Among Zhao Han's emperor's personal guards, there were only about a hundred people with superb riding skills.

Most of the rest of the guards were responsible for protecting the emperor before they came to Xiaoling Horse Farm to learn to ride horses, and they were able to ride horses and run at a level.

Not only are there few who are proficient in horsemanship, but there are also almost no who are proficient in hunting.

They learned that Zhao Han was going to hunt, so they collected more than a dozen hunting dogs in advance and quietly practiced in private. But their ability to command hounds is similar to Zhao Han's ability to ride horses, and as for falcons, they can't play it anymore.

This may be the most amateur emperor hunt in Chinese history!

"Woohoo!"

"Oh, oh~~~~"

The hounds barked incessantly, and the guards rode and roared, trying to surprise the prey from the forest.

Tossed for a while, only to jump out of the rabbit that had been lost.

"Your Majesty, there is prey!" The guards shouted in surprise, more excited than killing a few Tartars on the battlefield.

Because the land is full of tartars, but the prey in the mountains is rare.

Zhao Han couldn't laugh at this, and shouted: "Who is going to hunt this rabbit?" ”

"I'll go!"

Youjulian came out of the horse, bent her bow and buckled the string, and shot an arrow, and was still three feet away from the hare.

Tian Xiuying also rode forward, but she didn't know if she was out of class or out of standard, and the arrows flew past the rabbit.

The hare fled in panic, and at last disappeared into the grass.

Zhao Han approvingly: "Good archery." ”

You Ju Lianzhen blushed and said, "I haven't touched a bow and arrow for almost four years, and I will definitely shoot it next time." ”

Tian Xiuying explained: "The folk girl has not drawn a bow for a few years. ”

The guards could only lead the hounds and go back to the mountains and forests to look for wild animals. After going a little deeper into the mountain, it was finally much easier, and soon a roe deer was driven out.

Zhao Han was about to pick up the flint gun and aim, when Liu Ru, who came with him, shouted: "Your Majesty, that's a pregnant female beast!" ”

"It's not hunting season." Zhao Han had no choice but to put down the shotgun.

Most wild animals mate in the spring. Take roe deer as an example, mating in late winter and early spring, and now the rape has just been harvested, and the wheat is about to be harvested, and these two months belong to the season of calf.

The pregnant female deer was allowed to escape, and soon a wild boar was driven out.

The body size is not very large, only two hundred pounds.

Tian Xiuying rode the horse to chase, let go of the reins with both hands, and on the undulating back of the horse, she actually pulled the standard horse bow to seven points, and then shot it out at high speed.

Uh, shot crooked again......

Tian Xiuying was suddenly embarrassed, and when the guards brought the wild boar back, she stood in the horse bow with a red face.

Shout!

An arrow pierced the boar's body, piercing only through the fur, and the arrow hung on the boar's body and staggered. Under the pain of the wild boar, it was hunted by hundreds of people, and fled down the mountain in a panic.

There were also guards in the direction of the mountain, beating the gong and driving back.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and the boar fell to the ground.

Zhao Han put down the flintlock pistol and slowly reloaded the ammunition.

"Good guns!"

"Your Majesty's Divine Marksmanship!"

The crowd immediately cheered and flattered.

The boar was shot and arrowed, but it was not dead. After only two or three seconds of falling to the ground, he got up again and ran away, and rushed straight to Zhao Han's side.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

Tian Xiuying and You Julian, as well as another female official, shot arrows in unison. Due to the close distance, all three arrows were hit, but the wild boar was still not dead.

Zhu Youdong, the captain of the personal guard, was afraid that the emperor was in danger, so he immediately hit his horse and ran out, leaned out after charging a few steps, and smashed a hammer on the head of the wild boar.

The boar staggered and ran a few more steps, and finally fell.

Another guard said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this beast is not dead, so you can make up for it." ”

Zhao Han couldn't cry or laugh: "If you make up for one more shot, it will be considered that I hunted it?" ”

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed instantly, and the sycophant guard scratched his head in embarrassment.

