So, does this mean that the cavalry can no longer do anything with the infantry in the face of the infantry's "point test unit" tactics and "hemp knife" weapons?

No. Since the infantry can explore new tactics and weapons to restrain the cavalry according to their own strengths, the cavalry can also use their own specialties to explore the tactics of restraining the infantry and cavalry. Thus, in the history of the development of cavalry, there was a "heavy cavalry".

The so-called "reloading" is to put thick armor on both people and horses, so as to effectively prevent the damage of bows and arrows. The weapons in the hands of the soldiers on the horses were no longer slender and light sabers, but were replaced with stout spears, which were very similar to Western knights - when fighting, they also rode spears in one hand and carried reins in the other, relying on the impact of horses to exert the sprinting power of the spear. However, it also limits the horse's running speed and the flexibility of maneuvering between man and horse. Therefore, the most taboo thing for heavy cavalry combat is to attack alone, or scatter impact. The best tactic is to form a phalanx, each to maintain a certain distance, at the same time to start, not to seek fast, but to seek the same pace, although the speed is slower than the light cavalry, but far beyond the running speed of the infantry, the formation of rows and rows, one side is not afraid of bows and arrows long-distance killing armored "wall", on the "wall" to protrude rows of spears with unprecedented penetrating power, which makes the infantry's point-type unit stabbing tactics suddenly useless.

First of all, they can't sit or kneel on the ground, they must stand up to meet the attack, but in the case of spears and bows and arrows losing their defensive and offensive effects, even if they can dodge the impact of the first row of heavy cavalry, it is difficult to avoid the impact of the second row, the third row and the back row after row of spears and armored horses, so it is easy to escape this catastrophe, in the face of the infantry group charging closely behind the cavalry, how much more confidence, courage and actual ability to fight back?

So, does this mean that at this time, the heavy cavalry is the magic weapon to dominate the battlefield and win?

Neither is it.

The opposite is true. Since the birth of heavy cavalry, for a long time, it has not been able to become an effective means of victory on the battlefield.

The tactical advantage of the hoplite cavalry lies in its ability to shock the group phalanx, but this is both its advantage and its disadvantage. Because it is called the battlefield, there must be an enemy, whether the opponent is light cavalry or infantry, after all, it is still a "soldier", as long as there is a slight resistance, it will cause the deformation of the heavy cavalry phalanx, which is bound to block the attack of the rear row, and weaken its combat effectiveness wave by wave. Therefore, since the emergence of heavy cavalry, it can only exert its impact power on special occasions and when light cavalry and infantry must ensure its safety, so it has not been able to become the key factor in determining the victory on the battlefield.

Later generations of researchers said that in history, it was the Jurchen "kidnapping horse" and "Tiefutu" that really brought into play the potential of the heavy cavalry and made the heavy cavalry an absolute winning factor on the battlefield.

After research, these people believe that the reason why the Jurchens are particularly fond of heavy cavalry construction is that in addition to the characteristics of their nomadic people in riding horses, the main reason is that the number of troops and resources is too small, so they take advantage of the advantage of more leather to develop heavy cavalry with great attack potential. And the decisive factor in the majesty of the hoplites in their hands was nothing more than a small "Veso" tied to the chew of the horse. Wesso, that's the pimp. Or a rope cut from skin.

It is also such a small leather rope that makes the horse unable to change its direction no matter how panicked the horse is when it is disturbed by the impact, thus ensuring the powerful attack power of the heavy cavalry phalanx. Therefore, the Jurchens were able to win more with less back then, so they had the name of "the Jurchens are not more than 10,000, and they are invincible if they are more than 10,000".

So, is this really the case?

Sun Hui has always wanted to know what kind of troops the Jin Army's ace troops, "Kidnapping Horse" and "Tiefutu", are.

According to Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke's "Chronicle of the King of E", "The Wushu has a strong army, all heavily armoured, through Wei Suo, where the three of them are linked, the number of abduction horses, and the number of iron floats, blocking the wall and entering, the officials and soldiers can not be, so they have won many victories." "Wesso" is a leather rope, three horses in a group, and all heavily armoured, should be a chain of horses, or "chain cavalry in iron armor", when the whole team charges, like a wall advancing, unstoppable. As soon as this statement came out, official and private history books and popular novels all followed, and "kidnapping horse" is the definition of "serial horse", and it also spread far and wide. When people described this battle, they all said that Yue Yun ordered the infantry to enter the battle with hemp swords, and there was no need to look up, just bow their heads and cut off their horses' feet. When one horse is cut down and falls, the other two horses cannot travel, or they fall one after another, and sit down and die. Under the hard work of the Yue family's army, the kidnappers and horses were cut down in pieces, and the zombies were piled up like hills. Jin Wushu cried out in grief: "Since the beginning of the army, they have relied on it to win, and now it is over." Yue Ke's final conclusion was: "The abduction of the horse is abolished." Since then, Zhang Ying's "Biography of the Four Generals of Nandu" and Yuanren's "History of the Song Dynasty. The Biography of Yue Fei and novels such as The Chronicle of the Song Dynasty in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Continuation of the Capital and the Tongjian, and The Complete Biography of Yue Jingzhong all copied Yue Ke's blueprint, or the text as such, without any doubt. It was not until the late eighteenth century, when Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty ordered his ministers to compile the "Imperial Approval Tongjian Collection", that he realized that this statement was not at all in line with the military common sense of using cavalry, so he wrote a royal approval, pointing out: "The northerners make horses, but the control and convenience are the mainstay, if the three horses are connected, the horsepower is uneven, and it is bound to be the same as the other; And the three people are connected, or the courage is uneven, and the brave are burdened by the cowardly, which is easy to understand. The abductor Ma Zhi said that the biography of the "Golden History", the military chronicles and the Wushu are not contained, but they are only found in the "History of the Song Dynasty" Yue Fei Biography and Liu Qi Biography, which is not enough evidence. In addition, if you are skilled in the battle formation, you must know the way to advance if you can advance, and if you can retreat, you will retreat, how can you be willing to fetter your horse to be controlled by others? At this time, they marched together and were invincible, and the Song people saw that they were unstoppable, so they added their names in vain. That is, the cloud horse is heavily armored, and it is also bound in vain and cannot use its power, especially if there is no such thing. The chronicler or the soldier chariot said that it was strong to be attached, and it was not enough to be a person of knowledge, and it was rumored for thousands of years. The inability of the eaters to investigate its authenticity is all nonsense in the annals of history, and they have to distinguish it. ”

Qianlong's rebuttal can be said to be to the point and quite convincing, but it still fails to explain what a "kidnapping horse" is, only saying that it may be that the Song people saw the Jin cavalry "marching in line and invincible", so they thought it was a "kidnapping horse".