Volume Four Across Two Worlds Chapter Sixteen Heavy Cavalry (2)
The Ogilvy Federation is a heavy armored cavalry composed of nobles, carried by a baggage convoy, with heavy infantry (regular troops, mercenaries, free farmers, merchants' children, nobles, military households, etc.), light infantry (slaves, apprentices, serfs, etc.)
, domestic slaves, weak ethnic groups, allied forces, etc.), under the cover of archers (regular troops, craftsmen, free farmers, hunters, hired nomads, etc.), under the protection of light cavalry (regular troops, mercenaries, etc.)
Under the guarantee of long-distance reconnaissance by frontier guards, children of poor nobles, vagabonds, adventurers, etc.), when they finally arrived at the battlefield, everyone should have been as out of breath as them.
They drove other troops to quickly establish an outer position of spears and shields (some were giant 3-meter-high shields carried by vehicles), and baggage vehicles formed an inner position in a circle, and used archers to shoot at the base of the position.
Use spear infantry (heavy infantry) to withstand the enemy's first wave of harassing attacks. Then, slowly begin to armor, mount horses, and line up. At this time, a large number of light cavalry must continue to contact the enemy, or at least
Feint attack.
This is the current attack method of the mainland cavalry, but now it has undergone fundamental changes. When they organize their own attack, I can calmly arrange my own defense system, such as trip wires, continuous-fire heavy ballistae,
Antler thorns and horse traps will cause unnecessary heavy losses to the heavy armored cavalry. And these are things that I have but they don’t have. To a certain extent, I have something that can suppress them, but they
There is nothing to suppress my heavy cavalry. So I will happily use this to my advantage!
The formation of heavy armored cavalry is generally in horizontal formations, and dozens of horses must be kept between each horizontal formation to ensure that the horses behind will not "rearend" because they cannot stop. In this way, if you want to spread out five thousand
Heavy armored cavalry requires a large battlefield area. If the length of the attack surface, which is the weak part of the enemy, is 500 meters, then there will be a line of 200 knights, a total of 25 teams, and the square formation will be 500 meters long.
With an area of 1,200 meters, if this kind of charge is not covered by enough heavy infantry and light cavalry, the flanks will become targets for the enemy's heavy armored cavalry.
Heavy armored cavalry is basically a one-hit kill. After charging once, it must use a very large turning radius to reverse the charge. During the movement, slowing down is suicide, and maintaining the speed requires a lot of effort.
Turning radius, if it encounters various obstacles against cavalry in the enemy's position, it will be broken up. Once an individual heavy armored cavalry is surrounded by infantry, it will be easily slaughtered or captured.
Heavy armored cavalry cannot be used for pursuit. Their horses can only be used for sprinting. They will lose stamina beyond a certain distance. Their momentum is too large and they cannot turn flexibly. Their field of vision is small and they are easily ambushed. They are not flexible enough to adapt to melee combat and combat.
Capture the enemy.
Nowadays, ordinary bows and arrows on the mainland cannot hurt heavy armored cavalry, but the army in my hand is equipped with "strong bows", crossbows, longbows with heavy arrows, artillery crossbows, spear throwers, trebuchets and other equipment.
Heavy missile weapons can still cause a lot of damage to them, and there are very few steel armors strong enough in this continent that can withstand ordinary bows and arrows at very short distances (if the archers try not to dodge).
Although slashing with normal arm strength will not cause major damage to heavy armor, the seams and connecting parts of the armor will have a certain chance of being damaged by attacks. Although the sword is not good, I have powerful demon soldiers, and I still
Just have heavy weapons such as maces, iron rods, iron chariots, hammers, heavy axes, epees, boring machines, spears, whips, maces, etc. that can be used to attack with weight (because I am the protagonist, so I will pull them!).
It is more effective to hit the head and chest of the heavily armored knight - attacking the head will stun him, attacking the chest will make him suffocate, and other parts are basically ineffective. And now I have a sharp blade that can easily cut through those broken steel armors!
The mutual attack between heavy armored cavalry is simply a disaster. Apart from charging each other, there is probably no other way to fight. Charge forward and then charge back. There are fewer and fewer people and the speed is getting slower and slower. It is not until both sides are exhausted that they retreat.
It is difficult to produce decisive results. If there is even a small amount of infantry to cooperate and a crude position is set up, the opponent will probably be at a disadvantage to some extent.
Then it can be said that I have an absolute advantage in this era! So who am I afraid of! I don’t accept the single statement! Haha... Just kidding, the cruelty of war will not be reduced because I have an absolute advantage, but conspiracy can give
My soldiers do a lot of damage, so I want to have a community of wise men who can advise me!
The really scary thing about the soldiers I have is not here. The most terrifying thing about them is that they have invincible belief! They also have the best comrades and the best leaders in the world. The outbreak of the war has already
It is inevitable. The conflicts between humans on the sacred continent have seriously intensified, and the war in the demon world is about to break out. No one can prevent this war from happening. At the same time, I am also working for the human world and the demon world.
I feel strange that the war broke out at the same time. The Gods who also maintain a mysterious state actually have no reaction. As the representatives of the gods outside, they often prevent the war on the mainland, but now there is no reaction. Not only is it extremely strange to me
, this move is unusual. I am worried that there are gods behind these wars, but what are they going to do? Where are they hiding? What a headache! What role do they play in this era of war? But everything is too much
It’s so exciting, isn’t it?
How lonely a world without opponents is! I should feel honored to have the Protoss as my opponent, but it seems that I don’t know much about the Protoss. It seems that I should start arranging things about the Protoss. Then let me take a look at this
What kind of surprises can the Protoss bring to me! Things about the Protoss are something I have to face, and only by understanding the enemy can I have the possibility of victory.