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Chapter 74 Cavalry Construction
In addition to the economy, the construction of the army Peter also did not fall behind.With the Cossack Guards and the Negru Corps at the core, the four Bulgarian Legions began training for an extended military force.

Infantry, cavalry, musketeers, and pikemen all started training after sorting out the land.Their weapons are uniformly deployed by the governor, their salaries are also very good, and there will be pensions after death.

These people did not believe at first, but Peter himself gave the pensions of the fallen soldiers to the families, so they believed.So they all expressed their loyalty to Peter.

The [-] troops have started their own exercises and are also conducting regular patrols on the border.

Of course, when Sigismund left, some knights were grateful for Peter's help and chose to stay.

At this time, Peter has 600 knights in his hands. These are all trained after the French knights, and their attack power is also good.And these knights also have entourages, if you add them, there will be 1000 people.

Although Bayezid won the battle of Skopje, he was as shocked by the might of the French knights as Peter was.Several battles were almost overturned, which also reflects the power of Western heavy cavalry.

In addition to heavy cavalry, light cavalry is also a development point.The Wallachian cavalry began to absorb the experience of other countries, formed Lancers and carried out wall charges.

This is a new type of tactic shown in the cavalry planning outline. The cavalry are leg-to-leg, shoulder-to-shoulder, and use a neat and slow formation to attack the enemy with the straight sword of the knight.

Because there is no space between the cavalry at all, the enemy cavalry that is facing it has no room to take advantage of the opportunity of passing by, use the skillful horse martial arts to kill the cavalry of the side, and there is no room to resist the cavalry attack of the side. possible.Because our cavalry is too dense.If you block a cavalry's rapier attack, you will definitely not be able to block the rapier attacks of other cavalrymen next to you.

Moreover, the wall charge, because the cavalry is next to each other, there is no need to worry about falling off the horse.Therefore, this formation is very suitable for those quick-formed cavalry selected from farmers.They don't need to learn horse martial arts for many years, they only need to know how to stab the enemy cavalry in front with a knight's straight sword while riding on horseback.

Of course, this is the choice when most of the cavalry under him are farmers.If these cavalry were skilled in equestrianism from childhood and proficient in horse martial arts, there would be no need to move forward slowly.The knights who are skilled in horsemanship can maintain a neat and dense formation and launch a fast wall charge.For example, the elite Prussian cavalry of Frederick the Great could line up in a wall formation and launch a quick and neat charge against the enemy cavalry...

Not only that, because when launching a wall charge, the cavalry are next to each other, so you don't have to worry about falling off your horse.Therefore, at this time, knights with high martial arts skills do not need to use the knight's straight sword to charge at all, but can use spears to charge like the Polish Lancers.In this way, in the case of using spears, horse fighting is even more advantageous.

However, the requirements of the Lancers are very high.According to records, the Polish Lancers serving in Napoleon's army had to undergo 55 different training items, 22 against cavalry, 18 against infantry, and 15 basic training.

Such a level of complexity is definitely not something that a quick-formed peasant cavalry can handle.Therefore, during the war, the cavalry powers such as France and Austria had only a few regiments of cavalry.

Lancers who launch a rapid charge in a wall formation have great lethality.Such an offensive, whether it is cavalry or infantry using spears, is difficult to resist.

And if you use a one-handed knight's straight sword to launch a wall charge, you can only defeat the opponent's cavalry. For the infantry phalanx with spears like a forest, there is no way for the cavalry using the knight's straight sword.Because, before your knight's straight sword stabs the infantry spearman on the opposite side, the opponent's spear has stabbed your horse to death.

The melee light cavalry is more restrained from riding and shooting archers because, under the high-speed pursuit of the melee light cavalry, the archers or musket cavalry have no time to reload ammunition or arrows.If confronted head-on, they will be quickly overtaken by melee light cavalry and hacked to death.If it is to escape, it is too difficult to turn around and shoot while running.Probably, only the fierce Mongolian cavalry in the period of Genghis Khan could run calmly while turning around and shooting.Other cavalry archers or other cavalry can only be chased around by melee cavalry like dogs...

However, cavalry archers, in turn, can restrain the natural enemy of melee cavalry - heavy armored knights.Because, due to the heavy load of the knight in heavy armor, the horse can't run fast.Although the defense and attack power are amazing, it is difficult to catch up with the fleeing light cavalry.If you encounter melee light cavalry, the heavy armored knights will not be able to catch up at best.But if you encounter cavalry archers or cavalry musketeers, it's over.Especially when encountering Musketeers (that is, black shirt knights), heavy armored knights will definitely be abused into dogs.Can't catch up, run and can't run away.There is no other choice but to wait for death.Unless, there are friendly troops to rescue...

Although, if the cavalrymen who use lances and spears line up in a wall charge formation, they will not lose the wind against the plate armor knights.However, that kind of result is too tragic, and the casualties are bound to be huge.Basically a life for a life.

Therefore, the Lancers are only a small part, and the cavalry troops are still dominated by light cavalry.The heavy cavalry was transformed into a black shirt knight by Peter.

The combat unit of the Black Shirt Knights is usually a squadron of 300-400 people, arranged in a tight formation and maintaining a row of 20-30.After the cavalry in the front line fired, they separated to the sides and retreated to the rear of the formation to reload ammunition.After the opponent's formation was loosened by the bombardment, the cavalry squadron rushed forward and dispersed the enemy with swords and gun handles.

Each cavalryman would usually carry two or three pistols, two in holsters by the front bridge of the saddle and one slung over his right leg.Regular mercenaries use double the number, four next to the saddle and one on each thigh.They often wear black armor, not for the sake of majesty, but to prevent their bodies from getting rusted, which is where the name of the black shirt knight comes from.

Of course, there was no revolver at this time, so a small crossbow was used instead.It is coated with highly poisonous poison. Once shot, it can kill the opponent in a short time.

Alas, muskets, muskets, are now heavy and clumsy things.The power is still small, but the troops of Wallachia are the troops with the most muskets.And it is still increasing, which is inseparable from the promotion of the ruler.

(End of this chapter)