"It seems to be the banner of the Great Song Dynasty!"

At the head of Danzhou City, several defenders watched carefully, and suddenly pointed to the flag in front of the cavalry brigade that appeared on the horizon in the distance, and shouted loudly. I'm a little excited!

Several Great Song guards on duty at the head of the city hurriedly ran over to look at the words when they heard this, and looked at the back. Someone grinned on the spot and said: "Straight lady thief, finally there is a brigade of our Great Song Dynasty here, this time it is refreshing, not like General Lin, only a few hundred horsemen, and all the people in Lhasa behind are gang leaders." ”

Staying here is not a grit for oil and water, it is important for everyone to ask for credit, and when you look at this posture, it is obvious that there is a war to fight. Some are worried, but others are overjoyed.

There are a few military officers here who are lieutenant Renyong, all of whom were promoted by Zhu Zilong's clone. Wang Yong is one of them, he is a straightforward man, who values him, who treats him well, seeing the banner of the benefactor coming, he is the most uncontrollable, and he goes to the city gate with one foot.

Zhu Zilong's doppelganger was the commander of the former army of the right to control the whole army, all the Liangshan army, one part of the Shengjie army, and all the Baiqi soldiers, with more than 5,000 horsemen, forming the most powerful cavalry group of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was impossible to see all of them as the vanguard of the whole army.

Now it's a good student to see it!

The entrance of the city was quickly opened, and the banner in the distance gradually approached, and on the horizon, there were already black cavalry troops, all of whom were tall and big, and the horse was majestic, and I knew that it was the most elite cavalry unit of the Great Song Dynasty who did not know how many battle formations I had seen.

Later generations only know that the place where horses were raised in the Great Song Dynasty has been lost for a long time, and the Song Dynasty is a dynasty with a splendid culture in Chinese history, but the reputation of the Song Dynasty is not very good. Because in the history of the Song Dynasty, in the contest with the surrounding regimes, there were always more defeats and fewer victories. In fact, although the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty was not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, it also had its own cavalry units.

Due to the over-dispersion and problems of the military system, the cavalry units of the Song Dynasty did not have much to offer. In terms of combat effectiveness, it may not be as strong as the Jurchen, but if you really want to fight together, it is naturally inferior to the Liao cavalry at the time of the founding of the country, but compared with the current Liao cavalry, it is slightly better.

At the height of the Tang Dynasty, the number of cavalry was close to 500,000. However, in the Song Dynasty, because there was no place to produce war horses, the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty was greatly reduced.

In the early period of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had been buying war horses through various channels. By the time of Song Renzong, on the books, the Song Dynasty had 200,000 cavalry. However, the Song Dynasty had a large number of troops, and the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty was about 100,000. Note that it is only 100,000 cavalry, not 100,000 horses.

Some cavalry were nominally cavalry, but in reality there were no war horses at all. In the border troops of the Song Dynasty, 30% of the cavalry did not have war horses. In the interior troops, more than 50% of the cavalry did not have war horses. Such a unit is actually not much different from the infantry, and belongs to the cavalry unit that scares people.

However, it is a relatively wealthy country, and in addition to these, if you really have to draw the strength of the whole country to count, the number of cavalry is also terrifying. However, if you are finely taxed, only the border pass cavalry that can see the blood of the war can be called a good achievement.

If the Song Dynasty gathered tens of thousands of its own strange soldiers, it would be a large cavalry corps at worst. However, there were problems with the military system of the Song Dynasty, the military generals of the Song Dynasty did not trust it, and the cavalry was a branch of the army with great combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty deployed half of the cavalry troops around Kaifeng, the capital division. As a result, the cavalry units on the border became very limited, plus scattered throughout the north and northwest. In fact, the number of cavalry in each region is not much, and the cavalry corps facing the Liao State and Western Xia will of course suffer.

In one sentence, it is that the emperor and civil officials do not trust the leading soldiers, and they do not trust the self-destruction of martial arts every day, what can you do?

