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Although Bai Qi said some topics that were not enough for Zhang Jiashi to really make up his mind in this regard, but next, Bai Qi said some things that Zhang Jiashi had not thought about. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That is how the Qin army lost in the battle of Yanhe.

Bai Qi thought for a while before he said some of the circumstances at that time:

"Hu was careless in some ways, which was certainly an important reason for losing that battle. But the main thing is that even I would never have thought that Zhao Hao would have that kind of tactical style at that time. ”

Bai Qi then seemed to laugh at himself, and then continued:

"I think you are also curious about why Zhao Hao was able to effectively block Hu Shu's breakthrough route when Zhao Hao lacked infantry at that time. ”

After Zhang Jiashi heard Zhao Hao's words, he thought for a while before nodding. Because according to some of his current descriptions of the battle between Yan and Yan, there are many more doubts.

And the situation that Bai Qi said is obviously one of them.

In the battle of Yan and Yan, there is such a part of the description:

Zhao Hao adopted Xu Li's proposition and immediately sent 10,000 troops to seize the commanding heights of Beishan. Sure enough, the Qin army arrived, and they could not go up the north mountain, crowded under the mountain, and fell into a very passive position. The Zhao army took advantage of the favorable terrain and condescended to attack the Qin army. The Qin army was defeated and scattered and fled. The encirclement was lifted. This battle caused the mighty princes of Qiang Qin to suffer one of the biggest setbacks, and after many years, he still did not dare to act rashly, for fear of repeating the mistakes of the Emperor.

After the class teacher returned to the dynasty, King Zhao Huiwen named Zhao Hao as the king of Ma Fujun, and his status was on an equal footing with Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, and he was listed as one of the eight famous generals of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong by later generations. He also made Xu Li a national lieutenant.

There are many things that are not reasonable in this description, that is, only the infantry will climb faster. Otherwise, if you want to seize a commanding height with a surprise attack, it is obvious that the cavalry cannot easily do it.

After all, in the mountainous areas of Shanxi, there are few hills that allow knights to ride their horses.

Bai Qi said to Zhang Jiashi at this time: "You should be very strange, that is, Zhao Hao lacked infantry at that time, but he was able to dispatch 10,000 infantry to rush to Beishan. Isn't that unreasonable."

Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but nodded, because he did have doubts in this regard.

In such a situation, Bai Qi said four words to Zhang Jiashi, that is: "Mounted infantry." ”

The mounted infantry is a special type of troops, and although these mounted infantry have a long history of existence, in many ways, the mounted infantry is rarely taken seriously.

Mounted infantry is a type of movement that uses horses for high mobility. Infantry who then dismounted in the combat area for battle.

The combat effectiveness of this infantry is relatively weaker than that of heavy infantry and light cavalry, because of the equipment of these mounted infantry. More often than not, light infantry equipment is used. Therefore, in such a situation, the combat effectiveness of the mounted infantry is relatively weak when it is carried out in battle, and if the mobility is used as the evaluation criterion, the mobility of the mounted infantry is relatively inferior to that of pure light cavalry.

So, this is also the reason why dragoons are not taken much seriously in many cases.

Zhang Jiashi then remembered one direction of development of the mounted infantry, that is, the dragoon.

Dragoons. Its combat effectiveness is somewhat inferior to that of a simple light cavalry, but in terms of combat ability on horseback, it has reached a certain level.

This kind of dragoon is mainly the more famous Cossack cavalry in the history of Eastern Europe.

The Cossacks were historically oppressed by Tsarist Russia, and the main origin of the Cossack cavalry was the three uprisings against the guarantee: the Bolotnikov uprising in 1606 and 1607, the Stepanlashin uprising in 1667 and 1671 and the Pugachev uprising in 1773 and 1775.

In 1654, the Ukrainian Cossack leader Khmelnitsky rebelled against Poland and was suppressed, and turned to Russia for help in the event of a military defeat, with which Khmelnitsky signed the Bereyaslav Pact. Announcing the acceptance of Russian protection, and after a run-in period of 80 years, in 1722, Tsarist Russia abolished the Hetman autonomy of the Cossacks, and the Ukrainian governor Rumyantsev reorganized 10 Cossack regiments into 10 regular cavalry regiments of the Russian army.

The above can be said about the history of the founding of the Cossack cavalry.

Cossack cavalry In history, especially at the end of the Cold Weapon Age, the Cossack cavalry shocked Europe with its speed, mobility, lethality, and brave and good fighting, and European countries often recruited Cossacks as mercenaries. The Cossacks took part in all campaigns from the 18th century to the Second World War in the Soviet Union. Some say that they are the most reckless classic cavalry in the Eurasian steppe. Their cavalry hooves flew in tandem with the pace of Tsarist Russia's outward expansion. He has made great achievements in the development of Russian territory many times. In World War I, Russia formed 11 Cossack regiments of about 300,000 men.

