The night before April 19th year of Kaihuang, Kuhezhen, the uncle of the Turkic Dulan Khan, was betrayed by everyone. His nephew Yu Sushe and Yintou Special Service secretly accepted Yi Feng's surrender and led his confidants to rebel. During the chaos, Kuhezhen was disguised as a militant and slashed his head with a knife. As a result, the camp was in chaos, and Dou Jiande led his army to fight. At the moment, the inside and outside were attacked, and 30,000 Turkic troops were in chaos. At dawn, Yi Feng led 30,000 troops to arrive. Dou Jiande, Liu Wenjing and Yu Sushe, Yintou, had already controlled the camp.

After a night of battle, the Turkic army suffered thousands of casualties, and all of them surrendered.

In the dawn of sun, Yu Rushing and Yintou Special Service led more than 20,000 Turkic troops to surrender to Yifeng.

Yu Su fired to Yi Feng with silver wolf flags and silver arrows. In front of the 80,000 Han and Fan army, he knelt on his knees, holding the rolled silver wolf flags and silver arrows in his hands, and said words of surrender and loyalty. When Yi Feng vowed allegiance, Yi Feng did not believe it. However, considering the current situation, Yi Feng was still willing to accept their surrender. It doesn't matter if they are not loyal now. As long as they master the general trend, they will eventually be loyal to themselves. This surrender of nearly 30,000 Turkic troops, plus the 30,000 Turkic troops in Li Jing's army, Yi Feng had 60,000 Turkic troops in his hands.

And just later that day, Li Jing once again sent great news.

In front of Caogou, Daman could not capture it for a long time, and his troops had already surrendered to Li Jing who was at the gate.

"Daman surrendered too?" Yi Feng asked Li Mi who brought this good news.

"No, it is said that Daman found that many of his subordinates wanted to surrender, worried that he would be rebelled by his subordinates. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking Guan, he quietly took the Hundred Cavalry Guards out of the camp late at night and took the small path to cross the mountain and fled back to Weizhou. Seeing that Daman left his troops and fled alone, his subordinates simply surrendered to Guan Shang after discussing."

"Well, it doesn't matter if one Daman left. He still stayed with his eight thousand soldiers. In this way, the two 100,000 soldiers and horses that attacked Weigui were basically over. There were nearly 70,000 surrenders."

Li Mi also smiled and said, "If the more than 20,000 people in Weizhou were eliminated, in fact, fewer people died in the battlefield in Daman and Kuhezhen. The rest were surrendered to Your Highness."

"It's totally unexpected."

"What is Your Highness going to deal with these Turkic surrendered troops?" Liu Wenjing asked.

Yi Feng didn't know how to answer for a moment. Nearly 70,000 Turkic surrendered troops were. As Li Mi said, in fact, several battles were fought suddenly and ended quickly. There was basically no bloody battle between the trapped beasts and the battle was to fight to the death. Each battle was basically defeated, raided and ambushed. Every time the Turkic people basically lost about 10% of their troops and their morale collapsed and surrendered. Although outsiders may think this was a bit inconsistent with the name of the Turkic soldiers. But in fact, in the fight of this cold weapon in the Middle Ages, they lacked the bloodiness of resisting to the end. Maybe they were very brave and could fight, but it was just that

At the beginning, the situation was stalemate. Then it declined again and was exhausted. On the battlefield, when the casualties began to fall down, and 20% of the casualties could continue to fight, it was already an elite force. More than 30% of the casualties would cause the casualties to fall, then 90% of the army would collapse. And the casualties to 40% or 50% or even 607% of the army could still fight. Occasionally, it was also in the siege war. There was no way to retreat, so it was possible to fight to the end. In the field, two to three% were the bottom line. Those who could persist until 20% of the casualties could still fight to the elite. Those who could persist until 30% of the casualties could still fight were extremely strong and elite troops.

On the frontal battlefield in the wild, the biggest casualties do not come from direct battles, but often from the side with a collapsed morale. They are chased and killed while fleeing, and are often far higher than the casualties in frontal warfare. There are also a large number of soldiers who are only injured on the battlefield, and finally die after the war is not treated in time.

The combat will of modern military generations is generally higher than that of this era. The most important reason is that the discipline of the army in later generations is strong. The Huaihuang Army has always emphasized military discipline and built an army with discipline. The soldiers of Huaihuang may not be as strong as the Turks, but their discipline is definitely much better than the Turks. Therefore, on the battlefield, the Huaihuang Army can persist in fighting for a longer time and endure higher casualties without collapsing. Even during cavalry warfare, the Huaihuang Cavalry can also allow the cavalry to fight in a neat array to kill the enemy through strict training. Like infantry, it plays its overall advantage, rather than relying on personal courage like the Turks. The Turks are indeed brave and fierce, but they also lack discipline and are free and lively. When they are in small groups of troops, their mobility and flexibility and personal courage can indeed make them far stronger than the small groups of Huaihuang cavalry.

But Yi Feng had long emphasized to his subordinates that two Turkic cavalry can easily defeat three Huaihuang cavalry, but fifty Huaihuang cavalry can already tie the 50 Turkic cavalry, one hundred Huaihuang cavalry can beat one hundred Turkic cavalry, and five Huaihuang cavalry will definitely beat five hundred Turkic cavalry. The reason is discipline, the overall cooperation, and through overall cooperation and combat, they can play a result of one plus one greater than two.

