said: "After observing the battle situation in recent days, the minister found that the chain of the Wei soldiers' chain horses was connected through the rings on the horse armor. This ring is not an inherent thing on the horse armor, but was welded on later. The king, the minister thought, can we knock this ring off it? As long as it can be defeated, won't Wei Bing's chain of horse formations be easily broken? ”

Pu Mao said: "Although this ring was welded later, it should be quite strong, I'm afraid it's not easy to knock off, right?" ”

Meng Lang said: "It's not easy to knock it out, but it's easy to beat it down." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Without the right weapons, it is difficult to defeat them; With the right weapon, it's easy to defeat. ”

Pu Mao asked, "What is a suitable weapon?" ”

"Lances and knives are not good, they must be axes and mallets!"

"Axes, mallets?"

Meng Lang said: "The king can gather the good axes and good mallets in my whole army, select thousands of strong men, give them to them, teach them to practice cutting rings, and then when they fight with the Wei soldiers in the next day, wait for their horses to come out, and then order the strong men to drive forward and cut off the chain links of their horse armor." Don't ask to cut off all the links of the 3,000 chain horses, as long as you can cut off half, or even a third, it is enough to break the formation! ”

Pu Mao thought for a while, imagined the scene of cutting the ring, and felt that Meng Lang's strategy was feasible, so he said happily: "Master Meng, this is really a good plan!" ”

Just do it, Pu Mao is a man of action, and immediately issued an order, calling for the gathering of the whole army's fine axes and mallets, and also called for the selection of thousands of powerful warriors, and ordered the craftsmen in the army to imitate the chain horses of the Wei soldiers, cast a batch of chain links, and also welded them to the horse armor, so that the thousand warriors, with axes and mallets, first do the practice of knocking off the iron rings, and when the practice is proficient, they will attack Luoyang again.

However, it was said that Pu Mao attacked Wei this time, a total of two lines of soldiers and horses, he and Meng Lang led the main force of the Qin army to attack Luoyang, Shuo Fang Taishou Gou Xiong, Shangjun Taishou Yang Man's attack on Yanmen, Xihe and other Wei counties led by the division is one way.

The westernmost counties of Wei were Nanyang County (Nanyang), Henan County (Luoyang), Hanoi County (Qinyang), Shangdang County (Changzhi), Wuxiang County, Xihe County (Lishi), Xinxing County (Xin County) and Yanmen County (Dai County).

The length of its north-south border is 1,1200 li, which is basically the same length as the eastern border of Qin.

From south to north, the two countries are roughly bordered.

Henan County is adjacent to Hedong County of Qin; Xihe County is adjacent to the upper county (Yulin) of the Qin State; Yanmen County is adjacent to Shuofang County of Qin.

Needless to say, Xihe County is located on the east bank of the Yellow River, on the west side of Luliang Mountain, and the east of this county is Taiyuan County (Taiyuan), an important town in the northwest of Wei; Yanmen County is also on the east bank of the Yellow River, bordering the Tuoba Xianbei control area to the north, and only 400 miles from Shengle.

Henan, Xihe, Yanmen and other counties, have stationed a lot of Wei soldiers and horses, not only to contain the Wei soldiers in Xihe, Yanmen and other places, but also to strengthen the momentum of the attack, therefore, Pu Mao before sending troops to Luoyang, ordered Gou Xiong to lead his troops to attack Yanmen, Xinxing two counties, and divided Yang Man's troops and horses, called to attack Xihe County.

Gou Xiong and Yang Manbu, shortly before Meng Lang entered the tent to meet him, sent a military report summarizing the progress.

After finishing the matter of selecting warriors and cutting chain links, Pu Mao took out this military report, showed it to Meng Lang, and said, "Master Meng, this is what I just received." I was about to invite Master Meng to come over and have a look, when Master Meng came. ”

Meng Lang is sixty years younger, and he didn't have anything before, but just from this time to assist Pu Mao in using troops in Wei, perhaps because the preparations before sending troops were too complicated, and it took him too much energy,—— after all, this attack on Wei was the first large-scale foreign use of troops after several years of hard work since Pu Mao ascended the throne, and it was related to whether Qin could unify the north in the future, and the future of Jiangzuo was because Meng Lang personally arranged and deployed everything, and when he was busiest, he didn't close his eyes for two or three days in a rowPerhaps it is because of this reason, in the end he is also an old man, so that his body is a little unbearable, he has been in recent days, suddenly felt that his physical strength seems to be inferior to before, and his eyesight is also declining rapidly, before he sees things, it is still relatively clear, and when he looks at things, especially when he looks at the words in the near distance, he can't see clearly, he can only see a blurry mess.

After taking the military report, Meng Lang habitually took a closer look.

He was familiar with Pu Mao's temperament, and knew that although Pu Mao's mind was broad-minded, he was quite sensitive in some matters, and he was worried that Pu Mao would be affected by this, so he quietly put the military newspaper in the distance, and then read it.

The military report is not long, and there are four articles in general content.

The first is that the progress of both of them is relatively smooth, and they have already laid down several important places in Xihe, Xinxing, Yanmen and other counties.

Secondly, the Wei soldiers of Taiyuan County were on their way to aid Xihe County.

