To deal with cavalry, the traditional fighting method is either archers to attack from a distance and spearmen to form a formation to deal with them.
Either build a city for defense, causing the cavalry to lose its basic combat effectiveness.
This latter method has been done before Daxia. It is precisely because of the existence of these cities that the grassland people have no way to drive straight in.
These prairie people have no way of attacking the city.
Their cavalry is invincible on the grasslands, but when they encounter a city, they have no means to deal with it.
They also did not have a mature siege system and related experience, so the first few times, they just went around the city.
But for Daxia, most of the important people and places are in the city.
It is precisely for this reason that even if the grassland people take over all other places, it will not help at all.
And after going deep into the hinterland, the cities behind may still be their crisis.
The last time when the prairie people invaded Daxia, Daxia had already stationed soldiers in various cities in advance.
After the prairie people penetrated deeply, they formed a closed-door and dog-fighting trend against them. The prairie people were tired of dealing with it, and finally had no choice, so they stopped.
Later, they never dared to invade the south easily, largely because they could not solve the problems in the cities.
In fact, the northern grasslands also have their own methods when dealing with cities.
The simplest is to quickly intersperse to block the city.
As long as the city is blocked, because it is a sudden attack, the city here will definitely not have much food storage.
Either starve to death in the city, or break out of the siege forcefully.
This also happened to fall into the trap of the grassland barbarians.
And the surrounding cities will definitely not leave them alone.
During this process, they will definitely find ways to provide reinforcements, which invisibly creates a situation of encirclement and reinforcements.
After taking this city.
It was a brutal and inhumane massacre. From soldiers to civilians, from humans to all kinds of livestock, everyone was killed, leaving no one alive.
Finally, he used a fire to burn the city to the ground.
After taking several cities in a row, everyone in the remaining cities became frightened.
After they set their sights on the next city, the people in the next city had already disappeared before they could arrive.
This is the method of deterrence.
After that it was easy, all that was left was the sweep.
With this kind of psychological deterrent, it is better than anything else.
However, this method also requires a lot of manpower for the prairie people and should not be taken rashly.
On the other hand, for Zhang Bao and others to attack the grassland, the first method is not easy to handle.
After all, it takes time to arrange troops, and during this process, the cavalry of the grassland barbarians will not give them this time at all.
The grassland is vast, and often when it appears, the grassland cavalry can make up the distance in a short period of time.
Therefore, it is really difficult for them to enter the grassland to attack at this time.
According to Zhang Bao’s idea.
Since it is more difficult to take the initiative at this time, you might as well move and stand firm. For this kind of prairie people, their weapons are just scimitars and bows and arrows.
As long as these two things can't be penetrated, it will be easy to handle.
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JiZhou.
Zhao Sunlong was in the big tent watching the news from Zhang Bao.
They have stayed here since they took Jeju.
Originally, Zhao Sunlong and the others had asked Zhang Bao for instructions and also launched an attack when they attacked Cao Kang in Xiazhou.
But he was still stopped by Zhang Bao.
Zhang Bao can't reveal all his cards.
Moreover, Zhao Sunlong's men and horses are all fast cavalry. If anything happens, they can be replenished as soon as possible.
At that time.
Zhao Sunlong and others are in Jeju. They can rush to the north to reinforce Hezhou, go east to suppress Dongzhou and Huizhou, go south to reinforce Xiazhou, and go west to directly enter Shaanzhou.
For Zhang Bao, the role of Zhao Sunlong and others in deterring and assisting was far greater than the combat role they played in this process.
Moreover, Zhao Sunlong and the others only had tens of thousands of troops. At that time, when hundreds of thousands of troops were strangled together in Xiazhou, it was not impressive at all.
At that time, Zhao Sunlong and the others did not know that Zhang Bao kept them for the purpose of conquering the grassland.
There is still a lot of dissatisfaction in this process.
There are even some hidden feelings about Zhao Sunlong.
After all, they are young, possess unique skills, and command tens of thousands of troops, so they are inevitably a little arrogant.
But Wu Dayong in Jeju still sees it clearly.
As one of the first people to follow Zhang Bao, he naturally knew about Hu Dugu's subsequent visit to the grassland during this process.
then.
After seeing the direction in which Zhao Sunlong and the others were training, Wu Dayong had already guessed a thing or two.
So when Zhao Sunlong asked Wu Dayong for Zhang Bao's intentions, Zhao Sunlong knew the real purpose of Wu Dayong's coming here.
It seems.
At that time, Zhang Bao had already anticipated the current situation, so he asked Wu Dayong to come over.
One is to solve the trouble they had in Jeju at that time, and the other is also for the current situation.
after all.
Let yourself be here, and you are in a situation where Jeju has just been defeated. It makes sense to guard here.
But for Wu Dayong and his current situation.
It's completely redundant here, and even Wu Dayong himself doesn't understand it.
I even thought that Zhang Bao had forgotten him here.
However, many letters to Zhao Sunlong mentioned the situation of asking Wu Dayong to stay here honestly.
Wu Dayong gradually understood.
Of course, the most important thing is that he didn't dare to reply to the message and asked, so he could only stay like this.
for them.
This process is rare.
Zhao Sunlong learned many things about Zhang Bao from Wu Dayong.
And Wu Dayong also learned a lot about the art of war from Zhao Sunlong.
The two of them were enjoying themselves.
When Cao Kang was killed and the situation gradually became clear, Zhao Sunlong and the others became more and more aware of their mission.
This time Zhang Bao wrote.
That is to ask Zhao Sunlong to arrange the matters in Jeju to Wu Dayong as much as possible.
Wu Dayong came to take care of everything in Jeju.
He led his troops north as soon as possible.
This arrangement fulfilled both of their wishes.
After all, for Wu Dayong, he was familiar with the situation here during this period of time in Jeju.
And Jeju is different from Dongju.
The official staff here is complete.
In addition, now that Daxia has been decided, there will be no more rebellions like before, and Wu Dayong can handle it.
On Zhao Sunlong's side, tens of thousands of troops were already waiting and ready to fight.
"Come on, call Brother Wu over."
Zhao Sunlong did not delay and immediately said to his men.
