Chapter VII

When Zhao Sanxi and the officers were discussing in front of the enemy, the generals dismounted one after another, walked through the queue, and checked the combat preparations of their respective subordinates: dragging the horse's belly belt, strangling the cowhide rope buckle of the armor, shouting and scolding and ordering everyone to tighten the saber (secondary weapon), water hyacinth and other obstructive bits and pieces, and deliberately loudly told the veterans that after entering the city, they would sneak out in the middle of the night to find a lewd joke about how to find a powder, so as to relieve the nervousness of the recruits who rushed to the enemy......

Before Zhao Sanxi issued the order for the assault of the whole army, the whole army had already completed the whole team and was ready to go.

"Drive", "Ho-ho", "Yo-ha"......

Amid the shouts and shouts of the horses and the snorts of the horses, the serpent-like still horse team began to wriggle.

During the run, the columns gradually lengthened and dispersed, and then took the fruit as the basic unit, gathering each other.

In less than half a mile, the whole team had faintly taken on the shape of several triangles......

Wedge formation.

The classic formation of the cavalry charging formation.

The knights, armed with their pistols*, began at a trot, and after a mile, they were mentioned at a third full speed: to get the most out of the cavalry's impact, it was necessary to first let the horses run out of character, and then strike a thunderous blow!

Seeing the enemy's brigade rushing towards him, Takato Dou didn't say a word, and led the scattered horsemen who came out to turn their horses and gallop back to their own military formation.

According to the prior order of the senior lieutenant, the knights divided into small groups, first swept through their own phalanx, and then passed through the passage between the small formations, and gradually disappeared into the dust raised by the horses' hooves, and could not be seen.

Dust, obscuring the view of the impactor.

Half a mile from the enemy's position, the horses had reached half full speed.

In the smoke and dust on the opposite side, a flying locust suddenly appeared without warning, rushing towards the face.

The veterans who rushed to the front row were familiar with this kind of scene: the Divine Arm Bow.

Nothing, the opponent is a projectile.

This is jamming shooting.

You don't have to think about the head, it's all up to luck whether you get shot or not. Crossbow arrows are indestructible within a hundred paces, but at such a distance, even if they are shot, it is nothing: as long as the front of the horse is protected, the head is bowed, and the iron armor is protected, it is difficult for the arrow to completely penetrate the cotton lining—at most, the skin is torn and red.

"Drive"!

The horses are getting faster and faster.

Brothers, rush!

Before the crossbowmen wind up again, their bodies will be pierced by our rifles!

The distance of a hundred or so steps is only a few breaths.

The horses were already three-quarters of the way to full speed, and more arrows were coming at the opposite side.

The archers also began to shoot.

What's more—the bow and arrow are just bullying the unarmoured!

Looking around, there were only six or seven horses off their horses.

"Drive"!

Brothers, rush!

The torrent of iron armor is unstoppable!

Fifty paces away from the enemy's formation.

The horses have reached full speed.

Everyone's field of vision gradually narrowed: the enemy formation in front of them was no longer a black patch spread all over the mountains, but slowly separated into thieves with clearer and clearer faces!

I saw clearly in the bumps on the horse's back, there was no cover on the opposite side, and the rejection horse that hit the front was not set up well......

Wait a minute!

The smoke and dust kicked up by the enemy cavalry gradually dissipated, what happened - why did the enemy not continue in horizontal formations, but in small hollow formations?

Oops!

If it's a horizontal formation, there's always something that the gunmen can't protect...... Even if the front row is full of spears, the defense line can only be a thin layer or two - if you avoid a few unavoidable lives, you can smash a gap alive!

Then, the brothers in the back burst through the gap: the formation is broken! Sweep the flanks and outflank it - and the battle will be won!

But...... Why did the enemy put up a small formation?

It's easy for the armor riders to pass through the gap and get out of the formation—aren't you in a hurry to stop the reinforcements?

