The generals of the Tang Army are lucky not to have experienced this kind of thing, not because they are lucky or awesome, but because they know that they must not let themselves be placed in this situation.

This kind of luck is not given by God, but they have earned it!

Because unless they were accompanied by a considerable number of cavalry, they would never send infantry and artillery alone into the steppe!

That's not a war, that's suicide!

With thousands of years of history, there is only one best weapon against cavalry, and that is the tank!

The second is that the infantry are armed with rapid-fire weapons such as heavy machine guns!

The appearance of these two weapons is the stage that completely makes cavalry withdraw from the war as a branch of the army!

Even with tanks and machine guns, cavalry still played a vital role in certain situations, and it played a vital role in the Eastern European theater during the interwar period, whether it was the Russian Civil War or the war between the Soviet Union and Poland.

During World War II, although the formation of cavalry charges was rarely seen, the rapid maneuvering transfer on a war horse could still be seen frequently, and the effect was huge.

During World War II, a large number of armies used horses and other livestock to transport logistics, and a large number of armies with insufficient mechanization such as the German, Soviet, and Japanese armies used mules and horses as the main force for logistics transportation, which is a typical mule and horse army!

After World War II, the Chinese army also maintained a mule and horse for a long time, using horses, mules and other livestock to undertake the main logistics transportation, and using trucks to carry out motorization, and even mechanization, which was many years later.

As a combat arm, the life of cavalry in the Chinese region has continued until the eighties of the twentieth century, as a transportation force, horses are still active on the battlefield until the twenty-first century, and even those American GIs who can beat aliens all over the ground will still use mules and horses to transport logistics materials when fighting in the mountains.

It can be seen that the vitality of the cavalry is tenacious, and the importance of horses to war.

For a kind of military that can still play a huge role even in the Second World War, in the sixteenth century, even if the Tang Army was equipped with guns, and it was the most advanced flintlock pistol and howitzer, but it was almost impossible to fight the cavalry with infantry and artillery alone.

In this day and age, the best way to fight the enemy's cavalry is to have a strong cavalry yourself!

Use cavalry against cavalry, this is the royal way!

Now, and for hundreds of years to come, until the tank matures, it will be the single best option!

Looking back on the past few thousand years, the Central Plains Dynasty had an advantage in the fight against the north, and that was when the Central Plains Dynasty had a large number of powerful cavalry!

This was the case in the Han, Tang and early Ming dynasties, when they defeated the armies of the northern nomads, they were never infantry, but cavalry!

The cavalry at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, whose combat effectiveness was explosive, took the initiative to go north to wage war many times, and the Northern Yuan cavalry who fought wailed!

When the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was gone, then the war with the northern steppe was exchanged for attack and defense, and it became the defense of the Ming Dynasty, and the Warats and Tatars invaded south from time to time.

On the side of the Tang Dynasty, although the infantry and artillery of the Tang Army are so awesome that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is now the first in the world, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first in the world, but it is also a good way to take the cavalry of the Tatars on the opposite side.

Because people don't fight you at all!

This is also the reason why the Tang Army has been trying its best to develop cavalry over the years, and even sold guns in order to purchase war horses!

Without cavalry, there is no way to fight in the grassland, and no matter how awesome the guns are, they are just decorations.

But on the contrary, after serving as a cavalryman, he was able to give full play to not only the advantages of the cavalry itself, but also the power of the guns.

Well, cavalry can also be equipped with muskets!

Infantry artillery can also be turned into cavalry artillery!

Cavalrymen armed with long-poleed flintlock rifles can be used as mounted infantry, and short-poleed lance-fired pistols can be used as pistol cavalry.

The combination of guns and cavalry will further promote the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Datang Army!

Therefore, over the years, the military gritted their teeth and reluctantly sold a lot of arquebuses to the Tatars, Warats, and Tibetans, and they did not know that after these arquebuses reached their hands, they would bring huge trouble to themselves in the future, but there was no way to do it.

You don't sell muskets, and people don't sell war horses!

You want war horses, and they are still a large number of good war horses, if you don't pay enough price, the Tatars and Warats, and the Tubo people are not fools, how can they sell the war horses that they themselves also regard as a militaristic weapon and the biggest reliance to the Tang Empire.

People are not stupid, they know with their toes that the Tang Empire will definitely form a large-scale cavalry after purchasing these war horses, and then turn their heads to deal with them!

The trade between the Tang Empire in the north and the Tatars, Chahar and other eastern tribes, the Warats and the Tibetans, especially the trade of horses and muskets, was a game of walking on a tightrope for both sides!

