Chapter Seventy-Four: The Origin of the Cavalry
Seeing that Yang Jinsheng was in critical condition, Hu Fei jumped over with a knife! What he was holding in his hand was not a small cold weapon like a bayonet or dagger, but what Hu Fei was holding in his right hand was his family heirloom ghost head knife! The blade is more than three feet long, the blade head is wider than a palm, and the steel rings, round holes, and serrations on the knife body reveal a thousand murderous aura and ten thousand fierce lights!
Jumping in front of him in a few steps, Hu Fei took the knife sideways, and coldly looked at a large number of devils in front of him. The devil sensed that the comer was not good, so he hurriedly withdrew his saber and took two steps back, staring at Hu Fei with a cautious gaze. Hu Fei waved his hand and signaled that Yang Jinsheng could help others. He moved his wrist and gently shook the murder knife in his hand.
The devil hunched over, his knife in both hands, and pounced on him with a piercing howl like a boar waiting to be slaughtered. Hu Fei raised the knife, turned to the left, and the snowy blade was withdrawn and slashed in one go. In the blood splatter, the devil's head fell to the ground! With just one move, Hu Fei made the devil's blood splash in five steps.
The fight was more of a one-sided slaughter than a fight. With most of the devils injured and fell to the ground, Hu Fei and his ambush troops killed the nearly 200 devil cavalry in less than half an hour.
The next step, of course, is the loot. The devil cavalry brought a lot of good things, guns and ammunition, food and water, money and jewelry, including communication equipment, and a lot of captured riding guns and sabers. How do you take away such an old thing?
Just when Hu Fei was at a loss for too many captures, a soldier suddenly pulled an Oriental horse and stood up, and the horse fell just now and was not injured!
There weren't many horses on the battlefield that hadn't fallen, and most of them were lying on the ground. Although our soldiers did not stab these horses, there was not a single horse that could stand up on their own. Just now, the soldier just saw that the war horse didn't seem to be injured, so he pulled the reins hard and tried it, but he didn't expect that this attempt really pulled the horse up!
The amazed warrior held the horse's head and stroked it carefully, as if he were touching some peerless treasure. The war horse obviously trusted the human who had saved its life, and rubbed its huge head lightly against the warrior's chest, looking extremely intimate. One person and one horse build a relationship in this way. This scene was the envy of the other warriors.
With this good demonstration, of course, the soldiers will not let go of the remaining war horses, regardless of whether they are injured or not, as long as they are not out of breath, they will try one by one. Not to mention, after such a help from the soldiers, the war horses on the battlefield really rose up a large number!
Of course, those who broke their legs will definitely not be able to get up, and those who have unfortunately been shot and died will not be able to get up again. After removing these, the remaining ones who could stand up checked the number, and there were more than a dozen horses per capita!
This is a big gain, with these war horses, Hu Fei's army can become cavalry!
Less than half of the less than 100 soldiers had ridden horses, so Hu Fei temporarily held a short-term horseback riding training class and spent five minutes explaining the essentials of horse control.
At the very least, he had to let these people sit on the horse and not fall off, and know how to control the horse to walk slowly, run fast, stop, and turn, and the passwords and movements of these basic movements must be mastered. Otherwise, let alone fighting on horseback, even if it is on horseback, it is dangerous!
Fortunately, these warriors were bold, and no one had any fear of horseback riding. One by one, they listened to the command, carried the iron beam, stepped on the stirrup and turned over on the horse's back, and pulled the reins in their hands, which was a bit of the style of a heroic cavalry!
With so many war horses, there is a place to put those captured supplies. Hu Fei himself also picked a spotted horse with white hair and black spots. Just as he wanted to leave, he suddenly jumped off his horse again. There are also dozens of wounded and undead war horses on the battlefield, lying on the ground and struggling with their legs and necks, thinking about it and not being able to get up, it makes people feel sad to look at it.
Can the wounded be taken away, can the wounded horse be taken away? Even if he has that heart, Hu Fei can't do it. But if you just let them go, let them be bitten by wolves and dogs?
Not to mention wild wolves and wild dogs, even rats and bed bugs can bite these injured horses. These are war horses that have been domesticated for many years, and they have served mankind all their lives, and it is really unbearable to suffer such a big crime when they die.
Hu Fei asked the soldiers to dismount and took knives to help the injured horses end their pain. Since they are going to die in the end, let them suffer less before they die. Hu Fei's inadvertent move made all the new officers and soldiers, including Liu Dong, have a new understanding of their commander, it turns out that in addition to being cunning and cold-blooded, he also has such a compassionate side.
Hu Fei left the battle-hardened woods with his cavalry troops, and continued to search along the edge of the battlefield. The way of fighting is still the same as before, when you encounter a small group of enemies, you will rush up and annihilate them all, and once there are a large number of devils, you will immediately evacuate quickly.
Now that he has a war horse, his mobility ability has improved a lot compared to before, and when he encounters a devil with a larger number of people, it is like dozens of people together, and he dares to go up and try it. Anyway, if you can't beat it, you can run, and the speed is faster, and it's much easier to escape.
In the frequent marches and battles, the soldiers' horse control level and combat ability have been rapidly improved, after all, no kind of training can catch up with the learning in actual combat. Seeing the rapid progress of this cavalry, Hu Fei was also satisfied, and a small sense of pride grew in his heart. This is a cavalry unit that he brought out with his own hands, can he not be a little proud?
It's getting late, it's time to find a place to camp. There is a small dirt hill next to it, and the hill is covered with high and low shrubs. There was a small stream flowing at the bottom of the dirt mountain. The Nenjiang River is frozen, and it is a miracle that there is still living water flowing in such a small stream.
Hu Fei originally thought that this creek should be a hot spring, but there was no water vapor on the surface of the water that a hot spring should have. I walked up to me and tried it with my hands, and it was cold to the bone!
Although I don't know why the stream didn't freeze, I can be sure that the stream wasn't poisonous. There are still a few finger-sized small fish swimming back and forth under the water, where can you keep fish in the poisonous water? There are high ground and water sources, and this dirt mountain is a good place to camp.
If you want to camp here, you have to observe the surrounding environment first, what if there is a big camp of devils behind this dirt mountain? Hu Fei had to make sure that Tushan was safe before he could set up camp here.
It's not bad to turn around, this place is a hilly area, and there are dozens of large and small hills and dirt mountains in the distance, this is just one of them. There was no sign of military activity around. Hu Fei jumped off the horse, and was about to take his brothers to lead the horse to Tupo, and raised his head coldly, yo! There was a red light on the dirt slope, and someone was lighting a fire on it!