Major Fang Qulin, the commander of the cavalry and artillery battalion who was watching the battle from behind, was stunned, and the front-line cavalry on the battlefield were even more surprised!

Many cavalrymen of the 4th Cuirassier Regiment just felt that they and their comrades were charging to the sound of drums, and then charged headlong. However, there seemed to be many East Riding Cavalry in front, but after they actually rushed in, they found themselves

There were not many enemies around, and occasionally a few of them were stabbed to death by a lance from their comrades in front.

As a result, a considerable number of the Chu army's cavalry never fought with the enemy from beginning to end, and could only follow their comrades in front and continue to charge forward...

As I rushed forward, I found that there was no trace of the enemy in front of me.

They have completely penetrated the Dongdu Chinese Army's cavalry array and killed them directly!

But...this feels weird.

How should I put it, it doesn’t feel like actual combat, but like a drill.

In the past, when they conducted drills, they basically charged like this. There were only some scarecrows simulating enemies in front of them, and sometimes there were not even scarecrows. A group of cavalry just charged into the air and performed various tactical actions.

Today's battle feels like a drill to many of them!

Not to mention them, even the cavalrymen of the 4th Cuirassier Regiment who actually participated in the battle and had actual encounters with enemy cavalry felt very weird...

This battle seems too easy.

In their perception, when encountering an enemy, one's own side always fights with more and less. When an Eastern Cavalry rushes over with a saber on the opposite side, they often have to face three or four long hollow lances at the same time!

These East Riding Cavalrymen would often be directly hit and dismounted by one or even several hollow lances before they could even get close.

The huge impact the horse brings to the lance during the sprint phase can knock the enemy off his horse...

In order to protect the cavalry from being injured by the reaction force, the cavalry of the Fourth Cuirassiers Regiment still use hollow lances. When this type of lance is hit by a huge impact force, it will break directly in the middle, thereby protecting the cavalry...

Otherwise, under the impact, the enemy will be knocked away by the lance, and the cavalry holding the lance may also fly backwards, and injury or even death is inevitable.

The East Riding Cavalry directly in front of them were massively killed by these hollow lances and were immediately destroyed.

Because of the length advantage of the lance, coupled with the local strength advantage brought by the dense force, the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment still did not suffer too many casualties even after it penetrated the enemy's central array.

This made the cavalrymen of the 4th Cuirassiers Regiment, who launched a large-scale actual combat charge for the first time, feel incredible.

You know, they are actually all veteran cavalry. They have experienced countless battle stations, but to be honest, this is the first time they have encountered such an easy charge.

The cavalry in the 4th Cuirassier Regiment are not directly trained from the recruits, but selected from the entire army's cavalry.

Many of them are old cavalrymen who came from the early Ming Army cavalry and even the rebel cavalry. Some of them have five or six years of experience in riding horses, and some have more than ten years of experience.

Only these elite cavalry can pass the assessment and be finally selected into the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment of the Guards, the first heavy cavalry unit of the Great Chu Empire.

In their perception, a cavalry charge should not be like this, even if it was carried out by themselves, even if the officers above had repeatedly emphasized the advantages of this kind of wall-mounted charge during previous training.

But when they actually experience it personally, they still find it hard to believe it.

Compared with the surprise of the ordinary cavalry, Major General Sheng Yushu, who personally led the cavalry to charge, was much more calm.

This situation was already within his expectation!

When he ordered a charge in advance, and the Dongdu cavalry on the opposite side was forced to rush up to fight, and still used the sparse formation of the traditional cavalry, he had already anticipated this result.

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Even though this is the first time Sheng Yushu has led the cavalry in such a battle, the numerous drills, tactical deductions and data statistics in the past will not be false!

When charging in a dense formation on the wall, you can achieve such a result against traditional cavalry.

Sheng Yushu has always believed so firmly!

Otherwise, he would not have fully supported the Guards in developing cuirassiers and hussars.

You must know that he is the director of the Cavalry Department of the Guards. In the army, he is also the director of cavalry. He is the number one cavalry figure in the Guards.

As for Guards Lieutenant General Qian Tai, although he is also a supporter of the cuirassiers and is a cavalryman, in fact Qian Tai does not have as much say in the development of the Guards cavalry as Sheng Yushu does.

Many of Lieutenant General Qian Tai's ideas need to be seen through Sheng Yushu. If Sheng Yushu disagrees with Qian Tai's views, then Qian Tai will not be able to bypass Sheng Yushu, the director of the Cavalry Division, and directly create a fourth cuirassier regiment.

and three regiments of hussars.

After all, the reason why the Guards are able to engage in new-style cavalry is because Sheng Yushu himself is a new-style cavalry, especially a staunch supporter of wall-type charge cavalry.

He has long believed that wall-mounted charge cavalry is the future!

He also believes that if wall-type charge cavalry wants to gain a greater battlefield advantage, the cavalry must be used intensively. It cannot be dispersed to engage in harassment and the like like traditional mounted archer cavalry. Even charging operations are very sparse.

He believes that when cavalry charges, density is the first factor. Only when the density of troops increases, it will be able to form a local strength advantage.

The pursuit of military superiority has always been the pursuit of generals.

