Shayuan is located in the eastern part of the Guanzhong Plain, a sand dune meadow between Nanluoshui and Weihe in Dali County. Dali County is now known as Wu Township, which is the seat of Huazhou Prefecture.

The retreating army from Tongguan did not need to pass through Shayuan, and after crossing the river in Weinan, it could go straight to Huazhou. However, on the way, a number of Hui received a military order, and led his troops to Shayuan to temporarily station, waiting for reorganization and resettlement.

Therefore, Li Tai also had the honor to visit this site of the Great War of the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty with the army, and feel the magnificent feelings of the army fighting back then.

When they came to Shayuan, it was already very lively.

When the team arrived at Shayuan, the depressed spirit had subsided, and the atmosphere between the ranks was much more lively, and people kept hearing people talking about the battle of Shayuan that year.

"It was here that a team of our township soldiers picked up more than a dozen armor of the thief army and gave them a lot of cattle and sheep cloth. At that year's cross, the whole township was full of stewed meat, and the old and young were dressed in new clothes......"

Li Tai's team actually participated in the battle of Shayuan a few years ago, Li Tai recruited people, a Han soldier in his twenties, named Liu Sanzhen, was originally taciturn, but when he came to the battlefield of Shayuan in the early years, he obviously became much more active.

"Sanzhen, you were only a teenager back then, and you actually had the courage to participate in the war?"

Li Tai looked at the strong man and asked with an interesting smile. The Battle of Shayuan took place in 537 AD, six years ago.

"Then, at that time, there was a lord who was so big now, where did he dare to participate in the war...... The thief army suddenly crossed the river from Pujin, bypassing Dalicheng and crossing Luoshui, at that time the township was just frightened, the thief army was all tiger wolves in Beizhen, and they were not only violent in Hebei, but now they rushed into Guanzhong......"

Speaking of the old panic, Liu Sanzhen still had palpitations, but soon his expression became inspired: "Everyone fled into the wilderness under the leadership of the old man of the village, and after hiding for a few days, he heard that the eastern thief was defeated, and the king of the township came to call for troops, and the young and strong villagers all followed, and they were all collected along the Luoshui road, and those canes, cattle and horses were really fat for a while!" ”

Dalicheng is the state city of Huazhou, and it is also the seat of Wuxiang County. It's just that the names of the administrative divisions of the Western Wei Dynasty change frequently, and the villagers are still used to calling them.

It turned out that he just followed the main force to fight a wave of tailwind, but these words also revealed several information. The first is naturally that Yuwentai has done a good job in the united front work, and most of the people in Guannei are resistant to Gao Huanjun's entry into the army, and the second is that the township in Guanzhong is still martial, and as long as the township tyrants recruit soldiers, they will enthusiastically apply.

Although Gao Huan and Yu Wentai were both born in Beizhen, because of the different power structures of their respective starters, the styles they revealed were also different.

Although the Six Towns Mutiny in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty was named an uprising, there were indeed many evils, especially the destruction of Hebei for several years, which also made the people in other regions feel cold, and they were naturally vigilant and repulsed by the Six Towns and Town Soldiers.

Gao Huan took the Six Towns as the foundation for his development, and of course he should also pay attention to safeguarding the interests of the Six Towns. Just before the outbreak of the Battle of Shayuan, the history books also vividly recorded a story of his connivance at the lawlessness of the Six Towns.

Yu Wentai is different, at the beginning of his entry into the customs, he paid attention to uniting the masses because of the weak troops, and did not flaunt the Xianbei style, and also let some Guan Longhao Qiang take refuge one after another.

The rapport with Guan Long Haoqiang was also one of the reasons why Yu Wentai was able to succeed as the leader after He Batyue's death.

Guanzhong was called Tianfu in ancient times, but since the Wei and Jin dynasties, it is full of mixed Hu, and there is still no lack of Qiang Huns and Huzhong, who have guarded the countryside for hundreds of years, and the folk customs are also fierce and brave, if they are effectively integrated, they are by no means inferior to the so-called heart of the country in the six towns.

Today's sand garden is no longer worthy of its name, with sand dunes and green trees. There are also large areas of pasture that have been fenced off for grazing cattle and horses.

After the battle of Shayuan, Yuwentai ordered all the soldiers who participated in the battle to plant a tree, and a few years have passed, not only the prevention and control of soil erosion has been effective, but it has also become a resort for many veterans of the Western Army to remember the past.

Between the camps, I often saw old soldiers wandering in the woods, and from time to time they shouted excitedly: "I planted this tree, but I didn't expect it to be thick and close!" ”

There are also old soldiers crying: "Back then, I persuaded my brother to plant a long-lived tree and plant crooked willows...... The tree is still there, but there are no people, and in his lifetime, he will make the thief pay for his blood and blood! ”

Hearing and witnessing the various states of life, Li Tai gradually understood why Yuwentai ordered the defeated soldiers to come to Shayuan to station.

He didn't know if Yu Wentai had read the biography of Huan Wen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and whether he had heard the sentence "Wood is like this, how can people be worthy".

However, the feelings contained in the tree planting in the sand garden are much more magnificent than the emotion of Huan Wen back then, which records the most brilliant victory since the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the cohesion and encouragement of the army's morale are undoubtedly worth a thousand words.

Especially those veterans who have fought several times, when they returned to their hometowns, there were many feelings in their hearts, and the haze of the defeat of Bishan was greatly dispelled.

