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Out of curiosity about Tao Ying's training, Lin Qing, who didn't want to be a soldier at all, hesitated again and again, and finally gave up his plan to become a deserter immediately, and decided to stay in the Junzi Army for a few more days, and then wait and see the situation for a while.

But Lin Qing regretted it the next day, regretting why he didn't run away last night.

On the tenth day of March in the first year of Xingping, early in the morning, the colorful flags fluttered on the field of the primary school at the east gate of Pengcheng in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, and the green tooth banner with black characters on a white background on three sides in the center, the word 'gentleman' was written on the main flag, and the left and right deputy flags were written with five big characters, respectively, five words of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, faith and gentleness, courtesy, and frugality, and the nine hundred soldiers of the Junzi Army gathered in line, and Tao Ying personally presided over the command to carry out the first military training of the Junzi Army.

Or out of expectation, or out of vigilance, more out of curiosity, want to see with your own eyes how the famous nerd Tao Ying Tao's second son trains, Xuzhou civil and military ministers all came to visit, not only the old and sick Tao Qian led the pottery merchants and Cao Hong, Cao Bao led a large group of Xuzhou martial arts to come, Chen Qi and Chen Deng father and son led a group of Xuzhou local scholars to come, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers also led a group of Xuzhou civil officials, and countless people and people with a heart came to the side of the small school, Onlookers watched the first military training of the Gentlemen's Army.

What puzzled Cao Bao and other Xuzhou generals was that on the first day of the army's establishment, Tao Ying ordered weapons and armor to be distributed to all soldiers, without considering the possibility of the new recruits abducting these expensive weapons and armor to escape. Then Tao Ying's first training order turned out to be to let these recruits run in armor and weapons, and he also opened his mouth to ask all the recruits to run on a ten-mile road, and Tao Ergongzi himself also personally participated in the run-carrying a whip and running behind the soldiers of the Junzi Army, if anyone dares to be lazy and dare to fall behind, he will be whipped up.

Wearing heavy armor and holding heavy weapons, shouting the slogan of sweating more in peacetime and less bloodshed in wartime, sweating along the road chosen by Tao Ying in advance, running a little slower will have a horsewhip on the body, and the skin will be opened, the ghost will cry wolf, and he will be so tired that he can't survive or die. Even Lin Qing, who was looked at differently by Tao Ying, ran two steps slower because he was lazy, and was whipped by Tao Ying, and the hatred of his attack made Lin Qing cry on the spot.

After running ten miles, the exhausted soldiers of the Junzi Army returned to the small school field, and were surprised to find that there were hundreds of round logs on the school field, all of which were erected by wooden frames, all of which were more than four feet above the ground. Then Tao Ergongzi pointed to the wood and shouted: "Ride all for me, ride up like a horse, your feet must not touch the ground, you must hold weapons in both hands, you can't support each other, ride up and rest!" ”

In the laughter of the onlookers and the surprised eyes of the Xuzhou civil and military officials, the nine hundred gentlemen soldiers rode on the log comically and sat on the log to breathe and rest, the log has been removed from the bark, and it is very difficult to ride slippery, many soldiers of the Junzi Army have slipped off the log and fell to the ground, which caused countless laughter, and Tao Ying's roar, "Get up, ride on the log, and clamp your legs!" Today is the first day, forgive you for the time being, next time whoever dares to fall down again, military law is engaged! ”

"What is Ying'er doing?" Tao Qian was also confused by his son's funny practice of war, and couldn't help but ask left and right: "What does Ying'er mean by doing this?" The old man is over sixty years old, why has he never heard of such a military training method? ”

The civil and military officials in Xuzhou shook their heads and said that they didn't know, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers still secretly laughed, but fortunately, there were still a few knowledgeable people among the Xuzhou officials, Cao Bao saw some clues, and said: "Lord Qi, if the last general is not bad, the prince is training the soldiers of the gentleman's army to ride horses." Childe planned to train this gentleman's army into cavalry, but now that the horses were not ready, Childe ordered the soldiers to ride on the logs, which were smooth and difficult to ride steadily, and the soldiers could only clamp the logs with their legs, which was equivalent to training riding. ”

