Chapter 618: Display
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With the sound of hooves, dozens of cavalrymen rushed in from the entrance, and the war horses took broken steps. The horses immediately rose and fell with the war horses. The rear horses almost went to the buttocks of the front horses, one by one, one by one, and entered the training ground in a straight line.
The war horses began to accelerate, and from the beginning, the speed was getting faster, but the distance between the front and back of the war horses did not go farther, and they still maintained the interval when they had just stepped into the training ground. This was not simple. Qin Feng remained silent, while Huo Guang and Xiao Ning praised him. At high speed, maintaining such intervals is not something that ordinary cavalry can do.
The cavalry led by the leader shouted softly and suddenly accelerated. In a blink of an eye, they turned from a column to a strait, running forward. When they arrived at a distance of Qin Feng and others, they shouted again. Dozens of war horses stood up and turned 180 degrees on the spot. Hundreds of horse hooves fell to the ground, stepping on the ground, and the war horses quickly left in the smoke and dust.
This time the cavalry ran farther. When they returned, dozens of war horses kept changing their formations, sometimes charging in triangular cone, sometimes turning in arcs, and then forming a square formation, sometimes spreading into a horizontal line, and smoke and dust rose on the training ground.
The horse team slowly gathered from far to near, from loose formations. When they rushed to Qin Feng and others, they had formed a neat square formation. The horse cavalry did not use their hands to control the war horse under their crotch with their legs. However, they took off their helmets with their hands, bent down at the horse, shouted loudly: "Long live your Majesty, long live, long live!"
Qin Feng smiled and waved his hand, turned to look at Yu Chao, "It's great, Yu Chao, have you learned to play fun work for me? Come on, you can bring me another team like this, and come on again according to what they have practiced just now."
Yu Chao was originally proud, but when he heard this, he was stunned.
"If you can lead another team out, I will make the decision immediately. How about allocating another 100,000 taels of silver to you as a reward?" Qin Feng smiled slightly.
Yu Chao smiled dryly: "Your Majesty, this is the instructor, instructor!"
Qin Feng snorted: "If your current cavalry team is usually of this level, then that's a big deal. I'll just pull you to the battlefield. Are these people the officers you brought back from the scout camp?"
"Your Majesty clearly sees that it is the officers I brought back from the scout camp. Of course, there are also some special people transferred by the Ministry of War who are good at cavalry warfare." Yu Chao said quickly: "As Your Majesty said, officers from scout camp prefer to fight alone. We also know that large-scale cavalry combat and scouts are completely different concepts, so everyone is still exploring."
"Oh, how did you find out?"
"One is to read military books." Yu Chao said: "Let me find various military books on cavalry training in history to read, and then the officers will be auditioned. After the officers have matured, they will summarize the advantages and then form our own things. The second is to study the cavalry wars in history, find the classic examples of cavalry fighting from these battles, absorb useful things from them, and combine them with our actual situation to simulate training. What Your Majesty just saw was some mature combat queues that our instructors have already figured out."
"That's not bad." Qin Feng smiled and nodded: "It's better not to study than to study hard. It's really a brain to be able to combine reality like this. Pull your team out and take a look."
"Yes, Your Majesty, but I'm afraid I won't be very good at it." Yu Chao felt a little embarrassed.
"If I look at it, I won't come." Qin Feng disagreed.
Yu Chao nodded, reached out to call out several officers, and whispered a few instructions. The officers immediately rode away.
A moment later, a long sound of military horns sounded in Fengtai Camp. With the sound of military horns, the entire camp seemed to have come alive all at once, and horse neighing sounded everywhere.
The trumpet suddenly stopped, the war drums sounded, and after one drum, the first group of cavalry had already been in place on the training ground. These people obviously had higher quality and rode their horses from the horse corridor to form the first group.
After the second drum sounded, the second group of people finally arrived. Compared with the first wave, they seemed much more panicked. When they arrived at the training ground, they were still rushing to adjust their horses and constantly comforting the war horses under their crotch.
Qin Feng noticed that the third round of war drums only sounded after a while. Seeing the third group of people coming from outside, Qin Feng couldn't help laughing. No wonder the third round of drums had to wait for a while. The military camp practice was that those who did not reach the three round of drums would inevitably be dealt with by military law. If Yu Chao didn't wait for such a while, I'm afraid that everyone in this third round of people would not be able to escape the fate of beating the board.
Seeing the third wave of appearance, Huo Guang and Xiao Ning's faces were not so good. Among these people, the better ones were running in with their hands tightly holding the horse's neck, and half of their bodies hung on the horse's back, which made people worry that he might fall off at any time. The funny thing was that the last few people actually dragged their horse's tails and were dragged by the horse with almost no feet on the ground. If several officers hadn't come up to hold the horse's horse's horse's horse's neck and were afraid that they would fall and chew on the mud in the next moment.
