Chapter 489: Two Choices
In order to make this new type of riding gun practical, Marlin made repeated deductions. However, he found a very serious problem - that is, if the half-meter-long lance pierced the enemy, it would be impossible to pull it back during the high-speed ride.
In addition, because the head of the lance is about half a meter long, like a short sword, this causes the head of the lance to be very heavy. If you hold the back half of the rifle, it will be very difficult.
Of course, the problem of heavy lance is still very easy to solve. The lance can be made with fine dots, using good wood. For example, the highly elastic purple shirt wood, which is the kind of high-quality wood used to make the English longbow. The spring plus the shaft has its own elasticity, which can fully avoid the barrel of the gun. As for the lance head being too heavy, it is also easy to solve, and it is enough to hang a counterweight at the end of the barrel.
Anyway, according to the principle of leverage, the moment in the first half and the second half of the handshake is about the same. To do this, it is completely possible to hang an iron ball at the end of the barrel. Moreover, you can also make the lance a little smaller, not half a meter long. After all, his greatest role is to stab, followed by sweeping. Using a high-carbon steel lance, it is definitely sufficient.
As for the problem that the lance head could not be pulled out after penetrating the human body, Marin thought about it and decided to use the lingering complex. Of course, this is not the invention of Ma Lin, the horse lance in ancient China is indeed a complex.
The so-called lingering complex is not really merciful, but a little behind the tip of the lance, making protrusions on both sides. In this way, after the tip of the lance penetrates the enemy's body in the horse battle, it will not be stabbed too deep because of the blocking of the complex of the complex. If you don't poke it deeply, you can shake the mallet and pull out the tip of the lance.
For cold weapon fighting, a spear stabbed into the enemy's body 10 centimeters can pierce the opponent, but in fact, there is not much difference. Anyway, it will make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness. Moreover, after using it to leave a complex, pull out the tip of the lance, and the enemy's blood will spurt violently, which will accelerate the death even more.
The most classic lingering complex is actually the three-pointed knife used by Erlang God. In fact, the function of the left and right tips of the three-pointed knife is to prevent the tip of the knife from penetrating too deep and causing it to be unable to pull out. One tip is easy to pierce, and three tips, two on the left and right, will limit the middle tip from penetrating too deeply. In fact, the left and right tips of many three-pointed knives are almost horizontal. Its function is the role of the complex. Moreover, the three-pointed tip of this three-pointed knife is to prevent the tip of the knife from penetrating too deep and not easy to pull out, which is very suitable for cavalry. For infantry, it's good to have no feelings, it's nothing to pierce it, you can retreat and pull it out anyway. And the cavalry charged on horseback, and there was no possibility of retreating at all. Therefore, many horse lances will set up a lingering complex, so that it is convenient to pull out and continue to use after the lance spikes the enemy.
Even, pulling the tip of the lance out of the enemy's body with one hand requires a lot of skill and long-term training. The specific method is to move the enemy to the side, shake the hand and shake it, and throw the enemy's corpse (maybe not dead yet) to the side.
Because, in the process of charging, the cavalry has a forward impulse, and it is impossible to have the opportunity to pull out the tip of the lance backwards. Therefore, after stabbing the enemy in the chest, throwing it to the side is the most correct posture.
In other words, although Marlin designed a suitable spring riding spear, the knights also needed to learn how to use it in high-speed horse battles, and after stabbing the enemy, how to quickly pull the tip of the lance out of the enemy's body by shaking and throwing with one hand, and continue to stab the next enemy. And it is this simple shaking and shaking that may make a person learn for many years...... Of course, if you learn this kind of clever combat technique, you can also become a fierce general brother like Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, and Cheng Yanjin who takes the lead in charging into battle with a horse lance......
Of course, there is also a design solution. Specifically, abandoning the lance head, which requires skill, and replacing it with a conical metal ramming head, also carries a lingering complex. But the lingering complex is very forward, almost close to the tip of the gun.
This cone-shaped, blunt-tipped tip of the gun is used to knock enemies flying. However, it is not as lethal as a cavalry gun using a lance. After all, if you have a lance, you can sweep through the enemy. This kind of metal head-banging riding gun has only one function left - impact...... Knock enemies off their horses and knock them flying......
Moreover, because of the spring cushioning force, the knight itself takes less damage. Even, its principle is the same as that of the hollow cavalry gun. European knights used such mounted spears, which were handy and could be seamlessly docked. Moreover, it is possible to fight continuously.
For a heavy plate knight with full plate armor, and even the war horse is fully armored, maybe after a few rounds, the war horse will not be able to bear it.
However, in the manner of the Polish hussars, the horse armor was removed, and the plate armor was also taken off the trousers. In this way, the continuous combat capability of the war horse will be greatly improved. Even, if the horses are good, the mobility is not much worse than that of the light cavalry.
This cuirassiers, which were between heavy cavalry and light cavalry, were best suited for the use of spring-loaded cavalry. Their impact speed is no less than that of those scimitar light riders. However, a long cavalry spear can always hurt the opponent before the scimitar.
Perhaps, in such a loose formation of cavalry battles, this kind of horse-lance-like cavalry spear tasted inconvenient to turn. And those scimitar cavalry can also dodge on horseback.
However, once the formation is dense, there will be nowhere to avoid the Scimitar Light Rider. If you collide head-on, you will definitely lose.
Coincidentally, Marlin is now promoting wall charging among cavalry. Previously, because there was no such mounted gun with spring buffers, the cavalry charge was relatively slow. Of course, a head-to-head duel is enough to abuse those melee light riders. But people are not stupid, if you don't face the enemy head-on, you can't catch up. If you speed up, ordinary spears don't dare to use them indiscriminately, because you are afraid of breaking your arm.
But now with this new type of cavalry with spring buffers, as long as the cavalry is good at riding, it is completely possible to charge quickly together......
Considering that when charging against the wall, there is simply no room to throw the corpses of the enemy left and right. Therefore, Marin thought about it, and still used a blunt-headed cavalry gun with a blunt head rammed by metal to meet the needs of the large corps of combat. As for the spring-loaded lance with a lance, it is more suitable for those knights with high martial arts. Because, the function of the lance can sweep left and right, so that a knight with high martial arts skills can use this kind of riding spear to fight more with less and pick more......
In the end, Marin settled on a plan that:
At the same time, a spring-loaded rifle with a blunt-tipped tip was used to ride a lance and a spring-loaded lance with a horse lance......
Among them, blunt-tipped spring-loaded lances with blunt-tipped spears were mainly equipped with large-scale cuirassiers and helmet-clad cuirassiers, which were used for wall-mounted group charges in decisive battles.
The lance spring riding spear, which uses the lance as the tip of the spear, is mainly equipped with those plate knights with high single martial arts. They still wore full plate armor, and they still wore horse armor on their horses.
Of course, the number of such plate knights will not be too many. However, due to their high martial arts and strong protection, they will be used as surprise soldiers to attack from the weak points of the enemy's flanks. Its role is similar to Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry, which is used to destroy the enemy's formation. Or, so to speak, they are special forces in the cavalry, and the main thing is to disrupt the order and integrity of the enemy's battle formation, causing confusion among the enemy army.
But it was the group charge of the cuirassiers that really played a decisive role......
Moreover, after using the wall charge, Marin did not necessarily need a knight who had been trained as a martial artist to act as an ordinary cuirassier lancer. And with the spring riding gun, there is no need to practice martial arts from an early age, and there is a professional knight with a "unicorn arm" right hand. Ordinary herdsmen with good equestrian skills can also launch a group charge with a blunt-headed riding gun with a spring buffer........