At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 141 Cuirassiers of Lord Sun
In doing so, Lord Sun basically gave the cuirassiers no room to move in.

Anyway, when the time comes for the decisive battle, the cuirassiers can just charge forward and fight with the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.

If someone retreats, he will be beaten to death.

It can be said that this cavalry is a high-level cannon fodder unit.

In addition to wearing a simple breastplate, the cavalry's weapon basically only has a special cavalry straight sword.

During the battle, they held sharp swords and charged intensively. Relying on the speed of the cavalry, they used straight swords to break through the armor, and one sword penetrated the armor of the Mongolian cavalry.

This is how cuirassiers fought.

Their personal martial arts basically do not require training, and they have no time to train at all.

Therefore, when fighting alone with the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, Sun Guozhu's cavalry would die miserably.

But just like archers and musketeers.

Archers require years of training, while musketeers can be trained in three months.

However, the two sides were shooting at each other, and the musketeers were able to compete with the archers.

Faced with the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who had learned horsemanship and bow and arrow since childhood.

The cuirassiers responded with a dense wall charge.

Just like a master facing a dense array of spears.

What can the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry with strong personal martial arts do in front of a dense cavalry formation?

This is not a one-on-one fight or a small-scale pick-up battle.

In front of the densely packed cavalry swords, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry had no chance to display their personal martial arts and could only make the most uneconomical exchange.

Of course, in theory, cuirassiers need to be equipped with some long-range weapons in addition to cavalry swords.

On the one hand, it can prevent the few elite cavalry of the Manchu Qing from flying kites.

On the other hand, it can also deal with infantry.

It's just that nowadays, Sun Guozhu doesn't have the energy to make things like pistols and gunshots.

After all, he wanted to equip not only more than 1 cuirassiers, but an entire army of [-].

It is not easy just to make these more than 1 crude versions of breastplates and special cavalry straight swords.

Then there is extra production capacity and energy to develop and put into production pistols?
And if the cuirassiers are directly equipped with matchlock guns.

The weight lost by the breastplate was added back again!
If it affects the impact speed of the cuirassiers, this will be fatal!

Originally, the Yunnan horses and Daxi horses in the hands of Sun Guozhu were of poor quality.

Although a large number of Mongolian horses equipped by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were actually not very explosive.

But after all, the quality of the Qing army's horses was still better than that of Lord Sun.

Therefore, Lord Sun did not dare to equip the cuirassiers with matchlocks.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong due to reduced mobility, Lord Sun's cavalry game will be completely ruined.

Aiming at the possible kite-flying problem of a small number of elite cavalrymen of the Qing army.

Lord Sun had no choice but to select a group of elite cavalry and mix them into the cuirassiers.

Just like adding a firefly to a team of allied steamed buns, they are less powerless when encountering a tiger.

If the elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty dared to take off their armor and fly kites, the fireflies among the cuirassiers could be shot directly with hard bows.

Of course, this problem is not that serious.Although in theory, the Qing army's elite white-armored soldiers took off their armor.

Relying on the quality of the war horse, it is possible to fly the cuirassier kite.

But Lord Sun's cuirassiers would not appear until the decisive battle!

In a hurry, where do we, the Qing Dynasty, go to deal with Sun Guozhu's strategy of cheating?
As for the lack of long-range weapons, a cavalry sword alone cannot deal with infantry...

If you can't deal with the infantry, wouldn't it be enough if you don't deal with the infantry?

It is true that the Qing infantry formed a square formation with their spears and muskets, and the cuirassiers holding cavalry swords could only stare.

But the cannon fodder cavalry is also a cavalry after all!If you don't take the initiative to fight, what else can the Qing infantry do?
It’s impossible to disperse the phalanx and chase you, right?
Therefore, although Sun Guozhu's cuirassiers have many flaws, they are basically not major problems.

During the decisive battle, just launch a wall charge and kill them.

As for whether the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry of the Qing army wore heavy armor and were chased and stabbed to death by cuirassiers in light armor, or whether they faced the cuirassiers head-on and exchanged them.

No matter what happens, Lord Sun will never lose!

The cuirassiers who have been trained in a few months are exchanged for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who have been training hard for more than ten years. He must have earned it with blood!

"The king asked the cavalry in black not to practice bows and horses, but to practice battle formations. This is truly a unique strategy!"

Ma Zhaoxi, the Minister of War, spoke slowly, with a hint of reverence in his words.

Sun Kewang smiled slightly.

"For thousands of years, elites have emphasized personal martial arts, but things have changed now. No matter how strong your personal martial arts is, it will seem very insignificant in front of the battle formation of the army."

"And Gu's cuirassiers, who use battle formations to make up for their lack of individual bows and horses, will definitely be able to kill the majesty of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry."

Before the Ming Dynasty, the individual martial arts of soldiers was extremely important, but after the Ming Dynasty, teamwork and coordinated operations in the army were the general trend.

No matter how hard an archer practices, he will still be the same when someone shoots him down.

Of course, this does not mean that the physical fitness of individual soldiers is not important, but it means that the focus of the army's victory has changed.

The past days of generals galloping across the battlefield are gone forever. Organization and coordination among armies are the key to victory. Soldiers have also shifted from fully strengthening their personal physical fitness to leaning more toward teamwork.

"The King's opinion has made me enlightened!" There was a constant flow of flattery around King Sun.

"Okay, Nian Ce, you have to solve the problem of the new recruits' ammunition as soon as possible."

"Although it is easy to practice as a musketeer, we still need to let Gu's new recruits shoot a few more muskets." Sun Kewang waved his hand.

"My Lord, please rest assured that the output of medicines from various workshops in Guangxi is increasing day by day. They will be kept until the end of the year so that the new recruits can be properly trained!"

Sun Kewang nodded slightly. In workshops across Guangxi, the output of guns, armor, swords, and gunpowder was rising steadily.

Although until now, even the cuirassiers, they are not fully equipped.

During training, you need to take turns wearing breastplates and cavalry swords.

But overall, the future is promising.

The combination of the craftsmen in Foshan, the iron mines in Luoding and other places, and Guiyang's hometown of Sun Guozhu, plus the strong organizational capabilities of the Sixth Administrative Department, are enough to complete the equipment of his [-] new troops before the end of the year.

"Although judging from the current output of the workshop, the equipment for Gu's [-]-strong army is enough, but next year's Battle of Huguang is related to the world's plans, and we must go all out!"

Sun Kewang waved his hand and said: "Arrange the 30 men coming from Annan to the mines as soon as possible. We must open up as many iron mines as possible and make more armor to prepare for the Tatars' hard bows!"

There are many iron ore deposits in Guangdong, including Luoding, Nanxiong, Shaozhou, Lianshan, Huaiji and other places.

The quality of Luoding's ore ranks first in Guangdong and even the country.

(End of this chapter)