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The training of the Cavalry Division and the Guards Division was carried out in strict accordance with the training outline drawn up by Zhao Qiang before, but the training was generally carried out in accordance with the training methods of the Zhou Army that Wu Sangui, the former Guanning Army, brought to Guannei to develop. 【】.In terms of cavalry, what Zhao Qiang knew was basically the same as the soldiers of this era, and he did not surpass the cavalry generals of this era because of two or three hundred years of knowledge.

If you don’t understand, let those who understand do it. This is what Zhao Qiang did very well. He never intervened in everything like the principals of later generations. Instead, he boldly used people who knew how to do things that he didn’t understand. .Therefore, the training of the cavalry division is carried out by the chief officers of the cavalry division at all levels from the bottom to the bottom. Zhao Qiang only achieves results without interfering. Implement a qualitative leap in team combat effectiveness.

From the beginning of its birth, the cavalry has gone through 2000 years of tests and continuous improvement by the generals of the past dynasties. At this time, all aspects have matured and there is no need for major changes. History also tells Zhao Qiang that in more than 100 years, the cavalry will be transformed from human The history of war has declined and eventually dissipated in the long river of history, replaced by the army of thermal weapons.Therefore, for the cavalry divisions that can still play a role in this era and do not have to think of ways to improve them at all, Zhao Qiang just let them develop according to the traditional path, and did not get too hot-headed and delusional to operate on the cavalry to make them "renewed". new creature.

But not interfering does not mean that Zhao Qiangxin has no regrets and no ideas. He has, but he has no way to do it.He knew very well that in terms of the number of cavalry, no matter how many he made up, he could not catch up with the Qing army. They had cavalry from the Manchurian and Han tribes and the Eight Banners. If they lost, they could go to the Mongolian tribes to replenish them, or they could conscript millions of Han Chinese as cannon fodder. In short, the Qing army had a frighteningly large number of soldiers. They didn't care about one or two defeats with tens of thousands of casualties, but Zhao Qiang cared because he couldn't bear a defeat of this scale.The reason is simple, he has no soldiers to supplement.The territory under the rule is very large, really huge. Zhao Qiang once calculated that the current territory occupied by the Guanning army alone is the sum of the area of ​​Henan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces in Guanzhong. However, in such a large territory, soldiers There are less than 7 people together, which means that if the cavalry divisions are wiped out under the heavy attack of the Qing army after going south, then Zhao Qiang will no longer have cavalry available, and his Houguan Ning army will also become a missing wing. Angel, finally withered in the world.

It is also impossible to simply compare the number of cavalry with the Qing army, so Zhao Qiang can only hope that the cavalry of the Guanning Army can surpass the Qing army by several heads in combat effectiveness, and can achieve the greatest results with the smallest casualties in each battle. The weapons and equipment and the quality of soldiers are different from nonsense.But the only thing that can make his wish come true is the three-eyed firecracker.

The three-eyed gun is a weapon of mass destruction in the Ming Dynasty. Its style is similar to that of the old-fashioned gun. It has three ignition devices and three medicine chambers. The most developed firearm.The three-eyed blunderbuss is small in size, and the three-shot firepower of the cavalry charge will cause great damage and shock to the opponent. After firing, it can be used as a hammer weapon. Using the running speed of the horse, the speed of the heavy blow is no less than any other weapon. A horse fighting weapon, as long as it is hit, the opponent will die.And the man who made the three-eyed blunderbuss a cavalry killer and became famous through the ages was an old man whom Zhao Qiang admired in his life every "History of the Ming Dynasty".

"If the attack is insufficient, the defense is more than enough. It is not easy to recover the talent of the other side. It is enough to be careful and guard it if you make it full-time."

This quote comes from a biography of a man.The meaning of this remark is: With this person's talent, it is not easy to restore the lost country, but if you trust him and let go of the power to him, then it is possible to stabilize the existing country.This is a supreme evaluation. This sentence comes from "History of Ming Dynasty", and the person who compiled "History of Ming Dynasty" was a historian of the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, a dynasty where character prisons were rampant, and Han people's integrity was castrated, saying such words would be decapitated.Because the implied meaning of these words is: If this person has been in office, the Qing Dynasty will not be able to take over the world.But the historians of the Qing Dynasty said it, and wrote such words into the "History of Ming Dynasty", and they were not criticized or scolded by the emperor, and no one was punished for it.At the same time, they also expressed their respect for this person in a very special way.

In the 220-volume biography of Ming history, which records the deeds of thousands of people, countless heroes who are well-known to future generations are crowded with others, but this person's biography only includes him and his descendants!

This person is not Xu Da, who has Chang Yuchun in Xu Da's biography; nor Liu Bowen, who has Song Lian, Ye Chen, and Zhang Yi in Liu Bowen's biography; nor Wang Shouren, whose protégé Ji Yuanheng is in Wang Shouren's biography; nor Zhang Juzheng. In Zhang Juzheng's biography, there are his teacher Xu Jie and his opponent Gao Gong; not to mention Yuan Chonghuan, because there are ten people in Yuan Chonghuan's biography.

This person is Sun Chengzong, the greatest strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, the nemesis of Nurhachi and his son, the defender of the capital, the teacher of the emperor, and the founder of Guanning Iron Cavalry!It is because of this person that there is Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, Zhao Ledjiao, He Kegang, Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, and Wu Sangui...

Sun Chengzong was the teacher of Emperor Apocalypse. After Liaodong was in an emergency, he left the customs at the age of sixty to check the current situation in person, and finally made the decision to "defend Liao soil with Liao people". Under the influence of this policy, the predecessor of the Guanning Army Liaodong cavalry was established.The 7000 people who first entered the Liaodong Iron Cavalry were all refugees. They were all men whose families had been ruined and who had an unshakable hatred against Hou Jin. These people defended the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years until the end.The reason why Liaodong iron cavalry has such a reputation and record is all thanks to the three-eyed firecrackers equipped by the army.

As the direct successor of the Liaodong Cavalry, Zhao Qiang and the soldiers of the Wu Army under his command have the shadow of the Guanning Army. Just as a certain army in later generations likes to recall the glory of the army's predecessor, Zhao Qiang's Guanning Army pursued the Liaodong Cavalry .Regardless of the composition of the current Guanning Army, no matter what political banner the current Guanning Army is playing, they cannot cut off the blood relationship between the Guanning Army and the Liaodong Cavalry, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, and Wu Sangui.

If he wanted to revive the prestige of Liaodong iron cavalry, if he wanted to conquer more with less, and defeat the strong with the weak, Zhao Qiang had to equip his cavalry division with three-eyed firecrackers, but he couldn't make them without three-eyed firecrackers, so He is going to the capital, because if he wants to have a three-eyed firecracker or even a "meat grinder" machine gun, he must get someone, and this person is Dai Zi!