As mentioned earlier, the stirrup has not been invented in the Three Kingdoms era, and the cavalry can only clamp the horse's back with their legs in order to maintain their body balance on the horse, which is indeed not much different from riding on a slippery log, so after listening to Cao Bao's explanation, the civil and military officials of Xuzhou who had ridden horses quickly woke up and praised Tao Ying for being smart and able to figure out such a cavalry training method in the absence of horses. Tao Qian also nodded, twisted his silver beard and smiled at Cao Hong next to him and ordered: "Kaiping, the war horse that Ying'er's Junzi Army needs, quickly find a way to solve it, don't let Ying'er take the logs, what do you think?" The soldiers are also working hard. ”

"The last will obey." Cao Hong hugged his fists and agreed, and said with a sad face: "But please forgive me, the second prince has asked for too many military supplies, and it will be difficult for the last general to gather them all for a while." Especially the war horse that the second son asked for, it was even more difficult for the general to gather. ”

"Isn't it okay to buy from merchants everywhere?" Tao Qian asked suspiciously: "Just a hundred war horses, can't you buy them?" ”

"Back to the lord, it's not that the last general can't buy it." Cao Hong replied with a sad face: "It's the war horse that the second prince named and wanted, and the last general can't buy so much, the second son named the war horses produced in the Northern Xiongnu area such as Hujie, Jiankun and Ding Ling (all in the Mongolian Plateau), and they must be mares, and the last general is in a hurry, where to buy so many war horses that meet the conditions of the second son?" ”

"As long as the war horses produced in the area of the Northern Huns? Or just a mare? "Cao Bao and the Mi Zhu brothers, who were born in rich merchants, are the same thing, and then Mi Fang almost didn't laugh out loud, saying that straw bales are straw bales, and they don't even know what kind of horses the war horses of the Northern Huns are, and they still want to train cavalry?

"Aren't the war horses produced in that area good?" Cao Bao asked suspiciously: "Does the second son understand war horses?" The war horses in that area are short and small, not much bigger than donkeys, and they don't run very fast, they have always been inferior among horses. ”

"I don't know." Cao Bao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "If the second son doesn't pick horse breeds, then the last general will be able to prepare a thousand war horses for the son in less than a month, but the last general will name these inferior horses, and the last general will really have no choice." ”

"Ying'er doesn't understand horses." Tao Qian sighed and ordered: "Cao Hong, don't listen to Ying'er, the war horse he named, you try to prepare it for him, you really can't find such a war horse, just take other war horses to make up the number, Ying'er asks you, you let him come to the old man, and the old man will answer for you." ”

"Thank you, Lord Shengming." Cao Hong happily agreed, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, saying in his heart that he had finally dealt with the most troublesome pass.

Tao Qian nodded, then turned to the Mi Zhu brothers next to him and said with a smile: "Mi don't drive, there is a shortage of war horses in Ying'er's army, and you have also seen the situation." I heard that I bought hundreds of high-quality horses in the Western Regions for Xuande Gong before I didn't drive, but I wonder if I can sell some of them for children to ride? ”

"The old slippery head, even I know this, and sure enough, the old man is a giant slippery." Mi Zhu scolded secretly in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "The lord doesn't ask, Mi Zhu is also about to play the lord, Mi Zhu said that the good horses in the Western Regions that Mi Zhu bought before, of which 200 were purchased for the second son, and he was ready to sacrifice them to the son to help the son build the army." Now that the son is missing, Mi Zhu should send it as soon as possible. ”

"I see, the old man thanked the dog for not driving." Tao Qian, who was successful, nodded with satisfaction, and let out a somewhat evil breath.

"Brother and slow." Mi Fang's heart was on fire, and she smiled and said to Mi Zhu with a fake smile: "Brother, since the second son named the mare produced by the Northern Huns, he wants to come from his reasons, so why don't the brothers select such a 'good' war horse from our horse farm and present it to the second son?" ”

Mi Zhu understood, and immediately understood that his brother was dissatisfied with Tao Qian's extortion and spying, so he deliberately offered to give those inferior horses to Tao Ying - the price of the high-grade Western Regions horses was not a little different from the second-class Northern Xiongnu horses. So Mi Zhu quickly nodded and said: "What the virtuous brother said is extremely true, since the second son named the mare produced by the Northern Xiongnu, then our brother should also try his best to assist the second son." ”

Hearing the Mizhu brothers' singing and harmony, Cao Hong and Cao Bao and other Tao's loyal ministers all changed color on their faces, and Tao Qian was also very dissatisfied, but those inferior horses were indeed Tao Ying's name, so Tao Qian didn't say much, just smiled and bowed slightly, expressing his satisfaction, and turned his gaze to Tao Ying, who was riding on a log in the distance, and wondered: "Wu'er, do you understand military affairs?" ”

The poor gentleman army soldiers were forced by Tao Ying to ride on the log for an hour, and finally got Tao Yingen's permission to go down to the ground to line up, and the boring and outrageous standing military posture training began, Tao Ying carried the whip to personally inspect, forcing all the gentlemen soldiers to stand tall and stomach, looking ahead, and the slightest mistake in the station was to scold and whip, and every gentleman and soldier had to stand according to Tao Ying's requirements.

