Overlord!

Chapter 24

After reporting the treasury affairs, Lu Fan went to summon Xian Yulie for Sun Ce.

But before this hero from Youzhou arrived, a small official in a soap suit came to the handsome tent first.

Sun Ce saw this cautious man wandering in front of the barracks, who was cautious but didn't dare to go forward. After all, the gap between his soap uniform and the soldier's crimson robe was quite large.

Sun Ce asked him, "Who are you and why are you here?"

The man in the soap suit trembled, stepped forward quickly, cupped his hands and bowed to the end, and said in a dull voice: "The villain is Cao Cao Jiang Yuan, a worker under the general's command."

Sun Ce was stunned, no wonder he looked familiar.It's just why he looks so lacking in confidence?

"I remember you, what are you doing here when you're not carving saddles in the camp?"

Jiang Yuan immediately replied in a low voice: "The main reason is that there is not enough copper rings. I want Tieguan to help melt iron and cast a few pairs."

Sun Ce said puzzledly: "You are a worker, you can just order the iron officer to do it. Why are you wandering here?"

Jiang Yuan was a little embarrassed, and said: "The army said that they only heard of meritorious Cao Chuan and better than Cao Chuan, but never heard of Cao Chuan. If I didn't owe a piece of cloth on credit, I sewed this soap suit, and even carved the saddle. All the wood will not come out."

Sun Ce couldn't help laughing: "No wonder you look so lacking in confidence. You have never had the official position of Gongcao before. Pass on the order, and from now on you will be in charge of all the military equipment in the battalion, providing armor and equipment for the army. How many people are needed? Look for Liu to be dispatched by Sima."

"It just so happens that you are here. I heard that Sima in the army recruited many craftsmen from the city?"

Jiang Yuan nodded in surprise, and quickly reported in detail: "A lot of craftsmen have come to the back camp. Some are melting iron forging, some are sewing armor, and some are polishing arrows. The scale is about two hundred. .”

"Molten iron forging?" Sun Ce asked, "Is there any ore in the army?"

"That's not true. The iron officials moved the furnace, and then melted and cast the broken ordnance blades into armor pieces."

That's right, Sun Ce nodded.The amount of cast iron produced by Dahan in a year is still very limited, perhaps only [-] to [-] tons. In today’s troubled times, all industries are ruined. This number may not be one in ten. Iron ore alone is not easy to find, and it is not easy to cross County Transportation.

This is the characteristic of this era. Places with developed smelting are generally close to mines or have dense water networks.But Danyang County, which the army is about to attack, perfectly meets the above two requirements.

Sun Ce said: "The iron officers first smelt the broken blades, and after a few days, they also smelted some spare swords and halberds to maintain and train the iron officer team. After passing Danyang next year and the iron ore increases, we will unify the military equipment. .”

Jiang Yuan nodded immediately, and said: "I heard from the iron officials that with this efficiency, forging a piece of armor every day is enough to make a pair of black armor."

One pair per day, only more than three hundred pairs a year... The productivity in troubled times has really dropped to a pitiful situation.

"Let the iron officers go all out, and you can go a thousand miles without accumulating steps. How is your saddle?"

Talking about himself, Jiang Yuan's momentum weakened again, and he said cautiously: "I sculpt by myself, and I have to manage the equipment, so the speed is really not fast."

Sun Ce counted the time and said, "Don't worry. Before I cross the river, I can carve the saddles of Xuanjia cavalrymen. There are only a dozen sets in total."

Pure manual work, no difficulty, as long as Jiang Yuan is not lazy, it is enough to meet the needs of Xuanjia cavalry.

"But what you said is true. It is really slow for one person to do it. It is difficult to keep up with the increasing size of the cavalry. You can take a boy in the army as an apprentice and teach him skills privately. You must assess his character. If you defect, I will implicate you as well!"

Jiang Yuan hurriedly responded, seeing that Sun Ce had gained so many benefits, he was absolutely unwilling to hate his relationship with Sun Ce now.

