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    Thanks to liujunliu, Anxin Erfen, and Feng Sheng Shui Qi 1976 for their support, thank you!  Usha Castle.  Wusha Castle is located at the northwest end of Huaihuang. It is the northwest gate of Huaihuang and one of the border fortresses.  This castle fortress was built with nearby black sandstone, so it was named Wusha Castle. It guarded the throat of the Hu people going south and had an important military strategic position.  He not only guards Huaihuang City, but also serves as the northern barrier of Yunnei in Shuozhou, and points directly at Qikou, the southern end of the important passage in Monan and Mobei.  This was once a town fort under the six towns established during the Northern Wei Dynasty. Yi Feng rose up and expanded armaments and built fortresses. The Huaihuang army expanded all the way northwest to the old Wusha Castle, and then rebuilt a stronger one.  Usha Castle.  Since Yifeng rebuilt Wusha Castle, the Huaihuang Army has used it as a base to continuously sweep away the surrounding nomadic tribes, causing Wusha Castle, which is three hundred miles away from Huaihuang City, to expand another hundred miles to the north.  The nomadic tribes have made this hundred-mile land a buffer zone between the wilderness and the nomads.  Because Wushabao is located at the northwest strategic point of Huaihuang, if the barbarians march eastward to Huaihuang and occupy Wushabao, they can advance, attack, retreat or defend. They can go deep into Yunshuo or Huaihuang and come and go freely.  And Yi Feng's occupation of Wusha Castle can not only stabilize Huaihuang, but if he wants to capture Monan, or even attack Mobei, Wusha Castle can also become an advance base.  Therefore, the important status of Wusha Castle was taken seriously by Yi Feng, and Huaihuang continued to increase its strength in Wusha Castle.  Today's Wusha Castle has become the base camp of the Huaihuang Cavalry. At the same time, Wusha Castle's defense has been greatly improved, forming Wusha Castle in the middle and three acropolis fortresses on the periphery to form an isosceles triangle to protect Wusha Castle.  Last year, Yifeng went north to fight against Tie Le after returning to the army.  Start operating the northwest front line, especially with Usha Castle as the core.  This fortress built with jet black sandstone is far more than an ordinary fortress.  It is a large city with a circumference of eight miles and eight doors.  Each has its own castle, an archery tower, a turret, an enemy tower, an archery tower, a fort, and a trench to protect the city. There are also many large irregular pits with a depth of ten feet dug around the outside of the city.  The city is four feet high and elite soldiers are stationed there.  In particular, there are three guard forts built on the periphery, each only twenty miles away from Wusha Fort. Each of these three guard forts is five miles in circumference. Like Wusha Fort, the city is high and deep, and there are elite soldiers.  and.  Yi Feng also asked the engineers to dig secret military passages between the three guard forts and Wusha Fort. Between the four forts, each fort has three secret passages leading to the other three forts.  Once an enemy is encountered, each fort can be supported by the other three forts. Even when the enemy is overwhelming, it can be reinforced through secret passages.  If the enemy attacks any fort in Wusha Town, the soldiers of the other three forts can watch and help each other and attack its back.  This is completely arranged in accordance with Yi Fengjing's philosophy of not giving up Huaihuang easily.  Although Wusha Fort is three hundred miles away from Huaihuang City, the solid defense of the four forts in Wusha Town can greatly increase its resistance and combat capabilities, especially since there are not only heavy troops stationed here.  Moreover, it is also the training base camp of the Huaihuang Cavalry, with many soldiers and generals, making this place a nail firmly nailed into the northwest of Huaihuang.  The barbarians want to attack Huaihuang.  This fortress must be captured first, otherwise the Turks would dare to penetrate deep into Huaihuang.  Then the elite soldiers in this town can cut off their food and grass.  Attack its back and annihilate the invading enemy under the Huaihuang Liancheng.  In fact, Wushabao Town is not the only town outside Huaihuang City. Yifeng surrounds Huaihuang City and has built several such strong defensive fortresses around it, such as Yehu Fortress, Monolith Fort Fortress, White Horse Fortress, etc.  They are part of the entire Huaihuang defense system, and can also form a separate defense array.  As for the Wusha Fort that protrudes above the grassland, the reason why Yi Feng has great confidence in its defensive capabilities is also the Huaihuang Cavalry.  The most elite soldiers and horses in Huaihuang are the Huaihuang Cavalry.  Since Yifeng stabilized Huaihuang and won the victory in the battle against Tiele in the north, Sanbo became attached to it. Yifeng vigorously expanded the cavalry army and finally formed the Huaihuang Cavalry Army.  After Yifeng entered Beijing, he appointed Li Jing as the chief cavalry instructor to help him train the cavalry. He also led the cavalry with Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Zhang Jincheng, Wang Fubao and others.  Although the Huaihuang Army has a large establishment, it also has different focuses.  The field army is the combat force that Yi Feng focuses on building. In the field army, all soldiers and armor are rationed and personnel are selected. The cavalry always gets special care. Not only are all the brave and capable warriors in the army given priority to be selected into the cavalry,  Even the salary is much higher than that of other troops, and the equipment is also excellent for the cavalry.  