The Great Wei Ma Zheng is indeed as the deputy envoy of this group of herds said, whether it is the previous herd priest and the horse supervisor, or the private horse breeding after the horse protection law, there are too few qualified war horses.

War horses are not only physique, shoulder height has strict requirements, but also have to be trained, on the battlefield to hear the sound of horn fighting, will not panic, will not mess up, can also be driven by the knight to rush forward, this is the preliminary qualified war horse.

The other is the ability to carry a camel, the ability to sprint, and the ability to survive, as well as the ability to survive in harsh environments.

War horses are a particularly delicate species, and later generations have a misunderstanding that riding a horse is definitely faster than walking, but this is not the case.

In short sprints, horses are of course much faster than people. But for long distances of more than a few hundred miles, no horse can go faster.

It's not impossible to walk quickly, and you have to be prepared for a large number of war horses to die.

Qingtang horse is a plateau horse, southwest horses are generally short, China originally had horses, mainly in the Shuofang area of herding, that is, the Hetao area is a traditional horse breeding land, the Han Dynasty is a good family, flying horses gallop is not a problem, the horse at that time is also a good horse, but unfortunately after thousands of years of mixed blood and war, the Great Wei not only has no good horses, but also has no horse breeding land.

The horse protection method is to scatter war horses among the people, and the horses raised are generally low and timid, which is not enough for war horses.

Now a small number of war horses in the Great Wei, in addition to the horse prison, most of them are good horses bought and sold from the Beilu and Xiqiang through smuggling channels, just as the Great Wei banned iron in the north and west, and the smuggling is endless, and the opposite side is also a ban on horses in the Great Wei, and some people can't help but attract the Great Wei with wealth, or there are common smuggling channels.

But buying horses in this way, that is, maintaining a fairly small scale, the cavalry of the Wei army is very small, although there are cavalry in the north, the number is maintained at the scale of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Although it cannot be compared with the 400,000 cavalry of the Northern Captives, Donghu and Xiqiang also have a large number of heavy cavalry, and the cavalry of the Wei army is really not large, and the difference is too far.

Xu Zixian clearly opposed the current militaristic policy of the Great Wei Dynasty, that is, the purpose of using heavy infantry with strong crossbows to fight the enemy.

Although it was a helpless move, Xu Zixian clearly pointed out that from the Central Plains to the grassland and Liaodong, it was a vast plain area, and the Wei army relied on the city walls of prefectures and counties and a large number of fortresses in Hebei, and could still maintain a considerable counterattack capability.

If the heavy troops are sent to the north and Liaodong, under the premise that the country is strong and the forbidden army is quite intact, it can also conduct field battles with superior cavalry.

The situation is completely different so far, the treatment of the forbidden army, equipment, and training are all plummeting compared with before, the main reason is the lack of financial resources, and the lack of financial resources is not able to strengthen the army, so it continues to raise a million forbidden troops, it is better to use the limited financial resources to expand the cavalry.

As far as the Northern Expedition is concerned, if the Wei army does not have at least 50,000 or 60,000 elite cavalry to protect the flanks of the army, it has a strong mobility ability when counterattacking, and no matter how complete the infantry formation and long-range strike capability are, it will never be able to annihilate the enemy.

In the vast fertile field of Liaodong for thousands of miles, the four fields are vast for more than 100 miles without supplies, and there is no fortress under the geographical conditions, there is no certain cavalry, rashly going north, trapped by the enemy, cutting off the grain route, constantly harassing, the army's heart is shaken, and finally defeated.

From a logical point of view alone, Su Songxian and others did not feel that Xu Zixian was wrong.

However, in terms of the rebuttal of the deputy herd herd, the main contradiction is still in the horse breeding field.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were horse herding supervisors along the coast of Fujian, and there were millions of good horses in the country, and the Tang Dynasty fought against foreign enemies, mainly relying on cavalry, especially the war of the Beiting Duhufu, and dispatching soldiers and horses of different tribes to participate in the war, how could the Tang army be based on foot combat?

Even if it is the Anxi Protectorate, there are a large number of heavy infantry such as the Modao team, but the cavalry is just as good, once the cavalry is insufficient, it is easy to be divided and surrounded, the famous battle of Hengros, the Tang army cavalry is insufficient, and the alien cavalry mutinies at a critical time, resulting in a big defeat.

Xu Zixian's principle is that the foot and the horse are coordinated, there is no way to ride, and it is easy to lose morale under the danger of the fortified city.

Judging from the opinions of many big figures in front of him, Xu Zixian's argument is still rootless duckweed after all, which seems to have its truth, but in fact, it can only be regarded as an empty talk.

"What should I do?" Chen Gefei, the deputy envoy of the herdsmen, was a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, and asked Su Songxian: "Fallen?" ”

"Why bother to give Zuo Xiang and the Son of Heaven such trouble?" Su Songxian said with a smile: "The writing is skillful, the penmanship is sophisticated, and it is worthy of everyone who wrote such a wonderful sketch as the Fuzhou military parade. ”

"If it's Li Youde, I'm afraid I'm going to introduce Nan Anhou as a bosom friend."

Everyone nodded with a smile, the two famous generals of this dynasty, Yue Zhi is famous for defending, and Li Youde is good at attacking.

The so-called immovable is like a mountain, and its Xu is like a forest, which is of course Yue Zhi.

Aggression is like fire, this is Li Youde.

