Chapter 90: Light Cavalry
The battle in the city of Paris was not the best place for the cavalry to play, and the rows of dense houses and buildings were not conducive to the cavalry troops' strong impact force, and also limited the cavalry troops' ability to outflank and flank the most powerful detours, even on relatively wide arteries, the cavalry troops would be hindered by obstacles such as barricades everywhere. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, there are still many places where the light cavalry's rapid mobility ability is used, especially in Lin Haoda's army, which does not have a single cavalry unit!
Even if you are simply acting as a herald, it can be much more convenient for the front-line commander!
Not to mention the convenience of quickly delivering messages when it comes to patrols and alerts.
Therefore, it is very necessary for Lin Haoda to have a cavalry unit of his own!
The previous battle was too fierce, and the National Self-Defense Force was also a group of poor ghosts, and the already scarce war horses were extremely damaged in the battle, and Lin Haoda's soldiers could not capture the intact war horses at all......
The way of passing the order was almost entirely on the two legs of the infantry, and Casio on the front line risked his life to give direct orders......
Fortunately, the National Guard did not have artillery, and Casio held out intact until the final victory.
Lin Haoda still has some feelings for these high-ranking officers who are used to using them and the entourage who assist him in management.
He knew very well that this army would not have worked so well without the help of these men.
At this time, Lin Haoda, who was in the inner city of Paris, rarely had to face the battlefield with a wide field of vision in the field, so the demand for large-scale cavalry troops was not high, and the cavalry troops of this company were dispersed to assist the army command and vigilance reconnaissance, which could allow Lin Haoda to better control the army of more than 15,000 people!
With the rapid increase in the number of troops, Lin Haoda has already felt the pressure of command, and the more troops, the higher the requirements for generals, this sentence is really not groundless.
At the same time, Lin Haoda also understands why the general staff system will be the first to appear in the European Army, which is at the forefront of the world in modern military strength, simply put, no matter how powerful a famous general is, he cannot compare with a group of military staff officers who graduated from ordinary courses, and the wisdom of many people as long as the division of labor is clear and can complement each other well, far exceeding the command ability of a single person, the more complex the war situation, the more dependent on improving the staff system!
Of course, the staff officer system is not intended to replace the functions of generals, on the contrary, the staff officer system is to better assist generals, so that generals can put aside some detailed chores and concentrate all their energy on dealing with the general war situation, so that the generals' military talents can be brought into full play in important places.
This is the fundamental reason for the rapid spread of the staff system all over the world!
It's just that Lin Haoda didn't have so many professionals to organize his own staff system at this time, and he didn't even have a basic administrative team, let alone a tall staff officer......
As the hussar card disappeared, a group of sturdy men riding tall horses appeared in front of Lin Haoda, they were not many in number, but they had more oppressive power than the infantry!
This is because the cavalry riding on the war horse naturally has a height advantage over the infantry, which is like hand-to-hand combat, when the tactical level of the two sides is not large, the height often provides an absolute fighting advantage, which is also one of the sources of cavalry popularity, not to mention, riding a war horse has a faster speed, with the charge advantage of speed bonus, the cavalry is completely crushing the infantry!
It was not until the mass popularization of machine guns that the cavalry had to retreat from its position as the main force on the battlefield and became a dispensable auxiliary force, and eventually disappeared completely due to the appearance of armored vehicles and tanks......
However, in the era of queuing to shoot, cavalry is still quite a terrible main force of war, with cavalry can open the gap into the enemy's heart, crush the enemy's morale, and after victory, vigorously pursue the enemy's rout, expand the results of the battle, and do not give the enemy time to rest and breathe!
As for the destruction of logistics and transportation and other auxiliary functions, it is the light cavalry's forte!
After Lin Haoda summoned the hussar troops, their details also appeared in Lin Haoda's mind.
[Class: Light Cavalry (Hussars)
Scale: 60 people per team
Description: As a light cavalry, its mobility is unmatched, using a scimitar. But lightly armed light cavalry had little effect on the infantry in good formation. Therefore, light cavalry is generally used for inter-corps communication, infiltration, raiding supply lines and local heralds.
Equipment: Cavalry sabers
Costumes: black and white military hat with red feathers, sky blue military uniform with white texture, riding boots.
Advantages: Harass the enemy, pursue the remnants of the enemy in victory, harvest the rout, and expand the results.
Description: They are the first choice of mobile scouts and heralds on the battlefield, and an army must have at least one team of light cavalry in order to efficiently convey their orders and detect the enemy, and in this regard, they are definitely more professional than those temporarily filled mounted militias! However, please don't let them go to the frontal battlefield, the hussars who lack strict discipline and phalanx training will definitely be easily crushed by the enemy's infantry platoon guns or cavalry wall charges, the Cossack hussars of the Russian Empire have taught all modern cavalry units an impressive lesson in actual combat, don't let the seemingly brave hussars go head-on with the modern regular army cavalry and infantry, otherwise they will die a miserable death! Of course, using them against the backward feudal army is still good, at least their courage is commendable. 】
Because it is a card obtained by lottery, so the specific price is not shown on it, and the data of the hussars looks very average, and even the all-out war system does not recommend them to go to the frontal battlefield to impact the enemy formation......
Perhaps, their only merit is bloodthirsty courage.
After reading the data of the hussars, Lin Haoda was still a little disappointed, although the hussar unit is also an indispensable part of an army, but there is really no need for large-scale subordination, and it has nothing to do with the European cavalry troops that shocked the world with a dense wall charge in modern warfare......
Even the world-famous Cossack hussars in the Russian Empire were beaten in various ways on the European continent, how dare Lin Haoda use the ordinary hussars under his command to hedge against the enemy?
What made Lin Haoda laugh and cry was that the Cossack hussars who were hanged and beaten in Europe only used a few men and horses in the Eastern world to make a huge Manchu Empire a mess......
Is the West too strong or the East too weak?
At this moment, Lin Haoda began to think for the first time about the prospect of dealing with the weak eastern countries in the future.