Chapter 1327： Annihilate quickly

Just after the spearman of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms rushed out, the black knight who had stopped and intended to shoot at ease began to retreat in an orderly manner. The black knight had no weapons and stopped to fight hard with the spearman.

Many people may think that cavalry is naturally wrong to restrain infantry. Cavalry soldiers with only melee capabilities actually cannot beat spearmen, especially European spearmen.

European spears are generally three or four meters long, and the long ones, like the spears of Swiss spearmen, can be as long as 6 meters. At such a long length, a melee cavalry rushes up with a saber, which is no different from death. Even with a 2.8-meter long rifle, the food is also delivered. Of course, if the infantry's spear is about the same length as the cavalry, then the cavalry must have won. But if the infantry used a Swiss spear that was five or six meters long, it would be different. With this spear, and the Swiss are good at discharging the spear array, the plate armor knights of the Habsburg family and the plate armor knight of Burgundy have suffered a great loss ...

In the ancient East, the cavalry on the grasslands restrained the infantry because the cavalry on the ancient northern grasslands were good at riding and shooting. Before he rushed to the front, he sent a thousand arrows to make the infantry suffer heavy losses. After a large number of casualties were caused to the Central Plains infantry, the prairie cavalry would charge with a scimitar. At this time, the Central Plains infantry had been demoralized due to huge casualties, and then was rushed again, directly collapsed.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as the heavy armored infantry of the Song Dynasty, because of the high armor, they are not afraid of cavalry charge. But that's the same. Liaojin's cavalry couldn't break through the front, so they shouted. Anyway, your heavy infantry cannot catch up with them. Moreover, wearing heavy armor is very energy-intensive. When you have no energy, they rush up to pick up cheap ...

Also, because of the martial arts, the ancient Chinese people prefer to use a red tassel about 1.3 meters long. Because, if the spear is too long, it is inconvenient to move around, affecting the martial arts. Therefore, there are few spears of ancient China that are longer than 2 meters, because they are afraid of affecting the performance of martial arts.

But in fact, the spears with longer lengths are not flexible, but if they are arranged in a dense spear array, they are still very scary. In particular, it restrains the cavalry charge. The ancient Chinese people used to use a short spear more than one meter long, so the prairie cavalry had the confidence to charge with a machete.

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For example, in the battle in front of them, coalition infantry armed with a spear of more than three meters long, when they squatted down, the Jurgen Cossack cavalry dared not charge. Because rushing up at this time, it is simply to actively hit the spear.

But as soon as these spears got up manually, then all their flanks were flawed ...

The main disadvantage of using a spear that is too long is that the wings are very unsafe when charging. Because, a few meters long spear, it is difficult to take into account the protection of the side.

If the formation is fixed, the flank and the spearmen are lined up to guard against side impact. However, once rushed, the lancers in the front row are okay, and the wingers on the flanks must be difficult to ensure formation, and there will inevitably be loopholes.

Juergen apparently saw a flanking hole in the moving coalition spearman. So he waved the saber without hesitation, and took the lead to charge the hole on the wing of the coalition spearman ...

More than a thousand Cossack cavalry, wielding sabers, and howling towards the wings of the coalition spearmen, caused great psychological pressure on the recruiting spearmen.

When Jurgen's horses rushed to the front and the back, many spearmen didn't think of holding up their spears to resist, but subconsciously flashed aside, so as not to be loaded by the horses ...

However, this subconscious move is exactly in line with the needs of the Cossack cavalry. Jurgen Zema rushed into a lane where the enemy spearman unconsciously gave way. In the moment of rushing into the enemy formation, the right-handed saber was raised and traversed in the hand, but did not make a hacking action (the cavalry in the TV series) A bunch of show martial arts moves right away are purely directorless and do not understand horse fighting. Or, to watch the effect. When charging at a high speed on horseback, the hacking action is superfluous, and even the shock force Injured his hand), but wiped the neck of a panicked enemy spearman ...

When the blade touched the opponent's neck, Jurgen even withdrew the blade back ...

This is a kind of protection to protect oneself in riding battle. If you cut it very hard, because the horse speed is fast, it is easy to hurt your arm because of the huge reaction force.

And this cutting method with the momentum can ensure that the swordsman himself will not be hurt by anti -... The prairie cavalry and the Arabian cavalry use the scimitar because the scimitar wipes the neck very smoothly when the horse and the horse are staggered. Also, if the scimitar is chopped with armor and the opponent cannot be cut, the curvature of the blade makes it easy for the knifeman to retract the scimitar. If it is a straight knife and you can't cut the opponent, it's easy to get rid of ...

After the horses and horses staggered, a good head flew up. Then, a blood arrow spurted from the neck of the enemy spearman who lost his head ...

After cutting off the head of an enemy, Jurgen did not close his hand, but turned his wrist, adjusted the height and angle of the blade, and wiped the head of another enemy along the way ...

Behind Jurgen, there is a large group of Cossacks, just like him harvesting each other's head ...

Then, a well-arranged infantry spear array was directly torn apart by a Cossack cavalry. Thousands of Cossack cavalry slashed their opponents in this hole-like enemy spear array ...

What, you said why those spearmen do n’t have to use spears to fight back?

That's because the European spear is too long. In general, when the infantry phalanx is in an array, only the frontmost and outermost lancers will lift the lances to assassinate the enemy. The spearman on the inside generally raises the spear upright. Because, if the spear is three or four meters long, if it is lifted, then the infantry square space is not enough ...

When the Cossack cavalry stormed into the enemy spear array, the enemy spearmen in the formation could not easily lay the spear flat against the enemy because of the space relationship and the length of the spear. So, when the Cossack cavalry stormed into the battlefield ~ www.novelhall.com ~ they were more passive ...

Of course, if you are an experienced veteran, you may retreat a few steps, and then make enough space to lift the spear to defend the enemy. But the problem is that this group of coalition infantry is a conscript recruited by the temporary catcher, and has no combat experience at all.

So, after being rushed into the formation by the Cossack cavalry, it immediately became chaotic ...

Panic soon spread among the group of conscripts, and some spearmen in the marginal area even were so scared that they directly lost their spears and yelled in fear and ran to the distance. The Cossack cavalry, regardless of those who fled, continued to attack the enemy infantry who had gathered together, trying to disturb the opponent's formation.

At this time, the coalition commander Varok also realized that it was not good. He gathered hundreds of elite spearmen who participated, broke away from the array, and formed an array of small spear arrays in the back of the river.

Faced with a spear like Lin, Jurgen ignored it, but continued to attack and hack down the enemies in chaos. After the other opponents were almost resolved, Jurgen greeted Durham and asked Durham to continue to send the black knight to shoot the hundreds of enemy infantry with the backwater array ...

Warock collapsed suddenly—no solution ... the hundreds of spearmen in his backwater array can only block the melee Cossack cavalry charge, but for the black knight who uses a musket, that is a fixed target what……

The black knights had just played one round and were changing guns, and Varok couldn't take it anymore. He shouted:

"We surrender, we surrender!"

In this way, the 4,000 coalition infantry on the southern line of the west bank of the Elbe was quickly wiped out by the Cossack cavalry and the black knight. The cossack cavalry charged, only a dozen casualties (three dead). Moreover, the three unlucky eggs that were killed were not killed by the enemy, but were trampled to death by the war horses of their comrades after being stabbed and dropped ...