At the end of last year, the cabinet decided to expand the sailors and Ma Jun, and both the Senate and Gao Yihuan nodded in agreement.

The sailors were to go down to the south of the Yangtze River in order to build a camp, while the Ma Army was to sweep the north.

Of course, the horse army can not be trained in a short time, and the reason why the horse army is difficult to train is not how difficult the horse is, people who have learned to ride a horse know that a fast person can run on a horse in a morning, and a stupid person can also run on a horse in a day or two.

In order to make the horse army quickly form a combat force, the Wei army selected 70,000 infantry troops to form dragoons and musketeers.

In this way, there is no need for the soldiers to have any high riding and archery ability, the dragoon is the infantry on the horse, just use the war horse to walk, enhance the ability to maneuver, and nearly seven months, enough time for these infantry to learn to ride a horse.

In fact, they were not only able to ride horses, but also wield sabers and slash, while some of the cavalry, who were outstanding and could fire their guns on horses, were incorporated into the musketeers.

At this time, these soldiers and horses were concentrated in Guanzhong for training, and the camp tents of nearly 70,000 troops spread for more than ten miles.

Gao Yihuan listened to the words of Xu Heihu and the others, and saw that they were quite confident, so he raised his head, glanced at several nearby camps, ordered one of them at random, raised his horsewhip and smiled: "Let's go to that camp!" ”

Gao Yihuan randomly checked one of them, so as not to make the generals superficial.

When Gao Yihuan entered the camp, thousands of soldiers and generals greeted him, and the atmosphere was very warm, and they said: "King!" ”

Gao Yihuan looked at the soldiers who were watching him, waved his hand, and the crowd immediately fell silent.

"Soldiers, I came here today because I have a heavy task to hand over to you!" Gao Yihuan said loudly, attracting everyone's attention, and then the conversation changed, "However, this task is more arduous, you have only been training for half a year, and the Lone King doesn't know if everyone has practiced their skills, and he is a little hesitant whether he should hand over the heavy task to you?" ”

"Brothers, show the king what you are capable of!" Xu Heihu immediately raised his arms and shouted.

It was noon at this time, and the soldiers had just finished training, but when they heard this, they immediately brought their horses and turned over.

"King, please come here!" As soon as Wu Guozhu stretched out his hand, the generals surrounded Gao Yihuan and came to the school field.

Not long after, more than 3,000 Wei soldiers stood in the school field on horseback and demonstrated to Gao Yihuan the most basic abilities of cavalry, such as rushing steep slopes, jumping trenches, and galloping on horseback.

The military department did not choose the training place in the Guanzhong Plain, but the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, where the terrain is relatively complex, because the cavalry can run horses here, so it is not a problem to gallop on the plains and grasslands.

Gao Yihuan saw the cavalry galloping like a dragon, raising billowing yellow dust, and nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, after more than 3,000 cavalrymen had practiced their basic skills, the cavalrymen with muskets behind them suddenly reined in their horses, drew their sabers in unison, and then galloped towards the humanoid target area in the distance, swinging their knives and slashing the targets into pieces.

"Yes, you can ride and chop!" Gao Yihuan approved.

"After practicing for seven months, I still have this handful of birds, and I feel that it is still too far away." Xu Heihu said humble words in the most smug tone.

While speaking, after the cavalry practiced the cavalry slashing, they began to practice immediately releasing the gun, and the cavalry galloped to the target fifty paces away, and the horse stood and fired a shot.

It can be seen that there is indeed a little bit of heat short, but in terms of training time, it is already quite good.

At this time, Gao Yihuan turned his head and asked Chen Mingxia beside him: "Is there an eyebrow for the rifled gun supervised by the Ministry of Industry?" ”

Chen Mingxia was slightly stunned, thought for a while, and then remembered what was going on, and hurriedly said: "The sample gun has been made, and the officials of the Ministry of War said that the effect is good, but the Ministry of Industry said that it is more troublesome to drill a spiral rifling wire in the barrel, and it cannot be mass-produced for the time being." ”

The current flintlock pistol shooting accuracy is not high, and if the rifled gun comes out, then the Wei army is basically invincible in the world.

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, and then said to the generals: "Very good, you have practiced well!" Black Tiger, Wu Guozhu, the two of you should go back to Wangjing with Gu to discuss matters. ”

At that moment, Gao Yihuan asked Xu Heihu to summon the cavalry back from the drill, and then lectured again, "The Lone King watched your drill and knew that you were not lazy and had already practiced your skills, and the Lone King was very relieved and could rest assured that he could entrust you with important tasks." ”

All the soldiers raised their weapons together and cheered, "King! Banzai! ”

In the midst of cheers, Gao Yihuan led people to inspect several camps, and left Zhongnan Mountain in the afternoon and returned to Wangjing.

At the end of July, Wang Jing's five armies were in the governor's palace, and Gao Yihuan convened the generals to discuss the current situation.

At this time, he was standing in front of the sand table, several governors, and a group of soldiers gathered around the sand table.

Gao Yihuan looked around at everyone: "According to reliable information, Dolgon wants to exchange Huaibei for Nanjing in exchange for a batch of food and materials. Huaibei has many fertile fields and convenient irrigation, and Dolgon is willing to give up Huaibei, which shows that he has made up his mind to withdraw to Guanwai. In order to prevent it, the Qing army slipped away after harvesting the wheat, and the lone king decided to launch a war against the Qing! ”

At this time, Jin Shenghuan spoke: "King, please ask for orders to attack Luoyang, and within a month, the entire territory of Henan will be recovered." ”

Gao Yihuan glanced at Jin Shenghuan, he has been a little anxious recently. It turned out that Jin Shenghuan was the number one general under Gao Yihuan, but now his status was replaced by Xu Heihu, and Li Dingguo, Zhao Daxian, and Hu Dawei were also in front of him, making him anxious to make meritorious contributions.

He had already made it clear that most of the Qing army in Luoyang had been withdrawn, and he was ready to fight it at the end of the year, but he was held down by Gao Yihuan.

Gao Yihuan saw Jin Shenghuan's eagerness, and said in his heart that Lao Jin had not had much chance to show his face since the Battle of Southern Henan, he was really anxious.

"The attack on Luoyang is none other than Huchen!" Gao Yihuan smiled slightly.

Jin Shenghuan's face was overjoyed, it could be regarded as waiting for the opportunity, but he was just about to receive the order, but Gao Yihuan waved his hand, and the words changed, "But Luoyang can't start the war first, the lonely king is going to close the door and fight the dog this time!" ”

Gao Yihuan glanced at everyone, picked up the wooden pole and pointed to the sand table and said: "Now that Moxi is in civil strife, my Great Wei has controlled the Hetao, and Mobei has no strength to attack Great Wei, from Datong to Guihua City, there is no obstacle on the road from Chahar to Liaoxi. ”

Gao Yihuan pointed the wooden pole to Liaoxi, and said in a solemn voice, "Xuanyi Wei beat the report, Hong Chengchou, the old thief, is building cities in Jinzhou, Songshan, and Daling River, and the lonely king decided to send a horse army to go to Monan to attack Liaoxi directly, and give Hong Lao Thief another siege of Songshan to see if he can shame the old thief!" ”

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