Chapter 520: Entering the Merge State

This is Cao Liang's treasure in the box, in Cao Liang's original conception, these weapons are secret, and only when the Sima family rebels, Cao Liang will take them out against the Sima family.

However, now the situation has changed, Cao Liang has taken control of an army, and the biggest enemy that this army is facing now is not the Sima family, but the Hun cavalry that led to the tragedy of Wuhua Huhua.

Due to the extremely fast attack speed of the cavalry, even the best archers can only shoot two or three arrows at most within the effective range, and when they want to shoot, the cavalry has already pounced.

The lack of firepower of the archers led to the fact that once the infantry fell into a situation of close combat, the disadvantage of the cavalry was even more obvious, even if it was a side box with relatively high defensive performance, but if it was rushed up by the Hun cavalry, these side boxes still had the possibility of being destroyed.

If you want the infantry to increase their firepower, you need to equip some of the shooting battalions with a 10-shot repeater.

Under the dense crossbow arrows, even if the Hun cavalry is fast, it is difficult to break through, not to mention that there is a strong side van as the last line of defense, which can allow the Wei soldiers to calmly deal with all cavalry attacks.

But from the recruitment of troops to the present, there are only about forty days, and it is definitely unrealistic to create such a sophisticated bow and crossbow in such a short time, so while continuing to let the ordnance battalion build repeating crossbows, Cao Liang instructed Ah Fu to secretly transport all the 200 repeaters hidden in Cao's Grange to Hedong.

After Ah Fu returned to Luoyang, he immediately handled the matter, secretly packed all the two hundred crossbows in grain bags and hid them in grain trucks, in the eyes of others, it was just the Cao family transporting grain and grass to the front line.

After this disguised year, Ah Fu successfully transported the grain and grass to Anyi.

However, Cao Liang was already going north at the moment, so Ah Fu could only continue to move forward and transport grain and grass to Pingyang.

After pacifying the southern Xiongnu, Cao Liang soon returned to Pingyang from Puzi, after all, the road conditions for the direct march from Puzi to Bingzhou were very bad, and relatively speaking, it was much more convenient to go north from Pingyang.

Since it was produced, the repeater has not been put into actual combat, but after a simple test firing, this time Cao Liang was transferred to equip the Pingbei Army, which was put into use in the real sense.

Cao Liang equipped these repeaters with the shooting battalion, and specially dispatched 200 people to organize them into repeater crossbows to use repeaters.

Although there is a considerable difference between a repeater and a single-shot crossbow, because the two are the same type of weapons, these crossbowmen are still relatively quick to get started when they operate the repeater.

Du Prefect, the captain of the shooting sound, couldn't help but be surprised, Zhuge Lian crossbow is famous all over the world, but there are not many people who have really seen it, I can't imagine that Cao Liang is so powerful that he can even get Zhuge Lian crossbow, which is really amazing.

Cao Liang said with a smile: "This is not a Zhuge repeater, but a real quality made by our Great Wei himself, and the one who improved and built this repeater was given to Ma Jun Ma Deheng in the matter." According to Mr. Ma's own claims, this repeater is more than five times better than Zhuge repeater. ”

"More than five?" Du Yu was a little surprised, the Zhuge repeater was already a legendary weapon, and it once became a nightmare for the soldiers in the northwest border of the Wei State, and even Zhang He, who was known as one of the five good generals, died under the Zhuge repeater, Cao Liang actually said that this kind of repeater was five times better than Zhuge repeater, how could it be?

"Try it and you'll find out." Cao Liang was very confident, and said with a slight smile, Ma Jun is a genius inventor, how can the things he create be reasonable.

Cao Liang and everyone went to the school grounds, Cao Liang ordered people to take ten crossbows, set up a human-shaped target in the center of the school, ten crossbows fired in a volley, and in a blink of an eye, the human-shaped target was drowned in the rain of crossbow arrows.

The crowd of onlookers exclaimed in amazement.

Du Yu was very satisfied, as long as he had these two hundred repeater crossbows, the combat effectiveness of his entire shooting battalion would definitely be improved a lot.

With the partial van and the repeating crossbow, the infantry no longer simply relied on the spear formation when fighting the cavalry, which was the most primitive formation, and the defense capability of the infantry unit was raised to a higher level.

The Wei army not only captured 5,500 Xiongnu prisoners of war, but also captured seven or eight thousand horses and other materials.

Although the Southern Xiongnu has been moving inward for two hundred years, its experience in breeding horses has not been lost because of the migration elsewhere, so it is said that the war horses cultivated by the Huns are all fat and strong, and they are better than the war horses of Wei.

Since the formation of the Yue cavalry battalion, Cao Liang has been trapped in war horses, the newly recruited tun cavalry battalion plus the expanded Yue cavalry battalion, at least 4,000 war horses, in addition to the existing 1,500 war horses in the Yue cavalry battalion, the gap is at least more than 2,000 horses.

Cao Shuang's side gave Cao Liang the treatment of a full weave, and made up for all the missing war horses for him. However, due to the rush of time, Cao Liang needed a considerable number of war horses, so it was already good to be able to get them together in a very short time, but in terms of quality, it must be mixed.

In fact, this is a headache for Cao Liang, the war horses provided by the imperial court are very mixed, most of them are medium horses and inferior horses, but there are very few high-class horses, and the quality of the horses affects the entire quality of the cavalry, and no one wants to ride a very bad war horse.

This time he defeated Liu Yue and captured a large number of war horses, which allowed Cao Liang to update the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion, Cao Liang asked all the captured war horses to be selected, and the superior horses were returned to the superior horses, the medium horses to the medium horses, and the inferior horses to the inferior horses.

The inferior horses, which were overwhelmed, were assigned to the baggage battalion by Cao Liang, and these war horses were fully capable of pulling the cart.

As for the medium and high-class horses, they were enriched into the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion, and all those problematic war horses were eliminated and replaced with these excellent war horses.

With these war horses, the combat effectiveness of the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion has been significantly improved, and the Tun Cavalry Battalion has also become mature in the battle, which makes Cao Liang full of expectations for the upcoming battle of Bingzhou.

After completing this series of actions, Cao Liang announced that the whole army set up camp and pointed to the north, all the way to the north, and entered the boundary of Bingzhou.