Yuan Rui lowered his head, and while thinking, he gently gestured with his hand on the table, whether it was the current ox cart or wooden fence to prevent the cavalry, it was not easy.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, many generals made many attempts in the war, and successively came up with tribulus terrestris, hook guns and other defensive weapons for cavalry.

But relatively speaking, they are a little reluctant, and in the face of strong cavalry, it is difficult to see obvious results, including the initial firearms.

It was not until the advent of heavy weapons a few hundred years later that the superiority of cavalry for thousands of years was ended, and it was called the elegy of cavalry.

He remembered that when he faced the pirates that year, he arranged the bamboo spear, which was a big killer against the flower thorn cavalry.

At that time, when dealing with the Mongols, the Miao soldiers in Guizhou looked short, but they held a rattan shield in one hand and a scimitar in the other, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, specializing in the opponent's horse legs, which really made the Mongols suffer a lot.

He also remembered that the current carts are all low-top or flatbed, mainly because the transportation capacity is not enough, and it cannot load many things, and now the manpower is limited, and the loading and unloading also requires labor.

But if it is only used as a car formation, you can make a little fuss, increase the height of the car gang, leave a gap between them, and once you encounter the cavalry, you can form a two-layer car, and add a heavy object in the middle to block the cavalry impact.

"My lord, if I have a way to block the cavalry onslaught, and I also have a way to kill and injure a large number of cavalry in close combat, can I fight with the thorns in the field?"

"What, how is this possible?" The eldest prince was very surprised, looking at Yuan Rui, he couldn't believe it at all.

"Yuan Gongzi, you say your thoughts first, what do you want to do, and the Duke of Wei will fully support you."

Xu Guangjun is different from his brother, after such a long time, he has been completely immune, even if Yuan Rui says that the smallpox thorn can be destroyed, he must think that Yuan Rui has a way.

The eldest prince looked at the second brother in disbelief, when did it start, his capable younger brother began to convince outsiders.

Yuan Rui didn't say much at this time, he began to draw a simple sketch on the paper, and then used dishes and chopsticks to simulate, and soon said his thoughts.

"You see, I pull the cart up high, and once you meet the enemy, you can directly erect two layers, which are empty in the middle, and you can prepare heavy objects in advance and put them in it, and ordinary horses can't rush at all. The soldiers in the circle prepare a three-meter bamboo gun in advance, which is simple, practical, and can be prepared in advance, this is everywhere. If the Miao people are placed in the inner circle, the rattan shield and the scimitar form the third line of defense, how much combat power does the flower thorn cavalry still have at this time, and can they still win in the face of the border army that has no losses!"

While listening to Yuan Rui's explanation, the two looked at Yuan Rui's sketches and on-site simulations.

At the same time, the eldest prince kept asking questions about this countermeasure, some Yuan Rui answered directly, and some Yuan Rui adjusted and changed after thinking about it, and then carried out a counterattack simulation.

Unconsciously, nearly two hours passed, and the lunch of the three of them was simply a little local noodles.

Towards the end of the day, the three of them finally came up with a relatively complete plan.

After Xu Guangguang was completely clear, he couldn't help it anymore, and directly pulled Yuan Rui to find the general, this countermeasure is very feasible, and the relevant preparations are not very difficult, if it can really be realized, it can be said that this battle will increase the chance of winning by at least thirty percent.

Yuan Rui stopped a little, said the doubts in his heart, and suggested that it was best to go to the barracks to simulate on the spot, see the effect, and then go back to the general, which would be easier to say a lot, after all, it is all inference.

Xu Guangguang understood as soon as he heard it, this is not difficult, he has thousands of people in the first place, seize the time to prepare in the past few days, make a few more attempts, consider some omissions clearly, and then tell the general, it is not too late.

In the next few days, Yuan Rui also went to the eldest prince's barracks, personally guided, first prepared the corresponding materials according to the countermeasures, and found something similar to replace it, and it took three days to make all the preparations.

The next morning, the teams began to rehearse according to the agreed strategy. Although it was a drill, Xu Guangguang had no idea of fooling, he would rather break a few horses and injure some soldiers to see if the plan worked.

Hundreds of horses crashed into the prepared protective vehicle, and several horses fell directly to the ground on the spot, and the protective vehicle only shook a few times, but it was still strong.

The long thorns sticking out of the protective vehicle poked a lot of white spots on the horse's body, which was the white ash prepared in advance, and this just needed to see if the thorn was not pierced.

After a simple drill of five or six times, the drill was perfected, and by the last time, the entire protective array had completely formed a tight system, and the cavalry had nothing to do with each other.

When Xu Guangguang announced that he would stop and everyone could rest, the border troops of thousands of people were cheering, and they ran to the front of the car formation, touching here and there, completely ignoring their exhaustion.

The soldiers who have fought against the thorns know the value of this car formation, and with this, their lives can stay for a long time.

