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Chapter 488 How to Train Heavy Riding

There are more than 100 monthly tickets, which is two additional updates. You will definitely make up after 2 pm. Now I will continue to ask for monthly tickets!

"Tough..."

A bowstring sounded, and 200 sharp arrows broke out into the air and flew towards the Dangxiang cavalry thirty or forty steps away. The Mingwang Guards cavalry who shot this arrow did not look at the results of the battle, turned their horses and ran away!

Yang Po'er kept watching the battle ahead and shouted when she saw this scene: "King, go quickly!"

Chen Qianyi shouted: "Master, come with me!" and then rode his horse forward to lead the way.

Chen Dexing did not hesitate and immediately drove the horse to follow. Yang Po'er and more than ten other guards covered Chen Dexing. A team of people spread their hooves on the battlefield and ran wildly. Behind them were 200 guard archers responsible for cover. Like the lancers, they were wearing carefully crafted steel armor and had almost invulnerable defense. However, they did not have long spears, and their weapons were two bows and a large horizontal sword. The two bows were a step bow and a horse bow. They were both the best composite bows, carefully crafted by bow craftsmen who came from Lin'an.

These archers themselves are the best archers in the Northern Ming army. Most of them are soldiers of the original Eight Banners. After being promoted to Chinese rank and were granted sirens for their merits, they were transferred to the guard cavalry. In addition to guarding Ming Wang, they also had a very special task, which was to play Mongolian cavalry in military exercises to test the army's ability to fight cavalry and shooting!

So these archers can imitate the tactics of Mongolian cavalry. Now, under Chen Qianyi's arrangement, they use Mongolian tactics to deal with the Dangxiang people.

The tactics designed by Chen Qianyi are very simple, which is to let Chen Dexing maneuver (escape) on the battlefield, and the archers guard him and fight and walk, using Mongolian-style "kite flying" tactics and chasing the enemy. At the same time, the lancers kept attacking the enemy's cavalry and smash them little by little.

"The first, third, and fourth hundred men, go and block the Ming army with long spears!"

"Fifth, the 600th team surrounded Chen Thief from left and right!"

"The rest will continue to chase someone! Never let Chen Zhe run away!"

Li Heng also made adjustments at the first time, with seven hundred-man teams, including two hundred-man teams that were just beaten by the Ming army's lances, were responsible for pursuing them. The other three hundred-man teams went to fight with the Ming army's lances who followed the Dangxiang cavalry.

Amid his roar, more than 900 Dangxiang cavalry immediately divided four teams, blocking, surrounding, and chasing continued to chase with their shields. Such tactics seemed to have soon seen the effect, because Chen Dexing could not run straight on the battlefield, and the situation on the battlefield was too complicated. It was not a place to run. Although most of the Mongolians retreated, many people remained on the battlefield and did not leave. From time to time, small-scale battles broke out between the Tang army, the Ming army and the Mongolians who had no time to escape.

For Chen Dexing, the safest place now is Gaojialou, Yuzhuang and Xiaolizhuang, the three strongholds of the Ming army on the battlefield. Now there are artillery, baggage troops, three division commands, thousands of left-behind infantry, and two or three thousand injured soldiers. As long as they meet with them, Li Yanguo will mobilize tens of thousands of people to attack, and Chen Dexing will have the confidence to defeat them.

"Turn right!" Chen Dexing rode on his horse and shouted at Chen Qianyi, who was leading the way, "Let's go to Yuzhuang!"

"Get orders!" Chen Qian roared angrily, like a tiger going down the mountain, thrusting a seven-foot rifle, clamping the horse's belly with both legs. He pulled the reins with his left hand, and then rushed out to face the Dangxiang cavalry who were surrounding him from the right!

Yang Po'er also raised her gun and rode her horse in front of Chen Dexing. The lead of the fire-breathing tube of the pear blossom gun in her hand had been lit, and a spark was slowly sent to the fire door of the bamboo tube. Chen Dexing just smiled faintly and danced a horse spear to follow him.

I am a general with outstanding martial arts skills in my life. It is simply a delusion to rely on these few people to take my life!

Just as Chen Dexing was about to kill the enemy with his own hands again and showed his might as well, Chen Qianyi, who was riding a horse and rushing in front, roared like thunder, and a seven-foot horse spear stabbed out.

The Dangxiang cavalry that was facing him was not to be outdone, and also stabbed him with a horse gun.

This battle is not as exciting as it is in later movies and TV. You can fight for three hundred rounds, but you can win and lose with one blow!

The one who compares is who stabs the gun accurately and harshly! And if you use a carriage rifle with no elasticity on the wooden pole, you must let go immediately after stabbing the spear into the enemy's body immediately. Otherwise, the gun rod will transmit the power generated by the high-speed collision to the wrist of the gun, and this hand will be useless!

In a blink of an eye, Chen Qianyi's spear had already been removed. The Knight Dangxiang on the opposite side turned over and fell off the horse, and a spear was inserted into his chest. He had lost his life before he could even scream!

Chen Qianyi rushed forward without even being able to see his head. At the same time, he pulled out a large horizontal sword of steel more than three feet long, laying on the horse's back, pointing forward with a long sword, and rushing forward at another Dangxiang cavalry.

