Zhao Bing looked as he walked. This offensive and defensive battle was in a normal manner, even on the most intense battlefield in Baihuling. Each unit responded to the measures in Caodian. In his opinion, the only highlight appeared in the attack. The approaching shooting tactics of the first brigade, and the enemy fell into chaos after a round of volleys, resulting in the collapse of the formation.

"Tian Zheng, why did you violate Caodian and order shooting within 40 steps?" Zhao Bing asked at the breakthrough point of breaking the formation.

"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that one of the enemy troops was defeated by our army one after another, and his morale was already low, just like a frightened bird. As long as they were given another fatal blow, they might collapse; secondly, we lost the support of artillery during the attack. If we want to break the enemy formation, we must not only give it a heavy blow, but also suppress them in morale, so that they can be cowardly before fighting!" Tian Zhong slowed down, hesitated and said again.

"The third is that the last general is worried about the bows and arrows of the Yuan army. If we shoot at a hundred steps according to Caodian, the hit rate is relatively low, which is not enough to cause great damage to the enemy. We can only continue to use marching shooting to attack the enemy, which will prolong the time to catch the enemy, but the enemy can constantly mobilize archers to block us, which will cause greater casualties. It is better to endure it and enter the distance with the maximum lethality of the musket and damage the enemy at one time."

"Your Majesty, the last general feels the same!" Li Zhen, the commander of the Second Brigade, took the speech, "We can block the enemy's fierce attack, and in addition to defending the city, artillery also contributed to the great contribution. The enemy was intercepted and fired by artillery during the attack, causing them great casualties, and attacking the city was at the end of a powerful crossbow. Therefore, if there is no support from artillery, if the muskets alone want to block the enemy's troops, they need to invest more troops and increase the fire density, otherwise it will be difficult to suppress the archers who have a faster firing rate than us."

"Well, this problem does exist. Our infantry lacks small support firepower, which has indeed caused some difficulties in defense and breakthroughs!" Zhao Bing nodded and admitted that this problem actually exists.

In fact, there has been a debate about which one is better or worse than the bow or musket. Zhao Bing also participated in it at the beginning, and he personally experienced a big debate in the Song Dynasty. However, he won with the performance of muskets and was able to promote the muskets. In fact, in this debate, there is only one core reason for winning, that is, muskets do not need long-term training and have almost no dependence on their body and technology. However, longbowers need years of training and have high requirements for physical condition in battle.

But this does not mean that Zhao Bing does not know that muskets have insurmountable shortcomings compared to bows. To be fair, other factors listed by both sides are indeed reasonable, such as slow firing speed, poor accuracy, large weight, high faults, etc. However, he knew that in fact, no one should say about the range and hit rate, muskets should have the advantage in range. Moreover, the bow maintenance is also very cumbersome, especially in the humid and rainy environments in the south, the bow strings are easily damp and loose. Pulling the bow is also a physical job, and continuous firing will also be exhausted, resulting in slowing down the speed and reducing the range.

The biggest disadvantage of muskets and bows is actually the rate of fire. An archer can perform six aiming and shooting within one minute, while a rigorously trained musketeer can only complete five loadings at most, and ordinary people can achieve three times after training. This still requires no errors. When shooting, musketeers generally use three rows of depth, while archers can reach six rows of depth, and the rear row can use projectiles to increase density.

The solution is to increase the accuracy and rate of fire when the musket is not accurate enough, the range is close, and the rate of fire is slow. The solution is to increase the accuracy and rate of fire by increasing the density and increasing the number of people, so a dense musketeer queue is adopted. As for the near range, you can only rely on the queue to shorten the distance between the two sides to make up for it. The musketeers must line up and continue to advance against the opponent's attack to bring the opponent closer to the range.

However, linear tactics are designed for the weaknesses of muskets, which also leads to inevitable casualties when narrowing the distance between both sides. In addition, the performance of the compound recurve bow is too excellent. Whether it is a cavalry or an infantryman, recurve bows can be used for shooting in rapid movement. The advantage of bore-loading muskets is offset, and it also leads to the popularity of archery and horse riding in China for thousands of years until it is eliminated by foreign guns and cannons.

Perhaps this reluctance is similar to Zhao Bing's current "attachment" to the crossbow. However, it does not mean that he does not want to change. He just needs to observe and go through more practical tests. Rascal change will cause chaos. The weapons that can accompany the infantry must not only be light, but also be able to fire quickly and continuously to suppress the enemy's archers, but there is no ready-made firearm in the army now!

