Xin Er carried out a surprise attack, and did not send anyone to inform Changshi Yangfu and others first, until he led the officials to the outside of the camp, and Yangfu and others knew that he was coming.

Yang Fu hurriedly summoned the officers, and greeted the cavalry commander Yan Xi, the military Sima Lanbaozhang and others out of the gate.

Bald Lian Fan was also in the procession, his skull was still shining, and it was very dazzling among the scarves and pigtails.

Bal Lian Fan went north twice to lure Hu, but was beaten twice, and lost one of his ears. Every time I think about begging for the big guy, I can return with a big win twice, and every time I return, I live happily in the female house for several days, and the old bald man can't help but be sad and angry, and there is nowhere to complain.

Xin Er took pity on him, and later rewarded him with thirty or forty thousand yuan, which was used as a comfort.

After entering the army, he sent the idle people and others, told them to return to their base camps, and went straight to the school field.

Because of Zhang Gui's suggestion, Xin Er decided to train troops on a large scale, expanded the area of the original school field, and added another school field.

The original school was used for the training of cavalry, and the additional one was used for the training of foot soldiers.

The first thing he went to see was the cavalry yard.

After the expansion, the school field was extremely large, the size of four or five football fields in later generations, and was divided into five areas by a fence.

The area in the middle is not large, and the main building is a parade platform.

On the four sides of the parade platform, four special training grounds are arranged.

On the east side is the primary training ground, which is used as a place to clarify military law, distinguish between dignity and inferiority, teach golden drums, and recognize flags, and practice basic movements such as getting on and off stirrups, mastering balance when riding, and marching queues for newly recruited cavalry.

To the south is the intermediate training ground, where obstacles are erected and long ditches are erected to practice the cavalry's more complex tactical actions and queue exercises such as crossing obstacles and ditches during the march.

To the west is the advanced training ground, which has nothing on the ground and remains the same landform, and is used to train cavalry in cavalry archery, horse fighting, and the subordinate position relationship between individuals and their own team in group battles.

To the north is the combat exercise ground, where the cavalry has almost trained and learned from beginner to senior, so they can use this field to conduct drills that simulate actual combat.

At this time, there were people at all four venues.

On the exercise ground on the north side is a fierce attack unit, with a total of 200 armored cavalry, divided into two teams of the enemy and us, and are conducting confrontation and combat drills. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the long soldiers used by the armoured cavalry were training lances without lance tips.

There were 500 cavalry in the Yan Raid Division, 200 cavalry were iron armor, and 300 cavalry were leather armor.

Now in the field of training is leather armor riding, although it is not iron armor, but because it is leather armor, the armor of the war horse can be painted with the form of tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts, the background color of the human horse armor is red, quite a hedge, looking at it like two scales and armor of the red dragon, violently entangled and bitten. With only 200 horsemen, the momentum of the fight has already shaken the ground and moved people's hearts.

The soldiers trained in the other three fields were sometimes watched by someone and were amazed.

And every time at this time, there are officers in charge of training discipline in each field who do not say a word, and pick up the stick.

Xin Er, who was standing on the parade platform, noticed this situation and said: "Military discipline must be more serious. During the exercise, it is not allowed to look around. ”

Yang Fu, Yan Zheng, and Lan Bao replied: "Yes." ”

"Only when this is done during the drill will the soldiers not be moved by foreign objects and not be frightened by the enemy army in the coming battle."

"Yes, General Vision. The lower officers and others kept it in mind, and today they passed the general's order to all battalions. ”

"After the drill of cavalry combat is almost complete, you can advance to the next step, and the foot soldiers will come here to conduct cavalry and foot combat."

"Yes."

After waiting for the cavalry and infantry battles to come to an end, the next step is to take the cavalry and infantry to the field for the coordinated training of mixed arms and fight each other. After the end of this training, the wartime cooperation between the 500 armored cavalry and the infantry and Hu cavalry should be enough for the enemy's strong troops.

The training ground on the west side is full of Hu horses, about 200 horses, looking at the flag, it is two whole tuns.

The two tuns were divided into two pieces.

