The next night, Yang Miaozhen blew a pillow wind to Chen Xian.

It turned out that Yang Miaozhen's maids complained to her that her uncle was too poor and sour, sitting on tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and thousands of Zhuang Ding were powerful and powerful, and they only lived in a small courtyard.

Listening to Yang Miaozhen's relays of the girl's complaints, Chen Xian couldn't help but sit up with a sneer and said, "Dignified? What a show! It's just a local tyrant in the next township, and it's not worthy of the word dignified! Is this Bai family compound big? But what's the use, as soon as a certain soldier came, the Bai family fled in disgrace, threw down this huge courtyard, and fled to Tai'an Prefecture to be the lost dog, I Chen Er is a lonely family, and now with you and Miaonu, it is only a family of three, and there are three or five people to serve, it is enough, what do you want to do with the deep mansion compound? Is raising a group of women and minions intriguing? And then separated from the soldiers of his own army in the courtyard of the deep house, nested in the women's pile to rot? ”

Hearing Chen Xian's words, Yang Miaozhen stared at Chen Xian's face for a long time, then suddenly sneered and said: "I know that officials have great ambitions and don't care about daily enjoyment, they are big husbands and heroes, so I have already sent the girl who chewed her tongue back to Yidu." ”

Looking at Yang Miaozhen's smiling face, Chen Xian couldn't help but be a little confused, I don't know if he was following himself or really thinking so......

The next day, Chen Xian asked his attendants to inquire, and heard that Yang Miaozhen really sent back a few girls, leaving only four maids to serve him.

Since the day of marriage, Yang Miaozhen has followed Chen Xian all day long, never leaving an inch, and seems to be very curious about everything about him.

Although they are already husband and wife, after all, the two have been together for a short time, and Chen Xian does not dare to fully trust this woman who is already his wife in name, so he has a headache for Yang Miaozhen who is in front of him.

In the end, he came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

After getting five hundred war horses from Yang An'er, Chen Xian began to think about how to form his own cavalry team.

The cavalry company of 100 people originally formed by Chen Xian has now reached a scale of 300 people after successive expansions.

But in the past, Chen Xian had few horses in his hands, three hundred cavalry, and he couldn't even do one person and one horse, let alone let go of training, after this year's training, these cavalry could only be said to be barely usable.

After acquiring 500 new horses, Chen Xian selected another 200 from the infantry and increased the cavalry team of three companies to five companies.

Chen Xian was ready to hand over the five hundred cavalry to Yang Miaozhen for training and command.

Because Chen Xian knew that Yang Miaozhen not only had strong marksmanship, but also bows, horses, and riding and archery were no worse than her marksmanship.

Yang Miaozhen was surprised and excited about Chen Xian's willingness to hand over the most important cavalry to his commander, even when he was in his mother's house, although everyone knew that she was very capable, no one let him lead the army alone, she was a woman after all, and she didn't expect her husband to value herself so much, which made Yang Miaozhen happy.

If she knew that Chen Xian asked him to lead the cavalry in order to break her away and avoid being seen too many secrets by him, she didn't know if she would be blown up by anger, but unfortunately she would never know.

For the construction of the cavalry, Chen Xian also had some cases.

First of all, the archers were discharged, and it was too difficult for the agricultural civilization to train the archers, and it was not cost-effective.

In Chen Xian's plan, the cavalry under his command was divided into three types, one was the light cavalry equipped only with sabers, short muskets, light steel helmets and light armor to protect the chest and abdomen, and the other was the mounted infantry wearing light steel helmets and armor, armed with long muskets and sabers, that is, the dragoons in Europe, called horse infantry in the East, and the other was the shock cavalry wearing light armor similar to the Polish hussars, armed with spears and straight swords, which Chen Xian named the Assault Cavalry

Hussars were used for reconnaissance, requisition, pursuit.

Horse infantry is used to quickly maneuver to achieve strategic intentions such as blocking and supporting.

