Name of the unit: Germinal Cavalry; Description of the unit: The oldest cavalry in mankind, equipped with a horn bow or a two-meter bronze spear, and fight in groups of two.
Combat Strength Assessment: Bronze Age Intermediate.
System facilities required to generate: Bronze Age high-level military camp and primary stable; 5 points required to generate, each unit consumes 2 population balance Hua looked at this unactivated unit and thought of the Assyrian cavalry.
Only a team of two can attack the enemy in motion.
When one person is arranging an arrow and bending the bow, the other person has to help him hold the reins.
Hua took another look at the stable facilities on which he relied.
The primary stables, this facility and subsequent higher-level facilities are necessary facilities for the military camp to generate horse units.
Construction requires 300 points.
The palace needs to be upgraded to the Bronze Age High Level, the military camp needs to be upgraded to the Bronze Age High Level, and the city walls need to be upgraded to rammed earth walls.
The city wall should have been upgraded.
As Xia Fang's power expands, there will inevitably be more and more forces coveting Xia Kingdom, and the enemies they face will become stronger and stronger.
The wooden wall seemed weak at this time.
Thinking of this, Hua upgraded the city wall to a rammed earth wall.
A junior stable was built next to the military camp.
Finally ten units of budding cavalry were generated.
A total of 850 points were spent.
The population balance of 20 is consumed.
Then, Hua rushed to the military camp to check out the newly launched cavalry unit.
Earlier, Hua had thought about using draft horses pulling carts as cavalry mounts.
However, these horses are short in stature, with a shoulder height of about 13 meters.
Riding on them is like riding on a dog.
The key is that the load capacity does not meet the riding standards.
Twenty "muscular men" wearing leather armor were riding "big horses" on the school field for training.
This so-called "big horse" is actually just one size larger than the ordinary indigenous horse that pulls carts, with a shoulder height of about 14 meters.
There was no saddle or stirrups, just a piece of animal skin spread on the horse's back.
Riders must curl up their legs and hold the horse's belly tightly to maintain balance while riding a horse.
Some hold a two-meter spear, while others hold a horn bow.
The bow holder is the main attacking cavalry, and the spear holder is the auxiliary rider.
When the twenty cavalrymen saw Hua's arrival, they quickly jumped off their horses, bowed to Hua and saluted, "I have met my lord."
"Excuse me, please continue practicing.
I'm just here to visit."
Looking at these budding cavalry, Hua thought that these were really "budding" cavalry.
It would not be of much practical significance to directly use these "cavalry" to charge into battle, but if they were used for real-time battlefield reconnaissance and communication, as well as for harassment of the enemy's flanks and rear flanks, It still has a great effect Thinking of this, he returned to the study room of the palace and spent half a day designing a pattern of a saddle, stirrups and a new horse bit on the brocade.
Then he went to the workshop and asked the craftsmen if they could make them.
When He Hua, an old craftsman from a high-end workshop in the Bronze Age, fully communicated and understood his detailed design intentions, he quickly created twenty sets of new horse harnesses based on the drawings.
On the school field, the budding cavalrymen were not used to these new harnesses at first, but after practicing for a few quarters of an hour, they all became excited, and the new harnesses gave them a qualitative leap in their riding experience.
The new horse equipment has improved the combat effectiveness of these cavalry to a certain extent, but the combat effectiveness of the cavalry still depends mostly on the people and horses.
In fact, these cavalry are still far from the level of mature cavalry in later generations.
Even so, this is already a cross-era military unit with historical significance.
Hua originally planned to equip them with bronze armor, but found that the load capacity of these horses was very limited.
If they increased the weight, they would only sacrifice the continuous mobility and speed of these cavalry, so he had to keep the system's preset leather armor.
Regarding their weapons, each cavalryman is now equipped with a two-meter carbine, a pair of horn bows, and fifteen bronze cluster arrows.
There is a hook on the carbine.
When you need to free your hands, you can hang the carbine on the harness.
Now is the winter farming season, and the Huben Camp and the militiamen of several villages in the basin have begun winter training.
