"Tong Chen, you first joined the commander of the commander of the former battalion. What do you think of today's defeat?" In the central army's tent, all the leaders and officials who participated in the review gathered here. Zhao Bing glanced at the generals and finally turned his eyes to Chen Fenglin, the commander of the First Army, and asked.

"My subordinates thought that this defeat was not a fight but not a good fight. First of all, our troops marched more than 200 miles in four days, which made the soldiers exhausted and relaxed. Secondly, they camped in the mainland, so the camps were a little bit scarce. Moreover, they did not expect that there would be enemy cavalry attacks at night, resulting in insufficient preparations. And..." Last night, the camp of the First Army was first to break through, and it was almost impossible to resist. Fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly, otherwise he would have been blocked in a big tent. He glared at Yu Yue, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, and explained.

"What else? Isn't this enough? Remove his chair!" Zhao Bing slapped his desk without saying that, "I'll be exhausted after marching for 200 miles in five days. The soldiers of the army are all soft-legged shrimps? The camp does not dig trenches or set up horses. The walls of the village are less than two feet high. Do you build a fortress or a chicken coop? You don't send a cavalry to go out in the wild camp, and don't send scouts to lurk in front of the camp, and just send two scarecrows to scare the birds!"

"Your Majesty, my subordinate... I am dereliction of duty!" Chen Fenglin looked at the emperor in surprise, and his chair was removed by the guards. He could only stand on the spot in embarrassment, with his face burning like a fire.

"I claim to be the 'No. 1 Army in the World' all day long. Since I started the army, Is this the strength of your army? I think it's just a group of native chickens and dogs, vulnerable and can only brag about themselves!" Zhao Bing said angrily.

"My subordinates are incompetent and have insulted the First Army's military quotation, but the soldiers of the First Army are by no means native chickens and dogs, but loud elite soldiers. Please punish your subordinates and do not punish the First Army!" Chen Fenglin realized at this time that His Majesty was really annoyed, and his loss was ugly, so he bowed and gritted his teeth.

"I have issued an order repeatedly, and I want you to study the tactics of using steps to control cavalry and be proficient in tactics, but what have you practiced? But I have written several times to be the vanguard of the Northern Expedition of the Mongol Yuan. How dare I use you like this!" Zhao Bing sneered, "I am worried that you will forget all of your "Martial Jing Zongyao", but you will devote all your thoughts to fighting for power!"

Zhao Bing was really angry. Since he came to this world, he has regarded the Mongolian cavalry as his strong enemy. In Qiongzhou, the horses could not cross the river to attack. In Jiangnan, there were still dense water nets to restrict the movement of the cavalry. He could take advantage of the situation to defend the enemy. However, when he entered the Central Plains, he had no advantages to face the impact of the Mongolian cavalry.

Therefore, Zhao Bing was eager to increase the power of the firearm again and build a elite cavalry, but limited by the number of horses, it was still difficult to attack the Mongols. This required the infantry as the main force to fight against the Mongols. Therefore, he has been summarizing the methods of defeating the cavalry in actual combat and sorting them into a book for each department to train in a targeted manner.

The so-called tactic of using infantry to control cavalry mainly refers to the tactics of infantry to achieve the purpose of trapping cavalry through the comprehensive use of various types of weapons. The tactics of trapping cavalry are mainly divided into two types, namely formation trapping cavalry and setting ambush cavalry.

Among them, formation of cavalry mainly refers to the formation of a formation, using a cavalry and a siege card to resist the impact of enemy cavalry after being formed, and then using crossbow arrows to kill cavalry and horses from a distance. After the short-term troops are connected, they use swords and rods to fight in close combat. The shields that cover infantry are made of wood and are tied with leather and are firm. The infantry card leader can cover the body, put a gun inside and stand on the ground, which is equivalent to a small fortress. The iron is used as a rope, and they are connected, or they are arranged to set up camps to resist dangers and block the sky. They are all suitable to set up horses to prevent the rushing cavalry.

This is a common way to defeat cavalry in the cold weapon era. In the early days, Zhao Bing also used these methods to fight against enemy cavalry, but firearms replaced the bow and crossbow. This reminded him of the popular judgment of spearmen fighting cavalry in his previous life. However, in actual combat, he found that when spearmen were fighting with cavalry, the casualties were higher than those of cavalry.

In reality, the vitality of horses is actually relatively tenacious. Zhao Bing found that even when a spear stabs a horse, it is difficult to kill the horse directly. At this time, the cavalry can still engage in charge and fight. Even the injured and crazy horses will form a more terrifying impact force in a short period of time, and the protection of infantry will generally be worse than that of cavalry.

Therefore, in terms of combat losses, infantry casualties are higher. The reason for restraint is mainly to target the training cost of cavalry, and it is not cost-effective to exchange one cavalry for several infantry. Therefore, in actual combat, generals generally avoid using cavalry to directly attack the snorth line of the formation of the formation.

However, Zhao Bing was a small army and was not confident to attack with the Mongol cavalry. Therefore, his tactical idea of ​​using schools to control cavalry was relatively dependent on equipment, which can be understood to be the construction of a small fortress to some extent. Therefore, whether it is building vans, building hard camps, or building a battalion, it is all for this reason.

Of course, in addition to building a solid camp, there are also other means to restrain cavalry. These ancient ancestors have long summarized many feasible methods and adhered to the comprehensive application of the combat mode of not mixing with soldiers. Therefore, Zhao Bing had no reason not to carry forward the "take-taking theory".

