"If we send our troops to North Korea to fight against Jiannu, we will have no advantage in the field against the flexible and mobile Jiannu Iron Cavalry, and without their movement speed, we can only be beaten passively!" Wei Bao said: "We can only let our people strengthen their defenses, deal with Jiannu, and delay more time." In addition, Mao Wenlong was asked to provide offensive help from the flank, and send troops from the Liaodong side to divert Jiannu's attention and prevent them from attacking Korea without any worries. ”

"But the president is just a supervisor, not the coach, Sun Chengzong doesn't know if he will listen to the president." Wu Xuexia said.

Wei Bao didn't respond, frowned, and motioned for Lin Wenbiao to go down.

Lin Wenbiao gave a standard military salute: "President, I'm going down." ”

Wei Bao nodded, sighed, and said, "It's a pity that we haven't trained excellent cavalry!" With our weapon advantage, as long as the riding skills are not too far behind the other party, with the same strength, we will not suffer, and we ourselves have the ability to stop Jiannu from attacking North Korea! ”

"Don't be angry, husband, didn't you tell me that cavalry must be trained for at least five years before it can be effective? Although there are many Mongols in our cavalry team, those people need to train tactical skills, and the most important thing is political training, to learn culture, and to cultivate loyalty to the Heaven and Earth Society, all of which take time. Moreover, Jiannu's bow and arrow are very good, although our rifle is more powerful, simpler to operate, and farther, but on horseback, the bow and arrow are not much inferior to the rifle, and even Jiannu's iron horse does not use a bow and arrow, only uses a saber to fight, and the power will be great. Wu Xuexia said.

"Yes, the cavalry fights the cavalry, we don't have much advantage, besides, we have only formed a cavalry force of less than 5,000 people, and in terms of number and technology, we are still far from Jiannu!" Wei Bao nodded.

Cavalry is a unit composed of soldiers with relatively high mobility and strategic projection capabilities.

In ancient times, animals such as horseback, camels, elephants, and soldiers with relatively high mobility and their composed units were all cavalry.

In modern and modern times, all lightly armed rapid reaction units with flexible and mobile characteristics can also be called cavalry.

As early as the Shang Dynasty, there were a small number of knights in China, and the northern nomads of the same era were called horsemen by the Chinese.

The main thing about the strength of the cavalry is mobility, if it is really just archery, riding on a horse to shoot arrows, it is definitely not as stable and far-reaching as the infantry standing on the ground and shooting arrows.

And in Wei Bao's opinion, the ancient arrows are not powerful.

The material itself is an important factor in the strength of the armor, and the quality of modern steel is much stronger than in ancient times, especially in the treatment of harmful impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus.

Arrowheads that had just been made in ancient times were exposed to the air and rusted badly overnight, and the armor made of such steel might be good when it was new.

But what about after a long period of use?

Even if there is technical assistance from cold forging, it is still elite equipment, not a small soldier's thing.

Armor is not omnipotent, in the Battle of Salsh, how did Liu Ting's heavy armor end up dying.

In the end, it wasn't for Jiannu to shoot in the face without protection.

Therefore, in the process of training cavalry, Wei Bao did not think about the problem of protection at all, and took the route of modern cavalry, practicing horsemanship, studying cavalry skills and tactics, improving shooting accuracy, and what Wu Xuexia said just now, improving the loyalty of soldiers, after all, because of technical relations, many Mongolians had to be recruited.

Wei Bao also thought about training a hoplite, or hoplite, but later reversed this idea.

Because it's not just a matter of good armor.

In war, offense is always more important than defense, and the best offense is the best defense.

When the feudal dynasty was strong, there were generally regulations for the maintenance of armor, and once the armor was found to be rusted, there would be corresponding punishments.

And at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was terrible, cloth armor is cloth armor, as for the pasty face, although the Ming Dynasty was the peak of armor, but it does not mean that the real armor is the most sophisticated, the largest protection area, and the largest protection area is that the Song Dynasty has an iron face to protect the face.

Moreover, against Jiannu, Liu Ling has an iron mask, and it is estimated that he still has to die, because he was beaten by others.

This situation is not something that armor can protect at all, and the same is true for Yang Zaixing's three-liter arrow taken out of his body after his death, and the armor will always be tired of metal when it is continuously shot.

But that's not what happens on a normal battlefield, under normal circumstances, a fight with armor without armor is almost a hanging.

Wei Bao felt that the most powerful thing about cavalry was the ability to fly kites.

