Chapter 11 Formation of Cavalry Archers

Originally, at Yang Yifei's level, he was not qualified to participate in Meng Yi's Dianmao, but he was more special, and he was a newcomer, so he didn't know where to go if he didn't participate in Dianmao, so he was mixed with a group of captains and marquis with a hundred generals.

When Meng Yi finished ordering them, they had to go to their own department or qu to order them.

There are only dozens of people, who is there and who is not at a glance, and Meng Yi did not name them one by one, with a solemn expression on his face, but there was a smile in his eyes.

After glancing at the generals, Meng Yi stretched out his hand to Yang Yifei, who was standing beside Nangong Yan, and said, "This Brother Yang, everyone must have known each other and is deeply impressed, so General Ben won't introduce him much." ”

"What this general wants to tell you is that Brother Yang made a few items yesterday that can greatly increase the combat strength of my Great Qin cavalry, and after presenting them to His Majesty, he was given a knighthood and a doctor, and he was promoted to a hundred generals."

"General Shen, in a while, you will take Brother Yang to the Guards to select a hundred soldiers."

Guards Marquis Shentu clasped his fists and said, "Yes, General." ”

Meng Yi nodded, his expression was neat, and he said solemnly: "Yesterday, General Ben entered the palace, and His Majesty instructed him to do so. ”

"They are gathering to the 'Hanqiang Marquis Yi' one after another, and it is likely that they intend to offend our two counties of Longxi and Beidi, and Your Majesty wants us to be ready to go on the expedition at any time."

"The training of the soldiers must not be relaxed, and the soldiers must maintain their combat strength and morale at the peak......"

Listening to Meng Yi's words, the morale of all the soldiers was greatly lifted, and they were going to fight again, which meant that they would gain military merits again.

The soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, from the generals to the ordinary soldiers, all became militants because of the military merit title system.

They are not afraid of war, but look forward to it, and the young soldiers aspire to make a mark on the battlefield, even though they know that many of them will never return.

This is an era full of blood, this is an era of unparalleled fighting spirit, which may also be one of the reasons why the army of the Great Qin Empire is invincible and invincible.

Meng Yi announced the disbandment after inspiring the soldiers, explained Yang Yifei's two sentences, and then went to the Chinese army's tent with Nangong Yan.

Yang Yifei followed Shen Tu to a phalanx in the school field, where was the array of guards.

"General Yang, there are now fifteen hundred generals in the guards, and another five hundred are commanded by me personally, originally there were no hundred generals under my command, but since you are here, I will wronged you to bring a hundred brothers under me first!"

Shen Tu is only twenty-eight years old, two years younger than Yang Yifei, naturally it is not suitable to call Brother Yang, although the level of the hundred generals is lower, but no matter how low it is, it is also a general, not a soldier, there is nothing wrong with calling General Yang, and everyone knows that the hundred generals are only temporary.

After listening to Shen Tu's words, Yang Yifei thought for a while and said, "General Shen, I don't know how well the brothers of the guards are riding and shooting?" ”

Shen Tu said with a smile: "Hehe, the guards of the Mengjia Army are all elite men who can shoot bows when they get on their horses and can hold swords when they get off their horses. ”

Yang Yifei said happily: "That's good, the last general once conceived a method of warfare, which has very strict requirements for riding and archery ability, but if it can be successfully trained, it is also very powerful, enough to be a hundred to thousands, thousands to thousands, and it can also greatly reduce the number of casualties among the soldiers." ”

"The last general will first try to use a hundred people under his command, if it can work, and then promote it throughout the army, if not, a mere hundred people will have little impact on the army."

Shen Tu immediately became interested and said, "In this way, General Ben will wait and see, I believe that General Yang will not let me down." ”

Yang Yifei plans to train an archer cavalry unit, after all, this era is different from the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's thermal weapons have started, he can be from a high position, but in this era, the development of thermal weapons is zero, and the cost performance from scratch is too low, and it is completely unnecessary.

Therefore, it is better to develop some advanced tactics, such as the "Sabbath Archery Method" of the archers, which, in the words of later generations, is kite tactics.

A unit proficient in mounted archery, after encountering the enemy, a wave of arrows will be done, the enemy begins to assault and immediately turn the horse's head and retreat, if the enemy pursues, he will turn around and shoot arrows while retreating, and if he does not pursue, he will turn back to meet and continue to shoot, and shoot until the enemy doubts his life.

The essence of this tactic is as follows: 1. Attack the enemy from a long distance and never get close to the enemy.

2. Constantly attacking the enemy and exhausting the enemy.

3. Do not give the enemy a chance to fight back, so that the enemy will be aggrieved, irritable, and angry.

Fighting with such a unit is the most disgusting, once you are entangled, you can't catch up, you can't fight, you can't shake off.

In the end, you will find that you can't chase, retreat, or stop, and the only result is that your soldiers will have a mental breakdown, which will lead to the collapse of the troops, and once the rout occurs, the war will be almost lost.

But in order to perform this tactic, the most basic requirement is to have a bow and crossbow with a longer range than the opponent, and a war horse with stronger endurance than the opponent.

However, these two things are not lacking in Great Qin, so it is feasible to develop this method of warfare, and the rest is the training of the ability of the archers.

Shen Tu flew to the front of the Guards array with Yang Yi and introduced Yang Yifei to all the Guards soldiers.

The three five hundred lords of the guards all knew Yang Yifei and knew his strength, although he was only a hundred generals, they did not despise him at all, because they all knew that the hundred generals were only temporary, and when they were on the battlefield, his title would soon rise.

After Shen Tu conveyed Meng Yi's words, he continued: "On the orders of General Meng, General Yang will select a hundred horsemen from the light cavalry of the headquarters, General Yang, you go and choose the soldiers!" ”

"Yes." Yang Yifei hugged his fist and saluted Shen Tu, then looked at the five hundred soldiers under Shen Tu on the left, and said loudly: "Ben will have a new tactic, after practice, he can be ten as hundreds, hundreds as thousands, and he is relatively safe." ”

"There are three conditions for the soldiers who will be required, first, they are proficient in riding and archery, and they can also shoot bows and arrows when they are galloping, second, they must be able to open their bows at least fifteen times, and third, their archery skills are accurate, and they must be able to ensure that they can shoot five out of ten."

After saying the three conditions, Yang Yifei pointed to the front position on the side of the array and said, "Those who meet the above three conditions stand up and line up here." ”

These three conditions are not high, but they are not low, riding and archery is the basic ability of the guards and light cavalry, and the requirements of five out of ten shots are not high, and there are many people among them who can guarantee eight out of ten shots.

The only slightly higher condition is fifteen shots, but there are many people who can do it.

In fact, when they were fighting, they couldn't shoot a few arrows at all, because at most three or five arrows, the two sides were already close and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Generally speaking, the limit of a crossbowman's ability to open a bow in a short period of time is on average about twelve or thirteen, and the Mengjia Army Guards Light Cavalry is composed of the most elite soldiers in the army, and fifteen times is not difficult to fire.

After all the soldiers looked at each other for a while, people stood up one after another, Yang Yifei counted the number of people, and when there were enough hundred people, he stopped it.

Yang Yifei selected a hundred soldiers under his command, and Shen Tu ordered the disbandment, and each team ordered its own order.