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The strength of the cavalry lies in the impact power, even if the cavalry has been killed, once it hits the military formation, it can still kill people. If the cavalry storms the artillery position, and the cavalry is not well protected, the cavalry will still be destroyed even if the horse is killed in the end. There is no doubt about the impact and deterrent power of cavalry on infantry. Otherwise, Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi would not have attached so much importance to cavalry construction.

For the next week, Geng Jingzhong stayed in the Pingtan Island military camp and did not leave, personally supervising the progress of the infantry and artillery coordinated drills every day. Of course, on the other side, the training of the first division to adapt to the cavalry charge is still continuing, after this seven consecutive days of training, the 7,000 soldiers left on Pingtan Island by the first division no longer have a sense of fear of cavalry, various forms of cavalry raids, sneak attacks, frontal attacks, etc., so that the soldiers are fully proficient in how to deal with every situation.

In order to strengthen; The psychological endurance of the Marine Army's infantry to the impact of the cavalry, the generals of the First Division can be regarded as racking their brains. For several days, the infantry of the 1st Division was lined up in columns, and then faced the onslaught of cavalry. Now the generals of the Marine Corps also know that when facing a large number of enemy cavalry, the psychological quality of a soldier is far more important than personal military skills. If we do not have an extremely strong psychological element, we will not be able to display our combat effectiveness normally. This is true for a soldier, and it is true for an army.

"Da Da Da!"

"Da Da Da!"

"Da Da Da!"

It is this continuous sound that keeps ringing in the ears of the soldiers of the 1st Division these days. On the first day, after the two battalions had faced the cavalry charge, the following soldiers were also pulled to the training ground, and when the cavalry from the opposite side roared. Again, quite a few soldiers turned pale with fright at the sound of rumbling horses' hooves. Stiffness in the hands and feet. Get one’s dander up. Many soldiers were even trembling in their legs and their muskets in their hands. The cavalry that launched the assault were still those people, and the number was a little less, far worse than the cavalry with tens of thousands of Tartars and Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, but with the cooperation and training in the past few days, their riding skills have also improved. Just these two thousand improvised cavalry made the Marine Army foot soldiers have such a deterrent effect, reminiscent of the scene of facing the overwhelming enemy cavalry. It makes people break out in a cold sweat!

The training in the back is no longer just a simple rush to the front and a turn, but it is necessary to rush through the gap between the military formations, and the speed is not reduced. Whenever these cavalry swept quickly through the middle of the infantry ranks, the faces of the warriors who had become somewhat accustomed to the opposite charge became quite ugly again. The cavalry swept through the wind and dust and struck the infantry directly in the face. Some people can't even hold their bodies and need the support of their peers to barely hold on. When the cavalry galloped past, many of them were choked with mud, and their military uniforms were completely covered in dust. The whole person looks like a clay figurine.

After the cavalry charge, remember that several of the soldiers were stunned. As soon as he sat on the ground, the whole person was paralyzed as if he had collapsed. But no one looked down on them. Anyone who faces the onslaught of cavalry for the first time will develop a psychology of fear. Most of those who don't fall down are not afraid of it, but because they are so scared that they are numb. Since they are all numb, naturally there will be no movement.

This kind of fear training continues every day. According to Geng Jingzhong's idea, you will slowly get used to it if you keep training. In addition to the training of the cavalry charging into battle, Geng Jingzhong also thought of training the soldiers' ability to withstand the rain of arrows. In the future, when fighting large-scale battles, whether it is facing Qing soldiers or Wu Sangui, or facing indigenous armies when conquering other continents, they will often encounter bow and arrow attacks, so in the face of large-scale arrow rain attacks, soldiers also need to have a strong mental endurance.

As for where the bow and arrow come from? There are still a lot of longbows and feathers left over from the previous outfit in the armory, so you can just transfer them over. The soldiers did not stop shooting arrows after holding muskets for a few years, and two battalions were transferred to shoot arrows at the army formation, and the effect was the same. Of course, the arrows used in training are to remove the arrows. And before training, it is better not to inform the fighters of the training project, so that the best effect can be achieved.

The results of the training of the First Division have been remarkable, and the coordinated exercises between the Second Division and the Artillery Division have also reached the final stage; although the two armies of the infantry and artillery have never cooperated before, after these days of coordinated exercises, the generals have brainstormed and discovered many problems, and at the same time put forward many suggestions for improvement. The synergy of the current rifle cannon is getting stronger and stronger!

For example, on how to detect the enemy cavalry in advance, the generals came up with a lot of ideas, and after discussion and screening, they determined three plans that could be used. The first is to configure a geophone in the army, which Geng Jingzhong came up with, and in fact, there have been similar ones in the army for a long time. In the past, when the soldiers went out on the expedition, they would also put their heads down and pillow hollow wooden pillows, which was to use the nature of solid sound transmission to prevent the enemy's cavalry from sneaking attack, but now Geng Jingzhong has improved this thing and made it more powerful.

The second is to add an extra big car to the army, which is indeed a "big" car, and it is much higher than the ordinary car, and the artillery observation post stands on the top of the high car and looks out with binoculars. The dynamics of the enemy were observed, and then artillery fire was directed. It's clear, and it's accurate. This big car is easy to do, and now those main roads in Fujian are full of horse-drawn carriages that keep going back and forth. On this basis, it is made a little bigger, and for those craftsmen, there is no technical content at all.

Sure enough, the artillery observation post relied on the help of telescopes on the top of the cart, and could indeed accurately observe the movement of the cavalry on the opposite side, so that they could make accurate judgments and direct the artillery to shoot. Judging from the effect of the exercise, it is still good.

