The issue of substitution, that is a matter for the president to consider.

"Now is not the time to hold accountable." President Wei was expressionless, sitting quietly, looking at the people in front of him.

President Wei is not particularly angry or anxious, and now President Wei is becoming more and more stable.

It seems that no matter how difficult the situation is, in front of President Wei, he can deal with it correctly and face it calmly, and it will not be like before he was reborn, a little fart is a big thing, and he will be sad to die or live.

When you encounter the slightest difficulty, you will be in chaos.

"President, now Jiannu is not willing to fight easily, we can still fight with Jiannu with superior forces, but if the number is equal, there is no chance of winning." Madman Tan stubbornly said, "Without rifles and artillery, everyone really can't think of any good way to defeat the enemy." Cavalry is not very useful either,"

"Your thinking is wrong, do you think that the reason why our army's combat effectiveness is stronger than that of Jiannu is entirely due to the superiority of weapons? Let me tell you, weapons are only a small aspect, the main thing is faith, it is discipline! Otherwise, don't talk about an infantry brigade today, 7,000 people, even if you give 70,000 people, you may not be able to take advantage of a thousand Jiannu iron cavalry! Wei Bao said.

Madman Tan and the officers felt a little understood for a while, but they didn't understand very much.

Anyway, although President Wei said it very clearly, they didn't feel empowered.

Wei Bao sighed slightly, he is a person who knows history and the development of military history, but they don't know, it is difficult for people to accept their views at once.

Wei Bao knew that if it weren't for the fact that he was the president, he had a supreme position in the Heaven and Earth Society, and he had a supreme position in the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society, similar to a god-like existence, and he suddenly said this, the ghost would believe his opinion.

In fact, at this time, Wei Bao already had some dim ways to defeat Jiannu as soon as possible, but the army was an army of tens of thousands of people, and he was alone.

As president, his task is to make everyone understand what he thinks, and listen to his ideas, and according to his ideas, come up with a bunch of corresponding training methods and formulate corresponding military plans.

With so many things, it is impossible for President Wei to do it alone.

It is even more impossible to replace tens of thousands of soldiers.

All the soldiers had to understand what he was thinking.

It's too hard.

Not to mention tens of thousands of soldiers, it is very difficult to convince these middle and high-ranking generals to understand.

President Wei can only talk about the cavalry history of Europe as if it were chatting.

Wei Bao thinks this is very effective imitation value.

Because the evolution of cavalry and infantry in Europe was one step earlier than in the East.

The cavalry challenge began with the Thirty Years' War, when Archduke Gustav of Sweden mixed musketeers and spearmen into an infantry phalanx in a roughly 3:2 ratio as a repercussion of linear infantry tactics, as did Frederick the Great.

Coupled with the large depth of about six to ten rows, when the artillery had not yet risen, the cavalry was faced with a wall of people, and the cavalry, which had been the absolute main force since the Middle Ages, was facing a huge challenge at this time.

An ordinary peasant could kill a heavily armed knight with a musket and a large array of guns, upsetting the balance between cavalry and infantry.

All the countries of Europe were aware of this change, and a large number of infantry became the absolute main force of the army, which could be without cavalry, without artillery, but it must not be without infantry.

The expansion of infantry regiments also led to the expansion of the scale of the war, for example, in France, from before Louis XIII to Louis XIV in the Thirty Years' War, the French army expanded from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

The rise and fall of cavalry is inseparable from the development of infantry.

The advent of the latch-type bayonet completely eliminated the cavalry nemesis pikemen from the stage of history, and at this time there were only two types of infantry - rifle pikemen and flintlock pikemen.

Moreover, with the development of rigid linear infantry tactics, in order to maximize firepower, the depth of the infantry formation was changed to smaller and smaller, and the British Red Jackets often used the shape of the double horizontal team to spread out a wider front.

But this is also very dangerous, and the weak front can easily be broken by cavalry and infantry columns, so only the disciplined British dare to do this.

