Chapter 489 Two Choices
In order to make this new type of rifle riding practical, Marin repeated the deductions. However, he found a very important problem - that is, if the half-meter-long spear head pierces the enemy, it is impossible to pull it back during the high-speed riding process.
In addition, because the head of the spear is about half a meter long, like a short sword, this makes the head of the spear very heavy. If you hold the second half of the spear in your hand, it will be very difficult.
Of course, the problem of heavy head of the spear is easy to solve. The spear rod can be made into finer and good wood. For example, purple shirt wood with high elasticity, which is the high-quality wood for making English longbows. The spring and the spear rod have their own elasticity can fully avoid the part of the spear rod. As for the spear head too heavy, it is also easy to solve. Just hang a counterweight at the end of the spear rod.
Anyway, according to the principle of leverage, the torque in the first and second half of the handshake is almost the same. For this reason, an iron ball can be hung at the end of the gun rod. Moreover, the head of the spear can be made smaller, not as long as half a meter. After all, the biggest role of his is to stab, followed by sweeping. Using a spear head with high carbon steel is definitely enough.
As for the problem that the spear head cannot be pulled out after it is pierced into the human body, Ma Lin thought about it and decided to use the complex of mercy. Of course, this was not Ma Lin's invention. The ancient Chinese horse spear did have a complex of mercy.
The so-called complex is not really showing mercy, but a little behind the spear tip, making bulges on both sides. In this way, after the spear tip pierces into the enemy's body during the horse battle, the complex will not penetrate too deep. If it is not poked deep, you can completely throw the horse spear and pull out the tip of the spear.
For cold weapons fighting, if the spear penetrates the enemy's body by 10 cm, it can penetrate the opponent, but it is actually not a big difference. Anyway, it will make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness. Moreover, after using it to show mercy, pull out the tip of the spear, and the enemy will squirt blood, which will accelerate death.
The most classic complex is actually the three-pointed sword used by Erlang Shen. In fact, the function of the three-pointed sword on the left and right is to prevent the tip of the knife from being too deep and unable to be pulled out. One knife tip is easy to pierce, and the three-pointed sword tips on the left and right will limit the tip of the knife in the middle to being too deep. In fact, the left and right and left and right tips of many three-pointed swords are almost horizontal. The function is to save complex. Moreover, the three-pointed swords of this kind are to prevent the tip of the knife from being too deep and not being pulled out, and are very suitable for cavalry. For infantry, it is better to have no complex, and it is nothing to pierce, anyway, it can be pulled out. Cavalry charges on horseback and there is no possibility of retreating and pulling out. Therefore, many horse lances will set up complexes to facilitate the spear tip to stab the enemy and then pull out and continue to use.
Even pulling the tip of the spear out of the enemy with one hand requires skill and requires long-term exercise. The specific method is to push the enemy to the side, shake his hands and throw the enemy's body (maybe not dead yet) to the side.
Because when the cavalry has forward force during the charge, it is impossible to have the opportunity to pull out the tip of the spear back. Therefore, the most correct posture is to stab the enemy's chest and swing it to the side.
In other words, although Malin designed a suitable spring rifle, the knights also need to learn how to use high-speed horse battles, how to quickly pull the spear out of the enemy through shaking, swinging and other techniques with one hand, and continue to stab the next enemy. And this simple shaking and swinging may allow a person to learn for many years... Of course, if you learn this clever combat technique, you can also become a powerful general like Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, and Cheng Yaojin holding horse spears and leading the way to rush forward...
Of course, there is another design plan. Specifically, abandoning the spear head, which requires skill, and changing it to a conical metal hit head, also has a complex. However, the complex is very forward, almost close to the tip of the gun.
The purpose of this conical blunt-headed spear tip is to knock the enemy away. However, its lethality is not as good as that of a cavalry that uses a spear. After all, if there is a spear tip, it can also sweep the enemy. This metal spear that hits the head has only one function left - impact... knocks the enemy off the horse and knocks the enemy away...
Moreover, because of the spring cushioning force, the knight itself suffers little damage. Even its principle is the same as the combat principle of hollow rifles. European knights are easy to use with such rifles and can achieve seamless connection. Moreover, they can continue to fight.
For a heavy plate armor knight with full body armor, even a war horse wrapped in armor, perhaps the war horse will not be able to bear it after a few rounds.
However, the Polish winged cavalry method was used to remove the horse armor and take off the trousers. In this way, the continuous combat capability of the war horses would be greatly improved. Even if the horses were good, the mobility was no worse than that of the light cavalry.
This kind of breastplate cavalry, between heavy cavalry and light cavalry, is the most suitable for using spring lances. Their impact speed is no less than those of scimitar light cavalry. However, long scimitar can always hurt the opponent first than scimitar.
Perhaps, in the battle of cavalry with loose formations, this kind of cavalry similar to a horse lance is inconvenient to turn. And those scimitar cavalry can also dodge on the horse's back.
However, once the formation is very dense, the scimitar light cavalry will have nowhere to avoid. If you hit it head-on, you will definitely lose.
It was a coincidence that Marin is now promoting wall-type charge among cavalry. Before, because there was no such cavalry rifle with spring buffer, the cavalry charge was slower. Of course, head-on decisiveness is enough to abuse those melee light cavalry. But they are not stupid, and if they don’t face the enemy head-on, you won’t be able to catch up. If you get the speed, you won’t dare to use ordinary spears because you are afraid of a broken arm.
But now with this new type of cavalry with spring buffer, as long as the cavalry is good, they can charge quickly together...
Considering that there is no room for throwing the enemy's corpses left and right when charging walls. So, after thinking about it, Marin still used a metal blunt-headed blunt-headed cavalry to meet the needs of large corps operations. As for the spring cavalry to use a spearhead, it is more suitable for those knights with high martial arts skills. Because the spearhead can sweep left and right, it can allow a knight with high martial arts skills to use this kind of cavalry to hit more with less and pick more with more...
In the end, Marin decided on the plan:
At the same time, the spring riding rifle with blunt head spear tip and the spring riding rifle with horse spear tip...
Among them, blunt-head spring riding rifles are used to ride rifles, mainly equipped with large-scale breastplate lances and helmets, used for wall-type group charges during decisive battles.
The spear spring cavalry that uses spear tips as the spear tips is mainly equipped with single-player plate armor knights with high martial arts skills. They are still wearing full sets of plate armor and still wear horse armor on their war horses.
Of course, there will not be too many such plate-armored knights. But because of their high martial arts and high protection, they will be regarded as surprise soldiers and launch attacks from the weak points of the enemy's flanks. Their role is similar to Li Shimin's Xuan Armored Cavalry, which is used to destroy the enemy's formation. Or, it can be said that they are special forces among cavalry, mainly destroying the order and integrity of the enemy's battle formation, causing chaos in the enemy.
But what really played a decisive role was the charge of the breastplate lances...
Chapter completed!