Chapter 181: Training
Horses are spiritual and sensitive animals, how much you pay for it, it will return to you, in the cavalry regulations of Lanzhou, recruits must sleep in the stable. The cavalrymen carefully urged the horse to take broken steps, so that it did not feel deliberately oppressed, nor did it let its own temperament rejoice. When the horses approached the enemy in broken steps, they had already adjusted their state together with the cavalry on it, and the entire ten-man team was under the gentle adjustment of the cavalry, just like a whole, and in the same way, the hundred-man team, the thousand-man team, and the three thousand cavalry slowly advanced on the battlefield like this, with both the neatness of the Han infantry army and the jump of the cavalry. Even those Qiang people who lived in Mabei Mountain all year round were shocked by such a cavalry army.
"Get on the horse, form a formation, and prepare to charge!" Cai Jifeng ordered loudly, he saw clearly, the reinforcements in Lanzhou were only about 3,000 horsemen, and after three days of attrition on his side, there were still more than 4,000 horsemen who could still fight, the Han people were not good at cavalry warfare, as long as they seized the opportunity to defeat this reinforcement, maybe the chariot formation would automatically surrender. Grandma's, fighting depends on martial arts and courage, what's the use of walking neatly with the horse! Cai Jifeng scolded.
Wu Yingying rode his horse and marched in the Lanzhou cavalry formation, watching with satisfaction as the cavalry left and right maintained a perfect rhythm. The last time the redemption of Shuozhou Hanhu was attacked by the Khitan tribe, the amazing combat power of the Yang family's cavalry left a deep impression on him, but the big spear technique is the secret of the Yang family, and it is difficult to train so many cavalry with high martial arts in a hurry.
Without a strong cavalry, they are always in a passive position on the battlefield with cold weapons. It was argued that tanks eventually replaced the position of cavalry. However, judging from the battlefield mobility capability that far surpasses that of other arms of the armed forces, the only thing that can really be compared with the status of the cavalry in the cold weapon era in later generations is the air force. In later generations, there was a superpower that could destroy one country after another just by relying on the indiscriminate bombardment of the air force. The only way to completely restrain the air force is to use the air to control the air. Thoroughly restrain the cavalry, and ride by horse.
There are two ways of thinking about riding and riding horses, one is to build a cavalry army as powerful as the enemy, which is neither economical nor realistic in terms of the current strength of Lanzhou and the economic structure dominated by Han farming. The second is to build an elite cavalry army to make up for the lack of battlefield mobility of the infantry army. Elite cavalry is able to curb the maneuverability of the enemy's cavalry, and then let the well-armed infantry take over the battlefield. What is containment, it depends on the combat ability that far surpasses the opponent. The Yang family cavalry and the Yue family cavalry all took this path.
Since he couldn't get a knight with outstanding individual martial arts, Wu Yingying thought of a way to train elite cavalry soldiers by relying on discipline and teamwork. In fact, it is not entirely a fabrication to the wall, but an improvement of the method of chain horses and kidnapping horses.
The iron-clad chain horse from the Murong clan, so it is said that it is connected by iron chains and ropes, advancing and retreating as one, and the impact has the power of overwhelming mountains and seas, and death also forms a barrier to trap the enemy. In fact, as long as you use your brain to think about it, the horses are pierced with iron chains, as long as one horse falls, the others will not fall, if it is not for the flesh and blood fortress to deal with extremely powerful enemies, the actual effect of the iron armor chain is probably not as good as fighting separately, which is also the reason why the chain of horses does not reappear in later generations. More than 100 years later, the rise of the Jurchen cavalry elite kidnapping horse, known as connected with ropes, once there is a bankrupt or backward horse, a knife to cut the rope can be worry-free, but this artificiality, this rope is there or not, it seems that there is no big problem.
