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In the past few days of rest, although many people have been arranged to hunt and fish, but most of them still have nothing to do, Qin Dong can't let these people be idle, the army must not be idle, the more idle the more likely it is to have accidents, so he held a meeting of officers to organize tactical training.

The Huns have been riding on horseback since childhood, so their riding skills are needless to say, very exquisite, but Qin Dong thinks that the riding and archery skills are not enough, after all, these Huns are warriors on horseback, and they are herdsmen when they get off the horse, and they usually practice by themselves, and they have not undergone systematic riding and archery training. Moreover, it can be done without collapse in any environment, and its combat effectiveness is superior to that of all the Hun cavalry in Europe.

In Qin Dong's vision, he wants to train three troops, the first is the archery cavalry unit, this unit is mainly responsible for long-range combat, to maximize the power of cavalry and archery skills, the second force is the infantry cavalry, this army does not need strong cavalry skills, but needs a strong infantry ability, the soldiers of this army must be able to ride horses skillfully, after dismounting is the infantry with super combat power, the reason why they ride horses is because of high-speed mobility, such an army is the mechanized infantry of this period. The third army, the soldiers of this army require comprehensive combat skills, not only to have strong archers and cavalry combat skills, cavalry combat ability, but also to dismount and have super foot combat ability, Qin Dong called this army an all-round army, with all the combat capabilities of infantry, cavalry, and archers.

This is the army that Qin Dong is going to train in the future, but it is obviously not good at this stage, the conditions at this stage can only train the archers, but as long as the training of this archers can be completed, its combat effectiveness is also extraordinary.

Qin Dong planned to make a rule for his cavalry, that the cavalry could not engage the enemy at close range until all the arrows in the quiver were shot, and that they must use their housekeeping skills to give the enemy the maximum blow, and could not charge the enemy until all the arrows were fired.

In this way, the problem comes, the Hun cavalry is generally lined up in a loose formation when attacking the enemy formation, if it is arranged in a loose formation in the state of cavalry and firing, it is very beneficial, at least it can avoid being mass-killed by the enemy archers because of the dense formation, but the loose formation will cause insufficient attack power when charging and assaulting, and once the cavalry is surrounded and loses speed, it is simply a disaster, so Qin Dong asked his cavalry to not care about the queue formation when riding and shooting, but once the charge and assault must be lined up in a dense formation, form the strongest force to penetrate the enemy's formation, and use the large depth interspersed tactics to charge back and forth against the enemy's formation, until the enemy army is defeated or divided and surrounded, but first of all, find a way to kill the enemy's archer troops, otherwise the dense formation charge is easy to be caused a lot of casualties by the archery troops.

Qin Dong rode a horse and stood in front of the 100-man team, centurion Su He stood behind him on horseback, as well as the centurion Mu Ren of the 200-man team and the centurion Tuolong of the 300-man team, and several other guards also rode horses to guard behind Qin Dong, Qin Dong pointed to the rows of straw men made of wild grass five hundred meters next to him and said, "Do you see those straw men?" Suppose that is the enemy formation, now everyone is lined up in two columns, let's train the first cavalry tactics, after the order is given, the two columns rush to the enemy, the range of the arrows reaches the front row of the enemy soldiers and immediately split into two, at the same time open the bow and shoot arrows, respectively to the outside of the enemy's two wings, and then shoot back and forth at the enemy on the outside of the enemy's two wings, do you understand? ”

"Understood!"

"Okay, Su He, you personally lead the team once!" Qin Dong shouted.

Su Hece immediately stepped forward and said, "Yes, my lord! ”

After the preparations, Qin Dong ordered: "Cavalry tactics, divide the enemy and fire a salvo on both wings, start!" ”

"Kill-" Su He, who got the order, roared, drew the bow of the bow bag, drew another arrow, and galloped forward, behind him a hundred cavalry lined up in two columns, all riding horses and following him closely, don't look at only a hundred cavalry, this cavalry galloping momentum is definitely not small.

When the cavalry rushed to a position about a hundred meters or so from the front row of the scarecrow, it began to divide into two, the column on the left turned and galloped to the left side of the scarecrow, the column of cavalry on the right turned and galloped to the right side of the scarecrow, and in the process of turning, they began to draw their bows and shoot arrows, without stopping, the cavalry on the left side rushed to the rear of the left side of the scarecrow and turned to the right, while the cavalry on the right turned to the left, overlapped and separated again, the cavalry that was originally on the left side of the scarecrow now detoured to the right side, and the cavalry that was originally on the right side went around to the left, In this way, the scarecrow continued to shoot with bows until all the horse archers had shot all the arrows.

