The cavalry in ancient China, as the king of the battlefield, has existed in the battlefield like a god of death since its birth. The flexible and fast light cavalry created the Mongolian empire, and the fast and thick heavy cavalry created the invincible Northern Wei War Group. Cavalry is the favorite army of kings in various dynasties, and it is also the most expensive army in various dynasties. Then, this article will tell you why cavalry can be called the strongest fighting force of China dynasty, and how their equipment is configured?

How expensive is it to keep a cavalry?

First of all, let's talk about how much it costs to raise a cavalry. If it is an ordinary light cavalry, the war horse can directly use the Central Plains horse. About a horse needs 65,438+00-30 silver, plus saddle, harness, saddle rope and horseshoe. After a series, it needs 5-65,438+00 silver, plus 0.065,438+for horses to eat and drink every day.

Then, heavy cavalry is expensive. First of all, heavy cavalry like Kyle is not so easy to buy. Horses in the Central Plains can't bear loads. They must be war horses in the northwest and nomadic horses in the north. A qualified horse needs a few gold to several hundred gold, plus a set of heavy armor equipment. Qualified heavy cavalry will invest dozens of gold.

If it is to be large-scale, the quantity will be terrible; I'm just talking about configuration. The most important thing for cavalry is people. It takes a lot of money to train a qualified rider. Riders are definitely the best in the whole army, and they earn a lot of money every month. Therefore, it is really too expensive to build a cavalry with qualified combat effectiveness in the imperial court.

This is not like the nomadic people in the north, who have to ride horses and herd sheep for hunting every day, so traditionally they can have a large number of troops to fight directly, which we could not compare with them in the original. Therefore, the war between the Central Plains dynasty and the grassland is completely consuming national strength, while the grassland people can fight if they can, and run if they can't, without any loss; This is the first time in history. The main reason why the central plains dynasty didn't want to fight the grassland casually.