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The strategy of the Tatars in the Western Regions is very rogue in the eyes of the generals of the Tang Dynasty!

Damn, you Tatars are able to swept across Central Asia and Eastern Europe anyway, and now you are a fierce man who has caused panic among Europeans. How can you be so wretched on the Eastern Front?

For more than ten years, I have not fought a big battle with our Datang Army!

Every year, there are dozens of people, hundreds of people, no more than a thousand small and medium-sized battles, and a battle of tens of thousands of people has never been fought once!

The Datang Army sometimes went hundreds of kilometers deep, and ran all the way to Hami City, but those Tartars were hiding all the way, and Hami City also closed the city gates, so they didn't come out to fight.

This kind of feeling makes the generals of the Tang Army have a feeling of being powerful and nowhere to be used!

If possible, many generals of the Tang army hoped that the Tartars would come out and fight with themselves in an upright manner, even if it was to give the Tartars a hand or something, it was negotiable.

But the Tatars simply don't give them that chance.

This time on the westward expedition, Lu Yuzhi and other senior generals of the Tang Army also did not imagine that the Tatars would send them to their door to fight them. Instead, they were prepared to move forward honestly and gradually to establish a long-distance supply line and cover the railway construction workers. And the construction of the northwest railway extension line by the engineers within the army is the core goal.

If the Tatars do not come out, they will build the railway all the way to Hami, then to Turpan, and then occupy it, and then consolidate the defense. After capturing these two strongholds, they will then use the cavalry to attack Central Asia. .

If the Tatars were unwilling to give up the Western Regions and were going to have a head-to-head confrontation with the Tang Army, then Lu Yuzhi could wake up from a dream!

Based on the army's strategy in the Tang Dynasty, although a lot of troops have been hoarded in Jiayuguan in advance, and they even know that the Tartars must be prepared, but Lu Yuzhi and the others are still not in a hurry to launch an attack.

Instead, they continued to wait, while training the troops and waiting for more supplies to arrive at the front. At the same time, it was more important to wait for the engineering team of the Railway Corporation and the engineering troops from the reinforcements to arrive.

In order to build the railway, the Railway Corporation designed a simple military railway, and dispatched a large number of technical backbones and equipment, but they lacked sufficient labor.

The construction of railways these days requires a lot of labor, and there are not many people in the Gansu area.

The local garrison number is more than 200,000.

Therefore, part of the labor required for the construction of the military railway was hired by the Railway Corporation from Shaanxi and other provinces, and the number was about 30,000.

It's not because they don't want to mobilize more people, but because the Northwest Railway has limited transportation capacity, it is not easy to maintain an army of more than 200,000 people and tens of thousands of employees.

In order to solve this difficulty, after coordination, the Railway Corporation only transferred 30,000 people over, and the remaining labor shortage was solved by the military.

How to deal with it?

The military has more than 200,000 troops stationed in the northwest!

When the battle started, it was impossible for all the troops to go to the front line. In fact, there were only tens of thousands of people who could actually go to the front line to fight the Tatars. The rest were basically used to maintain the supply lines. The troops on the supply line can help build the railway if they have nothing to do.

In other words, in order to build the railway, the empire will mobilize 30,000 hired workers, and the military will mobilize a large number of troops to directly participate in the road construction. .

In addition, there are more than 2,000 technical personnel from all over the country from the Railway Corporation, and a large number of mechanical equipment.

Sufficient personnel will be a strong support for the military to enter the Western Regions!

With so many people working at the same time, the railway company is optimistic that the railway will be built under the city of Hami before winter comes.

With so many laborers and more than 100,000 combat troops, the supplies, especially food, are also astronomical.

This could not be solved at all in the past, but with the Northwest Railway, these can be solved.

In order to supply grain to the northwest region, the Central Plains are Jiangnan, Huguang, and Northeast regions. A large amount of grain is loaded onto the train, and then transported through the railway network to the railway hub of Zhengzhou, and then continues to be transported westward to Jiayuguan.

In order to put down the many materials transported from all over the country, the local garrison built a large number of material warehouses, and even because the warehouses are not enough, many materials are even stored directly in the open air.

Today's entire Jiayuguan is not like a pass at all, but a huge construction site!

On the third day of June, Lu Yuzhi, who had been preparing for a long time, also officially ordered the troops to move out!

The early troops were the two main cavalry forces of the First Cavalry Army and the Second Cavalry Army!

These two cavalry armies are the only two cavalry armies in the Datang Army, and they are also the most elite independent field cavalry units in the Datang Army.

Among them, the First Cavalry Corps has three standard cavalry divisions and the Fifth Lancer Regiment. The Second Cavalry Corps also has three standard cavalry divisions and the Seventh Cuirassier Regiment.

Although the two cavalry armies mentioned above are only more than 25,000 in strength, the number of war horses under their jurisdiction has reached more than 60,000, because the light cavalry in these field cavalry units are all single. Riding two horses, heavy cavalry are riding three horses alone.