Kite tactics only exist in bullying homeless mountain bandits with weak armor, and shooting and killing heavily armed troops while running is basically a dream, but there is no blood bar in the real world, you can't shoot armor, you can't shoot at the vital point, you just don't hurt.

Secondly, the spear phalanx is not just a thousand people who go into battle to stab people with a spear, the spear phalanx will always be equipped with elite cavalry and long-range strike forces.

A pure phalanx of spears, which can be shot in the face by Rome with a javelin shield.

The spear phalanx was very strong in defending against bows and arrows, and in the end, whether it was Rome or the Crusaders or the Central Plains facing the nomadic archers who came and went like the wind, if they could, they chose not the so-called pike phalanx, but the hoplite cavalry.

The heavier the armor, the better, and the only choice for the steppe nomads in the face of these ironclad monsters is how far they can run.

A few hundred knights can slash from left to right in tens of thousands of nomads, and tens of thousands of people will be brutally destroyed.

As for the cavalry of the Mongols and Jiannu, the Mongol armored cavalry was one of the top hoplites in the world in its heyday, and nine out of ten of the so-called hoplites in the world at that time were a joke in front of the Mongol hoplites.

The problem with heavy cavalry is that there are few people and can only charge in waves, while the real strength of iron cavalry lies in light cavalry shooting, and all people are soldiers.

Although the horses of Mongolia and Jiannu were short, they had strong endurance and simple cold-resistant supplies, and they burst out with 100,000 cavalry at every turn, with three horsemen per man.

Endless mobility, burning the rear, looting supplies, and feeding the war with war.

Not to mention getting hundreds of heavy cavalry, even thousands, tens of thousands, it may still be useless, if you can't catch up and can't defend it, you will be defeated strategically.

In the final decisive battle, the light cavalry swept over from the front of the formation, shooting at the unarmored units, and the heavy cavalry ran when he came, and when the morale was about to collapse, the heavy cavalry was almost slipped, and the heavy cavalry of Jiannu came out with a thunderous blow, and it could be over.

The greatest role of the light cavalry is not to fight the gang, but to gain strategic initiative.

Whether it is running or dragging or fighting, it is completely up to Jiannu to have the final say, which is the fundamental reason why the Ming army and the Bao army can't beat Jiannu's iron cavalry.

The vast majority of the Jiannu cavalry were light cavalry, with a small number of heavy cavalry.

The combination is very reasonable.

The nomadic horse archers who dealt with Jiannu, in fact, the Ming Dynasty already had relatively mature early firearms at this time.

It is impossible to use it to practice firearms cavalry, the operation is still cumbersome, and running on horseback is even less firing speed.

It is useless to go to a nomadic horse with a heavy armor horse that cannot gallop for a long time.

So Wei Bao could only wait, keep using money and time, waiting for the day when his musketeers could chase Jiannu around.

In Wei Bao's opinion, those who can fight the cavalry have to be cavalry, and they can only catch up with Jiannu in terms of riding skills, skills and tactics, and weapons.

As for the numbers, Wei Bao did not intend to make the number of cavalry more than five thousand.

Because the mainstream opponent is still internal, externally, there are few cavalry units like Jiannu and Mongolia in the world.

Moreover, when the cavalry developed to the stage where it could fight against Jiannu, Wei Bao believed that in fact, without cavalry, his Baojun army was enough to crush Jiannu with infantry alone.

Now to deal with Jiannu, the main thing is to rely on the infantry with thermal weapons.

When the quantity and quality of infantry reached a stage, positional warfare, artillery battles, and infantry and artillery coordination, and Jiannu's cavalry was still a hairy one.

Of course, Wei Bao didn't see Jiannu's iron cavalry as invincible!

In ancient wars, the book also had cavalry.

The cavalry of the book belongs to each lord.,And the number of horseback warriors under each lord is very small.。

Therefore, even when the army is brought together, it cannot be used as a complete force at all.

It's just a lot of small groups that belong to different groups, and both the command and the coordination are very uncoordinated.

This is also the reason why the cavalry of the Takeda family is so famous.

In the army of the book, the cavalry is relatively large in number and can be commanded in a unified manner.

But even so, due to the feudal system, even the cavalry of the Takeda family could not conduct large-scale military drills on a daily basis, so no matter how good their individual martial arts skills were, they were not enough.

At that time, the Ming cavalry used cavalry to deal with the Jiannu who invaded Korea.

The Ming army Li Rusong's troops only had more than 3,000 cavalry, and the Japanese army totaled 40,000 people.

