The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 138 Repeating the same trick
"However, cavalry combat is completely different from cavalry combat with infantry. Cavalry combat should not be underestimated. I also suggest that you take a look at the cavalry textbooks when you have time and learn about cavalry combat. This will be very helpful to you in the future."

After Teng Yuzhao finished his sermon on cavalry warfare, he became a little worried again. He was worried that Wu Peifu would despise or ignore the cavalry in the future.

Not to mention that this is the North China Plain now. In the future, we may encounter large numbers of Mongolian cavalry and Cossack cavalry in the sparsely populated grasslands and the Northeast. If we underestimate the cavalry, we will definitely suffer a great loss. Therefore, it is necessary for him to make Wu Peifu have a full understanding of cavalry combat and attach great importance to it.

"The cavalry at the west gate are Japanese cavalry. Since the defeat of Senggelinqin's cavalry and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, most of the imperial cavalry no longer dared to fight against the armies of the Eastern and Western powers. Therefore, the Japanese cavalry at the west gate underestimated the enemy and were careless."

"Moreover, they didn't have time to concentrate their forces to fight against the cavalry battalion, so the new recruits in the cavalry battalion took advantage of the situation and formed a situation of outnumbering the enemy. In addition, the cavalry battalion also had the advantage of the height of the horses and soldiers."

"Not to mention, the cavalry battalion has the help of those defeated soldiers, so it is not a problem to destroy the Japanese cavalry. But if our cavalry battalion faces other coalition cavalry, it will definitely be our cavalry battalion that will be destroyed."

The war situation was tense, so Teng Yuzao couldn't go into too much detail and returned to the original topic.

"Right now, the regiment is in a field battle without any fortifications. If the soldiers of the regiment are all experienced veterans, it would be fine. Facing the Allied cavalry, as long as they form a formation and fire volleys, and with the help of Maxim heavy machine guns, it would be possible to not only stop but even destroy the attacking Allied cavalry."

"But if the coalition cavalry is large in number, and our army is composed of a large number of new recruits, or even entirely new recruits, it will be difficult to avoid chaos. Once that happens, the enemy will take advantage of the opportunity to attack and kill our team, and then the enemy's cavalry will have the advantage."

"There is one more thing you must not only know, but also remember that a well-trained cavalry can not only kill the enemy with their sabers on horseback, but can also shoot and kill the enemy with rifles on horseback."

"Especially the Russian Cossak cavalry, who can easily use their rifles to shoot accurately even when charging on horseback."

Teng Yuzao said so much about cavalry, and Wu Peifu was already very clear that not only did his teacher attach great importance to the cavalry of the Allied Forces, but he was also reminding himself that he should not underestimate the power of cavalry.

Wu Peifu nodded solemnly, and then asked, "But I still don't understand why we should let some of the foreign devils trapped in the East Police Station escape? Wouldn't it be better to eliminate them all?"

Teng Yuzao nodded and said, "Under normal circumstances, the more coalition forces we destroy, the better. But now the number of coalition forces outside the city is about the same as the regiment. Whichever side suddenly shows a significant increase in strength, the balance of victory will immediately tilt to that side."

"If the assault brigade of more than a thousand people suddenly rush out from the east gate at this time, not only will our forces have the upper hand on the battlefield, but we can also form a pincer attack on the coalition forces outside. However, the assault brigade cannot just rush out like this."

Teng Yuzao pointed outside the east gate and said, "Zi Yu, come and see, the Russian army in the east has a Maxim heavy machine gun position 500 meters away. Although our heavy machine guns on the city can suppress it with firepower, the distance is a bit far, and the scattering area of ​​the bullets there will be very large, and the suppression effect will not be very good. Once the assault team rushes out, they will inevitably be intercepted by the Russian Maxim heavy machine guns, and their losses will be great..."

Wu Peifu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly, "Teacher, I understand what you mean. Let's deliberately let some Russian soldiers go from here, and then repeat the same trick we used last night to seize the pontoon bridge. The assault brigade will chase after them, and the Russian soldiers outside will be afraid to shoot, and our assault brigade can take advantage of the situation and charge into the coalition forces with less losses."

"If we can defeat these two coalition forces under the city in a short period of time, even if the British, German, Japanese and American coalition forces that fled to the concession come back to attack us, we will still have the strength to fight them!"

"Yes, that's what I mean. The key to this battle is speed." "However, this is a bit risky. Generally speaking, it should be used as little as possible."

Teng Yuzhao was very satisfied that Wu Peifu reacted quickly. Just as he was about to praise him, he suddenly saw several signalmen running over on the city wall while quickly laying telephone lines and shouting from afar.

"Captain Liu, Captain Liu, the commander wants you to answer the phone."

From the signalman's shout, we can tell that Liu Yuzhi must be anxious to talk to the sentry commander of the heavy machine gun sentry named Liu, probably to arrange the coordination of heavy machine gun firepower and a regiment of offensive forces.

Sentinel Liu hurried over to answer the phone, listened for a while and said, "Yes, I promise to complete the task assigned by the adults."

Then Sentinel Liu shouted into the microphone, "Sir, the president is here."

Sentinel Liu listened to a few more words, then immediately ran to Teng Yuzao with the phone in his hand, "Sir, our Lord Liu wants to speak to you."

Captain Liu mentioned two adults in a row, which sounded tongue-twisting.

Not only Chief Sentinel Liu, but all the people in the vanguard army were not used to addressing officials by their official titles, especially new terms such as battalion commander, regiment commander, and chief of staff, which were different from the previous titles.

Even Teng Yuzhao had seen this when he was surfing the Internet in his previous life. Some readers also believed that at this time, military units such as regiments, brigades, and divisions should be called "biao, xi, zhen" or other names similar to those in the Beiyang Army.

In fact, these people don’t know that the “biao”, “xie” and “zhen” in the Beiyang Army were also created by the Beiyang Army and did not exist long ago.

This was a compromise adopted by the Beiyang Army in order not to appear too abrupt, and it was an incongruous name created to cater to the conservative ministers in the court.

What Teng Yuzhao is doing in the vanguard army now is just a one-step process. He is not interested in the practice of adopting the Beiyang Army's original ambiguous name as a transition.

However, it will take some time for everyone to get used to the new terms for military positions.

Teng Yuzhao reached out and took the telephone receiver from Chief Liu, and Liu Yuzhi's voice immediately came from the receiver.

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