The various equipment, tactics and organization of the Datang Army have been continuously innovated, but the infantry and artillery units have not changed relatively much, but the cavalry units have changed frequently.

From the equipment to the attached warhorses, to the organization and even the tactics, there are very big changes.

Finally, the more complex Datang Army Cavalry Unit was formed!

The cavalry units in the Datang Army still have field cavalry and divisional cavalry.

Among them, the divisional cavalry includes the regular divisional cavalry regiment and the garrison cavalry battalion in the reserve force.

The cavalry battalion of the garrison division had only more than 300 cavalry in one battalion, and was assigned a single horse.

In the infantry division, the division is a cavalry regiment. The standard is to have 800 cavalry under the jurisdiction, and there are four teams, each with 200 cavalry. Only a single horse.

The divisional cavalry is relatively simple, basically all light cavalry, equipped with sabres, pistols, pistols and other equipment, with reconnaissance as the main combat task, and charging into the battle can only be regarded as a secondary task at most.

The field cavalry unit is actually a composite unit, because they also have cavalry artillery, cavalry baggage and other units under their jurisdiction, and each cavalry division can fight independently.

A standard field cavalry division consists of five regiments and two battalions, including four cavalry regiments, a baggage regiment, and an artillery battalion.

Among the four cavalry regiments, there are usually three standard light cavalry regiments and one heavy cavalry regiment.

But this is just a simple distinction, because whether it is a light cavalry regiment or a heavy cavalry regiment, there are often many kinds.

The Hussars, the Hussars, and the Light Musketeers.

Heavy cavalry regiments include full-body plate lancers, heavy cuirassers, light cuirassers, light cuirassers, and so on.

For example, the famous Guards First Lancer Regiment, which is equipped with heavy full-body plate armor, even the war horse will be equipped with plate armor, and equipped with hollow cavalry, it is a heavy cavalry that can directly launch an intensive charge, and it is also the only one that has always been attached to the Tang Dynasty. A cavalry unit with heavy plate armour.

Because of the huge load of the cavalry, the main war horses they ride are all Jurong horses. Although Jurong horses have many shortcomings, their advantages are also obvious. , and they will also have two additional Arabian horses as auxiliary horses.

But in the same way, the Fifth Lancer Regiment belonging to the First Cavalry Army, they are also similar in terms to the First Lancer Regiment of the Guards. They seem to be heavy Lancers, but in fact they are only equipped with cuirass, not The hollow lance is used, but the saber and pistol are the main combat weapons. The horses used are mainly Arabian horses, supplemented by northwest horses. In terms of tactics, the main thing is saber charge.

As for the designation of the lancer regiment, it was because they were light lancers back then, and they continued to call it that after they were changed to cuirassiers.

There is also the 7th Cuirassier Regiment, which belongs to the Second Cavalry Army. This is a serious cuirassier, but their cuirass are thinner, only of medium thickness, and they pay more attention to the application of the pistol. .

In addition, there is also the 3rd Musketeer Cavalry Regiment, which is also quite famous. The fighting method of this independent cavalry regiment is that of the dragoons, but it only shoots on horseback. The marksmanship of each cavalry is quite accurate. .

The field cavalry unit of the Datang Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is basically difficult to find a unified standard, because even specific to each cavalry regiment, due to its historical tradition and the commander's tendency, it is biased towards different equipment and tactics. And the high-level generals of the cavalry unit did not stop this kind of behavior, and actually couldn't stop it.

Because to a certain extent, the equipment and organization are basically the same. The heavy cavalry units are basically equipped with breastplates, sabres, and pistols, and the light cavalry are basically equipped with sabres and muskets.

But even if there is no unified standard, these two cavalry armies are the real elite cavalry troops in the Datang Army, with six cavalry divisions and two independent heavy cavalry regiments, basically including one-third of the Datang Army. A standing field cavalry unit.

And this time, it will also be the main force of this western expedition!

When the two cavalry corps left Jiayuguan first, the subsequent units of the Fifth Army would follow, and this corps would cooperate with the cavalry units to fight.

As for the troops of the 14th Army, including Ying Yikang's 30th Infantry Division, they set off slowly, and they did not mean to chase the cavalry troops on the front line, but moved slowly behind.

Because in this battle, the main combat mission of the Fourteenth Army was not to fight the enemy, but to maintain the logistical supply line.

But this is only a decent statement. In fact, they just left Jiayuguan, which is not right. It should be said that the forward's troops were only five kilometers away from Jiayuguan, and then they stopped advancing.

The soldiers threw down their guns one by one, put on hoes, and began to repair the railway under the command of a vote of technicians!

In other words, Ying Yikang, Bi Zhian and others worked so hard to go to the northwest, and finally became a railway construction team!

Faced with this situation, Ying Yikang, the commander of the 30th Infantry Division, was particularly helpless!