Why did medieval knights in Europe prefer heavy armor while it is extremely rare in Asia?

Europe attaches great importance to protection and collision force, generally there is no too long-distance engagement, the corresponding horses can bear a certain weight, Asia has a vast territory, attaches importance to mobility, and Asian horse breeds are not particularly load-resistant, wearing heavy armor is not conducive to long-distance running, affecting the mobility of people and horses.

Cai You of the Western Wei Dynasty was called the "Iron Beast" by the Eastern Wei Dynasty

Because in the Middle Ages in Europe, knights fought wars and duels!

The big iron bucket was the favorite of the Europeans.

The crusaders in the Middle East during the medieval crusade period were chain mail, plate armor and the like were very popular in continental Europe, Asia. Can you remember the Iron Float?

The iron armor that appeared in the Central Plains was not light, but plate armor never appeared.

In the Middle Ages in China, armored cavalry was highly heavily armed. As for infantry hopping, you can go and see the Song people.

It should be the late Ming Dynasty, the militia was very poor and couldn't afford to wear it.

It's a false proposition in itself. Heavy troops are precisely an Asian tradition.

Troops with good conditions in all regions will be reloaded, and the impression of reloading in Europe is derived from film and television works.

Iranian heavy horsemen were heavily armored in Roman times.

Because armor is too troublesome, and fighting is too troublesome. Leave the world-conquering things to those who are not afraid of trouble

There are also Parthian horse harnesses, gold and iron floating slaughter.

A armor is equipped with riding and walking armor, and there are also armor pieces in the cloth armor, which is similar to brigandine.

Has anyone studied the Chinese Zha Armor, Scale Armor, and Ghost Plate Armor? What is the rhythm of the Chinese armor being rendered on the Internet now being blown up by the plate armor?

In fact, it is not nothing, such as the scale armor of the Tang Dynasty, but due to historical reasons, it has not been handed down to future generations.

Scarcity is expensive, and the ancient Chinese people had too much, and they were worthless. If we all use heavy armor, then our country is now truly exhausted!!

The main reason is that compared with most of the wars with Europe, the warfare in ancient China had two major characteristics: 1: the number of people, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops equipped with heavy armor would be a terrible expenditure, and if the heavy cavalry did not form a scale, it would have little effect in front of a tight infantry phalanx; 2. Most of the battles are open field battles or urban attack and defense, the former is more mobile, the latter is more heavy on siege **, in short, like heavy armor, which has a very high maintenance cost and is too single, the role of a single type of troops in the ancient Chinese battlefield is really not large. Purely personal opinion, do not spray,

It's too strong, how can neighboring countries fight? So if you don't fight at all, then you don't need heavy armor.

China has the resources, the horses, the tactics and the technology.

The Mongol army, also known as the knights, is not heavily armoured, characterized by fast speed, European knights, heavily armoured, bulky, inconvenient, **low, short combat time As for why China does not Europeanize the knights, I don't know, before Genghis Khan invaded the Central Plains, why didn't the dynasties in the Central Plains use knights?

Influenced by a large number of film and television works, many people now think that in medieval Western Europe, the armor they used was all chain mail. However, this point of view, just as some people still think that European knights must be all plate armor, is also a stereotype, so in addition to chain mail and plate armor, what kind of iron armor is there in Western Europe?

Armor from the Roman Empire.

The history of the armor in Europe is actually as old as the chain mail. As early as the ancient Greek period, the armor actually appeared in Europe. In the later period of the Roman Empire, armor and chain mail were one of the common types of armor among the Roman Empire and European barbarians at that time.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, subsequent barbarian kingdoms also inherited the armor style of the Roman Empire. Especially during the Carolingian period of the Frankish Kingdom, the main type of armor was the armor.

The Carolingian knights who fought against the Vikings, the Zajrs were their main type of armor at the time.

