The reason why I had to stay in Chang'an City for three days was to prepare supplies, and the most important thing was to gather troops.

Liu Che's order was sent non-stop day and night to the various armies west of Chang'an.

The fast one arrived the next day, and the slow one estimated that he would only be able to arrive on the day of departure.

However, Zhang Yuan's request was to ask the captain with the troops to set off first to meet him in Chang'an City.

A total of 56,000 cavalry were sent this time, and the surplus was naturally the Yulin Army and the Qimen Army.

For each of the remaining 50,000 troops, there was a lieutenant.

Zhang Yuan, a general, can lead so many people, which is also Liu Che's real generosity.

When Wei Qing was a general, there were only seventy or eighty thousand people who could actually control it.

The rest of the forces were divided among the generals.

The key thing is that Zhang Yuan's more than 50,000 are still cavalry.

The peak of Huo Quzhi's number of commanders did not reach this level.

It can only be said that the current national strength of the Han Dynasty far exceeds that of the contemporaneous Han in the depths of Zhang Yuan's memory.

Moreover, the number of losses in previous wars was greatly reduced, and the Han army did not go deep into the grasslands to find traces of the Huns.

In Zhang Yuan's memory, the reason why the Han Dynasty was dragged to the end of the national strength was because the north was too big, and even if he won the war, the materials he seized would not be worth the consumption.

Many of the soldiers died on the road, not at the hands of the Huns.

Striving for a frontal fight is the best way to avoid this from happening.

When the five lieutenants arrived, it was already the morning of the third day, and they were about to leave on the morning of the fourth day, Zhang Yuan hurriedly met the five lieutenants outside the Yulin Army camp where the army was trained.

As soon as Zhang Yuan asked the names of several people, two of whom were surnamed Li and one was surnamed Gongsun, he understood what the situation was.

The Li clan in Longxi is so powerful in the army.

It is impossible for other families surnamed Li to come from the west, and it is impossible for Zhang Yuan to change generals before the war, so he can only accept all this silently, hoping that they can be obedient.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I asked the Chinese military government for a spear three times our strength.

When the army departed, the spears would be distributed to each of the soldiers.

It will take us ten days to reach Shuofang County, and during these ten days, whenever we are marching, we need to maintain this posture of holding the spear. ”

The five captains are here, and Xue Ren must be here.

Li Jian, Zhang Cigong, and Li Fu are also here.

There are a total of nine people, which are the nine generals under Zhang Yuan's command this time.

"General Wei, it is inconvenient for cavalry to use spears.

The spear weighed more than twice as much as the spear, and it had to be held for a long march, not to mention the soldiers, even the war horses couldn't stand it. ”

The person who spoke was named Li Shuo, a cousin of Li Guang and one of the five lieutenants.

"As long as we go out of the boundary of the Inner History Territory on this march to Shangjun, it is the terrain of a horse and a flat river, and there are no obstacles on the way to the march.

In addition, in addition to bringing the necessary dry food, we don't need to bring camp accounts, all the way we are attached to the edge of the city and stationed, and those county commanders will prepare everything for us.

The soldiers carried a spear in their hands, and the other two ropes were tied to the tip of the spear, and they hung on their saddles and dragged the march.

As long as we arrive at Shuofang County within ten days, I will let the soldiers rest for two days.

In this way, do you still think that the war horses will be tired, and the soldiers will not be able to stand it? ”

Zhang Yuan already had a plan in his heart, and he was not afraid of Li Shuo's difficulties at all.

Li Shuo had no choice but to take a step back, lower her head and stop talking.

"General Wei hopes that when the soldiers charge, they will use the length of their spears to kill and injure a large number of Hun soldiers first?"

It was the first time for Zhang Cigong to come here to see, and he knew what Zhang Yuan's idea was after taking a look.

"Yes, three spears, two of which are thrown out before contact, and one is used as a charge weapon.

After a scuffle, it can be replaced with a Ring Head Knife. ”

"But the last general doesn't know what the purpose of throwing a spear is, we have a bow and crossbow, isn't it more lethal?"

"A spear is six meters long, whether it can kill people or not, you are throwing it into the Hun cavalry.

Does the Marquis of the shore remember how we stopped the Huns from breaking out of the encirclement, and did not let the Huns who were supporting from outside rush in? ”

Although Zhang Cigong had not seen Zhang Yuan use a three-bow bed crossbow to create a steel wall, he had heard of it more than once.

No one could have imagined that weapons could be used for anything other than killing.

"General Wei wants to use his spear to make a wall to defend against the Huns?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head.

How could manpower be an opponent of a three-bow bed crossbow.

Long-distance throwing, that is, the ability to use the inertia of the fall to insert all the spearheads into the soil.

The powerful soldier could have gone a little deeper.

"When the time comes, the desk hou will know, and now you can't understand it."

Zhang Yuan didn't explain much, turned around and asked Xue Ren to order the whole army to go back to the camp to pack up their things and prepare for tomorrow's expedition.

The Qimen Army trained with the Yulin Army for two days, and Liu Che watched it for two days on the platform of the Taiye Pool of Jianzhang Palace.

On the first night, Huo Qu returned to the palace and told Liu Che what had happened.

From such a distance, Liu Che naturally didn't know what Zhang Yuan had done.

After hearing Huo Quzhi's relay, he understood what he had trained, but Liu Che and Zhang Cigong basically had the same idea as Zhang Cigong about throwing spears.

Why did the cavalry in the West use spears as the main weapon, but Huaxia abandoned the spear as a weapon early.

The main reason is the rapid development of the bow and crossbow, which gives the cavalry an additional weapon with greater lethality and longer attack range.

Under the premise of having a bow and crossbow, the spear as a weapon gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Moreover, the use of spears in Huaxia was also used as a weapon for foot soldiers, and the cavalry had long been accustomed to slashing with ring-headed knives.

When the Mongol armies swept across Europe, they proved that heavy cavalry with spears in hand could not handle light cavalry with swords.

Because as long as you dodge the first time and rush to the enemy's side, the heavy and long spear becomes an obstacle for you.

Close combat, one person is holding a six-meter weapon, the spearhead is a few meters away, and the other person is holding a knife, and one side of the knife is all blades, how can this be fought.

Zhang Yuan was only to take the Huns by surprise, and he also made it clear that he would use the ring-headed knife to fight in the grappling after the first round of charge.

The spear was still very useful as a weapon for cavalry charges.

The gladiatorial fight of the Western knights is also two people hedging against each other on a narrow long road, with armor all over their bodies, and there are no tricks to speak of.

Although Liu Che didn't understand, he didn't let Zhang Yuan enter the palace at this time to explain.

Before the war, the emperor was most afraid of distrusting the generals he personally ordered, and once this sentiment spread to the army, it would have a great impact on the generals in charge of the army.