The hook and sickle gradually became famous in the Song and Song dynasties, and became the most famous weapon for infantry against cavalry.

But in fact, the hook and sickle gun was not invented during the Song and Song dynasties, this thing, it is actually a variant of the halberd.

It is to bend the side blade of the halberd, which can be used to hook the horse's legs, and it becomes a hook and sickle gun.

And the halberd has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, and in the late Han Dynasty, although it is not a standard weapon, it is also widely used.

The halberd warriors under Yuan Shao are a force that is good at using halberds, and among the generals, when Zhang Liao fought in Xiaoyaojin, he used a halberd to kill the Jiangdong army in chaos, and Sun 100,000 was killed by Zhang Liao and hid on a high slope, and the weapon used to defend himself was also a halberd.

The halberd actually had a certain degree of popularity in the late Han Dynasty, but most of them were elite troops, or military generals, who could only use this thing.

Without him, the difference in the amount of iron used makes the halberd impossible to popularize in the army, and there are materials for making a halberd head, which can be used to create three pairs.

To put it bluntly, it's a question of whether you can afford it.

And for Guo Huai, it's not that he hasn't seen a halberd, but he really hasn't seen the hook and sickle in the hands of the Northern Sergeant. Subconsciously thought that this was a Qimen weapon, which was not the same thing as a halberd.

I really don't blame Guo Huai for thinking so.

According to the generals of the older generation who have fought with the Shu thieves, the Shu thieves also had a team called the Wolf Soldiers in their early years, and it is not strange that the Shu thieves use any strange weapons to fight with something similar to a bamboo pole!!

Moreover, even if Guo Huai knew that the hook and sickle was a variant of the halberd, he probably wouldn't take it too seriously. Even if it is a halberd, it is impossible to fight against the cavalry, and even the halberd is inferior to the pikemen in the role of the cavalry.

But it was this thing that made Guo Huai not have any mental preparation, which gave the cavalry led by Qin Lang a very heavy blow.

Qin Lang is not the kind of general who charges into battle, so when the cavalry charged, Qin Lang did not lead the troops to charge into battle, but stayed under the protection of the rear guards and commanded remotely.

But now he found that his cavalry began to move slowly after falling into the strange formation of the Shu thieves, and the execution of his banner orders also began to become slow.

It's like yes. It's like a quagmire.

Qin Lang didn't understand the problem here, but the cavalry soldiers on the front line had too deep understanding.

The two directions in front of the Shu thieves, a spear array and a shield array, were not aimed at stopping the cavalry from rushing and killing, their purpose was only to force the cavalry to slow down.

Originally, this was nothing, according to conventional experience, as long as the two lines of defense were broken, the Shu thieves in the rear had no long weapons and shields to use as defense, and they could not block the impact of the cavalry at all, and even if the cavalry slowed down a little because of the two lines of defense, it would not be able to rush the defenseless infantry.

But this gang of shameless Shu thieves, they actually didn't play according to the routine, not only hooked the horse's legs with that strange long weapon, but also the Miao Dao soldiers risked casualties and cut off the horse's feet in close melee combat!!

Don't talk about martial arts!!

When the cavalry was impacting, the horse's legs were suddenly mixed and cut off, and there was no need to think about the end.

And with the fall of the horses in front, it will inevitably affect the impact speed of the rear cavalry, and the rear cavalry in order to avoid these shameless Shu soldiers who hook their horses and cut off their horses' legs, and ensure the speed of their own assault, will inevitably adjust the direction to avoid this evasion, and will also disrupt the direction of the cavalry impact in the rear.

The five thousand cavalry, after breaking into the middle of the Northern Army's formation, began to become a little sluggish, not only the impact formation was disrupted, but even the impact speed was forced to decrease.

It's not that they can't continue to fight, but the power of the cavalry assault has become much smaller.

What's even worse is that at this time, the re-rested pikemen team in the rear has once again completed the formation, and the overall formation of the Shu thieves has also begun to adjust, and the opponents around them are constantly changing, pushing this group of pikemen in front of the cavalry again.

At this time, the Cao Wei cavalry did not have much speed advantage left, and even if they did, they could only move with difficulty in the formation and barely maintain some speed.

Retreat is not able to retreat, behind him is his own cavalry comrades, on the side is waiting to chop the horse's feet and hook the horse's legs of the shameless Shu thief, the only way, is to rely on the last speed advantage, try to kill through the Shu thief formation, escape outside to regroup troops, organize the formation, and then kill back.

But at this time, in front of the cavalry, it was a spear formation.

Cao Wei's cavalry didn't know how these pikemen retreated, how they rested, and how they suddenly appeared in front of them, but they knew one thing, with the current cavalry speed, if they wanted to break through this spear formation, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

It's not that you can't rush, but no one knows how much you can rush.

But the current Cao Wei cavalry has no choice, and Qin Lang and Guo Huai have no choice. Who would have thought that with 5,000 cavalry attacking 5,000 infantry, they would still be in such a dilemma.

Rush forward, there is still a chance to kill back, if you continue to fight in this formation, then how many cavalry will be left alive, no one knows.

Therefore, not only Qin Lang ordered these cavalry to rush forward, but the cavalry trapped in the formation themselves also had this awareness, and they still echoed left and right, preparing to break through the barrier of the spear formation and completely rush out.