Tian Xiuying said: "Your Majesty, some prey have thick fur, and you must use special arrow clusters, otherwise you will not die if you shoot ten arrows." ”

"I see." Zhao Han suddenly realized.

For example, the emperor in the early Qing Dynasty had special hunting heavy arrows. When shooting tigers and other beasts, the arrows are not sharp, but have oval-shaped iron cones. It does not deal piercing damage, but instead deals hammer damage.

Zhao Han is just playing blindly today, he is very amateur in everything, and he has not even prepared hunting arrows.

Tian Xiuying was curious: "Your Majesty has a firecracker in his hand, why is there no firerope?" ”

Zhao Han explained: "The flint is fast, and the flint is fired. Then he asked, "Do you still use firearms?" ”

Tian Xiuying said: "It was fired with an arquebus. ”

This concubine of the old dynasty was born in a hereditary military attache family in Shaanxi. In the year she was born, her father Tian Hongyu had been a thousand presidents in Yangzhou, and he was an officer who liked to make friends with heroes, nicknamed "Little Mengwei".

Officials who are generally called "Xiao Mengwei" can directly substitute for Song Jiang.

Anyway, the three religions and nine streams, the rivers and lakes are reckless, Tian Hong can make friends with anyone.

Ye Shi said that it was not impossible for him to take Chen Yuanyuan to Beijing and try to dedicate it to Emperor Chongzhen, and finally fell into the hands of Wu Sangui.

Because Tian Guifei's stepmother and music teacher is a geisha in Yangzhou.

"Give her a flintlock." Zhao Han said.

The flintlock firearms began to be mass-produced last year, and the first batch was delivered this spring, giving priority to the refitting of the dragoons in Liaodong, and now there are 5,000 dragoons equipped.

In addition, 3,000 pairs of cuirasses were created, which were redressed for some of the cavalry.

Although Li Dingguo won more with less last year, he hedged with the Wanchu Qing cavalry, and also killed the opponent's cavalry commander on the spot. However, the Datong cavalry also suffered heavy losses, because the newly formed Xiao cavalry was far inferior to the Manchu Xiao cavalry.

Lu Xiangsheng and Zhao Han communicated and discussed changing the cavalry tactics, and Zhao Han suggested that 3,000 of them should be charged by the wall.

The existing cavalry armor was too heavy, so replace the cuirass, which was only one or twenty catties, and then exchange lives with the Manchu cavalry with a wall charge.

The wall charge is not so mysterious, to put it more bluntly, it is the "queue shooting" in the cavalry world.

With a group of well-disciplined, highly organized, and lacking cavalry combat skills, they lined up densely, rushed forward regardless of life and death, and used organization to make up for personal combat skills. This is a very clumsy, but completely unreasonable, cavalry tactic that is very suitable for a country with a large number of people.

The traditional cavalry formations are very sparse, making enough space to avoid obstacles on the battlefield, avoid the corpses and horses of both sides, and rescue your own generals when they fall from their horses.

The wall charge is carried out, there is no room for operation at all, and most of them have to fall when they encounter obstacles, and they can only step on their horses when they see their generals landing. Its actual combat premise is that the army is well-disciplined and highly organized, and all soldiers are not afraid of death.

In traditional cavalry units, if they encounter a wall charge, their first reaction is to turn around and run away - cavalry does not play such a life.

Even if you dare to hedge, loosen the cavalry formation, and encounter a dense cavalry formation, it is equivalent to being beaten by several at a time, and there is basically no possibility of winning.

However, the shortcomings of the wall charge are also obvious, once you rush up, you can't change formation, you can't go around, you can't even command, and you instantly lose all tactical abilities except for charging.

If both sides use a wall charge, there is only one result: people turn on their backs, and the battlefield is chaotic. It's like lining up to shoot at close range, with heavy casualties on both sides!

