Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty.

There was a special exercise today.

Generals such as Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, Niu Jinda and others attended the observation in person.

The cavalry department is a very important category in the military academy.

Many Wuxun's children are studying in the Cavalry Department, and correspondingly, many resources of the Military Academy are also tilting towards the Cavalry Department.

This cannot be simply understood as those generals using their power for personal gain.

But in this era, the importance of cavalry is unquestionable.

Before machine guns appeared, cavalry was almost invincible.

Although various methods such as heavy infantry or spear formation can also be used to restrain the cavalry's charge.

But if you want to defeat the cavalry or encircle and suppress the cavalry, you basically have to rely on the cavalry.

Otherwise, how could your two-legged run faster than your four-legged run?

As long as the war is not going well, they will immediately run away, and you can only stare at me.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty did not look like the Song Dynasty, and had a very sufficient source of war horses, so the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty had always been very powerful.

Even if it faces the Hu people's troops, no soldier will be afraid of a direct impact of one to one.

"His Highness of the King of Chu, the armored cavalry had appeared during the Three Kingdoms period, and the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties developed relatively maturely. It can be said that they have their unique advantages, but they are not suitable for our Tang Dynasty.

I think the exercise today is not very meaningful."

As the governor of the Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty and the number one in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing naturally knew the tactics of cavalry.

If Li Kuan hadn't strongly suggested, he would have disagreed with conducting today's military exercises.

After all, every exercise has its special purpose.

But today's exercise, in Li Jing's opinion, is of little significance.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the main threat has come from the north.

Facing the Hu people who came and went, the advantages of the Arctic Cavalry were not obvious at all.

Therefore, there are no established armored cavalry nowadays.

"Duke of Wei, in the past, heavy armored cavalry had a single role and a pure purpose, which was to defeat and eliminate the enemy in plains and field battles and play its unique charge role.

However, once you lose your speed and fall into a melee, the heavy armored cavalry will lose its greatest advantage, that is, its impact force. If you are in the enemy formation, you will easily be pulled down by enemies from all directions and killed.

However, the set of armor prepared by the Logistics Department of our Military Academy for heavy armored cavalry is very different from the previous ones.

Although the personnel and the war horses were covered with armor, each clip was very thin and connected like a chain mail, and its weight was at least half lighter than the transmission armor."

Li Kuan naturally needs to explain Li Jing’s doubts.

In fact, this should be a confusion among many generals.

The heavy armored cavalry is not bad, but the cost-effectiveness is too low.

The Tang Dynasty does not need such an army now.

"Kun'er is right. All of this new type of armor is stamped with light and thin steel, and connected in series with steel wire, weighing only more than 30% of the traditional armor.

Wearing such armor will have a certain impact on your skills, but considering its protective ability, it is still worth trying."

Cheng Yaojin was the head of the logistics department and Li Kuan's father-in-law, so he naturally stood up and added.

"It's a mule or a horse, just pull it out and you'll know it. Pharmacist, know the rituals, why don't we let them start?"

Qin Qiong also expressed his opinions on the side.

Obviously, although his words seemed fair, they tend to support Li Kuan.

There is no way, who made Li Kuan his life savior?

"Okay, then start!"

Li Jing picked up the telescope, looked at the exercise teams that were ready on both sides of the school grounds, and issued instructions.

The 100-man team wearing heavy armor is obviously composed of students from the Cavalry Department of the Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty.

However, as the opponent of the exercise, the ordinary cavalry's phalanx were composed of five hundred elite Hu soldiers from the twelve guards.

This is mainly Turkic people and Xueyantu people.

Li Kuan would make such a request because the Tang Dynasty now all the people they need to deal with are Hu people. The more realistic scenes will definitely have better results.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be made public, that is, Li Kuan feels that it is difficult to avoid casualties in such an exercise.

Although there will be no heavy casualties, it is normal to get rid of dozens of people.

After all, once the heavy cavalry starts to charge, it is difficult to stop easily.

When the two armies are in the strife, once they are dismissed, they are likely to become minced meat.

This is why so many generals attend today's exercise.

Because even the Royal Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty rarely has the opportunity to conduct such a particularly practical exercise throughout the year.

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"General Qibi, the strength ratio between the two sides in this exercise is too unbalanced, right? Not only are the number of students from this group of military academy only 100, but they are 20% of the other party, and these people have never been on the battlefield.

His Highness the King of Chu and his friends are so confident that these hundred people can beat our five hundred elite soldiers?"

In the schoolyard, Qibing Heli personally led the 500 Hu soldiers from Party B to prepare for the charge.

"I have only read the heavy armored cavalry in history books and have not experienced it personally. It is hard to say what their strength is now. However, whether it is a man or a horse, the other party is wearing armor. Once they rush to us, the referee of the exercise will immediately sentence a large number of our soldiers to death.

By then, if five hundred of us lose to one hundred, it would be embarrassing.”

After all, exercises are exercises, not those kind of life-and-death wars.

So even if everyone can accept casualties, they will not really let one party kill and injure the other party at will.

For heavy armored cavalry, once they rush into the opponent's army, as long as they are not caught in the melee, they will win.

Of course, when rushing to the front, the opponent will definitely not allow the heavy armored cavalry to advance.

Various bows and arrows will shoot towards heavy armored cavalry that are not fast enough like rain.

Qibi Heli and the others didn't think that these heavily armored cavalry could really block all the bows and arrows.

"It's impossible. If all our five hundred soldiers cannot defeat one hundred heavily armored cavalry, then their power will be a little exaggerated. You know, we are not the kind of temporary herders who are summoned on the grassland."

"Dong!Dong!Dong!"

At this moment, the sound of moving drums sounded on the school ground.

The teams that were originally prohibited from being on both ends of the school ground immediately started to move.

Things on the battlefield can be recorded in words, and may be written in colorful ways.

But the actual action took place in a very short time.

Soon, the heavily armored cavalry entered the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.

Party B, who was not short of bows and arrows, immediately shot out a rain of arrows, directly covering a team of heavy armored cavalry of 100 people.

Dingdang!

Dingdang!

These heavily armored cavalry held spears, and none of them paid attention to the rain of arrows falling from the sky.

The new armor did not disappoint them.

Although there were a few screams in the team, the charge was not at all messy.

A few shots into the middle of the armor will not kill anyone.

The students in the heavy armored cavalry team knew that once they were in Rome, they would become minced meat.

So even if you get an arrow on your body, you will grit your teeth and continue to charge with the military formation.

This made the face of Qi Bi Heli on the opposite side change drastically.

Three rounds of rain have been shot here.

According to the cavalry fighting on the grassland, three-wheeled shooting is almost the limit.

The next distance is a close connection.

However, although there was not one soldier on his side, he was shocked by the armor formation formed by a hundred people on the opposite side.

It was really that momentum of moving forward and the scene of unscathed arrow rain brought too much shock to everyone.

Fortunately, as Hu people, they were selected into the twelve guards, and they were all elite warriors.

I was just a little stunned. How long did everyone draw out their waist swords and prepare to face the impact of the heavy armored cavalry?

"Pharmacist, the effect of this new armor seems to be better than we thought."

In the telescope, Qin Qiong focused on the movements in the school grounds.
To be continued...