How do you contain cavalry with infantry?

Since Su Wangjun joined the lineup of the Northern Xinjiang Campaign, Sun Shuke has been thinking about this problem. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After all, he had hardly ever dealt with cavalry, but this time he had to face the powerful cavalry of South Korea, so he was more or less unconfident.

He had thought about consulting his colleagues in the Shang Shui Army, after all, the Shang Shui Army had fought against the cavalry of the Qianjiao tribe in Sanchuan County, and it was the army with the most experience in cavalry combat in the Su Wang Army.

But it's a pity that the contradiction between the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army was quite intense, coupled with the relationship between him who took the initiative to avoid the war and retreat to the post-war in the "Four Kingdoms Expedition to Chu", so that from generals such as Wu Ji and Zhai Huang to thousands of generals such as Ran Teng, Xiang Li, and Zhang Ming, their attitude towards Sun Shuke was quite cold.

Even, during this period, Sun Shuke heard some bad cynicism: What is the general of the logistics army of the third battalion of the Yanling Army doing so actively? Want to take the lead on your own?

This is really a bit poisonous, thinking that Sun Shuke is also a well-known general in the Chu State, when did he become a general of the logistics army?

For these cynicisms, although Sun Shuke was unhappy in his heart, he didn't care, so he knew that nine percent of other people's prejudice against him was because he had not yet proved himself.

And this prejudice, I believe that the longer he stays in his Yanling army and the more meritorious deeds he gradually builds, sooner or later it will disappear.

During this period, Nanmen Chi, the deputy general of the Shang Shui Army, who defected to the Wei army at the same time, pointed out a clear way to Sun Shuke: If you want to understand how to use infantry to contain cavalry, you have to ask the person who knows cavalry best.

The one who knows the cavalry best......

After thinking about it carefully, Sun Shuke realized that Nanmen Chi was referring to two people: one of them was His Royal Highness King Su; The second is the general of the Ma Army who was born in the "original Dangjun Youma", Ma You.

Sun Shuke didn't dare to disturb His Royal Highness King Su, so he went to consult Ma You, the general of the horse army.

Ma You was very surprised that Sun Shuke came to ask for advice.

It's not that he has any prejudice against Sun Shuke, but in Ma You's impression, isn't Sun Shuke the rear military camp general who is responsible for the logistics and grain transportation of the Yanling Army? He came to ask him for tactics?

"His Royal Highness King Su has instructed General Sun to come to the battle in person this time?" Ma You asked casually, because in his opinion, a "logistics general" like Sun Shuke was generally responsible for guarding the station, and there was almost no chance to go to the battlefield in person.

Although he understood that Ma You's words were just unintentional, Sun Shuke's face was still particularly ugly at that time, and he reluctantly smiled: "Take precautions...... In the end, it was the soldiers of the third battalion of the Yanling Army who were in charge, not the leader of the grain transportation team. ”

Ma You was stunned for a moment, then realized his gaffe, and immediately apologized to Uncle Sun.

Compared with Sun Shuke, Ma You's status in the Su Wang Army is undoubtedly much higher, after all, the "Shang Shui Youma" under his command is the only cavalry army in the Su Wang Army, especially when this cavalry is transformed into a heavy cavalry, Ma You's status is even higher.

But even so, Ma You is still very humble, after all, Ma You has suffered from the unfair treatment of being abandoned by the country and the court, and has already sharpened a heart that is not happy or angry.

may be because he unintentionally satirized Sun Shuke's relationship, Ma You explained to Sun Shuke in detail all kinds of things about cavalry.

For the understanding of the Korean cavalry, few people can surpass Ma You, after all, "Dangjun Youma" was the earliest cavalry team secretly established by Wei Tianzi to imitate the Korean cavalry, therefore, Dangjun Youma is very familiar with and understands the tactics of the Korean cavalry, and later improved this tactic into a tactic suitable for his own side, which was used in the two battles against the Song State and Chu Xuanchengjun, with excellent results.

In the following ten days, whether the army was stationed in Linfen and Tang County, or the subsequent attack of the Shangshui army on Pigaoguan, as long as there was no military affairs, Sun Shuke went to meet Ma You and asked the latter about the Korean cavalry.

During this period, Ma You also did not hesitate to explain to Sun Shuke the tactics used by the Korean cavalry, and through various examples, Sun Shuke could truly understand the advantages and disadvantages of the cavalry.

It is worth mentioning that this incident finally reached Zhao Hongrun's ears, which made Zhao Hongrun quite surprised and secretly remembered it in his heart.

So, when he realized that the confrontation with the 30,000 light cavalry of the Storm Kite Army was inevitable, Zhao Hongrun remembered Sun Shuke, a general who "took precautions", and gave up the more suitable Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, and Zhai Huang, and chose Sun Shuke as the commander on the battlefield.

Opportunity is reserved for those who are prepared, isn't it?

In fact, Zhao Hongrun originally planned to personally command, after all, the 30,000 cavalry of the Storm Kite Army was a powerful force enough to destroy the 100,000 Su Wang Army, but in the end, he still decided to use this life-and-death battle to sharpen Sun Shuke.

After all, Zhao Hongrun knows a truth very well: with the escalation of the war in the future, he alone will not be able to command multiple battlefields, so it is necessary to train some generals who can take charge of themselves, and Sun Shuke is a good training object, just because he once blocked the Yanling army outside the city for several days in Hao County.

