The sun sets in the sky, and red light illuminates the entire land in the west. The sunshine hours in spring begin to lengthen. There is still an hour before the sun sets. In other words, it is still far away from the moment when the sun disappears and the brilliance of the black star appears alone.
, there is no need to worry about the sudden surge in power of this demon army terracotta warriors.
An hour was enough time for me to see a lot of things clearly, and it was also enough time for the Outlander Immortal to the south to relax his vigilance.
It is not easy for the cavalry to annihilate the arrow array in one rush. It is normal for the cavalry to consume each other for a long time.
Ye Qing has studied the battles in Xiatu. The elite Han army led by Li Ling consisted of five thousand infantry. It was recorded that they were proficient in swordsmanship and crossbows. The field battle method was to deploy halberdiers and shield-bearing warriors as resisters.
Horses, followed by archers and crossbowmen.
For the cavalry of 30,000 in the early period and 80,000 in the later period, the total fighting time was estimated to be about ten days. Archers in the Han Dynasty generally carried fifty vectors, which was the standard ammunition base required for one person to fight in one day at that time. Each person consumed fifty pieces per day.
One arrow, and at its most intense, one hundred arrows, consumed a total of more than 2.5 million arrows. This baggage burden was very heavy. No wonder the infantry was equipped with a large number of horse-drawn carriages, which were supported by the absolute advantage of logistical manufacturing power.
There are real examples of such collisions of forces, and some wrong habits and understandings can be easily broken like bubbles.
Ye Qing still remembers his customary understanding and believed that in ancient times, archers could only shoot three arrows when faced with cavalry charges. According to the charging speed of horses, the distance of 150 meters only takes about ten seconds, which is only enough time for the archers to shoot.
Three arrows, and then the opponent's cavalry arrived.
There are also some reasons, such as thinking that the pulling force of the heavy bow in ancient times was too great. If the archer missed more than a dozen arrows, his arms would not be able to bear it, which would injure tendons and muscles, or even make him unable to pull the bow. These things sound very reasonable.
Therefore, as long as the cavalry wears high-quality armor and charges with all their strength, and can withstand these three waves of arrows and enter hand-to-hand combat, the archers will be finished.
In short, the conclusion is that the archers are weak.
But we have to be cautious about everything. History is more real than numbers. Ye Qing also used archers in this way in the past, but when he thought about it later, he felt that something was wrong. How could a pure archery group exist if this were the case?
Didn’t the ancient generals know this simple calculation and deduction?
In the history of the Han Dynasty, Li Ling's five thousand foot archers fought and retreated during the siege. Not only were they destroyed without a wave, but they persisted for nearly ten days, and when they ran out of ammunition and food, they wiped out more than ten thousand cavalry. Is this all a lie?
The Han people's tradition against Hu cavalry is to use arrow arrays. If the archers are weak, their results will be in vain. The Han Dynasty has perished countless times. How can it still be defeated by strength?
It wasn't until he came to the New Han Dynasty to experience it that Ye Qing found it ridiculous - this is actually because modern people don't understand their own history, follow what others say, and apply the thinking of low-end foreign bows and crossbows. One ignores that there were strong bows and strong crossbows in ancient times.
This kind of large-scale killing weapon once again ignores the difference between a group arrow array and a small group of archers. It is not a force on the same level strategically as a heavy artillery group and a few small artillery pieces.
First of all, there is the issue of range. The range of strong bows and crossbows is far more than 150 meters, and this is twice or even more. This means that the distance between archers to support each other is further, and the size of the arrow formation is increased ten times.
The three-stage design was not invented in the age of muskets. The ancient archers also fired in batches. The cavalry was by no means as simple as only encountering three waves of fire within 150 meters.
As for the lack of physical strength, it refers to the continuous firepower output. It is said that an archer will be unable to draw the bow as long as he fires the bow more than a dozen times. This is taken for granted without practical experience. In later generations, traditional bow enthusiasts have experimented with continuous shooting for four hours. The previous day
The shooting accuracy can be maintained for an hour, but the accuracy can no longer be maintained for the next three hours, but it has no effect on the group's arrow formation coverage shooting - the accuracy of early tunnel-fired muskets is much uglier than that of bows and arrows, and they can fly into the sky two hundred meters away.
It goes without saying that the ancients started training in archery from a young age. "History of the Song Dynasty" records that Wang Shunchen, a partial general, once had an archery match with the Qiang people. "From Shen to You, he drew more than a thousand arrows. If there were no holes, his fingers would be cracked and blood would flow to his elbows."
,, 1,000 rounds were fired in two to four hours, with an average of one shot in ten seconds. Special medicine was provided to protect the shooter's fingers, as well as special protective gear. The shooter finally fired until his fingers were cracked and his elbows were full of blood, showing his will to fight.
Strong and physically strong.
The people of the Song Dynasty were good at archery, and the Divine Arm Bow was at its peak, but overall the archery array of the Han Dynasty was the strongest. The standard is that war is not a game of one person.
