There is a mound called Yuqiu in the north of Qinghe Country, Qinghe County, Jizhou, and there is a mound called Yuqiu, and the surrounding area of Yuqiu is a wide plain with a radius of dozens of miles, there are several small rivers passing through, and the water and grass are quite abundant. In terms of encampment and selection of garrisons, the cavalry has higher requirements than the infantry army, because it not only has tens of thousands of soldiers, but also has a large number of war horses, which need careful care to ensure their combat strength. As a soldier of the iron cavalry battalion, after entering the camp, there is a great difference from the infantry training, that is, how to domesticate and take care of their war horses, on the battlefield, they are equivalent to the second life of these soldiers, plus perennial companionship, many battalion sergeants regard their war horses as family members, and treat them more fully than themselves!

And for the generals of the iron cavalry battalion, how to choose the station is a knowledge that must be profoundly mastered, compared to the foot soldiers, the cavalry is more afraid of being attacked by the enemy, the safety of the camp is particularly important in the cavalry, although it is in the territory of the king of Yan, but it is adjacent to Cao Cao's territory, even if there is Beiping County stationed in the former Huaxiong and Yan Gang, the two do not dare to have the slightest neglect!

Today is twenty miles away, passers-by can feel the huge roar under the jade hill, the ground under their feet is also trembling, maybe if there are outsiders here will think it is an earthquake, but the people near the jade hill have long been accustomed to this, at that time the cavalry under the command of the three generals was drilling, and the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping was like shaking the mountain, and such a shock they could feel almost every day, but today * is much stronger than usual, it must be a big training!

The big and the cover on the jade hill is extremely obvious, about ten miles can be seen, under the cover is a group of generals with bright armor, at this time they are like the stars holding the moon like the arch guarding a person, that person is wearing a purple robe and standing proudly like a mountain, the strong wind blows his robe and beard hair raised high and adds to the momentum of not being angry and mighty, it is Liu Yi, the king of Yan who came here to inspect the second camp of Xiliang White Horse!

At this time, Lang Sheng is already thirty and six, with a few inches of short beard under his chin, making him look more sophisticated and serious, a pair of electric eyes are moving with the tens of thousands of cavalry troops under the mound, after this reorganization, the Xiliang camp and the white horse battalion have increased to 35,000 people, of which 30,000 are cavalry, 5,000 are foot soldiers, such a mixed formation is the same as the reason of the eight main infantry armies, that is, to strengthen the combat power of the cavalry to the greatest extent, and it can better protect their safety!

Today is the joint training of the second battalion of the Xiliang White Horse in accordance with the requirements of King Yan, 60,000 cavalry rushed back and forth on the plain, quickly and accurately completed one tactical drill after another, but saw that the cavalry queue under the hill was sometimes closed and sometimes scattered, but they were all in order without any sense of chaos, and the formation of each camp in the high-speed march remained neat and cooperative, standing on the flat hill and looking at it, it was definitely a magnificent picture scroll in front of him, and the majestic momentum was unparalleled for a while.

Liu Yi in this world has a certain preference for the cavalry, as early as when he started to fight against the Yellow Turban, he had the iron cavalry battalion under his command, and the head of the battalion was Zhao Yun, but the cavalry battalion was only a few hundred people and more than a thousand horses, and now with the Chang'an battalion that Ma Chao is forming and the Yanliang Jizhou battalion left behind in Xuzhou, the number of cavalry under Lang Sheng has reached nearly 200,000! This is already a powerful force that can make the princes of the world frightened, and the hard work of more than ten years and the existence of the two large horse-producing households in Xiliang and Northern Xinjiang have made it so large-scale!

The combat power and mobility advantages of the cavalry in the cold weapon era are self-evident, and Dong Zhuo was able to fight against more than a dozen princes on his own because he had the most powerful Xiliang iron cavalry in the world! At the time of the discussion of Dong, even if the princes and the alliance of famous generals gathered, the final strategy could only rely on the superior forces to roll in the group, and the most feared by the allies was not Lu Bu, but the powerful iron cavalry!

The shocking battle with Lu Fengxian under the Tiger Prison established Liu Yi's invincible reputation, but his real fame was still the Battle of Running Wolf, which defeated hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry in one fell swoop and made Lang Sheng famous in the Han world, everyone knows how difficult it is, you must know that the battleable soldiers in Lang Sheng's hands were only 70,000, and the cavalry was less than 30,000, which can be described as a huge disparity in strength!

Looking back at this battle now, Liu Yi still feels that his actions that day are a little too reckless, and his confidence in his own combat strength is also too high. Really from a strategic point of view, it is Zhang Hu's steady defense and consumption to wait for the time to move is the best policy, if there is no ghost talent Guo Jia to serve and sacrifice the fire bull plan, or the place of the battle is not the Wolf Plain, Liu Yi is likely to drink hatred in that battle! If he is allowed to choose at this time, he will definitely implement Zhang Hu's strategy without hesitation, luck is of course important, and it can even affect the outcome of a big war, but you want to pin the life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers in the whole army on it, which is undoubtedly stupid for a superior and decision-maker.

