The main force of the headquarters of the Second Cavalry Army quickly penetrated into the southern suburbs of the Jingshi City, and this news was already known to the cavalry of the more than 10,000 Black Sword Corps who had already left the city a few hours later.

When this news was known, the commander of the cavalry unit knew that something was wrong!

One only needs to look at the route of the cavalry of the unified army on the map, and then it can be clearly seen that they want to block their way to the city.

They are trying to cut off their retreat!

This can also explain why the thousands of cavalry of the United Army in front did not retreat quickly, but adopted the method of fighting and retreating.

It's a trap, a trap ready to lure your own troops!

What's more, now that the trap has been completed, the back road has been completely blocked.

What's next?

Continue to attack and kill the thousands of cavalry in front, this is unlikely, the other side is also cavalry, the tactical mobility is strong, and although the opponent's strength is only half of its own, but if this half of the troops are engaged in a diversion battle, it is enough to delay themselves for a long time.

With this time, the main cavalry of the opponent will be able to kill from behind.

Choose to break through in other directions, it's okay!

But this is putting the cart before the horse.

Now that the Ji royal family is mobilizing troops from all directions to return to the Beijing Division, these cavalry themselves have taken the initiative to break through, what is the point?

Once the Beijing division is conquered by the unified army and the royal family is captured and eliminated, even if his 10,000 cavalry still exists, what is the point?

The Black Sword Legion is the most loyal army of the Ji Imperial Family, even more loyal than the Guards Legion.

Among so many legions in Daheng, only the Black Sword Corps is the most special, with a special number, a special costume, and even a special history, the origin of the Black Sword Corps is the family private soldier of the Ji royal family.

The prestige of the Black Sword Legion spread throughout the Blue Star because of the rise of the Ji Imperial Family, even in the decades since the collapse of the Daheng Empire, the Black Sword Legion is still the sharpest sword of the Ji Imperial Family, and in the early and middle periods, the Ji Imperial Family relied on the Black Sword Legion to fight everywhere and try to suppress the rebellion.

Although it was not able to prevent the collapse of the Great Heng Empire in the end, the Black Sword Legion was always on the side of the royal family.

Anyone can break through and escape, even the Guards Legion can run, but the Black Sword Corps can't!

Protecting the royal family is their only mission, so it is impossible for them to abandon the royal family and break out on their own!

And there is another important reason for them not to break through in other directions:

That is, the Sixth Dynasty of Daheng is coming to an end!

Since the defeat of the battle on the southern front of Jingzhou, the current breakthrough or resistance of their Black Sword Corps is destined to become meaningless, and even the resistance of the northern states now is not of much meaning, it is just a lingering breath.

In fact, many people can see the situation of Daheng today, the rise of Lin Ziran and even the unification of Daheng is already unstoppable, if the northern states were able to resist with the joint resistance of the seven states before, then since the fiasco on the southern front of Jingzhou, then the balance of war has completely fallen to Lin Ziran.

After the loss of the southern front, the unified army under Lin Ziran was able to march to the Beijing division, and now there are only tens of thousands of cavalry, but there are still hundreds of thousands of troops behind.

Under the pressure of the army, even if the capital area can be defended, but the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau will definitely be finished, even if the three-state coalition army can rely on the complex factory terrain in the southern suburbs to make the final stubborn resistance, but Lin Ziran's unified army actually does not need to capture the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, it is enough to blockade the perimeter or simply use long-range heavy artillery to destroy the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

Once the supply of weapons and ammunition from the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is lost, not only the Ji royal family will be finished, but the entire Tri-State Coalition Army and Pingnan Prefecture in the north will be finished.

Without advanced breech-loading rifled weapons and sufficient ammunition, how could they resist Lin Ziran's Daheng Unification Army?

It's simply impossible!

Lin Ziran unified Daheng, this is already the trend of the times, not a certain state, a certain army can resist!

This point was already doomed after the Daheng Unification Army won the victory in the Battle of the Southern Front of Jingzhou and annihilated the more than 200,000 troops of the Sanzhou Coalition Army.

The battle on the Southern Front, in which more than 500,000 troops from both sides participated, was the most important turning point in this war of reunification of Daheng.

There are actually many people who can see this, but people, even if they know that there is little hope, they are still unwilling to give up, and always hope for a miracle.

But the reason why a miracle is a miracle is because the probability is extremely small!

The commander of the Black Sword Corps is naturally not the kind of person who expects a miracle, but they still did not choose to break through.

In their opinion, it is better to break out than to surrender directly!

It is meaningless to break through, on the contrary, surrendering can also help Lin Ziran unify Daheng more quickly, and contribute to the reunification of Daheng and the subsequent rise.

