Several newly created cavalry divisions of the Far Eastern Army remained in the area east of Lake Balkhash in the outer northwest this year in preparation for the upcoming Kazakh campaign.

Today's newly built cavalry divisions of the Far Eastern Army are extremely powerful in combat, not only with strong firepower, fast mobility, and strict discipline, but also with air support from airboat units.

After more than two years of arduous training, the officers and men of several newly built cavalry divisions of the Far East, West, and North Field Army have developed a different direction from the traditional cavalry and have acquired the characteristics of modern cavalry.

Traditional cavalry plays the main combat tasks of attacking, breaking up enemy formations, cutting, outflanking, and pursuing. In the era of no mechanization, not only physiological fatal injuries, but also heavy blows to the opponent's heart, so the horses and riders of the traditional cavalry are particularly important and will have a considerable degree of protection.

The modern cavalry is supported by modern weapons such as machine guns and artillery, and uses the rapid mobility of war horses to raid, detect, outflank and pursue the enemy.

It retains some of the characteristics of modern cavalry, that is, seizing better opportunities to charge, fighting to storm the flanks of enemy cavalry or to storm enemy cavalry at rest. Moreover, it is ensured that the charge is more dense and neat, and the frontal charge often knocks all kinds of traditional nomadic cavalry into pieces at one time, and the army is not formed.

At present, the main cavalry force in the Far East is divided into six Mongolian cavalry divisions, six indigenous cavalry divisions in the Outer Northeast, and six newly built cavalry divisions, with a number of more than 200,000 people.

There are not only the traditional nomadic rangers like the Mongol Legion, but also the assault cavalry of the Outer Northeast Indigenous Legion, and the modern cavalry of the newly built cavalry division.

The rangers of the Mongolian Legion of the Far Eastern Army inherited the characteristics of the traditional nomadic cavalry, and were good at long-distance raids, carrying out large-scale and large-depth interspersed operations, and adopting a variety of cavalry tactics such as concentrated firepower, flank outflanking, feint retreat, and opening. Unleash a fierce assault on the enemy forces.

If the enemy forces are small or out of formation, the Mongol legions will charge the enemy army, using musket volleys to hit the enemy army with high-frequency rotations, causing confusion in the enemy formation. The cavalry that followed took advantage of the situation to charge, while the cavalry on both flanks outflanked the enemy and even behind them. Form a trend of encirclement.

When encountering a strong enemy army, the Far Eastern Mongol army often resorted to the tactics of deceitful defeat and luring the enemy, attracting the enemy army to the selected location and encircling and destroying it with the ambushed army.

The indigenous cavalry of the Outer Northeast is mainly composed of fishing and hunting peoples in the Outer Northeast, who have lived in the bitter cold land of the Outer Northeast for generations, living on animal husbandry, fishing and hunting, no agriculture, no textile industry, and they wear animal skins. Carrying weapons, dealing with wolves, insects, tigers and leopards in the deep mountains and old forests.

If you are not physically strong enough, your physical fitness is not strong enough, you lack the ability to survive, and you don't have the ability to compete with lions, tigers and black bears, you will not be able to survive for a long time.

Under the primitive motivation of survival, the perennial fishing and hunting activities of the indigenous people in the Outer Northeast have made them infinitely powerful. He is good at riding and shooting, and can be called a killer of the jungle and a natural fighter. Fighting a war is for them. It's no different from the usual large-scale hunts, once these terrifying hunters are trained into an army, their explosive power will burst out, and the combat effectiveness they display will be thrilling!

For the natives of the Outer Northeast, war is a kind of fun, and war means catharsis, release, hunting, and gain. Therefore, the Northeast Indigenous Legion outside the Far Eastern Army rushed to kill on the battlefield, and it really galloped across the battlefield, without fear, and without disadvantage!

The indigenous cavalry of the Outer Northeast was not only immediately strong in combat. When necessary, they can also dismount to carry out tough battles, and they can even carry out mountain battles when they hunt in the deep mountains and old forests all year round.

Now that the three major cavalry groups of the Far Eastern Army have basically taken shape, the effect of the cooperation of various units in combat can definitely be multiplied.

But want to be in the vast steppes of the north. In conducting large-scale operations, even if there is a large number of airships in the air for reconnaissance and command, and the ground troops are equipped with a large amount of communications equipment, the coordination of various units must be accurate and in place.

If the attack in the middle is too fierce, the enemy is likely to retreat directly, losing the possibility of encirclement. If the east and west attack too early, it is likely that the enemy will see through the intention, and if the two sides attack too long, they may also be countered by the enemy due to their numerical inferiority.

Therefore, the troops need to be trained all year round, and there are also strict requirements for commanders at all levels of cavalry units. Fortunately, all units of the Far Eastern Army have been paying close attention to training and honing their main ground tactics over the years.

The Far Eastern Army has always used strict discipline to demand that the officers and men of all units, especially on the battlefield, must strictly carry out the orders issued by their superiors, and once they violate the rules, they will be severely punished, so that the various cavalry groups of the Far Eastern Army can cooperate more tacitly and can carry out orders and prohibitions.

In addition, the cavalry units of the Far Eastern Army could carry "gun trucks", 60-millimeter mortars, and a large number of four-wheeled carriages, and marched very quickly. If necessary, it can even carry a large number of war horses with it, and use modular field carrying harness to carry materials and carry out rapid interspersed raids in any complex area.

In addition to the three main cavalry groups of the Far Eastern Army, the Far Eastern Army can also mobilize a large number of reserve militias, as well as young and strong herdsmen from nomadic detachments in various places, and can support the main forces of the front line when necessary.

The militia units of the Far Eastern Army, although poorly trained and poorly armed, were easily able to defeat the elite cavalry of the Mongol tribes in the steppe. Even if the herdsmen of the nomadic detachment are young and strong, they will not be left behind.

Coupled with the full support of the Far Eastern Army's strong, perfect, and effective logistical support system, the Far Eastern Army will be invincible in future operations.

At present, the Far Eastern Army has concentrated its troops in the areas east of Lake Balkhash, the Ural Mountains, and the Persia region, and all the units have been supplied with materials and supplies, and all units at all levels have begun to mobilize and make active preparations.

The Northwest Field Army and the Northeast Field Army have already pooled their forces and formed a joint command to jointly complete the combat mission of attacking the Kazakh Khanate and annihilating the elite main forces of Russia this year. The Persian Gulf Fleet, formed by the Southern Army Command and the Admiralty, will also work together to complete the Persian campaign.

In the three large-scale battles in the north and south, the number of troops involved in the battles also set a record for all the battles of the Far Eastern Army. The artillery, communications, logistics, reconnaissance, and engineering units of other units of the Far Eastern Army were almost completely transferred, and they were all assigned to the two battlefields in the north and south.

The airships of the Air Force's airship unit were also largely dispatched, reaching a record 500 units. The Admiralty's entire Indian Ocean Fleet and most of the South Ocean Fleet were also involved in this huge campaign. (To be continued.) )