Heilu Stream, Yuan Jun's camp.

This is already close to the border of Nanyang, and it has already jumped out of the encirclement of Cao Jun.

For his own life, Yuan Nuo still cherishes it very much, the mistake is not a last resort, Yuan Nuo will never risk his own life, in the spring of life, it is a last resort.

At this time, Tai Shici's cavalry battalion was practicing Mangu tactics, and Yuan Ran, Liu Ye and Yang Hong were standing by and watching.

Of course, Tai Shici couldn't know the Mangu tactics of the Mongols, but he learned this from the military book that Yuan Wei gave him.

The essence of Mongolian cavalry archery is not to contact the enemy, to use bows and arrows to release arrows at a long distance, and after the enemy is killed or wounded or exhausted, then close to the enemy in close combat, giving the enemy the ultimate fatal blow.

This tactic is simple to say, but it is very difficult to execute on the battlefield.

Because the enemy on the battlefield is not a scarecrow, after receiving a blow, he will definitely launch a counterattack, especially when the enemy army also has cavalry, the use of Mangu tactics is particularly difficult, because at this time, you must divide your cavalry into at least five echelons in front and rear, when the first echelon is attacking the enemy, the second echelon is turning and retreating, and the third echelon is advancing from the rear to the front, ready to take over the first echelon.

Then, when the third echelon began to harass the enemy forces, the first echelon began to turn and retreat, and the second echelon regrouped in the rear, ready to move forward to take over the third.

In this way, the three echelons of cavalry can form a wave offensive, endlessly attacking the enemy, once the enemy is more than half killed or exhausted, the remaining two echelons will be put into battle, launch a final general attack on the enemy, and then annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, and this is the essence of Mangu's tactics.

However, in order for the three cavalry echelons to form an endless wave offensive, it must be guaranteed by strict military discipline and long-term arduous training, otherwise, as long as one cavalry refuses to obey the order and rashly breaks away from the brigade and acts on its own, it is very likely to trigger an avalanche effect and cause the entire Mangu gang tactics to collapse.

Or, if the training is insufficient, when the three cavalry echelons are misaligned with each other, it is easy to cause chaos, and when the enemy cavalry takes advantage of the situation to rush and kill, it will be over directly, so what is there to talk about killing the enemy?

All in all, Mangu's tactics seem simple, but they are not.

Only by solving military discipline and training can we truly bring into play the power of Mangu's tactics.

Before Temujin, neither the Xiongnu nor the Turks sublimated cavalry to a strategic level, not because the Xiongnu Shan Yu or the Turkic Khan lacked Temujin's strategic vision, but because the Xiongnu Shan Yu or the Turkic Khan did not solve the problem of military discipline of the nomads.

Or rather, before the advent of Temujin, there was no true law for the nomads.

Temujin's greatness lies in the fact that the complete and strict law was given to the nomads, and with the complete and strict law as a guarantee, coupled with the fact that the nomads were naturally good at riding and archery, the combination of the two elevated the mounted archery to the strategic level, and the Mongol cavalry was able to sweep across the entire Eurasian continent.

Compared with Temujin, Tai Shici faced a more daunting challenge.

The problem of military discipline can also be solved in a short period of time by killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, but the training of mounted archery is absolutely impossible to accomplish in one fell swoop.

Tai Shici rode a horse, walked in front of the cavalry queue with an iron-tired bow held high, and said loudly: "Riding and shooting, it is not as easy as you imagined, but it is by no means as difficult as you imagined, believe me, as long as you study hard, I guarantee that you will learn all within half a month, at least I will not let you shoot your old ** with one arrow." ”

"Hahahaha...... "The more than 400 cavalrymen in the cavalry queue burst into laughter.

Tai Shi Ci continued: "If you want to shoot accurately on the back of a horse that moves at high speed and undulating, the most important point is to maintain your body balance, so after standing up from the horse, the knees must not be straight, you must bend, so that when the horse is undulating, you can maintain balance through the flexion and extension of the knees." ”

Tai Shici said as he stepped on the stirrup and stood up from the horse's back.

More than 400 cavalry officers and soldiers on horseback also stood up, their knees slightly bent.

"Yes, that's it." Tai Shici rode his horse past the front of the formation, and said, "In addition, when you pull the bow, you have to lean forward, even if you are an eight-foot tall man, it is not enough to ensure that you can pull the bow on the back of the horse, only if you lean forward so that the upper body hangs on the side of the war horse, will there be enough space to pull the bow." ”

As he spoke, Tai Shici's body was already leaning towards the right side of the war horse.

If you don't lean forward and place the iron tire bow on the side of the war horse, then it will inevitably be disturbed when pulling the bow, but after leaning forward, the iron tire bow can be fully deployed, and there will be no hindrance to the bow and arrows.

After the explanation, Tai Shici pulled the bowstring twice.

Then, Tai Shici asked the cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion to start riding and archery practice as a unit.