After Jiang Yuan left, Sun Ce led his personal guards to inspect the camp again.It has to be said that now Sun Ce has a lot of talents under his command, and all the Sima and generals are very talented, and they arrange many sundries in the army in an orderly manner.

Reorganizing the ranks, setting up flags, checking bowstrings, maintaining armor, cleaning horses, transporting grain, distributing herbs, rushing to make military tents, etc. are all progressing in an orderly manner.

Even Sun Ce saw soldiers weaving cattail for seats.

One of the most legendary female high school heroes in the Central Plains, Liang Hongyu, when following Han Shizhong to guard the withered Chuzhou, also weaved cattail for a house, shared joys and sorrows with the soldiers, and finally restored Chuzhou to life.

This similar scene made Sun Ce feel as if history was happening right before his eyes.He is extremely convinced that if this situation continues, as long as he does not suffer a huge military defeat, Jiangdong will inevitably burst into vitality.

Farming produces a bright and bright universe, and there are already seeds.

Until sunset, Sun Cefang returned to the commander's tent.As soon as he entered the tent, he saw the Youzhou hero Xian Yulie waiting here.

As a hero of Youzhou, he was also over seven feet seven inches tall, and his brand-new vermilion military uniform was covered with a set of excellent black armor.

A man depends on clothes, a horse depends on a saddle.With this outfit, he looks even more vigorous.

Seeing Sun Ce, Xian Yulie immediately saluted and said, "Lie greets the general."

Sun Ce smiled and waved his hands, looking at this fierce general, he is not as young as Xu Kun, he is already in his 30s, at the age of the strongest generals, with a resolute face, a beard and a beard, and a very majestic appearance.

In particular, Yan's jaw and beard are very in line with ordinary people's impression of Yan Zhao's hero.

It is said that Zhang Fei has this kind of image, and I don't know how capable this Yanzhao hero who is nearly eight feet tall can have Zhang Fei.

So Sun Ce planned to test the school and teach him first.

After the two parties greeted each other, Sun Ce said straight to the point: "I plan to let you teach the experience of sudden cavalry among the Xuanjia cavalry. All the sudden cavalry in Youzhou are classified as rangers, and return to Chengzi's jurisdiction."

Cheng Zi is also a Jiangmen boy who is good at fighting on horseback. Before he entered Liyang, he had always been the best young general in the army who was good at double belts and two swords, galloping left and right.

More importantly, as the eldest son of Cheng Pu, he has followed Cheng Pu all year round to learn the art of war and understand the marching and setting up a village. He is a very good military commander.

It's just that Xian Yulie still has some resistance to handing over Youzhou Tuqi to Cheng Zi.That is all his township party, which is the foundation of his achievements.

Seeing that Xian Yulie was silent, Sun Ce said, "Have you met Lu Bu under Yuan Shu's command?"

Xian Yulie didn't understand why he jumped on Lu Bu all of a sudden, but he still replied: "General, I have seen Lu Bu once, when he rode Dong Zhuo's head on his horse, and brought hundreds of riders out of Wuguan, and went to the Guandong to join General Yuan. "

Sun Ce asked, "What's your impression of it?"

Xian Yulie thought for a while and said: "He is extremely brave and has a horse. At that time, everyone praised him, "There is Lu Bu among men, and there is a red rabbit among horses."

Sun Ce smiled and said, "Indeed, Lu Bu has a red rabbit horse. When he traveled to Hebei, he once rode this horse and Yuan Shao attacked Zhang Yan in Changshan. At that time, Zhang Yan had more than ten thousand elite soldiers, riding thousands of horses, and ruled the Heishan. Lu Bu Chang Yu Chitu, together with his strong generals Cheng Lian, Wei Yue, etc., rode through the Yan formation with dozens of horses, beheaded them all in one day or three or four. After fighting for more than ten days, they defeated the Yan army."

Having said this, Xian Yulie's eyes lit up, and he understood a little.

Sun Ce said with a smile: "There are only a dozen or so Xuanjia cavalry in our army. Don't you want it to be recorded in the history books that Ce and his brave generals Yang Xiao, Xian Yulie and more than ten cavalry rushed into the crowd, invincible from left to right, every battle If you kill and injure more than a hundred people, then you will destroy the enemy's army after six or seven times?"

