The method of cavalry warfare, whether it is the northern cavalry technique of the Great Wei Dynasty, or the cavalry tactics of the northern captives and the eastern captives, Xu Zixian is not eye-catching.

At present, the cavalry of the northern captives is to use soft riding bows, and do not dare to fight in close combat, only dare to release arrows in a roundabout, neither strength nor blood bravery, and the method of cavalry combat has become a joke.

There were only a small number of heavy cavalry left in the north to support the scene, and because all the people were soldiers and nomads, everyone could ride horses, so they barely maintained the situation of competing with the Great Wei and the Eastern captives.

As for the eastern captives, they are known to be invincible with cavalry archery, but in fact, the cavalry and use have not reached the peak of classical cavalry.

Donglu also has plenty of horses, everyone has a horse to ride, especially when invading the Great Wei, Donglu moves very fast, which is a strength and advantage. It is also a fact that the children of Dongyu learned to shoot, and when they grew up, they used strong bows with more than ten forces, and their heads were good, and it was also a fact that the Wei army suffered heavy casualties and floated in formation when covering fire.

However, Dongyu is not actually good at cavalry warfare, let alone fighting with heavy cavalry.

There is a record of the Great Wei officials, which shows their tactics.

"The captives use more sharp formations, retreat for a while, and come again and again, each formation is as heavy as a formation."

The sharp formation is the method of breaking the formation of the cavalry, and there are heavy cavalry in the east, and the sharp formation is used to impact the Ming army's formation, retreating for a while, and coming again and again, each of which is as heavy as a formation.

At first glance, it looks like the Eastern Captives are attacking one after another with cavalry battles.

Again: "The elite soldiers stand in other places and watch, do not order to dismount, if there is no place, that is, to respond." ”

Also: "The one who wears heavy armor and wields a sharp blade is ordered to be a striker." Those who wear short armor, that is, two pieces of armor, are also good at shooting, and impact from behind. ”

This is all cavalry tactics, on the battlefield, with heavy armor and sharp blades as the enemy, back and forth impact after burst, heavy armor is heavy cavalry, the rest are light cavalry, the use is to respond, archery.

Xu Zixian wanted to have hundreds of heavy cavalry, everyone wore heavy armor, horses also wore armor, each heavy cavalry cost hundreds of times, each heavy cavalry must also have servants to ride, and the cavalry must also be a qualified light cavalry, help sweep the battlefield on the battlefield, usually take care of and feed the war horses, and it is best to have a slave horse to help the camel carry the heavy horse armor and knight armor.

That is, a heavy cavalry requires at least three horses, a knight, and a servant.

If you raise 2,000 heavy cavalry, you have to raise several thousand men and six or seven thousand horses, and the annual cost is at least one million yuan.

This kind of heavy cavalry is actually quite useful, and when you are trapped, no enemy cavalry can stop you.

As Li Shimin said, there is nothing else for the people in a hundred battles, but only the armor and the soldiers.

But the reality is that Xu Zi is not allowed to do this first, and it is impossible to even fantasize...... Nan'anhou Mansion has more than one million family assets, but it is impossible to build such a heavy cavalry by selling all the property of Nan'anhou Mansion.

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Lin Guoji rode on the horse, feeling his body stiff and mentally nervous.

He rode a red horse, five years old, and he was a young and good horse. The height is not very high, about to Lin Guoji's chest, it is not difficult for a veteran horseman to get on the horse, hold it up, and don't go up the stirrups.

However, the movements of getting on and off the horse are strictly trained, not only to be fast and neat, but also to be consistent with all the brothers.

Each cavalry is also strictly organized into a team, a formation, and all the cavalry is organized into five. There is still a shortage of manpower, but now the financial resources of the Shicheng Institute are still insufficient, so it is not full for the time being.

Lin Guoji's team is missing a formation, and the three teams are all veterans, and they all have a foundation in riding, even so, the training in the West School is quite difficult.

Every movement of the horse must be accurate, uniform, and the distance must be maintained at all times.

The standard is to look left and right, to be level with all the brothers, and the head of each horse is not allowed to differ by more than one punch.

This was quite difficult, and after an afternoon of training, Lin Guoji was already sweating profusely, and he felt more tired than running 20 miles in the morning.

"Slow down, don't be fast!"

After the shouting, Lin Guoji took a sharp breath, feeling that his palms were full of sweat, he tried his best to control the movement of stepping off the war horse, trying to keep the distance between the front and back, the horse still couldn't help but scurry forward, more than half of the whole team.

"Oh no......" Lin Guoji just muttered, his right leg already felt a pain, but he was hit on the leg by a stick from a hundred household officials.

"If you make another mistake, don't think about eating tonight!"

Even when he was a high man with a very peaceful temperament, he was not merciful during training, and after a stick was struck, he ran over to teach the rest of the people a lesson.

Lin Guoji didn't dare to get angry with his horse, so he could only try to appease him, and stopped the horse for a while, and only after he was level with his left and right partners did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's not easy...... Lin Guoji sighed with a straight face, he is still a capital head, he is reprimanded and beaten in such training, no one will be an exception, even if it is a first-class officer, as long as he can't be level with his partner in the horse team, he will also be severely reprimanded.

