In this era, horses are the main driving force for agricultural production, transportation, and military activities, especially in military activities, and well-trained war horses are undoubtedly an important strategic resource. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand the habits of horses in this era. Guo Bin once instructed Zhang Shiping to set up a horse research laboratory in the three cities outside the Saiwai to study the habits and living habits of horses, and now it can be regarded as being used.

The horse's sense of smell and hearing is extremely sensitive, its nose is a very strong organ of information perception, it mainly relies on the sense of smell to understand external things, the so-called old horse knows the way, to a large extent, it relies on the advantage that the horse is familiar with the smell of things easy to receive; Although the sensitive sense of hearing allows the horses to hear strange sounds early when they are eating or resting, in order to avoid the attacks of fierce carnivores, it also makes them extremely sensitive to loud noises, which are extremely painful adversity stimuli that can frighten horses.

In addition to this, the horse's visual system is an organ with a very poor ability to perceive information. Its visual system is similar to that of a frog, and its visual perception of static objects is much less than that of dynamic objects, which allows it to see hare scurrying out of it, but not to notice the poisonous snake lurking underneath its feet. This ability allows it to detect the wind and grass around it in time to avoid the killing of large predators, and it is also one of the most important reasons for its frightening.

The horse-riding people on the grassland have grown up on horseback since childhood, and they naturally know a lot about the habits of horses. Therefore, in the process of training the horse, there is no need to "yell at it", and for a well-trained war horse, it will obey as long as there is a slight command. However, the more demanding military horses need to be trained for a long time, and they need to be reviewed and strengthened frequently. In addition, for many overly sensitive military horses, in order to reduce the stimulation of the audio, it is often necessary to wear earmuffs to reduce the chance of startling the horse.

The Xianbei people relied on war horses to dominate the grassland, and their familiarity and training of horse habits were naturally in place. And the 10,000 cavalry under Helian is the most effective and disciplined among the Xianbei people, and his training of war horses is far beyond the reach of ordinary Xianbei people.

However, when the Xianbei people went south to herd their horses, they usually had to ride three horses per person, two of which were horses used to carry supplies and ride, and the rest were really well-trained and well-trained war horses. Moreover, for these extremely sophisticated war horses, Guo Bin has already had a corresponding strategy.

Yes, in this battle, Guo Bin's target was not the Xianbei cavalry, but the horses. One man and three horsemen naturally allow the horses to run without fighting, thus saving horsepower, and once they encounter an enemy on the march, they can quickly change to the war horse and enter the battle state as quickly as possible.

In such a small environment in the Thang Long Valley, there are three times as many horses, and most of them are poorly trained. In this case, once the horses are disturbed, it is not something that can be controlled by man.

Imagine what a spectacular spectacle it would be to put a firecracker in the middle of the horses.

The sound of firecrackers stimulates the horse's auditory system, the flying firecrackers stimulate the horse's visual system due to the extreme speed of their explosion, and the smoke of the firecracker explosion that pervades the battlefield stimulates the horse's sensitive sense of smell. The best horses of these Xianbei tribes are either trained so that they will not be affected by the sound of fighting on the battlefield, and even many of the horses will wear earmuffs, so that the sound of firecrackers will not have too much impact on the horses, but you can't also blindfold the war horses, and even cover the mouth and nose of the war horses, right?

Besides, even the long-trained war horses can stabilize to a certain extent, but what about the more than 20,000 horses that are not so elite? There were more of them, and when they saw the firecrackers flying down and exploding, they had to shake their hooves and shake their heads, and the high-class war horses, which were originally quiet and well-trained, were affected, and naturally they could no longer keep calm. After all, livestock are not humans, they are people, and there will be stampede accidents.

Therefore, as a hanging firecracker fell in the bush of war horses, the neighing of war horses, the sound of horse hooves kicking, the sound of firecrackers, and screams were endless. Many of the elite Xianbei cavalry were kicked by their horses before they saw the ambushed Han soldiers, and many more stepped on the thistles on the ground when they were dodging the kicking of the horses, and the entire soles of their feet were pierced when they landed, and they could not participate in the battle for a short time.

It was not only the soldiers who stepped on thistles, many horses also stepped on them during the dance, and the long thorns that pierced the horses' hooves made the horses kick even more frantically in pain, which made the narrow Thang Long Valley more chaotic. And when Helian's nearly 100 guards came back to their senses and wanted to escort him to break out of the valley mouth, from the slopes on both sides of the valley mouth, many grass balls that were lit with black smoke more than one person high suddenly rolled down, blocking the road to break through tightly.

