Civilizations with backward science and technology advocate "idealism" in the military field, that is, they believe that man will win over heaven, and even think that as long as people's will is firm enough, even if they send countless people to meet bullets with their bodies, and exchange corpses and mountains of blood for victory that is not a victory, it is a victory.

Only civilizations that are leading in the field of science and technology can create a balance between "idealism" and "weaponism", they are well aware of the importance of will, and they are also committed to developing better armaments to arm their armies.

The empire attached great importance to the cultivation of the intellectual field, and also devoted itself to the development of better armaments, and then armed the mind with the flesh at the same time, and embarked on a rumbling pioneering road.

The three hundred cavalry who formed the trident were not blind, they naturally found themselves on the flanks of two enemy cavalry waiting for the opportunity to move, and in response to this, one of the arrows in the trident was separated, and this arrow pounced directly on the two enemy cavalry, and the remaining two arrows raised their crossbows and fired crossbow arrows when they approached the enemy infantry about 280 meters.

The crossbows equipped by the envoys are mainly high-range crossbows with strong penetrating power, and only a small number of crossbows with short range and insufficient penetrating power are equipped. It is strange that such a situation will occur, after all, the envoy group has to go thousands of miles away, and it is already difficult enough to maintain the gunpowder in the team, and other supplies must know how to make trade-offs, so crossbow arrows can be saved naturally to be saved.

The crossbow arrows shot by the fierce ~ rushed into the Hu infantry team, and the slender crossbow arrows did not lose their kinetic energy after penetrating the body of one person, but were inserted into the body of the second person with the blood of the first person.

Two hundred cavalry shot crossbow arrows, even if two hundred of them hit the target and penetrated the second person, that was also caused by four hundred kills, in fact, not every crossbow arrow can hit the target, in fact, the damage caused is definitely not more than two hundred, in the face of thousands of Hu infantry, such damage is not serious. But in many cases, it is not only the lethality, but also the psychological endurance of the enemy.

The Hu infantry who were shot by the crossbow arrows, they listened to the screams of their comrades in their ears, and saw the crossbow arrows that shot through one person and hit the second person.

The hundred cavalry did not even have a contact battle, just a round of crossbow arrows defeated thousands of Hu infantry, Han Xin and Yu Fanjun, who were in the formation, glanced at each other, and the two could see a trace of surprise in each other's eyes, as well as the undisguised contempt for the Hu people.

The Hu infantry fled. It's a pity that they are not far from their own camp, and there are fewer imperial cavalry who charge, otherwise they will be able to chase and kill at the tail and chase all the way into the Huren camp, and they may really be able to stage a big drama of the horse and the joint camp.

"Forget it, no matter how wasteful the natives of the Western Regions are, it is nearly 200,000 people, and killing them may cause chaos, but it will be difficult to come up with them." Yu Fanjun saw that Han Xin was a little nervous. Persuaded: "Deal with the cavalry outside first, and see if there are any other opportunities." ”

Han Xin suppressed the unwillingness in his heart and looked at the battlefield again.

On the battlefield, several armies of cavalry from both sides were cruising and chasing each other. Occasional brief contact is greeted by crossbow arrows and bows flying back and forth.

There is always a scene in the picture of arrows flying, the crossbow arrows fired by the Imperial cavalry can shoot a large number of Hu cavalry, but the bow of the Hu cavalry towards the Imperial cavalry cannot penetrate the armor at all.

Bingjia is a soldier's life support on the battlefield, Lu Zhe's consistent thinking is. He spent a lot of money to protect his soldiers as well as possible, and he thought that if a soldier could survive many battles without injury, the armor he built was definitely worth it. Because a soldier who has been unwounded many times will develop a deep confidence in repeated battles, such a soldier can be fearless and fierce in the face of the enemy.

In fact, there are some things that can be explained by numbers, the cost of training a soldier, including the value of a veteran, is definitely much more than a set of armor.

"It's a scoundrel, their soldiers have armor on them, and they also have vests at the front of their horses!" Scarface hesitated inwardly: "The subordinates have finished at least four hundred people, and if you lose more...... No matter how much I am paid, my weak strength will inevitably be swallowed up, and I will not have my name in the future. ”

The word "remuneration" seems to have just appeared? That's right.

