Chapter 134: Self-sufficiency
For his cavalry, Zhao Yun only used a small pony pistol made in Hanyang, the difference between it and ordinary "made in Hanyang" is that the body of the gun is much shorter, and the bolt is not straight but bent downward, which is convenient for the cavalry to carry on the back, and the ruler is shorter, but it is still equipped with a detachable bayonet that is common to ordinary "made in Hanyang". After all, even if the various carbines in the hands of the Mongolian soldiers were rifled, the effect was not very large, and a large number of them were pre-loaded.
The grenades were also equipped for them, and the long-handled grenades made of pottery were used, not the strings were not drawn, the one was too high-end, and the velvet ignition type was used.
The small revolver was also prepared to be equipped in large quantities, but Zhao Yun did not issue it all at once, but prepared to use it as a reward, and only one-third of the Mongolian soldiers had received this honor.
As for heavy firepower, Zhao Yun had North Korean (Goryeo) elite combat vehicles, and replaced the original vehicle-mounted weapon ballista with a twin Makqin machine gun for fire support.
As for cold weapons, Zhao Yun asked the "experts".
This weapon is like a shoe, whoever wears it knows, so Zhao Yun sent someone to the army to find out about it, but the information he got was varied. So Zhao Yun, who was not very clear about the preferences of the Mongols, asked Timur, and his statement was very different from that of the local Mongol warriors.
Most of the local Mongol soldiers preferred to use sabers, although there are also straight ones, different ones with curved ones, etc., but in general they still belong to the sabre category. This straight one is good for thorns, and the latter is good for splitting. But the weapon recommended by Timur was a spear!
Although Zhao Yun learned from European spies that both French and German cavalry were equipped with spears!
But when I heard that Timur recommended a spear, this amazing news was still like a rolling thunder, once again scorching Zhao Yun's thunder on the outside and tender on the inside, and using the spear to pick the tank, where are you going to insert it? Poke the exhaust pipe?
However, this thing is put in cavalry fighting, whether the spear is superior to the saber is really an inconclusive issue, after all, these two things are weapons used by the cavalry for thousands of years, and after the long washing of history, it is really hard to say which one is better.
For now, however, the saber undoubtedly seemed more suitable for white-knuckle combat, and the spear was too long and heavy to be used for a charge, but it became an extremely effective weapon in pursuit of fleeing cavalry. But it is an indisputable fact that almost all the nations that are good at riding rely on the saber.
The Cossacks claimed to be the real Russian light cavalry, and when fighting the Circassians, who were good at using swords, they did not use spears, but sabers. It was the Cossacks who proved that the sharp, applied refined saber remained the king of cavalry weapons.
But the Mongols are a wonder in the history of cavalry! Thanks to the presence of Genghis Khan, no one could see them as ordinary cavalrymen, and even a few hundred years later could not pull them out from the glory of their ancestors.
The answers he got were not uniform, so Zhao Yun could only figure out a way by himself, and took out all kinds of cold weapons that the camp could produce for them to choose.
Because the Mongolian cavalry is different from the European cavalry, when they encounter the enemy's cavalry, they do not rush into the enemy formation like the European cavalry, but first shoot a heavy arrow and rocket to disrupt the enemy, and when the enemy's position is in chaos, avoid the enemy's front, and attack the enemy by outflanking and flanking.
Each Mongolian cavalry has a number of weapons (tools) on its body, and is also equipped with weapons such as lassos and short axes, with different weapons of different fighting styles, which can be described as all-round cavalry.
The long-handled hand axes used by the militia, the super longbows of the British longbowmen, the long horse whips of the Hun cavalry, the broadswords of the Serte Seelan warriors, the Zhuge crossbow used by the Chinese crossbowmen who can shoot 5 arrows in a row, the throwing axes of the Frankish axe-throwers, the Japanese samurai's swords, the small round bows of the Mongolian cavalry archers, the scimitars of the Arab slave soldiers, the mace of the jaguar warriors, and so on.
Zhao Yun only wanted to improve their weapons and did not stipulate that they were not allowed to use the original weapons, so he only gave them the right to choose one for each ordinary soldier and two for officers.
As a result, the mace of the jaguar warriors and the long-handled hand axes used by the militia were the most selected and tied for first place; The scimitars of the Arab slave soldiers, the throwing axes of the Frankish axe-throwers, then the swords of the Japanese samurai, the long horsewhips of the Hun cavalry, and the few remaining people were selected.
Needless to say, the people who chose maces and long-handled hand axes were purely muscular men, and as soon as they received their weapons, they were pulled directly outside the camp to start the game.
