Chapter 69 The wonder of riding on a saddle!

Author: March

Chapter 69 The wonder of riding on a saddle!

"I heard what Xu Fu said when we were at sea..." Zhao Si laughed sarcastically and decisively passed the blame to Xu Fu.

"He is just a warrior, he knows nothing about training soldiers and fighting!" Wang Li was amused. Now Xu Fu, a liar, had basically been completely crucified after Zhao Si returned from the sea.

"When you are riding on horseback, you have to take care of the horseback riding, so you can't use your full strength to bend the bow and set the arrow. Therefore, the riding bow is not as good as the walking bow." Wang Li said.

"For example, you can pull a three-stone bow standing on the ground, but you can only pull two or even one stone on horseback," Wang Li said.

"Not to mention, the Da Qin crossbow was already famous among the Six Kingdoms during the Warring States Period. The barbarians on horseback would have been shot to pieces before they even reached the shooting range. If they dared to stop shooting, they would face the well-formed soldiers.

, even if the difference is several times greater, there will never be another chance to mount the horse." Wang Li shook his head and said.

Zhao Si nodded and said, "In that case, if Da Qin faces the Xiongnu and has its back against the Great Wall, isn't it already in an invincible position?"

Wang Li paused for a moment...then he was silent for a long time and said, "It's true that you said so."

"But that's not how a war is calculated." Wang Li said.

"The Huns, on the one hand, have many tribes and their people are not unified. On the other hand, they are not engaged in production. Their weapons and armor are far inferior to those of the Qin Dynasty. However, in the Qin Dynasty, in addition to infantry, they also have chariots and cavalry. They are also famous all over the world. They are far superior to the Huns and have sufficient food and grass.

, With Da Qin at your back, as long as you don’t rush deep, you will indeed be in an invincible position." Wang Li replied.

"But it's not that cavalry can't defeat infantry." Wang Li looked back at the first battle against Chu that his eldest father, Wang Jian, had personally reviewed for him. That man's tactical ideas had so far given Wang Li the feeling of standing tall on a mountain.

.

"The foot bow is far better than the cavalry bow. Under normal circumstances, when fighting in formation, even with several times the number of cavalry and pawns, it is difficult to rush into the foot formation. But there is only one thing, cavalry and pawns are stronger than infantry." Wang Li looked solemn.

"move!"

When Wang Li talked about rising, he simply drew a circle on the ground. Then he drew two small circles and wrote riding and walking.

"Look, let's say this is a battlefield. Here are one hundred thousand infantry and here are one hundred thousand cavalry. Let's start the battle now. The cavalry can mobilize and assemble much faster than the infantry." Wang Li said.

"Secondly, assuming they both want to get here and set off at the same time, the cavalry will arrive before the infantry."

After Wang Li finished speaking, he placed a few more stones in the circle.

"What if these places are food thoroughfares, granaries, and cities?"

"The cavalry arrived before the infantry." Zhao Si replied.

"But how can the cavalry attack the city?" Zhao Si asked back.

"Will the cavalry not fight if they dismount? If there are not many defenders in the city, the gap in numbers is too big, the city is not tall enough, and the gap in numbers is big enough, the city can be broken easily. If the city is strong, so can siege equipment.

Made now." Wang Li replied.

"Is it enough time for the infantry to return for reinforcements?" Zhao Si asked again. It took too long to build the siege equipment, and the infantry had enough time to return for reinforcements.

"How do you know whether I have built it or not, and whether I really want to attack the city?" Wang Li asked back.

Zhao Si paused...

"Use your strengths and avoid weaknesses!" Wang Li smiled and shook his head.

"If the cavalry wants to defeat the infantry, they must move. If the infantry wants to defeat the cavalry, the cavalry must not move." Wang Li said.

"In other words, if the infantry is too tired to run, the cavalry may create a situation where fewer can defeat more. If the cavalry cannot move at all, and the infantry is waiting for work and the formation is solid, it is also possible to win with less." Zhao Si

Inexplicably, I thought of Queyue Formation.

Liu Yu defeated the Wei army's 20,000 elite cavalry with 2,000 infantry.

"I think so too, but my eldest father said that soldiers, regardless of cavalry, infantry, chariots, always use the strong to defeat the weak, and the more to defeat the less." Wang Li shook his head.

"Then according to what you said, after the horse rides on the saddle, the difference between cavalry and infantry is not big, and the cavalry is far better than the infantry." Zhao Si was confused again.

"That's not the case, that's not the case!" Wang Li shook his head.

