Valley Emperor

?Before the Battle of Hetao, he did not have any dazzling achievements in his military career in the past ten years, but in the Battle of Hetao, he became one of the most important cavalry generals in the army.

This time, the Datang Army wants to make a big vote in the Northeast. The cavalry is the top priority. Naturally, not everyone can serve as the commander of the cavalry regiment, especially the first cavalry regiment that brings together the most elite cavalry.

In the end, both the senior members of the Privy Council and Fang Xitong chose Kang Changning together!

The reason for choosing him is not too complicated. It is not because he is proficient in cavalry combat, nor because he understands the way of fighting the Tartars. few people.

Pick him just because he has won battles before!

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

Therefore, Kang Changning undisputedly served as the commander of the First Cavalry Corps.

At the same time, because the commanders of the other two cavalry regiments are all cavalry division commanders, and their rank is no more than a major general, when these three cavalry regiments are fighting together, Kang Changning, the army lieutenant general, will be the undisputed supreme commander. official!

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

If this battle is fought beautifully, you will make a big contribution, and if you endure it for a few more years, the rank of general of the army will also hopefully be obtained.

But if you don't fight well and lose the battle, then I'm sorry, all the previous efforts will be wasted, the light ones will be hidden in the ice, and they will be thrown into the place to serve as the garrison commander until they retire, and the heavy ones will be directly ordered to quit. Active duty to reserve duty.

Over the years, the Datang Army has had no idea how many generals have been ordered to retire because of one wrong step!

After the Ninth Army marched into Hetao, including the large-scale Hetao battle and the subsequent continuous small and medium-sized battles, during this process, many people rose up because of their military exploits, but there were also many people who suffered defeats or other reasons and ended up unlucky. retired.

In the Datang Army, the tolerance for mistakes of generals is very low. If you don't do well, you will be ordered to retire. Of course, this aspect is due to the fierce competition. There are a lot of people waiting for you to take the position. , On the other hand, there is also Li Xuan, for the sake of keeping the army's normal metabolism, how to promote newcomers without finding some reason to keep the veterans down?

Kang Changning didn't want himself to be these unlucky **** too!

He got up with great difficulty, and he didn't want to fall back to the bottom just because of a defeat.

After setting off with the 1st Cavalry Regiment, Kang Changning did not rush forward, but swayed slowly behind the 3rd Cavalry Regiment!

According to the battle plan of the headquarters, the battle plan this time is actually very simple, that is, direct high-speed interspersed. For this reason, these cavalry units are basically one horse and two cavalry.

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

In this campaign, the number of mounted warhorses (including cavalry mounts, messenger mounts, officers mounts, etc.) under the Northeast Expedition Headquarters exceeded 60,000, and there were nearly 100,000 service horses.

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

This phenomenon is naturally due to the fact that the cavalry rides two horses alone. There are at least 100,000 horses in the 50,000 main cavalry!

And the 50,000-step artillery unit also has a large number of horses!

The main force of the cavalry with many horses interspersed at high speed, dividing the tribes such as Chahar, and killing them.

This time they are going to take the initiative to attack, in order not to leave time for these tribes to mobilize and assemble, so high-speed interspersed attacks are necessary.

In this way, the cavalry troops will be seriously out of touch with the infantry troops in the rear, and the supply of the cavalry troops will be a big problem.

Some people suggested that to give full play to the fine tradition of the Tang Army, "eat the enemy", but Kang Changning knew that if he wanted to eat on the grassland, the difficulty was not ordinary. It depends on luck and character. If you have an outbreak, you will be able to grab cattle and sheep or something, but your character will not work. After ten days and a half months, you can't see a single person. Then who will you grab?

Therefore, Kang Changning didn't have much hope of feeding the enemy. On the contrary, he asked his cavalry troops to bring more rations, and he could even bring less artillery shells, but he had to bring enough food and grass.

As for combat, guns and guns don't work, only sabres work!

