In any case, cavalry has been a formidable class of troops with absolute battlefield dominance from ancient times to modern times.

From the time of the classical slaves to the First World War, throughout almost the entire history of human warfare, the role of cavalry is self-evident.

Thinking that with firearms, the cavalry could be abandoned, and that the army could successfully defeat the cavalry with comprehensive firearms, the Song army and the Ming army really laughed and said nothing.

Even if it is not meaningless for the European theater to abandon cavalry after World War I, and some countries such as Japan and China still use cavalry until World War II, it is not unreasonable, cavalry naturally has its importance and irreplaceable attributes.

Armored soldiers are actually armored cavalry, and in essence, cavalry can also be said to have never been eliminated, but the rider's mount has changed, from flesh and blood animals to cold alloy armor.

Xiao Ruxun knows very well that the biggest enemies of Great Qin at the moment are not the Jurchens and Southwest Tusi who have been crippled, nor the Japan that has been beaten in half, not the Mughal Empire, which has no signs of conflict at the moment, and not the Europeans who have been caught up by Great Qin in the footsteps of science and technology thousands of miles away.

It's the North Captive.

The existence of Beiyu made Xiao Ruxun always feel that there was a sword on his head.

Everything that has been done now and before, whether it is the expulsion of the Spaniards in the South Seas and the subjugation of the Portuguese, or the collection of the Jurchens in Liaodong, or the collection of Tusi in the southwest and the upcoming final battle against Japan, is aimed at laying a solid and stable backyard for the future large-scale northern expedition to the northern captives.

Soldiers are most taboo about fighting on two fronts, because under the conditions of productivity at that time, two-front operations were not feasible, but with the development of productive forces to the present, Xiao Ruxun believes that both Qin and Ming have the ability to deal with two local battles that are not too large-scale at the same time.

The ability of Great Qin to deal with the war was a little stronger, and the mobilization power of the war mobilized by the rural officials under the imperial power was enough to support the war on two fronts of Great Qin, provided that it was a local battle.

And the Northern Expedition to the Northern Captives, seriously, there was not a single time that was not a national war.

From the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the present, every war launched by the Central Plains Dynasty against the Northern Captives was a war of the whole country, using the strength of the entire country to launch a war against the Northern Captives, and there was no time to divide troops against others.

Among them, the Northern Expedition was to fight abroad, and it was difficult to supply on the spot, and the domestic supply line was too long and the consumption was too large, so with the strength of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at that time, the decisive battle of Mobei could only dispatch 100,000 iron cavalry to fight.

For the logistical support of these 100,000 cavalry, hundreds of thousands of infantry and tens of thousands of horses were dispatched to transport grain and grass, and the battle was won, but it also caused a huge loss of halving the domestic household registration, and it was also a heavy burden on the national strength accumulated by the Han Dynasty for decades.

It can be said that without the decades of accumulation of Emperor Wenjing and the foundation laid by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the early stage, there would be no later strategic counterattack decisive battle, and after the decisive battle of Mobei this time, the next time the Han army went deep into the desert again, it would be the Tang Dynasty, and the next time, it would be the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen that the difficulties and requirements of the Han army's Northern Expedition are very high.

And the deep-seated factors are not absent, and it can even be said that these deep-seated factors are the factors that determine that it is difficult for the Han army to go deep into the desert to completely solve the problem of the northern captives.

The Han government, which used Confucianism as its guiding ideology, not only ignored science and technology, but was also very wary of the border people automatically organizing to defend themselves.

The strategy of immigration was proposed by the Han Dynasty, in order to lay the foundation for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's northern expedition to the Xiongnu, shorten the distance of transportation and supply, and reduce financial consumption, which is a very far-sighted way.

However, the Confucian sect, which was pushed to the fore by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, opposed the people's self-organization, resulting in the people in the northern villages being unable to cooperate with the local defenders when they encountered the Mobei cavalry.

The Confucian Huayi and anti-people stance opposed the people's self-organization and cavalry shooting in Mobei, which made the people have no self-protection ability and became lambs to the slaughter.

Later, the Chinese government finally realized the power of mobilizing the people and the masses of the people, but for a long time, the ancient Chinese government did not have this consciousness at all, and was even extremely wary of this awareness.

It's not that it doesn't make sense, but in some areas it's wrong.

In fact, one of the hundred sons of the pre-Qin dynasty was based on the common people, and proposed that the ruler should be good at organizing the people and not ignore the people.

Mohism.

In fact, Xiao Ruxun has always felt that the Mo family appeared too early, and it died too early, and he was born at the wrong time, and encountered the prosperity of his rival Confucianism, and it is a historical regret that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose Confucianism instead of the Mo family, but it is also a historical necessity and cannot be reversed.

Xiao Ruxun believes that part of the Mohist statement is very correct, specifically to the point of Confucianism, and Confucianism is not without merit, but the negative impact is greater.

Some of the Mohist doctrines are the best way to attack Confucianism and suppress Confucianism.

The most direct application is to carry out pilot projects of military-civilian integration in several northern regions that are intended to be the starting points and logistical supply bases of the army in the future.

The government has focused on investing in these areas, delegating some grassroots officers in the army who are good at training soldiers, and carrying out a military-civilian integration strategy for the local people in the form of training during agricultural hours and leisure time, so that these people, who are close to the areas invaded by the North and are under the threat of the invasion of the North Captives, have the strength to protect themselves, and let them train in mounted archery and become reserve soldiers.

Before the Northern Expedition to the Desert, Xiao Ruxun wanted to build several areas of military-civilian integration in the northern land, farming during farming, training troops in leisure time, reserving strong basic soldiers, and forming a horse policy strategy based on government horse breeding and supplemented by private horse breeding.

Cavalry is the most difficult to train among many arms, and the training organized by the government can train the regular army, while the civilian training is mainly for self-protection, training militia who can skillfully control horses, and can immediately join the army to become cavalry in case of emergency.

At present, Daqin has not gotten rid of the threat of the northern captives, it is very important to use the power of the people and mobilize the people to lay the foundation, Xiao Ruxun set a five-year preparation period for Daqin, five years later, after the great cause of the reorganization of the Qin army is completely completed, when the cavalry is completed, it is the time of the Northern Expedition of the Battle of the Country.

In that battle, Xiao Ruxun wanted to completely solve the northern border troubles that had been pressed on the head of the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years and had made the people of the Central Plains unable to live in peace for thousands of years.

At that time, Xiao Ruxun wanted to bring the most fertile grassland in the north into the rule of Great Qin, occupy the grassland, organize border people to build cities in the grassland, and settle in the grassland.

He wanted to organize the people to livestock, develop the animal husbandry of Daqin, provide Daqin with a stable and high-quality source of meat and milk, reduce the price of meat and dairy food, and improve the dietary structure of the people of Daqin.

If the northern border troubles can be completely solved and the northern border troubles will no longer be chaotic, then Daqin and himself will definitely be able to create a brilliant historical record for the ages.

This is a great temptation that no emperor can refuse.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun can't.

For this, he will pay any price.