Yes, those guys are not armed with riding guns, but with sabers. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info These dragoons were equipped with half-body plate armor, ship-shaped helmets, and unarmored horses, but they were also innovative in their equipment. They were not lancers in the traditional sense of the word, or so-called knights with the marks of the old era. Although most of these guys actually come from knightly families and knightly classes.

Speaking of which, in the era of gunpowder weapons and the Spanish phalanx, the reform of the "cavalry" was carried out many times by military strategists, generals and kings and lords. Even on many occasions, after the knights stormed the phalanx with super-long spears, and as a result, the head broke and the blood flowed, many people came to the conclusion that the cavalry was useless.

In the era of the line column, after seeing the power of musket salvos, many military strategists opened their minds and began to try to combine muskets with cavalry.

So there are two very cruel products.

One of them, is the pistol cavalry.

The lethality of these cavalrymen armed with short-barreled muskets was very unremarkable, and due to the unreliability of the gunpowder weapons of this era, these pistols were blown up by short-barreled muskets and then scrapped in more quantities than they killed more enemies.

A round of musket fire at close range is unimaginably ineffective.

On the other hand, there are the so-called roundtroopers, which are armed with muskets and then fight in a horizontal salvo like a private - of course, they do not use the technique of three-stage shooting, but use rotational fire. It was a team of musketeers who fired, then retreated, and then a team from behind stepped forward and continued to shoot.

The people who invented this tactic took it for granted. Cavalry is considered to be faster, so when the musket is fired, it will shoot faster. This will increase your team's long-range firepower.

It's just a pity. There are two things that people forget to count.

One of them is the melee combat ability of these remnant musketeers.

It is still the same old problem, that is, the volley of the musketeers cannot make up for the loss of casualties caused by a round of charge.

The second point is that these are war horses, not people, and a war horse needs to occupy a length of two or three meters from head to tail. At this length, the average private could stand on two or three. And even more. So their array is looser, and they need to run farther in the round...... Therefore, in fact, the speed of their musket output is not superior to that of infantry.

That's it. Pistol cavalry, with roundabout cavalry. Or a whirling pistol or something. These brain-blowing products were eventually swept into the dustbin of history.

Mature military strategists eventually retained only three types of modern cavalry.

Hussars, or light cavalry, this is a cavalry all-rounder. It can be used as a traditional light cavalry, or it can be used to imitate nomadic tactics, interspersed, sabotage, and go around the rear of enemy troops to destroy. It began to flourish in Eastern Europe and eventually swept the world.

Heavy cavalry, or cuirassiers. Unlike traditional heavy cavalry, a large amount of armor was removed and speed was enhanced. Tactics were reformed, not emphasizing the anal frontal forehead, but rounding the enemy flank for a surprise attack. Or, with the help of artillery, attack the enemy's line, which has been weakened by artillery.

Dragoons, or rather mounted infantry. This type of cavalry also has a variety of roles and interpretations. However, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the muskets - this was mainly a matter of upgrading the muskets, at least to the time of the flintlock pistol. And the role of the dragoons was no longer to engage the cavalry, or to charge head-on.

The role of the dragoons is to move to any corner of the battlefield with the high-speed mobility of the cavalry, and then dismount and form a column phalanx to engage the enemy...... It can be seen as an application of mounted infantry.

Of course, there were also some cavalrymen who still emphasized shooting on horseback. The tactics of these cavalry were closer to those of light infantry, or rather chasseurs. It is also more of a harassing task to be performed. Somewhat similar to the role of a traditional nomadic mounted archer.

Nowadays, the dragoons in the hands of Count Warren are different.

First of all, these people were not armed with cavalry-style short-barreled carbines. They were still armed with bulky and ineffective smoothbore arquebuses. And their tactics are not harassment like that of mounted archers, or as quick strikes as mounted infantry.

The tactics of these wretched creatures are still stuck in the design of the remnants of the musket private.

It can be said that it is very unfortunate.

Even more unfortunate is the fact that these guys are about to storm the White Army of the Hereford family.

At present, the casualties of the White Legion of the Hereford family are still small. Even, if it weren't for the enemy's dragoons preparing to charge his own side, William even wanted to let his own troops advance, and then a center blossomed to aid his own reinforcements from the flank.

