Decades later, Cao Yong, the commander of the Hunting Army, was asked at the wine table how he felt when he won the reward for the first time, Cao Yong sighed drunkenly, he grew so big, the first time he felt that he wanted to vomit when he saw a sheep, the smell of the ram was so stinky, and the drunkard father was a bastard. This kind of answer is simply inexplicable to everyone.

Wu Yingying, the supreme commander of the Hexi Army, did not know Cao Yong's pain at this time, he looked at Cao Yong who seemed to be standing on the sidelines very calmly waiting to receive the award, and said to Chase Si, the commander of the Jiaorong Army: "Look at that Han child, how good it is to ride sheep, as long as there is a chance, his riding skills will not be worse than any grassland man in the future." ”

The performance of the children's sheep riding made the atmosphere on the school almost boil, and the original serious ceremony of the Jiaorong Military Academy's parade into the army also became particularly lively.

The first to enter was the cavalry battalion, and five hundred cavalry entered in ten neat columns. Since the cavalry battalions of the infantry regiments did not need to carry a lot of baggage, the knights were all sturdy Persian horses under their crotches, and their armor was painted black. The knight was wrapped in a horse armor from the waist down, and the man and the horse were one and the same. On the left side of the saddle hung a knight's shield and bow bag, on the right side hung an arrow bag and a cavalry sword, and on the back of the saddle were tied a kettle and a bag of dry food. The upper body of the knight was thick with two gears, the whole breastplate and back armor were fastened together, like muscles made of steel, the fish scale armor extended from the shoulders to the wrists, and everyone wore iron gloves lined with silk and leather. Covered with a white riding cape. The knights all held the reins in one hand, and raised their four-meter mounted spears in the other hand to salute the generals on the parade platform, looking from afar like a moving forest.

In order to indicate that it was a cavalry battalion belonging to the Jiao Rong army, the front of the cuirass of the cavalry was decorated with bright red tassels, and the red tassels were very dazzling against the white cloak and black knight's armor.

"I knew that the red Yingluo was so eye-catching, so I hung it on my standard military uniform. Wu Yingying said sideways to Chase.

"Guanzhong chases Qin Han, Qin is still black, and Han is still red. Most of the Han people in Hexi are of Guanlong blood, so they all wear black armor and red tassels. Chase explained that as the commander of the Jiaorong Army, Chase was also proud of his strict army.

The cavalry battalion was followed by three battalions of pikemen, the heaviest of the infantry, and the soldiers lined up in three phalanxes, their head-to-toe iron armor making their ranks resemble a torrent of metal. The outer armor on the front of the soldier is a layer of chain mail, under the chain mail is a rattan armor, below the rattan armor is a layer of silk underwear, three layers of armor are enough to resist damage from arrows and most combat, and the armor on the arms and legs are specially designed to be flexible and add additional protection and support for the joints.

The protection behind the soldiers was much worse, except for an iron armor to protect the heart and lungs, only thick leather armor decorated with steel plates, which was also a no way, if the protection of the back was the same as the front, the weight of the armor alone was enough to make the pikemen unable to take a step. The operational principle that "every commander should avoid the back of his privates and face the enemy's attack" was also repeatedly instilled in officers at all levels.

Even so, pikemen were still known as the most tired of the legions, providing cover for all other troops, and could not continue to fight for more than three hours after wearing armor, and were the support of the whole army. They have a protective shield on their left arm, and an arrow bag and a variety of melee weapons hanging from their waists on their right side, horizontal knives are the most common, and there are many people who use battle axes, maces, short swords, three-edged thorns, etc., and the soldiers have put down their iron masks before entering the parade platform, and when they pass the parade platform, they will be erected five meters long spear obliquely to a 45-degree angle, and the neat and uniform action caused a burst of amazement among the staff officers on the parade platform.

Behind the spear battalion are two platoon battalion phalanxes, the trap armor worn by the spearmen is lighter than the full body armor of the pikemen, but the protection is more balanced, the chest, back, waist and abdomen and other important parts are protected by large pieces of iron armor, the arms are wrapped in fine steel scale armor, the thighs are covered with chain mail made of iron rings, lined with a layer of hard thick leather armor, and the front of the calves is protected by thick leather belts and plate-like shin armor, the whole is like a fierce beast wrapped in steel. On the right side of the waist of the heavy Mo Dao hung all kinds of short soldiers, and on the left side hung a round shield with a diameter of three feet. They are accustomed to carrying a round shield behind their backs to increase the protection behind their backs, and in hand-to-hand combat, they hold a shield in their left hand and use tomahawks, maces, short swords, short spears and other hand-to-hand weapons in their right hands. Although the five-foot blades were carefully wrapped in leather sheaths, among all the phalanxes that were read, the swordsmen were still the most murderous, and with their appearance, the temperature on the parade ground seemed to be a lot colder.

