Last time I saw a discussion about light cavalry and heavy cavalry in Baizhan. The root of the discussion lies in a friend.

My friend suggested not to praise the heavy cavalry in cyber warfare novels.

Although the topic itself still has a lot to discuss, the subsequent discussion began to deviate from this direction.

Began to discuss the difference between light cavalry and heavy cavalry in practical sense, and even several netizens shouted innocence.

The voice of "the same number of light cavalry can annihilate heavy cavalry".

First of all, I declare that I agree with this view, if the light cavalry is equipped with light and heavy machine guns, cannons, missiles or

What else, and the heavy cavalry are all broadswords and spears, I think, let alone the same number, even ten.

Times, a hundred times is not a problem. But this victory doesn't mean anything, just being defeated by Mongolian light cavalry.

Like heavy cavalry in Europe, it doesn't mean anything. This is not a victory of "light" over "heavy", but a superior weapon.

Defeat inferior weapons, superior tactics to defeat inferior tactics.

War is not as simple as those war novels written on the Internet. We must admit the reality of cycling.

Soldiers began to develop from light cavalry, and the most primitive cavalry can never be heavy cavalry. then what rank-and-file soldiers

Slowly develop in the light cavalry, slowly prove your value in the battle, and slowly let the king and rule.

Players are willing to use the money that can recruit three or four light cavalry in exchange for a heavy cavalry.

Heavy cavalry is the choice of the times.

When it comes to cavalry, you have to mention war, and when it comes to war, you have to mention the earliest soldiers.

Type: Infantry. The most primitive infantry has not been verified, but we know that the heavy infantry corps of the Roman Empire was horizontal.

It swept all over the country and established a huge empire with high martial arts.

Wait, are you kidding? The Roman Empire relied on heavy infantry? Instead of light infantry? Don't they know about light?

Infantry is far more mobile than heavy infantry. Don't they know that light infantry can easily detour to heavy infantry?

Wings and flanks, destroy them? But facts are facts, although supplemented by light infantry, although

With the help of cavalry, heavy infantry has always been the main force of the Roman legion. Because the heavy infantry is defensive

Advantage makes the advantage of light infantry in mobility disappear. Can't beat others, let alone go around the back, just

It doesn't matter if you go around the top of your head

But the era of infantry passed quickly, and the era of cavalry as the main force in the battlefield came, and cavalry replaced infantry the most.

The main reason is that people realize the three elements of the army's combat effectiveness, namely, attack power, defense power, machine power,

Machine power is the most important. With overwhelming mobility, I have the initiative to fight, and I can take the initiative to attack.

You, but you can't attack me. If I fail, I can retreat and fight in formation. If you fail, you can only wait.

Try to die. The value of cavalry is recognized by people. Under the right conditions, the country always chooses cavalry instead of cavalry.

Choose infantry.

Of course, there are many reasons for cavalry to get rid of supporting roles, such as the introduction of stirrups, the improvement of military thinking and riding skills.

Soldiers surpass infantry in combat effectiveness, but in the final analysis, the low level is due to the overwhelming mobility of cavalry to infantry.

Sex, not to mention "riding can be a step, but a step can't be riding."

But please note that this is an overwhelming advantage in mobility. But light cavalry has no pressure on heavy cavalry.

The advantage of inversion is only a relative advantage. This is not an advantage on the battlefield, that is to say, on the battlefield, heavy

The cavalry may not catch up with the runaway hussars, but it is enough to make them have no chance and time to stop and reorganize.

Let them have no chance to turn over. But strategically, in the process of troop mobilization and assembly, light cavalry

But its marching speed is faster than that of cavalry. In the face of heavy cavalry, light cavalry has only strategy.

With the advantage of mobility, they can "ride more than 300 miles a day and night".

On the battlefield, the mobile advantage can be offset by the excellent training of heavy cavalry and the powerful combat power composed of heavy armor.

Eliminate.

The main reason why Europe has heavy cavalry is that their wars are small. There are many small countries in Europe, regardless of war.

The field, the number of people participating in the war, the size of the country and the duration of the war are far less than those in the East, which are all offsets.

The maneuver advantage of the light cavalry is lost, and without a broad field, the maneuver becomes meaningless. So light

The position of cavalry in the west is far inferior to that in the east.

