Chapter 1328: Close to the main battlefield

"Sure enough, it's better to use cavalry with it!" Jurgen said with emotion after the victory.

Without the cooperation of the black knights today, the Cossack cavalry would not dare to charge the enemy's spear formation. The only way to fight is to siege the enemy spearmen by cutting off the enemy supply line. Wait until the other party cut off the supply and became dizzy with hunger before launching the attack.

This is also a shortcoming of the Cossack cavalry-can not impact the spear array ...

Don't look at the later generations of the Cossack cavalry in the face of the infantry when facing the infantry, but in this era, Cossacks are really not easy to mix. Because during the Naval War, the European infantry eliminated the spearmen and replaced them with bayonets.

The Musketeer was put on a bayonet, and the total length was just over one meter. The length of this weapon, the light cavalry who uses the saber is completely not afraid, and even has the advantage. Therefore, after Musketeers became the mainstream of European infantry, Tsarist Russia, which had a large number of Cossack cavalry, became a "European roller", crushing all living beings. But in this era, the light cavalry is really not the main charge. Because, in the face of the spear formation, the light cavalry absolutely caught blind and could only wander and siege. Otherwise, if you are rushing, wait for it to be pierced into a skewers ...

Speaking of which, the spearman is not afraid of simple Cossack cavalry. As long as the spearman stands still, then the pure Cossack cavalry can do nothing. If they are elite veterans like Swiss spearmen, they can not only resist the impact of melee cavalry, but also take the initiative to attack. While maintaining the formation, they actively pursue melee light cavalry.

It is a pity that this time it was not elite veterans who were fighting against Cossacks, but recruiters with very poor psychological qualities. Therefore, Jurgen caught the weakness and broke it in one fell swoop.

In addition, this victory is inseparable from the cooperation with the Black Knight. When Jurgen was a scout in the First Army, he had heard Marin's theory of "community of arms".

This battle, in its view, is the most classic "arms of arms" battle-the spearman restrained the melee Cossack cavalry, so the cossack cavalry dared not charge directly; while the spearman without the long-range weapon was The black knight who used a musket restrained ...

As long as there are a group of long-range attackers in the enemy's formation, such as musketeers and archers, they will not win so easily today.

Therefore, the combination of the spearman and the musketeer in the Spanish phalanx is considered to be insufficiently complementary-the lance array can resist the impact of the enemy's melee cavalry, and the musketeer can resist the attack of the enemy's long-range arms ... …

In the same way, the cooperation of the melee Cossack light cavalry and the black knights, which are mainly long-range strikes, are also complementary.

But this is also relative. If the Cossack cavalry meets the main part of the coalition of the eight princes, it will not be so easy and happy. This is because the main force of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms includes both spearmen, long-range arms, and even many musketeers. If you use today's tactics to deal with the enemy, it may not be so easy.

Of course, to deal with the main force of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms, Marin did not expect the Cossack cavalry or the black knight to be the main force. The reason why Marin is waiting for the Cossack cavalry and black knights to reach the front line is actually that these cavalry are needed to chase down and intercept the enemy, so as to avoid future troubles. After all, the mobility of the Cossack cavalry is very powerful.

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After annihilating the Southern Army of the Allied River Guards, the Cossack cavalry, while guarding the pontoon, sent a messenger north on the east bank to notify the Third Army of Steindorff, still near Las Vegas ...

After receiving the news, Steindorff quickly led his troops south, heading straight to the pontoon.

At the same time, Arthas also sent two cavalry regiments north from the west bank of the Elbe-not to attack the remaining 6,000 river guards, but to intercept the enemy ’s messengers and avoid the enemy ’s headquarters from receiving a third. News of the Legion's successful crossing ...

Sure enough, when the two Cossack cavalry regiments headed north, they intercepted several batches of enemy messengers, successfully blocking the transmission of enemy news.

Otherwise, if the enemy forces discovered the arrival of the Third Army and the Cossack Cavalry Corps in time, they might send a large army to the other side of the Weser River to prevent the army from crossing the river Weser on the west side of Bremen. As a result, it was difficult for the Third Army and Cossack cavalry to reach the battlefield in time.

Three days later, the Third Army arrived near the pontoon and passed the pontoon smoothly.

Subsequently, the Third Army and most of the Cossack cavalry (the two Cossack cavalry remained in the western region of Bremen to intercept the messenger) continued to march west. In order to avoid the harassment of the subordinates of the old nobles of Bremen, who had surrendered to the coalition of the eight kingdoms, Steindorff took the Third Army and most of the Cossack cavalry, and did not leave Bremen or Brunswick -Within the Principality of Lüneburg, but from the territory of the Bishop of Velden between the province of Bremen and the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

A few days later, the army successfully reached the free city of Bremen Hanse in the southwest of Bremen ...

But what surprised Steindorff was that the free city of Bremen Hansa actually refused to lend a boat to build a pontoon for the army ...

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It turned out that in this battle for hegemony, when the city of Bremen was in the team, it chose to stand on the side of the coalition of eight princes ...

Speaking of which, Bremen is also an important city of the Hanseatic League. However, because of its status as an inland port, its positioning is awkward (at this time the city of Bremen has not yet built the Bremerhaven seaport).

After Marin annexed the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg and the bishopric of Bremen, the river downstream of Bremen was purely in Marin's hands.

And after Marin went to sea, Oldenburg Province set up a tax card on the Weser River in order to increase financial revenue, and the river was charged for crossing tax on merchant ships that entered and exited ...

This move angered the city of Bremen, which regarded the Weser River Shipping as a lifeline. This is because this tax collection action is entirely aimed at the city of Bremen, which is equivalent to bleeding in Bremen.

Therefore, this time when the coalition of eight princes attacked the North Sea, the coalition of princes of the eight countries promised to abolish the toll on the Weser River at the suggestion of Charles, Earl of Gelden.

After Marin returned to China, he knew that it was inappropriate to stop the river to collect the Bremen Merchant Shipping Tax, but it was too late to stop. Because the Bremen have chosen to surrender to the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms ...

Of course, the contradiction between Bremen and Beihai was not settled because of the toll collection tax. At the beginning, although Marin had good relations with the Hanseatic League, he only had good relations with Lubeck and Hamburg, the two main cities of the Hanseatic League, and most of the orders were handed over to these two cities. The Hanseatic city of Bremen, which is closer to the North Sea country, didn't even drink the soup, and had already resented the North Sea country.

During the negotiations with the Bremen City, the coalition of eight princes not only promised to cancel the tax card on the Weser River in the future, but also promised to hand over most orders to the city of Bremen in the future. In this way, the Bremen chose to stand on the side of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms and abandoned the Beihai Kingdom ...

The Third Army wanted to borrow a boat from the city of Bremen, but was rejected. Even the city of Bremen planned to send the boats on the dock to the other side of the river, lest the Third Army and the Cossack Cavalry Army be cheaper ...

Fortunately, Alsace took the initiative and immediately dispatched cavalry. With the artillery fire on the head of Bremen, it seized Bremen's wharf and captured most of the merchant ships in Bremen's port ...

Subsequently, hundreds of merchant ships, forced by the sabers of the Cossack cavalry, left the city of Bremen, moved a few kilometers north, and began to build a pontoon.

After the pontoon was built, the Third Army and Cossack Cavalry began crossing the river. Before the end of the crossing, the Alsace sent two cavalry regiments who would intercept the messengers in the western province of Bremen and recruited them back to cross the river together.

After passing the Weser, the army rushed northwest. A few days later, close to the main battlefield ...