The war between the Han Dynasty and the Huns, subconsciously, they all thought that it was the kind of well-equipped cavalry, with spears, halberds and other weapons in their hands, and the two armies hedged against each other.

Pity.

In fact, this is not the case.

The nomads were good at riding and archery, and they faced the Han army, and most of them rode horses and archery to deal with the Han army.

Don't they have other weapons?

Of course, in addition to swords, there are also spears, ge, halberds and other weapons that were taken from the Han people.

That's right.

They are still using the "Ge", a weapon that has long been eliminated by the Han Dynasty.

With such an army, don't expect heavy cavalry to appear.

The Han Dynasty was located in the Central Plains.

On the battlefield of the Central Plains, most of the earlier arms were equipped with infantry in wooden chariots.

But this way of fighting is too cumbersome.

Thereupon.

In the early days of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, during the Han-Hun War, the Han people fought the Xiongnu, and they would always fall into a feeling of being empty and powerless.

The Han Dynasty gathered its army and drove to the grassland.

The Hun cavalry directly turned into birds and beasts, how could the infantry of the Han Dynasty chase it?

It's not the point that you can't chase it!

The point is that you choose to retreat, and the cavalry will turn around and harass with bows and arrows. When the time comes, I can't run away, and I am exhausted by tossing myself, and finally I am slowly consumed to death by others on the grassland.

There is no way around it.

It is precisely for this reason that led to the Wenjing and Jingjing dynasties to vigorously develop the horse breeding industry.

So much so that it came to the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

This was the accumulation of thick and thin, so that the Han army had its own cavalry unit in dealing with the Xiongnu.

The merits of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the first half of his life can be said to have taken three generations of hard work.

But then again.

Although the cavalry of the Han army developed, most of them were formed by learning from the Xiongnu.

The cavalry of the Huns, the main force is the cavalry archery.

Thereupon.

The cavalry army of the Han Dynasty also followed the same example, and the formation of the main force was also cavalry. As for the cavalry, at this time, it was completely auxiliary.

The main reason!

There is still no Takahashi saddle and stirrups, and it will be impossible to fight at close range immediately.

Like the plot of the Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", if there is no Takahashi saddle and stirrups, it is complete nonsense!

The force is mutual.

When you ride a horse, you don't have stirrups under your feet that you can borrow, and no matter how hard you use to hit it, you will be hit back with the same force.

With the same strength, if you knock someone to the ground, won't you fall off the horse?

This is the reason why during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, most of the cavalry were not equipped with spear-like weapons!

Then again!

If you don't have a Takahashi saddle or stirrups, do you want to hold the reins?

Pull?

So how do you free your hands to fight the enemy? On the battlefield, it's all about playing with your life, either you die or I live, who dares to hold it up with one hand!

Don't pull?

When fighting, how to control the horse, if you are not careful, you have to fall off the horse!

This is also why the cavalry of the Turks was formed in the Han Dynasty. The reason why it was not welcomed in the first place.

But.

With the gradual development of the cavalry trio.

The terrifying combat power of the cavalry tearing apart the enemy's battlefield formation led to their complete replacement of the cavalry.

The general Wei Qing noticed that Huo Guang was distracted, so he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said, "What do you want?" ”

Huo Guang came back to his senses, and hurriedly shook his head and quibbled: "No, no, the sleeping place in the barracks is too hard, and I didn't sleep well last night!" ”

Hear this.

The expression on Wei Qing's face changed, he glanced at Huo Guang, and said, "It's been so long since you came to the barracks, and you haven't adapted yet?" ”

"It's not that I didn't get used to it, it's just that I didn't sleep well last night."

Huo Guang smiled awkwardly.

And the general didn't dwell on this issue too much, pointed to the sand table with his finger, and said, "Okay, go back and take the sand table away, I received the intention." ”

Take?

Huo Guang was stunned for a moment, and said: "General, didn't you say, do you like this sand table, why do you want me to bring it back?" ”

The general shook his head and said, "What do I want it for in the terrain of Qilian Mountain?" And it's pretty big, let me take up space here! ”

Hearing this, Huo Guang was stunned for a while!

The terrain of the Qilian Mountains area is indeed useless to the general.

But this is a sand table!

What can be reshaped is not the kind of foam mold.

After thinking about it, Huo Guang said to Wei Qing: "General, didn't you say that the whole army will be arranged for a drill in the future?" ”

"yes, why are you asking this?" General Wei Qinghu glanced at Huo Guang suspiciously.

