Chapter 49: Dragon Gun Guards

  The twelve guards all knew that Ye Feng's ferocity did not lie in his superior martial arts, but rather in his extremely despicable nature.

  If you offend him, he will scrape off the last copper coin on your body, cheat you until you don't even have underwear, and throw you onto the streets of Xiniya. Don't believe me? Go take a look at that idiot sword hand who dared to challenge Ye Feng, he's still hanging on the city wall of Xiniya Water Pass.

  Diana had already gathered the guards together, Nia stepped forward and said loudly: "The Duke has decided to rebuild the Yurias family guard, this time we will all be trained by Lord Hayate. From now on, Lord Hayate is our instructor, our goal is to become dragon knights like Lord Hayate. Whether it's manpower or material resources, the family will fully support us."

  With a shout, all twelve people excitedly exclaimed. Single-handedly attacking four thousand pirates, no matter the outcome, this has already become an eternal legend.

  Honor is more important than life for a warrior, a soldier.

  To be a knight like Yefeng, who can't be defeated by 4,000 enemies, is something they never even dreamed of.

  Now Nia says this, it's like suddenly telling them: you can also become gods, become a legendary figure in the mouth of a ballad, how can they not be excited.

  Leibida's training of cavalry was also clear to them, and even now they have gained good riding skills through practice on horseback. However, whether it is Leibida's soldiers or themselves, they are all very clear in their hearts: they lack a kind of momentum, like the momentum when Ye Feng appeared in front of the pirates.

  Even with stirrups and saddles added, they felt that there was no great difference between themselves and their former selves.

  Ye Feng had already understood the problem while observing Leibida's cavalry training. They hadn't learned to control their warhorses with their feet in the stirrups, but only used them to maintain balance. But even this wasn't something these rookies could learn overnight.

  He was originally a distinguished staff member of the elite combat unit, the 1st Marine Division, trained to identify and solve problems at a glance.

  Moreover, limited by the vision of their time, Leibei's cavalry did not understand the combat methods of cavalry. For them, cavalry was still about charging forward and chopping down enemies. They had not even thought of forming arrays and fighting in coordination. The tactics of these cavalrymen were simply to charge forward and chop first, then talk later.

  At the same time, they also did not consider the rhythm of the offense.

  Heavy cavalry must strictly control the distance from the enemy during an attack, and must be able to fully exert the horse's impact force without wasting horsepower due to excessive distance.

  In addition to this, the movement of the enemy must also be taken into account. After all, they will not stand still and allow themselves to be chopped down; they too will choose either to engage in battle or retreat. This requires knights to have a high level of horse control ability, because as knights change their advance speed with the movement of the enemy, they must also maintain their own formation. When to start, when to slow down, when to accelerate - all this requires the knight to be mentally prepared.

  This is also why in the Eastern Roman Empire and medieval times, a knight started training from twelve or thirteen years old, and it took nearly ten years to grow up.

  Lei Bida's cavalry and guards, when attacking, would charge forward in a swarm, thinking that as long as they wore sturdy armor and protected their horses, they would be invincible like Ye Feng against pirates. This was indeed thrilling and fast, but also deadly.

  This was a daunting task for Ye Feng. It's one thing to put on two layers of armor and chop people by yourself, but it's another thing to lead a group of soldiers in formation to defeat an army of several thousand people. These soldiers need at least a year of rigorous training on horseback.

  But after comparing the warfare methods of this era, Ye Feng came to a very relaxed conclusion, that is, even if it was only a short period of training for heavy cavalry, in actual combat there would still be considerable advantages.

  You don't need to be overwhelmingly powerful, just a little stronger than your enemy is enough. He can no longer remember who said this, but the words are quite reasonable.

  In this era, whether it was the Normans, the Cataphracts or the Parthian Empire, even the northern barbarians and the nomadic tribes of Aberdeen, everyone used neat infantry squares, the difference lay in the number of columns in the square.

  The soldiers of the Norman Empire were well-trained and physically strong, but most importantly, they had the best equipment. Their heavy full-metal armor and tall multi-layered shields made it possible for the Norman legions to hold off enemy frontal attacks with just three rows of troops. In battles against the northern barbarians who only knew how to rush forward in a chaotic manner, the Norman legions often emerged victorious against enemies several times their own number.

  Secondly, there are the armies of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, who adopt a deeper formation in their battle array.

  But like the Barbarians and the Nomads of Aberdeen, most of the time there was no phalanx at all.

  The only thing that could render heavy cavalry helpless was the dense Macedonian phalanx of long spears, but with the Norman conquest of Macedonia, the long spear phalanx, which required a long period of strict training, had already disappeared in the long river of history.

  It is true that the Norman heavy infantry had also suffered greatly in front of the long pike formations, but at that time the general commanding the Norman troops introduced the Macedonian phalanx into the chaotic rock area, confusing themselves before defeating them.

  Heavy cavalry has a natural advantage against the not-so-dense square formation. Especially as Ye Feng thinks, currently they only need to deal with targets such as bandits and private soldiers of large slave owners. The quality of these armed men is even far inferior to the city guards of Xiniya.

  "Diana said, 'Now we have only twelve people, but soon we will increase to thirty. We are the first batch to finish training and later we will be instructors to train more cavalrymen. The guard of the Ulysses family will soon grow again. We will make those bandits who attacked Nia and Ora, killed our companions, pay with their lives. Let those profiteers who look down on the Ulysses family know the consequences.'"

  "Right, revenge!" The crowd raised their fists and shouted loudly.

  Ye Feng nodded, "Very good, I need warriors with blood"

  He continued, "We will soon be deploying training, the equipment of cavalry is different from infantry, needs to be specially manufactured, war horses also need to increase, but we now have to start training, the most important thing for knights is still the technique of controlling horses, this venue can be modified to be used, when we and the city guard's cavalry and practice, that valley will not be able to squeeze in, a larger safe venue is needed. I and Nia will start preparing from now on, Diana will accompany you to train together, our goal is to become fearless dragon knights, soon you will also raise the red dragon spear, let your enemies tremble with fear."

  The crowd cheered and shouted loudly.

  Euler exclaimed excitedly: "The Lord has said, what you have given me today, I will repay tenfold tomorrow."

  Nina waved her hand and said, "Okay, let's get started."