Chapter 90: The Cavalry

When Zeng Yu and they were discussing, He Yan walked in from outside, as Tuntian Cao, he was the first person in charge of the cultivation of official fields in Anqiao County, and now he only manages some displaced people and tenant farmers from the previous Wang and Sun families.

He Yan's arrival made their negotiations more detailed and concrete, because they had already drawn up rough rules before, and now they were only supplemented to improve them, and then the specific operations were handed over to He Yan and some of his subordinates.

It is said that after Zeng Yu entered Anping County, some local scholars saw that Zeng Yu drove Cui Yu away with an absolute advantage, and they accepted Zeng Yu's call and recommended some of their children to come over.

Gude and the others came back and said that it took longer than they had gone, and it was not until seven days later that they returned to Anping County. When they came back, the first was the five hundred county soldiers led by the county lieutenant Good, who escorted the two masters of Huanglongzhai to the front, followed by a group of Huanglongzhai people who unloaded their weapons, and finally Zhou Cang led a thousand unclothed soldiers to press the formation.

Zeng Yu specially greeted them at the gate of the county seat, and the people in the county heard that their county order sent people to capture Huanglongzhai and captured the leader of the cottage, so they came to the city gate to watch. They saw that the county soldiers, who had terrified everyone in the county before, had become their true protectors, escorting a man who was said to be the leader of the bandits to the forefront.

The people talked a lot, and most of them said how powerful Zeng Yu was. After all, Huanglongzhai used to loot near the county seat, although it did not directly attack the county, but also made many people ruined by them, and Cui Yu couldn't deal with Huanglongzhai before, but had to pay money and food to keep safe. And now that the county magistrate has been in office for less than a month, he has given this thief den that plagued them to a pot, in contrast, Zeng Yu is their real parent official.

Zeng Yu walked on the road, and there were onlookers on both sides, and he also heard the chattering voices around him. Xiang Gude and Zhou Cang next to him said: "The people's requirements are actually very simple, whoever can let them live and live better will be able to get their support." As long as we can protect the territory and the people, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, we will naturally be able to make the country rich and the people strong. ”

"It's a pity that the people's livelihood in the Han Dynasty is withering, and foreign races frequently invade the frontier, and countless people have to leave their hometowns." Goode sighed. Some of the people in the county soldiers were newly accepted homeless people, and he talked to these people, but they were all forced to leave because they couldn't survive in their hometowns. And the bandit forces such as Huanglongzhai are mostly gathered by ordinary people who can't survive, and he can imagine what the entire Han Dynasty looks like now.

"Yes, my lord, that's why we're following you, hoping that you will give the brethren a happy land to survive." Zhou Cang is a direct victim of the invasion of the alien race, and he can even understand the feeling of trying his best to survive.

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek. The future is still very long, but as long as we are down-to-earth, we will be able to realize everyone's wishes. Zeng Yu replied affirmatively, this is not only to cheer up Zhou Cang, but also to establish his own heart.

They chatted while walking, Goode asked the county soldiers to go directly to the barracks outside the city under the leadership of their respective centurions, and there were also unclothed soldiers who came with Zhou Cang, and the second master of Huanglongzhai was Zeng Yu's own soldiers escorted to the prison cell of the county government, and at the same time, in addition to Gude and Zhou Cang, there were also Yang Xun and the three of them who followed Zeng Yu to the county government.

As for the other people in Huanglongzhai, considering their previous identities, and there were still many people in the county town watching, outside the city gate, Guo Jia and He Yan led them directly to Tuntiandian, where there were some simple barracks built in advance for them to live temporarily.

Yang Xun and the others followed behind Zeng Yu, although Gude told them about the deeds of this county commander, but they were still a little apprehensive in their hearts. When Zeng Yu was at the gate of the city, he gave them a warm welcome, but all the soldiers under the command of the three of them were scattered, some went to Tuntian, and some followed them to Jinniu Mountain.

"Yang Xun, Guo Yue, Gongsun Ao, this time because of your help, we have won the victory of this bandit suppression more smoothly. The three of you are now serving as the military commander in the county soldiers, and you are alone in command of a thousand-person team, of which Yang Xun is the main one, and Guo Yue and Gongsun Ao are the auxiliaries. After arriving at the county office, Zeng Yu gave the latest appointment to Yang Xun and the others.

"Thank you, sir!" Yang Xun and the others also knew that there were only 3,000 county soldiers here in the county government now, and the county lieutenant was Gude, and they were all familiar with each other. Zeng Yu was able to directly put them in charge of one-third of the county officials, which can be regarded as valuing them. Although there are not as many people in Huanglongzhai as before, their identities are different, and Zeng Yu also promised them that their rewards are a little small compared to their merits, and they will be compensated when their positions are promoted in the future.

"Uncle, do you have any experience in cavalry training?" Zeng Yu asked Gude that he had already found someone to purchase war horses, but the war horses still needed training after they came, and he didn't know if Gude was up to the task.

"Cavalry? I hadn't brought it before, so if I needed to train, I had to find someone to help me. Goode was pleasantly surprised, then replied.

