Chapter 849 Iron Cavalry
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Muling Pass, located at the intersection of the three states of Qingmi-Xin, is the pass of the ancient Qi Great Wall on the eastern foot of the Yi Mountains. It was once a strategic point for the struggle between Qi and Lu during the Warring States Period, and it is also the oldest, most majestic and most dangerous pass along the Qi Great Wall.
This ancient city of Qi was destroyed by wars in history. After Li Jing controlled the Shandong Peninsula, it was found in the important position of Muling Pass. It is actually the first gateway to the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula. Therefore, this pass was rebuilt. The new city is located on Daxian Mountain, the eastern line of Yishan. The pass is a two-story three-arch building, magnificent, magnificent, with steep avenues in the north and south of the gate. The corridor inside the pass is gentle, and the Qi Great Wall stretches thousands of miles away from the left and right. It is highly erect and has a stable layout and a solid construction. It can be said that "one man should be a pass, but ten thousand men cannot open it."
The Xin 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. It is a fortress checkpoint for the Qin vassals to prevent the enemy from the south, the plains and thoroughfares to the north. When the fortress was completed, Li Jing once said on the city that the border of Qi was guarded by the Qi, the south of Qingzhou was guarded by Daxian, and the south of Jinan was guarded by Mount Tai. When the Qin vassals were only developed within the Shandong Peninsula, Muling Pass provided great security protection for the early Qin army.
Now, the Qin army has expanded south to Chuzhou, south of the Huaihe River, and west to Xuzhou, an important town in Huanghuai. Muling Pass has changed from a border to an internal pass, losing its important role back then.
However, this place is still guarding the gateway of the Shandong Peninsula and guarding the main road of the Yishu River Valley. Li Jing has never abolished the guards of this pass. However, most of the original defenders were transferred away. Muling Pass has become one of the three most horse farms of the Qin army today. Here, in the Daxian Mountain area, there are a total of 50,000 war horses.
Today, the Qin vassal states, which have vast horse-producing lands outside the pass, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Andong and Rehe, and Li Jing's attention to cavalry, the Qin army has attached great importance to taming war horses over the years. To this day, the Qin army has 36 military horse-dressing grounds. With a total of 720,000 war horses, plus the war horses raised free of charge in the hands of the people and private war horse farms, all war horses in the Qin army have reached one million. This is a number that is stunning and proud of the world. Even when the Tang Dynasty was at its peak, it only raised 800,000 war horses.
The entire Qin army now has 120,000 official cavalry, and there are also many reserve cavalry in the academic army, united camp, and village soldiers. The entire Qin vassal and thirty-six military horse farms alone have reached 80,000.
The horse farm not only breeds war horses by themselves, but also tames a large number of fierce horses and wild horses transported from outside the pass. A strong horse cannot become a war horse immediately, and they have to be tamed. The horses after strict taming and training on the horse farm will no longer be raw horses. They bid farewell to many animal natures and wildness in the past, become tame, sensitive, and close to people. They can withstand many stimuli and are easy to perform their riding function. Once war needs, different types can be provided to heavy cavalry, light cavalry, etc., after preliminary training and a sufficient number of war horses. After being assigned to the cavalry, these war horse strategies can be used freely with familiarity.
The Qin army's cavalry training actually started early training from the military horse farm. This is more like a huge flow processing line, standardized assembly line operations, and batch creation of cavalry.
In Daxian Mountain, the cavalry training ground, countless cavalry are being trained. This is a training ground for the reorganized training of the Five Barbarians. There are 5,000 elite cavalry of the Five Barbarians here to receive new cavalry training for the Qin vassals. According to the plan, there are 40,000 Hu cavalry among the 100,000 reorganized Hu army. They have to receive at least one year of new training before they can be sent to the Northeast to supplement the various cavalry units and expand the cavalry strength of the Qin army.
On the campus, Hu Qi was training in the team, and Wang Chong, Gao Zhongwu, Guo Zhenshan, Gao Rong, Qin Zongshou and other generals stood on the reviewing stand to watch carefully.
The reorganized Five Barbarians cavalry were all the same as the Qin cavalry, with ten people, fifty people, a team of 100 people, a battalion of 500 people, a battalion of 500 people, a battalion of 2 battalions, a 1,000 persons, and a 5,000 cavalry of 5,000 people.
Hu Qi's individual soldiers are very strong, especially the 40,000 cavalry selected from the millions of Hu people in the five tribes, which is even more powerful. In terms of personal bravery, cavalry, cavalry battle, and cavalry shooting, they can definitely defeat a large number of Qin cavalry. However, Li Jing only requires one reorganization training for these Hu Qi. While retaining their personal bravery, training and strengthening their team battle advantages.