Maudun plundered many forces in the Western Regions, and the gold and silver treasures obtained are difficult to calculate. He spent a lot of money on horse thieves, bandits, and some easily bribed tribes in the Western Regions, and used them to besiege the imperial envoys who took the initiative to enter the valley.

The people of the Western Regions who besieged the envoy did not have a strong desire to fight, and that was because they only needed to besiege the envoy to complete the mission. In this way, if they can break through the defense line of the envoy group, they can rush in and plunder, they will naturally sell their lives, but if they find it difficult to break through, it is not worth it to fight the premise that they have already been paid. This is the reason why although there are more than 200,000 people surrounding the envoys, they can meditate if they can meditate, and if they can't meditate, they will also be dealt with.

"The enemy has the intention of retreating, so let the troops on the left flank give up long-range fire and get close to the hand-to-hand combat to bite an enemy army." The corners of Han Xin's mouth hooked and said, "Let's annihilate them all in front of everyone." ”

Yu Fanjun skimmed what he wanted to say and held back, faithfully carried out Han Xin's order, and blew the horn himself.

"Woo woo woo-" in the sound of the horn, several imperial cavalry that have been cruising and archery sounded the horn in response, they changed their previous posture, when facing the enemy army, they changed to a diffuse shot and then drove the horse melee combat, the Hu cavalry seemed to have no reaction for a while, or the imperial cavalry was happy to hear about the melee battle, and the two sides immediately met head-on.

Amid the sound of horses' hooves, an Imperial cavalryman with his bow and crossbow very easily picked up the cavalry spear that was lying diagonally on his thigh and Takahashi's saddle, and then raised the cavalry lance diagonally forward, the eyes behind the visor staring ahead, as if looking for the first target.

In contrast to the Imperial cavalry, which charged with their spears in their hands, the Hu cavalry brandished their weapons and shouted something in their mouths, and both sides were trying to increase the speed of their horses as much as possible, hoping to grasp the advantage of speed.

Cavalry combat is inseparable from speed, cavalry and cavalry battles, whether the horse under the seat is warmed up and in good condition is related to how much strength it can exert, and how much impact should be after contact.

The two sides touched, roaring horses' hooves. The crunchy sound of some wood appeared frequently, and each crunchy sound of wood could bring a miserable cry or muffled snort, and the Hu cavalry who were stabbed by the spears fell off their horses like dumplings, and whether they were killed or not after falling off their horses, they could not escape the fate of being trampled into meat by the horses' hooves.

The Imperial cavalry with broken spears drew out the extended saber placed on the side of the horse, and they hardly needed to wield the saber deliberately, they only needed to swing the weapon horizontally, and the sharp saber would achieve the purpose of killing under the effect of the speed of the horses on both sides.

The Empire's ordnance advantage is once again on full display in close combat, because of the superiority of ordnance, the Imperial cavalry is not even able to encounter a weapon that comes straight to the point. Otherwise, they simply ignore the slashed weapons, and the source of their confidence is the plate-like armor on their bodies, and the bronze sword cut by the enemy can only leave a scratch on the plate armor, which cannot be broken at all. Since they can ignore most of the attacks, the Imperial Cavalry can naturally focus on the attack output.

"Blind their good horses." Yu Fanjun looked at the battlefield where the contact battle had already taken place, "tsk" a few times, and said: "Some of the war horses of the people of the Western Regions look good, don't you ...... It's not just good, it's just much better than our war horses. ”

There's no way around that. The Western Regions is located in the middle of the Far East and Central Asia, and can obtain war horses from Qingtang or Hetao, as well as war horses from Central Asia and India; There are so many places in the Huaxia region that can produce horses, such as the grassland outside Yanmen Pass, the Hetao area, the Longxi area, and Yuyang in eastern Liaodong. These horse-producing areas are relatively majestic in the war horses produced in Longxi, and the horses produced in the rest of the places are honestly very ordinary in appearance.

"Charging war horses, long-distance rushing war horses, heavy war horses......" Han Xin recited a lot of nouns in a row. Then he said: "Every kind of war horse has its purpose, and for us, what we need more is the long-distance Hetao horse. ”

The Hetao horse is the current name. In the future, they will also be called Mongolian horses. This horse is average, and can even be said to be relatively short, but there are few beings that are better than them in long-distance endurance.

