In southern Henan, during the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Jiangbei War, the Wei Wujun was also preparing and was about to intervene in the war.

As the Qing army broke through the Huai River defense line, Gao Yihuan's nerves also tensed, and he sent scouts to listen to the news of Jiangbei non-stop, worried about the collapse of the Ming army.

For sending troops to Jiangbei, Gao Yihuan has a bottom line, that is, Yangzhou's gains and losses, Yangzhou is still in the hands of the Ming army, which indicates that there is no problem with Jiangfang, if Yangzhou is lost, then he will go out to fight with Duoduo and force Azig to return to help.

At this time, Wei Wujun had been preparing for several months, and the equipment transported from Xiangyang and Nanyang had been distributed to the soldiers.

Now Gao Yihuan's army of 200,000 people, wearing the armor of Wei Wujun's armor, is 50,000. There are about 50,000 people wearing the clothes and armor of the Shun army, the Ming army, and the Qing army.

In this way, Gao Yihuan's subordinates already have 100,000 armor, and the equipment of the other 100,000 troops is a little worse, just a jacket.

The rice and grain transported from Huguang have also been piled up in the warehouses in southern Henan, and the new money minted by the money casting workshop has also been put into the silver number.

A few months ago, Gao Yihuan gathered 100,000 horses in southern Henan, and now the weapons, money and food are ready, just waiting for Gao Yihuan's order to send troops.

At this time, outside the city of Nanyang, tens of thousands of Wei Wu soldiers were stationed in the wilderness north of the city, and the big tents were one after another, spreading neatly and endlessly.

The camp was full of flags, and the wind blew the hunting sound, and the scene was spectacular.

At this time, outside the camp, a horse army of more than 3,000 people was training, riding soldiers on war horses, galloping wildly, rushing steep slopes, jumping into pits, jumping obstacles, and already had some appearance.

From the seizure of horses in Shandong, the sneak attack on Zhengzhou, and then to the two wars of Ruzhou and Runing, Gao Yihuan captured a large number of war horses, but because he had no experience in breeding and raising horses, a batch of captured war horses would be eliminated every year.

Gao Yihuan originally wanted to obtain horses from Qinghai and Tibet from Longxi, but because of Zhang Xianzhong's occupation of Hanzhong, his access to horses was cut off.

Now there are only more than 15,000 horses that can be used in Gao Yihuan's hands, of which the Tiger Horse Army is one person and two horses, accounting for more than 6,000, and the dragoon battalion is one person and one horse, accounting for more than 6,000, and the rest of the horses are divided by the scouts and generals of various departments.

It would take at least three or four years to train a horse army before it could barely fight the Tartar cavalry.

Gao Yihuan obviously couldn't wait that long, so in the training of the cavalry, he adopted the strategy of training the dragoons first, and then selecting the horse army from the dragoon battalion.

Dragoons are cavalry infantry troops, and they do not need to master cavalry hedging, surprise attacks and other tactics, as long as they can ride war horses and shoot at horses.

This training is much simpler, and in three months, the infantry of the dragoon battalion will be able to master the art of horseback riding, and will be able to maneuver quickly and form combat effectiveness.

A dragoon is mixed in the cavalry camp for a year or two, and his riding skills are naturally exquisite, and then he is selected to the tiger battalion, and after a period of training, he can become a qualified horse army.

In this way, the war horse in Gao Yihuan's hands was fully utilized.

Of course, there are still many problems with this method, and the best way is to be able to recruit feudal soldiers who are good at cavalry warfare.

After ambushing Mandahai, Gao Yihuan also had a Mongolian army of more than 500 people in his hands, and his riding skills were indeed stronger than those of the Tiger Horse Army.

At this time, thousands of horse troops were galloping in the wilderness, and the horse army was followed by more than a dozen brass cannons dragged by war horses, as well as heavy vehicles pulled by horses, and the speed of travel was very fast.

