When Zhao Bing first arrived in this world, he thought that a soldier should maintain a strong body shape. Not to mention that everyone is a bodybuilding champion, nor can he have a bloated figure with a belly erect. Thinking that such soldiers would not fight, even if they marched, they would probably drag down their comrades. Therefore, he once asked the generals to exercise regularly and control their weight, and even planned to formulate weight standards in accordance with the standards of modern US military. Those who exceed the standard would be forced to retire.

However, after a while, Zhao Bing felt that his idea was wrong. First of all, modern fighting is about weighing weight. In order to ensure fairness, the competition is divided into many magnitude levels. Before the game, you need to weigh your weight to decide what magnitude level you play. Therefore, in order to avoid people one level higher than yourself, fighting athletes will suddenly lose weight before the game, playing one or even two magnitude levels lower than the natural weight. Since everyone is trying hard to lose weight when they are approaching the game, most of the fighting athletes we see naturally have eight-pack abdominal muscles without fat.

Because if the abdominal muscles are obvious, what is needed is not to train large muscles, but to have low body fat. Everyone actually has abdominal muscles, and as long as they are thin enough, you can see the outline of the abdominal muscles. Not only fighters, but also the male actors with eight-pack abs in film and television works are also in this case. Before filming, in order to lose weight at a good time, it is difficult to maintain the image of eight-pack abs when not filming. When not filming, they accidentally become big belly.

After participating in military affairs, Zhao Bing quickly realized that it is not easy for a soldier to gain weight. He not only sleeps in the open during combat, but also doesn’t even have time to eat when he is nervous. If he catches up with the disadvantage of logistics supply, he will still be hungry. Even if he does not have combat tasks and eats full and warm clothes, he still needs to undergo physical training. He eats big fish and meat every day, and it is good to eat full. It is very difficult to accumulate some fat like this.

In addition, from a physiological point of view, it is normal for humans to store a little fat in their abdomen. Because some of the fat plays an important role in fighting cold and food scarcity. The existence of fat is the result of human evolution, and growing fat is actually something engraved in everyone's DNA. At the same time, in this era without modern machinery assistance, soldiers have to bear heavy physical labor, and it is extremely physically consuming exercise when fighting. Without weight support, how can they open a hard bow, dance the weight, lift the city gate bolt, and overturn the war horse.

In the case of such huge amount of exercise consumption on the battlefield, fat can help the general maintain a long-term positive nitrogen balance and physical strength. If he is a strong man with eight-pack abs, although his muscles are very good, he may not be enough for a few days of physical energy to fight in a long and high-intensity environment. Because human exercise requires energy, after the stored sugar element is consumed, no fat can be decomposed to provide energy, so naturally he will not have the physical strength to continue fighting.

In addition, fat also has the function of saving lives. It can provide a buffer against strikes when subjected to heavy blows and can effectively absorb kinetic energy. When wearing armor and protective gear, if the blunt weapon hits, if there is not enough force, fat will not even be injured. Moreover, even when facing a sharp blade, fat may not cause the blade to directly cut off muscles and bones due to the thin skin, causing disability. Therefore, fat can increase the ability to survive and can have greater vitality after being injured by ancient generals.

But those muscles that look good, such as the pectoralis major, rectus abdominis, deltoids, and biceps. These muscles are concentrated on the front of the human body and look better, but in fact, they are not very useful for fighting. The most important thing for bowing, spear stabbing, and punching is the latissimus dorsi. They grow behind the body and cannot be seen no matter how big they are practiced. For example, if the pectoralis major muscles that make people look stronger, if they practice too much, they may even become an obstacle to exerting force and punching.

In addition, although the thin man is highly flexible, his short-distance explosive power is actually far inferior to that of a large and round waisted warrior. The inability to see the eight-pack abdominal muscles is not because his abdominal muscles have deteriorated, but because his body fat rate has increased and the shape of the abdominal muscles is not obvious. The muscles are still there, but there is only a layer of fat. So will this affect his combat effectiveness? Obviously, this thin layer of fat cannot affect the force of the waist and abdomen. The biggest negative impact of the extra layer of fat is only that it is not as good-looking as the eight-pack abdominal muscles.

