After Fang Xuanling left with a satisfactory farewell, Li Jing was invited into the White Tiger Hall.

Li Jing also went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and as soon as he entered the hall, he went straight to the point and put forward his request very straightforwardly. "The last general wants to buy two thousand war horses from Huaihuang Ranch to equip the soldiers and horses of Daning Military Town." Li Jing is the general of Daning Town, Daning Town is a middle town, and he is a general of 800 troops in Wupin Town. However, when Li Jing arrived, there were only three or five small soldiers in Daning Town, but fortunately, he borrowed 200 soldiers from his uncle Han Hong and eldest brother Li Duan from Daizhou, so he did not become a bare-bones general. Some time ago, when Yi Feng led his army to fight with the Tiele people in the north, Li Jing recruited troops in various parts of Yanzhou. Although there are no soldiers and horses left in Daning Town, but Daning Military Town is still there, here was originally controlled by Yi Feng, and later after the establishment of Fu and Wu Erzhou, Yi Feng took the initiative to withdraw all the towns, patrols and other people in the Great Wall Pass from the Guan. As soon as Li Jing came, he immediately took over the inspection of these towns, forts, and cities, especially Daning Town and Erlong City, which had already developed well, and many merchants settled in, and they were on the road to Huaihuang, so they were extremely lively. Li Jing was the town general, and these two places also became the garrisons of his jurisdiction, and the merchants in the city naturally had to give him a monthly tribute of silver as usual, and Li Jing did not refuse to come. However, Li Jing is not a greedy person, but he also needs money.

First, the treatment of the Huaihuang army was extremely high, so that Li Jing had to raise a lot of treatment when recruiting troops, which greatly exceeded the military salary given by the imperial court, and he could only find his own way to do the excess. In addition, Li Jing did not come to Yanzhou to play, but to recognize that next year's big war would come in advance to grab a position, so that he would go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions. Therefore. After recruiting 800 town soldiers, Li Jing was not satisfied, and came to Huai Famine this time. Li Jing came to buy war horses and ordnance. The last time he escorted Gao Qianxue and Murong Rose back to Huaihuang, Li Jing saw with his own eyes the fierceness of the Wuzhou army left behind in Huaihuang City, as well as those enviable war horses and excellent ordnance armor. With 800 town soldiers, plus his own 200 soldiers, Li Jing now has 1,000 men and horses, which can be regarded as a large number of soldiers and horses. But this is only a new army. Without equipment and training, if you really want to go to the battlefield, it will definitely not play a role. Fortunately, there will be some time before the Sui Dynasty and the Turks will fight. He still had time to train his soldiers. Li Jing is very sure and confident in training soldiers and horses. Although he had been a civilian before, he was born in a family of military generals, and when he was a teenager, he could already discuss the art of war with his uncle Han Baohu. He was also praised as the uncle of Shangzhuguo. Naturally, it shows that he is still somewhat sure of military affairs.

However, although he has the method of training, fighting is not only based on good training, sharp swords and spears, strong armor, and swift war horses are also extremely important. Li Jing deliberately wanted to train an elite soldier so that he could be a blockbuster on the battlefield next year, so he came directly to Huaihuang this time. Hit Yifeng to buy horses and buy ordnance.

"Two thousand horses?" Yi Feng looked at this future god of war in history with some surprise. At this time, Li Jing was just twenty-eight years old, and he was at his most handsome and strong. Although he was born in a family of military generals, he has never really led troops into battle, but he once worked as a palace guard in the palace. Although Li Jing basically followed the career of a civil official, he worked as a Chang'an Gongcao at the age of sixteen, and then served as a palace guard, a foreign county commander, and a member of the military department before becoming the general of Daning Zhongzhen, and his career was smooth sailing. But Yi Feng knew that Li Jing's greater talent was still in the military, this was not only a famous general, but also a famous commander with excellent command skills, and he was also a master of the art of war. But now, no one knows that Li Jing has such a ability.

They were all surprised that Daning Town's general Li Jing asked for two thousand war horses. Daning has only 800 soldiers, but Li Jing wants 2,000 war horses, which is the intention of building a full cavalry.

