The scale of war horses now raised in the pasture has exceeded 500.

With the exception of some hatchlings born in pastures, they are basically counted in the head of the hunting team. The hunting team led by Kamuke almost wiped out all the wild horses that lived in a radius of dozens of miles north of the pasture.

Choose one out of fifty, and the ones selected are naturally good horses, and before, almost all of them were the king of horses, all tall and strong, and the horses were extraordinary. Of course, compared to the Qingjia War Horse, there is naturally a gap.

Seeing that Nuro and the white wolf had brought ten horses, Li Zheng and the others had no choice but to temporarily suppress the urgency in their hearts and began to put armor on the ten war horses again.

These ten war horses are far inferior to the Qingjia war horses, and they may be cultivated as heavy horses in other places, but here in Li Zheng, their service direction can only be light riding.

With the quality of ordinary heavy riding, to serve the light ride, at this point, it has opened up many gaps with ordinary light riding, which is the advantage.

Of course, in Li Zheng's mind, the war horse is far from being a real war horse. But now that the resources in hand are limited, there are only a few war horses, so you can't put the armor there to be moldy and rusty, right? It can only be used first.

In just half an hour, the ten horses were armoured.

At a glance, the ten light horses wrapped in leather armor and the other seven metal monsters complemented each other, which was really shocking and exciting.

"The Lord"

Zhang Shan rubbed his hands and was eager to try.

Li Zheng smiled, waved his hand, and said, "There are only seventeen light and heavy battle horses in total, and not everyone is qualified to ride them. ”

"A certain must be qualified!"

Zhang Shan held his head high and took the lead.

Li Zheng nodded, Zhang Shan's ability can be regarded as the first person under Li Zheng: "You are one." As he spoke, he turned his face to Nuro and the white wolf and said, "Physique and strength are the basic elements of heavy cavalry. The light cavalry, on the other hand, required excellent archery skills and extraordinary riding skills. ”

The heavy cavalry's full-body fish-scale metal armor and helmet, plus standard spears, totaled more than thirty catties. Although there are war horses to share the pressure, it is still a huge burden for ordinary soldiers.

The light cavalry is responsible for harassing, luring and pursuing, with bows and arrows as the mainstay, supplemented by sabers, and pays attention to a flexibility and mobility. If you don't pass the riding and archery skills, you will naturally not be competent.

"Now there are so many war horses, tiger, the three of you should press it first, and wait until the war horses are surplus." Li Zheng turned to Wang Laohu and the others: "This includes me, Dashan, Nuro and White Wolf, and they take up four places. There are still thirteen places left, the three of you immediately go to the war camp to choose the right one, and from today, we will train the war horse tactics together! ”

Several people glanced at each other and nodded silently.

Although the three of Wang Laohu are a little unwilling, this is a fact. The three of them were already physically disabled and basically couldn't go to the battlefield, even if they were assigned war horses, they would be useless and a waste.

After Zhang Shan and the others left, Li Zheng and Wang Laohu discussed the recruit training plan.

During this period of time, Li Zheng has a good understanding of the training methods of Wang Laohu and others.

In the original world, many people felt that the ancient military training methods must have been very backward, far inferior to the military training methods of that era. But after watching Wang Laohu and others train recruits, Li Zheng instantly overturned that concept.

Because of the background of the times, there may be defects in the training methods of this era, but there are a few of them, but they far exceed those of that era.

At the top of the list is physical training!

Because in this day and age, there are no cars, no planes, no motorcycles. When war breaks out, most of the time it depends on the two legs of the soldiers. That's the first point.

The second point is that the weapons of that era were far less laborious to use than those of this era. Holding a few catties or more than a dozen catties of weapons, running and slashing on the battlefield non-stop, just think about it to know how much body it will consume! As for long-range archers, every time they open their bows, they also consume a lot of body, and even the most elite archers can only fire their bows a hundred or ten times at most in each battle, and they have no strength at all.

It is precisely because of this method of warfare that there are absolute requirements for the human body. So, in this day and age, for the training of soldiers, physical fitness is the first priority!

Wang Laohu and others' physical training of recruits can be described as cruel. If it weren't for the abundant food supply in the pasture and the energetic supply of red jade bird eggs in the recruit training camp, Li Zheng believed that in no more than ten days, someone would vomit blood and even be trained to death!

It's no wonder that in the context of this era, those who can be called elite will have such strong combat effectiveness! There are often thousands of feats that break tens of thousands!

It's the result of rigorous training.

But because of the cruelty of training, the requirements for food and equipment are too high, and the investment is too large, so it is understandable that elite troops are very rare.

In second place, however, is the training in the use of weapons.

Wang Laohu and others trained recruits, because they mainly used spears, so they only trained two movements, one was stabbing, that is, the middle flat gun. When a shot in the chest, no one can stop the middle flat gun.

The other is parrying, which is more subtle and difficult to practice - using the flexibility of the spear to block possible attacks. In Wang Laohu's words, this is derived from the combat skills of the sword and shield soldiers. Used here, in fact, it is also to pave the way for the sword and shield types that may be produced in the pasture in the future.

