Of course, Yue Chuan knows how to make primitive firearms, and even with the assistance of someone, he can also create some special firearms before the war breaks out, such as relatively primitive mines and the like, which are used to ambush the Jurchen cavalry, but if nothing else, these means can only cause a certain degree of loss and hindrance to the Jurchens and cannot change the disadvantages of the entire Song army.

It's a desperate reality, a cold reality.

Yue Chuan worked very hard to find a way to restrain the Jurchen cavalry, looking for a way to restrain the cavalry, with only 30,000 infantry on hand, he could not trust the forbidden army, nor could he expect that he could get the help of the Western army, he could only rely on his own army that belonged to the Xiang army, and relied on the Jizhou army and the Qianzhou army that grew up by exterminating the bandits.

But they have never had the experience of fighting with cavalry, for this reason, Yue Tuo also used more than 300 cavalry in his hand, let Liu Tang lead the cavalry, let Chao Gai lead a thousand infantry, fight against each other, looking for a way to restrain the cavalry, but not surprisingly, all the cavalry won, Chao Gai's side was beaten all over the head, Yue Tuo couldn't help but worry, the strongest infantry general Chao Gai with his training of the elite guards are difficult to fight against only 300 cavalry, let alone the Jurchen's 100,000 iron cavalry.

Military formations, what other military formations can be used? Yue Pan had tried many military formations, and all the military formations in the military book had been tested, but under the assault of the mobile and flexible cavalry, the old and old infantry formations seemed very weak and helpless.

Looking back at the past history and looking forward to the future history, Yue Pan wants to find examples of the victory of the Chinese war against the nomadic cavalry, and expects to find inspiration from it.

Under the leadership of the Spring and Autumn overlord Qi Huangong, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Spring and Autumn States worked together to defeat the nomadic cavalry that invaded the hinterland of the Central Plains and expelled them from the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Then there was the battle of King Wuling of Zhao to counterattack the Huns, but that was a great victory won by Zhao Guohu after using hundreds of thousands of flying horses, and it was also a cavalry against cavalry, as for the great victory achieved by Li Mu later, that was to use the chariot array to trap the Hun iron cavalry on the grassland, surrounded a large circle, surrounded the Huns in it and released arrows, the Hun cavalry was defeated, and Li Mu won a complete victory, but such a battle and tactics, Yue Fu did not dare to use it, it was too fantastic, Li Mu's ability, Yue Fu thought that he was far inferior.

Later, the Qin State counterattacked the Xiongnu campaign, the prince Fusu led the old Qin Fei cavalry to break the 50,000 iron cavalry of the Xiongnu, and the Qin general Meng Tian formed a unique arrow array with 300,000 Qin troops, and almost wiped out the 500,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu in Hetao, but that cannot be said to be completely the credit of the arrow array, the Qin people who started raising horses were no worse than the Huns in riding skills and cavalry, and the army under the command of Meng Tian also had a lot of cavalry.

Later, there were only a handful of fierce men who could fight against the cavalry with infantry formations, Ju Yi in the Three Kingdoms era was one, and the white horse Yicong under his command who first landed the dead soldiers completely annihilated Gongsun Zhan, the white horse Yicong was a cavalry cavalry, light cavalry, flexible and mobile, and Ju Yi could actually rely on the infantry to completely annihilate this white horse Yicong, and he thought that his ability was extraordinary, but Yue Fu still didn't know the specific tactics, and only slightly understood that the first dead soldiers were heavy crossbowmen.

Later, even if it was Liu Gaozhi's Beifu soldiers and Liu Yu's Missing Moon Formation, they were the two most brilliant battles of infantry against cavalry, but they were limited by the terrain and weapons, as well as a good layout, which made the legend of the infantry annihilating the cavalry, and Yue Fu now has nothing, only what can be done is to build heavy crossbowmen, and under his command, he also trained a first-class soldier.

There are no muskets, no artillery, no powerful firearms, all Yue Flip has is a cold knife and gun, so, no matter what, Yue Flip also has to think of a way that can be used to deal with the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, the Great Song Dynasty is really a pity, Zhao Guangyi is really a sinner through the ages, and ruled the Great Song Dynasty with a diffuse literary atmosphere, and there has not been a strategist and military strategist who can be called a national warrior in more than 160 years, so that the problems in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China are still difficult when they are destroyed, and they still can't restrain the cavalry.

Even so, Yue Flip can also have gunpowder, have enough gunpowder, it's just gunpowder, gunpowder weapons Yue Flip can't make it, Yue Flip can't, he doesn't have such qualifications, he just knows artillery, he doesn't know how to make it, he just knows muskets, but he doesn't know how to make them, many things, he knows, but he won't!

