How did cavalry attack in history?

Before the large-scale application of stirrups and saddles (soft saddles), cavalry was basically used as an arm for investigation, harassment and hunting, while Persia and some nomadic people developed many long-range projection cavalry. The most powerful cavalry in the saddle-less era should be Macedonia's partner cavalry, which is the first heavy cavalry in history. Alexander used the flank of Macedonian cavalry to make a circuitous assault, and cooperated with the "anvil hammer tactics" of infantry such as phalanx+light infantry+archer to help him defeat the Persian army several times with superior forces, but the strength of his partner cavalry was diluted by exaggerated phalanx. . . . The cavalry tactics in this period were mainly to launch flank attacks to defeat the opposing front in the face of stalemate, and the related formations included "wedge array" which could easily and flexibly reverse the attack direction.

After the stirrup era, the impact of cavalry was greatly improved. On the basis of traditional flank attack, cavalry developed heavy cavalry to attack the enemy head-on. In the early Middle Ages, due to the poor discipline and training of infantry, the impact tactics of heavy cavalry reached its peak.

In modern times, modern cavalry tactics rose. Modern cavalry has the advantages of coordination, discipline and mass production in large-scale operations, which is superior to feudal cavalry. Modern cavalry has several advantages in the number of attacks: they choose heavy horses and strictly abide by discipline. After the first charge, they didn't dwell on melee, but turned their horses around, regrouped and launched the next attack. Therefore, although modern cavalry is not as good as feudal cavalry in individual combat, it is very strong in group combat.

Then the cavalry tended to decline. . . .

Of course, there are some cavalry tactics in other places, such as Mongolian archers luring the enemy to weaken and heavy cavalry attack, which are also very successful tactics. Due to the geographical location, there are some shortages of horse breeds and heavy horses in China, so more light cavalry are developed to fight against nomadic people who are also good at light cavalry tactics.

As for Japan. . . Because most of them are horses like Muzengma, the influence is even greater, and most of them are warriors who dismount. . .