In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 259 What is the shame of Jingkang

Ever since they knew where the cavalry was, Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen would often team up to see it.

Because there was no suitable place to raise horses in the Song Dynasty, it was difficult for them to imagine that the island where they were located could raise horses.

After waiting for a long time, they realized that this Jeju Island was bought by Zhao Yurui from Gaoli. The island has an area of ​​more than 200 million mu, of which the area of ​​pasture reaches between 120 million and 150 million mu, enough to simultaneously Raise [-] to [-] war horses.

After Zhao and Rui got Jeju Island, they kept around [-] horses in the first two years (because there were many ponies), and from the third year onwards, they only kept [-] horses.

On this day, Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen, accompanied by several guards, came to the vicinity of Halla Mountain in the central part of Jeju Island. From a long distance, they saw thousands of war horses running around on a high ground under Halla Mountain, and their speed was not very fast.

This is the main production area of ​​later Hana horses (a hybrid of Jeju horses and Mongolian horses).

Later generations of Hana horses became the main choice for horse racing in various places due to their tall stature and strong explosive power, but their endurance was not good.

There are no Hana horses here, just Jeju horses.

Jeju horses are very similar to Mongolian horses. They are relatively short in stature, docile, disease-resistant, and survivable. They also have good endurance and speed. They are especially good in physical strength. It can be said that they are rare in the world. Xixia horse) and Mongolian horse are also known as high-quality war horses.

Jeju horses are mostly brown, with a small amount of brown and black, or gray, and almost no white.

Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen, accompanied by guards, slowly approached the middle of the pasture.

The four guards did not stop them, and the two kept walking.

He quickly found a high place and looked ahead.

I saw dozens of targets erected at the foot of the mountain ahead, and hundreds of cavalry were practicing riding and shooting.

There was a line drawn with lime thirty steps in front of the target. Shi Miyuan didn't know why he drew this distance at the time.

Or Xia Zhen turned around and asked Yuan Wu Zhang: "How powerful is our army's cavalry and bows?"

Yuan Wuchang said: "Generally seven buckets, a small number of eight buckets, one stone is less."

Xia Zhen then said to Shi Miyuan: "The riding bow is weak, only thirty steps can have a better armor-piercing effect."

Because what you shoot at thirty paces is only the front row, and you have to shoot at the back, so the shooting distance should be within fifty paces.

Commander Yuan nodded: "Mr. Xia has been a soldier?"

Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen rolled his eyes at him at the same time, Xia Zhen thought to himself, I used to be the palace commander.

But he didn't need to say it now, he might humiliate himself if he said it, so he could only laugh twice.

While a few people were talking, suddenly a group of cavalry in front ran wildly.

Although Shi Miyuan was a civil servant, it was the first time he saw so many cavalry running wildly, and he looked nervously for no reason.

Xia Zhengui was the commander-in-chief of the Great Song Palace, and he had never led so many cavalry before, so he could not help but stare.

I saw hundreds of cavalry starting to speed up from about [-] paces to the north, and then slowing down after [-] paces, and then everyone began to shoot arrows with their bows.

"Tiger!" Suddenly someone in the crowd shouted, and then there was a crash and a big flag was unfurled.

Only then did Xia Zhen realize that there was an officer in front carrying a flag, but like the Mongols, it was usually folded. Now it was suddenly unfolded, which should be an order.

Rumbling, many of the cavalrymen raised their hands and held arrows and circled in the air. Then everyone was seen spinning in the air. Then the cavalrymen began to turn around and plundered both sides while they were stunned.

Hundreds of fine cavalry began to plunder from fifty paces, and the forward quickly entered within thirty paces, parallel to the archery target.

"Swish, swish, swish," the first row took the lead in shooting arrows.

Then rows of cavalry passed by, and each row passed by with one arrow and ran away.

The scene looked better. The cavalry rushed a hundred paces, divided into two teams, swept left and right, then swept around thirty paces, turned left and right, and then merged into a team behind, and started again. scene.