But they didn't have a choice either!

They chose to retreat to the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, preparing to join the defenders of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau!

There is no point in breaking through, and you can't turn around and break through the interception of the Second Cavalry Army and return to the capital area, and you can't stupidly stay where you are and wait for others to surround and annihilate them.

Therefore, they made the only road they could choose, retreated to the direction of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and prepared to join the defenders in the direction of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

As long as the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is safe and sound, it will be able to obtain a steady stream of weapons and equipment, arm more troops to join the defensive operation, and even the final counteroffensive.

That's the miracle they were expecting!

Humpty Dumpty Yin Guangqing Zhongqing watched the black cavalry in front of him retreat in the direction of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and muttered: "It's a pity!" ”

What he regretted was not that he failed to stop and annihilate this cavalry, but that it was a pity that the Black Sword Corps was finally destroyed!

Yes!

In his opinion, the Black Sword Corps was not far from being completely destroyed, and the Black Sword Corps, which was hiding in the defensive position of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, actually didn't have much significance.

They're cavalry!

In this era of rifled guns, the power of artillery and rifles has increased greatly, but why are the cavalry units in the Daheng unified army and even the cavalry units in other feudal towns still important?

The shock capabilities of the cavalry?

Although the impact ability of the cavalry is very strong, although the cuirassiers and even the lancers are still retained in each feudal town, which are specially used to charge the heavy cavalry, but in fact, whether it is the Daheng unified army or the cavalry of other feudal towns, large-scale cavalry charges have never been used in this unified war, at most only in some small-scale local battles with specific circumstances, the cavalry charge can be seen, but it generally only occurs in the cavalry company, and it generally occurs in attacks and ambush operations.

So far, the Daheng Unification Army has not even had a cavalry regiment-level cavalry charge, and there has never been a cavalry unit that will charge the enemy's infantry position!

In the face of today's artillery and rifle fire, if the cavalry used to form a dense formation and launch multiple waves of charges with standard cavalry wall charges, it would be of little use except to serve as a target.

Even if the charge is successful, it will suffer a lot of losses.

Not to mention that now that the Daheng unified army has begun to be equipped with heavy machine guns, if the cavalry dares to charge at the infantry position, it will not make any sense except to increase the enemy's battle record.

But even so, the Daheng Unification Army still maintains a large scale of cavalry, and the military top brass still regards cavalry as an indispensable main force.

Why?

It is the mobility of the cavalry.

Or more precisely, the ability to tactical maneuver over short and medium distances.

This is the only reason why contemporary cavalry can still be among the main arms!

However, the cavalry of the Black Sword Corps on the opposite side actually gave up their tactical mobility and took the initiative to withdraw to the defensive position of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.

They abandoned their horses and began to hide in the trenches like the infantrymen, using their rifles to block the attack of the unified army!

Shocked the Central Continent for three hundred years, expanded millions of square kilometers for the Daheng nation, and wiped out countless Black Sword Corps, and finally gave up their war horses and turned into infantry to fight!

In Yin Guangqing's view, this is a very sad thing!

Not only for the Black Sword Corps, but also for the cavalry itself!

With the progress of the times, the Black Sword Corps has declined, so in the future, the cavalry units of their unified army will also slowly decline!

Perhaps, in the future, when the army no longer needs the tactical mobility of cavalry, it will be time for cavalry to completely withdraw from the stage of war!

The future does not belong to the cavalry!

If Lin Ziran was here, he would also agree with Yin Guangqing's words!

The same is true on the earth, with the development of technology, the role of cavalry is continuously reduced, in the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the absolute main force on the battlefield, and in the era of smoothbore guns, cavalry is still the main force on the battlefield.

In the early rifled gun era, the charging role of cavalry began to decline sharply, but there was still tactical mobility, so cavalry was still one of the main arms.

However, after the emergence and maturity of armored vehicles and tanks during World War I, the advantage of cavalry company's mobility ability was also lost, and it was completely reduced to a marginal branch.

Of course, horses can still be used as service horses, and special army horses have served in the army for a long time, even if the troops are motorized, but in some special areas, especially in the mountains, the role of pack horses is still irreplaceable!

Even in the 21st century, the earth has entered the information age, and mules, horses and donkeys can still play an important role in the special terrain.

The vitality of the ugly service horses in the army is much longer than that of those war horses with high shoulders and strong bodies.

Although Yin Guangqing Zhongqing can't know the future development like Lin Ziran, he is still keenly aware of it: The good days of the cavalry are not long in coming!

Perhaps the current war of unification will be the war in which the cavalry will shine its last dazzling light.