"Brother, your eyes are really sharp, and you can see the problem right away!" Zhang Zhao habitually raised his thumb and praised Li Ruotai.
Li Ruotai couldn't help but twitch his cheeks, "What brother? You did something with that girl and I, you still think it's honorable, right? This is in a military camp? It's not appropriate for brothers to come and go in this kind of situation, right?"
But! Even though Li Ruotai was complaining, he still found it useful! As brave as Zhang Erlang was, he politely called me brother. Doesn’t this show that he has a lot of status?
After praising Li Ruotai, Zhang Zhao went back to the formation. He pointed to the Juma logo on the rice paper and said: "The key to the reason why this formation can defeat cavalry with foot is that the Juma traps the soldiers like a city wall.
Most of the Karakhan army was made up of cavalry, and its Iqta cavalry and Ghulam cavalry were the most sophisticated. They were fully armored with both men and horses, only their eyes were exposed, and could not be hurt by ordinary swords and guns. The momentum of the charge was even more astonishing.
Our infantry, except for a certain Hanshandu and Liu Duwei's palace guards, are all conscripted Yicong athletes. Suddenly entering the battlefield, it is inevitable to panic when faced with Karakhan's cavalry charging into the formation, so it is necessary to
Use the horses to imprison them to prevent them from scattering."
Master Zhitong touched his bald head and nodded thoughtfully, but then shook his head.
"My lord, there are very few trees here, and we don't have much wood with us. The horse we made is definitely not very tall. If the cavalry comes charging, those who should panic will still panic. I'm afraid the effect will not be good!"
"Master Zhitong is indeed a virtuous mage with a kind heart. However, there is no room for mercy in this battle formation. This rejection of the horse is not to prevent the soldiers from leaving, but to show that no matter who dares to take a step beyond the rejection of the horse, he will immediately
Behead without mercy!"
Zhang Zhao's face turned cold and he waved his hand down suddenly. There was a sudden silence in the handsome tent. After a long while, Master Zhitong put his hands together.
"Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva kills one person to save everyone. The military law is strict and has its own strict reasons."
Compared with Zhitong, who was not familiar with the harsh military punishments, Li Ruotai and Liu Zaisheng were more familiar with it.
This is a good idea. There is a border with horses, and anyone who dares to break out will be killed. It is indeed much better than soldiers running all over the ground, not knowing who to kill to establish authority.
"As for the arrows, you don't have to worry. When I came, I had already invited 90,000 birch arrows from the Great Sage.
And even if Prague Khan Saktu withdrew all the troops that besieged Balashagon, there would only be more than 20,000 troops. He would still divide his troops to garrison and search for food and grass. At most, half of the troops that could be used for fighting would be arrows.
enough!"
Li Ruotai and Liu Zaisheng looked at each other, and once again had a vivid understanding of Zhang Zhao's position with Li Shengtian.
Especially Li Ruotai, who had rarely been in the royal city before, so he didn't know how favored Zhang Zhao was by Li Shengtian. He only acted so respectfully after his elder brother Li Ruoyu told him to respect Zhang Zhao.
But now he knows that his brother Li Ruoyu is putting it lightly. This is not the nephew of the Great Sage and Emperor. This is a treatment that even the son of the Great Sage and Emperor may not necessarily receive!
The total number of arrows in Khotan's army now is probably 500,000, but Zhang Zhao gave these two thousand people 90,000 arrows at one time, which is absolutely an extraordinary treatment.
Ma Yaozi scratched the back of his head, as if he was hesitant to speak. Although he was a leader in the Guiyi Army before, the Shouchang Army was not the main force of the Guiyi Army, and because his old boss Luo Xianda had a patriarchal system,
, so he had never spoken in a formal occasion like this before, so he, who was usually very shameless, felt a little embarrassed.
Zhang Zhao also saw Ma Yaozi. It was rare that this bitch had an embarrassed side. Zhang Zhao waved his hand and motioned for him to come forward.
"This is a military discussion, and everyone is asked to express their opinions. Just say what you have to say!"
"Second... General, I feel that if this formation is going to fight against the cavalry, the divine arm bow should be the most important point, because the enemy's cavalry is well equipped with both men and horses. In addition to strong bows of more than one stone, I am afraid that ordinary long bows will not
It's not easy to break the armor, you have to rely on the divine arm bow.
General, you probably had this in mind when you arranged for the Divine Arm Bow, which has the longest range, to fire at the end.
But there are currently less than fifty divine arm bows in our army. If there are many enemy armored cavalry and we cannot kill them in time, if the time is longer, the formation will definitely be in danger of being defeated."
Zhang Zhao glanced at Ma Yaozi with surprise and admiration. This guy still had some skills.
Sure enough, the experience gained from practice is the most valuable. Ma Yaozi has been on the battlefield a lot. Although he has never read a book, he can always find problems keenly. His characteristic of loving thinking also destined that he will not always be just a soldier.
A brave general.
Moreover, Ma Yaozi's vision is very accurate. The most important thing in stacking formations is the divine arm bow, because it can make every shot of the iron horse fall down in response to the string.
When the Southern Song Dynasty army used stacked formations, they relied on the divine arm bow to restrain the Jin Guojia cavalry.
