Chapter 3 The Cavalry of Professional Origin
This time to trade, it's not just a simple trade in goods. If goods can be traded, can war and politics be traded?
It's just that I didn't expect that there was no impermeable wall in the world, and I was finally discovered by Takayanagi's Mo family cavalry and trapped here.
Outside the car array.
The captive comforted Shirahoshi, who was slightly excited because he was about to participate in the battle, and touched the gunpowder iron thunder in his saddle bag, naturally remembering the first time he came into contact with this thing.
In the year his father captured Yue Wang Phong in the Battle of Lushui, he was already eight years old and had already begun to attend school in the village community.
The "gentleman" who taught them was actually not much older than him, but after four or five years of study, he learned to read and count, and he was forcibly arranged to go to various village schools as a gentleman.
At that time, in the morning, I needed to learn words, counting, and natural knowledge.
In the afternoon, most of them are in formation, and the veterans of the village community teach them to march in a procession, holding small sticks as short spears and practicing basic fighting skills.
At that time, the family horse had just given birth to a foal, and his father went out to fight, and no one cared about him, and when his uncle went to drink the horse and let the horse go, he climbed on the horse's back, and fell several times, but he was not afraid.
At that time, the requirement was to receive four years of basic education, and it is said that in addition to the cost of the teacher, the Mo family invested the most money in education.
Most of the people who went to school before him were forced to become Mr. Teachers. Even if they only know five or six hundred words, and can count within a thousand, most of them are forcibly assigned to the village school.
The year Mo Zhai died, Shu Prisoner remembered that he had just graduated. At that time, the system was strict, and if the graduated children knew less than 400 words, the family would be fined money and food.
He had excellent grades in the village community at that time, after all, his uncle Shu Qinghou had been studying with Shi very early on, and when he returned home during the New Year's Festival, he would talk about many things he had never heard of, and sometimes he would teach him something.
In this way, I went to middle school, and middle school is no longer mandatory, but I can go if I want to, and I don't go if I don't want to go. However, the best group of people in the village community school are still forced to go, and the Mo family will provide money, accommodation, and weekday expenses.
At that time, there was a theory that the grain of the Song nobles and the rice of the Yue nobles were deceived by the Mo family's workshop and provided for the huge untouchable student group in Sishang.
Shu Prisoner's grades in the village community school are good, but compared to the children in the whole Sishang, they are not so good. The family was enough for him to finish middle school, and his grades were okay, and he studied in middle school for another three years.
Three years is a division, those who learn better, will enter a better school, continue to learn those rather esoteric knowledge, in that kind of school, the appropriate disciples will often come to teach, and sometimes the right person himself will come to teach a few times.
Those who are not the top will be arranged to different schools to learn some skills that "live in peace and benefit the world".
Harvesters, carpenters, blacksmiths, ironmakers, stonemasons, potters, doctors, teachers...... All kinds of different classifications are in order to be able to have some skills in the future and do better than the parents. Most of them are part-time workers and half-readers, and they start learning skills early on the farm or in various workshops.
The prisoner chose to enter the military academy and became the third cadet of the Sishang Basic Military Academy, originally he wanted to learn artillery, but the results of the geometry nine were not very good, so he could only go to the cavalry department.
The life of the military academy is extremely strict, and after learning such things as drills, queues, and geometry, a series of "moral" classes are also conducted.
It was in the military academy that he first came into contact with an iron thunder that could blow people up, although the musket had already been touched.
This thing had appeared in the battlefield of the world's strife before he was born, and Shangqiu was the place where this thing first appeared on the battlefield.
At that time, it would also cause the Chu people to panic and think that it was thunder.
But after he was born, weapons such as gunpowder have long been commonplace in Sishang, especially in Peixian, he is a new generation who grew up in an environment of "gunpowder age", and has never felt that there is any ghost power in it.
In his eyes, this is a murderous weapon. It's the same way his fathers knew bows, crossbows, or spears when they were his age.
Take it for granted and take it for granted. Including the Mohist idea of equality and love, just like this gunpowder, there is no need to talk about how equality was introduced among the younger generation, they will naturally feel that equality has been taken for granted since ancient times.
In Takayanagi, these gunpowders were also commonly used. Those forts built often clashed with the tribes of Lin Hu Loufu, and those specially shaped forts with cannons, muskets and iron mines, often more than 200 people, could hold the attack of thousands of people.
Even those strong men in the team have seen it, and many have used it.
The Iron Thunder here has undergone a slight improvement, and it is still round in shape, but it will make a ring rope out of leather, which is easier to throw when throwing.
A few musket explosions called the prisoner back from his stunned state, and he shook his shoulders, which were a little uncomfortable from wearing three layers of leather armor, stepped onto his horse, and wrapped the fire rope around his waist.
The seven men behind him also got on their horses and began to move slowly towards the flank of the smoke-obscured car formation.
