Chapter 519: Equipping the Repeater

This bloody scene will be staged every day, although these Hun prisoners of war have no weapons in their hands, but in order to survive, they can use the most tragic hand-to-hand combat to grab food, grab food, can survive, and those who are defeated, death has become their only destination.

The size of the prisoner of war camp will remain at about 500 people, and if 200 corpses are removed today, another 200 prisoners will be held tomorrow, and the total number will remain the same.

However, the number of prisoner of war camps was reduced, from the first eleven to five or six, and in the following days, almost one prisoner of war camp disappeared every day, and when only one prisoner of war camp remained, more than 5,500 people were finally left with only 500 people, and 5,000 people had disappeared into cannibalism.

The remaining 500 prisoners of war are no longer to be feared, and Cao Liang has nothing to worry about, anyway, these people are no longer enough to set off any more waves, and the 500 prisoners of war are handed over to Captain Lin to take care of, Cao Liang can also be regarded as a matter of concern, and can finally travel lightly and prepare to wave his army to the north.

After this battle of Xiliulin, the men and horses of the four battalions such as the Tun Cavalry Battalion grew up rapidly, and the baptism of the battle was really extraordinary, even if the improvement at the tactical level was relatively limited, but the spirit of each Wei soldier was really improved a lot.

When a recruit goes to the battlefield for the first time, he will definitely have a nervous, anxious and fearful psychology, even if the usual drills are perfect, but when it comes to the moment of battle, it is inevitable that the chain will still fall.

In fact, the third infantry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion in this battle, the performance is almost perfect, although a little nervous, but they still fought very well, in addition to letting Liu Yue escape, almost the Hun army was completely annihilated, such a brilliant record, even if it is a veteran army who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, it may not be able to do it.

The victory of this battle most directly boosted the confidence and morale of the Pingbei Army, in the past, when the infantry fought against the cavalry, due to the congenital disadvantage, it was inevitable that the infantry would have a fear of psychology, after the victory of this battle, this fear of the psychology was naturally swept away.

In the eyes of all the officers and men of the Pingbei Army, the Hun cavalry was not invincible, as long as the tactics were reasonable, the command was appropriate, the top and bottom were united, and the enemy was unanimous, the infantry had a chance to defeat the cavalry.

Cao Liang knew that defeating the southern Xiongnu was not only an outpost battle, the southern Xiongnu was a relatively weak one among the five Xiongnu, and the remaining four Xiongnu were stronger than the other, especially Liu Bao of the left Xiongnu and Liu Meng of the Xiongnu on the right, the strongest of the strength of the Pingbei Army to the north.

Fighting the southern Xiongnu is more like an appetizer, the real big dish is still behind, taking Liu Yue of the southern Xiongnu to train the troops, it is Cao Liang's original intention, only by defeating the weakest Xiongnu team, the Pingbei army can initially lay the foundation and find a way to restrain the Hun cavalry.

After the battle ended, Cao Liang immediately summoned the five lieutenants, pointed out the existing problems, and earnestly proposed ways to improve them, and demanded that the Pingbei Army complete rectification as soon as possible and improve the overall combat strength of the Pingbei Army in a short period of time.

After handing over the affairs of the prisoners of war to Huan Fan, Cao Liang concentrated his efforts on major affairs, and in just a dozen days, he comprehensively launched the rectification of the five battalions of the Pingbei Army.

The problems exposed in the battle are not terrible, but the real terrible thing is that knowing the problems and not solving them will be the most fatal when they go to the battlefield again.

Therefore, by dealing with the Xiongnu prisoners of war and the relocation of civilians, Cao Liang did not stop for a moment, anyway, the matter of prisoners of war has been handed over to Huan Fan to deal with, and there is no need for Cao Liang to worry about it at all.

In this way, Cao Liang can put all his energy on the rectification of the army and make every effort to implement the rectification.

After entering the state, I am afraid that the Pingbei Army will have to face a real opponent, and at that time, the battle will be intensive, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Pingbei Army to make such an easy adjustment as it is today.

Through this battle, Cao Liang also soberly realized the shortcomings of the current Pingbei Army, that is, the weapons and equipment were outdated and backward, and could not meet the needs of the battle.

The equipment of the infantry of the Pingbei Army came from the standard configuration of the imperial court, and it was reasonable to say that it should be the most advanced military equipment in the world, but Cao Liang believed that relying on these equipment, it was probably the most difficult to pose a real and powerful threat to the Hun cavalry.

If Cao Liang is not mistaken, the most effective weapon for infantry to deal with cavalry in this era is the partial van.

The partial van car is a kind of vehicle that was improved by Ma Long, a general in the Western Jin Dynasty, based on the experience of his predecessors when dealing with the function of the bald hair tree of the Xianbei leader in Hexi.

The reason why the partial van is called the partial van is because this kind of vehicle does not have the body of an ordinary vehicle, but on one side of the vehicle, there is a huge thick wooden plank to resist the impact of the Hun cavalry.

A single van may not be of much use, but after thousands of vans form a solid line of defense, it is not the same.

Cao Liang had already delivered the drawings for the construction of the partial van to the ordnance battalion for construction, but because of the rush of time, the ordnance battalion only made a sample, and he had no time to show Cao Liang in the future.

The ordnance battalion was specially established by those skilled craftsmen recruited by Cao Liang, and it was not in the combat establishment of the Wei army, it could only be regarded as an auxiliary soldier, and all the food and salary had to be paid by Cao Liang out of his own pocket.

However, Cao Liang did not cry poor, and no matter how much he invested in the ordnance battalion, it was worth it.

On the other side of the construction of the van, the production of repeaters was in full swing.

In dealing with the Hu cavalry, although the partial van has a certain effect, it is only a defensive piece of equipment after all, but it does not have the ability to counterattack.

If you want to fight back against the attack of the Huns, the Wei army must be equipped with a more lethal repeater, and the design of the repeater crossbow is annihilated in a pile of old papers.

In Shu, it was because of the armament of the Zhuge repeater that the Shu army had the capital to confront the powerful Wei army. Therefore, this repeater that Ma Jun boasted of being five times more efficient than Zhuge Repeater still made Cao Liang look forward to it.

However, there are many materials required to build repeaters, and the process is complicated, so it is difficult to produce them on a large scale in a short period of time, so Cao Liang had an idea and asked Ah Fu to transport the two hundred repeaters hidden in the grange to equip the shooting battalion.