Chapter 39: Cao De's Dream of Cavalry
Cavalry was a great weapon in the era of cold weapons, just like the tank of the king of land warfare in later generations, and often played a decisive role in war. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info And the biggest feature of cavalry is to attack, attack and attack.
Whether an army has a cavalry corps or not has a great effect on the outcome of a battle. Unless a decisive mistake was made by man.
Cao De, as a later generation traveler, was of course aware of all this, so in Cao De's heart, he had a great desire for cavalry.
Just think about it. Fighting with 10,000 foot soldiers and leading 10,000 cavalry feels different. When the order to attack was issued, although it was the same blood boiling, the same meritorious service to kill the enemy. But there is a big difference in nature between running forward and charging on horseback.
When the drums of the attack sounded, he galloped all the way on the war horse, and felt the gale of the war horse charging head-on, and the whirring wind in his ears was the dubbing inserted at the climax of the war movie in later generations. Then he rode into the ground on a war horse, and slashed the enemy left and right condescendingly with the dash of the war horse. Whenever Cao De fantasized about all this, Cao De would let out a strange moan. You must know that Cao De had a special passion for two-wheeled locomotives in his previous life.
And everyone who enjoys riding a two-wheeled motorcycle has blood in their veins that hides a different kind of violence. In his previous life, every time Cao De rode a two-wheeled motorcycle, he always had the picture of riding a war horse galloping in the TV series in his mind. Therefore, Cao De has a small but unfulfilled dream, which is to ride a horse and spread its hooves and feel what it feels like on the back of a real horse.
This wish was not fulfilled in Cao De's previous life, but Cao De came to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty because of an unknown accident. How could Cao De give up this little wish of the two lives.
Therefore, Cao De had a strange enthusiasm for the establishment of cavalry. However, the current situation did not allow Cao De to build up a cavalry. First of all, it is the general environment of Dahan. Now, the Yellow Turban Rebellion has not yet broken out, and the rule of the central Han Dynasty can be said to be relatively stable. Although most of the state pastors in various places are corrupt, there are still no Taishou state pastors who dare to stand up and openly break the rules customized by the central government of the Han Dynasty.
After all, these current officials and masters have food, drink, play and fun, who will be idle and have nothing to do, rebel and play. That's a thing that makes you lose your head if you don't play it well.
But after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, it was different. After the uprising broke out, due to the powerlessness of the Han Dynasty, it could only recruit volunteers to suppress bandits from all over the country. Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed, the Yellow Turban Rebellion also cracked the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty, and with only a little external force, the entire cornerstone would be shattered, and the Han Dynasty on the cornerstone would collapse and disintegrate. However, with the help of many people with lofty ideals who were dedicated to the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty still left a small section, but this remaining small piece was robbed by Cao Cao. And this external force acting on the cornerstone of the cracks is Dong Zhuo's troubles in Luoyang.
It all started after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Therefore, Cao De was also quietly waiting for the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising. Although Cao De knew about Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang, the three super bulls, Cao De did not plan to report the three to Luoyang. That's because, if Zhang Jiao is killed, the original historical trend may be completely changed, or it may only be a small change and then a second Zhang Jiao will appear. For Cao De, this is simply boring. It's not that Cao De is cold-blooded and ruthless, but that things will develop like this. Taoism pays attention to the extreme of things, and after it is strong, it will gradually weaken. And the sorrow of human society is exactly like this, when it reaches the highest point, it will fall, and when it falls to the extreme, there will be chaos, and after the chaos, it will rise again, and when it reaches the extreme, it will fall again. In Cao De's view, the current Eastern Han Dynasty has been corrupted to the extreme, and the history of later generations has indeed proved this. Therefore, it is necessary to return the entire Central Plains to the original point, integrate it again and re-ascend to the top.
As the saying goes, long pain is better than short pain. Anyway, the Eastern Han Dynasty will fall sooner or later. Suppose that in the original history, it took thirty years from the fall of the Han Dynasty in the Middle East to the emergence of a new regime. That is, the entire Central Plains has been groaning for thirty years. And now Cao De went back to the past, delaying the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty for five years, and then the emergence of a new regime was still thirty years from the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Then the entire Central Plains has been suffering for thirty-five years.
Therefore, Cao De did not think of denouncing Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Uprising. Instead, they are constantly looking forward to the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising. In Cao De's plan, since it is inevitable for a new regime to replace the old regime, what he can do for the world is to hasten the emergence of a new regime or advance the demise of the old regime.
And there is a second reason why Cao De is looking forward to the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. That is, you can blatantly strengthen yourself. When the time comes, Cao De will be able to recruit troops in a bright way. Raise all kinds of troops and conquer land by land. At that time, Cao De's cavalry dream can be successfully realized.
After all, now that the Eastern Han Dynasty is alive, it is illegal to buy military horses. It is to buy and sell military supplies, and in serious cases, it is necessary to raid homes. And when Luoyang can't control himself, Cao De can form it as he likes. As long as they have the ability, even if they are all trained as cavalry, there is no objection.
Although it was not possible to start building cavalry units now, it did not prevent Cao De from preparing in advance for the establishment of cavalry units.
To form a cavalry, you must first have horses, and they must be good horses. But Hanzhong County is not a place to produce horses. In this regard, Cao De has long had a plan, that is, to buy a horse from Ma Teng in Liangzhou.
Write it down as the training of the cavalry. Cao De did not know the training methods of cavalry, and he did not know much about the art of warfare. It's only a half-ass. However, Cao De's subordinates Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were both famous cavalry generals in later generations. Therefore, Cao De planned to hand over the training of cavalry to Cao Ren. But in this way, Cao De's cavalry still did not have much advantage. Everyone is basically a cavalry trained according to a method, so tactics and the use of cavalry will be particularly important when fighting. But Cao De has another advantage after all, that is, the golden finger.
In Cao De's observation, the current war horses do not have saddles and horseshoes. The saddle is important for a rider on horseback. Why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquer the Huns, in the early stage, basically all the generals of the Han army said that our cavalry was a group of infantry on horseback. It is because everyone knows how to shoot cavalry and shoots, but the Han army basically doesn't know how to shoot. And cavalry is not a soldier who climbs on a horse and becomes a cavalryman. It takes a long and hard training process. The role of the saddle is to shorten the training time of the cavalry, reduce the difficulty of training, and reduce the difficulty of various movements on the horse. Because without a saddle, the knight's feet are not strong. The only thing you can rely on is your thighs. And those who have experience know that it is not as convenient as a little force under the feet when you can only use the inner thigh force in the volley of your feet. This is what ordinary people call the feeling of being powerful and not being used.
Then there's the horseshoe. The invention of the horseshoe was also of great significance to the cavalry. The main function of the horseshoe is actually not much, that is, to protect the horse's hooves, which can make the horse run longer distances, and can also increase the service life of the horse's hooves.
Imagine who is more advantageous on a gravel-covered road than a horse without a shoe. It's like two people wearing cloth shoes walking together on a road covered with stones, and one of them puts on a pair of leather shoes, whose feet will be more uncomfortable.
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