Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter XIII The New Cavalry

Please recommend and subscribe!

The shop's door was half-closed, and a cover was hanging listlessly at the door. From time to time, a breeze blew by, and swayed slightly with the cover. There were almost no pedestrians on the street. Occasionally, someone went out, looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, shook his head and went back to the house. After noon, the streets of Handan were particularly depressed.

At this time, a sound of horse hooves came from afar. The guardian of the shop said that there might be some business, so he ran to the door to check it out, then returned inside dejectedly and sat down listlessly.

As soon as he went out to see, he knew that it was not his business. A large group of knights surrounded by Wang Li, who is now the Grand Master of Great Zhao and the Marquis of Jinyang. Who can't recognize his carriage? His shop is a bit worse, but no big shot will come to his shop.

The horses rolled past the carriages, and the people who saw the shop raised their heads slightly. Today, the sound of the horse's hooves was slightly wrong. Just because he thought so, he shook his head, maybe it was because he heard it.

And even if there is anything wrong, it is normal. Since the great alchemist Wang Li arrived in Handan, the changes in Handan have exceeded one day. There are new things coming out almost every day, and it is normal that the horse's hooves are a little strange.

The people who looked at the shop didn't know that he heard it correctly. The horse hooves of three horses were different among the horses riding by the iron guards who surrounded Wang Li's carriage. The hooves of these three horses had four U-shaped iron sheets than other horses.

More than twenty iron guards were rolling in Wang Li's carriage, and the carriage was slightly bumpy. Today's carriage was not like yesterday, with only two people. Wang Li sat in the back seat, and Xiang Shaolong was facing him in the front seat.

"Shaolong. I heard that Guo Zong invited you to have a banquet at noon yesterday?" Wang Li leaned his back against the soft cushion behind him and asked Xiang Shaolong with a slight smile.

Xiang Shaolong shook his head as soon as he heard this: "It's not that Shaolong didn't believe that Mr. Wu didn't know. Yesterday, Guo Zong did invite Shaolong to his mansion. Not only did he go to the banquet, but he also saw Miss Guo Xiuer, the husband said."

"Haha, what do Shaolong thinks of this woman?" Wang Li asked curiously: "If you think it's OK, then the sir will be a mediator for you."

Listening to Wang Li's question, Xiang Shaolong's face was slightly stagnant, then nodded, and bowed and said, "Thank you, sir!"

"Haha, then that's the case, but Guo Zong was able to pick up a good son-in-law like Shaolong." Seeing Xiang Shaolong like this, Wang Li didn't know whether the matter was done or not.

The carriage continued to move forward. Wang Li and Xiang Shaolong chatted casually about family matters, and suddenly asked about cavalry knowledge from time to time. Xiang Shaolong answered one by one. Wang Li nodded repeatedly as he heard this.

During this period, Xiang Shaolong has indeed read the information about cavalry he gave carefully. Otherwise, his draw would be so tricky that he would not even play according to routines. How can Xiang Shaolong deal with it one by one? It is obviously because he has digested the above knowledge, rather than memorizing it by rote.

At this time, they were on the road to the palace. When Wang Li got up to practice swords as usual in the morning, Xiang Shaolong said that he was familiar with the cavalry and the military tactics. He could already take action.

After receiving this news, the king left in the morning to attend the small dynasty meeting every three days. After the dynasty meeting dispersed, he talked with King Zhao alone, and ordered the palace guards to arrange the venue directly in the palace, and informed Lian Po and Pang Nuan to arrive at the palace again in the afternoon.

Today, it is time for Xiang Shaolong's cavalry to appear. Wang Li is obviously in a very good mood to be able to solve this problem before going to Xiaonao World.

Asked the questions all the way, the carriage galloped towards the palace.

At this time, on the school ground where the guards in the palace were trained, countless guards were busy, only visiting targets in a mess, and then playing wooden stakes on the ground, making dummies, busy.

King Zhao had been standing on the school ground waiting. Lian Po heard that this matter was related to the reform of the cavalry. He did not care about the rest of the lunch at noon, and rushed to the palace and stayed by King Zhao.

After a while, Pang Nuan also rushed over. The arrangement of the school ground became more and more perfect as time went by. Finally, the guards informed King Zhao and finally withdrew from the field.

"General Lian Po, the national division said that the improved cavalry can allow soldiers with a cavalry to be assassinated on horseback with long spears, or chop vigorously. Those with slightly higher horseback can freely draw their bows on horseback. I wonder what the new cavalry should look like with General Lian Po's battlefield experience?"

"Let's assassinate and chop immediately?" Lian Po said in surprise. Wang Li kept the cavalry secret, and there was almost no disclosure. He only knew that the new cavalry would be stronger than the past cavalry, but he couldn't think of any strength.

"The king, Lian Po didn't know, but if it was true as the king said, the combat capabilities of the cavalry should be greatly enhanced in the future, and even the entire cavalry tactics and tactics will usher in unprecedented changes."

King Zhao nodded slightly: "General Lian Po said it well. The national teacher said that Shaolong not only created the method of improving cavalry, but also specially studied the various tactical and tactical applications of new cavalry, which will be brought here today."