Moreover, even in the east, heavy cavalry is still an indispensable force in a complete army, unlike some

A netizen said, "An army can have no heavy cavalry or light cavalry." An army can

There is no arm of any kind, and it can even be composed of a single arm. Not that we can't do it without cavalry. And a complete army will never be without the shadow of heavy cavalry.

Many novels about war on the Internet always describe spearmen as natural enemies of cavalry and always fantasize about cavalry clubs.

I was easily restrained by this unit, but I can't imagine why the cavalry died of benzene and benzene hit that spear.

If the wall of death rushed up, even if people wanted to, would Macon? Horses also have eyes, and training them will give them animal instinct.

Backward? Be a good person and rush to death?

The fact is that spearmen are only used to resist cavalry charges. They are defensive, and once they lose formation.

You can't escape the inevitable consequences of being wiped out by cavalry, just like a shield. You can't say that even if you have a shield.

To win, you still need offensive weapons to win. We saw this in the movie Braveheart.

Sample a battle scene, Wallace in the enemy cavalry is almost rushed to the last moment to raise a spear, let

The cavalry ran into the spear array because of inertia. Why didn't he erect his spear earlier? because

Because it is very simple, no horse or person will jump on this spear array. Lancers are used for defense, not.

The arms used to restrain the cavalry actually have no steps to restrain the cavalry where the horse is suitable for running.

Soldier.

In China, where military thinking is more advanced than in the West, there have been such examples. In the later Tang Dynasty, Li Cunceng led an army to check the contract.

When Dan was fighting, one of his generals said, "Qidan cavalry, I am an infantry, if the plains meet, the enemy will arrive."

If I ride in my array, I will be completely annihilated. "Doesn't he know that infantry can organize spears?

No, he knows, but he also knows that the spear array can be easily broken, and the spear guard will always be just.

Frontal attack cannot prevent the enemy from attacking from both sides, and the enemy has no obligation to attack you from the front.

When it comes to infantry and cavalry, there are many negative examples, such as the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France. British people

Ten thousand archers annihilated France's huge knight army, which seems to be an example to prove that infantry is superior to cavalry, but

In the face of such a shocking example, why are the heavy cavalry still preserved? I have to do this.

Further development?

Because it is very simple, this victory is not the victory of infantry over cavalry, but the victory of English longbow. measure

The advantages and disadvantages of infantry and cavalry must be compared under the condition of putting the two forces in relatively equal.

Military command and morale are not far apart.

In the same way, the example of light cavalry defeating heavy cavalry mentioned by online friends is Mongolian University.

The invasion of Europe by troops cannot prove that light cavalry is better than cavalry. This is the Mongolian bow and arrow and the advanced army in the East.

The triumph of thought. Moreover, a friend on the Internet left a message that "Mongolia's 10,000 hussars annihilated 100,000 Europe.

Heavy cavalry, sorry, I spent two or three days looking for this example, but I just couldn't find it, so I wanted to come.

That friend made it up at the moment, because when Mongolia invaded Europe, there were only a few battles, and it didn't seem that it was ten thousand against ten.

Ten thousand, adowa.

War is cruel, forcing people to make choices. If it is not suitable, it will be eliminated, whether it is the Lord or not.

Cancel the move or passive elimination. The fact is before our eyes, even after the Mongolian invasion, Europe

Europe still retains its emphasis on cavalry and has been further developed.

Everyone knows about the Crusades. The heavy cavalry in Europe faces the light cavalry in Central Asia. The Arabs described it at the time

Described the differences between the two armies. "If you fight head-on, Arab cavalry can't beat European knights, but if

With enough space and time to maneuver, they can win. "The reason for victory lies in Allah.

Bo attacked European cavalry horses with bows and arrows.

What does this mean? It shows that heavy cavalry is the main force in building the army, because frontal combat is really important.

Yes, "enough space and time" can be made up by troop replenishment. We'll see the heavy cavalry soon

With the help of a few light cavalry, light cavalry can be easily defeated with the help of a few heavy cavalry.

A great war broke out between timur and Ottoman Turks. In the battle, he repelled the enemy with 20 thousand light cavalry.

The central main force is 50,000 heavy cavalry, and at the same time, 80,000 heavy cavalry are concentrated to attack 30,000 light cavalry on the enemy's wings.

Because it forced 4500 people to surrender, and then completely annihilated the Turkish army and captured Sudan. Until he dies.

After that, Turkey recovered. Why didn't the Turkish light cavalry retreat? They can return it. After all, they

It's faster and you can run away. But they can't, because they have to cover the main flank.

