Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the cavalry was really finished.

The Western Army is located in Longyou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places.

There are not only horse breeding areas, but also channels for trading horses.

There are Qiang tribe, Dangxiang tribe and Tufan tribe.

Therefore, it is not difficult to maintain a small-scale cavalry organization.

By the Southern Song Dynasty, the entire northwest of the north was occupied, the horse administration in the north was completely lost, and the channels for obtaining war horses in the south were extremely shrinking.

Han Shizhong got a horse with a shoulder height of 1.5 meters. He said it was so rare that no one dared to own it, so he dedicated it to Emperor Gaozong and Zhao Gou.

The Western cavalry in front of them is not so shabby.

A tall horse, strong and brave.

But in Zhongshidao's eyes, it was the Western cavalry that kept falling.

The one who howled miserably after being hit by an arrow was the Western cavalry.

It was also the Western cavalry who were beaten and retreated step by step, and had to abandon their original advance route.

Strictly speaking, today's cavalry"587" battle is no longer a sentinel-cavalry battle.

More than ten thousand cavalrymen from both sides participated in the battle. The battlefield was full of swords and swords and arrows flying everywhere.

The fighting was extremely fierce.

The only difference from the war was that neither side sent follow-up troops. After all, light cavalry was light cavalry. It wanted to seize territory and restrict the enemy's cavalry, rather than requiring cavalry to fight.

The Song Army's cavalry rarely fought in large groups, and the loss of thousands of soldiers sent made Zhong Shidao extremely distressed.

Assembling the entire army of 40,000 cavalry to fight with the Liangshan cavalry, Zhong Shidao was reluctant to leave.

Even if he is willing to part with it, the general managers and managers are reluctant to part with it.

Moreover, it is not just the Western Army, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from the state armies and the cavalry from the Hebei Forbidden Army.

Liang Zhongshu would not agree, and Tong Guan would not use such a decisive style of play.

However, it has been confirmed that this side of the light cavalry battle has lost. The range of activities and reconnaissance range of the officers, soldiers and cavalry will be severely restricted, and the next situation may become worse and worse.

Once a disadvantage occurs, it is difficult to get it back.

But even if Zhong Shidao decided to fight now or engage in a cavalry battle, he couldn't make up his mind. too difficult.

The cavalry and dog fights ended like this... something absolutely unimaginable.

The groups of cavalry were still fighting, and the sounds of fighting, fighting, shouting, and howling continued.

More and more Western cavalrymen were injured, fell off their horses, and retreated.

The few fresh cavalry that had just come up quickly fell into a hard fight.

Obviously, Liangshan Army's advantages are all-round.

Their light crossbows can shoot farther than cavalry bows, and their accuracy is also much higher.

Although the cavalry of the Western Army is elite, the battlefield is extremely chaotic when shooting on horseback. People's will and spirit will be disturbed. It is difficult to shoot accurately as usual. In terms of strength, the cavalry bows are only two or three. Ten steps is the most, but the real lethality is only about ten steps away.

The cavalry bow is short and weak, has insufficient range, and is weak in breaking armor.

The real lethality can only occur within ten steps.

However, the short crossbows of the Liangshan Army cavalry can break armor within thirty steps.

If you hit the vital point, your life will be in danger.

Moreover, the Liangshan Army's armor was strong, and the protective capabilities of the front and rear breastplates were astonishingly high.

There are also samples of this type of armor, which are equally thick and solid at the front and back. After being fixed with a belt, the defense is very high.

The disadvantage is that it cannot be repaired after damage, and can only be recast.

This armor is definitely expensive, not only because it is expensive when it is cast, but also because it cannot be used again after it is damaged. Once the cost of this aspect is factored in, it is incredibly expensive.

Thinking about the fact that he is a great officer and general, known as the envoy and prime minister, and the general manager, but his family wealth is far inferior to that of a group of thieves...

Zhong Shidao's heart is full of bitterness.

The Song Army cavalry did not have such a short but extremely powerful riding crossbow.

Even Zhong Shidao saw that many Liangshan cavalry would retract and insert their short crossbows if the situation allowed after shooting five arrows.

If a battle is imminent, just throw the short crossbow away. (If you want to read cool novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

It’s painful to read the book Zhongshi Dao.

Which cavalryman in the Western Army dares to be so prodigal?

This is a crossbow, not a bow!

Even the bow is not cheap. The bow body is preferably made of flexible hardwood, and it is oiled and dried. The bow string also needs to be processed many times.

A bow costs between six months and two to three years, depending on how much the bow owner has invested.

A high-quality bow can be used for a long time if it is well maintained. It has the same value as a BMW, a famous gun, and a sword. Like the sword and gun, it can be passed down from generation to generation.

Crossbows are even more expensive.

It is not easy to build, not only in terms of wood and workmanship, there are strict requirements, but also in the copper or iron machine, including the arrow box and other supporting parts.

Ordinary people have no way to make a crossbow.

Just like armor, it was okay for the people of the Song Dynasty to hold swords and guns, and practice bow and arrow shooting. The court even encouraged...

But the crime of hiding armor and making crossbows is the same. Abandoning the city and beheading the capital is a lighter punishment.

Crossbows can fire continuously, and their accuracy is much better than that of bows. An ordinary person needs to practice for many years to become an elite archer, while crossbows can fire accurately in a few months at most.

The Song Army was able to hold back the nomadic cavalry because it had a large number of crossbowmen.

But now he was so pressed by the enemy's crossbow that he couldn't even lift his head.

He shot an arrow with insufficient power here, but he returned five arrows from the other side.[]

The number of cavalry on both sides was about the same, and Liangshan did not intend to expand the battlefield and form a decisive battle.

However, with a tacit understanding of similar numbers, the cavalry on both sides achieved completely different exchange ratios.

This is ten thousand cavalry, and the officers and soldiers are also Western cavalry.

This cannot be compared to the cavalry of ten knots.

It's not a head-on attack either.

Because the battlefield is huge, it is not a hedge. If it is a hedge, it is also a hedge with elite armored cavalry.

Zhong Shi Dao will not make the mistake of ten knots and hedge against the enemy's superior cavalry.

The cavalry of the Western Army is auxiliary.

But now the Qingqi dog fight is like this... It's almost one-sided. A group of them are beaten one by one. They can only try their best to speed up and pull, using space to delay the enemy's attack. However, the Qingqi's range of movement is very large. If this continues, Before dark falls, large areas will no longer be controlled by the Song Army's cavalry.

Next, a small number of reconnaissance riders can only observe the enemy's situation secretly, but cannot go deep.

The enemy camp, 3.3 main force, logistics, troops, armor... will all be shrouded in fog.

Zhong Shidao had a bitter look on his face.

Opposite Wang Lun was a little-known, unlike a veteran like him who had gained a great reputation with his forty years of battlefield career.

But this junior’s three-axe approach works!

Last time against Shijiedu, we first used cavalry to gain the upper hand, and then cut off Shijiedu's grain road.

Then the water camp was dispatched to cut off the water channel.

The defeated general and the hungry and thirsty rebels had no choice but to surrender.

This process was known to the Western Army before it was dispatched.

But I didn't expect that after the first contact and fight, the opponent still used the same routine...

As a result, the Western Army was still unable to deal with it!

There is no need to rush into the formation. In a battle between light cavalry and cavalry, the Western Army is no match!.