The use of cavalry to cut and block a large area, so that the large area battlefield becomes one local battlefield after another, during which the enemy's support forces are intercepted and looted, this tactic appeared for the first time in the Chinese battlefield.

Prior to this, the Chinese army used no more than a few kinds of cavalry, such as Wu Anjun Bai Qi used cavalry to intercept and destroy grain routes, and Pang Juan used war horses on a large scale to use mounted infantry for the purpose of rapid reinforcement.

The Hu people who have the most war horses, their use of cavalry is very simple now, and the scene of riding a horse charge is almost invisible, and Pang Juan tends to use war horses to walk, and dismount to fight on the battlefield, this kind of tactic. Horseback archery is not the patent of the Hu people at present, Qin Jun, Zhao Jun, and Yan Jun also have such experts, but compared to the Chinese, the Hu people have been accustomed to riding horses since childhood, and the Hu people are naturally more skilled than the Chinese in riding, so the number of archers and cavalry of the Hu people is more.

It must be noted that the Hu people's archers are not very powerful troops, in the past border conflicts, the Hu people were often beaten to the ground by the crossbow cavalry of the Shang Qin army, and the Hu people and the Zhao army's Bai Rong and Bai Di cavalry were also in a state of loss, and the Yan army was also in an advantageous state in the battle with the Hu people.

After all, the Chinese are the group of people who are ahead of the Hu people in scientific and technological civilization, although they are almost all dismantled with horn bows, but the materials of the arrows are very different, the arrows of the Hu people are either made of bone or directly wood, and the arrowheads of the Chinese people are basically metal materials, which are almost incomparable in terms of lethality and armor-piercing ability.

Before Qin unified the world and was replaced by Han, the Chinese had always been in an advantageous state against the Hu people in the grassland, there was no shortage of war horses between the Chinese people, there was also a leading position in science and technology, and more importantly, the psychological advantage was stronger than that of the Hu people.

Han replaced Qin, first through Liu Bang's "Siege of Baideng" to use the sacrifice of women and wealth to get out of trouble, the psychological advantage of the Chinese was ended at this moment, and then they lost many pastures in succession. The Chinese regime no longer had a good place to produce horses, and then it was the beginning of a series of passivity in the face of the Hu people.

Before the appearance of stirrups and horseshoes, the use of single cavalry was to take advantage of its high-speed mobility to transport troops. Even if this is the only way to do this, the advantage of the side with high speed mobility is extremely obvious when one side has a large number of horses to improve mobility.

The Han cavalry was equipped with stirrups and horseshoes, and at the same time the saddle was improved, which was actually nearly 1,300 years ahead of time.

Lu Zhe's initial combat deployment was not to use cavalry to simply divide and blockade the battlefield, but his initial idea was very bold, that is, at the beginning of the war, there was an unprecedented large-scale cavalry blitzkrieg, to put it bluntly, it was a large-scale battle of cutting and interspersing with high-speed maneuvers. But the reality doesn't allow for that.

After nearly four years of development, the cavalry of the Han Kingdom is actually not very long, and it has a large number of basic personnel...... That is, under the premise of being good riders from Qindi, Zhaodi, and Yandi, plus the assistance of having stirrups, with the possession of nearly 200,000 war horses, it has only developed to a cavalry with 100,000 people in two legions in four years.

A cavalryman is never a man riding a war horse or a qualified knight, in addition to being able to skillfully control the war horse, he must also know how to use at least one weapon on the horse for fighting skills, and at least one fighting skill must learn more, such as the use of new weapons. Knowledge of horses, training to know commands, etc.

In four years, Lu Zhe could arm two cavalry legions with a large number of advantages, but he could not expect two cavalry legions to ride on horseback and become the so-called elite after some study.

To put it mildly, very realistically. Soldiers are never trained elites, and many soldiers look like a "king of soldiers" when they are trained, but they are a waste material when they are actually on the battlefield.

In the same way, although Lu Zhe had confidence in the two cavalry legions. But many times faith alone is not enough, two cavalry legions that have not been truly tested, although Lu Zhe does not mind giving enough confidence. However, it is a necessary process to follow the rules.

The conditions for a large-scale cavalry blitzkrieg of more than 1,000 miles are obviously not mature, and before accumulating enough cavalry combat experience, it is obviously a good test to conduct interspersed operations within a certain range, after all, not only do you have an infantry corps that can respond at any time, but also the supply can be guaranteed.

The 1st Cavalry Corps has achieved more than Lu Zhe expected so far, and the cavalry corps led by Xu Zhi not only successfully completed the task of intercepting the Tian Guang Corps, but even achieved surprising results in the large-scale repeated raids in the later operations of the northern line of Donghai County.

