Valley Emperor

The long-range hit rate of a musket has always been a matter of character.

To put it bluntly, it is purely blind!

In order to make up for the musket hit rate of more than 50 meters, the Datang 6th Army tried many ways, but these methods were basically unreliable. In the end, they used the most old-fashioned way, which is to use the firepower density to make up for the low hit rate. .

This is also the fact that the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty abandoned the previous six-column horizontal team and adopted three-column horizontal team. bullet.

One bullet cannot hit the enemy, but one hundred bullets and one thousand bullets form a coverage area, which can effectively improve the hit rate.

But even so, the hit rate at a distance of 100 meters is slag, which is why the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty is not very fond of long-distance shooting, but prefers to get close to the salvo and then directly charge with the bayonet!

This approach to salvo, bayonet charge tactics, sometimes very useful, sometimes beaten to death, but the Datang 6 Army still adhere to this seemingly rigid tactics, life and death.

reason?

Because the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty has played with muskets for so many years, there has never been a precedent for defeating the enemy by shooting muskets at a distance of 100 meters.

Therefore, the 6th Army of Datang always insisted on firing at medium and short distances, especially when it got closer to a distance of 50 meters, the hit rate was quite impressive.

Some of the tactics used by the infantry were also common to the 3rd Musketeer. The cavalry of the 3rd Musketeer Regiment would shoot directly on the horses after they approached fifty meters.

If the enemy is not close, they can even dismount and continue to fire, killing the enemy with sustained mid-range shots.

If the enemy wants to get close, just ride away, pull away and shoot!

In some specific cases, this tactic is quite shameless in the face of pure cold-weapon infantry, even in the face of the enemy's cold-weapon cavalry.

Because at this distance, the lethality of the enemy's bow and arrow is very limited. If the enemy's bow and arrow are more powerful, then the distance should be extended to 80 meters or even 100 meters, in short, to avoid the enemy's bow and arrow.

In this case, even if the enemy is a cavalry with high mobility, at most, both sides will chase and flee, and then I will shoot you on the back of the horse and let you shoot arrows, but the range and power of the horse bow are far from being comparable to the musket. , As for the hit rate, both sides have to rely on their personal skills. In order to obtain a high hit rate, the requirements for riding and marksmanship are quite high.

Assuming that the cavalry on both sides have the same level of horsemanship and shooting arrows, the traditional cavalry will be played to death by these musketeers.

I just want to be able to load on horseback, aim and shoot, and the requirements for cavalry are not generally high, even higher than cavalry and shooting, so now in the entire 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty, there are only so many 900 cavalry can be do it.

Interestingly, most of the 900 Tang Lancers were descendants of the Tatars who entered the Great Wall in the early years, but they have all migrated to the Great Wall for decades or even hundreds of years. It maintains the tradition of herding, but it has already been sinicized, and it has intermarryed with the local people, and is also a part of the people of the Tang Empire.

There is no way. If you want to be good enough to be able to play muskets on horseback, only these herdsmen who have lived on horseback since childhood are relatively easy to do.

When the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty recruited cavalry, it also gave priority to recruiting some herdsmen in the northern region. However, the number of herdsmen under the rule of the Tang Dynasty was small, and the number was not large, and the elites were concentrated in the 3rd Musket Cavalry Regiment.

The 3rd Musketeer Regiment and the 6th Cuirassier Regiment are the real elite cavalry in the cavalry regiment under Kang Changning, but the 1st and 5th cavalry divisions, although they have the title of cavalry division, But that was just ordinary light cavalry.

Most of the elite cavalry in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty were concentrated in various independent cavalry regiments. Elite.

Kang Changning personally led these two cavalry regiments to sit in the Central Army, which shows the importance of these two independent cavalry regiments.

The vanguard cavalry of the Tatars roared, but they did not charge the first time, because in front of them, Kang Changning's cavalry regiment had already assembled initially, and the first cavalry division at the forefront was already in formation. After all, if the thousands of Tatars' vanguard cavalry dared to rush forward rashly, it is estimated that it will end badly.

In addition, these Tartars ran long distances, and most of the mounts under their crotch were already exhausted. If they wanted to charge, they had to change to another combat horse.

So they didn't rush up directly, but approached thousands of meters away, dismounted and put on another one, but instead of riding on the horse, they led the horse to line up, and some Tartar knights also took out The beans and water that I carry with me are used to feed the war horses.

