If the army of the Tang Dynasty symbolizes the peak combat effectiveness of China's cold weapon era, it is no exaggeration, not to mention the Song army, the Yuan army, the Ming army, the Qing army, they are not the opponents of the Tang army, and the Song army is more capable of fighting when it dominates the world.

The words of the Yuan army, it should not be accurate to say that the Yuan Dynasty army in Chinese mainland, which army is corrupting faster at a faster rate, but should say that the Mongol army under Genghis Khan, but the Mongolian army and the Yuan army should be distinguished, the Mongol Empire and the Chinese Yuan Dynasty also need to have a clear distinction, of course, their decline is also very fast, ninety-seven years, by the Red Turban Army and Zhu Yuanzhang's army one after another expelled from the mainland, back to their hometown.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been maintained for a long time, after all, from the beginning of the founding of the country to the death of the country, the Ming army has not stopped fighting, but the table is not very good, the civilian system of leading the army has limited the combat effectiveness of the Ming army very much, and at the last moment, the soldiers were divided into two ways to fight against the rebel army and the Qing army, or fought to the last moment.

The Qing army did not say, the Eight Banners who swept the world were corrupted at an extraordinary speed after entering the customs, and their speed even exceeded the corruption speed of the Yuan army, Kangxi pacified the three feudatories relied on most of the Han soldiers, and in the Yongzheng era, the Eight Banners were completely unusable, not so much the Manchu army, but the Han army, and several armies that could be fought in the later period of the Qing army, whether it was the Hunan army and the Huai army or Yuan Shikai's new army, were all based on the Han people.

So. The Tang army fought from the founding of the country to the death of the country, without the constraints of the Ming Dynasty's civilian military leadership system, even if the Tang army in the middle and late periods did not listen to the orders of the central government, but the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was still okay......

To put it bluntly, the Han and Tang dynasties died in the warlord secession, and of course they were stronger.

Moreover, the record of the Tang army can be regarded as the best army outside the Han Dynasty. The Qin army is indeed strong. However, the time of the Great Qin Dynasty was relatively short, and the combat ability of the Qin army was not fully exerted, and the country died before it could completely clean up the Xiongnu in the north, so the army of the Tang Dynasty was really unique in ancient and modern times. The number of victories in foreign wars and the number of countries destroyed are second to none. The skills of Chinese cold weapons have also been exerted to the extreme in Datang. For example, the Mo knife that made the steppe cavalry tremble.

Suning had personally experienced the power of the Mo Dao, with his sixteen-year-old strong body and strong martial arts, he could not withstand the blows of five Mo Dao soldiers. Whether it is riding a horse or fighting on foot, Su Dingfang is a little better, at least undefeated, and the body of those few Mo knife soldiers is exhausted, Suning directly knelt gorgeously, the big knife that the Chinese army was proud of during the Anti-Japanese War was completely scum in front of the Tang Mo knife, and he couldn't raise his head at all, we, the descendants, were really embarrassed to our ancestors.

The power of a knife is shattered, and it is really not covered.

Therefore, Suning never thought that having a hot weapon called an incendiary tank could replace the leading role of hand-to-hand combat in battle, the dominant position of the Modao Army in the war, the galloping of the Tang Iron Cavalry on the battlefield, and the rain of arrows of the bow and crossbow troops, which is unscientific, but anyone who has seen the scene of the joint operation of the Tang Army's multi-arms and large corps will understand the combat effectiveness and destructive power of a strong army in the era of cold weapons.

Before the war with the grassland cavalry, the two armies faced each other, the Tang army infantry formed a phalanx, in accordance with the instructions of their respective commanders, forming a formation, like a mountain unshakable, the bow and crossbow team in front, first put the bow and crossbow, and hit the opponent's cavalry fiercely, the grassland cavalry did not have enough iron armor, so the crossbow arrows that fell from the sky could definitely kill them, and these several rounds of bow and crossbow strikes must be able to weaken their military strength and impact.

The next thing is to choose, if the number of cavalry is sufficient, it will charge in the group after the launch of our bow and crossbow, generally in a conical formation to launch an impact, intended to break the enemy, the main task of the cavalry is not to kill the enemy, but to disrupt the opponent's cavalry formation, slow down its speed, without speed, the lethality of the cavalry becomes extremely limited, at this time the commander ordered, the infantry dispatched! The infantry marched forward shouting the battle slogan "drink and drink", the phalanx was not chaotic, the formation was not chaotic, and gradually surrounded the place where the opposing cavalry and our cavalry were fighting, and then they were free to slash and kill.

Pursuing the remnants of the enemy is the task of the cavalry, the infantry army can not be chaotic, and the victory cannot be dispersed privately, without the commander's order to disperse the phalanx to clean up the battlefield, whoever dares to leave the army formation without permission will not be killed by the enemy, and will also be beheaded by the army commander on the grounds of disobeying the military order, in the field battlefield, the military formation is the guarantee of the life of the infantry.

If our cavalry is too small to start a face-to-face battle with the opponent's existing cavalry, then we can only use the infantry formation as the main combat force to offset the impact and speed of the enemy, and drag down the speed of the opponent's cavalry with the life of the infantry, so as to ensure that the army formation is not broken before the enemy cavalry loses its impact force, which is the main task of the commander.

So in this case, the role of the crossbow team is very great, before the official start of the war the number and number of arrows will also increase, reduce the pressure on the infantry, and wait until the infantry really dragged the enemy cavalry, and has been determined victory, only a few cavalry turn to go to the battlefield, to give the enemy a fatal blow, if the infantry army array can not compete with the local cavalry, the main task of our cavalry is to protect the commander and the rear troops from the battlefield safely, to protect the army to the greatest extent.

