The entire cavalry squad lined up and began to descend the mountain neatly. They were in no hurry to charge.
Because, in the cavalry training manual given by the master, there are strict requirements for charging.
In the movie, the cavalry charges as soon as the battle begins, but this is all nonsense. In that case, the horse will soon be unable to run.
This has a painful lesson on the battlefield.
Historically, the Seleucids were an extremely powerful military regime. They not only invaded India, but also dominated Europe. Their cavalry was extremely effective in combat.
However, in a great battle in 190 BC, the Seleucid cavalry made a fatal mistake and were completely annihilated by the Roman infantry.
As soon as the battle began, the Seleucid cavalry charged at high speed and immediately tore apart the Roman legion's line, turning the Romans on their backs. However, the Roman legion discovered a fatal weakness in them.
When they started, they charged too hard, and soon the Seleucid cavalry could no longer charge.
So the Romans immediately organized themselves, surrounded them, and chopped down all the knights who had lost their speed.
Since the war horses have no strength, they cannot run or retreat.
So the entire army of 3,000 cavalry was destroyed!
In Yang Fan's drill code, it is strictly forbidden for the cavalry to charge as a whole. The overall formation must be maintained.
Controlling the speed of the horse prevents the formation from collapsing.
Running fast is not a skill, being able to control the horse's speed and maintain formation is a skill.
Everyone knows the famous 80-20 rule, which is also very suitable for cavalry combat.
Because in a cavalry unit, about 20% are warriors who take the initiative to charge and can fight, and 80% are followers of others.
Running with all your strength from the beginning will make the brave rush too far forward.
This will allow the bastards to fish in troubled waters, lowering their speed and preventing them from charging too far.
Their reason is also very "sufficient", that is, the physical fitness of the war horses is different.
In this way, only 20% of the warriors will engage the enemy in advance, so they will naturally be outnumbered. When these people are all dead, the remaining people will be defeated, so everyone must be pulled to maintain the front and engage the enemy together.
An Sanxi shouted the command, and thirty cavalry lined up in neat rows, riding forward in small steps.
The Mongolians on the opposite side didn't understand. They didn't take advantage of the chaos in the camp to kill them quickly. What were these horse thieves thinking?
They obviously only have thirty-one people, but there are more than a hundred men on their side who can fight. Once all their own men are ready with saddles and saddles and mounted on their horses, they will be completely defeated.
These Mongols didn't know that Yang Fan's cavalry attack was divided into four steps.
At a slow pace, the horse moves slowly, with one hoofbeat, which means there are four hoofbeats in one stride, and the speed is about 1.4 meters/second.
Trot, the horse is walking quickly. You can hear the sound of two hoofs in one horse stride. When the two hoofs leave the ground, you can generally hear the sound of two hoofs. The speed is 3-4 meters per second.
Running means that the horse starts running, and sometimes its hooves fly into the air. At this time, the sound of the horse's hooves is chaotic, and the speed is 5-7 meters/second.
The attack step is the horse galloping off the rein, crushing everything, which is the pace of the cavalry charge.
Now it's time to move forward slowly.
An Sanxi watched the Mongolians on the opposite side hurriedly put on their saddles and gathered together. About fifty people rushed over in the first wave.
An Sanxi was not in a hurry, shouted the command, and the entire line moved forward slowly. Wait for them to approach. From a high position, I watched these enemies enter within eighty meters.
An Sanxi nodded, that's it.
"Everyone is here, draw your lance," An Sanxi shouted: "Aim the lance, prepare, and fire."
boom! boom! boom!
A burst of smoke erupted, and all thirty-one flintlock carbines (without bayonets, only about one meter in length) erupted into flames.
The cavalry formation rushing over from the opposite side seemed to have been hit by a hammer and paused.
Then, eighteen or nineteen people fell off their horses immediately. The entire front of the formation is missing a chunk.
These herdsmen have no concept of formation, and a group of people forms like an apple. Then a piece of the apple was missing, as if someone had bitten it.
The morale of the cavalry on the opposite side suddenly collapsed.
These people were herdsmen, not professional soldiers, improvised to fight against horse thieves.
Although all of them are soldiers and everyone can ride horses and shoot arrows, this also shows that they are all rookies. Without the iron will and discipline of a true army.
Each of Yang Fan's soldiers, especially the officer training team, had destroyed more than ten muskets, and their marksmanship was extremely accurate.
With at least four hours of combat training a day, every officer was bruised and bruised.
Organization and discipline are not on the same level and cannot be compared at all.
If it weren't for the bumpy horse, the difficult shooting from move to move, and the southerly wind today, the result would have been even higher.
When the herdsmen on the opposite side saw that one-third of them were killed with a burst of gunfire, they were immediately frightened to death.
Immediately half of the people turned around and ran back.
"Pull out the second lance, prepare and fire." An Sanxi issued the order in an orderly manner.
After shooting the first lance, insert the gun into the long holster in front of the saddle, and then pull out the other lance.
boom! boom! boom!
Smoke filled the air and flames flashed. The herdsmen huddled together, and in the second wave of fighting, fifteen or six fell off their horses again.
The remaining dozen or so people beat their horses desperately and fled backwards.
"Everyone is here, move forward quickly." An Sanxi saw that he had defeated the first wave of enemies, and then ordered to speed up the pace.
The cavalry team came down the hillside. Even at a brisk pace, the sound of two horses' hooves could be heard, and it seemed much faster than usual.
At this time, An Sanxi had already seen that the enemy's large force on the opposite side had completed its formation. There were more than a hundred people there.
There were more than seventy mature men and more than thirty old men. Women also stood guard around the camp with bows and arrows.
"Everyone has it. When approaching the enemy thirty steps, each hand holds a double-barreled musket and fires freely. After the attack, immediately run to the west and break away from contact." An Sanxi ordered loudly.
There are many people on the other side, so there is no need to fight with rookies. One person fired four shots and left immediately after the shooting.
In this aspect, they are all Arabian horses, and the Mongolian horses cannot catch up even if they are tired and vomit blood.
Since the horse is good, don't blame me for bullying you. You can't run away when I want to hit you. You can't catch me when you want to hit me.
These brats are all officers, and they want to reduce casualties as much as possible. But in the end they had to fight hand to hand and see blood.
The two sides rushed closer and closer, and there was a man in armor among the enemy group. Wearing an eight-petal iron helmet and rusty chain mail.
An Sanxi knew that that person was Na Yan from this tribe. That is, the leader. As long as he kills him, according to the rules on the grassland, he will be the new Nayan of this tribe.
His women and children are his own. His horses, cattle, sheep, and tribe also belong to him.
This is a rule that has been popular on the grassland for thousands of years.
Just like the wolf pack, if you can defeat the wolf king, you will be the new wolf king of this wolf pack.