After all, Shi Miyuan had never seen the world, and Xia Zhen was shocked when he saw the cavalry move so neatly and smoothly for the first time.

The two watched for a while, and saw the cavalry repeating back and forth, shooting five rounds, the scene was quite smooth, and orders were prohibited.

"Is my great Song cavalry so powerful?" Shi Miyuan couldn't help but turned his head and asked Xia Zhen.

Xia Zhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He thought to himself that the cavalry of the Imperial Forbidden Army were not so elite in the past. They must have been trained by Zhao and Rui for several years.

He hadn't spoken yet, Bang, among the cavalry in front, who ran fast or slow, collided with another cavalry.

Both riders fell at the same time.

There was an uproar in the cavalry formation, and the surroundings scattered one after another.

The scene gradually became quiet, and then loud curses broke out.

The few people were far away, and they didn't hear anything scolding. Anyway, some officers were yelling at the one who fell down.

Yuan Wuchang and the others looked embarrassed. They were quite proud just now, but now they are a little dumbfounded.

"One ride didn't keep the distance well, and it crashed." Xia Zhen is an expert, and he can see the key at a glance.

If he was close enough, he would know that just after the Song Army cavalry started running, all the officers above the corps commander in the formation would shout from time to time: "Keep your distance, keep your distance."

Such cries were heard throughout the army, and the officers reminded the soldiers to keep a manageable distance when running.

When turning a corner, someone turned too fast and hit the horse in front.

The man fell hard, and when he got off the horse, he was almost trampled down by the horse behind him, and soon he was limped and helped off.

Then I saw a group of about nine riders running out of the crowd. After running to the foot of the mountain, they jumped off their horses one after another.

Then I saw these nine people began to make a strange movement on the ground.

"What are they doing?" Xia Zhen was even more stunned.

Yuan Wudao: "If one person makes a mistake, the whole team will be punished."

Shi Miyuan suddenly remembered that when Zhao Yurui was in Wei Wangfu, he led his men to practice Cuju every day. Damn, he was already training soldiers at that time?Shi Miyuan couldn't help but curse secretly.

"Your Majesty's cavalry is well trained." Shi Miyuan deliberately praised.

Xia Zhen didn't take it seriously: "I think there are three or four out of ten people who missed the shot just now."

The two watched five rounds just now, and many cavalrymen of the Song Army did not hit the target.

Riding and archery cannot be practiced accurately in a day or two.

Behind Wuchang Yuan refused to accept it, and said loudly: "If there is a dense formation on the opposite side, you don't have to shoot too accurately."

Of course Xia Zhen would not argue with this kind of person, he laughed dryly.

After watching it for a while, they felt bored and continued southward along Halla Mountain.

After a while, two more groups of cavalry were seen.

This time Xia Zhen's eyes were opened again. Among the two groups of cavalry, one group basically didn't carry any bows, and the other group only had bows. The former group was all dressed in red, and the latter group was all dressed in black.

I saw the black team with bows and arrows riding around from all directions, and when they approached another team of red-clothed cavalry, they drew their bows and shot.

Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen stared wide-eyed, why did their own man shoot their own man?
It was later discovered that they were all arrows without arrowheads.

At this time, another group of red-clothed cavalry chased after them, and the black-clothed cavalry turned around and ran away.

But he kept his distance and shot back from time to time.

However, the hit rate was really hard to watch. Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen watched for a long time, and found that shooting ten arrows probably hit two or three arrows, which is quite low.

When shooting at a fixed target just now, at least three or four of the ten arrows missed.

Now out of ten arrows, only two or three arrows can hit.

Then they found that when the red cavalry turned around, the running black cavalry came back, the red cavalry chased after them, and the black cavalry ran again.

Two cavalrymen ran back and forth on the open ground, the scene was obviously a bit funny, but Shi Xia and the two couldn't laugh.

Xia Zhen looked at it for a long time, then turned his head and asked Yuan Wuchang: "Whose tactics are you learning from?"

"Mongols." Yuan Wu said.

