Everything depends on prestige and strength, Hu people really only look at strength, and kindness is the foil of strength.

The more ferocious the battle, the more ferocious the battle, and the more people you kill, the more you can get their services, isn't that the same for those Karasuma Xianbei people in the Changshui Cavalry?

And now, he has been the captain of the Karasuma school for several months, and the tribes under his jurisdiction have not made any moves, and no tribe has taken the initiative to contact him, which is obviously a contempt for himself.

For this contempt, it is necessary to use steel knives to make them pay attention.

And Lian, and Lian, pride underestimated the enemy.

That's good news.

It just so happens that uncle, I am so sad that I lack horses and horses, and you send it over to find death yourself, and I will satisfy you.

In late February, the intelligence collectors got the news through various channels that the Xianbei people in Saibei were preparing rations to gather knights, and Guo Peng knew that these guys were coming.

and also heard the news, saying that He Lian planned to give Guo Peng a dismount and give him a little color.

So Guo Peng immediately ordered the Karasuma battalion to go out of the fortress and start field exercises, cross the Great Wall and gallop on the grassland to familiarize themselves with the battlefield, and then sent an envoy to inform the sect members of the news and ask the sect members for support.

The sect members were greatly surprised when they learned about it, and immediately dispatched 1,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers who could be quickly assembled to Ning County to support Guo Peng, and at the same time recruited the soldiers of various counties and the garrisons in Youzhou to move closer to Jixian County, and sent people to recruit Karasuma cavalry to prepare for war, and ordered all border counties to immediately enter a state of preparation.

The border counties immediately became nervous, and all entered a state of combat readiness, and began to strengthen the city, prepare the weapons to defend the city, and prepare for battle.

Once the Xianbei people broke through the Great Wall and approached the city, they would start to defend the city.

At the beginning of March, the news was clear, and there was no need to be suspicious, and Helian had already led his troops to set off and take Shanggu County directly.

He Lian brought 10,000 cavalry from Xianbei in the middle of the country to send color to Guo Peng.

After careful preparations, Guo Peng informed the sect member, and then without waiting for his news, he led 2,000 foot soldiers, 3,000 cavalry and a large number of vehicles to follow the direction from which He Lian came.

Crossing the Great Wall and facing Helian, Guo Peng wants to face Helian head-on.

Five thousand against ten thousand, the other side is cavalry, Guo Peng not only has no advantage, but also is all disadvantage.

But Guo Peng is not seeking his own death, he has his own way.

Before taking office, when considering how to use inferior troops to counter the superior strength of the northern nomadic cavalry, Guo Peng thought of many ways.

The Xianbei people, the Huns and the Karasuma people are not infantry troops, they are all cavalry, unlike the Yellow Turban Army, they can fight very well, and he does not have any advantage.

The cavalry he can command will not exceed 3,000 in total, and his mobile strength is far inferior to that of the Xianbei leader and company.

However, at this time, the greatest threat of nomadic cavalry to the Han army was not to charge into battle, but to mount and shoot.

At this time, the formed stirrup saddle had not yet appeared, and the nomads did not have much iron and bronze in their possession to make weapons that could be used in the frontal confrontation of horse warfare charges on a large scale.

According to archaeological excavations, in addition to bows and crossbows, the nomadic cavalry of this era only had melee weapons such as short knives, short swords, short spears, etc., and symbolic weapons such as so-called scimitars.

Compared with the spears and spears of the Han army, it has a great disadvantage in length, and it is far inferior to the Han army in terms of armor, and it is impossible to gain an advantage in head-to-head confrontation with the Han army.

Therefore, when the Han army is awesome, it can be one enemy and five, which is the so-called one Han as five Hu.

The only thing they could threaten the Han army was cavalry shooting.

There is no doubt that it takes a lot of effort to practice mounted archery.

Mounted archery is also much more difficult than wielding a sword on a horse and charging with a spear on a horse, which is difficult for the Han army to master, but is basically a skill that the nomadic cavalry has mastered.

At this time, the Han army had an advantage in weapons, and was inferior in the number of cavalry and cavalry archery skills, so it was helpless to encounter cavalry archers.

If you can't catch up with them, you won't be able to hit them, and they can't dodge them when they turn around and shoot an arrow at their side.

The nomadic cavalry did not confront the Han army head-on, but chose to play cavalry and archery with the Han army.

Its basic method of warfare was to use cavalry to shoot the Han army's military formation, and then use its own short weapons to chase down the Han army that had lost its military formation and fell into chaos.

When the Han army formed a military formation to confront, the nomadic cavalry did not need and did not dare to approach, so they went around in a circle to play cavalry and shoot at the Han army's crossbowmen to see whose arrows were consumed first, which is why Li Ling could use 5,000 infantry to fight against the 80,000 Xiongnu cavalry and kill and wound them in large numbers.

The Han army's arrows were consumed first, and the army collapsed and died a miserable death.

The nomadic cavalry ran out of arrows, patted their butts and left, if the Han army had more cavalry, they could still chase for a while, and there was nothing they could do if there were few cavalry.

For most of the period, the cavalry of the Han army was relatively small, so the nomadic cavalry was very dominant during this period.

Guo Peng has no system, no superpowers.

All he has is knowledge of the afterlife and insight beyond a thousand years, which is his only advantage over his opponents, and nothing else can form a crushing state.

So he had to find a way to deal with the nomadic cavalry from his own strengths.

Recruiting cavalry for training is not a good method, recruiting and training takes years to train capable elite soldiers, and the Eastern Han government does not have the ability to mobilize resources to form cavalry during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the war does not know when it will come, and it is too late.

Then there is only one way to go.

Is there a way to do this?

A few months ago, a few days after arriving in Ning County, Guo Peng thought about it and suddenly thought of a good solution.

"Stone-dissolving charcoal and sulfur? What is this used for? ”

Guo Peng told Cheng Li about this, and Cheng Li felt strange and asked Guo Peng what he was going to do.

"Don't ask what to do, can you get these things?"

"Of course you can, stone and sulfur are both medicinal materials, charcoal is naturally not difficult, if you don't have it in Youzhou, Jizhou must also have it, but what use can these things be?"

Guo Peng still didn't say anything, and asked Cheng Li to mobilize a hundred sentry knights under his command to go to various places to buy and collect enough stone and sulfur.

On the other hand, Ning County has a large number of blacksmiths who are responsible for making weapons.

Guo Peng recruited more than a dozen old blacksmiths and asked them to build thin iron boxes similar to bamboo knots for themselves.

The thin iron box was being made here, and the stone, sulfur and charcoal were in place there, and Guo Peng personally took his cronies and soldiers to the secret base on the outskirts of the city to make the proportion of gunpowder.

According to the mass ratio of 10 percent sulfur, 15 percent charcoal and 75 percent stone, Guo Peng led people to make a batch of rough original gunpowder, made a bunch of it, and lit it with fire.

He didn't need anything superfluous, he didn't plan to get anything like artillery, that wasn't realistic, he didn't need lethal gunpowder weapons, he didn't need anything, as long as he could make a loud noise, nothing else mattered.

What Guo Peng wanted to make was a simple earth-shattering thunder that could make a loud noise.