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Chapter 609 - Chapter 301: The Ninth Year of Wude

Using chariot tactics to combat cavalry is, from a later perspective, not particularly novel.

But at this time, it was a method that surpassed the era.

Although chariots had been used in much earlier dynasties, those chariots were nothing like the specialized vehicles later developed specifically to counter cavalry.

The chariots of that time had two wheels and at most could accommodate two to three armored soldiers.

As early as the early Chu Dynasty, such chariot forces had been completely phased out, and large-scale cavalry units had become the absolute main force in warfare.

Subsequently, with the improvement of cavalry equipment, the advent of stirrups and high saddles, and the coordination between heavily armed cavalry and ordinary light cavalry, the cavalry developed crushing tactics against infantry.

Therefore, during the period before the Liang Dynasty when the northern nomads swept south, cavalry had already evolved into the dominant force on the battlefield.

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