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780 Collision
All the textbooks on the application of cavalry in the North and South Lecture Hall do not encourage charging with cavalry as the target. Only one book called "Talking in the Desert" briefly mentions what cavalry generals should do in such a situation.

The author of "The Story of Stepping on the Desert" is Ma Fang. This book is not a military book in the traditional sense. Bing Zhou Shangwen served as the captain until Longqingyi and the 15 years of the border war between Ming and Mongolia.

The reason why the old general compiled this military book was not to add teaching materials to the martial arts hall, but because a large number of novels written by Nanyang literati were in the hands of the students in the martial arts hall. The most brilliant young generals of the Empire spend their days looking at things that are not true, and go to the battlefield to lose their lives.

Unlike most opportunistic cavalry textbooks, when cavalry hedging is compiled by other textbooks, most of them pin their hopes on "I will be afraid if I am not afraid of him, and there will always be one side." This is indeed in line with the real situation. In the battle example, it is emphasized that "what should I do if I really collide with him", because he really collided with Alda's armored cavalry.

It was Datong in the 40th year of Jiajing. At that time, Ma Fang of Xuanfu, who was in town, rushed to rescue the siege. He relied on the early morning and night to attack the Alda camp to win. Alta integrated troops and horses to retreat alternately. Ri rallied for revenge.

At Tu'er Ridge and Yinlong River, the cavalry of the two armies charged and fought each other twice successively, which was extremely rare.

Ma Fang said in the book that a general should not hope that the enemy's army will not be brave, but pretend to be brave, and the temple will count the rest before deciding the outcome.

The meaning of this sentence is to let the cavalry generals take back their focus from the courage of the enemy and us, and turn their attention to weapons and armor, the morale of soldiers, and the quality of combat skills, rather than just focusing on blood and bravery.

If you are superior, there will always be someone who is superior to you. The fact that two horse armies charge each other is something that people who are not superior cannot do.

The so-called top is the belief in victory.

Black Cloud Dragoon had this, and his enemies had more.

170 genuine Spanish knights led more than [-] light cavalry retinues, stomping forward with heavy spears and spears hanging from the coat of arms of the family. The knight group may be the most powerful tactical charge. In France and England, the knights there It will not charge like this, because the knights of those countries have not yet been completely squeezed out by the cheap infantry regiments.

Since the Crusades brought back ancient Greek books, the retro Swiss phalanx and the Spanish phalanx have changed the war situation, and the infantry has been reformed for more than a hundred years. The combat thinking of the knights has not changed, but they face more challenges. The concept of this class and arms is brought back to the mortal world.

Knights are neither invincible heavenly soldiers nor useless stupid fools. They have experienced ups and downs. In the early days of the phalanx, the knights retreated from the main force of the war to the auxiliary force, and then became the key to determining the outcome when the phalanx became the mainstream of the war.

If we describe this cavalry team with an organizational structure that is easier for Ming Dynasty people to understand, they are more like 170 hundred households each leading their general banners to go out alone, leaving the banner troops behind, and getting on their horses to face the charge.

The knights of Spain have experienced more severe challenges than the knights of any country in the Old World. This is not only due to the rapid development of their own infantry corps, but also from the long-standing enemy in the North African War-the cunning Moors.

Unlike the French who abided by the spirit of chivalry, the Spanish knights charged towards the Ming army. When the distance between the two sides was close to [-] paces, it was unknown which knight in the battle group roared first, and everyone roared after them. The heroic battle Roar's words are not so aboveboard.

They were very heavy, and they rode taller, stronger and more powerful horses than Chinese horses. The hooves of the horses in the charge caused the earth to shake. In the earth-shattering shock, their roars could be heard throughout the battlefield.

"Spain! Santiago! Stab their horses! Stab their horses!"

Heiyunlong held up his long sword and galloped in the middle of the cavalry formation. The cavalry in the front line all raised their spears, and the cavalry in the back row carried their axes and long knives. In the battle formation formed by nine hundred cavalry, only the flags Guan Gao raised the five-party battle flag high, and charged away with the sound of hunting wind.

No one in the whole army mentioned their favorite pistols at this juncture, and they all charged the enemy in the heroic manner of ancient warriors.

Hei Yunlong yelled at the Spaniards and expressed his disdain with his eyes. The Beiyang cavalry was trained to charge in silence, so that the accumulated momentum was not easy to leak. Only at the last moment could the supreme commander shout and issue military orders. Now, he He is the supreme commander of the cavalry!

One hundred steps.

In the battle formation, the flag officer's flag was slowly lowered, pointing the spearhead in front of the horse. The cavalry on both sides could see the enemy's face billowing in the smoke and dust.

The two armies realized this situation almost at the same time. At the end of the collision, none of the officers gave any orders, but the distance between the horses of both sides was slightly separated to welcome the final collision.

The galloping Heiyunlong took a deep breath. They were finally going to fight the enemy in the most stupid form. The long knife in the palm turned slightly, and the left hand holding the rein turned over to clasp the top of the handle of the knife. At the moment when the cavalry on both sides were about to meet, He only issued a five-character military order and shouted: "Let's charge and gather again!"

"Assault and regroup!"

Bang!
The moment the two earth-wrapped dragons collided, no one could tell which of the two sides hit the enemy first. Almost at the moment when people could not feel the flow of time, the impact sounded one after another in front of the formation.

Spears exploded in the air and shattered into sawdust.

One by one, heavy figures flew up and fell.

The war horses collapsed and neighed.

Then it was crushed by the galloping horses.

Almost at the moment of the battle, the riders holding spears in front of the cavalry of the Ming army fell off their horses one after another. The goal of the Spanish knights is too clear-they don’t hit people, and the knights honed the knowledge of accurately piercing the enemy’s throat The technique was used by them to kill horses.

At the same distance, the horse's head came into contact with the spear earlier than the human. This is a tactic they summed up in the battle with the Moorish cavalry. Now, the Ming cavalry suffered the same loss as the Moorish.

The cavalry of the Ming army was not so kind. The Spanish knights who broke through the front line still maintained enough impact to hit the heavy cavalry formed by the Ming army with battle axes, two-handed bones, and Guandao, and they were swept off their horses cleanly one by one.

Huge casualties happened to the two equally proud and stubborn cavalry at the same time. When the two sides passed by on the wrong horse, and the battlefield was full of corpses, those fallen soldiers who escaped with their elite weapons and luck trembled with the help of their armor linings. The seriously injured body stood up, drew out its weapon almost at the same time, and slashed at the enemies with different clothes.

The two cavalry from the east and the west regrouped at the other end of the battlefield. Heiyunlong paused in mid-air with his raised hand. He nodded slowly to the high platform covered with an umbrella in the distance, and at the same time greeted those enemies who were no less heroic than himself. Cast a sympathetic look.

Because he saw a rider with a flag on his back running dozens of steps from the high platform, waving the command flag at the artillery position, and the artillery who had pointed the artillery at his own people before the charge accurately asked General Zhenshuo to speak for him.

Amidst the roar of the cannon, Hei Yunlong lowered his arms and shouted: "Beiyang cavalry, charge!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)