Watching the team competition was very exciting. Marin watched hundreds of armored warriors stabbing each other with spearless spears, which was very exciting, as if he was back in the big scene of watching hundreds of young and dandy people chopping each other in his previous life.
However, to be honest, although the scene of the young and dandy was intense, it had no rules at all. It was a fight between middle school students, and at most it was a bit more intense.
The veterans under Marin's team fights are different, so they are more cautious. Moreover, when they use spears, they do not cut, but stab. At most, some tricking moves are added, mainly to block the spears stabbed by the enemy.
However, in terms of lethality, stabbing is much more fatal than slashing. Punching people and slashing people are completely different concepts. Cutting people is scary and passionate. However, if you do not cut the fatal part, you will be injured and hospitalized. It is different to stab a person. Even if you can't stab the heart, it will cause excessive blood loss and cause death.
Therefore, gangsters use machetes to stab people, while killers use daggers to stab people. Therefore, killing people is also called assassination, not assassination.
If Hong Xing's gang of young and dandy boys came over, even if there were more than a thousand, they would not be able to defeat the spearmen of this company. First of all, the spears of the veterans under Malin were to stab the enemy, not to hurt people. Moreover, the 6-meter spear was much longer than the machetes of the Hong Xing gangsters. Before the other party got close, there were a few more blood holes on their bodies. How could they fight?
Of course, this is on a field battlefield. The spear is long, which is conducive to head-on decisiveness. But if you get to the city alleys of Xiangjiang, it is another situation. In a small space, a 6-meter spear is difficult to turn, and facing a machete may not win. Of course, if you change to a knife and shield soldier, you can still beat the gangster out of the air.
The showdown of the spearmen is the most exciting, while the showdown of the musketeers is much boring. After all, it is more like a target practice, rather than a fight, without any passion. But on the real battlefield, the barrels of these musketeers are sprayed out of death, and the armor does not work...
On the cavalry competition, because there is no duel, it looks more like a fancy equestrian competition. What is different from equestrian competition is that riders need to stab the swaying grass balls with spears...
Because Marin himself did not like bulky cavalry, Marin's cavalry basically used spears when charging, which was a bit similar to Eastern cavalry.
However, the disadvantage of using spears is that cavalry cannot rush too fast. Because if cavalry rushes too fast, the impact force will be too strong and the reaction force will be greater. If using a hollow cavalry, it can also be broken by the cavalry to release the recoil force. However, using a spear will not easily break like a hollow cavalry. Therefore, when Asian cavalry use spears to charge, there are two solutions - one is to reduce the horse speed to avoid too much recoil force; the other is to choose to let go and discard the spear when it is really unbearable.
Therefore, although the cavalry in the east likes to use spears when charging, they are generally equipped with cavalry knives such as scimitars, so that after discarding the spear, they can draw out the cavalry knives and continue fighting.
At present, the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate used this method - to charge with spears. However, if the recoil force is too strong, the Crimean cavalry will abandon the spear and instead draw out the scimitar to continue fighting.
Later, the Polish lancers in Napoleon's army mainly used two weapons: spear and sabre. The spear is mainly used when charging and attacking infantry. When attacking infantry, the lancers can completely slow down their speed. Because even if the speed is slowed down, the cavalry is very impactful to the infantry. Moreover, if the speed is full, the spear is not easy to get rid of the hand.
Now, the cavalry under Marin temporarily uses spears and slows down to conduct an overall charge.
Marin now figured out why wall charges slowed down. In addition to maintaining a neat formation, he was afraid that the rebound force would be too large, which is also an important reason.
However, after slowing down, the impact of the cavalry really dropped a lot...
When facing the Plate Knight, the impact of the Lancer is not enough. Moreover, because the Plate Knight's protective power is too high, it is difficult to pierce the spear. What's more, the Plate Knight itself has a strong impact. After rushing against each other, the Lancer's spear is hard to save. If you throw your hands, the Lancer will definitely not be able to defeat the Knight...
Therefore, Marin hoped to go to the east and find the method of making the Eastern horse lance to make up for the weaknesses of the lances. Because horse lances can be reused by bending and casting energy. Unlike the hollow cavalry of the lances, they are easy to break when they rush, and they will be ruined when they break. They need to go back to change to the cavalry.
And if Marin's lancers have a horse spear that is not easy to break, then it would be amazing. If the opponent's lancers are broken, they have to go back to change their weapons, while the Marin's lancers' lancers are not broken, then they can follow and chase the opponent's knights...
However, Marin is not sure that he can find the production process of horse lances when he reaches the East. Moreover, even if he finds them, many of those materials are not available in Europe. In addition, the cost of horse lances is very high...
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, horse lances were usually found in the general family. Ordinary families could not afford horse lances at all. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, the commanders of the most powerful Xuanjia Army under Li Shimin, were good at using horse lances. Moreover, they had a common identity - descendants of the officials of the previous dynasty...
As for the other commander of the Xuanjia Army, Yuchi Gong, although he was from an ordinary family, he was born into the blacksmith family and made irons in his early years. Malin believed that when Yuchi Gong made irons in his early years, he should have been exposed to horse lances, and he might be a blacksmith who specializes in building weapons. Otherwise, he would not be proficient in horse warfare and would become an important general of the Xuanjia Army.
