Luo Yi was not very surprised by this result, because this was the standard tactic of cavalry for thousands of years, and it had been practiced in practice.

Many online posts are intentionally or unintentionally misleading readers, some people don't even bother Baidu to swear to open their mouths, which really misleads a lot of people who don't read, and the big devil has been deeply affected, for example, she saw a sprinkled cavalry VS infantry tactics discussion hot post before the crossing, in which someone loudly claimed that the famous pikes of the Swiss were composed of three-meter-long spears.

Luo Yi, who believed this guy, was disgraced in front of Francis, and once again confirmed the other party's judgment that "the battlefield is not a place for girls to stay", which really made her angry.

In fact, even if you don't turn over the monograph on Western weapons, just Baidu Encyclopedia, which is famous for its unreliability, you should know that the spear of the Swiss pike phalanx is 20 feet, that is, six meters long.

It is precisely because of this that the Swiss, who are famous all over Europe for their poor jingling sounds, at first chose the latter, which is relatively expensive in any way you look at, as the main battle weapon of the phalanx, because the latter is 10 feet long, three meters long, and much easier to train than the perverted 20-foot spear - yes, the kind of perverted spear that is six meters long, if ordinary people do not train it well, they can't even take a step, let alone hold it for battle, no wonder the Swiss spear training is "from the baby"......

There are also some nets that are even more examples of oxen flying in the sky, for example, some people claim that in the era of stirrups, cavalry were infantry on horseback. When you get to the place, you have to get off your horse and fight, and wait until you have the great invention of the stirrup. Only then did they have cavalry that could fight on horseback, so the Song Dynasty failed to defeat the cavalry of the Liao State. It's not because the Song Dynasty was weaker than the previous dynasties, but because the cavalry before the Song Dynasty was without stirrups, but actually infantry......

Not to mention how the stirrup, a great invention that first appeared in China, was postponed until the Song Dynasty, the famous "Parthian Horse Shot", as well as the Persian stone carvings and Han portrait stones engraved with cavalrymen charging with long weapons in both hands, as well as the written records circulating at the time, prove that in the era of no stirrups BC, the way of fighting between archers and charging cavalry had already taken shape. On the contrary, in the era of stirrups, there were still many half-hung horsemen who did not know equestrianism. Although the Roman cavalry of the stirrupless era was not strong or fought on horseback, their descendants, the Franks, who dominated Western Europe, were even worse than them - it took them a long time to learn to fight on horseback, and they had always been mounted infantry before.

There is also a widely circulated saying that "infantry can resist cavalry lightly", and this sentence may be true when there is considerable cavalry support and strong long-range firepower - without any of them, if you encounter real cavalry, you will die as badly as you can - no, you don't even need cavalry. The encounter of the Athenian heavy infantry at the hands of the Aeturian light infantry illustrates how ...... the infantry was without mobile long-range fire protection Even the Athenians, who loved heavy infantry, could not stand it anymore and lightened their armor themselves in exchange for mobility. Xenophon, who carried 10,000 Athenian heavy infantry armed with spears, said that "as long as the infantry is firm enough, they are not afraid of cavalry", but once the pursuing Persian cavalry was encountered, it was tested in battle...... He obediently pulled out all the pack horses and formed a cavalry. He cobbled together a long-range army, but fortunately he encountered a small number of Persian charging cavalry instead of a large number of Parthian archers, otherwise he probably would not have had time to patch this patch, and the famous book "The Long March", which guided Alexander the Great's journey, would have been destroyed.

And after him. The Roman dictator Crassus made a tragic note at Calais with the destruction of twelve Roman legions as "what happens to heavy infantry without cavalry and long-range protection when they encounter a brigade of cavalry". So much so that the Cambridge History of War, which repeatedly emphasized the uselessness of excellent infantry cavalry, had to admit that it met a brigade of cavalry in the open field......

In fact. In the absence of decent cavalry, what if it resisted? The cavalry detoured to the rear to cut off the grain route is a classic cavalry tactic recorded in the Art of War, and there were no stirrups in the era. The Song Dynasty had been preparing for many years of the Five-Way Expedition, and hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed without a battle after the Western Xia cavalry cut off the grain route. A variant of this tactic was the "island hopping" tactic in the Pacific War, in which the U.S. military used its superiority in the sea and air to bypass the islands where the Japanese had strong strongholds and crush the rear, leaving the inherently inmobile dead soldiers useless despite their fanatical bushido spirit.

Another classic role of light cavalry is reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. The traverser in the novel, relying on the foresight of history, can see through the fog of war, know how many people there are on the other side, which way to go, prepare for a strong attack or ambush, the ancient commanders were not so lucky, once their own reconnaissance cavalry is defeated by the other party, it is basically a black eye, in the absence of radio, once the herald between the armies is intercepted and killed by the other party, the next is the prelude to being broken by each one, the enemy can use the fog of war to concentrate superior forces in the local area, Divide and surround and eat the army that is far outnumbered by you.

Sun Tzu said that cavalry can be used as ten times the strength of the cavalry when used properly, but this is still the cavalry of the era without stirrups, of course, this is "properly used", no matter how good a soldier is, with a bad commander it is hopeless.

From this point of view, Luo Yi felt fortunate that she thought of finding Francis and others to conduct exercises for the Blue Army when she was training, otherwise she probably didn't even know how she died.

"That's amazing!" Seeing that Luo Yi's cavalry had beaten the terrifying northerners to the point where they were powerless, the citizen representatives of the royal capital were simply dancing, as if they had drunk too much.

It's amazing, it's spending money, and it's too much of a meow......

The hundreds of light and heavy cavalry under Luo Yi cost ten times as much as the infantry, and to train a real cavalry team that can fight on horseback, it is not something that amateur players can practice every few days - even if there is a Takahashi saddle and stirrups, to make various tactical moves against the enemy, it is necessary to have the super cooperation of the horses, otherwise, that is, the infantry on horseback, it is not enough to fight on horseback.

Luo Yike didn't want the kind of cavalry that only had appearances, even so, it still hurt her to pay for it, not to mention anything else, this expedition also specially brought a craftsman who can trim horseshoes and nail horseshoes and his full set of tools, if pure infantry has this cost, if the shoes are broken, she can play a pair of straw sandals by herself, but as long as she still cares about the victory or defeat of the war, she can't save money in this regard. Like the Great Song Dynasty, Luo Yi thinks that he doesn't have the wisdom of saving money from the horse's mouth in every possible way, or honestly learn the 100,000 horses before the Battle of Mobei, and summon the world's cultivators to gather in Chang'an...... (To be continued......)