This trip to Feicheng is less than two days away, and it is inevitable that you will have to camp in the middle, and once you camp, you may encounter cavalry stealing the camp. Han He is currently surrounded by 110,000 troops Ding Yang Hou, it is impossible to send too many men and horses to attack Zhao Xun, and the cavalry is already very strong compared to the infantry, even if the infantry is riding, it is more organic than the simple infantry, so it does not need too much.

It was a nightmare for 25,000 infantry to be stolen by thousands of cavalry in their sleep at night. For this reason, you need to be well prepared, and deal a heavy blow to the cavalry of the Jin army who stole the camp, not to mention completely annihilating it, at least let you suffer heavy losses.

So in the evening of the same day, Yin Yangcheng's baggage battalion transferred out the stock of spears, which were enough to equip as many as 50,000 people, and all the spears were emptied and went to Feicheng with the army. Bailiyan and Zhong Heng are responsible for leading more than 8,000 people to guard Yin Yangcheng in case of accidents.

Not long after Zhao Xun raised his troops and left, Zhong Hengcheng, who did not know the truth, asked Bailiyan (Wei Xian) upstairs:

"Colonel, do you know what General Zhao is using so many spears?"

"What does General Zhong Heng think?"

"Ben Jiang didn't know how to ask you, why did he ask Ben again."

"Then the general knows what the use of rejecting a horse is."

"Naturally, it is outside the war horse and the camp gate, why do you ask it many times."

"In this case, General Zhao used many spears to repel horses."

"But that's not too much."

"Then we'll see!"

The words fell, and Bai Liyan walked away, leaving Zhong Heng, who still didn't know why, still wondering.

In the early days, the horse rejection thing was sharpened logs or bamboo sticks, wooden sticks were erected at the gate of the camp to prevent the enemy infantry and cavalry from storming the camp gate.

For example, use a lasso, lasso and pull away, hook with a rope hook and pull away, and so on......

This time, the number of cavalry in the Jin army stealing the camp will not be too much, but before robbing the camp, it will definitely take away and destroy the defense facilities of the camp, so Bailiyan paid attention to Zhao Xun, and inserted the spear into the soil at an angle of forty to thirty-five degrees, half the length, and inserted it into all parts of the camp after dark, and then pulled the stumbling horse rope, and lit less lights that night.

In this way, if the Jin army steals the camp at night, there is almost a black eye in front of them, and if tens of thousands of people make a group charge, or rush into the camp, then they deserve to be unlucky.

In addition to the 50,000 spears, all the bamboo poles, horses, and logs in Yin Yang City were sharpened and transported away, and all the soldiers were switched to hook and sickle halberds, which could replace nearly 10,000 spears.

As for why you don't use a hooked scythe, a very important reason is that it is too expensive.

A spear is a diamond-shaped bronze with a spear head, while a hook sickle requires a lot of bronze, and the later processing difficulty is more difficult and time-consuming than the spear head, so the hook and sickle is not cost-effective.

As soon as Zhao Xun's army left like this, Yin Yangcheng became a lot quieter, and Bailiyan thought that after occupying Feicheng, I am afraid that it should be the advent of the real showdown between the Jin army and the Xian army.

Han He's loss of Feicheng is equivalent to losing the base camp, and a large amount of grain, grass, and baggage fell into the hands of the Xian army, so it is not a problem for the Xian army to survive until this autumn. Most of the Xian country is in the subtropics, and rice is harvested twice a year.

Once the half a year is over, the grain and grass of the Xian army will be transported across the river, and the reinforcements will continue to cross the river, and the Jin army will probably continue to increase its troops, and it is bound to fall into a protracted war of attrition, which is the result that the Jin State does not want to see, so it is bound to fight a decisive battle with the Xian army before the spring ploughing.

In this way, the initiative was transferred from the hands of the Jin army to the hands of the Xian army, and when and how to fight a decisive battle was no longer decided by the Jin army.

But before that, if Feicheng can be captured, how can the 80,000 people of this Ding Yang Marquis be saved?

After all, Han He besieged the 80,000 people of Ding Yang Hou with 110,000 people, and Feicheng was less than four days away on foot from Xiao Sui, during which if Han He used cavalry superiority to attack Ding Yang Hou, it was very likely that these 80,000 people would be annihilated.

There must be a way to get the best of both worlds, not only to take Feicheng, but also to stabilize Han He, and even force him to give up the siege himself.

But thinking of this, Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel embarrassed, obviously it was impossible to have the best of both worlds, so his gaze quickly shifted to the 20,000 cavalry besieging Feicheng:

"Yes, with cavalry! Only with cavalry. ”

After making up his mind, Baili Yanjing returned to his residence and began to sleep with his head covered.

At the same time, Ji Chang had already led 10,000 cavalry to break away from Han He's army, and arrived somewhere in the field between Feicheng and Yin Yangcheng in advance, waiting for Zhao Xun's men and horses to pass by, and then dealt a heavy blow.

It's a pity that Zhao Xun didn't give Ji Chang a chance at all, the army accompanied by carts on both sides, and there were crossbowmen, once the cavalry attacked, it was possible to be hindered by the carts and become stalemate.

"Your Royal Highness, the Xianjun army is already ten miles away, but there are many carts accompanying it, and there are crossbowmen and sickles." Scout said.

"Pass my military order and prepare for a surprise attack!"