Among them, the so-called ambush cavalry is to set up a horse trap on the necessary path for the enemy to advance, destroy horses, and delay the movement of sluggish cavalry. There are six main methods for trapping cavalry.

One is a gun, and the fire-making bamboo gun is buried diagonally in the ground. The gun head is tied with a bamboo ring, covering it with thatch on it. There is a head rope tied to the bamboo ring of the gun. When the head rope is stepped on by a horse, the bamboo gun is pulled out and the bamboo ring is standing. The bamboo gun is bounced up, "three feet above the ground, and all the thieves and horses are injured."

The second is a trip rope. Use a wooden pile to tie five-foot threads to nail them to the ground. Use five green bamboo poles to support the waist, press the thread rope to the ground, and build a machine cable along the way to control it. When the horse's hoof touches the machine cable, the support bamboo will bounce the thread rope and hang three feet above the ground, tripping the horse;

The third is to drag a horse. Use bamboo to cut into a tendon fire. It is several times longer than the tendon and is conical and inserted on the ground. The bamboo tail is cooked with hot soup and has a zigzag line. The rope tail is also placed on the head. After encountering a horse's quilt, the rope tail's gun is pulled out of the ground to hurt the horse's belly and legs;

The fourth is a horse pylon, dig a pit one foot deep and three inches wide on the ground, and a built-in cone. When the horse's hooves are trapped, the cone will stab the hoof heels;

The five and six methods are called green traps and white traps, which are commonly known as the trapped horse pit. They refer to digging traps on grass and sandy land, covering them with straw grass or grass seedlings, to deceive the enemy and destroy horse hooves. In the Song Dynasty, the trapped horse pit is about five feet long, three feet wide and four feet deep. The bottom of the pit is covered with sharpened antler guns and bamboo sticks with fire, arranged in giant shapes.

These six methods must be pre-built on the road and cannot be achieved in an instant. The creation of traps also requires a high amount of manpower and material resources. The ancients also invented the so-called "Eight Methods of Setting Up Disasters":

One is to kick the ring, insert the bamboo ring into the horse path, tie a thread on it to cover the horse's hooves; the other is to cut the diameter, use a bamboo crossbow, seven bamboo eaves, and one pineapple, and use a rope to lie on the horse's path. When the horse's head touches the mechanism, the arrow will fall down; the third is to log wood, cut wood in advance in the forest where the enemy cavalry passes, blocking the horse's passage. In order to prevent the enemy from getting off the horse, the trees are generally not cut off, so as to delay the enemy's actions;

The fourth is to build grass, block the road in the grass, forcing the cavalry to advance in the grass on both sides of the road, and tie the grass into ropes in advance, tripping the horses across the grass; the fifth is to plant ice, which refers to the wind irrigation of water on the steep roads or high slopes and steep hills in the slanting city, causing the water to become ice, and the road will slip and cannot pass;

After that, the two methods were to crack stones and break bridges, which mean that the roads and bridges were dug and blocked through traffic; the eight methods were Langya (Wolf Teeth Board), which were buried in the sand and gravel ground with nail plates to harm horses. In combination with these eight methods, there are four methods to lure the enemy, such as tresting, bait lure, offering green, and offering white. In summary, it is to lure the enemy horses using forage, water sources, etc., causing the mechanism to jump into the trap.

In addition, there are many small horse traps used to stab the horse's hooves. There are six basic types. One is called a prick ball, which is made of iron, and there is a tip around it; the second is terrestrial thorn, which has a tip on it, and it is extracted with poison; the third is a thia needle, which is made of iron, which is like a needle and slightly larger; the fourth is a goose neck, which is made of iron hook, which is made of two curved and sharp at both ends; the fifth is a water horn, which is an iron horn, which is a water horn; the sixth is a soap horn, which is a soap horn shape made of iron.

This type of horse trap is cheap. When used, it only needs to be inserted on a large area and thrown on the ground to have a certain effect of hurting the horse. It is a low-cost tactic. However, it also has its own disadvantages. For example, the tip of the trough trough is small and it is easy to be stepped into the soil by the horse and cannot pierce the horse's hooves. The iron horns and iron soap horns also have similar problems. The thatched needle must be placed on the board, similar to the wolf tooth board, which is easy to expose the goose neck in advance and is difficult to fix it. After being stepped on, it is easy to fall around and hurt the horse.

In addition, there are two vicious tricks for iron mushrooms and bamboo storage to prepare for horse hooves. Iron mushrooms are cone-flat at the top and flat at the bottom, just like wood mushrooms. They are not easy to fall into the soil when trampled by horses, and are easier to pierce the horse hooves than the above-mentioned trapping tools; bamboo storage is an iron ball shaped like a rat stick, with six edges on it, and poison is applied. Because there is a pedicle in the middle, it is not easy to hide from dust. The horse hooves are pedaled to the point where they are easily pierced and poisoned. At the same time, it is not possible to hold the poison in your hand, which increases the difficulty for the cavalry to clean up.

During the exercise last night, even though the soldiers of the First Army who had passed the rush to march were exhausted, the camp was a reason. But thinking about so many tricks and methods to restrain the cavalry, they did not arrange them, so that the first cavalry division approached the camp without any obstruction. Then, almost instantly broke through the village wall and drove straight into the camp, which was a complete change.
Chapter completed!