A melee combat in which soldiers are being trained, most of them learn knives, and a few of them are strong and powerful to learn iron mallets.

The iron mallet is not widely used in the lower northern and southern armies, and it has not yet been as popular as later generations, but this thing is a sharp weapon against heavy armored cavalry.

In the original time and space, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the prevalence of blunt weapons such as iron mallets, iron whips, and iron maces was precisely to restrain the invincibility of the armor and cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The armoured riders and horses were armoured, the arrows were impenetrable, and the swords were not wounded, but they were only afraid of blunt weapons such as iron mallets.

I want the enemy to brave the arrows, show off their might, and gallop forward; At that time, there was suddenly a warrior with a mallet to kill, struggling to strike, the mallet has fourteen or fifteen catties, with the help of horse speed, under a blow, regardless of whether his armor is strong or not, if he does not vomit blood on the spot, he will also have an internal injury.

However, this weapon is heavier, and it is not easy for ordinary soldiers to use, because Xin Er only picked some powerful Hu people to learn and practice.

The other tun is practicing the old profession of the Hu people, the lasso.

The use of lassoes is not very good at the officers of the Tang people, and the main training is the military officials who are good at using lassoes among the Hu people.

Hundreds of horsemen blew their lips and patted their horses, flicked their lassoes, and threw themselves at the humanoid wooden stakes standing in the middle of the field in the gallop.

Xin Er looked at it for a while, and saw that most of these Hu riders were five votes and two or three hits, and said: "When they are ten votes and ten hits, they will remove the stakes and replace them with sheep, so that they can change into living creatures; After the flock, they will be given a higher difficulty, taken out of the camp, and taught to run horses. ”

Last year, when Zebian fought with Guo Baiju and Suo Chongbu, although Hu Mu of Chiloudan and other departments was unable to resist, there were also some warriors who used lasso to create some results.

Xin Er saw with his own eyes that Hu Mu was walking far away to lure the enemy, threw out a long rope, put on the armored horse that left the team, and dragged it off the horse.

When discussing the method of large-scale military training with Yang Fu a while ago, Xin Er remembered this matter and included this item in the official training project of the light cavalry. Nowadays, the light riders are all Hu riders, and when the Tang people join in the future, they will also let them learn this skill.

"Sima Fa" said: "If the soldiers are not mixed, it is disadvantageous", and all kinds of weapons must be used together in order to exert their power.

Xin Er read this book recently and thought deeply of this sentence.

However, he has no experience in battle formations, and at present, in the training, establishment, and combat of the army, he can only learn the theories of military classics while absorbing the mature experience of the present, and at the same time draw nutrients from the observations and experiences of later generations.

On the training ground in the south, there were both light cavalry of the Hu people and armored cavalry of the strict attack subordinates, with a total of about 300 cavalry, training in the detachment.

In addition, there were more than 200 lightly armored soldiers of the Tang people, sitting neatly on the edge of the training ground.

This is the one hundred and ten Tang people who participated in the training.

At this time, the armored cavalry trained in this field is iron-armoured, and all iron-armored cavalry are all followed.

This is the norm nowadays.

When Xin Er first knew, he was a little surprised, and immediately thought of the knights of the Western Middle Ages. In fact, if you think about it, the armor of today's riding equipment is similar to those so-called knights in the West, so it is not surprising that they have the same riding as those knights.

The reason why the Iron Armored Rider has a subordinate ride is probably the same as that of the Western Knights.

First, iron armor is far heavier than leather armor, only a pair of horse armor has more than 100 catties, and human armor is also dozens of catties, and a person can't wear it quickly.

Second, the first horse is more than one horse, or one side horse, or several side horses, and it is difficult for one person to take care of them.

Of the three, the armored cavalry is fully armed, and when fighting, most of them only have a pair of eyes exposed, and their field of vision is narrow; And the armor is heavy, it is inconvenient to get on and off the horse, and there is no way to harvest heads.

Yes, it is necessary to have from the ride.

In fact, in some wealthy and favored troops, not only iron armor, but even leather armor riders, there are also riders.

