Last time we talked about polish wing cavalry and Mamluks, and we will continue to talk about them this time.
1 Spartan warrior.
The Spartan warriors were an army that was not afraid of death, preferring to die in battle and never surrender.
Spartan toddlers began to receive military training from the age of seven, practicing obedience, patience, cruelty, practicing running, boxing, fencing, fighting, etc., because their training methods were harsh, so we called the devil training "Spartan training", they received harsh whipping, there was little food, but encouraged to steal, found to be whipped, there was a Spartan child who stole a fox, in order not to be discovered, hid the fox in his clothes until he was bitten by the fox.
The Spartans joined the army at the age of twenty, married at the age of thirty, and retired at the age of sixty, and the Spartans were equipped with gold helmets, wore gold armor, carried shields and spears, wore short knives, and cloaks. In the Battle of Thermos Pass, the Spartan king Leonidas I led three hundred Spartan warriors, seven hundred Thebes, and six thousand Greek miscellaneous armies to engage in fierce battles with the Persian army, but there were traitors who led the Persian army around to the rear of the Greeks, Leonidas disbanded the six thousand Greek miscellaneous troops, led three hundred Spartan warriors and persian Xerxes I led far more than their own troops to fight to the death, and finally annihilated a large number of enemy troops, all sacrificed their lives for the country, and laid an important foundation for greece's defeat of Persia.
In 404 AD, Persia intervened to help the Spartans defeat Athens, and Sparta became the Greek hegemon. However, spartan internal rule led to the decline of the state, and finally in 396 AD, spartan city was destroyed by the Goths, and now it is a southern Greek city, and spartan warriors have disappeared into history.
Spartan warriors
Leonidas
2 Byzantine heavy cavalry
The Byzantine heavy cavalry was the elite mercenary of the Byzantine Empire, the most expensive mercenary of its time, with the best equipment and the highest combat skills.
In the tenth century AD, the Byzantine Empire was in its heyday, and the Byzantine heavy cavalry was also acquired by the rulers, and they were famous for one thing - the extremely expensive, so they were just the Emperor's Guard.
They are clad in multiple layers of armor, the first of which is armor, and even chain armor is used to enhance hand protection. They were also equipped with burqas and personal armor, belonging to the super heavy cavalry, they held three-point-three-six-meter-long mounted guns, ninety-centimeter swords, javelins next to their saddles, and armor-breaking weapons such as axes and hammers, and their archers used twelve-inch shields, while the melee lancers were equipped with forty-inch bamboo-shaped shields, totaling between one thousand and fifteen hundred men, and the ratio of archers to lancers was three to ten, with twenty men in the first row, twenty in the second row, and sixty-four in the last row. Their javelins and tomahawks are thrown out, and they start the war with a mounted archer, and then the lancers charge and annihilate the enemy. However, after Justinian's death, Byzantium was financially difficult and unable to support the Byzantine heavy cavalry, this group of people was brave and good at war, and many elite troops could not take them, and they even overthrew the emperor directly because they could not get paid.
By the time of the Macedonian dynasty, the Byzantine heavy cavalry flourished again, when The Byzantines had enough property to support them, so they were formed again and made great achievements, but in the Battle of Manzkot, Byzantium suffered a fiasco, and they swore to protect the emperor until the emperor was captured, and this fiasco made the Byzantine Empire unable to form them, and the army disappeared.
Byzantine heavy cavalry
This time I will talk about it first, and I will continue to do more next time.