Mapo City (near present-day Yongseong, Henan), the station of the left wing of the New Army was still immersed in the joy of a certain kind of shotgun exchange.

More than eighty percent of the 1,600 healthy horses are peony horses, even in the army of the Northland, they are rare, and they are relatively non-picky eaters, easy to raise grassland horses, as long as they have a few years to raise, they can breed the same number.

It is said that if it weren't for the need for Dong Huting's troops to travel long distances from Hedong to Huaibei to attack the country, we would not have been able to get this benefit so easily, and it can be seen that Cheng Dù was highly valued.

As a result, our garrison was filled with people making and preparing their saddles, or trying to learn to ride horses and drown in the dust.

The teaching team and the capture team, the mounts of the pro-direct regiment and the pacesetter regiment were all replaced, and then in the first and second battalions, the first cavalry regiment was formed to upgrade the mobility, and then the third battalion was organized into two infantry cavalry teams.

The horses that were replaced were not wasted, and they were handed over to the fourth battalion for the provisional formation of the first, third, and fourth auxiliary brigades. Mules and donkeys, as well as a small number of oxen, were relegated to the baggage sequence of the stragglers, who were responsible for carrying the wounded and supplies.

In this way, the pure military horse has been initially realized, and I can also proudly claim that the left wing of the new army is a unit with only horses, and it has finally lived up to the name of guerrillas. Well, but something seems wrong.

Among them, the most immediate change is that because of the replenishment of horses, in each regiment, a special scout establishment has been added to improve the warning range and response effectiveness of the corresponding units in the field.

Of course, most of these are just preliminary plans on paper, and it takes time to slowly run in and realize, after all, riding a horse is not so easy to get started.

Then there is the problem of running in with the mount, you need to stay with the horse for a long time, let it be familiar and accustomed to its own smell and characteristics, gradually reduce its resistance and strangeness, and establish a preliminary sense of security and trust, so that it can be called able to ride a horse, and can initially follow the march of the team.

As for learning simple movements and tactical changes such as galloping, sprinting, and trotting, it will take more time to run in and train; In conjunction with the more horse combat skills of assassination and chopping on horseback, it is divided into tactical changes for cavalry and infantry, and the change of formation for group assault requires the cultivation of years of combat and group life.

More professional things such as higher-end standing and marching mounted shooting, small-scale feints and tactical inducements, are not in our consideration for the time being.

The current requirement is to be able to maintain the corresponding mobility of the soldiers, and to maintain the need for some of them to enter the designated battlefield in a timely manner.

At least our troops, even if they see that things are bad or the situation is not good, they still have the probability and confidence that they can't beat or run away.

This has also become a basic benchmark, and the distinction between the main force and the regular troops of each battalion is whether they can carry out battlefield maneuvers at a certain distance on horseback. Soldiers with horses can also get an extra food subsidy every day, which can be used to buy additional miscellaneous items for mounts such as malt bean koji.

In addition, the sudden increase in the supply of forage also requires a way to raise and obtain a corresponding stable supply quota on the spot, after all, a horse can eat much more than a person every day, and the labor and food required are enough to support many soldiers.

The military horses are still in the need to replenish fat in the battlefield, otherwise they are likely to become weak and sick and cause unnatural death, they must be fed with soybeans and wheat rich in minerals and protein, and if it is after a fierce battle, it also needs to be supplemented with knotweed and eggs to dredge and resolve the bruises and hidden diseases left after the fierce action.

Therefore, after the addition of more than 1,000 horses, while the mobility is greatly expanded, we are equivalent to the daily consumption of thousands of people, fortunately, at least we do not need to pay "them" military salaries, nor do we have to consider miscellaneous items such as clothing and bedding, we only need to arrange people to maintain a hygienic environment, wash and clean up frequently, and by the way, enough training and activity to maintain physical fitness.

For this reason, I once again deeply feel the necessity and urgent need to have a stable base area/territory.

In order to gain the support and feedback of the Frontier Division, I even had to reluctantly cut my love and select more than 100 horses in the best condition and appearance to send them as trophies in exchange for some key commitments of supplies.

Then he sent dozens of horses to the merchant groups and baggage teams left behind in the rear as gifts for gifts and dotting. gave a few horses to a few people who were familiar with each other, such as Liu Yanqing and Cheng Xuan, which can be regarded as an untimely need to consolidate hypocrisy and relationships.

In this time and space, good horses are like luxury cars in later generations, which belong to some kind of tall status symbol, especially for the Southern Dynasty, which is relatively short of good horses, it is also rare.

But the happiest thing about our army to get these war horses is not my scout captain Yan Jiu'er, who is good at taking care of horses, but the exclusive veterinarian "Sad Wind" accompanying the army, yes, it is this "Sad Wind".

Seeing so many peony horses, his expression was like Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West who had entered the daughter country, and like a stinky teacher who applied for a closed girls' school and saw his future reserve harem, he drooled all kinds of things, smirked and stroked this one, rubbing that one, this picture is very happy, not thinking about it.

Let everyone who does not know see it, and I can't help but shudder and tremble in my pores, well, as one of the few people who know, at least I can comfort myself that he has not shown interest in the stallion at the moment.

