Although there are some advantages in range, but it can't be used to advance all the way, after all, the opponent can offset part of the offensive by taking cover, and if you want to advance into the range of others, the two sides can be said to start fighting for losses.

On the other hand, if you push someone in a hurry, it will be the same if you rush up and put you within range without counting the casualties.

Otherwise, relying on that difference in range, you can just push it flat anywhere.

Of course, it wouldn't be the same if you ran and shot as you could. It is precisely because of this reason that the team that clicked on the riding and archery skills returned to the bull fork. All kinds of kite flying and hanging, it's like a cow fork to no friends.

However, the skill of mounted archery is not so easy to ignite. But whoever points out this skill is basically all kinds of torture.

The first person to point out this skill was Zhao Guo.

The military reforms carried out by King Zhao Wuling, the monarch of the Zhao State. He ordered the soldiers and civilians to wear Hu clothes and learn to ride and shoot. At that time, the northern part of the Zhao State was inhabited by the nomadic tribe of the Hu people. They all used cavalry when fighting the Zhao army. Hu people wear short clothes and long trousers, and it is very convenient to run on horseback, shoot bows and arrows. At that time, although the weapons of the Zhao army were better than those of the Hu people, most of them were mixed formations of infantry and chariots, and the officers and soldiers wore long robes, and their movements were far less dexterous than those of the Hu people. King Wuling of Zhao was determined to learn from the Hu people, and despite the opposition of the aristocratic bureaucrats, he issued an order for "Hu Fu Cavalry Shooting". Because Hufu is indeed easy to wear, it was quickly welcomed by the people. After successfully advocating the change to Hu clothing, King Wuling of Zhao then trained a powerful cavalry force. Zhao continued to expand its territory and became one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. On the one hand, King Wuling of Zhao advocated the Hu way of life and military preparation, and on the other hand, he strengthened the counterattack against the invasion of the Hu people. The construction of the Great Wall of Zhao is one of the measures. King Wuling of Zhao implemented the "Hufu Cavalry Shooting" which was not only the first clothing reform in Chinese history, but also a revolution in the history of Chinese warfare.

As a result, Zhao Guotieqi has always dominated the world, and there are no opponents. It is often said that the military soldiers set up by Wu Qi of the Wei State; the bearded sword knight of the Zhao State established by King Wuling of Zhao; Qi Guoji's technical attack knights; The Iron Eagle of the Qin State. Although there is information in it that is supplemented by the brains of later generations, it can also show that the cavalry of Zhao has always been ahead of the other countries.

Of course, in the end, it was blown up by the "God Killer" Bai Qi, and the combat power declined greatly after a bloody massacre, which is another matter.

And next, Daqin, Dahan is not very overwhelming in this regard. After the unification of Great Qin, he also sent iron cavalry to brush the Huns, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even let Wei Qing and Huo Qubing blow up the once powerful Huns.

Back to the present day, the white horse Yicong is also an elite light rider who has ordered riding and archery skills. However, in the battle of the boundary bridge a few years later in history, Gongsun Baima led the white horse Yicong to be blown up by the first dead soldiers, and the white horse Yicong was basically extinct.

And now, this plot has not yet arrived, Bai Ma Yicong has been blown up by Meng Tian and ran to Bingzhou.

Then, the Central Plains basically began to pile up heavy armor, and because of the invention of bilateral horse pedals, the difficulty of riding horses was greatly reduced, and the hands were freed, and the difficulty of riding and shooting was greatly reduced.

As a result, Xiaoguo rode and Xuanjia rode all kinds of brush records, and they were unmatched.

In the ninth year of the Great Cause (613), in order to expand the army, Emperor Yang recruited new troops in addition to conscripting government soldiers. Most of these new troops are from Guanzhong, they are strong, brave and good at fighting, and they are called Xiaoguo. In the twelfth year of the Great Cause (616), when Emperor Yang went down to Jiangdu, he accompanied the Praetorian Guard with more than 10,000 Xiaoguo under the command of Sima Dejiao of Hu Benlang, and stationed in the east city of Jiangdu.

Because the soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army are royal guards, they are all matched with sweaty horses, equipped with riding spears and sabers, wearing blood-colored bright light armor, wearing red gold leopard helmets, and blood eagles tattooed on their left arms.

However, everyone knows that. Emperor Yang's cheating father was unpopular, and Xiaoguo rode without much success before being led by the commander to rebel, and finally ended in tragedy.

Comparatively speaking, the Xuanjia Riding Brush has a lot more records.

