At that time, the new army formed by Japan included infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and baggage troops, and the cavalry was second only to the infantry.

The Japanese cavalry initially completely imitated the French cavalry, including various weapons and equipment, harnesses. However, the most important horses, due to historical problems, have not changed much for the time being.

During the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Japanese cavalry rode traditional Japanese horses and fought side by side with the cavalry of European countries, but was ridiculed and ridiculed by European riders.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japanese people almost did not eat meat except for fish and other aquatic products, and their protein and fat intake was very low.

The height of the Japanese horse is only 1 meter, and the Japanese rider rides on the Japanese horse, which is very much shorter than the ocean horse ridden by the tall European rider.

In addition, Japanese horses have small strength, slow speed, and small weight, which is also very different from Yanmares.

In actual combat, the Japanese cavalry had low combat capability and did not play a role at all.

The Western cavalry ridiculed the Japanese cavalry as: a Japanese dwarf riding a big mouse!

After this battle, the Japanese cavalry was deeply humiliated and began to accelerate the development of cavalry, which was an all-round development, the most important of which was naturally the improvement of war horses.

It took Japan decades and huge financial and material resources to improve the war horse.

Before the Japanese invasion of China, a large number of improved war horses have been equipped with troops, mainly divided into five types, all of which are world famous horses, including: Arabian horses, British thoroughbreds, Anglo-Arabian horses, Anglo-Norman horses, and Don hippos.

Arabian horses are in good shape, fast, and have great heat resistance and stamina. When Allah's sword Khalid defeated the Roman army in Syria, he relied on Arabian horses. These Arabian horses, in the heat of 50 degrees, can still charge, and the horses of the Romans have long been hot!

At present, Saudi Arabia and other countries have restricted Arabian mares from leaving the country in order to preserve their own horse breeds.

Arabian horses in the Japanese army, not mainly for combat, but for cooling!

The mounts of the Taisho and Showa Emperors were all Arabian horses, and the white Arabian horses were ridden by the Showa Emperors during the military parade in public. The Emperor's cavalry and carriages were also made of Arabian horses.

The extremely fast British thoroughbreds, as well as the Anglo-Arabian horse (a cross between an English horse and an Arabian horse), are also similar to the Arabian horse. In Japan, it is mainly used as a racing horse, not a war horse.

The Anglo-Norman horse, a cross between the English horse and the French Norman horse, was the main force of the Japanese war horse.

More than seventy percent of Japanese war horses are this kind of horse!

The Anglo-Norman horse is quite good in speed, courage, endurance, weight-bearing capacity, and the horse is tall and strong.

Japan has strict requirements for Anglo-Norman horses used in cavalry, that is, the vertical distance from the horse's shoulder blades to the front hooves is more than 153 cm, and the weight must be about 460 kg, without any fat. This standard was absolutely unattainable for Japanese horses, and it was also consistent with the standards of the European and American powers for cavalry horses.

This excellent war horse is not only suitable for cavalry mounts, but also for Japanese baggage soldiers.

As for the Don hippos, they were Cossack horses captured in the Russo-Japanese War.

Although the Don hippopotamus is small in size and has limited speed, like the Mongolian horse, it is hard-working, less prone to illness, and has a strong weight-bearing capacity, and is better at long-distance marching (the Don hippopotamus was the champion horse in the long-distance training competition back then).

The Japanese army bred a large number of Don hippos to be used as load horses for baggage troops, but they were not equipped with cavalry units to participate in battles.

It should be noted that Japan attaches great importance to the pedigree of horses. Each war horse has its own identity card, indicating the horse's birthday, pedigree, and so on.

During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese cavalry unit had expanded to 54 squadrons. The Japanese cavalry played a great role in this battle, and did not fall behind in the face of the 212 cavalry squadrons deployed by the Russian army in Manchuria.

By the time of World War I, the Japanese army had completely departed from the French cavalry model.

The weapons and equipment of the Japanese cavalry have all been of domestic design, including: Type 32 cavalry saber, Type 38 cavalry lance, Type 44 cavalry rifle, Mitsubishi bayonet for cavalry, 30-year style cavalry saddle, 33-year style cavalry saddle, Southern Type 14 pistol, and even ammunition boxes, weapon carrying backpacks, and so on.

It can be said that the Japanese cavalry was quite well-equipped, which was world-class at that time, and the Japanese war horses were also first-class in the world.

It is a pity that the era of total cavalry victory has passed.

After World War I, the Japanese military top brass believed that the future was the era of tanks and armored vehicles, and the cavalry was outdated. Moreover, the cavalry is quite expensive, in addition to various breeding expenses and equipment, in order to facilitate training, all the stallions of the Japanese war horses are castrated, so there are no offspring, and only one generation can be used.

The Japanese military leadership tried to abolish the cavalry, but the cavalry unit had to be retained due to strong protests from the cavalry top brass (and some officers committed suicide for this).

