It has entered March 1501. Marin's 10,000 new recruits had already carried out vigorous military training in the remote rural areas in the eastern part of the Teutonic Kingdom. With Schwartz, a general with rich training experience, there is obviously no big problem in training there. The only problem is probably that Marin's "invented" "wall charge" requires more exploration. After all, this thing is the first time this thing has appeared. Marin himself has only heard of relevant theories on the Internet in his previous life, but has never seen it.

According to the online posts in previous life, the cavalrymen were standing next to each other, shoulder to shoulder, and used neat and slow formations to raise the straight sword of the knights to attack the enemy.

Because there is no gap between cavalry, the enemy cavalry that is hedging with them has no room to use the opportunity to pass by. They use their skilled horse martial arts to cut off their own cavalry, and there is no possibility of resisting the attack of their own cavalry. Because the cavalry is too dense. If you block the attack of a cavalry, you will definitely not be able to stop the stabbing swords of other cavalry close to the side.

Moreover, wall-type charges, because the cavalry are next to each other, there is no need to worry about falling off the horse. Therefore, this formation is very suitable for fast-forming cavalry selected from farmers. They do not have to learn horse martial arts for many years, but only know how to ride on the horse and stab the enemy cavalry in front with a straight sword of a knight.

Of course, this is the choice when most of the cavalry under his command are farmers. If these cavalry are skilled in equestrianism since childhood and are proficient in horse martial arts, there is no need to advance slowly. The knights with skilled equestrianism can maintain a neat and dense formation and launch a fast wall charge. For example, the elite Prussian cavalry of Frederick the Great can line up a wall formation and launch a fast and neat charge towards the enemy cavalry...

Not only that, because when launching a wall-type charge, the cavalry are close to each other, so there is no need to worry about falling off the horse. Therefore, at this time, knights with high martial arts skills do not need to use the knight's straight sword to charge, but can use spears to charge like the Polish lancers. In this way, when using spears, horse battles will take advantage. After all, "one inch long, one inch strong"...

However, not every cavalry is suitable for using a spear. The spear requires both hands and is not a person with superb riding skills and cannot adapt. Therefore, those farmers and cavalrymen in modern Europe had to pull the reins with their left hand and raise the knights with their right hand and charge with their straight sword.

Only Polish lancers, who are born in a knight family and have a martial arts tradition, can flexibly use lancers/spikes to fight on horseback. In addition, if the lancers/spikes are broken or lose their hands due to huge reaction forces, the lancers need to decisively draw out their sabers or knights' straight swords to continue fighting.

Therefore, the requirements for lancers are very high. According to records, the Polish lancers serving in the Napoleon army had to carry out 55 different training programs, 22 types of cavalry, 18 types of infantry, and 15 types of basic training.

Such complexity is by no means a fast-forming peasant cavalry. Therefore, in wartime, there were only a few regiments of lances organized by cavalry powers such as France and Austria.

However, these projects may be difficult for farmers from civilian origins, but for wandering knights from the knight family, they are instincts...

The reason why European countries could only equip a few regiments of lances during the war was that the knight class had completely declined as early as the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, it was difficult to find knights with skilled martial arts immediately. Therefore, even a cavalry power such as France and Austria could only equip a few regiments of lances. Even the main source of the French lancers was Poland, where wing cavalry was popular.

However, in this era, just in the early 16th century, Europe was full of plate-armored knights. In the German region, there were wandering knights with high martial arts skills everywhere. In this era, it is not too easy to form modern lancers. Not to mention 6 regiments, 100 regiments are not a problem, as long as you can afford it...

This time, Marin planned to recruit 1,000 people first, form two cavalry regiments, and try to launch a fast wall charge with the lances...

The lancers who launch a rapid charge in a wall-like formation have huge lethality. Such an offensive is difficult to resist, whether it is a cavalry or an infantryman using a spear.

If you use a one-handed knight's straight sword to launch a wall charge, you can only defeat the opponent's cavalry. There is no way to use the cavalry with a spear-like infantry formation. Because before your knight's straight sword hits the infantry spearman on the opposite side, the opponent's spear would have stabbed your war horse to death.

Although Marin has never been to a military academy, as a military enthusiast, he also knows the theory of military restraint. Generally speaking, heavy armored knights are more restrained by melee light cavalry. However, if you can defeat melee light cavalry, you cannot eliminate it. Because you can't catch up...

However, the melee light cavalry is more restrained from the cavalry or muslan cavalry. Because, under the high-speed pursuit of melee light cavalry, the archers or muslan cavalry have no time to reload ammunition or arrows. If they face it head-on, they will be quickly caught up by the melee light cavalry and be hacked to death. If they are escaping, it is too difficult to shoot while running, which is difficult to do. Approximately, only the fierce Mongolian cavalry of Genghis Khan can run calmly while turning around and shooting (Manguda). Other archers or muslan cavalry can only be chased by melee cavalry like chasing dogs...