The cavalry sermon written by Yi Feng for the Huaihuang cavalry is actually the cavalry of modern cavalry. The way he trained the cavalry of Huaihuang is also the way of formal cavalry in modern times.

After Yu Rushi surrendered, he praised Yi Feng for the Huaihuang cavalry as an Iron Cavalry. This title is not entirely flattering. The Iron Cavalry not only because the steel plate armor and Iron Cavalry worn by the Huaihuang cavalry more refers to the strong discipline of the Huaihuang cavalry. The Huaihuang cavalry was wearing a dazzling mirror-like breastplate, holding a cavalry sword, and was equipped with double-edged battle axes, steel whip copper maces, hand crossbows and cavalry bows. Most of their personal riding and shooting skills were not the opponents of the national Turkic warriors on horseback, but they could always act neatly under strict discipline. When the Huaihuang cavalry launched the iconic collective charge, they always kept their horses next to the horse, shoulder to shoulder, like a fast-moving iron wall.

The iron wall always maintains collective strength to avoid the chaotic fighting of each other after the formation disperses. They even do not control the reins with their hands, but can free their hands to fight. Therefore, the Huaihuang cavalry's personal combat power is not as good as the Turkish cavalry, but the overall combat power is far higher than that of the Turkish cavalry. However, the combat method of the Huaihuang cavalry is not easy to imitate, and they must maintain a dense queue when running and charging. This is a much more difficult overall tactical action than the individual's cavalry's ability to ride and shoot. What is required is long-term cooperative training, professional army and high-intensity training, and extremely strong tacit understanding. In addition, it is also needed to be steel plate armor, which is thin and light and defensive than ordinary iron armor, as well as horse spears and cavalry swords that are very suitable for the charge of the Huaihuang cavalry.

Yi Feng's two cavalrymen had 20,000 pure combat cavalry and 10,000 logistics. Training these 20,000 cavalry basically cost Huaihuang a lot of money, and the scale of supporting cavalry reached an upper limit.

Now, with 70,000 old Turkic cavalry in hand, how should Yi Feng deal with them?

Of course he could not put them back, it was tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain.

These Turkic cavalry could not be transformed into new cavalry like Huaihuang cavalry. Yi Feng did not have so many armor, weapons and money to invest, nor was he willing to spend so much effort to train and transform these Turkic cavalry.

It is impossible to train the tribal cavalry composed of Turkic herders into cavalry with a strong discipline like the Huaihuang cavalry, but these Turkic cavalry also have many advantages that Huaihuang cavalry cannot have, that is, their natural horseback cavalry, have strong personal cavalry skills, and are flexible and brave. They are very suitable for small troops to fight, especially in terms of reconnaissance, patrol, slut, and pursuit, and have advantages that are difficult for the Huaihuang cavalry to reach.

The Turkic cavalry could not fight against the Huaihuang cavalry's formation, and the Huaihuang cavalry was also difficult to defeat those Turkic cavalry who were good at riding and shooting on some peripheral battlefields.

Both sides have their own advantages, the key is how to use them.

Seventy thousand cavalry, this number is quite tempting. Even if it is traditional cavalry, it is still far more than ordinary infantry in this era. For Yi Feng, he needs this force to strengthen his strength and cannot easily let go of this force.

"Well, don't we have the Fourth Field Infantry Army, the Second Field Cavalry and the Five Guards and the Garage Army now. Each army is equipped with two battalions of each of them, a total of 6,000 Turkic Light Cavalry. Before the allocation, we will reorganize and disperse some. These Turkic Cavalry are temporarily considered as our Huaihuang Army."

"Is it also given them military pay? Do you also remember the rewards for military merits?" Li Mi asked. All the 70,000 Turkic cavalry were recruited into the Huaihuang army. This is not a small number. Not only did the food and grass of 70,000 people be added in the future, but there would be military pay and rewards for combat. This is another big sum.

"Since he fights side by side with our soldiers, of course he also has military pay, and has merits and rewards, and they are treated equally. However, they are new to the army, so the military ranks and other things must suffer some losses, which is normal, right?" Yi Feng made a look that you know. So many Turkic troops will definitely be cut off and removed in the end, but now, they must stay in the army. Even if they are pulled up as cannon fodder at critical moments and let them fight with the Turks, it is also excellent. For this reason, paying some military pay and rewards is really ordinary.

"Will you change them out?" Li Mi asked again.

"There is no need to change clothes, and there is no need to change armor and weapons, but arrows still have to be fully supplied. In addition, there must be no shortage of food and grass. Since the horses are running, how can we not let the horses eat grass?"

"I understand." Li Mi nodded. "So, I don't know how your highness will make arrangements next? I'll make plans in advance for your Highness to refer to."

"Next." Yi Feng said without hesitation, "Then of course we will immediately march northward. Nili is now outside Huaihuang City. In addition, 20,000 Tiel people came outside Wusha Castle. Maybe this time we have the opportunity to increase the Turkic cavalry under our command to 100,000 cavalry."

"Do you go north to Huaihuang? What about the more than 20,000 Turkic troops in Weizhou and more than 40,000 Turkic troops in Yunnei?" Li Mi asked.

Yi Feng spread his hands, "That's the problem of our Prime Minister Gao and Marshal He Ruo. We can't control it. Let's clear the snow in front of our own door first." (To be continued)
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