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Usha Castle.

Wusha Fort is located at the northwest end of Huaihuang, which is the northwest gate of Huaihuang and one of the border fortresses. This castle fortress was built with nearby black sand stones, so it was named Wusha Castle, which guarded the throat of the Hu people in the south, and had an important military strategic position. He not only guarded Huaihuang City, but also served as the northern barrier of Shuozhou Yunnei, and pointed directly at the southern end of the important passage in the south and north of the desert. It was once a town fort under the six towns set up in the strong period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Yi Feng rose up Huaihuang, expanded the armament, built a fortress fortress, Huaihuang army expanded all the way to the northwest to the old Wusha Fort, and then rebuilt a stronger Wusha Fort.

Since Yi Feng rebuilt Wusha Castle, the Huaihuang army used this as a base to continuously sweep the surrounding nomadic tribes, so that the Wusha Castle, which was three hundred miles away from Huaihuang City, expanded to the north for another hundred miles, and there were no strong nomadic tribes around the hundred miles, making this hundred miles of land a buffer zone between Huaihuang and nomads.

Because Wusha Fort is located in the northwest of Huaihuang, if the Hu people enter Huaihuang in the east and occupy Wushabao, they can attack and retreat and defend, go deep into Yunshuo or Huaihuang, and come and go freely. And Yi Feng occupies Wusha Castle, not only can he stabilize the wilderness, but also if he wants to seek Mo Nan, or even attack Mo Bei, Wu Sha Bao can also become an advance base. Therefore, the important position of Wusha Castle has been valued by Yi Feng, and Huai Huang has continuously strengthened his strength in Wusha Castle. Today's Wusha Fort has become the base camp of the Huaihuang Cavalry, and at the same time, the defense of Wusha Fort has also been greatly improved, forming Wusha Fort in the middle, and there are three Acropolis fortresses on the periphery to form an isosceles triangle to defend Wusha Castle.

After Yi Feng went north to face Tiele back to the division last year, he began to operate the northwest front, especially with Wushabao as the core. This fortress built with black sand stone is far beyond the ordinary fortress, it is a small city with a circumference of eight miles, there are eight open doors, each has Weng City, arrow tower, and built a corner tower enemy tower arrow tower fort, also dug a moat ditch, outside the city also dug a lot of deep irregular pits densely spread around the outside of the city. The city is four feet high, and elite soldiers are stationed in the camp. In particular, there are three guard forts built on the periphery, each of which is only 20 miles away from Wusha Castle, and the circumference of each of these three guard forts is five miles. In addition, Yi Feng also asked the sappers to dig secret passages between the three forts and the Wusha forts, and between the four forts, each fort had three secret passages leading to the other three forts. In the event of an enemy, each fort can be supported by the other three forts, and even when the enemy is overwhelmed, it can be reinforced through the guò secret channel.

If the enemy attacks any of the forts in Wusha Town, the troops of the other three forts can help each other and attack their backs.

Although Wusha Fort is three hundred miles away from Huaihuang City, the solid defense of the four forts of Wusha Town can greatly increase its ability to resist and fight, especially here is not only a heavy army, but also a training base camp for the Huaihuang cavalry, with many soldiers and a wide range of generals, making this place a nail firmly nailed to the northwest of Huaihuang. If the Hu people want to attack Huaihuang, they must first take this fortress, otherwise the Turks dare to go deep into Huaihuang, then the elite soldiers of this town can cut off its grain and grass, attack its back, and annihilate the enemy in the future under Huaihuangliancheng. In fact, outside of Huaihuang City, there is not only Wushabao Town, Yi Feng surrounds Huaihuang City, and has built several such strong defensive fortresses around Huaihuang City, such as Wild Fox Fortress, Monolith Fort Fortress, White Horse Fortress, etc., which are part of the entire Huaihuang Defense System, and can also form a separate defensive array.

As for Wusha Castle, which protrudes from the grassland, Yi Feng has considerable trust in its defense capabilities, and the reason why Huaihuang Cavalry is also very trusted.

The most elite soldiers and horses in Huaihuang, the Huaihuang cavalry.

Since Yi Feng stabilized Huaihuang and won the victory of going north to fight Tiele, Sanfan was attached, and Yi Feng vigorously expanded the cavalry army, and finally formed the Huaihuang cavalry army.

After Yi Feng entered Beijing, he appointed Li Jing as the chief instructor of the cavalry, helped him train the cavalry, and led the cavalry with Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Zhang Jincheng, Wang Fubao and others. Although the Huaihuang Army has a large establishment, it also has different emphasis. The field army is a combat unit that Yi Feng focuses on, and in the field army, a qiē soldier armor ration, personnel selection, the cavalry can always get special care, not only all the brave and capable fighters in the army will be given priority to be selected into the cavalry, and even the salary is much higher than that of other troops, and the equipment is also an excellent supply cavalry. The distribution of trained officers and sergeants in the lecture hall is also inclined to the cavalry.

