Xu Shizhen also dismounted.

The cavalry of the Qi State had this habit, and if it was not necessary, all of them tried to dismount and walk as much as possible to save horsepower.

In the past, this was the case when there were few war horses, but now there are more war horses, and nothing has changed.

In fact, the cavalry of the Qi State cherished horsepower on the same large number of artillery equipped with horses - the latter's cannon must be towed and maneuvered by horses unless there are no horses at all.

Xu Shizhen gently combed the hair on his mount's neck with one hand, and took out a handful of nutritious feed specially produced by a folk food factory from the grain bag with the other hand.

When the war horse saw the food, he shouted excitedly.

Qi's agriculture is intercropping of wheat, beans and sorghum, and the places covered by water conservancy facilities can achieve three crops in two years, and the yield per mu has actually exceeded the average yield of the original Da Zhou in Jiangbei.

Therefore, the amount of beans in the grain production of Qi is very high.

These things are very unpopular as food for human consumption, but the state collects them as tax grain, but they can be processed into very popular agricultural products through food companies: tofu, soy milk, soybean flour and other foods are secondary, soybean oil and feed are very important to the country's economy, the former can increase the people's oil intake, and the latter is very beneficial to animal husbandry.

For example, the Shengli No. 2 concentrate feed carried by Xu Shizhen in this attack is processed from beans, bran, sorghum mixed with alfalfa and a small amount of salt.

It is said that it can well replenish the physical strength of war horses, and people can also eat this thing for emergencies when necessary.

This is a new product.

As the commander of the cavalry company and Xu Jiazi, before this sortie, a salesman from a food factory specially looked for him and gave him some for free, nominally asking him to bring him to the battlefield for some field tests, but in fact it was just to find a reason to give him some benefits - the salesman hinted that if Xu Shizhen could say some good things when he summarized and reported after the war, in the future, the Qi army would purchase the Shengli No. 2 concentrate feed from their factory, and Xu Shizhen could get a considerable amount of consulting fees.

As a qualified political power, the laws of Qi naturally strictly prohibit corruption.

But if you really become an official, you will find that as long as you have the power and want to make money, corruption is the stupidest means.

Especially in a country like Qi that is gradually transitioning to capitalism, although the means of conveying benefits are still immature, some people have indeed begun to try.

Xu Shizhen didn't know how to evaluate this kind of thing.

On the one hand, the things that people provided him for evaluation are really good, and it is not against the laws of Qi to charge the assessment fee - although the fee is a little higher, it can be explained by one wish to fight and one to suffer.

But on the other hand, Xu Shizhen feels that this is indeed exploiting loopholes, a variant of some kind of power-for-money transaction.

As a descendant of the Xu family, the stronger the Qi State, the higher his status. If it is really as some people think, Qi will unify the world and establish a new dynasty, Xu Shizhen's future status will be the prince of the county.

Therefore, Xu Shizhen is very disgusted with anything that affects the development of Qi State, but when he does not violate the law, he can make some profits for himself, which is a reasonable way to say no matter where he is.

If Xu Shizhen didn't do it, he wouldn't be able to take out a part of it and distribute it to his subordinates (the benefits that others gave him were also given to his cavalry, but they were just distributed by him), which affected the income of his subordinates.

In the army, your subordinates don't support you, how can you still mix?

Therefore, Xu Shizhen could only accept the salesman's commission, but he planned to try not to speak with his conscience when reporting the war horse feed problem.

"Company commander."

After a while, a dragoon came running to report on the battle:

"Xiao Wu is gone, and there are still five people injured, but none of them are seriously injured."

"Little Five is gone? Why not? Xu Shizhen asked.

"I took a look, it should be that the horse was shot with a bow and arrow, and after falling, it was trampled on by the people behind and broke its bones."

Xu Shizhen nodded, as a company commander who acted alone, he had to report the summary of the operation to his superiors after the war, and the reason for the battle damage was the data that must be mentioned.

"Let's get some firewood in a while, turn Xiao Wu into a little five, and bring the bones back to his family."

Xu Shizhen commanded, and then asked:

"How's it going?"

"Thirty-two Tartars were chopped, 28 horses were captured, and some armor and blades were captured."

Only counting the killed, the two sides are 1 to 32!

Xu Shizhen opened his notebook, which scribbled down the problems encountered by his company in this attack and the key points that he personally thought should be paid attention to.

The deaths of both sides in it all added up, and it was actually 1 to 25, and the Qi army was superior.

If you look closely at the reasons for the death of the Tartars, 1 percent is that the cavalry of both sides was shot with muskets before the hedge, 2 percent was knocked off the horse by cold weapons during the cavalry hedge, 2 percent was killed by the dragoons on foot, and the remaining about 50% were fatally wounded in the back - they were chased and killed by the dragoons when they fled.

If the reason is extrapolated from the results, the advantages of the dragoons over the Jurchen cavalry are mainly in terms of equipment and tactics.

Needless to say, the flintlock pistol shoots a round before the cavalry battle, whether it is a horse or a man, as long as it hits a shot, it can definitely make an enemy incapacitated, and the lethality of the riding bow cannot do this.

In this way, if you weaken Issei before each battle, the Tartars will be at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.

Then the dragoons relied on the armor of the strong soldiers to charge in a wall formation, crushing them in a wave, and the rest was basically just chasing and killing.

There are many times such battles, and if they encounter again, they will be weak before they start fighting the Tartars, and they will lose half of them directly, so that the results that the cavalry can achieve in the next few encounters with the Tartars are getting worse and worse, and the cavalry of the Qi army is winning more and more easily.

"Twenty-five Tartars die in exchange for one of us."

Xu Shizhen scratched his head:

"Didn't you say that there is no equal? Why is the cavalry so unfought? ”

Before this battle, including Xu Shizhen, all the Qi troops were most worried about their own cavalry combat ability, after all, the Tartars have always been proud of their strong cavalry, and the Qi army lacked horses before, and rarely fought with the Jurchens head-on cavalry, so that this false name has been affected until now.

This was also before the war, Xu Shizhen and others, who had been serving as instructors for almost two years, were transferred out of the military academy and were responsible for leading the cavalry in this year's spring offensive, and at the same time summing up the lessons and lessons of cavalry warfare, so that the military academy could improve the cavalry teaching materials in the future.

However, actual combat proved that the Qi army had completely overwhelmed the Jurchens in the last shortcoming, the cavalry.

Well, in fact, it is still obviously not good in terms of horsemanship, but you don't need to take your hands off the reins to shoot with a flintlock pistol right away, and Qi Jun's requirements for riding skills don't need to be as high as those of a tartar.

Victory is guaranteed directly by relying on equipment and tactical superiority.

"It looks like we've completely suppressed the Tartars."

Xu Shizhen closed the notebook and muttered to himself:

"Our infantry was already stronger than the Tartars, not to mention the sailors and artillery, and now the cavalry is stronger than the Tartars......"

"Does that mean that we will be able to deal with the Jurchen Tartars soon?"