After all, the training of cavalry is completely different from that of infantry, cavalry must first be familiar with war horses, will be fed, washed and cared for war horses, war horses also have tempers, need to find out the temper, take care of them carefully, like partners will be mastered by cavalry.

Then you have to be able to dress, put on the saddle stirrups, be able to repair the hooves of the war horse, change the shoes, and do these things well consumes a lot of time and energy.

After nearly three months of training, the cavalry who had only ridden a horse once or twice, or rode a mule or a donkey, even if it was a very good talent, could only barely do this.

As for the subjects of long-distance marching on horseback, slashing at a fixed target with a knife on a horse, slashing the head of a wooden target with a riding knife, or slashing the chest and abdomen of the target with the tip of a knife, these subjects have just begun, and they are still far from passing.

After all, not everyone has the talent of cavalry like Min Yuanzhi, who can risk falling off his horse and the dizziness of spinning the sky on a fiercely running horse......

When the new training subjects were launched, it was not uncommon for cavalrymen to break their wrists, return without success, or even fall from fiercely running horses, and although no one had died as a result of training, many people had been seriously injured, and countless minor injuries had been made.

A cavalryman who can train a cavalryman who gallops for miles and still maintains a neat queue and can kill and wound the enemy with a lance and a sword is considered qualified.

As for riding and shooting on horseback, firing bows left and right, standing on horses and shooting heavy arrows, changing horses and galloping for ten or twenty days in a row, eating and sleeping on horses, such cavalry can only be done by nomads on horseback, and these cavalrymen in front of them may not be able to do this degree after ten years of training.

Moreover, Min Yuanqi did not plan to train his subordinates like this.

Nomadic cavalry may not be able to please cavalry with better equipment, stricter training, and neater ranks.

The tactics of the classical cavalry are better, and the equipment is better, such as the Northern Wei Dynasty can play hundreds of thousands of soft and full of teeth, the early Northern Zhou Dynasty, the early Sui Dynasty, the early Tang Dynasty, these cavalry trained and equipped by the Central Plains Dynasty, can also easily defeat the Turks, the Tang Army against the Turks, Khitan, Tuyuhun, Uighurs, in the national strength, logistics, equipment, training are quite good, almost invincible.

As for the modern cavalry, which has more advanced and scientific training methods, it can beat the scattered nomadic cavalry all over the ground.

Min Yuanqi also regretted a little, if it was half a year later, the new battalion would make up two more hundred cavalry, and the cavalry division would be full of more than 400 cavalry.

The war horses purchased one after another should also be able to initially meet the needs of the cavalry division, and the training subjects have been basically completed, Min Yuanqi wants to see what kind of scene the cavalry trained by himself and Min Yuanzhi is fighting with the traditional cavalry of this era.

"It's a pity." Min Yuanqi said straight to Min Yuan: "I can only wait for the next opportunity." ”

"First and foremost, deal with the cavalry." Yang Zhijin looked left and right, hugged his fists and said: "I have a hole in my opinion, I want to find a way to take advantage of the terrain so that the enemy cannot open and charge our army head-on." ”

Min Yuanqi nodded and praised, and said with a smile: "Zhijin's words are almost right, if only cavalry comes, my battalion of soldiers will be able to resist and even defeat it." If only infantry comes, I will set up a sharp formation and break it with a single blow. However, the arrival of the cavalry will inevitably put our army in the predicament of advancing and retreating. Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, this idea is the opposite, how to use it, but also to try. ”

Min Yuanjin frowned and said: "My Yunti Pass has ten hundred households on the north and south banks of the Great River, but our three hundred households and seven hundred households, including the three Bei Tu City and the Thousand Households City, are all on the south bank, which is also the core essence of the place we must guard." The invading enemy also came from the direction of Huai'an Province, and by land, which means that the invading enemy came directly from the south. The location is superior, and it is a little difficult. If we divide our forces to garrison the Thousand Households or Tucheng, we will have a great shortage of troops to fight the enemy. As long as the enemy general is not too arrogant, or changes his tactics after a slight setback, and sends a small number of elite cavalry and infantry to sweep our hundreds of households, burn my forbidden house, and destroy my salt pond, then the army's morale will be in turmoil, and our army will be defeated without a fight. If we don't care about Tucheng and Qianhusuo, then the periphery will be uprooted one after another, and our army can only engage the enemy in the plains of a few hundred households, and the morale of the army will be unstable at that time, and the more than 10,000 infantry cavalry will be flanked, and it cannot be said that there is no chance of victory in terms of our army's training and equipment, but the probability of victory is not high. ”

Everyone frowned when they heard this, although Min Yuanqi in front of him did not panic in the slightest, he still looked calm, which also gave everyone a lot of confidence. But Min Yuanqi never restrained everyone when he held a meeting, and he always said whatever he thought in his heart, so Min Yuanjin could also be outspoken, and he was not afraid that what he said would anger Min Yuanqi.

Even if he didn't have any scruples, Min Yuanjin's face was extremely ugly after he finished speaking.

