Liu Meng looked from a distance and saw with his own eyes the flaming torches burning under the side car. But what surprised him was that after the torches were lit for a long time, the fire gradually extinguished, and he was still unable to put the side car to the ground.

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Is it possible that Wei Jun's sidecar was not made of wood?

Impossible! Liu Meng quickly overturned this suspicion. If the sidecar was made of iron and copper, not to mention the high cost, just in terms of weight, it would be too heavy and impossible to move at all. Therefore, Wei Jun's sidecar

, it can only be made of wood.

Wood is afraid of fire, but why was Wei Jun not afraid of fire when he made a car out of wood?

The Hun soldiers who rushed forward quickly brought Liu Meng the answer he wanted to know, but when he heard the news, Liu Meng almost vomited blood in depression.

It turns out that the reason why the side carriage is not afraid of fire is because the Wei army has already soaked the side carriage with water. It is wet from the inside to the outside. Naturally, the wet wood cannot be used to ignite the fire. Moreover, the Wei army saw the Huns soldiers coming with torches.

Then I poured water from above. The entire sidecar was still dripping with water, and the torches placed below were almost doused.

When Cao Liang was developing a sidecar, his first requirement was fire protection, because when the enemy saw your thing made of a pile of wood, the first thing they thought of was fire attack. If this problem was not solved, the battlefield that he had worked so hard to build would be destroyed.

The car is nothing more than a pile of firewood.

In order to solve the problem of fire prevention, Cao Liang specially asked craftsmen to install a wooden water tank specially designed to store water on the top of the sidecar. There is a switch underneath. The water tank is usually filled with water. In case of wartime, if the enemy is found to have a fire attack,

With his intention, Wei Bing could turn on the switch, and in a very short period of time, the water above would wet the entire sidecar. In this way, it would play a fire prevention role.

The failure of the fire attack greatly demoralized the Huns. Only now did they realize that the chariot formation was a tougher nut to crack than the spear formation. Who said the cavalry could be invincible on the plains?

In front of the array of sidecars, they were always like dogs biting hedgehogs, with nowhere to bite.

All the men and horses of the Wei army have now retreated to the side carriage formation. At this moment, the side carriage formation is like a calm harbor. No matter how rough the waves are outside, it is as stable as a mountain inside.

All the officers and soldiers of the Wei army were sincerely convinced by Cao Liang. When Cao Liang chose to confront the Huns cavalry in Dongguan, many people were actually uneasy because the Huns cavalry were numerous, several times the number of the Wei army.

What worried the Wei army officers even more was that the plain area was originally dominated by cavalry. The Pingbei Army, which was dominated by infantry, faced the Huns cavalry in the east view of a flat plain. Isn't it just an egg against a stone?

But obviously the worries of these soldiers were unnecessary. The reason why Cao Liang dared to take the initiative to march into Dongguan was that he had already made a plan. The deployment of side carriages reversed the situation on the battlefield in an instant.

Outside the car formation, they were scurrying around like headless flies. In addition to being amused, the Wei army officers were also impressed by Cao Liang's deployment.

Cao Liang had a relaxed expression from beginning to end, because he knew very well that the sidecar formation was a more reliable way to deal with the cavalry than the spear formation. The spear formation had great disadvantages in dealing with the impact of the cavalry.

It's more effective, but it's relatively weak against bows and arrows.

The sidecar is different. Whether it is a short-range cavalry attack or a long-range bow and arrow attack, it can achieve watertight defense. As long as the enemy cannot break through this defense, they will be unable to do anything.

Ma Long used the sidecar's ability to sweep across the Bald Tree thousands of miles away. Cao Liang certainly had reason to believe that using the sidecar to deal with the Huns was absolutely effective.

Of course, sidecars are not without their weaknesses. In a war, one thing is often defeated. In today's war, the tank, which is known as the king of land warfare, still has anti-tank missiles to deal with it.

The biggest weakness of sidecars is their weak maneuverability. If the enemy can use catapults, especially heavy catapults, to attack, no matter how strong and heavy sidecars are, they cannot withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of large rocks.

But what makes Cao Liang more fortunate is that the Huns did not have weapons such as catapults. Since the Huns moved south to Bingzhou, the imperial court has been very strict with them, and naturally they will not be allowed the opportunity to own catapults and beds.

Heavy weapons such as crossbows and siege vehicles.

The Huns themselves were not interested in those heavy mechanical weapons. The consistent development idea of ​​their army was still to rely on cavalry. Moreover, since the inland migration, the Huns abandoned herding for farming or worked half-herding and half-farming.

The situation also seriously affected the development of their cavalry.

Compared with the heyday of the Huns, the current Huns have long lost the characteristics of the grassland nomads in the past. Their folk customs are fierce and unruly.

Without a catapult, it is indeed very difficult to break through Cao Liang's carefully prepared sidecar formation with just physical strength. Therefore, Cao Liang is naturally confident. At this stage, the Huns have no way to deal with the sidecar formation.

A good idea for vans.

Liu Meng was naturally helpless. The Battle of Dongguan had been going on for almost a day, and the Huns had no hope of breaking through the Wei army's chariot formation. Most of the corpses left on the battlefield were those of the Huns.

Human beings, in order to break through the Wei army's battle formation, the Huns had already paid a considerable price.

Now the Huns are also trapped in a quagmire, unable to attack and reluctant to retreat. They are in a dilemma.

Liu Meng tried every solution he could think of, but in the end he was unable to do anything. Liu Jiao also looked sad and dejected.

When he was at the camp in Jinyang, after hearing that Daling had been lost in Qixian County, Liu Jiao couldn't wait to rush back to Daling and kill all the Wei troops who had conquered Daling, which could be regarded as revenge.

But now, the Wei army is in Dongguan, right under the eyes of the Huns, but separated by a side carriage, the Huns have no way to defeat the Wei army.

Speaking of morale, what the Huns lack most now is morale. The families of the right Huns and the middle Huns were all trapped in Qixian and Daling. In other words, their families were killed on the same day.

Unfortunately, the Huns who were eager for revenge were almost red-eyed. They hated this Wei army as much as the sea, and they wished they could eat their flesh alive and sleep on their skin.

So at the beginning of the battle, the Huns' offensive was simply unprecedented, and the way they besieged them on all sides reflected this. In order to win the battle as quickly as possible, the Huns went crazy from the beginning.
Chapter completed!