And the Battle of Kalia also brought a lot of reflection to several large countries watching the battle.

In this battle, although the Southern Army had an advantage in strength and heavy weapons such as artillery, it still suffered about 3,000 casualties, and failed to capture Kalia, in fact, they could not even break through the outer positions of Kalia, let alone enter the city of Kalia.

At the cost of more than a thousand dead and wounded, the northern defenders besieged the city of Kalia.

And this battle has once again fully proved that in contemporary army operations, defense is far easier than attack.

According to the advice of the military advisers of the Daheng Empire, the Northern Army built artillery positions on several hills on the outskirts of the city in advance, and deployed trenches and barbed wire, forming a cross-fire network with each other.

These fortifications withstood the test for more than two months, and finally succeeded in defending Kalia.

And this offensive and defensive battle that took place on the edge of Daheng, other countries are concerned, and the Daheng Empire is naturally more concerned, the military advisers of the Daheng Empire have recorded the detailed process of the battle almost all the time, and even the information is more detailed and accurate than Zhou Yaping's Northern Army itself.

After this information was sent to China, it attracted the attention of the Imperial Army!

What do you value?

The emphasis is on how the Daheng Imperial Army should break through the defensive modes that appeared in the Orr War, the Liej War, and the Dynaudio Civil War in the future, and all of them worked well.

This mode of defense, after years of development, has been very perfect, if it is an important defensive operation, it is based on the fortress as the core, supplemented by trenches, barbed wire, and the deployment of heavy artillery and a large number of machine guns, thus forming a perfect defensive position.

In the case of a field defense, although there is no condescending fortress, there will still be denser trenches with barbed wire, which is enough to block the attack of enemy infantry.

Breaking through this mode of defense in this way is a difficult problem that the Daheng Army needs to solve in the future.

After all, in these years, it is estimated that there are no countries that dare to take the initiative to attack the Great Heng Empire, and the Imperial Army really wants to break out a war with other countries, and it is a large-scale attack on other countries.

Since it is an offensive operation, it is inevitable that it will face the problem of breaking through the enemy's defensive line.

The army generals of the Great Heng Empire studied and studied, and finally proposed three methods!

The first way is to build a heavy artillery group, directly with dense heavy artillery fire to smash the enemy's defense line, as long as the caliber is large enough, there is no defense line that cannot be blown up, if there is, that the caliber is not big enough!

The 75-mm field guns and howitzers in the divisional artillery are far from keeping up with the times, and the divisional artillery units must be equipped with howitzers of a caliber of more than 100 mm, and if possible, it is better to have 120-mm howitzers, or even 150-mm light howitzers.

At the same time, the firepower of the separate artillery brigade should be appropriately strengthened, and the proportion of armament of 150 mm caliber cannons and howitzers should be increased.

Finally, and most importantly, expand the number of equipment for super-large-caliber heavy artillery, especially large-caliber heavy artillery equipped with field maneuverability, as for the train artillery, the Daheng Imperial Army has always been developing, and even the three-hundred-millimeter caliber train heavy artillery is available, so there is no need to be too anxious.

However, there is still a lack of super-large-caliber heavy artillery that does not rely on railways and can be directly maneuvered.

Crushing the defensive line of a possible enemy army by strengthening heavy artillery fire was the first solution proposed by the Great Heng Empire.

And this solution is also very much in line with the traditional thinking of Daheng people:

Can't beat it? There must not be enough artillery

Can't beat it? It must be that the cannon is not big enough!

There is nothing that artillery can't solve, and if there is, it's that there aren't enough artillery and it's not big enough!

However, the idea of building a heavy artillery group is an established idea, and in addition to this, the Imperial Army has proposed two other solutions.

The second solution is to bypass the enemy's strong defensive line and deal with the opponent in a sports battle.

For example, if the enemy takes the initiative to fight in a movement and fights, and the defenders of the enemy's strong defense line do not come out, then leave a part of the force to contain it, and at the same time cut off the supply line of the defense line with mobile troops, and enter the deep hinterland of the enemy country.

This solution is a purely tactical solution, but in order to achieve such a tactical goal, the military also needs to carry out corresponding armament construction in advance.

If you want to go around, you must avoid enemy interception, and it is best to move fast enough that the enemy has no time to intercept it, which requires the army to strengthen its mobility capability and create a rapid mobile corps.

If you continue to make a slow detour like now, and when you get to the predetermined position, you will find that there is another trench ahead......

To this end, the Imperial Army began a special study to speed up the march, including the development of a special wartime railway dispatch capability to achieve rapid railway transportation in wartime, and secondly, to strengthen the troops' ability to lay temporary railways and bridges, requiring the troops' engineering units to quickly erect bridges and temporary railways for the rapid passage of artillery, baggage and other heavy troops.

As for the field march, it is planned to increase the number of service horses in the army, increase the equipment of bicycles, and invest in the development of transport vehicles.

There is no shortage of horses in the Daheng Empire, regardless of whether it is a top-level passenger Mananzhou horse or a service Mashayang horse, the Daheng Empire is not lacking.

At present, the size of the cavalry force of the Great Heng Empire is the first in the Blue Star, and it far exceeds that of other countries.

In the army of the Great Heng Empire, there are eighteen cavalry divisions alone, in addition to a bunch of divisional cavalry regiments, independent cavalry brigades and regiments, and the total strength of the cavalry has reached.

In contrast, the two countries of Kkel and Valya, which are also considered army powers, have a lot of standing troops, but there are only ten professional cavalry divisions each, and as for the army of the Krull Kingdom, there are only eight.

And the number of cavalry in the above countries is constantly declining!

This is not because they can't maintain so many cavalry, but because of the continuous impact of the Orr War and the Liej Incident, military strategists in various countries generally believe that the role of cavalry in future wars has been greatly reduced, and it is only limited to outpost reconnaissance and attack, and as for the possibility of large-scale decisive battles.

This can be seen from the fact that the number of cavalry belonging to infantry divisions in various countries is very uniform, and the scale has continued to decrease from more than 1,000 to 5 or 600.

The divisional cavalry has abandoned the function of charging into battle, but has completely evolved into a reconnaissance unit.

However, the number of cavalry troops in the Great Heng Empire is still maintained, why is this? Because after years of reform of the cavalry troops of the Great Heng Empire, most of the existing cavalry units are no longer charging cavalry in the traditional sense, but dragoons, that is, horseback infantry who maneuver on horseback and dismount to fight on foot!