In ancient warfare, elite warriors were often selected as the vanguard assault, which was called the selection of the front. The Xuanjia Army can also be considered a type of selection. The Xuanjia Army is different from the Youzhou Cavalry of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he is not composed of soldiers from a single region or a single tribe, the Xuanjia Army is the elite selected from the cavalry commanded by Li Shimin, the composition should be very complex, and the combat tasks of the Xuanjia Army are very heavy, and they must be the vanguard in every battle, and the casualties are not a few. The composition, training and equipment of the Xuanjia Army can basically be obtained through the analysis of the cavalry in the early Tang Dynasty.

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the strong nomads in the north gradually entered the Central Plains, and after the melee of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, by the Sui and Tang dynasties, the development of cavalry reached a peak in Chinese history. In this era, heavy cavalry became the mainstream for a time. The so-called heavy cavalry, also known as armored cavalry, cavalry and war horses are covered with thick armor. The Sui Dynasty inherited the traditions of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and in the army, heavy cavalry still accounted for a large proportion, and as a member of the old dynasty, Li Yuan's Tang army was probably also affected by some influence.

Li Shimin joined the army since he was a child, and he was the son of Li Yuan, so he formed a small group around him. At the beginning of Li Yuan's army, an elite cavalry unit led by Qiu Xinggong, Duan Zhixuan and others had been formed around Li Shimin. After defeating Xue Ju and annexing the Longyou cavalry, Tang's cavalry troops were greatly strengthened, and the Xuanjia army was also greatly strengthened. The Longyou cavalry was one of the three most elite troops in the world at that time, and the other two were the Zhang Xutuo Legion and the Xiaoguo Legion beside Emperor Yang of Sui. Coupled with the addition of famous generals such as Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde, a truly invincible Xuanjia Army was born.

In the Battle of the Tang Xia Tiger Prison, Li Shimin led thousands of Tang troops to confront more than 100,000 Xia troops, including 3,500 "Xuanjia Army".

Li Shimin once used 1,000 elite soldiers to defeat Wang Shichong and beheaded more than 6,000 prisoners. In the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, which decided the ownership of the world, Dou Jiande led more than 100,000 elite main forces to support Wang Shichong, Li Shimin only used 3500 Xuanjia elite soldiers to reinforce the Tiger Prison Pass, and the result was a big break Dou Jiande more than 100,000 people, Dou Jiande only led hundreds of horsemen to escape, and then, Wang Shichong of Luoyang saw that the hundreds of thousands of troops of Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, were also destroyed, and thought that there was no need to resist, and led the civil and military officials to surrender. The situation in the world completely turned to the side of the Don Army.

It can be said that when Li Er personally led the troops all his life, he was unreliable and made friends in all kinds of pits, but he relied on the brilliant achievements of the Tiger Prison Pass, and there was no problem in swiping to the level of a first-class famous general.

By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the light cavalry was already different from the light cavalry of the Han Dynasty, although the armor that was popular in the Northern and Southern Dynasties was removed, and the burden of war horses was reduced. However, the knights themselves were far more protected than in the Han and Wei dynasties. There were thirteen types of armor in the Tang Dynasty, and the cavalry mainly used iron Mingguang armor. Mingguang armor uses a hood to protect the head, and there are ear guards on both sides of the hood that roll upward, and some of the pockets are also decorated with a neck neck that hangs down to the back of the shoulders; The cuirass is generally divided into two pieces on the left and right, with a longitudinal bundle in the center, and a round guard on the left and right, or a raised arc-shaped pattern; The shoulders are covered with shawls, and the arms are covered with arm guards; Waist tie, under the belt there are two knee skirts to protect the thighs, and the calves are wrapped with "hanging legs". The structure of this armor is very complete. Therefore, the classification of the Xuanjia Iron Rider is a question for the experts.

In the next round, there was a new round of alternation, and the Mongolian iron cavalry, which had traveled throughout most of Europe and Asia, still returned to the style of light riding and archery.

The basis of the Mongol army's combat victory was not quantity, but quality. A single and concise organizational structure is the distinguishing feature of its army. The standard Mongol field unit consisted of three cavalry columns. All cavalry generally fought on horseback, but if many horses were broken, some of the soldiers had to stand behind their horses and shoot arrows under the cover of the mounted troops.

This is the same as the Song Cavalry mentioned earlier, those who can ride horses to fight are elites. However, the Song Dynasty rode without horses, and the nomads were few people.

Sixty percent of the Mongol army was light cavalry, and they wore no armor except for a helmet. The task of the light cavalry was to reconnoitre, cover, provide fire support to the heavy cavalry, clear out the remnants of the enemy, and follow the pursuit. The main weapon of the hussars was the bow. They carried two kinds of arrows, one was lighter, and the arrows were small and sharp, which were used for long-range shooting; The other is heavier, with large and wide arrows, which are used in close combat. Like the heavy cavalry, they also had a heavy scimitar or mace, or a lasso, and sometimes a javelin or spear with a hook on their head.

