After the war horses were allocated, more than half of the training time in the afternoon had passed, Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun discussed it briefly and decided that the rest of the time would not be for training, but for the soldiers themselves to carry out horseback riding exercises in the racecourse, but only horses were allowed to gallop, and horses were forbidden to gallop. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOf course, the racetrack is such a big place, and there are more than 100 horses in it, so you can't run even if you want to.

Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun also wanted to try the war horse they had just selected, although after the two were discharged from the army, they often went to the racecourse to ride horses, but by this time, they had not ridden a horse for several months, and now they naturally want to recover and find the feeling of riding a horse. So both of them took the saddle and the bridles, put on their horses, and then turned over and rode on horseback.

And the two of them got on the horse, immediately attracted the attention of many soldiers, because just now the two of them formulated such complex and complicated management regulations, and they also have a lot of words, each of which can say a lot of reasons, when dividing the horses, and hiding the good horses, and dividing the bad horses to the soldiers, the soldiers don't say it but still have some slight words in their hearts, and now they also want to see how many skills these two commanders have, but don't just talk about it and don't practice it.

Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun didn't think so much, and after riding on the horseback, they shook the reins lightly and shouted: "Drive!" The two horses trotted around the racecourse, one after the other.

Although both of them are veterans, they have insisted on refining their bodies after retiring from the army, and their bodies are still good, and their skills are still there, as long as they don't do any difficult actions on horseback, normal riding is completely sufficient.

After running two or three laps, both of them stopped their horses, and Cheng Yajie turned to Zhao Lijun and said, "How is this horse!"

Zhao Lijun said: "Yes, it should be the cavalry's war horse, because it is a side-to-side step, it seems that it is indeed trained, and the years of training will not be less, but it is a little difficult to run, and it is not exciting enough, which means that the horse's physical condition is not very good." ”

Cheng Yajie also nodded and said, "Yes, if you feed it well for a month, it shouldn't be worse than the horses in my previous army." ”

The so-called "side-to-side" refers to the horse's right front foot and left hind foot, right front foot and right hind foot, while walking and running, in one direction at the same time. In this way, the horse's posture is more stable, and the walking speed is faster, and both the rider and the horse are less likely to get tired. However, horses are not born with this way, and they must be trained for a considerable period of time. So the two of them can be sure that these two horses used to be war horses.

The other cavalry were a little disappointed, because the two of them only rode horses for a few rounds, and did not play any tricks, they could only say that they could ride horses, but they couldn't see how good they were. Only a few soldiers who had served as a soldier before could tell from the subtle movements of the two on horseback just now that these two commanders were indeed people who could really ride horses.

It turns out that people who have really received professional horseback riding training will not sit on the horse's back, but pedal on the horse's pedal to step on the practical force, so as to maintain stability on the horse's back, and the body fluctuates with the rhythm of the horse's running, which can reduce the burden of the horse and make the war horse run more easily. From this point of view, these two chiefs are indeed some real people.

Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun rode their horses and jogged a few laps in the racecourse, this time the two did not pay too much attention to their horses, but paid attention to the other soldiers to see how the other soldiers' riding skills were.

I just ran and stopped, and the afternoon training arrived. So the two men first beckoned to the soldiers, returned the horses to the stables, and sent them into the stables according to their numbers, and then gathered all the soldiers, and told them that from tomorrow onwards, the cavalry company would no longer train with the shore-based escorts, but would begin training alone, and only then announced the end of today's training.

After dinner, Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun got together again and wrote a report overnight, detailing the situation of the cavalry company, and also writing down their own training plan. At present, the cavalry company urgently needs to solve the following problems: 1. Immediately equipping the cavalry company with veterinarians; 2. Equipping them with horse-breeding personnel; 3. Improving the fodder for the horses; and 4. Producing training equipment; and in the long run, the things that need to be solved include the establishment of horse breeding farms and training bases, the introduction of high-quality stallions, and the improvement of the quality of the horses.

Most of the training equipment of the cavalry can be made by the cavalry company itself, but there is a small amount of equipment that needs to be manufactured in other factories, the most representative is the imitation of the wooden horse, the height is about the same as the average war horse, but the bottom is equipped with four wheels, which can be pushed forward by people, whether it is a beginner or a veteran, it can be used to imitate a war immediately.

Cheng Yajie drew drawings of the imitation Trojan horse overnight and sent it back to the Tianjin Military Commission along with his report.

