"Your Majesty!" Ni Liang saw that the little emperor was leading a few people over, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Yo, what about archery!" This time, Zhao Yu went to the palace and led a brigade of escorts to accompany him, but they couldn't come on vacation like themselves, so they still had to train, so they leveled a piece of land on the east side of the palace as a playground.

"Your Majesty, yes!" Ni nodded and replied.

"How's your practice?" Zhao Yu twisted his face and said, he is taller now, and finally he doesn't have to talk to Ni Liang with his face up.

"Your Majesty is still smart, and he has seen through the mystery of riding and shooting, and that guy will no longer dare to argue with me!" Ni Lianghan said with a smile.

"What's the mystery, it's just a little trick, you're just misled by that guy from Baijianu!" Zhao Hao smiled.

After Baijianu was captured in the Battle of Quanzhou, Ni Liang asked him to leave, and at first Zhao Hao wondered if he didn't want a reward, so he had to get a prisoner to do something. What's even more strange is that Ni Liang didn't fight or kill him, and he offered good food and wine, and after a long time, he realized that he had fallen in love with the riding and archery kung fu of hundreds of slaves, and raised him to learn art.

Ni Liang was born in a martial arts family, and naturally he also learned kung fu, but he felt that he was much worse than the hundred slaves, so he wanted to steal a teacher with him. The Mongolian is simple, Ni Liang is also a fool, the two also lost their temper, and they really became friends, and he also learned horse riding and fighting kung fu from it. And he already has a foundation, the kung fu in his hands is not weak, what he lacks is only the advice of a famous teacher, and a hundred slaves will not be able to easily defeat him in less than a year.

Then, the imperial guard army became a cavalry regiment, and Ni Liang followed the hundred slaves to learn the command of the cavalry and the marching formation. And the relationship between the two became deeper, so they did not hide it, gave them detailed instructions, and taught the cavalry combat methods.

After a few years, Ni Liang has been familiar with the way the Mongolian army marches and arranges the formation, but what makes him haunted is that he has never been able to surpass Baijianu in archery, and he only said that he should practice diligently, but he could not give in-depth guidance. Ni Liang is also a martial artist, so he can only secretly observe how he gallops and shoots arrows, and then practices by himself, but he has never been able to reach the level of a hundred slaves.

Zhao Hao knew that his cavalry troops were self-made, lacking experience in use and training, and even lacking cavalry talents, and Ni Liang was also a blank slate. He used the Mongols as his teacher to learn cavalry tactics, and of course he was pleased to let them toss and did not interfere. At the same time, Zhao Yu found that after changing clothes, the musket appeared in the cavalry.

In order to adapt to cavalry combat, Zhao Yu cut off the barrel of the flintlock pistol and eliminated the bayonet. However, he found that only a few cavalry squadrons could keep charging when firing during training, and most cavalry squadrons once they fired, which affected the coherence of the charge and greatly reduced the impact force. In this case, once the opposing cavalry resolutely charges in the same dense formation, then the whole side can easily be overwhelmed.

After many exercises, Zhao and the generals realized that the muskets were like chicken ribs to the cavalry, and it was difficult to maintain the formation when hedging. The second is that it is difficult to reload on the back of a horse moving at high speed, which means that in the course of the battle, they only have one chance to shoot, while they have to withstand the opponent's repeated arrow rain and fall into an extremely passive situation. Therefore, the musket will only have more opportunities to be used when facing the harassment of the rangers. Under these circumstances, Zhao Yu decided to ban the use of muskets in the charge, and instead charged with swords, and re-included mounted archery in the training content. Of course, in addition to the weapons issued, you can also choose auxiliary weapons to strengthen your combat effectiveness in the melee.

As a leader in the military field, Zhao Hao naturally has to learn horseback archery, and he knows very well that in this chaotic era, learning more combat skills will give him more money to save his life. But he soon found the bottleneck, and Ni Liang also became sullen, and after asking, he learned that he thought that the hundred slaves had only taught some riding and archery skins, and refused to teach them their true skills. He also understands this, after all, Baijianu is a Mongol, of course, he is not willing to teach the enemy all his skills, but he can't pick up his head and take it out for himself.

