On the night before the first day of the fourth month of the 19th year of the emperor's reign, the uncle of the Turkic Dulan Khan, Kuhezhen was betrayed by the people, and his nephew Yu Rapid Fire and Yintou were secretly accepted by Yi Feng's surrender, and led his cronies to suddenly rebel. Because of the chaos in the camp, and Dou Jiande led the army to kill, at the moment, the inside and outside should be combined, and the internal and external attacks were flanked, and the 30,000 Turkic troops fell into chaos. At dawn, Yi Feng led 30,000 soldiers and horses to arrive, and Dou Jiande, Liu Wenjing, Yu Rapid Shot, and Yin First had already controlled the camp.

After a night of scuffle, the Turkic army suffered thousands of casualties, and the rest surrendered.

In the morning sun of dawn, Yu Rapid Fire Special Service and Yintou Special Service led more than 20,000 Turkic troops and surrendered to Yi Feng.

Yu quickly shot at Yi Feng and presented the silver wolf and silver arrows, in front of the 80,000 army of Han Fan, he knelt on his knees, holding the rolled up silver wolf and silver arrows in his hands, and said the words of surrender and allegiance in his mouth, when he Yi Feng swore allegiance, Yi Feng did not believe it. However, considering the current situation, Yi Feng is still willing to accept their surrender, it doesn't matter if they are not loyal now, as long as they grasp the general situation, they still have to be loyal to themselves in the end. The surrender of nearly 30,000 Turkic troops, plus the 30,000 Turkic troops in Li Jing's army, Yi Feng had 60,000 Turkic troops in his hands.

And later that day, Li Jing once again sent a great news.

In front of the grass ditch, Daman could not be attacked for a long time, and more than 8,000 people in the department had surrendered to Li Jing on the gate.

"Dammam also surrendered?" Yi Feng asked Li Mi, who brought this good news.

"No, it is said that Damman found that many of his subordinates wanted to surrender and feared that they would rebel. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, he quietly left the camp with a hundred cavalry guards in the middle of the night. I fled back to Ulju by trailing over the mountains. When his subordinates saw that Daman had left his troops and fled alone, they simply surrendered to Kanshang after deliberation. ”

"Hmm. It doesn't matter if one Daman goes, his 8,000 soldiers and horses are still left. In this way, the 100,000 soldiers and horses of Kuhezhen and Daman, who attacked Wei Fei at the beginning, were basically finished, and there were nearly 70,000 surrenderers. ”

Li Mi also smiled and said, "If you get rid of the more than 20,000 people in Ulzhou, in fact, very few of the two divisions of Daman and Kuhezhen really died on the battlefield, less than 10,000 people, and the rest will all fall to His Highness." ”

"It was totally unexpected."

"For these Turkic surrenders. What does His Highness plan to do with it? Liu Wenjing asked.

Yi Feng didn't know how to answer for a while, nearly 70,000 Turkic troops, as Li Mi said, in fact, there were several battles before and after, each time they were fought suddenly, and they ended quickly. Every time the battle was basically broken down, surprise ambushes, and each time the Turks basically lost about 10% of their troops, they had already collapsed and surrendered. Although as an outsider, it may seem that this is a bit out of the name of the Turkic soldiers. But in fact. In the Middle Ages, when fighting with such cold weapons, they were very lacking in the bloody nature of stubbornly resisting to the end, maybe they were very brave and could fight. But it was also in the beginning, when the situation was deadlocked, then it went back and forth. Three and exhausted. On the battlefield, morale began to fall as soon as the casualties were achieved. Those who can continue to fight with two percent of casualties already belong to the elite troops. More than 30 percent of battlefield casualties. Then ninety percent of the army will collapse. And the kind of army that can still fight with four or five percent casualties, or even six or seven percent, is basically difficult to see, and occasionally appears, and it is only in that kind of siege war that there is no way to retreat, that it is possible to fight to the end. In the field of operations, two to three achievements are the bottom line, those who can still fight until 20 percent of the casualties are elite, and those who can still fight until 30 percent of the casualties are extremely strong and elite troops.

On the frontal battlefield in the field, the greatest casualties do not come from direct engagement, but often from the side with broken morale, who are pursued and slashed while fleeing, and those who die on the way to escape are often much higher than the number of casualties in the head-on battle, and a large number of soldiers are only injured on the battlefield, and finally die of aggravated injuries or wound infections after the battle because of untimely treatment.

However, the will to fight in modern military generations is generally higher than that of this era, and the most important reason is that the discipline of the military in later generations is strong. The Huaihuang army has always emphasized military discipline and built the army with discipline, and the soldiers of Huaihuang may not be as fierce as the Turks, but the discipline is definitely much better than the Turks, so on the battlefield, the Huaihuang army can persist in fighting for a longer time and bear higher casualties without collapsing. Even in cavalry warfare, the strict training of the Huaihuang cavalry allowed the cavalry to fight and kill the enemy in a neat array, exerting the overall superiority like the infantry, rather than relying on individual bravery like the Turks. The Turks were indeed brave and brave, but they also lacked discipline and freedom, and their mobility and personal bravery in small units did make them far stronger than the small cavalry of Huaihuang.

However, Yi Feng had already emphasized to his officers that two Turkic cavalry could easily defeat three Huaihuang cavalry, but fifty Huaihuang cavalry could already draw with fifty Turkic cavalry, one hundred Huaihuang cavalry could defeat one hundred Turkic cavalry, and five Huaihuang cavalry would inevitably defeat five hundred Turkic cavalry. The reason lies in discipline, in the coordination of the whole, and through the coordination of the whole operation, they can play a result that one plus one is greater than two.

