The power went out all day, and the written paragraph was gone, so I could only brew it again, and re-write it after the call came in the evening, and send out today's copy before midnight.

With Uncle Zhang's order, the sergeants hiding in the hills and valleys jumped like a gathering tide.

These Hebei troops, whose whereabouts disappeared, had actually been marching among the hills close to the south bank of the Yellow River during this time, avoiding going deep into the hinterland of the plains.

Therefore, with the help of the loess hills distributed on both sides of the river, there are not only the Yellow River sailors who have been lacking in the Northern Dynasties along the way, but also all kinds of spare no effort to transport supplies.

also because of some mastery of the ferries along the way, and from time to time supplemented by soldiers and horses on the other side, so that this tired army, which was already a little scarred after a high-intensity battle, quickly returned to its old outlook.

In addition, the southeast commander was fully engaged in the attack on Tugi Province, and there were more second- and third-rate alert troops along the coast, which had been swept away by the first landing, and although the commander had tried to remedy it, many places had not yet recovered.

But it gave this adventurous military horse a space to correspondingly break into pieces.

Coupled with the local armed forces along the way, all kinds of active disguised cover-ups and misleading, in the case that their own side is also deliberately avoiding the war, the southern army has not been able to catch the real whereabouts, and only knocked out some tails as suspicious soldiers.

However, as they began to loot and capture the baggage squads, the scope of their activities was gradually narrowed and determined.

Squad after team of cavalry scouts, disappearing or fleeing back in the field, and the search troops drawn from the front of the Southern Army finally bit the track of most of the Northern Army's activities.

But most of Uncle Zhang's purpose has also been achieved. He risked crossing the river to open a separate front, but not just to support and join his allies.

The rest of the things can only be handed over to the will of heaven, Uncle Zhang looked at the winding procession at night, and said secretly in his heart

The newly formed First Hunting Cavalry Battalion, with the wind and thunder banner with the watermark of the horse's hooves, is following the vertical and horizontal figure of the cavalry, divided into small units of tactical drills, galloping in the dust.

Since the right wing of the new army was reassigned to the commander of the new army, his small "seconded" men and horses have officially become a member of the famous "invincible" under a certain exchange of conditions.

Some ambitious cavalry commander Zhao Liangsi personally demonstrated and supervised his subordinates, practicing and demonstrating the skills of loading and firing on horseback, even if the first few times were almost turned upside down from the horse by some overly nervous mounts.

Although he is a cavalry general cultivated by traditional tactics, it does not prevent him from learning to skillfully use new weapons and tactics for a better future and opportunities.

According to his original idea, if he didn't want to be gradually marginalized or reduced to a supporting role on the battlefield, he had to be more or less in step with the brigade, so that he could defend himself with firearms. I don't want to fall into the arms of the general Luo, and the person who gave the gun was fully supported.

However, Zhao Liangsi's decision once caused a lot of backlash and criticism internally, and some generals who obviously adhered to the tradition of horse warfare and their sense of honor even took the lead in resisting the use of this weapon, which was obviously not the right way of cavalry.

In particular, it may take more energy and time to regain mastery of this obviously weakened, bloody cavalry battle.

But apparently they all underestimated the determination and will of this cavalry officer who wanted to make a difference, and he directly took out iron-fisted measures, severely punished several of the leaders who made the most noise, and drove a number of people who violated the law back to their original troops or simply dismissed them, so as to force down this momentum.

Start with the tactics of the teaching team, learn to dismount and stand on the ground, form a simple platoon formation, and then the adaptation process of shooting on horseback, and then progress to Xu Ran's trot, galloping under certain bumps and rhythms.

Then it is compared with the training syllabus of the infantry team, combined with the experience of horse warfare, from the line of charge, derived from the horizontal team, column, big stride, fast step, and even scattered galloping supporting tactics.

In this way, his troops had just one more step to discharge their guns on their horses before they formally formed a dense line and charged the enemy formation.

Then the cavalry who charged the formation partly used knives and partly spears, and when the enemy encountered the enemy, they used spears to rush through the enemy's formation, and the sabers followed up with melee slashing and tearing to divide the rear team. Once caught in an unfavorable grappling, alternately cover the disengagement with a blow.

They even equipped some of the twin-haired short-bodied horsemans for cavalry, and they discovered the benefits of this thing in their daily chases and encounters.

Although the horse gun is inferior in range and angle compared to the horned bow or crossbow used by the cavalry, it is light and portable and durable, and does not affect the efficiency of horse combat impact and hand-to-hand combat.

This has also become an important supplementary means for these southern cavalry, who are not good at riding and shooting, to fight against or even confront the northern cavalry head-on.

Due to the lack of soil for the cultivation of heavy cavalry in the Southern Dynasties, these limited numbers of horse troops were trained according to the standards and tactics of light cavalry, with a special emphasis on mobility and flexibility. Tactics are also based on roundabout containment, harassment, sneak attacks and scattered charges.

