Chapter 403： Cavalry Corps

To say whether there were any examples of cavalry fighting on a large scale in the First World War and driving straight ahead to achieve major results, it is certain that there were none. But did the cavalry perform particularly well after World War I, or as a key force to take the lead? The prince can say with certainty-yes!

1 After the war, cavalry was still used on a large scale, and there was only one country that achieved outstanding results, and that was the former Soviet Union! Even on the battlefield of the 2nd battle, these cavalry are still an important auxiliary force. During the civil war, both the Red Army and the White Army formed large-scale cavalry corps. The cavalry on both sides fought fiercely on the vast land, composing the last glory of the cavalry!

Now the prince can confirm two points. First, in the civil war, cavalry was used on a large scale. There were not only cavalry divisions, but also a cavalry group army, such as the very famous cavalry army in history. A group army has 4 cavalry divisions and a large number of auxiliary troops, with a total number of 17,000!

At this time, the cavalry was not the cavalry in the early days of World War I. It had the meaning of the various arms that later Russians played in concert. Take the Soviet First Cavalry Army as an example. This cavalry not only has a 28 artillery. In addition to the artillery battalion and hundreds of machine guns, there are 7 armored trains and 12 planes! If the aviation unit belongs to the earliest army in the world, maybe it was invented by the Russians?

The second point is that in the civil war, the cavalry of the Red Army did play a very important role. If you describe it, it is simply a four-legged blitz! There are numerous interspersed raids. Not only did Budjoni have a cavalry background, even Zhukov was a cavalry company commander. Even the high-ranking generals in the 2nd Soviet Army had a cavalry background.

From the perspective of combat performance, the Red Army’s cavalry is better than the White Army’s cavalry. So now the question is, what causes the Red Army’s cavalry to perform better than the White Army’s cavalry?

The first thing to be sure is that in terms of the basic qualities of cavalry, the Red Army is definitely inferior to the White Army. The reason is simple. At the beginning, many people in the Red Army had not been soldiers. Maybe they were farmers, workers or other professions before, but there are certainly not many people who have worked in cavalry.

Really think that a fundamentalist cavalry is good? Do you really think you are cavalry on horseback? The famous Cossack cavalry tells you the pattern Tucson! A qualified cavalryman must be good at saber charge. This is a basis 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 including short carbine and pistol immediately. And drive the horses to make various stunt levels!

What about the Red Army? Hey, let’s not say it. 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 change to become cavalry. If the cavalry charges with a saber, it is estimated that it will be dead in one round.

In fact, the generals of the Red Army do know their weaknesses, so they will never engage in hand-to-hand combat with their opponents. Isn't this looking for death? So what are the cavalry tactics adopted by the Red Army? Speaking of this question, I would like to mention a famous white general, Makhno. This is because the Ukrainian soldier is an anarchist, who fought against the White Army and later against the Red Army.

And during the civil war, this buddy invented a somewhat bizarre, but super combat weapon-machine gun carriage! The machine gun, machine gun crew, and ammunition were placed on a special four-wheeled carriage, and then towed by two horses to fight. Is this something familiar? It's a bit like the horse-drawn tank of Beiyang during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, right? Don't tell me, it is true in theory, and it is a simplified version.

However, Makhno's greatness lies in the fact that he stormed 300 machine gun carriages in one go! A large number of machine gun carriages are swiftly moving, moving fast, and vigorously vigorous. Just treat it as a pile of mobile machine gun positions that can be launched at any time. After the Red Army fought a few times, I felt that this product was good, and then I started to learn. One of them is one of the best. This buddy's name is Budjoni...

Later, the Red Army did carry forward this tactic. The Red Army cavalry may not have much other equipment, but there are definitely a lot of machine guns! For example, the First Cavalry Army has 18,000 troops, 24 aircraft, 48 artillery pieces, and 362 machine guns! what does this mean? If even the logistics personnel are counted, an average of 50 people has a machine gun!

According to the late Red Army cavalry establishment, a cavalry division consists of 3,500 to 4,000 cavalry (note that this is only the number of cavalry, not counting auxiliary personnel), with 3,000 to 6,000 horses. It has 12 artillery pieces and 200 machine guns! A division has 200 machine guns! The large-scale use of these automatic weapons has greatly increased the firepower of the cavalry ~ www.novelhall.com~ This is why the Red Army cavalry can defeat the White Army when the basic skills are not very solid. The use of a large number of machine guns and machine gun carriages is not at all Give your opponent a chance to fight melee!

Someone may have said that since cavalry is so easy to use on the Eastern Front, why didn't Tsarist Russia use it? The reason is simple. This tactic can only deal with parties in the Russian Civil War who lacks heavy weapons. It does not work at all for a German army with dozens of artillery pieces and a large number of machine guns in a division, especially with the help of trenches. Even more so, let alone dealing with the German army, the role of cavalry is very limited in the face of the fledgling Polish army trained by the French.

In the beginning, when facing the Polish army, the cavalry also played a high-speed raid, but soon after the Poles adapted to the attack of the Russian cavalry, the good days for the Russian cavalry came to an end. In the Battle of Warsaw from July 23 to August 15, 1920, the Soviet Cavalry Third Army was hit hard, and the rest was forced to withdraw to East Prussia, and then disarmed, and the Camo broke out on August 31, 1920. During the Battle of Romania, the First Cavalry Army was intercepted by the Polish First Cavalry Division. After a battle between the two sides, the Soviet army lost 4,000 men, while the Polish army reportedly lost only 500 men!

Therefore, the cavalry is still useful in the first battle. It is impossible to be the main force to face the Russian military fortifications, but as a mobile force, it can be used to cooperate with the infantry group and the fast army. After all, the movement speed of cavalry is still the highest among all arms. As long as it is not a tough task, the problem is not big.

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