The battle report from the feedback made Lu Zhe's mind even bigger, the First Cavalry Corps did not return to the rear for any supply since the battle, and it had achieved the characteristics that cavalry should have when fighting, that is, once it attacked, it no longer relied on the supply from the rear, unless it was to collect troops and return, otherwise it was a kind of army that could be in combat at any time and be self-sufficient.

In fact, it is really like that, large-scale cavalry before the dispatch with the maximum amount of materials, once they enter the state of war sortie, they should not rely on the rear, after all, they are born with a kind of constant movement and combat of the army, if the logistics line is too heavy, then it is not an erratic cavalry, it is a kind of pseudo-cavalry that can be deduced by the enemy according to the supply line, so what is the difference with other arms?

Lu Zhecai didn't care about how the First Cavalry Corps led by Xu Zhi could ensure the source of food when there was no supply in the rear, what he wanted to see was that Xu Zhi understood his intentions and played out the characteristics that cavalry should have, so even if it was a large-scale raid or something, it was a secondary issue outside of the war.

The Han State spent a lot of money to form cavalry not to show off their might in the Central Plains, the Central Plains War was just a process to prove their tactics, they needed to accumulate enough experience in this war, and the other was to find out the problems and improve the loopholes, so that they could assume more important responsibilities when they faced the grassland Hu people in the future.

If the First Cavalry Corps led by Xu Zhi is verifying a new model of cavalry warfare, the Fifth Cavalry Corps has some differences.

The Fifth Cavalry Regiment led by Wei Han made a different preparation from the First Cavalry Corps before the expedition, in addition to carrying the materials that the First Cavalry Corps would carry, they also carried a large number of cattle and sheep, some craftsmen, shepherds, and a few auxiliaries.

Familiar, right? The Hu people advanced in the form of a tribe during long-distance campaigns, with fighters in front, that is, a large number of cavalry, followed by a large number of herdsmen and the old and weak.

Lu Zhe's arrangement is obviously another way to verify, so if the scope of activity of the First Cavalry Legion is limited to the territory of Donghai County, then the combat scope of the Fifth Cavalry Corps will be greatly expanded.

Until the 1st Cavalry Corps cut and blockade the northern line of Donghai County, the 3rd Mixed Corps also joined the war to capture the city that had lost foreign aid, the 2nd Mixed Corps besieged Pengcheng after conquering Xiao County, and the 4th Mixed Corps went straight to Xinpei County, the capital of Peiguo, and the 5th Cavalry Corps, which had completed various interception battles in the northern part of Surabaya County, had begun to move in the direction of Xue County.

If you open the map, you can see from the map of mountains and rivers that at the beginning of the war between the Han State and the Qi State, two fronts were immediately opened, one was naturally in the northern part of Surabaya County, and the other was in the entire territory of Donghai County. As the battle in the northern part of Surabaya County met expectations, that is, the Qi army was divided into several parts, and Donghai County was also cut into two ends, the fifth cavalry corps's northward march to Xue County was equivalent to opening a third front.

Because of the existence of cavalry, the offensive of the Han State against the Qi State was different from any war on the land of China from the beginning, and the mode of war was no longer the state of the horizontal advance of the large army, let alone the normal state of attacking from one point to the next, but a kind of cavalry looking for gaps interspersed with large-scale engagements at the beginning.

The Qi State was obviously extremely unsuitable for this mode of warfare, and they took it for granted at the beginning that the war should be an offensive and defensive battle for one stronghold or city after another, and that when a certain part of the war was tight, the Qi army could be mobilized to support.

The Qi State was indeed doing that, so they chose the node before the start of the war to consolidate and garrison troops, and after the outbreak of the war, they carried out comprehensive mobilization and local reinforcements according to their own judgment, and the end was that the Qi army from various strongholds or cities encountered the prepared Han cavalry in the wilderness, and then a group of Qi troops of different sizes disappeared on the formation.

This war has been different from the beginning, almost predictable or unpredictable areas have the presence of Han cavalry, any movement of the Qi army is full of unpredictable risks, the army is still unable to move safely, how can the baggage troops composed of people safely transport supplies to the warring city?

The southernmost Guangling city in Donghai County was declared broken on the third day of siege, and then the third mixed army took a short rest, and after the rear second-line troops took over the city defense, the main force of the army went straight to the north, and along the way successively uprooted the stronghold and captured the city, only in the second month after the battle to cross the Huaishui, and then meet the early partial division gathered under the Huaiyin city.

At the beginning of the war between the Han State and the Qi State, the Linzi Center of the Qi State had lost contact with the war area within a month, and the information they could get was feedback from outside the war zone, which was nothing more than where a large number of Han troops were found. (To be continued......)