Chapter 113: Heavy Cavalry
More than a hundred cavalrymen emerged from the darkness, and in just a few breaths they had reached the door of the Qiang camp.
The Qiang soldiers, who sensed that something was wrong, had already issued an early warning, and many professional Qiang soldiers had already reacted. However, when the Qiang soldiers rushed out with javelins and weapons, they were startled by this cavalry.
The cavalry was all in armor, and even the horses were dressed in half-body armor. More than 100 cavalrymen sat on horseback steadily, brandishing their sabers and rushing to kill the second round in an unreasonable manner!
"What kind of monster is this!!" The sudden attack of this cavalry suddenly shocked the Qiang cavalry.
In this era, although the cavalry was equipped with a single stirrup, at best it could only stabilize its body slightly on horseback. Whether it is the Qiang people or the cavalry of the Han army, they are basically mainly cavalry assaults.
After all, the force on a single stirrup is uneven, and it is difficult for the cavalry to borrow force on horseback. If slashed with a saber, the cavalry could easily be knocked off their horses by the reaction force.
It is precisely because of this that the cavalry in this era only had light cavalry, and there was no such thing as heavy cavalry at all. It's not that they can't afford to raise armored cavalry, but because they can't stabilize their bodies at all.
This is the common sense of this period, and basically the Qiang people know it.
But this time, Ma Jian told them what a surprise was with practical actions!
More than 100 cavalrymen violated common sense, all of them were heavily armored and saber, and rushed out with hideous masks. Some Qiang soldiers tried to fight back without believing in evil, but they were directly cut off their horses with a knife.
For Ma Yan, this is one of the few things that can be used in the future to pretend to be knowledgeable.
Arched saddles, double horseshoe, horseshoes, heavy cavalry!
These things are basically bound together, and none of the armored heavy cavalry can come out.
The advent of double horse pedals greatly reduced the training cost and time of light cavalry. The arched saddle allowed the cavalry to officially stabilize their body on horseback.
And the horseshoe gave the cavalry the ability to run long distances.
With these three things, the preconditions for heavy cavalry can be met.
The armored heavy cavalry that surpassed this era was brought to the post-Three Kingdoms era by Ma Jian in this way! At the same time, even Cao Wei's most powerful tiger and leopard rider was only fighting in leather armor!
But this is also embarrassing for Ma Yan, after all, he is not a professional in this area. All he knew was that an arched saddle would stabilize his figure, but he could only try to do it a little bit.
Basically, a month or two of idle work is spent on these few things.
Ma Jian couldn't imagine how difficult it would be to improve salt and iron by himself. It won't take years to improve, and that would be too much of a delay.
But fortunately, the craftsmen of this era are perceptive. After eating and living with them, and working overtime together for a few days, they finally designed the prototype of an arched saddle for Ma Tan.
Then there were many attempts and improvements, and finally created the current more than 100 cavalry.
Although Ma Tan planned to use it as a hole card and turn back to give Guo Huai or Sima Yi a surprise. But after thinking about it, Ma Jian still tried his hand with the Qiang people first.
If something goes wrong, it's easy to turn around and change it, so don't go wrong on the battlefield at that time. He made money when he died, but it would be bad if he affected the big man's plan.
However, the effect was obviously good, at least the Qiang soldiers were immediately defeated. Under Ma Tan's armor and rushing into battle, the Qiang soldiers were directly stabbed through.
Ma Tan's unit is Ma Tan's most elite personal guard cavalry, and each of them is trained like a special soldier.
Eating and drinking are the best, even better than Ma Jian himself. Completely off-the-job training, and even Ma Jian will find time to teach them literacy education.
And this personal guard cavalry did not disappoint Ma Yan, and each of them rode steadily on their horses, and they penetrated the defenses of the Qiang people like a bamboo.
Ma Jian personally rushed to the front, and he was as unscathed as ever. Everywhere he went, the Qiang soldiers scattered and fled, and no one dared to resist.
For this, Ma Jian was used to it, and he didn't even forget to yell at the passing Qiang soldiers.
"I'm Kamui General Ma Tanya! Who dares to fight with me! ”
Hearing this voice, the surrounding Qiang soldiers ran faster.
O Kamui General! The rumored Kamui general who can eat crisp and wipe clean with a small hand!
Such a terrifying person actually came to do them in person, so what else is there to fight.
Survival matters!
At this time, the leader of the Qiang tribe had just been awakened when he heard a commotion outside. Something didn't feel right, so I immediately got up and walked outside.
The Qiang tribe has thousands of people and the camp is very large. There were also his cronies around his tent, and there was not much danger in theory.
However, as soon as he stepped out of his tent, he saw a general with a strange group of cavalry rushing all the way.
"That man must be their leader!" Ma Dai's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw the leader of the Qiang tribe, and his previous experience made him make a judgment immediately.
This is the leader of this gang of Qiangdi!
"General Young Chang! That's the Qiang chief!! Ma Dai immediately shouted at Ma Tan and pointed at the leader of the Qiang tribe.
"Childhood!!" The leader of the Qiang tribe was shocked, he was too familiar with this word.
This is the general of the Han army who was recently called General Shenwei and beat their Qiang people as rabbits!
How is he here!
Seeing Ma Tan's gaze turn to him, the leader immediately turned around and ran, not daring to confront Ma Jian at all.
However, before he had run far, he suddenly felt a pain in his back!
"The thief has been ambushed! If there is any resistance, they will be killed!! ”
Ma Tan shook his saber and roared loudly in the firelight.
At this time, Ma Tan's appearance was as if the gods had descended from heaven, and the red robe fluttered in the wind, looking extremely powerful and shocking. A large number of Qiang people didn't want to resist, and they felt weak even when they fled.
Seeing the power of the cavalry of the Han army, no one dared to resist except for the cronies of the Qiang leader. In just a few quarters of an hour, Ma Tan swept the entire Qiang tribe with his personal guard cavalry.
"General Bozhan, how is this battle?" After completely clearing out all the rebels, Ma Tan looked back at Ma Dai and smiled.
"The cavalry of a certain is not worse than General Meng Qi's back then, right?"
Ma Dai fell silent, his eyes fixed on the arched saddle and the double horses.
I have to say that this time he was really scared by Ma Tan.
It turns out that the cavalry can still do this?
Ma Dai, who has always played with infantry and cavalry, found for the first time that his understanding of cavalry was not as good as that of a southerner.
"General Young Chang, your cavalry can already form a battalion of its own." Ma Dai was silent for a while, and then suddenly spoke.
"Such a mighty cavalry, if you don't have a name, it's inevitably a little shabby."
"Why don't you give this cavalry a name, and when you support the Han family in the future, they can also become famous because of it?"
"Really?" Ma Tan was stunned for a moment, he had noticed this problem for the first time.
Dahan has always had his own independent creation of a part, and then took a well-known name.
For example, the white horse is righteous, the tiger and leopard ride, and the camp is trapped......
Ma Jian is now also qualified to build his own troops, and the first heavy cavalry of the Three Kingdoms is also qualified to become an elite of his own.
"In this case, the soldiers are all Longyou people, and they dare to fight, so they will be named Longwu Yicong!"
This paragraph is basically a transitional plot, and the next battle is a friendly exchange with Soochow
(End of chapter)