At the foot of Taishan, Shamen Island, Li Jing specially set up a site of about 100 acres as a training ground for the domestication of war horses and cavalry. The war horse farm was temporarily built, but there was no ambiguity at all. When Lin Wu knew that Li Jing had got 300 war horses, he began to transfer a group of craftsmen, city builders and more than 200 cavalrymen to repair it all the time. The entire war horse farm was completely surrounded by wooden fences. A moat ditch of more than 1 meter deep was built outside the fence, and a dense line of pointed wooden stakes was buried outside the fence.

There are only two gates in the north and south of the fence, and more than a dozen arrow towers have been built along the gate. There are also eye-catching signs of "Military and important military affairs, strictly prohibited from entering" on the fence.

The battle horse farm is divided into three main parts, namely the horse shed, the cavalry dormitory, and the training ground. The forest horse shed is extremely luxurious, and the horse ring built with wood is tall and wide. Each war horse has a horse ring with wide reading power. The entire horse shed is several times better than the dormitory where the cavalry live.

Since ancient times, military strategists have always attached the most importance to training. Wu Qi, a master of military strategy, once believed that "it is always dead to what they cannot do, and it is inconvenient to defeat what they cannot do." This means that soldiers often sacrifice their lives because they are not capable of being able to fight and are defeated by unskilled military skills. Therefore, the first method of using military is training. "If a soldier does not teach first, it will not be available." "Don't teach the people to fight is called abandoning it!"

After recruiting soldiers, the most important thing is training. Sweat more in normal times and bleeding less during wartime. These are the lessons learned by countless predecessors. Shamen Town has always believed in implementing this concept since its inception. In order to seize the training time, Li Jing not only provided four meals to the trainee soldiers, but even provided a large amount of pork, mutton, eggs, poultry, fresh fruits and other nutritious foods regardless of capital. He also listed all soldiers as full-time professional soldiers. Even though the construction period of the new city is tight, Li Jing no longer transferred one person to work on the construction site.

However, compared with the infantry, the training of cavalry is even more complicated. Li Jing, who is not very familiar with cavalry, completely handed over the training of cavalry to Lin Wu, an officer from the Shence Army cavalry.

Today is the first day of cavalry training. Li Jing and all the civil and military officers in the town arrived. In addition to them, there are many guests who come to watch today, mainly the managers of the workshops in the town, mainly Li Huier, Yu Youniang, Xiao Yulou, and Xiao Yulou, as well as the leaders of the pirates in the town, headed by Whitebeard, Meghan and Julie.

War horses are a noble thing no matter what era they are. Even on the grasslands, most herders raise cattle and sheep, and horses are only stored in small quantities. Excellent war horses are even more unaffordable by ordinary herders. At the most, the entire Tang Dynasty had only 700,000 war horses, which shows the preciousness of war horses. Not only are war horses precious themselves, but they are even more troublesome to feed. Not only are war horses expensive, but they are also very delicate and difficult to raise. They not only need special people to take care of, but they even eat more than people.

A war horse has to provide three stones of millet and sixty surrounds of grass every month, and also has to get some salt, black beans, green beans, etc., and even water has to drink clean spring water. After a year, buying grain and grass costs about 10,000 to 20,000 cents, which is more than ten times more expensive than an ordinary war horse that consumes two to three stagnants of a year.

There are very scientific methods of military horse breeding and management in "Wuzi's Art of War". It requires horses to be kept in a suitable place, with clean springs and good forages around them. When feeding, they should be kept in a stable; they should have a warm stable in winter and a cool horse shed in summer; when modifying manes, they should cover their ears and ears and ears and ears and ears and ears, and they should be horrified; they should be trained to tame them, and then they can be used. It is also emphasized that horses should be cherished. When riding until evening and the journey is long, they must get off the horse several times. "It is better to work hard on others, be careful not to work hard on horses."

"Horse is a fire animal. Its surname is abusive, and its surname is good for dampness, which is good for dryness... It is silver in spring, and it is followed by its surname... It must be soaked in midsummer, which is afraid of being hurt by heat, and warm in winter, which is afraid of being hurt by cold. If you walk for a long time, your tendons will be tired, and if you stand for a long time, your bones will be tired after sweating for a long time, your skin will be tired after sweating for a long time. If you have not dried for a long time, your skin will be tired after sweating for a long time. If you have no joints, you will be tired after rushing for food. You must choose new grass and sifting the beans. If you are clinking, soak it in new water and soak it in cold before you can feed it; drink it with new water (clean water), three times, morning, noon, and evening. After drinking water in winter, you must also ride a rush (you should move the horse), and it is not easy to take the wind (when removing the saddle, bridle, reins, you should not be in the wind)."

According to these experiences in raising horses, what I raise is not war horses, but really a bunch of gold lumps. I usually hold them in my mouth and fear that they will melt, and hold them in my hands and fear that they will fall. I feed them carefully in order to gallop in the critical moment and charge through the formation.

After Lin Wu received this batch of war horses, he even issued many surprising regulations in a row. For example, the first article at the beginning stipulates that after the cavalry receives their war horses, they have to feed the war horses themselves every day, wash and scratch the war horses, and even require that they have to sleep with the horses in the horse circle for the first three months.

