Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 243 Black Light Cavalry
Ten rides.

There are only ten armored cavalry, but when they charge, they look like thousands of troops.

People wear armor, horses wear armor.

The knights were all dressed in black light armor, with no gaps in their heads and faces. They were covered with black light armor and lined with cowhide armor. Each of them wore a black long coat.

And the horses they dismounted were all in armor.

The batch is the standard horse armor since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It consists of six parts, the face curtain, the chicken neck, the chest, the horse body armor, the back, and the parasite.

The face curtain is a long and narrow piece of metal armor with holes on it, which covers the horse's head and protects the entire horse's face.The chicken neck protects the horse's neck, which is made of nail plates and has buckles on the front.When the chest, horse body armor, and rear are all large pieces of armor.

The parasite is rather peculiar. It is a broom-like thing that is placed on the tail of the horse and can protect the back of the cavalry.

These ten riders are not only equipped with armored riding gear, but also each of them is equipped with a lance. Although these lances are jujube lances bought from Shan's family, the lances that are more than two feet long still have unparalleled armor-piercing ability.

This is the best equipment in Changbai Mansion so far.

Ten sets of armored riding gear, even if it is only black light armored armored riding gear, are still not seen everywhere.Among them, five sets came from Duan Zhongkui, the prefect of the county, and the other five sets came from Zhang Xutuo, the prefect of the county.

There are ten sets in total. Originally, the fourth brother had proposed that they be used by a group of officers including him, the third child, but after thinking about it for a long time, Luo Cheng finally felt that the heavy cavalry should be used collectively for better results.

Even if there are only ten heavy cavalry, in a small-scale battle, charging can still crush the enemy.

This is the first use of armor riding equipment.

Luo Shixin is the leader of this heavy cavalry, although there are only ten black light cavalry including himself.Those who can be selected are all the toughest knights, and the horses in their hands are worth dozens of pens, not to mention the armor of the horse and horse, which is worth more than a hundred pens.

not far away.

Luo Cheng has been watching the cavalry since Shi Xin led the charge.

Shi Xin led the cavalry out of the forest on one side slowly, and their horses only walked slowly at first.

The horseman didn't even lower the visor of his helmet.

Then Shi Xin put the horse lance that was held high in his hand forward, and slowly lowered it until it was about to be parallel, and then stopped, maintaining the state of the lance rising slightly.

Shixin's 25-jin cold-bone jujube was nailed to the front of the lance, and there was a black flag with a swallow tail.

This is his mark as the commander of heavy cavalry.

Lightly kick the horse's belly.

The selected war horses wearing heavy vests began to accelerate.

Go faster and faster, then run in small steps.

Luo Cheng, who was watching the formation from a distance, could feel the ground shaking slightly under his feet.

The feeling of vibration became stronger and stronger, and the ten heavy cavalry over there had finally picked up speed and galloped.

The horseshoes flew.

Every time I ride it, it feels like beating a giant drum.

Luo Shixin finally put down his mask.

The nine riders behind them also put down their masks.

They carried long spears and arranged them in a herringbone formation of wild goose wings.

"Lying on the grass, although I'm only ten riders, how can I feel my blood is boiling all over." Behind Luo Cheng, Zhang Liang only felt his face flushed and his heart beating faster, and he couldn't help but said to Guo Xiaoke next to him.

"Damn, this man, horse, and three sets of armor add up to a thousand catties. Don't talk about beating, just hit anyone at random, and the person will be sent flying."

Wang Junkuo is from Hedong. He has sold horses before, so he is very familiar with horses. "Crash into the air? This man and horse weigh a thousand catties. If you run again, if you get hit, you won't be knocked into the air, but will be smashed to pieces, bloody and bloody. Don't say standing like that, such a heavy cavalry, even if a large shield is erected on the opposite side Even if you set up a spear, you can forcibly break a path of blood. It can be said that facing such a heavy cavalry, there is no other way but to run."

Li Junxian said, "Can't heavy cavalry be restrained?"

