Zhao Junsheng nodded, beat his horse and walked up to the soldiers and said: "Just now, Bendu looked at your split-style cavalry and archery tactical drills, and it was generally good, but there are still many flaws and shortcomings!" Pontus will first say a few points: first, in the process of high-speed galloping, the formation is still inevitably scattered; Second, there is still a problem with the angle of the arrow, the angle at the beginning should be diagonally upward, and then gradually reduce the angle of the shot until finally the surface shot, because the enemy is already very close to you at this time, how can you shoot the enemy if you don't shoot horizontally? Thirdly, when the team is divided into two, the separation is not coherent and fast enough, and the people in the rear cannot rush to the position of the comrades in front and turn again, but see that the opponent has turned to one side, you must turn immediately, or the soldiers on the other side will be bumped into by the enemy before they have time to separate and turn! ”

"You must understand that the enemy on the opposite side will not stand still for you to shoot, they are rushing towards you, so you have to divide it coherently, quickly, cleanly and completely, and before the enemy rushes over, the last row of men has completely separated from it, and they have rushed through the gap between you, but they have been devastated by your bows and arrows, and you have surrounded them from the left and right flanks!"

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he ordered Bai Jinguang, the commander of the generational commander: "Divide everyone into two parts for confrontation drills, one part will rush towards our army as the enemy, and the other part will launch split-type cavalry tactics in formation, and then carry out peripheral attacks to harass and drag down the enemy's formation!" ”

"Yes, Totong!" Bai Jinguan held his fists and immediately ordered the team to be divided into two, the first five hundred cavalry went to the opposite distance to act as the enemy, and the remaining five hundred cavalry stayed in place to prepare to launch a split cavalry tactic.

"Let's get started!" Zhao Junsheng saw that the two teams had been prepared, and immediately ordered to start a confrontation drill.

All of them were replaced with training arrows, which were blunt-tipped arrows and wrapped in strips of cloth, which allowed for confrontation drills and minimized the chance of casualties.

Bai Jinguang personally led the team to practice split tactics, he waved his hand, took the lead in trotting forward, and the cavalry behind quickly followed one row after another, the whole team looked very neat, the war horses were all walking on the same horse legs, with the same pace, the bodies of the knights on horseback rose and fell with the horses running, and the movements were the same.

If you want not to make mistakes, the only way is to practice hard, and after years of hard practice, you can form instincts and be uniform.

Just on the opposite side, the "enemy army" rushed over, Bai Jinguang and the team had already run to the highest speed, he estimated the distance between the two sides, and immediately waved the flag, the team quickly separated from the middle to the left and right, and the cavalry turned while releasing arrows.

This time the process of splitting is very good, coherent, fast, clean and thorough, it looks extremely comfortable, and a large number of arrows keep shooting at the rushing enemy formation, the enemy and are releasing arrows, there are also "casualties" on this side, but there is no doubt that most of the arrows shot by the enemy fell in the open space, because their arrows were fired in front, and our army in front had split at this time, and the enemy abandoned his bow and was ready to draw his sword in close combat, but found that there was no opponent in front of him, and their opponents ran to the periphery of both wings to surround them, A large number of arrows were fired from the left and right flanks, causing a lot of "casualties"

The remaining enemy troops discovered this situation and killed the left and right sides respectively, but our cavalry on both flanks did not engage them, and resolutely implemented the principle that the enemy pursued us and retreated, and the enemy retreated and we pursued.

The enemy's formation was completely scattered, and weakness appeared, and if a melee cavalry at this time rushed through the flaws in the enemy's formation to divide and encircle, it would definitely be able to crush the enemy.

Next, the two teams swapped roles and continued the drill, which lasted several times.

Zhao Junsheng was satisfied with it and ordered the team to assemble, and when the team was assembled, he stepped forward and said loudly: "The split cavalry and archery tactics will be practiced here today, and we must practice diligently every day in the future, and we must not slack off!" Okay, then, Pontus teaches a new tactic, the official name of this tactic is Parthian tactic, we also call it the turning arrow, because it was first used by the Parthians in the West, so it is called Parthian tactic! ”

After speaking, Zhao Junsheng ordered the front half of the cavalry to ride fifty paces, and when they stopped, let them turn around and turn face to face with the other half of the cavalry, Zhao Junsheng and Bai Jinguang beat their horses and ran to the open space in the middle of the team.

"Twenty of you on horseback, two in two rows at the front to face me!"

Under Zhao Junsheng's arrangement, twenty cavalrymen were arranged in two neat rows.

"Attention everyone, Pontus is now demonstrating the Turning Back Arrow for you!"

After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he beat his horse and ran to a distance of a stone's throw from the twenty cavalrymen, and he took out his longbow and made an offensive gesture at them.

Twenty cavalrymen immediately rushed towards Zhao Junsheng in two formations, and Zhao Junsheng quickly fled forward on horseback, and while he fled forward with his horse, he turned back from time to time to shoot arrows at the twenty cavalrymen who were pursuing him.

