Valley Emperor

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were miserable because of the early matchlock guns, especially the early matchlock pistols. The convenience of use was simply appalling for the cavalry.

And what the Datang cavalry is best at is the wall-mounted intensive charge, which was originally designed for cold weapons.

You can use a sword, you can use a lance, but a musket? That's so nonsense!

When the cavalry collided, the time was very short. Even if it was a pistol, at most, the cavalry in the front row had a chance to shoot, and the cavalry in the back had no chance to shoot at all. When they really rushed forward, they could face the enemy. , In fact, it will not give the cavalry too much time to aim and shoot.

At this time, the cavalry didn't even have much time to slash. They just kept the formation and body stable, and then moved the cavalry slantingly forward. It is to use the speed of the horse to drive the cavalry to kill the enemy.

If the enemy is cavalry, even the enemy's own speed will become an assist in the attack.

The time of the cavalry's hedging battle is so short, who gave you the time to aim, and it is not very difficult to aim and shoot on the horseback running at high speed.

If the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty could shoot accurately on the horseback at high speed, what kind of pistol would the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty play with?

As for playing against archery, the muskets of these years are no match for bows and arrows, and even the line infantry of the Tang Dynasty cannot shoot against the archers of the Ming army!

This is impossible. The rate of fire of other people's bows and arrows is so fast that they can shoot a dozen arrows in a few minutes. Your musketeer can shoot two or three bullets at this time, and you are considered elite.

In the early days of the Tang Wangshi against the archers of the Ming army, they used thick armor as protection, rushed in quickly and then fired a volley of muskets within 30 meters, threw grenades, and then directly cooperated with the heavy armored spearmen to launch a bayonet charge. After a wave, I have never played against the archers of the Ming army!

In this era, there is no clear conclusion on the strength of bows and muskets, but there are a few things that are certain. The short-term burst firing speed of bows and arrows far exceeds that of muskets, and the continuous shooting ability of muskets completely explodes bows and arrows.

Whether it is equipment cost, training cost, or even the maintenance cost on weekdays, muskets are better than bows and arrows. This is also one of the two biggest advantages of muskets: cheap!

Another advantage is that it is powerful!

In fact, the effective range of bows and muskets is not much different. Muskets can basically fight effectively at a distance of 100 meters, and bows and arrows can also achieve this effective range by projectiles.

However, the difference in power between the two is too great, resulting in the same effective range of 100 meters, muskets can easily kill lightly armored units, while bows and arrows basically lose most of their lethality at 100 meters, even if the opponent is The clothes are a little thicker, and they can't penetrate.

At a distance of 50 meters, the musket can penetrate most of the armor of ordinary thickness, including a large number of ordinary types of plate armor equipped by the Datang Army itself. The bow and arrow can only leave a trace on the armor.

In other words, bows and arrows are definitely not as good as muskets when dealing with heavily armored units!

Unfortunately, the Datang Army especially likes to equip armor. In the early days, it was equipped with cotton iron armor and iron armor on a large scale, and later, it was all plate armor.

To a certain extent, the heavy armoring of the Tang Army directly brought the archers of the Ming army to a dead end, forcing the Ming army to be equipped with a large number of guns whether they wanted to or not. It is difficult to inflict effective damage on the Tang Army equipped with a large amount of armor.

When it comes to riding a bow and a lance, this contrast also exists, but the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty did not use a lance, let alone a pistol!

Because a lance that was directly changed from an infantry musket should be used, then the dragoon tactics should be used. In other words, the cavalry should be used directly as an infantry, and riding on horses is just for quick maneuvering. That's all the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty? Use cavalry as fast-moving infantry? The cavalry generals are willing, and Li Xuan is not willing.

If you are using a pistol, then the tactics used are actually similar to those of the ancient cavalry. The general method is to rush up to a distance of tens of meters or even more from the enemy to shoot, then turn to escape, and after loading at the rear, attack again and again!

And this tactic has many limitations. To deal with the Ming army or the Tatar cavalry and cavalry, people will laugh to death when they see you playing like this, and then take out bows and arrows and shoot waves of dense arrows, wanting to go back alive Reload and shock again, nonsense!

Using a broken pistol to play against other people's cavalry and cavalry is basically the same as shooting against musketeers and archers. People use bows and arrows to kill you!

There are many reasons that led to the fact that the cavalrymen of the Tang Dynasty were unwilling to use muskets, regardless of whether it was a long-barreled lance or a pistol, they did not like to use it.

I don't even like to use spears or armor!

