Chapter Thirty-Five The Little Trial
In the second year of Zhaoxiang, the eighth edition of the "Secret Ye Army's platoon and formation operation code issued by the Ministry of War was officially released, and the troops were issued to comply with the implementation.
Stayed in Myanmar is a standard formation.
Five hundred infantrymen broke out in front, with 500 crossbowmen behind, and 500 light infantry behind, and 500 light cavalry behind.
On both sides of the powerful crossbowmen are five hundred cavalry each, one side is five hundred heavy cavalry, and the other side is light cavalry.
This formation looks like a large cross when viewed from above.
The reason for such a formation is that there are multiple considerations:
If the enemies were all cavalry, as soon as they saw the heavy infantry in front, they would use heavy cavalry to attack them in impulse. The heavy infantry of the Sabrei Army has made new progress today:
The front one was still two hundred Mo Dao Soldiers, but the end of the originally one-foot-long Mo Dao had changed from the original one-piece point cone to three threads. Under normal circumstances, if Mo Dao Soldiers took the initiative to attack, Mo Dao Soldiers would still spin the one-foot-long point cone on.
In the case of defense, a three-foot-long pointed cone will be selected!
As mentioned earlier, the Shattered Ye Army had 65 regular camps, and one regular camp had only 200 Mo Dao soldiers. In this case, the total number of Mo Dao soldiers in the country was only 13,000, so at least 15,000 Mo Dao soldiers were needed.
Since the Qin Dynasty adopted the steel-spraying method to make iron, it had reached the level in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. With the addition of manganese materials, it had actually reached the level in the 18th century. Such iron materials had the most moderate carbon content and did not require repeated calcination, but only repeated pounding. Therefore, the casting method became possible. Originally, the Tang Dynasty made a 20-pound and one-meter-long moth knife, which required at least fifty pounds of iron to be made.
However, in the Great Qin State, because the casting method is used, the mold embryo is made in advance to cast, and thirty kilograms of iron material are carried out, and then beat and grind it.
The difficulty here is the spiral, but with molding, it is all simple. Since the tip cone at the end is not the end of the main battle, it is mainly used to assist in attack or inserted on the ground as a spear to defend against heavy cavalry. Therefore, the initially formed threads can be slightly polished on the second generation of the Great Qin Dynasty or a machine tool that combines wood and iron.
Seeing that the enemy was all cavalry, Mo Daobing, who was in the front, quickly replaced the end of the Mo Dao with a three-foot-long pointed cone!
So, the Mo knife in their hands became a Mo knife that was 100 to 300 feet long!
Such a modao is obviously not suitable for fighting, but it is most suitable for defense.
Two hundred Mo Daojians are divided into two rows and stand at the front. The horizontal distance is at least 100 meters. One hundred meters looks very short, but in fact it is already a long one. Generally, the longest side of the school playground is only more than 100 meters.
A lengthened Modao weighs twenty kilograms, and if it is a common short tail, it will only be fifteen kilograms!
Behind Mo Daobing are three rows of heavy infantry holding tiger spears. The tiger spear of the Shattered Ye Army was originally 12 feet long. In fact, the courage, strength and sharpness of the war were second only to Mo Daobing. However, their tiger spear was still a tree pole (ash pole), and it was also the largest production tree in the Western Regions. It was also the front and back of ordinary families.
With a one-foot-long gun blade, a one-foot-long holster, a tiger gun weighs ten kilograms, which is only two kilograms heavier than the spear used by light infantry.
Since Modao is made of fine iron, there is no problem of replacement. There is no weapon in this world that can damage Modao in a short time.
The tiger spearmen is different. No matter how tough the tree pole is, it can be cut off, stabbed, or smashed. Therefore, the tiger spearmen must have spare weapons, and a four-foot-long two-handed sword is a must-have.
The powerful crossbow soldiers behind were still equipped with single-body crossbows and strong bows. With the continuous transformation of the Works Department, the original two-stone single-body crossbows of the Tang Dynasty had actually reached two and a half stones when the weight and tension were not changed. Similarly, the strong crossbows had reached three and a half stones.
In addition to strong crossbows, powerful crossbow soldiers are also equipped with one-handed horizontal swords.
The light infantry at the end was an ordinary spear that was one foot long. The spear tip was the standard point cone of the Tang Dynasty. Such a spear tip was very easy to cast, especially when mastering the steel-spraying method to make iron. The spear pole was still a tree pole.
In addition, the light infantry also had a one-handed horizontal knife and a pair of incisor bows with about seven-foot power, which was the standard configuration of the mansion soldiers before the Tang Dynasty.
As time came, the Saber Ye Army gradually abandoned the heavy infantry, strong crossbow soldiers, and light infantry as ways to use them as cavalry. After all, they had specialties in their skills, but they still had horses, but in fact they used them as horse-riding infantry, and the strong motor power still exists.
The five hundred people as heavy cavalrymen are actually almost the same as before. Since they were fighting immediately, the length of the tiger rifle was shorter than that of the heavy infantry, which was one foot long. In addition to the tiger rifle, it was also equipped with a short crossbow and a cavalry knife.
At this time, the Shattered Ye Army completely abandoned the iron maces, iron whips, etc. used by the Tang Dynasty. All the heavy cavalrymen used tiger guns, but they naturally chose varieties with large body and strong endurance on the war horses.