They didn't even pay attention, and on the edge of a tent not far away, several people had been watching for a long time.

At first, a few people kept pointing and pointing, and there were smiles on their faces. It's just that, gradually, a few people lost their lives, and they didn't say anything anymore, just watched. When it came to the last time, the eyes of several people were full of surprise to each other.

A few people looked at King Huai standing in the middle, only to see that he was not surprised at all, a relaxed smile appeared on his face, turned around and ordered, and rode back to the city directly.

Yuan Rui has been tired for the past few days, and has been staring at perfecting many details before returning to his residence to rest in peace.

He said don't look for him for other things, just let Xu Guangguang go directly to the general, now he is not as clear as Xu Guangguang, and he doesn't understand the war.

As long as the idea is right, which of these battle-hardened generals is easy to fool, and which one is not snatching this life from those big battles.

As long as they have a clear understanding, combined with their past experiences, improve and improve, and engage in actual combat again, it is inevitable that they will finally form a combat strategy.

He really thought it right, after King Huai took several major generals to deduce this strategy many times, combined with many opinions and situations, he formed multiple sets of multi-form confrontation formations, and he really didn't look for him.

A few days later, seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder at the end of October, Yuan Rui didn't want to go out of the house at all.

I just hid in the house and wrote a letter. In a few days, Xu Guangjun is going back to the capital, and he has been here for so long, and he hasn't written a letter, so he can't say it, so he just asked Xu Ergongzi to bring it back this time.

He first wrote a letter to Xiaohe at home, talking about things and some of his own observations, telling her that she was safe. I wrote another letter to my sister, in addition to reporting safety, I also talked a little more about my life here.

After thinking about it, I still sent a letter to Miss Xu, and talked about my thoughts during this time, and I still felt that I had to find ways to keep the people in the northwest so that the barren fields here could grow crops.

Now the timing is not right, and he didn't say much, just foreshadowing in advance.

In the end, he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't know what to say to that Miss Meng.

Pick up the pen, put it down, pick it up again, put it down again!

After thinking about it for a long time, he still briefly talked about some of the features of Longzhou, and wrote a little bit about his feelings about this side.

In fact, for Miss Meng, he is currently simply treating her as a shadow of another person from his heart, and there is really nothing very special in it.

Finally, I said that I am busy with a lot of official business now, and I have no time or mood to write poetry.

Xu Guangjun is going back, the matter here is complete, and the new military rations that can be carried for a long time and are easy to eat have been successfully experimented in logistics.

Not only most of the generals in the army, but even King Huai personally tried it and praised this kind of military food.

On the way to the original march, when there is enough time, you can still make a fire and cook, that is, drink some hot soup and eat some hot steamed buns.

When time is pressing, they take stiff steamed buns and catch cold water, and the physical exertion of officers and men is too great to support long-distance attacks.

This new type of military food, no matter how cold it is, the powdery fried noodles do not chuckle your teeth, drink a little water, and not mention whether it tastes good or not, at least you can fill your stomach.

And there are a lot of vegetable leaves and minced meat in it, although there are few, but it is nutritious, and the physical strength recovers quickly.

King Huai also deliberately arranged for several battalions to carry only this kind of dry food, and did not make any logistical reserves to patrol the surrounding areas.

As it turned out, after seven days, when the soldiers came back, they were in a very little different state from when they went out, not only jokingly, but also eating specially prepared meals, saying that the dry food was not much worse than this hot soup and hot rice.

King Huai felt more and more that this transfer of Yuan Rui was worth it, he knew very well that although everything was provided by the Xu family, Xu Guangjun, a busy man, stayed in Longzhou for more than a month for this dry food, but it was Yuan Rui who did it at all.

Now the 100,000 elite soldiers under the command of King Huai are already being trained according to the latest training methods.

King Huai planned to send some teams to Wuwei and Yulin before the end of the year at most, when these 100,000 elite soldiers had completed their basic training, and the other hundreds of thousands of troops would also understand all the training subjects by March of the following year.

In his recital to the court, he asked from Shuzhou and Hanyuan to cut down all the bamboos that no one wanted on the mountains and send them to Longzhou.

He also specially instructed that, according to Yuan Rui's requirements, at least three branches should be left in front of them to be used as burrs.

Yuan Rui was worried that in this process, once the local government did not operate properly, the local people would suffer in vain, and it might have an impact on future wars.

Therefore, he specially suggested to King Huai that a piece of bamboo and ask the local government to give the people a penny of remuneration, of course, it must be a high-quality product.

He also knew that the local government might not pay for this money, so he negotiated with Xu Guangjun, and this fee came from the military expenses.

King Huai knew what he meant, so he made a special statement to the two local governments of Shuzhou and Hanzhou that once they found out that the people did not get the money in the process, they would wait to raid their homes.