In the vast and rather desolate land outside the city of Anyi, Mafu gathered all his troops except for the four counties of Xiping.

In view of the fact that the conscription system has been implemented since the Han Dynasty, and now there is also the status quo of the conscription system among the princes of all walks of life, after comprehensive consideration, the horseman decided to adopt the conscription system, but still based on the concept of "soldiers are noble and fine but not many", all those who have brothers and sons in the army, will only leave one person, and the others will be given land to settle in Xiping.

After this first round of screening, Mafu instantly reduced the number of soldiers by 3,000, although Yin Feng, Zhao Ang, Shi Sunrui and others strongly opposed him to doing so, but Mafu still pushed it forward.

Seeing the sharp decrease in the number of soldiers, the groom also felt that his heart was dripping blood, which he had fought hard for, and now because of this order, there were so many fewer people.

Subsequently, the horseman divided his army in two, with those who were good at riding and archery classified as cavalry and others as infantry.

In the phalanx of cavalry, the grooms selected one by one the young, strong, and agile among them, and got five hundred. Two thousand of them were chosen as archers, and the rest were among the horsemen's infantry.

In the infantry, the grooms abandoned the ancient establishment and directly adopted the modern one, with ten to fifteen people in a squad; Thirty to fifty people in a row; 120 to 180 men in a company; 400 to 600 men in a battalion; 3,000 to 4,000 people in a group; 6,000 to 8,000 men for a brigade; 12,000 to 20,000 men for a division. Among them, the platoon is under the jurisdiction of the squad, the company is under the jurisdiction of the platoon, the battalion is under the jurisdiction of the battalion, the brigade is under the jurisdiction of the regiment, and the division is under the jurisdiction of the brigade.

Ma Fu originally wanted to name the commanders at each level in a modern way, such as squad leaders, platoon leaders, etc., but such a bold move was strongly supported by all the soldiers, and after thinking about it again and again, Ma Fu also felt that he could not measure the ancients with a modern person's thinking, so the surname Suo divided the generals into nine classes, from the squad to the army for the eighth class, and the highest rank, that is, the ninth class for the general.

At this time, Ma Fu led himself as a general, Yin Feng, Zhao Ang and Shi Sun Rui were temporarily listed as fifth-class generals, at the same time, Yin Feng concurrently served as the head of the Western Capital, Zhao Ang concurrently served as the chief of Linqiang, Shi Sun Rui concurrently served as the chief of Changning, and Yang Fu temporarily resided in the position of military advisor and chief of Anyi, but he was mainly responsible for governing the people in peacetime.

After the establishment was completed, the horseman made a special division for the cavalry, and after thinking about it, he decided to name his elite cavalry after the "tiger and leopard horse".

Although he also knew that in history, the tiger and leopard ride was the name of the elite cavalry under Cao Ying, but at this time, Cao Ying's tiger and leopard riding did not even have a prototype, let alone the name of tiger and leopard riding.

Moreover, the horseman's intuitive feeling told him that Cao Ying would be his strongest opponent in the future, if he had already figured out in his heart at this time to name his future elite cavalry, the horseman felt that he could use this to anger him, if he did not have any ideas about the establishment of cavalry now, then there was no need to say more.

Among the 500 cavalrymen, 100 of the horsemen are the leopard battalion and 300 are the tiger battalion, of which the tiger battalion governs the leopard battalion.

Because in the Battle of Tiger Pass, Mafu saw the power of the trapped camp and the white horse Yizhi, Mafu Suo took the best of both and decided to take the lead in establishing light cavalry.

The weapons of this tiger and leopard riding are mainly halberds, but this kind of halberd is specially made by the horseman to the craftsmen, which is about 20 centimeters longer than the ordinary halberd and about 10 centimeters longer than the ordinary spear.

