Even if the state wolf ride is rebuilt, the wolf ride is no longer the wolf ride of the past. The reason is very simple, most of the members of this cavalry are Xiliang soldiers!

Thanks to the gradual popularization of stirrups in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the importance of cavalry became more and more prominent during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was completely possible to become an independent branch of the army into war. And because there are differences in horse breeds, ethnic groups, living customs and other factors in different regions, there are also world-famous fine horses such as Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, White Horse Yicong, and Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Among the four elite horses, the system of Xiliang Iron Riding is more complex. In fact, it can be divided into two different Western Liang cavalry. One is represented by Dong Zhuo's Xiliang warlords, and the other is represented by the Xiliang rebels such as Bian Zhang, Han Sui, and Ma Teng.

Among them, Dong Zhuo was born in a strong and strong background, and he also represented the ruling class, so the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command was equipped with a full set of heavy armor, and the gravity impact of dense formations such as wedge formations was the main combat method. Bian Zhang Han then linked up with Qianghu to resist the rule of the Han court, and in the early stage, the light cavalry was mainly dispersed, and then Ma Teng absorbed the combat methods of the Western Roman legions, and combined the strengths of the Liangzhou and Qianghu cavalry, light armor and equipped with javelin spears, and the formation of legions such as fish scale formations as the combat mode.

The cavalry of these two different systems, although they were both born in Xiliang. But the reason why it was named "Xiliang Iron Ride" by the world is different. The Xiliang cavalry under Dong Zhuo's command is called the "Xiliang Iron Cavalry" because of the complete set of heavy iron armor, while Ma Teng's Xiliang cavalry is called the "Xiliang Iron Cavalry" because of its iron and blood combat methods.

Although the names are the same, the meanings are completely different. The former is called the Iron Cavalry because of its characteristic ironclad equipment, and the latter is entirely a title similar to the "Iron Army".

The wolf rider in Bingzhou is so fierce that it is not afraid of death, and it is a perverted combat ability in special environments such as mountains.

The white horse is righteous, not to mention, because it is better at riding and shooting than the Xiongnu Xianbei people who grew on horseback, and it is famous outside the sea and famous at home.

As for Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, compared with the "unique characteristics" of other cavalry, it is much more "ordinary". It is not like the Xiliang cavalry with a regional physique or a high-quality horse breed, but just an elite heavy cavalry selected from the ordinary cavalry.

Speaking of Zhang Liao's now rebuilt Bingzhou wolf ride, Zhang Xiu gave considerable support.

If we analyze a statistic, we can know how much Zhang Xiu supports the Wolves in Bingzhou.

Starting from Wancheng and traveling to the Central Plains, Zhang Xiujun had 2,000 Qianghu archers, 4,500 light cavalry, 3,000 heavy cavalry, Xiliang iron cavalry, and 800 flying bear soldiers and 300 Wuwei battalion guards. These troops all have war horses, and the total number of war horses is about 10,000 war horses.

Among the horse species, remove the Flying Bear Soldier and the special class of the Wuwei Battalion. The best breed of war horse is the crotch war horse of the Xiliang Iron Riders, all of the Liangzhou horses, with strong weight bearing and impact capacity. The second is the Qianghu horse breed naturally fed in the grassland Gobi Oasis, which has strong speed and mobility, and is equipped with Qianghu bow riding. Finally, the war horses of the light cavalry troops are all some non-high-quality Liangzhou horses and grassland horses, as well as some other miscellaneous horses.

However, when conquering Huainan, Zhang Xiu adopted the most convenient way of fighting with a frontal hard bar, and the idea was to give full play to the greatest advantage of the frontal charge of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and solve Yuan Shu as quickly as possible to the greatest extent. In the end, the expected effect was also quite satisfactory to Zhang Xiu, and he defeated Yuan Shu's main force in the field battle in one day.

But such a high level of damage is also based on a fairly high price. The strong impact ability of the Xiliang Iron Rider has made them famous as the Iron Rider, and it is also one of their fatal shortcomings. The characteristics of Xiliang are high-headed, and the generally tall body of Xiliang people has great potential energy. Coupled with the iron full-body armor and a full set of vests, the potential energy to accelerate can be said to be the first in the Three Kingdoms! There is no two! This has achieved the prestige of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the field battle between the two armies, and similarly, because of the high-intensity collision, the attrition rate of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry remains high!

To put it bluntly, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry actually belongs to the kind of cavalry that is hard and hard, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 self-losses. With its powerful impact ability, a normal Xiliang Iron Cavalry can kill more than five foot soldiers, or more than three local cavalry after full acceleration. But the price to be paid is self-inflicted injuries due to the relative force. It's better to rush through with potential energy in one go, but if you don't, heavy loads and bloated equipment will be the cause of death.

Therefore, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Dong Zhuo pays attention to the group charge and the use of formations. Rely on the bonuses of dense formations to achieve the best effect of breaking through enemy formations!

The essence of using the Xiliang Iron Cavalry lies in this, attacking the enemy's formation, or making its formation scattered to facilitate the cover and killing of its own infantry army, or interspersed and divided so that its head and tail parts cannot take care of each other. Riding on a horse to fight this is not what Xiliang Tieqi is good at, their combat secret is just three words - rush! Rush! Rush!

Of course, the exchange ratio of Xiliang Iron Cavalry to 1:5 and 1:3 is not high, and it is even quite a loss in terms of the degree of damage. Because the cavalry wears out, including the wear and tear of the war horse, the cost of a cavalry and a war horse is equivalent to thirty or forty foot soldiers, not to mention that if it is a good horse breed plus a full set of iron armor, the cost of cultivation and training equipment for an ordinary Xiliang iron horse is at least equivalent to fifty ordinary foot soldiers!

