Chapter 14: The Age of the Cavalry

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"Canopy!" Lian Pozheng was surprised, and suddenly his face changed again, and he finally couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise: "What? ”

Not only Lian Po was like this, but the eyes of King Zhao and Pang Nuan on the side were straight, and they saw that after the tip of Xiang Shaolong's spear penetrated the dummy, the horse continued to move forward, with a huge momentum, the spear in Xiang Shaolong's hand bent, and then the entire dummy was pulled out directly from the ground, and then the whole spear shook, and the dummy flew high.

If this scene is placed on the battlefield, wouldn't it be a horseback that will pick the whole person away.

The three of them were dumbfounded, but Xiang Shaolong's movements did not stop, the horses did not stop, and the speed that had just slowed down climbed up again, "Cut!" "Canopy!"

The spear pierced, the horsepower provoked, and another dummy was pulled out of the ground, flew high, and then fell to the ground in an arc.

Immediately after Xiang Shaolong continued to move forward, this time he did not stab with a spear, only to see that he raised the spear in his hand high, the wheel was round, and the horse was passing by a dummy, and his spear was pulled down violently.

In an instant, the tip of the spear slashed over the dummy, and this time the dummy did not fly, but the entire upper part was cut off by the side of the spear tip.

"Good!" Everyone woke up and shouted hello together, and then saw Xiang Shaolong riding a horse and not stopping to charge, the spear in his hand or picking, or stabbing, or pumping, or cutting with the tip of the spear, in a short period of time, Xiang Shaolong destroyed most of the dummy on the school field.

More than thirty dummies were destroyed by him so easily, and he was still calm and relaxed on the horse, how could he have fallen off his horse. And if these dummies are real people. This time he killed more than thirty people.

"Meet the King." At this time, Wang Li took the horse to the king of Zhao. He arched his hand slightly: "Shaolong has no form, he doesn't know the number of etiquette, Wang Li is here to make amends for him." ”

"Good, good!" Zhao Wang said hello twice, his face was extremely excited, about how the cavalry is, he also knows the way, and the children of the Zhao family don't know about the Hufu riding and shooting. Just knowing this, you can understand what the cavalry is like.

At this time, he saw that Xiang Shaolong was so brave on a horse, he had long forgotten what he had seen, how could he care about making amends or not, and after saying two good words, he asked Wang Li: "This is Xiang Shaolong?" He is really a strong man. ”

"Just as the first time Shifang saw the widow, the widow said that talented people always have some privileges, how can they blame, and this should be the surprise of Shifang and the widow, it is really a good strong man, good riding. What a cavalryman. ”

"My Great Zhao's cavalry, if they can have the ability of this strong man. 100,000 cavalry is enough to be the entire military strength of my Great Zhao in the past, hey, good! ”

As Zhao Wang was talking, he suddenly looked at the field again, but saw that at this time, Xiang Shaolong had already thrown the spear that had been on the previous pole to the ground, and then pulled out a strange long sword from the horse.

This long sword is so strange, the entire sword body is bent, Zhao Wang is called strange, he saw that Xiang Shaolong's high-speed riding horse has approached a wooden stake, only to see Xiang Shaolong in advance of the long sword curved and convex curved side of the stake on the stake, and then the horse ran over, his hand slightly forced, as if effortlessly cut off the top part of the stake.

"Monarch, what Xiang Shaolong is holding in his hand is a saber, which is specially designed for horse warfare, and the blade is bent out of an arc, which is the most advantageous to use horsepower to slash vigorously on the horse."

Seeing that King Zhao and Lian Po were both puzzled, Wang Li introduced.

I saw Xiang Shaolong holding a saber and rushing into the pile of wooden stakes, the wooden stakes were relatively dense, and many of the wooden stakes happened to be just a little wider than the horse's body, after rushing in, Xiang Shaolong's horse speed slowed down slightly, as if he had rushed into the formation, and he was no longer able to charge as fiercely as before.

At this time, he saw that he was flexibly controlling the war horse, and his body swayed from side to side with the advance of the horse's body, and the saber slashed and slashed to the left, and from time to time he dragged it with the horsepower as before, and was extremely flexible, and in a moment, twenty wooden stakes were cut off the last section.

This kind of horseback slashing and slashing, its efficiency is still above the spear sprint, and Xiang Shaolong chops and drags all the horsepower, it looks effortless, and Lian Po is dazzled by just looking at it.

At this time, in Lian Po's eyes, he was no longer Xiang Shaolong alone, and he clearly saw countless Xiang Shaolong slashing left and right in the infantry that had been disrupted by the cavalry, and the entire battlefield seemed to be one-sided.

And in a moment, the opponent's morale could not bear the loss and was defeated, and then how the infantry outran the cavalry, the end was that they were easily killed one by one in the pursuit of the cavalry.

Whether it was the cavalry charging with spears, or slashing and killing at this time, Lian Po had already seen countless tactical tactics using this kind of cavalry extended, and after a long time, he exhaled slightly, saying in his heart that this kind of cavalry was really a nightmare for infantry.

Although the infantry may not be unable to cope with it, in his opinion, it must be an incomparably well-trained army with high morale to confront it with a military formation, otherwise it will not be able to deal with other troops with lower morale, even if there is a military formation.

