066 The ravages of the noble cavalry
Shu Zifeng looked around, and in the Rostov reserve army on the opposite side, at least more than 2,000 cavalry rushed out, led by heavily armored plate knights with complete armor and like canned shells, that is, aristocratic cavalry in the real sense, all of whom had at least the status of official knights or above, and they were all 'civil servants' who relied on fiefdoms to ensure income.
The so-called human rights in the countries of the European continent can only be enjoyed by the knightly class and the upper aristocratic class, because these people are placed in the later generations, they are the 'orthodox state civil servants' who work and work for the state, and the great nobles and the state are naturally responsible for them and give them basic 'human rights'.
Well, the concept of human rights in this era is different from that of later generations, because the French Revolution is still far away, and the so-called declaration of human rights has not even been written, so all the advanced democratic politics and human rights of this era are based on the oppression of the majority of untouchables.
For example, when the knight class has a reasonable reason, when the street draws a sword and hacks to death a commoner with no status, it will not be held accountable, if it is a domestic slave or serf of another nobleman or knight, it only needs to pay a certain amount of compensation, similar to a person in the later life who trampled another person's pet dog to death, and needs to pay a reason......
In an era when people are not as good as dogs, you can imagine how depressed the grievances in the hearts of the common people at the bottom are!
It is a pity that from the Middle Ages to modern times in Europe, there have been countless peasant uprisings, but there are few examples of victories, and even the poor success stories were only succeeded in the rebellion under the leadership of the aristocratic class and the bourgeoisie, who were dissatisfied with the superstructure.
Civilians can never determine the country's policy system, let alone guide the country's progressive policy, and there is only one reason why the country treats civilians well, in order to better collect money and fool the common people into carrying guns into battle as cannon fodder......
Weapons and technology are the foundation of the social system, and it is inevitable that a small number of high-level violent institutions such as knights and samurai oppress the majority of the people during the war years when individual force and courage were prominent.
When weapons are developed to the point where people can be killed by simply pulling the trigger, the gap between the army composed of a small number of elites and cheap cannon fodder is infinitely narrowed, and the country wants to survive, it can only find ways to fool more lower-class civilians to join the army and maintain enough loyalty, and industrial development also needs a lot of manpower to drive, naturally, the state and the government must rack their brains to urge the subjective initiative of the working people.
It is precisely because of this that the people gradually struggle out of the social status that is inferior to humans and animals, because the superior has to ask the people, and the people will gain more rights!
However, the final outcome will not change, the superior will always be the superior, the common people will always be the common people, and a little concession will only make the position of the superior more stable, because they have the right to speak on the moral high ground.
Behind the orthodox nobles and knight class cavalry, there are a large number of cavalry servants who only wear leather armor, which is the main force of cavalry, because every knight and even nobleman means a fief set out......
Even the worst knight has a fief that is much larger than an ordinary village in the ordinary sense of the word!
There is only so much land inhabited, and the nobles and knights who are divided into feuds have their limits after all, so most of the army is still composed of elites like the Hu Cong Guard.
The future goal of these servants and guards is to become a true knight, and only by following the nobles and knights will they have this opportunity, which is a prerequisite for them to die for it.
On weekdays, the livelihood of these servants and guards also comes from the knights or nobles to whom they are loyal, which ensures their close ties with the object of allegiance and greatly strengthens their loyalty on the battlefield.
Therefore, although the real nobles and knights of the noble cavalry do not occupy the majority, their morale is undoubtedly the highest!
More than 2,000 aristocratic cavalry team is like a whirlwind, killing the most chaotic first camp cannon fodder, this group of cavalry is more than the first camp cannon fodder, plus the cavalry charged up with might, almost a look at the first camp cannon fodder slaughtered the crying father and mother, collapsed into a mess......
These first-class cannon fodder, who only survived, had no faith and no fighting philosophy, lost almost all confidence in resistance in the face of the noble cavalry above their heads, and were wantonly slaughtered like hunted lambs.
Only around Baron Jamai fell was taken in by him as a confidant, and he had already made several military exploits, and the resistance was quite tenacious when he broke away from the pro-guard of the slave soldiers.
Although the number of cannon fodder killed was negligible, they were good bait to disperse the murderous noble cavalry, and because of this, the group led by Baron Jamai barely withstood the first round of the noble cavalry.
Shu Zifeng naturally wouldn't watch the cannon fodder of the first camp being crushed and collapsed by the noble cavalry, without these cannon fodder barriers of the first camp, the noble cavalry could completely copy the back of the attacking people's musket team and warrior battalion at the moment when they did not react, and a charge would bring back all the battlefield advantages and completely lay down the battle situation!
Gustav's Swedish veteran musketeers were sent over as soon as possible, and although the fighting morale of the noble cavalry was great, they also had the defects of a medieval knight legion, and their discipline and organization were extremely poor!
The aristocratic cavalry who broke the cannon fodder of the first camp only knew that they followed their knight lord or noble lord, divided into small groups of cavalry on the left and right, playing a favorite hunting game, and threw the brains of the cannon fodder soldiers who first arrived in the camp one by one.
For this group of rebel soldiers who do not have noble status, the noble cavalry has no intention of leaving a living, this is a rare war game that can be opened to kill, for knights and noble lords who are inspired to cut people and cut people for a lifetime, it is natural to take a good grasp!
Aggressive state armed personnel often have a kind of comparison mentality that seems to be more perverted in later generations, and whoever kills the most people on the battlefield is the most admired.
Historically, the nomads even invented and created a way to tie the human head to the horse's buttocks and swagger around......
As for the human head Jingguan or something, it is even more countless, at this time, people are very cruel to enemies and aliens, killing to stop killing is the true meaning of this world of the weak and the strong!