"It's broken!" Zhang Heng lifted the reins of the horse, and the horse suddenly jumped up and crossed the pile of corpses. He took the lead and broke into the front line of the Song army's front line, and finally saw the appearance of the opponent clearly. However, seeing that the Song army soldiers in front of the formation did not seem to be affected by their attack at all, and the formation was not at all chaotic, he cried inwardly.

In Zhang Heng's military career, whether it was the Jin army, the Song army later, and the enemy troops encountered in the just-concluded expedition of Annan, without the protection of the city walls and villages, he often left the barren barracks before fighting. Those who could barely form formations were considered elite, but there were very few troops that could survive until they launched a full-scale attack. As for the army that could face multiple attacks of the iron cavalry and remained intact, he had never seen them.

However, the Song army in front of us had no trench barriers, no more corners and walls. With the fences as screens, not only did it survive until now, but the entire formation still remained unmoved army only existed in the legends of the past, and Zhang Heng had never encountered it. But once he encountered it today, his cavalry was in desperate situation. At this moment, he didn't know whether he could break through the enemy formation.

"Run!" Zhang Heng knew that the current situation was no longer enough for him to think about it. He roared and hung the long knife on the saddle, pulled out a large bow and took an arrow to shoot.

‘Boom…’ Just when Zhang Heng was about to shoot his first arrow, he saw a flash of fire in front of him. His years of fighting career made him feel instinctively dangerous. He hurriedly withdrew his bow and tightly pressed his body against the horse’s back. He felt like a gust of wind blew over his head, sweeping his helmet down, and his face was like a knife scratched. Although he didn’t feel any pain, he felt a heat in his neck. He knew he was injured.

At the same time, Zhang Heng saw that the several cavalry beside him were not so lucky. They were instantly overturned by the dense projectiles shot by people and horses, and several blood arrows were sprayed out of their bodies, and they didn't even have time to snort. The flag-holder who had been following him was also hit. Zhan Xiangrong fell forward and flew out, but before the flag of war fell, a centurion who followed him grabbed it and held up the flag again.

"Kill!" Zhang Heng saw that hundreds of cavalry had followed behind him. After he opened his bow and shot the arrow, he was less than fifty steps away from the enemy. Not far ahead was the horse-rejecting railing. He simply abandoned the big bow and raised his sword again and shouted.

"Kill!" Hearing the call of the main general, several cavalry that followed quickly surpassed Zhang Heng's horse's head and rushed towards the enemy's formation first. Pingtuo's long spear wanted to pick the rebel horse away.

‘Bang, bang, bang…’

A series of explosions overwhelmed the chaotic sound of horse hooves on the battlefield, and the riders roared lowly. Zhang Heng saw the soldiers rushing in front swaying and fell from the horse. The war horse that had lost control still crashed into the war horse with inertia, but was pierced by the spear on it and struggled weakly. Its appearance was very miserable. He instinctively pulled off the reins, and when the horse speed was slow, a soldier rushed forward, and used his long spear to push the war horse open a gap with his horse power, and more war horses rushed forward over the railing.

‘Bang, bang, bang…’

‘Bang, bang, bang…’

Zhang Heng urged his horse to pass through the gap in the horse-rejecting railing, but the explosions became increasingly dense. He saw the Song soldiers at the front of the Song army array advance like puppets, retreating, and exchanging battle positions. Every time they raised the long sticks of non-bows or crossbows in their hands, accompanied by the explosion and fire, they would shoot deadly projectiles, and the speed was so fast that they could not be avoided. Looking at the Southern Army soldiers facing the arrows they shot, they did not block them at all, and even ignored them, and still raised their guns and fired backwards. The people behind them stepped forward and shot, retreated, let alone there were signs of collapse.

When Zhang Heng saw that the soldiers of the Southern Army who were injured by him would automatically withdraw from the battle line, and the people behind him would automatically fill in without orders. Those who were seriously injured or died in battle could not get up. Someone would come forward to quickly carry them away, and the empty space was quickly filled. The whole movement was as smooth as the clouds and waters, without any extra movements, and no military force could dodge and avoid them.

Although it was just a glance, as a veteran on the battlefield, he realized that the military discipline of this Southern Army was so strict and well-trained that he had only seen him in his life. Not to mention them, even the Mongols Xue Qie army was probably not as good as that of the Mongols. These Southern Army were equipped with sharp firearms, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to those of the Song army in the past, and it was far superior to that of the Song army. It was no wonder that Chen Yi did not dare to surrender in one battle. However, when the war reached this point, he also understood that this battle was probably his last battle.