"New cavalry tactics and tactics?" Lian Po was slightly surprised when he heard this: "Isn't that a book of cavalry warfare? Xiang Shaolong has such power?"

Then Lian Po affirmed again: "Xiang Shaolong should have such ability. Not only does he have such ability, but he also has unique features in training scouts. The scouts trained far exceed those of the elite scouts in our Great Zhao army."

"Oh? How can General Lian Po be so sure?" King Zhao asked in confusion.

"Monday, Lian Po recently checked the relevant fabric files from the local garrison newspaper after Xiang Shaolong successively wiped out Hui Hu and Xiao Wei Mou. The fifty iron guards trained by Xiang Shaolong for the national teacher are all the top scouts."

"Even though Huihu or Xiao Wei Mou was the garrison in the Great Zhao area, how could they be unable to eliminate them before? If they were not in other places, they would not be able to scout in the Great Zhao army."

"The elite scouts brought out by Xiang Shaolong can easily track the people of Huihu and Xiao Wei Mou. Not only that, they can even sneak into each other and let all their horses run away. This makes it impossible for Huihu and Xiao Wei Mou and others to find out that even if they discover our Zhao army, they want to stick out as before, and then run to Wei and Qi realms."

"If such horse thieves are besieged and have no ability to break through, it is a joke to fight against our Great Zhao army head-on. Xiang Shaolong's two attacks to wipe out Hui Hu and Xiao Wei Mou, they only mobilized thousands of troops and killed more than a thousand bandits. Our army had only suffered more than 40 casualties in two battles."

"So that's it. I don't think Xiang Shaolong has such skills. But he trained the fifty-year-old iron guards to such an extent. No wonder the national teacher must let Xiang Shaolong train the iron guards before he will hand him over to me. He is really talented."

After hearing Lian Po’s statement, King Zhao realized how Hui Hu and Xiao Wei Mou died at Xiang Shaolong’s hands, so easily.

King Zhao and Lian Po were continuing to talk, but suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves coming, but the sound of horse hooves seemed to be a little different from the past horse hooves.

Immediately afterwards, King Zhao's eyes were stern, and two knights rushed in at high speed outside the school grounds, three war horses, and the strange sound of horse hooves came from the hooves of the three war horses.

"Kill!" Just as he was about to see what was different, he heard a thunder thunder in the air. Then one of the two riders left alone and rushed towards the various wooden stakes, dummies, and arrow targets arranged on the school ground.

King Zhao looked closely and saw that one of the two people was Wang Li, who was coming here with another horse. The man riding on the horse was a very tall man, one man and one horse were like thunder and lightning, and a spear about a meter long in his palm rushed towards a dummy.

"This is Xiang Shaolong."

King Zhao thought so, and saw that the spear in Shaolong's hand had been inserted into the dummy made of cross wooden stakes and wheat straw. "Section!"

A sound of the wooden stake being penetrated was heard, and the spear in the hero's hand penetrated the wooden stake almost instantly. Lian Po's eyes narrowed as he looked at the moment of movement, and it actually penetrated. Moreover, the knight did not fall off immediately, and his body almost didn't even shake.

What's going on? Lian Po said in surprise. He could do this with his skills, but he couldn't be so comfortable.

The cavalry of this era was not the cavalry of later generations. Since there were no stirrups and saddles, the cavalry of this era, with spears sprinting on the fast-moving war horses, could only a few masters do it, and it was impossible to do it as freely as Xiang Shaolong.

If more people do this, the result will be that they will stab someone and then be pushed back by the reaction force. Even if the knight, who is a knight with a strong horsemanship, will be dismounted by this thrust.

A knight without stirrups, he only rides his horse with his legs and holds his body. When the horse is galloping, please imagine the scene of the Spanish bullfighter riding a bull. Imagine the horse under the butt of the cavalry of this era as a more docile cow. It is not easy to ride a horse. If you do other things, except for a few people, it is too difficult for most people.

How can such cavalry rush forward?

Therefore, the usage of cavalry at this time is not like this. It is more like riding and shooting, riding horses and throwing spears. In other cases, the so-called cavalry is actually infantry riding horses.

In addition, riding and shooting is not the riding and shooting of later generations. People who can free up their hands to draw their bows with their horses clamped on their legs and use their hands to cut their bows with their galloping horses are all elites in this era, a few people, and most people cannot.

Since most people cannot, how can they ride and shoot? The so-called ride and shoot are not to shoot arrows, but to tie a crossbow with a string on their bodies. When they ride a horse to the other side, they pick up the crossbow with their hands, then pull the trigger, and then shoot like this, and leave immediately.

This is riding and shooting, far from the kind of riding and shooting that later Mongolians conquered and swept thousands of miles.

Lian Po has experienced a long battle formation, so how could he not know what the cavalry is like? At this time, Xiang Shaolong was sprinting at high speed, and he penetrated the dummy with one blow, and he couldn't fall down. He was shocked at just a glance.

What does this mean? It means that it is possible to organize large-scale cavalry sprints in such a sprint. The cavalry will no longer be infantry riding horses or crossbowmen raiding horses, but will become the main force to completely replace the chariots, and the cavalry will be far more flexible than the chariots.

.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next