Chapter 912 Blitzkrieg (VII)
The members of the Delan Undead Squad drove their horses to gallop while shooting arrows.
The galloping members threw arrows at the spear array of the Hiran army as much as possible, and then turned their horses' heads.
They still did not trample the array directly with their horses' hooves, but bypassed and galloped far away, crossing with their own people who came from different directions, and then turned back again, regrouped outside the range of the enemy's feather arrows, and launched another round of shooting.
Looking at the Britannia army riding and shooting arrows on horseback, Nikita's face became particularly gloomy.
He gritted his teeth and said: "Alti tactics... This cavalry team actually knows Alti tactics..."
Nikita is very familiar with this tactic.
This is the usual tactic of the steppe people in the Far East - that is, the Huns.
About 400 years ago, the Huns suddenly came to the Far Eastern steppes from the farther east.
The Huns, who had just arrived at the Far Eastern steppes, took root in the steppes and launched a crazy invasion of the countries bordering the Far Eastern steppes.
At that time, neither the Holy Hilan Empire nor the Frank Empire had been established. There were as many as four countries bordering the Far Eastern steppes.
These four countries bordering the Far Eastern steppes suffered a lot from the invasion of the Huns.
Because they were not adapted to the Huns' tactics.
The Huns, who had lived on horseback since childhood, were best at riding and shooting, so they developed a tactic, which they called "Alti".
In simple terms, the Alti tactic is to dispatch a large number of light cavalry to continuously launch horseback shooting at the enemy formation to disrupt the enemy's formation.
When shooting arrows on horseback, the bumpy warhorse under the crotch will make the arrow's accuracy extremely poor, and the arrow's power will not be very high, so the Alti tactic is not very lethal.
However, when facing the invasion of the Huns for the first time, people at that time were still embarrassed by the Alti tactic of the Huns.
The reason is that although the lethality of this Alti tactic is not high, it is very disgusting.
The biggest threat brought by the Alti tactic is that the arrows shot by the cavalry will disrupt the enemy's formation.
Although the arrows shot by the Alti tactic are not powerful,
they are more than enough to harass the enemy soldiers.
The most common tactic used by the Huns is to harass the enemy formation with the Alti tactic first, causing chaos in the enemy formation, and then send heavy cavalry to attack the enemy formation from the front and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
People at that time suffered a lot because they were not familiar with the Huns' tactics.
But gradually, people at that time also found a way to overcome this tactic and gradually reversed the situation of the war with the Huns.
Although this tactic is disgusting, there are many ways to overcome it.
There are two most direct and effective methods.
The first method: send a large number of cavalry to pursue.
Although the Huns are a nation living on horseback, the strictly trained cavalry will not lose to the Huns' cavalry in terms of combat effectiveness and speed.
As long as the elite cavalry is sent to chase the Huns' archers, it will be easy to crack this tactic.
The second method is to gather the archers and shoot against the Huns' archers.
Unless they are very rare, the arrows shot by the archers are far superior to those shot by the infantry in terms of range and power.
Therefore, when the archers and the crossbowmen shoot against each other, unless the number of archers is seriously insufficient and the training is seriously lacking, the archers will definitely not be able to shoot the crossbowmen.
Before Nikita was a marshal, he had served in the Far East Front, so he had seen the Huns' Alti tactics.
It was for this reason that he could directly see at a glance that the tactics currently used by the Britannia Army were the Huns' Alti tactics.
Since the Huns took root in the steppes of the Far East, after seeing these extremely fresh tactics of the Huns, the armies of various countries have also begun to actively learn some advanced tactics of the Huns.
For example, the Huns' signature tactic, the Alti tactic.
However, the conditions for the use of the Alti tactic are very strict. Only with a strictly trained cavalry archer can the Alti tactic be used.
The Huns have lived and grown up on horseback since childhood, so they can easily master the skill of horseback archery.
However, this skill is too difficult for people in agricultural civilizations to master.
In addition, this tactic is not so useful for large-scale military operations, so few troops will spend a lot of effort to learn it.
Therefore, up to now, looking at the entire continent, there are still very few archer cavalry troops that can use the Alti tactics.
Nikita never expected that the Britannia cavalry in front of him not only has a strong melee ability, but also has the ability of horseback archery.
—— When did the Britannia Empire have such a strong cavalry?
Nikita gnashed his teeth and roared wildly in his heart.
—— This cavalry is definitely an elite force secretly trained by the Britannia Empire.
—— There is no mistake!
—— The dark purple cloak on them is the exclusive equipment of this unit.
——Damn it... They have melee capabilities that are not inferior to the armored holy cavalry and archery capabilities that are not inferior to the Huns...
This cavalry of the Britannia Empire is too strong - this is Nikita's most real feeling at the moment.
But Nikita now has no spare time to sigh at the strength of this cavalry.
If he does not take countermeasures, his gun formation will soon be broken by the waves of harassing arrows.
"Crossbowmen, come forward! Follow my orders and fire volleys!"
Nikita does not have too many cavalry on hand now. If he releases the cavalry he currently has, not only will he not be able to chase and kill this cavalry, but he is also very likely to be killed by this overly strong cavalry.
Therefore, the only countermeasure Nikita can use now is to send out crossbowmen to shoot against the cavalry of the Britannia Empire.
However, Nikita's only option at present is not easy to use.
Because he now has too few crossbowmen, and the Britannia Army's cavalry is too strong.
The number of crossbowmen is seriously insufficient, so the arrows thrown out are too sparse, and there is no way to cause effective damage to the Britannia Army's cavalry.
In addition, the speed of this cavalry was too fast, so many arrows of the crossbowmen of the Hilan Army fell into the air.
The crossbowmen of the Hilan Army chased the figures of the Britannia Army Cavalry in vain, but the arrows could only chase the smoke and dust left by the horses.
"What should I do..." Nikita murmured helplessly.
The inability to use arrows to effectively kill the Britannia Army Cavalry meant that he could not crack the Britannia Army's Alti tactics.
Nikita could only continue to rack his brains to think of countermeasures, while helplessly watching the gun formation that became more and more chaotic under the shooting of the Britannia Army Cavalry...
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