"Brother, you really have a sharp eye and you can see the problem right away!" Zhang Zhao habitually raised his thumb and praised Li Ruotai.
Li Ruotai couldn't help but twitch his cheek, what kind of brother? You still feel honored when you have trouble with that girl like me, right? Is this in a military camp? It's not appropriate for elder brother to come and younger brother to go in such an occasion, right?
But! Although Li Ruotai was complaining, he still found it quite useful! A man as brave as Zhang Erlang still calls me brother politely. Doesn't this show that he has great status?
After praising Li Ruotai, Zhang Zhao went back to the formation. He pointed to the Juma logo on the rice paper and said: "The key to the reason why this formation can defeat cavalry with foot is that Juma traps the soldiers like a city wall.
Most of Karakhan's army is cavalry, and its Iqta cavalry and Ghulam cavalry are the most sophisticated. They are both men and horses, with only their eyes exposed. They are invulnerable to ordinary swords and guns, and the momentum of the charge is even more amazing.
Our infantry, except for a certain Hanshandu and Liu Duwei's palace guards, are all conscripted Yicong athletes. Suddenly entering the battlefield, it is inevitable to panic when faced with Karakhan's cavalry charging into the formation, so we need to Use the horse to imprison them to prevent them from scattering. "
Master Zhitong touched his bald head and nodded thoughtfully, but then shook his head.
"My lord, there are not many trees here, and we don't have much wood. The horse we made is definitely not very tall. If the cavalry comes charging, it will panic even if it should be. I'm afraid the effect will not be good!"
"Master Zhitong is indeed a virtuous mage with a kind heart. However, there is no room for mercy in this battle formation. This rejection of the horse is not to prevent the soldiers from leaving, but to show that no matter who dares to take a step beyond the rejection of the horse, he will immediately Behead without mercy!"
Zhang Zhao's face turned cold and he waved his hand down suddenly. There was a sudden silence in the handsome tent. After a while, Master Zhitong clasped his hands together.
"Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva kills one person to save everyone. The military law is strict and has its own strict reasons."
Compared with Zhitong who was not familiar with the harsh punishments of the military, Li Ruotai and Liu Zaisheng were more familiar with it.
This is a good idea. There is a border with no horses, and anyone who dares to break out will be killed. It is indeed much better than having soldiers running all over the ground, not knowing who to kill to establish authority.
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"As for the arrows, you don't have to worry. When I came, I had already invited 90,000 birch arrows from the Great Sage.
And even if Prague Khan Saktu withdrew all the troops that besieged Balashagon, there would only be more than 20,000 troops. He would still divide his troops to garrison and collect food and fodder. At most, only half of the troops that could be used for fighting would be arrows. enough! "
Li Ruotai and Liu Zaisheng looked at each other, and once again had a vivid understanding of Zhang Zhao's position with Li Shengtian.
Especially Li Ruotai, who had rarely been in the royal city before, so he didn't know how favored Zhang Zhao was by Li Shengtian. He only acted so respectfully after his elder brother Li Ruoyu asked him to show more respect to Zhang Zhao.
But now he knows that his brother Li Ruoyu is putting it lightly. This is not the nephew of the Great Sage and Emperor. This is a treatment that even the son of the Great Sage and Emperor may not necessarily receive!
The Khotan army now has a total of 500,000 arrows, but Zhang Zhao gave 90,000 arrows to these two thousand people at once, which is absolutely an extraordinary treatment.
Ma Yaozi scratched the back of his head, as if he was hesitant to speak. Although he was a leader in the Guiyi Army before, the Shouchang Army was not the main force of the Guiyi Army, and because his old boss Luo Xianda had a patriarchal system, , so he had never spoken in a formal occasion like this before, so he, who was usually very shameless, felt a little embarrassed.
Zhang Zhao also saw Ma Yaozi. It was rare that this bitch had an embarrassed side. Zhang Zhao waved his hand and motioned for him to come forward.
"This is a military discussion, and we want everyone to express their opinions. Just say what you have to say!"
"Second... General, I feel that if this formation is going to fight against the cavalry, the divine arm bow should be the most important point, because the enemy's cavalry is well equipped with both men and horses. In addition to strong bows of more than one stone, I am afraid that ordinary long bows will not It's not easy to break the armor, you have to rely on the divine arm bow.
General, you must have considered this by arranging the Divine Arm Bow with the longest range to fire at the end.
However, there are currently less than fifty divine arm bows in our army. If there are many enemy armored cavalry and we cannot kill them in time, if the time is longer, the formation will definitely be in danger of being defeated. "
Zhang Zhao glanced at Ma Yaozi with surprise and admiration. This guy still had some abilities.
Sure enough, the experience gained from practice is the most valuable. Ma Yaozi has been on the battlefield a lot. Although he has never read a book, he can always find problems keenly. His characteristic of loving thinking also destined that he will not always be just a A brave general.
Moreover, Ma Yaozi's vision is very accurate. The most important thing in stacking formations is the divine arm bow, because it can make every shot of the iron horse fall down in response to the string.
When the Southern Song Dynasty army used stacked formations, they relied on the divine arm bow to restrain the Jin Guojia cavalry.