The twenty cavalrymen also immediately shot arrows at him, but because Zhao Junsheng was out of their range, all the arrows missed, and none of the arrows hit him, but he could shoot them, his horse was fast, and he always kept a distance from them, and they could never catch up with him.

In this way, these cavalrymen who pursued him soon because they were shot a few people and messed up the formation, one by one desperately hit the horses and pursued, everyone was about to go crazy but they couldn't catch up, and the last one was killed by Zhao Junsheng one after another.

The cavalrymen on both sides stared at each other in disbelief.

After the demonstration, Zhao Junsheng ordered everyone to assemble, and he rode a horse and stood in front of the team and asked loudly, "Have you seen the demonstration just now?" ”

All the cavalry responded with a loud voice: "See! ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately asked: "This is the strategy of turning back arrows!" Who can tell Pontus why they were shot and killed by Pontus one after another and were helpless? ”

A cavalryman in the front row raised his hand and shouted: "Because the horses of the capital are fast, they can't catch up!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and then pointed to another cavalryman, who immediately said: "Because they all shoot accurately, shoot far!" ”

"Very well said!" Zhao Junsheng praised the statements of the two men, "If you want to successfully perform the strategy of turning arrows, you must meet two requirements: first, you must ensure your own high-speed maneuver advantage!" That is, I can catch up with the enemy, but the enemy cannot catch up with me; Second, the long-range advantage! That is, I can shoot at the other side, but the other party can't shoot me! ”

"Generally speaking, the Turning Back Arrow tactic is basically only used to deal with heavy troops, because heavy troops are easy to get tired, and they can only be beaten passively when they run out of physical strength! But as long as your horse is faster and has more stamina than others, as long as your bow and arrow range is longer than others, you can use the Turning Arrow tactic! However, the speed and endurance of our horses are basically the same as those of other cavalry and Rouran cavalry in our country, and the bows and arrows used are not much different in range. If the opponent dispatches heavy cavalry or hoplites, turning back is the sharpest tactic against heavy cavalry and hoplites! ”

As long as the advantage of high-speed mobility and long-range superiority is maintained, the tactics of turning back arrows are basically incomprehensible, the power of bows and arrows in large-scale and high-intensive use is very powerful, even if the defense is strong heavy armor can not be stopped, there are always weak points will be shot, once the formation of the enemy heavy group is chaotic, you can send your own heavy cavalry to line up in a dense formation to charge the formation, defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, and the rest is to harvest the head.

Next, Zhao Junsheng arranged for the cavalry to practice the tactics of turning back arrows, and he asked the 1,000 cavalry to be arranged in ten rows in units of 100 people, with more than 100 horsemen in each row, and practiced one row after another.

"Stay in formation, control the speed!" Zhao Junsheng rode a horse and stood aside and shouted loudly.

In practice, there are constantly cavalry who cannot control their speed and rush to the front or lag behind, so that a row of cavalry can not be in a straight line, and the formation has become crooked, the purpose of maintaining the formation is nothing more than to control the distance from the enemy, if someone in a row is too far back or too far forward, the lagging man is likely to enter the range of the enemy, and the cavalry who is too far forward is likely to be beyond the range of their own bows.

The advent of stirrups made the technique of turning back arrows less technical, and also lowered the threshold for using this tactic, in the era when stirrups did not appear, the light cavalry of the Rest Empire could control the war horse with only two knees, and free up their hands to open the bow and turn back to shoot arrows, which not all light cavalry can do.

The Mongol cavalry's conquest of the world was also a repetition of the tactics of turning back arrows, but the Mongol cavalry had a formidable military discipline, which made this army invincible in the world.

The next day, Zhao Junsheng arranged the training tasks of the army and the labor tasks of the people, so he took Li Bao and more than a dozen personal soldiers to the Jinling camp on horseback.

When he arrived outside the Marshal's Gate, Zhao Junsheng asked the guards to report it, and he was soon led in.

"Humble to meet the prince!"

"Hahaha, Junsheng, please get up!" Tuoba Jian stepped forward and helped Zhao Junsheng up as he spoke.

Zhao Junsheng got up and hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, Lord Wang!" ”

"Come, sit down and talk!"

Zhao Junsheng was also not polite, and agreed to sit down on the pony next to him.

Tuoba Jian asked about the situation of the defense line from Nantianbao to Da'e Mountain: "What is the defensive strength of Nantianbao and Da'e Mountain defense line? What is the situation of the Rouran Army entrenched in Shengle City? Have they sent troops to harass them recently? ”

Zhao Junsheng clenched his fists and replied: "The garrisons of Da'e Mountain and Tunqi Mountain have 600 people, and the remaining soldiers and horses are all concentrated in Nantian Fort. The subordinates have sent spies to infiltrate Shengle City, and learned the news of Shengle City, the Rouran army has 5,000 people in Shengle City, and the others have withdrawn to Mo Nan! They haven't sent anyone to attack since they left last year, and it's been quiet for months! ”

Tuoba Jian's eyebrows jumped: "There are only six hundred garrisons in Tunqi Mountain and Da'e Mountain, are the troops too weak?" ”

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