Chapter 119: Cavalry is hard to train, but it's fast

At the junction of Beiping City and Wanping County, between Shijingshan and Yuquan Mountain, a large number of military camps have risen from the ground and become one.

Zhu Gaozhao had more and more people, and the original military camp could no longer stay, and after coming back this time, a lot of simple military camps were built in the middle of Shijingshan and Yuquan Mountain.

His more than 3,000 soldiers and horses are stationed here, and the military camp in Xujia Village was originally the farthest away from Beiping.

But the farthest is only a few miles, and the cavalry can enter the city of Beiping in a moment.

Early this morning, before dawn, with the sound of heavy trumpets, the battalions came out of their tents one after another, and some people did not even put on their clothes completely, and wore them as they ran.

The king of Gaoyang was generous, but he was strict in governing the army, and the army was changing every day.

As soon as the wake-up call rang today, all the soldiers ran out of the camp one after another, and some people were punished for being too slow two days ago, and they all slept directly in their clothes last night.

Everyone ran out of the camp in a hurry, and quickly gathered at the designated place, and the playground was full of shouts.

"Three battalions and four teams, three battalions and four teams are here."

"The second battalion and six teams, the second battalion and the sixth team are here, where are you running Gu Shishi, Lao Tzu has seen you."

After a few days of practice, everyone was still a little flustered, but on the whole, it was much stronger than the other soldiers and horses of the Ming army.

Zhu Gaoxu has been living in the camp for the past few days, except for the night he returned to Beiping, where he stayed at home, and now spends most of his time in the barracks.

It is wonderful to have a wife at home, but he understands that in this world, he must have strong military power in his hands and close brothers in order to keep his wife and everything.

At this time, he took Xu Xiang, Chen Wen and other generals to watch from the sidelines, from the time the soldiers left the camp to now, almost three minutes have passed, and the playground is still a little chaotic.

This is far worse than that of later generations, but overall it is far more than the Ming army.

After another moment, the teams were completed one after another, and only a small number of slower people were still looking for their own team.

It took about eight minutes for the whole army to assemble, and it was a little faster than yesterday.

Xu Xiang and Chen Wen were both nodding their heads to each other, and seemed to be quite satisfied, because it was not yet fully dawn, which was equivalent to night, but Zhu Gaoxu was definitely not satisfied, if there was a night attack at night, this speed would still be too slow.

"Everybody listen, turn to the right," one hundred households roared loudly.

Then the scene became chaotic again, some people went to the left, some people went to the right, and some people were looking at others, looking at the hundred households.

Wherever the hundred households turn, everyone will turn in whichever way.

Zhu Gaoxu did not conduct queue training, only turned left and right at ordinary times, and many people still can't tell the difference between left and right.

But smart people can follow these hundred households to learn, and some people will keep it in mind, so they turned to the left, and it took nearly a minute or two to completely turn around.

"Run, walk."

The whole army began to march.

"General Xu, you will rest, let's warm up." Zhu Gaoxu turned to look at the generals, laughed, and ran first.

Xu Xiang is old, and there are several hundreds of households who are almost forty years old at the scene.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xiang said loudly: "Does King Gaoyang think I'm old?" Hum. He pretended to be angry and ran without saying a word, but it was quite slow.

The rest of the people followed.

Everyone doesn't understand why they have to run every day, but Zhu Gaoxu said that it can exercise people's endurance.

Sometimes a big battle can not be fought in a day, and when it comes to the back, many soldiers will have no strength, but if we practice well and run more, our endurance will be stronger than that of the enemy, and we will hold on longer.

And sometimes you need to make a long-distance raid, and you don't have a horse, what to do? You have to rely on your legs.

Zhu Gaoxu persuaded the generals to participate in training with him every day.

As the king of the county, he is running, what reason do the generals have to be lazy, the stronger he practiced, the more chances he had to survive on the battlefield.

Now they all run along Yuquan Mountain in the early morning, almost more than eight miles, and after the run, the sky is just dawn.

The people returned to the camp tired and half dead, and the camp was already full of smoke and breakfast.

Everyone eats big white steamed buns, pickles, and broth, and it is estimated that it is also the best food in the Ming army at the same time.

Zhu Gaoxu asked people to collect poultry meat in Beiping and nearby county capitals every day, and he either had meat soup for breakfast, or he ate meat buns once every three days, and every day at noon and dinner there must be a meal with meat, but there was really not much meat, and each person had a limited distribution, and there was no way, and now in wartime, there is no way to buy any meat.

This expense alone is relatively huge, and it is not easy to buy during the war, and recently Zhu Gaoxu has been preparing to find someone to hoard here.

Because the villagers in Xujia Village and other villages here are all tenants, and many tenants still have Ding in his army as a soldier.

Zhu Gaoxu likes to eat with everyone when he eats, and often takes turns eating in each battalion to talk with the soldiers.

For example, after the Battle of Zhending, he selected some battalions that fought more fiercely, or those that suffered more casualties, ate with them, chatted, understood their feelings, commended some meritorious people, and even promoted them in public.

When it comes to winning over and reassuring people's hearts, Zhu Gaoxu is very professional.

After breakfast, the armies will be divided into several parts for training.