Another person who is happy about this, as well as Su Jing, the chief knife medical officer of the army nicknamed "White Greedy Wolf", because of various falls and stampede accidents, the medical station where he is always overcrowded.

Therefore, after getting a lot of new real yàn materials, he is always easy to wander out of the world, and YY's delusions of interacting with his virtual twin sister are also much better.

However, the group of people who were detained by us, except for putting them back to report the news, there was no follow-up, so that our department, which had done all kinds of ramps and negotiations, had a sense of loss from air to air.

And Xin Jiaxuan, the deputy general who had just experienced a almost total annihilation, after the shocking change of life and death, also seemed to be in some kind of situation, although I tried to persuade him, but it didn't seem to come out so quickly for a while.

In contrast, Zhang Xian, deputy of the Fifth Regiment, was not affected at all, but because he got a group of subordinate mounts, he was very energetic and planning to rebuild the Third Brigade.

Although this sudden encounter caused the centaur that Xin Jiaxuan brought out to suffer a bit of a big loss, the people who could hold on with them were considered to have good will and experience, and they were added to the missing sequence of the Gun Corps, and then a new fifth regiment was built.

It's just that these soldiers, who are accustomed to cold weapons, still need to be retrained to simply operate the firecrackers and the tactics of fighting with the guns. Then draw some people from the teaching team as seeds, plus the skilled veterans drawn from the rest of the brigade, and rebuild the two auxiliary brigades that were almost completely wiped out.

As for the loss of stragglers, on the contrary, it is the easiest to replenish, in this troubled world, there are still many people who are willing to sell themselves and get a stable food errand in a short time, but I am more picky, even if I am looking for cannon fodder, I am not willing to be like those friendly troops, and I am not willing to levy some good and bad goods everywhere to make up the number.

Especially in the Runzhou and Jiangning generations in the rear, there is no shortage of local soldiers who have been dismissed, and they still maintain some kind of contact with the old ones who served in the former army, so they only need to send messengers to inform the left-behind merchant groups and baggage teams in the rear, and the next time they deliver supplies, they can bring the corresponding posts over by the way.

Although this kind of cost and twists and turns are a little more, the quality of the soldiers is more or less guaranteed, and the resistance to the dynasty is not large, and it also has a certain ability to adapt to the north, so it is easier to use, and there is no need to guard against thieves like other people, and it is strictly guarded against all kinds of escape and resistance of soldiers who are stubbornly defending the new "replenishment" and "recruitment".

As for the natives in the war zone, I usually only conscripted them as civilian servants or for short-term labor, and then I selected some of the more tenacious and tenacious ones to serve as temporary supplements to the skirmishers.

In this way, even if a few unstable factors are mixed in, they can be easily absorbed and digested under the advantage of the collective.

The foundation of an army is the organization and system building, and I have already explored and built it to take shape, and it would be even more wonderful if I could be given another suitable piece of land as a test field.

After all, according to the expectations used by the dynasty in advance to encourage the officers and men of all armies to use their lives, as long as they can attack the famous cities and cities of the world, or make corresponding great achievements in destroying the enemy, they can obtain the qualification of building accounts in towns and opening up one side.

After all, the Northern Dynasty still has the old name of the Tang Dynasty, although it has been the autocratic Zhang family, and the prestige of tossing is declining, but it is guaranteed that no foreign princes are allowed to divide the domain, and in the name of protection, it will cause trouble again. And after the destruction of the Luodu regime, there is also a need for enough warlike divisions to pacify all parties, and even protect a corner.

But it doesn't just take attention and support, it's also about luck. After all, not to mention the competitive meaning of this number of armies, Shuai Sili also has his own ideas and mountains, which are what I still lack.

I was a little troubled and pondering heavily, while patrolling and consolidating the defenses, preparing to meet the army that might attack Hedong Province.

The focus is that the north has not yet been under control, the Mangdang Mountain area of Songzhou, and the big cities such as Haocheng, Luyi, and Zhenyuan bordering Chenzhou in the west are the defense areas of the two friendly armies of the "Yunyi Army" and the "Jiangchuan Army" respectively, but they are guarding against the periphery of the Northern Dynasty Dujiandao, and the partial divisions from Xuzhou, Ruzhou and Bianzhou, I have to count on myself more at a critical time.

The location of Yongcheng-Mapucheng-Lutang where I am located just plays a kind of buffer that separates the battlefield of Xuzhou from the Song, Cao, and Chen Prefectures in the northwest, and the former site of a Huaizhong Straight Road in the former dynasty passes through the Mangdang Mountains and hills between Songzhou and Maozhou.

Although the pavement of the straight road has disappeared, the relatively flat position and the remains of the roadbed are still conducive to large-scale marching.

In addition, there is a silted and abandoned canal tributary, which runs parallel to the straight road to the city of Xiayi in Songzhou. It can be said that it is advantageous to attack and not to defend, and the only one that is more dangerous is the Mapu Castle where my main formation is located, which is located on the side of the canal and stands on the edge of the Shadowless Mountain.