The rise of the prince

Chapter 610 The source of trust (a small amount of popular science)

In the evening breeze, Li Xingzhou sat under the weeping willow by the river, silently touching the blade, a tool steel grade knife, there is no weapon in this world that can compete with it, but such a good knife is not needed to kill people, the human body is too fragile, just find the root Sticks can kill, too.

Even so, it is still beautiful and charming, exuding a coquettish and dangerous aura, the sharper it is, the more dangerous it is, the more blood will swell.

This is not the first time he has experienced this dangerous feeling. He has experienced it in his previous life, but the deeper one is still in Luzhou. This kind of danger is not comparable to any moment he experienced in his previous life. , Now going north again, still the same, that kind of tight tension came back again.

"I'm leaving tomorrow and don't take a good rest." A voice suddenly came from behind. Li Xingzhou looked back and saw that it was Qi Fang. She was dressed in simple men's clothing and her face was still shiny. She had obviously just returned from work at the ferry.

Li Xingzhou smiled and put away the knife, "Seeing you reminds me of my days in Luzhou. I forget how I survived that time, but now I'm a bit at a loss."

"Heh" Qifang smiled, and sat down beside him casually: "At that time, you were so majestic. No one dared to resist when you gave an order. I was still thinking, how can there be such a reckless and careful person in the world, it seems that there are two extremes, reckless to the extreme, and a needle hidden in the cotton, but both extremes are in one person."

"So I'm so good." Li Xingzhou laughed: "Do you worship me?"

Qifang looked at Jiang's face and didn't speak. He was embarrassed, "Don't you girl usually talk back the most, why don't you talk back."

"Who are you talking about, I am several years older than you." Qifang was dissatisfied, and then said: "I know you, you seem to be clever, you do things unexpectedly, and you seem to be in control, but you dare to bet more than anyone else. , is an out-and-out gambler at heart.

When you went to meet the Great Immortal of the Universal World, you were betting, and playing in Suzhou was also a gamble. It seemed that you were planning a strategy, but in fact you were betting on everything. "

"Uh..." Li Xingzhou smiled helplessly. He never thought that Fang knew him so well. "There is nothing perfect in this world. In my opinion, things with a probability of success of more than [-]% are doable. As for the rest, it is nothing more than hard work." It just increases the chances of success.”

"Then what about this time, how sure are you?" Qi Fang asked him.

Li Xingzhou smiled and said: "Haha, I'm not here this time. Look at Di Zhi, there are few others, but he is fighting head-on. I have many people, but I am just supporting. I told you in Luzhou that I am not the sun, but the moon. Dazzling, it will not cover up the brilliance of the stars. In human terms, I can trust you.

I can trust you with regard to Xixia, and I can trust Di Zhi with regard to this Northern Expedition. "

Qifang stared at him fixedly, and said after a long time: "Come back early."

Li Xingzhou nodded, "Go back, don't catch a cold, your face is oily, go back and wash."

Qi Fang nodded and went back to the palace with him.

Li Xingzhou didn't trust everyone. Di Zhi's talent was revealed little by little, from rescue, to the Southern War, to his research and theory on the tactics of the new army.

The Khitan elite and the Mongolian elite are theoretically on the same path. They are both northern nomads. Their favorite tactics are light cavalry cavalry, shooting and harassment, and then heavy cavalry ends up at the end.

In fact, Jingguo is very familiar with this set, but familiarity is familiar. Jingguo, which is dominated by hoplites, finds it difficult to take effective offensives except for defense.

This set of tactics is advanced in this era when both the East and the West choose heavy cavalry as the main force, although the advanced nature remains short-lived.

Jurchen Iron Buddha on the eastern battlefield, Xixia's iron kite, if there is a future, Jing Guo, who was feared by Jin Guo, is likely to bring out the elite heavy cavalry of Yue Fei's back Wei army like Song Dynasty.

In the West, the Templars, Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights and other well-known famous knights also prospered during this period.

However, these heavy cavalry were defeated by the Mongolian tactics. During the second Mongolian expedition to the west, the Polish capital was burned and the capital of Silesia was attacked. Henry II of Silesia retreated to Legniz and assembled the Polish army. , the Germanic vanguard of the Holy Roman Empire, the main force of the knights and the German miners against the Mongolian army.

It started the famous Legnitz War of Annihilation in European history. It is famous because it is an annihilation war, just like the status of the Changping War for China, because it is difficult to fight an annihilation war in the cold weapon era.

In this battle, the Mongols' tactic was to face the charging European heavy cavalry. The light cavalry at the front couldn't resist the frontal charge and kept running back. Henry II took the opportunity to order an all-out pursuit.

After the enemy's formation was scattered, the Mongolian light cavalry took the opportunity to go around from the flanks. At the same time, they used the mobility of the light cavalry to retreat and outflank the enemy while entangled the enemy. They used light bows to quickly release arrows at a distance of about 30 meters. The light bow's lethality Limited, but mounted archers target the opposing knight's horse instead of attacking a heavily armored knight.

The European heavy cavalry could not catch up with the Mongolian light cavalry. When the horses were exhausted and many cavalry horses were shot to death, the heavy cavalry who had been waiting for a long time in the rear attacked. The heavy cavalry in ambush in the rear killed them one by one with spears and sabers.

Henry II died in this battle, and the main force of the Teutonic Knights was wiped out. The Polish coalition forces were not considered injured. More than 5000 people were killed in the battle alone. The national tactics are vividly reflected.

It's not that they don't have heavy cavalry, but the number of heavy cavalry far exceeds that of other countries, but the usage is completely different.

Xia Guo, Jin Guo, Jing Guo, and even Europe and the Arab world generally used heavy cavalry to attack the formation, using the terrifying impact of men and horses to defeat the predetermined formation on the opposite side, and then the follow-up troops took the opportunity to charge and kill .

Among them, Xia Guo's iron kite is the best.

They were cold-forged armor, with face armor, armed to the teeth, and horses were also covered with iron armor, and people were connected to the horses with chains. Even if people died on horseback, they would be led by the horses to continue rushing into the enemy's formation.

However, the Mongols and Khitans used heavy cavalry in another way. Their heavy cavalry did not attack first, but stood behind or on the flanks of the light cavalry. , to drag down the enemy's formation, and then the heavy cavalry is responsible for harvesting the battlefield.

In the face of this new tactic, many people have difficulty adapting to it for a while, and they all end up defeated in the face of such a tactic.

People say that the rise of the machine gun is the decline of the cavalry, but if it is only the decline, then the gun is enough.

The last glory of the Mongolian Khanate ended in the Musketeers of the French Empire, but unlike many people's imagination of shooting from a distance, the French Musketeers shot at close range.

Horseback archery can only be used with a light bow that is fast and has low pulling force. It is not powerful and the distance is not far. It is not as good as the foot war bow. Its advantage lies in flexibility.The musketeers are very powerful, but compared with the mounted archers, they lose in flexibility.

So you must not give up the distance. Giving up the distance is the space for the cavalry shooter to play.

Di Zhi's answer was also the reason why Li Xingzhou was relieved of him. Obviously, he was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the new army. Facing how many Khitan light cavalry in the Liao Kingdom won, Di Zhi's answer was as accurate as it was written in the history books—— —Get close and shoot!
(End of this chapter)