The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 154 Zhou Ping’s Suggestion

Liu Tai saw Zhou Ping entering the military camp together and said:

"Zizheng, over the past few days, I have asked you to collect ideas on how to deal with cavalry among the lower-level warriors. Have you collected them all?"

"All collected!" Zhou Ping saluted Liu Tai and asked someone to put the collected books in front of Liu Tai.

Zhou Ping said, "After fighting with the Xianbei cavalry and the Red Blood Cavalry, I have summarized and refined the experience of the frontline warriors. Please review it with the county magistrate. In addition, each summary is supported by cases recorded in military history."

"Yeah!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "You talk while I watch."

To be honest, it was not Liu Tai who proposed the idea of ​​the army summarizing battlefield experience. It was because military historians were dispatched to the front line to record the merits of each war. These meritorious deeds were naturally known to other military historians during the review process.

Then, when an army has achieved a meritorious service, certain military historians will point to other armies that have achieved meritorious service and say, "Who and so-and-so received meritorious service for what reason? I cover my face every time I go to a meeting!" and the like.

Therefore, in addition to recording meritorious deeds, gradually military history was sometimes responsible for secretly learning the skills of other troops.

After Liu Tai learned about it, he encouraged a post-war summary, and finally brought these post-war summaries to Zhou Ping to refine them as much as possible.

Eventually it became a learning rule that accelerated the growth of the soldiers under his command.

Zhou Ping nodded and said, "Although there are many examples, there are only three in total.

The first one requires the establishment of defensive facilities to avoid frontal impact from the cavalry.

Regardless of whether the Wugang chariot or the cooperation between the horse and the iron hook is to reduce the frontal impact of the cavalry as much as possible.

Secondly, it is best to have a long-range attack method with sufficient distance.

There are two most terrifying things about the cavalry. One is their mobility, and the other is the impact of their real life-threatening charge.

Having enough long-range means to suppress them can contain their impact on our army to the greatest extent.

As for the third point, the soldiers themselves cannot waver in the face of the cavalry. If they feel fear in their hearts and want to escape, they will definitely die.

Only with the intention to fight to the death with the other party can you finally survive.

And this requires the soldiers to have very high quality, so that they can achieve foot-to-horse combat. "

When Liu Tai heard Zhou Ping's words, he nodded and said, "In the final analysis, the mobility of the cavalry is too advantageous. Only riding against cavalry is the most correct way.

But we don’t have a horse farm, so we can only ride on foot.

If I fight against Wang Jun or Shi Le next time, I'm afraid I won't have the same luck as I did against Qi Hong last time. It will just be a head-to-head confrontation, but thank you for the hard work! "

Liu Tai knew very well that because his commanding ability gradually reached his limit, he gradually handed over the battlefield command to Zhou Ping and let him be responsible for the command of the frontal battlefield.

And he became more of a spiritual symbol on the battlefield to stabilize overall morale.

Or, when a situation arises that even Zhou Ping cannot save, he will decisively lead his soldiers to charge, raising the morale of the entire army to the extreme, using the military situation to defeat everything, either defeating the opponent or killing himself!
"It is Ping's wish to die for the Duke!" Zhou Ping said seriously after hearing Liu Tai's words,
"Since ancient times, it is not that there has been no way to use foot against cavalry in tactics. We have summarized the soldiers' ideas and solved them one by one, and implemented them step by step. Ping Ye has thought about it for a while and came up with some humble opinions. I hope that the military ax will be corrected. .”

"Zizheng, tell me in detail!" Liu Tai said seriously after hearing Zhou Ping's words.

Zhou Ping didn't hesitate at all and said seriously, "After summarizing the opinions of the soldiers, my suggestion is that if we encounter cavalry, we should try our best to turn the war from an encounter to a positional battle!"

"What's the specifics?" Liu Tai asked directly after hearing Zhou Ping's words.

Zhou Ping said: "In fact, I feel that the larger the frontal battlefield, the smaller the role played by the cavalry.

Because the army can help each other as much as possible to avoid being taken advantage of by the cavalry through cooperation among the soldiers.

Even if the army attacks a place where the enemy must be rescued, even though the cavalry has the ability to travel thousands of miles a day, in the end they need to fight on the battlefield we have set!

So we need two different sets of tactics to deal with cavalry, one is large-scale combat, and the other is accidental encounters! "

"Let's talk about large-scale combat first!" Liu Tai thought for a while and said, "Leave the encounter to Zhao An, don't worry."