Even though Xian Yuliedang felt that there was a surge of energy in his chest, if he could do so, he would definitely be famous in the history of the ages!

What's even more exciting is that all this seems within reach.As long as you follow behind the general and fight hard, you can reach out and touch everything that was once high in the sky.

And following the commander's side to guard, the future is far better than being a team leader in the other Sima battalion.

He immediately cupped his hands and said: "Lie is willing to serve the general, and will do his best to teach all the skills of the sudden cavalry."

Sun Ce nodded in satisfaction, and then began to test his talents.

The examination of generals is of course not only a test of martial arts on horseback, but more importantly, it is to understand his understanding of cavalry combat concepts.

It has to be said that this Xian Yulie is worthy of being a cavalry general who has experienced many battles. He concluded: "As for cavalry combat, I think that the large strides should be organized, and the cavalry should be divided. When encountering the enemy's formation, it should be three-three-five-five. Not clustered, surrounded by the enemy."

"As for the sudden cavalry combat, it is even more impossible to stick to the normal state, gather or disperse, come out or disappear, come like falling from the sky, and go away like thunder."

Hearing this, Sun Ce was full of surprises, even overjoyed!
"Come like falling from the sky, go like thunder and pass away!" This summary really gave Sun Ce a feeling of light in front of him.

This is the ace unit on the battlefield of cold weapons, fierce and good at fighting, agile and nimble, and decides the outcome of the war!

Sun Ce continued to discuss with him, "It is always prudent for cavalry to attack a large infantry formation. In the battle of Jieqiao, Marquis Ji rode his horse and jumped on it. The iron cavalry directly attacked the infantry formation, and it was only then that they fell on the battlefield. According to your experience , When can we attack? When should we avoid fighting?"

Xian Yulie thought for a long time before he slowly said: "I have fought in the north and south of the Central Plains for nearly ten years. I have fought against heavily armed phalanxes like Hebei euphorbia warriors, and I have also fought against mobs like reckless bandits. In my opinion, when you meet In the enemy's formation, it is most taboo to rush forward without being tested. What I said may be disrespectful to Marquis Ji, but we all believe that Marquis Ji is to blame for the battle at Jieqiao!"

"Fighting on the plains, Marquis Ji didn't investigate the enemy's situation. As soon as he encountered the enemy's formation, he dispatched [-] cavalry to attack the enemy's majestic formation. How could he be undefeated if he was so frivolous."

Sun Ce nodded approvingly. The battle of Jieqiao was indeed too careless of Gongsun Zan, who sent out [-] light cavalry to take the lead before tens of thousands of infantry fought.Didn't that hit the iron wall?

"Then what do you think?"

Xian Yulie said: "In order to break through the enemy, you should first climb high and look far away, first examine the terrain, and then check the enemy's situation."

As for the terrain, Xian Yulie also had some insights.

"Even the plains are not flat. There must be potholes and hills. It only needs to be a few feet high, and it is enough to understand the geographical situation. This is a specialty that is far beyond the reach of apprentices."

After analyzing the terrain, he calmly described the method of cavalry combat.

"As for rushing cavalry into the formation, they must specialize in taking advantage of chaos. Therefore, at the beginning of the confrontation, the cavalry will lightly charge into the enemy's formation and move as soon as it charges. Regardless of the number of people, it will drive straight in. Even if the enemy is hundreds of thousands, it will not be able to support it."

Sun Ce was in high spirits, he laughed and clapped his hands, and said, "Good! Very good! Cavalry combat, specialized in riding chaos. Lightly rush into the enemy's formation, and move as soon as you charge, the whole army will fight hard and drive straight in. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of enemies, they will not be defeated. The earth fell apart, the whole army collapsed. This statement is deeply in my heart!"

This is Sun Ce's ideal cavalry tactics.