A cavalry general like Li Dingguo, as well as a cavalry soldier with superb combat skills, it is absolutely impossible to take it to the wall charge. Unable to display their talents, they could only shrink into the cavalry wall and become an ordinary unit desperately rushing to kill.

The scarce Indian Mawari Horse, it is also impossible to take the wall charge, because ...... Waste!

said that Tian Xiuying got the flintlock pistol and after understanding how to operate it, she began to practice with her prey.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, the prey ran, and the bullets flew nowhere.

"Hahahaha!"

Zhao Han was amused and laughed, and he raised his gun to aim at the mountain moose. As the shots rang out, the bullets splattered fine gravel, and although they also missed, they were only half a foot away from their prey.

"Drive!"

Zhao Han took the flintlock gun handed by the guard, and this one had already been loaded. Immediately chased after the horse, the "chasing electricity" under the crotch was incomparable, and Zhao Han fired another shot while running at high speed.

Shooting on horseback with a flintlock pistol should also be regarded as a riding and archery skill, right?

Two shots were fired in a row, and the guards still wanted to drive the mountain moose back, Zhao Han said with a smile: "Let it escape, the two shots missed, and the life should not be extinguished." ”

Liu Ru also asked for a flintlock gun, and after consulting the guards, he went to the trees to practice. Seeing her shrinking appearance, the guards around her got out of the way, for fear that one would accidentally become a prey.

"Bang!"

A bullet flew into the sky, and Liu Ru's whole body was leaning back, rubbing her numb arm and saying excitedly: "It's ringing, it's ringing!" ”

Zhao Han smiled: "Hold it tightly, don't be hurt by the firecracker." ”

Liu Ru nodded again and again: "Don't worry, husband, the concubine will be good at practicing." I can't practice bows and arrows, and I don't have enough strength to open the bow, but this firearm is much simpler. ”

She has a heart to gallop on the battlefield, and she can only think about it normally, but now she is very satisfied to be able to ride a horse and shoot.

After hunting until mid-afternoon, they only caught a wild boar and a roe deer, and the nearby mountains and forests were made by them.

Hundreds of guards continued to hunt for prey, while Zhao Han, the concubines, and the female officials dismounted to rest, and some guards stood guard around the perimeter.

Zhao Han asked the female officials to disperse, and even Liu Ru was invited aside, leaving only Tian Xiuying and saying: "There are Tartars in Nanjing, and they are buying officials everywhere." If you and Chongzhen's children come into contact with strangers, just keep quiet. When they give me money, you take it all and report it to me quietly. ”

Tian Xiuying was taken aback, and then nodded: "The people's daughter obeys the order!" ”

Zhao Han said again: "Your father went to Liaodong with the Tartars. In the future, I will try to save your father by destroying the Tartars, and you must not hide your deeds because of this. ”

"Yes!" Tian Xiuying was even more surprised.

Tian Xiuying was named a noble concubine by Chongzhen, the first of all concubines, second only to the queen. Tian Hongyu naturally followed the light, and the official was the governor of the left, the highest position of real power of the Ming military general.

Of course, this so-called real power is only relative to honorary titles, and in fact, it cannot interfere in military affairs.

When Li Zicheng was in Beijing, he tortured Tian Hongyu and beat him half to death.

Fortunately, Tian Hongyu was a "little Mengyu", who traveled widely, and hid in the church to be sheltered by missionaries. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, he searched everywhere for the Ming royal family and the clan, and Tian Hongyu was forcibly recruited by the Manchu Qing Dynasty as a foreign relative.

Especially when I heard that Tian Guifei did not die, it was very likely that she went to the south, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not let Tian Hongyu leave, and even took it away when she returned to Liaodong.

Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Sui, is also not dead, and is all in Liaodong at the moment.

Since the Manchu Qing sent a detailed work, they will definitely contact Tian Xiuying and Hou Sui, as well as Chongzhen's children.