Chapter 420: New Cavalry (5)
"From today, cavalry can be divided into classical cavalry, as well as modern cavalry. Classical cavalry is your usual method of warfare, and when you charge on horseback, it is chaotic, and it is not able to form effective cooperation at all. So when you charge, you're facing a lot of enemies. As for the collective charge, you will come into contact with very few enemies at the same time, and you will form a local advantage of fighting more and fighting less. In this situation, your enemies will have to face three or four sabers at the same time, and the losses they will receive will be very serious. If you are proportionately speaking, the most direct result of fighting more and less is that the enemy is dead, and none of you are sacrificed. ”
According to the information of later generations, Chen Fei is deeply aware of the tactics of this so-called new cavalry, which is actually mainly to charge against the wall. When the cavalry charged, it was not like the past that was divided into many scattered formations, but concentrated into a wall to charge, so that when charging, it could form a local battle with more and less. And fighting more and fighting less is actually the core of the success or failure of ancient wars. According to the later Ranster equation, it actually talks about the benefits of numerical superiority.
If the metaphor is that the individual combat effectiveness of the Turkic cavalry is four times that of the Tang cavalry, and the Tang Dynasty produces 400 cavalry, and the Turks produce 100. In this way, when the Tang Dynasty completely annihilated the Turkic cavalry, it was only a loss of fifty-four people, and the vast majority of soldiers remained. Although they seem to have the same comprehensive combat effectiveness, they have brought such a result, which is also the result of numerical superiority.
If you follow the cavalry combat mode in the past, it is equivalent to putting the soldiers into a chaotic process, so that they have to fight with those Turkic cavalry alone, so that the Tang cavalry will often suffer very much. The individual quality of the Tang cavalry was often inferior to that of the Turks, which also gave the Turks the opportunity to defeat the Tang cavalry. However, if you can concentrate your forces and then form a wall to charge, so that you can form a local invitation to fight more and fight less, you can completely defeat the Turks. The Turks were too scattered. Unable to concentrate superior forces and the Tang cavalry whose strength is inferior to theirs to fight, they will cause inevitable defeat.
Chen Fei's cavalry tactics are actually modern cavalry tactics in the West, and they are tactics that have only been studied in modern times, and they are much more powerful than classical cavalry. Classical cavalry will definitely not be any opponent at all in the comparison of the strength of modern cavalry. Modern cavalry, through his discipline and appropriate tactics, can completely fight more and less in the locality, no matter how brave such a cavalry is, it is not an opponent for several people to fight against him together. Therefore, the Western cavalry later surpassed the Eastern cavalry, and even without firearms, the Eastern cavalry could be defeated.
So since there is the experience of Westerners in later generations. So why didn't Chen Fei use it? After all, the combat effectiveness of the new cavalry is much better than that of the classical cavalry, which can double the combat effectiveness. The Turks, on the other hand, have always been very loose and focused on individual heroes, so it is difficult for them to learn this aspect of things. The Turks did not have military discipline at all, so their cavalry was destined to be crushed under the cavalry trained by the civilization of the Tang Dynasty.
"You're going to have to contact the queue next, and you can't spread out while you're on the charge. If anyone is scattered, then go and take two and a half hours of confinement yourself. As long as you can train the whole regiment into a team, and then don't scatter when you charge, you must become a queue in a row. That's a success. As long as one person spreads out, it's not qualified, understand? As for the beginning, you can try to tie a leash to this Mongolian horse. Then avoid falling apart. But when you go to the battlefield later, you have to untie your belt, understand? ”
"Got it!" Everyone replied together.
Next, the cavalry began to train. However, according to Chen Fei's request. They also let them change to Mongolian horses. And they had just ridden a Mongolian horse, so they were a little uncomfortable, but everything had to start with training the cavalry's pace. Chen Fei also trained the infantry of later generations. Introduced into this process of cavalry training. First of all, it is necessary to train these cavalrymen in a good rank, which is seriously lacking in ancient times. Ancient soldiers were very inadequate in queue training, and they all focused on individual combat effectiveness. At most, some generals require soldiers to be able to form formations, but they stubbornly let the soldiers follow the rules, but they do not pay attention to this queue training. In fact, as long as the queue is trained, it can be completely set up in a lot of formations.
Those soldiers were all frightened by Chen Fei, because the miserable situation of this confinement was something that everyone had seen with their own eyes, and everyone would be very afraid of this. So they are all willing to obey, not to mention that Chen Fei is still an official of the Ministry of War, he is a person who can influence them, let's just say that he is a friend of their captain, if Zhu Chunlin punishes them at that time, then they will be confined. If they really want to be dragged to confinement, then I'm afraid they would rather be beaten with dozens of military sticks, which is better than being confined. The soldier who was locked up was obviously scared, he was very obedient to Zhu Chunlin's orders, and obviously had no opinions.
"Okay, did you hear what Chen Langzhong said? Give me this Mongolian horse and get ready to start retraining. As long as everyone can keep the queue from spreading, that is the real completion of the training task. We are cavalry, our target is the Turks, and if we can't defeat the Turks, then what cavalry should we be? Therefore, everyone gives me hard work, and I can't slack off a little! If anyone dares to cut corners for me, or does not abide by battlefield discipline and takes the lead in charging without authorization, then I will be severely punished. Zhu Chunlin said.
Next, Zhu Chunlin immediately followed Chen Fei's request to train these cavalrymen in a queue. First of all, they must be trained tacitly, so that they can line up in a straight line and then be able to move forward. You can start slower, like a slow horseback ride. But then you have to gradually increase the speed, so that you can have the effect of training. If the method of the past is still followed, then I am afraid that how many people are not enough to be killed by the cavalry in dense queues. A wall charge would be a one-round battle, and the ordinary cavalry would have to run to determine the winner. (To be continued......)