Yue Chuan began to arrange for his subordinates to look for sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, and began to make the simplest gunpowder by himself, and then tried to put the gunpowder in a closed container, ignite the fuse, make the most primitive and simple bomb, and then add some iron pieces and nails to it to increase the lethality a little, that's all.

How helpless is this? Yue Tuo has never hated himself for not learning and not knowing how to do it as much as he does now, so what if he never forgets it? How much can you understand? It's one thing to remember to live, it's another thing to understand and learn, in the old days when there was the Internet, Yue Flip could even learn a lot of military knowledge in many ways, including the development history of Western muskets, there are very detailed production methods and schematics, but Yue Flip didn't look at it, he just felt that it was a very boring thing, and it was almost enough to see it......

It's almost the same, and when it comes time to use it, it's much worse!

Knowledge may not be able to change fate, but without knowledge it must not be able to change fate.

"Peng Zhan, we are so privately making gunpowder, I am afraid that the imperial court will find out, it is difficult to explain, after all, our establishment is counted as a box army, and the box army cannot use firearms." Fang Hao was a little vigilant and worried, and said to Yue Tuo, but Yue Tuo just shook his head, looked at the secret gunpowder workshop built in the mountain, and said: "You know here, I know, the rest of the craftsmen are all selected from my Yue clan's Xiangzhou Zhuang household, they followed the Yue clan from Xiangzhou to the south, named Zhuanghu, they are actually retainers, absolutely loyal to my Yue clan, and no one will leak the news." ”

Fang Hao frowned, and said: "Jin Yiwei has discovered a lot of traces of court spies during this time, presumably the imperial court is also worried about the unending war in Jiqian Erzhou, plus the imperial court has never sent a general judgment to Jiqian Erzhou, only you are the highest military and political chief, not in line with the ancestral system of the Great Song Dynasty, if you haven't been fighting, I'm afraid that a general judgment has already come, so you have to be careful!" ”

Yue Chuan said in a low voice: "Even if the general judgment comes, I am not afraid, why do you think I want to send troops to scatter to fight the mountain bandits?" The imperial court also passed the period of vigilance, and the doubts about me at the beginning were gradually dispelled, and they began to believe that I was enough to pacify the two states of Jiqian, in this case, how could the court let go of so many people in the two states of Jiqian? After all, in order to allow the imperial court to allow us to use troops, we also reported the population of Jiqian Prefecture. ”

Fang Hao frowned tightly and sighed: "Peng Zhan, you are also too tired, after Zhang Sanlang passed away, you have not stopped, you are busy, the affairs of the entire Jiqian Erzhou are almost finished by you alone, you must also pay attention to rest, after all, those talents under your command are not incompetent, they are all very capable, let them do what they should do!" ”

Yue Fu frowned and shook his head: "There are always some things that I have to do personally, and now is a very moment, I don't know when the northern enemy will go south, if the Hebei forbidden army can't parry, we will inevitably be ordered to go north, now I have to make enough preparations so that we will not be in a hurry until then, the northern enemy is mostly iron cavalry, what I lack most in the Great Song Dynasty is iron cavalry, and we only have three hundred cavalry in our hands, so we have to use any means to make up for such shortcomings." ”

North? Cavalry? Defect?

Don't......

Fang Hao's pupils shrank slightly, and he said slowly in a trembling tone that could not be detected: "Peng Zhan, where do you know what you know?" ”

Yue pursed his lips, and then said: "Zicheng, I won't hide it from you, I used to be a person with no ambitions, just thinking about living the life of a rich man, going to Jiangnan to find a peaceful place, a small town, to live peacefully, for a lifetime, but then I met a lot of people, I know a lot of things, those people are all ambitious people without exception, those things are all military affairs without exception, I began to find that I can't seem to do what I have always wanted to do."

Zicheng, I don't want to lie to you, I don't want to lie to myself, I'm afraid of death, I'm very afraid of death, I'm afraid of dying to a certain extent, and I even need others to sacrifice their lives to save me, I can survive, I hate myself like that very much, I hate that kind of me very much, I can't do anything, I don't do anything, I don't think about anything, I even just want to escape, I participated in the battle of Jiangnan, took the Jinshi examination, and came to Jiqian Erzhou, just so that when Hebei and even Jiangbei fell into the hands of the enemy, I could live in peace.

I have paid a lot for my selfish and stupid thoughts, and I don't know it, wholeheartedly seeking stability, seeking safety, and single-mindedly escaping, all the way to this point, Zicheng, didn't I ask you if there will be people in this world who are not afraid of death? At that time, you answered no, but I think there should be. ”

Fang Hao couldn't say anything.

"When they think that they will not hesitate to give their lives to accomplish something, people who are not afraid of death appear, whether it is good or bad."