"Your Majesty!" Seeing the little emperor leading a few people over, Ni Liang quickly dismounted and saluted.

"Yo, what about archery!" Zhao Bing went to the palace and led a brigade of guards to accompany him. However, they could not come for vacation like themselves, so they naturally still had to train, so they leveled a piece of land on the east side of the palace as a playground. At this time, Ni Liang was leading the cavalry to practice volley shooting and waved his hand to let him avoid rituals.

"Your Majesty, yes!" Ni Liang nodded and replied.

"How are you practicing?" Zhao Bing turned his face and said. He is taller now, so he finally doesn't have to raise his face to talk to Ni Liang.

"Your Majesty is smart and has seen through the mystery of riding and shooting. That guy will never dare to challenge me again!" Ni Liang said with a silly smile.

"What is the mystery? It's just a little trick. You were just misled by that guy named Baijia Nu!" Zhao Bing said with a smile.

After being captured in the battle of Quanzhou, Ni Liang was asked to leave. At first, Zhao Bing wondered what he wanted to give him a prisoner. What was even more strange was that Ni Liang didn't fight or kill him, and offered him good food and wine. After a long time, he realized that he was obsessed with Bai Jianshu's riding and shooting skills and raised him to learn his skills.

Ni Liang came from a martial arts family and naturally learned horse kung fu, but he realized that he was much worse than the hundred-family slaves, so he wanted to get close to him and steal the teacher. The Mongolians were simple and Ni Liang was also a fool. The two of them had a temper and became friends after a while. He also learned horse-controlling and fighting kung fu from it. He had a foundation and his skills were not weak. All he lacked was the advice of famous teachers. In less than a year, the hundred-family slaves could not defeat him easily.

Then, the imperial guards became a cavalry regiment, and Ni Liang followed Baijiashu to learn cavalry command and marching formation. You should know that Baijiashu's young man joined the army and followed his father to fight for many years, so he naturally had a lot of experience in the use of cavalry. The two of them became deeper and deeper, so they did not hide it. They gave him detailed instructions and taught the cavalry's combat methods.

Over the years, Ni Liangye has become familiar with the way the Mongolian army marched and arranged the formation, but what made him feel worried was that he could never surpass the Baijiashu in archery. He only said that he should practice diligently, but he could not give any more in-depth guidance. Ni Liang was also a warrior who naturally knew what it was about, so he could only observe how he rode his horse and shot archery secretly, and practiced himself, but he could never reach the level of Baijiashu.

Zhao Bing knew that his cavalry unit was just like starting from scratch, lacking experience in using and training, and even lacking cavalry talents. Ni Liang was also a piece of paper. He used the Mongols as his division to learn cavalry tactics, so he was of course pleased and let it go and did not interfere. At the same time, Zhao Bing discovered that after changing clothes, the muskets were unacceptable to the local conditions in the cavalry.

In order to adapt to cavalry operations, Zhao Bing cut off the barrel of the flintlock rifle and removed the bayonet. However, he found that in training, only a few cavalry squadrons could maintain charge when firing, and once most cavalry squadrons fired, it affected the consistency of the charge process and greatly reduced the impact force. In this case, once the opponent's cavalry charges resolutely and is in the same dense formation, then his side will easily be defeated as a whole.

After many exercises, Zhao Bing and the generals realized that muskets were useless to cavalry and it was difficult to maintain formation during hedging. The second is that it was difficult to reload on the horseback with high speed movement. That is to say, during the battle, they only had one chance to shoot, but they had to withstand the opponent's repeated attacks and were trapped in an extremely passive situation. Therefore, muskets only have more opportunities to use when facing harassment of the rangers. In this case, Zhao Bing decided to prohibit the use of muskets in charge, but charged with swords and re-listed the riding and shooting into the training content. Of course, in addition to the distributed weapons, auxiliary weapons can also be selected to strengthen their combat effectiveness in melee.

As the leader of the military field, Zhao Bing naturally had to learn horse riding and archery. He knew very well that in this chaotic era, he would have to learn more combat skills and he would have more money to save his life. But he soon discovered the bottleneck, and Ni Liang became depressed. After asking, he realized that he thought that Baijia Slaves only taught some of the superficiality of riding and archery and refused to teach his true skills. He understood this. After all, Baijia Slaves were Mongolians, so of course he was unwilling to teach his full ability to the enemy, but he could not open his head and take it out to see it himself.