In order to deal with the group assault of the cavalry, the infantry had to return to the previous way and form large phalanxes.

When Napoleon went on an expedition to Egypt, the French army relied on this large phalanx, leaving the Mamluks with no chance at all.

But again, infantry in large formations can easily be killed intensively by long-range fire.

In this way, the three arms of modern times - cavalry, infantry, and artillery form a delicate balance relationship.

In the Battle of the Pyramids, the French army formed a phalanx to respond to the attack of the Mamluk cavalry on the pyramids.

In addition, the rise of muskets also caused the knight class to plummet, and many middle classes were added to the ranks of the cavalry.

The cavalry no longer has such superb martial arts.

Therefore, the cavalry is also bound to abandon the heads-up style of fighting since the Middle Ages and change to an intensive large-scale assault.

Relying on formation to make up for the shortcomings of individual ability is the prototype of the new cavalry.

Such a dense charge required a very strict cavalry discipline, and the famous Cromwell's "Iron Army" was such a new type of cavalry.

During the assault, the cavalry lined up in a horizontal line, pressing on the opponent like a wall, and the formation was tight and almost never scattered. It was such an army that almost turned the tide of the war between the parliamentary army and the king's army.

The cavalry of the English Civil War period still retains the cuirass and helmet.

This type of cavalry is an excess between medieval cavalry and modern cavalry.

The emergence of the new British cavalry dazzled the countries of the European continent, and they followed suit to form scientifically trained and strictly disciplined cavalry units.

The most bullish of these were Frederick the Great's Prussian cavalry and Napoleon's French cavalry.

Frederick the Great trained the Prussian cavalry to be as disciplined as the Prussian infantry, and even the "hussars" of the light cavalry type could charge in a horizontal formation, which shows how strict the training and discipline were.

However, the tactics of the Prussian cavalry were somewhat rigid, and in the Battle of Jena-Augustadt, a large number of Prussians attacked the French army led by Davout and suffered heavy losses.

The defeat in this campaign also made Prussia realize that the time for Frederick the Great's tactics was over.

France, as the country with the longest tradition of cavalry in Western Europe, still has a supreme position in cavalry.

The cavalry was also mostly composed of nobles.

A large number of French nobles fled, and the French army also lost a lot of officers.

Even Napoleon's own artillery officer squad, 30 people, ran to the point where only two people, including him, remained.

Cavalry losses were even heavier, and there were hardly a few decent cavalry units.

Despite the formation of a large number of armies, the French recalled many of the exiled nobles back to the cavalry.

At the same time, cavalry was trained from the lower ranks, and during the Napoleonic period there were many officers who were promoted from the cavalry.

Coupled with Napoleon's careful construction, the French army once again became the first cavalry power in Europe, and there was even an independent "cavalry division" composed of cavalry in Napoleon's "Grand Army", which can be called the peak of the French cavalry.

French Guards Grenadier, "Two Mamluks can definitely win against three French soldiers; 100 French soldiers and 100 Mamluks were evenly matched; Most of the 300 French soldiers can defeat 300 Mamluks, and 1,000 French soldiers can always defeat 1,500 Mamluks. ”

The main meaning of this passage is that the general discipline of the French cavalry prevailed over the individual bravery of the Mamluk cavalry, and that the more small the battle, the more important the individual bravery is, and the larger the battle, the more dominant the collective discipline becomes.

Interestingly, Napoleon later recruited some Mamluk cavalry from Egypt to join the French army and fight in the Battle of Otstritz.

Discipline compensated for the lack of personal qualities, but the lack of personal qualities also led the French cavalry to rely too heavily on group charges, which sometimes worked wonders.

In the Battle of Élao, the French vanguard Augereau was defeated, and the French front was in danger.

At this time, Murat gathered nearly 10,000 cavalry from all the French troops on the battlefield, lined up in a large cavalry phalanx, and rushed towards the Russian army.