The assault cavalry is the main cavalry force in Chen Xian's plan.

But Chen Xian actually had doubts about the construction of the cavalry.

Originally, he planned to build a shock cavalry equipped with iron helmet cuirass straight swords, similar to modern cuirassiers, but later he considered that the main enemies of modern cuirassiers were either local cuirassiers who were also equipped with cuirassiers, or infantry equipped with flintlock pistols and bayonets, so it was enough for them to use a straight sword more than one meter long, but in this era, both infantry and cavalry were armed with spears of more than four meters, and the battlefield situation was very different from the battlefield situation in the Napoleonic era when cuirassiers were popular, it is not necessarily appropriate to copy the equipment of that era exactly.

Therefore, Chen Xian planned to borrow the equipment of the once powerful Polish hussars in Europe earlier, and train his own cavalry into lancers.

In terms of organizational form, Chen Xian hoped to draw on the form of modern cuirassiers and train a team of lancers capable of launching a wall charge.

In this era of cavalry dominance, Chen Xian established cavalry, and the first imaginary enemy was cavalry, to be precise, the Mongol cavalry that would sweep across the Central Plains in the near future.

What is the most important thing for a melee cavalry to deal with a cavalry that is good at mounted archery?

Of course, it's speed, you lack long-range attack means, to defeat the opponent, you must first catch the opponent, otherwise you will be kited to death by the opponent who is good at riding and shooting.

Therefore, to create a shock cavalry capable of dealing with archers, the development of a lighter and stronger armor became a priority.

It is both strong and lightweight, and naturally it is none other than modern plate armor.

The manufacture of plate armor was naturally officially put on Chen Xian's agenda.

In addition, if the horse infantry is only equipped with arquebuses and does not have the protection of long guns, there will be obvious defects in combat effectiveness, but it is impossible for Chen Xian to equip the horse infantry with spearmen, so the development of sleeve bayonets is imminent.

Of course, in all this, the training of cavalry is the most important, after all, with qualified cavalry, these equipment can be useful.

Chen Xian told Yang Miaozhen of his intentions, but he didn't expect to attract a series of questions from the other party.

Yang Miaozhen could not understand the idea of Chen Xian's cavalry, she had received the training of traditional cavalry in this era since she was a child, and she was very superstitious about cavalry archery and personal bravery.

She was very incomprehensible to Chen Xian's complete abandonment of the archers and the positioning of the light cavalry as a miscellaneous and auxiliary arm for reconnaissance, pursuit, and grain collection.

What she also couldn't understand was that Chen Xian actually positioned the idea of shock cavalry as a class of troops to deal with cavalry, and in this era, shock cavalry, that is, heavy cavalry, was mainly used to impact infantry formations.

According to the traditional cavalry tactics of this era, it is the classic tactic of cavalry in this era to harass the flanks of the infantry with light cavalry and shoot to cause the infantry to shake locally, and then use the heavy cavalry team led by human and horse equipment to impact the part of the infantry until the infantry formation is completely destroyed.

Chen Xian told Yang Miaozhen, "To deal with the infantry, my infantry phalanx is enough, if it is not enough, there are artillery, with the phalanx and artillery, I am confident that I can defeat any infantry, but the cavalry is different, in the face of the cavalry, I can only be undefeated at most, and no one can use the infantry to destroy the retreating cavalry, so I need a cavalry to destroy the enemy's cavalry." ”

In order to break Yang Miaozhen's inherent concept, Chen Xian used the cavalry reform of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties as examples.

The reason why the Northern and Southern Dynasties period is used as an example is because the Northern and Southern Dynasties period and the current Liaojin period are the heyday of the development of the two cavalry, especially the heavy cavalry, in Chinese history.

And these two periods also happen to be the two famous periods of north-south confrontation in Chinese history.

At the same time, the armor and riding equipment also went to glory in these two eras.

This is no coincidence.