In Jiangnan, Zhao Yun has also seen the sabers used by horse bandits such as the money leopard, the kind of wide-backed thin-edged knives, the blade is relatively heavy, which is conducive to increasing the strength of chopping, and the Mongolian sabre has a variety of styles in Han and Central Asia due to historical reasons. Most of them have smooth lines, and the handle is generally slightly curved in the direction of the blade, so that the curved handle is more conducive to the rider's control and is not easy to get rid of, and the Mongolian saber blade is thinner and lighter than that used by horse bandits. The cavalry mainly uses the strong impact formed by the horse's speed to drive the saber to complete tactical actions such as chopping. If you just sit on a horse and cut people, then you are horse infantry. When the cavalry is attacking the enemy's formation, the scimitar is flattened, the blade is forward, and with the speed bonus of the horse, it slashes at the enemy's body, because the scimitar has a good curvature, and it slides along the curved surface of the blade in an instant when it touches the enemy's body. Therefore, it can continuously contact the enemy's body, and the cutting force will increase accordingly. And when it splits hard armor, it is not easy to be shocked and fly away. However, this generally requires wrist training, because it has certain requirements for the wrist to bear it. Otherwise, if you don't cut anyone, you will break your hand first.
Unlike the cavalry knives in the hands of the Mongol soldiers, the scimitar of the Arab slave soldiers belonged to the full moon scimitar type, which resembled a bright moon and was suitable for camel cavalry. It is not for nothing that the camel cavalry has been the nemesis of the cavalry since ancient times. First of all, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the camel's height was nearly two meters, and Zhao Yun stood in front of it just enough to reach its mouth! And sitting on a camel is inherently taller than riding on a horse.
Therefore, such knives designed for camel cavalry are suitable for downward slashing, not horizontal slashing. This is because only an upward split can cause the largest wound. When this knife was invented, it was mainly used for cutting, and it was invincible to use it for cutting meat, because it was impossible to wear plate armor like Europe in the desert area, and it was mostly leather armor and cloth clothing, otherwise it would die of heat before the war, so they were not used to break armor.
But no matter what knife meets heavy weapons, it is a word "fold"! This is the reason why so many people choose maces and long-handled hand axes!
Now the First World War has just ended, that is, by the time of World War II, the cavalry's equipment is mostly the same as the old three, sabers and pistols, carbines, of course, the Polish cavalry in World War II was also equipped with spears, but you believe you know the effect.
The equipment that Zhao Yun is now equipped with for the Mongolian cavalry is absolutely first-class in the steppe, even if it is pulled to Russia, it will not fall behind in the face of the tall and tall Russian cavalry.
In addition to the standing army of the central part of the Chechen Khan tribe, there was also an external armed force within the tribe.
Neither Zhao Yun nor Timur were pure nationalists, so in addition to the all-Mongol contingent, there was also a contingent of more than 4,000 people, consisting of Cossacks who fled south from Russia, Manchus and Han Chinese from Suiyuan in the northeast, Chechens from a few tribes in Russia, and Kazakhs from the west.
This time, they also changed their outfits together and formed into an independent regiment under the Outer Mongolian Legion, that is, a servant army, and then trained with soldiers from Chechen tribes.
With their joining, the number of men and horses lost in the previous defections and mutinies was basically replenished, and a group of scattered herdsmen were attracted to join with benefits and treatment, and the population of the entire Chechen Khan showed a trend of slow growth.
There are a lot of people, but don't forget that this is a popular nation where all the people are soldiers, so the old and weak who stay in the tribe also need to be armed.
However, Zhao Yun could not popularize the weapons of these ordinary people such as "made in Hanyang", otherwise just providing ammunition for these weapons would lag behind Zhao Yun's development.
So Zhao Yun chose three kinds of big killing weapons, ground guns, unique pouts and reloading bullets
On the steppe, there is a prerequisite for marching. Mongolia is a nomadic people, although some people have settled down at this time, but most of the economic resources of the tribe are still provided by cattle, horses, and sheep.
If large and heavy weapons are used as in the Central Plains or Jiangnan, the speed of nomadic travel will inevitably be affected. This road in Outer Mongolia is real, the sky is vast, and the wilderness is vast!
Therefore, the first condition for Zhao Yun's choice is lightness.
Ground guns are a type of homemade guns, named because they are erected on the ground. There are two types, one is a rifle and the other is a powder gun. The rifle was first eliminated by Zhao Yun, and the gunpowder gun became the mainstream this time, that is, a defensive weapon assembled with reinforced bamboo barrels and gunpowder. It is mainly popular in the northeast, and is generally a self-defense weapon set up in the ginseng field by ginseng farmers in order to protect the ginseng and prevent thieves from stealing ginseng. This item has a trap that ignites when a thief accidentally touches it while stealing ginseng, and fires it with a similar effect to the Sync Gun, which is very powerful. But that range, not to mention it, is too short. But for defense, there is no requirement for it.
The other is the only pout that Zhao Yun has seen used by the bandits, which is also called a unicorn in other places, and it is also a weapon made by the folk law. It is manufactured all over the country, and there are different styles and calibers, some that fire pistol bullets, and some that fire rifle bullets. In order to pursue the power of the weapon, Zhao Yun carved rifling and used the "Water Lianzhu" rifle bullet taken from the nearest material, not to mention the range, but it was still very powerful at close range.
This kind of home-made pistol is very characteristic of China. The gun uses a two-section hinge structure similar to a shotgun,
You can only shoot one bullet at a time, and when you're done,
It is necessary to grasp the handle to dig downward, exit the cartridge case from the tail of the open chamber, and then reload the bullet, so it is called "unique pouting".