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Chapter XIV: The Age of Cavalry

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"Peng!" Lian Po was surprised, his face suddenly changed again, and he finally couldn't help but open his mouth and said in surprise: "What?"

Not only Lian Po, but King Zhao and Pang Nuan on the side looked straight. After Xiang Shaolong's spear tip penetrated the dummy, the horse continued to move forward. With huge momentum, Xiang Shaolong bent the spear in his hand, and then pulled the entire dummy out of the ground. Then the entire spear shook and the dummy flew high.

If this scene is placed on the battlefield, wouldn’t it be like riding a horse to pick the whole person away?

The three of them were stunned, but Xiang Shaolong's movements did not stop. The horse did not stop at all. The speed he had just slowed down and climbed up again, "Section!" "Cloak!"

The spear penetrated and the horsepower was provoked. Another dummy was pulled out of the ground, flew high, and then fell to the ground with a curve.

Then Xiang Shaolong continued to move forward, but this time he did not use his spear to prick him. He raised the spear in his hand high, the wheel was round, and the horse was passing by a dummy, and his spear suddenly pulled down.

In an instant, the spear tip of the spear passed over the dummy. This time the dummy did not fly up, but the entire upper half was passed by the edge of the spear tip and was directly cut off in half.

"Okay!" Everyone woke up and shouted "Okay". Then they saw Xiang Shaolong riding a horse and charging, picking, stabbing, slashing, or cutting with the tip of the spear. In just a while, Xiang Shaolong destroyed most of the dummy on the field.

More than 30 dummies were easily destroyed by him, and he was still calm and composed immediately. He didn't look like he fell off the horse. If these dummies were real people, he would have killed more than 30 people this time.

"Greetings to the king." At this time, Wang Li brought the horse to King Zhao and bowed slightly: "Young dragon is uncharacteristic and does not know the etiquette. Wang Li apologizes for him here."

"Okay, okay!" King Zhao said yes twice, and his face was extremely excited. He also knew about the cavalry. Who among the Zhao family didn't know about Hufu and cavalry? Only knowing this matter, he understood what the cavalry was like.

At this time, he saw that Xiang Shaolong was so brave on the horse. He had long forgotten everything he saw, so he didn't care about apologizing or not. After saying goodbye, he asked Wang Li: "Is this Xiang Shaolong? He is really a hero."

"Just as Shifang met me for the first time, I said that talented people always have some privileges. How can I blame them? And this should be a surprise between Shifang and me. He is indeed a good hero, good riding skills, and good cavalry."

"If my cavalry of Great Zhao can have 10% of the ability of this hero, a hundred thousand cavalry will be enough to be the full force of my great Zhao in the past. Hey, okay!"

As King Zhao was speaking, he suddenly looked at the scene again, but at this moment, Xiang Shaolong had already thrown the spear on the previous pole to the ground. Then he pulled out a strange long sword from the horse.

The long sword was very strange, and the entire sword body was bent. King Zhao was just screaming strange, and saw that the war horse that Xiang Shaolong was riding at high speed was approaching a wooden stake. Xiang Shaolong faced the long sword with a convex curve in advance, and then the horse ran past. He used a little force, as if he had cut off the top part of the wooden stake without any effort.

"Mr. Xiang Shaolong holds a saber in his hand, which is specially designed for horse fighting. The blade bends into a curve, which is best to use the power of the horse to slash vigorously on the horse."

Seeing that King Zhao and Lian Po were both confused, Wang Li introduced.

Xiang Shaolong held the saber and rushed into the pile of wooden stakes. The wooden stakes were relatively dense, and many wooden stakes happened to be a little wider than the horse's body. After rushing in, Xiang Shaolong's horse speed slightly slowed down, as if he had rushed into the formation, and was no longer able to charge forward as fiercely as before.

At this time, he saw him flexibly controlling the war horse, his body swaying from side to side with the horse's body, and his sabre slashed left and right, and from time to time he dragged it with the horse's power as before. He was extremely flexible. In a short time, twenty wooden stakes were cut off the top section.

The efficiency of riding a horse and killing is still above sprinting with spears. Moreover, Xiang Shaolong cuts and drags all the way with horsepower. It seems effortless, and Lian Po is dazzling when he only sees it.

At this time, in Lian Po's eyes, Xiang Shaolong was no longer the only one. He clearly saw countless Xiang Shaolongs slashing left and right among the infantry that had been chasing the formations by cavalry, and the entire battlefield seemed to be one-sided.

Without a moment, the opponent's morale could not bear the loss and was defeated. How could the infantry run over the cavalry? The fate was that they were easily killed one by one during the cavalry's pursuit.

Whether it was the cavalry charging with spears or the chopping and killing at this time, Lian Po had already seen countless tactics and tactics using this type of cavalry to extend. After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that these cavalry were really a nightmare for infantry.

Although infantry may not be unable to deal with it, in his opinion, it must be an extremely well-trained and highly morale army to fight with military formations. Otherwise, if it is replaced by other lower-morning armies, they will not be able to deal with it even if there is a military formation.