The distribution of trained officers and sergeants in the martial arts hall is also tilted towards the cavalry.  It can be said that the field army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army, and the cavalry army is the elite of the Huaihuang Army.  The expansion speed of the Huaihuang Cavalry is also quite astonishing. From the beginning there was only one regiment of cavalry, to now, the Huaihuang Cavalry has formed two cavalry armies, and received the military numbers, Tiger Wings and Eagle Yang, personally given by Yi Feng.  The two cavalry armies even had their own artillery and engineering units.  From the expansion of the three cavalry battalions into the cavalry corps, and then the cavalry corps was divided into two and expanded into two armies, the cavalry army expanded faster than any army in Huaihuang.  Since taking control of Yanshan and getting SanboAfter the attachment, the source of war horses in Huaihuang was abundant, especially the prosperity of Huaihuang border market, which caused a large number of livestock to flow into Huaihuang, and the price of war horses also continued to decline.  The Huaihuang Army can get a large number of war horses from the Huaihuang market without having to raise their own horses. The Huaihuang Army can select the best horses from them and send them to the Huaihuang Army Horse Farm for training, and then continuously supply the best horses to the Huaihuang Cavalry Army.  Excellent war horse.  For the Huaihuang Cavalry, they never lack war horses, nor do they lack excellent war horses.  Each cavalry army has three war horses, one main battle horse and two backup horses.  In addition, the cavalry army is also equipped with a large number of baggage logistics battalions composed of camels, draft horses, mules and donkeys.  Although the Huaihuang Cavalry are not heavy cavalry, they are not light cavalry in the general sense either.  In view of the fact that the Turkic cavalry is mainly light cavalry and few are equipped with heavy cavalry. In addition, the Turks are good at riding and shooting, and are good at fighting and charging on horseback. They are also very brave in close combat. The two cavalrymen, Huyi and Yingyang,  The equipment is also configured accordingly.  The two cavalry armies of Huyi and Yingyang abandoned the traditional iron armor and leather armor, but were equipped with the hundred-forged steel plate breastplate produced by Huaihuang Products. As the name suggests, this kind of breastplate consists of two parts on the front and back of the chest.  It is composed of a large piece of steel plate armor, while the arms and thighs have given up the armor and only wear silk shirts.  They wore steel helmets, and their horses wore tiger-striped leather armor.  He wears heavy stab-proof boots on his legs and a heavy-weight silk and gold-woven cloak that prevents arrows.  The core component of this equipment is the breastplate.  This breastplate is smooth and shiny, slightly curved, and as bright as a mirror. Each breastplate is engraved with a Fuhu on the chest, so this breastplate is also called Fuhu mirror armor, and some people call it light armor directly.  Mirror armor.  This chest plate is extremely strong and has strong protection against arrows, but it is much lighter than imagined.  It is made of steel instead of iron, which makes it much stronger and lighter at the same time.  After being cold forged by a hydraulic forging machine, the thin steel plate armor is extremely strong, far exceeding the defensive power of heavy armor that weighs fifty, sixty or even seventy or eighty kilograms.  The polished steel plate breastplate lined with cowhide actually only weighs sixteen pounds, which 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, hand crossbows, bucklers, and javelins.  The spear was used for charging, the javelin was used for throwing, and the cavalry sword was used for close combat.  These cavalrymen were taught strictly from the beginning.  The power of cavalry lies in charging in groups, rather than fighting alone. Even the fighting method of Huaihuang's cavalry is very different from the traditional cavalry method.  They do not insist on fighting in roundabout ways, riding around and shooting.  The ultimate goal of their training is to train the cavalry to be able to form neat formations at any time like infantry, taking advantage of the cavalry's mobility.  Weaving and intersecting, flanking assaults, and finally using neat cavalry arrays to launch cluster array attacks, crushing and killing the enemy.  Having cavalry trained to fight in formations like infantry is indeed extremely demanding, but the effect is indeed very good.  The cavalry troops who have been stationed in Wushabao for training have gone out for actual combat many times. Tests have shown that even if they are not fully proficient in this cavalry array charge combat method, they can still cut down the Turkic cavalry who are more skilled in horseback combat than they are.  The shit is flowing.  But Yifeng also equipped these two cavalry armies with specialized engineer battalions, baggage battalions and artillery battalions. The artillery battalions in particular were equipped with a large number of heavy crossbows, cart crossbows, even bed crossbows, and catapults.  Cooperating with the engineers, they can quickly occupy favorable terrain on the battlefield, and then set up horses, dig trenches, trap horses, sprinkle iron caltrops, build earth walls, and erect camp fences to better cooperate with the cavalry in combat, making the cavalry attackable and possible.  