Valley Emperor

?Fortunately, the generals of the Datang Army have not experienced such a thing. This is not because they are lucky or awesome, but because they know that they must not put themselves in this situation.

This kind of luck is not given by God, but earned by them!

Because unless they are accompanied by a considerable number of cavalry, otherwise, they will never send infantry and artillery to the grasslands alone!

That's not war, that's suicide!

For thousands of years of history, there is only one best weapon to fight against cavalry, and that is the tank!

The second is that the infantry are equipped with heavy machine guns and these rapid-fire weapons!

The appearance of these two weapons is the stage for the cavalry to withdraw from the war as a branch of arms!

And even with tanks and machine guns, cavalry still plays an important role in certain situations. In the Eastern European battlefield during the interwar period, regardless of whether it was the Russian Civil War or the war between the Soviet Union and Poland, the cavalry played a vital role. effect.

During World War II, although the formed cavalry charges were rarely seen, the rapid maneuvering of horses for rapid maneuvering could still be seen frequently and had a huge effect.

The role of military horses alone is even greater. During World War II, a large number of troops used horses and other livestock to transport logistics, while a large number of under-mechanized troops such as the German, Soviet, and Japanese troops used mules. Horses serve as the main force of logistics transportation, which is a typical mule-horse army!

After World War II, the Chinese army also maintained mule-horse transformation for quite a long time. It used horses, mules and other livestock to undertake the main logistics transportation, and used trucks for motorization and even mechanization. It will be many years later.

As a combat arm, the life of cavalry in the Huaxia region continued until the 1980s. As a transport force, horses were still active on the battlefield until the 21st century, even those capable of killing aliens. The American soldiers who are looking for teeth all over the ground will still use mules and horses to transport logistics materials when fighting in the mountains.

It can be seen that the vitality of the cavalry is tenacious, and the importance of horses to war.

For a kind of arms that can still play a huge role even in World War II, in the 16th century, even if the Tang Army was equipped with guns, and it was the most advanced flintlock gun and howitzer, but want to It is almost impossible to fight cavalry with infantry and artillery alone.

In this era, the best way to fight against the enemy's cavalry is to have a strong cavalry yourself!

Use cavalry to deal with cavalry, this is the kingly way!

Now, and for hundreds of years in the future, until the tank matures, it is the only best choice!

Looking back at the past few thousand years, the Central Plains Dynasty had an advantage in fighting against the North. That was when the Central Plains Dynasty had a large number of powerful cavalry!

This was the case in the early Han, Tang and Ming Dynasties. The troops they defeated the northern nomads were never infantry, but cavalry!

The cavalry in the early Ming Dynasty, their combat effectiveness was beyond the table, and they took the initiative to launch wars to the north many times, and the Beiyuan cavalry who fought wailed endlessly!

When the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was dead, then the war with the northern grasslands would be switched between offense and defense, and it became the defense of the Ming Dynasty.

When it came to the Tang Dynasty, although the infantry and artillery of the Datang Army were too powerful, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the world's No. 1, but there is no good way to take the opposite Tatar cavalry.

Because people don't fight you hard at all!

This is also the reason why the Datang Army has been working hard to develop cavalry over the years, even selling guns in order to purchase war horses!

Without cavalry, there is no way to go deep into the grasslands to fight, and no matter how powerful the guns are, they are just decorations.

But on the contrary, after serving as cavalry, not only can the advantages of the cavalry itself be exerted, but also the power of the guns can be further exerted.

Well, cavalry can also be equipped with muskets!

Infantry artillery can also become cavalry artillery!

The cavalry is equipped with a long-barreled flintlock lance, which can be used as mounted infantry, and a short-barreled pistol, which can be used as a pistol cavalry.

The combination of guns and cavalry will further promote the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Datang Army!

Therefore, over the years, the military gritted its teeth and reluctantly sold a lot of arquebuses to the Tatars, Oaras, and Tubos. Trouble, but there is no way out.

You don't sell muskets, and they don't sell war horses!

You want war horses, and you still have a lot of good war horses. If you don’t pay enough price, the Tatars, Oaras, and Tibetans are not fools. Sold to the Datang Empire.

People are not stupid, and they know with their toes that the Datang Empire will definitely form a large-scale cavalry after purchasing these war horses, and then turn around to deal with them!

The trade between the Datang Empire in the north and the Tatars, Chahar and other eastern tribes, the Oaras and the Tubos, especially the trade in horses and muskets, for both sides, it is a walk on a tightrope. kind of game!

