Chapter 215 The Concept of the Spring Gun Cavalry
Learning cavalry tactics is Jeanna’s own wish. Of course, His Majesty Pope Horn’s opinion is also very important.
Based on Horn's idea, there is a high probability that the three cavalry divisions and 150 cavalry in the Salvation Army will be led by Jeanne.
Because Jeanne already had a good understanding of cavalry combat, and had systematically learned the techniques and tactics of individual cavalry combat under Danji.
When it comes to understanding the cavalry, among Horn’s senior leaders of the Salvation Army, no one can compare with Jeanne.
To fight against the knights, especially the heavy armored cavalry among the shock cavalry, it cannot be solved by Horn opening his mouth and using the holy gunman infantry.
Before Maxim’s invention, the war horse was definitely an important tool of war. Even after Horn pointed out the technology of the clockwork gun, its tactical status did not decline much.
Knights are enemies, but it does not mean that all knights are enemies, nor does it mean that cavalry or war horses are enemies.
You still have to respect objective facts.
Horn insisted on clearing out the racecourse at Fort Joan of Arc and brought back nearly two hundred horses, large and small, in the hope that Jeanne could form a Holy Gun Cavalry Legion.
In Horn's hometown, the new cavalry arms of pistol cavalry or firearm cavalry were born soon after the invention of firearms.
In the east there are the Guan Ning cavalry who use three-eyed muskets, and in the west there are the German mercenary black knights who use spring wheel pistols.
However, the half-turn tactics of the pistol cavalry have been criticized because in the half-turn tactics, the cavalry often turn their retreating movements into escaping, and it is easy to expose flaws during the turns and be counterattacked by the infantry. .
So further back, those cuirassiers who used pistols mostly used tactics of firing two shots before the formation, and then charging into the enemy formation with their cavalry swords.
Based on the battle examples seen in this world, according to Horn's personal opinion, the essence of the failure of the half-turn tactic is that he misunderstood the positioning of musket tactics and mistook the musketeer cavalry for projection cavalry.
If the two arms of cavalry and infantry are divided according to their tactical functions, they can be divided into two types: impact and projection.
To put it simply, impact is to rush into the enemy's formation for close combat, which plays the role of assault and breaking the formation, while projection is to shoot arrows or javelins to attack the enemy from a distance, and plays the role of harassing and luring the enemy.
For example, the Mongols' Manguji tactics are to project cavalry to lure the enemy, charge the cavalry to break the formation, project the cavalry and then chase and lure the enemy, charge the cavalry and then break the formation, and so on, and finally the servant infantry cleans the battlefield.
Although a musket or a wind-up gun looks like a projectile weapon, it is actually an impact weapon.
In Horn's eyes, a clockwork gun is not a bow and arrow, but a retractable spear that is fifty meters or even nearly a hundred meters long.
For cavalry, due to the bumps of fighting on horseback, it may be a lance of about twenty meters.
Whether it is infantry or cavalry, those holding clockwork guns play an impact role, because the main function of clockwork guns is still to break the formation.
So for the group of horse herders led by Jeanne, they were familiar with horseback riding, but not familiar with cavalry technology.
It doesn’t matter. If you don’t have enough skills and tactics to make up for it, if you can’t charge the infantry, can’t you charge the cavalry?
Two short blunderbuss per person is equivalent to two 20-meter disposable spears.
Among the imperial knights with extraordinary strength, even the longest imperial hollow lance is only nine and a half meters tall.
Friends who often play against each other know how cool it is to beat a long hand against a short hand.
"Collect all these materials and you can compile a cavalry drill manual. Can you do it?" Horn asked, looking at the scrawled notes in his hand and taking time to meet with Jeanne.
"Yes, yes, but I have to learn a few more words first."
"Okay, then don't doze off in literacy class next time." Jeanne's face was slightly flushed. Hong took back the notebook: "You don't need to tell me, I just chatted with Shilov for a while that day, and I went to bed a little late so I didn't feel energetic."
In just a few days, Jeanne and Shilov slept on the same bed. How did a top student and a sports student get together and be so harmonious.
After arranging things for Jeanne, Horn went to take a nap and walked towards the stronghold of the Holy Father Worshipers as agreed in advance.
It is said to be a stronghold, but it is actually a Domus Courtyard, which is the residence specially designated by Horn for the Holy Father Worshipers.
I turned a corner in front of the semi-circular theater. After these days of repairs, although the road was still full of potholes, the garbage, big rocks and weeds were all gone.
This ruin that has been silent for hundreds of years has once again welcomed the breath of humanity. Looking forward along the avenue, there are people building houses and cleaning up garbage everywhere.
The young children either helped their parents carry building materials and stones, or ran wildly through the streets and alleys, picking up some ancient El Empire utensils from time to time.
Horn issued an edict to build his own house, so among the eighteen blocks currently divided, it is basically the eighteen hundred households who build it themselves.
However, after the first three blocks were barely repaired, the free-time young Pope Horn would not let them idle, but let them continue to help build houses for those who came after them.
In this way, the construction speed of Qiumu Island Town will be faster and faster. There is still more than half a month before it snows, so there should be enough time.
But looking at these noisy children running around the street, Horn rubbed his chin.
Should we gather them together and set up a preschool first? After all, the registrars have nothing to do after registering the population, so we can’t let them waste their wages.
With thoughts about preschool, Horn stepped into the small courtyard of the Order of Worshiping the Holy Father.
This small courtyard is not big, and there are traces of cleaning on the walls and floors. There are about thirty people sitting in the middle of the small courtyard. Seeing Horn's arrival, they all stood up uneasily to greet him.
"Sit down, sit down, sit down." Horn smiled and stretched out his hand to signal them to sit down, and then came to a woolen cushioned chair specially prepared for him.
But Horn did not sit on the velvet-cushioned chair. Instead, he pulled a hard stool from the other side and sat on it.
The eyes of the members of the Holy Father Worshipers present were filled with excitement and admiration. After all, after the collapse of their faith, the only savior who could fill their spiritual world expectations was this hero of the Qianhe River Valley.
They had witnessed with their own eyes the sight of the Pope taking the lead and carrying a holy blunderbuss to beat up the knights.
Horn looked around at the monks who worshiped the Holy Father, and found that many of them were itinerant priests at the bottom of the church or monks in the monastery.
They are also from Qianhe Valley, but as low-level intellectuals they also suffer from the oppression of the upper-class nobles.
"Did Papa come here this time to accept our allegiance?" Thirty-year-old Thomas asked impatiently towards eighteen-year-old Horn.
The Order of the Holy Father has been committed to developing members and maintaining order among these members during this period, uniting the subjects of the Papal State from a moral level and being consistent with the outside world.
It’s just that they are secret societies to a certain extent. Secret societies have been the target of official suppression since ancient times.
They think they are doing good things, but they do it secretly, which is really unpleasant.
It would be great if the Holy Father Association became an official organization.
"No." Horn glanced at the crowd in the room and faced their blank and surprised expressions. He said loudly, "You should be as loyal to the truth as I am, not to me.
If you represent Truth, I will naturally join you. If you don’t represent the truth, then I will ban you!”
(End of this chapter)