The rise of the prince

Chapter 326 The Era of Rising Heavy Cavalry
During the banquet, everyone mentioned anecdotes and strange things, Li Xingzhou then asked: "You guys are right. Could it be that you fought with the Xixia people back then, or was it just hearsay and bragging?"

Before Di Zhi could say anything, Ji Chunsheng, whose face was flushed from drinking, yelled loudly, "Of course I beat him! He beat the Prince of Xixia to the capital himself to ask for peace."

The prince went to Beijing to ask for peace!

This is not a joke, Li Xingzhou was a little surprised, Jing Guoyou is so good?
Di Zhi next to him smiled awkwardly, and explained in a low voice: "Actually, there are winners and losers. In the last battle, Jingguo won a small victory. To deal with the threat of Liaoguo, Xixia sent the prince to Beijing to make peace. The two countries will not invade each other. Lest the Liao people take advantage of it."

After hearing this, Li Xingzhou shook his head in a sudden realization. Although he was a little dizzy, he still understood that, to put it bluntly, it means mutual benefit. Both Xixia and Jingguo are adjacent to Liao.

If the fight continues, the Liao Kingdom will only reap the benefits of being a fisherman. The Xixia people are not stupid, and the Jingguo people are not stupid, so let it go.

Li Xingzhou suddenly became curious, and pulled Ji Chunsheng up who was lying on the table: "Uncle Ji, have you seen that Pingxia iron kite?"

Ji Chunsheng was six or seven times drunk, and said with a big tongue: "Of course I saw it, and I chopped two!"

The banquet was noisy, everyone was happy to drink to their heart's content, and the emperor was also happy, so he didn't care. Even He Zhao, who usually had a stern face and didn't have many friends, was blushing from drinking at this time.

No one cared about Ji Chunsheng's yelling: "Those hiccups, those Xixia people put cold-forged armor on their horses, and even tied them with hook locks. Once they charge into the battle, they will not fall off even if they die on horseback Come down, the horse will continue to charge."

Li Xingzhou was dumbfounded. Isn't this a suicide attack by heavy cavalry?

Also, what is cold forging armor?
But when you think about it, it's really scary. A man in iron armor plus a war horse is estimated to be less than half a ton. If he rushes into the crowd on a large scale, he can easily kill people by trampling and hitting them.

"We, hiccup." Ji Chunsheng said as he lay down on the floor, snoring on the table.

Di Zhi over there shook his head, and continued: "Actually, I lost three consecutive battles to the army, and I lost all of them at the hands of those iron kites. Those iron kites are really terrifying.

Then it happened to be June, when it rained heavily, the Xixia people did not dare to go out to fight, our army took the opportunity to attack the camp, the iron kites were useless at all, and they were beaten back. "

Li Xingzhou nodded, and at the same time felt how interesting history is. No matter how it changes, past life, present life, East and West, when human civilization reaches a certain stage, there seems to be an inevitable driving force to move it forward.

And he might just be having an interesting time, too.
The era of the rise of heavy cavalry!

With the advancement of saddle technology and armor forging technology, it is almost a historical necessity for a period of time that heavy cavalry gradually become the main unit on the battlefield.

Many people have the impression that heavy cavalry are Western canned knights and the like, but in fact, as early as around the [-]th century, on the eastern battlefield, heavy cavalry was constantly rising and gradually dominated the battlefield.

Although as early as the Three Kingdoms period, the heavy cavalry under Cao Cao's command was more famous, but from the previous life to around the twelfth century, the heavy cavalry on the Eastern battlefield was really flourishing.

Xixia Pingxia Iron Harrier, Jurchen Tiefutu, Song Dynasty Jingsai Army, Yue Fei's back-mounted iron cavalry, and the famous Genghis Khan's cowardly heavy cavalry.

When human science and technology developed to a certain stage, due to the advancement of forging armor and saddle technology, heavy cavalry began to become an organizational system, getting rid of the role of flanking raids and restraining, replacing heavy infantry as the vanguard on the frontal battlefield, and the effect was very outstanding.

Frontal group charge is a man's romance.

Xixia could suppress the Song Dynasty by relying on 10,000 iron kites and gain a regional advantage, while Jurchen's [-] iron Buddhas and [-] kidnapped horses defeated [-]+ Liao people and fled. The formation of the Wanjin Kingdom army still won.