The white star under his crotch was already accustomed to charging, feeling the movements of his master, and gracefully taking small steps to warm up before charging with all his might.
Shu Prisoner Qi looked at the smoke-obscured car formation, and had carefully observed a bush before, which was only ten paces away from the car formation, and it was the best position to throw iron thunder into the car formation.
Therefore, this requires excellent riding skills, and even more so, it requires excellent riding skills to lead the team in front, and once you rush up and want to turn back in the direction, it is difficult to control.
If you get close, you may rush to the edge of the car and be killed by the people inside. If it's far away, it may not be able to be thrown into it.
He carefully calculated the distance, took out an iron mine from the saddle bag with his right hand, and the people behind him did the same, and then put his legs between the horse's belly, and his ass seemed to be sitting on the saddle, and the bronze spurs under his feet pricked the mount.
The horses, which had been holding down their speed, waited for the most exciting sting on the battlefield, and spread their hooves and galloped forward.
The captive lit the fuse on the gunpowder mine, and was ready to turn his horse when he was still more than twenty steps away from the bush.
The previous acceleration angle determined that the horse needed a distance when turning, which was something he had in the cavalry science of the military academy, in fact, those who had been riding horses all year round also knew that they relied on their own experience of escaping death, and he relied on the experience that could be taught after summing up.
Like an eerie curve, near the bush was the closest point to the caravan, and after that point, the horses would move away as if they had been thrown away.
The distance was getting closer and closer, Shu Prisoner Mi hooked the stirrup with his left foot, leaned to the right, held the leather rope of Tie Lei tightly in his hand, bent his body into a bow shape to the right, and threw the Tie Lei in his hand with a loud cry with the help of the power of his waist.
Now that it has been thrown, it is not necessary to look any further, and with the help of the deflection of the center, pull the reins of the horse and begin to turn.
"Enough for them."
Shu Prisoner Mi thought to himself, more than 200 people gathered in the car formation, just in time for the explosion of iron thunder.
Explosions rang out behind him, and he fled from the range of his bow and arrows. Rein in your horses, regroup, and if the enemy doesn't disperse, continue to throw in this roundabout way.
However, when he reined in his horse and gathered the seven men behind him to make another attempt, he found that there were already people running out of the smoke, scattered and running in all directions, at least sixty or seventy people.
Looking into the distance, it was found that the cavalry of the company had caught up and launched a surprise attack.
Shu Prisoner Mi thought to himself, it seems that there is no need to throw it away, we use the car formation, that is because we have our own artillery, and Lin Hu does not have gunpowder, you only know the fur and learn from us, isn't it enough to cut your feet?
He gave an order to pursue his comrades behind him, his eyes fixed on the fleeing man in front of him, drew his iron sword, turned his horse's head and chased after him.
The man heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and glanced back as he ran, his eyes full of horror, but he didn't know what to do, so he could only turn around and continue running.
"An infantry without a formation is like a slaughtered lamb in front of the cavalry."
This is a sentence that the prisoner learned in the military academy, he rode forward, quietly turned the horse's head, and marched to the right side of the fleeing man.
This is instinct in a fight, cavalry fighting, the position of the right arm is very important. In a normal engagement, the opposing side is facing each other with their own superior arms.
However, if you can't highlight the horse's speed in a chaotic battle, you need to rely on your own riding skills, and use the way of blocking the enemy's horse's head and squeezing the opponent's horse with the horse to seize the dominant arm position. Side-by-side battles, martial arts are equal, and whoever can grab the left side wins.
In the pursuit, naturally there is no need to think too much, but the instinct honed in the battle still allows the prisoner to occupy the position on the right side.
The moment the horse's head reached the man's body, the captive stooped down and slashed his sword through the man's neck, as if he were cutting a twig at home.
The slight shock made him curse secretly, and said in his heart: "Don't cut the bones and break the blade, in the end, you are still unskilled in using it......"
The thought flashed, and he subconsciously looked back at the person who was slashed, who was twitching on the ground, thinking that he would not be able to live.
"Poor man. Why did you die? ”
whispered, feeling unworthy for the man who was still convulsing and had not completely lost his breath. The two men had never met, but they were killing each other, and luckily he knew why he was killing, but the person who was killed did not know why he died.
Turning around, he didn't care about the blood on the sword, and went after the next one.
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The smoke cleared, the car array was destroyed, and the more than 70 people who remained inside and did not flee chose to surrender, most of those who ran out before were hacked to death, and the rest also surrendered.
The captive wiped his sword, took control of his horse, and jumped in from the rope connection between the carriages.
Several men of the company tied up those who had surrendered and opened a carriage in which piles of iron stirrups were exposed, as well as some arrowheads and swords.
These things were all goods that the Hu people urgently needed, and they could not be bought at all in the Takayanagi market, and this amount alone was enough to sentence these people to death.