Guan Zhuofan's positioning of the cavalry of this era is that of fast-moving infantry.

Through large-area, long-distance movements, detour back to the flank and rear of enemy forces to raid and harass.

Go deep into enemy territory and destroy key targets such as enemy logistics bases in the rear where the enemy's forces are weak.

Cut off the enemy's transport supply lines, especially rail traffic.

By making a threatening posture against the enemy's weakly defended but strategically valuable targets, and using itself as bait to attract and mobilize enemy troops, the goal of disrupting the enemy's deployment is achieved.

When necessary, panic burning and destruction of undefended civilian targets in the enemy's territory will increase the pressure of public opinion on the enemy's decision-making level and shake the enemy's popular morale in support of the war.

Resolutely resist the temptation to charge head-on—even if it's a short assault, whoever likes to do the kind of work on the cavalry wall will do it, and my cavalry won't do it anyway.

Of course, this tactic is used to deal with enemies with the same weapons and equipment, and if you return home to face an opponent of the level of the upper twister, you don't need to toss so much, just run directly to the range of Spencer's serial gun and crush it.

The above ideas have been discussed repeatedly by Guan Zhuofan and Daniel Zhang. In fact, when fighting long hair, this tactic of the Xuan army horse team began to take shape, and now a complete system has gradually formed, and the following officers and soldiers understand and implement this tactic in place.

The cavalry division has two cavalry regiments, each with 2,500 men and a total strength of 5,000 men. The formation of a regiment was also set aside. It is intended to be filled up as soon as the Battle of Atlanta is over, and at the latest before the Battle of Savannah begins.

The horses of the cavalry division were already mostly American horses. The Xuan army brought 3,000 horses, namely Mongolian horses, but the horses were very delicate animals, and many of them died on the ship.

Fortunately, the American horse is tall and majestic, and its appearance is much larger than that of the Mongolian horse god; Performance. The long-distance run is slightly inferior to the Mongolian horse, but the short-distance sprint is stronger than the Mongolian horse, and the Mongolian horse is already the strongest short-distance sprint horse produced in China.

Guan Zhuofan thought, I don't know if it is possible to introduce American horses to China? But he basically didn't know anything about horse breeding, and he knew that this was not a one-day effort, so he just told Daniel Zhang and others to pay attention to this problem.

In the process of going south, this newly formed cavalry division is likely to be with the legendary cavalry general of the Southern Army. Forrest fights, it must have been a very enjoyable thing.

Except for the regimental officer of the Kezi regiment, who is temporarily appointed by the deputy regimental officer. The names and commanders of the other regiments of the Xuan Army remained unchanged for the time being, but they were mixed with each other.

This is because. In the Battle of Chattanooga, many troops suffered heavy casualties, such as the German Regiment of the Xiandeng Army that attacked the main ridge of the missionaries, the main Kezi Regiment that attacked Wangfeng, and the Yang Second Regiment and the Jianzi Regiment that blocked Longstreet.

Guan Zhuofan personally took charge of this work, and his purpose, in addition to maintaining a relative balance between various departments, could not be declared in a deeper way: he wanted to take the opportunity of this adjustment to further reduce the possibility of the remaining loyalty of the various regiments of the Xuan Army to the individual officers of the regiment - the only object of loyalty of the Xuan Army could only be Guan Yixuan, so as to prepare for a thorough reform of the military system in the future.

Guan Zhuofan had to come for six months of logistical supplies, but when he marched into Atlanta, he could only bring a small part with him, and most of it had to be placed in Chattanooga. Chattanooga has become a sprawling logistics base, with piles of supplies and new warehouses stretching for miles as far as the eye can see.

In fact, there is more than that, there is still a part of Memphis, but Chattanooga can't put it down, so it sent a part to Memphis, and it turned out to be a very interesting situation: Chattanooga is the general logistics base for the army on the Western Front to go south, and Memphis is the logistics base of Chattanooga, and Chattanooga's reserves are not enough, and then it is transported from Memphis to Chattanooga.

