Chapter 3329
This so-called "post one" tactic was developed by Li Li himself and his second time in Sima Yi's archery and cavalry battle report.
I have practiced many times, but I have not had any actual combat with real swords and guns.
Now, it's Cao Jun's turn to enjoy Li Li's first time.
Li Li is not a famous general of the Three Kingdoms. If he hadn't met Fei Qian, he might have been in the north of the Mo, or in the north, living silently and dying silently. Now he has a bigger stage, allowing him to freely display his talents.
Li Li ignored the light arrows of Cao Jun who were flying from afar, and observed his array left and right while running.
Because it was the "post one" tactic he proposed, he had to experience the close ambiguity and the pleasure of friction personally.
Originally, Sima Yi's archery tactics were similar to flying a kite. He ran for a while, stopped and shot, then ran for another while shot again. Although Sima Yi also achieved good results with this tactic, Li Li felt that it was not suitable, or that he did not fully play the advantages of the cavalry, and it was not a very complete tactical model.
This may be because Sima Yi is not a cavalry general himself, he is just a part-time commander of the Dali Temple Minister. Although he has also been training at the grassroots level in the Northern Region, he has never really been on the battlefield when he was in the Northern Region, nor has he faced the battle with a sword like a cavalry general, and he even had Sima Yi's archery shooting technique...
Yes, ahem, it's better not to mention it.
Therefore, when Sima Yi was developing the archery tactics, he was inevitably subject to an invisible restriction of his own personal abilities. Now, as a military academy where Li Li lived for a long time in the north and deserts and climbed up step by step from grassroots soldiers, he had a deeper understanding of the combination of the two skills of bow and arrow and riding.
The strongest thing for cavalry is not bows and arrows, but speed!
So Sima Yi's direction actually has a certain deviation.
Sima Yi's archer and cavalry tactics are actually the tactics of infantry plus war horses, rather than the real cavalry tactics.
Li Li made the opposite choice from Sima Yi, that is, no matter when, especially at such a life-and-death juncture in the battle, the speed of the cavalry must not be reduced!
Sima Yi's tactical running and stop shooting actually has advantages.
Long distance ensures the survival of the archers and will not be stabbed by infantry swords and guns. Stop and shoot, which ensures the hit rate of the archers shooting. In this way, it can not only ensure its own survival but also improve its killing of the enemy, which is naturally extremely sharp.
But Li Li chose another way and another direction...
speed!
When the cavalry began to form formations and cyclists, the world was filled with horse heads and legs.
The long horse's hair flew in the wind, and the dust raised by the horse's hooves crashed towards the Cao army like a curtain wall.
The leading cavalry were all experienced elites. They controlled the war horses accurately, and did not change their direction while galloping, or were close to the infantry front of Cao's army. The results of long-term training and actual combat were fully reflected in them. Under the leadership of these leading cavalry, Li Li was preparing to post a sticker with Cao's army, like a fish swimming in the water. He steadily threw a tail and almost "posted" with Cao's army!
The dense sound of hooves gathered into rumbling sounds, which were like fairy music in Li Li's ears!
However, in the feelings of Cao's soldiers, Li Li and others' actions were like a huge chariot of iron and blood. Even if they were not crushed directly, just passing by was enough to make ordinary Cao's soldiers frightened and scream.
『Stay! Stay!"
The governors in the Cao army array shouted. They didn't understand why Li Li and others did this, but they had already instinctively felt the danger. While shouting to calm the others, they began to shrank their heads behind the shield and the human wall.
If you say "a sticker", you will naturally not rush in directly. When the closest distance between the Hussar cavalry and the Cao army front was even ten steps away, Li Li immediately roared: "Wind! Strong wind!"
The Hussars and cavalry of the entire queue also yelled:
『High wind!』
『High wind!』
With the roar, the neat red tassels jumped, and then half turned sideways, slightly leaning outward, and then they opened their bow and shot angrily!