It can be said that the field army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army, and the cavalry army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army.

The expansion speed of the Huaihuang cavalry is also quite amazing, from the initial only one regiment of cavalry, to now, the Huaihuang cavalry has formed a second cavalry army, and obtained the military horn given by Yi Feng himself, tiger wings, eagle Yang. These two cavalry armies even had their own artillery units, engineering units.

From the expansion of the third cavalry battalion into the cavalry army, and then to the division of the cavalry army into two armies, the expansion of the cavalry army was faster than any soldier and horse in Huaihuang.

Since the control of Yanshan and the attachment of Sanfan, the source of war horses in Huaihuang is abundant, especially the prosperity of Huaihuang border city, which makes a large number of livestock pour into Huaihuang, and the price of war horses has also been declining. The Huaihuang army does not need to raise their own horses, they can get a large number of war horses from the Huaihuang market, and the Huaihuang army can select the best military horses from them and send them to the Huaihuang military horse farm for training, and then continuously supply the best war horses of the Huaihuang cavalry.

For the Huaihuang cavalry, they never lacked war horses, nor did they lack excellent war horses.

Each cavalry army had three war horses, one main war horse, and two spare war horses. In addition, the cavalry was equipped with a large number of camels, horses, mules and donkeys.

Although the Huaihuang Cavalry were not heavy cavalry, they were not light cavalry in the ordinary sense. In view of the characteristics of the Turkic cavalry, which is dominated by light cavalry and not equipped with heavy cavalry, and the Turks are good at riding and shooting, and are good at horse fighting and charging, and are also very brave in close combat, the equipment of the two cavalry armies, Tiger Wing and Eagle Yang, is also targeted.

The Tiger Wing and Eagle Yang cavalry abandoned the traditional iron and leather armor, and instead equipped the 100-forged steel plate cuirass, which as the name suggests, consisted of a large piece of steel plate armor on the chest and behind the chest, while the arms and thighs gave up the armor, and only wore silk battle robes, they wore steel helmets, and the horses were painted with tiger stripe leather armor, and the legs were stabbed-proof heavy boots, plus a silk gold arrow-proof heavy cape. The core component of this set of equipment is the breastplate, which is smooth and shiny, slightly arc-shaped, bright as a mirror, and each breastplate is engraved with a tiger on its chest, so this breastplate is also called the tiger mirror armor, and some people directly call it light armor, mirror armor. This breastplate armor is extremely strong and has great resistance to arrows, but it is far lighter than expected, and it is made of steel instead of iron, which makes it much stronger and thinner. However, after the cold forging of the hydraulic forging machine, the light and thin steel plate armor is extremely strong, far exceeding the defensive power of the heavy armor weighing fifty or sixty catties or even seventy or eighty catties. The polished steel plate cuirass lined with cowhide is actually only sixteen catties, which is even lighter than a set of leather armor.

The cavalry was equipped with sharp cavalry knives, plus spears, short swords, crossbows, round shields, and javelins. These cavalry since the beginning, has been strictly taught, the power of cavalry lies in the cluster charge, not alone, even the way of fighting the cavalry is very different from the traditional cavalry way, they do not force the roundabout battle, running and riding and shooting, the ultimate goal of their training is to train the cavalry like infantry can be arranged in a neat queue at any time, using the maneuverability of the cavalry, interspersed with roundabouts, flank assault, and finally with a neat cavalry array, launch a cluster array impact, rolling and slashing the enemy.

Allowing cavalry to train to fight in the same position as infantry is indeed extremely demanding, but the effect is indeed very good. The cavalry who have been stationed in Usha Fort for training, have gone out to fight many times, and they have learned that even if they are not fully proficient in this cavalry array charging method, they can also cut down the Turkic cavalry who are more skilled than them.

However, Yi Feng also equipped these two cavalry armies with special engineer battalions, baggage battalions and artillery battalions, especially the artillery battalion, equipped with a large number of heavy crossbows, car crossbows, and even bed crossbows, as well as catapults. With the engineers, they can quickly occupy favorable terrain on the battlefield, and then set up horses to resist horses, dig ditches, trap horse pits, sprinkle iron thistles, build earthen walls, and set up camp fences, so as to better cooperate with the cavalry to fight, so that the cavalry can attack and defend, and be invincible.