Gao Cuncheng hugged his fists and said: "I mostly agree with what Yuan Jin said, but I don't agree with what our army will easily shake and collapse. Under the leadership of the adults, the training of our army was ten times more arduous than that of these guest soldiers, and when they were training, they went back and forth for 200 miles without sleep, and when they returned to the camp, everyone was shaky, and even fell asleep while walking. Walking, sitting, lying, and even washing and eating are all done according to the rules, and everything is under the constraints of military discipline. Whether it is the method of technical warfare, the method of array, the appearance of the army, the will and tenacity, it is all within the scope of training. Besides, the salary is good, and all the families in the battalion are related to the cause of our adults, whether in the salt pond, or in the workshop, or for the guard, everyone is prosperous and lossy. Moreover, once our army is defeated, the local area will be plagued by fire, and the cruelty and viciousness of the guest soldiers will be clear to everyone. Under such circumstances, although our army cannot be said to be as unmoved as a rock, the whole army may collapse if there is a slight disadvantage, and what Yuan Jin said is still too dangerous, I don't think so. ”

This remark aroused the unanimous approval of everyone, and everyone nodded their heads in approval.

After all, the training of the Yunti Pass Banner Army is really non-stop every day, except for special things, such as the last great victory over the incoming pirates and bandits, the Banner Army was allowed to rest for a day, in addition, that is, the Flag Army can be allowed to rest when it is sick.

Either it is Min Yuanqi's words, and you can adjust your rest during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the New Year.

In addition, even if there is an elderly person in the family to celebrate his birthday, or a wedding, funeral, etc., he will be given a half-day leave at most, and he will still train as usual after coming back.

Veterans are allowed to take half a day's leave every half a month, and the new army is in the camp for three months, and it is absolutely not allowed to take leave unless it is extremely special.

Many of the recruits have been in the camp for nearly three months, and they have never even left the camp gate unless they are out of the camp for training.

The food supply in the camp is very abundant, and there are some daily activities to relieve the tension of training, which is also a measure to strengthen the unity between the teams.

For example, a series of competitions such as tug-of-war, running, and wrestling can not only make the atmosphere more lively, but also make the losers unwilling, and consciously and voluntarily exercise their physical fitness and fighting skills, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Enough food, enough training, and even entertainment is related to physical fitness, plus the production of weapons and firearms workshops has gradually increased in the past two months, at least every recruit has received his own common weapon, and the method of array has also been trained.

These banner armies are all trained by hard work under the leadership of Min Yuanqi, saying that they will collapse easily, everyone does not want to believe it in their hearts, and they also think that there is no such possibility.

"What our army lacks is battlefield experience in large-scale warfare." Min Yuanzhong pondered for a long time before he said: "So at the beginning of the battle, it is best to be able to restrain the enemy cavalry, separate the enemy's infantry and cavalry from the combined attack, and at least make the enemy cavalry unable to impact our army's formation." If we march on foot, then our army should not be afraid of those miscellaneous soldiers, and what if they are three times as large as me? I still have a lot of confidence in our soldiers. It's just that our so-called geographical advantage is just familiar with the road environment, and if we want to talk about geographical advantages, we really can't talk about ......"

Everyone laughed bitterly when they heard this.

Indeed, Yuntiguan is near the sea, and because the Huai River was taken by the Yellow River more than 300 years ago after the Huai River into the sea, a large amount of water flow is not well discharged, first flooded the old Sizhou and other places, formed Hongze Lake in low-lying places, and then a large amount of sediment enters the sea every year, and then gradually forms a large area of tidal flats, in recent decades, most of the Huai River into the sea is along the tributaries into the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River into the sea, and the small half is in the siltation of the old estuary into the sea, that is, the place where Yunti Pass is located.

Behind it is the boundary of the sea and tidal flats, there is no room for maneuver, the Huai River in the north, the Guan River and the Lixia River in the south, and several small river tributaries.

These rivers irrigate the land from east to west, bringing great convenience to water conservancy, and also connecting with the waters of the Grand Canal, which runs north and south, and can also be used to directly enter the Yangtze River, which can be said to be very convenient.

This is also a part of the so-called geographical advantage, after all, it is a vertical and horizontal area of the water network, and it is relatively difficult for the army to deploy, and the route of the enemy army and the battlefield that can be deployed can only be on the official road line along the Huai River to Yunti Pass, that is, along the south bank of the Huai River in Andong, Guannan, and the south bank of the Huai River in Guanyun County, and along the official road in the middle of the Huai River and the Guan River all the way to the east.

There are no county towns and large market towns in the middle, so the road is just that, and there are no decent roads at all in many places, after all, there are no prefectures and counties in the coastal areas of this era, and the government has not even set up post stations, and it is even more impossible to build official roads. Many of the roads were formed by the passage of villages and market towns over the past 200 years, and because of this, many roads were broken off when they walked, and they could only pass between the canals, fields, and even villages.

If you go south to Yancheng, you will detour for hundreds of miles, and there is no decent official road from Yancheng to Yuntiguan.

At the beginning of the country, there should be roads between the thousands of households, but because of the dense river, for example, the first guard command office set up by Dahewei was located in Huai'an Fucheng, and the five thousand households were stationed in Shanyang, Shuyang, Guanyun and the south of Haizhou, all the way to the Yunti Pass, which was originally connected by official roads, but after a long time, the armed forces were abandoned, and the thousands of households had long been based on Cao Yun, and the land communication was used for war preparation, and it had long been abandoned.

According to the military discipline and logistical ability of the guest soldiers, it is almost the same to walk ten miles a day, and when the time is calculated, it will take at least ten days before the arrival of its main force, and such a long time is used to buffer combat readiness, which is also the benefit of geographical convenience.

Of course, if these guest soldiers like the Yunti Guan Banner Army are training for one or two hundred miles on a daily basis, then even if the brigade comes, they should arrive at the battlefield within a few days.

It is expected that Liu Zeqing will fight the rabbit with a lion this time, but he will not urge the generals to hurry up, even if he urges, according to the military discipline and logistics conditions of his subordinates, there is no way to force a rapid advance.