Chapter 69

Gu Yi spoke:

"General Fengxian, to tell you the truth, I came here today to ask about the training method of the Camp-Breaking Battalion under General Gao Shun."

However, before Gu Yi's voice had even faded,

Lu Bu's face showed a hint of confusion, and he asked in return:

"The Camp-Breaking Battalion is just a group of infantry under Gao Shun."

"Besides being more elite compared to other infantry, there is nothing particularly outstanding about them."

"Are you sure you want to ask about the training method of this Camp-Breaking Battalion?"

Seeing such a confused expression on Lu Bu's face,

Gu Yi couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

The... the Camp-Breaking Battalion!

In history, Gao Shun once led seven hundred of the Camp-Breaking Battalion to defeat ten thousand Cao troops.

How could it be that in Lu Bu's mouth, it felt like just an ordinary army?

And looking at the expression on Lu Bu's face, it didn't seem like he was faking it.

Actually,

Gu Yi really misunderstood Lu Bu.

This person Lu Bu was not only strict with his daughter Lu Lingqi, but also equally strict with the army under his command.

Although the Camp-Breaking Battalion was brave,

no matter how brave they were, due to the compatibility of the troop type, they had no way to compete with cavalry as infantry.

But it just so happened that

since Lu Bu started his career,

the armies he encountered were mostly cavalry!

Previously, when he was in Jiuyuan, Bingzhou, he fought against the Xianbei iron cavalry and the Southern Xiongnu armored cavalry all year round.

Under the same situation,

the role played by the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under Lu Bu was naturally far superior to the Camp-Breaking Battalion.

Even if the Camp-Breaking Battalion was fierce, they were ultimately just a group of infantry who couldn't ride horses.

Their disadvantage in confrontation with cavalry was fully exposed.

Later, Lu Bu followed Ding Yuan to the outskirts of Luoyang.

The force confronting the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under Ding Yuan was exactly the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Old Dong!

Both cavalry units were the elite of the time.

In a war between such ace cavalry units, where would there be a place for infantry like the Camp-Breaking Battalion to participate?

Therefore, the Camp-Breaking Battalion under Gao Shun actually never had much of a chance to be used under Lu Bu's command.

Plus, Lu Bu was a typical cavalry general.

He had a natural love for cavalry.

Consequently, the status of infantry in his heart naturally declined.

Therefore, Lu Bu didn't take the Camp-Breaking Battalion under Gao Shun too seriously.

But what Lu Bu didn't know was that

if the Camp-Breaking Battalion were placed in the south where warhorses were not produced, they would turn into ace special forces in minutes!

Not to mention anything else, just take Sun Ten-Thousand.

If Sun Ten-Thousand had obtained such an elite force, how could he have been defeated so miserably in the Battle of Hefei?

emmm... it seems... this analogy... doesn't hold up very well?

Even if Gao Shun led the Camp-Breaking Battalion to be reborn collectively, encountering a pit-boss like the Hefei God of War Sun Ten-Thousand, I fear it would still be difficult to change the situation. (Dog-head funny)

.......

After explaining to Lu Bu for a long time, the latter finally understood Gu Yi's meaning.

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

"Don't need cavalry?"

Lu Bu looked confused.

The look in his eyes when looking at 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 a man's romance.

On the other hand, melee infantry.

Not only is the movement speed slow.

But due to the problem of troop restraint, they are basically impossible to be the opponent of cavalry.

Under normal circumstances.

In the era of cold weapons, the situation where melee infantry can defeat cavalry on the battlefield only appears in games.

Imagine, how strong is the impact of a warhorse?

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

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

Moreover, the cavalry's main output method is actually to hold a cavalry lance and thrust forward while riding a warhorse!

The violent impact, carrying sharp winds, the destructive power can be imagined.

Therefore.

When hearing that Gu Yi only trained infantry and didn't need cavalry, Lu Bu's mind was full of big questions.

To this, Gu Yi spread his hands.

He knew that even if he explained it to Lu Bu now, he probably wouldn't understand.

Cavalry is awesome.

But it also depends on where.

If it's south of the Yangtze River.

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

Don't you see, when Cao Cao was at the Battle of Red Cliffs in history, 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 confused.

A group of landlubbers was useless.

No matter how fierce the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were, they couldn't ride warhorses on the deck to fight the Jiangdong navy.

Furthermore.

Yizhou and Hanzhong are the same situation.

Historically, the Liu Bei group 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 make any contributions during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition?

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.

Nowadays.

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

Looking at the world.