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发表于 2008-5-15 15:30:50
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但是，借马高速冲击的速度突刺，实际上重骑兵并不常用。这就是为避免刺入难以拔出，以及过于露出破绽。
When two cavalrymen are charging each other at greater speed the advantage is on the side of the cavalrymen with the longer, straight-blade sabers. In this short momemnt it was impossible for the light cavalryman to parry and then cut. The opponent could thrust and be far out of reach within a second. Although such situation gave advantage to the heavy cavalryman he rarely used it. There were two reasons for this:
# - it was difficult to retrieve fast enough the blade from enemy's torso without having the hand twisted or even being thrown off the horse. To avoid these problems the thrust couldn't be too deep. Shallow thrust however was not deadly.
# - to deliver an effective thrust one must lean forward. It exposes him to a cut ("he made a thrust at my groin I parried it off and cut him down through the head.") For this reason the heavy cavalryman was protected with helmet. Not every man was determined to allow the enemy to test his helmet :-))
If the heavy cavalryman did deliver a quick thrust and the light cavalryman missed his parry he was at least wounded. This however was rare as vast majority of thrusts were parried. An English hussar wrote "I had a cut at one man myself, who made point at me, but which I parried." The thrust must be parried first before the cut is delivered ("he made a thrust at my groin I parried it off and cut him down through the head.")
Thrust was prefered when the adversary was awkward or slow in delivering his attack, otherwise the cut was more instinctive blow and the men tended to cut even if their sabers were more suited to the thrust. |
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