Cavalry combat should not pursue killing and wounding like infantry. He should only uphold one combat concept, that is, take advantage of the enemy's chaos and disrupt the enemy's army.Once the enemy army is in chaos and the iron cavalry breaks in, even an army of one hundred thousand is bound to collapse.

If the enemy's cavalry formation is well-organized in the face of temptation, there will be no chaos at all.The main force must not attack rashly.

Sun Ce asked: "If the sudden cavalry hits and does not move the enemy's formation, how should we break it?"

Xian Yulie said: "If you don't move, the front team will cross, and the second team will charge again. If you can't enter again, the rear team will do the same."

This is the most common method of intimidation used by cavalry, and it is not uncommon.Xian Yulie continued to explain.

"This is to delay the timing, to deploy soldiers from left to right, front to back. When the soldiers unite in four directions, a trumpet will be sounded, and all directions will respond with concerted force, and they will all collide at once."

"However, this is the bottom plan, and the top plan is to dismount and shoot at foot. If you miss a step, you will collapse on both sides, and if you collapse, you will be chaotic. Enter from chaos."

Hearing this, Sun Ce's eyes were full of appreciation when he saw Yu Lie, and he was delighted to have another good cavalry general today!
He is definitely a hero with extremely profound insights into cavalry combat.What is even more commendable is that he has been a soldier for many years, has rich experience in the battlefield, and has a deep understanding of the enemy's wartime response to large-scale operations.

The top cavalry is always on the horse to look for opportunities, dismount and shoot!

Mounting his horse to look for an opportunity, Xian Yulie has already made it very clear that he can take advantage of the opportunity to attack the enemy, and then cause a large-scale collapse of the enemy army.

And he can tell the strategy of dismounting and shooting, which thoroughly proves his battle-tested military life.

Indeed, the matter of cavalry and archery is very metaphysical. Cavalry archers and crossbowmen in the infantry phalanx shoot at each other, which is even more self-defeating.

But the biggest advantage of the cavalry is that he can get on his horse and look for opportunities, and he will not shoot at the crossbowmen of the infantry phalanx at all!

When two large-scale armies were deployed, the enemy's crossbowmen could not deal with the cavalry coming and going like the wind.

Today, most of the princes in the world are of the same kind, roughly on the same level as Sun Ce. They claim to have more than ten thousand people, but in fact there are only a few hundred bows and arrows in the army.

If these hundreds of people are deployed on the left wing, they will not be able to deal with the central army and the right wing.Deployed in the central army, it is impossible to take care of the flanks.

Therefore, if the cavalry finds that the phalanx on the side of the enemy cannot move, or the enemy has dense bows and arrows on this side, they only need to maneuver to the other direction.

Facing the enemy army with only one spear in their hands in the other direction, the cavalry can dismount and pour arrows calmly.Create confusion among the enemy, then rush in quickly.Defeat the enemy's relatively weak flanks.

One of the important reasons why cavalry always have a combat advantage over infantry is that they can choose to fight on the flank where the enemy is relatively weak.

No army's combat effectiveness is completely average. Even Sun Ce's command of the few more than 2000 people has a very significant step-wise gap in combat effectiveness.

After being deployed as the central army, left wing, and right wing, there will be a distinct elite group of heavy soldiers and a relatively weak flanking army immediately.

If the enemy's cavalry has been battle-tested, a little probing can find a weak point in the formation, and then they will fight with all their strength to break this flank and form a sweeping momentum.

Even if the opponent is the top prince in the world, there is still a gap in the combat power of the three armies.Maybe they will have more bows and arrows, and the cavalry will not have so many opportunities to dismount and shoot.

But in the face of such a strong army, the cavalry is not alone!It can guide the army to attack the enemy's weak points, combine infantry and cavalry, and defeat the opponent.

After Sun Ce chatted with Xian Yulie, he also felt that he had benefited a lot.

Sure enough, if there are three people walking together, there must be my teacher.

With this kind of good cavalry generals from nearby places training Xuanjia cavalry, Sun Ce optimistically believes that the combat power of his Xuanjia cavalry will be the best in the world, even far better than Xiliang cavalry and Youzhou Tuqi.

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