After coming to Xinming, Ma Changbao was responsible for the training of the troops on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was responsible for the expansion and security of immigrants. He had experienced many conflicts with local Indians. Although he felt that the combat effectiveness of these Indians was too low and weak, as a qualified commander, Ma Changbao strategically despised the enemy in every battle, as he said, but he never dared to neglect the enemy in tactical importance.

It is also for this reason that this time, Pan Mengyuan, Pingyi City, specially ordered Ma Changbao to lead his troops to fight, and led the troops to Pingyi City in the shortest time. After understanding the preliminary situation, Ma Changbao still looked calm on the surface, but he did not dare to be careless at all.

This time his opponents were still those Indians, but compared with the Indian tribes he had fought before, this opponent was not easy to pass on.

This time, more than a dozen Indian tribes in the East united and gathered tens of thousands of people to launch an attack on Pingyi City. And just a few days ago, the immigrant settlements outside Pingyi City were also damaged by sneak attacks by Indians, and the losses were considerable.

More importantly, this time the Indians not only came with great fanfare, but also had a considerable number of cavalry units. Speaking of cavalry, we must talk about horses. From a historical perspective, the American continent originally had horses ten thousand years ago, but later it may have been excessive hunting and killing that the animal horses became extinct. It was not until the Europeans discovered the New World and brought horses in the 16th century that horses began to appear on the American continent.

In order to occupy this land, the Europeans fought with the Indians. Because the Indians had never seen animals like horses, they were even stunned by the charge of cavalry on the battlefield, and thus collapsed.

This led to the demise of the originally powerful Indian Empire, and then there was no unified country with the Indian nation as the core in the entire American continent. This also began the history of European countries' partition and colonization of the American continent.

As the war faded more than a hundred years ago, the Indians gradually lost their homes. But similarly, horses began to appear on the American continent. The horses brought by Europeans fled and then reproductive in the wild, and then gradually became wild horses in the Americas. Because there were no large predators in the Americas, these wild horses reproduced at an extremely fast speed without natural enemies, thus forming a special group of North American wild horses.

Under this specific situation, the Indians began to learn from Europeans taming wild horses for hunting and war, which also formed a new combination of Indian life and horses. And this time, several tribes in the dozen tribes in the East were good at riding horses and had a large number of cavalry. In Ma Changbao's view, when the battle officially began, these Indians riding horses would be the biggest threat faced by the Ming army.

North America has different terrain, especially the land occupied by Xinming. Except for the mountains to the west and north, most of the rest are plains. These plains have fertile land, pleasant climate, and sufficient water sources, making them excellent farmland.

But similarly, these plains are suitable for extremely fast cavalry combat. When they have war horses, once the cavalry raises their speed and rushes over in an irresistible posture, even the elite Ming army cannot stop it without completing the shape and preparation.

Even if it can be blocked, the losses suffered will be huge. Ma Changbao is very clear about this point, so to defeat this huge Indian coalition, Ma Changbao's most important thing is to solve the cavalry they deal with first. Only by solving this problem can he do his best in one battle.

In the era of cold weapons, there were generally only two ways to deal with cavalry. The first method was to use cavalry against cavalry and use cavalry to defeat cavalry. The second method was the chariot formation used by the Qi family army when facing Mongolian cavalry. This formation was also used in the Ming army today. Zhu Yicheng used this tactic when he fought with the Qing army and also achieved many achievements.

As for the era of hot weapons, fighting cavalry is to use artillery and platoon tactics. As long as the array is arranged, the musketeers first attack the opponent's cavalry with artillery while maintaining a complete formation, and then use platoon tactics to kill continuously at a certain distance, which can also curb the cavalry's charge. However, there is a prerequisite, the premise is that the formation of the musketeers must be complete, and secondly, a certain number of artillery and musketeers must be required to ensure the sustained firepower.

Once the above two cannot be achieved and are thus broken through by the cavalry, even the most powerful force will be defeated in an instant.

When the Age of Hot Weapons developed to the later stage, that is, after the emergence of machine guns, the ancient cavalry began to withdraw from the stage of history. However, this is a later story. At least in the present, machine guns cannot be made in a short time. Even if Zhu Yicheng was full of knowledge from later generations, he would not be able to figure it out. If he really had such great ability, it would be so troublesome? He just closed the door and worked hard for a few days, pounded a basket of mushroom bullets, and then planted mushrooms all over the world. Today, he destroyed the Qing Dynasty, tomorrow he killed Russia, and the day after tomorrow he occupied Europe... he could unify the world in a blink of an eye.

Although the Ming army was elite, there were very few cavalry in the Ming army. This was because the restoration of the Ming Dynasty was from south to north rather than from north to south.

The south originally did not produce horses, and the north, which produced horses, was always controlled by the Qing Dynasty, so the Ming army except for the scouts and a very small number of cavalry were basically all infantry. This is also the reason why Zhu Yicheng vigorously developed firearms and steadily launched the Northern Expedition.

The lack of large-scale cavalry makes the Ming army unable to perform large-scale mobile warfare and siege warfare, which is a pity. However, now the Ming army has occupied Beijing City and extended its tentacles further north, thus obtaining a source of some war horses. Therefore, the Ming army in the north has begun to form a built-in cavalry unit, but compared with the huge number of Ming army, this is just the beginning.

In Xinming, due to the large number of wild horses, the source of horses can be said to be much more abundant. However, it is not possible to capture and domesticate it in a short time. The Ming army of Xinming has begun to work on this aspect, but after all, the time is too short, so the proportion of cavalry in the Ming army is very small.

So the problem facing Ma Changbao was actually the problem of cavalry. He carefully arranged several plans for this. When Ma Changbao led his troops to the camp the next day and came to the thirty miles east of the city, he patiently waited for the revenge of the scammers who had dispersed, and on the other hand, he had begun to adjust the unit shape to be prepared to change the formation at any time.
Chapter completed!