Chapter 13: The Great Qin Tiger

Early the next morning, Han Xin gathered all the lieutenants in the big tent of the Chinese army, waiting for Fusu to teach the essentials of the cavalry march and battle. Everyone came with the mindset of just listening. Although they respect Fusu, it does not mean that they will agree with all of Fusu's abilities. After all, a person's energy is limited, and it is impossible to do everything. As far as governing the country is concerned, they sincerely worship the talents of their sons, but as far as leading troops to fight, they do not think that Fusu will be outstanding.

When Fusu walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, he saw dozens of lieutenants talking to each other. Han Xin immediately got up and greeted him, while motioning for everyone to be quiet. Fusu didn't pay attention to these captains, but went straight to the central case and knelt down and sat down.

"Meet the son," everyone saluted to Fusu in unison under the leadership of Han Xin.

Although I don't think Fusu is qualified to teach him, the etiquette that should be done still has to be done, after all, is he still the son of Daqin's prison country.

"Everyone, please sit on the floor," Fusu said, looking at the people standing in front of him. After all, it's too awkward to sit and teach a group of standing people by yourself.

The crowd did not squirm and sat down one after another.

"Sun Bin once said, 'The husband and rider can be separated and combined, and can be dispersed and gathered.' A hundred miles for a period of time, thousands of miles to go, in and out of the sea'. I don't know if you've ever heard of it," Fusu asked, looking at the dazed crowd.

"I haven't heard of it," everyone except Han Shin shook their heads like rattles.

Looking at the group of ignorant and fearless goods in front of him, Fusu lost his temper in an instant. At the same time, he was resolute in his desire to establish education and open military academies as soon as possible in the future. Seeing that everyone's cultural level was limited, Fusu decided to teach everyone the essentials of cavalry warfare in the simplest way.

"When cavalry fights, you must give full play to the advantage of running fast, and when you have passed, you will chase and fight. If you can't beat it, you can run away as fast as you can, so that the enemy can't catch up. All of you were selected by General Han Xin from the camp in Shangjun, and you should all have the experience of fighting the Hun cavalry. The Hun cavalry has always fought if they win, and withdrew if they couldn't win. You should know that......"

Everyone was attracted by Fusu's explanation, because they felt that Fusu was too right, and explained the reasons for their repeated defeats under the hands of the Xiongnu.

"If you run fast, and if you can run far, you can get close to the enemy silently, and then the cavalry will become a surprise soldier. What do you think if there is a cavalry of 20,000 people, bypassing all the scouts of my Great Qin, and taking advantage of the night to raid my Shangjun camp? ”

Everyone was shocked by Fusu's remarks and broke out in a cold sweat, if it was really like what Gongzi Fusu said, then the Shangjun camp would basically be abolished overnight.

What Fusu said was by no means alarmist, in history, the famous general Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty did this, and he did it more than once. In the second year of Yuanzhen, Huo Qu led 10,000 hussars to ride out of Longxi, surpassing Wuxi, begging for Pu, wading fox slaves, and turning to the five countries of Hexi, capturing a large number of prisoners and baggage. and fought with Shan Yu's son, almost capturing him alive. After that, he led the crowd to cross the Yanzhi Mountain, fought for six days, marched more than 1,000 miles, and finally fought fiercely with the Xiongnu army at the foot of Gaolan Mountain, inflicted heavy losses on the Xiongnu, killed the Xiongnu Zhelan King, Luhou Wang, annihilated its elite, and the evil prince and Xiangguo and Duwei were all captured. In this battle, the Han army beheaded a total of 8,960 levels, and captured the sacrifice of King Hutu Tianjin, after the war, Huo Qu etiology Gong added 2,200 households to seal the food yi.

Fusu's explanation successfully attracted everyone's attention, and even Han Xin was listening carefully. At this time, no one dared to despise Fusu.

"Yesterday, you drilled, with horns and passwords, and before you answered the enemy, you were already screaming, so fighting, I am afraid that the enemy will not need scouts to know that our attack is coming. This was the first drawback that was exposed during yesterday's exercise. Cavalry combat is important in being flexible and changeable, and it is absolutely impossible to fight in the form of forming an array, so that the advantages of cavalry in being flexible and changeable cannot be brought into play, and this is the second drawback I saw from yesterday's drill. In cavalry combat, the weapons are mainly short and concise, which is conducive to close slashing, and you still use spears and swords in cavalry combat. Once you fight close to your body, you are extremely inflexible, and this is the third drawback exposed in yesterday's drill. Do you agree with it? ”

At this time, no one had any objections, because what Fusu said was the truth, and they couldn't refute it if they wanted to.

"For the above problems, I have the following countermeasures, one is to add a new flag as a way of command in cavalry combat. Second, in wartime, the cavalry is not restrained by battle formations, and the purpose is to be flexible and mobile. Third, the whole army was reequipped with scimitars, hooks, sickles, saddles and other weapons and equipment made by the Great Qin Ordnance Institute," Fusu said in one breath the reform measures of the cavalry.

As for the matter of changing the scimitar, they naturally knew that the Great Qin Ordnance Institute had sent 20,000 scimitars, more than 2,000 hook and sickle guns, more than 200 tripping chains, and 10,000 saddles. They have also tried these weapons and equipment, and they are indeed more convenient to use on horses than the long swords and spears they are currently using, but they are used to the long swords and spears, so they have not changed their outfits for a long time. As for the flag language spoken by Fusu, they didn't understand it at all.

Looking at everyone's curious eyes, Fusu asked the guards to send flags in red, yellow, and green, and then took the flags and explained them to everyone. Waving flags of different colors represents different commands. Combining three flags can lead to more directives. Everyone looked at Fusu with admiration, how could he have such a wonderful idea, he could not only give orders silently, but also achieve communication at a certain distance, while the enemy did not know the meaning even if he saw the flag language without a flag book.

In the next few days, while waiting for the horseshoe, Fusu urged the Great Qin Iron Rider to change into scimitars, saddles and other equipment. And Han Xin also took advantage of this opportunity to edit the first flag language manual of Daqin. He also ordered the flag soldiers in the army to recite these flag words.

On the tenth day, Peng Yue rushed back to the Lantian camp with horseshoes, horseshoe nails, and 500 craftsmen. The craftsmen nailed all the horses to the horseshoe according to Fusu's request.

Before leaving, Fusu ordered the 10,000 Great Qin Iron Cavalry to practice, and it was obvious that the results of this drill met the requirements of Fusu, and Fusu was excited to give this army an official name, Great Qin Huben.