Infinite Gentleman

The experiences of the two sides and even the three views have conflicted. Such adventurers may be more difficult to train than retraining recruits.

Of course, whether it is training a new army or training an adventurous army, you need money, money.

The army pays military pay-and it is very high. In addition to uniform military uniforms, weapons and equipment, and other munitions, money is also money, and training costs are money, all kinds... Even if Axel’s financial strength is relatively good, it is necessary to maintain a battlefield vision. It is still very, very difficult for an elite army of tens of thousands of people in the middle kind.

The battlefield did not want to be like some military leaders, all the money was invested in expanding the army and recruiting soldiers. The number of the army alone looks good, but there is nothing else, and even the rations are not available. The soldiers have to rob their stomachs, and even go down to the river to touch crabs and clams, even when they can eat human flesh...

What he wants to build is a modern army — at least in the current world, a modern army — although because of the laws of physics, gunpowder or something in this world is very bad. But in other respects, the original sincerity of the battlefield is not impossible.

The military in the Middle Ages did not consider logistics, marching, or strategic aspects. Speaking of the confrontation between the two armies alone, there are two most important aspects of confrontation at the tactical level.

The first point is the use of cavalry. The second point is how to fight against the enemy cavalry. On these two points, the battlefield is sincere and very happy to know a lot. Back then, under the hands of King Mao, his days as a knight of the round table were not just for nothing. Past. Regarding how to use heavy cavalry to charge, he asked himself that he would never be worse than anyone.

As for the use of light cavalry-most countries in this world are feudal states of Western fantasy, except for knights. And even the knights are very haha-most cavalry tactics are still at the medieval level.

In terms of tactics, there is no advantage other than the point of charging with a gun. As for the organizational model, it is still the knights leading their followers to form a Lancer as the basic unit (the Lancer here is indeed the basic unit of the medieval European cavalry, and about six or seven Lancers are a team). Whether it is the classic wall assault or the application of the hussars, it is very difficult to read.

To beat the opponent on the cavalry, this is the original confidence of a million points on the battlefield... It's just that the original army on the battlefield does not have enough archers. Horseback archery is a technical job...

Although training hussars like Cossacks, it is enough to be your own ranger scout. But the mid-to-late rangers also wear six-barreled revolvers and carbines. This is a bit distressed on the battlefield. So I thought of a compromise.

Use a crossbow.

Although the loading speed is much slower than the archers. But there is the same advantage, that is, training is easier and the army is faster. This alone can save much effort on the battlefield.

That's it. The construction of the cavalry is easy.

Hussars equipped with crossbows and sabers, as ranger scouts, cut off the food passage, harass from the rear, shield the battlefield, flanking harassment and containment during the main battle, and chase after the defeat...

All this has to be done by the hussars—as for the lancers—that is, the knights.

Cavaliers are easy to handle. This group of bastards were born and began to hone their riding spear skills when they were young, and there was no problem with martial arts. The problem is their discipline, obedience and tactics.

Therefore, the old man of the Dustinis family heard that the battlefield was training soldiers, and he kindly wanted to send some family knights to help. Even let it go, if he wants, the knights under him can send some heirs here to serve as soldiers on the battlefield.

For the latter, Zhanchangyuan accepted it very happily-most of these are the second sons of the family and cannot inherit the family business. After adulthood is a horse, a pair of armor and a lance. Then he was happily kicked out of the house and fended for himself.

These guys can give their lives a bowl of rice. Either to be an adventurer, or to be a mercenary-but whether it is an adventurer or a mercenary, it is not their favorite thing to do.

After seeing the majesty of being a knight, most of the wandering knights want to climb up desperately.

So once any nobleman starts a war. If you want to recruit mercenaries, there are highly motivated guys who are willing to go out even if they don’t pay. In order to want to show his face in front of these nobles.

When Europe fought the Thirty Years' War, Wallenstein, a deflated mercenary, climbed to the position of commander-in-chief of the Holy Roman Empire by virtue of his military exploits. High-ranking officials had everything.

The Chinese say heroes come out of troubled times. Although there are other messy things besides heroes, but this is true.

In this way, the cavalry side is like this-and "anti-cavalry" units-or in addition to the cavalry, the backbone of the army is more important in a sense.

——Different from most people who pay attention to cavalry and think that if they are infantry, the farmer can also pretend with a stick. The battlefield naturally understood the importance of the main infantry force. I also worked hard for this——

What is the biggest role of infantry?

The first is to maintain the front line. It's as if Alexander's Super Pikemen, and his companion cavalry, played the roles of hammer and anvil respectively. The most important point of the infantry unit is to maintain a stable front. Defend the enemy's impact-here, the anti-cavalry can also be attributed to maintaining the line.

