In fact, for this western expedition, Liu Yin also prepared a secret weapon, that is, a horseshoe.

It is strange to say, the application of horseshoes as early as the first century B.C., that is, more than 300 years ago, Rome has a clear record, and through the Silk Road Eastern and Western civilizations have intersected, this greatly improved the efficiency of the horse equipment did not come to China, it is indeed a puzzling thing.

The horse's hooves are made up of two layers, the one layer that comes into contact with the ground is about 2-3 cm thick hard horn, and the top layer is live. The horse's hooves are in contact with the ground, and they will fall off quickly due to the friction of the ground and the corrosion of the water. The use of horseshoes not only protects the horse's hooves, but also makes the horse's hooves grip the ground more firmly, which is beneficial for riding and driving, especially when the horses are on long treks.

In order to prepare for the westward expedition, Liu Yin prepared a large number of materials, after all, from the perspective of the road, this will be a battle across 5,000 miles, and it will be a great test for the logistics supply of the Shu army.

In order to ensure the efficiency of the war horse in the long-distance march, Liu Yin specially ordered the ironcraft workshop to create more than 200,000 horseshoes and nail them into the hooves of the war horse.

The horseshoe is just a thin piece of iron with a thickness of only a few minutes in the ring shape, and there is no technical difficulty in making it, as long as there are enough raw materials, the craftsmen of the ironwork workshop can create it in a very short time.

The horseshoe can not only reduce the wear and tear of the horse's hooves, but also effectively increase the speed of the horse, even if it is only one percent of the speed, it is already extremely amazing.

It is precisely because of the advantage of speed that the Shu army carried out a fierce pursuit of the Xianbei cavalry that began to break and flee, and the tactics adopted by the Shu army were also quite clear, that is, to outflank and penetrate in depth, divide the retreating Xianbei cavalry into several parts, and then encircle and annihilate it.

The bald tree function has a feeling of powerlessness at this time, seeing that the Xianbei cavalry is divided and surrounded by the Shu army that has an advantage in speed, and eats away step by step, his heart is dripping blood, the former king of the desert has become a lost dog at this moment, and he has done nothing on this battlefield.

Now the Xianbei people have completely lost their fighting spirit, scrambling to flee westward, a thousand miles of collapse, although the Shu army occupies the advantage of speed, but they want to eat tens of thousands of people in one breath It is almost impossible, the Xianbei cavalry was ruthlessly hunted, but they undoubtedly created a chance for the fleeing companions in front of them to escape.

After the first batch of laggards were killed, the next batch of laggards will become the target of the Shu army, and for the entire rout team, those who fled to the front naturally had the best chance to find a way out, so the rout became a speed race, if you don't want to be the bottom, you have to run wildly, only your companions are behind you, you are safe, this sentence has become a wise saying.

In this escape game, the quality of the war horse determines whether you have a chance to escape, and the bald tree function and other leader-level characters, including their personal guards, the selection of war horses is undoubtedly the best and best, they have always remained in the leading first group in the process of fleeing, and those soldiers at the bottom, riding inferior horses, will be eliminated in this death game first.

When the high-level of the Xianbei aristocracy was still complacent, the situation that appeared in front of them suddenly made their hearts fall into the dark abyss.

Partial van!

That makes the Xianbei people's nightmare-like existence neatly arranged in front at this moment, in the shape of a word, densely arranged, from the direction of the Xianbei people, it is completely a high and wide wooden wall, extending to the north and south, and there is no end in sight.

The bald tree function sank in his heart, and his eyes were dark, this was Liu Yin's rhythm of trying to annihilate them, he had already secretly ambushed the side car formation on the return of the Xianbei people, there were interceptions in front, and there were chasing soldiers in the back, and the Xianbei army was in a desperate situation.

The partial van formation is enough to chill all the Xianbei people, not to mention the cavalry who are unable to break through the fleeing army, even the cavalry that is prepared in an orderly manner is difficult to break through the defensive position of the partial van formation, at this moment, all the Xianbei people are desperate.

The partial carriage array is very long, and it is at least three or four miles long, and at this time, the cavalry of the Shu army also has a tacit understanding to move closer to the two ends of the partial carriage formation, trapping all the fleeing Xianbei cavalry in the encirclement.

The speed of the cavalry of the Shu army was superior to that of the Xianbei cavalry, and they had already seized the opportunity, and the attempts of the Xianbei people to break through from the north and south directions were also shattered, and with the closure of the encirclement, the Xianbei people had become the turtle in the urn.

Yao Yikang, who killed the red-eyed, led the Qiang cavalry to charge wildly, and cut down every Xianbei person who stood in front of him mercilessly under the horse, today is the day of revenge, the blood of tens of thousands of Qiang people will never be shed in vain, Yao Yikang is aiming at the bald tree function on the battlefield, if he can't slash the enemy, Yao Yikang is unwilling.

All the Qiang riders are red-eyed, hot-blooded, and most of their relatives died under the butcher's knife of the Xianbei people, so every time they see the Xianbei people, they are endlessly hateful, revenge, blood debts and blood repayment, that is, every Qiang is obsessed in their hearts, at this moment to kill the Xianbei people, they are not soft at all, regardless of whether the Xianbei people still resist, whether they have surrendered, cut down one by one, one by one, the heads fell to the ground, and the blood spilled on the battlefield.

Seeing that the pursuers were approaching, there were fewer and fewer people around him who could fight, and the bald tree function had infinite sadness in his heart, since he was fifteen years old, he began to fight in the land of Hexi, and the bald tree function gradually became the king of the desert from a hot-blooded teenager. And today, everything is coming to an end, and at the foot of the Sanwei Mountain, the bald tree function is already at the end of the road, and what awaits him is failure and death.

He slowly drew out the knife, looking at this treasure knife that had followed countless enemies for more than ten years, the bald tree function was embarrassed, he could never have imagined that this treasure knife full of enemy blood would one day drink his own blood.

Since it is already impossible to escape, the bald tree function would rather die than be a prisoner, not to mention that the crazy revenge of the Qiang people will put him to death and break his body into pieces, even if he still wants to live, the bald tree function is not willing to humiliate himself in such a humiliating way but the second half of his life, he is a hero on horseback, and he will die on a horse, he is the king of the desert, and he would rather be buried in the yellow sand of the desert than die in prison.

For a king, it is better to die with dignity than to live in humiliation.

He put the sword across his neck, looked up to the sky and shouted, "Heaven will kill me!" (To be continued.) )