You don’t like war horses and you still play heavy armored spear cavalry, you can’t go fast at all, people don’t play hedging with you at all, you can just hang your bow and shoot arrows from a distance.

The limitations of the Datang cavalry themselves and the enemies they face have all decided that using a cavalry to play a wall charge is the only way out. There are more horses that can't be brought.

The Datang cavalry repelled muskets, and they still do not have large-scale equipment for the Sui-firing pistols, but the assault battalion units of the Datang Army have a soft spot for the Sui-firing pistols that have appeared recently!

They are originally close combat troops, and they are wearing armor, and it is inconvenient to use rifles, but if you bring such a short pistol, you can fire a shot before you rush up and fight meleely. They would just throw away the pistol and use the waist knife to fight directly.

This will make it a lot easier for them to attack!

Because the Second Army is close to Jiangnan, it is also the first unit to come into contact with the pistol, and has also carried out related tactical research and training in the past few months.

This time, they are preparing to use it in actual combat. As long as the effect is good, it is only natural to see the follow-up results.

Whether a weapon is good or not, whether it is effective or not, there is nothing more testable than actual combat.

The Tang Dynasty cavalry repelled muskets, even if the muskets of the Tang Dynasty were worthy of the name of the world's top level, the army and navy highly valued this five-year flintlock gun, but they still couldn't make the Tang Dynasty cavalry like it. The reason for firing a gun is very simple. This thing is not suitable for them to use, and it is useless for them in actual combat.

But the assault battalion is different!

I saw that when they charged, many soldiers of the assault battalion held a pistol in their hands in addition to their shields, and the waist knife was inserted obliquely at their waists.

Of course, not everyone picked up the pistol, some people didn't, they just charged up with the waist knife in their hands!

When the soldiers of the assault battalion jumped out of the ditch and rushed towards the ruins of the city wall more than 30 meters away, the hundreds of soldiers of the Ming army who served as strategic reserves on the inside of the city wall were also running fast towards the city wall. Rushing to the ruins of the city wall.

If you look down from the sky at this time, you will find that the Tang army's assault battalion and the Ming army's trapping camp are all rushing towards the same section of the ruins of the city wall!

The foremost soldiers among them soon arrived under the ruins of the city wall, and then began to climb with their hands and feet, trying to climb to the top at the fastest speed, and then occupy the top of the ruins to gain a commanding tactical advantage.

What's interesting is that although there are only a few hundred people on both sides, they are basically heavy armored units, and they are all mixed and matched!

Among the five or six hundred people in the Ming army, at least one hundred people are wearing heavy armor. In recent years, the heavy armored troops in the Ming army are basically double armor!

It is a cotton iron armor inside, and an iron armor such as chain mail on the outside. Otherwise, the protection is too poor, and the guns of the Datang Army are too sharp. This cotton iron armor with good bulletproof ability is absolutely indispensable. However, these heavy armored troops usually need to fight with the heavy armored infantry of the Datang Army, such as the assault battalion. Cotton and iron armor alone cannot stop other people's steel waist knives, so iron armor such as chain armor must also be worn.

However, there are not many heavy armored troops in double armor, even in the superintendent, there is no other reason, one word: expensive!

There are only a few hundred heavy armored infantry in double armor in Susong City, and they are basically used as the strategic core of the strategic reserve team to resist the Datang Army assault battalion.

In addition to these more than 100 heavy armored infantry, the others are basically all in cotton and iron armor. Since the Datang Army began to add iron sheets to the cotton armor to increase the protection ability, the Ming army learned it in a blink of an eye.

They can't learn plate armor, but cotton iron armor can still be used. The Ming army in other places is hard to say, but Zhang Yue's superintendent here ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is still equipped with more cotton iron armor.

The armored rate of the superintendent can probably be maintained at about 30%, that is, 30 of the 100 soldiers are wearing armor.

And among these thirty people wearing armor, including wearing leather armor, various types of iron armor, cotton armor, cotton iron armor and so on.

The most is the cotton iron armor, and the overall proportion can account for more than half of all the armors of the supervisor. Why is there so much? Because the Ming army is not stupid, they will refit the original cotton armor and fill it with a few pieces of iron. After a simple modification, a piece of cotton armor can basically be called cotton iron armor.

The more than 500 people who supervise the standard are all wearing armor, and except for the armor, the weapons in other aspects are surprisingly consistent with the Tang Army!

Heavy-armored infantrymen, take steel waist knives!

The light-armored infantrymen, some carried spears, some carried knives, some carried muskets, and a few hand grenades could be seen on the waists of a few Ming soldiers. I thought it was the assault battalion of the Datang Army.

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