Fighting is not that simple. This does not mean that hussars can retreat if they want to. Where are the other brothers? Where are the grains and hay?

Without all this, is the mobility of light cavalry meaningful?

Yes, the hussars can make a detour, but what is the significance of a detour? It forms a big circle behind the enemy if

Without blocking the enemy's attacking troops head-on, will the enemy let you detour? Like big and small circles,

It is always much more convenient to turn a corner in a small circle than in a big circle. When you go around behind the enemy, the enemy is already there.

Turn your face around. You just let the horse run for nothing for a while.

A friend imagined a picture of war, in which the light cavalry went around the back of the heavy cavalry formation and knocked them down with a knife.

The idea of hacked to death from behind, to tell the truth, is probably influenced by such a broken book as Up and Down Five Thousand Years.

The influence of the section "tarquin's invasion of Europe" (at least I have been cheated by this book for many years) is exactly like that.

A portrayal of a war novel that treats oneself as a genius and treats the enemy as an idiot. Light cavalry can detour to heavy cavalry.

The cavalry is in the back, but will it work?

Many battles in history were won because they successfully bypassed the enemy's rear and flank and launched attacks.

Therefore, this is also a very reasonable tactic, but there is a premise to defeat the enemy by this move, that is, you are

Can you resist or delay the enemy's attack? Of course, some people say that there is a mobile advantage anyway, but you can beat it first.

Stand back and wait for the friendly forces to make a detour before fighting. However, you are only allowed to divide your troops, and the enemy is not allowed to divide his troops? Anyway, you're out

In combat, the enemy can also divide the army into several parts, one for chasing you and the other for detours.

Troops. This idea is entirely based on the fact that the enemy is very stupid and has great power but doesn't know how to give full play to his advantages.

What will happen, something that sounds reasonable but can't stand the analysis. To put it bluntly, it is the victory of conducting art.

It's not that the light cavalry defeated the heavy cavalry.

Personally, if we are a heavy cavalry, then when the enemy comes from behind, I

Are the children standing there motionless? Or turn around and face the enemy? I don't think this kind of question needs to be answered unless.

Is running away, otherwise no one will wait for the enemy's knife to come from behind.

China also has heavy cavalry.

Let's first define a concept, what is light cavalry, what is heavy cavalry, and what is mixed.

Cavalry mount.

This is a very vague question, and no one can be sure what kind of equipment is classified as heavy cavalry and what kind.

Equipment is classified as light cavalry, and what kind of equipment is considered as medium cavalry. Armor, chain mail, scales, leather armor.

The difference?

There are great differences in culture and life between East and West. The armor of the East is different from that of the West, and

Moreover, China horses are very different from Western horses, so we can't say that we must use complete and strict Western horses.

Armor, armed with western epee, can be regarded as heavy cavalry.

Looking through the history books, we found that cavalry had a name, "Iron Rider". Of course, if you understand him.

I have nothing to say about a horse with a horseshoe, but I think this iron horse should be understood as "wearing real armor."

Cavalry. "

"Strike with fighters", "Fight with thousands of fighters" and "Drive fighters forward", Han, Sui, Tang and Ben

There has been an armored cavalry in the whole history, and everyone can count the armored cavalry as a light cavalry.

Really?

Everyone has heard of the poem "Dream on the Iron Horse Glacier". What is an iron horse? The explanation is: wearing armor

War horse, used to represent the army. Is the war horse in armor a light cavalry mount?

In the Five Dynasties, there were armored riding tools, heavy cavalry called iron kites in Xixia, iron floats in Liao and developed in Song Dynasty.

Out of the "serial horse". Although the last one appeared in the novel, this kind of army should also be realistic.

It shows that "the vest only shows its hooves hanging down, and the armor only shows a pair of eyes". This kind of army belongs to all things.

In heavy cavalry. In the novel, it is written that "the bows and arrows on both sides are misplaced, and the middle is full of pike".

Classic heavy cavalry charge.

Even in Mongolia, when the light cavalry reached its limit, the Mongolian heavy cavalry still lined up in front of the army.

Yes, with a long knife and real armor.

It has been proved many times that heavy cavalry disappeared after firearms appeared, facing sharp muskets and fragile shooters.

Ming heavy cavalry is vulnerable to firearms, and the speed-conscious light cavalry is preserved, while the heavy armor is gone.

In history.

There is no end to the development of civilization. With the further enhancement of firearms and the appearance of tanks, the once brilliant cavalry left.

