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The so-called ancient wars, the two-horse stirrup cavalry and the horseless cavalry with only human armor are slag, and the competition between the two slags is worse than rotten. The morale of the soldiers was far more important than the so-called presence or absence of stirrups. Therefore, there was no serious generation gap in the ancient army, at the right time, people said that cutting wood was a soldier, unveiling a pole was a flag, and Qin soldiers did not say that they were hanged by the heavy cavalry of the Han Dynasty, even if they were hung by wooden sticks, they were still hanged. The confrontation between the people's hearts and minds, the confrontation of systems and organizational forces, is the key to the victory of ancient wars.
In the French Revolution, were the aristocracy in power? Was the French Revolution out of World War I? The imperial examination system is different for each dynasty, so how can it be generalized? In addition, China's problem will always be a land problem, and if we put aside the land problem, we cannot understand anything. In addition, in ancient times, the hearts of the people were very important, but the equipment was also very important, unless there was a situation like the end of the Ming Dynasty, when even the military salaries could not be issued, most of the regular army could easily compete in the peasant rebel army.
Secondly, the morale of the Qin army at the end of Qin was not so bad, and it took Six months before the Battle of Xiangyu Julu and Liu Bang's westward advance that Zhang Handan had already quelled Chen Sheng's rebellion and killed Xiang Liang, frightening the nobles of the Six Kingdoms from daring to advance westward. The reason why the regular army can be unmatched among the peasant rebels is that morale, system, and training are different, not because weapons are absolutely superior. Generally speaking, once a few people died in the peasant rebel army, the hearts and minds of the entire team began to disperse, and their ability to bear casualties was not as good as that of the regular army, so the regular army could easily open up.
In ancient warfare, discipline was the decisive factor, and equipment could not be pulled at all. Equipment is a very secondary factor. Of course, if you have cavalry, it is very lethal to the infantry, you are wearing heavy armor, and it is difficult for unarmored units to fight with you, but in fact, the gap in equipment is completely within the range of people's hearts, discipline, and training. The ancient war turned left and right, and the entire phalanx could not hold back at once, and it was afraid of the attack of the flanks. This is a manifestation of undertraining, which is fundamentally different from modern troops. Through rigorous training, infantry and cavalry with spears can fight happily. Therefore, I want to oppose the theory of equipment solipsism, equipment is not an important factor in ancient warfare, training and discipline are.
Finally, stirrups are very important for cavalry, its great significance, is to help cavalry free hands to improve the safety of riding, most of the domestic north and south dynasty TV series have stirrups, because not to bring stirrups is too dangerous. The armored cavalry bullying people reflects the Mongol western conquest of Eastern Europe, which is unlikely, the morale of the Eastern European soldiers is rotten, but the Mongols can easily hang them in the field because of a large number of armored cavalry. There are also representatives in the equipment room can also greatly affect morale, such as when one side of the spear with armor on the other side with a wooden stick without armor to seek no party A psychological shadow area stirrup does help the cavalry to free their hands to improve the safety of riding, but it is still an old problem.
War depends on the backstrokes of the human heart, on discipline. Equipment is never the decisive factor, and it is not time for the car to be equipped. For example, Sun Tzu's Art of War said: Fifty miles and the interested profiteer's army is half to. Compared with Mongolia and Western Europe, the Mongols can maneuver for hundreds of kilometers at any time. Why can't Europeans? Sun Tzu's Art of War is very clear: Fifty miles and half of the army of the fun profiteer. In the case of military discipline can not keep up, no matter how strong you are, you will not be able to mobilize your troops. Then the opponent can play fast and slow, and you can play as much as you want. As for horse pedaling, horse pedaling is an invention, in the final analysis, it is still done by people, and people are the main factor. Even without horse pedals, sooner or later they will be invented if needed.
Therefore, I still think that the equipment theory is really unavoidable. In addition, regarding the phalanx, the regular army before the Song Dynasty basically did not have the problem of arrays and was afraid of flanking attacks because even the flanks and rear of modern troops were the weakest, the more outstanding the famous generals would pay attention to the flanking problem and find an opportunity to explode the opposing flanks. Ancient war infantry had to line up in a densely packed formation and the herd mentality could effectively boost morale in squads of 3 to 5 people ,5 people who could hardly have these effects (unless they were all supermen).
Secondly, the more people there are, the longer the frontal width, the more favorable the side with the short frontal width is not only attacked from the front but also by the side when facing the opponent, and the long side only needs to deal with the front. The Mongol cavalry, they are the kind of battle formations that are not listed in the Western cavalry. The battle front is actually not good. Line up to charge, is everyone dead? However, it is not impossible to do it, and it is really not possible to do so. The quality of the army in the feudal era could not catch up with the high school students in New China, and under such circumstances, command was very difficult. Therefore, you must line up in battle, otherwise as soon as you disperse, your soldiers will flee.
From ancient times to the present, the regular heavy cavalry is the same as the array of charging Mongol cavalry, but in the domestic film and television, in addition to Zhao Wei's version of Mulan, other all-Brown movements. Ancient arrays can make the frontal fire output the largest, of which the strongest frontal fire output is the spear phalanx, and a person's front can be approached by five or six simultaneous poking actions under the same conditions. Ancient warfare depended on the backstrokes and discipline of the human heart, and equipment was not the decisive factor, do you agree with this statement?
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