Before the Battle of Hetao, he did not have too dazzling achievements in his military career for more than ten years, but he was out of control in the Battle of Hetao and became one of the most important cavalry generals in the army.

This time, the Tang Army wants to do a big job in the Northeast, this cavalry is the top priority, naturally not everyone can be the commander of the cavalry corps, especially the First Cavalry Corps, which brings together the most elite cavalry.

In the end, whether it was the senior leaders of the Privy Council or Fang Xitong, they all chose Kang Changning together!

The reason for choosing him is not very complicated, not because he is proficient in cavalry warfare, nor because he understands the Tatar way of fighting, in fact, there are many generals who are better at cavalry combat than him, and know more about the Tatar way of fighting.

He was chosen only because he had won battles before!

It doesn't matter if it's because of his strength or luck or whatever, as long as he can win the battle, then it's the biggest advantage.

Therefore, Kang Changning was undisputed as the commander of the First Cavalry Corps.

At the same time, because the commanders of the other two cavalry corps are both commanders of cavalry divisions, and their military ranks are no more than major generals, so when these three cavalry corps work together, Kang Changning, a lieutenant general, will be the undisputed supreme commander!

Kang Changning also knew that he had a big burden on his shoulders this time, so when he set off with the army, he was constantly thinking about how to fight this battle.

If this battle is fought beautifully, a great contribution is made, and then you can survive for a few more years, there is hope for the rank of army general.

But if you don't fight well and lose the battle, then I'm sorry, all the previous efforts will be wasted, and the light ones will be hidden in the snow and thrown directly to the local garrison commander until they retire, and the heavy ones will be directly ordered to retire from active duty and turn into reserves.

Over the years of the Datang Army, I don't know how many generals have been ordered to retire because they took a wrong step!

After the Ninth Army marched into the Hetao, including the large-scale Hetao Campaign and the subsequent continuous small and medium-sized battles, in the process, many people rose up because of their military exploits, but there were also many people who were unlucky enough to retire because of defeat or other reasons.

In the Tang Army, the tolerance for the mistakes of the generals is very low, and if you don't do a good job, you will be ordered to retire, on the one hand, it is of course because of the fierce competition, a lot of people are waiting for you to be unlucky to grab the position, and on the other hand, there is also Li Xuan in order to keep the army on a normal metabolism, how to promote the veterans without finding some reason?

Kang Chang would rather not want to be one of these unlucky bastards!

He managed to get up with great difficulty, and he didn't want to fall back to rock bottom because of a defeat.

After setting off with the First Cavalry Regiment, Kang Changning did not rush forward, but followed the Third Cavalry Corps and slowly swayed!

According to the operational plan of the headquarters, the operational plan this time is actually very simple to say, that is, to directly intersperse high-speed penetration, and for this reason, these cavalry units are basically riding on one horse and two horses.

In order to equip these cavalry units with two horses, the military has collected almost all the available horses in Northeast China and North China, especially the horses in Jeju Horse Farm and Liaohe Horse Farm, which are basically usable, and in addition, a large number of horses have been temporarily purchased from the people.

In this campaign, there were more than 60,000 horses (including cavalry horses, herald horses, officer horses, etc.) under the command of the Northeast Expeditionary Command, and nearly 100,000 service horses.

In this battle, there are actually more horses than people!

The reason for this phenomenon is naturally because of the cavalry's single ride and double horse, and there are at least 100,000 horses among the 50,000 main cavalry alone!

And among the 50,000 infantry artillery troops, there are also a large number of horses!

The main cavalry force with a large number of horses interspersed at high speed to divide and outflank the Chahar and other tribes.

This time they were going to take the initiative, and in order not to leave time for these tribes to mobilize and assemble, it was necessary to intersperse attacks at high speeds.

And in this way, the cavalry units will be seriously disconnected from the infantry units in the rear, and then the supply of the cavalry units will be a big problem.

Someone proposed that the fine tradition of the Tang Army should be brought into play, but Kang Changning knew that he wanted to eat the enemy on the grassland, and the difficulty was not ordinary, this matter depends on luck, if the character explodes, you will be able to grab cattle and sheep or something, and the character will not work, you will not be able to see a person for ten days and half a month, who will you rob when the time comes?

Therefore, Kang Changning did not have much hope of eating the enemy, on the contrary, he asked his cavalry troops to bring more rations, and even less shells or something, but the grain and grass must be enough.

As for combat, guns don't work, only sabers work!

Although the upper authorities hoped that they could sweep the grassland with guns, Ning despised the wishful thinking of the bigwigs above.

As long as you know that guns are powerful, people don't know about it!