However, the expansion of the infantry formation cannot be completed in an instant, and it cannot be arranged all the time after it is deployed. Cavalry can attack before it becomes a formation, or at other times. At the high speed of the cavalry, how can the infantry calmly set up the formation?

At this moment, Xiang Shaolong's movement changed again. He had already chopped away fifty wooden stakes one after another and rushed out of the wooden stake area. Then he only pulled away the long knife and held a long bow behind him.

"Bang!" During the high-speed riding, he easily rode on the horse, freed up his hands effortlessly, and then he opened his bow freely. The arrow flew like a meteor, landing directly on the target, but it was in the red heart.

But when he saw him shoot an arrow, he didn't look at it, and then he didn't look at it. He shot one arrow after another in a row, almost with one breath, he was a arrow. The arrow was fast and fierce, and some of the targets that were approaching were completely shot through by the arrow.

"This is cavalry shooting. General Lian Po, if any military formation encounters thousands of such cavalry surrounding cavalry shooting, what kind of scene is it?"

At this time, Zhao State's riding and shooting had to retreat with one arrow, and then press the string and put on the crossbow again. However, Xiang Shaolong easily rode a fast horse and only freed up his hands. He rode so easily. In an instant, dozens of arrows carried by the horse were shot.

Lian Po looked at the arrows falling on the target, and said that if there were thousands of cavalry, even if these cavalry had not very accurate shooting skills, they just needed to shoot all the arrows into the military formation or directly or shot them in. Anyway, the military formation was densely packed with people. Thousands of cavalry threw twenty arrows per person, which was tens of thousands of arrows. I wonder how much damage it would cause to the military formation.

Once any military formation encounters such damage, how many can it be maintained? It may be shot and then the army will be chased by the cavalry...

As a result, Lian Po knew without thinking about it. After thinking for a long time, Lian Po sighed: "National Master, in the future, except for the siege, most of the cavalry will have to be carried out around this cavalry."

"Yes, when such a cavalry appears, he will definitely be the king of all the troops!" Wang Li said affirmatively, then he opened his five fingers, circled around and continued.

"The best area for cavalry combat is the plains, the northern part of Jiuzhou, most areas of the five countries of Zhao, Wei, Han, Qi and Yan, the grasslands outside the Jiuzhou region, and the Guanzhong area behind Hangu Pass of Qin, which are all good places for cavalry to gallop."

"When I, Da Zhao, can become a 100,000 cavalry, as long as I use it properly, no country in the north of Jiuzhou will be able to defeat us in the field."

"An era of cavalry is coming."

"Yes, it belongs to the era of cavalry." When Wang Li talked about the era of cavalry, Lian Po agreed without surprise, and King Zhao, who was standing aside, also withdrew his gaze at this time.

He didn't see Wang Li and Lian Po for a long time, but he only watched Xiang Shaolong sprint, kill, and ride and shoot alone, and almost half of the dummy wooden stakes and archery targets in the entire school field were broken so easily. How could he not understand the combat effectiveness of the new cavalry?

Listening to Wang Li and Lian Po’s discussion, Pang Nuan couldn’t stop nodding, but he was also proficient in military tactics.

"National Master, Pang Nuan seemed to be a little different when listening to the sound of the horse hooves on the war horses that Xiang Shaolong rode. What's going on?"

"Pang Xiang, ordinary war horses will wear down their horse's hooves when they run, so in addition to saving horsepower, passing cavalry must save more horse's hooves. Otherwise, if they run too hard, they will easily break the horse."

"This greatly restricts the cavalry's mobile combat capabilities. The horses under Xiang Shaolong have added a piece of horseshoe to their four hooves, which is equivalent to wearing a pair of iron shoes for the horse."

"With these pair of iron shoes, horses do not need to save horse hooves, and the cavalry's mobility can be fully liberated and exerted."

"So that's the case. People can wear shoes, but no one has ever thought about wearing shoes for horses. However, if they wear iron shoes for every horse, the amount of iron is a big number. In addition, the saber consumes more iron materials. If you want to have 100,000 iron cavalry, this iron material alone will be in big trouble. You may not be able to have it for another ten years."

Pang Nuan suddenly realized and then frowned.

Pang Nuan's concerns were not redundant. In this era, the copper and iron production was not high. A long sword was a family heirloom for ordinary warriors. Most of the weapons used for ordinary soldiers were spears. The small amount of copper and iron used was just a little bit above the top.

Like the cavalry in front of him, the iron material consumed by horseshoes alone can be compared to the spear. In addition, the iron material consumed by the spear, and finally a saber to kill a horse will require a hundred thousand iron cavalry. In his eyes, the demand for iron materials is simply astronomical, far from being able to be completed in one year or two, or even ten years.

"Pang Xiang doesn't have to worry about this. I reached a cooperation with Guo Zong yesterday. I provided him with his method of making iron and steel. In the future, the production of iron and even steel, that is, the steel production of fine steel exceeds ten times or even dozens of times in the past."

"At that time, my Dazhao's steel will not only supply weapons, armor, and agricultural tools in the future. If there are 100,000 cavalry, what's the point?"

"What?" Wang Li said, both King Zhao and Lian Po and Pang Nuan were shocked.
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