These words only made the soldiers of the cavalry company in high spirits and high spirits, and immediately aroused a round of warm applause. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cheng Yajie waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said: "In the morning, I took a look at the stable with Company Commander Zhao, and the hygiene of the stable is good, which shows that everyone is really attentive, which is worth watching, but there are still many places that are not in place." Of course, you can't blame you for this, because you didn't have professional command before, so you don't know what to do. This is a matter of the past, and we can not pursue it, but from now on, we must listen to our orders and arrangements, and all the orders I give must be completed unconditionally. ”

The soldiers said in unison: "Understood. ”

Cheng Yajie nodded, and said: "War horses are the closest comrades-in-arms of every cavalry, an excellent cavalry, first of all, should be an excellent war horse breeder, only by training and raising excellent war horses, can we achieve excellent cavalry, I know that in the previous stage, the mortality rate of war horses is very high, the reason is improper breeding, so from today onwards, stop all horse training, and also stop all war horse training, all personnel learn to raise horses, feed good war horses, and raise horses to be strong." Next, Company Commander Zhao announced the regulations on the management of horses. ”

When Zhao Lijun heard this, he also took two steps forward and said loudly: "The People's Army Cavalry Company War Horse Breeding and Stable Management Regulations,

1. Take care of the war horse, carefully feed the war horse, regard the war horse as your relatives and friends, and take care of every war horse with all your heart;

Second, the implementation of the war horse personal responsibility system, each soldier is equipped with a fixed war horse, the warrior is responsible for their own war horse care, feeding and other work, if because of poor care, resulting in the injury or death of the horse, the responsible soldier is held responsible;

3. All war horses must be walked three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, each time shall not be less than half an hour, and the war horses must be cleaned, scrubbed and brushed every day, bathed once in three days, and trimmed the horse's mane once in fifteen days;

4. At present, the cavalry company is still organized according to four squads, each squad is on duty for one week, responsible for feeding and caring for other reserve war horses, cleaning the stable every day, cleaning up horse manure, washing with water once every three days, and also including cutting grass and preparing fodder;

These regulations will come into force on the same day. ”

In fact, when they were in the army in the past, they had to have more regulations, but now they have only picked out a few regulations with practical value, such as "carrying forward the spirit of ownership," "caring for public property," "being diligent and thrifty," and so on.

But that's it, it still makes all the cavalry feel very uncomfortable, which is too troublesome, and the vast majority of them have not been so careful in honoring their fathers at home, but after all, these cavalrymen have also undergone two or three months of training, and have been instilled with a lot of discipline concepts, and they also know that the People's Army is extremely strict in the management of military discipline, so there is no change to it.

However, among the cavalry soldiers, there were a few who had served as Qing soldiers, and they understood that those who could formulate such a few rules were definitely insiders in the cavalry. Although the cavalry seems to be a very majestic military branch, riding a galloping war horse, galloping on the battlefield, waving a saber and chopping to the fullest, of course, it is the extreme wind, but behind this scenery, it is a much more complex logistics support than any other army, because it is not easy to feed a war horse. However, like these regulations formulated by Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun, in the Qing army, only general-level officers can enjoy the treatment, and the war horses of ordinary cavalry are impossible to serve like this. So are the rules made by these two newly appointed commanders useful?

Just in the skepticism of the cavalry, the distribution of war horses began. Prior to this, the soldiers of the cavalry company did not have a fixed war horse, and each training session was selected by the individual, and if he came early, he could naturally pick a good horse to ride, and if he came late, he could only pick the rest; after the training was over, he did not care, so he would not spare the horsepower during training.

Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun first selected 112 horses in good physical condition from the existing 146 horses, and numbered each horse, tied a strip of cloth on the horse, and wrote the number of the horse on it; then wrote the numbers on a small piece of paper, folded the note, and put it in a large box, and each soldier took out a note from the box, which said how many numbers were the horse, and it was all up to luck and resignation.

Of course, before choosing a horse, Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun each chose a horse for themselves, so the two of them did not have to participate in the lottery, of course, as the current supreme commander of the cavalry, they sought these personal interests for themselves, and within a reasonable range, the soldiers had no objections.

Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun wanted

First choose their own war horses, but also because the overall quality of this batch of war horses is really not very good, in fact, there are really some excellent horse breeds in this batch of war horses, after all, all countries have shipped some war horses from their own countries, such as the British army brought their own Shire horses and Arabian horses, the French army brought Alden horses and Andalusian horses, the American army brought Apaloosa horses, Quarter horses, and the Russian army used Heton horses. Three hippos, the Hanoverian horse brought by the German army, only Japan at this time has not bred its own horse breed, and the main use is Mongolian horses.

