Song Dynasty

Chapter 130 Lancer tactics

Fang Worong rushed to the forefront, and Lao Guo followed him closely, shouting: "Lower your head, don't observe the enemy's situation. Your body and the spear are connected in a straight line. The spear pierces directly with the strength of the waist and legs." , using the speed of the horse, not the two arms or the wrist, if you don't want to break your hand!"

"Yes, instructor; I understand, instructor!" Fang Worong responded loudly, and when he opened his mouth, it was filled with dust.

Although Lao Guo told him to lower his head not to observe the enemy's situation, he still couldn't help raising his head slightly.

I saw that at the extremely fast speed of the horse, my spear pierced the chest of an enemy cavalry swiftly, and the tip of the spear sank deep into the body.And at this moment, a huge reaction force surged along the barrel of the gun, making the wrist numb from the shock.At the same time, with a "click", the thick spear shaft broke.

Similarly, the spear stabbed by the companion beside him also broke instantly, and flying sawdust was all in front of his eyes.

The stabbed enemy fell to the ground screaming with a broken spear, and was caught in the hooves of the galloping horse.

Why did the barrel of the gun break?

Fang Worong was a little distracted, the horse was still ramming forward.

Lao Guo: "Draw the knife, draw the knife!"

"Yes!" Before Fang Worong came back to his senses, the pressure in front of him was suddenly released, and he looked up, but it turned out that his charge just now had pierced through the enemy's cavalry formation.

"Let's go, let's go back to the formation!" Lao Guo shouted: "Don't look back, don't block the way of the brothers behind!"

"That's the end of the fight?" Fang Worong was confused, isn't this too simple?

"Yes, yes, it's over, go back!"

Fang Worong was extremely dissatisfied, sitting on the galloping horse, he couldn't help but look back.However, there were all Tabai rushing into the formation behind, and there was still a continuous "click" sound, and the barrels of all the guns broke instantly when they pierced the enemy's body.

A platoon of cavalry rushed over, followed by another platoon, and the white troopers rushed in like waves of anger, swallowing up the enemy cavalry in a blink of an eye.

Sawdust all over the sky, human blood splattered, like Kong Yanzhou cavalrymen falling to the ground like autumn leaves.Short, simple, violent.

Is this the real riding battle, so spectacular!

The wind swirled the yellow dust and hit him like an arrow, causing a slight pain.

In a trance, Fang Worong had an illusion that his strength had never been so great, and he felt like he was riding in a hurricane, soaring thousands of miles according to Baidi Mu Cangwu.

"Damn it, if a man is alive, this is the only way to live a happy life!"

Fang Worong held the rein tightly with both hands, and his body heaved up and down freely.Blood oozed out of his hands, and was blown into the air by the gust of wind.

The force of the cavalry's counterattack was so great that the tiger's mouth was torn open just now when the spear was thrust out.

Just imagine, if the spear hadn't been broken, I'd have been shot straight off the horse.Wang Daosi is really talented, he can even think of this.

That's right, this kind of cavalry spear was specially shot by Wang Shen for the white army a while ago, and it was used to let the cavalry charge into battle.

Cavalry uses spears differently from infantry. When you are fighting on horseback, the horse is always in a high state of motion.You can't stop, once you stop, you are a living target for the infantry.The power of cavalry lies in the impact, and cavalry who have lost their speed are less effective than infantry.

Even if cavalry and cavalry confront each other, they will only touch each other at the moment, and then everyone will run away.In a large-scale cavalry battle, once separated, there may be no chance to meet each other again.Because, there is another enemy rider in front of you who is hitting you head-on.

When riding a horse to assassinate, the person borrows the horsepower, and the horse borrows the power of the person. The human and horse are integrated, and all the kinetic energy of the rapid sprint of the human and horse is collected on the tip of the spear. This kind of power is very huge. It will take the knight off the horse, so the problem that must be solved immediately with the spear is how to buffer this reaction force.

In ancient China, this problem was perfectly solved.In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when heavy cavalry swept the world, all cavalry in costumes held horses.This kind of weapon is extremely flexible, and after stabbing the enemy, it will bend like a big bow, and then eject the corpse.Moreover, on the horse lance, the cavalry also summed up a complete set of perfect tactics-put the horse lance flat, with the help of horsepower, pull it out like a whip, and cut the human body with a long and sharp lance blade.Skimming in front of the enemy's line, like peeling potatoes, weakening the enemy's strength layer by layer-this is also the standard method of heavy cavalry in the Northern Song Dynasty and Western Army.

However, it is not easy to make a weapon like Ma Chan, it usually takes three years, and the price is extremely expensive.

The state finances of the Northern Song Dynasty were sufficient, and it was still able to maintain several thousand heavy horses.After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, everyone felt that this kind of weapon was too expensive, and, along with the large number of firearms in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, they were installed in troops.No one can bear the loss suffered by the heavy cavalry of the horse and then charging the infantry formation.

Soon, the task of the cavalry changed from charging to harassing, roundabout intercepting and chasing the rout. The heavy cavalry was replaced by light cavalry, and the horses in the cavalry's hands were also replaced with sabers.

As for the poor medieval Europe, the spear cavalry developed into another look.Most of the front spear shafts of the riding spears in their hands are made of relatively brittle wood such as apple wood, so that once the spear shaft is hit hard, it will shatter.

A typical spear is more than two meters long. A sharp metal cone is installed on the head. The front part of the spear shaft is made of thinner and more brittle wood. And to protect the arm, the last part is a thicker wooden cone for weight and firm clamping.

As a time traveler, Wang Shen naturally knew this.

At the beginning, he just wanted to form a cavalry, but after thinking about it, this kind of cavalry with weak armor is really drawn to the battlefield, so they shouldn't die too quickly.Due to the lack of horses, the Song army summed up a whole set of tactics of defeating cavalry with steps.For example, use a bow and crossbow to press the formation, and use a shield to protect the light infantry behind.Then stand up the long spear, waiting for the blind cavalry to bump into it and be stabbed into skewers.

To break the spear infantry phalanx, the cavalry must be equipped with the same spear.

Inspired by European knights in the Middle Ages, Wang Shen also used brittle wood to make many spears for the cavalry, and made the front of the spears hollow.Once the enemy is stabbed, the spear shaft will break, which can ensure that the cavalry will neither be shot off the horse, nor will the wrist be broken due to the recoil force.

Of course, this kind of spear can only be used once, which consumes a lot of money, and can only be used on critical occasions.

Today, Wang Shen predicted that Kong Yanzhou would not be willing to just stand there and be beaten passively, and would definitely attack at the next moment.Therefore, he asked the cavalry to put on important armor and lances.

Facts have proved that the effect is very good. Kong Yanzhou's cavalry was instantly wiped out by Tabai, and they had no strength to fight back.

"Thanks to Wang Junshi who came up with this trick, that's probably what a genius is!" Fang Worong was surprised and admired: "I still have a lot to learn, a lot."

(End of this chapter)