Volume 2 Foot in Meilan Chapter 24 A Discussion of the Cavalry
Just when everyone was deeply moved by this beautiful dance and couldn't extricate themselves, the emperor Cheng Mingci, who was sitting on the main seat, had quietly left his seat.
And Cheng Xiuyi also left the hall after the dance, and at this time, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces, including Fang Yunming, reacted.
The Manchu Dynasty civil and military looked at it, a good banquet, and the two protagonists left quietly, although the prince and the queen were still there, but they were not useful.
At this time, the queen stood up and faced the Manchu Dynasty and said: "Friends from afar, Your Majesty suddenly felt unwell just now, let me tell you, today's banquet will end here, and tomorrow morning will be normal.
So the queen and the crown prince and other royal families also got up from their seats one after another and left the main hall, so the civil and military ministers also got up from their seats to send them off.
Fang Yunming looked at the door, and thought in his heart, this is the end, this is too fast, he hasn't eaten enough, but the masters of the people have withdrawn, they can't just stay here.
So Fang Yunming and the others also got up and followed out of the main hall, at this time, Gao Chong, who was originally walking in front of them, came back to his senses and said to Yunming and Moon: "Two, it is still early today, and the ladies of the old man's family have already followed the families of many ministers in the city to Nanjing, and I am the only one left in the family I still have a few dogs, I wonder if the two of you are willing to go to the old man's mansion to talk about it? Although the wine in the old man's mansion is not as good as the wine in this palace, it is very strong and sweet, which is very suitable for our military boys.
As soon as Fang Yunming and Moon heard that they took the initiative to invite, the other party was the supreme commander of the country's army, so they couldn't help but give face to others, so he turned around and told Jin Zaizhong to let them go back to the state guesthouse first, and the two of them boarded Gao Chong and Gao Shijie's carriage together.
The noble carriage is not luxuriously decorated, but the space is not small, and the carriage is four healthy horses, followed by a team of more than thirty horsemen around the carriage, these cavalry are noble personal guards, and their mounts are all unicorn dragon horse beasts, this powerful beast.
Moreover, the knights on the horse looked like warriors with a certain level of cultivation, and their eyes were full of light, and the combat effectiveness of these thirty or so horsemen was estimated to be able to deal with three thousand heavy cavalry in the case of a head-to-head duel.
So Fang Yunming said to Gao Chong: Your Excellency, the combat effectiveness of these guards of yours is very strong.
Gao Chong said with a smug smile when he heard this: "The father of these children was born and died with me, and now they are by my side, they are all carefully trained by me, and everyone's personal strength can reach the ability of the Sky Warrior.
Fang Yunming nodded, and Moon, who was sitting next to him, asked curiously: Your Excellency General, I found a problem, there are not many horses in your country, but the number of cavalry is very rare.
Why is it that the cavalry of your country are all such fierce beasts that can shoot thunder and lightning and fire from their mouths, while the chariots are drawn by these very tall horses?
Gao Shijie, who was sitting next to Gao Chong, laughed softly: This gentleman is really good at laughing, how can these ordinary horses be trained to be riding beasts, although the horses' running ability is okay, but their speed is too slow.
If it weren't for the fighting, the Qilin Dragon Horse Beast would be able to run non-stop for a day, and it would be able to run more than 800 miles to more than 1,000 miles on this day, and even if these horses were trained, they would be able to run 400 miles a day.
And the courage of these horses is too small, even the lions, tigers, the cry of such ordinary beasts may make them lose the ability to run, plus the impact ability of these horses is very poor, encountering the enemy's thick infantry phalanx or some obstacles, these ordinary horses have no ability to break through at all, so how can horses be trained to become riding beasts?
These guys are also capable of pulling carts, and if they are trained to be riding beasts, then how can the knights be able to control them with confidence?
Moon turned his head and said to Fang Yunming in English: It seems that the cavalry combat effectiveness of this country is still very good, but they have not really understood the role of light cavalry, and blindly develop high-end cavalry forces.
Fang Yunming nodded after hearing this, and then he said to Gao Chong them: "But I see that the speed of your opponent's wolf cavalry is not fast, although some speeds can be compared to those riding beasts of yours, but some of them are not much faster than the speed of these war horses.
If you use these excellent cavalry of yours in conjunction with ordinary war horse cavalry, and equip these cavalry with long-range attack weapons as auxiliary troops of the cavalry knights, then the combat effectiveness of your cavalry will definitely be improved, and at that time you will not have to fear the enemy's wolf cavalry.
Moreover, the cost of cavalry equipped with this kind of ordinary war horse must be very low, so that a large number of cavalry can be equipped, and you can have an absolute advantage in numbers.
As for the shortcomings that the major general just mentioned, it is entirely possible to overcome them through systematic training.
Fang Yunming and Moon's words made Gao Chong's father and son bow their heads and ponder, to be honest, there were some people of insight in Xia Yuan's history, and they saw the role that horses and other animals could play in the battlefield.
So in the history of Xia Yuan's army, there were indeed cavalry equipped with war horses, but because no one could really recognize the role of horses in the battlefield, they were used as ordinary beast cavalry.
As a result, these cavalry were like epiphany, and after only two years of appearance, they were defeated by the opponent's wolf cavalry in a battle with the beast demon, but fortunately, thanks to the help of the beast cavalry, the entire Xia Yuan side did not collapse.
So since then, no one has mentioned training horses as war horses and applying them to the battlefield, but many people of insight in Xia Yuan have been looking for a cavalry army that can compete with the wolf cavalry of the beast demon.