Not to mention that the weight gain caused by fat is not a bad thing in battle. It is because when wearing heavy armor, you may not be able to cut the opponent with a knife, but falling down the opponent close to him and stabbing the armor crack is a very effective combat method. In this regard, the weight brought by fat can effectively make it difficult for the opponent to fall down, and thin people will be caught by the general as a weapon and smashed. For example, Dian Wei picked up two enemy soldiers before he died in the battle and killed them on the spot. In other words, fat and fat are sometimes very necessary, at least they will not be caught by the opponent!

After thinking it through, Zhao Bing adjusted the weight standards afterwards. As long as he was not fat, he could not walk, he was within the tolerance range and adjusted the food expenses standards, striving to feed the soldiers to a little fatter. But he didn't know if what he did was completely right. After all, the combat methods of the army have changed after changing the muskets. It is no longer a simple physical competition, and he can only cross the river by feeling the stones. In any case, it is difficult to create an obesity army in this era when eating a full meal is a happy life.

"Open team!" After the formation came out, Zhao Bing ordered the team to regroup and prepare for another battle!

The commander blew the trumpet, and the command flags were shaken one after another. The troops that rushed out of the battle formation immediately moved to the emperor's flag and gathered under the military flag to which they belonged. Zhao Bing looked at the guard camps that had just gathered around him, and they were all stained with blood. The queues were dissatisfied with vacancies, which seemed uneven, but were basically intact. However, the other few were not so lucky, with large casualties. Some of them gathered only half of them, and some even lost their war horses, but they were still standing in the queue.

"The wounded and the horseless person withdraw from the queue and heal the wounds and standby after returning to the formation!" Zhao Bing sighed in his heart and said loudly. He knew that the elite troops of the Song army gathered in the guard camp were all warriors who had lived for the rest of their lives. They had rich combat experience and had small casualties. In addition, the cavalry of the army and the division's division was not only small in organization, but also only carried out tasks such as alert, orders and reconnaissance. They quickly avoided the encounters with the enemy brigade of cavalry, and rarely faced with the enemy. However, this time it was a real tough battle, and the opponent was even more heavily armored cavalry, known as the invincible in the Mongolian and Yuan army, and they could not help but fall at a disadvantage.

"Yes!" The officers of each department responded in unison and immediately reorganized the team. The injured were separated from the queue and assigned the war horses to soldiers who had no horses but could still fight. The teams with serious casualties were organized and the medical staff who accompanied the army bandaged the injured and retreated.

Zhao Bing looked at the separated wounded soldiers. Most of their injuries were chopped and chopped, which was very easy to distinguish. The Song army had abandoned leather armor and iron armor and converted them into chest armor and back armor similar to modern bulletproof vests. It was made of leather or densely woven thick linen as the surface, and porcelain pieces were inserted into armor. However, the helmet was still made of iron helmets, which could provide good protection for the torso, neck and head. The porcelain pieces in the chest armor or back armor of these wounded soldiers were obviously broken, and cracks appeared on the helmets, which looked very creepy. Obviously, only chopping would cause such great damage to the armor, and the power of stabbing could not be achieved.

"Am I wrong in the first choice?" Zhao Bing frowned and said quietly. When he formed the cavalry, he decided to use muskets and cavalry as weapons after a long time of consideration. However, the cavalry sword he chose instead of the ring-headed sword and scimitar that were very popular at present, but the "straight sword" that only appeared in modern Western countries. But he also improved it, with only one side of the blade, and the thick back of the knife was still retained on the other side to avoid breaking in battle. Overall, the knife shape is slender and the sharp tip. From the shape, it can be seen that this cavalry sword is good for stabbing. Although it can also be chopped, it is obviously just an auxiliary.

With this choice, Zhao Bing felt that the killing method of the thorn is a straight line attack, which depends on deep killing. Basically, the person who is middle-aged will die, and it is conducive to armor penetration; the killing method of the thorn is horizontal attack, which depends on sharpness. The different killing methods also determine that they face different targets and have different lethality. Generally speaking, for attacks on the trunk, the lethality of the thorn is greater than that of the thorn. The reason is that the thorn is a straight line attack, which can damage the internal organs; the thorn is a horizontal attack, which is difficult to damage the internal organs with one blow.

