For the armored cavalry that Pei Cai organized, Tao Kan felt that it was useless, and it purely made Jun Qian burn more......

Because the input and output of that thing are completely disproportionate, so much money, if not wasted on armored cavalry, is enough to arm three or five hundred light cavalry, or thousands of infantry.

Of course, it's not that the so-called armored cavalry is just a showmanship, and it can't be fought at all, one is as a "new" type of troops, and the relevant tactics and training are not yet systematic, maybe only Pei Gai knows how to use it, and the other is that the number is too small. If there are more than 300 cavalry, and they are put into the battlefield at a critical moment, or they can turn the tide of the battle to a certain extent, then Tao Kan may not be rejected--it is not my money anyway-the problem is only fifty cavalry, even if they can fight again, how much use can they be?

Especially in the plains, the big formations collided, between thousands of troops and horses, even if these fifty horses were iron bullets, thrown into the ocean, could they still stir up different waves?

But since Pei Gai sent someone over and asked, "Do you need me to have armor and ride into battle?" Tao Shixing always had to give Shangguan'er face, and he couldn't say it directly: "That thing is useless, you can keep it yourself." He frowned, couldn't help but think about it, and immediately pointed out: "Please send your armored cavalry quickly and rush into the enemy formation." ”

At this time, the forwards of the two armies had just broken away from physical contact, Liu Xun led the Hu cavalry to go around to the north of the Jin formation, and the Qiang miscellaneous cavalry turned to the south of the Jin formation, and arrows were still thrown from time to time. Tao Kan hurriedly ordered the "Pengshan Battalion" to reorganize the queue, and the auxiliaries lined up on the left and right to cover the two wings, while the scattered "Lifeng Battalion" retreated to the side of the formation and tried to assemble again. In front of the Hu army, the foot soldiers were surging, but the Jin formation did not completely collapse, and they could not just rush over with their blades in one breath, and when they were about two arrows away, they gradually slowed down, and then under the reprimand of the generals, they reorganized the military column.

Since the cavalry has not completed the unfinished rush of unpreparedness, the following has to rely on the frontal fight between the infantry knife to knife and gun to gun.

Tao Kan means that he can send armored cavalry to advance to hinder the enemy's formation, leaving himself more time to complete the team. The Xuzhou army, especially the regular soldiers, is very high-quality, Tao Kan has been deeply aware of this expedition, from Xuzhou to Henan, and can't help but secretly praise Pei Yuanjun for looking like a weak scholar, and he doesn't want to be a genius in the training - it doesn't seem that Zu Ti taught him, and theoretically Wenxi Pei has no family history...... So as long as you are given enough time and the military formation is complete, the front of the Xuzhou army can resist twice as many Hu soldiers!

Of course, the other party is not only a foot soldier, but also a cavalry, not to say that a complete array can be planned......

Both sides are only a stone's throw away from each other to reorganize the column, the so-called "battle after battle, the art of war is constant", everyone knows that if they can hinder the enemy's formation, when the time comes, the battle will be completed against the remnants, and the chances of victory are very great, but under normal circumstances, troops will not be sent to harass them head-on. Because the other party will definitely order the archers to "shoot the position" first, and you rush head-on, isn't that a gift for nothing?

Under normal circumstances, if there is cavalry, it will gallop out from the left and right, harassing the enemy formation, and now the Hu cavalry is several times larger than the Jin army, which must have taken a big advantage. Tao Kan considered that if Hu Qi was allowed to gallop, only a few arrows fell into the formation from time to time, it was enough to contain the energy of the Jin army, so that the speed of the formation was forced to slow down, if I didn't plan and disturbed the other party, I was afraid that the balance of victory would be completely tilted.

But how do you harass the enemy? Thankfully, Pei Gai mentioned "armored cavalry", which made Tao Shixing's eyes light up - you see, even waste is valuable, as long as it is used in the right place, it can also be used.

The armored cavalry harassed the enemy frontally, and had two advantages: first, he was a cavalry after all, and his charging speed was fast, which could catch the enemy general off guard, and there was no way to defend him; Second, everyone should focus on ...... In the middle armor, the horses also have a certain degree of protection, not only in the face of the rain of arrows have a higher chance of survival, but also after rushing into the enemy formation, they will not be stabbed by spears on all sides in a short period of time, stabbed into hedgehogs.

If there were 500 armored cavalry here, Tao Kan would not have to complete the column, he would just call the armored cavalry to rush over in a row, and the infantry would follow from behind. It's a pity that there are only fifty horsemen......

Naturally, it is impossible for Tao Kan to just send these fifty horsemen out, even if the men and horses are all wearing heavy armor, all of them are warriors who can rival a hundred people, and the "armored horse" really reaches the strength that Pei Gai imagined, and the fifty horsemen are put into tens of thousands of steps, and there is only one word "death" left. Tao Kan sent the armored cavalry to the front of the conflict, and three hundred foot soldiers and three hundred archers followed, thinking that he was not a suicidal charge after all, if all the fifty armored cavalry were thrown here, none of them would come back, Pei should have to be in a hurry with him.