The Russian army broke and scattered, but quickly gathered to surround the French cavalry, the French cavalry charged again, and the Russian army dispersed, scattered and assembled.

In this way, in the cycle of rushing, scattering, and encircling, the French army still held out to the end.

Although the cavalry paid a great price, it reversed a battle that was sure to be lost.

In the Battle of Waterloo, Field Marshal Ney, who was as fanatical as Murat, also led the French cavalry to launch a large-scale charge against the British army, but what awaited them was the neat phalanx of the British army.

This tragic charge also meant that Napoleon's French army had come to an end.

The revival of cavalry in modern times was not primarily based on weapons and armor, but on discipline and training.

Scientific training has enabled the European cavalry to reach the point where "it is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as fierce as a fire, and as immobile as a mountain", while the cavalry in other parts of the world still relies on habit and intuition to fight, and the gap between the cavalry also reflects that the core difference between modern and traditional armies is "discipline, tactics and training".

In the Battle of Bali Bridge, the Qing cavalry was defeated in front of the British and French cavalry, no matter how harassed, sneak attacked, assaulted, and detoured, the British and French cavalry still charged in a dense formation.

In the impression of many people, they always think that the Western powers conquered the world with firearms, but in fact, this is not the case. Traditional cavalry units around the world, when encountering these European professional units, were often attacked in a neat manner and crushed with a single blow, even the infantry fighting bayonets.

It can be seen that not only cavalry, discipline and training are also powerful weapons of modern armies.

Of course, the rise of cavalry is also due to the lack of infantry weapons, and after the advent of automatic weapons such as machine guns, cavalry was eliminated by war.

But the mighty and majestic cavalry charge remains an indelible part of human history.

Weapons plus training, plus discipline made it much cheaper for a soldier to train, and war was no longer a monopoly of the aristocracy.

The professionalization of the military in modern times has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of people involved in warfare.

In the end, no one was spared from the war.

Perhaps the best manifestation of modern cavalry tactical discipline is the British light cavalry charge in the Crimean War.

With tactical orders unclear or incorrect, the British hussars did not hesitate to launch a near-suicidal charge towards the artillery positions where the Russians were in high position.

It was a failed charge, but it was a show of courage and discipline, and despite heavy casualties, it did not flinch.

The sun never sets, the empire is not something to be idle.

Military training and discipline in modern times are the most decisive factors in modern warfare, and not only in cavalry.

The Qing Dynasty lost in several foreign wars, and many people said that firearms were inferior to people and that they had no chance to fight with broadswords.

In fact, in fact, the Qing Dynasty army did not suffer a big loss when firing firearms, at least it would not retreat, but every time the British expeditionary force launched a white-knuckle charge, the Qing army was crushed for thousands of miles, and there was a ridiculous example of coastal batteries being continuously conquered head-on.

Even in other colonial wars, because the colonial army's equipment was inferior and arms smuggling was rampant, the British colonists often suffered a loss in firepower, and it was the power of the white-knuckle charge that saved the scene.

This shows that training is the core of the military.

Automatic rifles may seem formidable, but due to the short aiming baseline, bursts are the effect of recoil, and if you have not received formal training, it is basically equivalent to setting off firecrackers.

Black Hawk fell, thousands of militiamen, AKs, RPGs greeted in all directions, fought for most of the day, and in the end only 19 American troops died, and a few of them fell to their deaths on the plane.

Modern cavalry has gained a lot of extra support compared to ancient cavalry.

As a branch of the modern military system assisted by various arms of the army, the modern military system has given a lot of support to the modern cavalry.

The subordinate arms of modern cavalry are generally modern musketeers and modern artillery, and the British army also used a large number of early rockets developed by the Indians and equipped by the British.

This means that if two identical cavalry face to face, the ancient cavalry relied on bows and arrows to provide curved firepower, while the modern cavalry obtained curved firepower through artillery and rockets, which is no longer an order of magnitude of fire support.