Huo Guang said calmly: "If you want to arrange troops for drills, I can re-pinch this sand table and pile up the outline of the perimeter of the military camp where we are now, and the general can use it when the time comes!" ”

Wei Qing shook his head and said, "It's just a matter of arranging troops under practice, and you don't need a map!" ”

Arrange your troops!

I really didn't need a map, but Huo Guang thought to himself, the sand table that he spent a few days getting was just brought back?

That's not in vain!

Huo Guang glanced at the sand table he had sent, looking at its ratio to the general's tent.

It does occupy quite a few places!

But if it becomes important in the eyes of the general, then it seems just right to be placed in this camp.

Then here's the problem!

How can I make the sand table I worked so hard to make become important in the eyes of General Wei Qing?

That's a problem.

Huo Guang was thinking about this question, and his eyes were fixed on the two small red and blue flags on the sand table.

Red and blue

Suddenly, Huo Guang's eyes lit up and he thought of a good idea.

"Ahem, General, I have a very important suggestion about the formation drill, do you want to listen to it?" Huo Guang said seriously.

General Wei Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, nodded and said, "Let's hear it!" ”

Huo Guang said: "The traditional way of arranging troops is too backward, and it is far from actual combat. This also makes the army chaotic as soon as it arrives on the real battlefield. ”

"So my suggestion is!"

"The general might as well form a target army, for example, call him the Blue Army, as a training opponent."

"The formation of troops must be used to deal with the enemy."

"We regard this blue army as our enemy, and with the enemy, the general can also understand more clearly what is wrong with our army!"

Huo Guang's words directly made the general Wei Qing Daigo empowered.

In the past, when training troops, he always felt that something was missing when arranging troops, but Huo Guangyi said that he felt that what was missing was found.

But after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong and asked: "But, where can I get such a blue army?" You can't let me tear up half of the army and become your so-called Blue Army! ”

The coach splits the power, that's a big taboo.

This is a Blues that absolutely cannot be dismantled half of it for confrontation.

Blues!

As the name suggests, it is an imaginary enemy army.

Since it is hypothetical, there is no need to consider the strength of the army.

Thinking of this, Huo Guang smiled faintly and replied: "General, where does the Blue Army need so many troops, as an imaginary enemy, as long as five thousand people are divided." ”

"When the time comes, the Blue Army will be 5,000, and our army will be 45,000."

"Just count one Blues as ten."

"For example, when there is a confrontation, if there is a confrontation, it will be calculated directly based on the battle loss ratio, and the blue army will lose one person, and our army will lose ten, so that's it."

Huo Guang's words, for Wei Qing.

It was like opening a door to a new world, and he didn't expect that the world outside the door could still play like this!

I saw the general say excitedly: "Huo Guang, how did you come up with such a novel method?" ”

Forehead.

How did Huo Guang answer this question asked by Wei Qing?

You can't tell him.

That's how the military confrontation exercises in the future world came about!

Huo Guang's eyes rolled, and he immediately spoke: "Oh, last time my brother Hussar General came here to give me a mount, he brought me a copy of the "Art of War" military book, and I read the content of it. ”

As soon as these words came out.

Huo Guang regretted saying this.

"The Art of War" is such a famous military book, his young and promising brother, that is, the hussar general, has read it several times, but the great general Wei Qinghui has not read it?

Maybe you can carry the rolling melon well!

Sure enough.

I saw that the general Wei Qing immediately frowned and said: "In the book of the art of war "The Art of War", General Ben does not say that he can recite it backwards, but at least he has read it more than dozens of times. Why, I don't remember these things you said in the Art of War book! ”

Huo Guang suddenly showed a bitter expression on his face.

When it comes to the ancient art of war, the general Wei Qing is more proficient than the champion Hou Huo.

But the words have been spoken.

Huo Guang could only make it up now, and said: "The general may have misunderstood what I meant, what I said was not what was recorded in the military book, but when I was reading the military book, I suddenly had an explosion of inspiration and thought of these!" ”

This sentence.

Huo Guang didn't believe that the general could still find a flaw.

Of course.

Regardless of whether the general could find a flaw or not, Huo Guang didn't want the other party to delve into his words, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said, "General, please don't care about these details. If you adopt the drill method I said and conduct a confrontation drill between the Red and Blue Army, then this sand table can come in handy again. ”

"When the time comes."

"I'll just pinch this sand table again according to the terrain around the barracks."

"That's right."

"And this flag, you see, when the time comes, the red and blue armies will confront, the red will be our army, and the blue will be the imaginary enemy blue army, you can see all the changes in the situation of the drill on the sand table."

"Pulling out a small flag means that an army has been wiped out, and planting a flag in a certain place means that a certain place has been occupied by that army."