At half past six the next day, Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun came to the racecourse on time, and the soldiers of the cavalry company also gathered here. After more than ten minutes of warm-up exercises, the soldiers began to skate the horses in the morning, and the soldiers, under the leadership of Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun, took out the war horses from the stables, pulled the reins of the horses, and ran along the coastline in a line.

Along the way, I also met a lot of other naval units running in the morning, and the soldiers of the cavalry company also ran every morning, but they were all with the soldiers of the shore-based defense team, and this was the first time that they ran in a group alone, and they also ran with horses, and everyone felt very fresh, and some familiar soldiers also greeted each other and asked "why don't you ride horses".

After running for about half an hour, everyone returned to the racetrack and let the war horses move freely in the racetrack, and then they all went to the canteen for breakfast.

At eight o'clock, the cavalry company assembled again in front of the stables, followed by brushing and combing the horses. This is also sometimes done after the afternoon training.

Although the soldiers of the cavalry company used to ride horses, they generally didn't do much to brush horses and comb horses, so Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun personally demonstrated and taught the soldiers how to do it hand in hand, first of all, wet it with a towel, wipe the whole body of the war horse, wet the whole body of the horse, and then use a big horse brush dipped in water to brush the whole body of the horse again. It is winter now, and it is necessary to rub the war horse repeatedly to promote the blood circulation of the war horse, and after brushing, all the water on the horse must be wiped dry to prevent the war horse from being cold.

After brushing the horse, the next thing is to comb the horse, each person is also equipped with a large wooden comb and a large pair of scissors, while combing the horse's hair, while shearing off the excess hair on the horse's body, it is necessary to cut the horse's mane short, generally speaking, the horse's hair is kept at 5-10 cm long, because this batch of war horses has not been taken care of for two or three months, and the mane has grown very long, so cut off a lot. And the cut mane is not thrown away, this is the raw material for making brushes, in the old time and space, most horse farms would open brush factories.

The two of them did as they did, and the other soldiers followed their movements, scrubbing their horses, and as a result, the sound of scrubbing sounded in front of the stables, mixed with the neighing of the horses from time to time. It took more than two hours for the soldiers to clean up their horses, and some of the horses snorted a few times, some barked a few times, and their spirits were obviously much better.

At this time, the canteen also received a notice from the base, and sent a batch of straws, sorghum stalks, corn stalks and other grain crops, as well as 300 kilograms of barley and soybean feed, 200 kilograms of salt, and two large knives of caowe. In the past, the cavalry company had cut a lot of grass and piled up four or five large haystacks, two of which were still grass that had just been cut two or three days ago, so there was no shortage of food for the horses.

After Cheng Yajie accepted this batch of horse feed, he first ordered the horses to move freely in the racecourse, and divided the soldiers into three batches, a group led by Zhao Lijun, and carried out a simple transformation of the stables, first of all, the stables were separated from the waist, and the horses and other livestock were separated from each other; a group was to go to the vicinity to harvest grass, although it is now winter, but because Dagukou is near the sea, there is still some grass growing, and now the food on hand of the traverser is not sufficient, and the feed of the war horses is still mainly forage; and Cheng Yajie led a group of soldiers to prepare for the war horses, first of all, the grass stacks are brewed and dried into hay, and then the poles and stemsThe hay is all cut into small sections, mixed with some barley, bean feed, and some salt, and then stirred, so that it is made into feed for the horses.

Because there are only two guillotines in the cavalry company now, the soldiers only take turns to use guillotines to cut grass and stems, and of course some people use daggers to cut grass or pinch it off by hand, although it is much slower, but it can always help, and someone else is responsible for stirring. It was nearly two hours of work, and it was close to noon, and the soldiers who had harvested the grass had returned, and the soldiers who had renovated the stables had finished their work. Cheng Yajie ordered all the horses to be taken back to the stables, and the prepared horse feed was distributed to each soldier, who brought them to feed their own horses.

And when feeding, the soldiers found that they didn't know if it was because the war horses felt comfortable after being brushed, or because the feed made should suit the appetite of the war horses, and the appetite of the war horses today was obviously much better than before, and they were munching one by one, and there was no even a call, on the contrary, the cows, donkeys and mules in the other side of the pen waited until they were screaming, and they didn't stop until the staff came to feed them.

After the horses had finished eating, they brought water to the horses, and the morning training was over, and at this time, it was already half past twelve o'clock at noon, and the soldiers changed their clothes and rushed to the canteen to eat.