Therefore, Zhao Bing, while encouraging everyone to train hard and summarize experience, still focused on Baijiashu. After all, it is much more difficult to use than to explore it for a long time. In order to get him to take out some real things, he could only make some small tricks. He asked Ni Liang to play a bet with him to compete with him for riding and shooting skills. Of course, the bet was quite large, and after drinking halfway, he pretended to be an ordinary soldier and secretly watched it. The result of the bet was that Baijiashu became the winner, and Zhao Bing of course also gained something.

Everyone knows that the difficulty of riding and shooting is that the rider not only shoots arrows when advancing, but also rises and falls while advancing. It is very difficult to shoot accurately at this time. Although in war, especially when facing infantry formed formations, the arrows shot by the cavalry only need a certain battlefield coverage rate to cause certain damage to the enemy without point-to-point sniping. However, no matter what, shooting archery on the running horse's back is much more difficult than riding a horse and much higher than archery.

However, when Zhao Bing found that when a hundred slaves fired arrows, he usually chose to go when the man and horse reached the highest point of the wave. After he came down and experienced, he found that there would be a moment of suspension at this time, and then the moment he fell was the most stable time, which was the best opportunity to scatter. Of course, if you want to shoot accurately at high speed, it would undoubtedly be very difficult and require a lot of practice. However, shooting arrows on the back of a normal running horse is just the preliminary stage of riding and shooting!

Due to the complexity and change of the battlefield, and in addition to head attacks, cavalry will also have roundabout encirclement, pursuit and harassment, or blocking the rear to chase the enemy, etc., the content of cavalry must be further deepened again. Taking the cavalry led by the right hand as an example, the easiest thing should be to shoot arrows on the left side of the forward direction, followed by forward and backward, and the most difficult thing is to shoot arrows on the right. Because with the left hand holding a bow and the right hand hooking the string, it is difficult to point the bow and arrow to the right side on the horse's back.

Zhao Bing found that Baijias would solve the problem in three ways. If an enemy suddenly appears on the right side of the direction of the advance, at this time, you need to adjust the direction of the horse first so that the enemy is within his attack angle; or you need the cavalry to make a difficult body posture adjustment on the running horse's back to make the bow point to the right; or you use your right hand to hold the bow and hook the strings with your left hand, which is called opening the left and right bow.

Zhao Bing thought that he could still practice the first two items, but he believed that he did not have the ability to draw the left and right bows. Such talents were rare. It would be good if ten could train one, two of them. However, they felt that it was more realistic to choose some left-handed cavalry to form a team to deal with the targets that suddenly appeared from the right wing. This way, both directions can be taken into account, and there was no need to spend a lot of energy to practice drawing the left and right bows.

In addition, Zhao Bing discovered that the Mongols are worthy of being the horse-shang ethnic group, and their understanding of horses is much deeper than theirs. In combat, the main attack direction of cavalry archery is the front, left, and back of the forward route, which is commonly known as the three types of shooting methods: opposite treading, threading, and threading. The opposite treading means shooting on the left, the division of threading is shooting on the front and the right of a small range, and threading is shooting on the back, so riding and shooting does not require complete coverage of 360 degrees in front, back, left and right.

Therefore, in terms of riding and shooting, in addition to constantly changing angles and positions on the horse's back, the sound of the bow string during the scattering may also cause the horse to be frightened. The horse's brain is relatively simple. When the horse adapts to the sound of the bow and bow string on the left and on the horse's back, if the bow and arrow are taken to the right side of the horse for operation, you will often find that the horse has only learned to adapt to the sound of the bow and arrow and bow string appearing on the left. Therefore, even if the frightened horse's movement is slight, it will cause the arrow to deviate and even miss the best time to deviate.

These situations have been ignored in the past, so there is a deviation in riding and shooting. To solve this, only the horse needs to be overcome in daily training. However, Baijianu is very familiar with the temperament of a horse. He does not have a fixed war horse, but before the game begins, he uses a bow and arrow to rub the horse's nose, forehead, neck and other parts, and from time to time, gently pulling the bowstring next to the horse and on the back, first letting the horse adapt to the sound of the bowstring in different directions. With his skillful archery technique, it is not difficult to win.