According to the records of "Three Kingdoms": "Zan Baima Yicong was the backbone, and he was also divided into two schools, shooting from the left to the right, and from the right to the left." This revealed the details of an ancient horse archer's use of cross fire, cleverly avoiding the opponent's frontal attack.
Yuan Shao's response to the shield protection was also very interesting. He used 800 heavy-armored elites mixed with more than a thousand crossbowmen to launch a countercharge, and finally defeated the tens of thousands of white horse horse archers.
Starting four hundred meters away from the enemy's position, the cavalry will encounter a high density of fire at every moment, and there will be all-round fire coverage without gaps. There will be projectiles from the air, direct fire and projectiles from the left and right sides, and precise and powerful frontal fire.
Direct shot.
During this charge, every step and every moment, all the space was filled with the crossfire of arrows. Pushing to the last fifty meters, even the steel armor had to kneel under the powerful crossbow. Of course, the prerequisite for this kind of arrow array is that there is a person.
An excellent general, well trained, with sufficient numbers and courage.
Regardless of the millions of years of war experience on earth, only the armies of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period could achieve master-level expertise in arrow formation, and even the Song Dynasty lost their courage.
For example, Li Ling's casualties in the Xiongnu Shanyu battle were clearly recorded as more than 2,000 at one time and more than 3,000 at another time, totaling more than 5,000. The results of several other battles were said to have killed thousands.
Therefore, the minimum number of casualties is more than 10,000.
But this is only a record of a few famous battles, and the number of enemies killed in other non-stop attacks is not included. Based on the duration of the battle and the intensity of the battle, it can be estimated that the normal number of enemies killed is at least about 20,000, and the injuries are even more difficult to estimate.
One thousand to twenty thousand people. This casualty ratio is the power of the arrow array against the cavalry. Brushing barbarians is like playing tricks. This is why there was no need for the invention of muskets in ancient China.
However, this requires a high level of comprehensive strength of the country. Manufacturing, technology, logistics, military strength, training of famous generals, and courage are all indispensable. Later, the Song Dynasty did not learn anything, and only made two improvements in weapon range and individual archery. Overall,
But the killing ability is completely different. A tiger cannot be compared to a dog, and it was copied in turn by Liao, Jin, and Mongolia.
In essence, it may be that the national war system was lost and the Han style was lost.
It shows that in war, the same applies to cavalry formations, arrow formations, and even spear formations. In fact, any weapon or formation that is highly praised by others is not without weaknesses and indestructible.
But power cannot be broken - or in other words, a peak form of power can only be broken by another more powerful power.
On the land of Kyushu, it is normal for the five virtue vassal states to sit in rotation. The vassal states such as the Northern Wei Dynasty are quite good at this national war system. The inner states of the Cai Dynasty may have superior strength, but lack of blood. Compared with the legions of foreign countries, they are just docile buffaloes.
The difference between it and wild tigers is that they are similar in size. In actual fighting, they are not the same thing at all. Who cares whether you are justified or not in a life-and-death fight?
"The reason why the first batch of princes such as the King of Wei, the Marquis of Xiang, and the Marquis of Yan were able to stand firm in the mid-term and each took the lead was that I thought they had an early advantage, but now it seems a bit too biased."
"There are many rising stars who are successful in the world's struggle. This time, it may not be just that they rose early, but that they have unified the world in the soil, with the support of a group of backbones who are proficient in the national war system... For example, I just sealed the
The Hou Dynasty was vain, and it was the return of heroes from the country that made the status of the Han Hou stable, because the system is not just an empty document, it must be followed by someone, and it can even be adjusted and improved according to the new situation, so that it can be a dynamic system."
Traveling thousands of miles south day and night, relying on the Peak of Dragon Dragon, the real Hanchen regiment, the combat power of Immortal Nuwa, more than a thousand magician regiments, tens of thousands of Taoist soldiers, fire thunder, fire tail arrows, train transportation...
Behind these, they vaguely point to a new and dynamic system, rather than relying on their own bastard spirit to accept it.
When Ye Qing was meditating, he heard Zhuge Liang say: "My lord, although the enemy's arrow array is stronger than ours, but each of them only has two quivers, and there is no logistics, so there is no need to be afraid... It's the enemy's array, I'm afraid the cavalry
It’s hard to rush through.”
Most of them are Han ministers with rich war experience. They can see the enemy's bluff behind the powerful arrow formation at a glance. This arrow formation may be able to scare other states, but not them, but the casualties of the forced charge will definitely be huge. This cavalry
Or few will survive.
Ye Qing nodded, although he was cautiously guarding against the enemy's back-up moves, but the matter had come to an end, and it was easy to make a decision: "I have seen the slightest, and now I have understood the strength of this group of foreign Taoist soldiers. The confrontation experiment is over, the real person takes action to defeat the real dragon."
Formation, break the enemy's formation."
"Yes." Everyone bowed slightly. Qianqian and the others had always known each other, so they were not surprised by this.