"Five hundred steps from the enemy" The voice of the officer came from the front, and when Zhang Gudu heard this, he immediately made a judgment and gave an order: "Prepare clutch tactics" The "No" Sima answered loudly, and then passed the order to the team leaders and commanders below.
Since the Han family invented the horseshoe and stirrup and the saddle, and equipped them into the Han cavalry on a large scale.
Cavalry as a class was redefined The tactics of the cavalry have ushered in earth-shaking changes Before the Battle of Mayi, deep down in the hearts of people all over the world, the strongest tactic of cavalry was to outflank the two flanks.
This is a tactic created hundreds of years ago, during the Third Carthaginian War on the continent, by General Hannibal, Carthage's greatest military strategist.
The Carthaginian cavalry, in the hands of Hannibal, repeatedly used two flanks to outflank the Roman legions in front of the Roman legionary phalanx, and crushed the seemingly formidable Roman legions.
Since then, this tactic has become a symbol and representative of cavalry.
Both in the East and in the West.
When the cavalry faced a heavy group of enemy infantry that was waiting for them, they attacked and broke through with two flanks.
As for the battle between the cavalry and the cavalry, it is either a frontal hedge, or it is a thousand miles away, and the wisdom is to protect themselves.
It's not because people don't want to do more with cavalry and give this class more tasks.
It's because The cavalry at that time could only do these tasks.
Even, the cavalry that can complete the above tasks are elite and trump cards Most of the motley cavalry could not even master the tactics of cavalry hedging.
As for the high-level tactics of flanking and outflanking, which requires close coordination and tacit understanding, only a very small number of cavalry units can use it freely.
This is somewhat similar to the flintlock pistol era in later generations, and those who can line up to shoot each other must be elite Not the elite, want to play lined up shot There are no doors Queuing up to be shot, not queuing to die, nor gambling on life.
Otherwise, the British lobster soldiers would not have been rumored to be so miraculous.
However, even with stirrups and horseshoes and saddles, the tactical development of cavalry was not all smooth sailing.
Taking the Han army as an example, during the Battle of Mayi, the main tactics of the Han army's cavalry clusters, especially light cavalry clusters, were still the cavalry hedging and flanking tactics learned from the Huns.
Even in the eyes of the Xiongnu nobles at that time, the tactics and formations of the Han Dynasty cavalry were like a child trying to imitate the appearance of adults.
If it weren't for the superiority of cuirassiers and other equipment, it is not yet known who would have died in the Battle of Mayi.
But by the time of the Battle of Gaoque, the cavalry tactics of the Han army were greatly enriched.
The officers and staff officers who grew up in the war created a variety of tactics tailored for the Han cavalry.
For example, when the Yizong Division broke through the Ziling Mountains and galloped through the Honghu Fortress, within half a month, the cavalry of the Han army marched 1,000 miles, with an average daily march of nearly 100 miles, which was equivalent to a daily march of 30 kilometers in later generations.
Undoubtedly, this reflects the long-distance combat capability of the Han cavalry.
During the Battle of Heyin, the Zhidu Division even played a difficult tactic such as infantry and cavalry coordination.
After the Battle of Yan Ji, the tactics of the Han cavalry became more diversified.
The field cavalry troops can even basically fight with the sword soldiers and the bow and crossbow troops.
The coordination between the infantry and the rider gradually matured.
The cavalry of the commander of the righteous column completed the task of annihilating the Hun cavalry many times with the cooperation of the bow and crossbow fire of the county soldiers.
Today, the cavalry in the area around the Great Wall, especially the cavalry of the main field corps, is basically mature in its ability to coordinate combat with infantry and cavalry, and is fully equipped with the ability to coordinate operations with infantry.
But in the Andong region, the development of cavalry showed a different trend.
Because in the Andong region, the Han army is dominant and has no opponents.
Xianbei and Wuheng, the only ones who could pose a slight challenge to the Han army, also knelt down and sang about conquest under the strong strength of the Han army and the sugar-coated cannonballs of the Han merchants.
Therefore, the environment that Anton's Han cavalry needs to face is not how to cooperate with the huge infantry group to fight at all.
It's about how to maximize the full advantage of cavalry.
Spend the least amount of strength to achieve the maximum combat effect.
After all, Andong has a vast territory, and only one western governor has a radius of thousands of miles, although many places are wastelands, ice fields and primeval forests.