Some people often blindly think that some of the moves of later generations are very subtle in this era, but in fact, the ancestors have already used them very skillfully. The birth of martial arts originated from survival and the battle with nature. Later, the place where martial arts were really used was the battlefield!

After countless wars, can't you still summarize the subtle moves to kill and defend against the enemy?!

In third place is the battle formation!

Li Zheng was completely confused about the battle array. But looking at the training of Wang Laohu and others, Li Zheng only understood one thing, that is, the flexibility of war.

As long as they are familiar with the battle formation, in the battlefield, under the command of the officer, the soldiers can flexibly change the formation according to the order, and switch between attack and defense at will.

This is very profound, and of course, for soldiers, the requirements are also very high.

If there are so many people in a battalion of soldiers and horses who are not skilled enough in the battle formation, and in the process of conversion, there is a business trip, then it is possible to lead to extremely disastrous consequences!

Therefore, although the battle formation is exquisite, the threshold is also high.

In these three aspects, to be honest, Li Zheng has no reason to point fingers at all.

In his opinion, the training methods in these three aspects, the Han army has fully matured and reached its peak. It's no wonder that the Han Dynasty is known as a strong man, isn't this a proof?!

There is only one thing that can really make Li Zheng improve, and that is discipline.

During the training process of Wang Laohu and others, it seems that the requirements for military discipline are not high. Li Zheng completely disagrees with this.

Orders and prohibitions are the most basic guarantee for the army's combat effectiveness. Victory is not arrogant, defeat is not defeat, what is needed is to order and prohibit.

After observing the training methods of Wang Laohu and others, combining some of his own opinions, and discussing with Wang Laohu and the others, Li Zheng basically had a full mind and came up with a formal training plan.

"Then do it!" Li Zheng said to Wang Laohu: "Discipline must be taken seriously, and it must be placed at the same level as physical training!" I'll write a plan and give it to you, just follow it. ”

Not to mention the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, Li Zheng still knows some of the seventeen laws and fifty-four beheadings.

Of course, he will not copy rigidly, but will only select some according to the actual situation, delete and modify some, and lay a foundation. As for not being comprehensive enough, this needs to be slowly improved in future practice.

In fact, in Wang Laohu's view, these things emphasized by Li Zheng are completely redundant. War, as long as it can be won, everything else is a trivial matter. However, although I don't quite understand why Li Zheng attaches so much importance to discipline, as a domestic slave and as a subordinate, he must obey unconditionally.

While they were talking, Zhang Shan and the other three came over with thirteen soldiers.

Li Zheng looked at it and found that the thirteen soldiers all had blue noses and swollen eyes. After a cursory thought, I understood what was going on - it must have been a fierce battle!

Among these thirteen people, Li Zheng was surprised to find that seven of them were Han! There are also more people than the other six former Qiang, and of course, they are now Han Chinese.

It made him a little incredible.

Most of his soldiers, except for the White Wolf group, were selected from the recruited homeless. As outcasts, how many can be strong?

Although I've been in the pasture for a while, I've been eating and drinking, but I shouldn't be able to catch up with the white wolf so quickly, right?

But the facts are in front of him, and I have to make Li Zheng sigh that the Han nation has many talents!

Next, after Zhang Shan's explanation, sure enough, the way that these thirteen people selected from the three hundred soldiers, in addition to testing archery and horsemanship, was to fight directly!

Whoever wins, wins!

What an honor it is to be a war cavalryman!? There are hundreds of soldiers under the command of the grassland, and who doesn't want to step on the green armor war horse?!

So they all fought bravely, and the good brothers on weekdays were not emotional, and each relied on his ability.

Distinguished from physical fitness, horsemanship, and archery, four of the thirteen were assigned to the Qingjia War Riding Column, while the remaining nine were assigned to War Horse Light Cavalry.

At this point, the most elite armed forces under Li Zheng were born.

Seven blue-armored war horses, ten war horses and light horses.

Li Zheng, Zhang Shan, Nuro and four others were heavily cavalry cavalry. The white wolf and the other nine were war horse light cavalry.

Li Zheng is the leader, and he is in charge of a qiē. Zhang Shan's deputy, co-op heavy riding, white wolf co-op light riding.

The heavy rider put on fish scale armor, put on a helmet, held a standard spear, and turned over and stepped onto the green armor war horse.

The light horsemen put on leather armor and leather helmets, hung sabers from their waists, held longbows in their hands, and carried arrows on their backs, and stepped on the stirrups in unison, and turned over on their horses.

The seventeen horsemen were divided into two columns, with the heavy riders in front and the light riders in the rear.

"Whew"

Li Zheng held his head high, rode on the back of Qingyun's broad explanation, and grew a breath of turbidity, only to feel that there was a breath in his heart, and he had to spew out!

He pointed forward with his spear in his hand and shouted, "Charge!" ”

"Kill!"

Everyone behind him shouted in unison, the heavy rider held the spear in both hands, pointed straight ahead, the light rider hung the bow on the saddle buckle, pulled out the saber, and followed Li Zheng to launch the first group charge of the Shenzhou grassland!