Chapter 93: Expanding the Cavalry (II)
The distance from Mayi County to Taoyuan Fort was more than 40 kilometers, and more than 170 people from the fortified battalion, more than 400 rescued people, more than 10 wounded junior cavalrymen, and two golden sore doctors set off at 5 a.m. on 18 August and arrived at Taoyuan Fort at 5 p.m. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ma Gui arranged for everyone to stay in the infantry battalion.
Gao Shun and Li Qiang, Sun Cheng, Zhou Fei, Cao Shan and others went to Sanchakou Fort during the day, put the grain that needed to be traded into Sanchakou, for the sake of safety, Gao Shun released a tun of junior infantry from the system to assist in the defense, at the same time, Sun Cheng will be temporarily stationed in Sanchakou Fort, Zhou Fei temporarily stationed in Zhaozhuang Fort.
When he returned in the afternoon, he combined 5 superior horses and 15 superior horses and brought them back to the barracks.
Seeing the five excellent horses, everyone's eyes were full of small stars, which were half a foot taller than the horses they were riding now, and they looked very strong, with longer legs, and definitely better performance in load and speed.
The Dubs were already very satisfied with the fact that they had been given a fine horse.
The war horse is the second life of the general, there is nothing you don't like, and the only thing that can save your life at the critical moment is the war horse under you.
Xu Lin and Xue Yin chose the horse first, and after getting the war horse they liked, they immediately changed into horse harness and ran a few laps in the training ground excitedly; The others could only choose from the superior horses, and although the superior horses were much better than the horses they had ridden before, they were much inferior to the war horses of Xu Lin and Xue Yin.
On August 19, more than 400 Han Chinese who had been rescued from the Xianbei tribe ran to the cavalry camp and began to select cavalry, which was the opportunity they had been waiting for for a long time.
After nearly a month of recuperation, most people's bodies have returned to the level of normal people, and it will take some time to reach their peak moment, but Gao Shun does not have so much time, so he can only let them train while improving their diet and let them adjust slowly.
The quality of these people is generally much better than that of those rescued from the Hun camp, and the Xianbei people are more harsh, and those with poor physique have long died of exhaustion; Moreover, before they were enslaved, most of them were Han officers and soldiers, and their physical foundation itself was good.
Li Qiang was in charge of the selection, these people had all seen Li Qiang, and it was Li Qiang and others who rescued them. Gao Shun just watched from the sidelines, hoping to find some good seedlings.
Xue Yin, Su Zhi and others came to the training ground very early, hoping to find their comrades-in-arms or acquaintances from the rescued.
Li Qiang shouted loudly: "Today's cavalry selection, those who perform well can directly become the commander, the chief or the uncle, and the very good can be directly appointed as the commander, so I hope you will show your real skills and let me see your true level; First of all, there will be no cavalry archery or cavalry battles. ”
Of more than 400 people, only 17 people finally stood up, which made Gao Shun very happy. Check the attributes of these 17 people first, most of the force values are above 40, otherwise those with poor physical strength will not survive now.
When he rescued them, Gao Shun generally checked their attributes, and the force value was rarely lower than 40.
"Okay, more than 10 of you will go to the side first to wait for the next arrangement, and now we will have a physical selection competition, lift the stone lock, and the one who will lift ten times in a row will pass; Divide into 5 teams for the test, and those who fail to pass will go aside and wait for the arrangement. ”
Li Qiang casually ordered 5 Dubos to come over to supervise.
Half an hour later, the first round of selection ended, with a total of 388 people passing.
Li Qiang shouted: "First of all, congratulations on passing the first round of testing, let's carry out the riding and archery test, riding a horse and galloping through the five scarecrows set up in the east, firing 3 arrows in a row, and the one who hits two arrows will pass, everyone is divided into two teams, and the test will start now." ”
The speed of this test is relatively slow, and it took nearly 2 hours to complete the test, only 296 people passed the test, Gao Shun is very satisfied with this ratio, even if they used to be all Han cavalry, after so many years without touching bows and arrows, it is very rare to maintain this level.
After lunch, there is a cavalry competition, divided into 4 teams, respectively, against four tuns, one win or two draws can be selected, Xu Zhentun and Zhang Yangtun temporarily combined into a tun to accept the challenge, only soldiers can be challenged, Wu Chang and Shi Chang are not within the scope of the challenge.
The passers stood in a row alone, and Gao Shun looked at their attributes one by one.
The test took more than two hours to complete, and a total of 169 people passed.
Gao Shun found that there were 4 people with a force value of more than 60 and 1 person with a force value of more than 70, but they were all over 35 years old, and there was a temporary lack of middle-level officers, so they could only make do with it.
Calling these five people out individually, Gao Shun said: "I feel that the martial arts of the five of you are good, do you dare to challenge our existing Dubo, and if you win, you will be appointed as Dubo." ”
At this time, Wang Xiu walked forward and said to Gao Shun: "General, I know them, they are all my original comrades-in-arms. ”
"Wang Xiuwang's beauty?" Three people looked at Wang Xiu in surprise.
