Half a month, thousands of miles back and forth in the ice and snow, this is an extremely severe test for the recruits of the garrison regiment. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the march is different from the past. At that time, the blizzards that hung from time to time, as well as the knee-high snow on the ground, were a great test for the soldiers of the Dingbei garrison.

Moreover, in this training, not only all 38,000 infantry recruits were pulled out together, but also cooperated with the cavalry to practice half-day infantry and cavalry in the ice and snow.

The day before the start of the training, Li Deyi suddenly had an ingenious idea and proposed that he should take 3,000 cavalry to imitate the Tuliao cavalry in the field and attack his own military formation. Take this opportunity to test the proficiency of your own infantry and cavalry in combat.

This method is good, as soon as Li De proposed it, Xiao Liu, the head of the group, immediately adopted it.

With Li Deyi pretending to be a Tuliao cavalry, he can better simulate the real battlefield. In this way, the recruits practice and cooperate with the battle, which is also more realistic.

Li Deyi took 3,000 elite cavalry, with blue armbands on his arms, pretending to be Tuliao cavalry, set off ahead of schedule, and disappeared into the snowfield in the vast north.

At noon the next day, Commander Xiao Liu led the cavalry army and marched eastward. Li Wudi temporarily served as the commander of the cavalry, and Wang Meng was promoted to the first herald by the commander of Xiao Liu, and stayed by his side at any time to discuss military affairs with him.

For this drill, Head Xiao Liu also did a lot of work. In addition to a full set of warm clothes, the shoes worn by the soldiers of the Dingbei garrison this time were all special snowshoes. The soles of these shoes are specially widened, so that the soldier will not sink his entire calf into the snow when he steps on the knee-deep snow, so that he can easily pull up his leg and continue to move forward.

Wearing such boots on the snow will save the strength of the foot soldiers and speed up the march in the snow.

Moreover, in order to cope with the march on the snowfield, the Dingbei garrison regiment also specially modified the four-wheeled carriage, so that the four wheels of the carriage could be dismantled more conveniently, and directly changed to skis and turned into a sleigh.

Although the toboggan is not as heavy as the four-wheeled carriage, it is slightly compensated for by the fact that the pack-drawn horses are pulled in the snowy fields faster than the four-wheeled carriage in the dry land.

The weapons of the soldiers are also specially made to cope with the cold climate of the grassland. The handle of the gun and the handle of the knife are equipped with wooden handles, which are easy for soldiers to hold. All the soldiers were also given a pair of sheepskin gloves.

The act of distributing sheepskin gloves to the soldiers once again made Wang Meng feel emotional.

"The soldiers of the Modao garrison regiment must be brave in battle, must be overcome in battle, and must be attacked, and nothing in the world can be deserved. Just look at the two regiment commanders who love the soldiers like this, and the soldiers will fight hard to repay them with death. "Wang Meng has traveled all over the world, and it is the first time he has seen the Dingbei Garrison Corps love the soldiers so much. Presumably, with the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, the generals in the world who claim to cherish their soldiers should be ashamed of their own shame.

Old Medical Officer Sun stood at the head of the city, watching the big apprentice set off with his troops, and gradually disappeared into the wind and snow.

The third uncle also came to the city at some point. "Little Sun, you two apprentices are really good. This is about to celebrate the New Year, and I don't want to rest longer, and I have to take the soldiers out to suffer a crime. The third uncle's tone was obviously appreciative.

Old Medical Officer Sun arched his hand and said, "The old-timers have won the award." I have never thanked the old-timers for giving lectures on the grace of the White Tiger into the Holy Scriptures for the inferior disciples. As he spoke, Old Doctor Sun solemnly bowed to the third uncle and said, "Thank you, senior." ”

"Alright, alright! Old-timers, that's all for those three words. You still call me the third uncle. The third uncle plucked out his ears, obviously not used to the respectful method of Old Medical Officer Sun.

"Little Sun, let's go up to the house to talk, it's cold and panicked outside, and the third uncle and I shiver from the cold." The third uncle actually didn't avoid the cold and heat at all, but he just said this deliberately when he saw that the old doctor Sun was standing in the cold wind and freezing in order to show his respect for himself.

When they came to the old doctor Sun's house, around the stove, an old man and an old man, the two of them opened the conversation.

"Little Sun, what are your plans for the future?" The third uncle asked.

"After the two apprentices have destroyed the Tuliao State and brought back the head of the Fan National Teacher. Di Dashuai's blood revenge has already been avenged. At that time, I will only tease my grandchildren every day and take care of my children. "When Old Doctor Sun talks about this revenge now, it is not as good as before.

More than ten years ago, although the old doctor Sun never forgot the blood feud of the marshal, but when it came to revenge, he only felt that it was far away, and he never even thought that he would see this day when he was alive.

Unexpectedly, once the situation changed, the earth was turned upside down.

The originally powerful Tuliao Kingdom was beaten by his two apprentices with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they lost their armor and fled in embarrassment. The little emperor of the Tuliao Kingdom became one of the trophies of the Dingbei garrison regiment pickled in lime.

"By next year, pick up that Fan Guoshi, and forget it!" Old Doctor Sun was happy in his heart, and Mei Zizi thought about it.

Hearing this, the third uncle nodded, and said in his heart: "I can't complain that the two apprentices have no ambition. What kind of master teaches what apprentice, Xiao Sun is unambitious. This master and apprentice is also interestingly tight. ”

While the two old men were gossiping, the drill on the snowfield had already happened.

It turned out that Li Deyi played the role of the Tuliao cavalry, and after setting off a day in advance, he didn't go far, so he took advantage of the heavy wind and snow outside to secretly hide.

