Chapter 38: The Death of the War Horse
After several days of travel, the team finally arrived at the new camp. Each company set up camp tents according to the previous establishment, and the team camp tents and dress standards were carried out in accordance with the standards of the Hu people. However, the training of the team and the living and eating must be strictly in accordance with the standards of the Han army.
Zhang Yiliang's next assessment is the quartermaster of the Haw Par Cavalry. The military problem was originally planned to be undertaken by the Leopard Army, but the Leopard Army had dozens of strong men, and they had to run the main mission, and they had to be transferred in case of emergency. It would be too wasteful to let the strongest Leopard Army make military supplies for this new army.
So Ichira decided to train his own quartermaster from the Haw Par Cavalry Women's Battalion and establish a complete quartermaster execution system, so that this team can survive completely independently, without relying on anyone and any force. This kind of thought is also a matter of the past few days, maybe he went back to Langya Sect and carried out a very unhappy mission that made him change.
Yiliang asked Xiao Jianli and Yimo to recommend three people to serve as quartermasters, and Xiao Jianli wrote three names: He Mi, Gan Qingchuan, and Lu Yi. The list handed over by Yimo made Zhang Yiliang cry and laugh: Gan Qingchuan, Gan Qingchuan, Gan Qingchuan. I don't know if this girl is lazy, or if she really has great confidence in Gan Qingchuan.
He Mi is an older woman in the tiger and leopard ride, twenty-one this year, and she is very experienced in answering questions. I don't have too many ideas, it's the type that you can do as much as you want, and you won't make a mess without discounting. One word: steady.
Lu Yi is eighteen years old and fat. She's a girl with some ideas. For example, the team can organize labor production in their spare time, which is very Nanniwan. Zhang Yiliang agrees with Lu Yi's point of view, but it seems that it is not suitable for a team of only 500 people and positioned as cavalry like the Tiger and Par Cavalry. It's like letting a special forces force grow food for self-sufficiency, which is overkill.
The last to be inspected was Gan Qingchuan. Gan Qingchuan is nineteen years old, and Si Swenwen's ladylike style. She has the deepest understanding of the Haw Par Cavalry Quartermaster and thinks the most. She believes that as a combat unit, the Haw Par Cavalry is divided into three modules: quartermaster during the training period, quartermaster during the rest period, and quartermaster during wartime.
During the training period, the military should be based on high-nutrition cooked food, vegetables, meat, beans, and rice are the staple foods, and some pasta can be indirectly supplemented to improve the taste. During the period of recuperation, the quartermaster should be provided with hot food en masse to improve the physical overdraft caused by the soldiers during the war. In wartime, military supplies should no longer be used as a separate supply, and the war should be fed by war, and where it can be fought, it will be fed.
Yiliang finally decided to form a quartermaster team with 30 people, with Gan Qingchuan as the captain and He Mi as the deputy captain. Responsible for arranging the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of the whole army. The main tasks are: procuring food, distributing food, or arranging for the whole army to make fires and make meals. The quartermaster corps should also arrange training tasks and participate in training appropriately, and participate in the war as a reserve unit.
Zhang Yiliang summoned Xiao Jianli and Yimo to discuss two things: the first was to reform the military etiquette of the tiger and leopard cavalry and preliminarily formulate military rules and discipline; the second was to discuss the arrangement of a staff officer and sect committee in the tiger and leopard cavalry women's battalion, which would be held by male soldiers of the leopard army.
Regarding the military salute, Yiliang believes that the tiger and leopard cavalry is a cavalry, and the kneeling salute should be abolished, and the new military salute with the right hand and eyebrows should be performed. Emer found it interesting and agreed. Xiao Jianli confirmed that it was a violation of etiquette, and he did not agree with this until death. In the end, compromise, wartime, training, the team gave a new military salute. Usually perform kneeling prostrations.
Yiliang didn't bother to bother with the details, so he did it first, and then changed Xiao Jianli's antique concept step by step. And why the leopard army was scattered into the tiger and leopard cavalry, Xiao Jianli couldn't understand it, and he didn't agree with the commander's approach. The Leopard Army was built by him with hard work, and he has been through a hundred battles, so what happened when he broke up?
Yiliang understood his concerns and asked Yimo to go back first to prepare a plan for training cavalry tactics, while he and Xiao Jianli went for a walk outside the training ground to try to convince him. They left the commander's camp and walked outside the tent, and it was twilight, and the remnant sun was like blood, shining on the grass, illuminating the grass in a green and yellow color.
As the two walked, Yiliang pointed to a group of girls outside the camp who were fighting with the soldiers of the Leopard Army, and said to Xiao Jianli: Look at them, are they still separated?
