01-16-2018, 10:43 AM
(01-16-2018, 01:24 AM)Alanus Wrote: Not sure where you received, "The earliest attested use of any type of cavalry by the Chinese was in the late 4th century BC."
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_...fare#China . Search in Google Books for "Wuling of Zhao cavalry introduction" and you will get higher quality sources. These equipment bits you mention will have been related to chariots warfare which was much older, of course.
Quote:Cavalry was first introduced to a state of the EAH near the end of the fourth c. b.c. To be more precise, this happened in the year 307, when King Wuling of Zhao commanded a portion of his men to adopt nomadic dress (pants and jacket or shirt instead of robes) and learn to ride horses so that they could resist the mobile nomad warrior of the steppe.
SOURCE: The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods, 2009, p. 41
Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