"Hi..." The death of the rider in front of him was blocked by Zhang Heng, and the continuous rain of bullets was blocked by Zhang Heng. He rushed to a place less than twenty steps away from the enemy. This distance was just a rush. He shouted and raised his horse's reins and rose up. The sword slashed down, trying to use the horse's power to crash into the enemy's defense line, disrupt their formation, and open up a breakthrough.

‘Bang, bang, bang…’ Zhang Heng knew that he would succeed in another moment. The high-speed horse was enough to kill the enemy soldiers in front of him. The horse's hooves trampled them to death, and his long sword slashed them to death. But a dense rain of bullets came to the other side, breaking his last wish.

"Cough, cough cough..." The injured war horse rushed to the enemy's camp less than ten steps with the help of inertia and stopped. Zhang Heng looked down at his war horse. This was a good horse chosen by a thousand miles away. Although he was seriously injured, he did not fall down. At this moment, the snow-white fur was dyed blood red. Several noses were squirting out sticky blood foam. He wanted to pat his war horse, but he was unable to lift his arm. The long sword had been broken by the bullet, and there was only a knife handle left in his hand. Two layers of heavy armor on his body were penetrated, but he could still feel the blood was quickly lost, and he coughed and sprayed out from his mouth and nose.

"Uh..." Zhang Heng saw several soldiers rushing out of the opponent's front, lifting a bayonet into the neck of the war horse. The seriously injured war horse fell down weakly and threw him aside. Two other enemy soldiers stepped forward and lifted muskets and stabbed the bayonet into his chest and abdomen, without taking him as the commander of ten thousand men in his eyes. He lifted the bayonet, but he didn't feel pain. He just felt the bullet holes falling down and covering his body. His eyes became darker and darker, and the sound of killing was getting farther and farther away from him...

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Seeing the enemy's flags falling down and the remaining enemy cavalry fleeing in scattered, Zhao Bing breathed a sigh of relief. He could be said to be facing great pressure in this formation. First of all, whether the guards can withstand the impact of the enemy cavalry. You must know that looking directly at the galloping war horses do not dodge or avoid it. This is no different from Hyundai's view of the car crashing towards him. Unless this person wants to commit suicide, no one will feel fear and will instinctively avoid it. To reverse the instinct is not only possible by the coercive force of military discipline, but the performance of the Second Brigade did not disappoint him today. They not only stabilized the formation but also withstand the impact when facing the enemy.

Another thing that makes Zhao Bing worry about is the weapon problem. You should know that the current firearms need to generate power by burning gunpowder, and combustion will definitely generate heat. However, the ignition point of the gunpowder is low. After continuous firing, the heat accumulated by the firearm will ignite the filled gunpowder. This is extremely dangerous. Fortunately, you will be burned, and unfortunately, you will be caught and exploded when the gunbore is destroyed, which means that the gun will be destroyed and killed.

The new army's fire speed against cavalry with strong maneuverability is slow, so it is impossible to fight against the enemy cavalry group's charge alone, which requires artillery as support firepower. However, due to technical limitations, the thickness of the barrel and barrel has to be increased, which affects the heat dissipation. The musket can also increase the heat dissipation time through wheel shooting, but the artillery cannot be continuously fired. However, once the support of the artillery is lost, it is difficult to withstand the impact of the enemy cavalry.

Fortunately, Li Zhen, who was responsible for the front line command, solved this contradiction by reasonably allocating cannons. He first used the slow-dissipating Baizi Gun and Thunderbolt Cannon as the headwheel to strike firepower, and then used the fast-dissipating and fast-firing rapid-firing cannons to win the time for heat dissipation and loading of the Baizi Gun and Thunderbolt Cannons. At the same time, rockets may be used to strike targets of the enemy group. After discovering the main attack direction of the enemy, other artillery cannons will be transferred to the front battlefield in time to ensure the sustainability of firepower, thus laying the foundation for defeating the enemy cavalry.

However, this battle also verified the historical development law. After the cavalry developed its role, its role will gradually be weakened until it withdraws from the war stage. As he knew in his previous life, the Yuan Dynasty was a period of rapid development of hot weapons. Although the Yuan army has not equipped firearms on a large scale, it has already appeared the primary prototype of artillery - muskets. And as they discovered that the role of their own firearms in wars has increased, they will definitely invest in research and development and be applied on a large scale to the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhao Bing thought that the days of surging the battlefield with cavalry would not be too long, especially when encountering infantry that mainly equips firearms. However, this cannot be said that cavalry will withdraw from the war immediately. In this era when machinery is still very backward, nothing can replace war horses to improve mobility. However, the combat format will definitely change, and whoever makes changes will seize the initiative.

