Chapter 44: Dare to Advance the Army
The horses' hooves trampled and the armor collided and rattled. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Hundreds of Pioneer soldiers practiced in the barracks, and although they only had wooden knives and guns in their hands, they were as fierce as real knives and real guns.
"Ziyi is really well-trained, I should make a contribution to Ziyi..."Looking at the brave soldiers, Yan Shao nodded with satisfaction, feeling that he didn't choose the wrong person at the beginning.
Handing over the Dare to First Army to Tai Shici actually has the meaning of trying. Personal bravery is completely different from the ability to lead troops, which does not mean that the ability to command troops with high martial arts is just as powerful. If this is the case, wouldn't a military general like Dian Wei also be among the best? How can there be a position for commanders like Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.
I didn't want Tai Shi Ci to give him a satisfactory answer, and since the establishment of the Dare First Army, Tai Shi Ci has been practicing strictly. Especially during the period when he left Beihai, he did not relax at all, in addition to sorting out military affairs according to Yan Shao's instructions, it was a matter of training the Dare to go first, and these days finally had a result.
"Thank you, lord..." Tai Shici clenched his fists, but his face did not show joy, but he hesitated.
Yan Shao happened to see it, and it was a little strange. "Isn't there anything else going on in Ziyimo? But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”
"Yes." Tai Shici is not a hypocritical person, and immediately spoke. "The lord ordered me to select five hundred elites from the army to form an army, and now this army has barely taken shape, but I don't know what heavy responsibility the lord wants this army to bear?"
This is actually what Tai Shici has always wanted to ask, Yan Shao asked him to select five hundred elites from the army to become the daring army, and he has already done this. Although it was selected from the soldiers and horses of various departments, after this period of training, it can be regarded as allowing these five hundred elites to form an army. However, the real elite has its own characteristics. For example, the tiger and leopard cavalry is an elite light cavalry, and even if the subordinates are soldiers, they have the strength of a hundred generals, and the halberd warriors are heavily armed infantry troops, and they are also like the tiger and leopard cavalry. The Wudang Flying Army of Shu was similar to the mountain infantry. Although today's Dare First Army has been trained by Tai Shici, it can only be said that it is much more elite than other infantry troops, and it has no special features of its own at all, and even the weapons used are used by ordinary infantry troops, even if they continue to practice like this, they can only be regarded as elite infantry troops, and they cannot be compared with the elite in the real sense such as tiger and leopard cavalry and euphorbia.
However, Yan Shao expects that it is not only the elite of the ordinary army, if so, there is no need to work so hard, and even let Tai Shici be the main general of this army.
At first, Tai Shi Ci didn't ask, because he thought that Yan Shao would tell him when he came back, but now that Yan Shao has come back from Luoyang for a while, there is still no eyebrow on this matter, which makes Tai Shi Ci a little anxious. After all, if Yan Shao pointed out the direction one day earlier, he would be able to prepare earlier and save one more day.
Tai Shi Ci's words made Yan Shao stunned, but he quickly understood what Tai Shi Ci meant.
"Direction..."Yan Shao smiled awkwardly, in fact, he had already thought it through.
The reason why I didn't tell Tai Shici before was because the Dare First Army had just been drawn out of the various military horses at that time, and they had no tacit understanding with each other.
I just didn't think that he had just returned from Luoyang, and there were some signs of fire in the backyard.
No matter who it was, they obviously didn't expect that Yan Shao would bring a woman back from Luoyang. Although Yan Shao has always behaved like he regards Zhang Ning as his sister, but who really dares to look at it like this, and Diao Chan didn't expect that there was a woman in Yan Shao's yard, and the atmosphere was really embarrassing for a while, so that Yan Shao had been running out for the past few days and didn't dare to go home.
However, such a matter of children's private affairs cannot be told to Tai Shici.
After pondering for a while, Yan Shao gave the answer he had already considered. "I want to form a cavalry army, equipped with spears, round shields, hard bows, ring knives, and iron armor, and select the elite of the army as a supplement, so as to crisscross Qingzhou."
This is Yan Shao's idea, the cavalry...
One of the most elite cavalry troops, even comparable to the tiger and leopard cavalry and the white horse righteous servant.
He thought very clearly that his range of activities would be the north for a long time in the future. There are many plains in the north, which are the most suitable for the use of cavalry, especially the future opponent will be Yuan Shao.
Don't look at Yan Shao and Yuan Shao drinking very happily in Luoyang, but he knows very well that sooner or later there will be a battle between himself and Yuan Shao, and if there is an elite cavalry army in his hand at that time, he can occupy a great advantage. In particular, Tai Shi Ci has a reputation for being good at archery, and he is one of the few fierce generals in the history of the Three Kingdoms who are good at archery, and being led by Tai Shi Ci can undoubtedly exert all the power of this army.
It should be said that Yan Shao's idea is still very good, but there is a problem here...
"My lord, it is easy to use such a cavalry......... I'm afraid that it will cost a lot of money..."No general will dislike the number of troops under his command is too small, and the soldiers under his command are too elite. If he can command such an elite, it is also a good thing for Tai Shi Ci, but as a courtier, Tai Shi Ci has to remind him of one of the very important points.
With such a strong army, if it can be established, it will definitely be able to dominate Qingzhou, but what about the cost?
If Qingzhou has not yet suffered from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it may be barely supported by its wealth, but for the current Qingzhou, the cost of establishing this army is too great, not to mention that now Yan Shao is only under the command of Beihai County.
It would be too whimsical to want to build such a strong army with a Beihai County...
"This is indeed a bit difficult to do..."Tai Shici has no famous words, how can Yan Shao not understand the meaning of this?
If you want to form such a cavalry army, the horses you need alone will be worth a lot of money.
The horses needed for the five hundred cavalry are definitely not a small amount, this is no longer something that Yan Shao can solve by selling his property, even if all the family property of the Yan family is sold out now, I am afraid that he will not be able to gather the military horses used by the five hundred cavalry.
What's more, there are armor, weapons, and even the daily forage needed for military horses. These are all astronomical figures, and they may all cost more than the four or five thousand soldiers under Yan Shao's command added together.
Looking at Yan Shao's distressed appearance, Tai Shici shook his head, but it was not strange, after all, it was not a small amount.
"It seems that the lord is afraid that he will give up this time, but if it is a foot army..."
Just when Tai Shi Ci was pondering how to form an extremely elite infantry army, he saw Yan Shao suddenly clapping his palms.
"There it is!"