After a round of practice, the result can only be described as miserable, except for a very few strong soldiers who barely did it, the vast majority of the rest of the cavalry could not even pull the bow on horseback, let alone release arrows to hit the target, and even more, when pulling the bow, they fell from the horse.

Of course, there are also those who steal and play slippery, deliberately run very fast, and simply stop when they release the arrows.

For a few cheaters, Tai Shi Ci pretended not to see it, and after the first training was completed, Tai Shi Ci gathered all the horses of the Xiao Battalion and said: "The training just now is not ideal, and there are even people who are clever, but I want to believe that they didn't mean it, but because they didn't hear me clearly." ”

After a pause, Tai Shi Ci continued: "Now I repeat the discipline, when you train, you must gallop past the front of the formation at a sprint speed, and you must not slow down the horse!" I'd rather shoot inaccurately, we must not steal and play tricks, there is no shame in shooting inaccurately, no one is born to ride and shoot, I am not afraid of your jokes when I said it, when I practiced riding and shooting, I also fell off the horse, but I did not lower my requirements because of this, okay, now start the second practice. ”

The second practice wasn't much better, if not worse, than the first.

Moreover, the two military marquis who had been stealing and slippery just now were still the same, deliberately slowing down their horses when they released their arrows.

"Li Ji, Niu Si!" Tai Shici's gaze rode around, and his cold gaze fell on the two military marquis, and he shouted, "Come out for me!" ”

Li Jiniu was afraid of me and stood out proudly.

Tai Shi Ci asked coldly: "Didn't you hear what I told me repeatedly just now?" ”

"Hear me." Niu Si shook his head and said proudly, "But, you're." ”

? The more than 400 soldiers in the queue were in an uproar when they heard this, and when they looked at Tai Shi Ci again, their eyes became strange, Li Ji and Niu Si were openly challenging Tai Shi Ci's authority.

In fact, there are many officers in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion who are not convinced by Yuan's appointment of Tai Shici as the right Sima of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, especially the military marquis under Xu Sheng.

Tai Shi Ci smiled coldly and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

Li Ji also said coldly: "Because no one can freely pull the bow and release arrows on the back of a horse sprinting at high speed, let alone shoot at a target fifty steps away!" ”

"That's what you said!" Tai Shi Ci smiled cruelly, turned around and rode away.

Tai Shi Ci rode his horse to the end of the training track, and on the right side of the track, about fifty paces away, a dozen scarecrows were erected, and these dozen scarecrows were used for training.

"Huh." Tai Shi Ci gently spurred the war horse, and the war horse began to shake off its four hooves and trot.

After running for more than 100 steps, Tai Shici's war horse had already accelerated to the extreme and began to sprint.

It was too late, but it was too fast, and I saw Tai Shici standing up from the horse's back on the horse's pedals, using the bend of his knees to offset the ups and downs caused by the galloping of the war horse, and then he pulled his bow and shot arrows like lightning.

"Collapse and Collapse ......" only listened to the sound of the bowstring, and more than a dozen scarecrows had all been hit by arrows in an instant, and, amazingly, all of them were arrows in the throat!

The hundreds of soldiers on horseback immediately cheered like a tsunami.

Yuan Wei couldn't help but applaud and cheer, Tai Shici's archery skills were really worthy of his reputation, but fortunately, such a marksman has now become his general.

Tai Shi Ci rode back to the queue and stared coldly at Niu Si and Li Ji.

Niu Si and Li Ji were already stupid, and they looked at Tai Shi Ci in a daze, and they didn't know what to say.

Tai Shi Ci has already made up his mind to borrow the heads of the two to establish his authority, if he wants to practice Mangu tactics, superb cavalry and archery and strict discipline, both are indispensable!

And now, it is the time to be a typical example.

"Someone!" Tai Shi Ci looked at Li Ji Niu Si coldly, and shouted, "Pull them down and cut them down!" ”

As soon as Tai Shi Ci's words fell, four pro-soldiers immediately rushed forward, flipped Li Ji and Niu Si off their horses, and then pushed them to the ground.

Of course Li Ji and Niu Si are not convinced, don't they just not do what you say? It's not an escape, how big of a deal?

At that moment, Li Ji yelled while struggling: "Tai Shici, you are playing yin, we don't accept it, we don't accept it, we don't accept it!" ”

Niu Si was a little more clever and thought of asking Yuan Nuo for help, but when he turned his head, he found that Yuan Nuo, who was still standing not far away just now, was gone.

Tai Shi Ci smiled cruelly and shouted: "Chop! ”

The two pro-soldiers immediately raised the ring head knife and couldn't help but slash down.

It's too late, but it's too fast, and the two heads have already risen to the sky.

Seeing that Tai Shi Ci said that he was really killed, and it was still two military marquis who were killed, the remaining more than 400 nearly 500 cavalry soldiers were silent for a while, and then, when Tai Shi Ci explained the essentials of cavalry and archery for the third time, more than 400 soldiers in the cavalry battalion went up to the military marquis to the big head soldiers, and no one dared to take it lightly.

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