"Some of these people have just learned how to ride horses, which is a little worse. But your Majesty, don't worry, as long as they are given time, they will inevitably become qualified cavalrymen." Yu Chao probably felt that this way of appearance was really a bit unbearable, and explained embarrassedly.
"It's okay!" Qin Feng didn't care. "Learning to ride a horse is not a particularly difficult thing. I remember when I first rode a horse, I was so confused. Yu Chao, I have seen your assembly level. Let's show them the results of this period!"
"Yes, Your Majesty. Let the first batch of soldiers come for the audition. For the next two batches, let's forget it." Yu Chao said in a low voice.
"Yes, I'll see their performance in a year." Qin Feng said simply.
"A year later, Yu Chao will definitely give His Majesty an invincible cavalry." Yu Chao said with his chest straight.
"Is it invincible in the world? This is a bit big." Qin Feng shook his head with a smile.
"Let Your Majesty wait and see!" Yu Chao insisted.
"Okay, then I'll see what you are like, the invincible cavalry in the world." Qin Feng was unwilling to attack Yu Chao's active heart. In war, any army, even if you are invincible in the world, will only have the upper hand on a certain local battlefield. In today's war, the cooperation of multiple armies and the application of strategies and tactics is the focus. If you lose in strategy, even if you win a local war, you will still lose in the end.
On the training ground, wooden stakes and human-shaped targets were erected.
"Your Majesty, what they want to show next is three types of sabre slashing, cavalry and spear charge and rushing. These are the skills that a cavalry must master in addition to the most basic riding skills." Yu Chao said. "Only by mastering these basic skills can we talk about overall combat."
Qin Feng nodded, "I am also an amateur when it comes to cavalry combat. A layman does not guide an expert. I will not speak today, just look at it."
The drum beats again, and a team of cavalry rode their horses and gradually accelerated. On the war horses, the cavalry raised their swords high. When they ran over the wooden stake, they swung their swords to cut them down. The wooden stakes were cut off one by one. Occasionally, soldiers did not cut off one by one, and the soldiers who followed them made up for another.
Only more than a hundred cavalry were dispatched, but more than a hundred cavalry were connected to horses and swinging their swords, and the momentum was quite amazing.
After the crackling, the spear was dispatched. The soldiers each had a spear in their hands. At the beginning of their journey, the spear was about to be on their shoulders. When they were halfway through, their bodies were lying down. Most of the spear was protruding, and the small half was exposed from the bottom of the strand. Before walking in the human-shaped target, they suddenly waved their arms and stabbed them out. With a bang, the target was broken and the gun was broken. The soldiers continued to rush forward. During the rushing forward, they reached out and pulled out the battle knife and raised it above their shoulders.
Compared with the first two events, the third event was a bit disappointing. More than a hundred soldiers attacked, each of whom shot three arrows and more than three hundred arrows could hit the target, but only dozens of them were misleading.
"They were a little nervous when watching today. Their scores were better than this. They could hit more than a hundred arrows." Yu Chao explained quickly.
"Carrying and shooting is the most difficult thing to practice. It is good to be able to shoot arrows with both hands at the right time." Qin Feng looked at the soldiers on the training ground and said thoughtfully: "Yu Chao, why do you have to let these soldiers master cracking, assassination and riding and shooting? I think one of the sects alone is enough to let these soldiers practice for many years. They have practiced all three items well, let alone a year, I'm afraid that it won't be enough to give you ten years, right?"
"You don't need to defend yourself. I think you are still asking these soldiers at the level of scouts. This is unrealistic. Yu Chao, you are very good at riding. Whether it is crackling, slashing, or sprinting, you are all the best. But think about it, how many years have you practiced these?" Qin Feng continued to ask.
"What does your majesty mean?"
"Equestrianism is the basics, which everyone must practice, but in other cases, you can divide it into different types of troops within the cavalry according to different situations and needs on the battlefield, such as cavalry shooting and attacking, assassinating and breaking formations, cracking and killing the enemy. According to the different abilities of each soldier, let them practice different techniques separately. Can they become troops faster?"
Yu Chao blinked his eyes and looked at Qin Feng blankly for a while before saying, "Your Majesty, I think about it, I think about it."
"Okay, I'll write a memorial after I've thought about it." Qin Feng admired the cavalry general's attitude of refusing to follow blindly. "After watching your performance, I have to give you some rewards. Tell me, what do you have to ask?"
Yu Chao came to his senses, "Your Majesty, there are no other requirements, it is weapons. Weapons are not good. The knife we are using now is not suitable for cavalry use. You have also seen that the spear will be broken once it is under force. If the soldiers are not well mastered, they will be injured. These are the weapons used by infantry. It is definitely not good to use them for us now. There are those bows, and what we need is riding bows."
Chapter completed!