After Commander Xiao Liu set off with the recruits, although everything came according to the regulations. But after all, the recruits are still hand-to-hand.

The ranger in charge of pathfinding failed to find Deputy Commander Li, who had been in ambush for a long time, at the first time.

As soon as Li De waited for the large group of soldiers and horses in front of him to pass by, he suddenly launched a surprise attack from the rear and left with one blow. This "charge" alone "killed" and wounded more than 3,000 recruits.

didn't love to fight, and without waiting for the recruits in front of him to react, Li Deyi had already taken the cavalry and disappeared into the vast blizzard again.

Commander Xiao Liu looked at the frustrated looks of the recruits under his command one by one, and said in his heart: "In the end, it is a novice, that is, it is tender." If those veterans were to scream and kill them, they would have to come back. ”

Before the start of this exercise, the recruits of the garrison regiment were all holding their heads high and quite proud. This is also how it should be, the recruits of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, take out any of them and put them in the sky, they are the elite of the elite, and they should indeed be proud.

But now, many recruits have suffered such a big loss in their first "battle", and this is indeed a big blow to their self-confidence.

Regiment Commander Xiao Liu decided to set up camp half an hour earlier today, and he must seize the time to reorganize the somewhat depressed morale of these recruits.

"Cheer up, what are you like like this? The 3,000 elite cavalry led by Deputy Commander Li is the strongest soldier in the world. You were caught off guard and were raided by him, and only then did you 'kill and wound' more than 3,000 people, so you should be happy. You must know that when fighting with the Golden Wolf Cavalry, Deputy Regiment Commander Li could often defeat tens of thousands of Golden Wolf Cavalry with one blow. Commander Xiao Liu rode on his horse and shouted at the recruits.

After a lot of words, Commander Xiao Liu finally brought up the somewhat low morale of the recruits.

When setting up camp, Commander Xiao Liu also became more careful, in addition to personally commanding, he also added a platoon of soldiers to patrol back and forth.

The recruits who have suffered losses are more attentive and careful in their patrols.

They all know that he, Deputy Regiment Commander Li, is a good hand at stealing camps and villages. No one wants to be the first sentry to be touched by Deputy Commander Li.

But this night, Li Deyi did not choose to sneak into the village. As the deputy regiment commander, he knew very well that the purpose of this exercise was to further train the recruits, not to completely break their self-confidence. Therefore, after Li Deyi gave the recruits a blow in the face, he did not take any more action and resumed his work.

When it was dark, Li Deyi walked back and forth among a group of elite veterans, asking questions from time to time.

The elite cavalry of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment has a lot of experience in fighting in bad weather such as blizzards, but this time, Li Deyi is still like a verbose old woman, constantly asking this and that.

They even carefully inspected the horses to see if they could survive the bad weather.

It's not that Li Deyi is deliberately verbose, but that the future crusade will definitely not be easy.

For the elite of the Dingbei garrison regiment, the most dangerous thing is not the tall and majestic city walls of Tongwan City, nor the more than 200,000 elite cavalry under Fan Guoshi and Ashina Huo'er, let alone the lone army.

Rather, it is the long grassland that the thousand-mile march will cross in the future, and the bitter cold winter of the grassland outside the Saiwai that lasts for eight months, and is full of ice and snow.

In this harsh climate, with the physical fitness of the elite soldiers of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, marching for a month in a row is already the limit.

And in the future, the eastern crusade, just the march, I am afraid that it will take up to three months on the grassland. If Fan Guoshi sent a large army to stop it, I am afraid that the days of marching on the grassland would be extended to several months, or even a year.

In such a cold and arduous field environment, a large number of non-combat attrition will inevitably occur in the Dingbei Garrison Regiment at that time. For example, the recruits were frostbitten on their hands and feet, and even froze their calves, and they did not freeze to death when they fell asleep while standing guard at night. These are all likely to happen at that time.

One of the important purposes of this exercise was to teach the soldiers to deal with the harsh environment of the grassland.

What Li Deyi can do, in addition to issuing a thick full set of warm clothes, shoes and hats to the soldiers, is to ask the soldiers to do more strictly the details of life in the harsh winter of the grassland.

To a large extent, the purpose of this half-month winter training was to train the recruits to adapt to the harsh cold climate on the grassland. As for adapting to fight in such a harsh climate, it is still secondary.

In fact, in this kind of blizzard climate, most of the Tuliao cavalry will not be dispatched. In this severe cold, the cavalry had to fight on galloping horses for a long time, and in addition to armor, they had to wear thicker warm clothing.

This also led to the fact that the cavalry was less mobile and less agile than usual.

Moreover, the weight of the war horse increases, coupled with the deep snow, the running speed of the war horse will be greatly slowed down.

In this way, the power of the cavalry will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the Tuliao cavalry rarely dispatched in the winter blizzard unless it was forced to do so.

Moreover, this drill not only had foot soldiers, but also cavalry, and the war horses under the crotch of the cavalry must also be taken care of more carefully in order to maintain horsepower. Although left unchecked, the war horses will not freeze to death, and many wild horses even live in the colder north. But in that case, the war horse is bound to consume a lot. After surviving the harsh winter, the wild horses on the grassland are all thin and boneless. Even the Tuliao war horses will lose some of their horsepower in winter.

Although the soldiers of the Dingbei garrison regiment are brave and fearless of the cold, the war horse under the crotch is still a war horse after all.

Therefore, for the sake of the war horses, after launching a surprise attack, Li Deyi did not act again, and immediately began to prepare for the night, arranging soldiers to gather the war horses together, keep each other warm, and cover each war horse with a felt to help the war horse maintain warmth in the cold night.

Then Li De ordered his soldiers to set up a simple and low marching single tent behind the horses, downwind, for night rest.