They are selling weapons that can kill themselves to the enemy, and then exchange them for weapons that can kill the enemy!

But even then, they had to!

The Tang Empire lacks war horses, very short, very short!

Those nomads, in the face of the threat of guns and cannons from the Tang Empire, also wanted to buy guns to resist.

Otherwise, there would not be such a strange situation, the two hostile sides actually sold and bought each other's weapons!

In addition to the official mutual market, through the Tatars, Warats, Chahars, Tibetans and other northern nomadic forces to carry out the official level of 'guns and horses'.

In order to supplement the war horses, the Tang Empire has basically used any method in recent years, and the most important way is to win over and divide the small and medium-sized tribes of nomads, and then obtain horses from these small tribes.

These nomadic tribes were not monolithic, and even Altan Khan could not completely control the entire Tatar.

Tatar, strictly speaking, this is a loose alliance of many tribes, Altan Khan is only the largest of them, the leader of the Tumut tribe, relying on the strong power of the Tumut tribe, controlling other tribes, and within each tribe, the autonomy is very large, and there are more people who are unhappy with Altan Khan, but for the time being, it is estimated that no one has the courage to oppose Altan Khan.

Some of these small nomadic tribes close to the Great Wall, they are caught in the middle of the life is actually very difficult, when the Tang Empire gives some benefits, they will also sell some horses as appropriate, and even several small tribes in order to survive, in order to get into the Great Wall to live and live, completely choose to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty.

Don't look at these tribes are small, but the grassland is so big, there are more small and medium-sized tribes who are willing to secretly do horse business with the Tang Dynasty, even if it is a few large tribes, they will still secretly find the Tang Dynasty to do business, but they are just buying guns and cannons from Altan Khan.

This messy business has done a lot, and the number of horses summed up is actually quite a lot, and at present, more than half of the military horses of the Datang Army are actually obtained in this way.

The emphasis is on 10,000 horses is not too much, not too little, as long as there are horses, everything is easy to say!

In addition to buying horses through various messy ways, raising horses by themselves is also a major measure, and now, the Tang Empire is promoting large-scale horse breeding by both the government and the people.

Large-scale private horse breeding, although the empire has a certain policy support, but seriously, and the official promotion does not have much to do with it, mainly because of the large-scale application of horse-drawn carriages in China in recent years, the private market has a huge demand for horses, the price of horses has risen again and again, in the pre-Ming Dynasty, a good horse is only about ten or twenty taels of silver, but now, the price has more than doubled, without forty taels of silver, don't expect to be able to buy it.

The price has risen, which has made it profitable for the people to raise horses, and there is no need for the government to promote it, and the people have naturally risen to raise horses.

However, if the people raise horses, although the trend has risen, but there is no large-scale breeding, the quality of horses can only be said to be average, although the official is also promoting excellent horse breeds, but it is difficult to thoroughly supervise, so the quality of horses is uneven, and the number of high-quality horses is also very small.

Nowadays, in many places in the country, because of the lack of horses, all kinds of carriages are actually pulled by mules and donkeys, and most of the horses used are also southwest horses, not that the southwest horses are not good, they are used in the mountains, and this kind of horse is still quite good if it is used as a horse, but if it is a horse that runs to the terrain of the northern plains to act as a cavalry horse, the size is too small, and the impact is too weak.

Therefore, at present, there is no way for the private sector to provide too many qualified horses to the military, but the military is working with the cabinet to plan for the breeding of domestic private horses, and strive to change this chaotic situation.

At present, the vast majority of military horses from China still come from official horse farms, and the government has set up a total of more than 30 horse farms of all sizes, such as northwest, Shanxi, Hebei, Liaodong, and even Zhili and southwest, and the scale varies from large to small.

The quality of the horses bred is relatively good, there are imported Central Asian horses, there are Mongolian horses, even the southwest horses have not been left behind, but even this kind of purebred horses, now the military is trying to improve their quality.

In addition, the military, with the support of the Medical Department of the Royal Institute of Technology, began to breed crossbred horses, bringing in a variety of chaotic horse breeds for experimentation, such as Mongolian and Central Asian horses, and Mongolian horses and Southwestern horses.

The Datang military, in order to ensure that the breeding of horses is not mixed up and to ensure the bloodline of various types of horses, most of the horse farms are strictly closed, and even the horses are graded one-on-one.

Among the many horse farms, the most exaggerated should belong to the Jeju Horse Farm, why use the word Jeju, because the Tang Dynasty used the entire Jeju Island as a horse farm!

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