At the same time, because of the artillery bombardment, the cavalry of the two sides in the middle of the enemy formation finally disengaged, and in the face of the dense and striding cavalry, the enemy commander decisively gave the order to release the arrows. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The lethality of the bow and arrow is almost negligible against galloping and sprinting cavalry, but it is effective against cavalry with small and large strides. The cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion discharged this dense formation, which resembled an infantry formation, was completely a target for arrows in the eyes of the enemy, and could even charge after shooting arrows.

The sharp arrows that broke through the air fell in the cavalry formation of the volunteer battalion with a fierce wind, but to the surprise of the enemy general, the cavalry formation of the volunteer battalion did not panic in the slightest, no one went to avoid the rain of arrows, and no one turned their horses to avoid the attack range of the arrows, and the cavalry formation was still arranged in a dense formation to advance.

You must know that although the hit rate of long-range arrows is very low, the rain of arrows falling from the sky is still a great deterrent to soldiers and horses, generally speaking, knights will dodge when they see the rain of arrows, even the elite troops will be flustered, not to mention the cavalry that has always been known for its mobility and flexibility.

According to the convention, when the cavalry encounters a rain of arrows during the charge, they will generally turn their horses around, and they will be clever in riding and dexterous will make various evasive actions on horseback to avoid the rain of arrows.

However, the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion in front of him was obviously completely different from the usual cavalry.

The first round of arrows did not affect the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion in the slightest, and as they strode forward, they began to take aim with their muskets flat in both hands, as ordered. In this dense queue of horses squeezing the horses side by side, discipline is paramount, individual riding skills are no longer important, and a single rider does not need to pull the reins, as long as he is close to his teammates on either side, the horses will carry him forward.

In this way, each cavalry can release two hands to raise their guns to shoot, such as the cavalry queue marching on the wall does not need too high gallop speed, which will disrupt the formation and affect the impact force, so a neat stride charge is the most suitable.

The second round of arrows from the enemy fell in time to the dense cavalry formation. The cavalry remained undaunted and bravely marched forward in the face of the rain of arrows, but unfortunately, bravery could not avoid injury. More than a dozen soldiers in the first row were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and the comrades who were close to the two ignored them at all, holding their guns intently, maintaining the speed of their horses and continuing to move forward.

Discipline: No military order shall be moved, violators will be beheaded!

The uncontrolled war horse shook its head and tail and clashed left and right, but it was held by the cavalry on both sides and had rare freedom, so it could only spread its hooves and gallop forward, and soon broke away from the cavalry formation and scurried around the battlefield in front.

Shi Zuo, who was in charge of the formation in the center of the left and right sides, immediately raised his musket and shouted the order to "gather". The cavalry adjusted the direction of the horses on the back of the horses that were striding forward, and the route of running straight became slightly oblique, gathering towards the position of Shizo in the middle, and within three steps, the cavalry formation became a dense formation of cavalry shoulder to shoulder, and the horses were head to head.

The chief in charge of the reserve team immediately ordered the replacement knights to fill the vacant seats, and the replacement knights approached the first row of left and right knights from the wide passage reserved between the left and right horses, and the dense cavalry formation quickly returned to its original state.

The cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion wore a large-edged iron helmet of the Ming Army and wore a cuirass, so the bow and arrow could not be fatal, and the cavalry who landed on the ground was not shot and did not die, but the fall from the horse was not light, and more than a dozen people were groaning in pain on the ground with arrows stuck in their bodies.

There were only twenty paces (about 30 meters) between the front and rear rows, and the second row of cavalry quickly rushed to the vicinity of the arrow-hitter, and in this case, the two would be trampled into flesh by the surging horses.

However, such worries were unnecessary, and the two Shizo in charge of the formation in the center of the second row, on the left and right, shouted the order to "dodge" when they were five paces away from the two.

The cavalry, which was galloping towards them, immediately lowered their horse speed and left the formation, falling behind the cavalry formation, although there were some gaps left in the center of the cavalry formation, but the formation was not affected.

