(a)

When Xie Shuangcheng brought the peach blossom petals to you, you were already under the city of Qianzhou.

Qianzhou is also one of the ten major passes of the Southern Han Dynasty. Stationed here is Lei Shicheng's boss when he was young, and the veteran Zhuang Fuming.

Although Zhuang Fuming is a handful of years old, his thinking is not conservative at all. He sees the same thing as your hero, attaches great importance to the mobility of cavalry in battle, and is the general who is the best at using cavalry in the Southern Han Dynasty.

Qianzhou's strategic position is very important.

The population of Qianzhou is as many as 350,000, and behind the city is a spacious official road leading to the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, and there are large fertile fields in the Guanzhou, and the capture of Qianzhou is equivalent to opening the door to the hinterland of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the richest areas of the Southern Han Dynasty are all exposed to the hooves of the cavalry of the Northern Han Dynasty.

However, the Northern Han army has been in a stalemate here throughout the winter and has never been able to win.

When you arrive in the war zone, the war zone commander reports to you about the previous battle.

Throughout the winter, the Northern Han army launched a total of 15 attacks, losing more than 6,000 men and horses, and once captured the city of Wengcheng on the outskirts of Qianzhou, but finally lost it in repeated tug-of-war and fierce battles.

There are several reasons for the long-term attack: First, the Southern Han Dynasty heavily guarded the fortress, and painstakingly operated for many years, with more than 40,000 garrisons in the pass, well-equipped, complete troops, cavalry strength of up to 10,000 people, excellent mobility, fast horses, and first-class field combat ability. When the Northern Han army lured the enemy out of the city to fight, it did not take any advantage. The Northern Han army's attempts to cut off the supply lines behind Guancheng were also repeatedly thwarted by this cavalry unit.

The second is that all kinds of materials in the fortress are well stored, and it is backed by the largest granary area of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the supply line distance is very short, and under the protection of strong cavalry, the Northern Han army cannot successfully cut off. The Southern Han army threatened that even if it attacked under the city for 3 years, there would be no shortage of materials in the pass.

But the most critical reason is that General Zhuang Fu Ming commanded excellently and gave full play to the essence of cavalry tactics.

After analyzing the situation on the battlefield, the theater commander asks you to transfer more cavalry units from the northern front to fight Zhuang Fuming.

You say, "You don't have to travel so far. We now have enough troops to destroy him. ”

The commander said: "Now 7 percent of our troops are infantry, and compared to them, they are far inferior in speed and agility. ”

You say, "Infantry is equally invincible if it is used well." ”

Everybody is looking at you. In the minds of everyone, you have always attached importance to cavalry tactics and neglected the development of infantry.

You say, "But, not the infantry of the present." Moreover, the cooperation of cavalry is also indispensable. ”

You say, "I recently had a conversation with a merchant from the Western Regions who was in the business of weapons and medicinal herbs, and he said that the Western nations were very fond of using the power of hoplites when fighting on the plains. I was inspired by it. Perhaps, we can also learn it and use it to deal with Zhuang Fuming. Although General Zhuang has fought with us all his life and has rich experience, he may not have seen this kind of heavy battle formation of Western countries, and if he is taken by surprise, he will definitely deal with mistakes. ”

You say, "As long as he can't react for a while, we can destroy him." And after the elimination of Zhuang Fuming, under the shock, it will not be difficult to break through Qianzhou City. ”

(b)

The Battle of Qianzhou is a classic example of the most glorious infantry battle of your life.

In the face of Zhuang Fuming, who is also good at cavalry tactics, you decide not to fight strong against strong, but to fight hard, and you decide to attack his weakness: almost all of them use infantry tactics to defeat him.

In the Battle of Qianzhou, you used almost all the tactics that could be used in the Eastern and Western infantry tactics, making the tactics of this battle brilliant and an immortal battle that was the culmination of infantry tactics.

After the end of this battle, all the talk that you neglected the development of infantry and did not understand the tactics of infantry warfare disappeared.

The army of the former Northern Han Dynasty is truly convinced of you precisely because of the glorious achievements of the Battle of Bacheng, the Battle of Jingshuiguan and the Battle of Qianzhou on the Southern Front.

After the Battle of Qianzhou, your supreme and absolute authority in the Han army became unshakable, and the admiration and worship of your personal military genius by the Han army reached an almost religious level.

It was from the end of the Battle of Qianzhou that an unwritten rule was automatically formed in the new army of the Northern Han Dynasty, and when you were not present, if anyone mentioned you, the soldiers would spontaneously stand up and pay respect.

The Battle of Qianzhou is the beginning of your becoming a generation of war gods.

(c)

After the pre-war meeting in Qianzhou, you ordered 2,000 men with the strongest arm strength to be selected from the garrison under the city to form a special force alone. Then you enlisted all the blacksmiths in the nearby state capital, and created some strange weapons for the army of 2,000 people according to the patterns you designed.

When the samples of these weapons were sent for display, the generals of the Northern Han Army were all surprised.

The first weapon was a huge steel shield. The army of the Han nation has never seen such a huge shield in the history of its development for thousands of years. These shields are very thick, up to 1.7 meters high, 0.8 meters wide and 0.9 meters thick, with supporting feet and wheels that can be turned and retracted, so that no one can lift one arm for long.

While the generals of the Northern Han Dynasty were pondering how to use these shields, you gave them a demonstration, except when they were advancing, it turned out that these shields were usually used standing on the ground. When they stood on the ground, the infantry behind them was almost completely blocked. When a platoon of shields advances, the entire infantry unit will act like a movable steel castle, and no arrows and crossbows will be effective against it.

The second weapon was a thin-roded iron gun with a sharp, pointed head. This iron spear is shorter and lighter than a spear, but much more weighty than the strongest crossbow. Your generals weigh these spears in their hands, wondering why they are better than spears. You tell everyone that this gun is not for stabbing, it is for throwing.

To demonstrate its power, you have a strong bull in the kitchen ready to be slaughtered. You let go of the bull at a distance of 40 meters, and the bull, who had a premonition of the coming of the end, immediately ran wildly, at this time, you took a flying javelin in your hand, waved your right arm, and threw it out with all your might.

But with a whistling sound, the javelin flew 40 meters in the air and pierced the bull's body with a thud. The bull was so the side by the tremendous force of the javelin that it fell to the side, slammed into the ground, and smashed into a cloud of dust, killing him instantly.

The huge lethality of the javelin made all the generals stand up with a bang.

You say, "These are the two weapons we use to destroy the Zhuangfu Ming cavalry." ”