As the first country to use rear-loading rifles and machine guns, Daheng's generals knew better than the generals of other countries that under the heavy firepower of modern warfare, the charging role of cavalry had been greatly weakened.

As early as the period of the Unification War, the generals in the Daheng Empire had clearly known that the charging role of cavalry had been greatly weakened, and the role of traditional charging cavalry had become a small- and medium-scale raiding operation and reconnaissance.

However, the Daheng Empire at that time still built large-scale cavalry units, but most of the cavalry units built at that time were dragoons.

These dragoons were all mobile on horseback, dismounted and fought on foot, and even carried a large number of cavalry guns to move together.

During the War of Unification, the Daheng Imperial Army successively organized four major cavalry corps, among these cavalry corps, except for a small number of traditional cavalry cavalry charging on horseback, in fact, most of them were dragoon units equipped with rear-loading rifles and light cavalry artillery.

At that time, the army of the Daheng Empire used these cavalry corps as rapid mobile troops, and cooperated with the main infantry units in specific tactical applications to carry out high-speed detours on the flanks.

In the years of the Unification War, although the cavalry units of the Daheng Imperial Army also had charge operations, they basically only occurred at the company and platoon level, and most of them occurred in raids and reconnaissance battles. But there has never been a single cavalry charge above the regimental size, not a single one!

This was the case during the War of Unification, and now, more than ten years later, it is naturally impossible for the Daheng Imperial Army to continue to play any traditional cavalry charge.

The large-scale cavalry units of the Daheng Empire have long been turned into rapid mobile troops, and their main positioning is to cooperate with the major infantry armies to carry out a wide range of high-speed detours and interspersed operations.

This is why the Great Heng Empire kept so many cavalry, in order to maintain the high-speed mobility of some of its troops.

However, this situation is also changing, after all, even the cost of dragoons is far more than that of ordinary infantry.

To this end, the Imperial Army is also continuing to make changes, such as trying to equip the troops with bicycles on a large scale to improve mobility.

Bicycles are not technically difficult, both in the Daheng Empire and in other countries have been widely appeared, and at the same time, the troops of many countries also purchase bicycles to use as motor vehicles.

However, there are still relatively few large-scale bicycles for the troops like the Great Heng Empire.

However, even so, the Imperial Army was not satisfied with the troops' ability to maneuver in the field, whether it was on horses or bicycles, the speed was still too slow, and it could not last long, and could not meet the army's needs for a wide range of rapid detours.

At the beginning of this year, the emergence of automobiles has given hope to the army, and the army has officially issued a research and development contract this year, allowing the Eastern Machinery Company to develop special vehicles according to the needs of the military to transport troops, materials, and tow artillery.

Directly smashing the enemy's defense line with heavy artillery and strengthening the field maneuver ability to bypass the enemy's defense line are the two ideas put forward by the generals of the imperial army, and the last idea is actually not put forward by the army, but by the emperor Lin Ziran himself.

Emperor Lin Ziran proposed: Is it possible to use an armored vehicle equipped with armor that is sufficient to withstand the enemy's machine gun strafing and even light direct-fire artillery strikes to break through the enemy's position and cover the infantry?

The Army's Ordnance Department pondered and found that this was a possibility, although the current automobile technology was not yet perfect, and it was not even possible to use it as a transport vehicle for the time being.

However, technology will develop, and automobile technology will be improved, otherwise the army would not have engaged in any automobile transport vehicles in the first place.

If the transport vehicle can be done, why can't a thick armor plate be installed in front of the car to resist bullets or small-caliber shells?

And then if you install a machine gun or even a small-caliber gun on this armored car, the firepower will be better.

Such equipment, once mature, is enough to break through the defensive positions of trenches and barbed wire.

Of course, how to do it specifically, we still need to think about it carefully, such as the tracked armored vehicle proposed by His Majesty, this thing is very technically difficult to hear, how to achieve this, we still need to think about it with the three major weapons companies and other domestic industrial manufacturers.

The above three solutions are the three solutions proposed by the Daheng Imperial Army out of consideration for future wars under the current situation that trenches and barbed wire operations are becoming popular in all countries in the world.

And it's not easy to do any of them.

There are many smart people in this world, even ordinary people know that as long as the artillery is big enough, any defense line will be finished if one cannon goes down.

But there are very few countries that can do it on the Blue Star, not the eight major industrial powers, basically don't expect to use the heavy artillery scheme, even if the heavy artillery scheme is adopted, the effect is unpredictable, because it is very likely that your heavy artillery technology is not as good as the opponent, and the result is still a hanging life.

As for the tactical maneuver bypass scheme and the direct breakthrough scheme of armored vehicles, both of these points are built on the same basis, that is, the internal combustion engine!

In this year, the internal combustion engine was put into mass production for large-scale practical application, and the current Daheng Empire is one family.

As for the three traditional powers, they actually have internal combustion engine research and development, and the technology is also there, but it is basically still in the laboratory stage, at most there are only a small number of applications, and the specific large-scale mass production is still far away.

It's not that they don't have enough technical background to get it done, but they don't have the motivation......

Daheng Empire engaged in gasoline engines, which is directly driven by huge market profits, the demand for new power in the field of agricultural machinery is very urgent, and this is the reason why the enterprises of Daheng Empire have invested heavily in the research and development of gasoline engines.

Therefore, if other countries want to develop mature application of internal combustion engines, they need to face far more problems than the Daheng Empire, and even if they do, the cost of use will be even higher.

Taking a step back, even if they really did it, they would have to find the Daheng Empire to import oil!

Because at present, only the Daheng Empire has the ability to export a large amount of oil, because the oil production capacity of the Daheng Empire accounts for more than 90% of the total production capacity of the current Blue Star.

The kerosene produced by Daheng is not a joke, but a fact!