The arrangement was established, and at the sound of an order, the armored cavalry slowly galloped out of the gap between the two formations, and only then came out of the formation, scattered left and right, and then knocked the horse's belly with both knees, changed his steps to galloping, and the long lance was flat, and collided with the Hu formation. The distance between the two formations is only more than a stone's throw away, and when converted to the scale of the later generations, it is only one hundred and fifty meters, even if it is a war horse carrying an armored samurai, it will run in ten seconds at most! Even if the opponent's archers have already set up arrows and aim them, they will fire them immediately after the enemy cavalry enters range, until the enemy steps on their own formation, they can only cast two arrows at most...... And the archers in the formation are not allowed to shoot freely, they must follow the captain's instructions and shoot at the same time, so basically-

The armored cavalry pressed directly into the Hu formation, and the opponent only had time to fire one round of arrows, and there were only a few of them, and only two percent of them were easily blocked by the knight with a small shield in his left hand.

Fifty horsemen walked side by side, the pace was unified, the sound of horses' hooves was not mixed, as if beating drums, and the sound of "all of them" shook the four fields, and the two formations could be heard, and the tremor of the earth could be felt. Such a majestic force is really amazing, Tao Kan looked at the formation, and couldn't help but smile, very confident to disrupt the rhythm of the opponent's formation.

However, what he didn't expect was that seeing that the armored cavalry was already close to the enemy's formation, and even the two knights who were slightly in front had already stabbed the long lance in their hands into the chest of a Hu soldier, suddenly, the surrounding Hu soldiers shouted, and they actually threw down their weapons, turned around, and fled in embarrassment...... One person was cowardly, and the whole army was involved, and in an instant, the front of the Hu army had completely collapsed - and at this time, the sword and shield men and archers who were responding behind the armored cavalry had not yet been able to enter the range of the opponent's archers.

A mere fifty cavalry armored cavalry can make ten thousand people easy? Tao Kan's eyes widened, and he almost fell off his eyeballs, and he said in his heart, Could it be that I misunderstood the envoy, he spent a lot of money to assemble this armored horse, is there really a wonderful thing that is difficult for us and other ordinary people to understand? Does this thing have the might of a ghost or the aura of a weak enemy?

Urgently asked the cronies beside him: "What are they shouting about?" ”

A cronie with a better ear replied: "It seems to be shouting-Xianbei people are coming." ”

The corners of Tao Kan's mouth couldn't help twitching.

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Chinese scholars generally do not know about foreign races, and they are too lazy to understand, so they know very little about the internal affairs of Hu and Han Kingdoms, and even fewer are recorded. Pei Gai originally knew very little, not to mention Tao Kan and other southerners, but since he surrendered Hu General Liu Guang, a lot of inside information has been revealed from his mouth, and a lot of clues have been clarified.

Naturally, he had also arrested some Hu prisoners before, and Pei Gai had also mixed in the Shile army, but the advantages of Liu Guang were that he had read books and had a certain amount of knowledge, so he would not take rumors of rumors as real things; The second is that he was once the adopted son of Liu Dan, although he is not a nobleman, but he can match with the aristocratic circle - fortunately, he is only on the top, if he is really a Hu Han nobleman, maybe he will deliberately fake it in order to show off his background......

The Jin people generally called the northern ethnic groups "Hu", or simply called the Xiongnu "Hu" - the Xiongnu was the big Hu, and the other tribes were small Hu and Zahu - it was believed that the descendants of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu established the Hu Han State, and at the top of its regime were the Xiongnu royal family, and the nobles under it were the miscellaneous Hu...... Actually, it's not like that.

Pei should refer to Liu Guang as Hu, and Liu Guang will admit it; If he meets Liu Guang's adoptive father Liu Dan, Pei Gai will also refer to him as Hu, and Liu Dan will inevitably be angry: Why am I Hu? You are Hu, your whole family is Hu!

This is not because of the word "Hu", because the establishment of the Hu and Han States was originally Tuge, not the Xiongnu, they instead called the Xiongnu and Di, Qiang, Qian, Xianbei, and even Lu Shuihu, Dugu, Tiefu, and Ganlu, etc., and called "Liuyi" - here the word "six" is many, not that there are only six kinds.

Probably starting from Liu Yuan's father Liu Bao, or a later generation (Liu Xuan's contemporaries), and the state Tu gradually usurped the real power of the Southern Xiongnu, and then tampered with the hereditary lineage, pretending to be the royal family, and finally established the title of respect in the era of Liu Yuan. It is a false rumor that the Xiongnu "slaughter each is the most noble, so it has to be single, commanding all kinds", in fact, slaughtering each is the rest of the Han Dynasty, originally just a less conspicuous tribe in the grassland ethnic association headed by the Xiongnu, neither the real Xiongnu, nor necessarily noble.

