Knowing oneself and enemy, you will win every battle. Everyone is still very unfamiliar with the army of the Seljuk Empire. They don’t know the combat methods and tactical characteristics. Now they can only analyze and understand them from the existing clues.

After checking a few veterans who have been on the battlefield, they found that these Seljuk cavalry not only have excellent personal equipment, but also have very strong saddles. Of course, as an important cavalry, a strong saddle is only a basic condition, and the problem is that it

The interior is also carefully filled to make the butt feel more comfortable, which is very important for soldiers growing on horseback. Moreover, a heavier wool cloak is tied to the saddle, so it doesn't matter if it's cold.

It can keep warm, use it as a blanket at night, and keep the war horse warm.

As for the composition of personnel, the old people believed that the weapons equipped by the enemy should be composed of noble children of the country. A poor family cannot afford to practice martial arts since childhood. Even those weapons and war horses are not available for every family.

Only those officials and nobles can have enough financial resources to support their children's martial arts training expenses, buy them, hire famous teachers, and train a warrior who is good at fighting.

Although these details cannot accurately judge the true strength of an army, it can also be seen from it. After analysis, they thought that the scale of this army would not be too large, and the scale should be between 20,000 and 50,000 people.

In between, because of such well-equipped armor, weapons need to be piled up with money, and large-scale equipment will cost a huge sum of money, which will be unbearable even if the Seljuk Empire is rich.

But the prisoner-in-chief who came down broke their glasses. The identities of these knights were actually the lowest slaves in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains...

The heavy cavalry of the Seljuk Dynasty. Most of them were the Turkic court guards formed by the Seljuk Sultan, Gulam, which means "trained slaves". It is a professional army. Gulam is divided into courts.

Guram and Guram. The palace Guram are the private guards of the sultans. In addition, the local governor, the lord's Gulam cavalry, as well as the Turkic, Persians, Armenians, Kurds and other tribes.

Mercenaries were also the source of heavy cavalry in the Seljuk Empire.

Because of the rigorous training, many lords would rather choose more professional slaves than choose professional free people. The main way to obtain slaves is to trade, and prisoners of war are also an important source. Gulam members were taken from teenagers.

Instilling Persian culture and values, Islamic teachings, the professor cultivated his exquisite riding skills. After Gulam grew up, he was incorporated into the army and stationed in various places for the dynasty. He could also be promoted to an officer and become a military backbone force in the imperial military

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The word "slave" is easy to cause misunderstandings here, but although those slave soldiers can be bought and sold, they can get rewards and share spoils. They can also be promoted through outstanding military achievements, and then they can be appointed as generals and ministers.

The high-ranking officials, or generals holding military power. The nobles' Gulam started from the private guards and gradually became their stewards, retainers and guards. Therefore, the Gulam had a very high status in his country and society, although their

The name is still a slave, but in fact it enjoys extremely high honors!

As the ace force, the heavy cavalry of the palace was completely distributed by the state. Since Central Asia has always had a tradition of armored heavy equipment, the heavy cavalry of the Gulam Guards who were perfected during the Saman Dynasty.

It occupied a major position. The most well-equipped armor and horses of the Gulam heavy cavalry are generally equipped with armor and horses, such as Turkic-style pointed neck protection helmets, with foxtail decorations on the top and felt embellished with heavy fur helmets around them. They ride tall and strong

The horses are equipped with armor for good protection. They are usually wearing finely made patterned twelvets, felt hats and leather boots. The cost is evident.

The most common protective equipment for heavy cavalry is heavy armor and lock soft armor. This heavy armor is well-made and can have high-quality chain mail. Although the heavy armor has high protection power, it is heavy, and it can only pass high strength.

Only trained soldiers can wear and move freely. As an excellent professional soldier, Gulam fully meets these requirements. The training they pay most attention to is strength training, and they have to perform repeated weightlifting, fighting, and riding every day.

Practice with archery to fit these heavy armor.

The Gulam cavalry equipped with fewer war horses than other nomadic peoples, but their Akha-Takh horses are stronger, running and have stronger weight-bearing capabilities. After strict training, they can train troops.

Complex formation changes are carried out on the field and battlefield. Therefore, the Gulam cavalry can be replaced with thicker armor, equipped with bows, spears, swords and other weapons, so that they can shoot from a long time or charge melee combat, becoming

Excellent cavalry with more functions.

Of course, the Gulam cavalry must be proficient in cavalry and shooting skills, although they prefer to stand still to shoot archery. A skilled and excellent Gulam cavalry is said to be able to fire five arrows in a very short time, which means if the enemy cavalry

Even if the Gulam cavalry is only thirty steps away from the Gulam cavalry and attacks at sprint speed, they have enough time for the Gulam cavalry to release five arrows before the enemy rushes to the front, but only requires speed but does not emphasize accuracy.