Going into decline, and finally being eliminated by ruthless history. Only for future generations to recall, tossing in their minds, cavalry charged a thousand troops.

The spectacular sight of Ma Benteng.

Victory and honor-the rise and fall of cavalry

War, in the historical torrent of human development, can be said to have become synonymous with national integration. With the development and progress of mankind, we rely on force to win more productive resources, thus further conquering and enslaving. War has become the only way to achieve this goal. As far away as the "stone war" in the era when wild animals ate hair and drank blood-let's just say so. At that time, people conquered nature and "tribes" with stones and sticks. In the Iron Age, the determination of slavery forced the lords to fight for more benefits-killing and conquering. The blood of desire and greed permeated the war. But relatively speaking, the war has also promoted national integration, social development and ... emerging ideological trends.

At the same time, when the old slave owners were no longer satisfied with their immediate interests and the lower slaves constantly resisted the fate of being enslaved, the feudal system appeared. The mechanism of the country has become more perfect. The "slave soldier system" in the slave period (the army system in which slave owners kept a small number of regular troops and slaves were the main force in the war) was gradually transformed into the "Feng Jianbing system" (feudal lords kept a certain number of regular troops, trained them every day, and received salaries from the lords. Slavery was abolished to a certain extent, and civilians could join the army through examinations. It has also been replaced by the policy of "being an army in leisure time and being a farmer in busy time", such as the reclamation system. Relatively speaking, the further regularization of the army has led to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the army, and also brought about the possibility of group combat and the evolution of group combat tactics.

In the Middle Ages, full of blood and fire, desire and greed, conquest and rule, another emerging romantic trend of thought-chivalry appeared on the European continent.

Not everyone in the early knights rode horses, but a title, representing their status and honor. In fact, it is precisely because only knights can have the right to mount, so they are called knights. However, the knight is not the subject of this article. You can write another article when you have the opportunity. Nevertheless, with the development of society, the emergence of cavalry regiment rewrote the history of medieval European continent. If war is an art, then the use of cavalry is the embodiment of art.

China first used cavalry in the Warring States Period. With the emergence of high engine power and high attack power requirements in the war, chariots were gradually eliminated and replaced by horses that broke free from ropes, thus creating the history of cavalry groups.

Most cavalry in medieval Europe were equipped with heavy armor, and hundreds of pounds of real armor wrapped the knight tightly. In addition to wearing heavy armor, knights usually hold an iron shield in their left hand and a 3-meter-long pike in their right hand, so as to pierce the enemy in one fell swoop when charging in the plain. In melee, you can pull out your sword and fight the enemy. Heavy equipment also minimizes the casualties of knights in melee.

Although the whole body is equipped with hundreds of pounds, its mechanical power and puncture force can not be underestimated. It often takes only a wave of cavalry charge, and the enemy will be scattered. In the 300 years of cavalry galloping across the European continent, cavalry has become a nightmare for infantry. Most European cavalry are also accustomed to the group charge tactics, and they have never even considered using other cavalry tactics-although the group charge tactics have long been eliminated in China, it was already an ethos in Europe at that time-fearless courage to go forward. Although there are also tactics of blocking with wooden fences or ditches.

It blocked the cavalry's attack, but in front of the heavy cavalry, the wooden fence was as easy to be broken as a layer of paper. Moreover, most officers are not stupid enough to confront the enemy head-on with the trench in front, and without the trench, the flank will become a must-kill place for cavalry. On the other hand, even if it hits the trench head-on, the heavy cavalry is fully capable of rushing through.

However, the advantage of cavalry was quickly broken. William wallace became the first nightmare of the heavy cavalry. Huge wooden guns (made of the trunk of a whole tree and sharpened at the front end) resisted the cavalry's first charge. With the fall of the knights who charged in the first round, more and more cavalry either tripped over their fallen companions and became the targets of subsequent cavalry trampling, or were stabbed and dismounted by wooden guns again, or the whole people hung on wooden guns through wooden guns.

The worst war of cavalry was probably a war during the Seventh Crusade of the Crusaders.

At that time, there were five Knights Templar, Teutonic Knights and Iraqi Knights. Fifty thousand cavalry attacked Kiev and were blocked. The leader of the other side was just a little-known young archduke at that time. Only 20,000 heavy shield infantry and 50,000 militia recruited temporarily are in command. In fact, the war between the two sides took place with little time to prepare. The young archduke didn't even have time to build any fortifications against cavalry assault on the battlefield, and the militia even went to the battlefield with sickles and sticks. But the archduke's order is that 20 thousand heavy shield infantry is in the middle and 50 thousand militia is divided into two parts as flanks. The whole battle was V-shaped.