After hearing this, Luo Cheng turned around, "Of course heavy cavalry is not invincible. All types of troops are mutually reinforcing and have their own advantages and disadvantages. The strength of this heavy cavalry is that both horses and horses wear heavy armor. They can ignore bows and crossbows, and are not even afraid of spears." Large shields, let alone ordinary light cavalry. Therefore, the strongest heavy cavalry lies in breaking through the infantry's defense line."

"However, the advantage of heavy cavalry is that it has a thick defense, and the disadvantage is that it is too heavy. They can only have a very short burst time. On the battlefield, heavy cavalry only start to wear armor before charging, and because the armor is too heavy, You have to ask other soldiers to help put on the armor. Then they can only rush to those fixed formations because they are slow."

"In addition, although the heavy cavalry has a strong ability to charge the formation, if the opponent has enough preparations, as long as the infantry commander's contradictory formation is a few more layers, widen the gap in the middle, and create a hollow formation, then the heavy cavalry can be broken. Because the heavy cavalry is too heavy, it can't charge a few floors, and it will be exhausted. Once the heavy cavalry can't move, it will be useless. Even ordinary pike infantry can stab them to death if they surround them .”

Several people's eyes widened when they heard this. How could such a majestic heavy cavalry be overcome by infantry?

"A light cavalry can also overcome a heavy cavalry. The key is to stop the charging momentum of the heavy cavalry. A heavy cavalry that cannot charge is just a tortoise with a thick shell, ready to be slaughtered. Of course, no one is so stupid Use heavy cavalry indiscriminately, heavy cavalry is the tip of the knife, use it at critical times, it can play a decisive role.”

Just like now, in fact, the current situation on the field is not the best time for heavy cavalry to attack.The best time for heavy cavalry to attack should be when the opponent forms a defensive formation and the infantry is difficult to make a frontal breakthrough. This is the most appropriate time to send heavy cavalry.

But today, Luo Cheng just wanted to test the combat effectiveness of this heavy cavalry.

The horse ran faster and faster.

The wind howled.

The black swallowtail flag on the horse lance fluttered.

The thieves have also spotted the cavalry who rushed out suddenly.

At first, they were a little relieved when they saw that there were only ten cavalry, but when they saw clearly that they were ten cavalry wrapped in steel, they were stunned.

Armored riding equipment is nothing new, it was a big killer that emerged during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

However, with the dominance of the Sui Dynasty, the heavy cavalry has actually become less and less, because heavy equipment is too expensive.

But the prestige of armored riding equipment is still spread in China.

These thieves never imagined, why did they provoke armored cavalry?
They are some thieves who have fallen into the grass, do they need to use armored horses?
This is like a few pickpockets in later generations who stole money, turned around and found that heavy tanks and helicopters came to round them up, and no one would be confused.

The heavy cavalry combined to charge was extremely terrifying. When they were still in a daze, Luo Shixin and his ten cavalry had already accelerated to the fastest speed. At this time, the heavy cavalry were like speeding meteorites.

whizzing.

Shi Xin saw the thieves standing sparsely in front of him through the narrow gaps in the eyes of the mask, but he had no intention of avoiding them at all.

Just like that, it crushed and crashed like bulldozing.

boom.

A bandit was knocked down and trampled over by iron hooves.

Chi.

A bandit was directly pierced through Luo Shixin's jujube lance. The huge impact penetrated his body, and then he was caught by the plot. The impact caused the lance to bend slightly, and then rebounded with force. The corpse was thrown away.

The bleeding lance was raised again.

Luo Shixin continued to charge with the nine riders.

far away.

Luo Chengcheng looked at Shixin and his ten riders, charging and ramming all the way, abruptly passing through the group of bandits, and then leaving ten empty holes.

Shi Xin and the others rushed past without looking back.

Behind the thieves, Luo Cunxiao and Luo Siye arrived with two hundred Pudao infantry and Changluo infantry.

But for a moment.

In that empty field, there was no longer a single bandit standing, fifty thieves were all slaughtered.

That Marshal Wang took his remaining [-] or so people away from the side, staring blankly at those Qi County Chief Bai Yingyang's soldiers who were still making up their swords, thinking that they were all devils!
(End of this chapter)