Chapter 440 Black Flag Army, Heavy Cavalry Attack!
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Both the Shatuo Black Crow Army and the Zhenguo Army were exhausted, but the situation of fighting had already fallen to the Zhenguo Army. The Shatuo people had no way out, and the Yellow River was behind them, and the retreat was blocked by a fleet. Although the Zhenguo Army in front was exhausted, this was not the whole of the Zhenguo Army.
When the white white of the fish in the east appeared, the morning light and the first ray of light came.
At this moment, Li Jing finally transferred the eight thousand cavalry who had been waiting for the battle to the battlefield.
The two east and west gates of Feng'an City suddenly opened, and two torrents surged out like floods breaking through the dam. Eight thousand Tang cavalry moved out. The cavalry surged out from the gates on both sides, and finally bypassed the infantry formation in front of the southern gate and rushed directly towards the Shatuo cavalry.
Yu Van, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, suddenly looked at the cavalry under the city in surprise and suddenly divided into three parts. The red sun jumped out. Under the first ray of golden light of the rising sun, the three cavalry were wearing completely different armors.
On the left, wearing red battle robe and armor, holding red flags, Yu Yan recognized at a glance that these were the three thousand cavalrymen of Zhenwu Army and Tiande Army. On the right, they were all silver, silver armor, silver battle robe, silver cloak, and even the helmet tassels were silver.
"That is the silver saddle, silver spear, and three cavalry battalions of white horses, all silver, our army's three elite light cavalry battalions!" Li Jing followed Yu Feng's hand and chuckled to the teacher to answer.
"Where is that cavalry in the middle?"
Yu Ju pointed to the cavalry that had been rolling past like a torrent, but they were like Shatu people. They were completely black.
Black flag, black armor and black robe!
Li Jing looked at the cavalry unit with only two thousand people and said proudly and with a hint of pride: "That is the Xuan Armored Heavy Cavalry!"
Yu Qi opened his eyes very loudly when he heard this. He turned his head and looked at the cavalry under the city. After a while, he said in a trembling voice: "When did you actually equipped a heavy cavalry? Why did you never see you use it when you were in Hedong?"
Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, this is the newly formed cavalry unit of Li Jing. It was drawn from the original cavalry and organized two thousand horses. All the knights were the most elite cavalry. All the war horses were all black war horses. Their equipment was even better because of the heavy equipment of their equipment.
Heavy cavalry, that is, armored cavalry equipment.
Armored riding equipment, the knight is wearing iron armor, and horses also have equipment. The horse's equipment is divided into "face curtains" that protect the horse's head and "chicken neck" that protects the horse's neck. The "chicken neck" that protects the horse's chest, the "horse armor" that protects the horse's body, the "back" that protects the horse's buttocks and the "parasitics" that stand up on the horse's buttocks and the back of the knight.
The heavy cavalry reached its peak during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In large-scale battles, they were powerful military forces that determined the situation on the battlefield. The Xuanjia Army was an elite cavalry formed by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin.
Because the armor equipped by this cavalry is black, it is called the Xuanjia Army. As the strongest force of Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Xuanjia Army can be placed in one of the top ten cavalry units among the cavalry of all dynasties, and is extremely powerful.
According to historical records, King Shimin of Qin selected more than a thousand elite cavalry, all of whom were wearing Xuanjia and divided into left and right teams. Qin Shubao, Cheng Zhijie, Yuchi Jingde, and Zhai Changsun were divided into generals. Every battle, Shimin was personally appointed as the vanguard by Xuanjia, and took the opportunity to attack. All the directions were destroyed, and the enemy feared him.
The Xuanjia Army was split after Taizong ascended the throne, expanded by the time of Martial Arts, and reorganized by the time of Xuanzong, but in the end the elite team eventually became a decoration and completely lost their combat power.
Heavy-armed cavalry, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the heavy-armed cavalry has gradually declined. In the past, as the key force to determine the victory of the battle situation, the heavy-armed cavalry gradually withdrew from the combat stage because of the high equipment, extremely high soldier quality, and good war horses.
In addition to Chang'an's imperial guards, there are also some heavy-duty cavalry. The entire Tang Dynasty has no heavy-duty cavalry. Now the strongest ones are Shatuo cavalry, and then the Hu cavalry of various tribes. They are all light cavalry.
During the peak period of heavy cavalry, all countries in dynasties had iron-armored cavalry, and even large in number. Heavy cavalry shocked the world with their terrible impact and destructive power, which was heartbreaking. The attack of heavy cavalry often defeated ten times his opponent and collapsed in formation. More than 200 years ago, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, had only one thousand black armored heavy cavalry, and used 1,000 black armored elite soldiers to defeat Wang Shichong and killed more than 6,000 people. In the battle of Hulao Pass that determines the belonging of the world, Dou Jiande led more than 100,000 elite cavalry to support Wang Shichong. Li Shimin only used 3,500 elite soldiers including one thousand black armored cavalry to reinforce Hulao Pass. As a result, Dou Jiande defeated more than 100,000 people, and Dou Jiande only led hundreds of cavalry to escape.
But as time went by, after the Tang Dynasty unified the world, the Xuanjia cavalry was finally divided into two, and one part of it became Taizong's guards, and the other part was handed over to Li Jing to lead the attack and destroy the Turks, and in that battle, he played the role of a mainstay.
