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He skillfully controlled the horse and followed closely behind the comrade in front, and bent his hands with bows and arrows and shot sideways towards the cavalry who was more than ten meters away!
The elite cavalry of Beiwei Army use armor-breaking heavy arrows, so they need to be close to more than ten meters to exert effective lethality.
After all, the pulling force of riding a bow is not as good as a step bow.
However, when the vanguard of the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry was divided into two torrents and ran across the archery from both sides of the breastplate cavalry, the vanguard of the chest clutch pointed the already prepared flintlock gun at the side of the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry!
For a moment, arrows and lead bullets crossed each other and shot into different teams!
The chest-plated cavalry fired at high-speed war horses, of course they had no accurate idea, but the distance between the two sides was too close, and they were in dense queues!
Naturally, the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army who were swept by lead bullets kept falling off the horse. The cavalry who had shot a shot took out the second flintlock gun and pulled the trigger!
After both flintlock guns were shot, the two cavalry teams moving towards each other were almost separated.
However, the lead bullets sprayed by the Flintlock handgun are deadly weapons to the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army, but the armor-breaking heavy arrows that were very useful in the era of cold weapons did not exert their due lethality!
All armor-breaking heavy arrows shot on the broad upper body of the chest plaque cavalry are swept away by the thick chest plaque. Only heavy arrows shot on the exposed parts of the chest plaque cavalry’s head and legs and horses can play a role!
The breastplate cavalry can block the long-range flintlock guns and bullets, let alone the armor-breaking heavy arrows in the era of cold weapons?
Fu Xuan, who was behind, couldn't believe his eyes after seeing this scene. The other party's breastplate could completely ignore his armor-breaking heavy arrow!
There are only two reasons for this to happen.
First, the chest-plated cavalry on the opposite side are powerful warriors who have broken through the muscles and bones realm and even the acquired realm, so they can wear special thickened versions of heavy armor weighing hundreds of pounds.
However, the armor looks very bloated and can be recognized at a glance, so Fu Xuan naturally cannot admit his mistake!
The other party's breastplate looks thick, but the degree of heavy armor worn by ordinary people is far less than that of the special heavy armor made by master warriors.
What's more, Fu Xuan would never regard these thousands of cavalry as warriors at the lowest level of muscles and bones!
The second reason is very realistic.
The Ming army developed a breastplate that is both light and extremely defensive!
Even stronger ordinary soldiers can wear it!
Although the second reason is more logical, Fu Xuan was unwilling to believe that the Ming army's armor technology had already left the Song State so far!
This kind of lightweight and extremely defensive armor was built by the Song Kingdom, and it was even more daring to think about it!
Fu Xuan naturally would not know that the "high-tech armor" pressed out by mature hydraulic forging presses after the emergence of the Napoleonian era was naturally not comparable to the armor of the cold weapon era that was still in the handicraft stage.
No matter how strong the manpower is, it cannot compare to the power of machinery...
Even if all the elite cavalry of Beiwei Army are good at riding and shooting, they cannot hit the head and lower body 100%. What's more, shooting a war horse may not necessarily kill the chest-plated cavalry!
As a result, after the two sides intertwined, the casualties of the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army far exceeded that of the chest-plated cavalry!
Seeing this scene, Fu Xuan knew that the cavalry of the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry was difficult to cause harm to the Ming cavalry. What's even more sad is that this shows that the era of cavalry dominated the battlefield is gone forever...
However, the most important thing now is to annihilate or severely damage the main cavalry of the Ming army in front of you. Regardless of whether the cavalry and shooting will be eliminated, this battle that concerns the destiny of the Song State must be won!
At least you have to get a draw...
Otherwise, the great situation that Song Taizu finally created was likely to collapse, and the State of Song would also face the danger of destroying the country!
Now there are only two powerful countries in the East Asian continent, Ming and Song dynasties. Even if you want to get along with each other in a distance, you can’t find anyone!
So, after the hedging, the two cavalry quickly reorganized the team, and Fu Xuan transferred the previous vanguard into his main force. This time, Fu Xuan planned to charge the entire army and completely defeat the opponent's breastplate cavalry!
In a cavalry duel, cavalry shooting is just a means to weaken the opponent and live power. The real victory is to determine the outcome in the collision and slashing.
Even Richard's Mongolian cavalry in the history of Earth in his previous life could only win the victory after cavalry and shooting weakened the enemy's troops and attacked morale with elite heavy armored cavalry in the final rushing.
Now, cavalry and shooting are not worth the cost of cavalry in Beiwei Army. They die more than enemies, so naturally they can only leave the steps of cavalry and shooting to consume the enemy's energy and military strength, and directly use more cavalry and gun-mounted charge to eliminate the Ming cavalry.
Fu Xuan also had the confidence to win when he chose the cavalry to hedge. Although the Ming cavalry on the opposite side were wearing heavy armor, they all used sabers.
Everyone knows that when cavalry charges, the power of a cavalry is far greater than that of a saber, and the attack distance between the two weapons alone is very different!
Obviously, weapons that can hit the enemy first have a better advantage.
Of course, the difficulty of using a rifle and a saber is also very different.
Cavalry training and gun rushing to the formation often requires more time, energy and even money!
Therefore, the lancers in each country are among the elite minority, and most ordinary cavalry still like to use weapons such as sabers to fight.
After all, if you don’t know how to use a gun, it’s easy to die with the enemy during the charge...
The more advantages of troops and cavalry and spears are Fu Xuan’s confidence in using cavalry hand-to-hand combat to attack the chest-plated cavalry!
No matter how thick the breastplate is, it cannot withstand the stabbing of a rifle with charge potential energy!
In contrast, although the chest-plated cavalry has an advantage in shooting, the premise is that the elite Beiwei Army cavalry on the opposite side actively rushed up and rode and shot.
Although the breastplate cavalry has a huge advantage in its armor, cavalry is not the specialty of breastplate cavalry, so the breastplate cavalry cannot use cavalry to consume the enemy's strength at all.
Charge-hand combat is what the breastplate cavalry should do!
The exchange ratio of the elite cavalry and cavalry in Beiwei Army was too low, and the breastplate cavalry could not cavalry and shoot, so both sides chose the barbaric cavalry hedging to decide the outcome.
Like Fu Xuan's target, the purpose of the Chest-Packard Cavalry used as bait this time was to eliminate or severely damage the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army.
As long as the Beiwei Army does not have this elite cavalry, the entire battlefield will be completely controlled by Richard. At that time, Richard will attack wherever he is, leaving the Yue family army, who is on defense, running for life!
At the same time, the door to the Yue family army's logistics road to attack the Ming army will also be closed!
If the Yue Family Army, which has the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army, has a chance to draw, the Yue Family Army, which has lost the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army, will have less than 10% of the winning rate in this battle!
Chapter completed!