The Song army had many divine arms and bows, and the Jin's cavalry were often killed or wounded before the formation could be broken down. Therefore, no matter how hard they attacked, they could not break the formation. If Zhang Zhao wanted to copy the formation, he would have to have a large number of divine arms. bow.
However, the divine arm bow is extremely difficult to make. The main reason is that no one knows what the divine arm bow looked like in history. They can only guess that something like a pulley was used.
The divine arm bow that Zhang Zhao has made now was made by him and a group of cold weapon fanatics in later generations, and he also borrowed the ideas of many archery masters.
So what he created was a thing that could only be mass-produced under modern industry. If it was moved to the Tang Dynasty, it would immediately cause big trouble.
When he left Dunhuang, he confidently said that if Cao Yuande had three hundred divine arm archers by his side, he could ensure the smooth transfer of power to the Guiyi Army. But by now, Cao Yuande would have scolded him bloody .
Because even if someone with production experience like Zhang Zhao came to Khotan, he recruited Li Shengtian to beat the craftsmen's butts to pieces, and offered a huge reward to stimulate him. Now he has made one hundred and sixty. There are many, there are fifty that are qualified, and there are thirty or forty that are barely usable.
And the price is simply sky-high. The cost of a divine arm bow can make more than twenty longbows or more than eight dozen strong bows. The distressed Li Shengtian can't stand it. Poor Cao Yuande, I don't know Have you made five of them?
So the difficulty for Zhang Zhao is that the golden finger is available and very easy to use, but it cannot be mass-produced.
"Now that you have found this problem, Cavalry Squadron, do you have a solution?"
Zhang Zhao thought for a while and found no good solution, so he simply asked Ma Yaozi casually.
Originally, he didn't expect Ma Yaozi to come up with any good ideas, but to his surprise, Ma Yaozi said excitedly that he already had a countermeasure.
"General, I heard that the Neikufu has customized a batch of horned crossbows for the Shenwei Left Army, but the soldiers of the Shenwei Left Army don't like to use them because the horned crossbows are quite heavy and difficult to move.
But since we are going to fight in stacked formations, we no longer have to worry about moving. Can we urgently transfer these horn bows and crossbows for us to use first? Although it is not as powerful as the Divine Arm Bow, it should be enough to kill Karakhan's armored cavalry. "
Zhang Zhao was right. The horned bow crossbow was the standard equipment of the Tang Dynasty army, and the Jianghuai powerful crossbow was famous at that time.
However, the crossbows of the Tang Dynasty were the same as the Han crossbows. They had high accuracy and strong lethality, but they were heavy and difficult to string. They gradually became less popular among soldiers. The performance of crossbowmen was also far inferior to that of other arms, so there were not many of them. .
But this was just enough for Zhang Zhao. Who was the Southern Song Dynasty using so many divine arm bows to deal with? What we were dealing with were the real Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, not the fake Jurchens of the Manchu and Qing dynasties in later generations.
This group of real Jurchens, headed by the Wanyan family, were freaks who could charge with heavy armor on the wall in the eleventh century. Their combat effectiveness was extremely outstanding among the northern peoples in the entire history of China.
If it hadn't corrupted too quickly after entering the Central Plains, and if a group of peerless generals including Grandpa Yue emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, the territory of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom would definitely not be smaller than the territory of the Yuan Dynasty in history.
You must know that in order to fight against the Jin Kingdom, the Southern Song Dynasty broke out the brothers Yue Wumu, Han Zhongwu, Wu Jie, Wu Lin, and Yu Yunwen. In the five thousand years of history, these men have also attracted the admiration of future generations.
As for the Karakhanites Zhang Zhao faced, regardless of the Iqta armored cavalry or the Kuram armored cavalry, which sounded awesome, could they compare with the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom? Are they equipped with hundreds of divine arm bows to aim at?
Not to mention compared with the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, the troops of the Manchu Jurchens of the Later Jin Dynasty could fight even their mothers didn't know.
If Saktu Buglahan had one thousand, no, if there were three hundred strong men like Jurchen from the Kingdom of Jin, Zhang Zhao would kneel down immediately. It would be useless for him to cheat. The opponent could definitely hang him up and hammer him.
"The suggestion the cavalry team is making is very important. One time for credit, one jar of fine wine, one sheep, and ten coins!" Zhang Zhao patted Ma Yaozi on the shoulder, as if he was optimistic about you.
Dozens of generals in the handsome tent looked at Ma Yao with envy. Although ten guan was a lot of money, it was nothing. A sheep was not bad, but it was not enough to make everyone jealous. What really made everyone jealous was What a jar of fine wine.
This was on the battlefield, and the entire army, including Zhang Zhao, was not allowed to drink alcohol without orders.
The bear swallowed hard. On this cold day, a roasted lamb and a jar of fine wine tasted like, tsk tsk! Not to mention how beautiful it is!
He also wanted to have a nice drink, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with any other suggestions. He could only watch Zhang Zhao end the military meeting in depression.
"Old Xiong, call Dunzhu and the others to come to my camp soon!" Ma Yaozi blinked his eyes.
The bear suddenly became happy! He shook his big head with excitement on his face.