Therefore, on the basis of encouraging everyone to train diligently and sum up experience, Zhao Yu still paid attention to Baijianu, after all, it is much easier to take doctrine than to go through a long period of exploration. In order to make him take out something real, he could only make some small tricks, he asked Ni Liang to open a gambling game with him and compete with him in riding and archery kung fu, of course, the bet was not small, and it was after drinking to the half-drunk, while he pretended to be an ordinary sergeant and secretly observed on the side. The result of the gamble was naturally that Baijianu became the winner, and of course Zhao Yu also gained something.

Everyone knows that the difficulty of riding and shooting is that the rider not only shoots arrows while advancing, but also moves forward with the ups and downs of the waves, and it is very difficult to shoot accurately at this time. Although in war, many times, especially when facing the infantry in formation, the arrows fired by the cavalry only need a certain amount of battlefield coverage to inflict a certain amount of damage on the enemy, without the need for point-to-point sniping. But in any case, archery on the back of a running horse is much more difficult than on horseback, and it is much higher than archery.

But Zhao Yu found that when Baijianu fired arrows, he usually chose to choose when people and horses reached the highest point of the wave, and he came down and found that there would be a moment of suspension at this time, and then at the moment of falling, it was the most stable time, that is, a good opportunity to release. Of course, if you want to shoot accurately at high speeds, it is undoubtedly very difficult and requires a lot of practice. However, archery on the back of a normal running horse is only the beginning of riding archery!

Due to the complexity and changeability of the battlefield, and the fact that the cavalry will not only attack frontally, but also have different situations such as outflanking, pursuing and harassing, or intercepting the rear to pursue the enemy, the content of cavalry archery must be further deepened again. In the case of a normal right-handed cavalry, the easiest thing to do is to shoot to the left in the direction of advance, followed by forward and backward, and the hardest is to shoot to the right. Because with the bow in the left hand and the string in the right hand, it is difficult to point the bow and arrow to the right on horseback.

Zhao Yu found that Baijianu would solve it in three ways, if the enemy suddenly appeared on the right side of the forward direction, at this time, it was necessary to adjust the direction of the horse first, so that the enemy was within his own attack angle; or require the cavalry to make a difficult body posture adjustment on the back of a running horse so that the bow and arrow are pointed to the right; Or switch to a right-handed bow and a left-handed hook, which is called a left-right open.

In the first two items, Zhao Yu felt that he could still practice, but he thought that he did not have the ability to open the bow left and right, and such talents were rare, and it would be good to be able to practice one or two out of ten. However, they felt that it was more realistic to select some left-handed cavalry to form a team together to deal with targets that suddenly appeared from the right flank, so that both directions could be taken into account, and there was no need to spend a lot of energy to practice opening the bow left and right.

In addition, Zhao Yu found that the Mongols were worthy of being a horse people, and they knew much more about the temperament of horses than they did. In the battle, the main direction of attack of cavalry archery is the front, left, and rear of the forward route, which is often said to be the three shooting methods of the opposite pedal, the wipe, and the mane, the pedal is to shoot the left, the mane is to shoot the front and the right of a small area, and the wipes are to shoot directly behind, so the cavalry shooting does not require 360 degrees of complete coverage from the front and back, left and right.

Therefore, in the case of mounted archery, in addition to the bow and arrows that constantly change the angle and position on the horse's back, the sound of the bowstring when scattering may also cause the horse to be frightened to a certain extent. The horse's brain is relatively simple, when the horse adapts to the left side and the sound of the bow and arrow on the left side of the horse's back, if the bow and arrow are taken to the right side of the horse to operate, it is often found that the horse has only learned to adapt to the bow and arrow and bowstring sound on the left, so even if the frightened horse movement is slight, it will make the arrow go astray, and even miss the best time to release.

These situations have been ignored in the past, so deviations are created in riding and shooting, and to solve them it is only necessary to let the horse overcome it in the usual training. However, Baijianu is very familiar with the temperament of horses, he does not have a fixed war horse, but before the start of the game, he uses the bow and arrow to rub the horse's nose, forehead, neck and other parts, and from time to time gently plucks the bowstring next to the horse and on the horse's back, so that the horse can adapt to the sound of the bowstring in different directions, and it is not difficult for his skillful archery to win.

