Chapter 0118 Throwing Spear and Round Shield

The Magic Mountain rode on horseback to train the cavalry in attack and defense.

They were practicing long-range projection.

Not to shoot at targets, but at each other.

Shoot while defending.

Long-range javelin projection is the most effective first wave of attacks when launching a battle charge.

It's just that no one in the Seven Kingdoms has specially trained their soldiers, and all of them must be proficient in this technology.

Magic Mountain was the first of all cavalry to train themselves in this way.

Those who possessed accurate long-range projection and spear throwing skills were usually propertied knights or noble generals.

In general, only propertied knights and noble generals had the basis for such training.

First of all, they don't have to worry about food and clothing, and secondly, they don't have to worry about not having war horses and a lot of training throwing guns.

The front head of the training throwing gun is specially made, which will shatter under a strong impact, and will not cause fatal injury to the comrades participating in the training.

The first step in training to throw a gun is not to use your comrades as opponents.

It's like Julie training archery in the school yard, and the first gun target for gun throwing training is a dead object, a gun target that can't move.

When a fixed target that does not move can be 100% hit by a heart on a galloping horse, the second step will be to shoot a moving target. The second step is to complete the shooting training of the moving gun target and reach 100 percent, and the third step will be the training of man-to-person actual gun throwing.

Only real confrontations between people are most in line with the real battlefield environment.

And this kind of real sparring of spears - charging each other on horseback, detouring, pursuing, and projecting spears at the enemy at a suitable distance - this kind of training except for a small number of noble generals and propertied knights who have this condition, more than ninety percent of centurions, knights and soldiers do not have this professional training in systematic gun throwing.

This kind of training will destroy a lot of training guns.

Weapons workers had to produce large quantities of training guns to meet this need.

Any god pitcher is fed by a lot of training pitchers.

Without capital, time, space, strict requirements and a brutal coach, it is difficult to practice this kind of gun throwing technique, which requires absolute arm strength. What's more, the requirement of the Magic Mountain is that every soldier must reach the level of a god pitcher.

However, the Duke did not doubt the training level of the Magic Mountain, because those who did not meet the standard were usually not eliminated, but were directly trained to death by the Magic Mountain. While training the Family Guards Cavalry Regiment for Lord Duke in the Magic Mountain, all the soldiers who did not meet the standards were threatened with death.

And these cavalry trained by the Magic Mountain himself, the Duke believes that everyone knows the cruelty and ruthlessness of the Magic Mountain. Whoever dares not to train with his life, what awaits him must not be the beauty of a golden dragon, but cruel torture until death.

Duke Tywin was on horseback and leading his Guards Cavalry Regiment to observe the spear-throwing training of the Magic Mountain with his Cregan cavalry, his face blank.

The Magic Mountain's talent in military training was as good as his personal martial arts, and the Duke thought that no one could match it. Although the head of Benronte Broon opposed the cruelty of the Magic Mountain, the Duke and the head of the Sect had to admit in their hearts that the soldiers trained by the Magic Mountain were all terrifying and ruthless. If you want to put it nicely, it's that everyone is an absolute warrior.

Those who are greedy for life and afraid of death will not die on the battlefield, they have already died on the training ground of the Magic Mountain first. When these soldiers who survived the training of the Magic Mountain went to the battlefield, it would be their enemies who died.

With the whistle of the magic mountain, every time the attacking side threw a throwing gun, all of them were all hit. Despite the dodge and quick movement of the 'enemy', there was no way to avoid the lightning-fast throwing of spears that whizzed in.

When it is impossible to avoid this precise throwing gun, the round shield of the defending side comes into play.

The spear was pierced on the round shield, the sawdust flew and shattered, and after a whistle of an offensive projection, the sound of thumping was endless, and the sound was amazing.

This kind of accuracy, once on the battlefield, will catch the enemy off guard as soon as it starts.

Among the Seven Kingdoms, there were not a large number of soldiers and generals who had been trained in such offensive and defensive shooting.

Duke Tywin's Guards Cavalry Regiment did not, nor did his city garrison.

The power of the throwing gun can be much greater than that of an arrow, and the weight of the throwing gun itself magnifies the impact of the projection. Once the head of the training throwing gun was replaced with the best iron head, the defense of piercing the shield was obvious.

A longbow and a hard arrow can pierce a shield, and the arrow attaches the arm that is worn on the shield buckle.

The only fly in the ointment that Duke Tywin felt was that there were too few cavalry in the Magic Mountain.

If there are 500 people in such a team, they can form a vanguard army and break through the battle formation as quickly as possible!

And the plan of the Magic Mountain was to train only a hundred such cavalry, plus fifty reserve cavalry.

Duke Tywin understood why the Magic Mountain wanted to pay each of these soldiers a golden dragon, which was three times the salary of ordinary cavalry. But the content of the training is something that no other legion has done!

This golden dragon is not as easy to hold as people think in their hearts. What does this mean that these soldiers are all of a very high level and that their training time is not very long?

In order to meet the requirements of the Magic Mountain, many soldiers secretly practiced in the middle of the night.

Training intensity is rare!

Tywin knew this, as many of his family members in his Guards Cavalry Regiment had had experienced this. If you don't meet the standard, except for eating, any time that should be resting is taking the initiative to practice on your own. Some even secretly got up at night to practice basic movements in the school field, a simple sword thrust, and all the soldiers practiced thousands of times.

