Turbulent Times Chapter 1094: Riding battle (on)

The three thousand cavalry led by Yuchi Jingde are very different from the bandits a year ago. aspect.

At Wang Junlin's request, the 3,000 people were divided into ten teams of 250 people each, and each team was divided into five rows of fifty people each. The first two rows used only spears, and the middle row The two rows are the second row of boring palladium, and the last row is thick-backed waist sabers. At the same time, the cavalry with waist sabers is also equipped with a rapid-fire crossbow.

This is the first real combat operation after Wang Junlin's cavalry has undergone large-scale changes in tactics and equipment. Cavalry is still the king of war in this era. Strong mobility and impact determine the initiative on the battlefield. However, no matter how strong the infantry is, they can only win by relying on the city, and being undefeated in field battles with cavalry is already the limit.

Wang Junlin is very clear that to maximize the combat power of cavalry, it must emphasize dense formation and strict discipline like synchronized soldiers. Individual bravery is no longer important in such a system. However, in addition to giving high hopes to the three thousand cavalry, Wang Junlin is still full of expectations for Yuchi Jingde.

In the original history, until the Napoleon period, European cavalry tactics continued to develop along this path, and the modern cavalry system formed by it eclipsed all the once glorious nomadic cavalry. Wang Junlin is equivalent to letting the cavalry tactics of a thousand years later appear in this world in advance.

This cavalry unit with only 3,000 men has been trained for more than a year, and they have spent more than 10,000 infantrymen. The daily training is a dense formation charge. Yuchi Jingde knows this very well, and As the chief general of this cavalry, he needs a chance to prove himself.

On the hills in the distance, a dense cavalry of Goguryeo people appeared. They had already crossed the hillside, and more and more Goguryeo cavalry joined the battle with the rangers of the special warfare battalion.

The rangers of the former Goguryeo army are obviously elite. They nimbly control their horses and come and go. They gather and scatter from time to time to attack Zhang Tiangang's special warfare battalion scouts with their bows. The special warfare reconnaissance cavalry also rushed to the battlefield, and they fired continuously. The rapid firing speed gave them a great advantage. Some Goguryeo cavalry fell from their horses, but occasionally some cavalry of the special forces were besieged and killed by the Goguryeo people, and the fighting on the battlefield was extremely fierce.

"This is the strength of the cavalry of the Goguryeo people. It is worthy of being a country that has been fighting for decades. In history, Yang Guang's conquests were defeated. In addition to Yang Guang's personal reasons and internal factors in the Sui Dynasty, the Goguryeo army also Toughness is also a reason!" Wang Junlin thought while watching the battle.

When the Goguryeo rear approached, Wang Junlin's special force team had too few scouts, so they started fighting while retreating.

Wang Junlin watched carefully with a telescope. Forty or fifty Goguryeo people died, but five or six scouts of the Special Forces also died.

Most of these five or six people were shot down by their mounts and then chased by a group of cavalry from the other side. The remaining dozens of scouts from the special forces team seemed very passive due to the large difference in numbers. They were retreating to the big formation, and the distance was only one mile. harass them.

At this time, all the Goguryeo cavalry had crossed the northern hills and appeared in front of Wang Junlin. Besides the rangers, there were more than 3,000 cavalry. They also discovered the Sui army formation here, and began to form formation two miles away. The trumpets kept sounding, and it seemed that they were preparing for a battle.

Sure enough, Wang Junlin's complete victory at sea did not make the opponent feel intimidated. On the contrary, the opponent might hold his breath and wait for revenge on land.

Wang Junlin clamped the belly of a blood-maned horse, and came to the side of three thousand cavalry like the wind. Yuchi Jingde was waiting for an order, but he did not expect that Wang Junlin came in person. He cupped his hands a little excitedly: "My lord ordered Let's see that Beizhi led Erlang to kill all these Goguryeo people today."

Wang Junlin pointed to the front and said: "I came here in person to emphasize to you again that you must not show off your personal bravery, and you must pay attention to using the tactics you usually train to win this war."

Cavalry combat is impermanent, and commanders do not have the preferential treatment of infantry commanders. They have to follow soldiers forward, and often have to command from the front row, and personally confront the enemy, so they become the main target of the opponent's attack. The danger of fighting even surpassed that of ordinary cavalry, but Wang Junlin knew that Yuchi Jingde was superior in strength and possessed supernatural power, so he was not worried about his safety. If you leave the battlefield, you will also suffer a large loss on your own side.

Yuchi Jingde understood what Wang Junlin meant, and said with a long smile: "Don't worry, my lord, I understand."

At this time, Goguryeo's cavalry brigade had already started to advance, and Wang Junlin ordered: "Let's start!"

Yuchi Jingde's murderous intent was so high that he wanted to give a shout and lead people to charge, but in the end he gave the order: "Come on, blow the horn!"

The harmonics of the new brass horns resounded through the hillside. Six cavalry squadrons and twelve cavalry squadrons lined up in a long twelve-row formation, with two hundred and fifty men in each row. Shining silver in the sun. The first two rows of the cavalry battalion used one-foot-four-foot long spears to wear scale armor, the third and fourth rows used eight-foot boring palladium, and the rear used thickened and widened one-handed waist knives, and the last two rows were all chain mail. The distance between the cavalry in the same row is only three feet, the distance between the teams is two steps, and the distance between the front and rear rows is seven steps. They will serve as the main force to destroy the enemy's formation.

Yuchi Jingde came ten steps ahead of the formation, looking at the Goguryeo army lined up opposite him, his eyes shot out with a monstrous fighting spirit.

The war horses needed by these 3,000 people are excellent war horses that Wang Junlin bought from the Khitans at a large price. These horses felt the atmosphere of the battlefield, and began to scratch the ground with their fore hooves violently, and clattered

Nose and shake head from side to side.

The flag bearer belonging to the general came to Yuchi Jingde's side. The flag bearer pointed the red pennant obliquely forward. In the sound of the marching horn with five short sounds followed by a long sound, three thousand cavalry simultaneously mobilized their horses and began to march forward. Jingde needs to accurately judge the distance to ensure that he can engage the enemy at the highest speed of the charge.

At present, the distance between them and the enemy is one mile, and they have to keep jogging to about 200 paces. Charging at a distance of 200 paces is their most proficient subject, and the difficulty lies in how to maintain a dense formation when the speed gradually increases.