These Tatars, who have played cavalry all their lives, are more aware than the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty that they need to preserve the physical fitness of their horses before the war.

The distance between the two sides is a thousand meters. It seems that the distance is not short, but the cavalry on both sides are on high alert, because at this distance, it does not take much time for the cavalry to charge!

Holding the binoculars, Kang Changning looked at the Tatar cavalry in front, and found that the cavalry behind them hadn't caught up in time, and he also judged that these Tatar cavalry would definitely need a certain amount of time to rest, even if it was just a new one. It takes time to get in line and get new horses.

This time is only a few minutes at most, but this is an opportunity for myself.

If we wait until all the Tatars arrive and rest, there will be no such opportunity.

After initially judging the situation, Kang Changning, who had been playing cavalry for more than ten years, immediately ordered: "Order the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division to attack immediately, kill the arrogance of killing the enemy cavalry, pay attention, leave with one blow, don't fall into Fight!"

Kang Changning planned to knock out the enemy's vanguard cavalry before the main force of the enemy's cavalry arrived and completed the rest. Even if they could not cause many casualties to their cavalry, they would be forced to retreat, thus causing confusion and making them unable to do so. Successfully completed the rest.

After Kang Changning's voice fell, the two semaphore hands behind him immediately waved their flags and passed orders to the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division ahead through the semaphore.

At the same time, the two messengers beside him also immediately urged the fast horses under his crotch, and then ran away thinking about the 1st cavalry division and the 5th cavalry division.

The horses under the crotch of these messengers are taller than most cavalry mounts. All Central Asian horses generally have a shoulder height of 1.48 meters. This shoulder height is regarded as the top in Central Asian horses. .

It is basically the same level as Kang Changning's mount.

No way, in order to pass the order, the messengers in the Datang 6th Army are equipped with the best horses, basically all Central Asian horses, and the messengers in the cavalry unit are the top Central Asian horses.

The top-level Central Asian horses are currently only assigned to heavy cavalry and senior generals and messengers in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, in most troops, the horses ridden by the messengers are better than those of the cavalry troops, except for the first lancer regiment, their main mounts are all top-level Central Asian horses or It's an Arabian horse.

The messengers rode the tall Central Asian horses all the way, and at the same time, the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division also began to prepare for action.

The order transmission system of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty is a combination of semaphore and messenger transmission. In order to avoid errors in order transmission, each order must have two semaphore hands and semaphore, and the semaphore can only be executed if the semaphore is consistent.

At the same time, on the battlefield, the messengers will also ride fast horses to deliver orders. This is an added insurance. If the semaphore is incorrectly delivered, the personal communication of the messengers can avoid mistakes in time and avoid greater losses.

Of course, there are so many things on the battlefield, and sometimes it is impossible to wait for the messengers to arrive. Therefore, most of the time, combat operations are directly transmitted through semaphore orders, and the troops receive semaphore orders.

The personal delivery of the messenger~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is just an extra layer of insurance.

Therefore, after the 1st Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division received the semaphore order, they already started to act!

The knights of the 1st Cavalry Division began to divide into several waves before and after under the orders of the officers. Basically, the standard cavalry regiments were used as units to form a number of huge cavalry squares.

One of the cavalry phalanxes was at the forefront. After a colonel got the order, he just got on his horse and said loudly, "Get on the horse!"

Immediately, the cavalry behind him all mounted on the horse and straddled neatly on the saddle!

"Go slowly!"

As his orders continued, the adjutant behind him repeated his order loudly: "Go slowly!"

The voice fell, and the messenger, who was wearing a different uniform from the ordinary cavalry behind him, blew the horn in his hand. With the slogan of moving forward slowly!

Immediately, the more than 800 cavalrymen began to advance slowly. The 800 cavalrymen were also divided into four waves, each of which was a cavalry team. The strength of each team consisted of officers, ordinary cavalry and even auxiliary cavalry. , The messengers or something together, about two hundred cavalry.

The distance between the front and rear of each cavalry team is about 20 meters. In this interval, the commander of the next wave of cavalry is at the forefront, and next to the commander is the messenger connecting the front and back waves. These messengers often wear relatively Special military uniforms, holding a horn, ready to blow the horn at any time according to the order from the front.

The cavalry's pace is determined according to the rhythm frequency of the horn.

When the continuous rapid horn sounded, it was time to charge!

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