Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 96
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The tiger and leopard cavalry can also be regarded as the famous cavalry regiment under Cao Cao's account during the Three Kingdoms period.

The tiger and leopard cavalry has always been commanded by generals of the Cao family, which shows its importance, and the cavalry in the tiger and leopard cavalry are all the best in the world, or from hundreds of generals, their elite can be seen.

This tiger and leopard cavalry has also fought several tough battles in history. For example, in the ninth year of Jian'an, in the battle of Nanpi with Yuan Tan, Cao Chun supervised the tiger and leopard cavalry to attack Yuan Tan. He was beheaded by tiger and leopard cavalry.

In the 12th year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao marched north to Wuhuan, it was Cao Chun who led the tiger and leopard riders on the battlefield and beheaded the head of Wuhuan Shanyu Tadun. , won his second daughter's luggage, and took his scattered soldiers. It can be seen that it was the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry who chased Liu Bei and almost collapsed before the Battle of Chibi.

In addition, in the 16th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao fought with Ma Chao. He first challenged him with light soldiers and fought for a long time.

However, according to Zhu Wei's guess, the tiger and leopard cavalry was probably formed on the basis of Yuan Shao's cavalry commanded by Zhang He and Gao Lan after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu.

In fact, even after Cao Cao unified the Central Plains, the number of tiger and leopard cavalry was not much larger. The most prosperous time should be when Cao Cao's Northern Expedition to Wuhuan, with a scale of about [-] cavalry.

After the Battle of Wuhuan, the tiger and leopard cavalry seemed to have remained at a scale of around five or six thousand cavalry, until the later period gradually lost this cavalry establishment.

The reason for the decline of such a strong cavalry army is likely to be the lack of horses and too much money to support them.

It is said that the tiger and leopard cavalry may be divided into two formations, the tiger cavalry and the leopard cavalry. The tiger cavalry is the heavy cavalry, and the leopard cavalry is the chasing light cavalry. The horses required by the heavy cavalry are naturally very demanding, and it is not easy to choose and meet. However, the light cavalry also consumed a lot of war horses, so it was difficult to find enough war horses to meet the needs of tiger and leopard cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period.

Although the war horses in the Three Kingdoms period already had simple stirrups and saddles, they did not have horseshoes. Therefore, after the horseshoes of the war horses were damaged, the war horses could no longer be used. This was a great loss to the war horses.

In addition, although theoretically speaking, cavalry can play a very important role in warfare, the food for ordinary soldiers during the Three Kingdoms period may not be guaranteed, let alone war horses with big bellies.

War horses can go to battle not just by eating grass, sometimes they eat better food than ordinary soldiers.

But in the Three Kingdoms period, in order to feed the soldiers, they had to kill horses to satisfy their hunger. Compared with people, horses are just animals after all.

It is probably also because of this price, that is, Cao Cao knew that his tiger and leopard cavalry were strong, but he could only control the number of tiger and leopard cavalry, and the Cao Wei Dynasty after Cao Cao even canceled the establishment of tiger and leopard cavalry.

It can be said that the main arm of the Three Kingdoms period was infantry, and cavalry could only be regarded as an expensive auxiliary force, the type to be dispatched at critical moments.

In the history of the Three Kingdoms, generals like Zhao Yun from Baima Yicong and Ma Chao from Xiliang who were good at commanding cavalry battles failed to play much role after taking refuge in Liu Bei. Not many cavalry can let them command the toss.

Therefore, if generals like Zhao Yun and Ma Chao cannot use their best abilities, they will naturally have to be hidden by the snow.

During the Three Kingdoms period, some generals rode war horses to fight. In addition to being able to use horsepower to charge and kill during combat, it was often for the convenience of commanding battles.

After all, riding on a horse can help you stand taller than others, see far, and quickly rush to areas that require command.

However, it is impossible for a general to ride a horse and challenge the enemy army alone without leaving his infantry. Therefore, even if a general rides a horse, he cannot turn his army into a cavalry in many cases.

However, as Zhu Wei, who has the soul memory of later generations, he naturally has great expectations for cavalry. After all, in terms of the combat mode of later generations, cavalry has an absolute advantage over infantry.

In particular, the Mongolian cavalry's mangudao tactics can almost defeat the enemy's neat army formation in a non-destructive way in the field. Even if there is a crossbow formation, it may not be able to counter the manguxie tactics.

In the early days of the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian cavalry's mangu evil tactics could almost be regarded as an invincible cavalry tactic in field battles.

Until the late Yuan Dynasty, the quality of Mongolian cavalry declined, and the power of firearms gradually increased. Therefore, taking advantage of the advantage that bullets have a longer range than bows and arrows, and are easier to train than archers, Mongolian cavalry's Mangu evil tactics gradually lost the ability to shoot long-distance like hanging kites. Unrivaled advantage.

This is also the technical background that the Ming Dynasty was able to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also one of the reasons why the Ming Army was able to defeat the Yuan Army.

But at least during the Three Kingdoms period, there was no force that could resist Mangu's evil tactics in the field. If Zhu Wei could train a light cavalry that could control Mangu's evil tactics, and then put hoofs on the horses, It is absolutely invincible in the field.

After all, this is a cross-age cavalry tactic.

It's a pity that Zhu Wei can only think about it in his head now, but he can't do it for the time being. At least Zhu Wei can't get a horse right now, and it's not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations in the south.

Zhu Wei temporarily put aside the idea of ​​forming a cavalry, and shifted his thoughts from the materials stored in his game system, and then thought about the problem of taking Ling Cao and others to rob those powerful families.

With the experience of attacking Zu's house this time, although the result this time seems to be smooth, in fact, troublesome problems have been discovered.

Now Zhu Wei is dealing with the houses of the wealthy families in these places. Although only the high walls of the courtyard and the fortifications of the docks have been built, it seems that they cannot be easily broken, otherwise they would not be able to be local emperors.

This time when he opened the Zu Family Mansion, he just used a trick to open the door, but what should he do next time.

Is it really necessary to rely on human life to attack the door and climb over the wall?
This is naturally impossible, Zhu Wei couldn't help thinking in his mind, and suddenly he thought of an idea, maybe he could build some simple siege equipment to resist the arrows, and then rush to open the gate, or even go directly over the wall?
When Zhu Wei was writing historical articles before, he also searched for some information on siege weapons, such as ladder carts, nest carts, rush carts, cave carts, tiger carts, and the like.

However, most of the information on the Internet is just a simple introduction and simple pictures. To be honest, seeing these pictures of so-called siege weapons really has a very different feeling from the siege weapons that Zhu Wei originally imagined. But it also gives people a clear taste.

In fact, many siege weapons have a common point, that is, to protect the soldiers who are attacking the city so that they can approach the city wall safely, so many siege equipment will create a space for the soldiers to hide in, so as to avoid the defenders. The bow and arrow attack...

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