Chapter Ninety-Eight: Heavy Cavalry
Liu He sat on horseback and silently looked at the scenery around him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Beside him, the people of the Tianji Camp followed closely in silence, and behind them was the mighty army of people.
Chen Mo looked back at the crowd that couldn't be seen, and frowned slightly.
Although he was very curious about what happened that day, and let this notorious ghost sorrow all return to obedience in such a short period of time, he was more concerned about Liu He, who walked in front of everyone and kept silent.
Since that day, no one has seen Liu He smile.
Chen Mo didn't see the scene that day, so he naturally couldn't understand it. Before coming to the ghost and sorrow, all the people in the Tianji Battalion, including Liu He, regarded the incorporation of the ghost as a means to expand the troops.
Now that the ghost has returned to obedience, it stands to reason that this operation is quite successful, but at this time, Liu He's mind is no longer thinking about how many troops have been added, but how to protect those ordinary people.
Liu He's thoughts, except for Chen Mo in the Tianji Camp, who didn't know the inside story, everyone else knew very well.
Wei Xiao started to think about how to settle these people early, but after thinking of several plans, he was vetoed by himself in his heart.
In fact, if these plans were to be placed in the past, Wei Xiao would definitely implement them immediately, and they would receive good results, but now, he gave up without hesitation.
As for why he gave up, he himself could not say, perhaps because these plans are too tough, and these people who have just experienced re-displacement may not be able to adapt to it.
Wei Xiao suddenly shook his head with a wry smile, when did he start to think about the feelings of others. He looked up at Liu He, who was walking at the front of the team, we like to cause trouble, even if we accept four apprentices, now with so many women and children, what if this battle starts in the future?
The sound of horses' hooves interrupted Wei Xiao's train of thought, and he looked in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves came from, and couldn't help but be surprised.
Although there were only a few hundred cavalry rushing towards him in front of him, they were all heavy armored cavalry.
As the name suggests, the difference between heavy cavalry and ordinary cavalry is that the men and horses of heavy cavalry are fully armoured.
On the battlefield, this heavily armored cavalry is simply the nemesis of ordinary cavalry.
There are many kinds of roles of cavalry, the most talked about is the hearty long-distance attack to smash the Yellow Dragon, but in the real war, this situation is only a few, most of the time, the two armies are lined up and collide head-on.
In this case, the main role of cavalry is to use the charge to disrupt the enemy's formation, so as to find a breakthrough for your own troops.
In this kind of situation when the cavalry of both sides needs to fight fiercely, the advantages of heavy armored cavalry with full body armor over ordinary cavalry are naturally self-evident.
However, the heavy cavalry also has a weakness that is difficult to hide, after the whole body is clothed in armor, it makes the weight of people and horses extremely heavy, although this weight has a more powerful lethality under the effect of inertia, but once the charge is stopped, it will immediately fall into danger.
Especially after the cavalry fell off their horses, because they were wearing heavy armor and could not respond flexibly, the heavy armored cavalry after falling from their horses would become a live target for the enemy on the spot.
Another point is that the cost of heavy cavalry is too expensive, and it costs dozens of times more material and financial resources to create a heavily armored cavalry like this.
This also means that if you want to build a heavy cavalry of about 10,000 people, you will have to pay the same price as hundreds of thousands of cavalry. But on the battlefield, although the heavy armored cavalry is completely superior to the ordinary cavalry in all aspects, it is only when the number of both sides is equal, in the face of an ordinary cavalry of hundreds of thousands of people, this heavy armored cavalry with only 10,000 people has no chance of winning.
Therefore, although the princes from all walks of life who continue to recruit troops and horses know the power of heavy cavalry, they can only be discouraged under such a high cost, rather than spending so much money to build a heavy cavalry, it is better to recruit ordinary cavalry is more cost-effective, at least in terms of numbers, to deter the opponent.
Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei at the beginning, sat on the land of Sizhou, and in his heyday, he was known as hundreds of thousands of armored cavalry, although there were 80,000 cavalry, but most of them were ordinary cavalry, and the real heavy armored cavalry was only one or two thousand.
And the current heavy armored cavalry that suddenly appeared and didn't know whether it was friend or foe, there were as many as hundreds of people, how could Wei Xiao not be frightened?
With Liu Bei's current strength, I'm afraid that even hundreds of ordinary cavalry can't make up for it, let alone this all-heavy armored cavalry.
If it is Liu Biao, it is somewhat possible for him to sit on the richest Jingzhou, but the terrain of Jingzhou is mostly lakes and rivers, and almost all of the places that resist the enemy are around the Yangtze River Basin, so Liu Biao has always focused on the water army, how can he create such a flashy heavy cavalry?
Seeing that this heavy armored cavalry was getting closer and closer, everyone in the Tianji Battalion was like a great enemy, and they all pressed their hands on their weapons.
Liu He looked intently at the heavy armored cavalry that suddenly appeared, and asked without looking back: "How sure are you that you can stop this cavalry?" ”
Everyone in the Tianji Camp was silent for a while, and no one answered.
Liu He turned his head, and when he saw the solemn expressions on everyone's faces, he knew how terrible this cavalry that was rushing towards him with all his might.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Liu He had no choice but to directly ask Wang Tie, who was most familiar with the deployment of troops, to answer, and Wang Tie, who was named, frowned tightly and gave an answer that shocked Liu He.
"I can't stop it. If there were only a few of us, we would have been somewhat sure that we would have dodged this charge, but in that case, I am afraid that more than half of the people behind us would have been killed or wounded. ”
Liu He didn't speak, but the hand holding the horse's reins couldn't stop trembling.
I used to always think about why there are always four options in multiple-choice questions, and how good it would be if there were only two, but at this moment, Liu He suddenly understood that multiple-choice questions with only two options are the most difficult.
Although no matter whether he hides or not, the people behind him will not escape, and it may be the wisest choice to leave his life at the moment, but Liu He has never been able to take that step, exposing the people behind him to the iron hooves of the cavalry.
At this critical moment, Qin Shuang suddenly rode out and rushed straight towards the team of heavily armored cavalry.
By the time Liu He reacted, it was too late to stop him, and Qin Shuang had already rushed to the other party's leader.
Qin Shuang is accustomed to using long swords, and Ma Zhan naturally suffered a big loss, although it is called a long sword, but compared to the real long weapons used in Ma Zhan, it is too far behind.