And the second point is the offensive power-long-range offensive power and melee offensive power-at this point, the Spanish phalanx, while maintaining the superiority of the phalanx of the classical era, joined the Musketeer. One element. Increased the attack power of the phalanx infantry, popular in Europe for a while.

In addition, to push forward, during the Crusades, facing the Saracen archers, the Lionheart combined the shield spearmen and the English longbowmen. It is similar to the Spanish phalanx.

China used the tactics of hook and scythe to fight against nomadic cavalry and heavy cavalry. In the late Middle Ages in Europe, there were also a large number of professional mercenaries who fancy halberds and scythes against cavalry troops. When the Jurchens fought against the Song soldiers, Wanyan Zongbi said that the first powerful southern soldier was a crossbow, and the second powerful was a large axe. This axe should refer to a long-handled weapon similar to a hook, sickle and axe blade. . Even the Modao blown by some people can also be classified into this category.

Speaking of this, some people may think that the battlefield will sincerely form a phalanx infantry unit composed of ultra-pikemen, crossbowmen, and halberd soldiers.

however. Actually. it's not true.

Yes, yes yes. In a sense, the whole world was playing super long spear phalanx in the 16th century. Even the Japanese Ashikaga are playing spears. However, in the East at this time, there is another set of things against the nomadic cavalry...

In other words, most of the time, Eastern civilization’s military tactics are different from others.

In the absence of cavalry, how should we ride on foot and happily kill the nomadic cavalry?

In this regard, the first one to give an excellent answer was Liu Yu, who was known as the first Ming master of the Southern Dynasty. Back then, a second-liuzi led hundreds of people and flooded Huanxuan's hundreds of thousands of troops into the river. The record is extremely brilliant.

His tactic is to use boats to attack when the river is rising during the spring flood season. Use the mobility of the ship to counter the mobility of the cavalry. At the same time, a bed crossbow is set up on the ship to lure the enemy into the range of the boat bed crossbow. An army composed of machinery, vehicles, and crossbows will fight against the nomadic cavalry and win...

Of course, this tactic has a drawback. That is, it is inseparable from the support of the river——

But it didn't matter. After that, two more Eastern military strategists happily invented the tactics that could leave the river to support.

Camel City.

Connected with camels and iron chains, scattered during the march. In the match, the camel was asked to lie down and put a heavy blanket on it to block the arrow rain. Even small catapults can be installed on the camel to form a mobile wall, which can easily counter the enemy's charge.

The stench and size of camels are also easy to frighten horses. In this case, there is also a huge bonus against cavalry. Bizhoushi took another step.

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Chapter 32 The War Machine

only. The hygiene problems caused by a large number of livestock, as well as the required feed, etc., are a heavier burden for any country.

Moreover, although the camel's bearing capacity is stronger than that of a horse, the character is also more docile than a horse. But whether he can really resist shouting and killing without being surprised or afraid when he is in the battle is another matter.

At the Battle of Chude Lake, the shouts of killing by the two armies scared away all the wild animals within a radius of tens of kilometers. Camels are also animals to put it bluntly. If it is alarmed, it is not a joke.

Especially, under gunfire. The camel collapses faster.

When Geldan of Junggar met Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, he also showed a camel city. Plus the muskets obtained from the northern Rakshas. The combat effectiveness is probably stronger than Genghis Khan’s Camel City.

In the end, he was still bombarded by Kangxi's red clothes.

Although there is no red cannon in the other world, there is magic. Although there are pits in the brain like Huihui, there are not many archmages who use burst magic, but the general mage is also a matter of setting a fireball and lightning—more importantly One thing is. From the beginning to the present, the battlefield has never seen a camel in another world.

but.

But it's not.

It's not that this tactic can't be used. In fact, there is another thing that surpasses Liu Yu's navy and also surpasses Genghis Khan's Camel City-that is the chariot.

Qi Jiguang of the year. Many people know that he used the mandarin duck array to wipe out Japanese pirates in the south. Some people who don’t know the truth think that Yuanyang Zhen is the number one in the world-but it is not actually-

If you continue to talk about Qi Jiguang, then look at Qi Jiguang's subsequent history.

When they went to the north to fight the little prince of Tatar, they used no mandarin duck array--the kind of small-scale infantry division of labor and cooperation array can only exert its power in small-scale complex terrain. It is an army built by people in accordance with local conditions and based on the dense water network of the south of the Yangtze River and the mountainous and hilly terrain.

After arriving in the north, they used chariots to face the nomadic cavalry. Use tanks to form a line of defense, and arrange blunderbuss and artillery behind the tanks. Can slaughter the enemy very happily.