"Chapter 53: The Cavalry Corps"

Love is the eternal lighthouse, it looks at the storm but does not move, love is a full life, like a glass full of wine.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

Shulhaqi, Murhaqi, and Dolgon jointly created the New Eight Banners, and played the matter of overthrowing the Taiji Banner of the Pseudo-Khan Emperor, and after the secret guard got the information, he immediately copied a copy to Bai Feng;

Compared with Shuerhaqi, Dolgon and others in Langxiang Province, Bai Feng was more concerned about Huang Taiji's big moves in Mulhouse Province and Jianzhou Jurchen; before Huang Taiji, the new Khan of Jianzhou Jurchen, failed, he was much more dangerous than Dolgon.

Dolgon and the others, who occupied Langxiang Province, had almost no possibility of obtaining any form of reinforcement except for relying on those spineless Tianlong puppet army; in other words, the Eight Banners cavalry under their command was really one less than one.

The Huang Taiji, who occupies the Jurchen base camp in Mulhouse Province and Jianzhou, is different, Dolgon and others can enhance their own strength by building a new Tianlong puppet army, and he can also enhance their own strength by building a new Tianlong puppet army, they can't close the gap in this regard.

Although there are only 130,000 cavalry in the reconstructed Eight Banners under the command of Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji, who has the Jurchen base camp in Jianzhou, can recruit the first 70,000 Jurchen cavalry and the second 70,000 Jurchen cavalry, which Dolgon and others cannot match.

However, it was also impossible for Huang Taiji to continue to recruit large-scale cavalry in the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe, which had a total population of just over one million; after all, the young and strong population of the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe was limited, and it could not withstand endless recruitment.

When Nurhachi led his army to launch a southern invasion, he dispatched 160,000 Jurchen cavalry from Jianzhou at one time, and after half a year of war, the Jurchen army that successfully occupied the imperial provinces of Langxiang and Mulhouse paid at least nearly 20,000 cavalry casualties.

Before Nurhachi was about to die after his assassination, in order to prevent someone from seizing the throne of the Khan belonging to the Aixin Jueluo family after his death, he recruited 100,000 new cavalry from the Jianzhou Jurchens, and after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he recruited another 70,000 new cavalry to rebuild the Eight Banners Huang Taiji.

In this way, the Jianzhou Jurchens, with a total population of more than 1 million, have already taken out a full 350,000 cavalry! Compared with the current Jianzhou Jurchens, the so-called reckless military force is simply living and working in peace and contentment; they can be called a terrifying proportion of soldiers and civilians, and even surpass the barbarians in the south!

If it weren't for the gold, silver, jewelry, grain, and grass materials plundered by the army in front of him, which were being transported back to the Jianzhou Jurchen base camp one after another, Huang Taiji would not have even been able to raise the newly recruited 70,000 cavalry; even so, the 350,000 cavalry had reached the limit of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

If Huang Taiji wants to recruit soldiers from the Jianzhou Jurchens again, then he can only let the women, children, and old people of the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe go to the battlefield with knives; otherwise, in the past ten years, it will be impossible for the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe to provide Huang Taiji with a single soldier and a soldier to support!

The recent situation of the Jianzhou Jurchens and the predicament of Huang Taiji were also sorted out by the intelligence officers of the secret guard and sent to Bai Feng, but with Langxiang Province between Besançon Province and Mulhouse Province, Bai Feng could not do anything in a short time.

After the ten days of early April passed, the ten new teams of Roman heavy infantry recruited in the city of Rome were directly transferred to the barracks of the pro-guard guards by Bai Feng through the teleportation array, and all the thirty recruitment places in April were used by Bai Feng to recruit Roman heavy infantry.

Because the Roman heavy infantry, which has the highest recruitment price, is not only the only hoplite class that the city can recruit at this stage, but also the most powerful infantry in the field;

Once all 30 Roman heavy infantry had been recruited, a solid line of 4,830 well-armed Roman heavy infantry would serve as a cover for the Spartan army's flank, otherwise the Spartan army's flank would be too weak.

The barbarian infantry specially trained in the military camp of the city of Rome is of course extraordinary in combat effectiveness, but the inability to resist the cavalry charge head-on has always been the biggest weakness of the barbarian warriors;

The purpose of Bai Feng's recruitment of thirty teams of Roman heavy infantry was to let them serve as the two flanks of the Spartan Legion in wartime; fortunately, the entire army of the Featherland Legion was equipped with Roman standard weapons and equipment, which also provided an opportunity for the Roman heavy infantry to fight.

Otherwise, a large number of non-Tianlong Empire's regular troops suddenly appeared under Bai Feng's command, using new weapons and equipment that were completely different from the empire's standard weapons and equipment, which would inevitably attract the attention of the military department and the imperial capital, and might even expose Bai Feng's secrets.

Thirty detachments of Roman heavy infantry would be divided into three groups to join the battle sequence of the pro-guard troops, and the appearance of 1,610 Roman heavy infantry would not attract anyone's attention at all in the pro-guard barracks, which had a total strength of more than 40,000 troops.

What's more, the Wenke Division and the Goto Kiji Division of the Pro-Guard have already gone to the three bridges on the Xingyue River to garrison, and there are ten more teams of newly recruited Roman heavy infantry under their command, who will find out?

As soon as Bai Feng handled the deployment of the Roman heavy infantry on the banks of the Xingyue River, there was a figure that Bai Feng had to greet in person at the garrison of the army over there--the cavalry monster Jie Donald! This is Bai Feng from the military department, the most brave and warlike cavalry general in the empire!

When Bai Feng was still studying in the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, the teachers of the Military Department such as Andrew, the Wild Wolf of the North, Davis the Jungle Fox, Jadonald, Billy, Bob, and other Cavalry Monsters were all generals under the command of Duke Kleist when he was the Marshal of the Empire.

If it weren't for the brutal political struggle within the empire, which led to Duke Kleist being idle as the head of the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, how could these famous generals in the Imperial Army be condescended to the Military Department to be teachers who teach and educate people all day long?

Knowing that General Donald had come to the garrison with a hundred soldiers, Bai Feng did not delay at all, and took Steve and two teams of silver shield infantry to gallop back to the garrison.

"Teacher Donald, you're finally here!" Bai Feng, who was full of excitement, first greeted Donald as a student, and then joked: "Student, I'm waiting for a long time! If you don't come again, I'm going to go to Duke Reinhardt to rob someone!"

"Haha, where can I rob you!" Donald, who had a bold personality, laughed when he heard this: "As soon as I heard that you were going to give me the command of a cavalry regiment, I immediately set off to rush here;

"Teacher, are you ready to form a cavalry corps with your own hands?" Hearing Donald say this, Bai Feng returned to the truth: "The only things I can provide to you are soldiers, war horses, weapons and equipment; after that, the cavalry corps needs to be formed by yourself." ”

"If you give me a cavalry legion that has been formed, I don't need to get used to it!" Donald, who was eager to try, said confidently: "As long as you can provide me with everything I need, in three months, I can let you see an elite cavalry corps!"

"Six thousand trained cavalry, four thousand young men with horseback riding experience, ten thousand cavalry weapons and equipment, and fourteen thousand high-quality war horses;