After the team was stationed, several Hui left Shayuan and headed for Huazhou Bafu.

Li Tai and his entourage were also given preferential treatment, and enjoyed an independent small camp on the west bank of Luoshui, not mixed with other troops.

Although Sha Yuan has a special meaning to the Western Wei army, he is not an old army who entered the customs in the early years.

It's just that infected by the atmosphere of this camp, his mood will inevitably become heroic and magnificent, and he has a great interest in studying himself and the combat effectiveness of his troops.

This body is not a gentleman who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, which is what makes Li Tai the most satisfied.

As a soul who has crossed over from later generations, he does not expect himself to become a fierce general and soldier king of the three armies, but since he has joined the troubled times, he can have a certain combat effectiveness, and he will naturally have a little more confidence when encountering danger.

After many days of marching, he had become accustomed to this body, and he rarely rode horses, but he gradually mastered horsemanship because of his physical memory. And before some Hui left the camp, he cheekily begged for a horse lance.

Outside the reeds on the riverside, Li Tai galloped while holding the horse lance, accurately picking off the unkempt head on the reed, and the entourage clapped and cheered: "Ah Lang is mighty!" ”

"This lance is still too light!"

Li Tai returned from his horse and shook his somewhat sour arms, and the memories and experiences naturally born from the muscles of his arms were still a little unfinished. It shows that the predecessor is by no means a hobby of fun, and it is indeed a real practice of various martial arts.

"yes, this lance is too bad. It's a pity that Ah Lang's old lance was left in Hengnong, and the lance was made by Ah Lang himself, if it wasn't for the critical situation at the time, he was really reluctant to throw it away. ”

Li Zhusheng took the horse lance and shook it in his hand, and also shook his head and sighed.

Later generations said that the horse lance was crowned with various prestige, and the making process of the horse lance was even more exaggerated, and it took three years to become a cloud.

In fact, as a weapon of cavalry, there are not many myths, and the length of the lance is probably longer than that of a spear. The so-called one inch is long and one inch is strong, and in high-mobility cavalry combat, the advantage of long weapons is even more obvious.

Before stirrups equipped a large number of troops, being able to gallop on horses while ensuring flexible control of long weapons was undoubtedly the first-class elite soldiers, and the horse lance became synonymous with elite soldiers. After the popularization of stirrups, the flexibility of cavalry was increased, and the standard of use of horse lances was lowered.

Therefore, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the horse lance has basically become one of the standard weapons for cavalry combat, and the term "lance" is overflowing. Probably similar to the title of Heavenly King was the exclusive domain of the overlord of the Hu clan in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but in later generations it became a term for praising literary and artistic workers.

But in the final analysis, the horse lance is only a kind of cavalry combat weapon, and there is no essential difference between its production process and materials and spears, and it cannot be achieved in three years, five years, or ten years.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, wars were frequent, and many children of the clan were inevitably in battle arrays, and the first choice was naturally the cavalry weapon with the natural advantage of the horse lance. Therefore, such as Gao Aocao and other powerful children, are famous for their lance skills.

These powerful sons and daughters have a solid family background, and their respective armor canes are naturally refined. Their respective armed levels obviously do not have universal representativeness, and they are thrifty and frugal, even if you spend thirty or fifty years to build a horse lance, the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty will be the champion, then it will be up to you.

However, if we argue the aristocracy of the horse lance on this basis, it is obviously biased.

The horse lance that Hui gave to Li Tai was not the so-called bamboo and wood craft in later generations, it was a thick and hard wooden pole, and the weight was about less than 20 catties, but Li Tai could already feel that the lethality should be good when he wielded it.

After all, the rate of the Western Army is really not high, even if it is a private song, it is only barely thirty percent, and the ordinary soldiers are even less.

In such a situation, Ma Lance pursues the cumbersome craftsmanship of later generations, which is to find himself unhappy. Three years is enough time for a regime to establish and gain a firm foothold, and the horse lance, as the main sharp weapon of the cavalry of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, has not yet been produced, isn't this a joke?

Therefore, the cognition of the horse lance, excellence and standard equipment should be treated differently. The development of weapons is included in the development of tactics and is part of the history of warfare, and it would be dogmatic to write a special book on a certain weapon alone.

Li Tai practiced by himself, and let his subordinates take turns to fight, and their performances were also different. Some are reluctant to ride horses, some are still good at equestrianism, but with the horse lance, they are a little reluctant, and the best performance is the original family members who followed them from Qinghe, Hebei.

After the drill, the subordinates from the Western Army who joined later looked a little sneering, and the worst performance was the Han soldier Liu Sanzhen, who couldn't even sit down steadily when he got on the horse, and was thrown down directly.

"I grew up in the countryside and didn't have the opportunity to learn equestrianism...... I implore Lord Lang not to chase me, and to line up to kill the enemy, not only skill, but also courage! Give me a knife, catch and fight, I must be able to live! ”

Liu Sanzhen performed the worst, ashamed and worried, lying in front of Li Tai's feet and pleading in a trembling voice.

Li Tai bent down to help the strong pawn, patted the sand on his knees, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter how the past is, if you enter my door, you will be a new life." The day before yesterday is clumsy, tomorrow is clever, who can predict it at a glance in advance? The world is undecided, and the husband will not suffer from failure, whether he is good or bad, is in the future. ”