In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed since the sin. However, Li Yanzhao's move still becomes a topic of conversation for soldiers in the army from time to time after tea and dinner.

Although the soldiers talked about this matter very enthusiastically, few people saw Li Yanzhao's true intentions. Therefore, in the cognition of the vast majority of sergeants and soldiers, Li Yanzhao was afraid of Pang Sima's might, so he went to take the blame.

Only Dou Tong, Liu Jiwu, Cao Jian and a few of Li Yanzhao's subordinate horsemen are like mirrors about this matter. Li Yanzhao's style of acting, they are all clear.

In addition, the battalion sergeant knew the whole story of Dou Tong. Including Li Yanzhao's attack on Pang Sima's subordinates, as well as six days of confinement, and later the guilt of Jing petition. They were all witnesses, and what they saw and heard was much more comprehensive than the rest of the soldiers. Combined with Li Yanzhao's style of acting, they naturally understood the true intentions of this Shangguan.

However, it is very tacit that everyone has a silent attitude towards this matter. So in the past half month, Li Yanzhao has led everyone to practice every day. Life is also peaceful.

The only thing that puzzled everyone was that the craftsmen in the county town sent a batch of saddles with stirrups to the army the day before yesterday, but it made the horsemen puzzled.

Although there are few cavalry soldiers in the Guangwu Army, all of them can be called elite. During the time of Ma Duwei, strict selection and harsh training achieved the exquisite horse skills of the Guangwu cavalry.

The cavalry of the Guangwu army can not only wield swords and slash on horseback, but also skillfully use bows and crossbows on the back of bumpy horses, although the accuracy of cavalry is still not as good as that of the cavalry of nomadic tribes such as Xianbei, but it is not far behind.

Looking at the county and county armies in the entire Liangzhou, this Guangwu cavalry of more than 100 people is enough to be called a strong force among the cavalry. Even if they occupy the land of Hehuang, the number and armament are far superior to the Xiping cavalry of several grades of Guangwu, and it is difficult to compete with the Guangwu cavalry in terms of skills.

From this, the excellent skills of the Guangwu cavalry can be seen. However, such a strong cavalry still felt unimpressed by this batch of saddles with stirrups sent by the county government.

Li Yanzhao had long expected this attitude of being difficult to accept new things. So I didn't say much. It's just that during the drill the next day, two groups of more than a dozen cavalry soldiers were divided into two groups to conduct a unique confrontation drill.

One of the groups, led by Team Ye, continued to use the saddle without stirrups. The other group was led by Li Yanzhao himself. It's all a new saddle. The two sides were armed with wooden swords, wooden swords, and bows with arrows removed, and they fought against each other on the school grounds.

With Li Yanzhao's shout, both sides of the confrontation drill urged their horses to rush towards each other. Considering safety issues, if someone falls from a horse in such a scuffle, it is likely to be a death.

So before Li Yanzhao started the drill, he had already ordered both sides of the drill to tie their respective knights to the saddle with ropes, although they were deliberately loosened to leave a certain space for these horsemen to move, but their movements were still generally restricted. It is difficult to swing and slash on horseback. However, for the sake of safety, Li Yanzhao also had to do the same.

The horsemen on both sides formed a wedge-shaped formation, spread their horses' hooves and charged in the opposite direction. Li Yanzhao instructed more than a dozen of his men to follow his horses closely, although this confrontation drill was of low intensity, but if they charged straight and collided with each other, casualties would still inevitably occur.

Li Yanzhao is not stupid, of course he can avoid non-combat attrition. So when his horse's head was only six or seven feet away from the opponent's horse's head, he turned his horse's head to the left.

Seeing this, more than a dozen horsemen behind him also turned their horses' heads with him. Li Yanzhao's wedge formation passed by the wedge formation led by the opposite Ye team. With Li Yanzhao's shout, "Cut!" The cavalry under his command stretched out the wooden knives and swords in their hands one after another, and slashed towards the group of people led by the Ye team who passed by.

The two teams passed by each other and fought each other in close quarters. Because Li Yanzhao led everyone to turn the horse's head to the left, when they passed by, the soldiers on both sides pulled out their wooden swords and swords, and fought for a while with the speed of the horse. Due to the lack of preparation of the cavalry under the Ye team, the opening was successfully attacked by Li Yanzhao's side, and the two teams of cavalry staggered. Team Ye led four or five people over there to line up and watched the battle on the sidelines.

