Chapter 1 Eat my knife
Zhao Bing turned around in a circle, and the Yuan army was also turning, but he ran north for a distance before turning to the right. The intention was very obvious, that was to detour in front of them for intercepting, but what he did not expect was that the Song army, who had already broken through, actually killed a retaliation, and thus opened the distance between the two armies.
Although the enemy was arranged and the distance was temporarily distanced from them, Zhao Bing still looked at the situation not optimistic for them. The enemy rangers scattered everywhere did not participate in the pursuit, but instead played their strengths to entangle the fallen enemy soldiers. Whether they are enemies or us, those who can be used as rangers are good players in the army. They have rich practical experience, superb skills and tactics, and are extremely cunning and cruel, otherwise they would not be able to do so.
When the Mongyuan Rangers saw the Song army turn back to rescue, they immediately divided most of their troops to meet them, leaving only a few people and cats to catch rats and entangled the fallen enemy soldiers, just like hunters catching young beasts and leading the mother beasts to rescue them, winning time for their large groups of people and horses to detour. The rangers who came up did not line up, but surrounded them in an alienated scattered cavalry formation, which could disperse their firepower and reduce casualties.
What is most afraid of is the precise archery techniques of the rangers. They are generally equipped with three bows and three pots of arrows, which are used according to different situations. Their step bow can reach two stones, and the range is no less than the muskets in their hands, and being shot is a life-threatening death. Therefore, the ranger is equivalent to the modern special reconnaissance force and is most afraid of it.
"Scatter!" Zhao Bing made a gesture, letting the cavalry that followed disperse, widen the distance between the cavalry, and pressed up in a scattered formation, but the edge was still pointing at the surrounding fallen scouts.
When Zhao Bing and his team completed the steering and adjusted their formation, Xu Hong also led the team to surround the other side. His tactic was to use scattered soldiers to avoid being entangled and dragged by them. And he was confident to do so. His guard battalion was selected among hundreds of thousands of troops. If he couldn't even deal with the Mongols, he should find a tree to hang it.
The first confrontation between the two sides was naturally revealed by the crossbow and musket shooting, but the process was also short. The Mongols were obviously very afraid of the Song army's muskets and knew that they could not take advantage of each other. They could only rely on their own proficient kung fu to fight them in close combat.
Zhao Bing dodged or dodged, or blocked it with a round shield on his arm. After approaching, the two sides drew out their sabers to fight. At this time, Niu Laifu and He Bao, who were accompanying him, had already snatched out to block the two enemy rangers, and another cavalry came to kill him in front of him, "I'm so unlucky, I actually encountered someone who used a gun!" He couldn't help but mutter when he saw it.
The weapons of the Mongol cavalry were very complicated. In addition to commonly used sabers and bows, they were also equipped with strange weapons such as lasso, short axes, and iron bones. Of course, they were also equipped with cavalry guns. However, using cavalry guns to pierce the armor of heavy armored cavalry, it requires rich combat experience and strength. Only veterans who have been on the battlefield can skillfully use this weapon and exert the maximum power of this weapon. Therefore, those who can use cavalry guns in the Mongol are elite soldiers, which are difficult to deal with.
Don’t think that the horse martial arts look like it’s just that the spear is flattened and the horse is rushing, just like the most popular knights in European knights. So far, there are still some performance competitions in Europe wearing armor to conduct gun-mounting and charge competitions. The audience often sees the moment when the two knights pass by, and the guns are broken, which is very exciting.
But in fact, this kind of performance is very safe, which lies in the horse's track. Generally, the two horses in this kind of performance race are on their right side. In this way, with a gun in your right hand, you can break the already fragile hollow rifle that is already fragile. The audience feels that riding the rifle is broken, which is simply a real thing, but in fact it is just a performance, and it is relatively safe.
Moreover, this gun-holding method is relatively weak in overcontrol of the long gun, and can only carry the attack on the left side with a shield, so it is more suitable for large-scale formation charges. In other words, the later stage of the plate armor appears, because the plate armor has a large protection area but a small field of vision, making it difficult to use complex techniques, which becomes the way to compete immediately.
In the battle, everyone wants to kill the other party. After all, no one will fight back at all. They just stand there and stab people. It is impossible to be honest and do nothing, just point the gun at the other party and wait for the horse to rush up and stab each other. Of course, if you use the common tricks of hiding in stirrups in the movie, you can indeed avoid the other party's stab, but you can't attack the other party, right? Obviously, these are not good methods.
In fact, there are many techniques for using a gun. Of course, it is not as wide as in film and television dramas or animation games. The spear is swinging like a helicopter. In reality, the smaller the action, the smaller the flaw, the less likely it is to be predicted by the other party. The people next to them may not see clearly what is going on, and they are already dismissed. After all, the demand for art works is to let the audience see what is going on, but the reality is to make the opponent unable to see clearly what is going on and die.
