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 Pragmatic's view, the development of modern firearms to a certain stage means the extinction of all cold-weapon cavalry, and the so-called Western cavalry tactically crushing the Eastern cavalry is completely the effect of foreign slaves making up their own brains.

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

The reason why the Western cavalry in modern times was able to defeat the Eastern cavalry was only because they used hot weapons instead of cold weapons, and they had a huge advantage in weapons and equipment. Gao pragmatic has always felt that if both sides use hot weapons of equal power, it is estimated that the roundabout strategy and tactics of the Eastern cavalry will still prevail.

The success of the modern Western cavalry is based on the system of infantry, cavalry, and artillery and the absolute superiority of firepower, and without the support of the infantry and artillery system equipped with advanced firearms, the queue attack of the Western modern regular cavalry alone will still be slowly bled to death by the traditional cavalry of the East like a pack of wolves hunting bison.

The kind of cavalry in the modern Western cavalry lined up in a dense and neat cavalry charge queue, to put it mildly, without the support of the modern gun system, Gao Pragmatic looks at it horizontally and vertically, and feels that it is nothing more than a suicidal charge.

In fact, this kind of strict dense and neat cavalry charge was found in ancient China and medieval Europe, and they were all heavy cavalry. Not to mention Europe, there are two appearances in China alone:

One was during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which ended with the rise of the Turks. At that time, the Rouran people, who believed in the heavy armor and dense formation charge—and were all top horsemen who could shoot arrows while charging—were beaten by the Turkic cavalry and slowly withdrew from the Chinese war scene.

The second time was at the junction of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the famous Tiefu Tu of the Jin Kingdom was a strict cavalry charge with dense heavy armor. Frankly speaking, if we only talk about the cavalry charge in a neat and dense formation, the Western cuirassiers that use the wall charge tactics in modern times, or even the Western cavalry without armor, are probably not as good as the golden soldiers Tiefutu, because the Tiefutu has another name called the chain horse - you can imagine how dense their lineup is. However, Tiefutu was terminated by the Wu brothers in Monk Yuan!

The heavy cavalry of the European Middle Ages was terminated by the Mongol invasion and its aftermath, the Knights Templar and the Teutonic Knights were wiped out, the Polish Legion was wiped out, and the Hungarian hoplite cavalry was wiped out.

In the same way, the so-called light cavalry dense formation charge in the modern West, which only has a thin layer of cuirasses, should not have any advantage at all if it is not equipped with firearms that are ahead of the era and fight against the Eastern nomadic cavalry.

Of course, in Gao Shishi's previous life, I have seen many examples of foreign slaves defeating the Eastern cavalry in modern times, but there is a problem of stealing concepts here: the examples listed by foreign slaves basically cannot prove that the modern European cavalry defeated the traditional cavalry of other regions in terms of the superiority of the cavalry itself.

From Napoleon's evaluation, it can be seen that the French cavalry, the strongest cavalry in Europe in the same period, was inferior to the Mamluk cavalry in terms of individual quality, and its way to victory was a matter of battlefield command, rather than a question of the superiority or inferiority of the cavalry itself.

As for the cavalry of Turkey and Africa, they are not traditional archers, their cavalry weapons are scimitars, and who has the more impact compared to the cavalry armed with spears, is this still worth debating? It was the same before modern times, there is no question of modern or ancient, both have their own advantages, the key is the question of command and use, which is related to the quality of commanders.

As for the Qing Dynasty, the European cavalry was already equipped with firearms, and that was the problem of using firearms, the gap in weapons, and this advantage was not limited to cavalry, but covered the entire arms gap between the Eastern and Western armies.

There is another example, the foreign slaves themselves say that the Bengal cavalry defeated the Sikh cavalry, and there are other examples of battles, which are obviously the victory of the European infantry machine guns, not the cavalry, and everyone knows that the machine gun is the nemesis of the narrow cavalry. Regarding the war between Russia and Turkey, everyone knows that it was Russia, not Turkey, that lost on the battlefield.

In the same way, how many cavalrymen of European origin did the Russian Cossack cavalry, who clearly had "Eastern blood", abuse the cavalry of European origin in the European theater?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism has always believed that the so-called advantages and disadvantages of the Eastern and Western cavalry are related to the level of weapons and armor determined by the level of science and technology at that time, the terrain in which the battle is located, the level of infantry coordination that accompanies it, and the organizational form of state power in the era.

In a nutshell: no single class can conquer the world.

You can't use the once invincible Mangu to attack the city, right? Even the same Mongolian cavalry, seventy years later, was driven back to his hometown by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then Zhu Di pressed him to the ground and beat him again and again.

Therefore, Gao pragmatic thought about it, and finally felt that the root cause of his horseman's performance was not good enough was nothing more than two points: one was too little regular actual combat, and the other was that the equipment was not strong.

The soldiers of the Majia family are the elite of a hundred battles, and they are the real gold left after countless wars, in addition to the Gao family cavalry Ding has about half of the original Bailixia horses, the other recruits are all recruited in the border areas, their actual combat experience is either pitiful, or simply zero, as soon as they participate in the war, is it not normal for the casualties to be higher than the Majia soldiers?

After thinking about this truth, Gao Pragmatism finally got out of the entanglement of his head.

We need to find more ways to get our own family members to participate in the war, rather than really use them as family caretakers. Although this will definitely lead to casualties and increase the financial burden - Gao Pragmatic just learned that Ma Wei's so-called pension silver and reward silver cannot be compared with the standard set by himself, so of the fifty-three family members he lost, Ma Wei's pension and reward accounted for only one-third, and the remaining two-thirds had to be subsidized by Gao Pragmatic himself, so Gao Shiyu, who had lost a lot of money, would be sullen all day today.

But when Gao pragmatic figured it out, he still insisted on his previous consistent view: everything that money can solve is not a problem, because although I am not good at training cavalry, I am good at making money!

A cavalryman died in battle, and Ma Wei's side only spent less than twenty taels to complete the compensation, plus the loss of the war horse, it was only about thirty taels...... Will the high attendant who is making money care about this number? Even according to the standard he set for his own horsemen, a one-time pension for each horseman who died in battle was as high as fifty taels, and the war horse was only sixty taels. Today's loss of fifty-three cavalrymen, even if he was all burdened by himself, was actually just over three thousand taels.

He can afford this loss.