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According to the vision of some generals in the army, especially the generals who support the construction of heavy cavalry!

Once this kind of heavy cavalry wearing full-body plate armor charges, there is no cold weapon unit that can stop their charge.

Even if they are blocked by the enemy's tight formation, they can rely on the impact of tall and strong horses, and the super protective ability of people and horses to smash the enemy's defense line.

Even if they were forced into hand-to-hand combat at the end, they would still be the top hoplites of this era.

If you want to damage them with cold weapons, you can only use heavy weapons, such as sledgehammers, to kill them effectively. If it is a sharp-edged weapon, you can only use the most exquisite technology to accurately insert the sword into the plate armor. If you are not a super expert, don't try it, because when you are looking for its weak point, he has already stabbed you in the opposite direction!

Of course, they also admitted that even wearing the best armor in this era, these heavy cavalry can't stop the guns and guns. At medium and long distances, they can deal with the shooting of ordinary caliber muskets, but at close distances, they are also attacked. One shot down.

Heavy muskets, not to mention artillery shells, heavy muskets can punch a hole in one hundred meters away, and let an artillery regiment of the Datang Army come and aim at the phalanx of this cavalry regiment for a burst of rapid fire. 100% can reimburse more than half of this cavalry regiment!

In the face of guns, these heavy cavalrymen equipped with the top plate armor are still vulnerable!

But the generals who supported the construction of the heavy cavalry said: "We are not stupid, why are we so stupid to let the heavy cavalry attack the enemy's phalanx of infantry equipped with guns!

Moreover, according to the enemies the empire is facing at present, these enemies are not modern armies equipped with a large number of guns, but the East Asian armies in this era that are still generally equipped with cold weapons!

Really want to meet the enemy's musket troops!

Why use heavy armored cavalry to attack the phalanx of the musketeers, the Tang Army started out with guns and cannons, they won't pile up infantry directly, and won't directly bombard it!

Playing with guns and guns, the Datang Army has never been afraid of anyone!

As for the role of the heavy armored cavalry, it is used to deal with the enemy's cold weapon troops!

But even so, it failed to convince everyone that these heavy cavalry are of great use. There are still many people who think that these heavy cavalry are expensive vases, and most of the people who think so are from within the army.

Even within the cavalry, there is very disagreement about this!

Many people who advocate the construction of light cavalry say that the cost of building such a heavy cavalry is enough to build several times the number of light cavalry, and several times the number of light cavalry can definitely beat this heavy cavalry.

You must know that the first lancer regiment is the best in all aspects. The knights are the best cavalry selected from the whole army. They are all strong and strong, but most of them are proficient in various operations at the same time. Skills, many people, and even old cavalry during the Unification War, each of these old cavalry is a valuable asset to the Army.

At the same time, in order to support these heavy cavalry in charge, the horses they are equipped with are also the best Central Asian horses and some Arabian horses selected from the whole country. , and some even reached 1.5 meters.

And in order to reduce the burden of riding horses, there are two additional Mongolian horses, one for their daily marching horses, and one for carrying equipment.

Then, in order to lighten the burden on the knights, each cavalry has an auxiliary cavalry, who raises horses on weekdays and carries logistical materials and so on. When it comes to combat, they can also ride on horses to accompany the battle.

Standard one ride three horses!

So don't look at them equipped with full-body plate armor, think they are special cans with poor mobility, their long-distance attack ability is not weaker than those of light cavalry, and on the battlefield, if necessary, they will also You can give up the plate armor and the knight's spear and fight directly with the saber.

Said to be heavy cavalry, but in fact they can also be transformed into light cavalry!

But this is also a point that many people have accused. Since you want to fight as light cavalry, why do you waste so much energy on heavy cavalry? Just get light cavalry.

So many debates have also made the current Tang Empire only have a heavy cavalry like the First Lancer Regiment!

Later, the other heavy cavalry units engaged by the Tang Army, although they were also called heavy cavalry, were actually not much different from light cavalry. The armor is heavy, and the horses that come with it are also slightly better.

And pure light cavalry, they are also equipped with cuirass, but it is a lightweight cuirass, its thickness is roughly similar to the light plate armor equipped by infantry.

All kinds of lightweight plate armor, this is almost the standard equipment of the various arms of the Tang Empire at present, even this lightweight plate armor cannot effectively resist the shooting of muskets, but it can withstand the effects of arrows and other cold weapons. It's not bad, but most of the enemies faced by the Tang Empire are still in the era of cold weapons, which is not as good as the Ming army of that year, so the actual combat effects of various light plate armors are still good.

Generally speaking, ordinary musketeers are equipped with light breastplates, while some of the heavy musketeers and grenadiers in the front row are equipped with light half-armor, while the sword and shield players in the assault troops are equipped with light full-body armors. First.

