The wind and snow are falling slowly, and the wind is coming, and the snowflakes as big as the mats have shrouded the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountain Range. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yang Ye's thousand war horses have been assembled in the northeast of Yanshan, and Cao Bin, as the commander of a thousand armies, knows that His Majesty has arranged a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses in the land of Yanbei this time.

"Cao once heard that the soldiers and horses trained by General Yang made him afraid of the Khitan soldiers and horses when they saw them, and fled in despair."

"That's General Cao who promoted Yang, but the time is still shallow, this cavalry has not yet been trained, and there are still some regrets."

"General Yang is too modest, it is better to show his cavalry demeanor tomorrow." Then Cao Bin said: "The general has come here thousands of miles away, and he is really tired, so he will rest this morning." ”

Yang Ye nodded, and ran for nearly a thousand miles, Yang Ye and his war horse did not feel tired at all, and what he was looking forward to was killing the enemy.

"Tomorrow morning, I will invite General Cao to watch the cavalry drill together."

The horses galloped again, and the whole plain shook.

Yang Ye and his subordinates drove their horses to the camp.

Along the way, Yang Ye was full of emotion, since the death of the Han Dynasty, Yang Ye thought that he would be appointed by the imperial court casually to a fictitious position, but later he learned that the official family wanted to let him train cavalry and give full play to the advantages of cavalry on the battlefield in the future.

The military system of the Liao State, all people who are over 15 years old and below 50 years old, are subordinate to the military. One for each regular army, three horses, one for the grass valley and one for the camp shopkeeper. There are nine things in the iron armor of people, the bridles of the horses, and the iron of the vests, depending on their strength; Four bows, four hundred arrows, long and short spears, axes, small flags, hammer cones, fire knife stones, horse bowls, and a bucket of materials. A material bag, a fur umbrella, and a 200-foot horse rope are all brought by themselves. The men and horses did not give grain and grass, and they sent out to hunt grass and valley and plunder them every day. Cast goldfish charms and send military horses. He had a silver medal of 200 for catching horses and heralds. In the military house, there are far-reaching fences and horses, and they listen to the voices of people and horses at night.

Some of his war horses were purchased from various tribes in the northwest with a lot of money, and some were captured when they killed the Liao army.

Yang Ye learned of Zhao Kuangyin's arrangement, and immediately went north in the starry night, leading his troops from Linzhou, all the way.

At this moment, they are already a hundred miles away from Youzhou City, and they are now in the northeast of Youzhou, which is less than ten miles away from the northeast mountain range of Yanshan, and the lower reaches of the Luan River in the distance have been frozen.

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The next morning, the wind and snow were still falling, and the sun had just risen from the winter morning mist.

The snow and fog made the red sun unclear, and it seemed to be shrouded in a layer of light and fog around it.

The troops led by Cao Bin were in a state of headwind, and the weather was not good.

Before the time came, Cao Bin put on a suit of armor, opened the military tent and came out of it, the north wind blew on his face and was cold and biting, but Cao Bin was not afraid at all, he had been in Shuobei for many years, and he had long been accustomed to seeing ice and snow, but such a big one was still extremely rare, and Cao Can, who came from afar, hurriedly ran over.

Cao Bin sighed, "I'm afraid this is the biggest snow of the year." ”

Cao Can said with great interest: "We will go to watch General Yang's cavalry formation early this morning, and this wind and snow will not affect our pace of advancement." ”

"Yes, winter is coming to an end, will spring be far away?"

"Daddy-" Cao Can directly pulled Cao Bin to the military playground.

At this moment, on the playground, a voice came.

Father and son heard the neighing of the horses in the distance, and immediately trotted over, the heavy armor not affecting their pace in the slightest.

Before the playground arrived, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in unison.

Cao Bin and the other Song generals stationed here have all arrived at the playground.

Yang Ye's cavalry is about more than 1,000, and the sight was not good last night, but when everyone saw it today, they were really emotional, and they appreciated the momentum of the cavalry.

Yang Ye nodded when he saw Cao Bin.

Cao Bin also wanted to know how the cavalry was trained, and he ordered, "General Yang, let's start." ”

Yang Ye quickly walked to the side of a black sturdy war horse, and then with a hand support, the whole person quickly swept onto the horse's back, and his movements were so skillful that he sat on it steadily.

Cao Bin and the rest of the generals of the Song Army sighed with emotion and looked forward to the next exercise.

At this moment, on the high flagpole of the Chinese army, the yellow flag was blown in the wind and "crackled", and a vermilion lacquer-colored Song character was prominently raised, Yang Ye took a deep breath, and put his fingers on the waist ornament on his waist, "Today is the day of the exercise, and it is also the key to reviewing my cavalry." ”

Then he fumbled for the hilt of his sword, brushed it out, and shouted, "The cavalry obey my orders and begin to march in formation!" ”

Suddenly, the horn of the Chinese army sounded "woo ......", Yang Ye gave an order, and a thousand cavalry began to go into battle.

More than 1,000 war horses walked in the playground, in unison, at this moment the soil on the playground flew up, and everywhere the ground went, there were deep pits stepped out by horses.

Lined up in a phalanx.

"Array!"

"Knock knock......" A drum sounded, and a gong sounded.

Heavy cavalry has rushed to the left and right.

"Papapa......" suddenly flew obliquely into the air like a black spot like a locust, like a torrential rain.

I saw that in the square array, the dust and mist were filled, and a string of cavalry was inside.

Soon a drum beat sounded rapidly, and the drums and shouts were loud and earth-shattering.

Dust shrouded in the air, swept and swirled like dark clouds in the wind.

Streams of iron riders surged in the vast sea of people, like a flood flowing in all directions.

The queue starts with a long bar shape and then quickly forms a circle.

The battlefield is constantly changing, and only methodical and fast can complete these layouts.

When Cao Bin and the generals of the Song Army saw such a neat cavalry formation, they were full of emotion in their hearts, and at the same time, they were proud to have such a cavalry, but Cao Bin thought of one more thing, if this army had more time to train, what would it be like.

But Cao Bin also thought that although the Liao State was defeated several times, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and having a cavalry would play an immeasurable role in the future battle, but now the Central Plains lacked horses, and the cavalry of the Song army was not large, and the tactics were too old.

The Great Song Dynasty lacked horses, and usually bought horses in the border areas, changed horses, used materials or set up overseers, etc., but they could never meet the needs, so there was never a strong cavalry.

Cao Bin remembered that as early as before, when the Song army faced the Liao cavalry, it was generally in the defensive position, with fences, rejecting horses, and then digging a ditch. When dealing with the Khitans, who are good at cavalry, they guard or use swords and axes to cut the legs of enemy horses.

"Knock knock!" The heavy drum beat opened, the drum beat slowed down, and just when Cao Bin was thinking about it, suddenly the formation on the playground began to change again.