Because the halberd is a combination of Ge and spear, it has both straight and horizontal blades, in the shape of "ten" or "Bu", so the halberd has a variety of uses such as hooking, pecking, stabbing, cutting, etc., and its lethality is better than that of Ge and spear. Therefore, the groom deliberately increased its length to increase its lethality when attacking.

In addition to equipping the soldiers with halberds, the groom also instructed the craftsmen to make bows and arrows that could be easily carried behind the soldiers, with the arrows carried behind their backs and the bows cleverly hung from the baskets, which were quite small compared to ordinary bows. This was also decided by the groom after comprehensive consideration.

In order to make the first round of the attack of the tiger and leopard cavalry more effective and effectively deal with the attack of the opposing archers, the horseman decided to let the soldiers of the tiger and leopard cavalry use the bow and arrow equipment to assist the caste.

Of course, at present, the establishment of the tiger and leopard cavalry, combat methods and operational concepts are all in a stage of testing the waters, and the horsemen do not have a more mature idea, and now they can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

The generals, seeing that the horsemen relied too heavily on cavalry, all showed different apprehensions. Yin Feng said directly: "The cavalry is okay in a flat place, and it is only suitable for surprise attacks, but when it really conquers the city, it is far inferior to the infantry." ”

Of course, the horseman also understands that this is not an era when cavalry is king, but between cavalry and infantry, he must rely on something, and his strength is relatively weak now, and he can't fight hard with other princes at all, what can be done at present is to develop asymmetrical combat power and surprise attacks, so as to survive in the cracks.

After patiently explaining his intentions to the generals, the horseman conveyed another general order, and anyone who performed better in the infantry could enter the tiger and leopard riding. This undoubtedly increased the weight of the tiger and leopard in his army.

For the training of soldiers, the grooms also adopted more advanced training methods, such as wooden stakes, fire rings, horizontal logs, and high walls.

At the beginning of the training, the soldiers were terrified, because no one had tried this new method of training, but with the groom himself taking the lead in training, they had nothing else to say.

The horseman always felt that riding and archery had always been his own hard injury, so he recruited people who were good at riding and shooting at a high price to help him train.

After going through layers of selection, he finally chose two people nicknamed "Wind Raid" and "Topol". Among them, the wind attack equestrian is very exquisite, in the horseman army, it is really unbeatable, and the poplar is the ability to wear the poplar in a hundred steps, and the arrow is a hundred shots, which is amazing.

Since the soldiers of the tiger and leopard riding not only need to be good at horsemanship, but also good at archery, they can only take the strengths of wind attack and aspen, and then apply them to themselves, which is extremely difficult.

The groom is well versed in the truth that time does not wait, so the intensity of the training is also very large, and he can often be seen shuttling in various military camps at night.

More than a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the groom was still patrolling around the training camp as usual.

Yin Feng suddenly said to him: "In order not to disturb the people because of military training, the lord chose the place of military training in an open place twenty miles southwest of Anyi City, but now there are very few soldiers defending the city, if we are attacked by people with ill intentions, we are in danger!" ”

Ma Fu had actually thought of this a long time ago, so he had been sending troops to conduct high-intensity patrols around Xiping County for a period of time, but the peace of more than a month made him feel empty, and he always felt that a big wave of threats was approaching.

However, after careful analysis, he felt that externally, even if Ma Teng hated him now, he was more than willing and not enough, and he had already followed Yang Fu's advice and wrote a letter to him, saying that he was still his subordinate, and he was restrained, and it was not good for him to tear his face with Ma Fu for the time being. As for Dong Thief, Ma Fu felt that he had been defeated before, and now he must be in the stage of recuperation.

Internally, he originally thought that Yun Ying might quietly advance the pace of searching for the Heavenly Book during this period of time, but to his surprise, Yun Ying had been very quiet recently, and he was always by his side, but he said very little. If the groom doesn't take the initiative to talk to her, she hardly takes the initiative to speak......

After thinking about it, the groom really didn't find a threat for the time being, so he felt that maybe he was worrying about it.

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