Zhao Bing had no solution at the moment, so he could only remember it in his heart and led everyone out of the valley entrance. This place was even more messy, with tents crooked and collapsed, and the bodies of people and horses were recorded. Obviously, a chaotic battle happened here. After looking through a few words about the enemy corpses, most of which were injured on the back, indicating that they did not organize decent resistance at all and were killed while running away. It seems that defeat is as good as a mountain, but it is applicable to any army.

Walking further forward, you can see the messy horse hoof prints, and there are scattered corpses a little further away. Zhao Bing walked over to check them one by one and found that there were both soldiers from his own side and Yuan army. Most of the soldiers from his own side were arrowed in the face or were severely hit by blunt weapons, and few were injured by sharp weapons. In addition to being shot dead by muskets, the enemy was mostly assassinated by sharp weapons.

"Report to Your Majesty, Xu Shang, commander of the Cavalry Brigade's Battalion, is cleaning the battlefield!" Suddenly someone stepped forward and stood attentively and reported.

"Commander Xu, have all the wounded gathered?" Zhao Bing raised his hand and asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, the wounded have been briefly bandaged by the medical team and sent for further treatment. Now we are searching for the bodies of the dead in our army!" Xu Shang replied.

"We must find all the bodies of our soldiers, register their names and names, be calm and keep a good mark on the funeral!" Zhao Bing nodded and reminded.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xu Shang saluted again.

"Oh, wait a moment." Xu Shang was about to leave, but Zhao Bing suddenly remembered something and called him, "Why are most of the soldiers who rescued the ambulance injured? Where are they?"

"Report to Your Majesty, according to the preliminary statistics of the last general, most of our soldiers were injured by bows and arrows, and the wounds were generally on the limbs and faces. There were not many injuries in the chest and abdomen, and they were blocked by armor, which was not fatal. Many of the dead were injured and were trampled by horse hooves after falling off a horse." Xu Shangluo thought for a while and reported.

"Okay, I understand!" Zhao Bing expressed his clarity after hearing this and waved his hand to let him do it.

"Most of the injured in our brigade are on the limbs. It seems that the breastplate designed by His Majesty is very protective and difficult to penetrate by bows and arrows. It is not inferior to the iron armor of the cavalry." Tian Zhong, the commander of the brigade, smiled.

"But I remembered that many people complained privately, saying that I favored one and the other, and let the cavalry wear iron armor and the infantry wear some broken porcelain pieces." Zhao Bing just asked, just because he wanted to see how protective the porcelain breastplate was, but now it seems that he has achieved his original goal. Thinking about it, he was questioned by many people at the beginning, several generals around Diandian teased.

"How do you want to talk about His Majesty's wiseness?" Several people said with a smile after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, Fang Sheng is back." Ni Liang reported at this time. Everyone looked north and saw dust and smoke rolling over there, and a team of cavalry was coming quickly towards the valley.

"See Your Majesty!" Fang Sheng received a report on the way. His Majesty was patrolling the battlefield in front. He immediately urged his horse to come first, and then dismounted and rushed over to meet him thirty steps away.

"Is it a pleasure to kill today?" Zhao Bing looked at the bloodstains on his battle robe, and knew that Fang Sheng had personally rushed into the battle.

"Haha, I couldn't help it for a while and rushed forward for two sets!" Fang Sheng replied with a little embarrassedly.

“杀了几个?”赵昺面色稍缓地道.

"Your Majesty, the last generals killed one thousand enemy commander, two centuries, and seven or eight ordinary soldiers. Unfortunately, Tuman ran away. I chased after twenty miles but couldn't catch up. I could already see the city ahead before retreating!" Fang Sheng said straight.

"It's amazing! You are the only one who kills the generals in front of our guards. What should I reward you?" Zhao Bing's eyes stood up and laughed.

"Your Majesty, I will realize that I am wrong!" Fang Sheng saw that His Majesty was not good-looking, and immediately understood and quickly apologized.

"Take your knife over!" Zhao Bing ignored him and stretched out his hand.

"Your Majesty..." Fang Sheng felt a sudden sigh of heart when he saw His Majesty ask for his own knife. According to the regulations of the Caodian, the chief officer at the control level is prohibited from leaving the command post without authorization. His Majesty violated military discipline and wanted to deprive him of his command, but he still held the knife in his hands and handed it to His Majesty.

