Just when the third trading fleet returned, the spring ploughing of the Xia Kingdom had ended, and not long after, an order from the king spread throughout the cities of the Xia Kingdom, and many young male citizens of the Xia Kingdom gritted their teeth in the face of this order, and made their own choices.

"Order each city to select ten warriors to form the first cavalry unit of the Xia Kingdom."

Cavalry, although there has not been cavalry in the Xia Kingdom, but everyone knows the meaning of cavalry, people fight on horseback, and earlier the dragon tribe also destroyed the cattle tribe with cattle cavalry.

"I want to be a cavalryman." The snake who has just come of age this year said to his fiancée with a firm expression.

"Go ahead, I've got your back." The girl said softly.

Not only the snake pride, many men aged over fifteen to under twenty-five years old have gone to their own city soldiers to sign up in their free time, each city only selected ten people, and after arriving in Zhongjing City, there will be further selection, even if they know that they can't even pass the first level, there are still many people with the intention of trying to sign up.

The horse is Su Yan is twenty-eight years old when the dragon tribe conducts foreign trade, and the nomadic tribes on the grassland trade obtained, this is the first time the dragon tribe appears horses, this year Su Yan is forty-two years old, the horse has appeared in the Xia country for 14 years, not too short, now the number of horses in the Xia country is more than 11,000, half of which are adult horses.

More than 11,000 horses seem to be a lot, but it is still not enough for the Xia Kingdom, for example, there are now more than 28,100 adult male nationals in the Xia Kingdom, each man represents a family, that is, 28,100 families, each family needs farming, and each man has to control an adult horse or cow, which requires nearly 30,000 adult horses and cows.

At present, there are more than 11,000 horses in the Xia country, and the number of cattle is less than half of the number of horses, after all, cattle are mainly used to plough the fields, and can also be used to pull carts, but the speed is relatively slow, horses can also be used to plow the fields, the speed of pulling carts is fast, and the speed of riding horses alone is faster, and the use of horses is obviously greater than that of cattle, so when trading with nomadic tribes, horses occupy at least two-thirds of the trade share.

In addition, the ratio of male to female is 1 to 3, and mare and cow occupy the majority.

You must know that the cattle and horses owned by Xia Guo for many years are not only traded from nomadic tribes, more than half are their descendants, and now Xia has been trading with nomadic tribes, and the cattle and horses owned by Xia are also naturally expanding their populations, and in a few years, the number of cattle and horses will almost be able to meet the needs of Xia Guo.

At that time, it is not possible to stop trading with nomadic tribes, of course, it is impossible to stop trading, and the more cattle and horses, the better.

When he first got horses back to the Xia Kingdom, with the help of the "slaves" obtained from the nomadic tribes, a group of Xia citizens successfully mastered the technique of driving horses, and as the number of horses increased, equestrian classes were also held in the Advanced Academy of Technology, which taught students to ride horses and drive carriages.

Later, the War College also opened horse-related courses, the purpose of which was to train cavalry, Su Yan wanted to establish a cavalry unit early on, in the era of cold weapons, a certain number of cavalry could completely crush more infantry, but there was no place for cavalry at that time, there were not many roads on the land, and cavalry could not run long distances.

The only place where cavalry can be used is the grassland, and now the city in the Yan clan's hometown is under construction, and a city will be built in the edge of the grassland next year.

Don't look at Su Yan's order to select ten soldiers for each city, in fact, this is only a primary selection, and after the Zhongjing City, there will be a second selection, and in the end, the cavalry unit will only have one team.

There is no way, the number of horses in the Xia Kingdom is not large, and the number of horses that can be used for war horses has been reduced again, and the excellent war horses are run out of the grassland, how can the horses trapped in the city become war horses.

Therefore, when the cavalry tribe was first formed, Su Yan only gave the establishment of one team, and with the increase in the number of horses in the future, Su Yan will increase the number of cavalry and expand the scale

There are two tuns in a team, a total of 94 people, of which the chief and deputy captain and the deputy tun chief six have been selected, all of them are from the field/war army, captain Mu Shi, deputy captain Kong Chang, a tuntun long snake proverb, a tun deputy tun chief Liu Jun, a tun tun chief He Ye, the second tun deputy tun chief Yingshun, the cavalry unit only has 88 places left, and it needs to be selected from more than 200 people.

Cavalry is stricter than sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, longbowmen, and short archers in the infantry, and cavalry also fights on horseback, and it takes a lot of things to learn to be able to ride and shoot, ride stab, ride and slash and other combat techniques.

Fortunately, the War College of the Advanced Academy has opened relevant courses early, and many students who like to ride horses have signed up for these courses for further study, and after four years of study, they can be regarded as having a relatively good foundation.

The registration time of each city is only three days, after the registration is over, each city immediately takes out time for selection, the way of selection is the combat mode of the cavalry, mainly riding archery, riding and chopping two items, all have a fixed target, the people who sign up for the test one by one ride a horse, there is a special person to give the city, and finally according to the results, select the top ten people in each city.

In five days, the selection of each city was over, and twenty-one cities, because of the large population, Zhongjing City was allowed to increase the number of places by ten, a total of 220 people, and they were about to gather in Zhongjing City.

One thing needs to be the main thing, among the two hundred and twenty warriors selected, there are fifty-three adult warriors this year, including Snake Jiao, who ranked second in his own city.

After that, there were forty-six adult warriors last year, and thirty-nine adult warriors the year before, and the vast majority of the warriors selected through each city were young people under the age of twenty, and the older they were, the less likely they were to be selected.

This situation is not surprising, although the Advanced Academy War Academy has opened courses on cavalry early, but the Xia Kingdom has never formed cavalry, and those soldiers who dream of becoming cavalry can only serve in other professions.

If you don't touch the horse for a long time and don't practice, the level of riding archery and riding and chopping will naturally drop, and the fighters who have just graduated this year have not yet pulled down their riding archery and riding and chopping skills, so they are easier to be selected than older fighters.

Fifteen years old is young, and he is already an adult in the Xia country, not to mention that the cavalry is also a young soldier in the Xia country, and it doesn't matter if some young people are selected, they are all the seeds of the cavalry unit, with the expansion of the cavalry unit, an ordinary cavalry will slowly rise from the army commander, the chief of the army, the deputy commander of the tun, and the commander of the tun.