No one is immune, no exception.

……

"Good." After watching the cavalry battalion drill and seeing the rows of red cavalry galloping back and forth quite tightly and neatly, Xu Zixian finally nodded with satisfaction, and said to Zhang Huchen and the others: "You have worked hard and done a good job." ”

Zhang Huchen smiled first, and then said to Xu Zixian with a little bitterness: "Junhou, this formation is complete, and it has nothing to do in the world, Zhang Zhijiang is gone." For the riders, there is no glory to speak of. ”

As a military general from a cavalry general's family, Zhang Huchen instinctively knew that this cavalry formation paid more attention to the strength of the array and the collective, and the personal martial arts and style did not have much effect in such a cavalry formation.

Although he brought out such a strong cavalry force, Zhang Huchen himself was extremely complicated in his heart, and he didn't know whether to be happy or worried?

"Huchen, you want to be left." Xu Zixian smiled and said: "There is one battalion now, and in the future it may be ten battalions or a hundred battalions." You will bring out countless battalions of elite iron cavalry for me, when they sweep the world for me, sweep away the strong enemy, people only remember that this iron cavalry was brought out by you, and it was you who commanded the cavalry, this is already the greatest glory, this glory, not only to me, to the Nan'an army, but also to you, to your family, you, how can you not be reluctant? ”

"Yes, the subordinate has lost his word." Zhang Huchen looked excited, for the dream of a rider, how could he not be touched?

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In the early summer of the fourteenth year of Chongde, on the second day of the fifth month, Xu Zixian accompanied the cavalry battalion to the east side of the official road around the island.

On the day of the trip, more than 500 cavalry battalions and Xu Zixian's guards gathered together, hundreds of horses were arranged quite densely, mosquitoes and flies flew around, and the smell of mule and horse feces was everywhere.

Knights and horses scattered in twos and threes, filling the entire river beach in the upper reaches of Nan'an Creek. Aquatic plants flutter in the river, and everywhere you look, there is greenery.

The horses were temporarily let go, and all the war horses were fed enough concentrate every day, and they were very fat and strong, but the height of the war horses was generally insufficient, about one meter two or three at a height of about one meter, two or three, and only a small number of war horses could reach about one meter four or five.

At the time of departure, Xu Zixian was delayed.

A group of white-clothed people rode over, Li Yi, Kong He and others led the way ahead, Xu Zi was notified first, and waited in front of the cavalry camp schoolyard.

A crowd of civilians picked up horse manure in dung baskets among the scattered cavalry, and they laughed and laughed casually with the knights.

"Heaven is still white." Xu Zixian said to Zhang Huchen: "Manchu Jia is already Shangbai, Three Buddhas, Lanfang and other countries, and the impact is not small. ”

"Prince." Zhang Huchen said excitedly: "It seems that these horses are very tall and ......."

Xu Zixian also felt excited, but when he looked back, there was a camphor forest behind him, with lush foliage, blocking the scenery beyond......

From the cavalry battalion to the southwest and northwest, a radius of more than 100 li, about 3 million acres of hills and plains was turned into pasture areas.

More than three miles to the west of the cavalry battalion, a large stable area was built, and the ground was burned to the ground.

As the people approached, the hooves of dozens of knights and more than 300 horses were extremely urgent, like thunder rolling in the sky.

When they got closer, Li Yi, Kong He and others stationed their horses in turn, and a group of people in white still moved forward, and they slowly slowed down until they were nearly two hundred paces, and the entire group of horses stopped when Xu Zi took dozens of steps.

Zhang Huchen and Gao Shilai came, and Lin Zhengzhi and others all showed anger.

Xu Zi raised his palms first, signaling that everyone was okay.

"I've seen Nan Anhou."

A group of Lanfang people jumped off the horse, and when they saw that Xu Zixian's expression was not moving, they hugged their fists and bowed to Xu Zixian.

"Go back and talk to Luo Fangbo," Xu Zixian said, "The hospitality of sending the horse is touchable, but next time I ask him to send some people who know how to be polite to come to me." ”

The white-robed Lanfang led by a young man in his twenties, the rebellious look in his eyes was quite obvious, and after hearing Xu Zixian's words, he said with a look of indignation: "Don't I know the etiquette?" However, the prison country is now putting all its hopes on the Nan'an Hou, and when we wait for the right time to gallop, we know that the prince is in front, there are the cavalry of the Nan'an Mansion soldiers in front, and our ability to control the fierce horse is still under the heavenly people, if the prince and his subordinates panic and disperse, how can we help me Lan Fang to compete with the Manchu Thorn and the Tianfang people? ”

"What's your name?"

"In Xia Luo Fangxiao."

"Are we going to purge the natives of the Eastern Domain, come with us?"

"Do you dare to obey?" Luo Fangxiao's face was full of arrogance, he was from Lanfang and well-informed, over the years, the persecution of Lan Fangguo by the Heavenly Fang people and Manchu Jia had become more and more serious, and the situation in Lan Fangguo had become more and more serious.

