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After inspecting the southern fortress, Wei Shuo began to innovate his tactics for future expeditions.

The reason for innovating the tactics was to deal with the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was born from a nomadic tribe, and the cavalry was quite powerful, and when it was at its strongest, it was known as controlling more than 200,000 strings.

Although the Northern Wei Dynasty is not as good as it was in its heyday, in recent years, under the leadership of Tuoba Jue, the country has grown in strength, and the army has reached 100,000 horsemen.

If Hexi wanted to defeat the Northern Wei and occupy Shuofang, he had to defeat the powerful Northern Wei cavalry.

Speaking of the most effective means of dealing with cavalry, it is natural to ride on horseback.

But with the current strength of Hexi, let alone arming 100,000 cavalry, I am afraid that it will be difficult to make up even 50,000 cavalry.

Cavalry is not like infantry, given a weapon, and with a little training, you can go into battle.

Cavalry needs riders to have skilled riding and archery skills, otherwise they will only be slaughtered by the enemy in a hurry.

"Let's talk about it, how should the Hexi Army deal with the Northern Wei cavalry on the battlefield in the future?"

Faced with the problems given by Wei Shuo, many generals such as Li Wei, Du Jin, Wang Zhenwei, and Fuqu Nancheng fell into contemplation.

Everyone is a veteran general in the army, so they naturally know that the cavalry is powerful.

It can be said that in ancient times, cavalry was equivalent to a tank in the modern army, with strong impact and high speed.

Under normal circumstances, the infantry encountered the cavalry and had almost no power to fight back except for being passively beaten.

"The cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty is indeed a big threat to the Hexi army, and the terrain around Shuofang and Hetao is flat and there is no danger to defend."

"If you don't plan early, once the Hexi Army encounters the Northern Wei cavalry, it is very likely to be defeated."

"Yes, there are only seven chambers of cavalry in Hexi, and the rest are infantry, and it is really a headache to encounter the Wei army, which is dominated by cavalry."

"Even if the cavalry is expanded now, it will be too late."

"It's really not possible, so I can only give in and mix the cavalry and fight together to deal with the impact of the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty."

"Foot and riding coordination is an inevitable choice, the key is how to cooperate?"

"According to the traditional tactics of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, the infantry is generally placed in the middle army, responsible for sniping the enemy cavalry head-on, and the left and right flanks are covered with light cavalry to outflank them."

"Isn't this the Moon Array?"

"Although the Moon Formation can be used against cavalry, the key Chinese infantry must be sure to block the enemy's cavalry in turn."

"Otherwise, once the Chinese army collapses, even if the cavalry on both wings outflanks are in place, it will be useless."

In order to train his subordinates, Wei Shuo sat on the main seat and did not say a word, but quietly listened to the discussions of the generals under his command.

After a long time, the generals gradually became unanimous.

Everyone unanimously decided to learn from the Liangzhou iron cavalry tactics and set up a moon formation to deal with the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"Okay, since everyone is optimistic about the moon formation, then please continue to check and fill in the gaps, and strive to be foolproof."

As soon as he mentioned the Moon Array, Wei Shuo couldn't help but think of Liu Yu, who would carry forward this array.

Historically, when Liu Yu was on the Northern Expedition, he relied on the Moon Formation and defeated the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty with only 2,000 infantry.

After this battle, the prestige of the moon array was greatly enhanced, and it was talked about by future generations, so that when it came to how to ride on foot, it must be said that the moon array.

However, Wei Shuo knew that Liu Yu could ride on foot and win more with less, and he did not just rely on infantry, but also had chariots and sailors to fight together.

In fact, it was a typical example of a coordinated operation between various armies.

In particular, the chariot soldiers played an important role in assisting the infantry in resisting the onslaught of the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

During the period of the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, with the invention of the stirrup, the cavalry equipment was perfected, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was increasingly enhanced.

There are even heavy armored cavalry among many Hu cavalry, such as the iron-armored chain horse under the command of the former Yan general Murong Ke.

Heavy cavalry has a strong protective and group impact power, and has an overwhelming advantage when making a frontal attack on unarmored light cavalry or infantry.

In order to restrain the onslaught of cavalry, some outstanding military strategists of the Han nationality, such as Liu Yu, boldly innovated their tactics.

Let the chariot soldiers, who had been eliminated from the game, shine again and become an effective means to deal with the Hu cavalry.

According to historical records, in the fifth year of Yixi (409), when Liu Yu invaded Southern Yan in the north, the Yan army resisted with 90,000 people, including "more than 10,000 iron horsemen".