After fighting with the Tatars for so many years, except for extreme circumstances, I have seen the Tatars brave the artillery of the Tang Army to rush forward a few times!

Especially when the cavalry of the two sides fights, let alone put out the cavalry cannons, even if you want to dismount and take out the flintlock pistol to fight, the Tatars will not give you this opportunity.

People are just a kilometer or two away, letting you fiddle with artillery and muskets, what can you do with him?

If you move, people will move, if you don't move, people will accompany you to the side!

If you want people to brave your guns and cannons to rush up and fight, don't be stupid as a Tatar yourself!

Not to mention guns, now the Tatars know that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is charging in array, and now they don't play with you anymore, in the past year or two, the Tatars and the Tang Dynasty have been fighting, all of them have been harassing and fighting!

If you want to put on a posture and face it head-on, that's impossible!

Chahar and Duoyan and other barbarians, although they are different from the Tatars of Altan Khan, but they are still the same sentence, everyone is not stupid, and people also know that your Datang guns are powerful, and they will not be stupid to rush up with gun fire.

So, if you bring more shells at home, less will actually have no effect, the effect is almost the same, and if you want to distinguish the winner or loser at that time, you still have to rely on the sabre!

Kang Changning, who can be said to be the most staunch in the Tang Army, has repeatedly emphasized the need to strengthen the cavalry's ability to slash and kill immediately, of course, he also knows that guns are important, but he thinks that he can't give up slashing and killing immediately because he has guns.

When you can't eat the enemy, bring more shells or more food, this is not a choice in Kang Changning's view, cannonballs are symbolically brought a little, and it will be almost the same to be able to fight three when the time comes, and the more the better, especially the essence of war horses.

Because he knew very well that if he could not feed the enemy, then he could only rely on the food carried by the cavalry units themselves, and his own cavalry units had to ride two horses on a single horse, and under the condition of high-speed interspersing, they could run dozens of kilometers in one day, and three or four hundred kilometers in ten days and half a month.

While maneuvering hundreds of kilometers at a fast pace sounds wonderful, it's easy to travel hundreds of kilometers, but it's just as easy to starve to death without logistical support.

In order to avoid starvation, you must bring enough food and grass, and it doesn't matter if you have shells or something!

As long as there is food, these cavalry troops on one horse and two horses are enough for a saber, and they can fight if they can beat it, and run away if they can't beat it!

Fighting on the grassland, although the advantage of the cavalry of the Tang Army lies in the equipment and the charge on the wall, in fact, there are few situations that can give full play to this advantage, which constantly forces the cavalry units of the Tang Army to constantly improve their tactics.

For example, in the early years, the Sui Fa pistol, which was not valued by the Tang Dynasty cavalry, has also been taken seriously in the last two years, because when the small cavalry is fighting, the Sui Fa pistol is quite useful.

Small-scale cavalry engagements, cavalry artillery, and even dismounting to use cavalry muskets are not feasible, because the enemy will not give you this opportunity at all, and in these days, whether it is artillery or muskets, in the medium and long distances, the emphasis is on the density of firepower, the emphasis is on surface killing, and the hit rate of accurate shooting is basically negligible.

Therefore, today's guns have not reached a certain density of firepower, and the actual results are rather tragic.

Therefore, when the cavalry engaged in small battles, pikes and artillery were often useless, and more sabres and firing pistols were used.

When dozens of cavalrymen are fighting, they first harvest a wave with a pistol, and then cut people with a saber, which is much better than what cavalry artillery bombards.

Therefore, in the past two years, the cavalry of the Tang Army, the most important weapon is the sabre, and the second is the Suifa pistol, and then the cavalry cannon, as for the Suifa spear, it is the weapon that belongs to the bottom, at least in the elite cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, except for the extremely special musket cavalry regiment, there is no cavalry unit that uses the Suifa lance as the main weapon.

Kang Changning has been playing cavalry for so many years and has rich experience, so he naturally knows what is the most important thing about going deep into the Liaohetao area this time.

The most important thing is to maintain mobility, for which food and grass must be sufficient, and it is also affordable to sacrifice a part of the ammunition for this.

In addition, in order to ensure the rapid transportation of materials, this time the Datang Army also used four-wheeled carriages as fast motor transport vehicles for the first time and incorporated them into the cavalry troops.

Since it was developed, the four-wheeled carriage with perfect steering mechanism and excellent shock absorption performance has been an important transport vehicle of the Datang Army.

Now, even the cavalry units have begun to use four-wheeled carriages.

However, in order to keep up with the rapid maneuvers of the cavalry, special improvements were made to these carriages.