Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 306
In fact, the so-called cavalry wall charge is not a new tactic, and Gao Pragmatic even feels that this tactic itself is not clever.

In fact, in Gao Pragmatism’s view, the development of modern firearms to a certain stage means the demise of all cold weapon cavalry. The so-called Western cavalry’s tactical crushing of Eastern cavalry is entirely the effect of foreign slaves’ brains.

In the era of cold weapons, Western cavalry was no match for Eastern cavalry—the Mongols taught them to be human very early on.

The reason why modern Western cavalry can defeat Eastern cavalry is simply because they use hot weapons instead of cold weapons, and they have a huge advantage in weapons and equipment.Gao Yushi has always felt that if both sides use thermal weapons of the same power, it is estimated that the Eastern Cavalry's devious strategy and tactics will still prevail.

The success of modern Western cavalry is based on the system of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, as well as the absolute superiority of firepower. Without the support of infantry and artillery systems equipped with advanced firearms, a single formation of modern Western regular cavalry will still be attacked by traditional Eastern cavalry. The cavalry were slowly bled to death like wolves hunting bison.

To put it bluntly, if there is no support from the modern gun system, the dense and neat cavalry charge formations of the modern Western cavalry would be regarded as suicidal charges if viewed horizontally or vertically.

In fact, this kind of strict, dense and neat cavalry charge was found in ancient China and medieval Europe, and they were all heavily armored cavalry.Leaving aside Europe, China alone appeared twice:

Once, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was terminated by the rise of the Turks.At that time, the Rouran people who believed in charging in a densely armored formation—and they were all top cavalry owners who could charge and shoot arrows at the same time—were defeated by the Turkic cavalry and archery cavalry, and gradually withdrew from the Chinese war arena since then.

The second time was at the junction of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.At that time, the famous Iron Buddha in the Kingdom of Jin was a strict cavalry charge with dense heavy armor.Frankly speaking, if we only talk about cavalry charges in neat and dense formations, the Western cuirassiers who used wall-style charge tactics in modern times, or even Western cavalry without armor at all, may not be as good as the golden soldiers and Iron Buddha, because Iron Buddha has another name It's called a serial horse-you can imagine how dense their lineup is.However, Tiefutu was ended by the Wu brothers in Monk Yuan!
The heavy armored cavalry in Europe in the Middle Ages ended in the Mongolian invasion and its aftermath. The Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights were destroyed, the Polish Legion was destroyed, and the Hungarian Heavy Cavalry was destroyed. The top heavy cavalry regiments in Europe are also masters who believe in charging in dense and orderly formations.

By the same token, if the so-called phalanx charge of the so-called light cavalry in the modern West with only a thin layer of breastplate was not equipped with a firearm that was ahead of an era, it should not have any advantage at all in fighting the Eastern nomadic cavalry.

Of course, in Gao Yushi’s previous life, he has seen many examples of foreign slaves defeating Eastern cavalry in modern times on the Internet, but there is a problem of subverting the concept: the battle examples cited by foreign slaves basically cannot prove that modern European cavalry is superior to cavalry itself. The superiority defeated the traditional cavalry in other regions.

From Napoleon's evaluation, we can see that the French cavalry, the strongest French cavalry in Europe at the same time, was not as good as the Mamluk cavalry in terms of individual quality.

As for the cavalry in Turkey and Africa, they are not traditional archer cavalry. Their cavalry weapon is a scimitar. Compared with the cavalry with long spears, who has a stronger impact?It was the same before modern times. There is no question of modern or ancient. Both have their own advantages. The key is the issue of command and use, which is related to the quality of the commander.

As for the Qing Dynasty, the European cavalry was already equipped with firearms. It was a question of the use of firearms, a gap in weapons. This advantage was not limited to cavalry, but covered the gap in weapons between the entire Eastern and Western armies.

There is another example of a battle. The foreign slaves themselves said that the Sikh cavalry was defeated by the Bengal cavalry. In other cases, it was obvious that the machine gun of the European infantry won the victory, not the cavalry. Everyone knows that the machine gun is the nemesis of the cavalry in a narrow sense.Regarding the war between Russia and Turkey, everyone knows that it was Russia that lost on the battlefield, not Turkey.

Similarly, how many cavalry of European descent were abused by the Russian Cossack cavalry who obviously had "Oriental blood" in the European battlefield?

Therefore, Gao Yushi has always believed that the so-called advantages and disadvantages of Eastern and Western cavalry are related to the level of weapons and armor determined by the technological level at that time, the terrain where the battle takes place, the level of coordination of the accompanying infantry, and the organizational form of the state power in the era. Also relevant.

To put it simply: no single branch can conquer the world.

You can't use it to attack the city of Mangu, who was once invincible in field battles, right?Even the same Mongolian cavalry was driven back to his hometown by Zhu Yuanzhang 70 years later, and then he was beaten on the ground by Zhu Di again and again.

So Gao Pragmatic thought it over and over again, and finally felt that the root cause of his cavalry's lack of outstanding performance was nothing more than two points: one was that there were too few formal combats, and the other was that the equipment was not strong enough.

Ma Jiada's soldiers are all elites of hundreds of battles, and they are real gold left after countless wars. Except for about half of the original Bailixia thieves owned by Gao Jiaqiding, the other recruits are all recruited from the frontier , Their actual combat experience is either pitifully little, or simply zero. Isn't it normal for them to have higher casualties than Ma Jiada's soldiers as soon as they participate in the war?
After trying to understand this truth, Gao Yushi finally got out of the entanglement in his head.

Think of ways to get your own servants to participate in the war, instead of using them as servants to guard the home.Although this will definitely lead to casualties and increase the financial burden-Gao Yushi has just learned that Ma Wei's so-called compensation money and reward money can't compare with the standards he set, so the 53 servants he lost, Ma Wei's pension and rewards only accounted for one-third, and the remaining two-thirds were all subsidized by Gao Shishi himself, so Gao Shidu, who has lost a lot of money, will be depressed all day today.

But when Gao Yushi figured it out, he still insisted on his consistent point of view: Anything that money can solve is not a problem, because although I am not good at cavalry training, I am good at making money!
A cavalryman died in battle, Ma Wei only spent less than 20 taels to pay for the compensation, plus the loss of the horses, it was only about 30 taels... Would Gao Shidu, who is making money every day, care about this amount?Even according to the standard he set for his own cavalry, the one-time pension for each cavalry who died in battle was as high as 50 taels, and the war horse was only 60 taels.The loss of 53 cavalrymen today, even if he had to bear all of them, would actually be in the early 3000s.

He can afford this loss.

　I fell asleep writing and writing in the middle of the night, and the alarm clock didn't wake me up. I'm really sorry... This chapter is yesterday.

　　
　
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