This Hu cavalry with up to eight cavalry and 40,000 people was originally to finally disperse and supplement the various cavalry armies of the Qin army, but now, the situation has changed, Li Jing has just changed this decision. The 40,000 cavalry will form a powerful cavalry legion together with some Qin cavalry. Among the new cavalry legion, the Qin army has only 20,000, while the Hu cavalry has 40,000. This brand-new cavalry legion with twelve armies will be awarded the title of Iron Cavalry Legion, and Li Jing will personally serve as the commander of this huge cavalry legion.
Li Jing’s first requirement for Hu Qi’s reorganization training is absolutely strict discipline.
The Hu people are fierce and brave, but they also lack discipline, especially team spirit.
Li Jing gave these Hu Qi very well equipped, half-body steel armor, pot-type steel helmet, round small steel shield, cavalry gun, saber, bow, crossbow, thunder, steel axe, steel whip...
However, Li Jing explicitly prohibited them from shooting arrows during cavalry warfare, but asked them to line up in neat and dense queues, first jogging, then gradually accelerate to big strides, and finally speeding towards the enemy, using impact force rather than long-range shooting to maximize the cavalry's effectiveness.
On the school ground, Hu Qi, who was wearing half-bossed armor, held a rifle and a saber, and launched a line to charge.
On the reading stand, Wang Chong and others saw that these Hu cavalry had only been training for half a year and were now able to act neatly under the constraints of discipline. When they launched a collective charge, they kept their horses next to their horses, shoulders side by side, like a fast-moving iron wall. This wall always maintained collective strength to avoid the chaotic fights of each other after the formation was disbanded.
During the running and charging, the cavalry teams are kept in a dense queue. This is a much more difficult overall tactical behavior than the personal horseback martial arts skills, 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 in charge were actually Hu people who just surrendered half a year ago. They did it, not only were they brave but were full of team cooperation. They no longer needed to control the reins with their hands when charging, because the war horses on both sides and the left and right companions would charge forward with their horses.
In this way, each cavalry can release two hands to fight, one with a saber and the other with a crossbow.
For example, the cavalry formations that are marching on the wall do not require too high Mercedes-Benz speed, but instead disrupt the formation and affect the impact force, so they use neat jogging charges.
On the training ground, Wang Chong and others observed the Blue-robed Cavalry Battalion, a new cavalry formation, using the Iron Wall Servant Row, and fought the exercises in the Red-robed Cavalry Battalion that adopted the traditional tactics. The results were surprisingly discovered that when the cavalry on both sides fought hand-to-hand combat, the Red-robed Cavalry always faced two or three Blue-robed Cavalry Saber at the same time.
The Red Painted Cavalry Battalion fought against the united discipline of the Blue Painted Cavalry with excellent cavalry skills. As a result, they were always defeated without any suspense. Since the Blue Painted Cavalry Battalion was dispersed, they were still able to maintain a neat line and always fight together.
Wang Chong sighed: "When the King of Qin proposed the 'Iron Wall Cavalry Tactics', most of the soldiers were skeptical. After all, light cavalry is not heavy cavalry. Charging and breaking the formation to fight is not a strong front. The traditional way of fighting for light cavalry is to use cavalry and waving as a walk, and rarely fight head-on. However, today when I saw this drill, I finally believed that the light cavalry did not really only allow the waving and waving as a walk. When they advance like a vanguard like an iron wall, how many can they stop it?"
Gao Zhongwu added next to him: "In fact, this iron wall tactic is actually more about the tactics of the Hu cavalry outside the Frontier. On the open and boundless grassland, the cavalry of both sides has no spear formations and chariot formations of infantry, and no fortress city of Haogou that restrains cavalry. It can be said that especially in large-scale cavalry battles, this iron wall tactic does not have much restrictions and can exert the strongest potential of the cavalry. In the next battle of the Qin King's personal expedition to the Hu people, I seem to have seen their iron wall advance and defeated the tribal joint cavalry all over the mountains and fields. "
In the north of Dai, the terrain is closer to the outside of the Great Wall, so it is very suitable for the Hu cavalry to fight on the grassland. The open grasslands, without cities, forts, and deer feet, the Hu cavalry has great advantages. If the Qin army wants to deal with Hu cavalry, the best choice is to defeat the cavalry with cavalry. However, compared with the number of people, Li Jing's cavalry is not as large as the Hu cavalry. Therefore, using the advantages of equipment and strict discipline to create a new cavalry tactic can make the cavalry with traditional Hu warfare the greatest disadvantage.
