【143】The Sound of Drums and Horns Begins to Fight (15)

Yao Fan added some specific work arrangements, and finally instructed: "After the meeting is dismissed, cadres at all levels should seize the time to convey the ideas of this military meeting to the soldiers. In addition, in the afternoon, the cadres should pay attention to replenishing sleep, and tonight we will attack Jiangshan County overnight. ”

"Adjourn now."

After Yao Fan announced the adjournment of the meeting, Li Hainiu stayed.

"Manatee, you want to talk to me about forming a cavalry, right?"

"Yes, Chairman, I didn't sleep all night last night, thinking about the infantry on horseback you spoke of."

"Oh? So tell me, what do you think of the dragoons of the Western powers? ”

"You say that the dragoons are infantry on horseback, and I suppose that they fight with rifles, but they are all on horseback, so that they become an infantry that comes and goes like the wind."

"Manatee, you're right, that's pretty much it.

Dragoons rarely used sabers in hand-to-hand combat, and their combat methods were often to outflank them quickly and detouring, charging on horseback to occupy advantageous terrain, such as hills, high grounds, etc., and after they reached the terrain suitable for condescending shooting, they dismounted and fired at the enemy with rifles, because they often occupied high ground, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and would cause great trouble to the enemy. Once the enemy decides to attack them, they can easily choose to flee, or simply ride down the hillside and charge the enemy with their sabers.

Dragoons also often take on the heavy task of harassing the enemy's rear supply lines, or using kite flying tactics to harass the enemy's infantry, hitting and running, so that the enemy wants to fight but cannot win, a twenty or thirty dragoon troops, on the battlefield can often contain the opponent's two or three hundred line infantry tired or frozen in place and unable to move. ”

"That's what happened! This infantry tactic on horseback is really interesting!

Chairman! If you're planning to form a dragoon, Manatee is willing to train you now! ”

Yao Fan shook his head: "The training of cavalry can not be completed overnight, if it is not for people who have been used to riding horses since childhood, it is difficult to do a long bumpy march on a horse, in addition to dismounting and shooting, dragoons sometimes have to shoot on horses, and they also have to skillfully use sabers for hand-to-hand combat."

And it costs a lot to train a dragoon, and it is not easy to find a war horse suitable for dragoons, the sound of rifles and the sound of artillery are enough to scare ordinary horses into fleeing, if it is not a long-trained war horse, once the cavalry on horseback shoots, it will even be thrown to the ground by the frightened horse under the crotch. ”

Li Hainiu frowned and thought about it.

Yao Fan saw that Li Hainiu was obsessed with forming cavalry, thought for a while and said: "If the scale is not large, such as a cavalry battalion of about 100 people, I think I can try to do it, I can still afford such a small-scale cavalry." However, I don't have the luxury of hoping that this army will quickly form combat effectiveness, and in the future, it will not be impossible for those unqualified war horses to make jokes. ”

When Li Hainiu saw that Yao Fan agreed to form a cavalry, he immediately said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Chairman, don't worry, I will definitely choose the war horses well and carefully select the warriors with good equestrian skills!" ”

Yao Fan said with a smile: "I'll find you a few books about the breeding, mating, castration and training of military horses." In particular, the castration of military horses is a problem all over the world at present. In addition, this operation requires that the instruments are very clean, and the corresponding antibiotics must be used as anti-infection drugs after castration, otherwise the mortality rate of the horse after castration is very high, and it is normal to die half of the postoperative death. ”

Li Hainiu is an expert in this regard, and immediately nodded when he heard this: "The military horse must be castrated, otherwise in the spring, there will be no mare to mate, and the stallion will be crazy!" A mad stallion with a grumpy temperament can blow up an entire herd! In the past, we twisted the military except gelding is a mare, the mare is docile and easy to control, and the mare has mare's milk to drink, which can reduce the pressure of the cavalry's rations. ”

Yao Fan said: "This is the old method of the Mongolian cavalry, you see who uses mare in the heavy cavalry of the European powers!" A strong cavalryman can never use a mare as the main force! In terms of size, strength and endurance, the mare is a cut behind the stallion boss! ”

Li Hainiu said: "If the horse is not castrated well, it will be filthy and pus, and it will die soon." ”

Yao Fan smiled and said nothing, he knew that during World War II, Japan was embarrassed to ride a large number of uncastrated horses as military horses because of the backward veterinary technology in this area, and the male and female were not tired of working together...... Luckily for Japan, however, his opponent was the weaker old China.

"Manatee, do you know why the horses of the Qing army are very short?"

"Mongolian horses are like this, and Qinghai horses are taller."

"That's still not as tall as European horses, we in China traditionally have the habit of choosing the best horses to be war horses, the best horses were transferred to fight horses castrated, but the remaining horses were used to mate, and as a result, the weasels were not as good as a litter, the horses became more and more short and thin, and the country did not establish a special military horse breeding ground, in Chinese history only during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions paid tribute to hundreds of sweat and blood horses, because they were castrated as military horses, so that today there is no one left."

"Chairman, in the past, the Twist Army also grabbed the Yanma brought by the foreign church, and the horse ran and jumped vertically, which looked good, but it was far less stable than the Mongolian horse, and the cavalry could not release arrows smoothly on it, so it was not accurate at all." Lehi Niu said.

Yao Fan said approvingly: "It's pleasant to discuss problems with insiders!" Indeed, because the mounts were not smooth, the Arabs and Europeans were unable to display their excellent horse archery skills, and had to rely on the strength of tall horses and impacts. Only the Mongols who rode short and nimble Mongolian horses perfected their riding and archery skills, and the greatest credit for this should belong to the Mongolian horses that ran extremely smoothly. Moreover, after the horse is too tall, many equestrian movements cannot be done, such as turning left and right to get on and off the horse, hiding in stirrups, jumping left and right to dodge the ground and then re-mounting, etc. These practical fighting equestrian moves could not be used for tall horses, and the Western cavalry was also beaten by the Mongol cavalry during hand-to-hand combat, and was eventually swept across the world by the Mongol cavalry. ”

"You know so much, Chairman!" Li Hainiu admired the five-body throw.

