When the "Wang Liqun's Reading of Historical Records" in the Hundred Pulpits talked about this paragraph, Wang Liqun once said such a sentence, "Cavalry fighting infantry is a massacre!" ”

Han Fu actually knew that the cavalry was invincible on the battlefield, but he had no other way...... The terrible situation in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not occur overnight, and if it were not for the political turmoil, coupled with years of famine and drought, how could there be such a large-scale rebellion?

After several years of famine and turmoil, the population of the country has plummeted to less than one-fifth, and a large amount of fertile land has been desolate and dilapidated due to war and plunder, and there is not enough to eat.

Without a large amount of high-quality pasture and grain and other concentrate feed, it is impossible to feed strong war horses.

Moreover, during the famine, a large number of horses were directly slaughtered and eaten, and it was impossible to breed enough foals, even if they wanted to raise horses.

Even Han Fu, who commanded the entire Jizhou, only maintained a cavalry team of more than 800 people in total.

Moreover, most of Han Fu's military strength stayed in Jizhou, and he only ordered Pan Feng to lead a small part of the army to participate in the war...... The crusade against Dong Zhuo is small, and the key is to take the opportunity to annex the surrounding forces and expand on a large scale.

It's just that now that the banner of crusading against Dong Zhuo is held high, none of the princes dares to take the first step in infighting, otherwise they will immediately become public enemies.

And what Han Fu can't do, Xiao Qiuyu can easily do.

"Zhao Ji, I have something to do with you......" Xiao Qiuyu took the initiative to contact Zhao Ji.

"Ah, it turned out to be Xiao Banxian...... As soon as Zhao Ji saw Xiao Qiuyu take the initiative to contact him, he immediately said enthusiastically: "Thanks to you, I have already installed the batch of munitions you sent, and the power of these hot weapons is really powerful and terrifying!" With these weapons, my iron-blooded and strong Song Dynasty will inevitably rise, and I can easily defeat the Liao people in the north and subdue the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!"

"Yes, if you're satisfied."

Seeing that Xiao Qiuyu's attitude was a little cold, Zhao Ji was a little strange, but he didn't dare to offend the big man who provided the arms, so he asked cautiously, "The demi-immortal doesn't know when he plans to make the next transaction?"

"In two months...... In addition, in the next transaction, I will charge you 5,000 pounds of gold less, and in return, you will get me 500 horses capable of carrying heavy cavalry, and matching armor and ordnance!"

"Such a big order!" Zhao Ji swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Ordinary horseback riders are overwhelmed and can only run slowly, so this kind of horse can only be used by light cavalry without armor......

And to put a warrior in strong and thick heavy armor, such a weight burden is extremely large, ordinary horses simply cannot carry it, only particularly strong horses can bear it.

In other words, if you want to form a heavy cavalry class, you must rely on very strong horses!

With the national strength of the Northern Song Dynasty, a thousand sets of armor and ordnance are not a problem at all, but horses are not so easy to manage, after all, high-quality war horses are concentrated in the northern prairies.

Since the sixteen states of Yanyun were betrayed to the Hu people by Emperor Shi Jingjiao, there have been no high-quality horse ranches in the Song Kingdom...... Without horses, the Central Plains Dynasty would not be able to form powerful heavy cavalry, and without heavy cavalry, it would have been repeatedly deflated against the invasion of the Hu people.

Even though the Northern Song Dynasty was rich and owned more than 60% of the earth's GDP at that time, they still lacked horses, and the strength of the country could only afford more than 2,000 heavy cavalry!

As soon as Xiao Qiuyu opened his mouth, he asked for a quarter, which was too much of a lion's mouth, and he was biting Zhao Ji's heart......

But Zhao Ji didn't dare to say anything he didn't give, otherwise he would offend this big financier, and what if he refused to sell his weapons in the future?

Seeing Zhao Ji hesitating, Xiao Qiuyu immediately understood that he refused to give it, so he said, "I said, brother, your thinking is too backward, you have firearms, what's the use of a war horse?" The five elements are reincarnated, the age of gold is over, and the age of fire has come, why can't your mind keep pace with the times?"

Zhao Ji slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, I have such a huge fucking firearms army, and the cavalry corps will be disbanded when it is disbanded, it doesn't matter at all!"

After negotiating the business, Zhao Ji hurriedly went to prepare the goods for Xiao Qiuyu...... However, this process was very troublesome, and it took a few days, and when Xiao Qiuyu rushed to the Tiger Prison, Zhao Ji sent the things to Xiao Qiuyu.

After getting the things, Xiao Qiuyu immediately got busy...... Not everyone can switch to heavy cavalry when they get on a horse, after all, riding a horse is also a technical job, and it is simply impossible to master it without a period of practice.

So Xiao Qiuyu simply pulled out all the light cavalry under Han Fu's command, these people were proficient in horsemanship, so let them put on heavy armor, ride horses, and become heavy cavalry.

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In fact, Xiao Qiuyu didn't think about bringing machine guns and cannons to this world to fight, but after thinking about it carefully, he still gave up this very tempting idea.

First of all, machine guns and artillery can only hit small soldiers, and the core of this battle is the generals, who are all protective of the body, and bullets can't hit them at all.

Secondly, the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion disturbed the world, and now the princes of the towns are already cups and bows, if Xiao Qiuyu dares to take out muskets and cannons, which they can't understand, they will definitely mistake this for Taiping Dao's witchcraft...... When the time comes, they will definitely label Xiao Qiuyu as the remnant of the Yellow Turban, and they will do their best to encircle and suppress him.

When Xiao Qiuyu led the sixteen,000 soldiers and horses to the outside of the Tiger Prison Pass, the princes of the Eighteenth Route had already gathered at this time.

The number of soldiers and horses led by each prince varied, with the most leading twenty or thirty thousand men and the few leading less than 10,000 troops.

It can be seen that the princes of all walks of life have their own ghosts with each other, and no one is willing to come out of the nest, for fear that others will take the opportunity to annex their own territory.

This also led to the fact that although a total of eighteen princes, including Cao Cao, formed a coalition army, the coalition army did not occupy an absolute advantage in terms of strength.

Although the document against Dong Zhuo was issued by Cao Cao, his reputation was not enough to command the alliance, and all the princes elected Yuan Shao, the Taishou of Bohai, to lead the coalition army.

The reason why this is so is because the Three Kingdoms era was an era of great emphasis on fame, and there was no imperial examination during this period, and officials were selected based on their origins...... For example, although Liu Bei killed Zhang Jiao and made great contributions to the suppression of the Yellow Turban Uprising, because he was white, Dong Zhuo directly looked down on him, and in the end, the court only made him a small county magistrate. Take a look at the latest chapters of the "Heavens and Worlds Chat Forum, Claw Book House" for free reading for the first time.