Su Yi ordered people to set up watchtowers on various hills outside the cottage and arranged for archers to post sentry.

Some of the roads up the mountain are narrow, and Su Yi asked people to build fortifications on these narrow mountain roads, and each fortification is arranged to be garrisoned by twenty minions.

Su Yi arranged for He Kui to draw fifty archers and divide them into five teams, each with ten people, and take turns to go down the mountain to hunt every day to replenish some game for the cottage.

At the same time, the back mountain of Taohuazhai is remote, and there are few people in the empty valley, so Ah San took the captive slaves to clean up the valley. The land was divided into areas for the breeding of pigs, sheep and wild animals that hunters had come down to hunt.

Next, it was time for Su Yi to consider forming a light cavalry.

The more than 200 horses obtained from the Hu people were just enough to form a cavalry of considerable size. In this era, there were no stirrups and horseshoes, and the loss of war horses was great, and no matter how good the horses were, as long as the horses' hooves were damaged, they could only be reduced to cooking food, and could not become military horses.

With stirrups, cavalry can better shoot bows and arrows on horses, and with horseshoes, even if the cavalry of Taohuazhai runs thousands of miles, the horse's hooves will not be seriously damaged. It's a pity that Taohuazhai lacks a blacksmith, otherwise Su Yi could have instructed the blacksmith to make stirrups and horseshoes.

Su Yi also wanted to form a heavy cavalry.

Heavy cavalry is a killer of the military formation, cavalry and war horses are wearing heavy armor, armed with spears and steel guns, rampage, no one can beat, even if the infantry is elite, in the face of thousands of heavy cavalry rushing to kill, it can only be the end of being crushed.

However, the heavy cavalry had extremely high requirements for horses and riders, and the horses had to be high-quality military horses, and the riders needed to be physically strong, otherwise, the heavy armor alone would be enough to crush them.

Now there are too few horses in Taohuazhai to form heavy cavalry can not play a big role, on the contrary, more than two hundred horses are used properly, and if an elite light cavalry is formed, it can play a big role in the future raids.

Su Yi called Yan Qi and asked, "How have you been in the cottage these days?" ”

Yan Qi hurriedly kowtowed and said: "If you go back to the adult, the villain is very comfortable in Peach Blossom Village." ”

"Oh?" Su Yi glanced at Yan Qi with a smile, knowing that this was not his sincere words, but Su Yi didn't care, he came to Yan Qi mainly to ask about the training level of the horses.

"How's the horses doing?"

Yan Qi showed a helpless expression, "Aren't you too anxious, it will take some time for these horses to be trained into war horses, please rest assured, the villain will definitely be able to train a batch of good war horses for adults." ”

Su Yi stared at Yan Qi's eyes for a while, and saw that the other party's appearance did not seem to be fake, so he eased his tone and said, "Since this is the case, then I will bother you, the apprentice I asked you to pick, have you picked it well?" ”

Yan Qi said in a low voice: "Those Hanmin have dull qualifications, I'm afraid they ......"

"Huh?" Su Yi raised his eyebrows and said in an accentuated tone: "When you teach your apprentice well, I will let you go to see your wife and children." As for how to do it, I don't need to teach you any more. ”

Yan Qi saw that Su Yi's face changed, he was sweating profusely with fright, and hurriedly replied: "The villain knows, the villain must teach the adult a good groom." ”

Su Yi nodded, building a strong cavalry is not something that can be completed overnight, and some things cannot be done overnight. Just like the more than 200 horses, although these are all high-quality horses, they cannot become qualified war horses without training.

Moreover, there are not many of Su Yi's subordinates who can ride horses, and these people have to start practicing from the most basic equestrian skills, including Su Yi himself.

Fortunately, Scar, Gao Heihu and Qian Leopard can ride horses, among which Scar's riding skills are the best.

"Your Excellency!" Yan Qi looked at Su Yi flatteringly and said, "The best quality of this batch of horses is the thirty horses that Datou sold to Qiu Daqi. Among them, there are also two big Wan good horses. ”

"Dawan Liangju?" Su Yi became interested.

Yan Qi continued: "Yes, in order to envelop Lord Qiu Daqi, Datou specially gave him two Dawan good horses, which were originally rewarded by Datou to his subordinate generals. ”

The number of Dawan good horses is very small, this ** can be met but not sought, I didn't expect to ransack the Hu village, not only got more than 200 horses, but also unexpectedly obtained the two Dawan good horses.

Su Yi ordered Qian Leopard and Gao Heihu to lead their minions to train in equestrianism, and he took Scar with Yan Qi to check on the situation of the two Dawan good horses.

In the stable, there were two horses that were very different from the others.

The two horses were tall and muscular, with black and shiny body hair, a black-brown midline in the center of their backs, short and stiff manes, straight backs and waists, and strong limbs.

Yan Qi carefully stroked the two Dawan horses, and said with pride in his words: "These Dawan horses are also known as sweat horses, when they are galloping, their shoulders slowly bulge, and sweat like blood, so they are named sweat and blood horses." ”

Scar nodded, and also said: "I have heard of sweat and blood horses, since ancient times, famous generals love famous horses, even if a thousand taels of gold, it is not as good as a thousand miles of horses who know human nature." ”

Su Yi saw Scar's heart-warming appearance and said with a smile: "Since you like it, then choose one first." ”

"Is Brother Su serious?" Scar was overjoyed, he had been in the border army, and he cared more about having a good horse than those good weapons and armor, and good weapons and armor could be made, but a good horse was not easy to find.

Su Yi laughed and said, "This is nature. ”

Scar walked over, patted a jujube red sweaty horse and said, "I like red, so I want this one." ”

Su Yi looked at the other brown and black sweaty horse on the side, and nodded disapprerovingly. Scar's riding skills are superb, and it's okay to like good horses, but he can't even do simple riding, if he only knows how to take advantage of it, and wants to take it for himself when he sees a bloody horse, it will undoubtedly make Scar's heart cold.

Scar pressed the saddle with his hand, and the red sweaty horse did not move, he laughed, flipped up sharply, and straddled the sweaty horse.

"Phew!" Scar let out a long roar, driving the unruly sweaty horse, rushing forward left and right.

"Haha, Brother Su, this horse is really strong enough, I like it!" In the middle of the sound, Scar and Su Yi rode sweaty horses, walking their horses in the empty training ground side by side, he rode on the horse in high spirits, looking at the envious eyes of the cottage minions, a strong sense of pride surged into his heart.

Scar said to Su Yi from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you Brother Su, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid that Peach Blossom Village would still be a small village that was still alive, and it could be swallowed up at any time, and it wouldn't be as strong as it is today." ”

After speaking, he gently stroked the mane of the sweaty horse, and his gaze was soft.

Su Yi looked at Scar with a smile and said, "The world is about to be in chaos, at this time, the most important thing is to have military power in your hands." Now that Dachu is worried about internal and external troubles, the people are panicking, and thieves are swarming from all over the country, and now is the best time for us to develop. Scar, whether you and I can be in a high position in the future depends on whether we can hold up a piece of heaven in this vertical and horizontal mountain range now. ”

Scar was taken aback when he heard this, and then said a little excitedly: "I didn't expect Brother Su to have such ambitions!" In Brother Su's opinion, can you and I really go that far in the future? ”

"For now, we need to gain a firm foothold in this vertical and horizontal mountain range." Su Yi didn't pay attention to the scar, his eyes were far away, and his voice became ethereal.

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