Chapter 10: Cavalry

In this era, the superiority of cavalry over infantry lies in its transcendent mobility, unparalleled impact power, and the psychological pressure that group charges put on infantry.

Cavalry, since the Warring States period Zhao Wuling King "Hu Fu cavalry shooting", officially on the stage of history, Zhao famous general Li Mu once used more than 10,000 cavalry with foot soldiers to break the Huns, annihilating 100,000 enemies; Later, in the war of Qin's unification of Liuhe, Bai Qi cut off the Zhao army with 5,000 elite cavalry, and the light cavalry successfully attacked the grain route of the 400,000 Zhao army led by Zhao Kuo, causing the Zhao State to be defeated.

The success of the cavalry in this battle was the key, and the 400,000 Zhao troops were all killed, and the Zhao State was in a state of collapse from then on; Then Qin Shi Huang sent Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and the cavalry of Qin also shined.

Xiang Yu, the god of war, led 20,000 cavalry and the Qin army to win nine battles and nine victories, and successfully defeated the 200,000 Qin army led by the Qin general Zhang Han and shocked the princes.

Xiang Yu led 30,000 cavalry to almost completely annihilate the army of nearly 560,000 of the princes' coalition led by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and killed nearly 300,000, which completely changed people's understanding of cavalry.

The Xiongnu generation of male lord Mao Dun Shan Yu led 400,000 elite cavalry to surround Han Gaozu Liu Bang in Baideng, if it were not for Han Gaozu Liu Bang to play a little trick to fool Mao Dun Shan Yu, I am afraid that he would die on Bai Mountain, and finally he would not be able to make peace with the Xiongnu.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a generation of Jie Weiqing and Huo Qubing led 100,000 Han horsemen, counted into the desert, fought for thousands of miles, and finally crippled the Xiongnu, a snow Han people for nearly a hundred years of shame.

The reason why the Xiliang Army dominates the world depends on the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

The current Xiliang cavalry is strong in combat, maybe it is already very good in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Dong Shouye, it is far from meeting his own requirements, of course, in order to make the cavalry under his command meet his own requirements, Dong Shouye also actively mixed some of the cognition about the cavalry in his mind, or some advanced experience after 2,000 years, into the daily training of the cavalry.

During his free time in Chang'an, Dong Shouye studied Confucianism with his master Zheng Tai on the one hand, and on the other hand, he focused on the training of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, especially the cavalry troops.

The current cavalry still has no stirrup cavalry, and there is no high-bridge saddle on horseback, let alone any horseshoes and the like, but Dong Shouye has also sent people to secretly manufacture these things, and the main action in this regard is to develop stirrups and high-bridge saddles, after nearly half a year's efforts, Dong Shouye has also found a suitable craftsman, and placed it in some secret places to start manufacturing, although there are already some finished products, but it is far from enough to equip the troops in batches.

For the sake of secrecy, Dong Shouye only equipped more than 2,000 cavalry on his own mount and the most elite cavalry in the Grizzly Army under his command, and kept it strictly secret. At the same time, for the sake of insurance, these 2,000 cavalry were trained alone far away from the camp, and Dong Shouye personally trained them.

Fortunately, these people are all henchmen among henchmen, and they are Dong Shouye's cheap son Dong Zhuo is equipped with the most elite force for his baby son from the pro-army under his command, of course, they also have a world-famous name - Huangzhong Yicong.

Huangzhong Yicong is an elite unit established by Dong Shouye's cheap son Dong Zhuo who fought against Qianghu in Xiliang for many years. Dong Zhuo fought more than 100 battles with the Qianghu rebels in Xiliang, made countless meritorious contributions, and shocked Xiqiang, many Han, Qiang, and Chinese in Xiliang admired his courage and joined his troops, and repeatedly defeated the defeated soldiers who surrendered from the prisoners of war, thus forming the so-called multi-ethnic mixed army, known as the "Grizzly Bear Army", and Huangzhong Yicong was the core of the Grizzly Bear Army. Of course, Dong Zhuo only allocated part of it to his son as a sharp blade in his son's hands. Before Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, there were about 30,000 elite troops in the entire "Grizzly Army", and among these 30,000, there were 10,000 people who were the elite of the elite, and that was Huangzhong Yicong.

As soon as Dong Zhuo made a move, he gave his son Huang Zhongyi 2,000 people. At that time, when Dong Shouye led his troops to fight against the White Wave Thieves, he led a total of 10,000 troops, of which 8,000 were transferred from the pro-army under Dong Zhuo, that is, from the Grizzly Army, the most elite unit in the Xiliang Army.

After Dong Zhuo led the Xiliang Army to seize the supreme power of the imperial court, the number of grizzly bears under his command also expanded to a certain extent. At present, the total number of Grizzly Bears is almost 50,000 people, and it is composed of more than 30,000 multi-ethnic mixed troops of the Grizzly Bear Army as the basic framework. This army is Dong Shouye's cheap son Dong Zhuo who has been fighting against Xiqiang for a long time and carefully cultivated the troops, it can be said that it is Dong Zhuo's private army, and it is the world's first-class elite soldiers.

Regarding "Huangzhong Yicong", Dong Shouye's cheap master Zheng Tai once said: "The most brave and good fighters in the world, and the troops that still exist today are He, Liang, Xiongnu, Tuge, Huangzhong Yicong, and the eight kinds of Xiqiang, all of which are feared and praised by the people of the world." ”

Dong Shouye, as Dong Zhuo's son, commands his own Lao Tzu's troops, naturally there is no big problem, and the soldiers under his command are extremely loyal and trustworthy. Therefore, after Dong Shouye Shun took charge of this part of the army, he managed it carefully and trained it carefully. Now it can be said that it is like an arm for this unit, and it can be used freely.

Dong Shouye supported Hu Zhen this time, and when he supported Luoyang, he specially separated the infantry and cavalry, which also meant that the results of the training during this period of the school were examined, after all, whether the training was good or not, it also needed the test of the battlefield to draw conclusions. It's a dragon in training, and it's bad if it's a worm on the battlefield.

The Yangcheng of any elite army is the result of the complementarity of actual combat and training. An untrained unit arrives on the battlefield as a herd of lambs to the slaughter, powerless to fight back. And even the best trained troops cannot be called elite without being tested on the battlefield. Only in the case of excellent training should the troops take an active part in actual combat, test the training results of the troops, find out the deficiencies in the training, and make targeted improvements, so as to further enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Dong Shouye has heard this theory countless times in the 21 st century, and there is a way to apply what he has learned, so naturally he will place these theories, which have been tested countless times, in the training of the troops under his command, with a view to enhancing the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command to the greatest extent.

Of course, as a person who has come from the past, Dong Shouye will not give up some training methods commonly used in the 21 st century, and theory and practice are the only way to build a strong army.

The Xiliang Army under Dong Shouye has a very good foundation, has received formal training for a long time, and has been in actual combat for a long time. Dong Shouye fully believes that under his painstaking management, the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army under his command can reach a new level.

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