Although he hoped that he would be able to sweep the grasslands with guns and guns, Ning despised those wishful thinking bosses.

As long as you know that guns are powerful, others don't know the same!

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

Especially when the cavalry of the two sides are fighting, let alone put out cavalry guns, even if you want to dismount and take out a flintlock gun to fight, the Tatars will not give you this opportunity.

People are staying a thousand or two kilometers away, asking you to play with artillery and guns, how can you stand him?

If you move, others will move, if you don't move, they will accompany you to the end of the world!

If you want people to risk your guns and guns to rush up to fight, don't be a stupid Tatar if you are stupid!

Don't talk about guns, now the Tatars know that Datang's cavalry charge is powerful, and they don't play array charge with you anymore. In the past year or two, the Tatars and Datang have been fighting, and they are all harassing operations. !

It is impossible to set up a head-to-head confrontation!

Although the barbarians such as Chahar and Duoyan are different from the Tatars of Altan Khan, they are still the same words, everyone is not stupid, and they also know that you are powerful in Tang Dynasty guns, so you will not be foolish. The gunfire rushed up.

So, if you bring more artillery shells, it doesn't matter if you have less shells.

Kang Changning, at present, can be said to be the most staunchist in the Tang Army. He has repeatedly emphasized the need to strengthen the cavalry's ability to cut and kill. Of course, he also knows that guns are important, but he believes that it cannot be because of If you have guns, give up and hack and kill immediately.

In Kang Changning's view, whether to bring more shells or more food is not a choice when you can't just eat the enemy. The shell is a symbolic thing, and it's almost the same if you can fight three times at that time. The more food, the better, especially the concentrate for war horses.

Because he knows very well that if he can't eat the enemy, he can only rely on the food carried by the cavalry unit, and his cavalry unit needs to be equipped with two horses alone. Under the circumstance of high-speed interspersed, he can run out several times a day. Ten kilometers, ten days and a half months, running three or four hundred kilometers is easy.

While fast maneuvering for a few hundred kilometers might sound wonderful, it's easy to run for a few hundred 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, but it doesn't matter if you have artillery shells!

As long as they have food, these cavalry troops, who ride alone and two horses, have enough sabres, they can fight if they can beat them, and run away if they can't beat them!

Fighting on the grasslands, although the advantage of the Datang Army cavalry is in equipment and wall charging, but in fact there are few situations where this advantage can be exerted, which also constantly forces the Datang Army's cavalry units to continuously improve their tactics .

For example, the Suifa pistol, which was not valued by the Tang cavalry in the early years, has also been valued in the last two years, because the Suifa pistol is quite useful when small-scale cavalry battles.

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

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

Therefore, in small-scale cavalry battles, spears and artillery are often useless, and more sabers and pistols are used.

When dozens of cavalrymen were fighting, they first used a pistol to harvest a wave, and then used a saber to cut people. In fact, the combat effect was much better than the bombardment of cavalry artillery.

Therefore, in the past two years, the most important weapon for the cavalry of the Datang Army is the saber, the second is the pistol, and then the cavalry cannon. Among the elite cavalry, except for the extremely special Musketeer cavalry regiment, there is no cavalry unit that uses the Suifa long spear as its main weapon.

Kang Changning has played cavalry for so many years~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has a wealth of experience, and naturally he knows what is the most important thing when going deep into the Liaohetao area this time.

The most important thing is to maintain mobility. For this, food and grass must be brought enough, and it is acceptable to sacrifice part of the ammunition carrying capacity for this.

In addition, in order to ensure the rapid transportation of materials, this time the Datang Army also used the four-wheeled carriage as a fast motorized transport vehicle for the first time and incorporated it into the cavalry unit.

The four-wheeled carriage with perfect steering mechanism and excellent shock absorption performance has been an important transport vehicle of the Datang Army since it was developed. It was first used in professional baggage units, and later it was widely used in ordinary troops. among.

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

However, in order to allow these carriages to keep up with the fast maneuvering of the cavalry, special improvements were made to these carriages.

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