Defend and remain invincible.  For a well-informed traveler like Yi Feng, he knew that even if he had enough horses, it would be difficult for him to compete with the Turks in a short period of time, not even ten or twenty years.  Train a cavalry force that can rival the Turks.  Therefore, this also shows that if the traditional cavalry fighting method is used, that is to say, the Turkic cavalry fighting method is used, the student will never be able to defeat the master.  Yi Feng couldn't use the Turks' tactics, he had to use his own tactics.  Turks are naturally strong and skilled in riding, but they lack discipline and obedience.  Cultivating elite cavalry is a very difficult matter, even if many Tibetan people join, it will still be difficult.  The cavalry was once sharp during the Han Dynasty, but that was because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established a standing cavalry army in Chang'an and kept a large number of horses among the people. At the same time, the good families in the Guanzhong area also practiced horseback riding and archery since they were young, which not only ensured the source of war horses.  It also ensured a reliable source of cavalry.  But even if you have 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 riding against riding, he could also use foot against riding. However, it is not easy to use foot against riding. It requires elite infantry and the use of solid weapons.  The most important thing for the infantry formation is strong bows and crossbows, coupled with the chariot formation, so that it can resist the cavalry.  To deal with cavalry, the spear array has too many shortcomings, and the crossbow is the bestA real killer move.  Unfortunately, foot versus cavalry has a natural disadvantage. If you win, you cannot pursue and expand your results. If you lose, your entire army will usually be annihilated.  Yi Feng did not expect to be able to produce a cavalry as powerful as the Turks right away, nor did he expect to destroy the Turks cavalry with infantry.  What he can do is to combine cavalry with chariots, use chariot formations, infantry formations and even cavalry formations, or even arrow formations, crossbow formations, and artillery formations at the same time, and use compound tactics to fight against the Turks' single cavalry tactics.  The longbows of Huaihuang are very powerful, but it is a pity that longbowmen are difficult to train. In a place like Huaihuang, where Han and Tibetan people are mixed and the folk customs are fierce, only a small number of suitable longbowmen can be selected. More longbowmen can only be trained through long-term training.  Nurture training.  The requirements for crossbowmen are not high, but the manufacturing cost of crossbows is high and as troublesome as bows.  Yi Feng focused on the cavalry because he took a fancy to Huaihuang's favorable conditions for establishing a cavalry army. At the same time, he equipped them with strong bras, sharp cavalry swords, and javelin crossbows. Yi Feng gave this cavalry a different tactic.  .  Maintain the formation, always maintain the cavalry formation, use the formation to deal with the Turks' toughness, deal with their individual soldiers, and use the overall advantage to overwhelm them with the cooperation of the infantry, chariots, engineers, and artillery.  With tiger wings and eagles rising, each army has more than 15,000 men. It has three cavalry battalions, one baggage battalion, one engineering and artillery regiment, 10,000 pure combat cavalry, and more than 5,000 logistics support personnel.  Yi Feng is very satisfied with the two cavalry in hand. Yi Feng has read the report of the equipment department. According to Yi Feng's request, the equipment department has been working day and night. Now the two newly established cavalry are finally equipped with various equipment.  Armor weapons.  These two cavalry have experienced many ups and downs and fought many battles on the battlefield. During the period after he entered the capital, Li Jing, who was in charge of training, did not disappoint him. He used unique practical training methods to continuously send the cavalry out of the castle and deep into the grasslands.  Fighting with nomadic tribes, one battle after another, drove the nomads more than a hundred miles away from the northern boundary of Huaihuang. During this period, they also fought several battles involving more than a thousand people, and each time they won very beautifully with very few casualties.  Soon after Yifeng left Taiyuan and entered Hebei with Yang Liang's rich belongings, he received news of the Turkic invasion.  Hearing the news, Yi Feng rushed to Youzhou immediately.  At the same time, he immediately mobilized all departments of the Huaihuang Army and the troops of the general offices of Youzhou Prefecture to fully prepare for war and prepare to face the enemy.  On the third day of March, Yi Feng saw a messenger from Hengan Town, Shuozhou, Hedong, reporting that the Turkic army had broken through the Great Wall, entered Shuozhou, and was besieging the cities of Yunnei and Hengan.  Heng'an Town General Li Yaowang asked Yifeng to send troops to rescue immediately!  That night, the Military Intelligence Office sent back urgent military information. Du Yan, the general manager of Shuozhou, sent 3,000 reinforcements led by Zhao Zhongqing to reinforce Yunnei. They were ambushed by Turks in Qingliang Mountain south of Yunnei and their troops were surrounded.  Zhao Zhongqing led his troops to fight fiercely for a whole day and night. The entire army was wiped out and all died in the battle. No one survived!  (To be continued)?¡­
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