Late Tang

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Muling Pass, located at the intersection of the three prefectures of Qingmi and Xinzhou, is the pass of the ancient Great Wall of Qi at the eastern foot of Yishan Mountain. The most dangerous pass.

This old city of Qi State was destroyed by wars in history. After Li Jing took control of the Shandong Peninsula, he saw that Muling Pass was located in an important position, which was actually the first gateway in the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula, so he rebuilt the pass.The new city is located on Daxian Mountain in the east of Yishan. The Guanlou is a two-storey, three-arched building. It is majestic, majestic and majestic. The layout is reasonable and the construction is solid, which can be described as "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it".

New Muling Pass is the southeast gateway of the Shandong Peninsula, connecting Canghai to the east, Taidai to the west, Linzi to the north, and Xuhuai to the south.When the fortress was completed, Li Jing once said on the Guancheng that on the border of Qi, the south of Qingzhou was guarded at Daxian, and the south of Jinan was guarded at Mount Tai.When Qin Fan was only developing within the Shandong Peninsula, Muling Pass provided great security protection for the early Qin Army.

Today, the Qin army has expanded southward to Chuzhou, south of the Huaihe River, and westward to Xuzhou, an important town in the Huanghuai River.Muling Pass has changed from a frontier pass to an internal pass, far from its important role in the past.

However, this is still guarding the gateway of the Shandong Peninsula and guarding the main roads of the Yishu River Valley, and Li Jing has not withdrawn the guards of this pass city.However, most of the original defenders were transferred away, and Muling Pass became one of the three best horse farms for the Qin Army today.Here, in the Daxian Mountain area, a total of [-] war horses are domesticated.

Today's Qin Fan, because of the vast horse-producing lands of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Andong, and Rehe outside the Guan, and Li Jing's emphasis on cavalry, the Qin Army has attached great importance to domesticating war horses over the years.Up to now, the Qin Army has 36 military horse breeding sites, with a total of 72 war horses, plus the war horses raised in the hands of the common people, and the privately owned war horse farms, all the war horses in the Qin Army have added up to one million horses .This is a figure that is proud of the world. Even in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, only 80 war horses were raised.

The entire Qin Army now has 12 formal cavalry, and there are also many reserve cavalry in the Xuejun, Tuanjie Battalion, and Township Soldier sequences.In the entire Qin Dynasty, there are 36 military horse farms, and there are 8 horse-breeding officials and horse-breeders alone.

The horse farm not only breeds its own war horses, but also tames a large number of wild horses and wild horses transported from outside the pass.A strong horse cannot become a war horse immediately, they have to be tamed.After being strictly tamed and trained by the racecourse, the horse will no longer be a raw horse, bid farewell to many wild and wild characters in the past, and become docile, sensitive, able to get close to people, withstand many stimuli, and easy to perform riding functions.Once the war requires, it can provide heavy cavalry, light cavalry, etc. with different types of horses that have undergone preliminary training and a sufficient number.After being assigned to the cavalry, these war horses can be used freely after a little familiarity.

The cavalry training of the Qin Army has actually begun the preliminary training from the military horse farm. This is more like a huge assembly line, standardized assembly line operations, and mass production of cavalry.

Daxian Mountain, the cavalry training ground, countless cavalry are training. This is a training ground for the Wuhu reorganization and training of soldiers and horses. A total of [-] elite cavalry of the Wuhu tribe are here to accept the new cavalry training of the Qin Fan. According to the plan, a total of Among the [-] reorganized Hu troops, there are [-] Hu cavalry. They must receive at least one year of new training before being sent to the northeast to supplement the various cavalry units and expand the cavalry strength of the Qin army.

On the large field, Hu Qi was training as a team. Wang Zhong, Gao Zhongwu, Guo Zhenshan, Gao Rong, Qin Zongshou and other generals stood on the reviewing platform and watched carefully.

The reorganized Wuhu cavalry has the same organization as the Qin army cavalry, with a group of ten people, a team of 50 people, a hundred people, a battalion of 500 people, two battalions of [-] people, and an army of [-] cavalry.

Hu Qi's individual soldiers are of very high quality, especially the [-] cavalry selected from the five tribes and millions of Hu people, they are even more powerful.In terms of personal bravery on horseback, riding skills, riding combat, riding and shooting, they can definitely defeat a large number of Qin cavalry.However, Li Jing has only one requirement for the reorganization and training of these Hu cavalry. While retaining their personal bravery, the training strengthens their team battle advantages.

