"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

One soldier after another raised his spear in the air, and the roar shook the sky.

The voices of the five thousand soldiers gathered together, startling away the birds in the woods several miles away, and even the inhabitants of Jiangyi City ten miles away could hear the faint sound.

Guan Yu and Xu Huang looked at Liu Fan next to them, their every move seemed calm, and every word could stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers, which was the real style of a general.

"Finally, I will send you another word." Liu Fan was silent for a moment, and then said word by word: "The three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman cannot win the ambition; Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind? ”

Princes and generals, rather have a kind! Chen Sheng and Wu Guang said this sentence to stimulate the anger of the people, and it was a very rebellious word.

And Liu Fan connected these two sentences to motivate the ambition of soldiers, no one is born with a good life, princes and generals, as long as they have ambition, they can come out step by step.

The future is made by one's own struggle, the fate is grasped by oneself, and opportunities will only be left to a small number of people, the most courageous and ambitious people.

After saying this, Liu Fan dismissed the soldiers and let them go to their respective training. Liu Fan believed that even if most soldiers were illiterate, they could understand the meaning of Liu Fan's words.

Hedong Anyi.

Outside the Mansion of the Marquis of the Pavilion of the Western Qin, a well-dressed, majestic-looking, and well-groomed young man stood there, this young man seemed to be only about twenty years old, but anyone who looked at him at first glance would think that he was a humble gentleman.

The young man handed over the name thorn to the nursing home at the door, and said: "Yingchuan Xun Yu heard the good name of Liu Fan, the Marquis of the Western Qin Pavilion, and he came to make friends!"

Xun Yu liked to make friends with celebrities when he was young, and when he was in Yingchuan, he heard Liu Fan's compassion for farmers, and he admired Liu Fan's heart of worrying about the country and the people, and Liu Fan's prestige and reputation for helping the homeless, so he came thousands of miles to visit Liu Fan.

At this moment, Xun Yu has just succeeded in his studies, and he has not made friends with so many celebrities, and befriending Liu Fan is just his first stop after winning the crown.

The guardian returned the famous thorn to Xun Yu, and said respectfully: "The head of the family went to Jiangyi as early as a month ago, and now he is Sima of a county, leading 5,000 troops, guarding Jiangyi and guarding against the Huns."

"Dare to ask where Jiangyi is, I'll go there." Xun Yu asked the nursing home.

"If you go north to Fenshui, it's not far away!" The nursing home replied.

These days, the people who came to visit Liu Fan went to Jiangzhiqiu, but when they heard that Liu Fan went to Jiangyi, they all knew the difficulty and retreated, and the nursing home didn't expect the young man in front of him to have such a heart.

After Xun Yu thanked the nursing home, he got on his horse and headed north. He is not fast, and he has the bearing of a literati.

"Yun Chang and Gongming have a way for infantry to deal with cavalry!" When the crowd dispersed, Liu Fan raised this question. It is now the beginning of November, around December, this section of the Yellow River in the Fenping Plains will usher in the ice period, as the temperature becomes colder and the ice thicker and thicker, the Huns will step on the ice. Liu Fan was stationed here, and an encounter with the Hun cavalry was inevitable.

"You can form a phalanx with long contradictory cards, with all the spears on all sides and shields all around. Like a hedgehog, defend against enemies. Xu Huang said.

Spears and bows and arrows have been effective methods of resisting cavalry throughout the ages, and have had many successes, especially bows and crossbows, if there are thousands of bows and crossbows to form an arrow array, it is simply the nemesis of cavalry in the field.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, his enemies Western Xia, Jin, Liao, Mongolia, etc. were mainly composed of cavalry, and the Southern Song Dynasty has been winning more and losing less in the process of resisting foreign invasion for a hundred years, mainly relying on bows and crossbows.

"The spear formation is too passive, if it is defeated, it will be like a mountain, even if it wins, it will not be able to expand the results, and can only watch the enemy leave; If the enemy is a good general, he does not choose to rush into battle, chooses to encircle and annihilate, and drags it down to run out of food and water, and the whole army will be wiped out. The cavalry could lose ten times, but the infantry had only one chance. "Although there have been cases of this tactic in history, it is not advisable to lose more and win less.

The cavalry is fast and slow against the infantry, and it can also use the impact of the cavalry. Ten horsemen are chaotic and hundreds, and one hundred horsemen are more than a thousand. This is summed up by history.

Hearing Liu Fan say this, Xu Huang and Guan Yu fell into deep thought. Against cavalry, the infantry had only one chance. Xu Huang and Guan Yu kept this sentence in mind. And be more cautious in future battles.

"How about a crossbow?" After a long time, Guan Yu asked Liu Fan.

"A small number of bows and crossbows have limited damage to the cavalry, and thousands of strong bows and crossbows form an arrow array, as long as it is not a 10,000-horse charging formation, it is enough to break up a cavalry. It's a pity that our army has no more than a thousand bows and crossbows, and in winter, although it is impossible for many people from the Southern Xiongnu to cross the Yellow River, a thousand bows and crossbows are far from enough to deal with the cavalry. Liu Fan shook his head and said.

The speed of the cavalry's impact was so fast that according to the range of the bow and arrow, the average soldier could bend the bow up to three times. If the enemy exceeds 3,000, the consequences are unimaginable.

"In that case, if there is not much difference between the number of infantry and cavalry, the infantry will be defeated!" Xu Huang's face was solemn when he spoke.

"No, if the infantry equipment is better than the cavalry equipment, the system is stronger, and the war horses are equipped with enough food and water, it is not impossible to meet the cavalry in the field and win more with less." Liu Fan said confidently.

Liu Fan is not without a target, many of the infantry in the early Tang Dynasty were on horseback, wearing heavy armor, holding a Mo knife, after encountering cavalry in the field, Mo sword soldiers and archers all dismounted to fight, Mo knife soldiers in front, archers in the back. When the cavalry encounters the enemy, it will start to sprint from a distance of two kilometers, but it will end up in the face of the nine-foot-long, two-edged Mo sword.

The infantry is afraid that the cavalry will consume food and water with you, because the infantry can carry up to three days of food in battle, but the Modao army with horses is not afraid, he can carry as much grain and grass as the cavalry.

It was precisely because of the Tang Dynasty's leadership in equipment and tactics that the early Tang Dynasty was able to sweep the grasslands and let all countries come to congratulate.

"How is that possible!" Guan Yu and Xu Huang exclaimed in unison.

In their opinion, without the help of mountains and rivers, the same infantry and the same cavalry are not comparable at all. There is also the fact that since the infantry is equipped with war horses, it is cavalry, why should the cavalry dismount when it meets the cavalry, isn't it better to ride on the horse? They were full of questions.