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Chapter 442

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Wusha Castle.

Wusha Castle is located at the northwest end of Huaihuang, and is the northwest gate of Huaihuang and one of the border fortresses. This castle fortress is built with nearby black sand and stones, so it is named Wusha Castle, which guards the throat area where the Hu people went south and has an important military strategic position. It not only guards Huaihuang City, but also is also a northern barrier in the Yunnei of Shuozhou, and directly points to the southern end of the important passage in the northern desert. This was once a town fortress under the six towns established during the prosperous period of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Yifeng rose to Huaihuang, expanded its arms and built a fortress fortress. The Huaihuang army expanded northwest to the old Wushabao fortress, and then rebuilt a stronger Wusha Castle.

Since Yifeng rebuilt the Wusha Castle, the Huaihuang Army has used this as a base to continuously sweep away the surrounding nomadic tribes, making the Wusha Castle, which is 300 miles away from Huaihuang City, expanding to the north by another hundred miles. There are no powerful nomadic tribes around the hundred miles, making this hundred miles a buffer zone between Huaihuang and nomadic people.

Because Wusha Castle is located in the northwest of Huaihuang, if the Hu people advance eastward and occupy Wusha Castle, they can attack and retreat or defend, and go deep into Yunshuo or Huaihuang, and come and go freely. Yi Feng occupy Wusha Castle, which not only can stabilize Huaihuang, but also if they want to seek the south of the Mo, or even attack the north of the Mo, Wusha Castle can also become a base for advance■. Therefore, the important position of Wusha Castle has been valued by Yi Feng, and Huaihuang has continuously enhanced its strength in Wusha Castle. Today, Wusha Castle has become the base camp of the Huaihuang cavalry. At the same time, the defense of Wusha Castle has also been greatly improved, forming Wusha Castle in the middle, and there are three guard forts outside to form an isosceles triangle to protect Wusha Castle.

Last year, Yi Feng went north to fight Tiele and returned to the army. He began to operate the northwest front line, especially Wusha Castle as the core. This fortress built with black sand and stone is far more than ordinary fortress. It is a large city with a circumference of eight miles, with eight doors open. Each has an Weng City and an arrow tower, and a horn tower with an arrow tower, a turret, and a city-shade trenches were dug outside the city. There were also many irregular pits deep inside and densely spread around the city. The city was four meters high and elite troops were stationed.

There are three guards built on the periphery, each of which is only twenty miles away from Wusha Castle. The three guards are each five miles in length. Like Wusha Castle, the city is high and deep, and there are elite soldiers. In addition, Yi Feng also asked the engineers to dig secret military channels between the three guards and Wusha Castles. Between the four forts, each fort has three secret passages to lead to the other three forts. Once the enemy encounters the enemy, each fort can get the support of the other three forts, and even when the enemy is in large numbers, it can also reinforce through the secret passages.

If the enemy attacks any fort in Wusha Town, the remaining three forts can guard each other and attack their backs.

This is completely arranged according to the concept that Yi Fengjing did not easily give up Huaihuang. Although Wusha Castle is three hundred miles away from Huaihuang City, the solid defense of the four forts in Wusha Town can greatly increase its ability to resist and fight, especially since it not only has heavy troops here, but also the training base of the Huaihuang Cavalry. It has many soldiers and a wide range of generals, making it a nail firmly nailed to the northwest of Huaihuang. If the Hu people want to attack Huaihuang, they must first take down this fortress, otherwise it will break out.

If you dare to go deep into Huaihuang, then the elite troops of this town can cut off their food and grass. Attack their backs, and annihilate the invading enemies under Huaihuang Liancheng. In fact, outside Huaihuang City, there is not only Wushabao Town. Yi Feng surrounds Huaihuang City and has built several such strong defensive fortresses, wild fox fortresses, monostone fortresses, white horse fortresses, etc. around them. They are part of the entire Huaihuang defense system, and can also form a defensive array alone.

As for Wusha Castle, which stands out on the grassland, Yi Feng trusts its defense capabilities quite well. The Huaihuang Cavalry is also the reason why he is very confident in his defense.

Huaihuang’s most elite troops and horses are Huaihuang’s cavalry.

Since Yifeng stabilized Huaihuang and won the victory of going north to fight Tiel, Sanfan relied on him, Yifeng vigorously expanded the cavalry and finally formed the Huaihuang cavalry.

After Yi Feng entered the capital, he appointed Li Jing as the head coach of the cavalry to help him train cavalry, and also led the cavalry with Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Zhang Jin, Wang Fubao and others. Although the Huaihuang Army was a huge organization, it also had different emphasis. The field army was a combat unit built by Yi Feng. In the field army, all the armour and personnel were allocated and selected. The cavalry was always specially taken care of. Not only were all brave and capable fighters in the army selected and were given priority to the cavalry, but even the salary was far higher than other troops. In terms of equipment, it was also excellent for the cavalry. The trained officers and soldiers in the martial arts lecture hall were also assigned to the cavalry.

