Most of the time, it was the northern nomadic people who defeated the southern farming people with fat and healthy horses and flexible cavalry units.
This was particularly evident in the Song Dynasty, and its typical feature was to build a city to defend and step by step to curb the nomadic people in the north.
However, history also has accidents.
During the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian led 300,000 Qin Jun to "kill Huns for more than 700 miles" by combining the world-famous Qin Army arrow array with the WU GANG traffic array, thus achieving the effect that "Hu people dare not go south to herd horses". It can be said that for the first time, the Daqin Empire created a precedent of "riding step by step" to actively pursue nomadic people in the desert south grassland.
Because of the initiative of this tactic, it provided valuable historical reference experience for the agricultural national army of the Central Plains Dynasty in later generations.
In the Han Dynasty, elite cavalry troops led by famous soldiers such as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing took a flexible "riding-by-riding" campaign, which turned the people beaten by Xiongnu in the north upside down, reappearing the miracle that the farming people rode across horses and pursued the nomadic people in the north and south of the desert with swords.
No matter whether "riding by foot" or "riding by car" was adopted in Qin and Han Dynasties, it was fundamentally the strong scientific and technological strength and huge financial capacity of the Central Plains Dynasty for nomadic people.
Tactically speaking, they all belong to a single way to gain the advantages of northern nomadic people again and again.
However, this way of defeating the nomadic people in the north in a single way was fundamentally changed in the Ming Dynasty.
This change was manifested in the process of Judy V's visit to Mongolia!
From the eighth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty to the twenty-second year of Yongle, Judy took five large-scale military actions, went deep into the hinterland of Mobei, and defeated the Mongolian nomads in fourteen years.
Every military action to conquer Mongolia was personally directed by Judy, so that the flag of Judy, the Yongle emperor of Mongolia, was scared to flee everywhere.
What secret weapon did Judy use to defeat the Mongols who swept across Europe and Asia?
To reveal the mystery, it is necessary for us to understand the fighting style of Mongolian nomads first.
According to historical records, the Mongolian army had no logistical supplies for its overseas expeditions. Before each expedition, Mongolian soldiers will take a limited amount of beef jerky and cheese and ride on a well-developed Mongolian mare who is good at long-distance raids.
As a result, beef jerky and cheese became the rations of Mongolian soldiers on the long road of conquest. Even in the case of running out of rations, Mongolian soldiers can choose to take horse milk to ensure the smooth progress of military operations.
Every time the Mongolian army captures the ideal city, it will take looting to obtain the source of military food on the spot.
In this way, the logistics supply of Mongolian troops in the process of western expedition and southern expedition was guaranteed, and the blitzkrieg style of Mongolian cavalry was also exerted to the maximum extent.
So how should the Mongolian army deal with the fierce heavy cavalry of the enemy on the battlefield?
According to historical records, when the Mongolian army meets the fierce heavy cavalry of the enemy on the battlefield, it will put the cavalry light cavalry in the middle of the queue, while the heavy cavalry will March in an arc queue on both sides of the queue. The light cavalry will harass the enemy and lure the enemy's heavy cavalry to catch up, but when all the enemy's heavy cavalry come forward to catch up, the Mongolian light cavalry will turn around and fight back with the enemy's cavalry in the form of "resting and archery". At this time, the Mongolian heavy cavalry distributed on both sides took advantage of the situation to outflank the enemy cavalry on both sides and complete the encirclement of the enemy heavy cavalry.
The whole battle process is extremely short and flexible. When the enemy's heavy cavalry reacts, the fate of being surrounded by fighters is already doomed.
This is the operational mode of the Mongolian army. The Mongols used this flexible tactic to reach the Danube valley in Europe, which is unparalleled. In the end, the heavy cavalry in Europe often beat and abuse Mongolian nomadic cavalry, so Europeans dubbed the Mongols "the whip of God".
From this point of view, the Mongolian nomadic "blitzkrieg" is really a headache. Although the unified Mongolian empire has disappeared at this time, Tatar and Wala, who split from it, have strictly inherited Genghis Khan's excellent tactical model and strategic thinking.
Therefore, it seems difficult for Judy's five-levy Mongolian army to completely achieve the fighting effect of defeating the Mongolian army.
However, this can't beat Judy, the Ming Chengzu who grew up from the tempering of war!
The strategic and tactical thinking used by Emperor Chu is very simple: you can come as you want, and I only play all the way!
To realize this idea, a systematic operational framework is needed. This combat structure is called "Kill You Three Axes Combat System".
Here is a brief introduction to the specific operation process of this set of "three-axis fighting system for your life".
The system consists of magic camp, cavalry and infantry. When Mongolian cavalry attacked, the magic camp was divided into three teams, and each team took turns to load ammunition. The soldiers of the first team of the Ming army fired at the enemy with their guns and guns, and then the second team took over and fired in turn. This is just Malik Keqin's machine gun shooting at the Mongolian army riding a burly horse. Mongolian cavalry fell under the fire of hot weapons, and its tragic degree and psychological shock were enough to make Mongolian cavalry jumpy.
After the first round of sniper battalion was finished, the frontier position was given up, and the second cavalry rode a knife and rushed to the broken Mongolian cavalry queue. With the cooperation of three-eye large-caliber short guns and mace, Daming cavalry began a new round of slaughter.
Then the Daming infantry charged forward with crossbows and sabres, slashing and slashing, and the Mongolian cavalry was completely defeated.
It was through this established combat system that Judy began the nightmare of Mongolian cavalry. This powerful fighting theory was fully exerted when Napoleon, the first French emperor, made an expedition to Egypt more than 400 years later, thus opening a new era for Napoleon to conquer Europe.
Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, invaded Mongolia in five large-scale military actions, which greatly weakened the military strength of Mongolians, destroyed the economic volume of Mongolian nomads, and further aggravated the centrifugal separatist tendency within Mongolian ministries, thus effectively preventing the resurgence and rise of Mongolian forces.