Regarding the blindfolding of war horses, Li Mengxi could recall seeing it in many ancient war movies.

However, is this method a common method of cavalry tactics, or is it a myth?

If the enemy has tiger cavalry, there is no doubt that our horses must be blindfolded to offset the disadvantage.

But if the enemy doesn’t have tiger cavalry, then what’s the point of trying to fool the horse?

What is the significance of blindfolding the horse? It is because the war horse is afraid of sharp objects, so the horse's eyes are blinded to prevent the war horse from being afraid and to enhance the impact of the war horse?

Or, in the absence of qualified war horses, ordinary horses will be afraid of sharp objects and dare not charge into the gun formation. They have no choice but to sacrifice the maneuverability of the war horse and blindfold the horse to prevent the war horse from instinctively avoiding sharp objects and greatly reducing the impact force.

The method of blindfolding a horse is useful when encountering tiger-skin cavalry, and may also be useful when charging into a spear formation. However, there is no doubt that after blindfolding a war horse, the maneuverability and speed of the war horse, and the response and adaptability of the cavalry unit will inevitably be affected.

Big discount.

Li Mengxi didn't know about the war horse, but if he put a person in his place and thought about it, he would know that if a person opens his eyes, he dares to run desperately. However, if his eyes are completely covered, even if he knows that there is flat land and no walls around him, he will

I definitely don’t dare to run too fast.

Furthermore, when you are blindfolded, you will easily fall down even if you are running on flat ground, because you lose your balance easily due to the loss of visual signals.

Just like people, so are war horses.

When a war horse is blindfolded, its speed will be reduced. The road surface in the wild battlefield is uneven and full of potholes. Without visibility, the war horse's hooves cannot adjust its posture and balance its center of gravity. Therefore, it is certain that after blindfolding the war horse, the war horse will stumble and fall.

The possibility of collapse is greatly increased.

This is just a war horse and a cavalryman, and the disadvantage of the war horse being blindfolded.

As far as military formation is concerned, it is easy for a group of people with normal vision to form a neat formation, but it is extremely difficult for a group of people who have lost their eyesight to maintain the formation.

When the horses' eyes are not blindfolded, the cavalry troops can maintain a very neat formation when attacking, but after the horses' eyes are blindfolded, the neatness and tightness of the cavalry formation is immediately greatly reduced.

There is no doubt that blindfolding a war horse actually reduces the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, regardless of whether we are the enemy or ourselves.

From this, Li Mengxi thought of the method of subduing troops.

What is the method of surrendering troops?

"There is a saying in the art of war that the best strategy is to subdue the enemy's troops without fighting.

Tiger skin can be used in the art of subduing soldiers.

What is surrender?

Suppose we are facing each other. The enemy's cavalry is strong and the infantry is weak. We only have three or five cavalry, but our infantry is strong.

At this time, if possible, the enemy's and our cavalry can be brought to their knees.

Our cavalry surrendered, and only three or five of them were surrendered, which damaged the combat strength of three or five cavalry. The enemy's cavalry surrendered, and they surrendered thousands of cavalry, which damaged the combat strength of thousands of cavalry.

At this time, we will surrender three or five times, and the enemy will surrender thousands of hundred. We can trade less for more, which will greatly benefit our army.

Therefore, tiger skin can be used to subjugate soldiers, and it can give me the initiative to subjugate cavalry.

As long as I have a few tiger skins, I can overwhelm the enemy's cavalry.

The enemy's cavalry is either unprepared, and its thousands of horses are frightened when they see our tiger-skinned cavalry, and their cavalry's combat effectiveness is reduced; even if the enemy is prepared, they can cover the eyes of the horses with long cloths, but once the horses are blinded, their cavalry troops will be destroyed.

It is inevitable that maneuverability, coordination and response will be greatly reduced, and combat power will be greatly reduced. This is a conspiracy.

Therefore, if you have a tiger skin that can be used to subjugate an army ten feet long, it is better to use it when the enemy has a large number of cavalry and we have very few cavalry, so we exchange [pawns] for [horses] and forcibly exchange their sons."

Tiger skin is actually very useful. It is an artifact that can add negative buffs to cavalry units.

Naturally, this negative buff does not distinguish between friend and foe, and the beauty of its use lies in one mind.

The usefulness of "tiger" in war is not in living tigers, but in the skins of dead tigers.

...But perhaps, live wolves, insects, tigers and leopards can also be used in military affairs, such as the Southern Barbarian beast soldiers in the late Han Dynasty...

"It is said that the southern barbarians have beast-controlling soldiers, and the barbarians fight against wolves, insects, tigers and leopards.

This method of fighting beasts is probably a "strange" method used by military strategists.

To deal with strange tactics, one can either use a dignified force, a wall like a forest, a shield like a strong one, and a crossbow like a rain hair, to suppress it forcefully. It is expected that the iron armor cannot resist the arrows, and it is impossible to win with the skins of wolves, worms, tigers and leopards.

Steel, this is the way to win.

Or, use strange attack methods to defeat the barbarian beasts and fight them with strange methods.

What are the strange attack methods? One is the fire attack, the second is to use the other's way to return the other's body, and the third is the Guizhou donkey method.

All animals are afraid of fire. All animals are frightened by fire. Moreover, wolves, insects, tigers and leopards often have fur. If a few sparks stick to the fur of tigers and leopards, they will immediately catch fire. Hitting all animals with rockets can have miraculous effects.

