In the era of cold weapons, armored cavalry traveled with heavy loads, and it was not suitable for long-distance raids and gradually faded out of the battlefield

Literature and history is a painting, culture is painting paper, history is countless waves, culture is a river, history is a gorgeous flower, culture is a big garden, history is a star. 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.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the armored cavalry of each princely state "debuted as the peak". But how can the cavalry in uniform be broken? According to historical records, in 416 AD, Liu Yu, the Song Emperor of the Southern Dynasty Liu Song Dynasty, faced the charge of the Northern Wei armored cavalry, Liu Yu ordered the vehicles with their backs to the riverbank, surrounded by a half-moon formation (historically known as the "Moon Array"), with shields on the outside of the body and a large crossbow inside the array. The Northern Wei cavalry could not attack, so they had to dismount and fight. At this time, the Southern Dynasty warriors cut off the spear in their hands, and when the enemy army approached, they hit the tail of the spear with a sledgehammer, like a nail, and slashed the root of the spear from the gap in the formation to the outside. The heavy armor of the enemy army was "nailed" one after another, and the casualties were heavy.

The peak of the number of armored cavalry should be the Sui Dynasty's 612 AD Sui Dynasty when the Sui Emperor invaded Goguryeo, 96,000 cavalry in the army were all armored cavalry (according to the "Book of Sui"), but the blind pursuit of luxurious top-level configurations often backfired: the armor of the whole staff was too heavy, so that the cavalry often lost the mobility of the battlefield, and the Sui Emperor's Crusade was a fiasco, and the armored cavalry was hard to blame. In the melee battles of the various princes of the Central Plains in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, the armored cavalry still appeared as elites, such as Li Shimin, who was in Taiyuan, who personally led the "Xuanjia Army" to unify the Central Plains.

With the development of the cavalry, after the Li Tang Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the main battlefield changed from the plains of the Central Plains to the deep and vast western regions of the west and the northern desert north. On such battlefields, The Tang cavalry often needed to run long distances: its main opponent, the nomads on the northern grasslands, was also good at using cavalry for mobile warfare, and the heavy armor became a tiring moment of fighting. At that time, the cavalry of the Tang army rarely wore horse armor in actual combat, but the armored cavalry still appeared in the royal battle (in 706 AD, the armored figurines excavated from the tomb of The Great Son of Ruide during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang were the uniformed cavalry). Although the Tang cavalry was less likely to wear ma Kai in actual combat, it still retained a certain proportion of heavy armor and long plastic equipment armor, which could perform impact tasks at any time. In the foreign wars of the early Tang Dynasty and the Sheng Tang Dynasty, these heavily armored cavalry had a good performance.

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