Although the Boers had fewer troops, the number of cavalry could be mobilized was tens of thousands. (including militia troops) It is logical that there is no problem in breaking these nodes, and the logistics supply pressure of the troops was not too high. After all, ordinary Boers infantry units had sufficient horses for transportation, and the cavalry unit had one man and two horses, one for riding, and the other for carrying ammunition and supplies.

The biggest problem is the problem of casualties! Simply put, the Boers cannot afford to die! This kind of inability to afford to die is not only reflected in the population gap between the two sides, but also in the difficulty of attacking. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Karipmei was very clear that a simple cavalry could not have much advantage when facing infantry. The sabers used by cavalry can only be auxiliary weapons, and the spears should be thrown into the garbage dump of history. Horse infantry is actually more combat-effective than cavalry, and the advantages of cavalry are reflected in strategic mobility, rather than chopping with sabers.

"I am very unfavorable to the impact of guerrilla warfare on the British in the usual sense. I am very familiar with the fighting style of the Boer Knights. They generally choose transport teams that lack protection and villages and towns without defense. Rather than fighting, it is more like a plunder. This choice is correct for small troops with a population of dozens or even a dozen, but when our cavalry reaches a scale and even has a division-level scale, such a tendency and effect are wrong!" When facing Pershing and Kruger, Kariput expressed his concerns very bluntly.

Small-scale guerrilla warfare is a bit-and-knock, mainly self-protection. It is a harassing nature. However, if a large number of troops are mobilized and the entire Boer Legion pays a lot of war costs for such a mobile force, you still do it on bit-and-knock, that is a waste! It can even be said to be a crime. Imagine that thousands of cavalry are galloping in the wilderness, and the daily feed consumption is tens of tons! Thousands of military horses and livestock that are no less than this number are used for transportation and replenishment. If a certain strategic goal cannot be achieved, then such consumption will obviously be less than worth the cost!

So what is worth it? Caripot gave two answers: the first answer is to destroy the British cavalry legion! The second one is to destroy the British transportation hub, such as stations! The former is to consume the British mobile corps, and the British are not stupid. The Boers know how to use light cavalry to harass the opponent's rear, so the British naturally understand.

The reason why the British harassment has not yet been so prosperous is that on the one hand, the number of British cavalry is still relatively limited, the supply is difficult, and the frontal battlefield cannot meet the needs, let alone support cavalry raids from a distance. On the other hand, the British fundamentalist melee cavalry really cannot defeat the Boer's horseback infantry... equipped with mortars and semi-automatic rifles easily defeated their opponents in several small-scale battles.

As for the second point, it was to completely paralyze the logistics transportation of the British. At that time, the main mode of transportation was through railways, so the focus of the attack was naturally railways. The easiest way was to lift the rails directly. If you were more dedicated, you would destroy part of the land base, but this was useless to the British! This kind of destruction was made quickly and repaired quickly. You could just pile up the land bases, and then lay the rails upwards. What would you do if you destroyed the rails and pulled them out? If you couldn't take them away, you could only bury them on the spot... The British just had to dig it out.

How to paralyze a railway the fastest? The answer that history tells people is to organize stations and stations! These hubs are not only a place for vehicles to replenish boiler water and coal, but also a place for people to rest. More importantly, a center, a center for arranging the operation of vehicles! They are the nerves and brains of the railway line. Killing a station is much better than pulling out a railway for dozens of kilometers!

But at present, it is difficult for the Boer cavalry troops to complete these two tasks. The fundamental reason is casualties. If the cavalry fights, the Boer may indeed have certain tactical advantages and the exchange ratio will be better, but this exchange ratio will be swallowed up by the huge number of British cavalry. The result is that the more you fight, the weaker you will be. Chronic suicide, and even more so when attacking train stations. The British who are good at learning have deployed machine guns, artillery, barbed wire and minefields around important nodes. If you are unlucky enough, you can still encounter armored trains...

Faced with such a stronghold that combines fixed bunker fortifications and mobile defense forces, isn’t it seeking death if you use cavalry to fight? Perhaps there are not many troops in each stronghold, but relying on machine guns and a large number of fortifications, the defense can bring terrible damage to the attacking party! In terms of losses, it is not worth the loss.

Now, Kariput’s mission is to build a cavalry unit that can complete these two combat tasks! A unit that can completely crush the British cavalry in normal combat, and a cavalry (cavalry and infantry unit) with ability to attack. This is the most challenging task in Kariput’s officer career.

As a veteran, Kariput worked as a cavalry, worked as an infantryman, and accompanied his old boss, Prince Leopold, in artillery, and finally went to the General Staff of Bavaria. He was very familiar with the operation of cavalry and knew the limit points. Although the maneuver speed of cavalry is much higher than that of infantry, the cavalry's speed is at least twice as fast as that of the large corps infantry, compared with the maneuver speed of only 30 kilometers per day in the maneuver speed of the cavalry that is only 30 kilometers a day. But overall, the maneuver speed of cavalry is still much lower than that of their old predecessors, let alone compared to the nomadic peoples of that period.

The fundamental reason is that the weight of the equipment carried has increased. On this plane, the great powers who have seen the power of rapid-fire artillery and machine guns have equipped their troops with these equipment, and the cavalry is no exception. The British cavalry equipped with some artillery and machine guns. The same is true for the Boers. Although they are 57mm artillery or 37mm artillery, these artillery and ammunition are a big burden in themselves.

In addition to the relatively difficult supply, most of the cavalry will advance slowly or even dismount and walk on foot during the day of maneuver. Raining horses rarely occurs, unless it is a charge or pursuit of this combat state. If a large corps carry a small amount of artillery and ammunition, the movement speed will be slower.

Of course, some people have proposed the idea of ​​raising war with war, but the problem is that in the entire British Southern Africa, there are only more than 4 million blacks and whites with a number far less than this number. There are only a few people in millions of square kilometers of land, and most of them are huddled in the city. How can you grab so many things?
Chapter completed!