They are selling weapons that can kill themselves to the enemy, and then exchange them for weapons that can kill the enemy!

But even so, they had to do it!

The Datang Empire lacked war horses, very short, very short!

Those nomads, facing the threat of guns and guns from the Tang Empire, also want to buy guns to resist.

Otherwise, there would not be such a strange situation. The two opposing sides actually sold and bought each other's weapons!

In addition to the official exchange of guns for war horses with the northern nomadic forces such as the Tatars, Oaras, Chahars, and Tubos in official exchanges.

In order to supplement the war horses, the Datang Empire has basically used all methods in recent years. The most important method is to win over and divide the small and medium tribes of nomads, and then obtain horses from these small tribes.

These nomadic tribes are not monolithic, and even Altan Khan cannot completely control the entire Tatar.

Tatar, strictly speaking, this is a loose alliance of many tribes, Alta Khan is only one of the largest tribes, the leader of the Tumut tribe, relying on the powerful force of the Tumut tribe, controls other tribes, and Within each tribe, the right to self-determination is very large, and there are many people who are unhappy with Altan Khan, but for the time being, it is estimated that no one has the courage to oppose Altan Khan.

Some of the small nomadic tribes near the Great Wall are actually very difficult to live in the middle. When the Datang Empire gives some benefits, they will also sell some horses as appropriate. There are even several small tribes in order to survive, in order to Gained access to the Great Wall to live and live, and completely chose to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty.

Although these tribes are small, but the grassland is so big, there are many small and medium-sized tribes who are willing to do business with the Tang Dynasty secretly. Even a few large tribes will still do business with the Tang Dynasty secretly, but they are hiding it. Just buy guns with Altan Khan.

This messy business has been done more, and the number of horses collected is actually quite a lot. At present, more than half of the many military horses of the Datang Army are obtained through this method.

The point is that 10,000 horses are not too many, and one is not too few. As long as there are horses, anything can be said!

In addition to purchasing horses in various messy ways, raising horses by yourself is also a major measure. Today, the Datang Empire has promoted large-scale horse-raising by both the official and the public at the same time.

Private large-scale horse raising, although the empire has certain policy support, but to be honest, it has nothing to do with official promotion, mainly because of the large-scale use of horse carriages in China in recent years, and the private market has a huge demand for horses , the price of horses has risen again and again. In the former Ming Dynasty, a good horse was only about 12 taels of silver, but now, the price has more than doubled, and you can't expect to buy it without forty taels of silver. Get it.

The rise in prices has also made it profitable for the people to raise horses. Without the government's promotion, the folks have naturally raised the trend of raising horses.

However, although the folk horse raising has become popular, it has not been cultivated on a large scale. The quality of the horses can only be said to be average. Although the government is also promoting excellent horse breeds, it is difficult to supervise thoroughly, so the quality of the horses is not bad. Qi, the number of high-quality horses is also very small.

Nowadays, in many places in China, due to the lack of horses, all kinds of carriages are actually pulled by mules and donkeys, and most of the horses used are southwest horses, which is not to say that southwest horses are not good. The horse is quite good, but if it is a riding horse that runs to the northern plains as a cavalry, it is too small and the impact is too weak.

Therefore, at present, there is no way for the private sector to provide the military with too many qualified horses, but the military is working with the cabinet to plan the domestic private horse breeding and strive to change this mess.

At present, most of the horses used by the military in China come from the official horse farms~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The official has currently established a total of more than 30 horse farms, large and small, in the northwest, Shanxi, Hebei, Liaodong, and even Zhili and Southwest China have them, ranging in size or size.

The quality of the horses bred is relatively good. There are imported Central Asian horses, as well as Mongolian horses. Even the southwestern horses have not fallen. However, even for such purebred horses, the military is now trying every means to improve their quality.

In addition, with the support of the Department of Medicine of the Royal Institute of Technology, the military has begun to breed hybrid horses, and has brought in all kinds of horse breeds for testing, such as Mongolian horses and Central Asian horses for breeding, Mongolian horses and Southwest horses for breeding. .

The Datang military, in order to ensure that horses are not mixed up, and to ensure the bloodlines of various types of horses, most of the horse farms are strictly closed, and even horses are graded one-on-one.

Among the many horse farms, the most exaggerated should belong to the Jeju horse farm. Why use the word Jeju, because the Tang Dynasty used the entire Jeju Island as a horse farm!

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