There is also knowledge in using a knife in a horse battle. Cutting and stabbing are not very useful. If you don’t pay attention to the sword, you have to take off your hands! Of course, riding on a horse is another matter. Slashing condescendingly will not cause too much impact on your wrist. However, swinging a knife at a cavalry running towards the high speed is really a difficult task. Most of the time your sword has not been cut off, and the opponent’s spear has already stabbed it!

So Chen Qianyi made a trick to use a knife to cut the body of the enemy or the enemy's crotch. With the help of a long sword moving at high speed, just a single stroke is enough to cause great damage to the target's body. In a blink of an eye, the leather armor on the thigh of a party cavalry was cut open, and the edge of the sword was cut across the flesh and blood, and blood was immediately spurted out, accompanied by a heart-wrenching scream!

The knights following Chen Qianyi also crashed into the Dangxiang cavalry. The sound of weapons entering the flesh, the muffled sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, the dying wail of the wounded, and the neighing of the war horses after being injured.

The horse spear in Chen Dexing's hand danced and stabbed out, and suddenly hit the Dangxiang cavalry on the way. He had a good body in this life, with a strong body and a strong body, and used a horse spear that was 100 feet long. This length was already as good as the spear of the steel armored spear soldiers!

The appearance of this spear is almost the same as the spear, but the price is more than a hundred times more expensive! And it is often unpriced, because the long rod of the horse spear is not an ordinary wooden rod, but uses the pulverized wood used for bows as the main trunk, peeled into bamboo strips of uniform thickness, soaked it repeatedly in oil for a year, and dried in a shade for several months. Then glued it into a thick handful of paint, and wrap the outer layer with hemp rope. When the hemp rope is dry, apply raw paint and wrap it with kudzu cloth. Wrap it layer by layer until it is cut with a knife, and the spear rod makes a metal sound, but it keeps not cracking. This is the case.

This creates a spear rod not only soft and elastic, but also has a relatively light weight. A two-meter-long spear is about the same as a seven or eight-foot-foot rifle, so the knight can hold the spear in one hand to rush into the formation. The elasticity of the spear rod ensures that the spear can be bent after stabbing the target to release the impact generated by the high-speed impact, and will not hurt the knight's wrist.

This long, elastic and very light horse lance is simply a powerful weapon for cavalry. When the opponent's seven-foot horse rifle was not enough to reach Chen Dexing, it was swept to the ground by a two-foot horse lance. This horse lance was five feet longer than a horse rifle!

If you want to find a similar cavalry in Europe, it is probably the Polish Bird-Feed Knight (Winged Cavalry) who uses a hollow spear. However, the Polish Bird-Feed Knight's hollow spear is a one-time spear and is broken after being pierced to release the impact force. The horse lance can be reused, so it is naturally a higher-grade horse weapon.

However, such a good horse war weapon is extremely difficult to obtain. Not to mention how much a spear costs, even the production process and time determine that the horse spear is a military noble weapon! It is not something that ordinary soldiers can equip it. Moreover, it is not a real skill that has been tempered since childhood. It can only be found by a farmer to practice it for a few months, so it is better to just find a cheap horse spear that you throw after using it.

If Chen Dexing could really create three thousand steel armored cavalry who could use horse lances to rush into the formation, and then cooperate with bronze cannons, steel armored spearmen and Eight Banners light cavalry to drive Kublai out of the Central Plains, and then pacify the Tang and destroy the Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, a powerful heavy cavalry is not so easy to develop. It is necessary to have countless generals or military nobles like Chen Dexing, who practiced martial arts skills in small numbers. The reason why there was room for the popularity of horse spears in the early Tang Dynasty was because of the existence of the Longxun Group. The Long above and the Duke below were the military, which formed the powerful force in the early Tang Dynasty.

Chen Dexing can now use the horse lance because he was from the general. This horse lance is an old antique handed down from his grandfather Chen Hushan. For the general, the horse lance, good bow and precious sword are all for food, and can also be passed down from generation to generation. It is not possible to do it without care.

Moreover, he was also trained as a general since he was a child, and he practiced a combination of formation fighting skills. In the current Ming army, his battle fighting skills can definitely be ranked among the top three! Only Guo Kan and Zhang Jiu can compare. He roared and spread his spear.

When the Dangxiang Tartar faced, he poked the horse down when the spear was shaking. With the elasticity of the spear, Chen Dexing pulled the spear out of the enemy's body and then threw it hard, hitting the other Dangxiang Tartar in front of him. With a loud bang, the Dangxiang Tartar was swept off the horse by a spear! Immediately afterwards, Chen Dexing used the power of the long spear to rebound and took the spear back to circle, shook the reins with his left hand and held the spear, controlling the horse with only two legs. At the same time, he danced the long spear together and greeted the Dangxiang Tartar that was rushing towards him. In a flash, a blood hole as big as a bowl on his face opened!

Li Heng, who was chasing behind, was stunned when he saw this scene from afar.

Is this person Chen Dexing? How can he be so brave? His ability to fight and his shooting skills on the fly are simply the best in the three armies! (To be continued.)
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