"Even with a saddle, the range of a riding bow cannot exceed that of a walking bow." Wang Li stood up, drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

"Look, even if there is a saddle, it is impossible to exert such force on horseback." The posture Wang Li performed was the most typical forward and backward step, which is the best posture for drawing the bow.

Obviously, even if there is a saddle on the horse, even if it is stationary, the position of exerting force is not as good as standing on the ground.

"The beauty of riding on the saddle is the beauty of fighting on horseback!"

Wang Li excitedly talked and gestured to Zhao Si, and Zhao Si also understood.

When there is no saddle, the horse's back is really unstable. It is difficult to carry out a cavalry assault. You must be the best among the best.

Therefore, it is difficult to use long weapons on horseback.

The center of gravity of long weapons is too unstable, and you have to use two hands. However, using one-handed short weapons cannot take advantage of the impact and condescension. Instead, you have to be stabbed by others with long weapons.

Therefore, in this era, the Central Plains is the best arena in the world. The cavalry has not been ranked so far.

It's a chariot. If you stand in the carriage and hold a long weapon, if you ride on a horse and play with a hammer with a dagger, even the infantry formation, let alone the chariot, won't be able to break through.

If you are not a particularly elite cavalry, if there is a sudden collision between the two armies, you may fall off the horse before being killed.

With the addition of saddles, cavalry can better and more easily exert their impact and commanding heights.

"In the past, when facing an infantry formation, if the opponent was already in formation, they would even have to dismount and fight." Wang Li had a wry smile on his face.

This is a fact. Once the opponent's formation is strong, the shortcomings of cavalry using short weapons on horseback will be infinitely magnified.

"Does the Qin Dynasty have no cavalry capable of wielding weapons?" Zhao Si asked.

"Yes, but very few. The total does not exceed ten thousand."

Several conditions need to be met to fight with long weapons on horseback.

1: Use long weapons with an unstable center of gravity when the body cannot exert full force.

Two: Relying on your legs to keep your body stable during sudden stops and advances during high-speed movements. Because playing with a long weapon with one hand is not something ordinary people can do.

With such soldiers, you don’t need to use cavalry on chariots? That’s not crazy.

Therefore, it is difficult for cavalry to charge into battle in this era, even with a numerical advantage.

"But it's different with the saddle. It's easy to use long soldiers on horseback! Although the force is not as comfortable as on the ground, the charge with the horse is far better than the infantry."

"Do you still remember what I just told you?" Wang Li pointed to the sketch on the ground.

"With the addition of saddles, the cavalry can easily tear up the infantry formation as long as they move into a situation where more troops are fighting against fewer troops." Wang Li said excitedly.

"Does that mean the cavalry will crush the infantry?" Zhao Si asked again.

"No... Even with saddles, cavalry charging into the formation is extremely dangerous. With the same number of people and sufficient preparation, it is difficult for the cavalry to charge into the infantry formation. There are too many things that the infantry can arrange..." Wang Li shook his head.

.

"So I said that the cavalry must be superior in numbers, or the infantry must be insufficiently prepared." Wang Li said.

Zhao Si understood immediately. It turned out that riding on the saddle improved the cavalry's ability to abuse vegetables.

In other words, as long as the infantry is not elite enough, the current cavalry can completely attack and destroy them at the speed of light.

Unlike before, we had to dismount and fight fiercely.

With the saddle, the original combat time can be shortened several times.

As for it being impossible to defeat the infantry by charging into battle with a three-piece suit of horse, the advantage of cavalry has always been in mobile warfare.

However, the current cavalry will become more flexible, have stronger assault capabilities, strike faster, and give the enemy a shorter reaction time and mobilization distance.

As for the cavalry, they want to attack the infantry formation in a real sense.

unless!

They have completely abandoned their mobile combat capabilities!

Heavy cavalry!

Zhao Si spoke excitedly.

"I have a bold idea!"

(All comparisons are based on the fact that the cavalry and infantry are equally elite.

In fact, because of the preciousness of war horses and the diversity and possibilities of cavalry combat, ancient cavalry soldiers were often more elite than infantry. A qualified cavalry dismounting is a qualified infantry, and a qualified infantry dismounting may not necessarily be a qualified cavalry.

Therefore, in ancient battlefields, it is easy for people to have the illusion that cavalry can defeat infantry. The elites themselves are not at the same level. The same military expenditure, the same food, the same quality of soldiers, the same number, the number of people is more than 5,000, regardless of

In mobile warfare, light cavalry will definitely not be able to overwhelm infantry by simply charging into formation.)
Chapter completed!