This made the eyes of the generals behind Gao Yihuan light up, and Bai Wang couldn't help but praise: "If there are 100,000 people like this in the marshal, then no matter where the war starts, we can arrive quickly!" ”

The generals of the Shun line have a lot of experience in mobile warfare, and they can see the purpose of this horse army, but the number is smaller.

If there are tens of thousands of people, it will be too easy to use the tactics of attacking the west and avoiding the real and making up the truth.

"Haha~" Gao Yihuan laughed, "Ben Shuai also wants to!" It's just that the war horse is not easy to get! ”

As he spoke, a series of clangs sounded in the wilderness, attracting the attention of Gao Yihuan and the generals.

Beside the training ground of the dragoon camp, thousands of soldiers armed with self-made firearms were carrying their guns and firing in wheels, knocking the wooden planks 70 paces away into a splash of sawdust, and the school field was filled with thick smoke.

The flintlock pistol is also the self-generated fire gun of the Ming Dynasty, which is something that Gao Yihuan cannot not pay attention to.

More than 30 years later, Ottoman Turkey, armed with arquebuses, will be defeated by Western armies armed with flintlock pistols in Vienna.

In the Ming Dynasty, flintlock pistols were still relatively new, and only a few people knew that more than ten years ago, in 1635, the Ming Dynasty firearms researcher Bi Maokang also made flintlock pistols.

Gao Yihuan's other more advanced things can't be made, but the flintlock pistol, which already has a technical foundation and is close to maturity in technology, can still be made.

In July, when Gao Yihuan inspected the firearms workshop, the workshop had already made 1,000 self-made firearms under the guidance of Portuguese craftsmen.

Gao Yihuan asked the workshop to increase production, and Chen Huiting suspended the manufacture of Lu Mi Gong, and it took more than four months to build another 2,000 rods.

Now that these 3,000 poles have been equipped with the army, Gao Yihuan dispatched 3,000 elite firecrackers to form a battalion of self-generated guns, and equipped with artillery, rockets, and escorts of the cold weapon killer team, a total of more than 5,000 people, named the Kesheng Battalion, and handed over to Jin Xiangang to command.

Earlier, Gao Yihuan led the generals to the workshop to see the craftsmen test firing, but today when he saw more than a thousand soldiers shooting together, the generals were still a little frightened, and they were a little shocked about the shooting speed.

Gao Yihuan's army of 200,000, most of the soldiers and horses, are mediocre in combat power, there is no outstanding characteristics, and the selection of the Tiger Horse Army, the dragoon battalion, the Kesheng battalion, and the selection of the front battalion are the trump cards in his hands.

At this time, Gao Yihuan was watching the army drill with many generals, but Chen Mingxia rode a horse and galloped over, looking at Gao Yihuan with a smile on his face, "Handsome, a happy event, an urgent event!" ”

Gao Yi smiled and said: "What is the gentleman selling, Ben Shuai will listen to the happy event first!" ”

Chen Mingxia said: "Then I have to congratulate the handsome first." The small court of Nanjing gave marriage and married Princess Kunxing to the marshal, and the princess was ready to go to Huguang from Nanjing. ”

"Hahaha~" Gao Yihuan couldn't help laughing, and the generals around him also said that they were still handsome, and the princess of the old Zhu family had to accompany the handsome to sleep, when would we be able to sleep with the daughter of a big official.

Gao Yihuan smiled, but then he realized what the urgent matter Chen Mingxia wanted to talk about.

Zhu Cihong refused to agree to his request before, but now he dropped his son and took the initiative to marry, obviously Jiangbei was in a hurry and wanted to beg him to send troops.

"What about the urgency of the river defense crisis?" Gao Yihuan suddenly asked.

When to send troops, Gao Yihuan had already calculated, Kun Xing was not the reason for him to send troops, it was more like Li Shimin taking the princess of the Sui Dynasty, in order to reduce the resistance of the Zhongming forces to him in the future.

Chen Mingxia nodded, "The handsome man is clever!" ”

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