For a well-informed traverser like Yi Feng, he knew that even if he had enough horses, if he wanted to compete with the Turks in cavalry, it would be difficult for him to train a cavalry that could compete with the Turks in a short period of time, not ten or twenty years. Therefore, this also shows that if the traditional cavalry combat method is used, that is to say, the Turkic cavalry combat method is used, the student will never be able to defeat the master. Yi Feng can't use the Turkic tactics, he has to use his own tactics. The Turks were naturally fierce and skillful in horsemanship, but they lacked discipline and obedience.

Cultivating elite cavalry is a very difficult thing, even if many people join it. The cavalry of the Han Dynasty was once sharp, but that was because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established a standing cavalry army in Chang'an, and also raised a large number of horses among the people, and at the same time, those good families in the Guanzhong area also practiced horseback archery since childhood, which not only guaranteed the source of war horses, but also guaranteed a reliable source of cavalry.

But even if there are excellent war horses and excellent cavalry sources, it will take a lot of time. Yi Feng didn't have that time, so he could only use other ways, in addition to riding against riding, he could also use foot to ride, but with foot to ride, it was extremely not simple, he had to have elite infantry, use a solid infantry formation, and most importantly, he had to have a strong bow and crossbow, plus a car formation, so that he could fight against the cavalry. To deal with cavalry, there are too many shortcomings in the spear formation, and the bow and crossbow are the real killing moves. It's a pity that they have a natural disadvantage when they are on foot, and if they win, they can't pursue, they can't expand their results, and if they lose, they will generally be wiped out.

Yi Feng didn't expect that he would be able to produce a cavalry as strong as the Turks right away, nor did he expect to be able to destroy the Turkic cavalry by relying on infantry.

What he could do was to combine cavalry and chariots, use chariot formations, infantry formations and even cavalry formations, and even arrow formations, crossbow formations, and artillery formations together, and use compound tactics to fight against the single cavalry tactics of the Turks.

Huaihuang's longbow is very powerful, but unfortunately it is difficult to train longbowmen, so in Huaihuang, a place where the Han and Tibetan people are fierce, only a small number of suitable longbowmen can be selected, and more longbowmen can only be trained for a long time. Crossbowmen are not very demanding, but crossbows are expensive to manufacture and are as troublesome as bows. Yi Feng focused on cavalry, that is, he took a fancy to the favorable conditions for Huaihuang to establish a cavalry army, and at the same time equipped them with a sturdy xiong cover, a sharp cavalry knife, and a javelin-man crossbow, Yi Feng gave this cavalry a different tactic. Maintain the formation, always maintain the cavalry formation, use the array to deal with the fierceness of the Turks, the individual strength against them, and use the overall superiority, in the infantry and chariot army, with the cooperation of sappers and artillery, to drown them.

Tiger wings, eagle Yang, each army has more than 15,000 people, under the jurisdiction of three cavalry battalions, one baggage battalion, one engineer and artillery regiment, 10,000 pure combat cavalry, and more than 5,000 logistics support personnel.

Yi Feng is very satisfied with the two cavalry in his hand, Yi Feng has read the report of the equipment department, according to Yi Feng's requirements, the equipment department has worked day and night, and now finally equipped the two newly established cavalry armies with various armor weapons.

These two cavalry have experienced a lot of wind and rain, many battlefield battles, after he entered the Beijing period, Li Jing, who was in charge of training, did not live up to his expectations, with a unique way of actual combat training, constantly sent the cavalry out of the castle, deep into the grassland, and the nomadic tribes to fight, one battle after another, the nomads were driven out of the northern boundary of Huaihuang for more than 100 miles, during which there were several battles of more than 1,000 people, each time won very beautifully, and the casualties were very small.

Soon after Yi Feng left Taiyuan and entered Hebei with the captured belongings of Yang Liangfeng, he received news of the Turkic invasion.

Hearing the news, Yi Feng quickly whipped up his horse and immediately rushed to Youzhou. At the same time, he immediately mobilized all the departments of the Huaihuang Army, as well as the soldiers and horses of the governor's mansion of Youzhou Prefecture, to prepare for war in an all-round way and prepare to meet the enemy.

On the third day of the third month of March, Yi Feng met a messenger asking for help from Heng'an Town, Shuozhou, Hedong, and reported that the Turkic army had broken through the Great Wall, entered Shuozhou, and was besieging the two cities of Yunnei and Heng'an. Heng'an Town's general Li Yaowang asked Yi Feng to send troops to rescue quickly!

In the evening of the same day, the military intelligence department sent back an urgent military information, and Du Yan, the governor of Shuozhou, sent 3,000 reinforcements led by Zhao Zhongqing in Yunnei, was ambushed by the Turks in Qingliang Mountain, south of Yunnei, and his headquarters was besieged. Zhao Zhongqing led his troops to fight fiercely for a day and night, the whole army was wiped out, all were killed in battle, and no one survived! R1152