Many people in the upper echelons of the Hu and Han Kingdoms are quite sinicized, and they don't like the word "Hu", plus they understand that they are not Xiongnu, so they no longer call themselves "Hu", but will say "Tu Ge", or refer to the country name, calling themselves "Han people" and "Huang Han". The real "Huang Han" refers to the Tu clan, as well as the former Southern Xiongnu royal family allied with it, most of whom followed Liu Yuan and took Liu as their surname, such as Liu Dan, Liu Xun, Liu Ya, etc.; There are also different surnames, such as Huyan (i.e., Huyan), Xubu, Helan, Qiulin, etc., of the old noble races of the Xiongnu.

Of course, it is not that the surname Liu must be the "Emperor Han", for example, Liu Guang, he is a genuine Xiongnu, that is, a Hu person, who was adopted by Liu Dan as an adopted son, and his surname is Liu. There is also Liu Hu, who was stationed in Shuofang Luchuan, who was originally the leader of the Tiefu tribe, because he surrendered to Liu Cong, Liu Cong treated him like a clan, and specially gave the surname Liu - Liu Hu was the great-ancestor of Helian Bobo, who later established the Huxia Kingdom, Helian Bobo tampered with and forged the lineage according to the convention, and even said that his family was Shan Yu, and the ancestor was the right virtuous king of the Southern Xiongnu in the Three Kingdoms era.

- Oh, after you Liu Yuan pretended to be the Zuo Xian King, I was not allowed to pretend to be the Right Xian Wang?

Pulling back to say that the Hu Han State adopted a tribal partition system, with the Han and Wei bureaucratic systems governing the Chinese in the territory, and the government center was Shang Shutai, which was currently in charge of the affairs of Xiangguo; With the nomadic tribal system governing the "six yi" in the territory, the government center is single in Taiwan, and the head is naturally a big single in Taiwan. Tu was theoretically led by the emperor himself, but in fact he also belonged to the Xiangguo; Most of the forbidden troops came from Tuge, the most well-equipped, the most well-supplied, and naturally the strongest cohesion and combat effectiveness.

The "elite of the Hu army" that Pei Gai said actually refers to the slaughter of the soldiers of the tribe, or more precisely, the slaughter of the tribe and the Xiongnu nobles, that is, the soldiers and horses of the "Emperor Han" - Liu Cang previously led the south to cross the Yellow River, and then fought fiercely with Zu Ti in the east of the Yellow River, mainly these troops. As for the people that Hu Yanyan later brought into Henan, in addition to some of the Di and Qiang, and even the miscellaneous horses and miscellaneous steps of other ethnic groups such as Tiefu and Ganlu, there are more ordinary Huns - that is, the Zhenhu people - and the former Jin people, as for these big Hu, small Hu, and attached Hu Jin people, what is their combat effectiveness......

With the same number and command, it can basically be on par with the armed killings of those dock forts under Zu Li.

The so-called Hu people are afraid of Xianbei, mainly referring to these big Hu and small Hu, who are often regarded as human flesh sandbags in the first line in the confrontation with the Xianbei army, especially Tuoba Xianbei, and purely rely on quantity to make up for quality - the real Tu each elite soldier is not necessarily afraid of Xianbei people.

This time, Liu Xun led his troops to attack the Xuzhou camp, and the first 2,000 cavalry were Tuge, and their combat effectiveness was very strong; The three thousand horsemen behind are miscellaneous horses, which belong to the archers who are not good at melee hand-to-hand combat; In the end, followed by the 10,000 or so foot soldiers, the Huns, Zahu, and Hu Jin people had everything, and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak. Therefore, when Tao Kan ordered fifty armored cavalry to rush into battle, the power was unknown, but the momentum was terrifying, and many foot soldiers who had met with the northern Xianbei cavalry were frightened and shouted: "Xianbei people are coming!" "Throwing down their weapons, turning around and fleeing, fear is contagious, causing the front army to collapse in an instant.

If Tao Kan took this opportunity and ordered the infantry to follow up quickly, he would have won the chance to win, but unfortunately, although Tao Shixing was a famous general, he was not exhausted, for example, only fifty armored cavalry could cause such a big panic to the enemy, he did not expect it at all, so he reacted a beat slower. However, Liu Xun on the north side was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly led the cavalry to rush over, and shot at Xuzhou's armored cavalry with random arrows - you have to take these guys down first, even if you accidentally hurt your own people, you can't care so much!

After all, these "armored horses" are semi-finished products, not heavy armor all over the body, especially on the horses, but they are just covered with some felt, only some leather is pasted on the front-facing parts of the face, neck, chest, etc., and the arrows are fired from the flanks, when even if more than a dozen horses are hit by arrows, they neigh, and those horse knights often fall to the ground and can no longer support themselves to get up.

One is too heavily armoured, and the other may have been crushed by the mount. Just as the Song Dynasty has "Persuasion Yongwen", it is said that the Jurchen iron horse has five things that are easy to kill, and the second one is: "The horse is not up to it, and it is easy to kill!" ”8)