Seeing that Tao Ying wasted his time and energy on such useless trivial matters as standing on military funds, not to mention that Tao Ji and Lin Qing in the ranks of the Junzi Army were incomprehensible, that is, Tao Qian and Cao Bao and other Xuzhou civil and military forces who were devoted to Tao Ying couldn't stand it at all, Tao Qian was yawning, Cao Bao was crying and laughing, Cao Hong was helpless, and secretly sighed that the lord was unlucky, gave birth to such an unlucky child, and the huge amount of money and food spent on forming the Junzi Army was completely thrown into the water. Chen Qi and Chen Deng and a group of neutral Xuzhou civil and military officials were mostly silent, but regretted that they should not have come to join in the fun, it was a pure waste of time.

There were also people with happy faces, for example, Mi Fang almost laughed off her big teeth, leaned into Mi Zhu's ear and whispered: "Brother, according to the younger brother's opinion, we don't need to waste time and energy on Tao Ying Xiao'er, an idiot, Zhao Kuo is a hundred times stronger than him, what is there to be afraid of?" There is no need to waste so much manpower to closely monitor Tao Ying'er. ”

Mi Zhu nodded slowly, and also whispered in Mi Fang's ear: "Secretly give the situation to Xuande Gong, and then ask Xuande Gong for help, pick out all the second-class Northern Hun mares in Xuande Gong's team, and replace them with the first-class Western Regions good horses we bought, and send the second-class horses to Tao Yingxiao'er!" Mi Fang smiled and immediately raised her hands in agreement.

After waiting for a long time, seeing that Tao Ying always focused his energy on training the Junzi Army on the useless standing posture, Tao Qian finally left, sighed and left, all the civil and military forces in Xuzhou were amnesty, and they also dispersed, and they were all gone in the blink of an eye, only Cao Hong, the logistics supervisor assigned by Tao Qian to Tao Ying, could only stay in place and wait for Tao Ying to end his training because he still had official business, but Cao Hong was not interested in looking any further, so he found a shady place to sit down, and yawned and went to Zhou Gong.

Because it was the first day of formal training, Tao Ying did not instill too many things in the minds of the Junzi soldiers who were full of recruits, and let the Junzi soldiers practice the most basic standing posture in the military posture for a morning, and then disbanded at noon, and then let the recruits disband, eat and rest, and then start the training of the main foot army in the afternoon.

When the order to disband was issued, the soldiers of the Gentlemen's Army, who stood still and were lazy, suddenly shook the sky with joy, countless people sat on the ground with their buttocks, and more people rushed to the room with rolling and crawling. Tao Ji, who participated in the training with the recruits, walked in front of Tao Ying with a belly full of anger, and was about to be furious, when Cao Hong rushed over quickly, still holding two feather arrows in his hand, and handed the two feather arrows to Tao Ying first, and said: "Second son, according to your orders, the two arrows you named have been made, please take a look." ”

Tao Ji curiously turned his eyes to the two feather arrows, and saw that the two feather arrows were the same, the shaft of one arrow was very thin, the iron arrow was small and pointed, and the shaft of the other arrow was thicker, and the arrow was wide and large. What's the use? ”

"It's useful." Tao Ying also knew that he had to give Tao Ji some reassurance, so he picked up two arrows and explained: "This arrow is thin and light, it is used for long-range shooting, which can maximize the range and shoot the enemy where the enemy can't shoot us." Thick and heavy, this type of arrow is used in close combat, and although the range is short, the impact is very strong, and it can shoot through armor. ”

"Really? Let me see. Taughki was both happy and curious, and quickly took the two different bows and arrows to observe them carefully, and weighed them with his hands.

"Childe, and you want that kind of sari clothes." Cao Hong took out a gauze coat like a trick and handed it to Tao Ying, "According to the son's instructions, it is all made of raw silk, and the last general has found the best weaver and braided it very closely." ”

"Second brother, what do you want a woman to wear?" Tao Ji asked suspiciously.

