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"Okay!" Li Dingguo's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help laughing.

Although this person is not as capable as Zhenxi General Chen Changzhu, the difference is not far behind!

The king of North Korea, Li Ji, also nodded in satisfaction, and showed off to Li Dingguo, "I wonder what General Li thinks of the warriors under my king's command?"

"Good arrow skills!" Li Dingguo couldn't help but tell the truth, "However, I have seen knights and warriors in your country practice bows and arrows a lot. Why haven't I seen them practice martial arts such as spears and broadswords?"

"This..." Li Zhen had nothing to say when he heard the words.

In the end, the Minister Cui Mingji explained: "Our people are good at shooting but not good at shooting, so they make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, which makes the angels laugh!"

"Oh?" Li Dingguo nodded when he heard the words, but he was also noncommittal.

In fact, just as he thought in his heart, this North Korean is not a strange species, how could he be good at shooting but not good at wielding the sword?
It turns out that the Goryeo Dynasty, the predecessor of the Korean country, was deeply influenced by the Yuan Dynasty and became the famous "consort country", and even once issued an order to shave their hair and make clothes easier.

Under this fashion, the military skills of the Goryeo Dynasty quickly imitated Mongolia, with riding and archery as its authentic style.

So much so that he came to power through a coup d'état and established the founding monarch of Lee's Korea, Li Chenggui's grandfather was called "Boyan Timur" and his father was called "Wulu Sibuhua". He himself is also good at riding and archery.

Until Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition and entered Liaodong, Goryeo was still a country capable of mobilizing tens of thousands of cavalry.

Even when Li Chenggui established the Lee Dynasty, there were [-] horses in the official racecourse, which was also the cornerstone of Joseon's riding and shooting at that time.

However, the time came to the end of Ming Dynasty. After more than [-] years of purchase and blockade by the Ming Dynasty, not only war horses were hard to find in the whole of Korea, but only a few people obtained horn bows through smuggling.

Since now, the armament of the entire North Korean country has become a situation with a very small number of bow cavalry as the core and a large number of bird musketeers as the backbone.

This is also the direct reason why all the people in North Korea heard that Zhang Shun was going to select and train a team for them, and they all rejoiced.

Li Dingguo didn't know these many ways, but he still remembered Zhang Shun's advice before leaving: "North Korea lives on the side of the couch, with ulterior motives, and border troubles with Mongolia and Jurchen."

"Even if we use our strength today, we must not harm our descendants. In my opinion, it is better to have a battalion, so as not to cause trouble for China!"

When Li Dingguo thought of this, he smiled and said: "Your country's fine cavalry is no less than my Liaodong iron cavalry. You should be able to compete with the Eastern captives for a day."

"However, the number is scarce. Even if we start buying war horses and selecting soldiers today, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"In my opinion, why not choose [-] elite cavalry as the backbone, and choose another [-] infantry to form a battalion, which will be ready for next spring!"

"That's alright!" Although the king of North Korea, Li Zhen, was a bit too stingy when he heard the words, he could take the opportunity to look at the military tactics of the rebel army, and he had achieved his goal.

The two sides have settled their calculations, and then they got stuck at the first step without thinking about it.

Do you know why?

It turns out that the number of fine cavalry in Korea is very small, except for two or three hundred cavalry in Gyeonggi, the rest are deployed in the area of ​​Hamgyong Road.

Hamgyong-do is an important military town in the north of Korea. Its people were originally from China. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Goryeo Dynasty took the opportunity to rise up.

Because the place is close to the Jurchen Yalu River, Neyin, and Zhusheli tribes who live there, the folk customs are aggressive and there are many elite soldiers.

After Li Dingguo arrived at Xianjing Road, he selected and practiced another [-] elite cavalry. Although he was short of [-] cavalry, he could barely make up enough cavalry for a standard battalion.

After the [-] cavalry were assembled enough, Li Dingguo did not turn back to Han Hancheng, but continued to select the gunners here.

Contrary to Li Dingguo's expectation, although the blunderbuss players here are very simple, most of them are accurate and fast.

However, when he selected the elite fighters, he realized that what the King of Korea said was true.

Except for the mighty cavalry archers who were playing with their waists and knives, the weapons commonly used by the rebels and the Ming army, such as long spears, wolf whips, broadswords, and long knives, were almost like burning sticks in the hands of these people.

"I've never seen such a bad soldier!" This is Li Dingguo's final conclusion after several days of continuous selection.

It’s no wonder that Li Dingguo commented so much. It turned out that under the development of North Korea’s wonderful military skills and the mutual pecking with the three Jurchen tribes of Yalu River, Neyin, and Zhusheli, North Korea’s military skills developed to attach great importance to long-distance military skills. Shooting, but extremely underestimated the state of close combat.

When facing a battle, they will shoot for several rounds without moving, and once the enemy gets close, they will disperse.

"What should I do, General?" Left and right were at a loss as to what to do, so they couldn't help asking.

"What to do, cold salad!" Li Dingguo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's not that he can't train hand-to-hand soldiers. One is that time is limited, and the training of cold weapons takes years and months, which is not a one-time achievement; the other is that according to Zhang Shun's mind, he doesn't really want to make up for the shortcomings of North Korea's military skills. plate.

"Well, if it doesn't work, let's discuss it with Shen Shikui!" In fact, Li Dingguo's "hair gourd" is a good hand-to-hand fighter. If the North Korean national bird musketeer is trained in it, it may not be unusable.

It's just that not only has the old establishment been broken since then, but if the two sides don't cooperate well, they will be hindered by these bird gunners.

Li Dingguo had no choice but to turn south and head towards Phi Island.

After doing this for several days, they arrived in Tieshan territory.

This place is located in the east of Yizhou, quite close to Houjin, which occupied Phoenix City and Zhenjiang Fort. Li Dingguo immediately became vigilant.

While ordering his headquarters to spread scouts widely, he also ordered the selected Korean cavalry and gunners to march in battle formation.

After traveling like this for more than ten miles, a group of people suddenly surrounded them.

Then Li Dingguo was going to send troops to charge and kill him, but he didn't expect that the group of people had already separated out one person, and he went up and said: "But the heavenly soldiers are here? We are all fleeing from Liaodong, and now we are hungry. Please ask the general to give me some money." me!"

"Oh?" Li Dingguo couldn't help but doubt when he saw them carrying bows and arrows and carrying sharp knives, and some of them were even wearing worn-out cotton armor.

As soon as Li Dingguo said this, the man cried out, "General, you don't know something. We are originally Liao people, but the Jianren are brutal and have no way of living. We have no choice but to flee here and join Mao Shuai!"

"Now that Marshal Mao has passed away, and General Shen is unable to continue, we can only stay here temporarily."

"I never thought that a few days ago, the soldiers from the East came again, Kuandian, Changdian, Yizhou and Tieshan and other places were all captured by them. Two or three out of ten of us died in the war, and countless captives were captured. Now it’s just me and these people who can’t make a living, they only rely on robbing merchants!”

"Oh? Then do you have martial arts?" Li Dingguo couldn't help but ask with his eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Don't dare to lie to the general, most of us are from guards, and there are so many barbarians in the mountains, so we have never lost our ability!" The man replied after hearing the words.

"Okay, that's great!" Li Dingguo couldn't help but smiled and said, "The general wanted to recruit people, since you have nowhere to go, why don't you come with me and ask for a meal!"