Before they had time to think about it, in the face of the bright tip of the spear, the horses had already begun to look for space on their own, and some were uncontrollable, and the queue at full speed began to twist and deform......

"Drive"!

The various wedge-shaped formations originally formed a huge spear-shaped impact lineup, and the squads in the rear, whose vision was blocked by the dust kicked up by the armored horses and horse hooves in front, were still riding their horses forward......

A large amount of white foam gushed out of the mouth and nose of the war horse, the wind in the ears was whistling, and the horsepower had reached its peak: the man and the horse were one, the weight of five or six hundred catties plus the speed of the wind and lightning, in this era, no body could resist this thunderous blow!

Suddenly, the drums are beating!

With the sound of the drums, a cold light suddenly burst out in front of him: each small array was like a porcupine, and the staggered guns in the front and back were sharp thorns that suddenly exploded all over the body!

The horses of the knights in the front row either suddenly slowed down, or suddenly rushed out of the diagonal spurs, their horses were already at full speed, and it was impossible to brake or avoid such a short distance, so they could only watch as they crashed headlong and fell down!

Although the cavalry formation at this time has not yet invented the modern wall charge, the distance between each other in the wedge formation is not large, and thousands of horses are staggered before and after, and it is impossible to complete the overall steering detour in such a short distance!

Fortunately, there is not a small gap between the enemy formations - let's rush over first.

The formation was completely disorganized......

From a distance just now, the enemy's defense line didn't seem to be very thick, but when I got closer, I found that these small formations were arranged in a staggered manner, and the horses that were sprinting at full speed could not slow down suddenly for a while, and could only intersperse themselves between the gaps of each formation at a very high speed. From time to time, horses inevitably collided, and the knight was thrown in the air, and in an instant after landing, his body was trampled by the hooves of countless comrades......

Because of the inevitable collision and squeezing of each other, a few riders really had no way out, and finally crashed into the gunfire.

The horse's neck and belly were suddenly pierced by spears, and the war horse neighed and fell to the ground. Due to the great inertia, the knight was thrown high, waving his hands and feet and throwing far away - man, ironclad will not survive.

The two rows of gunmen in the front and back who were hit flew directly out of the air a few feet away, their bones were broken, and they didn't even have time to scream!

Inside the small array.

The galloping horses rushed left and right in the gaps between the small formations, and the knights had to control the horses on the one hand, but also beware of the spears that blocked the occasional thrust on both sides. Riding on horseback, the man is a cut above the man, and the vision is certainly better - but it is also conducive to the crossbowmen in the formation to aim calmly. Archers who could not find a suitable position to shoot simply drew their bows into the sky and threw them with half a bow: with such a dense contingent of cavalry, arrows falling from the sky had a good chance of hitting.

The knights could not completely shield themselves from the sharp blades coming from all directions, and from time to time the horses fell to the ground with a scream, and then tripped over more riders who followed them, and the knights who had just struggled to their feet were pierced by sharp spears......

The man shouted and the horse neighed.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the clashing of gold and iron, the sound of flying feathers breaking through the air, the sound of sharp blades entering the flesh, and the sound of miserable screams...... Intertwined.

Blood splattered.

It was as if a spring of blood suddenly broke through the ground, and in an instant, clusters of bright red blood flowers bloomed on the ground.

With the blood flowers that appear everywhere, life is withering......

……

Eventually, a knight came out of the gap, and his horse's speed slowed down to a small step.

What caught my eye was a few low horses that were sparsely falling and horizontal a few feet away—behind the passage, there were two hundred iron horsemen waiting for Gao Tengdou!

In normal times, such a height can be easily jumped over. But after running for dozens of miles for most of the day, and charging at full speed just now, Ma Khan had already soaked the cotton lining under the knight's leg armor - for the war horse that had just been strangled, such a simple line of defense was an insurmountable moat!

The frightened knights suddenly realized in horror that they could no longer harness the horses under their crotches - they were sniffing - and there were clumps of fresh grass scattered on the ground!

The grass is scattered in a line, and in front of it is—

Haystack!

