I'm looking for information on cavalry from the Later Han or Three Kingdoms time period. I'm mainly looking for uses and tactics.
For example, were they primarilly used in flanking actions? Did they only engage on open ground? If they charged and the enemy did not break did they bounce back? Were they usually deployed on the flanks?
Any information would be really appreciated.
Eastern Han/Three Kingdoms Cavalry
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Zhao Yun '87
, Jan 26 2011 12:51 PM
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Posted 26 January 2011 - 12:51 PM
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Posted 10 April 2011 - 05:13 PM
As you know, Chinese cavalry changed a great deal between the Three Kingdom period to the early Tang, when heavy cavalry (cataphracts) gradually came up.
I don't have any specific information on the Later Han, but they'll be primarily used in flanking actions, mobbing up operations, scouting and the like. At no time in history, not even in the days of plate armour and medieval knights, cavalry could charge in a frontal attack into a well-trained body of infantry that kept its formation.
I don't have any specific information on the Later Han, but they'll be primarily used in flanking actions, mobbing up operations, scouting and the like. At no time in history, not even in the days of plate armour and medieval knights, cavalry could charge in a frontal attack into a well-trained body of infantry that kept its formation.
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:24 PM
The importance of shock cavalry appears to have been given greater emphasis in the Three Kingdoms period, specifically under Cao Wei. Alot of the Cao Wei cavalry seem to have been recruited from the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes. Melee cavalry primarily employed lances, but horse archers were not uncommon, nor restricted to the north. Apparently Shu Han had a 'Flying Army' of mounted bowmen.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:15 PM
it is apparently Shu Han had a 'Flying Army' of mounted bowmen.
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Posted 21 April 2013 - 11:09 PM
As you know, Chinese cavalry changed a great deal between the Three Kingdom period to the early Tang, when heavy cavalry (cataphracts) gradually came up.
Early Tang had the best heavy cavalry in Chinese history?
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