However, archers and muslan cavalry can in turn restrain the natural enemy of melee cavalry - heavy armored knights. Because heavy armored knights are too heavy to run fast due to heavy loads. Although their defense and attack power are amazing, they are difficult to catch up with the escaped light cavalry. If they encounter melee light cavalry, heavy armored knights cannot catch up at most. But if they encounter archers or muslan cavalry, they will be done. Especially when they encounter muslan cavalry (that is, black-shirted knights), heavy armored knights will definitely be abused as dogs. They cannot chase after them, and cannot run away. There is no other choice except waiting for death. Unless there is a friendly army to rescue them...

Modern cavalry that also uses wall-type charges, with different weapons and different situations of restraint and restraint. The fast-forming peasant cavalry that uses the straight knight sword is only suitable for abuse of melee light cavalry, such as the Hungarian Hussar, Arabian scimitar cavalry, and Italian pick-up cavalry (the Tsarist Russian Cossacks that have not yet appeared are also melee light cavalry, also called hussar)... If you face the Swiss mercenaries with spears, modern cavalry that use the straight knight sword will definitely be braided into barbecue by the opponent's spear (mainly horses, because modern cavalry horses do not wear horse armor)...

However, if the modern cavalry that initiated a wall-type charge was a lancer, it would be different. If the same spear was used and the spear formation was encountered, it would become mutual harm, rather than one-sided massacre.

However, Marin was not a brainless person and would never let his cavalry charge against the spear formation. In fact, Marin formed modern lancers to professionally attack the enemy's melee light cavalry.

Although the lancers using rifles and spears are arranged in a wall-type charge formation, they will not be at a disadvantage when they hedge against the plate-armored knights. However, the result is too tragic and the casualties must be huge. Basically, this is mutual harm, and life is exchanged for life.

As a time traveler from later generations who have read too many military posts, Marin would not do such stupid things. You should know that every soldier who is suitable for being a lancer is a master who has practiced riding and martial arts for more than ten years. If he fights stupidly, he will not know how much he will be thanks.

Therefore, Marin's arrangement for the cavalry is that the black-shirt knight is professionally attacking the plate-armored knights and using the tactic of "flying kites" to kill the opponent's plate-armored knights. However, the black-shirt knight is more afraid of the opponent's melee light cavalry. When encountering the opponent's large group of melee Hussars, they can only escape like a broken dog.

However, modern cavalry that uses "wall charge" is prepared for melee light cavalry (hussar). Once the black-shirted knight is targeted by the enemy's hussars, modern cavalry will be arranged in a wall formation to destroy the opponent's hussars who pursue the black-shirted knight with a destruction. Modern cavalry that uses the straight sword of the knight has an overwhelming advantage when charging against the hussars. Modern cavalry that uses a cavalry or spear to launch a wall charge against the scattered hussars, that is, a one-sided massacre...

Therefore, Marin planned to form these 1,000 cavalrymen from Wandering Knights into modern lancers, which are specialized in protecting the black-shirted knights.

Because in this era, the main force of European cavalry was still the plate-armored knights, of course, there were also a large number of hussar assists. The black-shirted knights were mainly responsible for attacking the opponent's plate-armored knights, because the plate-armored knights were the main force of charge of the armies of various countries. Destroying their plate-armored knights would be abolished half of the opponent's martial arts. If the opponent was dissatisfied, he would send the Hussars to retaliate. The modern lancers who were ready for battle would send all their hussars to see God...

At this point, after having modern lancers, Marin's army formation was sufficiently complete.

According to the design, artillery is mainly used for attacking; the Spanish phalanx can be used for both attacking and has a strong defensive effect; the black-shirted knight is mainly used to deal with the enemy's plate-armored knights; while the modern lancers are mainly used to cover the black-shirted knights and eliminate the opponent's auxiliary light cavalry.

Of course, when the opponent's battle formation is defeated by Marin's phalanx, whether it is the black-shirted knight or the modern lancers, they will pursue the fleeing enemy in the form of scattered lines, transform into a "head harvester" to fully eliminate the enemy's vitality...

This design was mainly based on the characteristics of the Spanish phalanx of "short legs". In the previous decisive battle with the Duchy of Saxony outside the county of Lair, Marin's army was basically infantry and "short legs" and could not catch up with the enemy. If the battlefield had not been designed in advance and rivers were everywhere, resulting in the main force of the Saxony army being unable to escape, Marin might not have caught many prisoners. Just like the 15,000 Saxony civilians on the south bank of the Leda River, because Marin lacked enough light cavalry to chase, the 5,000 fast-running civilians ran away, which made Marin depressed for a long time...
Chapter completed!