After eating in the morning, Zhu Gaoxu took Zhou Hu, Sun Sheng, and Zhao Qing to look around.

Soon they came to a shooting range, which was backed by Shijingshan, and fifty targets were made of wooden planks in the distance.

A large number of Yan cavalry, about a hundred people, was led by a hundred households.

With the order of the hundred households, all the soldiers followed him and galloped, and they began to run from a few hundred paces away, with an accelerated run in front, and began to slow down when they approached two hundred paces.

When entering a hundred, with an order.

"Shoot"

Whoosh, a rain of arrows shot past.

Maybe the time of the hundred households was a little earlier, and as a result, many arrows did not hit the target.

Baihu was scolding there, not knowing whether to scold others or scold himself.

The generals went further, but the formation began to change, because they were ready to grafe, not to attack.

More than a hundred horses are in the shape of a moon and twisted, and the scene looks extremely spectacular.

Unexpectedly, some of the horses did not pay attention, plopped, and somehow actually fell, and screamed.

Then he pounced, and two horses that were close to him also tripped one after another, and there were bursts of scolding and screaming at the scene.

After someone landed, he was trampled by the horse behind him.

", how do you practice." Zhou Hu scolded behind Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled bitterly, but this kind of problem is better now than on the battlefield, at least there is still a chance to live.

"Shooting" the 100 households in front of it doesn't matter, it is called grazing again.

Their formation had changed from straight to horizontal, and they crossed about sixty paces in front of the target.

This distance is actually within the range of the rifle.

But now it's practice, and there is no bow shooting on the opposite side.

Whoosh, another rain of arrows, this time most of them hit the target, and some of them missed.

Considering that on the real battlefield, the enemy's infantry formation may be denser than these targets, Zhu Gaoxu generally looks quite satisfied.

The most important thing for them to practice archery now is to be able to stabilize the movement of archery during the process of riding.

As for whether the shot is accurate or not, that's a matter for later.

Many recruits are unable to hold their bows and even fall off their horses.

Now they practice the most basic, first to stabilize the body, after the hands are free, they will not fall, then they can shoot arrows, and finally they can shoot accurately.

Most of the veterans of the Ming army had no problems, mainly because Zhu Gaoxu also recruited some recruits and surrendered some infantry officers, which needed to go through this process.

There were some generals in the battalion who didn't understand why Zhu Gaoxu practiced so much, but the Mongols practiced this for decades, so they relied on this set to fight invincible all over the world.

Tan Yuan, Zhang Wu, and especially Huo Zhen, a Mongolian general, all laughed at Zhu Gaoxu in private.

But they don't understand that Zhu Gaoxu is not fighting with the Mongols at their peak now, he only needs to deal with the current southern army.

And the reason why I practice like this is mainly to preserve my strength at this stage.

For the purpose of practicing cavalry and archery, he formed an entire cavalry army, and everyone led horses.

If the battle is unfavorable, you can run on a horse if you can't beat it.

And in such a fierce battle as the siege, his soldiers and horses were not needed.

Xu Zhong's infantry battalion is known as a hundred victories in a hundred battles, and the elite is incomparable, and this time it has also made great achievements in breaking the right wing of the Southern Army.

But after the attack on Zhending City, Xu Zhong's infantry took the lead again and suffered heavy losses.

Zhu Gaoxu trained cavalry, but he didn't want his soldiers and horses to attack the city.

How can the brothers who have been won over with great difficulty be easily damaged.

In the morning, he looked around along the barracks, and was still satisfied with the spirit in the training, and at noon he had dinner with Chen Wen and their battalion, and someone from Beiping City said that King Yan would come to him for discussion in the afternoon.

After lunch, Zhu Gaoxu would go to a barracks to the west of the Chinese army camp.

This side is designed to be a martial arts arena, every day after lunch, most of the officers and soldiers will rest for an hour, there are some general flags, small flags, and even hundreds of households will come here, there are wooden knives and sticks here, used to fight.

At first, a few people such as Zhu Gaoxu and Zhou Hu played here, and then more and more people joined.

Many general flags and small flags also like to train and fight here.

Zhu Gaoxu often goes to a few pairs, Zhou Hu, Chen Wen, Zhang Jie, Wang You, etc.

When the crowd was fighting, many people around watched and coaxed.

I saw Zhu Gaoxu holding a wooden knife, the head of which was stained with red paint, and then the fire surged.

Horn horn, there were rings from time to time, and after a while, everyone retreated, with red dots on their bodies.

There was a burst of applause all around, and they all praised His Highness bravely.

Zhu Gaoxu, as before, left after a game, because if he was there, these guys couldn't let go.

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu leaves, many people will fight hard, and there are also people who bet money to get money, so that they can practice some real skills.

Coming out of the barracks, Zhu Gaoxu only had Sun Sheng, Zhao Qing and two teams of twenty personal soldiers by his side.

The people rode to Beiping City.

The camp is seven or eight miles away from Beiping City, and the city gate can be seen in less than half an hour.

Now the city gates of Beiping City are wide open during the day, because Zhuozhou Mansion is in the hands of the Yan army, and if the southern army wants to come, it will inevitably pass through these prefectures and counties, plus Xiongxian and other places, and the strategic depth of the Yan army is still hundreds of miles wide.