Why are Huns who are good at riding and shooting beaten out of the water by Huo Qubing cavalry?

From the Battle of Mobei, Huo Qubing sealed the wolf in Xushan, and the meritorious military service became the dream of military commanders in past dynasties. Xu Shan sealing a wolf has also become an idiom to encourage people to make contributions.

Huo Qubing was able to achieve such brilliant results in the Sino-Hungarian War because he and his Han army were the best military groups in the world at that time.

This army has the following characteristics:

First, the generals are excellent.

As the saying goes, all is fair in war, and the soul of an army comes from the commander in chief. Huo Qubing was the best commander in chief of that era.

His command level is superb, and he created a brand-new cavalry blitzkrieg tactics, so that the Huns, who were proud of their mobility, were defeated by Huo Qubing unprepared, and then Huo Qubing went to find the next target.

In the Battle of Hexi, Huo Qubing traveled thousands of miles and killed all the Huns in Hexi.

Second, Huo Qubing's soldiers can also be said to be good riders and shooters.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, the loss was that the cavalry level of the Han army was far behind that of the Xiongnu.

The Han Dynasty was ashamed and brave, which not only made great efforts in horse administration, but also encouraged people to ride horses and shoot arrows. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the riding and shooting level of the northern border residents was already quite strong, and everyone would laugh when they went out to ride a mare.

Although the Xiongnu grew up on horseback, perhaps the overall riding and shooting level of the Han people is not as good as that of the Xiongnu, but just selecting the people in the northern border counties is enough to select a large enough excellent cavalry team to confront the Xiongnu.

Therefore, in fact, the gap between the two sides in riding and shooting level is not that big.

Third, the martial spirit.

At this time, I especially want to compare the Song Dynasty with the Han Dynasty. The biggest difference between Han Dynasty and Song Dynasty is the spiritual difference.

Compared with the Song Dynasty, the Han Dynasty paid equal attention to civil and military affairs, and its martial spirit was very strong. Therefore, Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, made a rule that you can't seal Hou without meritorious military service. That is to say, there is only one way to seal Hou, that is, chopping people on the battlefield. The more you chop, the greater the chance of sealing Hou.

(Liu Bang's rule is very good and powerful)

Therefore, in the face of strong enemies, Han people do not blindly spend money to buy peace, but think about how to finally defeat them.

The strong martial spirit made the Han army often cry when fighting against Xiongnu. After the war, the two sides lost miserably and won miserably. In the first battle of Hexi, Huo Qubing led an army of 100000, and when he came back, there were only 3,000 men left, with losses as high as 70% in World War I, but at the same time, he completely defeated the Huns' courage to confront Huo Qubing, resulting in a war loss ratio of 1: 10.

If the Song Dynasty had this mentality, it would have recovered the sixteen states of Youyun.

Fourth, the Han army has an advantage in weapons.

The biggest headache for Han people is that Huns are so good. They are extremely mobile. Run after the fight, you can't catch up if you want to, and you can't beat the Huns if you want to escape.

The Han dynasty also had advantages. At that time, the Han Dynasty summed up the advantages of Xiongnu and Han army and said: Han soldiers are sharp (and sharp), Xiongnu is fast!

Therefore, once the Han soldiers shortened the gap with the Huns in horses, victory came.

Finally, the horse policy of the Han Dynasty was really great.

Since the siege of Liu Bang and Bai Deng, the Emperor Gaozu, the Han Dynasty realized that without successful horse management, there would be no victory over Xiongnu.

Therefore, before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, several generations of emperors in the Han Dynasty spent more than half a century developing official horses and folk horses, and even stipulated that folk horses could be exempted from labor.

The Han Dynasty was kind to Matthew. In order to maintain the strength of horses, they don't just feed them grass. They want to feed the horse millet when it is running, so as to ensure that it is fat and strong.

Although Huns have an advantage over Han people in training war horses, they do not have such a high material supply capacity. Horses eat grass most of the time. Huns can't afford to feed food, and they don't have enough to eat.

When the quality gap of horses became smaller and smaller, the advantage of Xiongnu's fast horses was gone, which also made Huo Qubing's blitzkrieg.