The Song army fought like this most of the time, because of the extreme shortage of its own horses, it had to use infantry as the main combat strength, and it was okay to deal with light cavalry, but after the scientific and technological level of the Liao army and the Jin army increased significantly, so as to obtain the ability to build heavy cavalry, it was easy to deal with the heavy infantry phalanx of the Song army, so in the later period, the Jin army dealt with the Song army like chopping melons and vegetables, without pressure.

But the Tang army absolutely does not have this problem, the Tang Dynasty raises hundreds of thousands of horses, and the number of war horses is so large that even the infantry army can ride to the battlefield and then dismount to fight when fighting, more often, such as fighting on the grassland, both cavalry and infantry have the ability to fight at least when they get off their horses, and they can fight when they get off their horses. There is no distinction between riding steps, and Datang is extravagant to such a journey.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Tang army is strong, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can only build 100,000 iron cavalry with the strength of the whole country, the reason is not only the number of war horses, but also the horse harness in the Han Dynasty was not perfect, and the cavalry must at least rely on the strength of the legs to clamp the horse's belly, which is very demanding, so the cavalry is not capable of everyone, and by the time of the Tang Dynasty, the harness has been basically perfected, except for the horseshoes. What the most powerful cavalry should have. Datang has it.

As for the horseshoe, Suning didn't notice it until he returned from the battle in Lingzhou and saw Cheng silently seeing off his war horse and crying sadly......

On that day, Suning went to Cheng's mansion to deliver something to Cheng Yanjin, and when he arrived at the gate of Cheng's mansion, he saw Cheng Chumo and his war horse hugging each other tightly. Cheng Chumo was still crying. The boy has tears and doesn't flick. It's just that he hasn't reached the sad place, and Cheng Chumo has reached the sad place? What happened to his warhorse? Sick? Going to die? The relationship between the warrior and the war horse Suning knows it very well, just like the relationship between himself and Laifu. But this war horse should be fine, it was still fine when Cheng Chumo came back from Lingzhou, what's wrong?

"Chu Mo, what's wrong with you? What happened to Saihu? Want to go? Suning stepped forward and asked very strangely, the name of this war horse is Saihu, and the relationship with Cheng Chumo is very good, and Cheng Chumo has raised him since he was a child; Cheng Chumo saw Suning coming, hurriedly wiped away his tears, and said: "Yes, I can't ride anymore, I'm going to be sent away, I can't help but raise me from childhood to adulthood." ”

After speaking, tears couldn't help but come out again, Suning looked the horse up and down, and didn't find anything wrong, so he asked: "Saihu doesn't seem to be sick, even if he is sick, wouldn't it be good to treat it?" Why send it away? Terminally ill? ”

Cheng Chumo shook his head and said: "The horse's hooves are worn, you can't ride anymore, if you ride again, the hooves will rot, and there will be no help at that time, when you go to Lingzhou to fight, you use it too fiercely, and it's too crazy to chase a barbarian, and when you come back, you find that Saihu is limping when he walks, and the result is ...... It's all my fault......" Cheng Chumo said and hugged Saihu's head and kept crying, Saihu seemed to realize something, rubbing Cheng Chumo's face with a big horse head, as if comforting Cheng Chumo.

Suning asked in surprise: "Isn't there a horseshoe?!" ”

Cheng Chu was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "What's the horse's hoof?" Horseshoe? What's that? ”

Suning squatted down and picked up Saihu's hooves, and when he looked at it, he suddenly felt that the world was spinning, Nima, Lao Tzu didn't notice it! That's right! The horseshoe was brought back by the Mongols from the western expedition, at this time Datang did not have a horseshoe at all, I said that every time Li Jing and Li Shiji came back from the battle, they always had to quarrel about the problem of war horses, it turned out that this is the reason! Suning also realized that he had never paid attention to whether there was any wear on Rifle's hooves......

After returning home that day, Suning broke into the stable in a hurry and carefully inspected Laifu's hooves, and found that it was slightly worn, but it could still ride, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately returned to the house to write down the process of making horseshoes, and immediately found a craftsman from Sufu to build a horseshoe for Laifu to nail on, which was relieved.

After that, Suning reported the matter of the horseshoe to Li Erma, Li Ermaxi was overjoyed, and after the actual test, it was determined that the role of the horseshoe was quite powerful, and he was even more pleased, and rewarded Suning with a lot of good things, Suning also learned that every large-scale battle in the Tang Dynasty has to lose a small half or even more than half of the war horses, not the death of the war horses, but the wear and tear of the horses, the war horses can not continue to be used, these horses either do stallions to continue to breed, or can only kill and eat meat, it is a pity.

After that, every horse of the Tang Dynasty was equipped with a horseshoe, and the Tang army was quite satisfied with this, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry rose again, and won several skirmishes on the border, and captured many prisoners of war, which can be regarded as a complete merit.

Therefore, whether it is cavalry or infantry or crossbowmen, Datang has reached the peak of China's cold weapon era in all aspects, although the incendiary canister made by Suning is powerful, but the use restriction is too great, Datang's oil crops have just begun to be planted in a large area, and there is not much improvement in a short period of time, so this incendiary canister can only be used as a luxury weapon, occasionally used to deter the enemy, if it is really used like dealing with wingmen, it will be gone after two or three battles.

But when Suning received an order from Li Erma, saying that Li Tai had been slightly injured because of something very strange, and he was slightly injured, because the messenger also said that there was a loud noise in the palace, the people were panicked, and the order in the palace was almost collapsed.

Suning was stunned for a moment, not because he was about to face the storm of Li Er's majesty, but because he was extremely excited that Li Tai really pounded the gunpowder out, that expression was very wrong, and Li Ruihan panicked in his heart, and he planned to let Li Xiaogong enter the palace to intercede with Suning, because she had never seen this expression on Suning's face. (To be continued......)