However, there are many important resources in its jurisdiction that need to be protected.
In addition, with the prosperity of the dispatch system, countless rangers who originally came to Anton for gold found that they could not compete with those powerful giants and powers in the Gold Rush River, and set their sights on various wild creatures in the depths of the ice field.
For the sake of five baht, the rangers who took risks went out in groups.
Some of them had permission from the Metropolitan Protectorate to legally capture slaves.
But the vast majority of them were illegal slave hunting teams of thirty or fifty people.
The Metropolitan Protectorate and the Government also turn a blind eye to this.
After all, instead of letting these guys get drunk and make trouble in the local area, and even commit crimes, it is better for them to vent their energy on the boundless ice fields east of Anton and the vast mountains to the west.
And with the increasing number of slave catchers.
One problem was put on the table: most slave catchers were small groups of thirty or fifty men to no more than a hundred, and their targets were usually hundreds or even thousands of tribes of raw and savage people.
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Although the opponent is far inferior to the heroes of the slave hunting team in terms of equipment and tactics in terms of equipment and tactics.
However, the superiority in numbers is more than enough to make up for everything.
Even if you can't beat the slave catcher, relying on the numerical advantage, the opponent can protect itself.
Maybe even kill the heroes who are bold and reckless, and don't measure their own strength.
Under such circumstances, the heroes of the slave hunting team can only use their ingenuity to find a solution to this problem.
And they did find a solution.
It not only makes the most of its own equipment advantages and long-range firepower advantages.
Normally, when a slave hunter finds a Wild Clan, they will choose to harass them.
This compelled the tribe to send their precious force to resist.
Of course, the enemy came out to intercept or confront, and the slave catchers took advantage of the situation to retreat.
If the enemy does not pursue, they will continue to harass until the enemy has lost his patience and chases the slave catchers in the ice field.
If the enemy pursues them, take them to a pre-selected battlefield and use the ambush to destroy them.
If the enemy neither pursues nor fights, but chooses to retreat.
It is like the gangrene of the appendage, which follows behind, using the horned bows and crossbows equipped by the rangers to shoot at the forces behind the palace and the men and horses on the flanks.
Mainly against its horses and livestock.
Until the enemy is cornered and can only surrender.
The whole process is done in one go, and it is breathtaking.
Soon this method of warfare spread from the slave catchers to the army.
The light cavalry of the Protector Army quickly learned the whole method of warfare from the rangers and carried it forward.
That's the clutch tactic.
The so-called clutch tactics are actually to maximize the use of the advantages of the Han army.
Including range, speed, as well as maneuverability and discipline.
When encountering an enemy, he will basically not fight hand-to-hand with him, and will not even give the enemy a chance to contact him.
Take advantage of the high speed and high mobility of the Han cavalry, the range of the horn bow equipped by the Han cavalry, and the archery skills of the Han cavalry, and destroy the enemy at a long distance.
Of course, this is just a simple version of this tactic.
However, that is the method that is only used against an enemy who has an absolute advantage.
That's not a tactic anymore, it's a strategy.
At this moment, the Han cavalry rushed towards the front of the Linhu cavalry at an extremely high speed.
A group of Linhu cavalry under the order of Dan Linyu abandoned the Wuheng people who were entangled by them and rushed towards the Han army, intending to stop and entangle this Han army.
The leading Gudu Hou Xiannu looked at the Han cavalry galloping towards him.
At this distance, he could even see the faces and outfits of the Han cavalry on the opposite side.
Inexplicably, his heart suddenly tightened, as if he had encountered a giant beast in the wilderness.
"How is it possible" The oblique slave shook his head hard, trying to shake out the fear in his heart: "These Han cavalry are no more than nine hundred horsemen, and I have nearly two thousand horsemen, even if I am defeated, I should be able to entangle and drag them" At this moment, the distance between the two armies was less than fifty paces.
Knowing that the Han Dynasty was about to collide head-on with his army, he immediately brandished the meteor hammer in his hand and shouted, "Prepare to engage the enemy" Almost at the same time, Zhang Gudu calmly raised his hand and shouted: "The whole army is out of the shot" Several soldiers who followed closely together blew the whistle in their mouths, and the sharp whistle spread throughout the army.
At this moment, the distance between the Han cavalry and the Lin Hu cavalry was no more than thirty or forty paces.