However, the deployment of the infantry formation cannot be completed in an instant, and it is impossible to keep it all the time after the deployment, the cavalry can completely surprise before it forms a formation, or at another time to raid, with the high-speed raid of the cavalry, how can the infantry calmly open the military formation?

At this moment, Xiang Shaolong's movements in the middle of the field changed again, he had already chopped off more than fifty wooden stakes one after another, rushed out of the stake area, and then he only put away the long knife, and then held a longbow behind him.

"Smack!" During the high-speed ride, he rode on the horse easily, effortlessly freed his two hands, and then opened the bow freely, and the arrow flew like a meteor, landing directly on the target, but it was right in the heart.

But he saw an arrow shoot, and then he didn't look at it, and it was another arrow, so that it was a continuous shot of arrow after arrow, and almost one breath was an arrow, and the arrow was so fast and fierce that some of the targets that were close to him were directly penetrated by the arrow.

"This is cavalry shooting, General Lian Po, but when the army is arrayed, it encounters thousands of such cavalry around the cavalry, what kind of scene is that?"

At this time, Zhao Guo's cavalry shooting, the crossbow had to retreat far away with an arrow, and then pressed the crossbow on the string and came again, but Xiang Shaolong easily rode a fast horse, only freed up his two hands, and it was so easy to ride and shoot, and in an instant, the dozens of arrows carried by the horses were all shot.

Lian Po looked at the arrows that fell on the target, and said that if there were thousands of cavalry, even if these cavalry archery skills were not very accurate, they only needed to shoot all the arrows directly into the military formation, or shoot them into the army, anyway, the military formation was densely packed with people, and thousands of cavalry threw twenty arrows each, that is, tens of thousands of arrows, and I don't know how much damage they would cause to the military array.

And once any military formation encounters such a killing, how much can it be maintained? It is impossible to say that it was directly routed, and as soon as the army was routed, it was pursued by cavalry......

As a result, Lian Po didn't have to think about it, and after thinking for a long time, Lian Po sighed: "National Teacher, in the future wars, except for siege battles, I'm afraid most of them will have to revolve around this cavalry." ”

"Yes, when such a cavalry appears, he must be the king of all arms!" Wang Li affirmed, and then he spread his five fingers, circled in all directions, and continued.

"The best area for cavalry combat is the plains, the north of Kyushu, most of the five countries of Zhao, Wei, Han, Qi, and Yan, the grasslands outside Kyushu, and the Guanzhong area of the thousands of miles of fertile fields after the Hangu Pass of the Qin State are all good places for cavalry to gallop across the country."

"When my Great Zhao can train 100,000 iron cavalry, as long as it is used properly, no country in the entire northern part of Kyushu will be able to defeat us in a field battle."

"An era of cavalry has come."

"Yes, it belongs to the era of cavalry." Hearing Wang Li talk about the era of cavalry, Lian Po unexpectedly agreed, and King Zhao on the side also retracted his gaze at this time.

He didn't see Wang Li and Lian quite a long way, but he only watched Xiang Shaolong sprint, slash, and shoot alone, so easily almost half of the dummies and arrow targets in the entire school field, how could he not understand the combat effectiveness of the new cavalry?

Listening to Wang Li and Lian Po's discussion, Pang Nuan couldn't help nodding, but he was also proficient in the art of war.

"National teacher, Pang Nuan seems to be a little different when he listens to the hooves of the war horse that Xiang Shaolong is riding, what's going on?"

"Pang Xiang, ordinary war horses will wear out the horse's hooves when they run, so in the past, when the cavalry rode horses, in addition to saving horsepower, it was more necessary to save the horse's hooves, otherwise if you run too hard, it will easily break the horse."

"This greatly restricts the cavalry's mobile combat ability, and Xiang Shaolong's horses have a horseshoe on their four hooves, which is equivalent to wearing a pair of iron shoes for the horse."

"With these iron shoes, the horses do not need to save their hooves, and the cavalry's mobility can be completely liberated."

"I see, people can wear shoes, but no one has ever thought of putting shoes on horses, but if every horse is given iron shoes, then the amount of iron spent is a big number, in addition, the saber consumes more iron, if you want to have 100,000 iron horses, this iron material alone will be in great trouble, and you may not be able to have it for another ten years."

Pang Nuan suddenly realized, and then frowned.

Pang Nuan's worries are not superfluous, the output of copper and iron in this era is not high, a long sword is an ordinary samurai heirloom, and most of the weapons used for ordinary soldiers are spears, and a small amount of copper and iron is used on the tip.

Like the cavalry in front of him, the iron material consumed by the horseshoe alone can be compared to the spear, plus the iron material consumed by the spear, and then there is a horse-chopping knife at the end, which will cost 100,000 iron horses, and the demand for iron is simply astronomical in his eyes, far from being difficult to complete in a year or two, or even ten years.

"There is no need to worry about this, I reached a cooperation with Guo Zong yesterday, I provided him with the method of iron-making and steel-making, and in the future, the output of iron and even steel, that is, the output of stainless steel may exceed ten times or even dozens of times that of the past."

"When the time comes, my Da Zhao's steel can not only supply weapons and armor, but also use iron for farm tools in the future, 100,000 iron horses, what is everything?"

"What?" Wang Li's words, whether it was King Zhao, Lian Po, and Pang Nuan, they were all shocked and shocked. (To be continued.) )