"Arrow proof." Tao Ying tore and pulled the gauze to check the firmness, while explaining: "If the raw silk is woven tightly enough, the arrow will not be able to shoot through, wear this kind of yarn on the body, even if the arrow is shot into the flesh, as long as the gauze is pulled, the arrow can be pulled out, so that it is much easier to treat the wound again, and the casualties of the soldiers can be minimized." ”

"Really? And such a good thing? Tao Ji snatched the sari again and looked at it carefully.

"It's good, but it's too expensive." Cao Hong said with a sad face: "Second son, do you know that if you want 900 pieces of such sarowns, how much food will you have to pay in the end?" ”

"I don't want to know, but I'm going to decide on nine hundred yarn clothes, General Cao, please find a way for me." Tao Ying played a hooligan, picked up the light arrow and said with a smile: "General Cao, repay the peach, nine hundred expensive gauze clothes are not for you, tell you a way to save money, this kind of light arrow, the iron arrow can be thinner for one and a half minutes, so that you can save a lot of pig iron for making arrows." ”

"Can you be more detailed?" Cao Hong was overjoyed and said: "I'm still worried that Childe thinks the arrow is too small, since Childe is still too big, then I will immediately order the craftsman to rebuild it." ”

"There's General Law." Tao Ying smiled and asked again, "General Cao, the ten carpenters I asked you to recruit, as well as the hard wood ...... prepared?" ”

"It's all ready, and at the end of this afternoon, we will arrange for someone to bring the timber, and ten carpenters will be brought to meet the son." Cao Hong replied quickly. Seeing that Tao Ying nodded with satisfaction, Cao Hong said with a smile on his face: "Second son, about the war horse, the last general still wants you to report, the lord has already said ......." ”

Saying that, Cao Hong told Tao Qian what had just happened and Tao Qian's instructions, so that Tao Ying would have a bottom in his heart first, so as not to offend Tao Ying, the future lord who was very promising to inherit Tao Qian's position. But what Cao Hong never dreamed of was that after Tao Ying heard it, he actually slapped his forehead and said, "How did I forget this method?" Thanks to the reminder of Brother Mi Beijia, there is a way to solve the problem of war horses. ”

"How to fix it?" Cao Hong asked in surprise.

"Change!" Tao Ying replied very simply, "General Cao, don't you have some good war horses in your hands?" I took these good war horses to General Cao Bao's team and replaced the Northern Xiongnu war horses in his team, and General Cao Bao definitely agreed. ”

"Ahh Cao Hong and Tao Ji screamed at the same time, and then Cao Hong couldn't cry or laugh even more, and Tao Ji said angrily: "The first-class horse is replaced by the second-class horse, second brother, you are really good at business!" The younger brother doesn't understand, second brother, what are you naming for the kind of inferior horse that is not much bigger than a donkey? ”

"Third brother, you will know in the future, the so-called second-class horse, but I haven't met Bole's thousand-mile horse." Tao Ying said quietly: "When the third brother you have personally experienced the benefits of the so-called inferior horse, I am afraid that when the time comes, others will give the third brother your sweat and blood BMW, and you will not be able to look down on the third brother." ”

Tao Ji sneered quietly, and Cao Hong on the side quietly rolled his eyes, all of them didn't understand what kind of stupidity Tao Ying had committed, he would grit his teeth and not let go of his mouth to name such inferior inferior horses, and even do a business of sticking books, and use the best Western Regions war horses to exchange for other people's inferior war horses? But what Tao Ji and Cao Hong didn't know was that a thousand years later, a rogue would use this inferior horse as a special war horse to form a small cavalry team, fight a few small victories, and lay down a small piece of land.

It is even more impossible for Tao Ji and Cao Hong to know that the name of this hooligan is Erjin Temujin, and the cavalry team built by this hooligan is the world's first cavalry - Genghis Khan's cavalry, which is recognized worldwide!

"Anyway, it's decided." Tao Ying was afraid that Tao Ji would oppose the chaos again, so he made a direct decision, and then Tao Ying turned to Cao Hong and ordered: "General Cao Hong, when you send the carpenter over, you will send fifty soldiers under your command to come over, and I want them to carry out a secret mission, so you must send the most reliable soldiers, preferably the Danyang soldiers from my hometown." ”