Regarding how to change, Zhao Bing suddenly thought of someone - Li Ji. He was a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty. He was born in the Fang Xu family of Gaopingbei. He joined the Wagang Army in his early years and later surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Li Mi. He served in the Tang Dynasty for three dynasties, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang. He was deeply trusted and responsible for the court. He followed Li Shimin to pacify all directions, attacked Xueyantuo twice, and pacified Jibei. Later, he defeated the Eastern Turks and Goguryeo, becoming one of the main war generals in the Tang Dynasty to expand territory. He became a general and prime minister, and made outstanding achievements. He was relied as Gancheng by the court. He was one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and was known together with Duke Li Jing of Wei.

In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Jie was recruited to the court as Minister of War. Before he set out to Beijing, he met Xue Yantuo's son Daduo's son Dadu led 80,000 cavalry to invade the Li Simo tribe. The court ordered Li Jie to be the general manager of Shuozhou Road, leading 3,000 light cavalry to catch up with Xue Yantuo's cavalry on Qingshan, attacked and defeated his army, killed one of the famous kings, captured more than 50,000 of his leaders and soldiers, which was a great victory. However, Li Jie did not fight smoothly in this battle, and there were also many twists and turns.

Zhao Bing analyzed this battle example and found that the generously appointed troops were a horse-mounted mobile unit. When fighting, dismounted horses and acted as light infantry. Once the opponent showed signs of collapse, he immediately took up horses and acted as assault cavalry to pursue. It can be seen that he fully realized that infantry shooters were better than cavalry shooters in non-mobile combat, and at the same time, he fully understood the huge tactical effect of assault cavalry assault in the final stage of the battle situation, and fully utilized the mobility of war horses and the advantages of insurgent bows in combat.

After the war began, the Tang army used the Turkic cavalry as the vanguard to attack the troops of Dadushi first, and was immediately shot by the light infantry troops of Dadushi later. Later, they were shot by the main force of the Tang army. Li Ji immediately decisively ordered the entire army to dismount, and the cavalry acted as infantry, "striking forward with a long spear, and Xue Yantuo's troops were defeated", thus defeating Xue Yantuo's troops and winning the counterattack.

Zhao Bing noticed a detail in it, "All arrows are all set off, and Tang Ma dies." From this, he found that the armor equipped by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could effectively resist the opponent's bow and arrow attacks. Li Ji ordered his cavalry to dismount, and they actually acted as heavy infantrymen, becoming a very good new soldier with a balance of maneuverability and protection ability.

In Zhao Bing's opinion, this new soldier is equivalent to the Agrien troops in the Macedonian system, and has excellent maneuverability and attack capabilities. As a target for light infantry shooting, it is much smaller than the area of ​​the cavalry, and its protection is much more effective, because the vests of war horses are basically unable to resist the shooting of bows and arrows. In the cavalry charge, the fall of war horses will cause huge chaos to the entire charge. Compared with this, the fall of infantry in the infantry charge array has obviously much smaller impact on the infantry formation, and fully reflects the advantages of heavy infantry over light infantry.

Thinking about it now, Zhao Bing thinks this can be used as a new idea for his development of cavalry, because he has already realized how difficult it is to cultivate an all-round lance. Of course, this "gun" refers to a musket, not a spear gun in a cold weapon. First of all, muskets cannot be fired continuously, and one shot must be reloaded. Loading on a horseback that is fast and maneuvering is a technical task. It is not only necessary to ensure that the ammunition is accurately stuffed into the gun chamber, but also to ensure that the gunpowder added to the gunpowder pool is not blown away by the wind.

This defect is fatal, which will lead to cavalry equipped with muskets that often have only one chance to shoot, while enemy troops equipped with bows and arrows can shoot three to four arrows before the two armies collided. It is obvious that cavalry equipped with muskets are at a disadvantage, but they can be avoided by dismounting. If they are equipped with light artillery, they can form a favorable combat force to complete the blocking of the enemy. If they retreat, they can quickly get on the horse and chase it, so that they will not be able to win the battle but cannot catch up, making it difficult to expand the results of the battle.
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