If you want to go the elite cavalry route, the Mongolian horse is not actually suitable.

Mongolian horses have many advantages, including being easy to feed and stamina, but they are not tall and have a strong ability to carry weights.

To put it simply, Mongolian horses should take the route of large quantities of discounts.

It is not about quality, but only about quantity, and a large number of light cavalry are arranged.

Such cavalry will be of limited use on the real battlefield, and it will be very powerful when used to harass logistics lines!

The horses brought back from the grassland have an average height of about 1.25 centimeters, and their bodies are thick, their limbs are solid and powerful, their physique is rough and strong, and their heads are large and their foreheads are wide.

Lü Wu thought: "When the Mongols whipped the whole world, they took such horses on long journeys. The heavy cavalry of the Mongol Empire used horses that were not Mongolian horses, but Western Regions horses? ”

In the perception of many people, do you think that the Mongol Empire relied on archers to fight the world?

This, in fact, is a big misunderstanding.

In fact, the Mongol Empire was able to wreak havoc on most of the world's islands on the premise that they had enough heavy cavalry.

The Parthian Empire really used the archers to the extreme, once pressed the Romans to the ground and hammered, and then the archers tactics were cracked by the Romans, and since then the Parthian Empire has been hammered by the Romans to the point that they can no longer stand up.

And the horses that the Mongols used to form heavy cavalry were really not Mongol horses.

They captured and controlled the Western Regions, obtained good horses from the Western Regions, marched into Eastern Europe, obtained Don hippos again, and even obtained a considerable number of Arabian horses from the MSL in the early days.

The history of the expansion of the Mongol Empire was accompanied by the search for more horse breeds.

What's more strange is that Kublai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty, couldn't even get a decent cavalry in the end, and fought with the rebels on foot.

After finding a war horse with a higher height and a stronger weight-bearing capacity, the Mongols carried out military reforms.

They mixed heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

Lü Wu remembers a documentary he had seen about a battle between the Mongols and the Europeans.

In the face of the canned cavalry of the European coalition forces, the Mongols used light cavalry to deploy at the front of the battle line, and used light cavalry to pull and constantly shoot arrows to harass the European canned cavalry.

Repeatedly consumed, waiting for the European canned cavalry to be almost exhausted with men and horses? A mixed force of heavy cavalry and light cavalry was also dispatched.

The new Mongol mixed cavalry? The formation is that the first three rows are all light cavalry, and after the fourth? Each heavy cavalry had a cross formation of two light cavalry on the left and right sides? The flanks were in the middle of a sufficient number of hussar escorts.

It was a physical war of attrition between man and horse.

It turned out that the canned cavalry of the Europeans was not at all suitable for a battle that lasted too long, and the whole battle was fought? The canned cavalry of the European coalition forces was almost completely wiped out, and the European coalition infantry was still the rescue field behind it!

"Ah? Cavalry? The light cavalry, in particular, was never used to charge into battle. Keep that in mind. Lu Wu could actually see that his son didn't understand, and he said it more to remind himself.

The old Lu family will definitely develop cavalry!

Whether the cavalry rushes into battle or not depends on the need, not because it is not suitable.

Words of the archers?

Against an unarmored enemy? The threat will naturally be great.

Once all the enemy soldiers in the battle are armor-pierced? It can only play a role in harassment.

"Cavalry, whether there are enough or not, has always been difficult to play a decisive role in frontal battles. Their greatest usefulness lies outside of the frontal battlefield. "Lu Wuzhen is not talking nonsense.

In the war in the East, cavalry has always been only a supporting role.

This has to do with the lack of heavy cavalry in the East.

In the East, the greater use of cavalry was to raid? After victory, pursuit, cover, kill, etc.

Whether this is the ancient pre-Qin or the Han-Hun War? Or in the Sui and Tang dynasties and Tujue, the cavalry belonged to the supporting role.

During this period? The advantage of cavalry is that you can fight if you want to, and you can run immediately if you don't want to fight? It's impossible to carry a head-to-head match.

Therefore? Cavalry against infantry? Victory is inevitably a win, and defeat is a slight loss.

The cavalry really began to grow tall after the development of horseshoes, saddles, and stirrups.

Prior to this, the picture of cavalry attacking the infantry in dense formations would only appear in the deduction work, and the reality was not the same.

Song Bin, who had been listening, asked his soul, "In this case, why does the Lord not forget to find a good horse?" ”

Lu Wucai was not choked, and said: "The cooperation of the arms is the key. ”

Can't hit the front, can't hit the flanks?

Even if the two wings do not charge, just running from the periphery is enough for the enemy to drink a pot, and even the enemy has to be afraid of the impact on the two wings all the time.

After all, if you really seize the opportunity, the gain after the charge is far greater than the loss, and you still have to take the overall situation into account.

"Having Mongolian horses means a lot to our family." Lu Wu has already said the main point.

Ge Cun never understood the origin of the word "Mongolia", let alone what it meant, and asked without getting an answer.

He understood some key words, Mongolian horses are even better than Central Plains horses, just give enough forage, nothing more difficult.

Another point is that Mongolian horses have strong long-distance legs, which is an advantage that other breeds of horses do not have.

