Chapter 365: Testing New Cavalry Tactics

Zachdan was a little dazed by this series of words and sentences, he has always been insensitive to these "miscellaneous subjects", and he can be as far away as he can, so he basically does not understand the new terms just mentioned.

However, he also has a way of distinguishing the truth from the fake.

Between them, Zachdan quietly turned his head and looked at Xiao Fu, Deputy Commander Fu, with an inquiring look.

This Xiaofu is an outstanding graduate in the martial arts hall, otherwise, he would not have been assigned to his side as a deputy and exercised.

He believes that if the other party is talking nonsense, he will definitely not be able to escape Xiaofu's ears.

In the face of Zachdan's inquiry, Xiaofu quickly searched the memories in his mind, and then compared them with those he had just heard, and found no major problems, so he nodded quietly to Zachdan, indicating confirmation.

With a long sigh of relief, the big stone in Zachdan's heart was finally put down temporarily, since he roughly knew what was going on and knew that it was not a man-made accident, then there was no need to worry too much about the harm that this matter would cause to other teams.

Next, it is natural that the General Staff, the National Security Committee, the Military Judge Advocate General, and other units will jointly form an investigation committee to conduct a follow-up investigation at this time. Zachdan's mind was immediately immersed in the imminent battle in front of him.

Zachdan looked at the situation on the battlefield and felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart.

Turning his head to the right, the dense horses of all colors were panting and galloping on the side of the ridge, the command horn of the cavalry battalion continued to sound the horn of the formation, and the sound of dense war horses' hooves "rumbled" past Zakdan, and skillfully began to line up on the gentle slope.

This is the Second Cavalry Battalion of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Chinese Army, as the only cavalry regiment in the country, the First Cavalry Regiment now has only three battalions in total, and all three battalions are fighting at the forefront of the kingdom.

In the past, when facing the army of Anbula and Sukh Saha on the Korean Peninsula, even the third cavalry battalion that had just completed the training of recruits and had not yet received complete cavalry tactical training was pulled into the battlefield, which shows the weakness of the cavalry strength in the kingdom.

The second battalion of the cavalry has only 500 people, and with the second and third sets of command structures that Chen Xin learned from the shadow unit model of the woolly bear in World War II, the number is about less than 600.

The cavalry team has not been established in the Huaxia Army for a short time, but in the earliest days, their main task was not to charge, but to cooperate with the rangers, armed reconnaissance units and other units to conduct reconnaissance.

It was not until the fourth year of the fire, because of the expansion of the rangers and the establishment of the special service regiment, that these simple cavalry units were stripped of their original reconnaissance functions and specialized in training the charge of dense battle formations.

The three cavalry battalions of the First Cavalry Regiment, as well as three sets of shadow command systems, were the seed troops that Chen Xin would expand and prepare for cavalry after obtaining stable supply channels for war horses in the future.

In order to match the new three-row array tactics, the formation of the cavalry regiment was also different from that of infantry, rangers and other units, but was reorganized.

Just like the second cavalry battalion assigned to the Lushun Dispatch Army this time, putting aside the shadow command system, the remaining cavalry battalion of 500 people is divided into four cavalry companies, each company has three cavalry platoons, each platoon has three squads, and each squad forms a separate line array.

Moreover, in order to be able to quickly expand the team in the future, without being troubled by the training cycle, weapon supply, and other problems, Chen Xin did not use the fancy and difficult-to-practice weapons and equipment commonly used by cavalry in other eras, such as cavalry guns, chambered palladium, and three-eyed guns, but adopted the 65-type cavalry sab-like weapons installed in the cavalry units of the People's Liberation Army in later generations.

Of course, the cavalry of this era can not only be equipped with melee weapons, but also long-range weapons, and even, in some small-scale cavalry conflicts, long-range weapons are more important than melee weapons.

Moreover, the time, effort, and money spent on training one cavalryman is almost equal to that of five infantrymen.

In order to prevent the cavalry soldiers from being consumed in vain under the enemy's long-range attacks, the cavalry units were equipped with a "carbine-like" flintlock pistol, that is, an infantry flintlock pistol with a truncated barrel, and a six-sub-wheel flintlock pistol.

Although they are both flintlock guns, and this revolver can only be carefully loaded in non-war moments, and cannot be reloaded in battle, but with the high-precision processing ability of the kingdom and the addition of the metallurgical industry far beyond this era, these two weapons can already hang ordinary riding bows.

Some veterans and non-commissioned officers of the cavalry unit can also choose to carry strong bows as one of the supplementary means of long-range attacks.

Of course, the kingdom's army has never been indispensable for protective measures, and the combat vests and bulletproof steel plates that have been improved according to the special combat methods of the cavalry are the standard equipment of the whole army.

This series of equipment, coupled with the extremely strict training of the cavalry troops, as well as many actual combat experiences, although the number of cavalry in the kingdom is small, it is definitely not to be underestimated.

Why did Chen Xin develop cavalry so vigorously?

No way, in this era when artillery has not yet fully emerged, cavalry is still the king of war, and strong mobility and impact power determine the initiative on the battlefield.

No matter how strong the Huaxia Navy is, it is impossible to bombard an unexpected enemy force 10 kilometers offshore, and no matter how strong the Huaxia Army is, it can only rely on the city and fortress to dare to shake the Houjin cavalry in battle.

During the great battle in the fourth year of the fire, Chen Xin personally went to the front line to attract Sukh Saha's attention, and at that time, he did not even dare to leave the protection of the three defensive fortresses, because of the lack of strong cavalry support, he was afraid that he would be surrounded by the enemy on the plain and taken away by a charge.

From then on, Chen Xin decided that he must develop his own cavalry force.

Therefore, Chen Xin had high hopes for the kingdom's current small cavalry regiment with only three battalions, and strictly trained the cavalry tactics according to the superficial cavalry knowledge he had learned before the crossing, and the soldiers continued to verify the combat effectiveness of the new cavalry in the earth-shaking place of the Wa Kingdom.

The tactics of cavalry attack in a uniform formation were also emerging in the West at this time, and the success of the Spanish phalanx system, the Dutch mercenary system, the Gustavus military reform, and so on, led to the revival of strict infantry formations in Europe.

Tightly organized infantry was effective against cavalry, and the knights who rode across the medieval were finally driven out of the battlefield, and the European cavalry was once a supporting role in the use of muskets, and was no longer the decisive force in victory.

The revival of cavalry unexpectedly occurred in Sweden, and Gustav abandoned the once popular cavalry rotation musket tactic, allowing cavalry to return to the path of cold weapon retro charges.

His greatest improvement was the emphasis on dense formations and strict discipline like the infantry, in which individual prowess was no longer important.

From then until the Napoleonic period, European cavalry tactics continued to evolve along this path, resulting in a modern cavalry system that eclipsed all the once glorious nomadic cavalry.

The cavalry trained by Chen Xin performed quite well in the face of opponents such as the Wa State, Korea, the rebel armies in various places, and the Korean Front Army of the Later Jin, but those were all miscellaneous armies and did not represent the combat effectiveness of the army above the level of this era.

Today's battle, which was commanded by Zakdan, was the first time that the Chinese cavalry faced a strong enemy in the true sense.

The time has come to test the combat effectiveness of the Chinese cavalry.