Suddenly, countless arrows roared, like a tornado that suddenly broke out among the Hussar Cavalry and Cao's army array, roaring towards the Cao's army array!
In order to make the cavalry shoot accurately, Sima Yi flew kites and ran away after hitting. In order to make the cavalry shoot accurately, Li Li had to run fast, so he had to get close!
Very close!
Only in this extreme close situation can the cavalry's shooting be affected by the bumps of the war horses. Even if there is an impact, it is not a big problem, because from Li Li to these elite cavalrymen, they all use rapid fire.
Take an arrow and shoot it casually!
Even if the previous arrow makes a mistake, the next arrow will shoot the next target!
As for the last missing target, I will leave it to my teammates behind me!
Arrow, howling!
Man, fall down!
In the blink of an eye, Cao's army was like encountering a sickle that cuts crops, and was knocked down one piece at a time!
At such a very close distance, even if the Cao army soldiers saw arrows flying, they could not avoid them!
Within ten steps, the power of the arrow can even be comparable to that of later pistols!
Fast and accurate!
With the sound of bowstrings, the soldiers in the Cao army infantry array fell down in continuous screams!
Even though the front row of Cao's soldiers was protected by shields, there were some weak areas exposed after all.
For example, half-pull the head at the edge of the shield, half of the shoulders, even a piece of calves, a few fingers...
The bow string was pulled quickly, and then under the guidance of the bow arm, the arrow popped out like lightning!
Bloody flowers bloom among Cao's army!
The bowstrings slammed and the screams came one after another.
Because the screams of Cao's soldiers were too many and too dense, it seemed that there was a shout of a combination of different voices in the whole world: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh~~~"
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Xu Chu, who was standing in the distance watching the battle, couldn't help but step on the stirrup and stood up straight.
He looked at the battlefield without turning his eyes, and even felt a little regretful in his heart. If he had known that Li Li's tactics were so sharp, then he should have cooperated to suppress the other soldiers...
Li Li said that the archer tactics he wanted to try were so powerful?!
If all the cavalry adopted this tactic...
Xu Chu took a breath.
In front of him was the rushing war horse, the jumping red flames, the flying yellow dust, and the falling figure...
This is a branch of Li Li!
Well, wait.
Xu Chu slowly sat back on the horse's back and pinched his chin to think.
Although the situation in front of him surprised Xu Chu, he quickly woke up from his imagination.
Not everyone has this kind of shooting talent.
Moreover, archers are not invincible, but because archers are extremely restrained by infantry with only short-range melee weapons. If the enemy changes the formation and adopts other strategies, the effectiveness of archers will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, a single army is not advisable.
Just like the cavalry, although they are famous for their cavalry, they still maintain a certain number of elite infantrymen and long-range troops...
In the dense infantry battle formation, because there was no room for refuge and no particularly strong cover, Li Li's post instantly made the Cao army's soldiers' formation climax one after another.
Although these Cao army soldiers were equipped with spears and shields, it was difficult to cause any harm to Li Li's archers and cavalrymen in this way. Even if Li Li's archers and cavalrymen were very close to Cao's military formation, the long swords and spears of these Cao army soldiers were still difficult to damage the archers and cavalrymen.
Ten steps apart are like the end of the world.
Why?
Xu Chu also figured it out, it was fast, and it was not just average, but very fast!
In order to protect himself, Sima Yi's archers added armor, similar to heavy archers, which can stand on stances and shoot hard with the opposite archers. However, Li Li chose another direction, which is the archers in the middle, which also reduced the original equipment of melee weapons, but equipped with backup bows with long-range arrows, greatly reducing the load on the war horses. This allows archers like Li Li to run at a speed close to the war horses' rapid sprint!
When the war horses sprint at full speed, take the Western Liang horse as an example. They can run fifteen steps in one breath. Even if they lower a little, Li Li and others flew past like lightning before these Cao army arrays, instantly fired arrows while galloping rapidly, and at the same time rolled away the dust.