Xiao Jianli said righteously: The Leopard Army must be independent, this team belongs to the Langya Sect, don't forget, the Leopard Army is not our personal guard.
It is precisely because they belong to the Langya Sect that I want them to play a more important role for the sect. Kazura said and continued walking. Then he said: The Leopard soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and there is no need for life and death, do you know why?
The Langya elites that the sect master personally selected for me, they are naturally brave. Xiao Jianli said.
Yiliang interrupted him and said: No one is born brave, but because they have faith, have ideals for the country and the people, and defend our rivers and mountains. This is exactly the philosophy of Langya Zong.
You can't even break them up, young master. Xiao Jian left the road.
I didn't mean to break them up. Listen to me. Zhang Yiliang stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Jianli's shoulder, and continued: First, the female tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers have never participated in actual combat, and someone must lead them to charge and let them hone in actual combat for several years. Second, this team only has hatred and no soul, and I want them to have the soul of our Langya Sect.
Does the young master mean to let them join our Langya Sect? Xiao Jianli's expression improved a little and asked.
Ichira looked at him, thought for a moment, and said, "Why not?" Joining or not joining is secondary, the important thing is to make this team have faith, not just hatred. Each platoon appoints a Leopard soldier as a staff officer and sect commissioner, which can not only give advice to the female generals, but also mobilize and encourage the team, why not?
Xiao Jianli never knew what kind of identity this was, he didn't agree before, and he didn't bother to ask, but now he felt that what Yiliang said made some sense, so he sounded it.
Sect committee is a special position. Yiliang explained: He is a member of the garrison of our sect and is responsible for the ideological and cultural construction of the team.
Isn't there a lady in cultural construction? Xiao Jian left the road.
When I talk about ideology and culture, I don't mean knowledge. It is a philosophy, a belief. It is to continue to educate our team, what kind of team we want to become, and ensure that the team has a unified mind and a consistent concept. Got it?
I probably understand, the Leopard Army soldiers are still from Langya Sect, can they still be drawn out independently?
Yes, definitely. They are always your team, obey your orders, and you have to call them to meetings often and give them the work of building the team's ideology. Teach them the way you taught them to serve the country and the people and serve the sect.
Can you tell the girls that we are Langya Sect?
If you can't, just tell them that it is the Tiger and Leopard Sect, and we have established a Tiger and Leopard Sect, and they are all members of the sect.
This is not to be done, and this must be done with the consent of the suzerain.
That's a name, a codename. Why do you have to report everything to the sect master recently? Didn't the sect master tell you that the matter of Gyeonggi is all up to me? My master has passed away, and the sect master is overly sad, so don't bother his old man with such a trivial matter. Zhang Yiliang finished speaking solemnly and returned to the camp.
Yes, young master! Xiao Jian left the road.
In just one day, Yimo took the training plan she formulated to Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli. The first thing to do is to regroup. The previous formation was arbitrary, but now the specialties of the female soldiers in each company platoon have been figured out and should be re-formed. Those who are good at slashing and slashing are light cavalry charging companies, those who are good at archery are cavalry companies, and those who are good at heavy weapons or fighting are heavy cavalry companies.
A conscience rejoiced that this Imer had such a talent. Agreeing to Yimer's plan for regrouping, and also making some suggestions, the Haw Par Cavalry was finally divided into five companies. Two light cavalry charging companies, one cavalry outflanking company, one heavy cavalry company, and one cavalry coordination company.
Although the sparrows are small and have all the organs, although there are only 500 people in the tiger and leopard cavalry, they also have their own decision-making body, the tiger and leopard cavalry battalion department, which is discussed and decided by a team of three: the coach Qilin Daxia, the military advisor Xiao Daxia, and the main general Yimo. In the event of an emergency, the manager can make decisions directly.
The organizational structure of the Haw Par Cavalry is as follows: battalion headquarters - decision-making group, chief general - Haw Par Cavalry battalion commander, battalion staff officer and sect committee (temporarily served by Xiao Jianli), company commander from the first to fifth companies, company staff officer and clan committee, deputy company commander, platoon commander from platoon to ten, platoon staff officer and sect committee, deputy platoon leader, and twenty-five squad leaders.
The supervision was complete, and the team began training according to the newly formed company. The critical moment is riding, the girl has never touched a horse, and after receiving her own horse, she does not dare to get on the horse to contact, only leading the horse to the grass to gnaw grass, as if she is in love with the horse.
