In the age of cold weapons, morale was a magical thing. Without morale, even if you were an elite army, you might be driven away by a group of new soldiers. Therefore, after Ganassis determined that there was no benefit to be gained, he decisively retreated.
"Retreating? Why are these bastards from Da Qin so unsatisfactory? You want me to cut them off again and leave without burning my hands with these things!" Li Jue immediately cursed.
The main reason is that Vologis V was too arrogant and gave too many things. Although Li Jue and others are not honest people, they agree with using people's money to eliminate disasters for others, so seeing so many gold coins and armors
, and for the sake of the horses, Li Jue felt that a fight was necessary.
However, Li Jue knew very well that the difficulty of replenishing his Xiliang cavalry was a bit high and could not be filled in the war of attrition, so he used his brain to find a way. The same was true for Guo Si and Fan Chou. The three cobblers were better than Zhuge Liang, and the three
In the end, people came up with a plan.
The biggest advantage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is that its defense is strong enough and it can ignore the arrows of Roman short archers. However, the Roman spearmen and infantry can assassinate the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. This makes the Xiliang Iron Cavalry the best choice for long-range combat instead of melee combat.
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Although the long-range bows and arrows of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry are basically rubbish, their position has always been to intersperse melee combat and break formations in hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has never been equipped with bows and arrows. Even the leader Li Jue and others are actually very poor in archery skills.
Therefore, in order to keep things simple and crude, Li Ru equipped Li Jue and others with single-arrow crossbows, and they were already obsolete.
But no matter how you put it, rubbish can only be said to be misplaced treasures, and Li Ru is not stupid. This single-shot crossbow is difficult to load and cock, but it is powerful enough to shoot through a person wearing armor.
It is a very crazy thing, but because it is a single shot, and the winding is too slow, basically reloading it once, the Romans' rate of fire is enough to finish a pot of arrows, and then change another pot to continue shooting...
Therefore, Dazhongyuan has long given up on this garbage low-rate gadget, but Li Ru equipped the Xiliang cavalry with this gadget and had no intention of reloading it. This thing is here to trap the gun array.
One shot of concentrated firepower is enough to create a gap in the gun array, not to mention that the cavalry's archery skills are poor, but the gun array is so dense, how can they miss it? All they need to do is raise their hands to shoot at the same time, and it will be enough to create a gap in the gun array in an instant.
If something like the spear formation has a gap, it will have no combat effectiveness at all. It will be easy for the cavalry to round and flatten it. Therefore, the spear formation as a trap for the cavalry is completely useless against the Xiliang cavalry, especially the headquarters.
However, the Xiliang Cavalry will not use this method to directly concentrate firepower on the formation of the spear and shield soldiers unless they have to fight. They usually shoot flatly, so it is still necessary to keep a trump card for a comeback.
Therefore, after confirming that Rome did not have strong crossbows, Li Jue suddenly asked why they were not like Li Rujiao when they concentrated their firepower to open loopholes.
Anyway, they don't need to pursue speed of fire, range, or even accuracy.
Charge to a distance of thirty steps from the opponent, fight against the enemy's arrows, and shoot in one direction. You can kill dozens of them at once, and then run away.
After grinding and grinding, the opponent will definitely lose morale. After all, their defense is high. As long as the opponent only has a short bow, you don't have to worry about it at all.
"We sent troops to block the Qin Dynasty. Don't you think it's too hot to handle after taking so many things? Even if we use our trump cards, the worst we can do is go back and serve as a thigh pendant for the military advisor." After gritting his teeth for a long time, Li Jue slapped the stone platform with his final slap.
"It's useless to give us 10,000 good horses, and I think An An is a good king, and he is generous. If he wants to deal with Da Qin, he will definitely be willing to give more benefits!" Guo Si touched his chin and said, using it as a thigh pendant for Li Ru.
The advantage is safety.
"Great Qin's understanding of us comes from the battle a few days ago, and it also understands that archers are useless to us, so those in the rear must be spear and shield soldiers." Fan Chong knocked on the stone platform and said, "Also because the spear and shield soldiers are there
Later, the center army must be light cavalry and archers."
"The biggest problem is whether we can penetrate the opponent's gun and shield soldiers. We saw clearly a few days ago that with three guns, one long and two short, we will not have an advantage after forming a formation." Guo Bang weighed it twice.
Said that their biggest problem is their military strength.
If Guo, Li, Fan and Zhang Hua had still had 30,000 generals and 100,000 retinues at that time, there would be no need to think about the futility of these things and just rush over, and all problems would be solved.
"Military strength is indeed a problem, but we have also seen the situation of Xi'an. Except for the Royal Guards, the others were completely restrained by Great Qin. This level of restraint is almost as good as the archers we restrained Great Qin." Li Jue was a little bit.
He said helplessly.
Guo Bang and Fan Chou laughed out loud. It was crazy that such a thing could happen. It was like this. Why don't you change the military system quickly?
"In my opinion, if we bring the Parthians together, it is just a cry of encouragement. If we can penetrate the Romans' gun and shield defense, then we can do it without the Parthians. If we cannot penetrate, we can do it with the Parthians."
More dead people." Fan Chou said helplessly, spreading his hands.
"It's really true when you think about it." Guo Bang chuckled when he thought of the situation of the Parthian light cavalry.
"So, let's fight or not." Li Jue looked at his two friends.
""If Boyuan were here, I would definitely support the fight." Fan Chou shook his head and rejected Li Jue's dangerous proposal. He could not let his brothers risk their lives for such a small amount of money.
Zhiran, tell me what you really think, you are the smartest among us." Guo Si hesitated and decided to support Li Jue's idea. He really wanted to fight, he himself is a horse thief who licks blood from his knife edge.
, but later Toujun was promoted bit by bit by Dong Zhuo.
"I want to fight, not for money, but I am thinking about what the military advisor asked us to do in the Western Region. Although the military advisor said that we do not need to do anything, as long as we do not interfere with Yongliang, we can protect our stability for the rest of our lives, but we can really
Do nothing?" Li Jue asked, looking at the two of them.
Li Ru has always been a spiritual banner in the eyes of this group of people. In the eyes of these people, it is impossible for Li Ru to waste their excellent labor. Moreover, Li Ru allowed them to lead troops instead of letting them go to the Western Regions alone.
This made the smartest Li Jue think about whether Li Ru had any tasks for them. However, after arriving in the Western Regions, Li Ru did not give any new instructions. It was not until An An asked for help that Li Jue suddenly had an idea.
Want them to be pioneers.
They have the title of Scepter, they have soldiers, and they have extremely excellent ability to lead troops in combat. As pioneers, they are not eye-catching at all, and they have the ability to test out the combat effectiveness of another empire!
