Guo Xiaoke made a few perfunctory calls to Huang Dexing, pretending to be very interested in the stewed horse meat in the lunch box, and chewed hard, and finally got rid of the topic. After eating and drinking, Guo Xiaoke got up and walked around the woods, and the temporary camp was set up in the grove on the edge of the battlefield. The cavalrymen tied their horses to tree trunks, and then took out simple tents and erected them among the trees, and spread waterproof felt cloth on the ground, and then spread a wolf skin cushion and a woolen blanket to make a comfortable nest. It is undoubtedly much more comfortable than digging a snow hole in the snow. I heard that when Yi Feng went out to fight against the Tiele people, they relied on digging snow caves to avoid the cold in the winter, but now their conditions have undoubtedly increased too much.

There was a fire around the tent, and a circle of ten small tents was built around the fire, which happened to be a gang. Each fire and the surrounding tent became a unit, separated from the other fires and tents, and five such fires and tent circles formed a team, then two teams formed a du, and finally all five formed a regiment. Even if it was camping in the wilderness, the officers of the 18th Cavalry Regiment strictly followed the camp layout in the cavalry manual for field reconnaissance. In fact, this is relatively simple, because they are now field reconnaissance, so they are not as good as the camp method when the army is marching or fighting. Such a camp is more demanding, especially the infantry camp, which requires digging trenches and building shallow wooden fences and arrow towers, compared to that, the current temporary reconnaissance camp is undoubtedly much simpler.

The horses were tied to their small tents, and a large cloth bag was hung from their necks, in which the forage was already mixed. Because it was on the march. Therefore, the horse's forage consists mainly of black beans and then good hay. In today's battle, they also captured some sand eggs from the Tiele captives, which were originally prepared by the Tiele cavalry for their own horses. Now all the horses of the Eighteenth Regiment were cheapened, and each horse was given two sand eggs for a meal. War horses are very satisfied with today's feed. Standing leisurely under the tree, munching on a feed with sand eggs, black bean cakes and salt. Some cavalrymen are holding brushes to wash their war horses, and all the cavalry have gone through a standard procedure in the initial training, that is, the first month of training is eaten and lived with their war horses, so as to cultivate the tacit understanding between knights and war horses. For the cavalrymen, the war horse is their second life, his brother. Therefore, every cavalryman has a lot of affection for his war horse, and when he has free time, he will take care of his war horse carefully. Just like those seized sand eggs, I am reluctant to eat any of them. but it is to be left for the horses to eat. Some of the quick-moving horsemen, who had already washed and fed their horses, lifted the curtain of the tent toward the fire, and half-lay or half-leaned on the blankets, while roasting the fire, chatting with their brothers and boasting.

Although it was dark, it was still early, not yet noon, but because of the snow, it was as dark as dusk. The cavalrymen lay in their tents to recuperate. Get ready for a big night out. But everyone was very excited, and no one slept after eating.

Zhao Hei, the commander of the former left team of the 18th Cavalry Regiment, came back from Dutou Huang Dexing, and had just finished today's post-war summary meeting as usual, and held tonight's pre-war planning and mobilization meeting. Go back to your own gang. He first looked at his two horses, which were happily eating the feed, and he carefully checked the hooves and horseshoes of each horse to see if there was any problem. He returned to his tent and sat down on the side of the fire. He coughed, interrupting the braggadocio of his cavalry.

"As usual, we will hold a post-war summary meeting. Let me start with a few words, today's table of our gang is good, although it is only an ambush mission, and it is not the responsibility of luring the enemy, but the table is very good. And it is gratifying that none of our guys were injured, and the horses were not injured, which is very good. I counted the results of our men's battles, and killed three of the enemy, took eight prisoners, and captured five good horses, and a number of horses. This is a gratifying result, but there are also some problems exposed in the battle, such as Liu Laosan, you can't keep up with the rhythm of the whole group, and you don't have enough tacit understanding. In the end, when we lined up in an iron wall array to attack, you donkey day obviously rushed fast and broke away from the array. How many times have I told you, Yi Shuaichuangzào's cavalry iron wall array impact, the key is not how fast and fierce you rush, the most important thing is to keep the array neat, the speed does not need to be fast, this array relies on the momentum of the iron wall-like advancement, the cavalry individual soldiers form a whole, and use the overall momentum and power to impact and crush the opponent. In terms of fighting alone, there is a certain gap between our Huaihuang cavalry and the Turkic cavalry after all, so we must make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses. I know that you Liu Laosan is good at riding, and the saber is not bad, but this is not your capricious capital. You can fight two Turks alone, but what about three and five Turkic cavalry? Have you ever beaten it again? However, Yi Shuai's iron-walled cavalry rushed into battle, but it has been proved by Li Jiaotou that as long as we cooperate tacitly enough, we can not only defeat the Turks head-on one-on-one, but as long as we are skilled enough, we can even one-on-two, one-on-three. This time, I gave Liu Laosan a verbal warning, if there is such an undisciplined expression next time, it will be reported to the regiment headquarters for disposal, understand? Zhao Hei glared at Liu Laosan. This Liu Laosan is the first in his own gang when it comes to personal bravery and ability, and he is even a few points stronger than himself. But it's a little bad.,I always like to be brave.。 If he were in another army, such a guy might be appreciated by his superiors. But in the Huaihuang cavalry, the most important thing is not individual bravery, but team spirit.

