Standing on the boat and looking into the distance, Cheng Pu found that the Wei army was neatly groomed, awe-inspiring on foot, fluttering flags, and rumbling drums, looking very majestic.

Cheng Pu immediately felt that the rumors were true, the army under the command of Wei Gong Guo Peng was very elite, and there were few defeats on the battlefield, which was completely the feeling of a heroic division in the world.

This army, which had defeated countless northern princes, was finally about to fight Sun Wu's army.

Cheng Pu was a little agitated and ordered the army to be fully prepared for the possible arrival of the Wei army's cavalry charge.

At the previous military meeting, veterans such as Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Huang Gai, who had participated in the melee of the northern warlords from the north, spoke together and expounded the advantages of the northern iron cavalry.

Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Evil Han Dang and others had followed Sun Jian and joined forces with Guo Peng to fight against Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Horse Team.

These people once fought side by side with Guo Peng, were comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, and had a certain understanding of Guo Peng's army and Guo Peng himself.

They all said that Guo Peng was good at using troops and had strong combat effectiveness, while the cavalry would bring great trouble to the military formation in terms of maneuvering and cavalry archery, and suggested that Sun Ce must pay attention to it, and the Jiangdong army, which lacked horses, could not compete with the Wei army on land.

Neither Sun Ce nor Zhou Yu had experienced a game with the northern cavalry troops, and they both grew up in Jiangdong.

The largest horse team Sun Ce had ever seen was the horse team under Yuan Shu's command, but the horse team under Yuan Shu's command could no longer be compared with the horse team of Guo Peng, the overlord of the north.

"The Wei Gong Horse Team is the elite of the world, and it has swept away the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu, Karasuma, and Xianbei tribes, and even the Northern Cavalry is not the opponent of the Wei Gong Cavalry, so you can imagine the elite degree of the Wei Gong Cavalry.

Iron cavalry vertical and horizontal, interspersed on the battlefield, will greatly affect the coordination between the various military formations, and even cause the danger of the Chinese army's large array, our army lacks a horse team, can not drink Wei Gong to compete, has to guard. ”

Cheng Pu strongly advised Sun Ce to pay attention to the group charge of the Wei army's iron cavalry that he might encounter.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu took it into consideration, and then thought of a combat plan.

Their invasion of Jiujiang and Lujiang will inevitably cause the Wei army to attack, and the Wei army is the elite of the world, and it is unlikely that they will shrink into the city, and they will definitely choose to take the initiative.

Even if they don't take the initiative to attack, the Wu army can take the initiative to provoke and provoke them to take the initiative to attack.

"I thought that if the two armies fought in the field, the side with more horses would naturally have the advantage, and our army lacked horses and could not confront the Wei horses, which is a fact, and in order to make up for this weakness, we can play to our advantages."

Zhou Yu took out a model of a building ship and put it on the mini waterway, and then put out a few wargames with their backs to the boats in the waterway to form a military formation.

"Fighting with the cavalry, the most afraid of the cavalry's mobility and interspersed with vertical and horizontal, our army can form a military formation, with its back to the waterway, then the cavalry can not copy the rear road of our army, if supplemented by tall building boats, building ships with more crossbowmen, condescending, can rain arrows to hit the horse team.

The military formation is backed by the waterway and the building ship formation, the horse team can not be interspersed with vertical and horizontal, the advantage of the horse team will be greatly limited, in this way, our army is as stable as Mount Tai, and the Wei horse team is useless, can only attack with the infantry formation, our army also has a condescending building boat crossbowman, is not it the advantage? ”

As soon as Zhou Yu's idea was proposed, it was immediately supported by Sun Ce, who immediately ordered the army to start practicing such tactics.

Backed by waterways and ships to form a military formation, many carts and shields were placed as fortifications, forming a three-dimensional defensive formation to oppose the superior horse team in the north.

The results of the new tactics are very gratifying, and experienced professional veterans such as Cheng Pu and Han Dang are also satisfied with this and praise it again and again.

So this time, Cheng Pu used it completely.

With their backs to the waterway and large building ships in formation, bows and crossbows ready, they waited for the Wei army horse team to charge, so that they could have a little color.

Who said that the Wu people could not defeat the northern cavalry only by manipulating ships?

Cheng Demou doesn't believe in this evil!

Cheng Pu silently waited for the Wei army to attack, and the Wu soldiers were also in full array, as long as the Wei army came, they would be greeted by a rain of arrows like flying locusts.

However, the Wei army did not continue after advancing to a relatively long distance.

Cheng Pu felt strange, looking at it from a distance, this distance was still outside the range of the strong crossbow, and it was impossible to launch a strike, and in Cheng Pu's opinion, it was also a strange thing for the Wei army to stay in that place and not advance.

There are no weapons that far away that can be used for long-range strikes, right?

The farthest crossbow is not so far away.

So what is the purpose of the Wei army? Just come over and confront each other and don't plan to move forward?

It's kind of interesting, did you see through the weaknesses of this formation so quickly, and I had to send troops to provoke you?

This......

Cheng Pu was a little embarrassed and was about to send an army to provoke, but at this moment, the Wei army's trebuchet had been assembled and could be launched.

"Xu Zhonglang, the trebuchet has been configured, please instruct!"

The subordinates reported to Xu Huang.

"Smash me hard! Smash them to the point where their souls are scattered! ”

Xu Huang gave the order to throw.

So an order was given, and the war drums rang out.

"!!! release"

The starting officer waved his order for a moment, and the new equipment counterweight trebuchet began to show its fangs on the battlefield.

From the very beginning, the ferocious counterweight throwing stone showed its unrivaled advantages, both in terms of shooting distance and attack intensity.

Although the quasi-head is still lacking, it is much better than the earliest pure human trebuchet.

According to the calculations of the team of accountants, the throwing accuracy of this counterweight trebuchet far exceeds that of the earliest human trebuchet, and the probability of hitting the target is also greatly improved, and the range can be adjusted by adjusting the weight of the counterweight.

This time, the counterweight trebuchet not only worked on the trebuchet itself, but also made some changes to the stone projectiles fired according to Guo Peng's requirements.

They polished the stone projectile as round as possible, and then tied it with a large lightweight wooden tray and threw it together in a net.

However, after such improvements, the shooting accuracy has been improved again, and the craftsmen are very surprised.

When Guo Peng was watching the trebuchet experiment, he looked at the stones flying in the sky, and suddenly remembered something called badminton, so he thought of such a point.

He asked the craftsman to add a wooden tray to the stone bullet, forming a self-stabilizing structure that was heavy on the head and light on the tail.

As a result, the new counterweight trebuchet far surpassed the old version of the man-towed trebuchet in terms of shooting distance and shooting accuracy, and quickly replaced the man-powered towed trebuchet that was being used in Guo Pengjun's army, and the technical content was greatly increased.

However, experiments are experiments, and the first battlefield practice is this time, which is the present.

So with Xu Huang's army, there were also some people from the team of accountants, including a group of craftsmen, who all wanted to witness it with their own eyes to record the data.

Xu Huang said that these people were crazy, and then gave them helmets and armor, and sent troops to protect this group of people.

This group of people was extremely eager to see for themselves whether the mass killing weapon they created and improved could live up to their expectations.

If they could, it would undoubtedly be extremely happy for them, and it would prove that their efforts were not wrong and that they were in the right direction.

Therefore, when they saw the heavy and huge counterweight trebuchet sending huge wooden stone bullets into the sky with relatively clumsy movements, and watched those stone bullets cross a beautiful and stable arc in the air, and steadily fall towards the Sun Wu sailor who stopped on the water, the excitement in their hearts can be imagined.

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