Modern cavalry also has rifle salvos from modern infantry as direct fire.

The ancient cavalry still had to rely on poor archers for fire support.

The density of fire of archers is much smaller than that of modern artillery, rifles, and even rockets.

In the British war for the Indian colonies, the ancient cavalry from the colonies could be killed when they were fighting with the British army, and they would be killed when they fought against the British army.

For example, the British colonial army used Bengal cavalry as a cavalry force to fight together.

The colonial cavalry, combined with the modern military system, immediately became extremely brave, and instead argued that the "modern cavalry" completely infused the "Eastern cavalry", and as a result, came to the erroneous conclusion of cultural colonialism.

In fact, compared with the ancient cavalry, especially the heavy cavalry in the ancient cavalry, the modern cavalry tends to have a tendency to be lightweight.

This means that the resistance of modern cavalry in the combat missions they have undertaken is weaker and weaker than that of their predecessors.

There are many formations for cavalry combat. For example, the common wedge formation, the formation before the ancient cavalry charges.

The cavalry charging bravely, the narrow spear flags on the cavalry, the unstoppable impact of the ancient cavalry in the face of ordinary infantry, and the embarrassment of the cavalry being forced to abandon the charge in the face of the volley of muskets from the foreign rifle.

Specific formations help to bring out the power of different classes.

Madman Tan understood a little: "Once the cavalry rushes into the infantry array, it is easy to lose the formation, but at this time, the infantry also loses the formation, and the cavalry in the offensive can kill the infantry." If, at this time, there is a cavalry on the infantry side that is ready to attack this lost cavalry, the situation will change. President, we have neglected the cavalry and infantry in the past. ”

"This is your problem, the cavalry and the infantry army cooperate, this is what the Han army is best at, no matter which dynasty it is, has the Qi family army heard of it? Chariots, infantry troops, and no skilled knights, still fought in the northern tranquility. Whether it is to deal with the Japanese or the nomadic herds outside the Guan, it is very useful. Wei Bao said: "Our treasure army, military discipline is much stronger than the Qi family army of the feudal system, right?" ”

Now the generals understood a little and nodded more often.

"Alright, you can discuss it yourself." Wei Bao remained expressionless.

It's one thing to understand, to what extent, to what extent, to what extent, and then internalize it, and then come up with a way to defeat the enemy, come up with a bunch of corresponding training methods, and formulate corresponding military plans, this is the key.

Wei Bao originally wanted to say that he would give you another month, if it didn't work, all the Bao troops would return to Shanhaiguan, and simply let the Ming army and border troops outside the pass also return.

But Wei Bao felt that saying this would hurt the morale of the people below too much, and he could do whatever he wanted at any time, and there was no need to issue such a time-limited order, so President Wei couldn't help but say it.

This time, only Wu Xuexia, Wang Qiuya, and Princess Zhenming followed President Wei out of the customs.

Wei Bao left Zhang Meiyuan, Yang Xue and Xiong Xue'er and other women in Shanhaiguan.

I originally wanted to take it all, but after thinking about it, I came out to inspect the army, not out to play in the mountains and rivers, and what to do with so many women by my side.

President Wei likes to take Wu Xuexia with her, because Wu Xuexia is already the head of the President's Secretariat, responsible for the issuance and response of many specific government and military orders.

I like to take Wang Qiuya because Wang Qiuya is mainly responsible for President Wei's daily life, and President Wei is used to Wang Qiuya's waiting.

As for Princess Zhenming, it is because Princess Zhenming has both, and President Wei attaches great importance to many of Princess Zhenming's advices, Princess Zhenming does not talk much, especially when encountering military events, but Princess Zhenming sometimes says a word or two, which will be very constructive, which can make President Wei feel empowered.

"I wonder if they can grasp the president's intentions? I really hope that Jiannu will be defeated as soon as possible, withdraw from Liaodong, and go back to recuperate in the cold weather, isn't it? Wu Xuexia complained.

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