Wang Yun, who had been watching the battle behind Guo Bin, saw the tragic situation in the valley, and jumped to his feet with excitement, and he said to Guo Bin: "The talent of the hidden sun is far better than An Pingjun back then. ”

Su Shuang was surprised to hear it, so he asked, "I don't know what kind of allusion An Pingjun is?" ”

Guo Jiadao: "The so-called Anpingjun refers to the famous minister Tian Dan in the Warring States Period. When the king of Yan Zhao, Yan broke Le Yi and broke Qi, and there were more than 70 cities in the lower Qi country, all of which were divided into counties and counties belonging to the Yan country, and only Ju and Jimo were not subdued. Le Yi believes that relying on force alone to break through its city and not be able to convince it, and if the people are not convinced, even if they occupy all the Qi country, they will not be able to consolidate it. On the one hand, he besieged Jucheng and Jimo and did not attack, and on the other hand, he bought people's hearts in Qi, wanting to fundamentally disintegrate the Qi country. ”

Su Shuang sighed: "No wonder they all say that Le Yi is good at fighting, and he really deserves his reputation!" ”

Guo Jia smiled and said, "It seems that Master Su has been reading well recently. ”

Su Shuang smiled slightly awkwardly and said, "Where is it, it's still far away." ”

Guo Jia was just joking with him, so he continued to explain: "This Tian Dan was originally the Shi Peng (petty official in charge of the market) in Linzi, the capital of Qi, and after Linzi was captured, he was able to lead his people to escape to Jimo by protecting the axle with iron sheets. Dr. Jimo was beheaded in battle, and Tian Dan was promoted to the city guard. ”

Hearing this, Su Shuang said: "This Tian Dan is a character. ”

Guo Jia nodded and said, "Tian Dan first showed weakness to paralyze the Yan army, and then used more than 1,000 cows, horns and sharp blades, and a reed soaked in oil at the tail, and a colorful dragon pattern coat. One night, the order was given to light the oxtail reeds, and the oxen rushed to the Yan camp from dozens of channels pre-dug at the foot of the city, followed by 5,000 strong warriors, and the soldiers and civilians in the city beat drums and shouts and cheered. Yan Jun saw that there were knives on countless horns in the firelight, and the monster that was on fire behind him rushed straight towards him, and he was panicked. The warriors of the Qi army took advantage of the situation to rush and kill, the soldiers and civilians in the city followed closely to help the battle, and the Yan army seized the road to flee for their lives, trampling on each other, and countless people died. Tian Dan led the army to pursue the victory, and the people of Qi also armed to help in the war, and soon drove the Yan army out of the country, recovering more than 70 cities of lost territory. ”

Su Shuang exclaimed: "Oops! Tiandan's fire bull array is only a few thousand brute cattle, but now there are nearly 30,000 war horses in the valley! Is this plan called the 'Fire Horse Array'? ”

Listening to Su Shuang's "Fire Horse Array", how awkward it sounded, everyone in the observation post couldn't help but wonder. Sure enough, he was born as a businessman, and this metaphor is too crude. But vulgarity is vulgarity, and the meaning is still right. Guo Bin's idea was to use his strength to fight, with the help of the power of the Xianbei people's own war horses, to make the entire Xianbei army fall into chaos, and then it was the time for the whole annihilation and the elite of the company.

Just when the Xianbei army in the valley gradually restrained the war horses and the situation in the valley gradually stabilized, many clay pots were thrown down on the top of the mountain. Seeing this, a group of Xianbei soldiers stretched out their weapons one after another, but with the sound of the altar shattering, they heard Mr. Qin, who was crawling under the Helian car, exclaimed: "Oh no, it's fire oil!" ”

Before the words fell, I saw rockets shooting down on the mountain, and once they were stained with oil, there was a fire in an instant. This is really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, the two armies fought, before they saw the appearance of the enemy, they were killed and wounded nearly half, this is indeed a great blow to the morale of the army, but the so-called dog jumped over the wall, let alone people?

These most elite soldiers of the Xianbei tribe have never bombed the camp when they are faced with such a desperate situation, which has to make Guo Bin's evaluation of these Xianbei soldiers go up a notch. I saw that they were gradually gathering together where there was no fire, with leather shields on their heads, and moving forward under their feet to avoid stepping on thistles. Until now, except for a few unlucky ones who were trampled by the horses or directly kicked to the vital parts and died, most of these Xianbei cavalrymen who were proficient in equestrianism relied on their familiarity with the horses to escape the catastrophe of death at the very chaotic moment at the beginning.

However, although their lives are not yet in danger, they are inevitably wounded large and small, and at this time of life and death, they still have the strength to fight again.

Watching this round of means pass, the Xianbei cavalry in the valley still stubbornly gathered together like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, they were divided into four teams, two of which were responsible for attacking the valleys on both sides, and the first and last two teams were responsible for removing the obstacles at the valley mouth.

The Xianbei soldiers who stormed the valley on both sides could say that they had taken advantage of the territory, and the slopes on both sides of the valley were also covered with thistles connected by wires, just like the barbed wire fences that appeared in the First World War. This kind of sharp weapon is used for defense, and it is really suitable.

However, the Xianbei soldiers on both sides of the valley mouth are not to be underestimated, although the soldiers in the valley were cut into several sections by the fire, but there are still nearly 1,000 Xianbei soldiers at the end of the Xianbei army have not entered the valley, they cooperate with the soldiers in the valley to work together, with sandbags to extinguish the fire blocking the valley, it is not a laborious matter. At that time, once the encirclement is broken through a gap, it will be really difficult to trap these elite Xianbei cavalry.

Moreover, the situation there was also very urgent, and he was accompanied by highly trusted personal guard soldiers, and their equipment was much better than that of other Xianbei soldiers. Coupled with the appeal of Helian as a Xianbei Da Shan Yu, it is not impossible to break through the valley and rush out in one go.

All of a sudden, the entire line of defense seemed to be porous.