The envoys had to travel long distances for I don't know how many, and the Hetao horses had great endurance for long distances, especially because their feeding was very simple, which was very important to them.

"Hmm......" Yu Fanjun certainly understood those truths, and he kept nodding: "The empire wants to form a complete equipped heavy horse, a person's weight plus human armor, and the war horse must also wear armor, and the weight is definitely more than one ton, so it needs a heavy-duty war horse, which not only needs to be qualified for load-bearing capacity, but also very strict for short-distance charging ability." ”

"West Pole...... Oh, and you can pick a few out of the Wusun horses. In fact, what I like more is the heavenly horse from Wanguo, in my opinion, there is no horse more suitable as a war horse for the assault cavalry......" Han Xin didn't want to say the latter words, he thought to himself: "I don't understand why the master has to build tons of mounted heavy cavalry, judging from the enemies encountered so far, the assault cavalry is actually enough?" ”

Is this really what Han Shin thinks? No, it's quite really, no. At present, there are already countries that have developed mounted heavy horses, and among the known countries, Seleucus and Parthia have their own equipped heavy horses.

Seleucid's Heavy Rider is a type of armor that wears chain mail or something, which is an almost complete set of chain mail that can only be worn from behind with some wires, so you need someone to help you put it on or take it off.

Belch...... Then again, as long as it's heavy armor, which one doesn't need someone to ......help put it on, hey, it's wrong again, there is no need for help with the heavy armor of the Song generation, but the heavy armor of the Song people is made of paper......

The paper armor of the Song people? The word "paper" gives the impression that armor made of paper must be a trick project, and there will not be many extended ideas such as defense, but the fact is not this wrong impression. In fact, the defense of the paper armor made by the Song people is very amazing, and the most important thing is that it is very cheap, but it is only on a rainy day......

In view of the staggering annual military expenditure of the empire, the ruling government has repeatedly complained bitterly, and Lu Zhe reminded him that the ruling government has begun to study paper armor, and it is conceivable that there will be soldiers wearing paper armor in the empire in the future.

A country's ordnance reflects the country's overall national strength, the smaller and poorer the country's ordnance is, the more rudimentary the country's ordnance, only a country with strong national strength has enough resources and financial resources to study and install fine armor.

There is no doubt that the empire is very abundant in terms of resources (materials) and financial resources, so in the past ten years, due to Lu Zhe's paranoid request and repeated expansion of the military industry, the main battle corps of the empire has basically been equipped with armor.

"There is absolutely a need for the existence of the appropriate number of equipped heavy horses, and it is hard to imagine anything to stop them." Yu Fanjun didn't know what a tank was, but he knew very well what the power of a tonnage heavy rider would be when it collided with speed. He said: "The military's continuous expansion to the west is, in a sense, a journey to find good horses, and we have obtained good horses in the Western Regions, and the good horses of the Western Regions have been passed from further west, and it is hard to imagine what kind of horse breeds exist further west." ”

A war to find a good breed of horses? In the era of cold weapons, it was not uncommon to wage war for a BMW, after all, the role of cavalry is obvious, and having better war horses can form better cavalry, everyone understands this truth.

Han Xin and Yu Fanjun were slowly moving the horses, and at the same time, they were also frequently looking at the battlefield.

In several contact battles, the Imperial cavalry was a minority side, but the collapse was without exception the indigenous cavalry of the Western Regions.

For the people of the Western Regions, who had almost no armor and the weapons in their hands were also made of bronze, they really felt that it was too unfair for them to fight. The weapons they swung out could only leave a trace on the opponent's body, but the weapons swung by the opponent were so sharp that they could split people in half without much force, so how could they fight?

Cavalry battles, unless it is a terrain factor, it is not easy for one side to completely annihilate the other, the cavalry of the natives of the Western Regions is defeated because they want to flee from their camp, Han Xin is not ready to charge today, so he can only collect his troops and return to the camp in a daze.

"If these natives are like this...... Yu Fanjun chuckled, "Maybe it's really time to step on the joint venture." ”

Han Xin looked thoughtful...... (To be continued.) )