Short video: Shocking the world

【“I am in Liaoning, and I am a general of the Ming Dynasty who has been stationed in Liaodong for generations. You let me command 100,000 cavalrymen, and it was in the late Ming Dynasty. After I enter the pass, I can only give you one guarantee, I will not shave my head.”】

There are two answers in the short video, one wants to restore the Han Dynasty, and the other wants to become an emperor. Neither of them wants to save the Ming Dynasty.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were a little embarrassed.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang, he was relieved just now!

Think about it, if someone really has 100,000 cavalrymen, how many people can remain loyal?

Logically speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang, a founding emperor who fought his way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, is wary of everyone. But he has watched too few short videos and is “too young”, and was confused by the title. He thought that people in later generations were sincere about the Ming Dynasty and wanted to save it.

The gratified expression will not disappear out of thin air, but will only be transferred to another person's face. Liu Bang said: "My Han Dynasty is stronger than the Ming Dynasty. Nai Gong's 66th generation grandson is still thinking about restoring the Han Dynasty!"

"One hundred thousand cavalry? People in later generations are really bold!"

"How to support one hundred thousand cavalry?"

[One hundred thousand cavalry? Have you calculated how many horses and food are needed? What about weapons and equipment? Also, it is not that people who ride on horses are considered cavalry. Cavalry refers to those who are good at horsemanship and can kill the enemy on horseback. Otherwise, there are only infantry on horseback. ]

[I have one hundred thousand cavalry, how can I not have food? If I really don't have it, I can grab the dried meat everywhere. ]

This comment made many people feel cold all over.

[The combat effectiveness of your one hundred thousand cavalry is still a question. If you can't command them, they will be washed away by 10,000 people of the Eight Banners. ]

Dorgon: People in later generations seem to know how powerful my Eight Banners are.

As soon as this thought came to mind, he saw the next comment, and Dorgon's face changed immediately.

[You think too highly of the Manchu Tartars! In real history, the elite core force of the Manchus when they entered the pass was only the Eight Banners Army of 15,000 people, which was their elite. Together with the soldiers of other ethnic groups who defected from the Ming Dynasty, all the soldiers added up to only 180,000, which was called 200,000. In addition to the slaves and logistics personnel, the Manchus claimed to have a million troops. ]

[If the Ming army had not surrendered and defected, it would not have been so easy for the Manchus to enter the pass. ]

[The army of the Ming Dynasty was 3 million at its peak, and there should have been 1 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But if you count carefully, there are actually not many. Excluding those who escaped, ate empty salaries, and other people who actually did not exist. Because the court owed salaries for many years, there were also soldiers whose military settlements were occupied, who did not practice much in daily life, and whose armor and staff were not in good condition.

There were not many soldiers who could really fight in the end of the Ming Dynasty! I can say responsibly that there were no 100,000 cavalry in the entire Ming Dynasty. ]

[If Chongzhen wanted to have 100,000 cavalry, he would have reorganized the country long ago! In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not even have 50,000 cavalrymen at the end of the Ming Dynasty. ]

[The Ming Dynasty was rotten to the core. Even if Chongzhen had 500,000 cavalrymen, he could not save the Ming Dynasty. At most, he could overthrow it, rebuild a dynasty, and re-establish rules and order. ]

[The Guanning Iron Cavalry only had 3,000 people. If they were to expand further, the court could not afford to support them. The loss of 100 people in the Guanning Iron Cavalry was already a heartbreaking loss. ]

Chongzhen: I really have no financial resources and it is difficult to support them!

[The Ming Dynasty had a total of 120,000 soldiers outside the Great Wall, 80,000 in Liaodi, and 40,000 in Shanhaiguan, of which only 10,000 were cavalrymen. ]

[If there were 100,000 cavalrymen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether they could afford to support them was another matter! According to the most advanced standard, not to mention how much a person eats a day, one cavalryman is equipped with three horses, and 300,000 horses alone would consume a huge amount of food and grass every day. ]

[I just checked and found that the food intake of war horses in ancient times was three to six times that of humans. The food intake of a horse was at least equivalent to that of three soldiers, which was equal to the daily rations of four ordinary families. ]

[Raising 100,000 cavalrymen is equivalent to raising 300,000 war horses, which is equivalent to feeding one million or even two million people every day! ]

[There were dynasties in ancient times that could afford to raise 100,000 cavalrymen! But not many! ]

"It is impossible for one person to raise 100,000 cavalrymen!"

"During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, all the cavalrymen added up to only a few hundred thousand, and not all of them were elite!"

The emperor who won the world on horseback agreed with these comments. It is indeed expensive to raise cavalrymen.

[Don't look at the TV dramas, novels, and wars with hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of troops, and the cavalrymen are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Even if the whole army is defeated, another army can be raised casually. In fact, it is all exaggerated. There were not so many troops in ancient times, mainly because they could not be raised! ]

[According to the standard of one cavalryman for ten infantrymen, if there were 100,000 cavalrymen at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there would be 300,000 horses and a million infantrymen, enough to sweep everything. ]

[Give me 30,000 Snow Dragon Cavalrymen, that's enough! ]

Cao Cao: Snow DragonCavalry, it must be elite cavalry!

Li Shimin: I wonder what's so great about the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry?

Genghis Khan: Great Snow Dragon Cavalry? Are they very powerful? How do they compare with my Mongolian Iron Cavalry?

[If there really were Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, 10,000 of them would be enough to destroy the Qing Dynasty and take over the world! ]

[I heard that Guangling doesn't know the cold, and the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry went south of the Yangtze River. ]

[The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry seems to have only 10,000 people. ]

"Ten thousand people can destroy our Manchus? People in later generations are so arrogant!"

"Are these ten thousand people heavenly soldiers? Or are they all holding firearms?"

"Guangling is Yangzhou, right? The Snow Dragon Cavalry is going to flatten Jiangnan!"

[The Snow Dragon Cavalry#Snow Swordsman]

"The Snow Dragon Cavalry, Tianmu is going to talk about the Snow Dragon Cavalry!"

"What does Snow Swordsman mean? It looks like the title of a book, but also like a storybook."

"Let's see what the Snow Dragon Cavalry is capable of."

["The Northern Liang Iron Cavalry is the best in the world, and the Snow Dragon Cavalry is the hero of Northern Liang."

["Everyone knows that Northern Liang has 300,000 Iron Cavalry, but in fact, they are not all cavalry. There are about 140,000 cavalry, and the rest are infantry."

"Three hundred thousand troops, with 140,000 Iron Cavalry, it's really terrifying!"

"Is Northern Liang in Liangzhou Xiliang?"

"Is this Northern Liang Later dynasties?"

【"These hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen are roughly divided into the Iron Pagoda led by Qi Dangguo, the two heavy armored cavalrymen of the Zhihu Army and the Weixiong Army, the Longxiang Field Force led by Xu Longxiang, and the 10,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalrymen of Xu Xiao's personal army."]

【"Among them, the most powerful is the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, whose commander is Bai Xiong Yuan Zuozong, who is the number one cavalryman in Beiliang."]

【"And the configuration of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry is even more exaggerated. Each of them has three first-class war horses, both the man and the horse are armored, and there is also a horse with heavy armor. After putting on armor, it is a heavy cavalry."]

【"The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry is not an ordinary light cavalry, but between heavy cavalry and light cavalry. It is a heavy cavalry with heavy armor and a light cavalry with light armor. It has very strong mobility and flexibility."]

【"In addition, other weapons, such as Liangdao crossbows and arrows, are the best in the entire cavalry sequence."]