This kind of training is very cruel, and many soldiers would rather go to the battlefield than undergo such training.

With the whistle of the magic mountain, the pursuit formation of the cavalry turned into a column, they ran one after another, running over the place where the training throwing guns were stacked, and the affairs officer threw the throwing guns, and the cavalry caught the two throwing guns one by one, and the horses did not stop, flowing like water.

This kind of training consumes a lot of throwing guns. As long as one throwing gun hits the shield, the head of the throwing gun and the front part of the barrel are shattered, and it cannot be used a second time. The weight and length of the training throwing gun must be exactly the same as the real throwing gun. This allows you to develop a god-like feel and improve your precision.

Each cavalryman had a round shield on his back.

The round shield is easy to carry on the back, so it won't get in the way when charging. Rectangular shields were more suitable for infantry defense than cavalry charges.

Duke Tywin noticed that the cavalry of the Demon Mountain had heavy armor on their right arm and shoulder, which was not good, and the heavy armor had the best defense, but it was easier to make the cavalrymen's right arm tired and unable to lift it.

"Go and call Sir Gregor here!" said Duke Tywin softly.

Sir Kevon immediately stepped forward and went to call the Magic Mountain.

The Magic Mountain and Ser Kevon came to the Duke.

The Duke said, "Sir Gregor, all your soldiers, with their right shoulder and armour, are only allowed to use light chain mail. ”

"Yes, Father. Magic Mountain said.

The Magic Mountain knows about Duke Tywin, but Duke Tywin no longer understands the current Magic Mountain. Magic Mountain knew that Duke Tywin would definitely see the improvement of Julie's right shoulder chain mail instead of heavy armor, which was not the first of Magic Mountain, but it came from the historical knowledge of Oriental China in his mind. Originated from the Warring States Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry shooting, Hufu cavalry archery is to learn the clothing of the Hu people, change the wide-sleeved robe into a narrow-sleeved collar, so that the weak country becomes a strong country.

Moshan knows that the clothing of many ethnic minorities in China is to hand over the left shoulder, and the left shoulder and body are neatly dressed, but the sleeves of the robe are not worn together with the right shoulder, and the weather is slightly warmer, and many men also expose their right shoulder. Some historians have studied history and concluded that this stems from the fact that it is more convenient to wield weapons and control horses and archery in actual ancient wars, and over time, it has become the style of national clothing.

Magic Mountain practiced with Julie, and sure enough.

The Chinese culture is broad and profound! From the small chopsticks to the changes in clothing, all contain the wisdom of the ancients and embody the practical philosophy.

However, if the Demon Mountain takes the initiative to introduce the wearing improvement of these weapons to the Duke like Snow Salt, it seems that his too dense excellence in a very short period of time will be hated, even if Duke Tywin will not be afraid, but Duke Kevon will definitely be wary and slanderous.

It's a mediocrity if you don't get envied, but you die quickly when you're sharp!

So the magic mountain didn't say anything, let the duke see it himself and then order it to be promoted, which naturally weakened his 'extraordinary'.

"Sir, your soldier's shield seems to have undergone a slight change. ”

"Yes, Father. In the past, the oak shields used were all wrapped with iron sheets on the front bread or wrapped with iron sheets on the edges, and our shields were on the back of the shield, at the position of the arm lock, especially for the blacksmith to add a layer of iron sheets, so as to better resist the longbow and hard arrows so as not to hurt the arm by shooting through the shield. ”

Duke Tywin's heart moved again, he spent seven hundred gold dragons in the witch queen's pharmacy room in less than two days this time, as the witch queen said, not only will he be able to earn it back soon, in fact, his own income has far exceeded the monetary value of the seven hundred gold dragons.

The Magic Mountain had inadvertently given him a great benefit in improving his shield weapon. However, this guy from Magic Mountain is still almost a little wise after all, and he doesn't know that these can go further.

He, like the bachelors and knights around the duke, is almost a little wise after all.

"Bachelor, give the order, the shields of the whole western border, in the position of the arm locks, on the front and back, are double-layered iron. ”

"Yes, sir!"

Why don't all the shields be double-layered? because of the weight!

The duke's face was expressionless, but he was in a really good mood.

The witch queen is his great prophet, a prophet-like figure, and the magic mountain is undoubtedly his great fortune!

"Sir Gregor!"

"Yes, Father. ”

"Your shields, where the arms are locked, are also doubled on both sides, not only on the back, because a single layer is not effective against the arrows of a longbow. ”

"Yes, Father. Moshan's tone was filled with a sudden sense of appreciation.

"You taught the Iron People a lesson in the port of Kaiyan City last time, and Sweet Mouth Raff also helped me train the noble generals of the Western Realm in the method of 'military sentinel and control the army', I know your merits, I will reward you with the five ships of iron ore that the iron breeders pulled over last time, and you can send someone to pull it from Kaiyan City yourself. ”

"Yes, Father. ”

"Also, I command you to train five hundred Krigane cavalry and a hundred cavalry reserves, each of whom must be proficient in spear-throwing, bow-and-arrow, spear, horse-mounted spear, and swordsmanship. ”