Rebirth: The little puppet emperor, tearing apart the regent with his own hands

The second effective way to deal with the Huns' cavalry is to use crossbows. When Yu Wenwen went out on the expedition, he brought many repeating crossbows, including several heavy crossbows.

Based on past experience in dealing with the Hun cavalry, crossbows can inflict very heavy damage to the Hun cavalry from a long distance. They can not only disrupt their charge formation, but can even kill and injure their personnel.

But the crossbow has a huge limitation after all, that is, it is extremely fast when cavalry attacks.

From the time when the Hun cavalry launches a charge to the time when the Hun cavalry arrives in front of them, they can generally only fire two to three rounds of arrows. They can kill or injure the cavalry in the front row even if they are stretched to death, while the cavalry in the rear row cannot be fired at all. Affected, and if the Huns took advantage of this and used the people in the front row as shields, the effectiveness of the crossbows would be very limited.

Next, if the Huns aimed at this point and asked the front row cavalry to give up their lethality and directly equip them with shields or armor, the crossbows would be completely useless.

Therefore, a variety of response methods have evolved in response to this situation:

The first situation is to use a repeating crossbow.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Shu Kingdom faced the powerful Wei cavalry. Due to its geographical location and weak national power, it was difficult for Shu to build a strong cavalry to compete with it.

So Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu at that time, invented the Zhuge Liannu in an attempt to resist the charge of the Wei army's cavalry.

"Three Kingdoms" records: Zhuge Liang invented the profit-and-loss repeating crossbow. "The profit-and-loss repeating crossbow is called Yuan Rong. It uses iron as an arrow. The arrow is eight inches long. One crossbow can fire ten arrows." Zhuge Liang used such a repeating crossbow to control the pace. Riding, attack the Wei cavalry.

The second situation is to use a heavy crossbow.

The heavy crossbow is extremely powerful in both impact and penetration. Not only can it penetrate multiple enemies at once, it is even so powerful that it can pin a charging war horse to the ground.

Such terrifying power and penetration can inflict a major psychological blow to the enemy, making the enemy timid upon hearing it, frightened upon seeing it, and directly damaging the enemy's confidence in combat.

The third effective way to deal with cavalry is to use the phalanx.

"Rejecting Horse Formation" is a practice in which soldiers stand up their spears to resist cavalry. The essence of this approach is to use spears to reduce the impact of the cavalry, and then kill the cavalry.

It’s just that this approach is a great test of the quality of the soldiers. What they compete for is the psychological endurance of both parties. Whether it is an infantry phalanx or a cavalry phalanx, whoever has poor psychological endurance will lose first. Therefore, this is a desperate battle. Yu Wenzhang is really unwilling to adopt this method unless it is a last resort.

Moreover, this method requires the infantry phalanx to be prepared in advance. If the battle is rushed, it will easily fail.

Yu Wenwen thought of his 200,000 untrained slave army, the messy Northern Patrol Battalion garrison, and the government soldiers who were more than adequate...

Yu Wenzhang let out a long sigh, forget it, just take it one step at a time.

Yu Wenwen was writing and drawing on the sand table. Although he didn't have high expectations for his infantry phalanx, he still had to make preparations. What if this worked wonders?

The "Rejection of Horse Formation" tests the psychology of the combatants. How to give them a little confidence is a big problem.

Why not... integrate the cavalry into the infantry phalanx...

Thinking of this, Yu Wenzhang's eyes lit up. Yes, he could include the cavalry.

Although there are not many cavalry on our side, there is actually no need to set up a special cavalry square.

As long as we surround the two wings of the infantry phalanx, arrange the cavalry phalanx on both sides of the infantry phalanx, and use the cavalry on both wings to protect the infantry phalanx in the middle, wouldn't it be good?

In this way, because there are two wings of cavalry guarding the infantry in the middle, the infantry square formation will not be easily distracted by the impact of the Huns' cavalry. As a result, it will be impossible to fight, unable to run, and ultimately the entire army will be annihilated.

Yu Wenwen called Zhang Liu and told him about the improved "Rejecting Horse Formation". As the commander of the western garrison, Zhang Liu's combat qualities were not ordinary. His eyes lit up and he immediately understood what Yu Wenwen said. meaning, and he could derive other methods from it.

Zhang Liu immediately set out to train the slave army himself, hoping to be able to pull out a capable team before the war started.

In addition, because when he went on the expedition, Yu Wenzhang knew that he would deal with the Huns' cavalry, so he not only brought repeating crossbows and heavy crossbows, but also a lot of messy gadgets, such as caltrops sprinkled on the ground to pierce horses' hooves.

Tribulus appeared as early as the Warring States Period, and was used many times to deal with cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period.

Tribulus is an iron casting with thorns on three sides. If you throw it on the ground, the pointed end of the caltrop will always be upward.

It can be used to poke horseshoes to pieces and kill enemies. Some caltrops will also be smeared with poison, which will have a better effect.

It's just that I didn't bring too many caltrops, which was not enough to face at least 200,000 Hun cavalry.

Although Yu Wenwen had known that he would deal with the cavalry and brought the caltrops just to be prepared, he did not expect that the Xiongnu tribes, which had always been like a piece of loose sand, would actually form an alliance and actually pull out an army of 300,000 people.

Therefore, how to use these caltrops, how to use them, and when to use them is a big question.

There are also spurs and tripping ropes.

The spurs can be set up at the city gate, and the spurs can also be hidden in the street lanes. As for where is the best place to dig the pit for trapping horses?

If digging at the city gate, how much should be dug? Too many words will increase the enemy's vigilance. If they are frightened and cannot come in, wouldn't they be in vain?

But if there are too few, will it look too fake and fail to deceive the Huns?

Yu Wenzhang frowned and thought, the branches poking around on the sand table.

At this time, several days have passed since His Majesty was kidnapped. I thought that the Huns would soon come to call for formation, or use Your Majesty to do something, but after such a long time, there was still no movement from the Huns...

This is not normal! If the Huns were already calling for formation at this moment, Yu Wenwen wouldn't be so restless, because he was afraid that these Huns were holding back some big moves.

Ah... Yu Wenzhang is a little tired of this terrifying sense of tranquility before the storm is about to come...

He couldn't help but look in the direction of the North Patrol Camp. He was a little worried and wondered how His Majesty was doing now...

Of course, Yu Wenzhang is not only worried about His Majesty, there are other factors affecting his thoughts...

In addition to worrying about His Majesty's personal safety, he was also worried about whether something might happen to the Huns.

Of course, what worries me the most is that the adults of the Zhu Kingdom in the capital have too low a vision. I don’t know how much incredible information they have given the Xiongnu...