This barbarian cavalry with as many as eight cavalry troops totaling 4 people was originally intended to be dispersed and replenished among the cavalry corps of the Qin Army, but now, the situation has changed, and Li Jing has just changed this decision.Forty thousand cavalry will form a powerful cavalry regiment together with some Qin cavalry.In the new cavalry corps, the Qin army has only [-], while the Hu cavalry has [-].This brand new cavalry corps with twelve armies will soon be awarded the title of cavalry corps, and Li Jing will personally serve as the commander of this huge cavalry corps.

Li Jing's first requirement for Hu Qi's reorganization training is absolute strict discipline.

Hu people are tough and brave, but they also lack discipline, especially team spirit.

Li Jing equipped these Huqi with excellent equipment, such as half-body steel plate armor, pot-shaped steel helmet, small round steel shield, cavalry gun, saber, bow, crossbow, thunderbolt, steel axe, steel whip... .

However, Li Jing ordered them to forbid them to shoot arrows during battle. Instead, they were required to line up in a neat and dense queue, first jogging, then gradually accelerating to strides, and finally galloping towards the enemy. effect.

On the school field, a whole battalion of Hu Qi wore half breastplate armor, armed with lances and belted sabers, and charged in formation.

On the review stand, Wang Zhong and the others saw that these Hu Qimen had only been trained for half a year, and now they were able to move in a uniform manner under the constraints of discipline. When they launched a collective charge, they kept horses next to horses, shoulders together. The shoulders are like a fast-moving iron wall.This wall maintains collective strength at all times, avoiding chaotic fighting after the formation is broken up. .

In running and charging, maintaining a dense formation of cavalry is an overall tactical behavior that is far more difficult than individual horseback martial arts, and it is also the cornerstone of the Qin Army's new cavalry tactics.

As one of the generals of the Gao family, Gao Zhongwu couldn't believe that these people who were performing a charge were actually the Hu people who had just joined him half a year ago.They did it, not still individual bravery, but full of teamwork. When they charge, they don't even need to use their hands to control the reins, because the horses of the left and right companions will lead their horses to charge forward.

In this way, each cavalryman can release two hands to fight, holding a saber in one hand and a crossbow in the other.

The cavalry formation marching like a wall does not need too high a galloping speed, otherwise, it will disrupt the formation and affect the impact force, so they use a neat jogging charge.

On the training ground, Wang Zhong and others observed with their own eyes the drills and battles between the blue-robed cavalry battalion, which used the iron wall ranks to charge the new cavalry formation, and the red-robed cavalry battalion, which used the traditional ** technique.As a result, it was surprisingly found that when the cavalry of the two sides fought hand-to-hand, there would always be a situation where the red cavalry had a scimitar facing two or three blue cavalry sabers at the same time.

The Red Robe Cavalry Battalion used their excellent riding and martial arts skills to fight against the unity and discipline of the blue robe cavalry, but they were always defeated without any suspense.As for the blue-robed cavalry, even after they dispersed the red-robed cavalry battalion, they were still able to maintain an orderly formation and fight collectively.

Wang Zhong sighed: "When the King of Qin proposed the 'Iron Wall Cavalry Tactic' earlier, most people in the army were skeptical. After all, light cavalry is not heavy cavalry, and charging and breaking through formations is not a strong point. The traditional light cavalry Combat methods are based on cavalry, archery, and guns, and they are rarely head-to-head. But after seeing this drill today, I finally believe that light cavalry is not really only for cavalry and archery. When they use iron How many of them can stop a wall-like striker from advancing?"

Gao Zhongwu added next to him: "In fact, this iron wall tactic is actually more of a tactic aimed at the Huren cavalry outside the Great Wall. And the chariot formation, and there is no fortress city Chi Haogou that restrains the cavalry. It can be said that especially in large-scale cavalry battles, this iron wall tactic does not have many restrictions, and can bring out the strongest potential of the cavalry. In the next battle where the King of Qin personally conquered the Huren, I seemed to have seen the scene where they pushed forward the iron wall and defeated the combined tribal cavalry all over the mountains and plains."

In the land of Daibei, the terrain is closer to beyond the Great Wall, so it is very suitable for fighting on the grassland.In the open grassland, there are no castles, fortresses, or deer feet in Haogou. The Hu cavalry has great advantages.If the Qin army wants to deal with Hu Qi, the best choice is to use cavalry to defeat cavalry.However, compared to the number of people, Li Jing's cavalry is not as large as the Hu cavalry. Therefore, using the advantages of equipment and creating a new style of cavalry warfare with strict discipline can make the cavalry of the Hu people the biggest disadvantage.

