Chapter 30: Guns for Horses

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Koval walked over to the fire, the soldier placed the box in the open space next to it, and Koval motioned for Captain Andrea to open it.

"Good gun, good gun." Andre opened the two large boxes with great force, and his eyes lit up as he looked at the guns inside.

"There are fifteen Mosin Nagant rifles here, and 1,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. It's a little meaning, we will fight together in the future, and we can take care of each other. Koval said with a confident smile.

"How embarrassing! How embarrassing is this! Andrei said, touching the gun.

"Everyone is a good brother, why be polite to me!" Koval patted Andre on the shoulder and smiled: "When Vilnius is defeated, will we still be short of this thing?" If I can make some credit, I will never forget my brother. ”

Andrey's self-organized volunteer army, even if they make a little credit, it is difficult to remember the credit.

"Then I'm welcome." Andrei smiled and said: "Brother has anything to help in the future, just open your mouth, brother, I have nothing to say!" ”

"It's enough to have a brother." Koval said: "Actually, the brothers came today because they had a request for something, and now that we have seven or eight hundred people gathered together to march, it is easy to attract the attention of the surrounding Red Army troops. Can you lend us a few horses? The guards could ride horses and stand guard five kilometers around us, so that we would have time to react in the event of an accident. ”

"No problem, since my brother likes horses, I will give you that white horse. For the matter of vigilance, it is enough to send the cavalry team under my command, why bother to work with the subordinates of the brothers. Andrei replied. I thought: Will this horse be borrowed and returned? Why don't I be generous and give you a horse.

This old fox really doesn't see a rabbit and doesn't scatter an eagle, Koval heard Andre refuse to borrow a horse, but gave him a horse directly, he knew that this old fox was not so easy to coax, he didn't want to offend himself, and he didn't want to give up the horse.

A dozen guns for a horse, this guy really refuses to suffer, but even if these dozens of horses are temporarily placed with you, sooner or later they will fall into my hands. , Koval thought to himself.

Andrei took a snow-white horse, touched its neck, and said: "This horse is called Snow (SNOW, meaning white snow), he is only three years old, very strong, and very fast, I will give it to you, I hope the chief will treat him well." ”

Koval took the reins and said, "I will treat him as my comrade-in-arms and will definitely treat him well." ”

Koval slowly mounted his horse and went back. Although this trip did not achieve its goal, it was not without gain.

For the next few days, Koval rode the horse to practice his riding skills. Although this body has a certain foundation in riding, it still requires a certain amount of practice to fully adapt.

Koval went out with Andrei's cavalry to scout and keep guard, and he learned the art of fighting on horseback like these people. The young men would have liked to see Koval's jokes. As a result, they were all stunned by Khoval's crazy learning speed. Almost all of the immediate movements, as long as you learn them a few times, Koval can master them, and they are very neatly performed.

Most of the time, though, Koval walked on foot, like the rest of the soldiers. First, you can save horsepower, and second, you can share weal and woe with the soldiers.

Koval thinks that he is not a gifted general like Huo Quai, who can rely on his intuition to find the enemy's flaws and defeat the enemy without reading the art of war. He gave himself the goal of becoming a general like Wu Qi.

There are many natural talents in history, and their success is difficult for others to replicate. But a general like Wu Qi, he wrote his growth and experience in his military book, and became an example for future generations of generals to learn.

Of course, there are few generals who can surpass him in the same style as Wu Qi in later generations. But many generals have more or less the shadow of his army.

In the morning, Koval went on patrol with the cavalry. Koval carried a Mauser rifle on his back, an MP-18 submachine gun and ammunition in a saddle bag, a Colt M1911 pistol and a saber around his waist.

The soldiers of the cavalry were armed with only spears and sabers, and were not equipped with rifles. I guess it's because they don't have enough guns in their ranks.

Koval rode into a small wood, and the cavalry followed, but their spears four or five meters long were difficult to deploy in the woods, and occasionally blocked by the branches of the trees, making it difficult to run through the woods, so they had to carefully walk through the woods.

"Your spears are too much trouble in the woods! Maybe you might want to consider switching to a neutral weapon. Koval said with a smile as he waited for the cavalry to arrive.

When it's time to get back to camp.

"Brothers, let Camp Commander Koval see how powerful our cavalry spears are!" Joseph, the captain of the cavalry, raised his spear and shouted loudly, and the surrounding cavalry soldiers Tima lined up on his flanks.

"Forward!"

The soldiers of the cavalry raised their spears and jogged forward in a horizontal line.

"Charge!"

All the soldiers picked up, lowered their spears, and rushed forward unstoppably.

Koval watched the cavalry charge and was stunned. If you were on the opposite side of them just now, even if you could hit a few people with your rifle, you would not be able to withstand the destruction of the line and a huge blow to morale from such a charge. Most soldiers may only have to endure two or three charges before they completely lose the will to fight and scurry around the battlefield like a headless fly. Further spread fear, disrupt the queue until death.

It is no wonder that the Polish cavalry in the past has played countless brilliant achievements, anyone who sees this scene will believe that the cavalry is irreplaceable, Koval can't help but sigh: it's just that their era is about to pass, and the appearance of tanks and armored vehicles has announced that the cavalry has lost its status as the main arm and is about to be completely replaced.

Perhaps it was the great role of the cavalry in the Battle of Warsaw that caused Poland to suffer from a serious cavalry situation. The continued development of cavalry, which suppressed the development of tank units, was the defeat of Poland in World War II by a month.

Before World War II, Poland had 11 cavalry brigades, only two motorized brigades, and 500 taels of light tanks.

It can really be said that the cavalry of success, and the cavalry of defeat!

Koval looked at the galloping cavalry, and sighed with emotion, and at the same time thought about how to change this thinking in the Polish army.

If you can't convince those high-ranking generals that tanks are the way forward, what is the use of relying on your own strength?