"But...... If this dragoon unit can be excluded, it will be more or less a good thing. William thought to himself. At the same time, I watched the large number of artillery pieces pulled back from the front line.

Because of William's order, all the light artillery at the front was pulled back. After all, it's a lot of money. In addition, the remaining heavy artillery, which is difficult to handle, is also reserved. Prepare to nail the artillery doors to the ground in the event that it is impossible to prevent the enemy from exploiting them.

However, in this way, the White Army of Hereford at the front line could not receive artillery assistance.

"It looks like I'm going to need to form a cavalry artillery unit as soon as possible. William thought to himself: "The Hereford family, who own the Kingdom of Russia, the most extensive plain in the human world, will be ridiculed if they do not have a matching cavalry force." ”

"Did the enemy divert most of the artillery? However, in this way, without artillery support, the possibility of a successful charge of cavalry units is much more likely. At the same time, Count Warren thought to himself.

It's just unfortunate.

And it didn't work out.

-- The dragoons were within seventy meters, after many of them were knocked out by the three-stage salvo of the Hereford family. Very surprisingly, he stopped at a distance of fifty meters and began to reload the musket.

"Are these guys idiots?!"

It wasn't just William who thought so, but so did the Hereford infantrymen who were at the front line, once again lined up in three rows of hollow phalanxes.

"Do you want to turn into three horizontal columns again and shoot at each other?" thought to some company commanders.

"No, no, no, forget it. But then the men put the idea behind them - the enemy was so close that it would be terrible if the enemy took advantage of their change of formation to charge.

At the thought of this, the Hereford infantry decided to hold on - even the outermost layer of infantry needed to intimidate the enemy with bayonets and could not be loaded. But the two back rows, facing the enemy musketeers, were different.

Despite the fact that there were only two dozen such musketeers in each company. But there are only thirty-three people in each row of the other party. The other side used an old-style arquebus. The reload speed is several times slower than that of the flintlock pistol. In this way, you still have an advantage!

In this way, a scene that makes people cry and laugh appears.

The four companies of the Dragoon Regiment formed a musket platoon and one platoon formed a hollow phalanx with the seven companies of Hereford's Second Front...... Then, in line to be shot.

“...... What are they doing? Charge! Hurry up!" Count Warren couldn't help but shout when he saw this. At the same time, William also saw that this was wrong.

"What a pathetic guy with a rigid mind. William thought to himself: "Since this is the case......"

Subsequently, William gave the order for the seven infantry companies of the second array to charge.

“...... Is there really nothing wrong with that?" Turning his head and looking at the signal flag at the headquarters, the company commanders were stunned for a moment. Immediately after that, he launched a charge.

Disband the hollow phalanx, and without reorganizing the formation, launch a bayonet charge at the enemy cavalry with a straggler array and grenades as the lead!

"Are they crazy?!!!Are they crazy?!! In the midst of the confusion, Hereford's bayonet gunners rushed into the array of dragoons, raised their bayonets, and stabbed at them.

In an instant, the sound of bayonets poking into flesh was heard, followed by screams. Something happened that made Count Warren even more unimaginable. It took only a very short time for Hereford's bayonet infantry to crush four companies of dragoons, who were caught off guard and still trying to shoot in an orderly and unhurried manner.

And they're still charging.

"These guys—" The second array of dragoons, also four companies. Less than a hundred meters away from the first array, the men didn't have time to react either. In other words, their reaction was to reload their ammunition. Then prepare for a volley of muskets -

But it makes no sense and serves no purpose. Before any arquebus was reloaded, the same thing appeared in the second array of the dragoon regiment. It also took only a little time, and these four dragoon companies also collapsed!

"Retreat, retreat!" Finally, the two dragoon companies of the third array were already terrified. Things they had never imagined were happening in front of their eyes in this way. An infantry unit charged at the cavalry, breaking down two cavalry arrays in succession. It's nothing short of a miracle!

Rushed to the front and watched the dragoons of the other two companies flee in a hurry. Hereford's infantry threw several grenades at them. Let them run faster in fear. Immediately after, they looked at each other, a little overwhelmed.

It took a moment for the Hereford soldiers to figure out what had happened.

"We charged the enemy cavalry!"

"We have broken the array of two cavalry!"

The soldiers of the White Regiment became more and more excited, and then they could not help but cheer loudly.