And it is Genghis Khan’s Mongolian heavy cavalry that maximizes the advantages of heavy cavalry. It is true that the Mongolian army is good at cavalry and archery, but the heavy cavalry is the main force of the Mongolian army. All horses, not heavy cavalry, even riding and shooting.

According to historical records, the proportion of heavy cavalry in the Mongolian army is as high as [-] to [-]%, which is a very terrifying proportion. Just like the Jurchen Xixia, the whole country can only support two to three thousand fully equipped heavy cavalry.

The main force of Genghis Khan in its heyday (excluding auxiliary troops, slaves and other messy people) was as high as 24. If calculated according to this ratio, he said that there were at least about [-] heavy cavalry!

A real torrent of steel.

If it weren't for the fact that horses couldn't cross the sea, he might have slaughtered the whole world.

Li Xingzhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion, now Xixia's iron harriers have appeared, and he doesn't know if the Jurchens have made iron stupas, and he doesn't know if Liao has the Iron Forest Army.

In the previous life, there was no Baiyi in the south, and there was Dali, but in this life, I have never heard of Tubo.

Jing Guo should also have decent heavy cavalry, but the scale is small, and he didn't see it.

In the previous life, the Jurchens rose, the Kingdom of Jin was established, and the Kingdom of Liao was attacked by Song and Jin from both sides, and then moved westward.

In the end, Jin, Song, and Xixia struggled for hegemony, and the Jin generation was not as good as the previous generation. When the Jin family was complacent, they never expected the rise of the Mongols.

The powerful Kingdom of Jin and many other countries were quickly annexed, but Song, who seemed the weakest, struggled to survive until the end.

But in this world, none of these things came, Jurchen did not establish itself as a country, Liao and Jing were still at loggerheads, Xixia did not offend either side, and as for Dali, it was a warm and friendly small country, and they also got along harmoniously.

But Li Xingzhou always has some hidden worries, especially after the Southern War this time, because there were Jurchens around the border of Guanbei last year. If the times follow the trajectory of the previous life, then the rise of Jurchens is the real big hidden danger.

Although Jurchen's self-established Jin Kingdom is not as good as the previous generation, but Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda is really powerful, so powerful that he can be called a hero. 2 people broke through the 70 Liao army, killing him on the title page of history. The myth of "Jurchen is not enough to be ten thousand, and ten thousand is invincible".

It's just that I don't know if the Jurchens have such a powerful leader in this era.

Li Xingzhou was drinking while thinking about it. This kind of general trend in the world, he didn't think about it before, but now, he has to think about it.

From time to time, people came to toast, and Li Xingzhou didn't think much about it, and he always refused.

At this time, there was a faint noise from the opposite side. Li Xingzhou leaned on the table with his head too heavy and looked up. He happened to see the crown prince wearing the red robe of the Eastern Palace, talking to each other everywhere. Among them, intermittent, can not hear clearly.

I can only vaguely hear "Commander Yang is a great talent." "Xingzhou's nephew is still young after all, it should be Commander Yang who is good at scheduling." Fighting" "Hahaha, Commander Yang will naturally let him."

Li Xingzhou was drowsy from drinking, he felt happy tonight, and laughed out loud, this silly prince.

He probably wanted to put the credit on Yang Hongzhao through words, so that his own credit would be reduced. I have to say that his logic is invincible and cute.

It is indeed a bit creative, after all, Yang Hongzhao is not here, so he can say whatever he wants.

But when he said this, he couldn't see Mount Tai, not to mention that he still didn't understand his identity and who the prince was, and even his words were not human.

Sure enough, he was talking there, and the face of the first emperor was getting worse and worse. The crown prince was sitting at the top, the closest to the emperor, so the emperor could naturally hear what he said.

The emperor is of course to protect the Tian family, the royal family is the largest family in the world, and the family interests are above all else for the emperor.

No matter what, Li Xingzhou is a child of the Tian family. His meritorious service is to accumulate power for the Tian family and consolidate the rule. The emperor wishes to exaggerate his contribution and say that his contribution is all added to him. Talented people will obey the royal family, and the rule can be firm.

As a result, the prince continued to push the credit to Yang Hongzhao. No matter how high his official position was, Yang Hongzhao was still an outsider to the emperor.
(End of this chapter)