Chapter 174: Serial Horses?
After destroying the 2,000 light cavalry of the Yan State, Guo Yang ordered to quickly clean up the battlefield and enter the Hutai camp to move things.
In the land where the Yan people camped their army, all the grain, salt, forage, ordnance and other things that could be taken away were removed.
Duanmu Niu has something to do, and he is responsible for transporting the spoils back to the grassland. Guo Yang is still very poor, and sometimes, for a few bundles of cooked cowhide ropes, he will make difficulties, and he can't miss such an opportunity to loot the enemy camp!
Fortunately, Duanmu Niu brought the entire caravan this time, with more than 500 horses and mules, and enough manpower.
Guo Yang was drinking in a forest outside the city, and he could imagine that when his army of tigers and wolves entered the city, they would be like a pack of terrifying wild dogs, bringing disaster to this enemy's garrison and earth city.
He hated the Zhou people and the Yan people, but he didn't want to witness the tragic slaughter of the city.
Duanmu Niu understood Guo Yang's mood very well, so he offered to let him enter the city to carry the spoils.
Guo Yang nodded silently and didn't say anything.
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Duanmu Niu led the caravan and followed those cavalry into the Hutai camp.
As soon as he entered the city gate, Duanmu Niu was stunned.
It's tragic.
Everywhere were corpses split in half by the Blood Moon Scimitar, humans, dogs, horses, pigs, and even, some chickens, with stumps and severed arms scattered all over the ground, and blood everywhere.
Some of the humans and animals who were not yet dead were constantly foaming blood from their mouths and noses, staring gloomily at the sky, and letting out bursts of painful and suppressed moans.
The air was filled with the strong smell of blood and the hot smell of feces and urine.
Walking all the way, watching all the way, Duanmu Niu endured the violent nausea, and finally did not vomit.
But the caravan people who followed him couldn't vomit one by one, some of them began to vomit water after spitting out food, and finally, with one mouth, they couldn't spit out anything, but they only stretched their necks with difficulty, and silently squeezed out a few tears.
Living death.
Duanmu Niu thought to himself.
And the slaughter of Guo Yang's cavalry continues.
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finally emptied all the valuable things in the Hutai camp, and Duanmu Niu went to find Guo Yang with a pale face.
Guo Yang looked at Duanmu Niu's little white face and turned into the color of pig liver, and shook his head with a wry smile.
"Sheep, it's terrible. I'm almost out of breath. Duanmu Niu grabbed a jue of wine, but he couldn't drink it, so he had to put it down again.
Although he is a cultivator, he has not suffered much over the years, and he has fought with people, and even killed people, but he was killed during the confrontation, and he seems to feel better.
And this kind of slaughter and cleansing in the war, he can't accept it in his heart.
He knew that Guo Yang hated those nobles, but ...... Those aristocratic mothers-in-law and aristocratic cubs, Duanmu Niu thought that he couldn't do that.
"Niu, you've been in the city of the Zhou people for too long, and you've been contaminated with a lot of disgusting things. You have to change these thoughts and habits, or you will not be able to stand staying in the lonely and savage grassland. Guo Yang said unceremoniously to his childhood friend.
"Sheep, I know that you have experienced a lot of unimaginable things and suffered too much over the years. I will try my best to adapt to this kind of life, after all, those Yan soldiers who have entered the nomadic tribe may be even more cruel. Duanmu Niu said with a sigh.
"It's good that you know. In the wild dog pile, in the dead man's pile, in the wolf pack, we have to harden our hearts. Guo Yang said in a low voice, feeling a little depressed.
"The way of this dog's day...... Alas, drink and drink. Duanmu Niu spoke for a while, became disgusted, picked up a jue of wine, and drank it all.
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After ransacking the Hutai camp, Guo Yang began to quickly arrange tasks, his goal was to wipe out the Yan army entrenched here, and it hurt to make Ji Ke, the prince of Yan who pretended to be a prisoner, think of him Guo Yang, and he couldn't sleep and eat, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to stir up trouble anymore.
He wanted to fight the jackals on the prairie, but he didn't want a sinister knife to hold at his waist all the time.
After seeing too much ingratitude and forgetting profit, Guo Yang completely changed his strategy.
Instead of being on the lookout all day and stalking with those rotten filths, it is better to directly chop off his claws and tear his heart apart.
According to Guo Yang's deployment, Ah Jiu is still a decoy, and this time the task is to fish for the heavy cavalry of Yan Kingdom.
The number of those hoplites was not very large, about five hundred, but they were almost armed to the teeth, and not only ordinary arrows and swords could not hurt them, but even some chariot regiments were afraid of them.
Ji Ke, the prince of Yan, was a figure who, following the advice of one of his subordinates, formed this heavy cavalry team, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to equip both horses and cavalry with chain mail.
The chain mail is made of a special silk thread mixed with hair, wool and copper strips, woven through dozens of precision processes, and then added two thick layers of cooked cowhide inside and outside, which is simply invulnerable.
The most terrifying thing is that when this heavy cavalry team charges in formation, its own weight, through the horse's sprint from slow to fast, is like a hard piece of iron, bombarding the past, often impacting a large array of thousands of people to pieces.
Moreover, Guo Yang learned from the information from his own people that recently, this heavy cavalry has been equipped with a new set of gadgets, and I heard that it is called a chain array.
After repeated confirmations, Guo Yang finally figured out that the chain array was actually using strong chains to string five hundred horses together and make them a whole.
"Damn, a heavy cavalry is not easy to deal with, five hundred horses strung together, it's a big monster." After listening to Guo Yang's explanation, one of his centurions muttered and scolded.