It's just that the number of war horses in these countries is not much, generally only a dozen or so, only for a small number of officers to ride, after all, the war horses are sent to the Far East across the ocean, since it is based on the technical conditions of this era, it is also a very difficult thing, and the mortality rate is very large, so the war horses used by the armies of various countries are mainly horses from the Far East colonies, and a considerable part of them are collected or purchased on the spot after arriving in China. Rather than being ridden by soldiers, the horses in the Far East were dominated by Mongolian horses.

And the armies of various countries are basically infantry troops. Only the Russian army is equipped with a national cavalry army, after all, only Russia has territory with China, so it can transport a large number of its own Heton horses, three hippos, so the war horses captured by the People's Army, the number of excellent war horses in these countries is not much, only about 40, of which Russia's Heton horses, Sanhe horses account for nearly half, about 20 horses, the rest are basically Mongolian horses.

Of course, the Mongolian horse is not not not excellent, in the tenth century, the Mongolian cavalry is riding the Mongolian horse, swept across the Eurasian continent, and established a huge and glorious Mongolian Empire, and in the old time and space, the cavalry of the People's Liberation Army is equipped with war horses that are also Mongolian horses.

However, the Mongolian horse is not large, the average body height is about 1.3 meters, the body is stout, the limbs are solid and powerful, the physique is rough and strong, and the running speed is not fast, but the endurance is very strong, and hard-working, not afraid of the cold, can adapt to the very extensive feeding management, can survive in difficult and harsh conditions. Suitable for long-distance running, large-scale sports, the Mongolian cavalry was able to sweep across the Eurasian continent, and this advantage of the Mongolian horse was combined with its ability to ride and shoot, and the results were vividly exerted. However, Mongolian horses are not suitable for short-distance assault combat, after all, compared with European and American horse breeds, Mongolian horses do not have an advantage in speed and strength.

In contrast, the European horse line is to the other extreme, the European horse is tall, full of strength, the body height is generally more than 1.6 meters, a few can even reach 1.8 meters, short sprint is extremely fast, but the endurance is insufficient, and the amount of food is large, by its need to be intensively fed, the dependence on logistics is great.

To the Arabian horse, the Russian Heton horse, the Sanhe horse, the American Apaloosa horse, basically in between, the body height is generally about 1.5 meters, short-distance speed and long-distance endurance are good, and relatively speaking, the Arabian horse is relatively slender, not suitable for extensive breeding, and the Hutton horse, the three hippos because of the Mongolian horse bloodline, the body and limbs are relatively thick, and the Mongolian horse is hard-working, easy to breed characteristics, so it is the most suitable candidate for military horses. And the Russian Goksa cavalry, with Heton horses and Sanhe horses as mounts, was the most powerful cavalry in this era. At this time, the American apaloosa horse was mainly popularized on the American continent, and had not yet spread to Asia.

In fact, China also has horse breeds similar to Russia's Heton horse and Sanhe horse, that is, the Ili horse and the Hequ horse (also called the Hetao horse), which are more suitable for combat horses than Mongolian horses, but the duty of the cavalry in the old time and space is not to formally charge the battle, but to patrol the border, emergency rescue, rescue and disaster relief and combat missions in special environments. Therefore, the strength and speed of the war horse are not required, but more attention is paid to the endurance and survival ability of the war horse under difficult and harsh conditions. In such a demand, Mongolian horses are naturally the most suitable choice.

Among the 146 horses in the cavalry company, although malnutrition has been caused by improper feeding in the early stage, Mongolian horses are in better condition in comparison, while European horses that have lost fat and are in extremely poor physical condition are basically larger European horses that need time to recuperate. And Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun understand that the 12 horses that died in the early stage were all large horses, and none of the Mongolian horses died, on the one hand, because of the poor physical condition of these horses; on the other hand, when the early cavalry chose horses, they would choose these high-headed horses, after all, riding on the back of such a tall horse, of course, it is much more majestic, so the use rate of these large horses is much higher than that of Mongolian horses, and the natural mortality rate is higher.

Therefore, when Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun selected the war horses assigned to each soldier, almost all of them were these large horses. And the two of them chose for themselves, two horses that should be of moderate size or triad. In the old time and space, Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun had military exchanges with the Russian cavalry, and they appreciated the quality of these two kinds of horses.

And the cavalry didn't know that their main general had such considerations, although they didn't understand that the two commanders wanted to put away these dozen or so large horses, but under the requirements of military discipline, they didn't say anything, and honestly drew numbers to choose horses.

After more than an hour of drawing, each soldier determined his own war horse, and Cheng Yajie and Zhao Lijun also numbered the horse bar, so that each war horse had its own fixed horse bar, and assigned saddles, horse furniture, etc., and the management of the entire company's war horses was finally standardized.