As he spoke, Huo Guang also started directly and waved the small flag on the sand table.

Wei Qing is a smart person, so he naturally saw that Huo Guang said that it was for this sand table!

Case!

He then spoke: "Since you admire the use of this sand table so much, then I will stay." Oh, you change it to the terrain around the barracks, and in a few days, the whole army will be drilled and arranged. ”

"But I really appreciate your suggestion to recommend the Red and Blue Army confrontation drills!"

"I'm going to report this to Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Huo Guang immediately said: "It would be better if I could get His Majesty's consent." ”

Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, don't look at him as the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Its military talent is not bad. If it weren't for the busy state affairs, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty originally said that he would personally teach the young Huo Qubing to learn the art of war!

And after Huo Guang and the general Wei Qing had an exchange.

The sand table was finally dragged back by Huo Guang, and then prepared to reshape the terrain around the barracks.

Because of time constraints, after Huo Guang came back, he began to re-fabricate the sand table, and at the same time called Lin Yaoqing, who was usually responsible for leading the training of troops, to come over.

As for the hundred recruits.

Huo Guang let them practice archery freely.

Lin Yaoqing was called over and asked, "Huo Dubo, are you looking for me?" ”

"Lao Lin, come and help me pinch the terrain around our barracks, it's urgent!" Huo Guang said that he was in a hurry, but the tone gave people a very flat feeling.

Lin Yaoqing's age is older than Huo Guang, and he is even older than his brother Huo Quai.

It's not an exaggeration to call him Lao Lin.

It's just that Huo Guang's age is too young, and he always feels a little funny.

However, Lin Yaoqing himself didn't think that when he followed the eight hundred hussars to Captain Yao Huo to get sick, the other party was also very young, younger than him.

When Lin Yaoqing saw Huo Guang talking, he also squatted down.

Looking at this familiar sand table, Lin Yaoqing asked, "Huo Dubo's gift, don't our generals accept it?" ”

"I took it, but I had to redo it, and I had to make it into the terrain around the barracks. When the time comes, when the whole army is arranged, it can be used! Huo Guang said briefly, vaguely covering up what was happening.

Lin Yaoqing didn't ask too much, so he also squatted down and helped Huo Guang complete the accumulation of the terrain around the barracks on the sand table.

Since Huo Guang couldn't get out of the barracks, Lin Yaoqing was more familiar with some of the surrounding mountains and woods than Huo Guang.

But it was the first time he had fabricated it, so he was not proficient in this handicraft, so he asked Huo Guang while pinching: "Huo Dubo, do you think I'm okay with this pinching?" ”

"Okay? Hey, you don't have to be so careful, you can look like a mountain range. After Huo Guang replied to Lin Yaoqing's words, he asked again: "I said Lao Lin, these cavalry of our Han army have cavalry and cavalry, do you know?" ”

Lin Yaoqing immediately nodded and said, "I know, but the number of cavalry cavalry in the southern camp is very small, and most of them are used to assist our cavalry in battle." The Northern Battalion is different, the hussar generals prefer to fight with the cavalry, so the number of cavalry in the Northern Battalion is much larger. ”

Between words.

Lin Yaoqing showed a proud expression on his face, as if he was saying that he was the Northern Battalion Cavalry Cavalry.

But Huo Guang didn't ask about this.

He stopped his movements, looked at Lin Yaoqing, and asked, "Since you know that our cavalry has a difference between assault cavalry and cavalry shooting, why don't you tell me?" ”

Lin Yaoqing immediately said depressedly: "Huo Dubo, I said it! ”

"But every time you say it, you don't care."

"And!"

"It's not a big deal, I thought you knew."

Said?

All right!

Huo Guang really didn't pay attention to Lin Yaoqing's mention, when he shook his head, he said: "Forget it, let's concentrate on pinching the new terrain well, please my uncle when the time comes, and make Your Majesty happy, I can't say that I can leave the barracks at any time." ”

The reason why he works so hard is naturally because he has his own plans.

Why don't you panic this thing?

By the time Huo Guang had finished the new sand table terrain, two days had passed, and the day when the Han cavalry would go on the northern expedition against the Huns was getting closer and closer.

this day.

When Huo Guang led people to drag the sand table into the general's camp again, he was surprised to find that there were a few more old guys in the general's camp.

Flying General Li Guang.

The undefeated general Cheng doesn't know!

There are also some old generals that Huo Guang doesn't know very well.

Huo Guang was very puzzled, why did these people come to Nandaying, they are all at this age, shouldn't they be at home to recuperate?

(End of chapter)