"I'm still a veteran!" Zhao Bing saw clearly that the enemy cavalry who was coming was holding a gun in his hand and holding the gun rod in the center, and knew that this person was not good at it.
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He knew that this way of holding a gun was compared to the European gun-holding and charging at the back of the spear. Even if the two use guns of the same length, the guns would be shorter. It seemed that they had lost the lead in the era of cold weapons fighting against the cold weapons. So those who dared to do this were masters.
During a battle, they will first use the other hand to push away or even grab the spear that the opponent stabs first, and then hold the gun in the backhand short section, which can just stab the opponent after pushing away the opponent's spear. Some people even use double-headed guns, hold the middle and rear part of the gun, and immediately turn the gun head without a hit with the forehand and turn it into the backhanded gun and stab it again.
Zhao Bing used a saber that was only more than two feet long, which was not as long as the other person's half-segment of guns. He was already at a disadvantage without fighting. However, he also knew that any martial arts had weaknesses. He held a gun in the backhand because the horse rushed faster in hedging, and the reaction force when stabbing the enemy could easily cause him to fall off his horse, and it was not easy to pull out the spear after stabbing the enemy.
Therefore, one-handed reverse gun is more likely to stab the downward force. Because the direction of the force is not consistent with the direction of the horse's charge, the impact force is relatively small, and it is easy to draw the gun. Just lift it up. If you rush quickly, your wrist will naturally turn. If you lift it forward, you can pull out the spear from the enemy who has already passed by and fall behind you.
"Roar, take my sword!" The two horses were approaching in the flash of lightning. Zhao Bing held the knife and lowered his right hand to the outside, and the tip of the saber turned downwards. When the two horses intersected, both sides shouted and took action at almost the same time. The enemy cavalry leaned forward and stabbed his abdomen with a long spear, while he lifted the knife upwards.
In an instant, blood splattered, and Zhao Bing sat upright on the horse, and the enemy general shook his horse, and a deep knife cracked from the top to his forehead. He leaned back and fell down the horse, and the war horse still rushed forward. But I don’t know if he understood Zhao Bing’s words. If he knew that he died at the hands of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, it would be a pity.
Zhao Bing rushed for several steps and threw away the blood from the knife. Because the battle was only in a moment, he had to make a prediction about the opponent's horse speed and the timing of his gun. Once a mistake was made, it would be lost and he would fall to death. He had already calculated the direction of the enemy's cavalry's gun. When the two horses were intertwined, he suddenly knocked on the belly of the horse. The war horse suddenly jumped forward. The enemy's spear not only slashed in the air, but also exposed its poking upper body under his blade. He was slashed with a knife and chopped it into two halves with his head and helmet.
At this time, the battlefield was already in a melee. Zhao Bing looked towards his surrounded companion. Without a few steps, an enemy cavalry attacked him with one hand and a long spear. Facing the aggressive enemy cavalry, he could only turn the horse's head and adjust the direction, trying to seize the left hand position to gain an advantage in "local advantage".
In fact, when the two sides fight on the real battlefield, they all need to seize the left hand position, so that the right hand rifle and horse impact angle are the same. In this way, the opponent is stabbed, even if they are wearing full-body armor, it is still easy to pierce the armor and kill the enemy because of the powerful kinetic energy of the horse running.
The sequelae of this in the Western world is that driving on the left, such as Britain and France, is caused by the cavaliers grabbing the left hand position. However, after the United States' independence, it had to drive on the right to show that it was different from the United Kingdom, which has now become a more widely used traffic rule.
Zhao Bing's war horses were not the "Xiaoyao horses" that some emperors rode. They could only walk steadily. Instead, they could understand the owner's intentions after a selection of good horses with just a slight move. In addition, the horsemanship he learned when he was young was better than those Mongolians who started riding a sheep.
No matter what, he successfully seized the advantageous position. Before the enemy cavalry changed his move, he rushed to the front, wiped his neck with a knife, and easily smeared his head with the power of the war horse forward. Blood instantly splattered out. The headless corpse was still sitting on the horse, maintaining the rushing forward with a gun, and ran for more than ten steps before falling off the horse.
Zhao Bing's confidence increased greatly by killing two enemy soldiers in a row. After all, he practiced more often and had less actual combat. He was complacent, but he was not as passionate as he was desperate. After all, he was the emperor, let alone losing his life, and he could not explain his lack of arms and legs when he went home. It would be a disabled emperor that would really hurt the national system. I don't know how many people were implicated.
Chapter completed!