The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were miserable because of the arquebuses in the early days, especially the early arquebuses, and the convenience of use was simply miserable for the cavalry.

Moreover, the Tang cavalry is best at riding on the wall and charging intensively, which is originally specially designed for cold weapons.

It is possible to use a riding knife, it is possible to use a riding spear, but with a musket? That's!

When the cavalry hedged, the time was very short, even if it was a pistol, at most, the front row of cavalry had a chance to shoot, and the cavalry behind actually had no chance to shoot at all, and when they really rushed up and could face the enemy, they would not give the cavalry too much time to aim and shoot.

At this time, the cavalry didn't even have much time to slash, they just kept the formation and body stable, and then put the cavalry knife diagonally forward, and gently brought it over when they encountered the enemy, mainly using the speed of the war horse to drive the cavalry to kill and injure the enemy.

If the enemy is cavalry, even the enemy's own speed will be an assister in the attack.

The time for cavalry hedging combat is so short, who gives you time to aim, and the difficulty of aiming and shooting on the back of a horse running at high speed is not ordinary.

If the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty can shoot accurately on the back of a horse galloping at high speed, what kind of pistol does the Datang cavalry play, it is not better for them to play the riding bow directly.

As for playing with archery, the muskets of these years can't play with bows and arrows, even the line infantry of the Tang Dynasty can't shoot against the infantry archers of the Ming army!

This is something that can't be helped, the rate of fire of other people's bows and arrows is so fast, you can shoot a dozen arrows in a few minutes, and your musketeer can shoot two or three bullets at this time to be considered elite.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty's division against the archers of the Ming army, they used thick armor as protection, and after a rapid advance, they fired a musket salvo within 30 meters, threw grenades, and then directly cooperated with the heavily armored spearmen to launch a bayonet charge, playing a wave of streams, and never played with the archers of the Ming army!

In this era, there is no clear definition of the strength of the bow and the musket, but a few things are certain: the bow and arrow have a short-term burst of fire far faster than the musket, and the musket's sustained firing ability completely explodes the bow and arrow.

Whether it is the cost of equipment, the cost of training, or even the maintenance cost on weekdays, muskets are better than bows and arrows, which is also one of the two biggest advantages of muskets: cheap!

Another advantage is that it's powerful!

In fact, there is not much difference between the effective range of bows and muskets, muskets can basically fight effectively at a distance of 100 meters, and bows and arrows can also be projectile to achieve this effective range.

However, the difference in power between the two is too large, resulting in the same effective range of 100 meters, the musket can easily kill and injure lightly armored units, while the bow and arrow, 100 meters basically lose most of the lethality, even if the opponent's clothes are a little thicker, it cannot penetrate.

At a distance of fifty meters, the musket can penetrate most of the armor of ordinary thickness, including a large number of ordinary models of plate armor equipped by the Tang Army itself, and the bow and arrow can only leave a trace of the iron armor.

In other words, bows and arrows are no match for muskets against heavily armored units!

Unfortunately, the Tang Army is particularly fond of armor, and in the early days, it was equipped with cotton iron armor and iron armor on a large scale, and later, it was all plate armor.

To a certain extent, the heavy armor of the Tang Army directly pushed the archers of the Ming Army to a dead end, forcing the Ming Army to be equipped with a large number of guns whether they were willing or unwilling, otherwise, it would be difficult for them to cause effective damage to the Tang Army equipped with a large amount of armor.

When it comes to riding bows and riding spears, this contrast also exists, but the Tang cavalry just don't use riding guns, let alone pistols!

Because you want to use a cavalry gun that is directly changed from an infantry musket, then you should use dragoon tactics, in other words, use the cavalry directly as infantry, and ride a horse just for quick maneuvering, and the Tang cavalry is just like that? Use cavalry as fast-moving infantry? The cavalry generals were willing, but Li Xuan was not willing.

If you use a pistol, then the tactics used are actually similar to those of the ancient cavalry, the general way is to rush up to a distance of tens of meters or even more from the enemy to shoot, and then turn to disengage, reload in the rear, and then repeatedly charge!

And this tactic has a lot of limitations, against the Ming army or Tatar cavalry, people will laugh to death when they see you playing like this, and then take out a bow and arrow to shoot wave after wave of dense arrow rain, want to go back alive to reload and then impact, nonsense!

Using a broken pistol to play cross-shooting with other cavalry cavalry is basically the same as playing cross-fire with musketeers and archers, and people use bows and arrows to play you to death!

For many reasons, the Tang cavalry was reluctant to use muskets, regardless of whether it was a long-barreled cavalry rifle or a pistol.

I don't even like to use spears and armor!