Liu Laosan leaned in his tent and nodded a little indifferently, but whether he was relieved or not, it was obvious, Zhao Hei gritted his teeth, and finally stopped the topic. This thorn is really hard to manage.

He then took out a small notebook from his bosom, on which he used pencil to write and draw, he turned to the middle page, and then checked the results of today's battle with everyone. Huaihuang has a unique system for military merits, for example, the army has a special record room responsible for recording military merits to join the army, but this record room is only responsible for joining the army. The records of the military exploits of the soldiers are a very complex system. First of all, the soldiers reported their military exploits to their superiors after the war, and at the same time, the commander of each gang should record the combat exploits of the soldiers of his own gang. At the level of the metropolitan team, there are personnel who are specifically responsible for recording the course of the battle and the results of the battle, in addition to personnel at the higher level who are responsible for verification. For example, the soldiers' own military exploits must be the same as the results recorded by the officers, and even after the final military merit book of the office to join the army comes out, it must be posted and publicized for the soldiers to check by themselves, and only after it is correct can the record be completed, and then handed over to the above for the final evaluation of merit, and then the reward. In short, this is an important matter for multi-departmental cooperation, and there is no difference between cuò. If there is something wrong, it will be reviewed and re-investigated.

Zhao Heibei asked his subordinates to report the results of the battle by themselves, and then carefully checked with his own booklet, two of which did not match, he carefully studied and checked with the two, and then asked the other soldiers, and finally reached an agreement. There is no room for the slightest mistake in this matter, and it is even more impossible for the officers to falsely receive, falsely remember, or mistakenly remember their military exploits, after all, although the gang finally reached an agreement, it still has to be approved by the capital, and the military merits reported by the two teams in the capital are consistent with those recorded in the capital. Then all the people reported to the regiment, and if there was one place that didn't match, it couldn't get through.

Finally checked this troublesome matter, and as usual, Zhao Heibei asked everyone to start making a post-war summary. At this summary meeting, everyone, regardless of class, can freely discuss the gains and losses of the battle. Zhao Heibei pointed out Liu Laosan's mistakes just now, and Liu Laosan also pointed out that in the matter of arranging a special person to guard the horses during the battle, he felt that it was too few to keep one person in a group, after all, it was very important to prepare horses, and at least two or three people should be left. Those who remain are not only used to guard the horses, but also to serve as a reserve in case of critical need. Zhao Heibei put this record in his notebook and nodded.

Another cavalryman spoke, pointing out that immediately after the battle, a part of the men should be assigned to be on guard, half of the remaining men to clean up the battlefield, and half of them to examine and heal the men and horses of the men and horses on their side.

There are also quite a few Jianyì, for example, some people have pointed out that in today's battle, their initial assault was a little slow, so that they could not break through the opponent's defensive formation and divide the opponent in the first place. In particular, it was pointed out that although they succeeded in breaking the opponent's formation in the first round of attacks, they were not able to quickly reassemble the team after breaking through and inserting into the opponent's formation, as required in the manual. According to the requirements of the cavalry manual, the cavalry should mentally avoid scattered battles alone, and should strive to always maintain a complete formation, after the charge and assault, they should quickly assemble, do not fall in love with the battle, and rely on the cavalry formation to repeatedly impact the opponent as a whole, and constantly smash, divide, impact, encircle, and disperse the opponent. The cavalry of Huai Huang will be like a hammer, repeatedly striking the enemy until they are smashed into pieces, and then they can no longer form an effective resistance, until they collapse and surrender or die.

"That's a good point, it looks like you're not lazy in training. However, in order to do this, it is not enough to understand, but also to have enough training, relying on the usual hard training, and improving the tacit understanding little by little. We all know that it is not difficult to be brave and fearless and indomitable, but what is really difficult is to advance and retreat in an orderly manner, to enforce orders and prohibitions, and to train highly mobile cavalry to advance and retreat in a consistent and orderly manner like infantry. Chen Zhu'er has a deep understanding of the cavalry drill code, well, I will report to the capital, maybe you will be favored by the above and selected to be trained in the martial arts hall. (To be continued......)