First, there's the bump.

In order to maintain balance, not only the legs need to clamp the belly of the horse, but the body must also be close to the body of the horse, so almost all the ups and downs during the galloping of the war horse are transmitted to the cavalry, and bumps are inevitable. And in such a violent bump, if you want to draw a bow and shoot an arrow, the difficulty can be imagined.

If archery is carried out on flat ground, the difficulty of fixing the target is one, and the difficulty of moving the target is three, then on the war horse, especially on the galloping war horse, the stationary object has also become moving, if the object is also moving, in addition to the fluctuation of the war horse in the three-dimensional space, the difficulty of its shooting is more than ten.

The cavalry had to adjust their archery stance at all times, keeping their prey above their trajectory, and finding the fleeting balance in the bumps before shooting their bows and arrows.

Under such harsh conditions, even a sharpshooter on the flat ground, when it comes to the war horse, its strength may not be able to exert one-tenth of it. Of course, such a problem is not a big problem if it is a large-scale cavalry queue, after all, as long as the number is sufficient, it can make up for the lack of accuracy with the situation of area coverage.

But on the battlefield today, there are obviously no such conditions, because the repeated division of troops, the strength of each road is only 150 people, and it is impossible to carry out covering shooting, which tests the cavalry shooting skills of each cavalry.

If there is a stirrup blessing, the cavalry's feet can be put into the stirrup, and there is no need to tightly tie the war horse, and if you need to shoot arrows, you can even raise your butt slightly, which is a small separation between yourself and the war horse.

Although the bumps of the war horse will still be transmitted to the body through the stirrups, because of the double weakening of the saddle and stirrups, the impact on people is much smaller. Coupled with the control of the cavalry's feet, it is easy to fix one's upper body at a certain point, and the arrows fired will follow.

If the difficulty of shooting an arrow on a horse without stirrups is 10, then the difficulty of archery is greatly reduced to 5 when the stirrups are installed.

Of course, this problem is not unsolvable, diligence can make up for the clumsiness, and through continuous training, you can also find some feelings, so as to narrow the distance between the stirrup and the stirrup, but the next problem can really only be sighed.

That's the question of strength!

It is said that "strength rises from the ground", and the cavalry on the war horse obviously has no place to borrow strength, if you want to close combat, although you have a high degree of advantage, but each blow can only be performed by your own arm strength, which is not only extremely physically demanding, but also much smaller than standing on the ground to mobilize the strength of the whole body.

This also leads to the fact that although today's cavalry has an advantage over the infantry, it is not crushing, and the cavalry's combat methods are mostly bows and arrows, and close hand-to-hand combat is either a last resort, or it has enough confidence in its own combat power.

As for the real battlefield overlord - heavy cavalry, although Zhao Guo has a prototype, its attack method is still based on the long knife in his hand and the bow and arrow at his waist, and the armor is just a layer of protection, which is not the same as the real rampage heavy cavalry.

The reason is also very simple, the rampage of the heavy cavalry relies on the huge weight and the huge impulse brought by the fast speed, but if there is no stirrup to vent the force, I am afraid that the soldiers standing on the ground will not be washed down, and the cavalry on the war horse will fly out upside down first.

With stirrups, it's different, with their feet in it, and the stirrups tied to the saddle of the war horse, the cavalry can also borrow from the stirrups, although not as free as the ground, but at least the strength can be greatly improved, and at the same time make it possible to produce heavy cavalry.

In a word, with stirrups, the targets that could not be shot and could not be shot accurately can be shot and shot accurately, and the main means of attack in the past has retreated to the second means, and the previous need to attack carefully can now be opened and closed......

Therefore, the stirrup was a real qualitative change for the cavalry. This point has been fiercely tested in history with countless blood, and there is no doubt about it. And Zhao Kuo's confidence comes from this!

Seeing that, on the small battlefield of Yanhe, the two strongest cavalry teams in the world have already formed a formation and are roaring towards each other!

On the Qin army's side, what was put forward was the most suitable front arrow formation for attack, the purpose

Obviously, it is necessary to use the sharpest way and the shortest time to chisel through the front line of the Zhao army and directly capture the location of Zhao Kuo of the Chinese army.

On the other hand, on the side of the Zhao army, it turned out to be a wild goose marching array, and it was like a lack of moon array, taking the momentum of its left and right, and the goal was also very clear, that is, to surround the Qin army and annihilate the Qin army.

If someone is watching from the sidelines, I am afraid that for a while, I don't know which one is ambushed and which one is ambushed. The ambushed Qin army wanted to break out of the formation, but the ambushed Zhao army wanted to encircle and annihilate the opponent, which was really wonderful.

Sima mistakenly saw the formation of the Zhao army, but it was not surprising, although the wild goose marching array had the meaning of encirclement, it was also a half-offensive and half-defensive formation, which was common to use in the defense of the cavalry, and it was even the best choice. After all, if you use a circular formation, although you pay attention to defense, you lose the mobility of the cavalry, and if you use a more defensive formation such as a fish scale formation, it is difficult to form a formation for a while, and you will not give him enough time to form a formation.

As for Zhao Kuo, it was obvious that he was not using the Goose Parade Formation to defend himself, but to annihilate them all. As for the formation of the Qin army, although it did not surprise Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo didn't care about it - in the face of absolute strength, the role of the formation was already minimal.

In any case, the formation of the two armies has already taken shape, and even if the main general of either side wants to change his formation again, it will not be able to adjust it for a while.

Soon, a spear and a sac were about to collide together, and both sides seemed to be full of confidence in themselves.

Five hundred steps!

The two armies tacitly began to slowly accelerate;

Three hundred steps!

The two armies were already almost able to see each other's faces, and the mutation began at this time.

I saw that in the ranks of the Zhao army, almost all of them were holding bows and arrows, and Sen Leng's arrows had already been mounted, and with the sound of "whoosh", hundreds of sharp arrows shot out.

The Qin army here did not panic at all, this was not on the flat ground, on a fast war horse, at a distance of more than three hundred steps, shooting arrows with a bow was just a waste of arrows, and there was no accuracy at all.

You must know that even they, the sharps in the Qin army, the best riders among them, have a slightly sure archery distance within two hundred and fifty steps! And the average sharps have to be within 200 paces to have a quasi-head, and as for ordinary cavalry, this number is even only a short hundred and twenty paces.

Zhao Guo fired arrows at this distance, which was in ......