The Book of Later Han lü Bu's biography records: "Shao and Bu attacked Zhang Yan at Changshan. Yan Jing had more than 10,000 soldiers and rode thousands of horses. Bu Chang Yu Liang Ma, known as the Red Horse, was able to gallop through the city and fly the graben, and its strong generals Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and dozens of others rode through the Yan Formation, one day or to three or four, all beheaded. ”
The "History of Song" records that Yang Zaixing rode a single horse to the front as follows: "Zaixing rode into his army alone, did not succeed in the capture technique, and killed hundreds of people by hand and returned." "Then why is it that this kind of single-horse assault or squad assault, the enemy does not concentrate on bows and arrows or muskets?
This kind of chiseling tactic, according to the Mongol tactics, is: "When they break the enemy, they ascend to the heights and overlook the terrain, first look at the terrain, detect the enemy's hypocrisy, and specialize in riding the chaos." Therefore, at the beginning of the confrontation, every time he rode lightly, he rushed into the enemy position. If you rush and move, no matter how many people are widowed, you will drive straight in, and the enemy will not be able to support 100,000 people. ”
So what does a commando look like? The Jin Army is, "Its use of troops, then Go for the front, the number of people is known as the hard army, and the people and horses are all armored." The knife is self-directed, the bow is behind, it is set but not fired, it does not shoot in fifty steps, and the bow strength is not more than seven buckets. "If you can't move at first, the front team will cross and the second team will collide again." The Jurchen cavalry was trapped and shot, but unlike the Song army's far-reaching archery, they rushed within fifty steps to shoot arrows, and they were also heavy chisels with a short range but powerful force.
In fact, it is to use full-body armor and high-machine power warhorses to cooperate with each other and attack the weak links of the opposing army with small detachments, and if not, try again or several times. Once the gap is opened, it rushes in to shoot heavy arrows, and the sword and spear charge on horseback, and violently attack the depth, causing the other side to collapse, and then the entire battle formation collapses.
At this time, if the defense side is strong enough, of course, it can shoot arrows, and Li Shimin will shoot 3 brave generals at a time, discouraging the enemy. The Book of Tang records: "The Turkic light horse is close to coming out, and when he encounters a brave and famous person among the three thieves, he raises his gun and marches forward." Left and right, please avoid it, Taizong does not follow, wait for it to come, fire three arrows in a row, and kill each other. The enemy was intimidated. ”
However, the weaker army will be broken through the camp, for example, the Ming army and the Yuan army once fought, and the Yuan army had 50,000 Chen Luoshuibei. Yu Chun single-handedly rode through his position, and the enemy rode more than twenty horses to stab him. Yu Chunyi killed his forwards and shouted in, and the strong men under his command followed. The enemy collapsed and pursued for more than fifty miles.
Zheng Chenggong encountered the Eight Banners Army at Zhenjiang, using heavy armor and long knife hands against the Eight Banners Assault Cavalry. Later, the Qing army cloud pirates were powerful, killing six duan with one knife, why did the crowd do it? The Qing army knew that the three men rode away on horseback, and the thief slashed it with a knife at the waist, and all of them were broken, not six paragraphs?
But later, the Eight Banners Army began to use concentrated archery outside the city of Nanjing, and the Eight Banners archers led by Kakhamu, Ge Zhuha, and Marsai concentrated on shooting, resulting in Zheng Chenggong's first fierce general Gan Hui being heavily armored, and also being shot through more than 30 arrows, which penetrated the iron armor. Subsequently, a warrior of the Qing army killed the Ming general Yu Shixin with a large iron rod.
That is to say, the assault cavalry dared to make a fierce in-depth assault toward the infantry array, one by one in the gaps of the array. If the defender can block, for example, "Zizhi Tongjian": "King Jian of Qin will beg Zhang Ping, oysters will shout alone, and those who enter and leave Qin Chen will be four or five." The Eagle Yang general Lü Guang stabbed the oyster, Zhongzhi, and Deng Qiang captured the oyster to offer, and the Pingzhong collapsed. The Qin people called Deng Qiang and Zhang Oysters enemies. ”
Either you have this kind of ten thousand enemies or a strong man like Li Shimin who kills the opponent's commando team, otherwise there is a danger that if you rush and move, you will drive straight in, regardless of the number of people, and the enemy will not be able to support 100,000 people. Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, leading dozens of hundreds of Jia Ding to burst into the front was also the main tactic.