Wei Zheng and Li Jing are also separated, and Li Jing can also be regarded as a registered disciple of Hedong Great Confucian Zhongzi, and he and Yi Feng can also be regarded as half a classmate. Wei Zheng kindly reminded Li Jing, "Senior Brother Yao, the war horses in Huaihuang are not cheap now, and if you want to train a cavalry, you don't just have horses." There are good horses and good soldiers, and they must have sufficient training, in addition, the consumption of cavalry is also extremely powerful, and the cost of raising a thousand cavalry can provide five thousand elite foot soldiers. In addition, with war horses and cavalry, you must have corresponding cavalry equipment, which is much more valuable than infantry equipment. Of course, he didn't say a word, some people have horses and equipment, but they also have to be able to train and command. Even if it is Huaihuang, now Yi Feng has trained 10,000 cavalry, but until now, these battalions of cavalry have not been able to complete all the redressing, and they have not even completed the run-in, and the training has just begun. If you want to wait until these battalions of cavalry have real combat effectiveness, I don't know when you have to wait. The Huaihuang army fought several major battles, but none of them were won by cavalry. These cavalry are more often used for battlefield support, cover, and pursuit.

Wei Zheng saw that Li Jing was his classmate, and kindly reminded him, hoping that this Guanlong nobleman would not be greedy and talented in the future, and would turn his soldiers into cavalry all of a sudden. After all, Daning Town was very important in the past and belonged to an important country in Northern Xinjiang, but now, outside Daning Town is Huaihuang, although Daning Town has been upgraded from Daning Pass to a town, but more here has become a tax collection gate. It's still okay for the soldiers of Daning Town to buy some armor and weapons for training. If you have money, it is still good to buy more than 100 horses and equip that family team. But if you want to train 800 town soldiers and 200 personal soldiers to be fully equipped into cavalry, this is a bit too much.

In Wei Zheng's view, this classmate of his has a good background and a smooth career, but in fact, he is more promising as a civil official. After working in the imperial court military department for a few more years, you can find a way to be transferred to the local government to be the governor or governor, so that when you return to the imperial court in the future, you may be able to be a young secretary, and in a few years, you may be able to be a squire or something.

"Thank you Brother Wei for reminding me, these are also clear, a cavalry can raise five foot soldiers, but as long as it is used well, the role of a cavalry is much more than five foot soldiers. In particular, Daning Town guards the pass of the Great Wall, close to the outside of the fortress, once there is a police, the foot soldiers can only passively defend, but the cavalry can be mobile combat, can attack and defend, especially against those Turkic nomadic cavalry outside the fortress, only cavalry is the king. Wei Zheng's kindness could not change Li Jing's idea of turning all his 1,000 soldiers and horses into cavalry.

Li Jing, who had no experience in commanding troops, said these words in the eyes of many Huaihuang generals in the hall. This is a complete scholar's words, just on paper. Especially in the current situation of the Huaihuang Army, the Huaihuang Army has never really relied on cavalry. But he still won several battles and never lost a record, even if he faced a nomadic cavalry every time, he still had a complete victory. Even because of this, some generals still felt that using the chariot array and longbowmen of the Huaihuang Army against the cavalry was the most powerful means of the Huaihuang Army.

However, Yi Feng listened to Li Jing's words and nodded again and again. The Huaihuang army did win several battles with the Tiele cavalry. But each time it was a small-scale battle, and it was basically an ambush battle, and the terrain was not a traditional plain grassland cavalry battle. Therefore, cavalry must not be considered useless because of this. On the contrary, in his bones, Yi Feng admires the theory of cavalry decisive victory. Now the situation of Huai Famine, only when there are no cavalry available. It's just a tactical response as a last resort. In Yi Feng's real thoughts. The Huaihuang army should still have a cavalry corps, so as to ensure that it has the ability to annihilate the nomadic cavalry in the vast grassland outside the Saiwai.

The chariot and longbow formations are also good, but they are more of a defensive posture. You can only be beaten passively, and you will never be able to achieve real victory. Especially in the steppe, the car formation has too many shortcomings, and the lack of maneuverability is a fatal flaw. Even if you can defeat the nomadic cavalry, in case the opponent wants to escape. Without a sufficient number of elite cavalry, it can only be defeated and not annihilated.

And historically. There were two people who had entered into a ruinous blow to the steppe nomadic cavalry, and these two people were Huo Quzhi and Li Jing. Their successes were almost the same as those of the chariots, cavalry against cavalry. Huo Quai's light cavalry went deep behind the enemy and directly attacked the Xiongnu's lair, and Li Jing also used the tactics of light cavalry boldly and deeply, directly attacking the Turkic camp, capturing the thief and capturing the king, and changing the situation of the entire war in one fell swoop.