Used as a means to disturb the enemy.

All signs show that Ma Wei and others realized that these Guram cavalry were the strongest opponents they encountered since the emperor formed the new army. However, as they analyzed, it was precisely because of their good equipment and pickyness of the soldiers.

The number of Gulam cavalry is still limited. Now the Seljuk Empire has 15,000 heavy cavalry in the palace, and 10,000 people follow Sultan Sanjar to attack the Western Liao, with only 5,000 people watching.

Home. The general Gulam belonging to the governors and lords of each province vary in their financial resources, including thousands and dozens of people, but they can all be called elites.

Now that the Song army is advancing to the capital, the news has long been spread to Baghdad. The left-behind crown prince and prime minister have issued recruitment orders to the provinces and lords, asking them to block the Song army along the way and go to Beijing to serve the king. According to the captives, most of the provinces and lords said that they have been in charge of the king.

Guram had arrived in Baghdad, and the expeditionary forces encountered the private troops of the lords these days. Due to the small number of people, they dared not face the front, so they could only delay the speed of the Song army's advance by harassment...

"Li Gong, what are you doing with those spears?" When everyone was talking about the enemy troops they were about to face, only Li Gong, the commander of the cavalry brigade, looked at the gun flag on the captured spear, and was stunned. Wang Gang was curious.

Ask the ground.

"Oh, Duke, look at the equipment of the Seljuk people. The eyes of their gun flags and the horsehair and long clothes on their helmets are of the same color. Is it very similar to the way our cavalry formation?" Li Gong suddenly

Hearing someone calling him, he was stunned for a moment and said.

"What's so strange about this? These are common sense. All army is like this!" Wang Gang heard Li Gong's answer and understood that he was thinking about these low-level questions and said with some amusement.

"Master, please look at it again!" Li Gong put the enemy's breastplate on his body, tied the round shield to his left arm, and said in a sprinting move with a spear in his hand.

"Why is this dress similar to our cavalry?" Li Quan walked around him and said in surprise.

"Yes, I asked the prisoners carefully just now. They also used cavalry lances when charging, and used neatly arranged rows to charge together, but the long spears they used were slightly shorter than ours!" Li Gong took back the cavalry lance and said.

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"Is it a coincidence?" Only the cavalry soldiers in the Song army were equipped with iron breastplate, war horse armor, and other types of troops were leather armor. In addition to firearms, the weapons used were also long cavalry and rifles as the main attack.

Weapons and charges also use horizontal battle formations to form waves of charges, which is really similar. Ma Wei and Li Quan looked at each other and said in confusion, and everyone could see that their eyes were full of surprise.

"Have Your Majesty been to Seljuk?" After mentioning, Wang Gang also saw something strange. As a veteran of the Northern Palace, he knew that the Cavalry Army was formed by the emperor and began to use this kind of cavalry in the Kruel Army.

The tactic of gun rushing against the Tiefutu of the Jurchens was gradually promoted to the Hussars of the entire army. Everyone always thought it was the first of the emperor, but they did not expect to encounter similar tactics here.

"No, as far as I know, Your Majesty has never been to the Western Regions!" Li Quan thought for a while and said.

"Are you sure that your Majesty hasn't sneaked out when he was in the northwest?" asked Ma Wei.

"Impossible. It is not possible to reach Seljuk from the northwest. At first, there were only 10,000 soldiers in the army. His Majesty often stayed in the camp and had never disappeared for so long. This Wang Gang can also testify!"

Li Quan was in the Guard Camp at that time, and it was impossible for the emperor to leave him for a long time.

"Well, your Majesty will be at most between Datong and Taiyuan in the later period, and there will be no chance to go far!" Wang Gang nodded and confirmed.

"After His Majesty ascended the throne, he did not send Hussars to support Goryeo, and did not use Hussars to fight Dali and to conquer Gaochang. It was simply because the Hussars fought in a single way, consumed a huge amount of money, and supplemented the difficulties during the expedition. But we went through the expedition for thousands of miles.

Zhu sent out the cavalry, and our journey was the farthest, and it was hard to refine the more difficult ones, which was really hard to figure out!" Ma Wei said after pondering for a moment, but he was even more puzzled. How did the emperor think about it?

"What can't figure out this? His Majesty Seljuk is planning to fight in person this expedition. Everything is prepared according to His Majesty's arrangement. Obviously, he knew that he would encounter heavy cavalry here, so he sent a cavalry to fight against him.

, Don’t forget that Your Majesty is a god-like person!” Li Quan said, but he wanted to be the emperor in his heart, so they didn’t have to think about it here.
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