However, Xiliang Tie rode in the collision, and at most he killed and trampled to death ten foot soldiers, and then he would be killed by other foot soldiers under the horse because of the loss of potential energy and speed. Compared to the cost, is the cost performance negative?

In fact, although the direct exchange value is negative, but in terms of indirect value, the value created by Xiliang Tieqi is decisive. Because as long as the opponent's carefully prepared formation is disrupted, or the opponent's Chinese army is directly crushed, or even the enemy army is divided into several parts that cannot be taken care of, the Xiliang infantry can give full play to its huge advantage in the chaotic battle and fight at least one to two battle losses!

So you can settle an account for Zhang Xiu's defeat of Yuan Shu's main force. The three thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry caused no more than 10,000 casualties to Yuan Shujun's army, and he lost more than 1,000 horses in three battles in one day. It seems that Zhang Xiujun lost the equivalent of more than 50,000 foot soldiers. But in fact, relying on the decisive advantage caused by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the Yongliang army defeated more than 100,000 Yuan Shujun in the chaotic battle!

Although it lost the military strength equivalent to training 50,000 foot soldiers, it destroyed the military strength of Yuan Shujun's hundreds of thousands of foot cavalry, no matter how Zhang Xiu was calculated, it was a big profit! The real utility of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry lies in this, not in the direct fighting, but in the indirect military superiority!

After fighting Yuan Shu, the other cavalry didn't wear much, but the three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry was less than two thousand! Because Huainan does not produce horses, even if horses are produced or horses are purchased from all sides, there are no excellent horse breeds that meet the specifications and standards of mounts used as Xiliang iron horses. Therefore, Xiliang Tieqi did not supplement after that, and the establishment was reduced from three to two.

This is also a disadvantage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry - it is difficult to replenish the war horses of the corresponding specifications in other places outside of Xiliang, and the knights are good to add, but they do not have time to run in the training array combination.

To Cao Cao's expedition to Huainan, Zhang Xiu invested in the Qiyang field battle and the decisive battle out of the city to rely on the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to win, but because of Cao Cao's treacherous strategy, although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry still fought well, but did not play a winning effect, and could only be used to break through in the end. After the war, the number of Xiliang Iron Cavalry was sharply reduced to less than 1,000!

In this series of processes, the loss of Liangzhou horses is worse than the loss of knights, the original 3,000 excellent Xiliang horses, now there are only more than 500 left, if it were not for Zhang Xiu from the light cavalry troops to draw some inferior Liangzhou horses to supplement, the current Zhang Xiu's army in the West Liang iron cavalry scale is not the last one of 1,000 people - but a song of 500 horses.

This is also one of the disadvantages of choosing Huainan as a base, and it cannot be supplemented by high-quality horse breeds!

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is fighting less and less, and even the last part of the establishment is not satisfied, and there is a shortage of high-quality war horses. The other cavalry units are not much better, although the grassland horses ridden by the Qianghu archers have always had the lowest battle loss ratio, but the number of war horses is also declining due to injury problems. Ordinary light cavalry troops are better, they ride ordinary war horses, and they can buy them if they have money. However, due to the famine and drought in Huainan, financial constraints could only be supplemented by the captured Yuan Shu war horses.

In the case that the number of cavalry is only 5,000 and the number of excellent war horses is only hundred, Zhang Xiu authorized Zhang Liao to select 200 suitable war horses and reorganize the wolf riding in the state!

Therefore, with the assistance of Pei Yuanshao, the first "Bole" in Huainan -- the captain of the school, Zhang Liao selected 200 war horses suitable for the wolf riding of the state from the first-class mounts of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Qianghu Bow Cavalry, and selected the fierce warriors among the 200 cavalry to reorganize the wolf cavalry of the state.

Here you can show the difference between the wolf ride and the Xiliang iron ride. Because the effectiveness of the Bingzhou wolf cavalry is reflected in direct combat, it plays a direct combat role of killing and injuring a large number of enemy living forces and boosting morale, which is fundamentally different from the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which mainly plays a tactical and strategic role.

The different roles they played in the war also determined the differences in the equipment and combat methods of the two cavalry. Compared with the heavy equipment of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Knight, who is dressed in iron armor and a full set of horse armor, the Wolf Cavalry in Bingzhou is a light equipment with light leather armor and no armor because the main task of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is to fight in battle. In terms of weapons, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is mostly based on long and heavy weapons such as long and heavy weapons such as spears and halberds with sprinting effect, while the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is mostly short weapons such as swords and swords that fight with chaos in order to facilitate hand-to-hand combat in order to facilitate the grabbing formation.

On the war horse, Xiliang Iron Riding requires a "high-headed horse" type of breed, because only a horse like Liangzhou has the strongest impact ability. However, the Wolf Rider requires a short pony type with short legs and a low head, because only such a horse breed is suitable for complex terrain operations such as mountains, with first-class endurance and flexibility, and can meet the long-term fighting and maneuvering in the war group!

The difference in equipment and horse requirements led to different costs and trade-off rates for training the two types of cavalry. From armor and equipment to horse breeds, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is much higher than the requirements of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. After all, the difference between the cost of iron armor and leather armor, the breed requirements of high-headed healthy horses and low-pitched horses, and the cost of breeding and maintenance are obvious.

If cultivating a Xiliang Iron Rider is equivalent to training sixty armored foot soldiers, then a Bingzhou wolf cavalry is worth at most thirty armored foot soldiers.

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