Thirteen years of great victory against Donghu, Yue Zhi defended well, Li Youde led thousands of forbidden troops to ride on foot, breaking the main force of more than 20,000 people in Donghu, this battle was still brilliant.

This is a famous general who uses infantry and cavalry to attack together, especially the concentrated use of cavalry, which makes people feel bright.

Now Yue Zhi is the official worship of the Tai Lieutenant, and Li Youde also mentioned the position of the commander of the Xiangdu, and the Great Wei Tianzi concentrated the cavalry of the three armies in one box under the command of Li Youde, and also took a fancy to his ability to command the cavalry.

Li Youde also wrote a book, pointing out that more than 20,000 people in one compartment are not enough to decide the situation of the war, and at the critical moment, when the cavalry of the two compartments is assembled, it can play a decisive role.

Of course, Li Youde hoped to be a captain and be able to lead two soldiers on the battlefield, but when this word spread, it was mentioned as a joke by the people in the officialdom of Beijing.

Yue Zhi has been a famous general for more than 20 years, and he has accumulated great merits, and there are no strange words that have spread when he was raised.

After all, Li Youde is only in his thirties, and he was only in charge of the military capital before, from the military capital to the box capital, the imperial court has already paid for his merits, and he still wants to be able to lead the two-box and three-box soldiers and horses, not to mention that he is a forward general, even if he is a lieutenant like Yue Zhi, if he wants to lead such a heavy army, he has to think about whether the Privy Council can agree, will the Son of Heaven rest assured?

The Great Wei military system, with more than 2,000 people in one army, is enough for the frontal battlefield, and more than 20,000 people in one compartment are enough to determine the form of the battlefield.

Those who can lead a group of soldiers and horses are the heavy generals, especially the Beijing camp is even more powerful, known as the Ten Pipe Army, and it is difficult for ordinary generals to do it if they want to be in the ranks of the heavy generals of the management army, let alone Li Youde, who has been on the outside for a long time.

If it involves a major war involving hundreds of thousands of people in the Northern Expedition, it can only be a privy deputy envoy who is very different from the minister, and he will become an envoy to control these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Even if the privy deputy envoy is sent, there will be a large army to observe the army, transfer envoys, and all kinds of pacification envoys in it, and there are layers of constraints, a military general who was born as a striker wants to lead tens of thousands of cavalry, this is almost all the family background of the Great Wei cavalry, even if it is related to the Northern Expedition, everyone still thinks that Li Youde is whimsical, and his appetite is too great.

Even Li Guorui, Yue Zhi and others dare not support Li Youde openly, once there is really any change, it is still a trivial matter for them to lose their lives, and no one can afford to mislead the country.

Xu Zixian's heavy cavalry strategy, in detail, is not much different from Li Youde.

It is necessary to concentrate the use of cavalry, instead of scattering all armies and all sides, and only by using concentrated cavalry to counter it, the Northern Expedition to the East and Hu will have victory at all.

"Nan Anhou's policy is quite brilliant." Su Songxian said listlessly: "It must be spread, but it's just a matter of children." ”

"He thought that he would be able to lead his troops to storm the residence of the government and kill people and goods, and then he would be able to dictate the military affairs?" The deputy envoy of the herd is a person from Liu Zhiyuan's faction, and he is about to go out, at most, he is sent out to know the inferior military state, and of course he will not have any scruples when he speaks, and it can be regarded as a broken jar.

"Be careful, be careful." Su Songxian is considered to be in the line of Han Zhong, an official of the Great Wei Dynasty, either Han or Liu, of course he will not be polite to Chen Gefei, and he said: "Asking about soldiers was originally what Wu Jinshi should do, Nan'anhou's grammar format is impeccable, although the discussion is biased, but the original question is to make people speak, and it is not a crazy word, and it is not sarcastic." ”

Everyone had nothing to say at this point, Su Songxian frowned and drew a circle on Xu Zixian's question, and the rest of the examiners drew a circle together, which is considered to be qualified, recommended to the desk of the Son of Heaven, and then drawn by the Son of Heaven, Xu Zixian's martial arts will be counted.

"I just don't know how many people to wait?" Someone was puzzled: "In terms of strategy, the third class is enough." ”

"The ranking of Wujin warriors mainly depends on bow and horse archery." Su Songxian said indifferently: "Over there, Deputy Envoy He is the chief examiner, and Nan Anhou has to show his real skills." ”

In order to stabilize the situation and the general affairs of the court, He Badger, the privy deputy envoy, has not officially resigned, and the Wu Jinshi and the examiner were decided before the mutiny, and the sudden resignation is easy to cause undue trouble, and Han Zhong can only wait patiently for two days.

Han Zhong has already picked a high-grade military state for He Badger, and when he goes out by privy council, this bit of decency is still there.

"He doesn't dare to go too far." Su Songxian said in his heart: "If you make trouble, you have to prepare to go to Dali Temple Prison directly, if you have already died to participate in politics, how big is it to die a privy deputy envoy?" ”

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He Badger's face was really ugly.

Today is the third day of the Wenwu Jinshi exam, Wen Jinshi is still taking the poetry test, in fact, it doesn't matter, the first two days can be circled and the quota of the new science Jinshi has been set, no matter how well the poems are written, there will be no changes in the overall situation.

But the examination of the Wujin Shi is completely different, archery, horse archery, marching formation, golden drum banner, this is the most important thing.