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Chapter 916: Infantry VS Cavalry

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    The showdown between cavalry and infantry is definitely the most important drama in the history of world war. In the past thousands of years, the cavalry has had an absolute advantage.

    Throughout the history of ancient wars, cavalry has always been a lingering nightmare for infantry. Since humans mastered the ability to perfect iron smelting, powerful cavalry began to gradually appear on various battlefields.

    On the battlefield in ancient China, since the Tang Dynasty, due to the fall of the horse-producing areas, the Chinese army could only rely on infantry to fight against the cavalry of foreigners or enemy countries.  Especially in the Song Dynasty, almost all opponents were countries that started with cavalry and were good at cavalry.  Countries such as Liao, Jin, Xixia, and Tubo all had powerful cavalry units, and Mongolia was the pinnacle of cavalry tactics.

    In field battles, cavalry has become the king of the battlefield with its powerful impact and superb mobility.

    The emergence of gunpowder and muskets after the 15th century did not end the status of the king of cavalry. It only turned heavy cavalry into more flexible and faster medium or light cavalry. Early muskets and artillery could not stop the cavalry from charging. The cavalry was still  He is the master of the battlefield.

    On September 12, 1683, at the gates of Vienna, King Sobieski of Poland personally led 5,000 Polish Hussars and 40,000 Eastern European cavalry to launch an overwhelming charge against the 200,000 Turkish troops besieging the city.  It broke through the three fronts of the Turkish army. At that time, the Turkish army was a standard infantry phalanx of artillery, Rumi blunderbuss and spears.

    As a result, before the afternoon was over, the 200,000-strong Turkish army collapsed completely, losing tens of thousands of horses. Even the luxurious carriage of Turkish Commander-in-Chief Prime Minister Mustafa became a trophy of the Poles, while the Eastern European Allied Forces suffered only more than 3,000 casualties.

    Since then, the arrogant Ottoman Empire has embarked on the path of decline, and the Holy Roman Empire - the Austro-Hungarian Empire has taken shape.

    During the Napoleonic Wars, the cavalry showed new glory. Napoleon made perfect use of the coordinated combat tactics of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and also formed a large-scale strategic cavalry unit.

    Napoleon had a variety of cavalry. In addition to general light cavalry, there were also dragoons wearing breastplates, hussars with muskets, lancers charging with lances, grenadiers throwing bombs, and so on.

    These powerful cavalry played an extraordinary role in Napoleon's war to conquer Europe. Later, after Napoleon lost the vast majority of his experienced cavalry team in Russia, he was never able to achieve the same brilliant results as before.

    In October 1805, during the Battle of Ulm, two French hussar divisions crossed a long distance and approached Vienna. This not only cut off the retreat of the main Austrian army, but also threatened the Austrian army in Vienna from being able to reinforce the front. In the end, 40,000 Austrian troops were forced to  The army surrendered at Ulm.

    In January 1807, during the Battle of Eylau, a blizzard hit them head-on. It was difficult for the French soldiers to open their eyes. The Russian army followed the blizzard and attacked. The French army was unable to withstand it, suffered heavy losses, and was on the verge of collapse. During the crisis, the three French soldiers  The kings of cavalry, Murat, Lannes, and Bessi¨¨res, led eight thousand French cavalry to launch a counterattack against the Russian army in the snowstorm. At the cost of half casualties, they continuously defeated the Russian army's left wing, penetrated the Russian army's center wing, and  Defeating the reserve cavalry army in the rear of the Russian army, turning the tide of the battle completely, frightened the Russian army, which was known for its tenacity, and gave up the victory that was about to be won.

    In September 1812, at the Battle of Borodino, the final decisive battle broke out between 25,000 French cavalry and 40,000 Cossack cavalry. Thousands of cavalry from both sides were involved in the melee, becoming the leading cavalry of that period.  The pinnacle of the decisive battle; the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, when the last 5,000 French cavalry launched a desperate charge, and 40,000 British troops were suppressed to the point of being unable to move. It was only the French infantry who failed to keep up in time that failed.

    Later, in the Crimean War and the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars, cavalry played an important role. In view of the huge power of cavalry in modern combat, all countries maintained a large number of cavalry troops until World War I. Among them,  Tsarist Russia has the largest number of cavalry because they have the Cossacks, a cavalry nation.