The cavalry of the book is subordinate to the major names.,Putting it is also their own delivery.,A big name is less than a dozen、Dozens of horseback warriors,More than a hundred.,The consequence of this refueling tactic is to rush up one by one.,That is, those who rushed up were killed by the Ming army.。

So after this battle, the list of high-ranking samurai who died in the book is listed in each family.

In fact, in the Korean War, the book was almost all defeated in large-scale field battles, and it was not won once.

In the battle of Bihuguan, the Ming army retreated from a strategic point of view, but from the results of the battle, it was obvious that the Ming army won by a high score.

Not to mention the Battle of Jisan, the Kuroda family lost two battles in a row, and if it wasn't for the arrival of reinforcements, they would have been chased and killed by Xie Sheng to Busan.

The defeat of the Ming army was all caused by the inability to storm under the fortified Japanese city.

As for the Mongol cavalry, it is actually very similar to the Jurchen cavalry in terms of combat style and grouping methods, and it can basically be considered that there is no difference.

The combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry is also very strong, and they are definitely inferior to the Mongols and Jurchens in the issue of riding skills and horses, and the advantages and disadvantages of the farming and nomadic peoples have always been like this.

But their weapons and equipment are stronger than their opponents, especially once the infantry and cavalry fight together, the power will be amplified a lot.

This is illustrated by the battles of the Liaodong and Xuanda cavalry against the Mongol and Jurchen forces in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, purely from the perspective of cavalry, the Mongolian Jurchens are the strongest, followed by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and the cavalry outside of this is basically scum, including the cavalry of the book.

At that time, if the Liaodong Iron Cavalry had infantry to fight together, it was not inferior to the Mongols, Jurchens, and Liaodong in terms of combat power.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not die because of insufficient combat power, but because of politics and the court.

The demise of any dynasty is not a problem with the army, but a problem with politics and the court.

Wei Bao now has a strong economy, so he is not very worried.

"Husband, what are you going to do now?" Wu Xuexia looked at Wei Bao uneasily.

"Don't be cranky, it's okay! If I can't call the soldiers and horses of Jiliao and Liaodong to attack Jiannu to help us contain Jiannu, I can directly use men and horses to attack Shengjing of Jiannu now! Wei Bao said decisively.

"Whom? Fujun wouldn't think that just took out a Ma Shilong, and the Shanhaiguan garrison would all listen to Fujun, right? Wu Xuexia said strangely.

"No, I can use our own people." Wei Bao Road.

"Our own people? I'm afraid I'll have to fight a large-scale battle with Jiannu again. I have to remind my husband that this year's situation is different from last year, we are fighting guerrilla warfare in the Jiannu area, if it is a large-scale frontal battle, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Ming Dynasty and the border army, now everyone knows that there are many people in Liaonan and Weijiazhuang, if we let people know that we have a separate strength to compete with Jiannu head-on, the situation may be very serious! Wu Xuexia reminded.

"I understand, I've thought about it, so I have to be fast, I can't fight for a long time, and the scale can't be too big! I wanted the sailor to cooperate with the balloon, and then cooperate with a small group of infantry to attack Jiannu's Shengjing, I don't know if it's feasible, if this deterrent is feasible, maybe it can make Jiannu retreat! What's more, maybe the border army can see our results and no longer be so afraid of Jiannu, and it is more likely that Jiliao and the Liaodong border army will fight against Jiannu! Actually, the main thing I want to convince is Sun Chengzong! Wei Bao said.

"A small army, still fast? Or is it a sailor? Wu Xuexia was a little confused, "I've seen balloons, how many balloons do we have?" ”

"A dozen, right?" Wei Bao said, "I haven't tried balloon warfare, so I don't know how effective it is." ”

"How dare the husband pin his hopes on untried tactics? As for moving Jiliao and the Liaodong Border Army to fight against Jiannu, I think it's even more impossible. They already knew that their husband wanted to disarm, and they were very resistant to us. What's more, even if they don't disarm, even if they have rich rewards, they are frightened by Jiannu, and if Jiannu doesn't take the initiative to attack, they are already thankful for burning high incense, how dare they take the initiative to fight against Jiannu? Wu Xuexia shook her head and said.

Wei Bao was in a bad mood, but he didn't want to be cold to Wu Xuexia when he was newly married, and smiled slightly: "Don't think about it so much, let's take one step at a time!" Anyway, the worst result is just that Jiannu will ravage North Korea, which will have little impact on our base camp, at most it will affect our prestige in front of the North Koreans, and it will be nothing. ”