However, the cost of making horse lances is too high. Not only are the materials expensive and difficult to find, but the production technology requirements are also very high and the time is also very long. According to records, a horse lance not only consumes a lot of precious materials, but also has a production cycle of up to three years, and the finished product pass rate is low, and the cost is amazing. A powerful feudal dynasty like the Sui Dynasty only formed a total of 5,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry using horse lances. Its commander was Luo Yi. Luo Yi relied on these 5,000 armored cavalry to steadily defend the northern border and hindered the southward movement of the Turkic cavalry. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he took the initiative to attack and drove the Turkic cavalry out of Xiang. The Xuan Armored Cavalry in the early Tang Dynasty was actually only one or two thousand people.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! It can be seen that the production cost of horse lances is too high and the production cycle is too long. In the future, wars will definitely be large groups of battles. A small number of elite cavalry who use horse lances may have a great effect, or a small effect, and it is difficult to explain clearly. Therefore, Malin has begun to doubt the correctness of going to the Ming Dynasty to find the method of making horse lances and forming elite cavalry units that use horse lances...
Just as Marin was in deep thought, around him, the number one general, Kahn, the bodyguard leader with Dian Wei as the template, suddenly jumped up and cheered. It seemed that he had seen the wonderful performance of a cavalry...
"Okay!" Kahn jumped up in the carriage. When he fell, his heavy weight pushed down the carriage carriage a few centimeters...
However, the support shafts of the four wheels of the carriage were springs. So, although the carriage was pressed down by Kahn's jumping for a few centimeters, it quickly bounced back...
However, this shock woke Marin up and shocked Marin...
But soon, Marin's eyes shone...
"I really want to find inspiration for the new type of riding rifle that replaces the horse lance..."
What inspiration did Marin have? From the deformation and recovery of the car just now, he thought of whether he could install a spring on the gun rod of the gun, and buffer and tell the recoil force during the collision...
Tell Mercedes' cavalry that the impact force must be amazing. If the tip of a cavalry hits the target, it will definitely bring huge recoil force.
However, if a spring is installed on the gun rod, most of the recoil force can be fully removed to avoid fractures of the Knight's arm.
For specific methods, you can refer to the spring on the axle. Marin plans to install a spring with very elasticity at the handshake position of the rifle and put it on the gun rod. Set a joint in the front section of the spring to jamm the spring.
Then, the knight's handle is placed on an iron pipe. Between the iron pipe and the joint is the spring that covers the gun rod...
The front part of the cavalry rifle imitates the eastern horse lance and uses a half-sword model. This allows the cavalry rifle to be used to stab the enemy, but if the stab is not hit, it can also be used as a sabre, sweep and play a cameo appearance as a sabre.
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When charging, the spear-shaped spear tip of the cavalry first touches the enemy. Because of the high-speed charge of the cavalry, and the spear-shaped spear tip of the cavalry itself is very heavy, its kinetic energy must be very powerful. Even if no one holds the spear, the head of such a heavy spear, relying solely on the inertial impact brought by the high-speed movement is enough to knock the enemy that the spear tip touches or knock it away.
But such a strong momentum will also bring huge backlash...
If there is no buffering method, the Knight's arm will definitely be scrapped by the recoil force.
However, for this spring rifle designed by Marin, the Knight holds the steel sleeve behind the spring, and there is a powerful spring between it and the rifle.
When a huge recoil force comes, it first reaches the joint part, and then transmits the recoil force to the spring. Then it is transmitted to the steel casing by the spring.
However, because the spring contracts, most of the recoil force can be removed. When the force is transmitted to the knight's arm, there is no more left and the knight's arm cannot be destroyed...
After repeated thinking, Marin believed that this design was very reasonable. The only problem was that the spring connecting the steel casing and the rifle was very demanding.
At least, the craftsmen of this era could not make it. But Marin was different. Before, he had asked Ada and other craftsmen to make such high-energy springs except for carbon spring steel. Then, tin plated on the surface of the spring can ensure that the spring has both strong performance and sufficient rust.
Of course, tin plating is not the best choice. Because if the tin plating layer is worn out, the spring will also rust. But Marin has now sent people to search for the Buckens lead and zinc mine on Newfoundland Island. After finding the zinc mine and starting to smel zinc, the galvanized spring will have stronger anti-rust ability and more durable.
Moreover, because currently only Marin has professional spring steel in the world, although it is the lowest-level carbon spring steel in the industrial era in the later years, others cannot do it. In this way, Marin not only solved the problem of huge recoil force on riding a gun, but also achieved a monopoly in technology and materials. Even if others want to copy this kind of spring, they do not have qualified springs...
Thinking of this, Marin laughed proudly. After laughing, he found a messenger and asked him to return to his country to convey Marin's order - strictly keeping the secret of manufacturing spring steel. At the same time, he began to develop a high-energy-storage spring for spear guns...
Once researched, the cavalry under Marin could use spring-loaded cavalry to launch an impact on the enemy at high speed. After the speed was low, they could also hold parts other than the spring system and use the spring cavalry as an ordinary spear...
Chapter completed!