You don't have a good horse and play heavy armored spear cavalry, the speed can't go up at all, people don't play hedging with you at all, just hang you from afar and bend the bow and shoot arrows.

The limitations of the Tang cavalry itself and the enemies they faced all decided that using a riding knife to play a wall charge was the only way out, at most, and equipping a cuirass and helmet, no more, no more war horses could not be moved.

The Tang cavalry repelled muskets, and there was no large-scale equipment for the firing pistol, but the assault battalion troops of the Datang Army had a soft spot for the firing pistol that had only recently appeared!

They are originally a hand-to-hand combat class, and they wear a suit of armor and it is not convenient to use a rifle, but if they bring such a short Suifa pistol, they will shoot before hand-to-hand combat after rushing up, and then they will directly throw away the Suifa pistol and directly use the waist knife to fight hand-to-hand.

This way, it will be much easier for them to assault!

The Second Army, because of its proximity to Jiangnan, was also the first unit to come into contact with the pistols, and it was also in the past few months that relevant tactical research and training were carried out.

This time, they are preparing to use it in actual combat, only how effective it is, it will naturally only depend on the follow-up results.

Whether a weapon is good or not, whether it works well or not, there is nothing better to test than in actual combat.

The Tang cavalry rejects muskets, even if the muskets of the Tang Dynasty are now worthy of the name of the world's top level, the army and navy have a high evaluation of this five-year flintlock pistol, but it still can't make the Tang cavalry like the flintlock pistol, the reason is very simple, this thing is not suitable for them to use, and it is useless for them when they actually fight.

But assault battalions are different!

When they charged, many of the soldiers of the assault battalion held a self-firing pistol in addition to a shield in their hands, and their waist knives were stuck diagonally at their waists.

Of course, not everyone has a pistol, some people don't take it, and they just rush up with a waist knife in their hands!

When the soldiers of the assault battalion jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the ruins of the city wall more than 30 meters away, hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army who acted as a strategic reserve on the inside of the city wall also ran quickly towards the ruins of the city wall.

If you look down from the sky at this time, then you will find that the assault battalion of the Tang army and the trapping camp of the Ming army are all rushing towards the ruins of the same section of the city wall!

The first of them soon reached the bottom of the ruins of the city walls, and then began to climb with their hands and feet, trying to climb to the top as fast as they could, and then occupy the top of the ruins to gain a condescending tactical advantage.

What's interesting is that although there are only a few hundred people on both sides, they are basically heavy armor units, and they are all mixed and matched!

Among the five or six hundred people on the side of the Ming army, there are at least more than 100 people wearing heavy armor, and in recent years, the heavy armor troops in the Ming army are basically double armor!

It is a piece of cotton iron armor inside, and an iron armor such as chain mail outside, otherwise the protection is too poor, the guns of the Datang Army are too sharp, and the cotton and iron armor with good bulletproof ability is absolutely indispensable, but these heavy armor troops usually need to fight with the heavy armor infantry of the Tang Army, such as assault battalions, and cotton iron armor alone cannot stop other people's stainless steel waist knives, so iron armor such as chain mail must also be worn.

But this kind of double-armored heavy armor troops, even in the superintendent, are not many, for no other reason, one word: expensive!

There are only a few hundred heavy armored infantry in Susong City, which are basically used to serve as the strategic core of the strategic reserve and resist the assault battalion of the Tang Army.

In addition to the more than 100 heavy armored infantry, the others are basically a cotton iron armor, since the Tang Army began to add iron pieces to the cotton armor to increase the protection capacity, the Ming army has learned the past in a blink of an eye.

They can't learn the plate armor, but the cotton iron armor is still okay, and the Ming army in other places is not easy to say, but Zhang Yue's supervision is here, and the cotton and iron armor is still more equipped.

The armor rate of the superintendent can be maintained at about 30 percent, that is, out of a hundred soldiers, there are 30 armor.

And among the thirty people in armor, there are leather armor, various types of iron armor, cotton armor, cotton iron armor, and so on.

The most is cotton iron armor, the overall proportion can account for more than half of all the armor of the governor, why more, because the Ming army is not stupid, they will modify the original cotton armor, fill it with a few pieces of iron, and simply modify it, then a cotton armor can basically be called cotton iron armor.

The more than 500 people who supervised the standard were all wearing armor, and except for the armor, the weapons in other aspects were surprisingly consistent with the Datang Army!

Heavy infantrymen, with steel waist knives!

The lightly armored infantry, some with spears, some with waist knives, some with muskets, a few Ming troops' waists, you can also see a few grenades, if you are not familiar with people, how do you look at it, I think it is the assault battalion of the Tang Army.

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