In the 10th century, with the advent of the European porous metal wire drawing machine, there was a huge leap forward in the metalworking technology in Europe. The huge increase in the production of iron wire has made it possible to make chain mail on a large scale, so the man-hours required to manufacture chain mail have been greatly reduced. In addition, the chain mail itself is lighter than the armor with the same defense area, and has a better defense effect on the joints and neck.

As a result, chainmail began to flourish in Europe, but this does not mean that chainmail will be obsolete from the 10th century. In fact, until the advent of more expensive and defensive plate armor, chain mail and slab armor were used in a mixed state in Europe.

Illustration of a 12th-century manuscript on a biblical theme in Regensburg, Germany, including a knight wearing armor.

The main reason for the large-scale equipment of the armor in Europe is that the manufacturing time of the armor itself is almost the same as the time required for the chain mail after the wire drawing machine. Moreover, the defense problems of local positions such as joints will not have a great impact on operations on the battlefield. Moreover, the military development between European countries itself has a very clear mark of mutual influence, and Western Europe itself is naturally unavoidable.

Coupled with the **** between countries, many high-quality armor from the Byzantine Empire and other places have flowed in, so that compared with chain mail, the efficiency of the armor on the battlefield is actually equal to that of the armor.

The Norman knights, who were often regarded as the benchmark for knights in Western Europe, were also a mixture of armor and chain mail.

In some areas that are not in the narrow sense of Western Europe, the use of armor is more extensive, such as Scandinavia and Denmark, where a large number of armor used by the Vikings have been excavated.

The United States has found a Spanish colonizer Zajia excavated.

In the United States, the armor tablets used by the Spanish colonists have also been unearthed. Therefore, it can be said that the armor has never been absent from the history of warfare in Western Europe, and they have also passed through the years when the knights roared on the battlefield, just like the chain mail.

In addition to the more common armor such as chain mail and plate armor, medieval European knights and knights also had throat armor, wooden armor, rattan armor, etc., which also had a good protective effect.

Neck armor. It is an important piece of equipment used by European armies to protect their necks. It appeared as early as the 14th century. It is a must-have for armor.

In Europe, there is a type of armor called the armor, which is actually as old as chain mail. As early as the ancient Greek colonial period, the Zagar actually appeared in Europe. The artifacts unearthed in the Americas are a good proof of this.

Zaijia, in fact, this one is as old as chain mail. Some of them are a mixture of armor and chain mail, and the original has been excavated in the United States and Europe, and there are also records on the murals.

All the above answers actually regard the scale armor as the armor, in fact, the scale armor is directly sewn on the inner lining, and the armor is the armor pieces strung together with rope, which are two different kinds of armor, in general, there have been unearthed armor in Europe, but the number is scarce, and concentrated in southern and Eastern Europe (either in the ancient Greek period or in the medieval period in contact with nomadic areas) In general, it is scale armor that has been mixed with chain mail for a long time, and it has been used as a supplement to the parts that individual plate armor cannot cover when it first appeared.

Not so tall, the Western armor commonly found on the Internet is a product of the Renaissance.

The wars in medieval Europe were small and poor, and the main people who could wear armor were noble knights. And the peasants, the servant army, the infantry in general. I don't even have basic armor, so you can watch "Braveheart".

At that time, China was just 10,000 people, and it was generally not equipped with equipment. After the Song Dynasty, except for a small number of heavy infantry wearing armor, the rest were basically cotton armor and cloth armor. The inside is a cloth armor with iron sheets, which is the predecessor of cotton armor.

In order to resist firearms, cotton armor in the Ming Dynasty began to be lined with iron sheets and fixed with copper nails on the outside.

You can design it yourself.

You have to see what dynasty it is, if it is the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese will press the enemy to fight, so to speak; If it is the Song Dynasty, the result should be a stalemate, and in the end it will be won by numbers (this is not counting Yue Fei and other famous generals), if it is Mongolia, the result will be the destruction of the other party.

Although I think that the ability of the heavy armor knight is better, but it is also necessary to take into account the location of the battle, different locations, heavy armor and light cavalry have their own different plays.