It is about 300 li from Anyi to Pingyang, and if the normal march is calculated as 50 li per day, Pingbei will take about 6 to 7 days.

However, saving soldiers is like fighting fires, if the Pingbei army arrives at Pingyang so slowly and at a normal pace, I am afraid that Pingyang has fallen into the hands of the Huns.

Therefore, after leaving Anyi, Cao Liang ordered to speed up the march, and walked nearly 200 miles in two days to reach Jiangyi.

This place is only a little more than 100 miles away from Pingyang, so after passing Jiangyi, Cao Liang lowered the speed of his march to 50 li a day, and at the same time strengthened his vigilance to guard against sneak attacks and ambushes by the Huns.

A daily march of fifty miles is a normal marching speed, and at this speed it is guaranteed that the army will not be too tired, and in case of an enemy and a battle, it will have the strength to fight.

And when the daily march reaches about 100 miles, the fatigue of the army will increase greatly, and neither the physical strength nor energy will be enough to cope with a sudden battle.

When he first left Anyi, because he was far away from the front line of Pingyang, Cao Liang did not have to worry too much about being ambushed and attacked by the Huns, so on this journey, Cao Liang could not care about the physical strength of the soldiers, and take a day to catch up with the road for two days, and approach Pingyang as soon as possible.

From Anyi to Pingyang, it is almost a horse Pingchuan, the road is flat, such a path is more conducive to marching, but most of the Pingbei Army are recruited recruits, even if there are some veterans of the four battalions such as infantry, but they are also negligent in training, and it is not easy to adapt to such a long-distance and high-intensity march.

In addition to the cavalry of the two battalions of the Yue Cavalry Battalion and the Tun Cavalry Battalion, the infantry of the three battalions of infantry, archery and Changshui were miserable, and many soldiers, some of whom had blisters on their feet, and some of them had cramps in their legs.

Seeing this situation, Pei Xiu was a little worried about whether the bodies of these soldiers could hold on, after all, they were forced to march down this way, and when they arrived in Pingyang, they were exhausted before they could engage the enemy army.

Cao Liang smiled and told Pei Xiu not to worry, most of these soldiers are farmers who farm, and they must have strength, otherwise they will not be able to pass the assessment when recruiting, but they are relatively less walking, so there will be leg cramps and foot blisters when marching urgently, but Cao Liang believes that these are temporary, with the physique of these soldiers, with a little exercise, they can completely keep up with the rhythm of the march.

What's more, after arriving in Jiangyi, Cao Liang had already slowed down the marching speed, and after two consecutive days of forced marching, he returned to the normal marching speed, and I believe that these recruits can quickly adapt to this rhythm.

At that time, Cao Liang did not take the initiative to slow down because the physical strength of these soldiers reached the limit, but it was already very close to the Pingyang front, if the Huns got the news of the Wei army's reinforcements, they were likely to ambush halfway or come to steal camps and rob the village at night, if the Pingbei army was too tired, it was completely unfavorable to fight this kind of encounter.

Therefore, Cao Liang took precautions, and took the initiative to reduce the speed of the march, not only that, but Cao Liang also ordered the scouts to expand the distance of the scouts to a distance of fifty miles around, once they found that the Huns had any abnormal movements, Cao Liang could also make corresponding countermeasures.

After passing Jiangyi, Cao Liang also adjusted the formation of the army, he ordered Deng Ai to be the vanguard, leading the Yue cavalry battalion to walk at the forefront of the entire team, and Shi Bao was responsible for breaking the rear and leading the Tun cavalry camp to the rear of the palace.

The three infantry battalions of infantry, shooting sound and Changshui were placed in the Chinese army by Cao Liang and hugged together.

Cao Liang knew that the Huns were good at cavalry, and the cavalry itself was the natural enemy of the infantry, and if the infantry wanted to confront the cavalry, the only thing they were sure of was the pikemen, and the use of spears to form a formation could effectively resist the impact of the cavalry.

Of course, the Yue cavalry battalion commanded by Cao Liang had found a way to crack the spear formation, but for the Huns, they were better at individual combat, and the cavalry had stronger mobility, so it was naturally more effective to deal with such cavalry.

The shooting battalion is basically based on crossbow soldiers, and the Changshui battalion is basically based on sword and shield soldiers, one of these two arms is a long-range attack class, and the other is a defensive type of army.

So Cao Liang arranged the three infantry battalions together, and when they were marching, they advanced separately, and once they encountered a battle, the three battalions immediately formed a group.

This kind of huddle is not a simple mixture, but a hierarchical arrangement of the three arms, with the pikemen at the outermost periphery, forming a forest of guns to resist the impact of the cavalry.

The sword and shield soldiers are lined up on the side of the pikemen, used to cover the pikemen, because the pikemen have no protective weapons, and Cao Liang's hoplite concept has not been implemented, at this time the pikemen's defense ability is the weakest, if this time by the Hun cavalry cavalry cavalry attack, the casualties will definitely be relatively large.

With the flank protection of the sword and shield soldiers, the pikemen have an extra layer of protection against enemy bow and arrow attacks.

And the innermost layer is the crossbowmen of the Shooting Battalion, the crossbowmen are the weakest class in defense, once they are caught in hand-to-hand combat, the crossbowmen have almost no resistance.

However, at medium and long-range distances, crossbowmen have a strong striking ability, with a solid line of defense built by pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in front, and crossbowmen can rest assured and bold to constantly fire arrows in the back, which is also the only effective means of killing and wounding infantry against cavalry.

The close cooperation of the three arms is the only effective way to deal with cavalry.

Of course, how to improve the degree of tacit understanding of cooperation is the key among the key, only the formation is perfect and skillful infantry battle formation, it is possible to block the powerful attack power of the cavalry.

In this regard, the four battalions of infantry and others still need to be improved.

Only the Yue Cavalry Battalion is the only existence that Cao Liang can rest assured of, so there is no doubt that the Yue Cavalry Battalion is the one who serves as the vanguard.

The pioneer officer Deng Ai led the Yue cavalry battalion at this time, walking at the forefront of the team without hurry, and kept a distance of three to five miles from the people and horses behind the brigade.

The Yue cavalry battalion performed the most eye-catching in the battle of Hanzhong, and made outstanding achievements, this time in Anyi increased five hundred recruits, but this did not affect the combat effectiveness of the Yue cavalry battalion at all, and the Yue cavalry battalion at this moment was full of spirit and high morale, eager for the first battle with the Huns.