And Chattanooga's supply to the front line is operated in this way: at the beginning of the march, from Chattanooga to the front line by rail, after the front line advances, a secondary logistics supply base is established along the railway in the rear of the front line, and Chattanooga's supplies are sent to this secondary base, and then sent to the front line from the secondary base.

As the front continues to advance, there will be a third-level supply base between the second-level supply base and the front line, with supplies going from Chattanooga to the second-level supply base, from the second-level supply base to the third-level supply base, and from the third-level supply base to the front.

In this way, the railroad and supplies followed the front-line troops all the way to Atlanta.

In this huge logistical supply system, the railway is the lifeline that connects every link, and it is conceivable that the southern army will use all means to destroy the railway line north of itself, whether it is in the front or rear of the northern army, so repairing or even paving a new railway anytime and anywhere has become a necessary condition to ensure the smooth march of the northern army.

And between Chattanooga and Atlanta, although there is no danger like the missionary highland lookout, there are still mountains and rivers, far from a flat river.

This is simply unthinkable in China. At that time, China did not even have a railway, so naturally there was no room for imagination; But even if China had a railway, even for decades afterward, it would still be unimaginable.

And the Americans can do it at this time.

Guan Zhuofan let out a long sigh in his heart: There is a long way to go.

The main force responsible for building bridges and roads is Sherman's engineering unit that is alone in the whole Federation.

In the future marching operations, Guan Zhuofan will continue to see the trick-like and jaw-dropping engineering ability of this unit.

In comparison, Xie Bu's forced crossing of the Tennessee River before was just a piece of cake.

Before the war started, this logistical supply Jihua gave Guan Zhuofan a lot of emotion, he originally thought that he had fully realized the truth that "national strength is the foundation of war", but now he realized that his understanding is still not deep enough.

It's no wonder that the most important course at West Point is math; After graduating, the most haode grades went to the sappers, followed by artillery and cavalry, and zuihou was the infantry.

The genius commander of the Southern Army on the Eastern Front, Robert? Lee, after graduating from West Point, became an engineer. His results were second in that class.

Sherman worked as an artillery after graduating from West Point, where he finished sixth.

Grant had to go to the infantryman, as he was twenty-first.

After sighing, let's take a look at the comparison of our enemy's forces.

The northern army went south on two roads, Guan Zhuofan took the left road, and Sherman took the right road.

On the left, Commander-in-Chief Guan had two corps under his command, the Songjiang Corps, 29,000 men, and the corps commander Wall; The Cumbran Corps, leaving one to guard the logistics base, went south with 38,000 men, and the commander of the corps and commander of the Tennessee theater of operations, Henry ? Thomas. The Left Route Army totaled 67,000 men.

On the right side, Commander-in-Chief Xie also has two corps, the Ohio Russian Regiment, 30,000 men, and the commander of the corps, John? Scofield; Memphis Legion, 28,000 men, Legion Commander James? Mcpherson. The Right Route Army consisted of 58,000 men.

The Western Theater had a total of 125,000 troops moving south.

Look at the Southern Army on the opposite side.

The total strength of the Southern Army was 60,000, barely half of that of the Northern Army. It was a patchwork force, including the so-called rebuilt "Tennessee Legion" — which had nothing to do with the original Tennessee Regiment that had vanished after the Battle of Chattanooga. That's all the Confederacy can take out on the Western Front. Although the number of people is far inferior to that of the Northern Army, the equipment and supplies cannot be compared with the Northern Army.

But Guan Zhuofan does not underestimate this opponent because of this, because its master will be Joseph? Johnston.

Johnston is a famous general of the Southern Army, he commands the battle steadily and steadily, and does not like to advance, which is okay, the key is that Johnston is very good at managing the army and is deeply loved by the soldiers.

One of the Southern Army is called Sam? In a letter home, Varkins' soldier wrote: "I am convinced that there is not a single one of his men who would not die for him." For him, his soldiers came first...... Even when the whole country was hungry, his soldiers had to be fed. ”

*(To be continued......)