Moreover, Zhao Bing also found that Baijiazi would carry a cavalry bow and a stair bow at the same time even when performing a cavalry betting game. Unlike Ni Liang, a cavalry bow is stronger and more powerful than a cavalry bow. Cavalry can dismount and shoot on the horse, and use a cavalry bow to kill the enemy. If they lose a war horse or are not conducive to the movement of a war horse on the terrain, they can use a stair bow to fight...

Zhao Bing informed Ni Liang of his observation and asked him to try to practice. He had a good foundation, but his mind was not very smart but not stupid. After a period of practice and training the war horses, the slaves of Baijia were no longer opponents. After hearing this, Zhao Bing suddenly realized that the same bow and horse had different results in the hands of the two, so the outcome lies in the use of people. It can also be said that there are no invincible troops in the world, only invincible tactics, and the use of the trick depends on who can use it!

How the infantry defeated the cavalry? This question has been thinking about since Zhao Bing formed the army. The previous few battles were mostly water battles or defensive battles, so the enemy's cavalry could not exert its power. However, this time, he not only had to try to annihilate the enemy, but also expanded the strategic area, so he had to face the enemy's battles directly. However, the four thousand households of the enemy stationed in Hangzhou were old-fashioned brigades, and they were composed of northerners, so they must be the main ones, which made him quite afraid.

Zhao Bing was not actually worried about facing the enemy cavalry battle. He should say that he hoped that they would fight against him. You should know that even in the plains that are most suitable for cavalry combat, the cavalry commander knew that if the troops were equal, it would be difficult for them to break through the infantry phalanx with a tight formation. Moreover, he had the firearms that had an absolute advantage to complement each other, but he also had difficulty in capturing the main force of the enemy cavalry, and would be dragged down by him.

In fact, this problem is like the topic of how modern infantry breaks tanks. Tanks themselves are not invincible, just an anti-tank missile is enough. The problem is that the emergence of tanks is not how difficult it is to destroy, but the Biao Han of the large-scale assault tactics. The use of cavalry is also diverse, the most outstanding one is cavalry strategic mobile combat and the most effective mobile tactics. Therefore, the advantages of weapons themselves are not absolute, and the tactical advantages caused by weapons are the real advantages.

As long as the enemy exerts the mobility of the cavalry, they can drag down the infantry, such as encirclement and division, long-distance raids, constant harassment, etc., that is, cavalry has an absolute strategic advantage over infantry. Whether to fight or not can depend on the cavalry. Faced with the maneuver of the cavalry, infantry can only have a headache, and the method that can be adopted is not a head-on decisive battle. In this regard, if the cavalry's strategic maneuver advantage can be exerted to the extreme, then infantry can only beg for the fortress to be strong enough and the food is sufficient.

Another point is that cavalry can be defeated, but they can easily escape and be difficult to annihilate. If they lose, they can make a comeback. Once infantry loses, they are often easily wiped out. Therefore, the conclusion is that if the cavalry's sports advantage can be maximized, infantry will not be able to defeat them at all. There is a famous saying in the military industry: an army that can only hide behind the defense line has no future, and it is not enough to win a certain part of hedging alone.

Therefore, Zhao Bing knew that to defeat the cavalry, we should find a strategic solution. First, we can attack and rescue them, just like the two Lis in the early Tang Dynasty, occupying the key points of the Turks and forcing the enemy to fight with him; second, building a base, step by step, sticking to the key points, and squeezing the range of activities of the enemy cavalry. However, to defend each key point, it is not only necessary to mobilize a large number of troops, but it is extremely difficult and almost impossible. But the problem lies in how the subsequent grain transport troops deal with mobile cavalry. A single infantry will always suffer a loss in fighting against the cavalry in a large area.

Another thing is to use the terrain to limit the power of the cavalry in rugged mountains, hilly land and dense river networks, and to find ways to use strategic levels such as solid walls and clear the fields, set up defenses everywhere, siege the city and attack aid, etc. to drag down the enemy cavalry, lose the ability to attack, and then fight at the right time. Therefore, how infantry breaks the cavalry depends on how the opponent uses the cavalry, and then prescribe the right medicine, so it is time to test the commander's ability.
Chapter completed!