Of course, although he planned to sharpen Sun Shuke, Zhao Hongrun always paid attention to the war in the south, and if Sun Shuke made any wrong choice, Zhao Hongrun would naturally take over the command immediately.

But so far, Sun Shuke's command has been impeccable.

For example, he was not deceived by the Korean cavalry into firing a salvo of crossbowmen at the beginning, which is worthy of Zhao Hongrun's praise for Sun Shuke.

The main formation of the Su Wangjun army was set up on a slightly higher dirt slope, so that Zhao Hongrun could clearly see the battle situation on the battlefield in the south.

I remember that at the beginning, Zhao Hongrun's face was tense, obviously a little worried about Sun Shuke, but after seeing Sun Shuke's command one after another, Zhao Hongrun's tense expression gradually relaxed, and even showed a little smile on his face.

This made Zongwei Changwei Jiao a little puzzled, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't it bad that the crossbowmen under the command of General Sun did not cause huge casualties to those cavalry?" Why is His Highness relieved? ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled when he heard this: "You mean that Sun Shuke 'predicted' the charging route of the Korean cavalry and gave the crossbow arrows in advance, but let the Korean cavalry avoid the rain of arrows?" …… He was there to close the road. I don't know if it was Ma You who taught him, if Sun Shuke came up with it himself, then ...... This general has a bright future. ”

"Road closures?" Zongwei Changwei frowned, and then asked suspiciously: "But the Korean cavalry has not blocked the way, they turned a corner and avoided the rain of arrows......

"That being said, their speed has slowed down." Zhao Hongrun narrowed his eyes and said, "The powerful power of the cavalry is mainly reflected in the speed. …… The cavalry charging at full speed could not catch up even with bows and crossbows, let alone swords and bayonets, and the infantry might just blink an eye, and the cavalry charging at full speed might have rushed past them...... Therefore, if you want to use a bow and crossbow against a cavalry charging at full speed, you must calculate the speed of the opponent and predict in advance the path that the opponent must take...... In the eyes of this king, Sun Shuke did an excellent job, on the contrary, the cavalry general who led the troops on the opposite side, hehe, in order to avoid bypassing the area shrouded by the rain of arrows of our army, had to slow down the speed of the war horse charge, which was extremely stupid...... What is the power of a cavalry without speed? ”

Although he kept saying that the cavalry on the opposite side was stupid, in fact, Zhao Hongrun also understood that this was the helplessness of the light cavalry on the frontal battlefield.

In order to make up for the lack of endurance of the horses, so that these horses were charging on the battlefield for a while, the light cavalry had to reduce the weight, so as the name suggests, the armor on the cavalry would not be strong.

The lightly armed light cavalry has a very flexible and extremely powerful mobility, but their defense ability is very poor, in a game term in Zhao Hongrun's memory, the defense ability of this class can be very vividly described: low defense, high evasion (evasion).

But the problem is that the "avoidance" thing is not reliable, and if there is a wave of area arrow rain (AOE) on the battlefield, avoiding a ghost is not a matter of hiccups in minutes.

Therefore, in the face of the Wei army's prediction of the rain of arrows, the Korean cavalry general on the opposite side subconsciously chose to avoid the attack, which is understandable, after all, the defense ability of the light cavalry is very poor.

No way, light cavalry is not tactical cavalry like heavy cavalry after all.

"I don't know what the mood of the Korean army generals on the other side is at this moment......"

Zhao Hongrun joked with a smile.

Because while he was chatting with Wei Jiao, the Wei army shot a wave of arrows at the Korean cavalry in the distance, shooting in anticipation, although those Korean cavalry narrowly avoided and did not cause many casualties, but the speed that was finally increased was lowered again.

And in these two arrow rains, Zhao Hongrun also understood Sun Shuke's tactics: live or die and don't let the Korean cavalry run in a straight line.

That's pretty smart to do.

Some people may think that the cavalry increases its speed by distance, so the longer the distance, the speed of the cavalry charge will gradually increase, and finally reach the limit.

But in reality, this is not the case.

Cavalry does need distance to run and speed up, but it doesn't need to be too long. Too long a distance, instead of helping, will cause the war horse to consume a lot of physical strength in advance.

Therefore, the regular process of cavalry charging is to let the war horse jog first, which makes people relax their muscles and bones before strenuous activities.

And after jogging, it is time to gradually start to pick up speed.

At this stage, almost all cavalry run in a straight line, which is the same as running or driving a car - only a straight line can accelerate, and you run an S route or Z route and expect to speed up as soon as possible?

And Sun Shuke is very smart, he just doesn't let the Korean cavalry run in a straight line in the final acceleration stage, and predicts the position of the opponent in advance, so that the Wei soldiers under his command shoot a wave of arrows to envelop the land, if the Korean cavalry generals don't want their own side to have too many casualties, they have to avoid, such as running an S-shaped route.

But in this way, the speed of the straight line was interrupted, and the Korean cavalry had no way to enter the final charge stage, so they could only maintain the "middle running speed", watching the distance from the Wei army's defense line getting shorter and shorter.

As Zhao Hongrun expected, among the cavalry of the Korean army opposite, the two brothers Huachang and Huacan were extremely depressed.

Every time he wanted to speed up in a straight line, he was interrupted by the rain of arrows from the Wei army, and Hua Chang was so angry that he scolded in his heart.

"Is there an end?! …… How many fucking bolts are you going to shoot?!'