For example, the well-known West Pole horse...... That is, the Wusun horse or the Ili horse, the average horseback height is about one meter five, and the short-distance sprint ability is extremely strong, which is a very suitable war horse for charging cavalry.

However, the long-distance march of the West Pole Horse is very catchy.

They walk for three days, and they may have to rest for five or six days, unlike Mongolian horses, which are rough and durable.

The difficulty of raising West Pole horses is also far greater than that of Mongolian horses.

Lü Wu was talking about what a charging cavalry was, when a retainer came to report, and another team sent to the northwest returned.

Is this a good thing?

As soon as Lu Wu's thought appeared, he immediately knew that things were not so simple.

He sent far more men to the northwest than to the north, a total of two hundred and fifty men, but only ten returned!

Of these ten people, three are permanently disabled!

Lu Wu went to the pavilion where he was sent to greet him, and took the people back to the city to settle down first, looking very calm.

"Lord, I'll wait thousands of miles to the west......" The rough strong man looked really rough in all aspects, and there was even a scar like a centipede on his face.

He recounted what he had seen during the mission.

This team headed northwest, passing through Bai Zhai's territory for the first time without encountering any disaster, and even accepted good hospitality.

They went out with the task of finding good horses, but they didn't find the so-called good horses when they were in Bai Zhai's territory, and the horse breeds were actually similar to those in the Central Plains.

This is understandable.

Bai Zhai's habitat is actually the western part of modern Shaanxi, and Lilai is not a good breeding ground for good horses.

They passed through Bai Zhai's territory and entered the habitat of the Yiqu people, and at first there was nothing too special about the situation, and they found a different breed of horse from the Central Plains horse.

This Yiqu, their current habitat is in modern Ningxia, which is actually quite far away from the Western Regions.

The so-called is different from the Central Plains horse, but the average height of the horse's back reaches about 1.35 meters, and the endurance and weight bearing are better than those of the Central Plains horse.

The average height of the horse's back is only 1.5 meters now, which is 20 centimeters more, which is actually a lot.

"In this way, Yiqu knows that you are waiting for the Jin people, so he will attack and kill first, and then chase and kill for a long distance?" Lu Wu's face was very stinky.

They headed northwest, the distance was much shorter than going north, but the time spent was about the same, and the time was mainly spent on evading pursuit.

Despite this, they managed to bring back a stallion and four mares, which was a successful task, but at too high a cost.

"Lord, as far as the minister knows, Bai Zhai and Yiqu are already at war." Ge Cun said this sadly.

In Lu Wu's impression, Yiqu couldn't get along with the Qin State for a long time, and was finally destroyed by the Qin State.

He originally wanted to send someone to inquire about the current relationship between the Qin State and Yiqu, once the Qin State and Yiqu were at war, he wondered if he couldn't cooperate with the Qin people.

After Ge Cun's reminder.

Lü Wu remembered the last time Bai Zhai was involved in the Qin wars against the Jin state, and the Jin army defeated Bai Zhai in a frontal battle, forcing a large number of Bai Zhai tribes to migrate west.

The Jin State did not attach importance to the follow-up of Bai Zhai's defeat.

The team of the old Lu family went to Bai Zhai's territory, and the Bai Zhai people were not too hostile, but also gave a good reception?

However, the Yiqu people who have never had contact with the Jin Kingdom, what is their situation, even if they attack, they also carried out a long-distance pursuit!

Lu Wu could hear that Ge Cun wanted to borrow Bai Zhai's hand to punish Yiqu.

Jin Guo is very good at this trick, he always lets the younger brother go first, and the younger brother can't solve it before he goes on himself.

He needs to think.

Bai Zhai was evacuated in large numbers from the area bordering the Jin State, and it seemed that he was also scared by the Jin State.

However, with the living habits of the nomads, it will definitely not be long before they will return to the border areas of the Jin Kingdom to graze.

Lao Lu's family and Bai Zhai are actually not bordered.

The key thing is that "Huo" borders Bai Zhai.

With Lu Wu's thoughts, "Huo" Land will belong to him sooner or later, and it doesn't seem appropriate to support Bai Zhai in order to deal with Yiqu.

Even, he thought further.

How many nomads were supported by Zhuxia?

Those nomads had no accidents, and all of them became a great disaster for Zhuxia.

This kind of thing, Lu Wu pondered that he couldn't do it!

"Do you want to do business?" A map appeared in Lu Wu's mind, and he continued to say slowly: "In the last battle with Qin, the Qin State ceded the land of Weishui, and a hundred miles north of the Wei fiefdom was the territory of Yiqu. ”

Ge Cun got to Lu Wu's point in an instant.

The old Lu family needs to train their troops.

Chidi has experienced repeated blows, and has weakened to the point that even the value of letting the old Lu family train is almost gone.

In the next three years, the old Lu family has been given the right not to pay taxes.

The Yiqu people jumped out at this time.

The old Lu family needs to train soldiers, find Yiqu people not happy, and can also loot people and materials, including horses, of course.

Sure enough, Lu Wu's next sentence was: "Since the Yiqu people don't want to live a good life, give them iron and fire!" ”