However, the cavalry of the headquarters and the cavalry of the non-HQ are completely different armies.
The Han family was divided into county soldiers and field corps.
The Huns are also divided into main and non-main tribes.
The Han family's field troops are more than one level better than the county soldiers?
By the same token, the Xiongnu's elite elites were more than one level stronger than those outside their headquarters.
After the Battle of Mayi, spies and envoys from the Han family went deep into the hinterland of the Huns to conduct reconnaissance.
Continuously transmit information about the Huns back to the country.
So much so that in the Martial Garden, there are special courses introducing the various clans of the Xiongnu.
Because the Subu clan has been in Mubei for a long time, the Han family knows relatively little about it.
But through the observation and understanding of the life of the Munan royal cavalry.
This allowed the Han army to know the daily lives of the Xubu, Huyan and Lan families.
Basically, the Xiongnu headquarters, especially the cavalry of the four major clans, will no longer participate in herding.
Each of them is a slave owner.
He has as many as dozens or as few as a dozen slaves under his command.
In addition, the Huns selected soldiers from among the towns.
When a city falls, send out an army.
It seems that there may be some crooked melons, cracked dates or waste mixed in.
This is not the case!
The Huns respected and admired the strong and recognized the concept of the weak eating the strong.
In the Xiongnu, non-big nobles and ordinary clan leaders would be abandoned immediately once they became old and decrepit.
Let them go to the forest to fend for themselves.
This is true even if this person has many children.
Even in older times, the Huns did not even have shamans or tribal leaders and nobles to take care of them once they became old and decayed.
Back then, when the old Shang Shanyu was in power, during the Han-Hungarian debate, he often ridiculed and attacked the Huns for not caring for their old age.
At that time, the Huns were still stubborn and asked Bank of China to come forward to refute similar claims.
But in the end, the Han Dynasty said that they couldn't bear to say it, so after the age of the old master, the Huns began to pay attention to raising and caring for the elderly.
Today, those Xiongnu nobles who are retiring in Longcheng are all grateful for the Han-Hungarian debate.
Otherwise, they would have been abandoned by the Huns themselves.
You can imagine that in such an environment, the Xiongnu headquarters would be abandoned even if their own parents were old and no longer capable of working.
Will they allow those who are not strong enough to own livestock and ranches, slaves?
The weak are the original sin!
If you are not strong enough, you cannot defend your pastures and livestock.
Moreover, the Xiongnu’s cavalry is trained all year round.
The vast prairie and the mountains in the Hexi Corridor provided the best training ground for the Huns cavalry.
In order to sharpen the tribe's cavalry, the Huns would even deliberately let go of some Dingling, Qiang and Xiaoyue people.
Let them be the whetstones for young people.
It is no exaggeration to say that every adult cavalryman of the Huns has rich combat experience, superb riding skills, and a strong body.
The cavalry of this tribe are far from comparable to other tribes in terms of diet and nutrition.
You can imagine that a soldier falls out of a town, and this person is usually the master of the town.
Everything in the city, including livestock, slaves, and women, was his private property.
The other members all depend on him for survival.
Is it possible that such a person cannot eat well?
A big meal of fish and meat may be too much.
But being able to eat meat every once in a while and being full every meal is a given!
Therefore, the non-headquarters Hun cavalry cannot compare with the headquarter cavalry at all.
Compared with the main army, these cavalrymen from the Zahu tribe are simply rubbish like chickens and dogs!
Not to mention, the Xiongnu headquarters has always firmly controlled the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
In the past, there was a Wusun who could steal the food from the Xiongnu bowls when they were not paying attention.
Now that Wusun is dead, the resources, wealth, manpower and material resources of the Western Regions all belong to the Xiongnu.
No matter how much the countries in the Western Region are destroyed, they will still be kingdoms.
If there is a kingdom, there will naturally be civilization.
Even if it is an insignificant light of civilization.
Judging from the current understanding and information obtained by the Han Dynasty, at least five or six kingdoms in the Western Regions have mastered bronze smelting technology and have complete farming systems.
Although their level is roughly the same as that of China in the late Spring and Autumn Period.
But, since even stones and sticks can kill people.
Naturally, bronze can also kill people.
As the Xiongnu cavalry got closer and closer, the Han army also saw their appearance clearly.
These cavalrymen all wore bronze helmets, rode horses, and held bronze collars in their hands, ready to throw at any time.
More importantly, stirrups and saddles!
"Everyone is ready!" Cheng'an, the cavalry commander of the Ba Shang Army, raised his hand: "Check the hand crossbow!"
So, the Han army pulled out the hand crossbow from his waist and checked it for the last time.
The hand crossbows of the Han army basically remained unchanged from the Battle of Mayi.
Bronze is still used as the main material.
It’s not that I don’t want to use iron, it’s actually that at present, iron is not suitable as a raw material for hand crossbows.
Compared with iron, which has just begun to flourish, ancient bronze has been played to its peak by Chinese craftsmen and technicians.
The Han civilization had already clearly understood the properties and texture of bronze.
More importantly, bronze is cheap! The raw materials are easier to obtain!
The various retired bronze weapons and obsolete bronze farm tools of the Han family alone are enough to provide enough raw materials for the Han army's crossbow machines.
After inspecting the hand crossbows, the soldiers hung these precious hand crossbows on their waists or legs.
Then, the soldiers drew their sabers.
The sharp cold light of the saber immediately caused pain to the eyes of the Hun cavalry opposite.
For cavalry, what kind of battle is standard cavalry combat?
Mounted shooting? Can you shoot someone?
Not to mention, the shooting accuracy of cavalry moving at high speed is infinitely low.
You may shoot a hundred arrows, but you may not be able to kill an enemy!
Youji? That’s even more of a joke.
To deal with infantry, cavalry can use stray shots.
Anyway, when infantry fights against cavalry, the heavy infantry is in front and the crossbowmen are in the back, forming a circle.
However, if they are all cavalry, this will be useless.
The other person may even just watch you jumping around.
When your horse is tired, you can charge forward with a drum.
By that time, you will be ****.
Therefore, the real way of fighting between cavalry has been hedging since ancient times.
When two armies cross each other, the winner will live and the loser will die!
This is the most brutal and romantic way of fighting between cavalry.
But, generally speaking, such romances rarely happen.
Because the nature of cavalry determines that two hostile cavalry will generally not confront each other directly.
For cavalry, if you can drag and exhaust the enemy to death, then why take the risk to fight the enemy in a decisive battle?
Drag it, pull it, and maybe the other party will reveal a flaw.
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After writing the last update, it’s time to go to sleep. Brother, I would also like to ask all the book friends to support me at the end. I will create a family of my own in "Kagemusha". I still hope that many book friends can join and enter.
Reserve an account on the official website first. Later, I will ask the official for game benefits. Pay attention to my latest updates then. We can play happily without charging money! (~^~)