Lan Fang's surname, Luo's surname is respected, and the children of the Luo clan have been in charge of many soldiers in recent years, and Luo Fangxiao in front of him is one of them.

These young nobles saw the decline of Great Wei in recent years, and they were not satisfied with Luo Fangbo's decision to come to Great Wei for help. The two failures made these Luo disciples determined that it was better to rely on others than on their own determination.

This time, when they came to the Eastern Domain to send off the horses, these people were also forced by their orders and were reluctant.

's own grandeur coupled with his unruly personality, as well as his dissatisfaction with Luo Fangbo's decision, made him act as rudely as Shicai.

"No matter what a person is, a horse is a good horse!"

Zhang Huchen is a martial artist with a straightforward personality, although he was ordered by Xu Zixian, he no longer cared about the things in front of him, and when he stepped forward to look at the horse, he couldn't help but ridicule while showing joy.

Lan Fang and everyone looked at each other angrily.

This look made these people of Lan Fangguo arrogant.

Whether it is Zhang Huchen, or Gao Shilai, Lin Zhizheng, Sun Rulan, Lin Guoji and others, or Qin Dongyang and Jin Baoyi, Ge brothers and others who came all the way.

The generals under the Nan'an Mansion in front of him are either heroic with beards on their faces, or generals with their hands on the obstacle knife and a cold light in their eyes. or a strong man with an ape arm and a bee waist, or a general with a calm face and a sword to protect a general.

Just these generals in front of them are already quite good, and people can know at a glance that they are not ordinary people.

Behind the general, a large number of officers and soldiers of the cavalry battalion were all dressed in armor and stood solemnly, although there was a mess here, the cavalry standing like a wall were all standing solemnly without the slightest movement......

"Fang Xiao......" There was chaos among the white-robed youths, and someone whispered: "It's us Meng Lang." ”

"Not necessarily." Luo Fangxiao bit his lip and said: "The forbidden army of Great Wei, the armor is better, and the divine arm bow is more powerful, so what?" A model is always a model! ”

Although this is still rude and unruly, there is some truth in it, and Luo Fangxiao is not stupid enough to say it out loud, so it is difficult for others to persuade him.

And the generals on the side of the Nan'an Hou Mansion have no intention of understanding these hairy boys, and all their eyes have been completely attracted by the horses.

"Good boy, the shortest is five feet two inches!"

"I think a lot of them are five feet four inches."

Xu Zixian was also excited, and even couldn't help but want to pet a tall red horse.

The horse, however, raised its hooves with all its might, and lifted half of its body to reveal something more majestic about its lower body.

Everyone present was about to laugh, and Xu Zixian himself was also laughing.

Xu Zixian said to the people around him: "Our horses must not be castrated." If you can train it, you will be trained, and if you can't be trained, you will raise it as a breeder and a horse, and you must not castrate it. ”

Fu Qian said: "My Chinese horses were originally extremely majestic, that is, the continuous castration of all dynasties, in order to make the horses obedient, the good horses were castrated, from generation to generation, generation after generation, generation after generation. ”

The deterioration of China's war horses is getting worse and worse, but it has nothing to do with large-scale castration.

Of course, the original horse breeds are also very different, such as the Mongolian horse, which is related to the steppe landform, and is originally relatively short.

The lowest of these horses in front of me is also about 1.6 meters, and many of them are about 1.65 to 1.7 meters tall at the shoulder, which is obviously much higher than the shoulder height of Mongolian horses and southwestern ponies.

The cavalry in the camp were on fire with their eyes, and the horses they rode were about one meter three and one meter four, which was as low as a donkey compared to the new horses in front of them.

And Xu Zixian also knows that these square horses have stronger endurance due to the harsh natural environment in which they live, not inferior to Mongolian horses, and they are quite smart, and with a little training, they are qualified war horses, dare to charge, and will not be timid in the face of the enemy, nor will they be frightened and run, let alone neigh.

This is quite a high-quality war horse, and it is the result of the best of the best.

In later generations, the square horses were not known for their tallness, but for their excellent form and speed, and the common shoulder height was also about one and a half meters, and these big horses in front of them were the best among them, so they were much taller than ordinary square horses.

Xu Zixian knew that there was a kind of European horse known for its tallness, the tallest could reach more than two meters, and the weight could reach 1,500 catties, which could be called a giant beast.

However, that kind of horse can only be used for farming, or pulling a cart, when the war horse is a short sprint is a little difficult, negative armor riding, to fight thousands of miles, that kind of horse is useless.

It is still the best for the Arabian horse, born in the desert, grown up in the oasis, can run long distances, but also can do intense short sprints, quite suitable.

These are the best of the best. Horses, a small number of stallions, with most mares, but also with some local tall mares, if the grazing method is done properly, so that the fat does not fall and die, after a few years, the herd will be greatly expanded...... During the Tang Dynasty, horses were raised, and in twenty years, the number of horses reached hundreds of thousands.

Xu Zixian didn't have to wait so long, and he didn't need so much, what he wanted was to make the scale of high-quality war horses that could be used reach tens of thousands within ten years.

Supplemented by the local Southwest Horse and Hetao Horse, it is not a dream to build a strong cavalry.