However, due to the investment of modern weapons such as machine guns, platoon guns, tanks, etc., the cavalry was destined to become an obsolete branch, that is, from this era, the Cossacks never achieved such impressive results as in previous wars. In the civil war after the October Revolution, the Cossacks were divided into two camps, and the First Cavalry Corps of the Red Army under Budyonny and Timoshenko were invincible.

During the Soviet-Polish War. The American pilots who once overlooked this unit from the air described it as follows: "The cavalry is eight men and eight horsemen in each row, some wearing cylindrical curly hats, some wearing black coats, they carry rifles on their backs, and their sabers hang from their waists, and they march mightily in the dust, tens of thousands of horses gallop across the country, and tens of thousands of knives are waved in a staggered manner, this scene is extremely shocking, and it has become the most magnificent scene in the history of cavalry warfare." According to statistics, from 1918 to 1920, a million Cossack cavalry were killed.

In such a situation, it was only natural that the Cossack cavalry finally fell.

The main factor that led to the final decline of the Cossack cavalry was the official arrival of the era of hot weapon warfare.

After the end of the civil war in Soviet Russia, the Soviet Union adopted a policy of "carrots and sticks", on the one hand, continuing the policy of Cossack autonomy, allowing them to independently elect Soviets and establish a conference of Cossack soldiers, and on the other hand, increasing efforts to reduce feudal domains and implement "non-Cossackization". The forces of the repression then gradually increased, and those who did not obey were eliminated from above, which led to a series of Cossack uprisings, which at one time led to the defeat of the Red Army. The area on the left bank of the Dnieper was abandoned.

Later, the southern front of Soviet Russia sent a large number of regular troops to suppress it, and in the 19201930 years, under the complete suppression of the Soviet government, the Cossack power gradually declined. A large number of Cossack fugitives poured into the Czech Republic and other countries. Later, through immigration and mixing sand, Soviet Russia finally melted this special group that had existed for hundreds of years into the common people, which ended the history of the Cossacks. During the Second World War, the Soviet army began to use cavalry that retained the characteristics of the Cossacks, but it was already at the end of its strength. In modern three-dimensional mechanized warfare, the glory that lasted for 400 years is no more.

All of the above. It is a representative of the Eastern European dragoons that Zhang Jiashi thought of.

Strictly speaking, the Cossack cavalry was not so much a dragoon as a cavalry unit similar to the assault force developed by Zhang Jiashi.

This situation is mainly due to Napoleon's evaluation of the Cossack cavalry:

If I had Cossack cavalry in my troops, I would have swept the world with them. They were excellent light cavalry, but they were undisciplined and unwilling to dismount to fight, limiting their performance on the battlefield. They were ruthless to the common people, to the point that the whole of Europe. Friends and foes hate them to the core.

Such a situation also involves a kind of understanding of the way dragoons fought between Eastern and Western Europe. The Cossack cavalry, although technically not dragoons, was also quite good at foot combat.

In the battle between the Sixth Anti-French Coalition and the French, many of the Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia dismounted under compulsory orders and became excellent marksmen.

This circumstance illustrates that the Cossack cavalry was not weak in foot combat.

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And Zhang Jiashi then thought of the Western dragoon system.

In Western European military philosophy, dragoons were primarily mounted infantry.

This. As far back as the Roman Empire, it can be seen that some cavalry would be dismounted to scout, guard, and so on. In some accounts, there are descriptions of this type of cavalry:

The Roman legions also included a number of "mounted infantry", called "mounted infantry", who performed patrols, guards, reconnaissance, and other auxiliary tasks.

This can also be said to be a kind of rudimentary form of the Western dragoon system.

And the dragoons of Western Europe. Strictly speaking, a kind of mounted musketeer, because dragoons in the true sense of the word appeared during the Thirty Years' War. And the Thirty Years' War also happened to be a large-scale war in which firearms were used on a large scale in war.

According to relevant records, during the Thirty Years' War, the dragoons of many countries wore similar attire to the foot musketeers, replacing their shoes and socks with boots and spurs. Still wearing a hat. Because there is no need to fight on horseback. Only officers had pistols, and soldiers, in addition to muskets, had only a straight sword to protect themselves. It is worth mentioning that among their equipment is a small pickaxe, which is used to hook the reins when walking.

The Austro-Hungarian dragoon units had horseback halberders until 1625. The mounts they used were also short and inexpensive, not as good as the tall breeds of formal cavalry. In the training subjects, there are very few that teach horse shooting, let alone charge spurs. The only exception was Gustav II's troops, whose combat mission was to provide extended fire support to cavalry units, so the Swedish dragoons rarely dismounted.

Dragoon training was dismounted and Napoleon once believed that dragoons should have good infantry skills.

This also led to the fact that the French dragoons often fought on foot in a skirmish, and on December 24, 1806, the dragoons under their command captured >

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