If we delve into various tactics and tactics, no matter whether they are detours, rush attacks, etc., in the final analysis, they are still for the pursuit of military superiority, especially the pursuit of local military superiority.

Well, in the modern tactics of later generations, such as the Soviet Union's Great Depth Strategy, there is a core tactical idea: concentrate most of the firepower and troops, focus on breaking through a certain area of ​​the enemy, tear it apart, and then mechanize the troops from

Rush into this gap and conduct a large-scale strategic detour or surprise attack, eventually forcing the enemy to withdraw from the front or directly strategically surround the enemy.

What this pursues is local firepower and troop superiority.

Another example is the German Blitzkrieg. There is a very important tactical idea in it, which is to concentrate the use of mechanized forces such as tanks, and then form fists to carry out assaults and large-scale strategic detours.

This is still the pursuit of local advantages in military strength and firepower.

When the US emperor comes to the scene, they will not engage in such messy things. They will directly provide a comprehensively enhanced firepower advantage. An ordinary infantry division can assign you a tank regiment... There are countless various supporting firepowers.

But in the final analysis, what the US imperialists pursue is still superiority in military strength/firepower.

It's just that other countries are not very powerful and can only pursue local advantages... The United States has great imperial power and directly pursues comprehensive advantages.

Sheng Yushu has always felt that he should pursue military superiority.

Especially when the number of one's own cavalry is relatively limited, it is even more necessary to concentrate the cavalry to form a fist and form a local advantage in cavalry strength.

When it comes to tactics specifically, the cavalry array must increase its troop density and accommodate more cavalry within the limited tactical width!

The final result was the cavalry mass formation that the Chu Empire Army and Guards had been engaged in in recent years.

It’s just that it’s not easy to create such a dense cavalry formation!

This thing is actually quite demanding.

On the one hand, extremely strict discipline is required. The cavalry must act in unison, especially before launching the final charge, and the integrity of the formation must be maintained.

Even in the attack stage, the integrity of the formation must be maintained as much as possible.

A charge without a unified formation and a dense formation is not a wall charge.

On the other hand, there are also considerable requirements for war horses and soldiers.

The war horse does not have to be very good, good in physical fitness, or strong in carrying heavy loads. Although the 4th Cuirassier Regiment uses the top Central Asian horses, this is because the 4th Cuirassier Regiment is a serious horse.

As for the heavy cavalry of Bajing, you can actually use Mongolian horses to carry out intensive charges of light cavalry.

The high requirements for war horses are reflected in rigorous training. War horses must undergo perfect training to be able to remain calm and calm. They must not panic and move around because of the sound of gunfire, especially artillery fire.

In a formation charge, if one horse moves randomly, it will mess up the entire cavalry array.

Finally, the requirements for the cavalry are not low. The cavalry also needs rigorous training, especially discipline, which is indispensable. They need to strictly implement orders. If your superiors tell you to jog, jog, or trot quickly,

When you run, you run, and when you stride, you stride. You must strictly control the pace of your war horse and keep it consistent with your comrades.

Neither fast nor slow.

Even if the enemy is rushing toward you dozens of meters away, you can't back down!

But everyone has the instinct to fear death and survive. There may be a few truly brave people who are not afraid of life and death, but most people will still be afraid even after training.

Among a hundred cavalry, what will happen when they launch a charge without maintaining a strict formation?

For example, in the traditional cavalry charge, there is no strict formation. Regardless of the array, it is often a swarm of swarms.

At this time, the brave or brainless cavalry will gradually rush to the front, while the timid or more thoughtful cavalry will involuntarily or deliberately fall behind by a few steps... resulting in situations such as disconnection.

When the brave or brainless people at the front are fighting with the enemy and there are more casualties, the cowards at the back will often let their horses go around the enemy, or even make a sharp turn to retreat...

This point is widespread in classical cavalry, regardless of Eastern or Western cavalry, and even in modern cavalry.

This has nothing to do with equipment level or anything like that, it's purely human nature.

After all, you can't make every soldier under your command fearless of life and death.

After all, the army is made up of people, and these soldiers were just ordinary people before.

The cavalry generals of the Chu army also knew this, and got inspiration from the infantry's battle tactics.

There must be brave men and cowards in the infantry, and there are also some who are brainless and thoughtful. How does the infantry unit allow the infantry to fight together?

It relies on an extremely tight line formation.

At the same time, during training and combat, soldiers must maneuver strictly in accordance with the formation requirements. If you take ten steps forward, it can only be ten steps, not nine steps, and not eleven steps.

This is actually something that the army's infantry units have become accustomed to, because the Chu army has attached great importance to infantry discipline training from the beginning, relying on long-term, day-by-day discipline training to allow soldiers to form a conditioned reflex to obey orders.

, making soldiers fear military law more than death!

How to train specifically?

In fact, it's very simple. During training, you are asked to turn left. If you turn right, Shangguan will go down with a whip without saying anything.

I asked you to take ten steps forward, and you took nine steps, and without saying a word, the whip came down again.

Coupled with some auxiliary team training, for example, if one person makes a mistake, the whole class will be punished, if a class makes a mistake, the whole class will be punished, etc. It is basically the same.
To be continued...