After Su He led the team to turn around, he stopped and asked, "My lord, how is the effect?" ”

Qin Dong nodded and said: "This tactic is good, but it is not enough, the speed of archery is not enough, and the distance between each horse is uneven, it is easy to be intercepted and surrounded by the enemy, and we should pay attention to strengthening this training when training in the future!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Qin Dong said again: "Let's train the second tactic of cavalry archery: turn around and shoot arrows when retreating, which should be understood from the literal meaning, that is, shooting arrows at the enemy while retreating, and galloping on horseback!" You get it, right? ”

When retreating, turn around and shoot arrows, this tactic is the Mongolian cavalry's housekeeping skills, if the Mongols attack if they find that the enemy's formation is too difficult to gnaw, they will pretend to be defeated, the enemy generals will generally order the army to pursue, then the Mongols will use this tactic, the pursuing enemy army because the formation is scattered, and there is no shield and other protection, in the process of pursuit must be heavy casualties, will soon collapse, at this time the Mongolian cavalry turned around again to chase and kill, in one fell swoop will defeat the enemy.

The Hun cavalry and the Mongol cavalry have similarities and differences, although they are in different eras, the difference is more than 700 years, but in terms of combat effectiveness and cavalry and archery skills can still be compared.

The Hun cavalry is not as good as the Mongolian cavalry in the cavalry archery skills, to say that in the entire military history of the world, the most powerful cavalry skills are the Mongolian cavalry, but the Hun cavalry's close-quarters combat effectiveness is much stronger than the Mongolian cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry's close-quarters combat effectiveness is indeed not very good, which can be seen from the battle of Ain Jalu.

The Battle of Ain al-Jaru took place on 3 September 1260 A.D., after the capture of Baghdad by Hulegu, the commander of the Third Mongol Expedition to the West, and the fall of Damascus seven months later, led to the fall of the Arab Empire, although he soon learned that his brother Mongol Khan Möngke had died of illness (the cause of death unknown) was fishing in Hezhou in the Southern Song Dynasty. After that, he immediately stopped continuing his expedition to the west and began to return eastward, leaving his generals to lead an army of 20,000 (including 5,000 Mongol cavalry) to defend Damascus.

After the fall of Damascus to the Mongol army, the only military force left in the Islamic world was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, Khudusi, who received the news of Hulegu's return to the east, but he did not know how many Mongol troops remained in Damascus, so he did not dare to act rashly. However, he soon had an opportunity, the Franks left behind by the Crusades looked down on the Mongols and these barbarians, and attacked the Mongol patrols, and the cowardly nephew was killed, and the cowardly Buhua was furious, and immediately led his troops to capture the city of Sidon, which was left behind by the Franks, and sacked it, this battle exposed the military strength of the Mongol army, so Kudusi led his troops into Palestine, and he had 10,000 Mamluk troops (that is, slave troops), plus the remnants of the Syrian Arab army and the Turks. The 2,000 men of the Barbarian Tribe, 12,000 in all, encountered the cowardly commander of 20,000 men in Ain Jaru (near Naples).

Cowardly Buhua made the mistake of lightly advancing the enemy and was lured into the encirclement of Kudusi, and the cowardly Buhua quickly judged the shape of the battlefield, and immediately ordered the 20,000-strong detachment of the Mongol army, each with 1,000 Armenian ironclad cavalry as the vanguard, to charge at the weak and prominent flanks of the Mamluk camp. The cowardly Buhua led a team of 10,000 people and swooped down on the left flank of the Mamluk camp. The charging Mongol army suffered heavy losses from volleys of bows and arrows from the front and flanks, and the Mongol cavalry showed a high degree of tactical discipline and charged forward regardless of casualties. The cavalry on both flanks of the Mamluk camp could not help but tremble when they saw the Mongol cavalry forgetting their lives and rushing towards them with waves of bows and arrows. In the blink of an eye, the Mongol army rushed forward, the Armenian cavalry advancing in a wedge pattern into the flanks of the Mamluk camp, while the Mongol light cavalry followed with rapid arrows, and the heavy cavalry drew their sabers and slashed left and right. The Mamluk cavalry, which was already lacking in confidence, gradually lost their fighting spirit. The right flank under the command of Baibas could barely hold on, while the left flank was under great pressure from the cowardly Mongol cavalry and had begun to disperse. The wavering will of the cavalry on both flanks spread to the center like a contagion, and the entire Mamluk camp began to retreat, and the situation was at stake.

Desperately watching his army close to collapse, Kudusi threw his helmet into the ground and shouted, "For Islam!" Single-handedly rushed into the Mongol army, brandishing a Damascus scimitar and slashing vigorously, invincible, hacking at least a dozen Mongol cavalry. Kudusi's desperate heroism aroused the courage of the Mamluk cavalry, who hesitated for only a moment, then rushed forward with a wild cry and engaged in a fierce fight with the Mongol cavalry with their scimitars. As it turned out, the previous defeat of the Mamluk army was purely a work of cowardice, and once they regained their self-confidence, they immediately burst into an astonishing fighting force. The Mongol light cavalry was really not good at close combat.

It can be seen that the strength of the Mongol cavalry lies in cavalry archery, as for hand-to-hand combat, it is really not their forte, which is a little worse than the Hun cavalry, which was almost invincible in the world at the end of the Roman Empire.