When the cavalry began to charge, the heavy shield infantry inserted their heavy shields into the ground one after another (because it was full of mud and sand, it was easy for the cavalry to exert a strong impact, but it also led to his downfall. ), a total of two layers of wooden shields were inserted to form a temporary wooden fence. Regardless of the threat of the militia, the cavalry went straight to the heavy shield infantry array. Those who have made the big fear of underestimating their enemies only subconsciously picked it with a gun after seeing the wooden shield and planned to pick it off. At this point, their nightmare began. The first row of heavy shield infantry behind the wooden shield pressed the wooden shield with their long guns, and the cavalry could not provoke the wooden shield again under the pressure of hundreds of pounds. Some cavalry even knocked to the ground on the spot because of imposing manner. The heavy shield infantry in the second row immediately took out the axe inserted in the ground and kept throwing it at the cavalry. At this time, the militia on the two wings began to move closer to China, intending to "take the general's head" after all the cavalry fell-it was difficult for several heavy cavalry to stand up independently after falling.

This movement. 50,000 cavalry were almost completely annihilated, while the young Grand Duke suffered nearly tens of thousands of casualties (most of them were militia)-if the commander-in-chief of the Crusader did not decisively order the subsequent cavalry to continue the deadly assault on the surviving friendly forces, it is likely that even if the Knights were completely annihilated, the enemy casualties would never exceed 20,000. In view of the memory problem, I have forgotten which battle it was and the names of the commanders of both sides. Interested friends can go and have a look. This is an absolutely classic battle. )

And if this nightmare is only the first one, then the second nightmare is the impact brought by the Mongols.

Mongolia is a nomadic people, strictly speaking, it can't be called the nightmare of cavalry. Or "nightmare of cavalry to cavalry" is better. First of all, in terms of equipment, after the demise of the Jin and Song Dynasties, the Mongols began to use the technology of the Jin and Song Dynasties to arm the army. It can be said that the equipment of Mongolian cavalry at that time was world-class: the most elite Mongolian cavalry was generally equipped with a pike, a musket (spear), a crossbow (a strong crossbow that can shoot three arrows at the same time, not an ordinary crossbow), a saber and a bow. When charging, use the bow far away, the crossbow near, the musket (spear) near, the pike when sprinting, and the sabre at the beginning of melee. What's more frightening is that its arrow is poisonous. And from the point of wearing armor, Mongols despise escapers, and soft armor and soft armor only wear armor on their chests (don't underestimate soft armor, ordinary bow and arrow shooting may not cause harm to Mongolian cavalry). On the whole, although Mongolian cavalry has so many weapons, its negative weight is far lighter than that of specific cavalry. Moreover, the use of a large number of elite weapons has caused great casualties to the enemy-before approaching, we should get off the road first. The Mongolian cavalry is powerful and is a "mobile war." The shock brought by the "whirlwind" of the Mongolian army is not only the demise of the country, but also the demise of ancient tactics. The only time in history that hurt the Mongolian army was probably the Battle of Baluchistan-30,000 Mongolian cavalry who went to the battlefield independently for the first time suddenly led a confrontation with Zalandin's 15000 troops, and after causing more than 100 casualties to the other side, 10 people rode out. It can be seen that the Mongolian army is good at fighting.

Secondly, "exchange of knights" prevails in Europe-that is, knights captured on the battlefield cannot be killed, and they must be treated well and exchanged for their captured knights in the future. But the Mongols don't buy it at all. All Charise Carnes don't care about surrender or not, just take the head. Let's mourn those poor knights. Amen (laughs).

Although there are more and more tactics to restrain cavalry, cavalry still maintains a very high position in the war because of its strong power and impact. /kloc-in the 0/7th century, Japan's "riding iron" (pure musket cavalry) created a new generation of cavalry units, which was about 300 years earlier than the "dragon cavalry" in Europe.

However, with the application of science and technology in modern warfare, the status and advantages of cavalry gradually disappear. When the cavalry of the Polish Cavalry Corps were ground into paste by German tanks one by one, the sedan chair of the emperor in the ancient cold weapon war-cavalry, officially declared the end of its mission and left the big stage of history.