This distance is the best range of the Han army's horn bow.
At this distance, the Horn Bow has the most lethality and accuracy.
Under the frightened gaze of the Linhu people on the opposite side, the Han cavalry raised their horned bows one after another, spread their bowstrings, and aimed ahead, and at the same time, all the cavalry of the entire army completed an incredible action at this moment, they suddenly turned their horses around their horses and ran backwards, and at the same time, they released the bowstrings that were tightened by the wrenches of their fingers.
Qiang The vibration of the bowstring sounded like thunder.
A dense rain of arrows, like eyes, shot at the enemy.
At this moment, the training results of the Han army were maximized.
For the past three years, this cavalry has been windy, rainy, thundering and lightning.
Riding and archery training must have been carried out every day.
They had to contact each other to open their bows 300 times a day, and on average, a soldier used a horned bow every three months, and every two years he died of a war horse.
In addition to daily training, Zhang Gudu also took them into the ice field to hunt and even train with the nomadic savages.
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They used to sleep in the barren mountains, walking in the snow and ice.
They used to shoot tigers and leopards, hunt giant bears, and compete with wild people.
Hard training and day and night grinding have created their extraordinary riding and archery skills, as well as amazing tacit understanding.
When they appear on the battlefield, it is the end of their enemies.
Because, their tactics are exactly the tactics that the Mongolian light cavalry that roams the world rely on to be invincible thousands of years later.
Amazing archery, intimate coordination, and skillful riding combine to form an unsolvable formula.
Mo said that the Linhu people are still in the old cavalry era, I am afraid that even if the main cavalry of the Huns in the north of the curtain now encounters such a Han army, there is no second end except for drinking and hating the battlefield "Beware of arrow attacks" The oblique slave shouted, and immediately subconsciously lay his body on the warhorse, trying to maintain his posture as much as possible, so as to defend against the enemy's arrow rain.
The other Linhu cavalry, at this moment, like acrobatics, made all kinds of astonishing reactions on horseback.
Some people even immediately leaned to the left, parallel to the horse's back.
After all, the Lin Hu people were a force composed of Yin Zhixian's cronies and diehard loyalists after his death.
They may not have kept up with the times, but the skills and reactions that have been honed over time are still there.
Especially the cavalry under the command of Xiannu, they are composed of the remnants of Yin Zhixian who stayed in Nanchi as the backbone.
Once upon a time, they were also dignitaries and big men, warriors who terrified the various departments of the Makunan. pity All their efforts have been in vain.
Because, the goal of the Han army has never been people. but Their war horses Tuk-tuk An accurate and powerful bow that shoots horses with incredible precision.
This time, the hit rate of the Han cavalry's arrow attack was as high as sixty percent This is mainly because the Linhu cavalry did not know the goal of the Han cavalry at all, and they subconsciously thought that the target of the Han army was them.
They didn't think about it at all, the Han army would stare at their horses.
In the past, the wars of the steppe tribes would not be staring at the war horses.
That's the same as the Chinese civil war, no matter how brutal the warlords are, they generally won't attack the farmland and channels.
Horses are the home and food source for all the people who draw the bow.
The people who draw the bow are the people on horseback.
The affection for horses is extremely deep.
Even the most brutal chieftain could not have done anything to the horse.
In the past, China lacked horses, and the Chinese army would not stare at the enemy's horses, and would even protect the enemy's horses as much as possible.
Therefore, at this moment, the Lin Hu cavalry array turned on their backs.
Hundreds of warhorses neighed and collapsed in an instant, knocking their owners to the ground and destroying the entire array.
"Come again" Zhang Gu didn't have time to observe the results of the battle, he reined in his horse and turned around to continue to accelerate.
The clutch tactic is characterized by a continuous rain of arrows until the enemy collapses or cannot resist chasing after him.
And once the enemy makes the above two choices, then their end will also come.
The war horses of Zhang Gudu's department are horse breeds that are crossed from Wusun horses and captured Xiongnu horses.
The biggest feature is that they have super endurance, they can withstand high-intensity running for up to an hour, and can run for a day in low-intensity exercise.
At the same time, its speed, at least for now, was much, much faster than that of the Linghu cavalry.
In other words, in front of the Han army, the Linhu cavalry was simply an asymmetrical enemy t1706231537: