Chapter 345: Heavy Cavalry of the Han Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)
The Xin Tribe has already set out for the grassland. It will take more than a month for them to reach the destination, and they have to sell things while walking, so the speed will definitely not be that fast.
On the Han Tribe side, the caravan led by You Fu also embarked on the journey under Luo Chong's instructions. This time, the caravan on the Han Tribe side is more exaggerated than that of the Xin Tribe.
Under Luo Chong's order, the grassland wild man who joined the Han Tribe this time was the main leader, and the two cavalry general flags that had just been formed, totaling 76 people.
These people can be said to be the absolute elite force of the Han Tribe at present. Each of them has three war horses and a set of armor that can cover 98% of the body, including the war horses. There are matching armor. Although the armor is cowhide armor, it still has good defense against the main weapons used by the enemy, such as the bamboo bow and bamboo arrows in the hands of the imaginary enemy.
The new generation of cavalry armor is designed in the direction of heavy cavalry, because the Han tribe does not have enough time to mass-produce recurve bows for horse archery, so there is no way to engage in cavalry hunting combat style, but it doesn't matter, if light cavalry doesn't work, we can directly use heavy cavalry.
The two newly formed cavalry general flags are real heavy cavalry. No matter the weapons they are equipped with or the combat mode they are trained in, they only have one way to fight, that is, charge and kill.
There are many weapons for heavy cavalry. Each person is equipped with a sleeve bayonet, which is actually a thinner and longer spear head. The blade length plus the sleeve behind can reach 50 cm, but they are not equipped with a gun barrel, because most weapons such as lances are disposable. When you really stab the enemy, it is difficult to have a chance to take the gun back.
So Luo Chong simply only equipped them with a gun head, and the gun barrel depends on them to find it themselves, which can be captured or found by themselves.
In addition to this disposable lance, there is also a main weapon with strong lethality, which is the Royal Guard Saber that I wanted to equip before, but I didn't have time to mass produce.
The blade of these standard imperial guards is 1.25 meters long, the handle is 40 centimeters long, and there is an iron ring at the end. When standing up, it is almost as tall as a person. Although the blade is straight as a whole, the front half also has a clear upward arc, which is convenient for the knife holder to exert force.
This is the main weapon that Luo Chong equipped with the heavy cavalry. When fighting, all the men and horses are armored. First, they will sprint with lances. After breaking up the enemy's formation, they will turn their horses' heads, hold the standard machetes horizontally, and rush into the enemy formation again. As long as they run like this a few times, there will basically be no survivors. Because the knife is long enough and the horse is fast, there is no need to swing it. Just hold the long knife and rush over like a harvester to collect heads.
The armor of the heavy cavalry is still made of raw cowhide painted black, but unlike before, this time they have longer arm guards. The cowhide cylinder of the forearm can cover from the back of the hand to the elbow, and the upper body of the armor has added shoulder guards and large arm guards that can cover from the shoulder to the elbow, so that the entire upper body except the palm is covered. The
same is true for the lower body. The cowhide short boots can be regarded as leather armor. The calves are also added with leg guards from the ankle to the knee. The skirt of the armor connected to the upper body also hangs directly to the ankle. When the cavalry sits on the horse, the wide skirt can definitely protect the two legs tightly.
In addition to these, the new heavy cavalry helmet has also been changed. From the original cowhide sewing and adding bronze forehead guard, it has become the current way of weaving the helmet frame with gold wire and fine rattan, and then covering the cowhide. The degree of firmness is not as simple as one plus one equals two.
Another major innovation is that the original bronze forehead guard has become a hook for hanging bronze masks.
Luo Chong equipped these heavy cavalry with metal masks, and armed the most dangerous face. In addition to the mask, the lower edge of the helmet also added a circle of cowhide armor, like a skirt, covering the neck, throat, and shoulders. Although it
is not a metal armor, it is enough for now. The most common weapon of nomadic people on the grassland is the bow and arrow. As for the knife, it is impossible to have it. There may be one or two stone axes, but there will be no spears.
Even if there are, they can't use it. To be precise, before obtaining equipment such as stirrups, they can only shoot arrows on horseback. If you use a lance to stab someone, you can imagine the scene, two people sprinting quickly at each other, both sides are moving towards each other, and the average sprinting speed is more than 70 kilometers per hour, so the speed of the rush may reach 150 kilometers per hour, which is faster than the speed limit of the highway.
At such an extreme speed, what would happen to a warrior without stirrups, holding a long lance and stabbing the enemy? Because he had no stirrups, he could not control his body, and was pushed off the horse by the opposing force, and then died tragically under the chaotic hooves of the horses on the battlefield.
So before the invention of stirrups, lances and hacking were just jokes. Even the horse archery they often played was limited in the amount of force because there was no such thing as stirrups. Those with stirrups could definitely pull heavier bows than those without stirrups.
The Han tribe did not have short bows and arrows suitable for cavalry, so the heavy cavalry they developed had to rush into the enemy formation under the enemy's rain of arrows and then kill. This was also the correct use of heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry of the two general flags can be regarded as You Fu's trump card this time, but You Fu also brought a lot of people with him. The 40 old team members who followed him out will still follow him this time. At the same time, there are eight four-wheeled high-top trucks pulled by two oxen for cargo transportation, which are used to continue to purchase wool. It is estimated that this is the last time to collect wool this year.
In addition to these eight large carts, there are 40 small single-horse two-wheeled carts. Each cart is pulled by a horse and equipped with a driver. These are the carts prepared to be sold to the grassland nomadic tribes. Didn't they ask for a carriage themselves? That's perfect. Luo Chong directly made a batch of simplified versions and sold them to them, and he also sold them at a high price.
A large two-wheeled cart must be exchanged for two oxen and four horses. The oxen must be one male and one female, and the horses must be young and fine horses. The Han tribe does not want any horses over four years old. Don't think that this is enough. Such a two-wheeled cart is really just a cart. The horses pulling the cart and the drivers driving the cart are absolutely not sold by the Han tribe.
Of course, although these carriages were taken out to sell, they couldn't just go empty. The 40 carriages also carried a lot of goods, including newly woven two-meter-wide woolen cloth, each roll was 50 meters long. These woolen cloth alone filled more than 400 rolls, clearing out the inventory produced in the past few days.
(End of this chapter)
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