And today, Fang Yunming's words made Gao Chong's father and son fall into contemplation, Gao Shijie is a young man after all, and his mind is more flexible than his father, so he asked Moon: This gentleman, as a cavalry, the most important thing is two points, speed and impact, and the cavalry equipped with ordinary horses you said is definitely not as good as the cavalry equipped with strange beasts in terms of impact, so you can only find a way in terms of speed.
It's even slightly faster than those golden wolf cavalry, so how to solve the problem of speed?
Moon smiled and said: Major General, in fact, you don't have a complete understanding of cavalry, the main role of cavalry is actually used as the main tool for attacking the enemy's logistics, and the impact and speed you mentioned can actually be completely solved.
I saw that these horses were very tall, which means that they are very powerful, so if you put thick metal armor on their bodies, then solve the problem of their impact power.
And the speed you said is not much faster than the opponent's riding beast, in fact, this problem is easy to solve, I see that these alien beast cavalry of yours are equipped with a very advanced repeater, their fire continuity is very good, and the power is also very powerful.
If this weapon is equipped with cavalry equipped with war horses, then once the enemy pursues it, then it can attack the opponent with this repeater, and the speed of the opponent's cavalry will naturally decrease.
Moreover, the main object of attack of these cavalry equipped with war horses is not the opponent's cavalry troops, but the opponent's infantry, you must know that the speed of the infantry is not comparable to this kind of cavalry equipped with war horses in any way.
But Gao Shijie objected, he said: But the problem is that even if this kind of cavalry is equipped with metal armor, it is difficult to compete with the opponent's powerful infantry troops, and this will slow down the cavalry.
Fang Yunming said with a smile: If the infantry does not have the cooperation of the cavalry, there is only one fate for the light cavalry, and that is to be slaughtered, and the speed problem you said does not exist, am I right?
Gao Shijie shook his head when he heard this: How is this possible, although the cavalry charge is indeed not small, but when it encounters a powerful infantry race like the bear demon heavy infantry, there is not much advantage, if there is no cooperation of the warlock, the victory or defeat may not even be five or five.
Moon said with a smile: If the war horse cavalry is equipped with the repeating crossbows used by those beast knights, when the enemy attacks, they use the speed of the war horse to attack the opponent's phalanx with the repeater in their hands from a distance.
Once the opponent pursues, then the formation of their infantry phalanx will be chaotic, so at this time the cavalry can gather together and use the powerful impact force to divide the enemy into several small phalanxes, so that they can break or even destroy these small phalanxes one by one, and finally achieve the goal of destroying the opponent's living forces.
If the opponent does not pursue, then the cavalry can use the repeater in their hands to slowly eliminate the living forces on the periphery of the phalanx from a distance, so that the cavalry will always be invincible.
Fang Yunming and Moon were stunned by the words of Gao Chong's father and son, they had never thought that the cavalry could be used like this.
In the history of Xia Yuan, the scale of cavalry was very large, and the use of cavalry was also very extensive, but because Xia Yuan's cavalry used riding beasts, not ordinary war horses like the earth.
The physique of the riding beast is strong, the speed is better than the endurance of ordinary war horses, and the speed is not much stronger than that of war horses, and then there is a large number of use of air cavalry, so such harassing tactics are basically done by air cavalry.
However, if both sides have a certain number of air cavalry, only by destroying the opponent's air cavalry will your own air cavalry cooperate with the infantry on the ground to attack the enemy infantry.
In addition, Xia Yuan's current cavalry tactics are still similar to the kind of aristocratic battles in ancient China, cavalry against cavalry, infantry against infantry, only when the opponent's same type of troops are eliminated, these surplus troops on their own side will cooperate with their brother troops to destroy the enemy's troops.
Therefore, in people's habitual thinking, the use of light cavalry to destroy the enemy's infantry, or even the enemy's heavy cavalry, has never been thought of.
And because although there were cavalry equipped with horses in the history of Xia Yuan, because the tactical use was not appropriate, people did not summarize the tactical use of light cavalry at all.
Now Fang Yunming and Moon told Gao Chong's father and son about the ancient light cavalry tactics on the earth, which made Gao Chong's father and son suddenly open.
At this time, Gao Shijie said to Gao Chong, Father, it seems that we should really start to form this kind of light cavalry unit equipped with horses as these two gentlemen said.
At this time, Gao Chong said: But two, you must know that the wind wolf clan among our opponent's wolf cavalry sits down on the green wolf, but the speed is much faster than the speed of these horses pulling the cart.
If the kind of light cavalry you are talking about, if you are going to fight against these wind wolf cavalry, then the tactics you are talking about may not be good.
Fang Yunming said with a smile: No single class of troops is invincible, there is no class that can be invincible on the battlefield, light cavalry must cooperate with heavy cavalry, heavy infantry and light infantry to be able to fully exert the power of these arms.
Therefore, I suggest that the immediate task of your government is to assemble a light cavalry force as soon as possible, and as far as I can see, your country has a very large number of horses, and with so many horses, it should be very easy to assemble a strong light cavalry force.
Gao Chong nodded when he heard this, and said: "The suggestion of the two gentlemen is very good, tomorrow morning I will make this suggestion to His Majesty and the eldest princess according to the suggestions of the two gentlemen, but when the time comes, I hope that the two gentlemen and your subordinates can serve as the commander and instructor of this light cavalry unit, I don't know what the two of you think?"