Furthermore, in the beast army of the Southern Barbarians, there are wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. Among all the beasts, the tiger is the king, and all the beasts are afraid to run away when they see it. If you stick a tree branch thickly in the shape of a tiger and cover it with tiger skin, it will look like a fierce tiger.

If the fake tiger is placed in front of the formation, then in the beast army, except for the tiger, the wolves, leopards, bears and jackals will be frightened and collapse without a fight. If the fake tiger is placed in front of the formation, among the beasts of the southern barbarian army, there will be some ferocious tigers.

Even if he is not frightened away by the fake tiger, he still surrenders three points of the evil force?

Why?

As the saying goes, when two tigers fight, one of them will be injured. For example, wolves live in groups, but tigers walk alone. Tigers cannot be in a group, and they will fight when they see them. Therefore, there is a fake tiger in front of our formation. How can the tigers of the Southern Barbarian Beast Army ignore the fake tiger when they see it?

Real tigers must be very afraid of fake tigers. In this way, even if a fierce tiger attacks the formation, it will be so ferocious that it will not survive.

The third unique attack method to control the southern barbarian beast army is the Guizhou donkey method.

What is the donkey method in Guizhou? As for donkeys in Guizhou, tigers do not recognize donkeys and are afraid of donkeys. When a donkey barks, a tiger starts running away; when a donkey flicks its hooves, a tiger starts running away; when a donkey flicks its tail, a tiger starts running away. When the three are gone, the tiger will know the donkey.

With only these three skills, he was not afraid, so he pounced on the donkey and ate it.

This is a fable.

However, there is another real meaning in this, for example, if a beast or the like suddenly encounters something strange, it will be too afraid to fight with it.

It is said that in remote and closed places, every time a hunter enters the mountain, he must wear a brightly colored ghost mask painted red and purple, which depicts a weird and terrifying evil spirit. This method has been passed down since ancient times and is used to scare tigers.

This method is practical and practical.

The so-called Guizhou donkey method is to make a wooden animal. The more weird and terrifying the shape, the better. Paint it with big eyes and a ferocious face to scare the beasts.

Ghost masks can also be made and distributed among the soldiers to scare away the beasts.

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"[Beasts] are used in military battles, mostly in two ways: one is to drive the beasts into battle, and the other is to fight against the beast army.

Secondly, when confronting the beast army, there are two methods: direct battle and surprise battle.

If you think about it more carefully, the people who can use the beast army will be able to capture many ferocious beasts. The place where they can capture many ferocious beasts will be in a wild and dangerous place. The terrain here is steep and scattered, so there is no way to arrange a battle array with spears, shields and spears.

Open flat land.

Therefore, in order to control the beast army, actual combat methods are useless and can only use strange attack methods, that is, fire attack method, counterattack method with fake beasts, and Guizhou donkey method using ghosts and monsters to frighten them, these three methods."

Presumably, ferocious beasts are in military affairs.

However, speaking of beasts, Li Mengxi remembered that elephant soldiers seemed to have appeared much more frequently than other beasts in the history of cold weapon warfare.

No matter East or West, there are elephant soldiers in the East and also in the West.

India also has elephant soldiers, and the Shang Dynasty also used elephant soldiers.

"[Elephant] is used in military affairs. Elephants are docile and can be tamed. Therefore, elephants can be used as soldiers. Sometimes, elephants can be used to transport heavy objects."

Elephant soldiers are actually not the mainstream of warfare. They are not mainstream in combat. In some areas, they are used to transport goods using camels, which are not as efficient as mules and horses. They are also non-mainstream and there is no need to record them specifically.

By this time, Li Mengxi had already expanded too far from the original chickens and ducks to the current elephants.

After that, Li Mengxi racked his brains and thought about it. He thought about what other animals could be related to the military.

After a long time, he could only think of a few other categories.

Li Mengxi remembered that he had seen such a story, that is, a general was going to attack a certain place, but he encountered heavy rain and floods on the way, and the way forward was blocked by the floods. He saw that the military supplies were increasingly depleted, and he was about to return without success.

That evening, when the melancholy general was in a daze in his tent, he saw a spider spinning a web on the tent. The general was depressed, so he destroyed the spider web.

But after a while, the spider caught the web again.

The general destroyed the spider web again, but the spider persisted and mended it again.

Gradually, the general was moved by the spider's spirit of never giving up. He thought to himself, a little spider can have such perseverance, am I not as good as a spider?

So the general made up his mind to persevere no matter what.

Finally, before the general ran out of rations, he finally waited until the rain stopped, then rushed in with his troops and wiped out the enemy.

This story tells us that we should not read stupid chicken soup articles.

This story was written by an idiot who thought he was right.

The real truth of the story is this - when the general ran out of rations and was in a dilemma, he saw a spider spinning a web. He suddenly realized that the spider was starting to spin a web, which meant that the weather was about to clear up. After making this judgment,

The general was determined to continue. When the rain stopped the next day, the general was able to continue moving forward.

This is the truth, not something about perseverance or never giving up. As a general, what is always needed is calmness and keen judgment. If you only have yourself, it doesn't matter whether you are hot-blooded or not. You can be responsible for the life and death of tens of millions of people. Just because you can't

To give up this meaningless creed so easily is to disregard the life and death of the army. This is what a stupid general is.

Spiders are used in the military. I don’t know what kind of magical abilities the long evolution of spiders has given this little thing. Spiders can always predict when the rain will stop, and spiders always finish their knots on a magical sunny day.

Therefore, once a spider starts to build a web in the wild, it will inevitably clear up soon.
To be continued...