The first rule of Qin cavalry training is that discipline is more important than riding.

There is also a special battle in the Hu people's cavalry battle, which is cavalry and shooting.However, the requirements for cavalry and archery are extremely high, especially when charging. Only the best-trained cavalry can keep charging while riding and arching. For most cavalry, including Hu Qi, once they are on horseback, they will not be able to charge. It affects the continuity of the charging process, and the impact force is greatly reduced.

And Li Jing's strategy is to prohibit riding and shooting when charging, and equip his cavalry with strong breastplates and helmets. It is easier to overwhelm the party that relies on ** riding and shooting as a whole.

War is an overall battle. Even if the damage suffered during the charge is greater, as long as the enemy can be crushed, it will only be them who will win a greater victory in the end.

Of course, Li Jing proposed the iron wall tactic, but he did not only require the cavalry to know this tactic.In fact, Li Jing encouraged the individual cavalry training of all Qin cavalry, believing that cavalry should be able to face a variety of situations, rather than relying only on dense formations to fight.

The galloping iron wall of cavalry is just the core tactic against the barbarian cavalry. In addition, the quality of individual soldiers also needs to be preserved.After breaking down the enemy's formation, the individual quality of the cavalry will be of great use.

A beautiful iron wall charge completely defeated the red robe army.

After the iron wall tactical drill, Qin Zongshou waved the flag, the cavalry left the field, and soon another battalion of cavalry entered the field.

"The next thing is the cavalry saber training exercise. All Hu cavalry have been equipped with excellent sabers produced by Dengzhou Ordnance Workshop, and they have been trained in accordance with the army military classics and saber training manual written by King Qin himself. Now it has begun to bear fruit!"

Following Qin Zongshou's introduction, the officers' loud commands came from the colonel: "The first part of the saber training drill, step off the saber drill, and start now."

"Basic defensive action, stab!"

With the roar of the instructor, a battalion of cavalry dismounted one after another. They moved neatly. They didn't even need to step on the stirrups when they dismounted.The saber step down tactic, the first stab, there are nine moves!

"At the beginning of the cavalry training, fake knives are used, but after mastering the basic movements, they must start training with real knives and practice according to the password, so that the cavalry can become familiar with their weapons."

Wang Zhong, Gao Zhongwu and other generals came here this time to directly test Hu Qi's combat effectiveness and to make the final pre-war assessment for the battle of King Qin's personal conquest.If these Hu Qi perform poorly, then the Council of Staff, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Ministry of War will jointly advise King Qin to cancel this very dangerous plan.

But now it seems that although the Hu people have only received half a year of reorganization training, they have fully achieved the expected effect, and even far exceeded it.In some respects, the Hu people who grew up on horseback were indeed born cavalry warriors.

The only thing that makes them a little worried now is that these Hu people have only been attached for less than half a year. At this time, they were pulled to the battlefield, and it was King Qin who led them as the main force. The enemy was still 20 Hu people, and several Wansha Tuo people.What if these barbarians harbor evil intentions then?

Wang Zhong said in a deep voice: "The king of Qin has made up his mind on this matter, and it cannot be changed. But I don't think we need to worry too much. Although these barbarians have just voted for a short time, their clansmen and family members are all resettled in our Qin Fan. Besides, the tribes that are going to fight this time are mainly Khitan and Shatuo, and the Five Hus have always been at odds with them."

"That's good!" Gao Zhongwu said with some worry.

"Announce the king's decree to call all the trained cavalry in the Muling cavalry training camp, and set off immediately to Donghai Port to take a boat to Tianjin to gather!" Wang Zhong ordered loudly.

The drums were rumbling, the horns were blazing, and the king's order was conveyed one after another. After a while, all the Hu soldiers in the Muling cavalry training camp had received the military order. The King of Qin called them to Tianjin to assemble, where they joined the army. The king of Qin led a personal conquest of the homeless Shatuo wolf and Khitan dog allied forces who beat them.

"From now on, you are the Fifth Army of the Iron Cavalry Legion. Step on your horses, hold your sabers tightly, follow the flying eagle battle flag, follow the King of Qin, and seize the supreme glory that belongs to you!" Wang Zhong Draw your sword, stand on the high reviewing platform, and shout! "Glory cavalry, fight for King Qin!"

"Glory Iron Cavalry, fight for King Qin!" Shan Hu shouted, heading straight for Yun Xiao! (To be continued.)