According to the wealth and reputation of the individual, the riders of the first horse usually have as little as one or two, and as many as four or five, and on weekdays they maintain the armor and take care of the war horses; help with armor-piercing before the war; In battle, they protect their backs and wings, and when the armor is slashed, they go up and cut off the heads.

The horses of the iron armor ride bear a heavy load, and the wide ravines do not require them to cross, and the main training for them is to go around and cross obstacles.

These iron armored riders are all first-class elites in Dingxi Kingdom, and obstacle training is pediatric for them. The military officials in his subordinate were quite unhappy with this training, thinking that it was unnecessary, but under the mandatory requirements of Xin Er, they still had to obediently obey the order.

Xin Er has his own considerations.

No matter how elite a soldier is, basic tactical moves are the most important.

Fighting against the enemy, many times, the decision between life and death is often only in an instant, and when that moment comes, how can there be any bells and whistles?

The person who fights is still a reaction without thinking, and this without thinking is the foundation.

And the industry is good at diligence, and the absurdity is ridiculous, so even if the iron armor rider is a first-class elite, the basic training must still be carried out every day.

Even, Xin Er wanted to write a sentence on the four sides of the parade platform, on each side of the four school fields: "Sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in wartime".

After watching the cavalry drill for more than an hour, Xin Er came to the infantry school.

The infantry school yard was also divided into several areas.

There are areas where infantry walks, runs, jumps, and exercises their strength with heavy loads. There is an area where you can practice hand-to-hand combat such as hand-to-hand combat. There is an area to learn about the use of various types of ordnance. There is also one of the largest areas, which is to learn various combat formations, including car formations.

Weight-bearing exercises, corner fights, and cavalry drills as well.

Especially in terms of weight, the armor of the armor is very heavy, and if the strength is insufficient, it will not work at all.

After watching the foot training for a long time, Xin Er turned out of the school field and arrived at the horse farm.

The war horse is the closest partner of the cavalry, and it is integrated with the cavalry during battle, and its importance to the cavalry is self-evident, even more important than that of comrades.

A good war horse is the basis for fighting, and a good war horse is not easy to obtain, and it is not something that can be used by just one horse.

If you want to get reliable and brave horses, cavalry has to work hard.

Exercises such as lying down, steering, advancing and retreating, accelerating, slowing down, etc.; Caressing, providing clean water, adding grass and materials, washing and other training to increase the feelings of people and horses; Rewards and punishments for war horses, etc., are indispensable.

"Wu Zi" said: "Ji his ears and eyes, no surprise." Xi Qi chases, idle its progress and stops. Blind dates, and then can be made. That's it.

Before the cavalry could do these trainings, there was a prerequisite, and that was to have one or more horses.

This horse farm is bred with newly selected war horses.

Xin Er broke the Hu Department of the two counties in a row a month ago, and seized a lot of money.

After the Qu and other departments were forced to migrate inward, Xin Er returned some of the sheep and horses captured to them, but all the excellent ones among the horses were retained, so that the military officials and veterinarians who were good at horses were selected from them, and those who could use combat horses were selected and specially built this horse farm to concentrate on feeding.

The selected war horses are divided into two categories, one is ordinary, which is used for light riding; One is tall and strong, and the spare ones are used as a supplement to the equipment.

The military expenses set by Linghu to Xin Er do not include this piece.

The cost of raising these war horses came from his own wallet, the welcome money and miscellaneous money given to him by the county government, and most of the money and property obtained by the broken beard department were invested in it.

To say that this is a lot of money, there are hundreds of war horses in the horse farm, and the number does not seem to be much, it seems that it is enough for a long time. really started feeding, and Xin Er realized how expensive it was to raise a war horse.

Ordinary horses, forage will do. War horses are not successful, and those specially prepared for equipment must be intensively raised, and horse materials are extremely expensive.

Xin Er already has a headache, according to such a money-burning trend, it won't be long before he will have an empty pocket.

Inspecting the horse farm and seeing the fierce war horses, Xin Er was overjoyed, and his thoughts turned to making money, and he remembered another suggestion from Zhang Gui. He touched his chin and thought, "Shouldn't I use the strategy of longevity to fight the local tyrants?" ”