The Song army had many divine arms and bows, and the Jin's cavalry were often killed or wounded before the formation could be broken down. Therefore, no matter how hard they attacked, they could not break the formation. If Zhang Zhao wanted to copy the formation, he would have to have a large number of divine arms.
bow.
However, the divine arm bow is extremely difficult to make, mainly because no one knows what the divine arm bow looked like in history. They can only guess that something like a pulley was used.
The divine arm bow that Zhang Zhao has made now was made by him and a group of cold weapon enthusiasts in later generations, and he also borrowed the ideas of many archery masters.
So what he created was a thing that could only be mass-produced under modern industry. If it was moved to the Tang Dynasty, it would immediately cause big trouble.
When he left Dunhuang, he said with confidence that if Cao Yuande had three hundred divine arm archers by his side, he could ensure the smooth handover of the Guiyi army. But by now, Cao Yuande would have scolded him bloody
Head showered.
Because even if Zhang Zhao, who has experience in production, came to Khotan, he recruited Li Shengtian to beat the craftsman's butt to pieces, and offered a huge reward to stimulate him. Now he has only made one hundred and sixty.
There are many, there are fifty that are qualified, and there are thirty or forty that are barely usable.
And the price has skyrocketed. The cost of a divine arm bow can make more than twenty longbows or more than eight dozen strong bows. The distressed Li Shengtian can't stand it. Poor Cao Yuande, I don't know.
Have you made five handfuls?
So the difficulty for Zhang Zhao is that the golden finger has been released and is very easy to use, but it cannot be mass-produced.
"Now that you have found this problem, Cavalry Squadron, do you have a solution?"
Zhang Zhao thought for a while and found no good solution, so he simply asked Ma Yaozi casually.
Originally, he didn't expect Ma Yaozi to come up with any good ideas, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Yaozi was very excited and said that he had already had a countermeasure.
"General, I heard that the Neiku Mansion has customized a batch of horned crossbows for the Shenwei Left Army, but the soldiers of the Shenwei Left Army don't like to use them because the horned crossbows are quite heavy and difficult to move.
But since we are going to fight in stacked formations, we no longer have to worry about moving. Can we urgently transfer these horn bows and crossbows for us to use first? Although they are not as powerful as the divine arm bows, they can kill Kara Khan.
Armored cavalry should be enough."
Zhang Zhao was right when he thought about it. The horned crossbow was the standard equipment of the army in the Tang Dynasty, and the Jianghuai powerful crossbow of that year was famous.
However, the crossbows of the Tang Dynasty were the same as the Han crossbows. They had high accuracy and strong lethality, but they were heavy and difficult to string. They gradually became less popular among soldiers. The performance of crossbowmen was also far inferior to that of other arms, so there were not many of them.
.
But in Zhang Zhao, this was just enough. Who were they using so many divine arm bows to deal with in the Southern Song Dynasty? They were dealing with the real Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, not the fake Jurchens of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in later generations.
This group of real Jurchens, headed by the Wanyan family, were freaks who could charge with heavy armor on the wall in the eleventh century. Their combat effectiveness was extremely outstanding among the northern peoples in the entire history of China.
If it hadn't corrupted too quickly after entering the Central Plains, and if there were a group of peerless generals in the Southern Song Dynasty, including Grandpa Yue, the territory of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom would definitely not be smaller than the territory of the Yuan Dynasty in history.
You must know that in order to fight against the Jin Kingdom, the Southern Song Dynasty broke out the brothers Yue Wumu, Han Zhongwu, Wu Jie and Wu Lin, and Yu Yunwen, a man named Yu Yunwen, has made future generations fascinated in the five thousand years of history.
As for the Karakhanites Zhang Zhao faced, regardless of the Iqta armored cavalry or the Kuram armored cavalry, which sounded awesome, how could they compare with the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom? They were equipped with hundreds of divine weapons.
What is the treatment for arm bow aiming?
Not to mention compared with the Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty, the troops of the Jurchens of Manchuria and Jin Dynasty could fight even their mothers didn't know.
If Saktu Buglahan had one thousand, no, if there were three hundred strong men like Jurchen from the Jin Kingdom, Zhang Zhao would kneel down immediately. It would be useless for him to try to cheat. The opponent could definitely hang him up and hammer him.
"The suggestion the horse team is making is very important. You will be credited once, rewarded with a jar of fine wine, a sheep, and ten coins!" Zhang Zhao patted Ma Yaozi on the shoulder, as if he was optimistic about you.
Dozens of generals in the handsome tent looked at Ma Yao with envy. Although ten guan was a lot of money, it was nothing. A sheep was not bad, but it was not enough to make everyone jealous. What really made everyone jealous was
What a jar of fine wine.
On the battlefield, the whole army, including Zhang Zhao, was not allowed to drink alcohol without any orders.
The bear swallowed hard. On this cold day, a roasted lamb and a jar of fine wine tasted like, tsk tsk! Not to mention how beautiful it was!
He also wanted to have a nice drink, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with any other suggestions. He could only watch Zhang Zhao end the military meeting in depression.
"Old Xiong, call Dunzhu and the others and come to my camp soon!" Ma Yaozi blinked his eyes.
The bear immediately became happy! He shook his big head with excitement on his face.