The third is that Tuoba Xianbei in the north of Yanmen has not raised troops to the south when he sent a military report to Pu Mao, but according to the reconnaissance of the scouts, Tuoba Beijin has issued a military order to summon Xianbei, Wuhuan and other troops under his rule, Tuoba Ten Surnames, Helan Tribe, Wuhuan Dugu and other large tribes under Tuoba Beijin, including some of the Zohu tribes such as those who are attached to the Tuoba clan, are all ordered to go, and there are Hu cavalry horses every day, bringing their own weapons and grain, and they are divided into north, east, south, and west, and arrive at Shengle in a row. But is the purpose of Tuoba doubling his troops to aid the Murong clan, or is it to take advantage of the fire to rob? Gou Xiong and Yang Man can't judge this.

In the end, Gou Xiong and Yang Man asked for rewards for the meritorious soldiers in the previous battles. The two people with the greatest credit are Gao Gao under Gou Xiong's account and Zhang Mu under Yang Man's account.

After reading the military report, Meng Lang returned it to Pu Mao.

Pu Mao said: "Master Meng, the Wei soldiers of Taiyuan came to the aid of Xihe, which was expected by Master Meng and Gu; Only that Tuoba doubled the jin, he is now a big soldier in Daibei, Meng Shi, you say, what does he want? Do you want to help his fellow Murong clan, or do you want to take advantage of the opportunity? ”

Meng Lang said: "The minister is still that opinion, Tuoba Beijin is not a mediocre person, after he took over as the chief of Tuoba, he fought in the south and the north, and now he has conquered all the tribes of Daibei, claiming to control 100,000 strings, with this army and horses, how can he be willing to succumb to the Murong clan under the rivers again?"

"Besides, although Tuoba and Murong are both Xianbei, there are many Xianbei tribes, and in order to compete for pasture and power, it is not uncommon for them to invade each other. Because of this, the minister concluded that Tuoba Beijin must have had the heart of not surrendering to Murong for a long time, but he was just suffering from the fact that he had no chance to raise troops before.

"The minister heard that last year, the Murong clan conscripted Rouran, and ordered Tuoba to send troops to follow, although Tuoba Beijin obeyed the order, but because the Wei soldiers passed near Shengle, their horses trampled on the farmland outside the city, Tuoba Beijin actually lost his temper because of this, and he was very dissatisfied behind his back, the king, his disobedience to the Murong clan can be seen from this.

"He raised troops this time, it must not be to aid the Murong Clan, but only to take advantage of the opportunity of the battle between my Great Qin and the Murong Clan, waiting for an opportunity to profit from it!"

Xianbei is the overlord of Mobei after the Xiongnu, from east to west, thousands of miles of Mobei and outside the Saiwai land, all occupied by the Xianbei tribes. Fortunately in the early days, with the multiplication of the Xianbei population of various departments, in order to compete for pastures, there will inevitably be battles and wars between them, and after their ties with the Central Plains regime gradually deepened, in their internal fighting, there was the involvement of the Central Plains regime, that is, it was not only a ranch dispute, but also a power struggle.

In this case, the struggle between the Xianbei tribes will naturally become more intense.

Duan's Xianbei is the first to have close contact with the Central Plains regime of the Xianbei majority, when the Xiongnu and other Hu Nei invaded the Central Plains, Duan's Xianbei once obeyed the orders of the Tang Dynasty border state assassin history, often fought side by side with the Tang soldiers, so it was later Murong south, in the elimination of the remnants of the Tang soldiers at the same time, the Duan Xianbei was also destroyed,—— now Murong family's country, in the army, there are many Duan's Xianbei relics.

As for the white Xianbei, there is no very deep contact with the Central Plains regime, and the death of its department is purely because the majority of its department thinks that there are many people in the department, and they are not very convinced of the Tuoba clan, in the early stage of the rise of the Tuoba clan, once ignored the Tuoba clan's request for the Xianbei and Zahu tribes of Daibei to gather in Shengle to carry out the Xianbei people's annual "April sacrifice to the sky" custom order, did not come to Shengle, which led to the extinction of the tribe, was annexed by Tuoba, and became the target of Tuoba Liwei's selection.

Pu Mao nodded, touched the soft beard under his chin, and said, "In this way, according to Master Meng's speculation, our army can not worry about the Tuoba clan's troops for the time being." ”

Meng Lang said: "Although the Tuoba clan claims to control 100,000 strings, its soldiers and horses mainly come from various departments within its territory, there are not many standing armies, and the ordnance is not sophisticated. With only the two of General Gou and Yang Taishou, it is enough to be able to hit it hard.

The king need not be anxious about this. The top priority is that our army must take Luoyang as soon as possible, first, the three counties of Longxi are now in the hands of Dingxi again, Shishou died in battle, and the short day is good, and if our army stops outside Luoyang for a long time and cannot be attacked for a long time, the morale will be affected by it; Second, He Hun evil has taken Qingzhou, these days from the east of the information, the king has also read, with Murong Zhan's good fighting, and under the offensive of He Hun evil can only defend itself, if our army can not capture Luoyang as soon as possible, the minister is afraid of a long night, or it will be detrimental to the king's strategy of 'taking Luoyang, Kewei County, first get Yu and Ji, and then attack He Hun evil' before the war. ”

Pu Mao thought so deeply and said: "As long as you can break the chain of horse formations of the Wei soldiers, Luoyang will be much easier to attack!" Master Meng, teach the soldiers to practice the ring, and leave it to Master Meng to personally supervise it! ”

Meng Lang didn't mention that his body often felt tired recently, but said in his heart: "Eat more supplements to replenish your vitality." "Say yes.

……

Pu Mao and Meng Lang found a way to crack the chain of horses.

In the hinterland of Wei State, in Gaoping County, about six or seven hundred miles away from Luoyang, in He Hun Evil's barracks, He Hun Evil also found a way to deal with the chain of horses.