Chapter 154: Polish Hussars
"Ding, congratulations to the host for drawing an elite Polish hussar reinforced cavalry regiment!
The Polish hussars are composed of traditional martial arts skilled members of the Polish and Hungarian knight families, they are inherited from the traditional knight families in medieval Europe, so they have superb horse skills and personal martial arts since childhood, but due to the emergence of firearms on the European battlefield, the cavalry must rely on dense formation charges, in order to give full play to their power, therefore, these Polish hussars with a glorious tradition have carried out strict intensive charge training, and the wall charge tactics are no worse than other cavalry units in Europe!
In addition, these knight-born Polish hussars could be very proficient in using lances and spears that were difficult to master in a short time, and when other European countries trained a large number of quick saber charging cavalry, the Polish hussars used cavalry spears and spears that were more suitable for charging, creating a glory belonging to traditional knights!
The cuirass and dorsal armor of the Polish hussars were made up of several strips of steel joined together to form a lobster, and then fixed on the back with longitudinal belts and a series of rivets, which was low cost and flexible, and a typical set of hussar light armor included a breastplate and a throat guard of this style. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
They used Hungarian-Polish sabers, which were slightly longer, between 80 and 85 centimeters, and usually had several blood grooves on the body (blood grooves are conventionally called, but they actually increased the strength of large swords rather than actually bleeds). and protruding stiffeners, with black leather wrapped around the hilt and long iron rod-like gauntlets. The scabbard was also covered in black leather, iron or copper, and sometimes with several heart-shaped cutouts depending on the hussars' personal preference.
The helmet is made of two iron plates joined together, which is no different from the pot-shaped iron helmet popular in the Middle Ages, except that the flat brim is attached to the removable nose, ear and neck guards, and there is a large heart-shaped hole in the ear guard to prevent hearing from affecting the hearing.
The cavalry spear is replaced very frequently due to the fact that it is damaged in large quantities after every battle, so it is just an ordinary iron cavalry lance!
The Polish hussars are a group of chargetroopers with honor and high morale, inheriting the advantages of traditional cavalry, and also deeply understanding the importance of discipline, they will definitely surprise you on the battlefield! ”
Zhao Dutian frowned and looked at the introduction, he had only heard of the Polish hussars, as for their brilliant achievements or something, Zhao Dutian didn't know very well, and he was not a history college student......
However, it looks awesome in the introduction, so it should not be much worse, and the spear charge is more impactful than the saber charge, which is a well-known fact.
However, when Zhao Dutian himself began to train modern cavalry, he realized how difficult it was to make a cavalryman who had never used a spear proficient in using a spear to fight on a horse!
The cavalry uses spears, which is completely different from what Zhao Dutian once saw in the film and television dramas in his previous life, just charging with a spear!
The actual operation is many times more complicated than Zhao Dutian's impression!
If it is really like in the film and television works, rushing straight with a spear, there will only be one result in the end, while stabbing the enemy, you will dislocate your arm and scrape it at the worst, and the whole person will die together due to the interaction of forces!
If you stab someone, you will die together, how many cavalrymen dare to do this?
Even if Zhao Dutian forcibly ordered, how much morale those cavalry troops could have left, there was no doubt that they would have to say a big hello!
Of course, these problems were perfectly solved in the Polish hussars!
After the extraction was completed, these more than 3,000 Polish hussars, under the special care of Zhao Dutian, efficiently added a foreign Polish hussar regiment to the Imperial General Staff, and the salary was slightly higher than that of Paprov's Foreign Russian Legion, and the salary of the cavalry unit was higher than that of the infantry, which was the practice of the Han Empire!
In the 11 years since the founding of the Han Empire, a lot of elite infantry have been formed, but the cavalry units that can really fight have not been trained much, and most of the cavalry units of the Han Empire are used as light cavalry, reconnaissance, cover, pursuit of remnant enemies, etc., and the frontal charge is not a fight, firstly, because due to the cost of training and maintenance, the scale of the cavalry unit is not large, and secondly, because these cavalry units are full of many Indians, and the morale of the frontal charge makes Zhao Dutian not very optimistic......
The most elite of the Han Empire is undoubtedly the infantry, followed by the artillery units with hundreds of artillery of various calibers, the weakest is the cavalry troops, of course, this situation is also related to Zhao Dutian's attention, in Zhao Dutian's impression, the main force of the army in this era is always infantry, and the firepower advantage of artillery is also a key factor in victory or defeat, but the cavalry unit has become a dispensable existence, to be honest, Zhao Dutian spent a lot of financial resources to form a modern cavalry unit, It's just to expand the battlefield and act as a scout......
The Polish hussars, a formed unit, can be regarded as making up for the gap in the Han Empire's charging cavalry, if they are really as powerful as written in the introduction!
For Zhao Dutian, the past month has definitely been a very happy time, Louise has completely passed the life-threatening period, can communicate and eat normally, the first navy of the Han Empire, completely annihilated the main naval fleet of the Spanish Kingdom on the west coast of North America, and eradicated the last remnant of the Spaniards in the Oregon region by the way!
Subsequently, Wang Qiming came the good news that the Oregon region was successfully incorporated into the empire, and Zhao Dutian's life expectancy was unexpectedly increased by 5 years by the system!
That night, Zhao Dutian, who felt that his body was stronger and more energetic, didn't sleep with Angela all night!
During the day the next day, Angela didn't get out of bed for a day......
The desolation of the Oregon region is not a bad thing for Zhao Dutian, at least his empire also accommodates tens of thousands of people, of course, the population here includes slaves!
Yes, the Han Empire allowed all evil slavery to exist!
It's just that the Han Empire was only an official slave, and slaves were used in railway construction and miners, which were purely manual labor, and the external propaganda naturally could not be called slaves, some were prisoners of war labor reform, and some were ideological re-education labor reform, which sounded much better than slaves!
After all, the Han Empire was not a slave country, and private slaves were never allowed!
The reasons are all ready-made, the Americans cannot enslave the Americans, referred to as the American human rights......
At least, the Han Empire is still on par with civilized countries in terms of system!