Chapter 835: Building a Powerful Cavalry

Thinking of this, Zhang Bao'er relentlessly and looked at Geshu Daoyuan with sympathetic eyes: "I don't deny that the warriors of the Turgish are not afraid of death, but fighting is different from fighting, not you can win with more people, and you can't win with bravery alone." To put it mildly, if the Turks don't change now, they will still lose the battle in the future, and whether the Turks can survive is a question! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Bao'er stopped, he wanted to leave some for the three of them to digest what he had just said. The system and combat methods of the Turkish cavalry have been inherited from the extinct Western Turks, which have a history of hundreds of years, so it is not easy for them to admit backwardness and carry out reforms.

Time seemed to stand still, the air in the room froze, and none of the four of them spoke.

I don't know how long it took, Sulu raised his head first, and he didn't look at Zhang Bao'er, but at Geshu Daoyuan.

Goshu Dogen didn't notice Sulu's move, and he was still looking down in deep thought. Sulu was not in a hurry, and just waited quietly.

Finally, Goshu Dogen raised his head, he took a deep breath of relief, and saw that Sulu was staring at him with a wise gaze, he nodded slightly at Sulu, and Sulu also nodded at him, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Sulu looked at Zhang Bao'er: "Bao'er, should we do it?" ”

Su Lu and Geshu Daoyuan's every move fell into Zhang Bao'er's eyes, and now hearing Su Lu's question, he also breathed a sigh of relief, the purpose of this trip can be achieved.

Zhang Bao'er was relieved, and her tone of voice was much more relaxed: "In this place in the Western Regions, if you want to gain a foothold, if you want not to be bullied, and if you want to make a career, you must have a strong and invincible army, only in this way will others respect you and you can live with dignity." So, in order for the Turgish to be strong, you must build a strong army, but you don't have such an army now! ”

Sulu nodded: "You're right, but we don't know how to do it, and no one tells us how to do it, if we knew how to do it, we would have done it a long time ago, and we wouldn't have waited until today." ”

Zhang Baoer pointed to her nose: "Brother Sulu, have you forgotten?" I told you when I was on the road that I came to Turgish to help you do this? ”

Ashina Xuelian nodded and said, "Sulu, on the way here, Dingguo Gong said that he would help us build a strong cavalry, have you forgotten?" ”

Sulu patted his head and said with a wry smile: "Look at my memory, you did say it, but I didn't think about it so much at the time, it seems that you are really prepared!" ”

Geshu Daoyuan said on the side: "Dingguo Gong, it's not that I believe in you, just how can you help us build a strong cavalry?" ”

Ashina Xuelian said: "Uncle Shu, I'm afraid you don't know yet, right?" Dingguo Gong trained a regimental training of the Tang Dynasty, do you know the regimental training? ”

"Of course I know that regimental training is a local baggage soldier in Datang, and there is generally no need to fight!" Geshu Daoyuan nodded.

"You know what? It was this regiment of 3,000 people who trained to defeat the Khitan and Xi coalition forces of more than 30,000 people, and it was a face-to-face battle! ”

"What? It's true? Geshu Daoyuan said suspiciously.

Although Geshu Daoyuan is in the Western Regions, he knows that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Khitan and Xi tribes is not inferior to that of the Eastern Turkic cavalry, or even higher, if it were not for the small number of people in their tribe, they would not be attached to the Eastern Turks. But the regimental training of the 3,000 Tang Dynasty defeated the 30,000 Khitan and Xi coalition forces, and he did not believe it.

Su Lu confirmed: "Uncle Geshu, what Xuelian said is true, that battle was personally commanded by the Khitan King Li Shenhuo and the Xi King Li Dayu, and the Khitan and Xi tribes died nearly 20,000 people. ”

Hearing Sulu say this, Geshu Daoyuan knew that there would be no fake, and he looked at Zhang Bao'er with a few hopes.

Zhang Bao'er smiled: "What Sulu said is all in the past, and it's not worth mentioning." Of course, it is not possible to train tens of thousands of turquoise horsemen by me. However, I am ready to carefully select the elite from the Luzhou group training. I also brought it this time, and I will stay in Turgish in the future to help you train cavalry. ”

"This dare is good!" Geshu Daoyuan was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He asked again: "Dingguo Gong, I know that training a strong army is not a matter of one or two days. But can you give me an idea so I can have an idea? ”

Zhang Bao'er saw that Sulu and Ashina Snow Lotus also looked at her curiously, and joked: "It seems that if I don't talk about it, you don't plan to let me drink with peace of mind, okay, I'll talk about it!" ”

The three of them smiled wryly.

"In the past, the cavalry was a group of herdsmen with weapons, and when they fought, they could only rely on a courage, which seemed to be a large number of people, but the actual combat effectiveness was not high. A person's energy is limited, and it is unrealistic to expect him to win when war comes. By cavalry, I don't have to herd, you don't have to do anything else, their training is uninterrupted. The strength of combat effectiveness depends on actual combat experience, and the more wars the cavalry has experienced, their combat effectiveness will naturally increase. Their mission is to protect their people in the event of war. Because of this. They didn't dare to slack off. If they can be given high honors, their will to fight is terrible. ”

Zhang Bao'er's words were very thorough, they all understood, and there was a yearning look on their faces.

"Anything else?" Sulu asked again.

"Also properly control the size of the cavalry!"

"Isn't the more cavalry of this kind, the better? Why control scale? Geshu Daoyuan was a little puzzled.

Zhang Bao'er smiled bitterly: "If you can do it, of course, the more the better, but Tuqi Shi can't do it, and even Datang may not be able to do it!" ”

"Why is that?"

"The cavalry is well-equipped, the investment is very large, and the cost is five to ten times that of the original. You can't afford to raise too many people, and if you don't care about the actual expansion, you will be dragged down by the entire Turgish. ”

Geshu Daoyuan sighed and asked, "How many cavalry should the Tuqi Shi have?" ”

"You can't break through 30,000 people, if you exceed 30,000 people, it's very dangerous!"

"Thirty thousand? Is it too little? Geshu Daoyuan was taken aback, knowing that there were 200,000 cavalry in the past.