After Liu Yu heard the news, he immediately ordered the army to walk, with "4,000 cars, divided into two wings, the square track Xu Xing, the car is open and mantle, the emperor holds the lance, and the light cavalry is the guerrilla." The military order is solemn and the ranks are neat. ”

When the Yan army's iron cavalry attacked, Liu Yu used this array to confront, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than noon, without winning or losing.

Subsequently, Liu Yu used a plan to attack Linqu (now Linqu County, Shandong Province), an important town in the rear, and defeated the Yan army.

As for how to strengthen the defense of the middle part of the Moon Array, everyone discussed for a long time and put forward many suggestions, but none of them satisfied Wei Shuo.

Just as he was about to tell Liu Yu's experience, he heard Zuo Sima Wang Zhen say evilly: "If you want to deal with the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty, I think that the Hexi army can learn from Meng Tian to break the battle of the Xiongnu. In the 33rd year of Qin Shi Huang, he sent the general Meng Tian to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and he broke the Xiongnu with 300,000 infantry, realizing the classic battle column of infantry riding. ”

Among the generals present, except for Nancheng, who was still confused, the rest of the people were all dazzled.

"In this shocking battle, the crossbowmen and chariot soldiers of the Qin army played an important role."

"Especially the chariots, it allows the infantry to rely on the flat terrain without having to face the cavalry onslaught."

"Therefore, the minister suggested that in the middle of the moon formation, chariots could be deployed to strengthen the infantry defense."

"Unlike cavalry, the cavalry does not need to be trained for a long time, as long as the right vehicle is built, the infantry can be put into use with a little training."

"Ah, Zuo Sima's words, let the mouth stop."

Wang Zhenxi's words seemed to open everyone's minds, and everyone spoke enthusiastically for a while. Among them, Du Jin specifically pointed out the crossbowmen.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Hexi is equipped with a lot of crossbowmen, but it has no other purpose except to play an important role in the defense of the city."

"I think there is still a lot of potential for crossbowmen to be tapped, for example, when the crossbowmen snipe the enemy cavalry head-on, the crossbowmen can completely give full play to the crossbowmen's long-range strike advantage behind the rooks and kill the enemy fiercely."

"The only thing to worry about is that the large bed crossbow is less mobile, requires a large number of livestock to tow, and requires the cooperation of many people when operating."

"However, it is believed that there is no need to use a large bed crossbow to defend the city in the field, and it is completely possible to equip a small and medium-sized bed crossbow."

"With such a combination of chariots and crossbowmen, are you afraid that you won't be able to stop the impact of the Northern Wei cavalry?"

"When the final counterattack is made, the elite Modao is the vanguard of the formation, and then the two wings are outflanked by light cavalry, even if the Northern Wei Dynasty has a large number of cavalry, what is there to fear?"

It was only at this time that Wei Shuofang got up and said: "Just now, everyone spoke freely and put forward a lot of useful suggestions on how to restrain the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty, laying a solid foundation for the future conquest of Shuofang." ”

"In order to further verify the effectiveness of the Moon Formation, Shuo decided to form a heavy cavalry of hundreds of sizes, as well as thousands of chariot soldiers."

"When everything is ready, a real combat drill will be held, and I hope everyone will not let me down."

"No!" The generals replied with a bang.

After the deliberations were concluded, the general's palace quickly threw itself into the formation of heavy cavalry and chariots.

The chariot soldiers are okay to say, after all, it is the leftover things that the ancestors played, and future generations only need to learn from each other's strengths.

So it didn't take long for the Ordnance Superintendent to come up with a sample - a van.

Thanks to the great development of the smelting industry, steel is no longer a scarce material in Hexi, in addition to meeting the daily needs of the people, it is also widely used in military equipment.

The van built by the ordnance supervisor is different from the wooden structure that Wei Shuo saw on the Internet.

Except for the movable door panel at the back, the other three sides are all iron armor, and the defense capability has been greatly improved.

The van has two wheels, which makes it much more maneuverable.

In peacetime, it can be used to load soldiers and supplies, and in the event of a battle, hundreds of chariots can quickly form a camp around the enemy.

As soon as the van was introduced, it was immediately welcomed by the foot soldiers, who believed that it would greatly enhance the maneuverability of the foot soldiers.

Wei Shuo was also very satisfied with this, and he immediately issued instructions to the Ordnance Superintendent, asking him to build a thousand vans as soon as possible.

After solving the problem of vehicle equipment, the heavy cavalry equipment is simple, after all, there are now heavy cavalry on the land of China, and you only need to use one or two for reference.