Because the Great Qin Kingdom occupied a vast grassland, there were four major varieties including Yanqi horses, Ahama (the name of the Sweat-blooded BMWs by the Sogdians), Tochard Rome, and Turkic horses, which almost cover all the excellent horse breeds in the world. After more than ten years of breeding at the Bosishan Horse Farm, the war horses finally took the path of slow and specialization.
Therefore, at least on the war horses, the Broken Leaf Army is no worse than the enemies who use a large number of Persian horses and big horses.
Furthermore, with the use of hoofs, the service life of the war horse is greatly improved, and this section makes the surrounding forces beyond the reach.
In summer, heavy cavalry war horses also have vests, just like cavalry, they also have cloth armor. For any force at this time, the speed of making an iron piece is far greater than that of the chain mail. If the chain mail is equipped with a large amount of war horses, only the forces that use slaves can be used in large quantities.
The light cavalry is a single meter-long ordinary cavalry rifle (200) and a cavalry shield (300) configuration, and the war horses do not have armor.
However, the light cavalry had a single-body crossbow and canceled the short crossbow. After careful discussion by the Ministry of War, it was believed that under the premise of heavy cavalry, the light cavalry first used a single-body crossbow to shoot and then had the highest efficiency in the battle.
Of course, it would be a different matter if the light cavalry fought alone.
The troops where the commander is located are often the light cavalry battalion behind the light infantry. It is not that the commander cannot be used as heavy cavalry, but because heavy cavalry needs to charge in many cases, the commander can only command as a mobile force and is at the last light cavalry battalion.
This standard formation really attracted the enemy.
A thousand light cavalry from the Dashi Army ran over. When they approached the heavy infantry in front of the Sabuye Army about fifty steps, they were ready to fire bows and arrows. The effective range of the five-foot bow and arrow was actually better to get closer, but they obviously used preparatory shooting.
At this time, since there are heavy infantry in front of you, you can only stay in place and be beaten passively. No matter how powerful your armor is, it cannot be unscathed. The light cavalry can fly over one wave after another to shoot. This cycle will always make you angry.
If the cavalry on both sides of the heavy infantry rushed over to fight, the light cavalry of the Dashi Army would pull away and run away. Because the endurance of the Dashi Horse is the most powerful in the world, no horse breed can run past it. Therefore, after running to a certain level, the light cavalry still has the chance to turn over and kill back. At that time, the Dashi Horse still has spare energy, and the chasing enemy cavalry is shaking.
At this time, the heavy cavalry of the Dashi Army can show its strengths.
This combat mode was first created when the Persian Empire fought against the Romans. It once defeated the Roman legion, which was mainly heavy infantry, and later developed it in the Mongols, leaving the European heavy armoured legion at a loss.
Why did the Ministry of War of the Great Qin State have such a scheming of troops and formations?
That's because of the super bug Sun Xiurong.
If you line up a cavalry formation of three thousand people, the enemy will think about it, "Would you like to use heavy cavalry to rush directly into the formation, or..."
Such a battle lasted for a long time. Both sides continued to test, with surprise soldiers, regular soldiers, cut off food channels, night attacks, harassing the rear and other means emerging one after another. When one side's morale reaches a low point, it will be unfavorable to attack. Ma Lin obviously didn't want this.
So, one thousand light cavalry of Gazervar rushed up without hesitation. Behind it, the other two thousand light cavalry were eager to try and ready to rush over to support at any time.
"call out......"
As soon as the light cavalry's bow and arrow were lifted, the powerful crossbow soldiers in the Shattered Ye Army formation took the lead in launching!
A powerful crossbow with two and a half stones and three and a half stones is not comparable to a single bow with five-foot power. After a long period of training, if the elevation angle is appropriate, the crossbow arrows falling from the sky will have amazing lethality!
Although I have heard of the powerful crossbow of the Sailing Ye Army, before I really understand it, especially in front of a five hundred infantry formation, anyone would relax their vigilance.
So, in an instant, the light cavalry of the Dashi Army suffered a lot of losses, and most of the light cavalry were behind them. This scene made the eyes of Jiazheval, who was still watching in the camp, feel a little solemn.
But as a light cavalry of the Great Food Army, he naturally would not be completely passively beaten. Seeing that the frontal shooting was inappropriate, he quickly turned his head around the King Kong Camp of Stayland and started to move!
But they were destined to be disappointed, because their main combat weapon was bows and arrows, and the single crossbows in the Wei army camp had a shooting range of about 300 meters, and the range of strong bows and crossbows was close to 400 meters. The light cavalry of the Dashi Army used a cavalry of about five pounds of force to be only a pitiful seventy meters. Therefore, no matter how they moved, they were under the attack of the Saoye Army!
When they walked around to the 500 light barracks led by Stayran-Myanmar in the back formation, they were also hit by a double blow from riding bows and powerful crossbows!
The tempted light cavalry left more than a hundred people on the battlefield and retreated in shame.
However, Gazelvar did not seem too frustrated, and his strength was still there.
But with the sound of drums and whistle in the middle camp, Sailing Ye Jun was not ready to give him too much time to think.
Chapter completed!