In the first encounter, four or five people had been lost on the opposite side, and only one unlucky guy on his side was hung by the opponent's wooden knife because he was behind, and he had no choice but to ride his horse out of the queue and rest to the side.

Seeing that his side had lost many cavalry in the first round, the Ye team couldn't help but be in a hurry, and after rushing out thirty or fifty zhang, he and his subordinates turned their horses' heads one after another, hurriedly lined up, and then organized another hedge.

Li Yanzhao also gathered his cavalry, no longer lined up in a wedge formation, but in a loose horizontal formation, Li Yanzhao instructed his cavalry, when the confrontation was over, advance to eighty or ninety steps away from the opponent and turn back, and then keep a distance of thirty or fifty steps from the opponent, and shoot the opposite side with the bow and arrow in his hand.

When his cavalry heard about this new tactic, they also agreed. Anyway, even if you don't know how to act, will you be able to see how Li Bairen grows later? So under Li Yanzhao's organization, the dozen or so horsemen under his command slowly urged the horses, and gradually rushed towards the group of people led by the Ye team thirty or fifty zhang away on the opposite side.

"Spacing up and getting ready to turn!" Li Yanzhao ordered. When the riders heard this, they increased the distance between each horse.

"Turn!" Li Yanzhao saw that he had approached the group of cavalry led by Team Ye more than forty paces, so he shouted an order.

With Li Yanzhao's order, more than a dozen horsemen turned their horses' heads and walked backwards. Li Yanzhao looked around and saw that the armies had already completed their turn. And between the turns, the cavalry led by Team Ye also galloped to only twenty paces away.

Team Ye saw that Li Yanzhao's team of horsemen on the opposite side was not only lined up in a horizontal formation, but also scattered in array, and at this time, they turned their horses' heads one after another, but galloped towards the position where they were charging. Ye Team Rate, who had never seen such a tactic, already had an ominous premonition rising in his heart.

However, at this time, the speed of the horse on his side was fast, and after turning the horse's head on the other side, he had not yet had time to let the war horse speed up. On their own side, they only need to rush behind their backs, and it is useless for them to have exquisite tactics.

Thinking of this, Team Ye led the way to urge the horse, raised the wooden knife in his hand, and ordered his soldiers: "Rush!" ”

However, before Team Ye could speak, he saw Li Yanzhao's team of horsemen who rushed in front of him taking bows and arrows, and when he turned around, he released a rain of arrows at them.

Because it was a confrontation drill, the arrowheads of these arrows were removed, and a small piece of cloth was wrapped in a ball of cotton at the position of the arrowhead at the front end of the arrow shaft to avoid unnecessary casualties. However, at this time, seeing the rain of arrows flying straight towards him, Team Ye still broke out in a cold sweat.

He reacted quickly, and quickly knocked out an arrow that flew in front of him with the wooden knife in his hand, but when he looked around, he found that four more horses had come out of the column and walked aside. I can't help but feel a pang in my heart.

In the old days, the horsemen rarely used crossbows on their horses because they did not have a stable support point on their horses. So Ye Team didn't expect that Li Yanzhao and the others on the opposite side would make this move, which is usually a trick that only skilled nomads with bows and horses can do.

Therefore, in a hurry, he actually lost four more cavalry, and in the blink of an eye, only a few people were still on the way to charge.

However, Li Yanzhao's side was not polite, and waves of arrows came again. Team Ye finally watched with reluctance as a cotton arrow shot at his armor and then fell.

Team Ye finally sighed, and then slowly turned the horse's head and walked to the side.

However, after two charges, this confrontation has come to an end. Li Yanzhao's side defeated the side led by the Ye team at a small cost of only one person.

The soldiers on both sides were selected by the battalion, and there was absolutely no big gap in terms of skills. To say why the casualty ratio is so disparity, on the one hand, Li Yanzhao's excellent command in battle, and on the other hand, the small stirrups installed in the saddle undoubtedly contributed a lot.

It was this small stirrup that provided Li Yanzhao's group with an incomparably stable support point on the back of a bumpy horse. This allows them to shoot their bows and arrows on horseback, just like the nomads who are skilled in bowing horses.

The Ye team, who was defeated in the confrontation, also recognized this result after thinking about the drill process. The stirrup can play a greater role on the battlefield, and now after this confrontation exercise, it is gradually accepted by the cavalry.

Li Yanzhao was also satisfied with the outcome of this confrontation. This result will undoubtedly make the many horsemen under his command more quickly accept the new thing of stirrup. As a result, the combat power of the cavalry of the Guangwu Army has undergone a qualitative change by leaps and bounds.