"In large-scale battles, apart from normal soldiers, the most important things are two things. One is ultra-long-range attack power. For example, General Liu's giant crossbow directly suppressed the opponent's volley, forcing the opponent to either evacuate or simply retreat. Able to charge headlong.

Therefore, if you want to attack them, you must bring this kind of weapon that suppresses them at a distance! "

"This kind of thing is not easy to carry. You are talking about a crossbow..." Liu Tai said thoughtfully, "And the crossbows must be in the first row. Even on a large-scale battlefield, this kind of thing is probably not easy to use. !”

"Just raise the bottom platform!" Zhou Ping said, "Crossbows are difficult to use, and a very important reason is that if a large-scale melee occurs and the soldiers are strangled together, the crossbows will not be able to function at all.

But if you find a way to raise the launching point of the crossbow on the battlefield and shoot from a high position, then few soldiers can withstand the continuous shooting of the crossbow.

At least when General Liu Ming dealt with the Xianbei cavalry, this tactic worked very well.

The cavalry's height advantage will become their biggest disadvantage at this time!

I think we can make a fuss about this! "

"You mean, build a platform directly on the battlefield, or even push the crossbow onto the platform and shoot from a high position?" Liu Tai thought thoughtfully after hearing Zhou Ping's words.

"How is it possible to build a platform on the battlefield?" Zhou Ping shook his head and said, "What I mean is, can you increase the height of the Wugang vehicle, build a powerful crossbow on the Wugang vehicle, and then let the soldiers control it on it?"

"This kind of Wugang chariot is too complex. It will not be easy to mass-produce it. Moreover, it will also be a big trouble for soldiers to re-wind the string on a chaotic battlefield!" Liu Tai thought for a while and said ,
“I think it’s better to build a platform directly on the battlefield and then push the crossbow up. It might be more convenient to use.

You can even configure some special pulleys on it to speed up the dispatch of these crossbows on the platform! "

"Then... how to build a platform on a chaotic battlefield?" Zhou Ping looked at Liu Tai with confusion in his eyes. "I'll ask Jie Fei about this to see if his skills are up to par.

After all, there are still people and ballistas on this platform, and the load-bearing needs to be taken into consideration.

In this case, an engineering team will be needed for construction on the battlefield..." Liu Tai couldn't help but patted Zhou Ping on the shoulder and said, "I can think of this, Zizheng, you are really a genius! "

"Yes...really?" Zhou Ping felt confused at this moment, because almost instinctively, he felt that what he said to Liu Tai and what Liu Tai said to him were completely two different things.

But Liu Tai himself knew that his praise of Zhou Ping was not just about thinking of this tactic.

But after Zhou Ping's summary, the war began to gradually develop from the original two-dimensional war model to a three-dimensional war model.

Generally speaking, why wars in the wild are so much easier than siege wars? One of the important reasons is that most encounters are two-dimensional battles, while siege wars are three-dimensional battles.

Although Zhou Ping's idea was rough, after sorting out his experience, he transformed two-dimensional warfare into three-dimensional warfare. The role of cavalry was weakened in three-dimensional warfare.

In ancient China, there was actually such a tactic. Liu Yu relied on his naval forces to form a Moon Formation, and defeated the enemy with his feet and cavalry. To some extent, he also used a three-dimensional system to attack a two-dimensional system, directly defeating the opponent. rout.

In ancient times, there were few tactical summaries in this area, because the ancient fighting method was cold weapon fighting, and a three-dimensional strike required a specific environment.

Either an ambush or a city defense. This attack mode is hidden in the history books. At least in most battles, it is difficult to artificially create such a three-dimensional attack battlefield.

But Liu Tai is different. Liu Tai comes from modern times. For Liu Tai, Dongfeng Express is always the first way to attack in his mind.

Therefore, while most generals in this era still focused on the two-dimensional combat system, Liu Tai's thinking was three-dimensional.

Even if you want to achieve Liu Tai's tactical conditions in this era, it is still very demanding, and Liu Tai needs to take the initiative to use specific equipment to make up for it.

But when Liu Tai thought of this and tried to move his offensive methods closer to the tactical direction of the 21st century, it was the advanced combat mode to attack the backward combat mode. From a tactical point of view, it formed a dimensionality reduction attack on the tactical system of this era. .

Seeing that Liu Tai seemed to be awakened, Zhou Ping didn't say much, "Instead, he continued, after the long-range strike is resolved, we must solve another thing, that is, we must resist the cavalry charge.

