The things on the cavalry are heavier, so the impact speed will naturally be slower, and the pressure on the war horses will be greater.
Li Xingchen was not reluctant to build heavy armored cavalry. Although heavy armored cavalry cost a lot, the deterrent effect it played was well known. With the current financial and material resources of the Han Dynasty, it was not difficult to build heavy armored cavalry. There were many
The army now has heavy armored soldiers and Mo Dao troops who specialize in dealing with the enemy's light cavalry. What the heavy armored cavalry needs more than them is nothing more than the armor on their horses.
The problem is that the Han Dynasty still lacks good horses, to be precise, good horses with relatively strong durability. The current war horses of the Han Dynasty come from the northwest. The northwest horses are tall and have strong impact, but their durability is not good. In addition, the Han Dynasty lacks horses.
, they accept all comers, so there are not many people in the army who can really be called BMWs. If you want to arm heavy armored cavalry, you have enough people and enough money, but not enough horses, so you can get more than a dozen heavy armored cavalry.
It doesn't have any effect either.
The more suitable vehicles for heavy armored cavalry should be horses from the northern grasslands and the northeast. Historically, the heavy armored cavalry of the Jin Kingdom relied on this.
Therefore, Li Xingchen is focusing on light cavalry at this stage. Anyway, there are no heavy armored cavalry on the opposite side.
Therefore, when making a choice, Cheng Feng could choose whether to carry two firecrackers or one firecracker and two throwing spears. In the end, he chose the latter, which would allow the Han cavalry to maintain a stepped shape when charging.
The firepower is suppressed, and at the same time, when the javelin is thrown, it is thrown out, which is equivalent to reducing the weight in disguise.
"Kill!" Cheng Feng raised the horse, and the horse drove straight into the chest of the oncoming Northern Zhou cavalry.
The long horse spur pushed the Northern Zhou cavalry directly off the horse, and Cheng Feng roared and continued to move forward, pushing him directly and hitting the man behind him.
The war horses neighed and several horses collided with each other. Cheng Feng kicked away the horse next to him and suddenly pulled out the horse's shaft. The horse's shaft swept across and hit a Northern Zhou soldier on the other side. The Zhou people did not expect this.
There was another person who was so wildly flailing that he was directly hit on the back by Ma Shan's gun and fell to the ground. When he fell off the horse, he didn't forget to look back at Cheng Feng, his eyes full of resentment.
Aren't you afraid of such indiscriminate attacks and hitting your own people?
Cheng Feng didn't even look at the prey. Naturally, the Han cavalry next to him stepped forward and took his life with a horizontal sword.
"Don't be obsessed with fighting, charge forward!" Cheng Feng shouted immediately, the horse spear in his hand started to dance, and the mace at the head of the horse spear was struck back and forth. No one of the Northern Zhou soldiers in front dared to stop him for a while.
At this time, the commanders and generals of the Han cavalry imitated the same example and led their troops to charge at the front.
After a short confrontation, they had already figured out the enemy's strength. It was obvious that these Northern Zhou cavalry did not have much actual combat experience, and relied more on their numbers to overwhelm them. But for the Yulin cavalry, with fewer enemies, that is
A common meal.
Soon the team headed by the generals broke through the Northern Zhou cavalry formation. The Han army's Yu Linqi, who rushed out from the Northern Zhou cavalry formation, did not turn their horses' heads, but regrouped and headed straight to the rear.
The Northern Zhou infantry formation fought through.
At this time, the Northern Zhou infantry were still advancing in formation, and they never expected that the Han cavalry would not care about the Northern Zhou cavalry that had rushed not far in front of the Han infantry array, and instead charged towards them.
"Throw the gun!" Cheng Feng ordered decisively.
The second and final spear was thrown away.
After all, Wang Gui's army is not a ragtag bunch. In the past few years, Wang Gui has been arranging his troops and practicing formations in order to defend Huaibei. Wang Gui did not count on the cavalry, but mainly focused on the infantry.
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Seeing the Han cavalry coming towards them, after a brief panic, the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty stabilized their positions, raised their shields one by one, and many of their spears hit the shields directly. Of course, a small number of them passed over the shields and pierced into the crowd.
However, it did not cause a commotion among the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. On the contrary, they quickly threw the counterattack arrows.
The baptism of enemy arrows was expected. The Han cavalry spread out to both sides as much as possible, using the speed of the horses to keep a certain distance from the enemy's crossbowmen.
My hands had no time to react.
However, there must be losses, and all Cheng Feng can do is to control the losses within an acceptable range.
"Kill!" A Han cavalryman in the lead stepped on the enemy's shield with his horse.
The Northern Zhou soldier behind the shield suddenly received such a violent impact that a mouthful of blood spurted out. He also retreated, staggered, and fell to the ground.
Before the people behind could come up as substitutes, the Han cavalry had already charged straight through the gap. The same scene also appeared on the entire Northern Zhou army's front. The Han cavalry skillfully controlled the horses, and the horses' hooves trampled them again and again.
Shield, and at the same time, the horse in his hand aimed at the gap between the shields and drilled hard into it.
Those Northern Zhou spearmen who wanted to raise their spears to stab the Han cavalry were often killed first by the condescending Han army.
How to fight against the cavalry is a compulsory course for every Han army soldier, because they will inevitably face the powerful Xianbei cavalry when they go north in the future, and if they want the Han army soldiers to have enough practical experience, they must go through a lot of exercises
, often the Yulin Cavalry played a role similar to that of the Fort Irwin Red Army and the Zhurihe Blue Army in later generations, causing the Han soldiers to complain endlessly.
After all, even the orthodox Xianbei cavalry cannot have the powerful equipment of the Han Dynasty. They also have to add the horses from the Western Regions and the super luxurious configuration of veterans who have been fighting for many years, not to mention the Yulin Cavalry itself.
The best of the best among the great men.
I'm afraid only the bodyguards of Yu Wenxian, Yu Wenchun and others have this ability. The Xianbei cavalry they usually encounter will never reach this level.
For these Yulin cavalry, the process of practicing with infantry is also a process of training and learning for them, so they are very experienced in how to deal with infantry who form formations to protect themselves.
The Northern Zhou army was also very depressed. It was clear that they had launched a counterattack, and even came from the upper reaches of Qingshui, but now they were being beaten by the enemy's cavalry. Isn't this a loss of life for thousands of miles?
The Han cavalry skillfully tore through the defense line of the Northern Zhou army, formed the simplest and crudest triangular cone assault formation, and charged all the way!
The generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were busy issuing orders, and the swordsmen and shieldmen hurriedly spread out to both sides to cover their own crossbowmen. Otherwise, the Han cavalry would rush in directly and rush into the array of crossbowmen. I am afraid they would not be chopping melons and vegetables with their crossbows.
All hands were killed.
At this time, all the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty could hope for was that their own cavalry could wreak havoc among the enemy's infantry like this!