"My lord, I used to be a cavalry commander in Daijun, in charge of commanding a hundred cavalry, I think I can give it a try." Yang Xun took the opportunity to say that Daijun was already considered the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty, and it was easier to get war horses there, Yang Xun was indeed a cavalry commander in the scout battalion in Daijun before, and he led a hundred scout cavalry to investigate the news of the place during the war, so he had a certain understanding of the training and combat methods of the cavalry.

Zeng Yu heard Yang Xun speak, he turned his head to look at Goode, and found that Goode also looked at Yang Xun with a surprised face at this time, obviously not knowing that Yang Xun still had this ability. Yang Xun looked at the expressions of Zeng Yu and the others, and knew that they didn't believe it, so he told his previous experience and told them.

After learning about Yang Xun's previous experience, Zeng Yu's perception of the three of them changed, especially Zeng Yu. When he first heard the names of a few people, they were not famous people in history, and they were all grass, so he didn't pay much attention to them, just as an ordinary martial artist with a little skill.

"In this case, in addition to commanding the 1,000 county soldiers, Yang Xun also serves as the deputy general of Bo Yu, assisting in the training of all county soldiers." Zeng Yu ordered.

"Yes, Lord (Your Excellency)!" Goode and Yang Xun stood up at the same time and replied with their fists clenched.

"Lord, I wonder when the war horse will be able to be transported?" Goode asked, knowing that he could command the cavalry next, and he was a little excited in his heart. Cavalry has always been a sharp weapon in the era of cold weapons, and as long as it is used well, it can even play a role on the battlefield that is equal to five or even ten times the number of foot soldiers.

"Three months! When you went to Huanglongzhai, I asked someone to go to the outside of the fortress to purchase war horses, and agreed to send the war horses in three months, and I also asked people to start building the equipment needed by the cavalry, which could be completed almost at the same time. Zeng Yu knew that Goode would ask, and of course he told him this time.

The first time China had cavalry was during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the previous ones were chariots. It's roughly a car with a driver and three people. At that time, the position of chariots in the war was very important, and at that time, the combat power of a certain vassal state was often based on the number of chariots, such as the country of a thousand times, which was almost at the peak of the combat power of the Spring and Autumn Period.

The real cavalry construction on the territory of China should start from King Wuling of Zhao, and the Hufu cavalry shooting carried out by Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, first shined in the war at that time, not only repelled the long-term invasion of foreign races, but also played an important role in the later princes' struggle for hegemony. However, cavalry was far from being as powerful as we thought it would be at first, and its main role was to break down the opponent's formation and be suitable for attacking foot soldiers. But when attacking with foreign races such as the Huns, because the cavalry can not compare with the other party, so in the cavalry battles are often in a weak position, the Huns have superb riding skills, and the level of cavalry and archery is far from being comparable to the Chinese cavalry, and can only use the infantry phalanx to rely on the fortifications or cities to block.

Until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, not only did the cavalry team with excellent riding skills be cultivated, but also the cavalry tactics were developed. "The Han Dynasty made the hussar general go to the sick and rode out of Longxi, crossed the Yanzhi Mountain for more than 1,000 miles, attacked the Huns, and captured more than 8,000 people, and broke the king of Hugh to sacrifice to Tianjin. In the summer, the hussar general Fu and the cavalry Hou tens of thousands rode out of Longxi and the north for more than 2,000 miles, attacked the Huns, passed Tuyan, and attacked Qilian Mountain, and captured more than 30,000 people under Hu Shou, and more than 70 people below the little king. "It proved that the cavalry had clearly replaced the infantry as the main force of battle, and that the old method of fighting by chariot charging had been eliminated.

Cavalry became the ultimate main force in the war, or with the invention of the stirrup and the Takahashi saddle. During the Western Han Dynasty, the bow and arrow were the most important combat weapons of the Xiongnu and Han cavalry, and its use was severely restricted by horse harnesses. When there were no harnesses, it was extremely difficult for the Han army to shoot arrows on galloping horses, because the riders had to clamp the horse's belly with their legs and maintain their balance, and on the other hand, they also had to pull the bow with both arms and try to make the arrows hit the target, this combat method was also very inefficient and difficult to implement, at this time the best way was to stop the horse to shoot arrows or simply dismount and shoot, only the nomadic people who grew up on horseback since childhood could do real riding and shooting; When the Takahashi saddle is put into use, it gives the rider a longitudinal stabilizing effect, allowing it to shoot arrows in front of the rider while speeding, but because there is no effective support laterally, it is still easy to fall when shooting in the left and right directions or even when turning to shoot backwards.

Under the power of the great unification, the Chinese ancestors gave full play to their wisdom, invented the stirrup and the high bridge saddle, so that the Han Dynasty firmly occupied an absolute dominant position in the entire East, the so-called one Han when the five Hu, from here, the power accumulated in a hundred years, so that the real warriors of China in the war with the nomads, are calculated by one when five, this is the glory created by the ancestors of China.