At this fatal moment, the infantry of Cao's army could not reach the cavalry at all, whether it was a long sword or a spear.
Even if the Cao army infantry who were lucky enough not to be shot, they would not be able to react or catch up with Li Li's archers and cavalrymen.
At the same time, being close means a high hit rate.
Even the archers and cavalrymen under Li Li are still lacking in actual training. Even on the back of the horse galloping and undulating horses, the shooting stability will be relatively poor, but when it approaches only ten steps, it is really like color, and if you want to grow it, you want to grow it...
Another very hidden advantage is that the closer the distance, the smaller the kinetic energy of the arrow is attenuated, and the stronger the armor-breaking force is.
Li Li and others did not need to carry special armor-breaking heavy arrows at all. They only needed ordinary bows and arrows, which were enough to have the power to directly break armor and shields at this distance!
It’s not that Li Li and others have strong bow power, but that the distance is close enough, and the power of the arrow is rarely reduced. It almost hits the opponent’s body when it breaks away from the bowstring. The kinetic energy can almost be said to be without any loss!
Can the bow control this tactic?
Xu Chu quickly denied it.
It’s not that he looked down on the infantry archers of the Cao army, but that Xu Chu knew that the training methods of infantry arches and cavalry arches were completely different!
Cavalry bows are dynamic bows. They are used to capturing dynamic changes, and they are also trained to capture targets dynamically during the rapid running of war horses, and even train them to hunt birds and beasts. Most of the archers are shooting fixed targets...
And the key is that although the archer also has the word "bow", he often pursues shooting towards the predetermined area before the two sides meet, or shooting at a long-range shooting. This is completely different from Li Li's approach to hunting.
Xu Chu himself commanded the infantry, so he was also very clear about the shooting method of the archer. Generally speaking, he started to prepare for shooting at a distance of about 150 steps. The crossbowman started shooting at about 120 steps, and the archer would shoot at a distance of 80 to 60 steps. If the enemy approached within twenty steps, according to the requirements of the infantry training, "that is, the archer and the crossbowman picked up the archer and ordered the garrison to collect the garrison. The archer first connected his arms, followed the knife and rod, and then fought with the team."
Well, that's right, the archer with a knife can fight in close combat, while the crossbowman does not have a knife...
And the key is that now the Hussar cavalry and the bows and swords are all available!
Therefore, the archer can only use long shots to fight the cavalry.
The war horse is not a fixed target, but moves at a high speed of more than 10 meters per second. In comparison, the speed of arrows is about 50 meters per second, so when the arrow flies 100 meters away, the cavalry has deviated from its original position twenty or thirty meters.
It is even more difficult to break armor with bows and arrows when the distance is long.
And the archer also prays that there is another wind...
So before the machine gun appears, the cavalry can even use fast running to avoid the attack of a single musket.
Well, this may be a very important reason why the firearms in the late Ming Dynasty failed to restrain the Qing cavalry.
If Cao's army dares to put the archers in the first row, then they cannot curb the cavalry within a hundred steps, then what the Hussar cavalry will take out may not be bows and arrows, but combat swords!
This is the sharpest state of the archer!
Not only can you keep a distance and shoot the infantry with your face, but you can also use a knife and spear to rush the infantry at any time.
The war horses fly over the dozen or twenty steps, and the distance between them is only two or three breaths. As long as you deal with the mistake, you will immediately die and collapse!
What's even more terrifying is that even if you shoot a war horse with a bow and arrow, it may not be able to stop the injured horse from continuing to rush. High-speed war horses weighing half a ton or even more are terrible impact weapons in themselves...
The iron cavalry is running and ravaged by conflicts, it is not a joke.
This is also the reason why even heavy armored infantry can hardly win the cavalry against one. No matter how heavy the armor is, it will have to fly if it is hit by a horse. You can only form a formation, but once it forms a formation, it will be difficult to escape the clutches of the archer...
This is the best way to use the archer!
