The god of war in the era of cold weapons, the knight in disguise, is a strange soldier who determines the victory or defeat of the battlefield

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Culture is a big garden, history is full of stars. History is long, and China is vast. However, historical events are sometimes very strange, but history is tortuous, in ancient China's history, it is a history of war, and it is often the commander or the well-equipped troops who decide the victory or defeat in the war.

As we said before, in the era of cold weapons, the armored cavalry is very powerful, and the armored cavalry armed to the teeth, the price of the armored equipment is relatively expensive, and it is easy not to move, and its core function is to serve as a "battlefield hammer" - with a thunderous momentum, it can crush the enemy camp in one fell swoop. Due to the high cost of equipment, the size of the armored cavalry in the armies of the North and South Koreas was generally not too large. In 381 AD, the Eastern Jin general Huan Shiqian of the Southern Dynasty launched a surprise attack on the Northern Dynasty Former Qin army, achieving the record of "beheading 7,000, capturing more than 10,000 people, hundreds of horses, and wearing 300 collars". At this rate, only about 300 men were armed cavalry out of a force of about 17,000 men.

Therefore, armored cavalry in the ancient battlefield was generally used as a reserve and could not be easily used. Only at a critical moment in the battle will the manager play this trump card, making it straight to the weak point of the enemy line. Under the impact of the Iron Horse, the poorly trained troops were often pushed through the gap, and their morale collapsed and they were defeated.

In addition to the frontal charge, well-equipped armored cavalry will often serve as important tasks such as the rear of the whole army, cutting off the enemy's grain road, and protecting the main general, and even directly attack the enemy general in the melee to launch a "decapitation operation". In addition, armored cavalry sometimes picked up bows and arrows to shoot at enemy troops, suppressing each other with defensive advantages.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the specific tactical formation of the armored cavalry is not particularly detailed. However, they may have used the same "wedge array" as the later Byzantine armored cavalry, and the armored riding figurines excavated from the tomb of Sima Jinlong in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the 5th century AD were arranged in a wedge array. Armored cavalry are lined up in wedge-shaped formations, forming a surprise spearhead pattern, tearing gaps in the enemy infantry, impacting the infantry, and finally winning victory on the battlefield.