Yao Fan smiled: "Discussion has this benefit, it can stimulate people's thinking. Talking to you, I suddenly felt that in this era of less and less cavalry hand-to-hand combat, Mongolian horses with excellent endurance are really a good material for dragoon military horses. ”

Li Hainiu said excitedly: "As long as you don't fight against the tall horses, and only provide them for the infantry to ride, the Mongolian horses are really no better!" Not only run smoothly and easy to aim, but also suitable for extensive breeding, not picky about feed, especially easy to fat, once fat is suitable for long-term marching and fighting, and can not eat or drink for a few days, especially suitable for long-distance marching! Although Mongolian horses are not fast, but the endurance is the best, other horses have to eat hay with soybeans or corn as feed, otherwise they will lose fat and diarrhea, but Mongolian horses can grow fat as long as they eat grass! Not as expensive as other horses! However, Mongolian horses have a strong temperament, and if they want to be used as military horses, they must be castrated first, and if the mortality rate of castration can be reduced, it will be no better. ”

Yao Fan also became excited: "Manatee, what you said is so right, as long as it is not used for hand-to-hand combat, Mongolian horses are used for marching, especially for dragoons who use rifles to fight as military horses, it is really suitable!" However, in terms of breeding, it must not be extensive, and it is necessary to strictly follow the standard of 1o catties of hay and five catties of soybeans a day, and the hay must be enough. To raise horses is to love horses, and from the moment these horses joined the army, they became our revolutionary comrades-in-arms. ”

Li Hainiu said excitedly: "Chairman, I'll go and pick horses now, select those who are not surprised when they hear the gunshot, and use the rest to be horses!" ”

After speaking, he rushed out of the county office.

Yao Fan saw Li Hainiu leaving in a hurry with the promise he gave him to form a cavalry, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What a horse idiot......

Yao Fan, who had been busy all morning, went to the garrison camp to have lunch with the soldiers, and was about to go back to the yamen in the afternoon to rest for a while, when he heard the sound of quarrels outside.

When I went out, it turned out that Li Jun and Liu Jinbao were arguing over whether to cut their hair.

"Chairman, you come to comment on the reasoning, I said that I should hang my head all the time, but Liu Jinbao said that I want to keep my head, if I am so distant, wouldn't I become a woman!" Li Jun stood on the side of the school and said angrily.

"This head was also given by my father, if it weren't for the emperor who had to shave it, I wouldn't even be willing to shave the front of my head!" Liu Jinbao said.

Yao Fan smiled wryly.

Since the beginning of the rebellion, he has not asked the soldiers to shave forcibly, for fear of arousing the disgust of the soldiers, but he himself runs around with his bare head every day, which has had a great impact on the cadres and soldiers under him, and many comrades are eager to try, wanting to learn from Yao Fan and cut a new "revolutionary" type. But there were some people in the army who were against shaving, and they were also against keeping the Manchu braids, and their idea was to learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and grow long hair.

Compared with the two, Yao Fan is certainly in favor of cutting a clean type.

"What is longhair! How can our revolutionary army learn from those cult elements in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! Yao Fan became angry as soon as he heard Liu Jinbao's proposition.

"Bring the scissors, I'll cut it for you!" Yao Fan insisted that the overlord forced Liu Jinbao to press Liu Jinbao on the stool and shaved him like a dog gnawing on a board.

Faced with this dog-gnawed general uneven type, Yao Fan smiled dryly and defended his craft: "Isn't it very good-looking!" In the future, all the cadres will shave me into board inches, which is cool and easy to clean, and if it is dirty, it will be clean with a dozen soaps, how good! ”

After speaking, Yao Fan walked away, leaving Liu Jinbao with a scumbag and an aggrieved face, and Li Jun with a wicked smile.

Yao Fan slept all afternoon before Li Jun came to tell him to get up for dinner.

"Chairman, don't laugh when you see it later."

"What am I laughing at?"

"Liu Jinbao's kid took revenge on the society and shaved all their battalions into bald gourds." Li Jun reported with the fresh words he had heard from Yao Fan.

When Yao Fan rushed to the school field for dinner, he saw that Liu Jinbao's three battalions were all shaved by him into bald monks, and Liu Jinbao's head was simplified from Yao Fan's dog-gnawing masterpiece in the afternoon to a bare scoop.

"Good! Not bad! Revolution is not revolution! You can see it by looking at your head! This is the momentum that a revolutionary soldier should have! Commendable! Commendable! Yao Fan praised it.

After being praised by Yao Fan in public, Liu Jinbao was so happy that his tail went up to the sky, and he kept bragging with several other battalion commanders.

Therefore, after dinner, the remaining four battalions were also forced by cadres at all levels to carry out a comprehensive shaving, and the minority faction, which was originally called "cadre heads" and "revolutionary heads," was now a unified type of the whole army.

Li Junhan choked Liu Jinbao and said: "Look at this one we shaved, this is called the head of the revolution, and your three battalions are the heads of monks who are monks." ”

"Fart! The shorter the head, the more revolutionary! Liu Jinbao scolded and walked away angrily.

"Huh? You kid, how do you scold people? Li Jun shouted behind him with a wicked smile.

At nine o'clock that night, after the whole army was busy with shaving and washing their hair, they took dry food and set off again in full armor and sent troops to Jiangshan County. u

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