Hearing Zhang Xiu's description of Zhu Wei's cavalry, it did attract Xiahou Yuan, Cheng Yu and others.

Although the cavalry in this era did not belong to the regular establishment of the army during the Three Kingdoms period like in TV and movies, the power of the cavalry was still enough to attract the attention of heroes everywhere.

Especially when Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Iron Cavalry was also discussed by the princes of the Eighteenth Road, the heroes of the world saw the strong combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Cavalry.

"Liangzhou horses, rampant all over the world", is also the praise of later generations for the Xiliang Iron Ride.

Now because Dong Zhuo is dead, his remnants of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry are split in the hands of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Xiu and other northwest warlords, and the once powerful Xiliang Iron Cavalry has gradually lost its original combat effectiveness, so the Xiliang Iron Cavalry seems to be gradually looked down upon.

But in the future, with the rise of Ma Chao, the prestige of Xiliang Tieqi will spread in Guanzhong again.

In the original history, Ma Chao once relied on the might of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to fight Weishui with Cao Cao six times, and the Cao Cao who killed him cut his beard and abandoned his robe, and fled in embarrassment, which shows the strong combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Cavalry.

Of course, it can be deduced from this that the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang cavalry originally commanded by Dong Zhuo will definitely not be weak.

However, the fighting method of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry still relies on the charging power of the cavalry, allowing the cavalry in full iron armor, holding spears, to break into the enemy's military formation and forcibly break through the enemy's defensive line.

In history, Cao Jun had a sigh-like description of Ma Chao's soldiers and horses, the elite of the horse army, accustomed to spears, rushed over together, like a stormy wave, if there is no selected striker in the headquarters, it cannot be stopped at all.

Therefore, it can also be analyzed that Ma Chao and other Xiliang iron cavalry should be cavalry units accustomed to using spears.

And when the Xiliang cavalry went out to fight, it was like infantry gathering into a dense cavalry corps to charge at the same time, and for a time it was also ten thousand horses galloping, and at the same time rushing towards the enemy army formation, so that the enemy infantry army formation had an unrivaled feeling.

Only the strong-willed elite soldiers can stand firm in the face of such an offensive, and then block the cavalry surprise attack with the help of spears and shields.

But now the archers trained by Zhu Wei are using the Mangu tactics of the Mongols, and they will never be stupid to break through the enemy's military formation, and will only rely on arches and arrows to shoot and shoot, with the main military purpose of shooting and killing the enemy's living forces, and using bows and arrows to defeat the enemy's military formation.

Therefore, depicting it from the perspective of Zhang Xiu, who is good at commanding the Xiliang cavalry battle, naturally makes Xiahou Yuan, Cheng Yu and other Cao army generals here curious.

Now Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry is estimated to have not been trained, but Cao Cao's side also has cavalry as an auxiliary force, but Cao Cao's cavalry has also learned the collective raid tactics of the Xiliang cavalry, and will only pull up to raid the enemy's army formation at a critical time, or use the speed of cavalry in the middle and late stages of the war to raid the enemy's chaotic army formation and pursue the enemy's fleeing army.

However, this tactic also means that the cavalry needs to rush hard every time, so with every battle, there will definitely be great casualties.

The casualties of the cavalry can be replenished by the population, but if the war horse is lost, it is not so easy to replenish it.

But now Zhang Xiu's depiction of Zhu Wei's archer seems to have brought a new tactical means to the cavalry, if such a tactical means are used, maybe it can really give full play to the speed of the cavalry and reduce the battle damage of the cavalry horses.

In particular, Zhu Wei's side can actually pull out an archery army of more than 10,000 troops, and can actually form a cavalry army that fights alone, which shows that the cavalry using this tactic seems to be able to change the cavalry from an auxiliary force to a regular army.

In this way, Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu, senior generals and military advisors with a certain status in Cao's army, of course, need to pay attention to them.

Regardless of whether their side could replicate the archers trained by Zhu Wei, at least they needed to know some information about Zhu Wei's archer troops, so that they could find restraint on the battlefield in the future.

"General Zhang, according to the general, Zhu Wei's cavalry archers seem to be mainly guerrilla and not good at attacking fortifications? Well, that doesn't seem like a cause for concern! ”

Cheng Yu didn't know what to think, but on the surface, he seemed to belittle the role of Zhu Wei's archers, as if he had seen through the flaws of these archers.

"This ......, if this kind of archer cavalry is used to storm the camp, there is indeed less threat, but if both sides are fighting in array on the plain, it is indeed more difficult to deal with, unless the cavalry pursues and guards, otherwise it will be continuously harassed by this archer, and there is a dilemma that cannot be fought or defended!"

Zhang Xiu listened to Cheng Yu's statement, recalled his situation when facing Zhu Wei's archers, but did not completely deny Cheng Yu's statement, Zhu Wei's archers are indeed not good at directly attacking cities and military villages guarded by camp walls and fortresses, but if one side is arrayed in the field and does not have this kind of wall protection, it will feel very headache.

In particular, these archers are light horses, and the burden of weapons and equipment on their bodies is very light, so they will run much faster on horseback.

And Zhang Xiu's Xiliang Iron Cavalry is wearing iron armor, holding a spear in his hand, and his body weighs at least two or three hundred catties, so the burden of the war horse is heavy, and the horse speed naturally cannot be raised, and it lacks lasting combat effectiveness.

So when Zhang Xiu took the Xiliang cavalry to fight against the archers led by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, Zhang Xiu's Xiliang iron cavalry was still able to rely on the iron armor on his body at first and was not afraid of bows and arrows, and pursued the archers who threatened Zhu Wei's side, but the two sides chased and killed for a while, and then it was the archers of Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan who in turn chased and killed the Xiliang cavalry who lacked physical strength.

Zhang Xiu didn't say anything about this here, but the circumstances he had already said were enough for Xiahou Yuan, Cheng Yu and others here to sketch a scene of archers fighting their own army formation in their minds.

"Well, Miaocai, it seems that if our army breaks through Bowangpo, in the Nanyang Basin Valley, we should be careful of these Zhu Wei's archers! However, the old man is also strange, where did Zhu Wei get more than 10,000 war horses? ”

Cheng Yu thought about it but didn't dwell on the matter of Zhu Wei's bow ride, since this kind of thing can't be dealt with right away, then go back and think slowly, you can always think of a countermeasure.

So Cheng Yu's mind changed his mind, but he focused on the source of the war horse on Zhu Wei's side.

After all, Zhu Wei's power was developed in the south of the Yangtze River, so if the war horses needed to form more than 10,000 cavalry troops were added to the loss of training, how many war horses were needed to maintain such a cavalry establishment of more than 10,000 people.

Cheng Yu, as a military advisor beside Cao Cao, of course knew that the money needed to form a cavalry was at least several times that of ordinary infantry, but now Cheng Yu didn't believe that Zhu Wei would spend so much financial resources on a light cavalry......