manynovel Chapter 211
Chapter 211
However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the cavalry was really finished.
The Western Army is Longyou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places.
There was not only a breeding ground for horses, but also a channel for trading horses.
There are Qiang tribes, Dangxiang tribes, and Tufan tribes.
So it is not difficult to maintain a small cavalry formation.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, the entire territory of the north and northwest had fallen, and the northern horse government was completely gone, and the channels for obtaining war horses in the south were extremely atrophied.
Han Shizhong obtained a horse with a shoulder height of one and a half meters, which was said to be rare, and the ministers did not dare to have it, and dedicated it to Gaozong Zhao Gou.
The cavalry of the Western Army in front of him will not be so cold.
High-headed horse, fierce and brave.
But in the eyes of the planter, it was the cavalry of the Western Army who kept falling off the horse.
It was the cavalry of the Western Army who howled badly from the arrow.
It was also the cavalry of the Western Army who had to abandon the original route of the advance that was defeated and retreated.
Strictly speaking, today's cavalry "587" military battles are no longer considered sentinel cavalry battles.
More than 10,000 cavalry on both sides participated in the battle, and there were battlefields everywhere, swords and swords everywhere, and arrows flew sideways.
The battle was extremely fierce.
The only difference from the big war is that neither side sent follow-up troops, after all, the light cavalry is a light cavalry, it is to seize the territory and limit the enemy cavalry, not to ask the cavalry to fight.
The cavalry of the Song army rarely fought in large corps, and the loss of sending thousands of people was already distressing to the Seed Master.
Gather 40,000 cavalry of the whole army to fight with the Liangshan cavalry, and the division is reluctant.
Even if he is willing, the managers and managers of all walks of life are also reluctant.
Moreover, it is not only the Western Army, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhuzhou Army and the cavalry of the Hebei Forbidden Army.
It is impossible for Liang Zhongshu to agree, and Tong Guan will not use such a decisive way of playing.
However, it can already be confirmed that if this light cavalry fight is lost, the range of movement and reconnaissance of the officers and soldiers and cavalry will be limited on a large scale, and the next situation may become worse and worse.
Once the disadvantage appears, it is difficult to get it back.
But when he said that he decided to fight now, or engage in cavalry battles, he couldn't make up his mind.
It's too hard.
Cavalry dogfights are like this......
Something unthinkable.
The cavalry was still fighting, fighting, fighting, shouting, and howling.
More and more cavalry of the Western Army were wounded, dismounted, and retreated.
Just went up a few fresh cavalry, and they were also quickly limited to the bitter fighting.
It is clear that the advantages of the Liangshan army are all-round.
Their light crossbows shoot farther than their bows, and they are also much more accurate.
Although the cavalry of the Western Army is elite, the battlefield is extremely chaotic while galloping on horseback, and people's will and spirit will be disturbed, and it is difficult to shoot accurately as usual, and in terms of strength, the riding bow is at most twenty or thirty steps, and the real lethality is still a distance of ten or so steps.
The cavalry bow is short and weak, the range is insufficient, and the armor piercing is weak.
The real lethality can only be within ten steps.
The short crossbows of the cavalry of the Liangshan army could break through the armor within thirty paces.
If you hit the vital point, you will be worried about your life.
Moreover, the armor of the Liangshan army is strong, and the protective ability of the front and rear breastplates is amazingly high.
There are also samples of this kind of armor master, which is as thick and strong as the front and back, and after being fixed with a belt, the defense is very high.
The disadvantage is that it cannot be repaired after it is damaged, and it can only be recast.
This armor must be expensive, not only when it is cast and beaten, but it can no longer be used after it is damaged, and the cost of this aspect is surprisingly expensive.
Think about yourself as a dignified officer and soldier, known as the prime minister, and the prime minister, and far inferior to a gang of thieves in terms of family background......
The heart of the seed master was full of bitterness.
The cavalry of the Song army did not have such a short but extremely powerful crossbow.
Even the seed master saw that many Liangshan cavalry after shooting five arrows, if the situation allowed, they would recycle and insert the short crossbow.
If a battle is about to take place, it is a matter of throwing the short crossbow in your hand. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
The seed master who watched it was all painful.
Which cavalry of the Western Army would dare to be such a loser?
This is a crossbow, not a bow!
Even the bow is not cheap, choose the bow body, preferably a flexible hardwood, oiled and dried, and the bowstring is also, which has to be processed many times.
A bow takes half a year to two or three years, depending on how much money the owner of the bow has.
A good bow of the best can be used for a long time after maintenance, and it has the same value as BMW's famous guns and knives, and it is also the same as knives and guns, which can be passed down from generation to generation.
Crossbows are even more expensive.
It is not easy to build, not only in wood, there are strict requirements for workmanship, but also copper or iron machine including arrow box and other supporting parts.
There is no way for ordinary people to make crossbows.
Like armor, the people of the Great Song Dynasty were fine with knives and guns, they were fine with bows and arrows, and even the imperial court encouraged...
But the crime of hiding armor and crossbow arrows is the same, and abandoning the city and beheading the capital is light.
Crossbows can be fired in bursts, and the head is much stronger than the bow, and an ordinary person needs to practice for many years to become an elite archer, while a crossbow can shoot arrows in a few months at most.
It was because of the large number of crossbowmen that the Song army was able to carry the nomadic iron horsemen.
But now he was overwhelmed by the enemy's crossbows.
I shot one arrow with insufficient strength on my side, and five arrows came over there. []
The number of cavalry on both sides was about the same, and Liangshan did not think about expanding the battlefield and forming a decisive battle.
But under the tacit understanding of the same number of people, the cavalry of the two sides played a completely different exchange ratio.
This is 10,000 cavalry, and the officers and soldiers are also cavalry of the Western Army.
This is not comparable to the cavalry of ten knots.
Nor is it a frontal charge.
Because the battlefield is huge, it is not a hedge, but a hedge, but also a hedge for elite armor horses.
The Seed Master Dao will not make the mistake of ten knots, and hedge against the enemy cavalry with an advantage.
The cavalry of the Western Army was auxiliary.
But now the light riding dog fight is like this...... It is already almost one-sided, and a group of them will be beaten across a group, so they can only gallop and pull as much as possible, using the space to delay the enemy's attack, but the light cavalry has a large range of activities, and if it goes on like this, a large area will no longer be controlled by the cavalry of the Song army before it gets dark and dusk.
Next, a small number of scouts could only observe the enemy situation secretly, and could not go deep.
Enemy battalion, 3.3 main force, logistics, troops, armor......
will be shrouded in fog.
Seed Master Dao's face showed a bitter color.
Wang Lun on the other side is not well-known, unlike a veteran like him, who has made a name for himself with his forty-year career in the field.
But this junior's three-plate axe just works!
Last time, I used cavalry to take advantage of the ten knots, and then cut off the ten-knot grain route.
Then the water battalion was dispatched and the waterway was cut off.
The defeated generals and the hungry and thirsty rebels had no choice but to surrender.
The Western Army had all learned about this before it was dispatched.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I got in touch, after the fight, the opponent still used the same routine......
As a result, the Western Army is still unable to cope!
Rushing into battle is not rushing, fighting with light horses, the Western Army is not an opponent!.