It can be said that the field army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army, while the cavalry army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army.

The expansion speed of the Huaihuang Cavalry was also quite amazing. From the beginning, there was only one cavalry regiment, to the present, the Huaihuang Cavalry had formed the second cavalry army and obtained the military quotation of Yi Feng, Tiger Wings, and Eagle Yang. These two cavalry even had their own artillery units and engineer units.

From the expansion of the third cavalry battalion into a cavalry army, to the division of the cavalry army into two and expanding into two armies, the expansion speed of the cavalry is faster than any other army in Huaihuang.

Since controlling Yanshan Mountain and gaining the dependence of Sanfan, Huaihuang's war horses have abundant sources, especially the prosperity of Huaihuang border market, which has caused a large number of livestock to pour into Huaihuang, and the price of war horses has also continued to decline. The Huaihuang army does not have to raise horses by themselves, but can get a large number of war horses from the Huaihuang market. The Huaihuang army can select the best military horses from them and send them to the Huaihuang military horse farm for training, and then continuously supply the best war horses of the Huaihuang cavalry.

For the Huaihuang Cavalry, they never lacked war horses, nor were they lacked excellent war horses.

Each cavalry has three war horses, one main combat riding and two spare war horses. In addition, the cavalry is equipped with a large number of baggage logistics camps composed of camels, horses, and mules and donkeys.

Although the Huaihuang Cavalry is not a heavy cavalry, they are not a light cavalry in the general sense. In view of the Turkic cavalry, which is mainly light cavalry and does not have heavy cavalry. In addition, the Turks are good at cavalry shooting, are good at fighting and charging at horseback, and are also very brave in melee combat. The equipment of the two cavalry, Huyi and Yingyang, is also equipped with targeted configurations.

Tiger Wing and Yingyang cavalry, they abandoned the traditional iron armor and leather armor, but equipped the Bai-forged steel plate breastplate produced by Huaihuang. As the name suggests, this breastplate consists of a large piece of steel plate armor on the chest and behind the chest, while the arms and thighs gave up the armor and only had silk battle robes. They wore steel helmets, and the war horses were painted with tiger-patterned leather armor. The legs were anti-spike heavy boots, and a silk-woven arrow heavy cloak. The core part of this set of equipment was the breastplate. The breastplate was smooth and shiny, slightly curved, and bright like a mirror. Each breastplate had a slump on the chest, so the breastplate was also

It is called the Fuhu Mirror Armor, and some people directly call it the Light Armor. This chest plate armor is extremely strong and has extremely strong anti-arrow capabilities, but it is much lighter than imagined. It is made of steel instead of iron, which greatly increases its sturdy performance while also becoming much thinner. However, it has been made of cold forging by hydraulic forging machines, the thin steel plate armor is extremely strong, far exceeding the defense of heavy armor weighing fifty or sixty kilograms or even seventy or eighty kilograms. The polished steel plate breast armor lined with cowhide is actually only sixteen kilograms, and this weight is even lighter than a set of leather armor.

The weapons equipped by the cavalry are mainly sharp cavalry swords, plus five weapons: spears, short swords, crossbows, round shields, and javelins. Spears are used to charge, javelins are used to throw, and cavalry swords are used to fight in close combat. These cavalry have been strictly taught since the beginning. The power of cavalry lies in cluster charges, rather than fighting alone. Even the combat methods of cavalry in Huaihuang are very different from the traditional cavalry methods. They do not force roundabout combat and run around and cavalry shooting. The ultimate goal of their training is to arrange cavalry in an orderly queue at any time like infantry, and use the maneuverability of cavalry. Indirect interlude, flank assault, and finally use neat cavalry arrays to launch cluster array attacks and crush and kill the enemy.

The cavalry trained to fight by formation like infantry is indeed extremely demanding, but the effect is indeed very good. The cavalry who has been stationed in Wushabao has gone out to fight in practice many times. The inspection found that even if they are not fully skilled in this cavalry array charge method, they can still experience the Turkic cavalry who are more skilled in fighting immediately than them.

However, Yi Feng also equipped the two cavalry troops with special engineering battalions, baggage battalions and artillery battalions, especially the artillery battalions, equipped with a large number of heavy crossbows, chariots, even bed crossbows, and catapults. With the engineers, they can quickly occupy favorable terrain on the battlefield, and then set up horse-resisting trenches, dig moats, trap horse pits, sprinkle caltrops, build earth walls, and set up camp bars to better cooperate with the cavalry to fight, so that the cavalry can attack and defend and stand in an invincible place.