But then the Tang Dynasty was peaceful and the war was concentrated on the frontier. The iron armored heavy cavalry was too expensive to be equipped, and the second was not suitable for transferring to the frontier to fight the enemy. Over time, it gradually became useless and was eventually forgotten.
The price of training and equipping a light cavalry can be trained and equipped with five infantry. The price of training and equipping a heavy cavalry can be equipped with five light cavalry.
Therefore, even if the feudal states are in constant separatist territory, I have never seen any foreign general who is willing to spend the price of five times the light cavalry or twenty-five infantry to train armed heavy cavalry.
Others think that heavy cavalry is outdated, but Li Jing believes that on the battlefield of the Central Plains, an elite heavy cavalry, although it is a little more expensive, is the sharpest sword, which can play a role in controlling the situation when it is critical. The plan for heavy cavalry was in Li Jing's mind, and he had already secretly started to build heavy cavalry armor and cavalry equipment until he sent troops to Hedong, and it was not yet well built.
Just when Li Guochang was captured, a letter from Dengzhou sent two thousand sets of armored cavalry equipment to be built. The excited Li Jing immediately sent him to Hedong. During this period, after selection, he finally selected two thousand elite cavalry to form the Xuanjia Army. However, since there was a Xuanjia Army in Chang'an, and this army was built by Emperor Taizong, Li Jing did not dare to openly use this name. Therefore, Li Jing finally awarded the military name of the "Black Flag Army" of these two thousand heavy cavalrymen.
The military number was directly awarded. This was the first army with military number below since the Zhenguo Army was promoted to the vassal state. The first Black Flag Army envoy was staring at this position, but Li Jing finally acted as the first Black Flag Army envoy. After considering the position of the deputy army envoy, Li Jing promoted Gao Shunli to the deputy army envoy, with two thousand soldiers and horses, and established the two battalions of the ten capitals. Zhou Dewei was the commander of the left camp, and the commander of the right camp appointed Li Juyi as the position. The six disciples of the following were promoted to the position of the general this time, and the remaining four were selected from the cavalry, with four people with both military achievements and prestige.
The black flag army knights did not choose the kind of bright light armor that the Xuanjia Army had equipped, but were equipped with two pieces of armor, one was Shanwen armor, and the outside was also equipped with a rope armor covering the outside. The helmet was made of a full-rolled phoenix winged horn. The black robe, black cloak, gray tassel, and black war horses and vests under the straddle, which was even darker than the Shatu Black Crow Army.
This is the first time the Black Flag Army has appeared in the battle, and Li Jing is full of confidence in this army.
All the two thousand iron armored cavalry were wearing black armor, with black helmet tassels on their helmets, and they were holding specially equipped spears. They quickly made complete attacks under the city and formed a formation of twenty teams. The twenty teams were arranged in formations of two, three, four, five, and six, forming a charge formation of a front arrow.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and the red sun in the east has already jumped out. The golden light of the rising sun reflects the cavalry under Feng'an City, reflecting a faint light. A breeze blew gently, blowing the tassels on the heads of the soldiers.
Gao Shunli stood in front of the formation, and was filled with excitement about being able to serve as the deputy envoy of the most elite ace division of the State Army.
Looking at the exhausted Shatuo army in front of him, Gao Shunli's mood slowly calmed down. He raised his right hand high, and the cavalry behind him became quiet. Suddenly, his right hand raised was pressing down hard. The knights let out a deafening roar: "Where the black flag is invincible!"
Gao Shunli lowered the folded armor on his helmet and hid his entire face under the armor. Through the two fine holes in the armor, his eyes were fixed on the Shatuo cavalry, waved the horse spear forward in his hand, and squeezed the horse's belly with force, and the war horse galloped out violently.
Two thousand iron armored cavalrymen leaned over their saddles and jumped on their horses. The torrent of the cavalry rushed from the flank toward the Shatuo cavalry, who was still fighting with the infantrymen of the Zhenguo Army. The sound of horse hooves resounded like thunder.
Although the other party is such a famous Black Crow Army, the newly formed iron armored cavalry is not afraid at all.
Today is the day when the Black Flag Army ends the Black Crow Army. From then on, the name of the world's number one cavalry will belong to the Black Flag Army.
The direction of the Black Flag Army's attack was the left wing commanded by Shatuofei Hu Zigaiyu. Because of the closest distance, he was the first to feel the huge deterrence and terrifying momentum brought by this four-armored cavalry in black. The Black Crow Army was originally an elite unit with many battles, and they were not afraid of any enemy. But now, they still couldn't take over the opponent's infantry formation overnight, and when the enemy army launched such a powerful iron-armored cavalry, the Black Crow Army felt fear and panic for the first time.
Between the iron armored army, whistling, people can always feel the terrifying fighting spirit like a lion and a tiger, which makes the black crow army facing them tremble!
Gai Yu was riding on the horse, and the hand holding the sword in his hand was already trembling. He was too tired and too tired. The Tang army blocked in front was like an insurmountable mountain. Now, the Zhenguo Army actually broke out an iron armored cavalry. In an instant, Gai Yu was in a state of confusion.
Shatuo, is it really going to perish? Where will his way out? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (.) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m.. to read.
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