Old Wang's kiln factory also stopped working. Old Wang himself took a group of highly skilled carpenters to the woods to cut down huge trees, and then made trebuchets one by one. He knew that these trebuchets were Mayi's trump card.
Every time he built one more trebuchet, several fewer people would die in Mayi.
Women and children were all concentrated in Mayi County. They gathered together to find ways to weave rattan armor and rattan shields and try their best to contribute to everyone.
And Niu Gui made use of the relationships he had established in the Huns tribe in the past two months to vigorously inquire about news about the Huns. It can be said that each of the 200,000 people is contributing to the upcoming war.
In less than three days, Old Niu's ironworks produced all the cavalry equipment.
With these new equipment, Wang Lei was overjoyed. He took 2,000 cavalry with Mayi as the center to sweep away horse bandits and bandits.
Although these horse bandits were determined to attack Mayi, after all, the horse bandits had little organizational power. Many horse bandits could not help their greed and slowly approached Mayi City, wanting to see what advantages they could take advantage of. These horse bandits were big
Some of them were hundreds or even thousands of people, brought together by several groups of horse bandits who were familiar with each other.
And they were caught red-handed by Wang Lei.
After Wang Lei discovered them, he first fired a wave of crossbows and shot a group of horse bandits to death, and then rushed up and chopped them down!
Although the horse bandits were hit hard by the crossbow arrows, their ferocity was also aroused. They all slashed at Wang Lei and the others with cruel smiles!
"Ding, ding, ding!" The men and horses from both sides quickly strangled each other, but these horse bandits were surprised to find that their enemies could not be killed. Even if they made Wang Lei and their armors clang, even their scimitars could not be killed.
They were blunted by the chop, but they still looked at the enemy's armor. It would have been fine if they had two pieces of precious armor, but there were two thousand people wearing precious armor.
What surprised them even more was that the sabers in the hands of Wang Lei and others could easily cut off their scimitars and leather armor. In just one round of fighting, half of their men fell.
The surviving horse bandits were shocked. Not only did these people have invulnerable armor, but they also had precious swords that could cut jade and divide gold into gold. They simply had no sense of martial ethics!
The leader of the horse bandits roared angrily: "What kind of hero is it to rely on precious armor and swords? If you have the ability to lose these, we will fight alone!"
Wang Lei laughed and said: "How dare you horse bandits be called heroes!"
"Just wait, I still have brothers!" After saying this, the leader of the horse bandits ran away.
Even Wang Lei was stunned. He didn't expect this bandit leader to be so strong on the outside but on the inside, he ran away after just one round of fighting, not even asking for his own men.
In fact, this is the norm. Even the elite troops with more than half of their casualties still have to flee, let alone this group of horse bandits. After they realized that Wang Lei and the others were not easy to deal with, they all turned around and ran away.
Wang Lei reacted and roared: "Don't even think about running away!"
After saying that, he led the cavalry and rushed forward to round up the horse bandits. Except for a few horse bandits who escaped, most of the horse bandits were caught by Wang Lei, including the leader of the horse bandits just now.
Wang Lei brought these horse bandits back to Mayi!
Xu Wei interrogated the leader of the horse bandits and found that the situation was much better than he thought. There were about 30,000 to 40,000 horse bandits who wanted to come to Mayi to grab a vote, and they were composed of hundreds of bandits, large and small.
The Huns originally wanted to unite with them to deal with Xu Wei. At first, these horse bandits knew that they had little capital and were willing to use the Huns as the main force. However, as more and more horse bandits gathered together, they felt that they were powerful, so they did not
I am willing to be the cannon fodder of the Huns again, and I also have opinions on the way the treasure is distributed, and I am not willing to let the Huns take the majority.
So the two sides fell out after a few more exchanges. These horse bandits even robbed several Huns tribes, and the two sides turned against each other. Naturally, it was impossible to talk about any alliance. The Huns even had to be on guard against them summoning them.
The horse was stolen.
And now these horse bandits are gathering in Dingxiang County and preparing to kill Mayi. Of course, because hundreds of horse bandits have gathered together, they all have their own agenda, and no one has made up their mind, so these 30,000 to 40,000 horse bandits are
They dispersed into a group. The ones in front had already arrived at Mayi, but there were still many horse bandits who had not yet set off in Dingxiang County.
When Wang Lei learned that the horse bandits and the others were gathering in Dingxiang County, he happily said to Xu Wei: "Captain, God is helping us. These horse bandits are really asking for their own death."
It turns out that Dingxiang County is located in the eastern part of the Xinding Basin. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has four rivers running through it. The terrain of the county is in the shape of a dustpan from east to west. With such terrain, as long as Xu Wei and the others go north, they can directly clear all the escape routes for these bandits.
Blocked.
You must know that Xu Wei only has 2,000 cavalry. If he wants to fight these horse bandits on the grassland, even if he can defeat them, it will not be able to cause much damage to them and they will easily escape. If they escape, they will be like
If there are flies surrounding Mayi, there will be no need to build Mayi.
In Dingxiang County, these horse bandits have become turtles in the urn, and they can be wiped out.
But Xu Wei was worried: "If we take the initiative to attack, our cavalry is a bit insufficient! And the infantry is not available!"
Only defending the enemy, Xu Wei still had some confidence in defeating the enemy with his spear phalanx. This era had not yet seen the golden age of cavalry. It may be that without horseshoes, stirrups, and high-bridge saddles, the cavalry's assault performance was not strong enough.
The massed infantry formations of this era could still withstand the impact of cavalry. The most significant example is that Li Ling's 5,000 infantrymen could withstand the Huns' 80,000 cavalry. Although more than 300 years have passed, the tactics of the cavalry have not improved much.
But if the infantry attacks the cavalry, it would be a fantasy. It is impossible for two legs to outrun the four legs of the cavalry. Therefore, the most important unit on the grassland is the cavalry, but Xu Wei and the others have been in the grassland for too short a time.
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Even if Gongsun Zan's war horses and those purchased by Xu Wei were captured and there was no shortage of war horses, only 2,000 of their 200,000 people were suitable to become cavalry. If you want to rely on 2,000 cavalry to defeat tens of thousands of horse bandits, even if they are a mob,
It’s still a bit fanciful.
But Wang Lei said: "Captain, although we have only 2,000 cavalry, we have more than 20,000 horses here. If the infantry rides on the horses, they will not be able to keep up. Who in the north can't ride a horse!"
The reason why the strong Han people stayed in Duhan to perish by force was because they had abundant martial virtues. Every county in the Han Dynasty had arsenals and organized people to perform martial arts every year. Although many of these inheritances were cut off at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are still many places where
Continuing this tradition, although few of the refugees who came with Xu Wei were proficient in riding skills, there were a lot of people who could ride horses, and more than half of them had better riding skills than Xu Wei.