Chapter 937: Li Kui to Li Gui: Supervising Standard Assault Battalion
The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty suffered a lot from matchlock guns in the early days, especially the early matchlock pistols. The ease of use was simply appalling for the cavalry.
Moreover, what the Tang cavalry was best at was the wall-mounted intensive charge. This tactic was originally designed specifically for cold weapons.
You can use a cavalry sword or a lance, but use a musket? That's nonsense!
When the cavalry are hedging, the time is very short. Even with pistols, at most the cavalry in the front have a chance to shoot, but the cavalry behind have no chance to shoot at all. When they really charge forward and can face the enemy face to face,
, in fact, it doesn’t give the cavalry much time to aim and shoot.
At this time, the cavalry didn't even have much time to slash. They just kept their formation and body stable, and then pointed their cavalry swords diagonally forward. When they encountered the enemy, they would gently lead them past.
It uses the speed of the horse to drive the sword to kill the enemy.
If the enemy is a cavalry, even the enemy's own speed will become an assist for the attack.
The time of cavalry hedging combat is so short, who gives you time to aim, and it is not that difficult to aim and shoot on horseback running at high speed.
If the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty could shoot accurately on high-speed horses, what else would the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty have to use with pistols? It would be better for them to just use the bow.
As for shooting, the muskets of these days cannot compete with bows and arrows. Even the line infantry of the Tang Dynasty cannot compete with the infantry archers of the Ming Army!
There is nothing that can be done about it. The shooting speed of bows and arrows is so fast. In a few minutes, they can shoot out more than a dozen arrows. If you can shoot two or three rounds of bullets at this time, you are considered an elite musketeer.
In the early days of the Tang Dynasty's battle against the Ming army's archers, they used thick armor as protection, quickly charged in, fired volleys of muskets within thirty meters, threw grenades, and then directly cooperated with the heavily armored spearmen to launch a bayonet charge. What they were doing was
Yi Bo Liu, I have never played shooting with the archers of the Ming army!
In this era, there is no clear conclusion on the difference between the strength of bows and arrows and muskets, but a few things are certain. The short-term burst rate of fire of bows and arrows is far higher than that of muskets, and the continuous shooting ability of muskets completely destroys bows and arrows.
Regardless of equipment cost, training cost, or even daily maintenance costs, muskets completely beat bows and arrows. This is also one of the two biggest advantages of muskets: they are cheap!
Another advantage is that it is powerful!
The effective range of bows and arrows is actually not very different from that of muskets. Muskets can basically fight effectively at a distance of one hundred meters, while bows and arrows can also achieve this effective range by projectile.
However, the difference in power between the two is too great. As a result, within the same effective range of 100 meters, muskets can easily kill lightly armored units, while bows and arrows basically lose most of their lethality within 100 meters. Even if the opponent is
Even if the clothes are slightly thicker, they won't be able to penetrate.
At a distance of fifty meters, muskets can penetrate most armor of ordinary thickness, including a large number of ordinary types of plate armor equipped by the Tang Army itself. Bows and arrows can only leave a trace on the armor.
In other words, bows and arrows are absolutely no match for muskets when dealing with heavily armored units!
Unfortunately, the Army of the Tang Dynasty particularly liked to equip armor. In the early days, it was equipped with cotton armor and iron armor on a large scale. Later, it was all equipped with plate armor.
To a certain extent, the heavy armor of the Tang Army directly pushed the Ming Army's archers to a dead end, forcing the Ming Army to equip a large number of guns and cannons whether they wanted to or not. Otherwise, they would
It is difficult to cause effective damage to the Tang army equipped with a large amount of armor.
When it comes to riding bows and lances, this contrast also exists, but the Tang cavalry did not use lances, let alone pistols!
Because you want to use lances that are directly modified from infantry muskets, you should use dragoon tactics. In other words, use cavalry directly as infantry. Riding horses is just for quick maneuvers. That's all the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty does? Treat cavalry as infantry
Used by fast and mobile infantry? The cavalry generals were willing to do so, even Li Xuan was reluctant to do so.
If a pistol is used, the tactics used are actually similar to those of ancient cavalry. The general method is to rush up to the enemy and shoot from a distance of tens of meters or even further, then turn away, go to the rear to reload, and then attack repeatedly!
And this tactic has many limitations. When dealing with the Ming army or Tatar cavalry, people will laugh to death when they see you playing like this. Then they will take out their bows and shoot out waves of dense arrow rain, hoping to get back alive.
Reloading and then impacting is nonsense!
Using a broken pistol to shoot against someone else's cavalry is basically the same as shooting between a musketeer and an archer. They'll beat you to death with bows and arrows!
Many reasons led to the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty being unwilling to use muskets, regardless of whether they were long-barreled Suifa lances or Suifa pistols.
