After the battle at Edea Fortress ended, the remaining remnants of the Eastern United Army retreated toward the southeast under the leadership of Cortez. [The failure of the battle directly led to the failure of all future plans. There was no way out.
Next, Cortez decided to lead his troops back.
The weather in April is still relatively refreshing. At least the weather in the north of Byvost will not be as hot as in the south of the mainland. The scenery along the way also shows the arrival of the earth's vitality, and the lush scenery gives people a refreshing feeling. However,
, the soldiers of the remnants of the Eastern United Army who were marching did not have time to appreciate it, because behind them, there might be Dragon City's pursuit force.
Cortese; Brucedale's face was a little haggard. He had felt tremendous pressure since the end of Adiya Fortress. In the past, in the army, Mitris was under the pressure, and he, the lieutenant general, could not handle it.
It is very stable. But now Mitris has defeated the Edea Fortress, and the elite army has been crippled in a day. Under such circumstances, he has to lead the remaining army back to the east, and the pressure along the way is unknown.
Cortez didn't dare to stay for a moment, for fear of being bitten by the Dragon City troops, so he directly ordered the troops to abandon the heavy and complicated machinery and part of the logistics equipment. He didn't even have time to burn them, so he
He turned around and left in a hurry.
This is a benefit to Longcheng. You must know that the Eastern United Army has just started planning, which means that there is almost no loss of the baggage they carry. But to be honest, Zhou Yunfei does not like those crude machines. On the contrary, the food and grass are more practical.
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Cotedis thought well. The day after they left the Adiya Fortress, the leading troops of the 50th Army, which assisted in defending the north bank of the crossing river, arrived at the Adiya Fortress. This vanguard was all cavalry, but
But they were not real cavalry units, but infantry on horseback. Since the end of the Northern Campaign, Zhou Yunfei was as happy as a nouveau riche all day long. Why is this?
The reason is very simple, that is, he got the Empire Racecourse in Byvost!
The Imperial Racecourse is a horse breeding institution affiliated to the Byvost royal family, because the entire Ross continent lacks excellent war horses. For Byvost, the deterrent effect of cavalry on other empires is self-evident. Therefore, in Byvost
Under the auspices of the second emperor, the Imperial Racecourse was officially established.
The racecourse is not only used to raise high-quality war horses, but is also the largest horse-producing place in the entire empire. It includes various types of horses, including heavy-duty horses specially used for pulling luggage. Such horses have poor sprinting ability.
, but it has excellent endurance and a very strong physique, so it is the best choice for pulling carriages.
There are also high-legged horses used by light cavalry. This kind of horse has a slightly inferior sprinting ability, but its endurance is also very good, so it is very good to be used by light cavalry. There are also imperial war horses used by heavy cavalry, which
The Stallion's only supply force is the Empire's Royal Knights.
After Zhang Liao captured the imperial capital, the imperial racecourse close to the imperial capital was naturally taken over by Zhou Yunfei. Surprisingly, there were nearly 30,000 horses of various types in the imperial racecourse, although among them were truly thoroughbred war horses.
There are only less than 300 horses, but the number of other horses is enough to alleviate Dragon City's increasingly tense horse shortage problem.
As mentioned earlier, the horses in Longcheng, here specifically refers to the dragon horses. Although the advantages of the dragon horses in various aspects are obvious, there is always an issue of quantity. Except for the supply to the First Cavalry Division, a major "horse-eating" company,
In addition, it can only guarantee the use of the cavalry companies/battalions of each unit.
As for the logistics troops, there is no need to think about it. They can only use the dwarf horses with mainland long swords. The attributes of these horses are not outstanding, but they are better because they are numerous, and they can temporarily meet the needs of Dragon City. However, the horses
Restrictions have also delayed the hybrid system that Zhou Yunfei once mentioned.
What is hybrid preparation?
Take the current First Army in Longcheng as an example. The First Army is an out-and-out infantry group army. It has three infantry divisions, a cavalry battalion, a special army battalion, a heavy armored army regiment, and
A special operations company directly under the military headquarters.
The infantry division is the current common standard for the Longcheng military. It adopts a three-three organization. Each division uses a ratio of 3:3:2:1:1 according to each arm, including spearmen, sword and shield fighters, long-range troops and heavy equipment troops.
Combined with the newly added artillery unit.
Since it is impossible to completely break up the mixture, the infantry division is basically constructed using the method of organizing a single arm and then combining multiple arms. To put it simply, there are two battalions of pikemen in one division and one regiment of the First Army.
One battalion of sword and shield bearers. The other regiment is also equipped with a reinforced battalion of long-range troops, including archers and long-range equipment troops.
It can be said that a single regiment can handle many sudden small battles because its configuration is already quite complete.