For a time traveler like Yi Feng, he knew that even if he had enough horses, if he wanted to compete with the Turks in a cavalry, in a short period of time, without ten or twenty years, it would be difficult for him to train a cavalry that was comparable to the Turks. Therefore, this means that if the traditional cavalry fighting method is used, that is, the Turks' cavalry fighting method is used, the students will never be able to defeat the master. Yi Feng could not use the Turks' tactics, he had to use his own tactics. The Turks were born with fierceness and skillful cavalry, but they lack discipline and obedience.

Cultivating elite cavalry is quite difficult, even if many foreign people join, it is also difficult. The cavalry in the Han Dynasty was sharp, but that was because Emperor Wu of Han established a standing cavalry in Chang'an and raised a large number of horses among the people. At the same time, the good families in the Guanzhong area also practiced riding and archery since childhood, which not only guaranteed the source of war horses, but also guaranteed a reliable source of cavalry.

But even if there are excellent war horses and excellent cavalry sources, it still takes a lot of time. Yi Feng didn't have that time, so he could only use other methods. In addition to cavalry, he could also use foot and cavalry, but it is very difficult to use foot and cavalry. There must be elite infantry and strong infantry formations. The most important thing is to have strong bows and crossbows, plus chariot formations, so that they can fight against cavalry. When dealing with cavalry, there are too many shortcomings, and bows and crossbows are the real killer moves. Unfortunately, they have natural disadvantages against cavalry. If they win, they cannot pursue them, and cannot expand their results. If they lose, they will generally be wiped out.

Yi Feng did not expect that he could immediately create a cavalry as powerful as the Turks, nor did he expect that he could destroy the Turkic cavalry by relying on infantry.

What he could do was to combine cavalry and chariots with chariots, use chariot formations, cemetery formations, even cavalry formations, even arrow formations, crossbow formations, and artillery formations, and use compound tactics to fight against the single cavalry tactics of the Turks.

Huaihuang's longbow is very powerful, but unfortunately, longbowmen are difficult to train. For Huaihuang, a place where the Han and Han dynasties are mixed with people, they can only select a small number of suitable longbowmen. More longbowmen can only be trained and trained for a long time. Crossbowmen have low requirements, but the cost of crossbows is high, which is as troublesome as bows. Yifeng focuses on cavalry, which is to focus on the favorable conditions for establishing cavalry in Huaihuang. At the same time, equip them with strong bras, sharp cavalry swords, and javelin crossbows. Yifeng gives this cavalry a different tactic. Maintain the formation, always maintain the cavalry formation, use arrays to deal with the toughness of the Turks, and use their individual soldiers to fight against their overall advantages. With the cooperation of infantry chariots, engineers and artillery.

Tiger Wings and Eagle Yang, each army has more than 15,000 people, with three cavalry battalions, one battalion of baggage, one battalion of engineers and artillery, one regiment of pure combat cavalry, and more than 5,000 logistics support personnel.

Yi Feng was very satisfied with the two cavalrymen in his hands. Yi Feng had read the report from the equipment department. According to Yi Feng's requirements, the equipment department worked day and night, and now it has finally equipped the two newly-given cavalry with various armor and weapons.

These two cavalry have experienced many storms and many battles on the battlefield. During this period after he entered Beijing, Li Jing, who was in charge of training, did not disappoint him. He used his unique practical training method to send the cavalry out of the castle, go deep into the grassland, and fight with the nomadic tribes. One battle after another, driving the nomadic people out of the northern boundary of Huaihuang for more than a hundred miles away. During this period, he also fought several battles of more than a thousand people. Each time he won very beautifully and suffered very little casualties.

When Yi Feng left Taiyuan and entered Hebei with the captured Yang Liangfenghou family, he received news of the Turkic invasion.

Hearing this news, Yi Feng rushed to Youzhou quickly and immediately rushed to Youzhou. At the same time, he immediately mobilized all the troops of the Huaihuang Army and the general managers of Youzhou Prefecture to prepare for war and prepare for the enemy.

On the third day of the third month, Yi Feng met the messenger for help from Heng'an Town, Shuozhou, Hedong, and reported that the Turkic army had broken through the Great Wall and entered Shuozhou, and was besieging Yunnei and Heng'an two cities. The general Li Yaowang of Heng'an Town asked Yi Feng to send troops to rescue him quickly!

That night, the Military Information Department sent back an emergency military information. Du Yan, the general manager of Shuozhou, sent three thousand reinforcements led by Zhao Zhongqing, who was led by Zhao Zhongqing, who was ambushed by Turks in Qingliang Mountain south of Yunnei, and his troops were besieged. Zhao Zhongqing led his troops to fight fiercely for a day and night, and all the troops were destroyed, all of them died in battle, and no one survived! (To be continued...)
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