He doesn’t even like to use spears or armor!
If you don't have a good horse, you still want to play heavy armored spear cavalry, and your speed won't increase at all. People won't try to hedge against you at all. They'll just hang you from a distance with a bow and shoot arrows.
The limitations of the Tang cavalry and the enemies they faced determined that the only way out was to use the sword to mount a wall charge. At most, they could equip a breastplate and a helmet, no more, no more.
There are too many and the war horses cannot carry them.
The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty are repelled by muskets, and they are not yet equipped with Suifa pistols on a large scale. However, the commando battalion troops of the Tang Army have a soft spot for the Suifa pistols that have only appeared recently!
They are originally a close combat unit, and they are wearing armor and it is inconvenient to use rifles. However, if they bring such a short pistol, they can rush up and fire a shot before fighting hand-to-hand. They can kill an enemy first, and then
They would simply throw away their Suifa pistols and use their waist knives to fight hand to hand.
This way, it will be much easier for them to attack!
Because the Second Army is close to Jiangnan, it was also the first unit to come into contact with Suisu pistols, and it has also carried out relevant tactical research and training in the past few months.
This time, they are preparing to use it in actual combat. As long as the effect is good, then naturally they can only see the subsequent results.
Whether a weapon is useful or effective, nothing can test it better than actual combat.
The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty rejects muskets. Even now, the muskets of the Tang Dynasty are truly the best in the world. The army and navy speak highly of these five-year-old flintlock rifles, but they still cannot make the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty like the flintlocks.
The reason for firing the gun is very simple. This thing is not suitable for them to use and is useless to them in actual combat.
But the assault camp is different!
When they charged, many of the soldiers of the assault battalion not only held shields, but also held pistols, and their swords were stuck diagonally on their waists.
Of course, not everyone grabbed the Suifa pistol. Some people didn't grab it and just rushed up with the sword in hand!
When the soldiers of the assault battalion jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the ruins of the city wall more than 30 meters away, hundreds of soldiers from the Ming army on the inside of the city wall, serving as strategic reserves, also ran quickly towards the ruins.
Rush towards the ruins of the city wall.
If you look down from the sky at this time, you will find that the assault camp of the Tang Army and the trap camp of the Ming Army are all rushing towards the same ruins of the city wall!
The leading soldiers among them quickly reached the bottom of the ruins of the city wall, and then began to climb on their hands and feet, trying to climb to the top as quickly as possible, and then occupy the top of the ruins to gain a commanding tactical advantage.
What's interesting is that although the troops on both sides only have a few hundred people, they are basically heavy armor units, and they are all mixed!
Among the five or six hundred people in the Ming Army, at least more than a hundred were wearing heavy armor. In recent years, the heavy armor troops in the Ming Army have basically been double-armored!
It is just a piece of cotton armor on the inside, and another piece of iron armor such as chainmail on the outside. Otherwise, the protection is too poor, and the guns of the Tang Army are too sharp. Cotton armor with good bulletproof capabilities is absolutely indispensable.
However, these heavily armored troops usually had to fight with the Tang Army's heavy armored infantry, such as assault battalions. Cotton armor alone could not stop their fine steel waist knives, so chainmail and other armors had to be worn.
However, there are not many heavily armored troops wearing double armor, even among the governors, for no other reason than one word: expensive!
There are only a few hundred heavy armored infantry wearing double armor in Susong City. They are basically used as the strategic core of the strategic reserve to resist the Tang Army's assault battalion.
Except for these more than a hundred heavy armored infantry, the others were basically all wearing cotton armor. Ever since the Tang Army began to add iron pieces to the cotton armor to increase its protective capabilities, the Ming Army followed suit in a blink of an eye.
They can't learn plate armor, but cotton iron armor is still good. It's hard to say for the Ming army in other places, but Zhang Yue's supervisor here is still equipped with more cotton iron armor.
The armor coverage rate of the governor can probably be maintained at around 30%, which means that out of 100 soldiers, 30 are wearing armor.
Among the thirty armored men, there were leather armors, various types of iron armors, cotton armors, cotton-iron armors, etc.
The largest number is cotton armor, which accounts for more than half of all the armors of Dubiao. Why is it so much? Because the Ming army is not stupid. They will modify the original cotton armor and fill it with a few pieces of iron.
After some simple modifications, a piece of cotton armor can basically be called cotton armor.
The more than 500 people who supervised the bidding were all wearing armor. Apart from the armor, other weapons were surprisingly consistent with those of the Tang Dynasty Army!
Heavy armored infantrymen, holding stainless steel waist knives!
Some of the light armored infantrymen were holding spears, some were holding waist knives, and some were holding muskets. A few Ming soldiers could also see a few grenades on their waists. If they were unfamiliar people, at first glance, they looked like they were still there.
I thought it was a commando camp of the Tang Army.