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The halberdiers and spearmen of the Qilin Guard were sent down for training.
In the Huben camp, a uniform and dense phalanx of infantrymen with spears and spears was performing various drills under the instructions of the instructors.
These spear infantry are equipped with a full set of armor, and their helmets are made entirely of bronze, with both cheeks well protected.
The armor is still "metal-like scale armor" with leather as the base and continuous riveted copper sheets.
There is a clear difference from other Fang countries where Zhajia is the mainstream armor.
There are still wrist armors and greaves made entirely of bronze to protect the forearms and shins respectively.
The weapons of the spearmen are a five-meter-long bronze spear and a two-foot-and-a-half round shield that can be hung on the chest.
They are also equipped with a bronze dagger more than a foot long hanging on the waist.
Once, when Hua picked up the five-meter spear, he instantly understood why the long-handled weapon infantry phalanx abandoned the long halberd that could cut, hook, and stab.
Because under the leverage effect, the weight of the extra blade of the halberd requires the soldier to spend almost twice as much effort to level this ultra-long-handled weapon.
So he made a categorical decision that all the polearm infantry units in the Tiger Army would be spearmen.
The three-meter long halberd is reserved for those peasant uncles who do not have time for long-term military formation training.
Hua came to a large open space in the southern area of the basin, where there was a newly built elephant garden.
Twenty mahouts are training elephants in the open space.
These are the mahout Hua spent 40 points to generate.
Although the natives of this world also have elephant slaves, they are not comparable to the former.
The latter can only control the elephant for ordinary walking and do some common tasks.
But the mahout trainer has the level of circus trainers of later generations and can train elephants to perform various behaviors strictly according to instructions.
These animal trainers and elephants are part of the "moving castle" designed by Hua.
There is also a camp built next to the open space, where some indigenous craftsmen are busy hammering, sawing, planing, riveting, and sweating profusely.
The artifacts created already have a finished product, which is very large.
At first glance, it looks like a small castle with a wooden frame, bamboo and rattan skin, and a roof.
It is ten meters long and five meters high.
The roof is made of bamboo and rattan, and when necessary, moist spear grass can be laid to prevent fire.
The outer wall is also composed of three layers of rattan armor woven from bamboo and rattan.
There is a 15-meter-wide bamboo corridor supported by wooden frames on the inside of the outer wall.
The top of the exterior wall is surrounded by bamboo poles with bamboo joints running through them.
There is a watering funnel on each side, which can divert water to make the entire rattan wall moist in a short time for fire prevention.
There is a frame with a strange structure three meters high inside.
There is also a base frame made of wood and bronze components at the bottom.
There are multiple wooden wheels installed at the bottom of the base frame.
These wooden wheels are all solid wooden wheels less than two feet in diameter and covered with bronze.
They are all simple universal wheels fixed on the base frame through a rotating shaft.
Now that the wheels are not touching the ground, it's obvious that you can use the mechanical switch to decide whether the castle moves on wheels.
The "Moving Castle" is different from previous city-breaking machines.
The device itself does not need to be kept secret, because it cannot be kept secret after being put into the battlefield.
But the core threshold for this thing lies in the mahout.
Even if others deliberately imitate, they must at least have an elephant slave who has reached the level of a systematic mahout.
"How about it?
Can these elephants act in unison according to the instructions?"
Hua asked one of the mahout leaders.
"That's basically enough.
Please, Your Majesty, take a look at our actual performance," the man replied respectfully.
Summary of data so far in this chapter: Points: 22411351 System population: including 50 farmers, 10 strong bow hunters, 2 traders, 3 witch doctors, 100 bronze shield guards, halberd warriors: 40, spearmen: 30, compound bow archers: 150, officials: 16, budding cavalry :20, 20 mahout, total 460 people Population balance: 2580 Building facilities: High-end palaces, military camps, and workshops in the Bronze Age; Intermediate residential buildings in the Bronze Age; dovecotes; rammed earth city walls; warehouses; copper mines; primary wineries; primary stables: