Watching the team competition was very exciting, and Marin watched hundreds of soldiers in armor stab each other with spears without spearheads, and he was very excited, as if he had returned to the time when he watched the big scene of hundreds of people slashing each other in his previous life.

However, to be honest, although the scene of the old boy is intense, there is no discipline at all, it is a brawl between middle school students, which is more intense at most.

And the group beatings of the veterans under Marin are different, they are more cautious. Moreover, they use spears, and the action is not to chop, but to stab. At most, add some flirtatious movements, mainly used to block the spears stabbed by the enemy.

However, when it comes to lethality, a stab can be much more lethal than a slash. Stabbing and slashing people are completely two different concepts. Slashing people is scary and bloody. However, if you don't hit the fatal part, you are injured and hospitalized. Even if you can't stab the heart, if you stab the artery, it will cause excessive blood loss and lead to death.

So, the thugs slashed people with machetes, and the killers stabbed people with daggers. Therefore, killers kill people, which is also called assassination, not hacking.

If you let Hongxing's gang of old boys come over, even if there are a thousand, they can't beat the spearmen of this company. First of all, the spears of the veterans under Marin, which stabbed the enemy, not wounded. Moreover, the 6-meter spear is much longer than the machetes of the Hongxing gangsters. Before the other party got close, there were a few more blood holes on his body, how could he fight?

Of course, this is on the battlefield in the field. The spear is long, which is conducive to a head-to-head duel. But if you go to the city alleys of Xiangjiang, it will be a different situation. In a small space, a 6-meter spear is difficult to turn, and in the face of a machete, it may not be able to win. Of course, if you change to a sword and shield soldier, you can also beat the gangsters out of the sky.

The duel between the spearmen is the most exciting, while the duel between the musketeers is much less interesting. After all, it was more like target practice than fighting, and there was no blood at all. But on the real battlefield, the barrels of these muskets are sprayed with death, and the armor is useless......

And in the cavalry arena, because there is no duel, it looks more like a fancy equestrian competition. Unlike equestrian competitions, riders need to stab their spears into dangling grass balls......

Because Marin himself did not like bulky cavalry guns, Marin's cavalry, when charging, basically used spears, a bit similar to the Eastern cavalry.

However, the disadvantage of using a spear was that the cavalry could not rush too fast. Because, if the cavalry rushes too fast, the impact force will be too strong, and the reaction force will be greater. If you use a hollow lance, you can also use the recoil by breaking off the lance. With a spear, it is not easy to break like a hollow riding spear. Therefore, when the Asian cavalry used spears to charge, there were two solutions - one was to reduce the speed of the horse to avoid too much recoil; The second is to choose to let go and discard the spear when it is really unbearable.

So, the cavalry of the East, although they also liked to use spears when charging. However, they were also generally equipped with cavalry knives such as scimitars, so that after discarding the spears, they could draw their cavalry knives and continue the battle.

At the moment, the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate also used this method - the first to charge with spears. However, if the recoil force is too strong, the Crimean cavalry will abandon the spear and draw the scimitar instead to continue the fight.

Later, the Polish lancers in Napoleon's army mainly used spears and sabers. The spear was mainly used for the first charge and the assault of the infantry, and when storming the infantry, the lancers could be completely slowed down. Because, even if the speed is slowed down, the cavalry is very impactful against the infantry. Moreover, with full speed, the spear is not easy to get out of hand.

Now, Marin's cavalry is using spears for the time being, and slowing down the overall charge.

Marlin now figured out why the Wall Charge slowed down. In addition to the need to maintain a neat formation, the fear of rushing too fast and causing excessive recoil force is also an important reason.

However, after slowing down, the impact of the cavalry really dropped a lot......

In the face of the Plate Knight, the impact of the Lancers is not enough. Moreover, because the Plate Knight has too high protection, it is difficult for the spear to pierce. What's more, the Plate Knight itself has a strong impact power. After rushing each other, the spears of the lancers could not be kept in their hands. And if they let go, the lancers will definitely not be able to defeat the knights......

That's why Marin hopes so much to go to the East and find a way to make the Oriental horse lance to make up for the weakness of the lancer weapon. Because it can bend to cast energy, it can be reused. Unlike the hollow cavalry of the lancers, it is easy to break when it rushes, and if it is broken, it will be scrapped, and you need to go back to replace the cavalry gun.

And if Marin's lancers have a lance that is not easy to break, it will be powerful. If the opponent's cavalry spear is broken, he has to go back to change his weapon, and the horse lance of the Marlin lancer is not broken, so it is completely possible to follow the knight who is chasing and killing the opponent......

However, Marin is not sure that he can find the process of making horse lance in the East. And, even if they were found, many of those materials would not be available in Europe. In addition, the cost of horse lance is very high......

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, horse lances were generally only available in Jiangmen families. Ordinary people can't afford to use a horse lance at all. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin, the commanders of the most powerful Xuanjia Army under Li Shimin, were good at using horse lances. Moreover, they have a common identity - after the former imperial eunuchs......

As for the other commander of the Xuanjia Army, Wei Chi Gong, although he was born in an ordinary family, he was born in a blacksmith family and made iron in his early years. Ma Lin believes that when Wei Chigong was striking iron in his early years, he should have come into contact with horse lances, and he may have been a blacksmith specializing in making weapons. Otherwise, he will not be proficient in horse warfare and become an important general of the Xuanjia Army.

It's just that the cost of making the horse lance is too high. Not only are the materials expensive and hard to find, but the production process is very demanding and time-consuming. According to records, a horse lance not only consumes a lot of precious materials, but also has a production cycle of up to three years, and the qualified rate of finished products is low, and the cost is very amazing. A powerful feudal dynasty such as the Sui Dynasty only formed a total of 5,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry using horse lances. Its commander is Luo Yi. And Luo Yi, relying on these 5,000 armored horses, steadily held the northern frontier and hindered the southward movement of the Turkic cavalry. During the period of Emperor Wen of Sui, he also took the initiative to attack and beat the Turkic cavalry. And the Xuanjia cavalry in the early Tang Dynasty was actually only one or two thousand people.

It can be seen that the production cost of horse lance is too high, and the production cycle is too long. In future wars, it will definitely be large group battles, and the elite cavalry with a small amount of horse lance may have a great effect, or it may have a small effect, and it is difficult to explain clearly. Therefore, Ma Lin has begun to doubt the correctness of his original decision to go to Daming to find a way to make horse lances and form an elite cavalry unit using horse lances......

Just as Marin was deep in thought, beside him, the number one fierce general, Karn, the head of the bodyguard who used Dian Wei as a model, suddenly jumped up and shouted loudly. It seems that I saw the wonderful performance of a certain cavalryman......

"Good!" Karn jumped up on the carriage, and as he fell, the weight of the carriage was so heavy that it pressed the carriage down a few centimeters......

However, the carriage had springs on the supporting axles of all four wheels. So, although the carriage was crushed by Karn's jump a few centimeters, it quickly bounced back......

However, this kind of shock still woke up Marin and startled Marin......

But soon, Marin's eyes lit up......

"I'd love to find inspiration for a new type of riding gun instead of a horse lance......"

What did Marlin have to think about? From the deformation and recovery of the carriage just now, he thought about whether it was possible to install a spring on the barrel of the mounted gun to cushion the recoil force during the collision......

Tell the galloping cavalry that the impact must be amazing. If the tip of a rifle hits the target, it will definitely bring a huge recoil force.

However, if a spring is attached to the barrel of the gun, most of the recoil can be fully removed and the knight's arm can be avoided.

For specific methods, you can refer to the springs on the axle. Marin planned to install a spring with good elasticity in the handshake position of the rifle and put it on the barrel of the gun. The front section of the spring, with a joint set up, jams the spring.

Then, the knight's handle is placed with an iron pipe. Between the iron pipe and the joint, there is a spring that holds the barrel of the gun......

The front part of the cavalry spear imitates the horse lance of the East, and uses a half-cut sword model. This makes the cavalry gun not only used to stab the enemy, but also as a saber in the case of a stab, sweep, and cameo saber.

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When charging, the tip of the horse-lance type of the mounted spear first touches the enemy. Because of the high-speed charge of the cavalry, coupled with the fact that the tip of the spear of the horse lance type itself is very heavy, its kinetic energy must be very strong. Even if no one was holding a mounted spear, such a heavy lance head, relying on the inertial impact of high-speed movement alone, was enough to knock the enemy in contact with the tip of the spear off the horse or knock it into the air.

But such a strong kinetic energy will also bring a huge recoil force......

Without a buffer, the knight's arm would have been scrapped by the recoil force.

However, in the case of the spring-loaded lance designed by Marin, the knight held the steel sleeve behind the spring, and a powerful spring was separated from the lance.

When a huge recoil force is generated, it reaches the joint first, and then the recoil force is transferred to the spring. It is then transmitted to the steel casing by the spring.

However, because of the contraction of the spring, most of the recoil force can be removed. By the time the power is transmitted to the knight's arm, there is not much left, and the knight's arm cannot be abolished......

After much thought, Marin believes that this design is very reasonable. The only problem was that the spring that connected the steel casing to the rifle was very demanding.

At least, the craftsmen of this era can't make it. But Marin is different, before, he has asked Ada and other craftsmen to tinker with materials to make such a high-energy storage spring in addition to carbon spring steel. Then, tin plating the surface of the spring can ensure that the spring has both strong performance and full guarantee of no rust.

Of course, tin plating is not the best option. Because, if the tin plating layer is worn out, the spring will rust as well. But Marin has now sent people to search for the Bakkens lead-zinc mine on the island of Newfoundland. When the zinc ore is found and the zinc is smelted, then the galvanized spring will have a stronger anti-rust ability and be more durable.

Moreover, because only Marin has professional spring steel in the world, although it is the lowest carbon spring steel in the later industrial era, others can't make it. In this way, Marin not only solved the problem of the huge recoil power of the rifle, but also was able to achieve a monopoly in technology and materials. Even if others want to copy this kind of spring riding gun, there is no qualified spring......

Thinking of this, Marin laughed proudly. After laughing, he found a herald and asked him to return to China to convey Marin's order - to keep the secret of the manufacture of spring steel strictly secret. At the same time, the development of a high-energy storage spring for the sleeve of a spear was launched......

Once this is studied, Marin's cavalry can use the cavalry with springs to launch an assault on the enemy at high speed. When the speed is reduced, they can also hold the part of the spring system in their hands and use the spring lance as a normal spear......

The most important thing is that this cavalry gun is not a one-time one, and the cavalry can fully use this cavalry lance to fight continuously. In addition, the tip of the spear, which resembles a horse lance, allows the cavalry to use the lance as a saber with a long handle, and use the lance to sweep left and right to slash the enemy......