Training in the rain!?

And they are all wearing heavy armor!

What is the situation? They are really the Song army? Could it be... this is how the elite of the Western Army trained? No, the Western Army that Pan Xiao'an said was not that hard!

When Gao Qiu first saw the knight in front of the temple that was about to be under his command, he was really shocked.

When he and Wu Haogu arrived at Zhongyi Village where the Military Academy were located in the rain, they were training troops inside Zhongyi Village! Four or five hundred people, including Mr. Murong, were wearing heavy armor, and they were wearing straw coats outside the armor of the students, and straw sandals were tied under their boots (later Gao Qiu knew that the straw mat was still the one they fought by themselves), holding various weapons in his hands, listening to the sound of the golden drums and changing formations constantly.

The drills showed Gao Qiu and Wu Haogu the so-called "brackets and cavalry" formations, namely "shield wall gun formation", "hollow square formation" and "scattered enemy formation".

It turns out that the core of Murong Laoer’s “ministerial” team’s Bukeqi tactic is to play a pig and eat a tiger!

It is to first set up a slightly scattered formation to lure the enemy cavalry to launch an attack. When the enemy cavalry approaches, the formation suddenly changes. The originally scattered team suddenly becomes a shield and spearmen in front and super spearmen in the back, forming a shield wall gun formation.

By the way, Old Man Murong seemed to have changed the troops' configuration (actually not a change, but one of a variety of combinations). Without the sword and shield soldiers, a combination of shield and short gun appeared. When forming a gun array, the shield short gun was half-squatted in the first row, with the tip of the gun forward, and the soldiers in the back row put more than one and a half zhang of super long guns on the shield to form a shield wall gun forest.

If such a formation is set out from the beginning, the enemy's cavalry will definitely not attack. However, a group of soldiers who were originally chaotic and did not have super spears (super spears are placed on the ground) are obviously the best targets for attack. If the cavalry attacks halfway, the chaotic soldiers suddenly become "shield walls and guns", this may have killed the cavalry.

The second formation is composed of soldiers who threw away the super spear and took out the bow and arrow. The shield and spearmen formed a square formation, still half-squatting, and the short spear stretched out. Including the archers (the original spearmen), pretending to shoot arrows must have shot on the battlefield!

This formation is obviously used to deal with the surrounding cavalry of light cavalry! If the soldiers who had previously acted as spearmen could still shoot arrows, they could really repel the attacks of light cavalry.

Of course, what Mr. Murong asked someone to demonstrate was only "one", that is, the combat of a unit of about 500 people, not a large-scale combat of a mixed infantry and cavalry corps.

"Sir, how should cavalry be used?"

Wu Haogu, who stood under the eaves of the corridor with Old Man Murong, asked questions about the cavalry.

"Caval?" Old Man Murong smiled bitterly when he heard this, "This is not a problem that I can solve."

He pointed to the front and re-arranged the phalanx. The soldiers and students of the Military Academy who were listening to Gao Qiu's reading of the edicts and the lectures, "They were all practicing as infantry teams and generals, and they had to master the various tactics and formations of the infantry. They also had to master the weapons training methods of various infantry and the training methods of infantry soldiers. This infantry army is relatively easy to train. After recruiting strong farmers, they can be trained into elite soldiers in at most three years.

But the cavalry... I can't even practice riding skills well for three years, let alone riding and shooting, and riding battles."

It’s not enough to ride a horse. You have to play with flowers on the horse’s back, train horses, serve horses, and build relationships with horses. Wu Hao, the female ancestor of his family, Wu Meiniang, is not good at dealing with lion detection... Some horses with high IQs are particularly aware of their owners, and they can’t be beaten if they don’t get familiar with each other.

In short, the knowledge of serving horses is not smaller than that of serving people. How can you play well without long-term study and accumulation of experience?

"So is it feasible to turn these people into imperial knights?" Wu Haogu asked, "Hold 1,000-2,000 knight homes in Beicangzhou, and 1,000-2,000 elite knights will be available in the future."

Murong Wangyou's face showed a thoughtful look, "The method is good. It is difficult to achieve fast cavalry. It is a way to train them since childhood... But one or two thousand cavalry are extremely useful, and they can only use light cavalry to stop them from a distance."

Cavalry can be divided into light and heavy. Of course, knights can cultivate both light and heavy, and can both ride and shoot, and also wear armor to rush forward. However, as a military branch, it is still necessary to distinguish between light and heavy.

It is impossible for the Song Dynasty to establish a powerful cavalry cluster. Even if the Cangzhou knights are developed, they are only 2,000-4,000 cavalry. This amount is to deal with the two imperial guards in Kaifeng and Hebei, and some of them must be left in front of Song Huizong's imperial guards. Of course, it is impossible to use them as heavy cavalry to charge.

Because heavy cavalry is not a necessary product, and the light cavalry far-distance block is a must-equipped military for field troops. If there is no light cavalry far-distance block, the battlefield will be one-way transparent to enemies with cavalry advantages, and there is no way to pursue the defeated enemy.

Compared with heavy riders, it is impossible to achieve quick success by focusing on the skills on the horse's back!

