The People's Army also has cavalry, but the maximum cavalry establishment is only at the regimental level, and the number of war horses in a cavalry regiment is less than 1,000, with an average of one war horse per person, while the Tatar cavalry can be equipped with two or even three war horses per person, which is really a luxury.

There are many places where horses are used, ploughing fields, transporting goods, especially cement roads and railway roads, which greatly facilitate commercial transportation, but the number of horses in the areas ruled by the People's Army is relatively small, and the number of cavalry in the entire People's Army is less than 10,000.

In fact, now the Ming court is also miserable in the face of the Tatar attack, there is a great enemy of the People's Army in the south, and millions of Ming troops have been defeated, but the Ming court does not dare to mobilize too many border troops to the south, and the Tatars also know the war between the Ming court and the People's Army, so the number of attacks and harassment in the border pass area has greatly increased, and in order to resist the Tatars, the number of casualties in the border army has greatly increased compared with previous years.

The Ming court faced two opponents at the same time, the Tatars and the People's Army, and it was no wonder that it could hold on, which was also an important reason why the Ming court could not wait to stop fighting with the People's Army.

The Ming court mainly took a defensive position against the Tatars, and took an offensive partially, and Li Chengliang's Liaodong iron cavalry was famous, but the cavalry could not fight in the south.

In the planned plan of the People's Army, the destruction of the Ming court would be a few years later, and after the destruction of the Ming court by the People's Army, it would have to come into contact with the Tatars.

Offense is the best defense, Fang Nan wants to let the People's Army go deep into the steppe to fight the Tatars and drive the Tatars away, but fighting on the steppe, the cavalry has a great advantage, and sending infantry into the steppe to fight has too much trouble, and the People's Army needs a cavalry that can cross the grassland.

General Qi once formed a cavalry force of about 3,000 men in the north, and the main weapon of this cavalry unit was not bows and arrows, broadswords, but muskets.

It is said that it is cavalry, it is better to call it a musketeer on horseback, these musketeers quickly transfer through the war horse, and immediately dismount to load the musket with ammunition after encountering the Tatar cavalry, and attack the Tatar cavalry, the range of the musket is greater than that of the bow and arrow, so that the cavalry unit of General Qi has won many battles.

It's just that the number of this cavalry unit is too small, and the victory is only a small victory, and in the face of tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, it does not dare to fight at all.

In the case of General Qi, in order to deal with the Tatars, Fang Nan was ready to let the People's Army form a large cavalry unit, and the cavalry units of the People's Army would be equipped with muskets and sabers, most of the time they fought from a distance, sitting on horseback or dismounting and standing on the ground with muskets to attack the Tatar cavalry, and rarely with sabers in close combat.

Compared with General Qi's cavalry, the cavalry of the People's Army can be called invincible in long-range attacks, especially in the flat steppe with little cover, the tiger head gun can exert its full power.

The KPA cavalry was able to open fire from a distance of six or seven hundred meters between the two sides, and by the time the enemy rushed within range of their bows and arrows, I am afraid that there would not be many men left, and it was more likely that they would be defeated and flee after charging a few hundred meters.

The People's Army formed cavalry to deal with the Tatars in the steppes, and snatched back a large number of cattle, horses and sheep from the Tatars, which was a surefire business.

Thinking of this, Fang Nan took out a pen and paper and wrote down a plan for the formation of cavalry troops, preparing to let the Ministry of War draw a part of the cavalry from various army departments, and first form a regiment of "musketeers on horseback", it seems that in the next few years, the scale will be gradually expanded, and it is best to expand to one division before the next war with the Ming court, a cavalry division of thousands of cavalry, almost having the ability to fight alone on the prairie.

The only pity is that the number of war horses owned by the People's Army is too small, if each cavalry can be equipped with one more war horse, one person and two horses, then the cavalry division will be more mobile and sustained combat ability on the grassland.

After writing the plan for the formation of cavalry troops, Fang Nan thought of something that was ignored by the top brass of the People's Army.

The top leaders of the People's Army are all from Guangdong, which is located in the southernmost part of the land of China, and the climate is mild most of the time, and there is not a single snow in winter for several years.

The three seasons of spring, summer, and autumn in the north are good to say, but once winter comes, the cold weather may directly reduce the combat effectiveness of the People's Army by a large margin, and the area south of the capital is barely acceptable, and the area north of the capital is getting colder and colder the further north it goes, and it is unknown how much combat strength the People's Army will have when it arrives there.

When the People's Army marched into the north, the cold materials had to be prepared in advance, and Fang Nan did not want to see the People's Army defeated by the severe cold weather, and the soon-to-be-formed "Musketeers on Horseback" regiment should also consider the factor of severe cold weather.

While thinking, Fang Nan had many more ideas in his mind, such as forming troops that are good at fighting in severe cold areas, forming troops that are good at fighting in mountains and forests, and even forming troops that are good at fighting in various special terrains such as mountains and deserts.

A unit cannot be omnipotent, a unit that often fights in the south may be defeated by severe cold weather in the north, and a unit that is good at fighting in the mountains and forests will not have much combat power left in the desert.

Building special units that are good at fighting in a certain terrain becomes the best option.

At present, the KPA needs to set out to build two kinds of special units, one is the "musketeers on horseback" troops, and the other is the "Northland" troops, the former is mainly cavalry, and the latter is mainly infantry, and the two units have a common need, that is, the soldiers of the troops can withstand the severe cold of the northern winter.

Fang Nan, a soldier of the two armies, had some ideas, and among the recruits of the People's Army, there were some Ming prisoners whose homes were in the north, and they had always lived in the north, and they must be more able to endure the cold than the southerners.

In addition, new recruits could be recruited in areas ruled by the People's Army near the Yangtze River, and they could endure some of the cold more than their southerners.

The best way is for the People's Army to cross the Yangtze River and fight to the north, recruiting new recruits from all parts of the north, and these northerners are the most suitable source of troops for the "musketeers on horseback" and the "northland" troops.

However, the People's Army is still in the south of the Yangtze River, and the conditions are limited, so it can only be short and tall, and it is always right to prepare in advance, and it feels a little late to form the "musketeers on horseback" troops and the "Northland" troops after the destruction of the Ming Dynasty.

When Fang Nan sent Dong Zhenye to the military headquarters the plan for forming a "musketeer on horseback" unit and a "northland" unit, Hu Zhuang flipped through the two plans and saw the word "severe cold", Hu Zhuang woke up and patted his head with his hand.

Hu Zhuang also forgot the cold in the north, and the relevant knowledge Fang Nan taught, but the People's Army has always been in the south, and Hu Zhuang and other high-ranking people of the People's Army have ignored this problem.

Hu Zhuang sighed in his heart, fortunately, his brother-in-law thought of the problem, if he ignored the problem and waited until the war started in a few years, the severe cold in the north would definitely make the People's Army suffer a big loss.