A simple infantry array is inherently restrained by this tactic!
It’s a pity that the requirement of being able to play this tactic is too high...
"Okay!" Xu Chu stroked his palm and praised it, saying to the left and right guards and other military academies, "The iron cavalry ran, and all the bows and swords are ready! What a Li Junhou! Remember the first merit! You should also look carefully and carefully understand this method!"
Xu Chu said this, and naturally everyone responded. He watched Li Li perform in front of the formation and defeat the Cao army's array. Even ordinary Hussar soldiers cheered together, and their voices shook the whole field.
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The cavalry cheered one after another, while the Cao army was wailing everywhere.
Cao Hong opened his mouth wide, stared at him without blinking, and his whole body seemed to be stunned at this moment!
It is better to see it at first sight than to hear it.
This sentence is almost always bad, but at the moment, all the Cao army soldiers and military academies, including Cao Hong, truly know how powerful the Hussars are!
"General...General..." The guard standing beside Cao Hong was speechless, "What should I do? What should I do... What should I do?"
The Cao army's formation was undoubtedly a whole piece, parallel to the Cao army camp, forming a relatively wide front, but now Li Li led a group of archers and cavalrymen, and suddenly a large piece was chewed away!
Cao Hong didn't care how many casualties were killed or injured by ordinary Cao's soldiers. Even if he could get rid of the loss of the Cavalry Army, he would be willing to replace all of these Cao's soldiers!
But now...
This is his mother!
『Attack!』 Cao Hong roared loudly, 『Intercept! Block them!』
We must never let these cavalrymen go back easily, otherwise it would be too harmful to the morale of the Cao army soldiers!
Although the soldiers of the Cao army are not very morale now, they cannot be let down to the end, otherwise...
"General, we still have a catapult!" The guard next to him said anxiously, "Order the catapult!"
Cao Hong slapped him, "Idiot! Don't take your own initiative! Let the troops forward and intercept and drive away the cavalry and horses!"
This is one time, another time.
After the original plan encountered on-site changes, it could not be rigid and ignorant.
Cao Hong's trencher was indeed preparing to deal with the cavalry, but it stopped and became a group of cavalrymen. In this way, even if he accidentally hit some Cao's soldiers beside the cavalrymen, it is reasonable. After all, everyone's original intention was good, and it is understandable that there was a little negligence in the process? But now the cavalrymen are very fast and are so close to the Cao's soldiers. Is it another way to say whether the catapult can happen to hit the cavalrymen? It is foreseeable that killing his family will definitely kill the cavalrymen and killing them far more!
It could be said that the morale of the Cao army, which was originally barely maintained, fell to the freezing point!
Cao Hong was not afraid of hurting his own people by chance, but was afraid that Cao's army would suffer from his own back stab in such a situation where the situation had collapsed. The inevitable result would be that the entire line would collapse!
Therefore, Cao Hong’s only hope now is to get Cao’s soldiers to be taken over. Even if they can’t intercept them, they can’t let these cavalry and horses continue to do this second trip!
The most critical point is that due to the perspective of the Cao army soldiers on the front line, the soldiers and soldiers could not see each other as clearly as Cao Hong. Therefore, many people were still confused and fearful when they were far away from the area where the Hussars and Cavalrymen were gnawed.
Cao Hong's current instructions are also to cover up the incompetence of Cao's army in front of the cavalry and archers...
As long as the Cao army soldiers move, the cavalrymen will obviously move. When the two sides fight, the Cao army soldiers who were shot and killed by archers on the position will naturally be included in the damage to the war. Even if these Cao army soldiers outside the camp die in the melee, it would be fine!
As long as there is a melee, there will inevitably be losses!
At that time, as long as you modify the text battle reports and let the generals of the military academy be unified, the other Cao army soldiers would have no way to know what had happened just now, and the people in the camp would remain as stable as possible.
Only in this way can Cao Cao and other strategists find time to figure out how to restrain the tactics of the cavalry!
Chapter completed!