The development of Eastern and Western cultures is different, and the environment is different, and the culture created is completely different. For example, Western culture focuses on aggressiveness, emphasizing the law of the jungle and being beaten backward. Oriental culture, on the other hand, focuses on the pursuit of harmony between man and nature.

This cultural difference has many implications for both sides. Especially after the Opium War, the differences between Eastern and Western cultures were more interpreted and analyzed, and it was also at that time that the trend of learning from the West was set off.

The cultural differences between the two countries can also be seen in the use of cavalry. Generally speaking, the oriental culture pays attention to harmony, emphasizes nature, and is more about the cavalry as a part of the coordinated operation for overall processing, so even in the most glorious moment of the cavalry, the foot soldiers and archers are playing their respective roles, and as the commander of the army, it is more important to be able to coordinate and handle this relationship and strategize. This is also why there are many so-called military advisors in Chinese culture.

In the Western army, the role of cavalry is very prominent, and the chivalry pursued by the nobles highlights the importance of cavalry or hoplite cavalry in the Western army. And the rise of Western cavalry culture is often also the decline of infantry culture. And taking the defensive heavy armor to the extreme is an important manifestation of this trend. In a sense, it is inevitable that the tank will appear in the soil of Western culture, because the tank can be seen as the existence of cavalry to exert defense to the extreme.

Therefore, if you want to crack Western tactics, you tend to emphasize the importance of strength, while in the East, you pay more attention to strategy and focus more on destroying the atmosphere of coordinated operations.

Xu Yuan rode on the horse, with a solemn expression, watching the city gate in front of him rise slowly, and calmly took out his bow and arrow from the quiver behind him. He is one of the few generals who can fire three arrows in a row, and it is with this ability that he has some fame in Daijun.

Li Yan values Xu Yuan's talent, not because of a series of arrows, but because he has an almost keen sense of smell on the battlefield. In the words of General Zhao Xi Zhao, he seems to have a dog's nose, able to find the weaknesses of the opponent's troop formation and defeat them.

Just like now, Xu Yuan led three thousand cavalry, like a tiger out of the cage, and rushed out like a catharsis at the moment the city gate opened. There was no interest in the Yan infantry gathered at the gate of the city, and like an arrow from the string, they rushed towards the left wing of the Yan army.

The advantage of the chariot in the offensive is very obvious, as a war machine, the chariot of the chariot has developed from a simple vehicle at the beginning, to three people in the same car, and then to the vehicle's single wheel, two-wheeled, and long hub. Finally, with larger curves, wider carriages and more bronze ornaments, the chariot's defensive power and resistance to shocks gradually increased.

At the same time, because of their different uses, chariots are divided into light chariots for attack, wide chariots for defense, leather chariots for shielding arrows, and so on. And Xu Yuan's target is Guangche distributed on the left flank.

The arrangement of the Yan army's chariots, the general defensive chariot formation, is with leather roof in front, wide chariots distributed on both wings, and light chariots in the middle. However, Zi Qi thought that it was a siege battle, and Zhao Guo did not put out a chariot army, so he let the light chariot on the left flank cover the archers to attack, in his opinion, even if Zhao suddenly had soldiers and horses to kill, the light chariot could completely deal with it. Therefore, the light car appeared at the front of the military formation openly, without the slightest defense.

It was such a light enemy that gave Xu Yuan an opportunity, and the cavalry he led was like a countercurrent, impacting the left flank of the Yan army.

Xu Yuan didn't think too much, although the battlefield was chaotic, he was not chaotic, seeing that he was about to enter his attack range, he waved the flag, and the cavalry immediately turned into a sharp arrow formation, and after reaching the range, he decisively took out his bow and arrows and shot at the Yan soldiers on the light car.

The purpose of the light car is to attack, so when designing, four horses are mostly used side by side, and the wide carriage is mainly to allow the three people in the car to have a wider attack space, and there is no other cover, just to facilitate the observation of enemy movements.

But now, the cavalry troops led by Xu Yuan are fighting this kind of defenseless chariot. Although the apprentices and archers around the light chariot spotted them at the first time, how could they react to the speed of the cavalry? Before they could prepare for defense, they saw the cavalry's arrows rain down and shoot into the bodies of each Yan army.

At the same time, the chariot soldiers, who had already made the surrounding apprentices and archers take the blame, immediately erected their shields, and the riders began to adjust their horses and turn away, otherwise, their lives would be given here.

At this time, the shortcomings of the inflexible chariot were exposed. Now the sudden wedge of the Zhao army has plunged the left flank of the Yan army into chaos, and even if the chariot soldiers want to turn around and leave, it will become difficult to move an inch. Moreover, the archers were still actively shooting at the Zhao army, and the Yan army's own horses were in pain, and under the anger, whether it was their own people or not, they trampled on the Yan compatriots and wanted to leave.

A great man once said that in the vast sea of the people's war, all opposition parties are paper tigers. And now, the people of Yan have fallen into the sea of their own people, and all the robes have become reactionaries. They wanted to leave, and they whipped the horses desperately, and the horses were in pain, trampling on the Yan troops around them. The archers of the Yan army were ordered to stay behind and be responsible for fighting back. It can be seen that Yan Guo, which has not seen war for many years, has completely become a paper tiger.