He remembered that in history, in the Tang Offensive Turkic War commanded by Li Jing, Li Jing had his student Su Dingfang select thousands of elite cavalry soldiers in the army in advance, and then conducted special training in Youzhou for several years. In the final battle, Li Jing personally led this special cavalry force of several thousand people, and the gods descended into the Turkic camp.

Li Jing now wants to train cavalry, and Yi Feng seems to have no problem. He was born a famous general, even if he is not revealing his glory now.

"I have a batch of captured Tiele war horses in my hand, I can pull out a batch for you, and you have no problem asking for 2,000 war horses. However, war horses are indeed very valuable. Yi Feng smiled at Li Jing slightly. Even if he admires Li Jing very much, Li Jing is not his subordinate now, just a colleague. If Li Jing wants to train cavalry and wants horses, he has to buy them with money. You can give some discounts, but you can't give them away for free.

Behind the screen, Gao Mingyue immediately spoke up, "The iron-hoof war horses of the Tiele tribe are better than the Hexi horses and the Hetao horses, even the plugged horses of the Monan Turks are not as good. Such a fine war horse, if it is sold separately, it is 120 guan per horse, if you buy 2,000 horses at a time, we can give you a discount of 10 guan per horse, only 110 guan per horse, the total price of 2,000 horses is 220,000 guan meat is good, as long as you pay the money, you can go to the ranch to pick horses at any time. You can rest assured, all of them are excellent war horses that have been trained to be suitable for riding, and if you buy them, as long as the cavalry and the war horse have a little tacit understanding, you can use them without special training. ”

Yi Feng did have a large number of war horses in his hands now, and after the victory, he brought back a total of as many as 50,000 war horses. Such a large number of war horses, although it is a huge wealth, but the daily consumption is also huge. Huaihuang has actually been secretly contacting buyers from all over the world to sell, and Li Jing is actually very happy to buy Ma Huaihuang. However, the price of war horses is not cheap. The Great Sui Dynasty has a lot of cavalry, and the imperial court has a large number of horse ranches in Longyou Hetao and other places, according to Yi Feng, the number of war horses owned by the Great Sui Dynasty is not a lot, the standing army is less than 800,000, but the number of war horses is also 780,000. Of course, there is also a saying about the war horses here, more than 600,000 war horses include the war horses equipped in the army, as well as the war horses that are still in the pasture, and many of them are horses that have not been trained and qualified. But even with sufficient pasture and horses, war horses were an extremely important strategic material for the imperial court.

Qu Tutong, who has just been appointed governor of Yanzhou this year, was able to take up the post of governor because of his meritorious service in inspecting the herds of the Longyou Imperial Court last year. Last year, Qu Tutong inspected the herd of the imperial court, and as a result, more than 20,000 hidden horses were found in various horse farms. For the sake of 20,000 horses, the emperor had to behead 1,500 officials, which shows the preciousness of war horses. Qu Tutong found out more than 20,000 hidden horses, and this year the two prefectures of Fuwu were newly established, and Qu Tutong immediately got a real position as the governor of Fuzhou.

Before Yi Feng sent two thousand war horses to Yang Guang, Yang Guang immediately sent Yi Feng a wife and niece to him as a concubine, and his attitude towards him immediately changed a lot.

It is said that even the Turks, who have a territory of thousands of miles, have less than a million war horses, so you can imagine how precious war horses are.

Although Yi Feng made a windfall and got so many war horses in his hands, the price of war horses was still high. Huaihuang is now united with Sanfan, a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, camels, etc. are transported to Huaihuang for sale, the price of livestock continues to fall, the most expensive ordinary horses are only forty guan, and the cheap ones can even be bought in twenty or thirty guan. But the price of war horses has never been lowered. What's more, the war horses in Yi Feng's hands are not those that have not been trained to ride, but the riding horses that the cavalry have already equipped. The breed is still far better than the three major horse breeds of the Great Sui today, the Hexi horse, the Hetao horse and the plugged horse.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Huaihuang now has too many war horses in his hands and consumes a lot of money, these iron-hoofed horses could have been sold for a higher price.

Two thousand iron-hoofed war horses, with a total price of 220,000 yuan. For those who know the trade, it is really not expensive, and Li Jing is also very aware of this. However, 220,000 yuan, the court did not want to pay this money for him. If he wanted to pay for it himself, although Li Jing was born in Guanlong nobles, he couldn't come up with so much money for a while.

"Well, I don't have that much money on my hands for the time being." Li Jing said.

Everyone in the hall was stunned for a while, there is no money for you to buy any war horses! (To be continued......)