There are also many particularities when feeding war horses on weekdays, such as what Zhu Ting said last time, when feeding, a layer of hay, and then a layer of fine material, .cc [marshmallow]

In addition, when feeding green fodder, you can't use the kind that sticks to the dew in the morning, the war horse is squeamish, and it is not good to have a stomach.

There is another very important thing for the cavalry to serve the war horse in their daily life, and the hay. It is required to be finely crushed evenly, the grass is not too small, and the slightest debris in the forage must be cleaned out.

Sun Yuan's war horses were captured from Liu Zongmin, and the peasant army did not care about horsepower, and used the war horses as cattle to pull carts, so that after a long time, the horses degenerated into ordinary big animals, rather than soldiers on the battlefield.

Make it a habit of discipline. It is not allowed to eat anything other than the manger, and it is necessary to get rid of the problems of gnawing things, kicking the stable, and biting people, so that the war horse can get used to haltering the head, chewing, and hanging equipment. Horses that have been driven and pulled by plows are all sick, and they have to "plow", "press", and "hang" first. The veterans rode their horses slowly every day, pressed down the habit of bowing their horses, and then put on the saddle to practice running. As soon as the horse rested, quickly tie the horse's reins to a high place and let the horse's head rise.

In addition to feeding and drinking horses, war horses must even sleep with their heads up, such horses react quickly and have strong explosive power. Horses that love to bow their heads are not sensitive and not easily excited, and often walk to the side when they run, and once they hang their heads up, they do not bow their heads.

Also, it is the instinct of horses to retreat when they are frightened. Now that the horse's head was fixed, as soon as it retreated, the reins grabbed the chew, and the pain was unbearable. After practicing for a long time, the conditioned reflex, and when it encounters a situation in the future, it will either not move at all, or the hind legs will be supported and the front hooves will be raised, which is like the appearance of a war horse.

Sun Yuan saw it eye-opening, and couldn't help but sigh: "This horse training is the same as military training, discipline is the guarantee of combat effectiveness!" Miss Zhu is talented, Sun Yuan admires! ”

"Of course, no matter how well the common people's horses are raised, they are just animals. The military horses are warriors, and they must be treated as living people. Hearing Sun Yuan's praise, Zhu Ting was very proud.

Sun Yuan was puzzled again, and couldn't help but say: "With Miss Zhu's family background, there is naturally a special groom, how can she be so clear about these things."

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Zhu Ting snorted: "Sun Yuan, what do you know, do you know how much a good war horse is worth now?" There is a horse at home, who is not regarded as a treasure, how can he rest assured that he will be handed over to the groom, and he will naturally have to serve himself. ”

Sun Yuan suddenly realized that there were no horses in the Central Plains, especially the best war horses, each of which was worth a lot of money. There is such a horse at home, just like the Mercedes-Benz BMW of later generations, so it is natural to keep it as a baby.

Once you've learned how to train a horse, it's time to practice fighting right away.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the era of heavy cavalry had passed, and light cavalry was used without exception by the Ming army, the Mongol Tatars, or the Liaodong Jiannu. The weapons used by the light cavalry were also varied, ranging from sabers and spears to heavy weapons such as iron rods and maces.

The power of heavy weapons is great, but there are certain requirements for the strength of cavalry, and Sun Yuan's subordinates are all a group of thin men, making this kind of weapon impossible.

As for the spear, it didn't work, it took too long to train, and when the cavalry was charging, the spear had to release the gun in his hand the moment it stabbed the enemy's body. Otherwise, a strong seizure force can easily break your wrist. Of course, the use of an elastic material such as an ash rod to make a gun shaft can protect the cavalry from being injured or even dismounted. But the cost is too high to conform to Sun Yuan's idea of army building.

Cheap and good, without any technical content, soldiers can be manufactured like an assembly line, this is the road that Sun Yuan will take in the future, and it is also the characteristic of the modern army.

Besides, Sun Yuan's formation of cavalry is mainly used as a scout for the time being, and he has the information control of the battlefield, and there is no requirement for their combat effectiveness.

So, after thinking about it, in the end, Sun Yuan decided to let the cavalry use swords. The saber is very easy to use, and when charging, you just have to place the saber in the right position and use the speed of the horse to slice the enemy in two. Moreover, the saber is also easy to get, and there is no shortage of goose feather knives in the army.

Chopping still has to be practiced, and at first you can't make a real knife, so you have to deal with it with a stick first.

Otherwise, he swung his knife, picked the horse's ears forward, and chopped the horse's buttocks backwards, and if he didn't get it, he could chop off his own feet.

So, in general, the cavalry had to first ride on a stool to practice swords.

I couldn't find more than a hundred stools at a time. At this time, Zhu Ting thought of a way to ride the soldiers on the wall

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These days, more than a hundred cavalry ride on the earthen wall, "Ha, huh, ha, huh!" Under the command of the officers, the laborious wielding of the wooden sticks in his hands was also extremely spectacular.

Of course, because there were too many people, the wall collapsed, so that the non-combat attrition of two cavalrymen still happened, which made Sun Yuan cry and laugh, and there was nothing to be done.

No matter how the cavalry is said to be the same as the musketeers, they are also a technical class, and they will not see any results in the short term, and they cannot be counted on in this battle.

Compared to a hundred cavalry, the 1,000 captives who newly joined the Ningxiang Army were the key.

In the past, Sun Yuanjun was a military household from a thousand households, and the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty was stricter than modern people imagined. When a military household goes out for a hundred miles, he gets a road guide from the health office. Otherwise, once they are caught, they can be treated as exiles and directly join the army. Moreover, they planted the land of the officers and ate the salaries of the officers, so it can be said that they have been completely attached to the officers. For them, the superior thousand households are their heavens, directly determining their personal fate, which has several similarities with the Russian serfdom system in the nineteenth century.

It is precisely because of the same thousand households that have been a military household for generations, after one or two hundred years of intermarriage, soldiers and soldiers are usually attached to each other, and there is also a blind loyalty to Sun Yuan, the official.

But the more than 10,000 captives and the 1,000 recruits who filled the army gave Sun Yuan a headache about whether he had a sense of belonging to Sun Yuan to Ningxiang.

As far as Sun Yuan knew, the composition of more than 10,000 people was very complicated. There were peasants from Shaanxi, military households from Shanxi, displaced people from Henan, and some officers and soldiers.

Originally, according to Sun Yuan's meaning, after the battle of Qingliuguan, he would screen the troops. If there is nothing wrong with the captives, they will all be released and sent home. Of course, he still refuses to do such a thing as a travel fee. Just kidding, I'm so poor now, all I want is to make war money and grab some military funds from the thief army. This time, I finally managed to get 50,000 taels of silver, and the military salaries and food and clothing of the soldiers in the past two years have finally been settled, how can I take them out for nothing to open a good hall?

Moreover, if they were all released, Sun Yuan did not think that this group of people would be able to go home safely through the chaotic battlefield. If you don't know if you will flee to the peasant army of Zhang and Gao, will this not change and enrich the enemy's strength?

After thinking about it, Sun Yuan decided to take them in and let them go back to Ningxiang after the war and become their own military households.

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