The first training point for Qin cavalry training is that discipline is more important than riding.
There is another special battle between Hu people's cavalry, which is cavalry and shooting. However, the requirements for cavalry and shooting are extremely high, especially when charging, only the most skilled cavalry can maintain the charge while cavalry. For most cavalry, including Hu cavalry, once they are on the horse, it affects the continuity of the charge process and greatly reduces the impact.
Li Jing's strategy is to prohibit cavalry and shoot during charge, and to equip his cavalry with strong breastplate and helmets. During cavalry war, the cavalry will charge firmly and keep a dense and neat charge. Then the charge side like an iron wall will be more likely to destroy the overall side that depends on roaming cavalry and shoot.
War is a whole battle. Even if the damage is severe during charge, as long as it can break down the enemy's formation, they will only win greater victories in the end.
Of course, Li Jing proposed the iron wall tactics, but he did not only require the cavalry to know this tactics. In fact, Li Jing encouraged all the Qin cavalry's personal cavalry training, believing that the cavalry should be able to face a variety of situations rather than relying on dense queues to fight.
The speeding iron wall of cavalry is only the core tactics for the Hu cavalry. In addition, the individual quality also needs to be retained. After the enemy's formation was destroyed, the individual quality of the cavalry was very useful.
A beautiful iron wall charge completely defeated the Red Robe Army.
After the iron wall tactical exercise, Qin Zongshou waved his flag, and the cavalry left the field, and soon another battalion of cavalry entered the field.
"The next one is the cavalry sabre training exercise. All Hu cavalry has been equipped with the excellent sabre produced by Dengzhou Ordnance Workshop, and the training in accordance with the Army Practice and Saber Training Manual compiled by the King of Qin himself has now begun to take effect!"
With Qin Zongshou's introduction, the officers' loud commands have been heard from the colonel's field: "The first part of the saber training drill is to get rid of the saber drill, and now it starts."
"Basic defense action, stab!"
With the instructor's roar, the cavalry of cavalry dismounted one after another. They were neatly moved and did not need to step on stirrups at all. They jumped down directly, then pulled out the saber, and again with the command sound, the saber in their hands was uniformly erected. The saber was tactical, and the first move was to stab the saber, there were nine ways!
"At the beginning of cavalry training, we use fake swords, but after mastering the basic movements, we must start training with real swords and practice according to the commands to make the cavalry familiar with their weapons."
Wang Chong and Gao Zhongwu and other generals came this time to directly test the combat effectiveness of the Hu cavalry and make the final pre-war assessment for the Qin King's personal battle. If these Hu cavalry perform poorly, then the General Staff, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the Ministry of War will jointly advise the King of Qin to cancel this very dangerous plan.
However, it seems that although the Hu people have only received half a year of reorganization training, they have completely achieved the expected results, even far exceeding those. In some aspects, the Hu people who grew up on horseback are indeed natural cavalry soldiers.
The only thing they were worried about now is that these Hu people had just been in the middle of the army for less than half a year, and they were dragged to the battlefield at this time, and the Qin King led them as the main force to fight. The enemy was still 200,000 Hu people and tens of thousands of Shatu people. What if these Hu people were ill-behaved at that time, what should we do?
Wang Chong said in a deep voice: "The Qin King's intention has been decided and cannot be changed. But I don't think we need to worry too much. Although these Hu people have recently invested, their tribes are all placed in various parts of our Qin vassal state. Moreover, this time they are going to fight against tribes dominated by Khitan and Shatuo, and the Five Barbarians have always been incompatible with them."
"That's good!" Gao Zhongwu said with some concern.
"Announce the order of the King of Qin, summon all the trained cavalry from the Muling Cavalry Training Camp, and set off immediately to Donghai Port to gather in Tianjin by boat!" Wang Chong ordered loudly.
The war drums roared and the horns roared. The king of dictates were conveyed one by one. After a while, all the Hu soldiers in the Muling Cavalry Training Camp had already received the military order. The King of Qin summoned them to Tianjin to gather and gather with the troops there. The King of Qin led the Qin to personally fight against the homeless Shatulang and the Khitan Dog coalition forces.
"From now on, you are the Fifth Army of the Iron Cavalry Army. Take your horses, hold your sabers tightly, follow the flying eagle battle flag, follow the King of Qin, but seize your supreme glory!" Wang Chong drew his sword, stood on the high reviewing stand, shouting loudly! "Glorious Iron Cavalry, fight for the King of Qin!"
Chapter completed!