Suddenly, a cavalry appeared on the right side of Cao Bin's line of sight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cao Bin immediately dodged his body, and then looked at this cavalry, and when his eyes were fixed on those cavalry, his eyes became extremely different.

The outermost ones are not much different from the cavalry configuration of the Great Song Border Army, but the armor on the horse has been reduced a lot, and only some armor to protect the vital points is equipped on the important parts of the horse.

Cao Bindao didn't feel anything.

But what surprised him was the innermost cavalry, these soldiers abandoned their traditional armor and only added some protective equipment to the vital parts.

And these devices don't look like the usual equipment.

He had seen the armament of the leather chamber army, and had defeated some cavalry strong brigades several times, and the system of the Liao State required the regular army to regard itself as strong, equipped with horses and iron or leather horse armor, which was a typical heavy cavalry with armored cavalry.

The cavalry inside, they were not equipped with iron armor such as Mingguang, Guangyao, chains, mountain scripts, bird hammers, and fine scale armor, but were equipped with strange-shaped armor, which seemed to be sewn from cloth.

However, Yang Ye's cavalry obviously abandoned the plate armor and removed the heavy weapons.

Cao Bin's face looked a little worried, and although these people looked strong in terms of momentum, they didn't have many weapons in their hands.

But among the thousand, there was either an quiver hanging behind them, with a bow and a crossbow inside, and an unknown object like a yellow brass pipe crossed across their waists.

Cao Bin couldn't tell, he didn't know what this was.

But when he thought that Yang Ye was ordered by the imperial court to come here, Cao Bin always felt that it must not be so simple.

Just when Cao Bin was in a trance, suddenly the cavalry soldiers who were close to the outermost side took out the yellow brass pipe-like object from their waists like brushes.

The cavalry queue quickly rushed towards the distant target.

There was a temporary trench there, and not far from the trench there were a lot of horses, thistles, and other things.

Cao Bin's eyes turned to that side, and he saw that there were a lot of straw stacks in the distance of the playground, and the center of these straw stacks was dotted with a red pen.

It is a place where archery is usually bent and practiced.

Hidden at the very back of the obstacle at the moment, it is equivalent to the enemy.

The cavalry moved towards distant targets in a regular and rhythmic manner.

The outermost cavalry was equipped with heavy cavalry equipment, but most of them used crossbows, while combat weapons were a combination of knives and pins, with an emphasis on slashing.

The hussars inside, on the other hand, were equipped with firearms.

Cao Bin leaned sideways and looked up, "What do they want?" ”

Cao Bin looked at the brass tube-like object, and suddenly thought of the cannon.

If Cao Bin's guess is correct, then this is the musket that King Wei and His Majesty are talking about.

"Are they going to shoot directly on horseback?" They were actually equipped with newly developed firearms from the Ordnance Superintendent.

It is said that this is the first time to use it, of course, these are all heard from Cao Can's kid, at this time Cao Bin looked at Cao Can suspiciously, and when Cao Can looked at his father's eyes at him, he lowered his head embarrassedly.

Of course, these firearms are only part of the story, and they are said to have been cast from large hydraulic machinery and iron molds, with slight improvements from the previous research.

"Your Majesty has spent countless craftsmen's efforts this time!" Cao Bin sighed.

Cao Can, on the other hand, watched these cavalry drills seriously, on the way here, he had heard Wei Wang Chitose talk about these muskets, but at that time, what was deeply rooted in his mind was the clumsy brass cannon, how to put it on the back of the cavalry horse.

Such a heavy thing, Cao Can is really unimaginable.

However, when I saw this musket today, I still had some expectations.

On the other horseback, Yang Ye looked a little excited, he had been training cavalry for a while, and when he first heard that he was going to be equipped with these muskets, Yang Ye was a little worried.

He had opposed arming the cavalry with guns, and the cavalry rarely used them. Second, there are some problems.

But then he changed his mind.

Over long distances, these cavalry were able to exercise their flexibility and were no longer constrained by the weight of their weapons.

Moreover, these miniature versions of the guns are also easy to carry, but the number of shots at a time is a little small, and the range is about 80 steps.

Therefore, they are generally equipped in the second row of the cavalry formation, and the front row has traditional cavalry armor.

The sky was bright and the morning fog was gradually lifting, but the slush was flying on the playground.

The long dragon column of the cavalry, the edge of which detoured to the left and right, outflanked.

By this time the snowflakes had stopped, and this was the only place in the long mountain field that was shaking.

At this moment, several horsemen galloped over, Yang Ye's body swayed left and right on the horse, and his eyes kept focusing on the cavalry around him.

This cavalry originated in Linzhou, and many of them were his old subordinates.

Cao Bin could imagine that if he were on the battlefield, these arrows and spears would be black in the yellow dust, and the images of swords and swords in the place of melee would be like countless fish maws struggling and beating on the water.

It's all exciting.

The closer you are to the target.

Later, there was a thudding sound and smoke coming out of the brass pipes.

Immediately the archers behind him began to shoot, and behind the archers, there were countless crossbows.

Cao Can explained: "These are the Divine Arm Bows, the bow body is three feet long, the string length is two feet five, and the range is more than two hundred and forty steps. ”

When Cao Bin was dazzled by amazement, the entire cavalry battalion directly crossed the trench, and then came to the rejection of horses and thistles.

As they approached thistle, the cavalry officer suddenly pulled out a long strip of weapon.

In an instant, some of the thistles were sucked up.

These soldiers immediately picked up the thistles like they were playing polo.

"Are these thorns?"

"Yes, with a magnet."

"No wonder."

"Why aren't they all equipped with muskets?"

"That's Chitose's concern, too."

"The musket can only be fired once, and it takes time to refill again, and it takes intermittent times. The crossbowman, on the other hand, only needs to hold the bow in one hand, draw the arrow in the other, and then shoot the arrow. In contrast, it is much easier to fire a bow and arrow, as long as an archer is willing, a person can shoot dozens of arrows on his body, and then choose to enter close combat. ”

"This is also Chitose thoughtful, so that they can connect with the infantry, cooperate with each other, and fight the enemy, and at a hundred paces away, seven or eight people will release arrows, and seven or eight people will shoot horses with short crossbows, and then the long knives will be slashed, and they will quickly charge, assemble, and charge again, so as to kill and wound a large number of enemy soldiers."

Cao Bin asked, "But these armors?" ”

"The Armory Supervisor has been improved to weigh lighter than normal armor."

"An ordinary full suit of armor requires more than 1,200 armor leaves, weighing about fifty catties. Of the cavalry, twelve were bowed, sixteen were crossbowed, eleven were muskets, and the rest were swords and spears in close combat. ”

Later, the soldiers, with the cooperation of the cavalry in the front, had already loaded the second shot, and at this time the second shot began to fire again.

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