"You are still alive." Saying that, the two came to a warm hug.
After the excitement, Wang Xiu said: "General, this is the people of the Koji Min, the word Zhongren, and he is also from Jincheng, and he turned out to be my boss and served as Sima. ”
Lu Min said: "General, we were originally soldiers under the Qiang general Duan Cheng Duan Jiming, and later followed Tian Yan, the captain of the Qiang Guard, and then Tian Yan was transferred to the rank of General of Po Xianbei, and we followed to attack Xianbei together, but I didn't think that Tian Yan escaped from the damn battle, resulting in no one in command of the army, the retreat of the troops was chaotic, and we were defeated and captured. ”
"I've heard about that defeat, so it's no wonder you."
"General, these two are Zhang Fu and Qi Yun, who were originally appointed as military candidates and tun commanders, thank you general for saving us back." Koji Min introduced.
"I've seen the general."
"You've worked hard."
"May the general take us for revenge, there are still many captured soldiers in Xianbei."
Gao Shun said: "Okay, you train hard, and if you have the opportunity, you will definitely lead you to the grassland." ”
"General Xie."
Gao Shun said to the other two: "You two also introduce it." ”
One of them said: "Yes, General, the two of us are from Jincheng County, but we are not from the same department as Qi Sima, and we were also captured when we attacked Xianbei with Tian Yan, the general of Xianbei, my name is Ma Yi, this is called Chen Shui, and we were both military candidates before." ”
Gao Shun asked curiously, "Why are you all Tian Yan's subordinates?" ”
Koji Min explained: "General, when the Xianbei Zhonglang broke Tian Yan out of Yunzhong County, so that the Xiongnu Zhonglang Zang Min led the Xiongnu to go out of Yanmen County, and the captain of the Karasuma school, Xia Yu, went out of Dai County, and fought with the Xianbei West, Central and Eastern Divisions respectively, and we met with the Western Xianbei, so we were captured by the Western Xianbei. ”
Gao Shun felt that the words of the five all appointed as Dubo were a bit much, and he couldn't use them for the time being, and he thought that Lu Yi was also from Jincheng, and he was very famous for defeating Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong with foot and cavalry, so he asked: "Which of you is good at leading heavy infantry and riding with foot?" ”
Lu Min said: "General, most of us are good at this tactic, and we learned from the old general Duan Jiming at the beginning, mainly using infantry to restrain the cavalry of the Qiang tribe. ”
"You're all good at this tactic?"
"I'm familiar!"
"I'm familiar!"
"I'm familiar with it too!"
Ma Yi and Chen Shui didn't speak, and Gao Shun asked, "What about the two of you?" ”
Ma Yi explained: "General, we have been cavalry since we joined the army, and we have never been engaged in infantry, so we have only seen this tactic, and we are not very familiar with it. ”
Gao Shun thought about it for a while and said, "I am going to form a heavy infantry and appoint Lu Zhongren as the military commander, and Zhang Fu and Qi Yun as the commanders. ”
"Yes, General, I will not dishonor." The three of them were very happy and immediately responded to the errand.
"There are more than one hundred and seventy people, and you can choose some of the remaining ones."
"Yes, General."
Gao Shun said to Ma Yi and Chen Shui: "The two of you have served as military candidates before, and now you are appointed as Dubo, are you willing?" ”
"General, we are willing, as long as we can kill the barbarians."
"Then now go and choose fifty of each of you."
"Yes, General."
Gao Shun beckoned all the tun chiefs over and said, "Ma Yi Ma Dubo returns to Xu Zhen's tun, Chen Shui Chen Dubo returns to Zhang Yang's tun; Chief Xue Tun first filled Bentun, and the rest of the people were led by Yang Tun, and the missing personnel were made up after recruiting troops in September. ”
"Yes, General."
In this way, the entire cavalry team has 5 tuns, 3 teams per tun, with a total number of nearly 750 people, only Zhang Yang's tun is not yet formed; If you add Cao and Xu Fu in Mayi County, the total number of cavalry exceeds 1,000.
Of the unsuccessful cavalry candidates, more than 30 were selected into the heavy infantry, forming 2 tuns, led by the koji people; The rest of the people formed 2 infantry tuns, these people were originally soldiers, a little training is qualified infantry, and after they recover, I believe that many people still have to return to the ranks of the cavalry, from which 10 infantry Dubo and 5 tun commanders were selected, the infantry structure is finally complete, all under the command of Gong Yu, he was appointed by Gao Shun as an infantry candidate.
Coupled with nearly 200 officers and soldiers trapped in the camp, the primary cavalry and primary infantry and sword and shield soldiers who are constantly synthesized by the system every day, Gao Shun is overjoyed, and his power has begun to become large, and he has a certain amount of self-protection.