This is a human-shaped horse-rejection formation, and it is ten layers thick.
The Qingqi came to an end: both men and horses were heartbroken...
Even with heavy cavalry, they can only clear two or three floors at most, but they will still die in the end.
Take three spear and shield soldiers and exchange them for a heavy cavalry with one soldier and one horse?
It’s a waste of money...
"Why charge?" Li Feng said unconvinced, "The cavalry can shoot from a distance!"
Li Chengzhi chuckled: "What if all the spearmen wear light shields?"
Li Feng choked violently, thought for a long time and then said, "Then it should be trapped, right? As soon as the gun array moves, I will shoot from behind. Can the gunmen still walk backwards?"
"It's definitely not possible to walk backwards?" Li Chengzhi held his chin and looked at the gun formation and said, "But the back track can be equipped with a chariot, and then the archers get on the chariot and use the bow to defeat the cavalry..."
Li Feng was stunned.
How about a spanking?
In other words, this is an iron hedgehog. As long as the gun array is not chaotic, he can push the cavalry forward...
Restraint is out of the question, but using guns to defend against cavalry is absolutely no problem, and it’s not a rigid defense, the gun array is completely moveable.
If you feel that the width of the queue of thirty people is too wide, you can still reduce it. If you use a hundred people to queue up, the width of the queue will only be seven or eight people, which is just one foot...
Li Feng thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a way to defeat the enemy, so he could only blink and look at Li Chengzhi: "I admire you!"
In addition to admiration, he was also curious.
Didn’t Fourth Brother say that Lang Jun doesn’t know much about military matters?
If you really don’t know anything about military affairs, how can you think of such a weird tactic in a second thought?
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly.
What is there to admire?
They were all leftovers from the ancestors' play, but they were just picked up by him.
Thinking of the Macedonian phalanx, he also thought of the Qin Army's spear formation at about the same time.
That’s how long it is. The gun is seven meters long.
Cooperating with the spearmen in combat, there are also halberdiers and beryllium soldiers armed with a length of nearly ten feet to prevent the melee units from taking advantage of the loopholes. This is what Li Feng is worried about, the problem of too long spears and loss of flexibility.
The halberd is a hook-and-scythe spear, which can hook and stab. The beryllium is somewhat similar to the hook-and-scythe spear. In addition to stabbing, it can also chop and chop.
At the same time, combined with the crossbowmen, in that era, it would be the same as using the weapon.
Unfortunately, it was not handed down and was not discovered by future generations until the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
Li Chengzhi feels that it can be restored.
Of course, it does not need to be equipped with so many arms like the Qin army. Instead, it should learn from the Tang army and train a single arm into a multi-functional arm.
Regardless of other aspects, the fact that it can defend against cavalry with a bow and shield should also be vigorously developed.
Moreover, the hollow formation composed of cold weapons does not only have the characteristic of anti-cavalry...
It’s just more expensive.
Li Chengzhi thought for a while and then said to Li Feng: "Practice like this first. At least you must be able to skillfully change from a frontal formation to a hollow formation... I have taught each team leader the method of changing formations, just keep an eye on it!"
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In fact, it's very simple, just turn around, add a strong shield and stand with a gun, and it's done. There's no need for the soldiers to move, it can be done on the spot.
Li Feng responded with sincerity, held the horse, and personally sent Li Chengzhi out of the school grounds...
The two of them had just left the camp gate when they suddenly heard the sound of galloping horses in the distance. Li Chengzhi took a look and saw a flag soldier, carrying a flag gun more than ten feet long on his back, galloping towards them.
Come.
This is the scout of the Li family, also called Tan Ma. The pole horse on its back was improved by Li Chengzhi based on the Tang Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, those used to scout the backs of horses were all small flags, similar to the five-color back-protecting flags in the drama. You have to go at least fifty meters before you can distinguish the meaning of the reported military information based on the color and movement of the flags in the spies' hands. p>
Li Chengzhi proposed to make the flag bigger and still have five sides, but instead of being stuck on the back, it should be wrapped and tied to the horse.
When waiting to be used, the spy can just put it on the spear shaft and swing it according to the military information reported.
As a result, the flag is not only five or six times bigger, but also higher. It is not only fifty meters, but can be seen clearly from two hundred meters away...
Why didn’t the ancients think of this?
Li Chengzhi doesn’t know either...
For such exploration horses, the Li family would send out twenty horses every day, each with five people, divided into four directions, and each direction must go at least fifty miles away.
Therefore, Li Chengzhi is relatively clear about the movements of the rebels. At least he knows whether there is an attack in the direction of Kongtong Mountain and whether he needs to respond in advance...
The flag gun was hung with a native flag, indicating that it was a normal reconnaissance report, not an emergency military situation. Li Chengzhi estimated that the letter should be from Li Song.
Calculating the time, Li Song should have arrived in Gaoping Town yesterday.
Sure enough, the spy stopped his horse and handed a letter to Li Chengzhi: "The boss is urgent!"
Li Chengzhi took the letter and looked at the paint first to see that there was no sign of it being opened before he opened the envelope.
The code at the end of the letter is also correct. It is indeed an appointment made with Li Song in advance.
These are only basic precautionary measures. At most, they can detect whether the letter has been read by anyone or the package has been changed. From the perspective of preventing leaks, they are almost the same.
Li Chengzhi thought that it would be best to get a code book when he has time...
With thoughts swirling in his mind, he quickly read the letter, but when he only saw the first line, Li Chengzhi's face darkened.
Gaoping Town doesn’t have much food, and can only collect two thousand dan at most?
What nonsense are you talking about?
Two thousand stones of grain are only enough to feed tens of thousands of people for half a month...
He cursed secretly and swiped down again.
It turns out that before the beginning of winter, all the food in Gaoping Town was replaced by Rouran and Gaochang people?
Just these two thousand stones had to be taken from the soldiers' rations and bought at a high price from military households in the fields...
Li Song's suggestion is to ask Hu Baozong to make a trip to Liangzhou or Qinzhou.
Prefectures and counties are not like military towns. At least there are Changping warehouses, which can provide 10,000 to 20,000 stone grains.
But Hu Baozong said that after finally coming here, it would be better to exchange all four thousand kilograms of copper for weapons and war horses.
As for food, he would think of a solution after he came back. He also said that Xin Qiu, the governor of Qinzhou (today's water), and Hu Shichang were related to his uncle (father-in-law) and son-in-law, so it would be no problem to borrow tens of thousands of stones of food for Jingzhou.
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Seeing this, Li Chengzhi sneered.
As expected, this bastard finally came to his senses...
But my head is swollen and I fell into such evil traps.
What if I can’t borrow it?
Two thousand stones is two thousand stones, which can last at least ten or twenty days...
He continued to look down.
Because they were exchanged for grain just before the beginning of winter, it was cold and there was no time to sell them outside. There were quite a lot of horses and iron in Gaoping Town. In addition, Hu Baozong spent some time and effort, and Lu Gong even gave him a discount: p>
Four pounds of colored copper can be exchanged for a war horse, and one pound of colored copper can be exchanged for a hundred pounds of iron...
However, crossbows are a bit expensive. A five-dou bow and two hundred arrows cost one pound of copper.
Yan Ti and Lu Gong smuggled this out from the town army armory at the risk of being prosecuted by the court if the news was leaked...
After Li Chengzhi finished reading it, he started to worry about it.
Two thousand stones of grain are definitely needed.
But the copper cost is not much, only five to six hundred catties.
The rest depends on how to arm these thousands of soldiers...