Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 49: Mounted Blade, Mounted Archery, Mounted Throwing
Of course, Wang Gensheng also understood that it was not easy to become a special forces soldier.

The first thing is that you must have strong physical fitness.

Everyone's physical fitness is different, affected by congenital or acquired factors. For example, congenital factors may be genes or poor care during pregnancy, while acquired factors may be malnutrition or injury.

Therefore, if you want to train special forces who can fight ten people at once, you must select a large number of soldiers with excellent physical fitness to train them in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

For example, in Soldiers Assault, Wu Liuyi was unfortunately eliminated due to excessive training and poor physical condition.

Thinking of this, Wang Gensheng looked at Kong Jie and said:
"Captain, can the selection of cavalry for this cavalry company be conducted from among the soldiers of the entire regiment?"

"We are selecting soldiers from the entire regiment. Do you want to experience it?"

Wang Gensheng said seriously:

"Captain, cavalry were an elite force in ancient times. Just imagine that they have to be jostled on horseback all day long, and they also have to train in mounted swordsmanship and archery. How can they survive without good physical fitness? Those with poor physical fitness will be vomited before they even start training. And..."

However, before Wang Gensheng could finish his words, Kong Jie interrupted him:

"Alright, alright! Forget about that, you can pick anyone from the squad leader down in the entire regiment! I only have one request, and that is to train the cavalry company as quickly as possible!"

After hearing Kong Jie's agreement, Wang Gensheng immediately saluted and said:
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Wang Gensheng's method of selecting cavalry was also very simple, which was to prioritize physical strength.

All the more than 1,000 people in the New Second Regiment, including the squad leaders, were ordered to run around Wangjia Village.

Under Wang Gensheng's promotion, the more than 1,000 soldiers in the New Second Regiment ran very hard. After all, riding a horse is so majestic!

Moreover, cavalry sounds more prestigious than infantry, so every soldier in the New Second Regiment was running hard and there was no deception.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng also successfully obtained the best warrior in the group.

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"Gee! Gee! Gee! Chop! See? When you chop, you need to swing the knife with force. Keep your legs together, first use your waist, then your shoulders, and then naturally move your arms to swing the knife! It's almost like throwing a grenade!"

Wang Gensheng gave a demonstration as he spoke. He first drove the horse to increase its speed, and then aimed at a dummy made of straw and branches. With the combined speed of the horse's running speed and the speed of swinging the sword, Wang Gensheng easily cut the dummy in half.

Of course, if it were a real person, it might not be so fragile.

In addition to training in riding and swordsmanship, cavalrymen using hot weapons will also be trained in mounted archery. Of course, this mounted archery does not involve shooting with a bow and arrow, but rather training cavalrymen to shoot with rifles.

It’s a pity that the New Second Regiment was already short of ammunition, so there was no extra ammunition for training.

Later, Wang Gensheng switched to training cavalry throwing, because he discovered something very interesting: throwing grenades on horseback can go much farther than throwing them normally.

Especially when charging at high speed, if you throw it in the direction of the charge, the throwing distance can even reach twice the distance of throwing it while standing still.

This is extremely exaggerated. For example, if a soldier could throw a distance of sixty or seventy meters, it would be considered an excellent result.

However, when charging on horseback, the speed of the horse and the speed of the grenade thrown by the rider can be combined to throw the grenade more than 100 meters away.

Of course, it's not just throwing grenades or javelins that will go farther. Using the same bow to shoot arrows on horseback will also have greater range and power than standing on the ground.

As for why this situation occurred, although Wang Gensheng was not a doctorate in science, he could explain it based on his junior high school physics knowledge.

The reason why this happens is relative speed. The speed of throwing a grenade while riding a horse is superimposed on the speed of the horse sprinting.

If a horse's sprinting speed is 20 meters per second, that is 72 kilometers per hour. Of course, some thoroughbred horses can sprint at even lower speeds than 72 kilometers per hour, but can reach 80 kilometers per hour, or even higher. However, there are no top-level thoroughbred horses in the cavalry company.

Then when the speed of the sprinting warhorse is added to the thirty meters when the grenade is thrown, the initial velocity of the grenade can reach fifty meters per second.

With such an initial velocity, throwing a grenade a hundred or even a hundred and fifty meters is an easy task. And if someone like Wang Gensheng has enhanced his physical fitness, he can throw a grenade a distance of two hundred meters after riding a horse.

Of course, even if you can throw the grenade dozens of meters further while riding a horse, it is actually not of much use. After all, the range of a light machine gun can easily reach several hundred meters. In addition, the cavalry is such a large target. Even if you can't hit the cavalry, can you still hit the horse?

Therefore, for Wang Gensheng, the most important thing for the special cavalry company is not to ride war horses to attack the enemy's positions, but to use the cavalry's rapid mobility to carry out the final decapitation raid.

Although Wang Gensheng is not a military expert, he understands after watching so many war movies that the most important thing for special forces is mobility. If the mobility is not good, then everything you say will be in vain.

For example, the most successful decapitation operation carried out by Mi Zuo was the one in which he used a stealth night helicopter to ignore the terrain and enemy radar, and went deep into enemy territory to kill Ben La Deng. The most outstanding feature was its maneuverability.

If there were no stealth Black Hawk helicopters, no matter how powerful Mi Zuo's special forces were, they would not be able to penetrate hundreds or thousands of kilometers behind enemy lines to snipe and kill La Deng.

Of course, in "Bright Sword", Yamamoto's special forces suffered from insufficient mobility. For example, during the second attack on the Eighth Route Army headquarters, Yamamoto Ikki led his special forces on a journey of almost a whole night before approaching Chenjiayu where the Eighth Route Army headquarters was located in the morning.

Of course, what is even more deadly is that it is already daybreak. You know, daybreak means a wider field of vision, so the rifle can take advantage of its range.

Even if there is moonlight at night, the visibility is only a hundred meters. At this time, submachine guns with an effective range of only a hundred meters have the advantage.

When the rifles could not take advantage of their range, the submachine guns could naturally completely defeat the rifles and light machine guns. But unfortunately, it was already dawn, so the Yamamoto Special Forces was no longer conducting a night raid, but a fair and open frontal attack.

Although it sounded nice at the time that Yamamoto Ikki had to choose to retreat because the observation group was annihilated by Li Yunlong, but in reality!
If he could really capture Chenjiayu and wipe out the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, wouldn't Yamamoto Ikki choose to continue the attack?
You know, even if the observation group was destroyed, Yamamoto Ikki would still be rewarded if he took over the Eighth Route Army Headquarters. After all, the observation group was destroyed because of inadequate guard arrangements, what does it have to do with him, Yamamoto Ikki.

(End of this chapter)