Liu Pei also knew that what Yang Jingfa said was right. But cavalry was always the decisive force on the battlefield until the advent of heavy machine guns. It was impossible for Liu Pei to let the cavalry go. So he could only find a way to increase the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. Not to mention, he really came up with a solution, which was to ride the wall.

When he returned home, he rummaged through the lockbox for a while, and he really found information on the tactics of charging through the wall. After reading it, Liu Pei found that in fact, the main point of riding on the wall and charging is very simple. It is to emphasize the role of the whole, rely on discipline to restrain the group, and rely on the strength of the team to defeat the other party.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, with the gradual development of muskets, European cavalry developed an extremely tall cavalry tactic: the cavalry was equipped with 2-3 short guns, loaded with gunpowder projectiles in advance, and used short guns to hit the enemy when encountering the enemy.

The Polish hussars did not like to use muskets, but preferred to use very dense formations, known as cavalrymen knee to knee, holding spears to charge close to enemy cavalry. And Gustav's tall short-shot cavalry was always beaten and suffered heavy losses in the face of the barbaric and backward charging tactics of the Polish hussars.

The military strategists of Central and Western Europe could not educate the Swedes to fight in a civilized way, and the only way was to let their cavalry abandon their short guns and charge with sabers. Moreover, the military strategists of Central and Western Europe found this cavalry tactic to be very suitable for dealing with their skilled opponents, and they made another round of improvements on this basis: they ordered the cavalry not to use short guns when charging and to charge in a very tight horizontal formation.

The essence of traditional cavalry tactics is that the cavalry is superb and can break away with one blow, while in the face of wall-mounted cavalry, traditional cavalry cannot break away at all--- the enemy is too dense to break away unless you escape.

Of course, no matter how skilled the cavalry is, when they use the wall charge tactic, they will engage in a war of attrition with the enemy cavalry who also apply the wall charge tactic, i.e., if you kill 100 cavalry, I will have to be hacked to death 80-120.

There are even cavalry officers who study cavalry tactics who claim that the riding skills and equipment of cavalry units are not important, and only discipline, organization, and training are the most important.

You may have heard Napoleon's famous saying: A Mamluk cavalry can surely defeat a French soldier; Ten French soldiers were able to fight to a draw with ten Mamluk cavalry; A hundred French troops would certainly be able to defeat a hundred Mamluk cavalry.

In the 9th century, the Abbasid Dynasty, which was called "the big food in black" by China's history books, reached its peak, and its capital Baghdad had a large population and prosperous commerce, and was an international metropolis on a par with Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and Constantinople in Byzantium.

And the people who make up this force are called Mamluks. In Arabic, "Mamluk" means "slave". As the name suggests, this Mamluk cavalry unit was made up of slaves.

The geographical location determined that the Mamluk cavalry combined the advantages of European heavy knights and Central Asian light cavalry, and was more well-trained, disciplined, and tenacious, so it became a formidable force in the Middle Ages. During the Crusades, he followed Saladin to defeat the Crusaders and recover Jerusalem.

However, on the African battlefield, Mamluk, who was at the peak of cavalry horsemanship, was beaten by the French cavalry with inferior horsemanship, and there were even hundreds of French cavalry who cut thousands of Mamluks with sabers and were wiped out.

Even if the nomads also use cavalry wall charges, civilized countries do not need to be nervous, because the wall cavalry against wall cavalry tactics will only be a war of attrition, and any barbaric nomad will not want to defeat a civilized country in a war of attrition. Of course, if the skilled nomads were asked to give up their horsemanship superiority and use wall-mounted cavalry tactics to fight the civilized nations, they would rather surrender.

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