Seeing that the female soldiers did not dare to get on the horse, Yiliang ordered the sect committee of each platoon to immediately mobilize, and before sunset tomorrow, a female soldier could not get on the horse alone, so he would be expelled from the army, and the sect committee of the platoon would have to eat the military stick ten times. Sure enough, the soldiers of the Leopard Army mobilized their own team members, and the fear of the female soldiers gradually wore away.
The next day, 100 percent of the female soldiers were on board. Riding training begins, walking, running, and kicking all kinds of basic passwords resounding through the grassland. Wearing a mask, Kazura walked into the training ground with his hand in hand to watch the training. He noticed that there was something wrong with the horses. looked very strong, but he didn't dare to run with his legs outstretched. I don't know why, probably the war horses are still alive, and they can't let go of face.
After several days of repeated observation, there was still something vaguely wrong with these war horses. The female soldiers had been practicing their riding skills for several days, and they could whip their horses on the buttocks, and some of the horses were running, but when they landed, the horses deliberately slowed down.
Yiliang asked Xiao Jianli to find out about the leopard soldiers who bought horses. The horses bought from the Xiongnu herdsmen for more than 50,000 taels of silver were all good horses, and the price was twice that of the war horses of the Central Plains.
There must be something wrong with these horses, put that red horse down, and I'll see what's going on. Zhang Yiliang ordered.
A leopard warrior who knew how to train horses stroked the horse's neck, and when he said something, the horse fell to the ground. Ichira went over to check it, first the horse's hind hooves, nothing unusual. Then he grabbed the horse and kicked it forward, it seemed to be the same, and he wanted to put it down, but he was suspicious in his heart, and pressed the soft flesh behind the horse's hooves with his fingers. With a strong pinch, the warhorse's body moved, pinched, and moved.
Yiliang Dao: If there is a problem, tie up the war horse and cut the meat with a knife.
According to the Qilin commander's instructions, several leopard soldiers cut open the soft flesh on the horse's hooves, and found that a hardwood strip more than an inch long and as thick as a sewing needle was hidden inside. Tie up a few more horses and cut the same position, and the situation is exactly the same.
Yimo sighed: This must have been pierced when the horse was still young, and the owner of the horse was so vicious.
Xiao Jianli said to the soldier who was in charge of buying horses: What the hell is going on?
The soldier was so innocent, he stood motionless, and said: I'm going to find the old man who sells horses, dare to blackmail me, don't die?
Hold it. Yiliang stopped him and said, "Don't startle the snake." Tell me, does the old man who sold horses know that you are Han?
The Leopard soldier had to answer honestly: I wanted to buy it as a Huns, but the King of the Huns gave an order to the Huns, and the adult war horses of the Huns could only be controlled and dispatched by the King of the Huns. The Xiongnu bought and sold internally, and could only sell young horses within one year old. I bought it again as a Xianbei person, but they didn't sell it, saying that there were more Xianbei war horses than the Xiongnu, and they only sold them to the Han people. I had no choice but to buy as a Han Chinese.
That's right. Zhang Yiliang was frightened in his heart and said: It turns out that the Huns are reconciled with us on the surface, but they are so harmful to us behind the scenes. The war horses they sold us had wooden strips inserted into their hooves since they were young, and the horses could run, but they were not happy. In this way, their cavalry superiority was greatly strengthened.
A bad strategy. The crowd exclaimed.
Zhang Yiliang ordered to divide the war horses into several batches to perform surgery to remove the wooden strips, so as to take care of the war horses. Teams take turns training.
After returning to the camp, Zhang Yiliang couldn't help but feel a little sad. War horses are the hard wounds of the Central Plains army, and the Hu people in the north are using their war horse advantages to strike at the weakness of the Central Plains, so they have repeatedly succeeded. On the other hand, these war horses are also adult horses of five or six years old, and they only bought 500 of these problematic horses, so it can be concluded that the entire Xiongnu are promoting a conspiracy to weaken the cavalry of the Jin army.
The Xiongnu were the old iron of the Jin Dynasty, and as the Hu people who had the best relationship with the Central Plains court, their horses were the only source of war horses purchased by the Jin Dynasty. If the war horses are like this, they have been pricked since childhood, even if they take out the wooden strips, these war horses will be tied up in a small way, and they will have a shadow psychologically, and they will inevitably not be able to run fast after they are injured.
Yiliang decided to sneak into the territory of the Xiongnu, and if this speculation is confirmed, then it can be sure that all the war horses planned to be exported to the Jin Dynasty are problem war horses. It can also prove that the Xiongnu are also coveting the Central Plains, and they are the most vicious one. What is the situation? We'll talk about that in the next chapter.