The grass is freshly cut. The grass juice oozing from the fracture exudes a rich fragrance. The armored riders who were wheezing violently could feel that the smell was so strong, so fresh, so deadly!

An even more deadly temptation is clear water.

The clear water in the large and small wooden tubs reflected the sunlight, and the ripples of the water were so tempting, not to mention the horses, even the sweaty knights could not take their eyes off the sparkling water waves for a while.

The enemy, on the other hand, stood by with a sly smile. Each ambush team had one or two spearmen and three or five sword and shield men......

Finished!

- As long as you are a person, you know that you cannot eat and drink in front of the enemy......

However, this is the truth......

Horse ~ no ~ understand!

* Cavalry charge

Rifle charging is a standard tactical maneuver for cavalry.

The cavalry gun is a special weapon for charging into battle, and it is not the main weapon used by the main general in film and television dramas - unlike novels, unless it is absolutely necessary, the main general in actual combat often does not personally lead the team to do the first wave of pig assault, but has to command behind the formation.

Because horses will produce huge kinetic energy when galloping at high speed, if you hold the barrel of the gun, when the tip of the gun pierces the human body, the rider's wrist bone will most likely be broken on the spot, so it is necessary to use the way of clamping the gun to charge: clamp the gun under the armpit, and hold it with the hand to maintain direction and stability, so that as long as it touches the opponent, the force is enough to kill with one blow. In order to maintain balance, there will be a counterweight at the rear end of the charging rifle.

Some experienced riders will even deliberately sharpen the barrel of the gun about a foot away from the head of the gun, so that when the tip of the gun penetrates the enemy's body, the barrel will break from there, releasing excess kinetic energy to better protect themselves.

The cavalry charge was not all as desperate as Zhao Sanxi. Many times, in the face of the guns in the front row of the enemy formation, the armored cavalry will gradually slow down, stop in the place where the enemy spearmen in front of the formation can not reach, and use the cavalry gun to poke the enemy soldiers in the front row - the weight bearing capacity of people is far inferior to that of horses, unless the special rejection rifle is used, and the length of most spears is not as long as the cavalry's special formation-breaking guns. This kind of formation breaking gun is a disposable weapon, which can be as long as three zhang, and there is no need to pay much attention to it, as long as the length is enough, the gun barrel is not straight, and there is no need to consider whether the gun is strong or not, as for the counterweight, it is simpler, and a stone is tied at the tail. The yard is placed on the cart, and the cavalry rushes around and comes back to get one, and then you can rush back again...... Everyone pokes in one place, and when the enemy no longer has any more lives to fill in or completely collapses and runs, the battle is won.

Or rein in the horse and shoot arrows a few paces away from the enemy line (this trick is very useful to the Mongol compatriots 666). The infantry phalanx could only be beaten passively, constantly filling in people's lives: people could not outrun the horses, as long as the formation dispersed, they would be chased and cut down to the annihilation. The only way to fight back is with a bow and arrow. Li Ling of the Han Dynasty did not fill the hole with human life, surrounded the cart in the outer circle, and shot at the Hun compatriots inside. At this time, the Huns suffered a big loss: the horse bow is not as powerful as the foot bow, the grassland desert does not produce iron, the infantry on the opposite side is armored, and most of them will be hung up if the other party has nothing to do, so they want to slip. As a result, in the middle of the night, a soldier told Li Ling that he had no arrows, and attacked again, while falling to the ground to bully Li Ling, who couldn't do anything, and finally Li Ling had to surrender, and was cut down by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the whole family piggybacked on Sima Qian...... Until I met the old relatives of the god of war.

Qi Jiguang Li Ling formed a car formation, but he didn't use a bow, he used a bird gun! Not only that, Lao Qi personally supervised the work, and stipulated that the bird gun must use 20 catties of Fujian iron, and the barrel must be drilled - the bullet fired is a small iron ball! The Mongolian compatriots were completely dumbfounded at this time, and shouted, "You are too ruthless to play with you......

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