The last one is to set up a few more scouts to observe the surroundings, even if the army is marching, let the scouts run a few kilometers or even more than ten kilometers in advance. If the enemy is detected in advance, it will immediately send a signal. It is also good for the large army to prepare in advance. Train scouts. It's another matter, which can be talked about later, and it is not easy to train professional and tough scouts. Scouts, in the next generation, are scouts, and only the most elite fighters in a unit can do it.

In addition to the efforts made to prevent enemy sneak attacks, the infantry phalanx also made some improvements. The Mawei Marines all use muskets as their main weapons, which are real long-range weapons, but in case it is when the infantry is alone in the field. It is unobstructed, and the threat to the infantry is great, and many times relying solely on the flesh and blood of the infantry can completely block the fierce charge of the cavalry, let alone the penetration of bullets and arrows.

For example, when the infantry encounters a large number of cavalry in the field, such as in the northern plains, it is often thousands of cavalry, even if more than eighty percent of the cavalry is killed, the remaining two percent will crash into the infantry team at high speed. Still not something the infantry could afford. The most conservative estimate is that a cavalry galloped over at high speed. Even if you don't use the weapon in your hand to slash and kill, you can directly crash into the team, kill three or four people, seriously injure five or six, and lightly injure seven or eight, then there is no problem at all. The main reason is that the size of the war horse is too large, and the human body can't stop it at all. The galloping war horse, after suddenly falling to the ground, can at least slide forward for nearly twenty meters, which is too powerful. In the case of heavy cavalry, it would be difficult for the muskets to kill them at once, in which case, it would be a nightmare for the heavy cavalry to rush in front of them.

It is not difficult to solve this problem, not to mention that the ancients already had a good solution, that is, they have seen a lot of it in later generations of movies and television. I remember that among those war dramas, the most classic is the German blitzkrieg in World War II, with planes in the sky and tanks and artillery below, advancing all the way. In this era, airplanes are not to be thought about, but it is still possible to imitate the zuò earth tank. When the enemy rushes over, instead of letting the chariots rush up, the chariots are lined up end to end, or connected into a defensive circle, and the soldiers hide behind and keep releasing their guns, so that the muskets in the hands of the marines can exert the maximum power while not worrying about their own safety.

In the past, it was the former Ming border army that did this when they fought against the Tartar cavalry. When they were attacked by the Tartar cavalry, they would immediately load all their vehicles with dirt and other debris and pile them on the outside of the queue. The defenders hid behind the chariot formation, desperately shooting arrows to fight back. Although the former Ming border army also had firearms in their hands, the power was too weak and easy to explode, so ordinary soldiers were reluctant to use them. Therefore, they are most likely archers or crossbowmen. Even so, when the infantry formed a chariot formation, the Tartar cavalry only surrounded the perimeter and did not dare to rush up directly. In the distant past, Li Ling during the Han Dynasty used such tactics to block the continuous attacks of the Xiongnu cavalry.

If the Tartar cavalry really hit the top of the car, they would definitely have bled on the head. The car was relatively sturdy after it was filled with dirt. If multiple vehicles were stacked on top of each other, even the fiercest hoplites would not be able to knock them out. As long as the cavalry's powerful charging ability can be unloaded, the cavalry's lethality will be reduced by at least half. For the Mawei Marine Army, if the army is equipped with chariots, when the infantry goes out alone, when it is attacked by sneak attack, there is no need to find another cover, just stand next to the approaching chariot, and then keep shooting, which can also turn defeat into victory.

As for the chariot, there are detailed records in military books such as "Wubei Zhi", and there are various types, and when the time comes, a little modification can make a chariot suitable for the Marine Army, after all, Geng Jingzhong wants not a chariot for assault, but a chariot for protection. When Geng Jingzhong put forward this idea, Jiang Dejun thought of the partial carriage invented by Guo Deng during the reign of Emperor Ming and Ming Dynasty in the former Ming Dynasty, which was also the chariot used in the car battalion formed by Sun Chengzhong decades ago.

This partial van is a bit of an ancient armored car, one side is a solid wooden plank, at least two fingers thick, and relatively high, just on the outside, can effectively resist the bow and arrow of the enemy cavalry, but also can prevent the enemy infantry from approaching and climbing. Multiple holes were dug into the planks from which the defenders could fire firearms. The van itself is also relatively sturdy, and it is not afraid of general collisions. As soon as Jiang Dejun brought it up, after everyone considered and discussed, they really felt that it was feasible. But it still has to be modified, and the van of the former Ming Dynasty is specially designed to defend against the city wall, and there is still a difference from the current situation, so there must be some improvements in terms of shape.

However, if you want to be equipped with equipment such as baggage trucks and partial vans, you must have accompanying personnel. When the battle starts, these people must do their best to set up all kinds of cars in formation and enter the battle as quickly as possible. It really can't be done, let's see if we can let each battalion draw a small number of fighters to take charge of this matter. And there is another one, that is, after the implementation of this plan, each battalion will be equipped with more war horses!

Use war horses to pull heavy trucks and partial van cars, and some ready-made deer rocks, horse rejection frames, horse blocking piles and other supporting settings can also be placed on the car. As long as there is time, it will be much better to place horse rejecting frames and horse blocking posts outside the defense line. If you have these defensive equipment, in the event of a cavalry raid, even if the enemy's cavalry rushes up, you will be made to turn your horse on your back. (To be continued......)