Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 260 Three Scouts Battle

All the horses of the Tartar soldiers were gathered together. At the place facing the river, they laid a few wooden stakes and fastened the reins of the horses to the wooden stakes, so as to prevent the horses from running away after being frightened.

Being close to the river and water, it is also convenient for washing and feeding. For the cavalry, the war horse is his strongest weapon and closest partner.

Each horse must be fed at least eight catties of grass and four or five catties of feed every day, as well as salt, otherwise, it will lose fat every day, and no matter how fat the horse is raised, it will be emaciated after ten and a half months, and it cannot be used as a war horse at all. up.

Even with such meticulous care every day, after a few months, the war horses will be exhausted, and even if they are barely ridden, they will become even weaker and die in large numbers. [

This is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty judged that the Qing army would have to retreat in the spring and summer of next year at the latest. The main reason was that they withdrew their war horses and re-fattened their war horses after several months of rest in summer and autumn.

This can also be regarded as a limitation of war horses. The war curve of nomads is also closely related to horses. Unless it is life and death, when there is no concern for the death of large numbers of war horses, there will be long-term battles spanning spring, summer and autumn.

The horse followers were wearing blue or green arrow robes, not armor like other vests, but they also wore a waist knife around their waists, and they also carried long-growing bows on their backs... Qing The soldiers are different from the Mongolian soldiers. The Mongolian soldiers like to draw their bows immediately, so they like to use short riding bows. Step bows are not used for riding bows. Once encountering an enemy, it is rare to shoot arrows right away... A step bow as long as one person is very powerful. There is no way to shoot a bow on the horse. Once you encounter an enemy, you can only dismount and shoot.

The so-called cavalry shooting can be counted on the Mongols' horse shooting in bursts, but that kind of burst shooting is only to disrupt the position. They use a weak riding bow, which is short and can be pulled away with a little force on the horse, so it doesn't need to consume too much Strength is maintained, so you can aim a little, and then cast it to hurt the enemy.

On the contrary, the step bows of the Qing army are generally very powerful, can shoot far, and have strong lethality. The Qing army generally uses heavy arrows, with long shafts and heavy arrows, which have the functions of armor-piercing and bloodletting. The bleeding didn't stop, and he lost his fighting power in an instant.

Therefore, it is true or false that the Qing army is invincible in riding and shooting. Cavalry is mobility, and shooting is a means of defeating the enemy, but the two are separate. It is not what ordinary people imagine. It is pure nonsense.

"Three are sleeping and resting, and the rest are sitting and eating and drinking. There are three or four looted women in the middle, and three servants are cleaning their horses..."

It was close to the battle, but Zhu Wangli still looked very calm. Although this was the first time for such a small-scale contact, he had extremely strong confidence in himself and his colleagues in the cavalry.

These people are all selected, not comparable to those ordinary cavalry officers and soldiers.

He has excellent riding skills, can use heavy weapons such as horses and spears on horseback, and is also very good at knives. The opponent is only the scout cavalry of the Alihaha camp, which is different from the elite Tartar soldiers of the frightening Bayara camp in the legend. There were only thirteen of them, and most of them were sitting or lying down, less than a mile apart, once they rushed over, the most opponents would come with their weapons in their hands, and it would be impossible for them to mount their horses and adjust their posture to fight.