    But it was in World War I that the cavalry came to its end. At this time, the war had changed from a romantic and passionate classical war to a cold and ruthless industrial war. The cavalry, wearing dazzling uniforms and riding tall horses, no longer  The opponent of the muddy and rustic infantry.

    Machine guns, barbed wire, trenches, rapid-fire cannons, airplanes, tanks, etc., can effectively prevent the impact of cavalry. Many people who have watched Stilberg's film "War Horse" will never forget the tragic heroic actions of the British cavalry.  During the charge, in the rain of bullets from the German machine guns, the cavalry fell to the ground like fallen leaves in the wind. This was the cavalry's last glory in the war, and it was also the end of the king of this thousand-year-old arm.

    The cavalry, the king's arm that once dominated the battlefield, entered the dusk of the battlefield during World War I and thus withdrew from the stage of war.

      But on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army still maintains a large number of cavalry. They are not only mobile troops, but also a very important assault force of the Japanese army.

    It¡¯s not that the Japanese army didn¡¯t know that the cavalry had been lost, but that China¡¯s backward infrastructure made this huge country unsuitable for the assault of the Japanese mechanized troops. On the contrary, the mobile and flexible cavalry had more combat effectiveness here.

    Therefore, not only did each division have a cavalry regiment in the Japanese army's establishment, there was even a specialized cavalry group in the Mongolian army's establishment.

    This cavalry group has two cavalry brigades under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than 8,000 troops. It is the largest cavalry team of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield.

    It¡¯s just that the Japanese army never thought that their cavalry troops were just lambs waiting to be slaughtered in Li Guoyao¡¯s eyes.

    After learning that the Japanese army used a cavalry force to clear the way for the vanguard, and the infantry followed behind, Li Guoyao decided to eat their cavalry. His tactic was to use light and heavy machine guns and simple mortars to build a line of death.  The defensive line is just like the German army against the British cavalry in the movie "War Horse".

    In fact, what many people don't know is that the incident in "War Horse" in which thousands of cavalry were simply slaughtered by a few Maxin heavy machine guns was adapted from real history, and that battle was the famous Somme in World War I.  Battle of the River.

    At that time, the British army broke through the two German defense lines and then threw the cavalry into this gap, hoping that they could expand their results. However, they were quickly eliminated by the German Maxin heavy machine guns. This was the last large-scale use of cavalry in Western Europe.

    In order to deal with the little devil's cavalry, Li Guoyao spent a lot of money. Not only did he transfer the only heavy machine gun squadron in his hand to Chen Jianzhong, he even transferred a squadron from the mortar brigade.

    As you can imagine, when more than forty light and heavy machine guns and a dozen mortars opened fire at the same time, the scene was absolutely shocking.

    When the "click-click" sound of machine guns on the battlefield resounded through the sky, the running Japanese cavalry was like a flood blocked by a dam, and their march came to an abrupt halt.

    Under the powerful firepower of Li Guoyao's troops, the Japanese cavalry troops were torn to pieces in an instant. The knights and their horses were shot and killed, leaving a mess of casualties in just a few minutes.

    This cannot be called a war, it can only be regarded as a one-sided massacre!

    A small area, a huge cavalry target, the scenes from the Battle of the Somme reappeared again, but this time the protagonists of the battle were replaced by Japanese and Chinese instead of British and Germans.

    The little Japs were also stunned by this sudden blow. The commander was killed immediately. The remaining Japs soldiers could only mechanically charge forward according to the previous orders, but to no avail.

    In an instant, the entire mountain road was filled with corpses of people and horses, and death became the main theme!

    On the hillside, Chen Jianzhong, who was watching the battle, looked at the heat. At this time, the main force of the Japs had been wiped out, and the remaining cavalry of only a hundred or so were trapped on the battlefield by the corpses around them. It would be a waste of ammunition to continue fighting. Immediately  The order was given to sound the charge horn.

    "Tick-tick"

    At the same time as the charge horn sounded, a large number of Chinese soldiers rushed out from both sides of the avenue. For a time, Chinese troops all over the mountains and plains rushed towards the remaining Japanese troops.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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