According to this method, all the infantry divisions in Longcheng followed the practices of the First Army, and of course there were some units that were not included. For example, the 52nd Army was a group army composed of two mountain divisions. The organization of the mountain divisions
There are no pikemen or heavy equipment troops in the army. In addition, there are Marines of the Navy, the First Marine Division of three Marine Brigades, and their composition is also different from that of ordinary infantry divisions.
After talking about the organization, let’s talk about the cavalry division that Zhou Yunfei once conceived. The meaning of cavalry division is infantry on horseback. The current infantry division has good combat effectiveness but always has the inherent disadvantage of infantry, which is the problem of insufficient mobility.
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In order to solve this problem, Zhou Yunfei proposed the idea of letting the infantry ride horses. This idea originated from Zhou Yunfei's inspiration from mechanized infantry in his previous life. Of course, riding a horse is not as good as riding a motorcycle or driving an armored vehicle, but it can solve the problem of infantry very well.
The problem of not being able to deploy quickly.
In the future, the organization of group armies will slowly be replaced by division and brigade levels, which is why Zhou Yunfei has been strongly emphasizing the importance of army organization. But for now, army-level numbers can still be used for a long time.
The benefits of horseback riding were obvious, but the subsequent shortage of horses forced this idea to be temporarily suspended. When the horses at the Imperial Racecourse were captured by Dragon City, Zhou Yunfei was naturally very happy with these almost free gifts. He spent a large sum of money
With a wave of command, the General Staff was ordered to use the Fifty Army as a template to start establishing a cavalry division.
Of course, since this was the first test, the General Staff took the 1st Division of the 50th Army, referred to as the 51st Division, as the test subject and began to reorganize it.
Eight thousand horses were delivered to Lu Meng, which made Lu Meng a little helpless. The arrival of so many "big food consumers" gave him, the army commander, a headache. Because all the main transportation and logistics troops in the north were invested in the southern part of the empire to support the battle there.
.The remaining logistics in the north are basically the materials left over from the northern campaign. A large part of these materials were divided up by various garrison, and there is not much left.
The arrival of this batch of horses really made the logistics department of the 50th Army complain for a while. Finally, with the help of the 1st Cavalry Division, a batch of horse food was provided, and the problem was temporarily solved.
After the food problem is solved, what remains is the question of how to organize it. The 51st Division is a force established entirely according to the organization of the Longcheng Infantry Division, which means that the first thing the soldiers have to do is learn how to ride a horse.
This is no joke. Many soldiers have never been exposed to war horses, let alone how to ride or take care of horses. Fortunately, this time the 1st Cavalry Division came to help and sent many instructors to teach the soldiers how to use war horses.
With such excellent cavalry training as the First Cavalry Division, the soldiers quickly became familiar with a series of basic movements such as riding horses. The Cavalry Division emphasized mobility rather than asking soldiers to become real cavalry. Therefore, the most cumbersome horse riding
The 51st Division also has no need for professional aspects such as combat and cavalry formations.
In two months, the pilot 51st Division has initially completed the training plan. The 17,000-person division has basically completed its training tasks. After the subsequent arrival of 6,000 horses, the 51st Division has already
It can be regarded as a cavalryman.
When the news of the attack on the Adiya Fortress was passed to the station defended by the Fifty Army, Army Commander Lu Meng's first thought was of this cavalry division. It can carry out a relatively large range of maneuvers in a very short period of time. In addition to the cavalry,
In addition, there are only cavalry divisions with cavalry mobility capabilities.
Therefore, Lü Meng ordered that the 51st Division immediately dispatched to the Adiya Fortress for rescue. At that time, Lü Meng did not expect that the Adiya Fortress would actually be defended and win such a beautiful victory. Therefore, he gave the order to the 51st Division
It is the fastest way to get to Adea Fortress.
After receiving the order, the 5th Cavalry Division did not dare to neglect, and immediately mobilized all the war horses and necessary food and baggage, leaving the heavy heavy equipment at the station, and went into battle lightly to rush north to support the Adiya Fortress.
After the 51st Division was dispatched, Lu Meng was still worried. He personally led the 52nd Division to rush north along the Hengduan River, striving to cut off the enemy's retreat as soon as possible.
Using a two-pronged approach, the two heavy fists on the north bank of the Hengduan River surrounded the Eastern United Army in a very short period of time. On the Hengduan River, the Dragon City fleet coming from the north completely cut off the retreat route to the southeast.
This left the Eastern United Army stranded on the north bank of the Hengduan River completely without a way home.
Cortez didn't know yet that the chain reaction caused by their invasion would be so fast and powerful. When he led the remnants to the north bank of the Hengduan River, in addition to the warships with flags flying on the river bank, there were also speeding behind him.
Here comes the fifth mixed cavalry division!
There was a powerful fleet blocking the road in front, and a crushing cavalry behind it (because the 51st Division was on horseback, Cortez mistook it for Dragon City's cavalry unit). In this case
, the desperate Eastern United Army could no longer raise the mood to resist, and threw away their weapons one after another, and they surrendered.
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