I went to count the damage to the horses, chains, and even the spears in the hands of the soldiers charged by the cavalry.

I found that these are indeed good tools to resist the charge of horses, but if the cavalry charges desperately, they will be destroyed.

Moreover, these resisting horses are too big, so it is easy to ambush them in advance, but if you want to take them with you during the march, it will be more difficult to quickly build them for war on the battlefield.

Therefore, after reviewing the game, I found that our last victory actually had a lot of luck in it.

This makes me think about whether there can be some method to replace the horse-rejection and allow the soldiers to quickly arrange the battlefield on the battlefield! "

"What did you think of?" Liu Tai asked curiously after hearing Zhou Ping's words.

"The wooden giant shield made a group of warriors completely abandon their armor and carry giant two-handed shields that could cover their entire body!" Zhou Ping said,

"The giant shield can be embedded into the ground, and at the same time, the giant shield can be supported by a spear. It can also be embedded into the ground to form a simple resistance to horses as quickly as possible, thereby building a defensive and counterattack positional warfare system, at least before the opponent rushes in. , build it!”

"This is a direction that can be considered!" Liu Tai touched his chin and said, "However, since it is embedded in the ground and it is difficult to pull it out, how should it be moved on the battlefield?"

"General, what do you mean, if you use foot to ride against horse, you still want to push back?" Zhou Ping was shocked when he heard Liu Tai's idea.

"If you don't push back, you will be killed by the cavalry sooner or later!" Liu Tai said, "What you mean is that the infantry equipment needs to be lightweight so that it can be easily carried by the soldiers, and at the same time it needs to be heavy so that it is inconvenient for the opponent's cavalry to break through, thus strengthening the front!"

"General, do you think Jie Fei can do it?" Zhou Ping couldn't help but asked after hearing Liu Tai's words.

At this moment, even Zhou Ping felt that his request was a bit too much.

There is no way, as long as it is the equipment that the military wants, it will always be both necessary and necessary. Otherwise, how can we say that military technology is always the most advanced technology of an organization?

"I don't know if Jiefei can be realized, but since you brought it up, how to solve it is his problem!"

Liu Tai said calmly, "It's you, what if you can't solve these problems!"

"Then we can only continue to train the soldiers and gamble with their lives!" Zhou Ping took a deep breath and said to Liu Tai, "I believe that even if our soldiers are afraid of the cavalry, they dare to stab the enemy to the death. One shot!"

"I know!" Liu Tai nodded after hearing Zhou Ping's words, "I know what you mean, let's strengthen the troops' training of Wugang vehicles first. Each infantry army is equipped with a certain number of Wugang vehicles for frontal combat.

The cavalry generally does not attack head-on, but will find opportunities to attack from behind or from the flanks. It is impossible for the Wugang chariot to dispatch the Wugang chariot from the front.
Therefore, the method you have come up with to reduce the impact of cavalry penetration from the flanks is still very valuable.

For the large shield and spear you want, I will ask Jie Fei to come over and design this weapon based on your ideas for the soldiers to try! "

"Thank you, Duke!" Zhou Ping expressed his immense gratitude to Liu Tai when he heard that his opinion was adopted.

"Continue training, it's up to you to direct the front!" Liu Tai encouraged Zhou Ping by patting him on the shoulder.

"Follow the order!" Zhou Ping replied readily to Liu Tai.

After saying goodbye to Zhou Ping, Liu Tai did not leave the school grounds, but came to take Liu Xia to the military camp.

Because after he defeated the Xianbei cavalry, he replenished as much of the plundered cavalry as possible to Liu Xia, allowing Liu Xia to lead the cavalry for training again.

But Liu Tai knew very well that even if Liu Xia's cavalry trained for a lifetime, they might not be able to catch up with Qi Hong's Red Blood Cavalry.

The reason is very simple. Qi Hong is willing to damage the horses during training, but if Liu Xia's horses are knocked or touched during training, he is afraid that he will feel heartbroken to death.

Under such circumstances, how can it be possible to train the cavalry well? Under such circumstances, how can it be better than the Red Blood Cavalry!
Liu Tai looked at Liu Xia's training and finally sighed, "It seems that the Bailiang Steel that Jie Fei made can only be used on the cavalry commanded by Liu Xia first. After all, those who can fight against the cavalry can only He could be a cavalryman!"

(End of this chapter)