Wu Haogu nodded, "Sir, the official's order has been issued. These people have entered the palace to rule the horses and buy vocational land in Beicangzhou. One member can get 1,500 acres... Gao Shiyan and I have submitted a joint report to request the expansion of the post to 1,000. Can there be any children in the sir's family want to be resettled?"

"My family?" Murong Wangyou turned his head and looked at Wu Haogu, "How many places can you give?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "If you want it, you will have as many things as you want!"

There are many horses in front of the hall, but there are no knight manors... Even if the manor can't be bought, there are still armed doctors who can arrange it.

Murong Wangyou stared at Wu Haogu, and after a while, he said, "Where is me? Is there a place to go?"

Wu Hao Ancient Road: "You can recommend Jiehe Yuntai Academy Branch, and of course the official position of Chaosan Doctor is also retained."

Murong Wangyou and Zhao Zhongge are both talents, so Wu Haogu naturally doesn't want them to "lose".

"Jiehe Yuntai Academy Branch?" Murong Wangyou frowned slightly, "Do you have any military studies?"

"It can't be considered military studies, right?" Wu Hao Gu's ancient trail, "But the courses are similar! We also need to teach people to fight."

Jiehe Yuntai Academy Branch is mainly used to train armed doctors! Martial arts, riding skills, military organization and command are all necessary for armed doctors. Otherwise, how can we educate barbarians and defend famous religions?

"You are..." Murong Wangyou frowned and looked at Wu Haogu in confusion.

Wu Haogu was planning to be ill-behaved? Isn’t this a possibility? Isn’t he the confidant of the Song Dynasty’s officials? Moreover, the senior Han officials in the Song Dynasty seemed to have not rebelled for more than a hundred years.

"It was sent to the north," Wu Haogu lowered his voice, "The north is going to be in chaos!"

Old Man Murong said: "So that's it, let me think about it..."

"Long live! Long live! Long live..."

As soon as Old Man Murong said, the students from the Military Academy cheered thunderously, and they were all shouting in the mountains!

It turned out that Gao Qiu had finished reading the edict to read the edict to the students of the Military and Education Department to establish the imperial horse in front of the hall, which was Gao Qiu's main task for this trip.

This edict confirmed the previous rumors. The hard days of the students of the Military Academy were finally over! Although they did not get the desired official position, the service in front of the palace and the 1,500-acre vocational farm seemed to be good...

The most important thing is that they can finally escape from Murong Laoer’s clutches!

...

It was late at night and the rain stopped.

The wind blowing from the sea to the east came to the face with a humid and cold breath.

This kind of weather reminded Ji Yi of his hometown Pingjiang. The ups and downs of the officialdom these days, as well as various plots and struggles, made him feel tired, and he wanted to return to his comfortable and rich hometown, a pot of wine, three or two confidants, talk about it, and wasting time.

It turns out that wasting time is also a blessing!

Ji Yi has no blessing to wasted her time now. He is attending the welcoming banquet of the magistrate Lu Yihao at the magistrate's office.

As usual, there were big fish and big meat set up a large table, and there were also ordinary officials in Cangzhou who accompanied the wine and sang songs. If it were the kind of Jinshi who was obtained from the countryside, such a scene would be considered enjoyable, but for a wealthy businessman like Ji Yi, it was simply torture... The big fish and big meat were too rough, and the official scholars who accompanied the wine could not reach the level of a courtesan. How could they speak?

I don’t know how long the welcoming banquet was going on, but it was finally time for Shi Da Magistrate to have fun. I just saw the magistrate coughing, then waved my hand. The officials and gentry who were accompanying the audience retreated tactfully. Only Shi Guozhong, Lu Yihao, Ji Yi, and a county magistrate named Liu Ruoshui, as well as a Sihu, a soldier named Xin, joined the army.

The county magistrates of the Song Dynasty were divided into two categories: magistrates and county magistrates. The former was a Jinshi who had a background, while the latter was an official with no background. This county magistrate Liu, who was in his fifties, was a county magistrate from Empress Liu (Empress Yuanfu). Now he became a county magistrate and could barely be considered a member of the New Party. The Sihu, who was surnamed Xin, was a military officer. He was a Tai student and was appointed as an official six years earlier than Ji Yi, and had worked in Cangzhou for almost three years.

Shi Guozhong glanced at County Magistrate Liu, then looked at Ji Yi, then frowned and said, "County Magistrate Liu, Ji Join the Army, Xin Join the Army, you have been an official in Cangzhou for some time. I and Lu Yuanzhi are both newly appointed officials. I don't understand some things very well, and I want to ask for advice."

"Prince, please ask, the lower officials should speak out."

Liu Ruoshui and Ji Yi, Xin Yijin quickly answered.

Shi Guozhong nodded: "I had looked at the map before coming to Cangzhou and knew that Cangzhou was a big state and its territory was not much smaller than that of Kaifeng Prefecture. But after taking office, I realized that Cangzhou has a surprisingly small population of land! Could it be that Cangzhou, which is a huge Cangzhou, is full of desolation?"

I actually asked about the number of land!
Chapter completed!