"The biggest surprise this time is that I got these two thousand five hundred Mo knife hands. Wu Yingying smiled and said to Chase beside him. In the late Tang Dynasty, the five dynasties of civil strife and killing, the main combat objects of the Central Plains army were infantry, so the Tang Mo knife, which was more conducive to restraining light cavalry, was abandoned by the army of the Central Plains sections and towns because of its high cost. Although the proportion of cavalry of the Guiyi army is much higher than that of Jiezhen in the Central Plains, it is still unrealistic to rely entirely on cavalry, so the Guiyi army has equipped and trained a large number of Mo swordsmen to resist the light cavalry attacks of the surrounding nomads. After Wu Yingying subdued the Hexi Han army, he eliminated the weak and retained the strong, and obtained 2,500 well-trained Mo knife hands, so that there were two Mo knife battalions in each infantry army, so that the infantry army that was originally long in defending had two more sharp sharp knives.

After obtaining the land west of the river, Wu Yingying originally wanted to launch an attack on Liangzhou Tubo in a hurry. However, when he entered Dunhuang and sorted out the situation in Hexi, he found that the top priority was to integrate the existing fragmented strength of Hexi. In the land west of the river, there were two major forces, the Guiyi army and the Ganzhou Uighurs, and the Guiyi army had already been divided, and the Uighur tribes were only defeated by him, and the Great Khan could be re-elected at any time to launch an offensive together.

Therefore, Wu Yingying could only organize the towns of the Guiyi army and the western expeditionary army of Lanzhou, as well as the recruited Uighur warriors, into six armies in Dunhuang, and distribute all the Han and Uighur tribes within his sphere of influence to the soldiers. Then, while reorganizing the army, it launched a series of attacks on the Uighur tribes in the Hexi Corridor as a unit. Thanks to the relatively closed terrain of the Hexi Corridor, it took several months to finally clean up the Qianli Hexi, and the armies also gradually took shape in the whole training and training while fighting. In the past few months, the newly established sergeants of the Hexi Army have gradually felt the great advantages brought to them by the new military system, and the soldiers who had originally joined Wu Yingying's command for various reasons have become both reverent and loyal to him, and have gradually learned to use the various rules formulated by Wu Yingying to strive for the greatest benefit for themselves.

If the appearance of the Baidao Battalion was a slaughter in the parade ground, the entry of the bow and crossbow battalion enlivened the whole atmosphere. The requirement that crossbowmen must be tall and arm length makes the longbow battalion the highest average height of all the legions. Under normal circumstances, crossbowmen are under the protection of other arms to release arrows, which is also the longbowmen's more relaxed mentality in the face of war, therefore, the crossbow battalion is the most active atmosphere among the legions, and it is also the battalion with the most romantic affairs with the women in the station.

In order to facilitate the bending of the bow and arrows, the archers only had shoulder armor and cuirass buckled together, and the rest of the outer armor was light leather, and they also wore a chain mail vest lined with silk cotton, so that if it were not for the half-human height of the talisman shield behind their backs, the steps of these longbowmen would have been much lighter.

The archers wore longbows and shields around their waists on the left side, quivers and talismans on their right, and many of them chose heavy weapons such as battle axes and maces, perhaps because the armor was not heavy enough. In many battles that followed, the enemy's heavy infantry broke through into the position of the Xia army's longbowmen, and when they were full of joy and ready to start a one-sided slaughter, they did not expect to usher in an unusually bloody hand-to-hand combat, and the relatively thinly armored archers had a deep understanding of the technique of exchanging injuries for lives in combat.

The last to enter was the baggage camp, which had 300 carriages, but because the convoy was too large, only 100 crossbow carts carrying Zhuge crossbows and 400 sergeants were allowed to enter the parade. In order to facilitate mobility, the non-commissioned officers of the baggage battalion wore extremely simple personal armor, and most of them wore leather vests with steel sheets except for helmets.