Then rushed out.

Cavalry is cavalry in the end, infantry against cavalry, with the same strength, infantry wants to completely trap and eat cavalry. Unless it's a strange knife soldier.

But obviously, Dahan now has neither the ability nor the financial resources to make the Mo Dao, even if Zhang Xi is allowed to hang it, Zhang Xi doesn't know what the Mo Dao actually looks like.

The Mo knives of later generations are actually restored as much as possible after being described according to historical materials, and they are not genuine.

This thing is the same as the wooden ox and flowing horse, it has long been lost, and there are no unearthed cultural relics, and no one knows what the Modao actually looks like.

Therefore, even if there is a hook sickle, but the hook sickle is not omnipotent, the Great Song Dynasty in the two Song Dynasty fought against the cavalry, although the hook and sickle played a great role, but the Great Song Dynasty also needed to use superior forces to pile up this victory.

With the same strength, the hook and sickle couldn't stop the cavalry, and finally let Cao Wei's cavalry rush out.

But rush out and rush out, now Cao Wei's cavalry, while busy gathering troops and reorganizing the offensive formation, is also a little hesitant, not daring to attack without authorization, and is waiting for Qin Lang's order.

Without him, a shock of 5,000 cavalry, and the last one that ran out was not even 4,000 people. Losing one-fifth of the troops in one attack, who would dare to drill into the strange formation of the Shu thieves?!

And Qin Lang was also very hesitant, he was also a little unsure whether to continue the attack.

The situation in front of him has completely subverted Qin Lang's military cognition - there is really someone who can use infantry to block the cavalry's charge these days?!

Don't say that Qin Lang can't figure it out, even Guo Huai can't figure it out. He didn't even have time to order his infantry to follow the flanking after the cavalry charge.

This is so counterintuitive.

Qin Lang and Guo Huai were a little frightened, and did not give any further attack orders for a while, and at this time, Wu Yi and Wu Yi were distressed and regretful.

What is distressing is that this time with 5,000 Northern Army to deal with the cavalry impact, its own casualties are not small.

Although it is impossible to count the number of people on the battlefield immediately, Wu Yi can probably conclude with a little glance of his years of military experience that the casualties of his own northern army are also more than 1,000.

It stands to reason that fighting with infantry against cavalry can achieve a ratio of one for one, which is already quite a terrible thing, but Wu Yi is still distressed.

This is the elite of the Northern Army, not the county soldiers who have been recruited for less than two years and have been trained for less than a year, these elites of the Northern Army are all professional soldiers who have been out of production, and they have been training for five years.

Although the death of soldiers on the battlefield is the final destination, Wu Yi is still distressed, these soldiers are all trained by him and Zhang Fei in five years.

In the first battle, more than 1,000 people were lost. If the Wei army attacks a few more times, I am afraid that none of the 8,000 northern troops brought by themselves will be able to go back.

And Wu Yi regrets it. In fact, he could have avoided such a large battle loss, but the reason for all this was his unproficiency in the tactics of the Northern Army and the lack of his own command ability.

This combat formation was actually not conceived by Wu Yi or Zhang Fei, and the person who really trained the Northern Army to practice this formation was Zhuge Liang.

This is a multi-arm cooperation combat method, which can be operated in formation, creating a situation of more fighting and less in the local area, and the range of arms is very wide, from infantry to cavalry, from plain operations to mountain operations, as long as there is enough space to open up the formation, these northern armies can deal with all kinds of arms in various terrains.

Prime Minister Zhuge called this formation the Eight Formation Diagram.

This eight-array diagram really opened the eyes of Wu Yi and Zhang Fei, but in the same way, this eight-array diagram also has a fatal flaw - it has very high requirements for the general's impromptu decision and command level.

The formation of the Eight Formations is always changing, so that it is possible to create a situation of more fighting and less in a short period of time, and it is possible to use infantry against cavalry. But this change requires the leading generals to make the right adjustments at any time.

At most, the soldiers can be familiar with the formation changes and know what actions should be taken in what kind of military orders, but how to change still needs to be decided by the generals.

Wu Yi really tried his best, he made what he thought was the most appropriate response, and made what he thought was the most correct command, but he still let the cavalry of the Wei army rush out.

If, really, it was Prime Minister Zhuge who commanded this northern army, even if these cavalry could rush out, it was estimated that there would not be so many people left.

One more. If he had waited for two days and came to Huaili City with 30,000 northern troops, not to mention these cavalry, even Guo Huai himself, he would not have been able to escape.

But now, there are not so many ifs, so let's think about how to continue to block the impact of the Wei cavalry and kill the enemy more effectively

Regarding the Eight Formations, "Tang Li Asks Right" said that it is a multi-arm joint combat formation, and it is not as mysterious as the legend, Li Jing thinks that he can also do how to cooperate with the battle, Li Jing only gave a general direction, he and Li Shimin are both military strategists, and this kind of play will not be so detailed, so Xiao Hei actually does not understand how the Eight Formations work at all. As a street writer, the amount of knowledge is also limited, so I can only rely on my own limited imagination to describe, if the writing is not right, please let it go.

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