And Chechen returned to the account arranged by ah Yuqi for him. Ingrid and Fatima were already there waiting for him.
As soon as Chechen entered the tent, he sat in front of them: "ah Yuqi won''t let me go. He wants me to evaluate the Kalmyk cavalry tomorrow."
Ingrid listened and said anxiously, "Captain, don''t be fooled. If you beat ah Yuqi Taiji with a pistol today, he suspects you are a soldier. If you say something expert tomorrow, he will see the flaw."
Of course, Chechen also thought of this. So he said to Ingrid and Fatima, "of course I know that. So tomorrow I will pretend to be a layman. And you are my eyes. Go and see, seriously, and write down the tactics of the Kalmyk cavalry."
Ingrid and Fatima nodded yes.
After that, Chechen asked about Bridget.
Ingrid said now, "prijit, she''s fine. I went to her tent just now. She turned out her clothes ten years ago and said she would wear them back to Sweden. What''s the excitement? I''m afraid she won''t sleep tonight."
The next morning, Chechen was called up by ah Yuqi and brought to a new wooden platform. With the flag bearer waving the flag on the high platform, a thousand Kalmyk cavalry set out four combat units composed of five horizontal teams on the grassland early. The first two columns of each combat unit are cavalry with long guns, who shoulder the heavy task of charging; The last three columns are cavalry with bows and arrows. Each cavalry is widely separated from each other, and there is a certain interval between each combat unit.
These Kalmyk cavalry show the typical response of Mongolian cavalry in Genghis Khan''s era when they meet the enemy.
Their two combat units are in the front and the two units are in the back. The simulation is divided into a length about the width of the enemy''s lineup. Each of the rear rows remains parallel and the spacing between the front and rear is very wide. Then the cavalry pushed forward slowly. When the cavalry on the first brigade was not far away from the enemy and was about to contact, the latter two cavalry units accelerated to protrude from both sides, circuitously encircled the enemy''s rear army and cut off the enemy''s rear road. If this is not a drill but a real battle, it is often more unexpected than an ambush and can make it chaotic because it is a pre battle assault and if it is an army with weak will.
When the combat unit was about to contact the enemy, the light cavalry in the last three rows quickly rushed out from the first two rows of heavy cavalry. The cavalry armed with bows and arrows first kill the enemy and weaken morale with arrow rain from 20 meters away. Then, the cavalry with long guns began to accelerate. The archers left the front battlefield, kept in contact with the enemy with feather arrows on both wings, and kept the encirclement.
Kalmyk cavalry kept repeating these movements, and Chechen, who stood on the high platform with ah Yuqi, appropriately showed the surprise of a layman.
From time to time, Che Chen stood on tiptoe, or looked, or agreed, and even applauded.
He is not the one who is really observing today, but Fatima and Ingrid. He just needs to be a good "actor"
"This is really a rare strong army!" Chechen praised.
When ah Yuqi heard Chechen''s approval, he smiled and asked the question: how about the Kalmyk cavalry compared with the cavalry of the five countries?
This time, Chechen scratched his head and said, "ah Yuqi Taiji, I don''t know anything else, but compared with the winged cavalry of Poland and the cavalry of the kingdom of Sweden, your team doesn''t run as neatly as them."
"Not as neat as them?"
Ah Yuqi widened his eyes. He didn''t expect that Che Chen could see this thing. It''s really like a doorway that laymen can see.
"Yes, not as neat as them." Chechen pretended to be naive and said with his hand: "Your cavalry is too wide apart, and it''s still a straight line at the beginning of the charge, but slowly there are front and back, and in the end it''s basically a triangle. When the wing cavalry and the Swedish pistol cavalry charge, the whole straight line stands still, and each cavalry''s feet are close to his feet, straight as one, like one person. Oh, right. We call that kind of charge method wall charge."
After listening to Chechen''s words, ah Yuqi was silent. He thought that what Chechen said was a little better than when his Kalmyk cavalry charged, but he didn''t expect that what Chechen said was as straight as one.
The name of wall style charge appropriately reflects that it is as indestructible as a row of walls.
As an excellent knight and commander, ah Yuqi certainly knows how difficult it is to charge with dozens or even hundreds of cavalry in a uniform manner. This is not only a matter of horses and equipment, but also related to training and people. The best knights under ah Yuqi can charge in groups of ten people without disorder, but if they double, the formation will begin to loose, because there are good and bad riding skills and horses There are advantages and disadvantages.
It can only be said that although Chechen deliberately concealed his knowledge level, his vision on the mountain still made him stand out from the crowd.
For a moment, ah Yuqi looked at the drill of his own cavalry under the stage and couldn''t help but be dull. Even though some of them with excellent equestrian skills were hiding in the extremely difficult pedals.
After a while, ah Yuqi asked Che Chen, "is there really such a cavalry?"
He also had a glimmer of hope, saying that such cavalry was also the elite of the elite in other countries.
But Chechen broke his fantasy. Cherchen said truthfully: "yes, and now Europe, such as the kingdom of Sweden, Germany and Britain, have taken the training of such cavalry as the mainstream."
Ah Yuqi was restless. He asked involuntarily, "what about before? What were the cavalry in these countries before?"
In fact, the answer to this question is meaningless to ah Yuqi. Its role is just to test Cherchen.
In fact, before the wall charge became popular, the cavalry of the European army, in addition to fighting alone, was popular with a cavalry tactic called "semi rotation". This method of warfare consists of cavalry equipped with multiple spring revolvers in an array of at least six rows in depth and 6 to 20 people in width, marching in the direction of the enemy at a jogging speed. When the front row cavalry is about 30 meters away from the enemy infantry, the cavalry turn their horse''s head to the left, pull out their pistols and fire at the enemy infantry; Then run to the end of the queue, reload the ammunition, and the next row of cavalry continue to shoot, and so on. However, this tactical disadvantage is obvious. That is, in many cases, the firepower of the cavalry is often not enough to resist the firepower of the enemy infantry array. The heavy firerope gun equipped by the infantry has a much longer range than the cavalry pistol. This tactic means that the valuable cavalry is exposed to the fierce fire network of the enemy infantry again and again. This is one of the reasons why this tactic was eventually eliminated.
However, Chechen also knows that this problem is obviously a pit. He avoided talking, but said naively, "Taiji, I don''t know. Since I was born, my motherland has trained cavalry."
At the thought of Che Chen''s age, ah Yuqi didn''t doubt the authenticity of this remark. His thoughts returned to the wall charge. In his mind, he simulated the situation when the cavalry of the Khanate encountered the kind of foot to foot, straight as one, as Chechen said, as if one man''s cavalry were charging against the wall.
The result is obviously not optimistic.