Therefore, with the addition of a horse gun as a secondary weapon, they can strike at the enemy from both near and far, adopt the tactics of scattering and encircling, and attacking in circles around the enemy, gradually dragging the opponent to death.

Although these concepts are still being tried in actual combat, some of them are still tactical planning and prospect ideas on paper, which have not been tested by large-scale battle formations, and need further time and refinement.

But it was enough for Zhao Liangsi to be full of certain expectations and ambitions for the future of this army, and he couldn't help but know about the marshal who could personally guide him in the direction of the battle. The so-called born to know is nothing more than that.

In particular, the tactics of immediate attack have been of sufficient value in reconnaissance, vigilance, patrolling, harassment, and pursuit. At least in the field, before the inevitable encounter with the enemy, you only need to raise your hand to greet the other party with a blow, and you will have some gains and surprises.

Even if you miss, the fright of the close-range discharge is enough to disrupt the momentum and rhythm of the opponent's mount......

Regardless of how the new Zhao Liangsi is, how excited and the personality cult plot germinates.

In the course of the march, I was instructing my marquis and his staff, making some kind of assessment of the prospects of the war.

Any decisive battle at the national level is a competition and consumption of comprehensive national strength under factors such as national treasury reserves, the accumulation of productive forces, the proportion of population, and mobilization efficiency.

In this ultimate showdown that won the world, the Southern Dynasty undoubtedly occupied the time when there were many soldiers and well-prepared, while the Northern Dynasty was more of the main venue for internal operations.

At this point in the war, there is not much possibility of a quick victory, and it is only the norm to accumulate strength as much as possible to crush and advance the past point by point, or to fall back into stalemate and confrontation, and return to the long era of see-saw and confrontation.

Therefore, it is possible to divide the results only when one side is completely exhausted and falls from exhaustion. And this winter, it will be an important division.

Now that I have come to this point, I also have to reconsider my own position as to where to go in this war, as well as the redefinition of the position of individuals and small groups in the context of the times and camps.

After all, I am already a candidate who is qualified to lead all the military and horse affairs alone, and who is qualified to defend the team and the side that expresses his position, rather than an ordinary army leader who can meet the needs of a moment by simply thinking about completing tasks and strategic goals.

Even what is presented so far is still quite rough and vague. But it's better to be prepared than to unconsciously go with the flow and react passively.

This is not a whim, but a series of news triggered and touched recently.

Although I am in front of the army, the news of the special caravan running in front of the army and the rear has been more or less selective, and it has been gathered to me one after another.

For example, Jiang Ningxing in the rear is also the base camp, and finally made a big move.

The northern-summoned general manager of the southeast Zhaoning in the rear spent more than half a year to fully integrate the old departments of the Yizhi Junzhou domain towns in the Jiangnan region.

In the end, nearly 80,000 new troops were sorted out as the backup of the Southeast Road Army, of which the first batch of "Changjie" and "Fengsheng" two new army numbers, about 30,000 people have crossed the Jiangbei and marched towards Huai, and will soon join the command of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

As a result of some collateral influence, we, a new force that seems to be strong and strong, are no longer the only choice for some people in the commander to pinch their noses and tolerate it for the time being, and the corresponding importance and attention are bound to decline, bringing about a series of changes in tasks and rationing.

On the other hand, it is the Liangtai camp in Jiangdu, and the local experience is that although the southeast has been under the unification of the Southern Dynasty, the livelihood of the Jiangnan generation is still quite arduous, and it has even deteriorated, and there is a scene of partial displacement and escape.

The reason is also very simple, after the reunification, these Jiangnan soldiers did not wait for the peace of the world and the opportunity to recuperate, but because of the need for transportation before the Northern Expeditionary Army, they fell into the dilemma of some kind of follow-up influence.

The main root cause is that in order to make up for the shortcomings of the gradual difficulties in sea and land transportation after the autumn, under the vigorous advocacy of Jiang Ningxing, the first thing that the newly appointed officials in various parts of Jiangnan did was to scavenge as much manpower and material resources as possible to meet the needs of the base camp before transporting and supplying troops by land.

Compared with sea transportation, there is a big disadvantage of long-distance transshipment by land, that is, the manpower required and the consumption along the way are quite large, the farther the distance, the consumption will be doubled, and it can be said that the disturbance of the people is very strict.

The original Cao River system, but has been abandoned for many years, so some people proposed, the organization of manpower section by section dredging, in order to partially improve the efficiency of transportation, after the news came out, so the people along the Cao River were a little uneasy.

Although it will be difficult to have any impact on the front of the army for a while, once the war stalemates, this is not a good sign.

For the sake of my own safety and even my career and success or failure, I must also consider some worse possibilities and plans, as well as the corresponding future roads and countermeasures.

Of course, in the current form, such pessimistic remarks and views are still not suitable for me and my subordinates to discuss, so as not to disturb the morale of the army in an unfounded way, so we can only quietly make some preparations in the form of such propositions and trials.