To ensure and strengthen the mobility of the cavalry, each Mongol cavalry had one or several spare horses. These horses followed closely behind the troops and could be used to change at any time during the march and even during the battle. The horse change is carried out in a relay manner, which guarantees safety and minimal impact on the completion of the scheduled task.

The Mongol cavalry was selected from among the best-trained soldiers of the time. From the age of three or four, they were sent to schools in the Gobi Desert for rigorous training in horseback riding and archery, so they had an amazing ability to harness horses and use weapons. For example, he can turn around and shoot enemies after him when he retreats quickly. They are very tolerant of hardships and harsh climatic conditions, and do not covet comforts and delicious food. They are physically strong, and with little or no medical treatment, they can keep them fit and ready for battle. It is their duty to obey orders at all times, and everyone can strictly abide by them. Discipline has been institutionalized, which was not heard of elsewhere in the Middle Ages.

The horses used by the cavalry were also extremely rigorously trained. Unlike European horses, Mongolian horses live in the wild regardless of the harsh winter and heat, and can walk for days without eating anything when necessary, and have a strong endurance. They are able to cross almost incredibly long distances in a very short time on the most treacherous terrain. In 1241, for example, Subutai's advance force crossed the Carpathian Mountains from the Ruska Pass to the vicinity of the Danube Valley in only three days, a journey of 180 miles, with deep snow for most of the way, and on enemy territory.

I won't talk much about the era of the next few pit fathers, the so-called Eight Banners, the so-called Guanning, it's really hard to say how reliable it is.

Then again, you don't have that mobility, and it's impossible to just rely on a bow and arrow to kill the other person.

Therefore, relying on infantry archers, it is almost the same to play suppression, and if you want to continue to expand the results of the battle, you must bear a certain number of casualties.

The commanders on both sides are well aware of this. The commander of the Yellow Turban is not desperately fighting back, there is a kind of you coming, otherwise I will be consumed here, and the army behind will slowly set up camp.

Xue Rengui also means, I won't rush over, just stare at you from this relatively safe distance. Even if you can set up camp, you have to be relatively scared, so that it will be more difficult to wake up at night.

Of course, ordinary archers form a suppression, and several generals can rely on the bow in their hands to snipe roll call. If you don't hide it carefully enough, the army's random shooting may not be able to hit, but it is difficult to escape the name of a few generals.

As time went on, the casualties of the Yellow Turban Army continued to increase, and if they continued, it would not be a question of how many casualties there were. In fact, even if there are thousands of casualties, it is possible to successfully build the camp. After all, the quality of the Yellow Turban is there, and if there is no shelter from the camp, the fighting spirit will undoubtedly be affected.

But the problem now also happens to be in this fighting spirit, if they continue to be beaten like this, their entire morale will also be greatly damaged.

If it is said that the shelter of the camp can obtain a stable mind with peace of mind and accumulate fighting spirit, then the damage caused by the beating is the damage to the sharp momentum.

"Hu Luguang, go and prepare to organize everyone to retreat in an orderly manner!" Xue Rengui killed a Yellow Turban soldier with an arrow at will, and turned his head to Hu Luguang on the side and ordered.

"Order!" When Hu Luguang heard this, he put away the bow in his hand without saying a word, and went down to arrange.

The situation is obvious, if the beating continues, even if the camp is built, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army will be greatly damaged. What's more, in this situation, he was hung out of the shadow by the bow and arrow, and when he turned back to attack the city, who would dare to brave the rain of bullets and bullets to charge to the city?

Not long after Hu Luguang went down to arrange, the Yellow Turban Army rushed up and rushed over with various covers.

This is not only the Yellow Turban Army that came to block the attack, but also the main force of the headquarters sent a large group of men and horses.

Seeing the mighty Yellow Turban soldiers rushing towards him, if he hadn't prepared in advance, I was afraid that there would have been a bit of panic, after all, the distance between the two sides was only a stone's throw away, and it would not take more than a minute for the infantry to run wildly.

However, Xue Rengui had already arranged for Hu Luguang to go over to prepare in advance, and the archers of the rear army continued to suppress, and the archers in front began to retreat, covering their own side alternately and suppressing the enemy.

However, after all, the distance from which the other party set up camp was far outside the city, and after withdrawing a distance, the Yellow Turban finally caught up with the rain of arrows.

The Han army was also prepared, and the infantry that came out together went up, and the other cavalry other than the three major cavalry teams also followed and rushed into the Yellow Turban formation. (To be continued.) )