The third volume sailed in the Ming Dynasty

The south is full of wind and rain, but the north is red and blazing, and the weather is hot day by day. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Wuling Valley, which is roughly enclosed by a fence, is not only a place for raising horses, but also a place for Zhang Songrong to train cavalry.

"If you want to be a qualified cavalryman, you must have a qualified war horse. Therefore, taming the horse first is the first step you can take.

Although Ma Tong is human, he is a beast after all. In order to make it more receptive to your intentions and bring out the power of the horse, you should focus on people and try to communicate the relationship between people and horses, so that people and horses can be integrated.

But this is not an easy task, and it requires careful and patient training of the horses to make them trust everyone. ”

In the newly opened martial arts arena, there are many wooden sticks, horizontal bars and other things that train war horses.

The 4,000 cavalrymen who had just been recruited, under the leadership of more than 200 officers and soldiers of the Tianxiong Army who had been carefully selected by Zhang Songrong to help and who were proficient in horsemanship, were in groups of more than a dozen people and listened carefully to the explanation.

Qin Haoming and Zhang Songrong rode high-headed horses and inspected the training of recruits all the way.

In line with the attitude of excellence, they did not recruit 10,000 cavalry at once, but planned to train them in batches.

It should be said that in addition to seeking refinement, there are also financial considerations.

The formation of the cavalry commission actually cost two silver taels.

Under the Ming military system, the guards were paid one or two or five dollars in silver, and there were many deductions.

Recruitment is basically between two and three, and there are slight differences between different places and different types of troops.

And the cavalry, no matter where the troops are in the Ming Dynasty, will be five taels of silver, and the full amount of pay will not be deducted. Otherwise, there will be no retention at all.

However, most of the other troops were cavalry with their own soldiers. But the number of people is small, and the more famous Guanning Iron Cavalry is only a few thousand.

At first, Qin Haoming still held Han Xin to order troops, and the more the better.

Who knows, when Zhang Songrong made a list of rations and cavalry configurations, he found that he wanted to be simple!

Needless to say, it is a fixed monthly expense and is essential.

There are also uniforms, weapons, food and other logistics support for the soldiers, which are also relatively large expenses.

It's just that these are nothing compared to the daily food of the war horse!

After Zhang Songrong's careful explanation, Qin Haoming learned that in addition to eating roughage such as grass, hay, and wheat straw, the war horse also had to feed it concentrated feed, that is, beans, wheat and wheat bran, so that it could have strength.

In other words, it doesn't matter if people eat almost, war horses must be fed and eaten well.

In addition, in order to cultivate the relationship between the soldiers and the war horses, they were generally fed by the soldiers themselves. But inevitably, there will always be inconveniences or vacations.

Therefore, it is necessary to have at least one logistician for every fifty horses, which is commonly known as a groom.

In addition, in order to ensure the source of horses, the disease treatment of war horses, etc., several horse doctors are also needed.

Therefore, forming a cavalry team is not a simple matter.

No wonder I heard that people eat horses and eat them, and they consume too much, and that's true!

From the training in the Wuling Valley, it can be known that having soldiers and horses does not mean that there are cavalry troops. Even, the newly recruited soldiers are not even a single rider.

In the half month since their formation, they have not even ridden a horse once, all they have done is to enhance the relationship between people and horses.

Through caresses, it relieves itching, provides clean drinking water, adds grass and materials, and washes frequently, so as to relieve the fear of horses and increase the emotions between people and horses.

"Everybody watch my movements."

The scorching sun was scorching, and a young hundred households wearing mountain armor rode on a horse, holding the reins, and instructed the war horse under his crotch to turn left, turn right, forward, backward, accelerate, slow down, etc., the whole process was like a smooth flow, and there was no disobedience.

The war horses seemed to be one with him, indistinguishable from each other.

"Does anyone know the secret?"

After a set of movements, the young Baihu jumped off his horse cleanly and asked loudly at the group of recruits he was in charge of.

"Looks like pulling the reins?"

"How many times did you step on the stirrups?"

"I seem to see Yin Baihu have the mane of a war horse?"

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The people of the Northland have dealt with horses to some extent, but they are not proficient in it, and they have no systematic training.

When asked by Baihu surnamed Yin, his group of more than a dozen recruits said a word to each person, but he basically told the truth about it.

"It's good, you can see that everyone is very attentive.

Yin Baihu praised it, and then began to explain the essentials of the action.

"The difficult movements of taming war horses are inseparable from harnesses. The three of them are connected with each other, forming a channel of communication between cavalry and war horses.

At first, the movements I did were relatively easy, but in the future, everyone will have to learn to make the war horse lie down.

To put it simply, it is to pull one side of the slow rope, which is transmitted to the stirrup, the horse's bit, the horse's gums, and the corners of the mouth to produce an unbearable sense of oppression, forcing the horse to lie down.

After lying down, immediately ease the reins, relieve the pressure of the chicks on the corners of the mouth and gums, and at the same time give praise or rewards to the horse, including food rewards.

With such patience and training, over time, as soon as everyone pulls the reins on one side, the horse immediately lies down.

As for turning left, turning right, forward, backward, accelerating, slowing down, etc., it is much easier to achieve it through special movements and even language with war horses, but it is much easier than training to lie down. ”

Yin Baihu has clear teeth, flexible thinking, and repeatedly explains several actions one by one.

Then, more than a dozen soldiers practiced according to his instructions.

"Yes, pull the reins on one side...... Horse's head is skewed...... Compression of the gingival corners of the mouth...... Lie down...... Easing - side reins...... Relieves pressure on the corners of the gums...... Praise or reward. ”

Yin Baihu was extremely patient, correcting or teaching the soldiers their movements one by one.

"General Zhang, are the hundred households in that army?"

Yin Baihu's excellent performance attracted Qin Haoming's attention, pointed to his back, and asked Zhang Songrong on the side.

"The hundred households in Chongzhen's seventh year, called Yin Yuang, a native of Hengshui, riding and archery kung fu are quite good, and they are Wang Pu's subordinates.

Because he had no money to pay tribute, he was pressed by Wang Pu in the position of a hundred households, and the last general paid attention to him for a long time, and just took this opportunity to pull him to the riding group. ”

Zhang Songrong shook his head helplessly, there are so many such things in the army, if there is no Qin Haoming's order, he will have nothing to do.

"Promoted to a thousand households, transferred to the Chinese army, and replaced Yu Youhan's position."

With such a talent, solid theory and rich practice, how can Qin Haoming let it go?

Just ran in for a while, and found an opportunity to let him go to Linpu as an equestrian instructor. Of course, Zhang Songrong is not bad, but the level is too high, and the deployment needs to go through the military department, troublesome!

He also knows one thing about the superficial horse training, which is nothing more than the establishment of information storage in the central nervous system of the horse, that is, memory.

Horses are not as easy to store information as humans but much more convenient than other domestic animals.

But if he wants to actually operate, it is much worse than Yin Yuang.