However, the Japanese cavalry has changed from "cavalry combat as the mainstay, dismounted combat as a supplement" before World War I, to "horse maneuvering as a supplement, dismounted combat as the mainstay".

In the Russo-Japanese War, there were very few Japanese cavalry battles on horseback, and most of them fought dismounting.

Four cavalrymen were in a group, three cavalry dismounted to fight, and one cavalry was responsible for managing four horses. The saber of the cavalry in close combat was also not carried with them, but only remained on horseback.

In fact, when the Japanese cavalry fought, it was already equivalent to the infantry.

From the September 18 Incident to the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were official records of the occasions on which Japanese cavalry units fought on horseback, and there were no more than four times in total.

The Japanese cavalry units, in order to conform to the world trend, were equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, light machine guns, grenadiers, as well as mountain artillery field artillery, etc.

Horses are only used as a means of motor transportation.

With the rapid development of the world's continuous firing weapons, the Japanese cavalry gradually declined, and its role became smaller and smaller.

In the 918 Incident, the 27th Cavalry Wing of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army was almost completely annihilated by the local militia people in Jinzhou due to its lone in-depth army, and the wing commander Koga Futaro Nakasa was also shot and killed.

The 27th Cavalry Wing was established in June 1915 along with the 19th Division, and since then it has been stationed in Ronan, Cheongjin, and Xiongji on the northeast coast of Korea, to guard the direction of Tumen, Yanji, and Hunchun in China, and the direction of Biansetu, Yangge Peninsula, and Vladivostok in the Soviet Union.

Because they had not fought for many years and lacked training, they showed extreme panic and chaos during the Jinxi operation. After being surrounded by the militias, many cavalry did not have a strong will to resist, and even cried all night.

The pre-war downsizing of the 27th Cavalry Wing had only one cavalry squadron of nearly 100 people.

In this operation, the nearly 100 cavalrymen were not strong in combat after dismounting, and even the armed civilians of the local militia could not deal with them.

Before the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, although each Japanese army division had a cavalry wing, the strength of this cavalry wing was limited, and it was generally only used for vigilance, reconnaissance, small-scale raids, sabotage behind enemy lines, and even to maintain law and order in the occupied areas and cover the baggage troops.

In fact, these cavalry have been reduced to an appendage of the infantry.

After the start of the war of aggression against China, two of the cavalry brigades were transferred to fight in Guannei, mainly in the North China Plain, especially in Suiyuan, Chahar (near Inner Mongolia) grassland and Gobi.

The other two were used against the Soviet and Outer Mongolian armies. Because the Outer Mongolian army also had a lot of cavalry, the cavalry of the Japanese Kwantung Army could still play a certain role.

This time, Okamura used one of the only two remaining cavalry brigades, the 14th Cavalry Brigade.

The 14th Cavalry Brigade has 2 cavalry wings, 1 armored convoy, and 1 artillery cavalry wing, with a full strength of 5,600 people, more than 5,600 war horses, more than 3,700 cavalry rifles, 12 heavy machine guns, and 36 field artillery. Okamura Ninji believed that such a force was not enough, and strengthened the strength of one wing and one brigade, so that his combat force was as high as nearly 10,000.

In this way, the 14th Cavalry Brigade has formed a powerful assault force that can independently fight the infantry of the regular army of the national army.

So the 14th Cavalry Brigade is an integrated brigade with both infantry, artillery and armored fleets......

There is no daytime complexity in the sky, only a few shy stars remain, twinkling with the bent moon dotted in the vast night sky.

Accompanied by Wanyue and his fifth sister Wang Xiu'e, Han Xing slowly recalled the history of the Japanese cavalry (of course, this is also a source of information), and slowly fell asleep in exhaustion and worry......

In the east, the gray sky showed some red, and the land and the trees in the distance were even darker. The red gradually blends with the black, turning grayish-purple in some places, particularly red in others, and most of the sky is grape gray.

After a while, the red showed a bright golden yellow, and all the colors showed some light, and suddenly everything was very clear.

Then, the morning glow in the east turned a deep red, and the sky overhead took on a blue color. The red glow shattered, and the golden light shot out one by one, the horizontal is the glow, and the straight is the light, weaving a net of great brilliance in the southeast corner of the sky.

The green fields, trees, and weeds all change from dark green to glowing emeralds. The trunks of the pine trees were dyed golden red, the wings of the birds shone with golden light, and everything brought signs of life.

A new day has arrived.

With the dawn came, the roar of the huge motor of the tank came. The tank battalion that swam forward had already driven to the grove of Han Xing's southern expeditionary army according to the order.

You Qian jumped down from the tank car, ran to Han Xing, saluted and said, "Report to Commander Han, the tank battalion has come to report to you in accordance with your orders." ”

Han Xing also returned a military salute and said: "Very good, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while, and it's up to you today." ”