In the case of cavalry, ordinary hussars are equipped with breastplates, the thickness of which is the same as that of musketeers, in order to ensure the flexibility and mobility of the hussars.

For the cuirassiers, the cuirass they are equipped with are thicker.

The 1st Lancer Regiment was the most special. It was the only heavy cavalry unit in the army equipped with special light full-body armor.

In addition, no matter what kind of cavalry, the weapons they use are unified, and they all use the three main weapons of the pistol, the saber, and the lance.

Therefore, most of the time, the tactics of the Datang Army cavalry are very simple. They rush up with lances in a dense formation, and the front cavalry first use the pistols to make a wave, and then they wield the saber to kill!

Among them, the Suifa pistol replaces the role of the hollow cavalry spear in the past, which is used as a close-range one-time weapon. Now even the heavy cavalry regiment such as the First Lancer Regiment has given up the hollow spear and used it instead. Then fire a pistol instead!

Because they are both disposable weapons, the killing distance of the hollow spear is closer, and the pistol is farther, and the pistol can be carried at the same time. Many cavalry like to carry two pistols at the same time. Open the bow left and right, throw it away on the spot, and rush up with the saber.

This tactical cavalry is still a learned infantry. The infantry also likes to rush to a distance of about 20 meters to shoot a salvo before launching a bayonet charge, throwing grenades at the same time, and finally rushing up with a bayonet. It's always been good.

Now, even those Tartars in the north know how the musketeers of the Tang Dynasty charged, it's such a simple three-axle, but knowing it doesn't mean they can resist it.

From the cavalry equipment of the Datang Army to the heavy cavalry, there is currently only one cavalry regiment, and the rest are light cavalry who are easily uniformed. It can also be seen that the senior management of the Datang Army is still awake to the development of the cavalry. Mind, it is enough for the heavy cavalry to have a regiment to act as a front, the main cavalry still has to rely on the light cavalry.

The light cavalry in the Tang Army is not strictly divided into hussars or dragoons, because the equipment of the light cavalry of the Tang Army is unified, and there is no obvious difference. They are equipped with pistols and sabres at the same time. , and then issued a lance.

When you mount a horse, you can charge with a saber, and when you get off your horse, you can use the lance to fight!

The only difference is their armor and the horses they ride.

Therefore, in theory, all the cavalry of the Datang Army can mount a charge and dismount to fight on foot.

The Datang Army currently has five independent cavalry divisions, 12 independent cavalry regiments, a total of about 30,000 independent cavalrymen, 20 divisional cavalry regiments, and a total of about 15,000 cavalry battalions in the reserve division. Division is cavalry.

Thus the total number of cavalry was about forty-five thousand.

But it is impossible for these 45,000 cavalry to be placed in the north, and it is even more impossible for them to be placed in the Hetao area.

For example, the 3rd cavalry division stationed in the Liaohetao area, this cavalry division shoulders the important task of guarding against nomads such as the Chahar Ministry and Duoyan Sanwei, and defending the Liaohetao and even the entire western and eastern Liaoning.

Another example is the 4th cavalry division stationed in Gansu. This cavalry division is basically immobile, because the Tang Empire has only such a main cavalry division in the northwest region. If this is drawn, then basically there is no mobile strategic force here. . UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Most of the remaining cavalry units have their own missions, either deployed in the Great Wall defense line or in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is difficult to mobilize easily.

Today, the army is concentrated in the northern part of Shanxi, that is, about 15,000 cavalry in the eastern part of Hetao. This is basically the largest number of cavalry troops that the Datang Army can draw for mobile operations.

To this end, they even disrupted other units, and transferred a number of divisional cavalry troops stationed in the hinterland of the Central Plains to the north to take over the heavy responsibility of the independent cavalry that had been transferred away.

In addition to the 15,000 independent cavalry, in order to enter the Hetao, the Datang Army also gathered two infantry divisions and two reserve divisions in northern Shanxi, with a total strength of 45,000. people!

That is to say, in order to enter the Hetao, the Datang Army has assembled a total of 60,000 troops, and the 60,000-strong army has already been assembled, and Li Xuan, the Holy Son of Heaven, has once again convened the Yuqian Military Administration during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After the meeting, a secret decree was officially issued, ordering the Ninth Army on the front line to officially launch the Hetao Campaign!

This Hetao battle will be the most massive battle launched by the Tang Empire after the Liaodong battle of that year, not only in terms of strength but also cost!

For this battle, the war expenses prepared by the empire exceeded 8 million taels of silver!

It can be seen that war is such a waste of money. The Zhengde Emperor in the former Ming Dynasty also planned many times to retake the Hetao, but in the end he gave up. Why? This does not mean that the army cannot defeat these Tatars. , Zhengde ruled for more than forty years before the Ming Dynasty, he himself was also a martial artist, and he still regarded the army relatively seriously, and his combat effectiveness was not bad.

But why did they give up on recovering the Loop?

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