The People's Army also has cavalry, but the largest cavalry organization is only at the regiment level. The number of war horses in a cavalry regiment is less than 1,000, and each person is one war horse. The Tatar cavalry can be equipped with two or even three war horses, which is really a luxury.

There are many places where horses are used, such as farming fields, transporting goods, especially cement roads and railway tracks, which are very convenient for commercial transportation. However, the number of horses in the People's Army ruling areas is relatively small, and the number of cavalry in the entire People's Army is less than 10,000.

In fact, the Ming court is suffering from the harassment of the Tatars now. There is a great enemy of the People's Army in the south, and millions of Ming troops were defeated. However, the Ming court did not dare to mobilize too many border troops to move south. The Tatars also knew about the war between the Ming court and the People's Army, so the number of harassment on the border areas increased greatly. In order to resist the Tatars, the number of casualties in the border troops increased significantly compared with previous years.

The Ming court faced two opponents of the Tatars and the People's Army at the same time. It would be strange if they could persist. This is also an important reason why the Ming court could not wait to cease the war with the People's Army.

The Ming court mainly adopted a defensive move against the Tatars and local offensives. Li Chengliang's Liaodong Iron Cavalry was famous, but the cavalry could not fight in the south.

In the People's Army's scheduled plan, it will take several years to destroy the Ming court. After the People's Army destroys the Ming court, it will have to contact the Tatars.

Offense is the best defense. Fang Nan wants to let the People's Army go deep into the grassland to fight the Tatars and drive them away. However, when fighting on the grassland, the cavalry has a great advantage. There are too many troubles to send infantry into the grassland to fight. The People's Army needs a cavalry that can cross the grassland.

General Qi once formed a cavalry unit of about 3,000 people in the north. The main weapon of this cavalry unit was not a bow, arrow, a big knife, but a musket.

It is better to call it a cavalryman a horse. These musketeers quickly transfer through war horses. After encountering Tatar cavalry, they immediately dismount and load ammunition to the musketeers and attack the Tatar cavalry. The range of the musketeers is larger than that of the bow and arrow, which makes General Qi, the cavalry unit, win many victories.

However, this cavalry unit is too small, and the victory is only a small victory. Facing thousands of Tatar cavalry, he dare not fight at all.

With the example of General Qi, in order to deal with the Tatars, Fang Nan prepared to ask the People's Army to form a large-scale cavalry unit. The People's Army's cavalry units will be equipped with two weapons: muskets and sabers. Most of the time, they fight long-rangely, sitting on horseback or dismounting on the ground and using muskets to attack the Tatar cavalry. In a few cases, they use sabers to fight in close combat.

Compared with General Qi's cavalry, the People's Army's cavalry is invincible in long-range attacks, especially on the flat and unobstructed grassland, the tiger-headed spear can exert its full power.

The cavalry of the People's Army can open fire at a distance of six or seven hundred meters. When the enemy rushes to the range of their own bows and arrows, there are probably not many people left. It is more likely that they will be defeated and fled after charging for a few hundred meters.

The People's Army formed cavalry to deal with the Tatars on the prairie and snatched back a large number of cattle, horses and sheep from the Tatars. This is a business that is sure to make a profit.

Thinking of this, Fang Nan took out paper and pen to write a plan for the formation of a cavalry unit, preparing to let the Ministry of War draw some cavalry from various departments of the army to form a "murder soldiers riding on horses". It seems that in the next few years, it is best to expand to one division, one cavalry division, thousands of cavalry, almost having the ability to fight alone on the prairie.

The only pity is that the People's Army has too few war horses. If each cavalry can be equipped with one more war horse, one man and two horses, the cavalry division's mobility and continuous combat capability on the grassland will be stronger.

After writing the plan to form a cavalry unit, Fang Nan thought of another thing that the top leaders of the People's Army ignored.

The top leaders of the People's Army are all from Guangdong. Guangdong is located in the southernmost part of China. The climate is mild most of the time, and there is no snow in winter for several years.

The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn in the north are okay. Once winter comes, the cold weather may directly reduce the combat effectiveness of the People's Army. The area south of the capital is barely acceptable. The area north of the capital becomes colder the colder the more it goes, and it is unknown how much combat effectiveness the People's Army still has when it reaches there.

When the People's Army marched to the north, the cold-proof materials must be prepared in advance. Fang Nan did not want to see the People's Army being defeated by the severe cold weather. The upcoming "Military Warriors" regiment must also consider the factor of severe cold weather.

While thinking, Fang Nan had many more ideas in his mind, such as forming troops that are good at fighting in severe cold areas, forming troops that are good at fighting in mountains and forests, and even forming troops that are good at fighting in various special terrains such as mountains and deserts.

A unit cannot be omnipotent. A unit that often fights in the south may be defeated by severe cold weather when it reaches the north. A unit that is good at fighting in the mountains and forests will not have much combat power left in the desert.

Establishing special troops that are good at fighting on a certain terrain has become the best choice.

There are two special forces that the People's Army needs to start to establish, one is the "Mustrator riding a horse" unit, and the other is the "Northern" unit. The former is mainly cavalry and the latter is mainly infantry. The two units have a common need, that is, the soldiers of the army can withstand the severe cold in the north in winter.

Fang Nan, the two troops, had some thoughts. Among the new recruits of the People's Army, some Ming army prisoners who were from the north, lived in the north, and they must have endured the severe cold more than the southerners.

In addition, new recruits can be recruited in the People's Army-ruled area near the Yangtze River, and they can tolerate some severe colder than soldiers in the south.

The best way is to cross the Yangtze River and fight to the north and recruit new recruits from all over the north. These recruits from northerners are the most suitable for the "miller soldiers riding horses" and the "Northern" troops.

However, the People's Army is still in the south of the Yangtze River, and the conditions are limited, so it is only a shorter person to be taller. It is absolutely right to prepare in advance. It feels a bit late to form the "Military Warriors on Horses" and the "Northland" troops when the Ming court is destroyed.

When Fang Nan sent Dong Zhenye to the Ministry of War to send the plan to form the "Military Warriors on Horses" and the "Northland" troops to the Ministry of War, Hu Zhuang flipped through the two plans and saw the word "severe cold", Hu Zhuang patted his head with his hands as if he woke up.

Hu Zhuang also forgot the cold in the north, and the relevant knowledge was taught in the south, but the People's Army has been in the south, and Hu Zhuang and other senior executives of the People's Army have ignored this issue.
Chapter completed!