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Of course, there was the Song Dynasty, and it was not without discerning people, as well as people who considered the overall situation, put forward proposals contrary to this policy.

However, the reason why the Song Dynasty scattered the cavalry in various places also had its own difficulties. For the Liao State and Western Xia, they were nomadic regimes, and there was no need to cling to the grasslands and deserts. However, the Song Dynasty was full of cities and cultivated land, and as a political power of agricultural civilization, these things had to be guarded.

Not everywhere there are cities to defend, and not all cities can be encompassed into a defensive circle. Therefore, only cavalry against cavalry can a battle.

In this way, under the influence of various factors, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty did not play much role. Scattered in various places, or defensive, or scouting, or for local use only. This time, in addition to Zhu Zilong's doppelganger, in addition to the five thousand cavalry who led the way, there were also thousands of cavalry in the camp of the General Attack on the Northern Expedition, gathering on such a scale, which was the first time since the Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty rode thousands of horses, and the guards waiting at the entrance of the city couldn't help but look at each other and smile. The murderous spirit of the brigade was in the air, and at this time, everyone's hearts were unconsciously rising, since they want to fight, then fight, who is afraid of whom!

Knowing that it was his own people who had come, the city was no longer closed, and some of the people who had not yet come outside and had entered the city did not hide anymore, but came out among the woods and grass. Looking at the brigade of horsemen and horses walking in front of him, he stared blankly!

As the Liao people, they are now the naturalized people of the Song Dynasty, and they have also seen the Liao people's iron horses. Looking at the comparison of this Great Song cavalry now, they were suddenly surprised to find that the power of the team in front of them exceeded that of any Liao elite soldier they had ever seen!

In particular, the white-armored cavalry with a long knife at his waist and a gun and stick in his hand was even more terrifying. But they didn't know that this was the famous Great Song Dynasty Baiqi soldiers!

The white rod is also called the white bar, and the white bar, also called the "bar", is actually a stick. Speaking of which, sticks were originally commonly used in the military, but they were not quite the same as those used by civilians, and the sticks used as battlefield weapons were wrapped with iron heads. As a two-handed smashing weapon, the power of the stick is not much worse than that of a hammer, and it is more flexible to use.

In this era, the manufacturing technology of armor is becoming more and more perfect, the protection is tight, there is no good knife and gun, there is no superior martial arts, it is likely that it will not pierce or smash the enemy's armor, but the smashing weapon is different, as long as the strength is strong enough and the pick is open enough, it can cause quite serious damage or even internal injuries to the enemy. Moreover, in the melee, sticks are more flexible and practical than knives and guns.

The other, not confident in his own abilities, would not use such a weapon.

When Zhu Zilong's clone first took over them, he also thought about changing weapons for them. But then I thought about it, anyway, it was borrowed, and after the rise of Jianzhou and Mongolia, mounted light cavalry became the mainstream of East Asia, smashing weapons began to withdraw from the stage of history, and infantry picked up spears again...... It's still early. It doesn't matter!

However, it's not entirely that I didn't help with the revision. For example, the helmet has no cushioning, and the erection is uncomfortable and unsafe, in fact, it is very simple to add a piece of cotton cloth inside, I don't know why not do it? So, he made a few more revisions.

It happened to be cold, and no one objected.

Cotton is not cheap, Shangguan takes care of it, how can the people below object?

The large-scale use of cotton cloth is still a matter of the late Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, before that, people can only wear fur clothes in winter, the traditional silk and linen cloth is not good against the cold, and there is no effective filler, winter is equal to not wearing.

Therefore, the poor Han people in the north mainly rely on cats to make fires and warm kang in the house to survive the winter. In this way, in front of the ethnic minorities who generally wear fur in the north, the Han army without winter clothes has zero combat effectiveness in the winter field.

That is, Zhu Zilong's doppelganger is rich and powerful, and he borrowed the help of the national power and the transportation business of the ontology in the special period of the Great Song Dynasty to increase everyone's welfare and combat effectiveness. You can't drop lotus seeds at important moments!

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