Chapter 141: Training a new army

After explaining for a long time to Lu Bu, the latter finally understood what Gu Yi meant.

"In other words, you actually want to train a relatively elite infantry?"

"You don't need cavalry?"

Lu Bu looked puzzled.

The look he gave Gu Yi was full of scrutiny.

In Lu Bu's worldview, how could infantry be more powerful than cavalry?

Cavalry is so cool!

Fighting the world on horseback is the romance of a man.

Conversely, close-combat infantry.

Not only is the movement speed slow.

But due to the restraint of arms, they are basically impossible to be opponents of cavalry.

Under normal circumstances.

In the cold weapon era, in a battlefield confrontation, the situation where close-combat infantry can defeat cavalry only appears in games.

Imagine, how strong is the impact of a warhorse?

No matter how thick the infantry's armor is, it's just a human body.

Facing the impact of cavalry, it is difficult to resist.

Moreover, the cavalry's main output method is actually riding on a warhorse and holding a cavalry spear to thrust forward!

The violent impact force, carrying a sharp wind, the destructive power can be imagined.

Therefore.

Hearing that Gu Yi only trained infantry and didn't need cavalry, Lu Bu's mind was full of big question marks.

To this, Gu Yi spread his hands.

He knew that even if he explained it to Lu Bu now, he probably wouldn't be able to explain it clearly.

Cavalry is awesome.

But it also depends on where it is.

If it's south of the Yangtze River.

First of all, whether your cavalry can cross the Yangtze River is a big problem.

Haven't you seen that historically, during Cao Cao's Battle of Red Cliffs, the Cao army was so fierce, and even had elites like the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry participating.

But...

Facing the vast Yangtze River, the Cao army was collectively dumbfounded.

A bunch of landlubbers, they are completely useless.

No matter how fierce the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were, it was impossible for them to ride warhorses on the deck and engage in battle with the Jiangdong navy.

Furthermore.

Yizhou and Hanzhong are the same situation.

Historically, the Liu Bei faction basically had no cavalry corps.

Perhaps they had them in their early years.

But as the main force entered Yizhou, cavalry couldn't play any role at all.

Including Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Have you ever seen them render any merit during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions?

To put it bluntly.

It's not that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang didn't want to train cavalry.

But because the mountainous terrain of Yizhou and Hanzhong was completely unsuitable for cavalry operations.

The cost of training a cavalryman is much higher than that of an infantryman.

With the financial burden of Shu Han, raising cavalry was purely redundant and had no use.

Now.

Special forces among infantry like the White-Eared Elite Soldiers and the Wudang Flying Army had not yet appeared.

Looking at the world. ===== CHAPTER 142 =====