And the tiger general Xu Yuan, but there was no half pity, he led the cavalry to roam around the enemy's periphery, riding and shooting, and never fought with the other party. Sometimes staying within a safe range, sometimes fighting back, they are equipped with a strong bow made in Korea, which is much better than that of Yan in terms of range and power.

And the Yan State used some old weapons, Xu Yu wandered and shot, just walked within the range, the Yan army took a bow and shot arrows, and when they were ready, the Zhao army had already escaped from their range, and Zhao Guo's bows and arrows still did not stop, and soon wiped out all these sluggish soldiers. Although Zhao Jun's horse shooting accuracy is still not high, it is more than enough to deal with this kind of scene.

"What's going on?" Ziqi stood on the car, looking at his already confused left wing. He had just discovered this cavalry, but he felt that this qi would definitely be sent to death when facing his chariots, so he didn't care too much.

However, unexpectedly, the news came from the herald, and the left wing chariot soldiers fell into chaos, and the first thought of the sub-period was that this cavalry must be unusual.

In general, the Sengoku cavalry could not be used as the main force because it did not have a Takahashi saddle and stirrups. The cavalry of the vassal states of the Central Plains used a kind of leather cushion placed on the back of the horse, which was called "sheath", that is, the so-called "buy horses in the east market, and buy saddle sheath in the west market". His effect is only to increase the friction between the horse's back and the person, and there is almost no other effect.

The cavalry of the Zhao State was precisely a new type of cavalry trained according to the characteristics of the cavalry of Sanhu, which not only abandoned the deep clothes and put on leather trousers to make the soldiers' horse movements more clean and neat, but also according to Zhao Yong's opinion, adopted a low-angle high-bridge saddle with two slightly upturned ends.

Zhao Yong was most surprised after coming to the Warring States period, because in this era, or rather, in the era when stirrups and Takahashisaddle were not invented, there would be no so-called cavalry with thousands of troops and horses. And the cavalry without stirrups, even the posture of getting on the horse, is like the one shown in the movie, instead of the stirrup saddle that appeared in the Three Kingdoms period in the so-called Chinese TV series. And the bloody section of thousands of troops and horses attacking the enemy's infantry formation is close to YY, not reality. Because without a stirrup saddle, many things cannot be done.

The function of Takahashi's saddle is, firstly, to ensure that the cavalry will not be tossed back and forth by the horse, and cannot be fixed in battle, and secondly, it gives the cavalry a longitudinal horse-acting force, so that the cavalry can shoot in guerrilla attacks. However, if you have not undergone hard training, this kind of high-hashi saddle without stirrup, without support, is easily swayed from side to side by the strength of the bow and arrow, and even falls off the horse, trampled to death by the horse.

This is the most confusing place in the sub-period, the traditional cavalry attack method, one is to ride on a horse, after seeing the enemy enter the attack range, stand still and shoot, unable to shoot arrows, the second is to dismount and form a formation, and then shoot like an archer. Except, of course, melee cavalry.

But listening to the meaning of the herald, the cavalry of Zhao State not only did not dismount and form a formation, but completed the shooting action on the horse, this tactic is definitely the first time to see, even the Huns outside the fortress are rarely on the horse, giving the Yan army huge casualties.

"Light chariots and archers, immediately withdraw from the battle, advance on both flanks of the wide chariots, cover the retreat of the two armies, and the cavalry charge the opposing cavalry troops. Bury this cavalry in it for me! Ziqi said with a little seriousness.

Soon, Xu Yuan discovered that something was wrong, the light chariot troops and archers he had tightly locked on were gradually withdrawing from the battlefield, and he seemed to be surrounded by the opponent's wide chariots and leather chariots. The purpose of these two vehicles is to defend themselves, and if you surround yourself in the period, then you can catch turtles.

Can't sit still, Xu Yuan quickly observed the opponent's encirclement situation, trying to find a trace of weakness in it, but when the arms are restrained, your ability is in vain, and you must quickly find the opponent's weakness.

What is the opponent's weakness?

Time waits for no one, and the military situation waits for no one, when Xu Yuan hesitated, the cavalry team of the Yan army came out, but they wisely did not choose bows and arrows as their weapons, and more wielded short swords, wah-and-a rushed towards their cavalry, trying to solve the battle with close combat.

Xu Yuan suddenly blessed his heart, took the lead in rushing at the opponent's cavalry with a sharp arrow formation, and without thinking about it, he shot at the Yan cavalry who were attacking him, and he shot an arrow, and immediately took out another arrow from the quiver, and continued to shoot, and then the third arrow was concocted in the same way. The bow and arrow were shot in one direction like a series of arrows, and after the first cavalry with the arrow fell to the ground, the cavalry behind him was hit by Xu Yuan's second arrow before he could react, followed by the third.

In an instant, three arrows were fired in succession, which shows Xu Yuan's arm strength, which is really amazing.