I want to be emperor

Chapter 115 The Letter from Hong Chengchou

The reason why the newly established third cavalry post was called half-baked cavalry by Wang Xiazi was because although all the newly formed cavalry could ride horses, they couldn't play horseback riding and shooting.

Not to mention riding and shooting, even riding a horse to launch a white-blade charge is very reluctant, basically the same as the cavalry under Chen Yongfu's command that I met before, it is cavalry, let alone infantry on horseback.

Luo Zhixue couldn't do anything about it. After all, it was not so easy to expand the cavalry posts that reached the standard of elite cavalry.

Now the second cavalry post in the Township Protection Army, there are actually a dozen cavalrymen who can't play horseback riding...

Luo Zhixue couldn't find any more cavalrymen who could play horseback riding and archery to form the third cavalry post.

So he can only retreat and form this kind of half-baked cavalry.

But even if these are just half-baked cavalry, they are still elite.

To say that they are half-baked is just to say that they can't play riding and archery on the back of galloping horses, and it is more reluctant to line up to charge and kill.

However, if they are asked to dismount and fight on foot, it doesn't matter whether they fight in close quarters or shoot arrows with a step bow.

So don't think that the half-baked cavalry is just scum, in fact, it is not easy to set up this thing.

It is not easy to find hundreds of elites who can play the step bow and can also ride horses at the same time.

The Township Protection Army now has six battalions, and the total strength of each battalion and sentry is more than 4000, many of whom are recruited defected veterans, officers and soldiers.

But it is not easy to find such elites with hundreds of numbers.

Luo Zhixue searched almost the entire Township Protection Army to find these hundred elite infantrymen who could ride horses.

In addition to the extremely limited source of soldiers, war horses are also a big problem.

The war horses in the Township Protection Army have always been in short supply. Except for the hundreds of war horses brought out during the early mutiny, the rest were seized one after another.

It seems that there are many mules and horses captured, but there are not many war horses that can be used as cavalry mounts.

The difference between war horses and ordinary horses is very big.

In addition to higher requirements for the horse's shoulder height and physical fitness, it also requires long-term special training for the horse.

Such specially trained horses can't charge the enemy, nor can they keep fighting in formation amidst the sound of gunfire.

After all, war horses also have animal instincts, and they can avoid danger. At the same time, they are also afraid of the sound of guns and guns. Without special training to overcome this instinct of avoiding danger, it is easy for war horses to run around uncontrollably after they enter the field.

The Township Protection Army seized and searched everywhere, and so far only more than 400 war horses have been found.

In addition to the above-mentioned war horses used for the three cavalry posts, there are nearly a hundred horses, some of which are used by some middle and senior officers as mounts, and some of them are used by the messengers.

In addition to the above, even Luo Zhixue's personal troops did not have many qualified war horses, and they all used ordinary service horses as mounts.

There is also a reason for assigning war horses to officers and messengers.

The first is the officers. The purpose of assigning war horses to officers is not to make them show off or reflect their status.

When it is purely combat, officers, especially infantry officers, need to fight on horseback. On the one hand, it is to guide and command the needs of troops, and on the other hand, it is also to stand tall and see far.

If you don't ride a horse, a battalion commander can only see a mass of heads when he looks up, and he doesn't even know where the enemy is...

The messengers use war horses, naturally because the duties of the messengers are very important, and whether the order is delivered in a timely manner or whether it is missed may be directly related to the outcome of a battle.

In fact, the horses used by the messengers are still of the best quality!
Of the hundreds of war horses in the Township Protection Army, the best ones were assigned to the messengers, the second-class horses were assigned to the cavalry, and the third-class horses were assigned to officers, mainly infantry officers.
As for the officers in the supply unit and the senior officers in the military headquarters, there are only ordinary mules and horses to ride.

The establishment of the third cavalry post emptied the elite cavalry infantry in the rural protection army, and also emptied the horse reserve.

If you want to continue to expand the cavalry in the future, you can only wait for a new batch of horses to be captured.

But Luo Zhixue is not worried about this, anyway, there will be a war later, and if he wins, he will naturally be able to capture the horse.

As for losing the battle, why are you talking about expanding the cavalry? The most important thing is to escape to the mountains and sign up.

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The middle of April is a very important time node for Luo Zhixue and for the Rural Protection Army as a whole.

The successful completion of the Sixth Battalion and Two Outposts plan has given Luo Zhixue greater confidence. Even if the Fifth Infantry Battalion and the Sixth Infantry Battalion do not have actual combat effectiveness for the time being, Luo Zhixue still dares to say that the Township Protection Army already has a certain amount of strength. self-preservation power.

At least for now, even if Chen Yongfu came out in full force, Luo Zhixue and his confidence would stop him and even annihilate him.

The follow-up Nine Battalion Plan was prepared for the subsequent control of Nanyang Mansion and even Xiangyang Mansion.

However, when Luo Zhixue was about to continue to expand the army in a low-key manner, Chen Yongfu received orders from Hong Chengchou.

It was not the order of Xuan Mo, the unlucky bastard, but Hong Chengchou's direct order.

Hong Chengchou, who led his army to Ruzhou not long ago, began to fully preside over the work of encircling and suppressing the bandit army in the Central Plains.

Hong Chengchou asked the officers and soldiers in Nanzhili to guard against death, not seeking to defeat the enemy, but begging the bandit army not to continue to harm Jiangbei, and at the same time prevent the bandit army from crossing the river into Jiangnan and Huguang.

