If there were any examples of large-scale cavalry battles in World War I, which led to significant victories, it is certain that there were none. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but to say, 1 did the cavalry have a particularly outstanding performance after the war, or the performance as a key force to take the lead? The prince could have said with certainty - yes!

1 After the war, there was only one country that still used cavalry on a large scale and achieved outstanding results, and that was the former Soviet Union! Even on the battlefields of World War II, these cavalry were still an important auxiliary force. During the Civil War, both the Red Army and the White Army formed a large-scale cavalry corps, and the cavalry of both sides fought fiercely in the vast land, composing the last glory of the cavalry!

Now the prince can confirm two points, the first point is that the cavalry was concentrated and used on a large scale in the civil war, not only the original cavalry division, but even the formation of the cavalry group army, such as the very famous cavalry group army in history, which has 4 cavalry divisions and a large number of auxiliary troops, with a total number of 17,000 people!

And the cavalry at this time was not the cavalry of the early World War I, quite the meaning of the coordinated operation of all arms played by the Russians in later generations, take the first cavalry group of the Soviet Union as an example, this cavalry not only has an artillery battalion of 28 guns and hundreds of machine guns, but also 7 armored trains and 12 aircraft! If the world's first army belongs to aviation, I'm afraid it was invented by the Russians, right?

And the second thing that is certain is that in the civil war, the cavalry of the Red Army did play a rather important role, if you describe it, it is simply a four-legged version of the blitzkrieg! There are countless interspersed raids of all kinds. Not only did Budyonny have a cavalry background, but even Zhukov was a cavalry company commander back then. Even among the high-ranking generals of the Soviet army in World War 2, most of them had a cavalry background.

Judging from the combat performance, the cavalry of the Red Army was better than the cavalry of the White Army, so now the question arises, what is the reason for the performance of the cavalry of the Red Army better than the cavalry of the White Army?

First of all, it is necessary to be sure that in terms of the basic qualities of the cavalry, the Red Army is absolutely inferior to the White Army. The reason is very simple, at the beginning, many people in the Red Army had never served as soldiers, maybe they were farmers, laborers or some other profession before, but there were certainly not many people who had worked in the cavalry industry.

Do you really think a fundamentalist cavalryman is good? Do you really think that riding a horse is a cavalry? The famous Cossack cavalry told you that the too young, too simple Tucson was broken! A qualified cavalryman must be good at saber charge, which is a foundation, and must be able to skillfully use various cold weapons, including sabers and spears. At the same time, with the popularity of firearms, you must also learn how to use various firearms on horseback, including short carbines and pistols. and drive the horses to perform a variety of stunt level moves!

And what about the Red Army? Needless to say, it can be seen from a very fashionable propaganda slogan at the time, "Proletarians, get on the horse!" "This is very simple, it is a group of ordinary people who are in a hurry and have changed their careers to become cavalry, if such cavalry plays saber charging with the professional cavalry of the White Army, it is estimated that it will be hung up directly in one round.

And in fact, the generals of the Red Army really knew their weaknesses, so they would not engage in hand-to-hand combat with their opponents at all, isn't this looking for death? So what were the cavalry tactics used by the Red Army? Speaking of this question, it is also necessary to mention a famous general of the White Army, Makhno. This is because the Ukrainian servicemen are anarchists, who fought with the White Army and later with the Red Army.

And during the Civil War, this guy invented a somewhat unbelievable, but super-effective weapon - a machine-gun carriage! Machine guns, machine gun crews, and ammunition are placed on a special four-wheeled carriage, which is then towed by two horses for combat. Does this thing look familiar? It's a bit like a horse-drawn tank in the North Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War, right? Don't say it, it's really in theory, and it's a simplified version.

However, the greatness of Makhno lies in the fact that he stormed 300 machine-gun carriages in one go! A large number of machine-gun carriages are fast, fast, and energetic, and you can think of them as a bunch of mobile machine-gun emplacements that can be fired at any time. After the Red Army fought a few times, he felt that this was a good thing, and then he began to study himself, and one of them was the best of them, and this guy's name was Budyonny.......

And later the Red Army did carry forward this tactic, the Red Army cavalry may not have much other equipment, but the number of machine guns is definitely quite a lot! For example, the First Cavalry Army has a strength of 18,000 troops, 24 aircraft, 48 artillery pieces, and 362 machine guns! What does this mean? Even counting the logistics staff, an average of 50 people has a machine gun!

According to the later formation of the cavalry of the Red Army, a cavalry division consisted of 3,500 to 4,000 cavalry (note that this is only the number of cavalry, not counting auxiliaries) and had 3,000 to 6,000 horses. It has 12 artillery pieces and 200 machine guns! 200 machine guns in one division! The large-scale use of these automatic weapons greatly increased the firepower of the cavalry, which is why the cavalry of the Red Army was able to defeat the White Army without having a solid foundation, and the use of a large number of machine guns and machine gun carriages did not give the opponent a chance to fight in close combat.

Some people may say, if cavalry was so useful on the Eastern Front, why didn't Tsarist Russia use it? The reason is simple, this tactic could only be used against the parties of the Russian Civil War, which lacked heavy weapons, and did not work at all for the Germans with a division of several dozen guns and a large number of machine guns, especially with the help of trenches. All the more so, not to mention against the Germans, the cavalry was of very limited use against the fledgling Polish legions, trained by the French.

At first, the cavalry also played the role of high-speed raids against the Polish army, but soon the good days of the Russian cavalry came to an end as the Poles adapted to the Russian cavalry attack. In the Battle of Warsaw from July 23 to August 15, 1920, the Soviet Third Cavalry Army was heavily damaged, and the rest was forced to withdraw to East Prussia, and then disarmed, and in the Battle of Camoro that broke out on August 31, 1920, the First Cavalry Army was intercepted by the Polish First Cavalry Division, and after a major battle between the two sides, the Soviet army lost 4,000 men, while the Polish army is said to have lost only 500 men!

Therefore, the cavalry is still useful in the 1st battle, and it is not possible to be the main force to face the Russian fortifications, but as a mobile force, it is still possible to cooperate with infantry groups and fast regiments. After all, the cavalry still moves the fastest of all arms. As long as it's not a tough attack, it's not a big problem.

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