"This kind of heavy cavalry is indeed difficult to deal with, ordinary cavalry can only watch people from a distance, and they don't dare to confront it head-on." Anu frowned and said, obviously, this hoplite cavalry made him feel very tricky.
"Fortunately, the people of the Yan Kingdom only got five hundred horses, if they got a few thousand more horses, it wouldn't sweep the world!" Amu shouted.
"That's not necessarily, hoplites have their own weaknesses, we can find out their weaknesses and focus on their weaknesses." Atu said.
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There are different opinions, and everyone is actively trying to find a way.
Guo Yang buried his head in a scroll of sheepskin maps, his eyebrows furrowed, and he thought about it repeatedly, but he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
This kind of heavy cavalry is indeed difficult to deal with.
If you let the cavalry use the flower bones, you should be able to hurt those cavalrymen, but if you don't pay attention, you may be shot by someone else.
His cavalry is all treasures, and the loss of one man and one horse makes it difficult for Guo Yang to accept.
He's got to think of a good way to kill those dog mongrels armed to the teeth at the least cost!
"Amu, the stone you used last time to break the formation, you can tell everyone about it." Guo Yang suddenly spoke.
Amu was arguing with Ajiu, and Guo Yang asked him to speak, and he was stunned for a moment.
"Master, in fact, there is nothing to say, just tied a big stone with some woolen rope, and thirty or forty people pulled the rope, picked up the stone, and directly hit those shields, and the formation was broken." Amu said.
"Well, this is a good method, think about it, can you improve it to deal with those heavy cavalry chain formations?" Guo Yang said with a deep groan.
"Stone-to-stone for a chain array?" Everyone was in high spirits and suddenly realized.
"Master, are you saying that in the same way, a big rock was tied and the horse team was pulled to hit the chain array?" Amu asked suspiciously.
"Definitely not, not to mention whether hundreds of horses can pull the stone, people see a big stone coming from afar, and they still don't dodge? After all, it's cavalry, and no matter how slow it is, it's not easy to deal with. Guo Yang shook his head and said.
"So what are we going to do?" Amu asked, scratching the back of his head.
Guo Yang poured himself a handful of wine, but he didn't drink it, just looked at it thoughtfully, slightly distracted.
Everyone stopped talking and looked at Guo Yang together.
After a long time, Guo Yang frowned and laughed.
"We've been struggling with other people's strengths, but in fact, we should also think about our own strengths." Guo Yang said with a smile.
"Our own strengths?" Everyone was confused by Guo Yang's headless words, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"The Yan people's chain formation is very powerful, that is a head-on confrontation, if we don't confront them head-on, won't their advantage be gone?" Guo Yang said, taking a sip of wine.
"But if we don't fight them head-on, we won't be able to kill them." A couple of centurions muttered.
"Don't try to get killed, drag to death, starve to death, suffocate urine, the effect is just as good." Guo Yang glanced at it and said.
"Master, you just give the order directly, and let us carry it out." Amu was a little irritated by Guo Yang's half-concealed words, and said loudly.
"Look at you, you haven't grown at all. You have to use your brains to fight, you can't do it brutely. Guo Yang said.
"Good, good, use your brain!" Amu sat down depressedly, looking a little depressed.
"Remember, when we fight, the first thing we fight is to defeat the opponent, and of course it is best to be killed. Second, it is to take advantage. What is it called taking advantage? That is, you must not suffer. Guo Yang drank wine and said slowly.
Everyone was silent, and they couldn't figure out how to take advantage of it without suffering a loss anyway, so they simply listened to it.
"What's the biggest bargain against heavy cavalry?" Guo Yang asked.
Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Guo Yang smiled slightly and continued: "The biggest advantage is that they will never be able to catch us, but we can beat them anytime and anywhere, as long as we don't get too close, in case we are injured by someone's crossbow, they will never be able to help us." In this way, it will be easy to do, they are like a lumbering monster, we are just a hand, we have to find a way to hold them. ”
"Well, actually, all it takes is a rope to get them to follow us obediently."
"Everyone will take a cow, no matter how bad-tempered the big bullock, when you meet you villains, aren't you honest?"
When Guo Yang said this, he didn't say anything, just took the wine and tasted it slowly, and it seemed that the aftertaste was endless.
"Young master, you mean, lead them with a rope?" Anu, who was silent for a while, suddenly asked.
Guo Yang nodded.
"That's easy to do, I thought of an idea, say it, young master, listen to it, see if it's feasible." Anu said.
"You say, let everyone listen to it, maybe you can come up with a rope by making it together." Guo Yang said with a smile.
"My idea is simple, they have a total of five hundred centaurs, and we have a thousand centaurs, and in terms of the balance of forces, we have a slight advantage. Our steppe people's lassos are unparalleled in the world, and a charge to avoid their heavy crossbow arrows can easily lasso their horses' heads. ”
Anu pondered for a moment and continued: "Aren't their horses all connected, as long as we tie some of them and tie them with ropes, we can take them away." The question is, where do we take them, that's the big question. ”
After Anu finished speaking, everyone's eyes lit up.
Putting cattle and horses on horse, this is the best kung fu of the grassland people, and those half-sized children are very skilled.
"I've already chosen a place for them. The key is that everyone thinks of a way, at least they have to be able to affect others, after all, five hundred war horses are connected, and it is not a joke. Guo Yang said with a smile.
Fortunately, there were only 500 hoplites, and if it was 1,000 or 3,000, there was really no way to do it.
Anu and the others racked their brains, thinking about how to contain the five hundred heavily armored cavalry, but Guo Yang was already thinking about how his cavalry would train and equip himself in the future before he could attack this kind of heavy cavalry head-on.