In fact, the real strength of the elite cavalry formation is that it is trained every day to advance and retreat in unison. From the two horses in parallel, sprint training, ten-person team, hundred-person team, thousand-person team, layer by layer gradually unified the pace and rhythm of the attack, the whole cavalry to achieve the unity of men and horses, the unity of thousands of horses, and finally become one, although there is no iron ring connection, but there seems to be an invisible connection so that the entire cavalry formation is as consistent, the impact is unstoppable, invincible. It's just that this is extremely difficult to train the cavalry. It is not easy for ordinary steppe tribes to enforce orders and prohibitions, where can they think that not only people, but even horses can be trained to advance and retreat in the same way as people, and the cavalry can also form a neat formation like an infantry army. Even the Great Liao Kingdom has never had such an elite cavalry.
And Lanzhou has trained the elite cavalry with the elite of the Tuhun army, and it has been a little successful.
The war horse has already run up, the formation of the cavalry is still not chaotic, Wu Yingying's heart is determined, the war horse gradually accelerated, from trotting to galloping, the cavalry side by side, neat as if it was a foot pawn, the flat end of the horse lance, the tip of the spear at the same time undulating and undulating, like a tide line, is very good-looking.
The Qiang soldiers of the party also rushed head-on under the leadership of Cai Jifeng, the horses under the crotch of the Qiang soldiers were good or bad, and the equestrian skills of each person were high and low, almost from the beginning, the cavalry was divided into orders, in order not to collide with each other, they also deliberately distanced themselves.
When the vanguard of the Lanzhou cavalry and the Dangxiang cavalry crossed by the wrong horse, on average, there were four horses of the Lanzhou cavalry pointing at him in the battlefield space of the Dangxiang Qiang soldiers, and the outcome was conceivable. The strength of the army is the strength of the collective, and in the face of this power, any individual martial arts are powerless, not even the iron harrier can resist.
Note: See Zizhi Tongjian: Ke divides the army into three divisions, and the generals say: 'Min is light and sharp, and he thinks that he has few people, and he will die to me.'" I will concentrate the army and wait for it, and when it fights together, the Qing and others will attack it from the side, and they will all be restrained. He chose 5,000 people who were good at shooting, connected their horses with iron chains, and went forward for Fang Wu. The horse that Min rode was called Zhulong, and he traveled thousands of miles a day. Min wielded a double-edged spear on his left and a hooked halberd on his right to hit the Yan soldiers and behead more than 300 people. When they saw the big building, they knew that it was the Chinese army and rushed straight to it; the two armies of Yan attacked from the side and broke it. Surrounded by Min several times, Min broke the siege and walked east for more than 20 miles, Zhu Long died suddenly, and was held by Yan soldiers.
Ran Min was escorted to Yan Kingdom, and Yan Wang Jun reprimanded: "Slaves are talented, dare to be emperors?"
Ran Min is a good man, he said: "Eryi Di birds and beasts are still called emperors, I am a Chinese hero, why can't I be called an emperor?"
Yan Wang Jun was angry, "three hundred whips", and then beheaded in Dragon City.
The cavalry silently maintained the coordination of the war horses, because there was no need to consider the damage of the bow and crossbow, the formation became closer and closer, and there was only a short gap between the horizontal rows, and there were only less than twenty positions between the first and second line cavalry.
The simple riding maneuvers that used to charge in a sparse and random formation were extremely difficult to charge in a tight riding formation, and the immediate achievements were all the result of countless close cooperation in the usual training. The centurion and ten-captain led the speed of the whole cavalry just right, and the cavalry in front and behind closely cooperated, all of which were the result of months of training. For the first time since the training of the Lanzhou cavalry, even they didn't know how much stronger they were than the previous Tuhun army.
Fang Dang Yu Gui drove his beloved horse and rushed quickly and swiftly in the group of iron harriers. He carried a spear in his hand and carefully crouched behind the neck of the war horse, which had been ridden for three years, and was physically and mentally connected with Fang Dang Yugui.
A few months later, there was a great drought in Yan Kingdom, and there were locusts, and King Yan thought it was Ran Min's ghost to worship, and he called Ran Min the king of martial arts!