Moreover, Zhao Yu also found that Baijianu would carry a riding bow and a foot bow at the same time even in a riding and archery gambling competition, unlike Ni Liang, who rode a bow to fight the world. The infantry bow was more powerful than the cavalry bow, and the cavalry could dismount and shoot on foot, and on horseback they could use the cavalry bow to kill the enemy. If they lose their horses, or if the terrain is not conducive to the movement of horses, they can fight with a bow on foot......

Zhao Yu informed Ni Liang of what he had observed, and asked him to try to practice, he had a good foundation, but his brain was not big but he was not stupid, after a period of practice and training of the war horse, Baijianu was no longer an opponent. And Zhao Yu suddenly realized that the same bow horse had different results in the hands of the two, so the victory or defeat depended on the use of people. It can also be said that there are no invincible troops in the world, only invincible tactics, and the magic of using them depends on who uses them!

How the infantry army defeated the cavalry army, this question has been thinking since Zhao Yu formed the army, the first few battles were mostly water battles, or defensive battles, and the enemy's cavalry was difficult to exert its might. And this time is different, he not only has to try to annihilate the enemy army, but also to expand the strategic area, that is, he has to face the enemy army to fight, but the enemy army stationed in Hangzhou is four thousand households are all old powerhouses, and they are composed of northerners, and they must be mainly cavalry, which makes him quite jealous.

Facing the enemy cavalry to fight, Zhao Yu was actually not worried, and it should be said that he hoped that they would fight against him. You must know that even in the most suitable plain area for cavalry combat, the cavalry commander knows that if the strength is equal, it will be difficult for them to break through the well-formed infantry phalanx, not to mention that they have an absolute advantage in firearms, but it is also difficult for them to catch the main force of the enemy's cavalry, but they will be dragged down by it.

In fact, this question is like the topic of how modern infantry breaks tanks. The tank itself is not invincible, an anti-tank missile will do. The problem is that the emergence of tanks is not because of how difficult it is to destroy, but because of the aggressiveness of the tactics of large-depth assault. The use of cavalry is also diverse, and the most outstanding is cavalry strategic mobile warfare, the most effective movement tactics. Therefore, the superiority of the weapon itself is not absolute, but the tactical superiority caused by the weapon is the real advantage.

As long as the enemy gives full play to the mobility of the cavalry, it can drag down the infantry, such as outflanking and dividing, long-range raids, constant attacks, etc., that is to say, the cavalry has an absolute advantage over the infantry in terms of strategy. To fight or not to fight can depend on the cavalry. In the face of the mobility of the cavalry, the infantry can really only have a headache, and the only way to use it is not a frontal decisive battle, in this regard, if the strategic mobility advantage of the cavalry can be brought into full play, then the infantry can only beg for the fortress to be strong enough and the food is sufficient.

Another point is that cavalry can be defeated, but it can easily escape, it is difficult to annihilate, and if it is lost, it can come back. And once the infantry loses, it is often easy to be completely annihilated. So the conclusion was that if the superiority of the cavalry's movement could be brought into full play, the infantry would not be able to defeat him at all. And there is a famous saying in military circles: An army that only hides behind the defense line has no future, and it is not enough to rely on a certain part of the hedging victory.

Therefore, Zhao Yu knew that in order to defeat the cavalry, he had to think of a way from the strategic level. First, it can be attacked and saved, just like the second Li of the early Tang Dynasty, occupying the key points of the Turks and forcing the enemy army to fight a decisive battle with himself; The second is to build fortifications, step by step, stick to key points, and squeeze the range of movement of enemy cavalry, but to hold each key point not only requires mobilizing a large number of troops, but also is extremely difficult, almost impossible. But the problem lies in how to deal with the mobile cavalry in the follow-up grain transport troops. A single infantry against cavalry always suffers from fighting over a wide area.

Then there is the use of terrain, in the rugged mountains and hills and dense river networks to limit the mobility of the cavalry, to adopt strong walls to clear the wilderness, to fortify everywhere, to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and so on to find a way. In this way, the enemy cavalry will be dragged down, losing the ability to attack, and then choose the opportunity to fight a decisive battle. Therefore, how to break the cavalry of the infantry depends on how the opponent uses the cavalry, and then the right medicine can be prescribed, so it is time to test the ability of the commander.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao's heart was less frustrated, even if he fought on the vast plains, as long as the strategy was right, he could still find opportunities in his favor and create a situation in his favor......