The officers and soldiers in Shanxi were also ordered to strictly guard the Yellow River ferry to prevent the bandit army from crossing the Yellow River to go northward into Shanxi and even to Shandong.

The officers and soldiers of various ministries in Henan were also ordered to strictly guard against the passes bordering Shaanxi and Henan, such as Lushi, Tongguan and other places.

In short, Hong Chengchou's strategy is to make the surrounding encirclement first, regardless of how the bandit army hops around in the Central Plains.

At the same time, he personally led the main force of the officers and soldiers under his command to pursue the main force of the rebel army.

The peripheral officers and soldiers garrisoned the passes, and the main force of the Central Plains officers and soldiers continued to attack the rebels.

This is Hong Chengchou's current strategy of encircling and suppressing the rebels.

In this context, Chen Yongfu received an order from Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou asked him to quickly end the Nanyang war, and quickly wipe out the little bandits of the township protection army, and then rushed the army to Lu's garrison.

If you don't arrive within the time limit, you will be killed...

After receiving Hong Chengchou's order, Chen Yongfu's face was very ugly.

He knew that the adults above him had already seen through his strategy of delaying time by following the Rural Protection Army.

And Hong Chengchou saved some face for him, he didn't say it clearly, but asked him to kill the township protection army before going to Lu's.

But come on!
If it were Chen Yongfu who was half a month ago, although he would be upset, he would definitely lead the army northward quickly to kill the rural protection army before going to the Lu family.

But, that was only Chen Yongfu half a month ago.

Half a month ago, Chen Yongfu didn't know enough about the Rural Protection Army, he just regarded the Rural Protection Army as a small bandit.

But, after a cavalry battle at the beginning, and then continued to collect information for the next half a month, Chen Yongfu asked himself that he had a deeper understanding of the rural protection army.

And the more he understood, the more he knew that this little-known rural protection army was not simple.

This is definitely the elite among the bandits.

Now Hong Chengchou asked him to lead his army north to kill the Township Protection Army, which made Chen Yongfu very embarrassed.

He took the initiative to lead his troops northward to fight such a tough fight, and Chen Yongfu felt that even if he could win, his side would probably suffer a lot of losses.

However, he can't just ignore Hong Chengchou's order!
Hong Chengchou was not Xuanmo, it was a given that Xuanmo would step down, and Chen Biqian, who succeeded Xuanmo, was already on his way to take office.

So Chen Yongfu didn't listen to Xuan Mo's order, and he didn't fear Xuan Mo's revenge.

But Hong Chengchou!
Give Chen Yongfu a hundred courage, he would not dare to directly disobey Hong Chengchou's order.

Let alone him, even Zuo Liangyu, who has always been extremely domineering, has to obey Hong Chengchou's orders honestly.

In the past, Zuo Liangyu often ignored Xuanmo's orders, and even if he reluctantly obeyed the orders to go to war, he would often do things like supporting soldiers to protect himself and passively slacking off. I've heard of it all.

However, in front of Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu had to honestly hold up his domineering tail. When Hong Chengchou asked him to go there to suppress the thieves, he would go there honestly to suppress the thieves. Openly disobeyed Hong Chengchou's order.

After all, Hong Chengchou was the governor of the five provinces, a high-ranking civil official who held the Shangfang sword and the main force of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

It's not something an ordinary governor like Xuan Mo can compare to.

If you make him unhappy for a while, he dares to make you unhappy for a lifetime.

If you disobey his orders, he dares to kill you with a single knife.

Even mutiny is useless, if you dare to mutiny, he will lead troops to destroy you...

There is also a big difference between civil servants and civil servants. Zuo Liangyu is very clear about this, and Chen Yongfu is also clear about it.

Therefore, it has become an established fact that Chen Yongfu's troops went north to suppress the rural protection army.

However, even so, Chen Yongfu still didn't want to go north and fight to the death with the rural protection army, let alone the possibility of losing, even if he won, there was a high probability of heavy losses.

Therefore, while Chen Yongfu was dawdling in mobilizing troops to prepare food and grass, at the same time, he sent messengers to fly to Ruzhou to tell Hong Chengchou about the situation of the Township Protection Army.

On the one hand, they want reinforcements, and on the other hand, they are also prepared in advance for the follow-up protracted battle, delaying time and avoiding a deadly confrontation with the rural protection army.

The reason is not that I don't want to fight, but that the thief is too strong.

In short, he still didn't want to go north and fight the Rural Protection Army to death!

The news reported by Pegasus was transmitted very quickly, and it didn't take long for Chen Yongfu to receive a reply from Hong Chengchou.

In the letter, Hong Chengchou didn't save him any face this time, and scolded him bloody.

What are you talking about, there are only one or two thousand little thieves, and you are exaggerating to describe it as an elite army of thieves who can be compared to a hundred. Do you think you are an official fool?
The elite bandit army is now all in the Central Plains. You fucking told me that there is an elite bandit army with thousands of people emerging from Nanyang, and it is an absolute elite that even the elite directly under Gao Yingxiang's command can't match.

This rural protection army is really so strong, you Chen Yongfu can still write a letter to the official complaining?

He was killed by the township protection army a long time ago...

Quickly and swiftly get rid of the little thieves from the Township Protection Army, and then get the hell out of the Lu family, and then complain about disobedience and disobedience, and I will go south to behead your dog's head...

After Chen Yongfu received Hong Chengchou's reply, his face was gloomy for a whole day, and he even scolded many people for no reason.

However, after getting angry, Chen Yongfu still honestly gave the order to go north!

(End of this chapter)