More than a dozen departed members stepped lightly over their comrades on the ground, took advantage of the acceleration of the war horse to quickly keep up with the cavalry formation, made up for both sides of the small formation, and after adjusting a few steps, they were completely integrated into the overall rhythm of the cavalry formation, and the cavalry formation returned to normal.

The cavalry in the rear did the same, and the shot on the ground remained unharmed until the knight in charge of the assault rescued them safely.

Soon the cavalry came to a distance of fifty paces from the enemy, and a second wave of arrows struck again, this time with more cavalry on their horses. But the cavalry formation was still not chaotic, still maintaining a large pace of stride, still maintaining a dense formation in the order to gather.

The results of the camp's daily rigorous training have finally been perfectly demonstrated.

You must know that when the line cavalry formation trains on weekdays, the arrow rain is much more intensive, and almost everyone has the painful experience of 'falling off the horse with an arrow' every day.

The arrows in the training are not real iron arrows, but bone arrows for hunting, although they cannot shoot through the cuirass, but they are real military bows, the impact is real, and the pain of falling to the ground after falling off the horse is even more real.

After two rounds of arrow rain, the first row of 1,000 cavalry had already broken into the range of twenty paces, and at this time the order to raise the gun and shoot was conveyed, seventy to twenty paces, and it would not take ten seconds to reach it in the stride of the war horse, at this time the enemy had put away his bow and arrows, turned the horse's head and turned the horse's head to the rear, because this point was completely impossible for the war horse to run.

"Shoot!"

Two hundred households gave the order at the same time.

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

The order was conveyed by many officers one after another, and suddenly the crackling guns rang out, and the shots on the twenty paces were almost missed, and the whirling enemy cavalry screamed and overturned a large area, and the front of the first row of the line cavalry formation suddenly became a large open field.

"Scattered!"

In the face of the chaotic enemy, the two hundred households in the first line did not choose to pursue, but retreated strictly according to the established tactics. Immediately, the line of cavalry arrays, which were originally as dense as iron walls, rushed towards the reserved passages between the two sides of the array and the various small formations like scattered sand.

From an orderly cavalry formation to a scattered straggler sand scrambling to flee for their lives, it only took a command in time, and the speed of the transformation is really jaw-dropping!

The front of the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion was two miles wide, but the thickness was only three rows, and there were only twenty paces between each row, and it only took ten seconds to gallop from the front of the formation to the back of the formation, and the chaotic enemy cavalry did not react at all.

Even before they could react, the second horizontal column of 1,000 men had already rushed up, and due to the rout of the enemy at the front, they advanced another twenty or thirty paces before approaching and firing.

At this time, the first platoon of cavalry was already a hundred paces behind the formation, and formed a dense line formation again according to the original formation. Under Chang Ping's command, the servant army quickly stepped forward and replaced the empty guns in the hands of the cavalry with loaded muskets. By the time the second platoon came back, the cavalry of the first platoon had already driven their horses and ran happily.

Wu Ding, the commander-in-chief of the whole army, constantly issued orders through binoculars and feedback from the heralds, and revised the formation, "Wang Zhuang's artillery fire will be extended to both sides, so as to ensure that the enemy cavalry is completely unable to reinforce the front, so that the enemy in front of the line will become an isolated island on the battlefield!"

"Let Batu's light cavalry follow closely, and don't give the enemy any chance to take advantage of it!

"Let Ma Lie stop the defeated Chahan Buhua! Want to explain? After the battle, let him go to the adults!"

When the third row finished firing, and the first row went up again, it was only three minutes later. In these three minutes of line round shooting, except for the thirty or fifty unlucky cavalrymen in the first row, who were wounded by feather arrows, no one fell off their horses, and no one was killed.

Chang Wei breathed a sigh of relief after the success of the first round of line rounds, "The excellent steppe nomadic riders were defeated head-on by the Han cavalry who were not good at riding in the battle of riding against horseman, which shows that cavalry tactics have entered a new era, a new era in which discipline is more important than horsemanship!" (To be continued. )