The successive battles since then have all proved the importance of the cavalry, the battle of Sili defeated Niu Fu, the battle of Yanzhou against the tiger and leopard, the battle of Liyang in the battle of Jizhou and the wolf tactics in the battle of Sizhou, it is precisely because of Liu Yi's command with the cavalry that he can make him win consecutive battles, and he will face the most powerful opponent Cao Cao in this world in the next battle, and he will pay more attention to the powerful cavalry. Compared with the battle of Jizhou, Yuan Cao and the two joined forces to fight, and Liu Yi had an overwhelming advantage over the cavalry in the upcoming battle of Yanzhou, and how to use it was the key to success or failure.

According to the previously formulated strategy, Liu Yi's cavalry in Yanzhou will reach an unprecedented 150,000 people! With the advantage of this mobile force, he can limit the opponent's geographical advantage to the minimum, even if Cao Cao adopts the strategy of fortifying the city and defending it, Liu Yi can also use the interspersed cavalry to isolate one by one, and he can even temporarily ignore those fortified cities that have not yet been captured and seek the decisive battle of the main force of Cao's army, and it is not too late to turn back and attack the fortified city after defeating it! And with the advantages of cavalry mobility and combat power, the Cao army will be constrained when choosing reinforcements and the timing of the attack!

At that time, under the premise of determining the two-year strategy of recuperation and recuperation, everyone had a debate about whether they were strong first and then weak or weak and then strong, and Xi Zhicai and Zhang Hu had proposed to attack Liu Bei in Yangzhou first, and at the same time attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and then fight with Cao Cao after breaking it with the momentum of the encirclement as a stable strategy! But Liu Yi's opinions are the same as those of Jia Xu and Guo Jia, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, Zhang Lu, and Liu Zhang are all small troubles, and they are not enough to grow to the point where they can compete with Liu Yi, as long as they defeat Cao Cao, even if they pay extremely huge losses, they will not hesitate! The final unification of opinions has gone through a rather long process of debate, this is the most important strategic layout in the world, Liu Yi and this will never be Fan Yiyantang's fault, in the current situation, the strategy determined by everyone to fight a strong enemy first is extremely correct, he will never sit back and watch Cao Cao digest Yizhou!

The drill of the two cavalry battalions lasted for a whole day, Liu Yi and a cadre of generals also watched on the flat hill for a day, in this reorganization, the iron cavalry battalion has not changed much, its staffing and ordnance equipment do not have much room to improve, forced changes will affect the combat effectiveness! However, in the drill outline, higher requirements were put forward for the strictness of cavalry drills, and the more important point was the use of javelins, which was probably the only new weapon equipped with each cavalry battalion, and the greatest effect was to better defeat the enemy's infantry formation, where Liu Yi also learned from some of the strengths of the West, especially the Roman cavalry!

It is precisely because of his in-depth understanding of the cavalry that Liu Yi is easier to know his weaknesses, generally speaking, the infantry army will almost be defeated when encountering cavalry in the vast flat terrain, but if the heavy infantry army cooperates with the archers, it can achieve excellent defense, and even the lightly armed infantry army with a neat formation can minimize the loss! Among the eight main infantry armies of the Yan army, this tactic must be mastered, and Liu Yi did not want to feel the taste of being attacked by the spear of the son against the shield of the son.

So how should the cavalry deal with the infantry army with a strict formation? The answer is very simple, break through their formation, this is difficult to do by the number of cavalry alone, the shield array in front of the infantry array can minimize the power of the arrows, but the javelin from Youzhou has the possibility of crushing the infantry ton formation, this javelin is four feet long, the whole body is cast iron, after testing it can break through the strong shield of the Xuanwu battalion within a distance of fifty steps, and a surprise attack when the opponent is waiting for it will receive a surprise effect, as long as the front row formation can be broken through, the rest is not difficult!

Of course, the production cost of such a full-body iron casting javelin is also extremely high, and it is only 40,000 pieces equipped to each cavalry battalion in two years, which means that it is impossible for every cavalry soldier to carry it in wartime, and it must be used in a centralized manner in order to exert the greatest power, but in the drill outline, the requirements for each cavalry battalion soldier are to be able to skillfully use this kind of javelin, and the general of the unified army can flexibly use and assign it when the actual combat is realized.

Obviously, the use of javelins in the second battalion of Xiliang White Horse has met the requirements in Liu Yi's mind, and the scarcity of production makes this new weapon must be recycled after the war, and the battalions will only do actual combat drills in the last few months, the reason is to reduce the consumption, and after hard training, the generals of each battalion have the same understanding, this new weapon can not only deal with the infantry in formation, but also be effective in the battle of the cavalry, and its power in close combat is far better than that of arrows. It can also make the impact formation of the enemy cavalry produce great confusion, and the various methods derived from it are even more varied, and the wisdom of the cavalry soldiers and generals has also made a great contribution, making the drill outline more perfect!

Of course, this new type of equipment can be mass-produced and distributed to all armies, in addition to the efforts of Xu Gang and the equipment, there is a force that cannot be ignored, without their existence, it is almost impossible to do the current degree, that is, the tens of thousands of slaves of the Japanese country under Tian Yu, it is their excavation of mines regardless of life and death that enables the equipment to have enough raw materials to build these javelins, but the slaves' life and death are by no means spontaneous, and the supervision of the leather whip and bow and arrow behind them is the greatest guarantee, It can be said that the new weapons held in the hands of the cavalry battalion soldiers at this time are condensed with the accumulated bones and blood and tears of these slaves, but it is obvious that King Yan will not call them the heroes behind the scenes, this title belongs to Tian Yu and those soldiers with leather whips and bows and arrows, as well as Xu Gang and the craftsmen of the utensils!