I am Da Song

Chapter 523 Shouldn't be so stupid?

Yu Yunwen stood among the soldiers and introduced to everyone: "In the Puritan literature, I hate and fear the heavily armored knights of the Taixi people. Facing the large number of Fatimid troops and the infantry of the Dashi city, the knights The power of their guns and charges is infinite."

"However, in the face of such a mobile and flexible target as the Turkic cavalry archer, they must first chase after the opponent with great difficulty, and push the Turkic cavalry archer into a corner where there is no way to retreat. Or launch a surprise attack before they can show their power."

"So in the first Battle of Doryleum, one of the keys to the Crusaders' victory, the Southern French knights led by Bishop Admar attacked the Puritan army from behind. The Puritans were defeated."

Everyone followed his fingers to look at Doryleum on the map, which was the last flat plain between the Roman road and the mountains of Asia Minor.

The generals of the Song Army have studied this classic battle.

The Crusaders continued to publicize their brilliant victories, but in the eyes of a person who is not familiar with military affairs, it can also be concluded that the Crusaders were completely lucky to win this war.

In this battle, the command of the Crusaders was very chaotic, with coordination of infantry and cavalry, and no cover of bows and arrows at all.

A group of heavy cavalry lined up in defense on the battlefield in despair, motionless resisting the arrow rain that the Turks planed from all directions.

If you can make a group of heavy cavalry riding on horses and standing still in place, you can imagine how badly the heavy cavalry was beaten by the Turkic cavalry at that time.

If it wasn't for the reinforcements that suddenly appeared and attacked the Turks from behind, the Turks who pulled their hips would not resist at all when they saw their opponents running away.

The so-called brilliant victory of the Crusaders could turn into a desperate massacre.

The rigid crusader knights stayed in place on their horses, and were shot to death by waves of Turkic bows and arrows.

The cultural differences between the East and the West are too great, and the generals in the East really can't understand the thinking of Westerners. How could they release a group of heavy cavalry and stand motionless under the rain of arrows?
Li Yanxian asked: "You don't want to repeat this scene in history, let the knights stay where they are, and then we shoot with muskets?"

Yu Yunwen hesitated for a moment, and said: "Based on common sense, the opponent should not be so stupid. 3 people lined up in the same place, and we bombarded them indiscriminately and remained motionless."

Everyone nodded in agreement. The generals of the Song Army are used to attaching importance to their opponents, and they don't believe that their enemies are so stupid.

In history, the Turks threw arrows around the Crusaders for five hours. The opponents were shaken in despair, the soldiers ran around, and the camp was in chaos.

If it was a decisive battle in the Central Plains, the heavy cavalry would have pressed up long ago, and one blow would decide the outcome.

The generals of the Song army hadn't thought that their opponents would follow this procedure to resist the rain of arrows in the Central Plains for nearly three hours.

The most important thing is that if you deploy according to this kind of response, in case something goes wrong...

These generals felt that their future was hopeless.

After watching the frontline deployment, the emperors and ministers in the rear will feel that the generals they sent to the frontline are full of water in their minds!
Even if you catch a group of children fighting on bamboo horses on the street to command, you won't be stupid enough to set up this kind of battle plan.

Do you treat your opponents like pigs?Or are you all pigs?
But Yu Yunwen said unwillingly: "But my intuition thinks that these arrogant crusaders may not change. They won't think that we are different from the Turks. If everything is deployed according to the last war, There's a 90.00% chance they'll repeat the same mistakes they made last time."

"Shall we gamble?"

Everyone shook their heads neatly, their attitudes were extremely firm!

Yang Zaixing said: "Yu Lingshi, even if you say that the probability is as high as 90.00%, we don't want to bet on that [-]%. Winning is disgraceful, and losing will be infamous for thousands of years! It's really notorious for thousands of years, even after ten thousand years Future generations will use this war to laugh at us."

"You, me, and all of you here are not as famous as pigs and dogs for a lifetime. Future generations may think that letting a dog bark here is better than us."

Everyone nodded repeatedly. If it was really deployed in this way, even if it was won, it would not be credited if it was passed back.The rear will laugh at the front, fighting with a group of stupid pigs.

In case of misfortune, it will be a shame that the Holy Dynasty can never wash away, the emperor will be ashamed, and everyone present will be court-martialed.Before hearing a case, the presiding officer may spit in the face of others.

Yu Yunwen felt concerned, and said, "Okay then. I just mentioned it. I also think that the opponent shouldn't be that stupid... right?"

"The official plan is to use the Turkic cavalry to lead the Crusaders to the former site of the Dori Raum battlefield, and then directly fight against them."

"According to the current arrogance of the Crusaders, if they enter Doryleum, they will immediately recall the brilliant victory achieved by the heavy cavalry's final charge at any cost."

"They will have a great probability to charge directly, and the iron cavalry will directly attack our army's majestic formation composed of thousands of artillery pieces and tens of thousands of muskets."

Facing the level of firepower of thousands of artillery pieces, let alone cavalry attacks, even tanks charging in groups may be smashed by projectiles.

The heavy cavalry of the Crusaders charged forward, it was a frenzy of flesh and blood, and the intensive firepower would tear people and horses to pieces.

Yang Zaixing asked: "Yu Lingshi, you just said that they have a high probability of charging directly. What if they don't charge? After all, the Puritans once suffered a disastrous defeat on this battlefield, and we must avoid repeating the same mistakes."

"If they don't charge...then it's back to the original question, are they just waiting to be bombed?"

After listening, all the generals laughed out loud, there should be no such idiots, right?
……should?
Yang Zaixing asked, "I'm not talking about that. I mean, how to prevent them from attacking from behind like last time?"

Yu Yunwen said: "This is easy. The main cavalry of Wangshi will not be put into the battlefield in the early stage, but will command Mongolian iron cavalry and Turkic cavalry to roam around to avoid enemy surprise attacks."

"Moreover, the last time the Crusaders came to rescue was three full hours. It was because the Turkic cavalry were weak that they were given a chance to rescue them."

"I don't believe that the Crusaders can last for three hours under the indiscriminate bombardment of the king's division."

Li Yanxian nodded, and said: "Yu Lingshi has considered everything carefully, so let's deploy it like this. The old man personally led the main force of the king's division and brought the artillery to Dori Laum, waiting for work and preparing to meet the enemy's main force."

"Yue Yun and Yang Zaixing commanded the Turkic Gulam horse archers, and immediately marched towards Constantinople, actively harassing the Crusaders, showing the enemy's weakness, and leading them to the preset battlefield."

(End of this chapter)