Ji Chang gave an order, and Wei Han, the governor of the capital, stopped him:

"Your Royal Highness, the Xian army has a big chariot to guard, if our army rashly attacked, not only can not completely annihilate the Xian army, but also may be bitten by it. It is better to wait for the Xian army to relax, and our army will attack again. ”

"Then according to General Wei Han's intentions, when should our army attack."

"When the Xianjun is ready to eat, or sleep soundly at night, or suddenly kill in the early morning when it seems to be sleeping but not sleeping."

"Why is there so much trouble, I will kill it immediately, so can't I face it head-on." Ji Chang thought very simply, just go up and masturbate it.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, our army attacked rashly, not only will it be difficult to wipe out the Xian army, but the battle to capture Yin Yang will also come to naught, please think twice."

Wei Han admonished bitterly, and Chang was unmoved:

"Isn't this Shizi's military order a military order!"

"It's not that the last general doesn't respect the military order of the prince, but that the old general Han repeatedly instructed him to humble himself before leaving, this battle is the first time that the prince has fought alone, so it is very important to win the first battle, if you can't win a big victory, it will damage the prestige of the prince in the army in the future, and please think twice about His Royal Highness."

"Anyway, since General Han said, this son has been waiting for half a day. Pass on the order of the prince of the world, and the whole army is ready to fight! ”

"No!"

What Wei Han said is not unreasonable, because the light cavalry in this world is developed at present, and at the same time, the archer and cavalry shooting technology have not been developed, so there are many ways for the infantry to counter the cavalry, especially the formation of the bow and arrow as the core and the long pole weapon as the defense.

One of the most typical tools is the "horse-drawn carriage", which is a kind of two-wheeled, one-person can push and pull the car, the rear of the body has a "plow", a bit like a large-caliber artillery to stabilize the hoe of the gun body, used as a cavalry block, as long as you let go of the plow, there are copper nails under the plow, and you can fasten the carriage with the ground by stepping on it.

When transporting, the car can be stacked with baggage, or empty. It is best to have empty carriages, especially the army with a very light burden of baggage transportation, and it is very happy to bring hundreds or thousands of such carriages, and once the cavalry is found, immediately surround the infantry with the carriages, and then hide in the circle to defend the cavalry, and shoot with bows and crossbows in turns, no amount of cavalry can be defeated.

This tactic is similar to that of Li Ling in the Han Dynasty in that year, with 5,000 crossbowmen and heavy vehicles as a barrier, to defend against tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry, and then killed the Xiongnu on their backs.

In addition, the main tactics of the cavalry nowadays are assault charges, which are not as good as the Huns, and in the case of good vision, large-scale cavalry can be easily found, plus there are scouts, so there is time for the infantry to organize a defensive line.

Therefore, the lack of cavalry and archery skills makes it very troublesome for the cavalry to deal with prepared and organized infantry in formation.

Of course, if in a frontal field battle, the infantry on both sides attack and kill, out of the defensive circle and organization, the cavalry will crush the infantry without suspense, or the cavalry has an absolute numerical advantage, and it is okay to rely on hard and rigid to break the enemy formation, but at the same time, it may also be because the enemy formation is tightly defended, and they have also suffered heavy losses, which is the disadvantage of light cavalry without archers.

At the same time, the group cavalry bullied the single class, especially the infantry with swords, without the cover of bows and crossbows or long weapons, and could almost be hanged.

While Ji Chang ordered the army to hide on the spot and wait for battle, the Xian army led by Zhao Xun kept hurrying all the time, but the time to camp was very early every day, and basically Zhao Xun hurriedly set up camp without waiting for dark.

The camp is also very particular, first let the accompanying vehicles form a circle on the spot, then the crossbowmen are on standby, the others wait for others to set up camp, and finally take the carriage back to the camp, and today is no exception.

After settling down and camping, he was not in a hurry to bury the stove to cook, but waited for dark, and while he began to bury the pot and cook intensively after dark, let the generals of each battalion start to insert spears, bamboo thorns, and wooden thorn piles in a planned and orderly manner according to the plan agreed in advance, waiting for the Jin cavalry to raid.

The reason why the Jin army was expected to attack tonight was because the army was Yin Yangcheng, who left after last night, and the scout sentry of the Jin army must have been nearby.

If you wait for tomorrow, the army will be able to join the Xian army in Feicheng in the afternoon, so I didn't do it during the day today, because I was afraid of the defensive formation of the Xian army, and the Jin army would not have too many cavalry, so they were waiting to rob the camp at night.

So the Xian army set up a large camp and waited for a short time after dark, and the Xian army buried the pot to cook and secretly planted a horse gun to resist.

This refusal to insert the rifle must be particular, the first can not be inserted in the periphery of the camp, otherwise it will be discovered. Second, it can't be pierced conspicuously, so you have to do it secretly in the dark. The third, and most important, directly determines the lethal effect on the cavalry, which is the "repelling horse gun formation".

The repulsion rifles must be arranged in a regular and orderly manner into an arrangement that is conducive to the killing and wounding of the cavalry and to the movement of their own infantry to annihilate the enemy, and at the same time, the cavalry cannot give the enemy cavalry a chance to retreat and turn back after rushing into the rejecting rifle formation, and these are the key factors.

If you can't make the Jin cavalry completely fall into the rejection of the horse and gun formation in one breath, it is possible to slip away.