However, today, Zhao Bing also realized that for some fierce men, slashing the torso is also fatal. During the battle, he saw an enemy soldier standing in the stirrup and slashing across, directly cutting one of his own cavalry in half. Of course, in addition to his outstanding force, there is another important reason for this. Both sides are in the high-speed hedging stage at this time, and it is not surprising to use the momentum of two horses to achieve this effect.

Moreover, Zhao Bing found that the attack on the head and face of the slash is greater than the slash at the same force. Even with a helmet protection, there is a way to exert fatal damage. He analyzed that because the bones on the head are hard enough and at the outermost point, the slash is blocked at the first step. The slash is killed by sharpness, and there is no place in the human body that can withstand sharp blades.

In fact, when Zhao Bing faced three enemy cavalry, he could easily pierce an enemy soldier's throat with a cavalry knife, but he could only smash the palate bone of another enemy soldier. Although he used the back of the knife, he thought that even if he used the blade, he might not be able to see through the enemy's helmet curtain and use his head to the effect. However, in the melee, he also saw that his soldiers were covered with knife marks. The head of one of the soldiers' bodies was chopped, and the opponent's sword was directly slashed from the top of his head to his eyes; the other person was lying on the ground, and the blade was cut from the top of his head to his nose. His face was split in half from his nose, his brain was flowing out, and the entire brain cavity was completely empty.

Of course, our own sprint also caused the Mongyuan Heavy Cavalry to suffer from the sprint. The route of their attack was full of dead and wounded enemy soldiers. A sprint in a high-speed charge was enough to cause them severe damage and cause fatal injuries. More than half of the people died on the spot. Even if the wounds left on their limbs were not fatal, a large amount of blood would cause them to lose the ability to continue fighting.

In the case of equal match, our side still suffered heavy casualties, and at least one-third of the people withdrew from the battle. Zhao Bing analyzed that whether it is a sprint or a slash, there is no difference between good and bad, only a more suitable situation. The casualties of our side are mainly due to lack of practical experience.

Because in a melee, human instinct is to chop and chop. Therefore, when the two sides of the war enter a white-hot hand-to-hand combat, human instinct has the upper hand. Although you have been taught to stab with the tip of the sword, it is chopping to the opponent in battle. In addition, it is psychological effect. Although the trunk stab is fatal, the main damage is internal bleeding, which is not too serious from the outside. However, even if the trunk is not fatal, the scars are shocking enough, which will have a deterrent effect on the psychology and reduce morale.

However, Zhao Bing also found joyfully that the inconspicuous little round shield in the cavalry equipment shone brightly in the battle just now. This round shield is much smaller than the shield used by infantry, and its diameter is only a foot and a half. When not in use, it can be hung directly on the waist without affecting any movement. The shield is made of casting and can easily withstand the damage of the enemy's sword. There is a round protrusion in the middle. When used, you only need to hold the crossbar behind the bulge, or tie it to your forearm with a leather bar.

Of course, because the area is too small, it cannot effectively resist long-range weapons such as bows and arrows. The real value is only reflected in close combat. During fighting, the main purpose of this shield is to protect the arms, and can easily push the opponent's sword to the outside, or use the bulge in the middle to hit the enemy, especially when it hits the face. Even if it cannot be hit, it can be severely damaged. Zhao Bing used a round shield to easily knock an enemy soldier off the horse. It is not an exaggeration to call him a battlefield companion in melee combat.

"Array!" Although I thought a lot, it didn't take long. The well-trained Song army had already sorted out in a moment. Although the enemy cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan was broken through by its own side, causing chaos, the enemy soldiers who subsequently left the city quickly filled the gap and rushed towards their own defense line after a little rectification. The defense line that their own infantry had re-arranged was not yet completed. He ordered the formation to be sorted out and charged again at the enemy cavalry that broke through.
Chapter completed!