Shi Miyuan didn't say anything. He was a civilian official and couldn't talk about military matters, but he was shocked. Is Zhao Yurui thinking about the Northern Expedition?Learn what the Mongols did to deal with the Jin people?
"Your Majesty wants to conduct the Northern Expedition?" Xia Zhen finally said.

Shi Miyuan's expression moved slightly, and he couldn't help but look at Wuchang Yuan.

Wu Chang Yuan didn't even think about it, and said loudly: "The general doesn't know, but we are paid as soldiers, and with His Majesty's salary, we will fight whoever His Majesty tells us to fight."

Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen looked at each other. They did not expect that the emperor would have such majesty in the hearts of these low-level military attachés.

Next, the two opened their eyes. All the way to the south, there are various pastures, and every pasture is training soldiers.

They also saw two teams of heavily armored cavalry. They first shot each other on horseback with headless arrows. After shooting for more than ten rounds, they dismounted and started running.

Such a heavy armor traveled a long way. Xia Zhen asked Yuan Wuchang and found out that the armor weighed 40 kilograms. He was very shocked.

Then the two teams of armored soldiers began to fight hand to hand.

The two sides used wooden knives and wooden guns, but the fight was really ruthless, and the scene was quite chaotic. Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen watched as one side knocked the other down to the ground, and someone stood on the other side's armor and shouted wildly.

The scene seemed like a victory, with many people cheering.

After Xia Zhen asked, he found out that if he loses, he will be punished for physical fitness, if he wins, he will get extra meals and meat, and if he wins more times, he will get a bonus.

Wuchang Yuan even said that both sides had beaten people to death before, and they were all desperate.

After hearing this, Xia Zhen was speechless for a long time, and couldn't help thinking, if my Song army trained like this, why would Jingkang be ashamed? ——
In February of the third year of Baoqing, Baozhou (Baoding), Hebei.

King Polo was standing in front of a map with a gloomy expression.

Bolu is the son of Muhuali, the founding hero of Mongolia. Genghis Khan made Muhuali the king and bestowed the Nine-White Banner, which is similar to the Nine-Tin in the Han Dynasty, but the Nine-Tin does not represent power, but only courtesy. represent power.

The Muhuali family is equivalent to the Mongolian kings with different surnames.

After Mu Huali's death, Bolu attacked the king and guarded Yanjing (Beijing), making him the supreme ruler of Mongolia in the north.

Mongolia's strategy against the Jin and Song people here was formulated by him.

Since the last time Genghis Khan brought an order, asking him to plan for Shandong, Bolu immediately summoned Shi Tianze to discuss, and finally sent a combination of Bali Hai and Shi Tianlu to lead [-] cavalry into Shandong. Unexpectedly, he returned with a huge defeat, which made Bolu feel ashamed and embarrassed. angry.

In the original history, Bolu entered Shandong in December last year, a month later than this time, and he personally led the army.

Li Quan was still there at that time. He first defeated Li Quan, then surrendered Zhang Rong, and finally attacked Tengzhou, and then handed over Tengzhou to Shi Tianlu.He also ordered vanguard marshal Xiao Naitai to garrison Jizhou and Yanzhou, Kuokuobuhua to garrison Weizhou, Yizhou and Juzhou to guard against the Song army, and Zhaer to garrison Hebei to guard against the Jin army.

By this time, Mongolia had completely occupied more than 90.00% of Shandong's territory, and also fully bordered the Song army.

The time is still this time, but the result is completely different.

The Song army first destroyed Li Quan, and then flattened Zhang Rong. It also occupied almost 90.00% of Shandong's territory, and also bordered the Mongolian army in an all-round way.

However, the strategic space of the Song army was even greater, further reducing the power of the Mongolian army.

In the original history, the Mongolian army's entry into Shandong was Bolu's own strategy. This time, Genghis Khan reminded him a month earlier.

Shandong was a place that Polo had always wanted to capture. No matter whether he launched a war against Jin or Song in the future, he must possess Shandong and occupy the geographical advantage as the foundation.

Now that history has changed and Shandong has been lost, it is quite bad for Mongolia's situation.

(End of this chapter)