The cavalry drill code written by Yi Feng for the Huaihuang cavalry is actually the drill code of modern cavalry, and the way he trained the Huaihuang cavalry is also the way of the regular cavalry in modern times.

After Yu Rapid Fire surrendered, he once praised the Huaihuang cavalry to Yi Feng as an iron cavalry, which was not entirely a sycophant. And the Iron Cavalry, not only because of the steel plate armor cuirass worn by the Huaihuang Cavalry, the Iron Cavalry refers more to the iron-like discipline of the Huaihuang Cavalry. Dressed in dazzling mirror-like cuirasses, the Huaihuang cavalry was armed with cavalry swords, double-edged battle axes, steel whips and copper maces, crossbows and riding bows. Most of their individual horsemanship and archery skills were no match for the national Turkic warriors on horseback, but they were always able to move in unison with strict discipline. When the Huaihuang cavalry launched their signature collective charge, they kept their horses next to horses, shoulder to shoulder, like a fast-moving iron wall. This iron wall maintained the collective strength at all times, avoiding the chaotic fighting of each other after the breakup, and they even did not have to control the reins with their hands, but could free their hands to fight. Therefore, the individual combat strength of the Huaihuang cavalry is not as good as that of the Turkic cavalry, but the overall combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the Turkic cavalry. But the combat mode of the Huaihuang cavalry is not easy to imitate, and it is necessary to maintain a dense queue when running and charging, which is much more difficult than the overall tactical action of individual cavalry and archery skills, what is needed is a long-term cooperation training, what is needed is a professional army and high-intensity training, and a strong tacit understanding, in addition, what is also needed is a steel plate armor that is light and thin and defensive far beyond the ordinary iron armor, as well as a horse lance and cavalry knife that are very suitable for the Huaihuang cavalry when charging.

Yi Feng's two cavalry armies, 20,000 pure combat cavalry and 10,000 logistics cavalry, have basically spent a lot of money to train these 20,000 cavalry, and the scale of supporting cavalry has reached an upper limit.

Now, with 70,000 old Turkic cavalry in hand, what should Yi Feng do with them?

Of course, he couldn't put them back, that would be tantamount to letting the tiger go back to the mountain.

And these Turkic cavalry could not be immediately transformed into a new type of cavalry like Huaihuang cavalry, Yi Feng did not have so many armor weapons and money to invest, nor was he willing to spend so much effort to train and transform these Turkic cavalry.

It is impossible to train the tribal cavalry composed of Turkic herdsmen into cavalry with strong discipline like the Huaihuang cavalry, but these Turkic cavalry also have many advantages that the Huaihuang cavalry cannot have, that is, they are born horseback knights, with strong personal riding and archery skills, and are flexible and brave, which is very suitable for small forces to fight, especially in the execution of reconnaissance, patrolling, rioting, and pursuit, and has advantages that are difficult for the Huaihuang cavalry to achieve.

The Turkic cavalry was unable to resist the cavalry of the Huaihuang cavalry, and the Huaihuang cavalry was equally difficult to defeat the Turkic cavalry who were good at cavalry and archery on some outlying battlefields.

Both sides have their own advantages, and the key is how to use them.

Seventy thousand cavalry, this number is quite tempting, even if it is a traditional cavalry, but in this era it is still far beyond ordinary infantry, for Yi Feng, he needs this force to strengthen his strength, it is impossible to let go of this force lightly.

"Well, don't we now have four field infantry corps, two field cavalry corps, plus five garrison garrison armies, eleven corps, each with two battalions each, a total of six thousand Turkic light cavalry. Before distribution, reorganize and disperse some, these Turkic cavalry will be considered a member of our Huaihuang Army for the time being. ”

"Give them a salary, too? Do you also give rewards for your exploits? Li Mi asked. Seventy thousand Turkic cavalry, all recruited into the Huaihuang army, this is not a small number. Not only did they increase the grain and grass of 70,000 horses in the future, but they also had to have military salaries and rewards for fighting, which was another big deal.

"Since he fought side by side with our soldiers, of course, he also has military salaries, meritorious service and rewards, and they are all treated equally. But they're new to the army, and they're going to have to suffer a little bit of a loss in the military ranks, and that's normal, right? Yi Feng made a look you know, so many Turkic troops will definitely be eliminated in the end, but now, they must stay in the army, even if they are pulled up as cannon fodder at a critical time, and let them fight with the Turks, it is also excellent. For this, it is very common to pay some military salary and reward or something.

"Do you want to dress them up?" Li Mi asked again.

"There is no need to change clothes, there is no need to change armor and weapons, but there is still a sufficient supply of arrows, and there must be no shortage of food and grass, if you want the horses to run, how can you not let the horses eat grass."

"My subordinates understood." Li Mi nodded. "So what will we do next, I don't know how His Highness will arrange? The subordinates should make plans in advance for His Highness's reference. ”

"Next." Yi Feng said without hesitation, "Of course, the next step is to immediately wave troops north, Nili is now outside Huaihuang City, and there are 20,000 Tiele people outside Wusha Castle, maybe this time we have the opportunity to increase the Turkic cavalry under our command to 100,000 cavalry." ”

"What about the more than 20,000 Turkic troops in Ulzhou and the more than 40,000 Turkic troops in Yunnei?" Li Mi asked.

Yi Feng spread his hands, "That's the problem of our Gao Xiangguo and Marshal He Ruo, we can't take care of it, let's clear the snow in front of our house first." (To be continued......) R1292