This was Cao Liang's treasure. In Cao Liang's original idea, these weapons were kept secret. Only when the Sima family rebelled, Cao Liang would take them out against the Sima family.

But now the situation has changed, Cao Liang has taken control of an army, and the biggest enemy this army faces now is not the Sima family, but the Huns cavalry who caused the tragedy of Wuhua and Huhua.

Since the attack speed of the cavalry is extremely fast, even the best archers can only shoot two or three arrows within the effective range. When they want to shoot again, the cavalry has already pounced on them.

The lack of firepower of the archers caused the infantry to be at a disadvantage against the cavalry once they were in close combat. Even if they used sidecars with relatively high defensive performance, if they were charged by the Huns cavalry, these sidecars would be

There is still a possibility that the van may be damaged.

If you want to increase the firepower of the infantry, you need to equip part of the sound battalion with a ten-shot repeating crossbow, a powerful weapon.

The high-density saturation attack method of one shot and ten arrows is indeed the best defense method. Under the dense crossbows, it is difficult for the Huns cavalry to break through, no matter how fast they are, let alone a solid side carriage.

As the last line of defense, it allows Wei soldiers to calmly deal with all cavalry attacks.

However, from the recruitment to the present, there are only about forty days. It is definitely unrealistic to build such a sophisticated crossbow in such a short time. Therefore, while continuing to let the ordnance battalion build the repeating crossbow, Cao Liang ordered

Ah Fu secretly transported all the 200 repeating crossbows hidden in the Cao family farm to Hedong.

After Ah Fu returned to Luoyang, he immediately took care of the matter. He secretly packed all the two hundred repeating crossbows in grain bags and hid them in grain trucks. In the eyes of others, it was just the Cao family transporting grain and grass to the front line.

That's all.

After all this pretending to be on the road, Ah Fu successfully transported the grain and grass to Anyi.

However, Cao Liang had already gone north at this moment, so Ah Fu could only continue to move forward and transport grain and grass to Pingyang.

After pacifying the Huns in the south, Cao Liang quickly returned to Pingyang from Puzi. After all, the road conditions for marching directly from Puzi to Bingzhou were very bad. Relatively speaking, it was much more convenient to go north from Pingyang.

Since its production, the Lian Nu has not been put into actual combat. It has only undergone a simple test firing. This time Cao Liang transferred it to equip the Pingbei Army, and it was truly put into use.

Cao Liang equipped these batches of repeating crossbows to the Shesheng Camp, and specially selected two hundred people to organize them into repeating crossbows to use the repeating crossbows.

The Shengsheng Battalion is specially equipped with single-shot crossbows. Although there are considerable differences between repeating crossbows and single-shot crossbows, since they are the same type of weapons, it is easier for these crossbowmen to operate repeating crossbows.

Fast.

Du Yu, the captain of Shesheng Academy, couldn't help but be surprised. Zhuge Liannu was famous all over the world, but not many people had actually seen it. He didn't expect that Cao Liang was so powerful that he could even get the Zhuge Liannu. It was really surprising.

Amazed.

Cao Liang said with a smile: "This is not a Zhuge Liannu, but a genuine one made by our own Wei Dynasty. The person who improved and built this Liannu was Ma Jun and Ma Deheng. According to Mr. Ma, this

The Liannu is more than five times better than Zhuge's Liannu."

"More than five times?" Du Yu was a little surprised. The Zhuge Liannu was already a legendary weapon. It once became a nightmare for the soldiers at the northwest border of Wei State. Even Zhang, who was known as one of the five good generals, died under the Zhuge Liannu.

Cao Liang actually said that this kind of repeating crossbow is five times better than Zhuge's repeating crossbow. How is that possible?

"You will know once you try it." Cao Liang was very confident and said with a slight smile. Ma Jun is a genius inventor. How can the things he created be measured by common sense.

Cao Liang and everyone went to the school grounds. Cao Liang ordered ten repeating crossbows to be brought and a human-shaped target was set up in the center of the school grounds. The ten repeating crossbows fired in a volley. In the blink of an eye, the human-shaped target was submerged in the rain of crossbow arrows.

among.

The onlookers would continuously exclaim and be amazed.

Du Yu was very satisfied. As long as he had these two hundred repeating crossbows, the combat effectiveness of his entire sound battalion would definitely be improved a lot.

With sidecars and repeating crossbows, infantry no longer simply rely on the most primitive formation of spears when fighting cavalry, which improves the infantry's defensive capabilities to a new level.

In fact, the biggest gain in the battle of Xiliulin was the cavalry unit. The Wei army not only captured 5,500 Xiongnu prisoners of war, but also captured 7,800 or 8,000 war horses, and other materials were not counted.

number.

Generally speaking, the war horses ridden by the Huns are superior to the war horses of Wei. Although the southern Huns have been migrating inland for two hundred years, their horse breeding experience has not been lost because of the migration. Therefore, it is said that the Huns

The war horses trained by the people are all fat and strong, and are superior to the war horses of Wei.

Since the formation of the Yueqi Battalion, Cao Liang has been stuck with war horses. The newly recruited Tunqi Battalion plus the expanded Yueqi Battalion will need at least 4,000 war horses. In addition to the existing 1,000 war horses of the Yueqi Battalion,

Five hundred horses, the gap is at least more than 2,000 horses.

Cao Shuang gave Cao Liang a full treatment and provided him with all the missing horses. However, due to time constraints, Cao Liang needed a large number of horses, so he could get them all in a very short time.

It's already pretty good, but in terms of quality, it's definitely uneven.

In fact, this gave Cao Liang a headache. The war horses provided by the imperial court were very mixed, with mostly medium and low-grade horses, but very few high-grade horses. The quality of the horses greatly affected the overall quality of the cavalry, and no one wanted to

Riding on a very poor war horse.

This time he defeated Liu Yue and captured a large number of war horses, which allowed Cao Liang to update the Yueqi Camp and Tunqi Camp. Cao Liang ordered all the captured war horses to be selected, and the best horses were classified into the best horses.

The middle-class horses are classified into the middle-class horses, and the low-class horses are classified into the low-class horses.

The low-grade horses that could no longer be reused were assigned to the baggage camp by Cao Liang. These horses were fully capable of the task of pulling carts.

As for the medium and high-quality horses, they were enriched in the Yueqiu camp and Tuenqiu camp, and all the problematic horses were eliminated and replaced with these excellent horses.

With these war horses, the combat effectiveness of the Yueqi battalion and the Tunqi battalion was significantly improved, and the Tunqi battalion also became mature in the battle, which made Cao Liang full of expectations for the upcoming battle of Bingzhou.
Chapter completed!