Chapter 616 - Partial Van

When the Shu army was stationed in Jincheng, the situation in Jincheng was still quite calm, and even the small Xianbei cavalry that had previously disturbed Jincheng had quietly retreated at this moment, after all, Liu Yin's record of annihilating 20,000 Xianbei people in the first-line gorge shocked the Xianbei people, and the bald tree function could sit back and watch Xiping lose and dare not act rashly anymore, so the area around Jincheng was calm as usual.

On the contrary, the war in Liangzhou is raging, only in Wuwei, the Xianbei people have invested a considerable number of troops, in a vain attempt to take Guzang, Liangzhou assassin Shi Xu Wu fought desperately, and the situation in Guzang is dangerous.

When staying in Zhiyang, Liu Yin did not rest, the bald tree function was a disaster for Liangzhou for ten years, and he successively killed the four feudal officials of the Jin State, and the limelight was unique for a while, but the bald tree function was defeated in whose hands, this is what Liu Yin is most concerned about.

The bald tree function in history has won countless battles in Liangzhou, but there are two defeats, the first is to lose to Wenyang in the third year of Xianning, and the second is to defeat the hand of Ma Long in the fifth year of Xianning. Wen Yang is a rare warrior, throughout the entire Three Kingdoms era, only Lu Bu Zhao Yun can be compared with it, but the era in which Lu Bu Zhao Yun lived was far from Wen Yang, making it impossible to see the strong confrontation of these strong men.

Wen Yang's life, can be described as tragic and grandiose, Wen family and Cao Shuang are thick, this is also the main reason for Wen Qin's father and son to rebel against Wei and Wu, Wen Yang in the battle of Huainan, shined, single-handedly galloped in the thousand cavalry array, cut hundreds of enemies, in and out six or seven times, chasing the horse dare not approach, this victory, it is estimated that only Zhao Zilong's seven in and seven out of Changhan Slope can be compared. Later, he was persecuted by Zhuge Dan, and Wenyang returned to Wei, but because of this repeated "bad deeds", he failed to be of great use throughout his life.

The bald tree can rebel in Liangzhou, and the imperial court is already in a hurry, and it can no longer send any good generals. In the end, Sima Yan reluctantly ordered Wen Yang to lead his troops to quell the chaos. Wen Yang really did not meet the expectations of the public, and was ordered to move the capital to supervise Liang, Qin, and Yongzhou, and the military strength of the three states broke the bald tree function, and forced the landing of more than 200,000 Hu people, which is famous all over the world. But despite this, Wenyang was still not reused by Sima Yan. In the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, he died namelessly.

Wen Yang is too brave, there is really no comparison, and the person who broke Xianbei that Liu Yin thought of was Ma Long, another famous general in the Western Jin Dynasty.

Ma Long is the terminator of the Bald Village Functional Rebellion, if you talk about the value of force, he and Wen Yang are not comparable at all, but Ma Long only led more than 3,000 people, and he dared to go deep into the Hexi Corridor to fight a decisive battle with the Bald Tree Function with tens of thousands of troops and break it. In one fell swoop, a glorious history was written.

Liu Yin knew that Ma Long was not a heroic general like Wenyang Lu Bu, and the reason why he dared to go deep into Hexi alone was because he relied on it, and the thing he relied on was the partial van.

In fact, the partial van car was not invented by Ma Chen, but was pioneered by the famous Zhuge Liang, who felt that the cavalry of the Wei army was strong and sought a good way to break the enemy. Only then did the partial van car be invented.

As the name suggests, a partial van is a vehicle that only has a single side and a compartment. Four wheels, can be pushed by horses, and the body has holes in the body, which is used for archery and spear. When used, the chariots can be connected according to the orientation of the eight formations, and an indestructible defensive formation can be formed, which can effectively resist the impact of the Hu cavalry.

However, the invention of the partial van came after the wooden ox and the horse. At that time, Zhuge Liang was already in his last few days, so the partial van was not widely used in the army. In the post-Zhuge Liang era, those leading figures of Shu did not seem to value one of Zhuge Liang's inventions, and perhaps this semi-finished product will never be seen again.

Ma Long also didn't know how he obtained the design drawings of the partial van left by Zhuge Liang, this Wei and Jin people with the same surname as Ma Jun did not have that great fame even though he did not have Ma Jun. But in terms of weapon innovation, it is indeed unique. After improvement, Malone developed a new generation of partial van and put it into mass production.

It was precisely by relying on this extremely well-defended chariot that Malone traveled more than a thousand miles, fighting and advancing, and the Xianbei people tried to break through these side vans like moths to the fire, but in the end they failed and suffered heavy losses. It was with the partial van that Ma Long finally defeated the bald tree function and quelled the Liangzhou Rebellion.

Liu Yin's first thought of this march was naturally this kind of partial van, but fortunately, this kind of thing was invented by Zhuge Liang, which also gave Liu Yin an excuse.

Before the division of troops, the army under Liu Yin was dominated by cavalry, and this kind of partial carriage naturally did not have much use, but would hinder the movement of the cavalry. After the division of troops, Liu Yin had no cavalry under him, so he stepped up the construction of partial vans.

The Liangzhou area is rich in poplar, so Liu Yin used poplar as raw material, cut trees for wood, and built a partial van. Fortunately, the requirements for precision of these vehicles are not too strict, and there are some soldiers in the army who can do carpenter work who can do this job, and Liu Yin has recruited carpenters in the Jincheng area with a lot of money, just to complete the plan as soon as possible.

Liu Yin spent more than ten days in Zhiyang, built hundreds of partial vans, and dispatched enough grain, grass, ordnance, and heavy materials to support an army of 25,000 for a year.

When Li Ling conquered the Xiongnu, he fought fiercely with the Xiongnu for many days with only 5,000 foot soldiers, killing and wounding a large number of Xiongnu cavalry, and finally was forced to surrender to the Xiongnu because of the exhaustion of ammunition and food. Even if he was defeated and captured, Li Ling still created an example of infantry resisting cavalry with a weak enemy, which shows that infantry against cavalry, as long as the tactics are on the right road, it is not impossible to have a chance.

Nowadays, the people of the world have little confidence in infantry and cavalry, except for hiding in the deep mountains and old forests like the Shu soldiers, and hiding in the rivers like the Wu soldiers, Cao Wei's cavalry can be called invincible in the world, and it is rare to meet opponents in the plains. Liu Yin's defeat of the Wei cavalry in the Battle of Guanlong was not won by infantry, but was completely the result of cavalry, and the tiger cavalry battalion that had just been equipped with a high bridge saddle and bilateral stirrups was used to break the Wei cavalry.

And this time, Liu Yin did not leave a cavalry unit around him, and directly faced the Xianbei people who claimed to have 100,000 people with more than 20,000 foot soldiers, but Liu Yin still had nothing to fear, and built enough side chariots, Liu Yin could already ensure that he was invincible.

The chariot rumbled, and history seemed to rewind to the chariot era of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Liu Yin led the army to leave Zhiyang, advance to Wuwei, and began the campaign to pacify Liangzhou. (To be continued.) )