"Is this knife working?" Zhao Bing took the knife, pulled out a piece and immediately smelled a bloody smell. He frowned and asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, this saber can be stabbed or cut, which is very easy." Fang Sheng replied with a slight smile on his face.

"Yeah!" Zhao Bing snorted, pulled out all the swords, handed them to Ni Liang, took the sword closer and carefully checked them, and then pulled the sword and slashed them twice.

"Your Majesty, Fang Zhuang is just an impulse, and he will not die of punishment!" Ni Liang was startled when he saw His Majesty chopping the knife and said hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, the general is right. Fang Zheng is impatient. It is just a temporary rise of killing. It is definitely not intentional. Please show mercy!" Tian Zhong also quickly stopped him. He knew that this was an extraordinary period. In order to purify military discipline, the young emperor killed one to warn him. If he didn't do it, he would really attack Fang Sheng and chop him with his own hands.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Although Fang Tongzhi violated military discipline, he should spare him because he had just killed several enemy generals!" Li Zhen pleaded with mercy.

"I'm not apologizing!" Sun Jin kicked his face pale and sweated coldly. Fang Shengdao was stunned on the spot.

"Your Majesty, I will be guilty of the crime. Please spare this time!" Fang Sheng did not expect that the matter would be so serious, and he knew that His Majesty was very strict in his military administration. When he saw him pulling his sword, he felt that he was finished. His mind was blank. He reacted after being reminded by Sun Jin and fell to the tongue.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Bing glanced at everyone and said sternly. His face was stern, but his heart was extremely collapsed. What are these and what, he really just wanted to see his knife.

After Zhao Bing came to this world, he invented many objects, including this saber. Although he had been experimented, he had not yet undergone actual combat tests. Everyone understands that there are differences between the experimental state and the actual combat state, especially in actual combat, which are many unexpected situations, which are by no means possible in experiments. Therefore, he has always been worried that transplanting modern things to ancient times would lead to unacceptable conditions. This time, he went to the battlefield not only to people, but also to test new weapons.

During this period, the Yuan army cavalry equipment was equipped with necessary horse bows, scimitars, spears, maces, lassoes and other auxiliary weapons; while the Song army cavalry equipment often used bows, spears and ring-headed swords, but they were mainly fighting weapons. At present, Zhao Bing replaced bows and arrows with muskets, but they must also have melee weapons. To be honest, the ring-headed sword was not suitable for cavalry use, so Zhao Bing wanted to replace it with modern cavalry swords.

The modern cavalry sword styles trace the origins of the shadows of Britain and France. Due to the differences in combat ideas and practical experience, the cavalry's standard weapons and killing actions have their own characteristics, and they take two ways. The differences in the two armies may be because the British army's enemies are all over the world, and many enemies are Eastern cavalry with poor discipline. As a mainland country, France's combat targets are mostly trained and disciplined European troops. The weapons of the British cavalry are scimitars suitable for chopping, while the standard weapons of the French cavalry are straight swords suitable for assassination.

The advantage of a scimitar is that it will leave huge wounds when chopping, which can easily shake the enemy's morale; the chopping and slashing movements are easy to complete continuously during charge, which is convenient for repeated sprinting; the disadvantage is that chopping and slashing are easy to cause injuries but not easily die. The advantage of a straight sword is that although the wound is not large, it is almost inevitable to die when stabbing the trunk or head. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to pull out after stabbing the opponent when charging quickly, which is not conducive to repeated sprinting. Whether to use a scimitar or a straight sword, both Britain and France believe that their choices have solid practical and mathematical persuasive power.

As for which genre to choose, of course, Zhao Bing would not be the only one in history, but he chose to believe in "Batton". The famous American general Patton also spent a lot of effort on whether the cavalry should use a scimitar or a straight sword. After learning in depth from European professional swordsman Clerry for a week, he finally surrendered to the skills of the French. The fighting movements of the American cavalry changed from chopping to assassination, and the cavalry swords equipped by the US military based on Patton's research are therefore also called Patton's sword.

Zhao Bing copied the Patton sword based on his memory. This cavalry knife adopts a linear design. The knife is two feet and two inches long and the blade is eight minutes wide. The blade is very long. It can be used perfectly for assassination and chopping. However, due to the current technical level and materials, he still made some improvements. The blade near the hilt is not cut, and the thickness is appropriately increased. The casting of two ridges also increases the strength.
Chapter completed!