For daily feeding, the conditions for fine feeding that cannot be more fine are announced one by one. One by one: First, when the horse is cooked, it must be cooled, mix more water and grass before feeding the horse, and never feed the horse with hot materials; after drinking the water, the horse should walk slowly, walk for five or seven miles, and then tie it to the empty sandy land, so that it can sleep and lie freely, and not be bound to the trough. 2. When the grass is long in spring, ten horses, or twenty or thirty or fifty horses will be placed, and the water and grass will be lush, and grazing day and night, if it is hot and hot... Every afternoon, rush to the shade of trees to cool down, and set up a pergola without shade. In summer, there is no shade.

In hot weather, drink water once at Chen (7-9 am), and once at noon (11 am to 1 pm), and drink water once at night; drink water once at Si (9-11 am) in spring, autumn and winter (9-11 am), and once at Wu (1-3 pm); feed horses with salt water once at twenty or half a month per month. Horses are not allowed to be fed with cattle. Third, the grooms responsible for raising stallions must set up horse houses and mangers, and bricks and stone mats are not allowed to be built underground. They must be cleaned frequently. They must not even place chickens, ducks and other livestock in the mangers and horse grass, nor comb their hair in the middle to avoid horses being eaten by accident, etc.

"There is no more than a dragon walking in the sky, and no more than a horse walking in the ground. Horses are the foundation of armor and weapons and the great use of the country." Li Jing fully agreed with Lin Wu's big move. At the moment, the Shamen Town Army was guarding the island, and the cavalry could not play its due role. Li Jing dispersed the cavalry into the team, and did not immediately send the cavalry to the battlefield. He put the cavalry in the team, just to let them do some reconnaissance, cover, and chase. The cavalry could not be trained successfully, and even formed a large number. Li Jing was reluctant to give these treasured cavalry to real war horses. These cavalry were the seeds of his future cavalry units and the cradle of training cavalry officers.

"Do you have your own complete training plan for this cavalry?" Although he had handed over the cavalry training to Lin Wu, Li Jing couldn't help asking. Raising 300 cavalry is equivalent to raising an entire war barracks. Judging from the current financial situation of Shamen Town, it is a huge pressure.

Lin Wei wore a shiny red mountain armor with a phoenix winged crocodile winged crocodile today, and the crocodile ridge was covered with fiery red helmet tassels. The animal head on the shoulders swallowed the shoulders and hung a long cavalry cloak specially made by the quilt workshop, which was woven with precious silk. Such a cloak is not only beautiful and elegant after being equipped, but also has a huge role in preventing arrows. The left saddle bow, the right saddle crossbow, the waist is wearing a horizontal knife, and the long spear is holding a long spear. Now he is very majestic.

"This group of war horses are all raw horses that have not been tamed and educated, so the most important thing at the moment is that I plan to tame the war horses while allowing the knights to establish deep feelings with their war horses and cultivate enough tacit understanding."

Li Jing nodded. This idea is good. If you want to use a horse, you must first train the horse. Although the surname Ma Tong is a beast after all. If you want it to better accept the intentions of the knights and consume the power of the war horses as beneficial consumption, then you should focus on the knights, form an effective tacit understanding, and finally reach the state of unity of people and horses.

However, this process is not simple, and it is even less likely to be easy. This requires the cavalry to perform meticulous and patient conditions on the war horse, and finally achieve a conditioned reflex. Even if it is a war horse with the surname Zilie, it must be caressed, tickled, fed it personally, and washed it from time to time, thereby cultivating the relationship between the knight and the horse.

"After this period of training, most of our cavalry have achieved a preliminary mastery of riding skills after using horse-drawing training. Therefore, my plan is to tame the war horses and start to train the knights' physical fitness and skills, run with weights, wrestle and fall, and fight with hands. In addition, I also asked the craftsmen of the wooden warehouse to make a batch of wooden horses, use these horses to train the cavalry to up and down, immediately swing the knife and slash, and stab with guns, etc.."

"Apart from letting the cavalry sleep with the horses, are there any other ways to speed up taming the war horses?" Whitebeard asked loudly. He had been on the sea for half his life. When talking about the ship and the storm waves on the sea, he knew better than anyone else on the scene. But when talking about war horses, he was limited to the simple understanding that horses could ride. He felt very funny and puzzled about Lin Wu's way of asking the cavalry to sleep with the horses for three months first.

Lin Wu ignored the sarcastic words of the white beard, and after pondering for a moment, he replied: "The difficult movements of training war horses cannot be separated from horse harnesses. Holding different ties, ties, and bridles are connected to each other. I can explain the method of Shence Army cavalry training war horses to lie down. Touch one side of the reins, transmit them to horses, horse leashes, and create an unbearable sense of oppression on the gums and corners of the mouths. Force the war horse to lie down. After lying down, immediately relieve the reins, remove the pressure of the geese and gums, and at the same time give praise or rewards to the horses, such as feeding an egg or a handful of beans to the horse. If the war horse does not want to submit, it can be punished appropriately. So he pulls one side of the reins, the horse's head is tilted, and the teeth are pressed.

The corners of the gums are lying down, and finally ease the side reins, relieve the pressure on the corners of the gums, lift or reward. The whole process is connected in sequence and repeated. Therefore, a common surname will be formed in the war horse. Although the horse is not as smart as a human, it is smarter than other domestic animals. Such patient training, over time, once the knight pulls one side reins, the horse will immediately lie down. Turn left, turn right, advance, retreat, accelerate, slow down, etc., which is achieved through the harness or special movements of the warriors, or even language, but it is much easier than training to lie down. The war horse is said to be: "Put the eyes and ears and ears, without any shock. Being accustomed to the storm, the people and horses will go on blind dates, and then you can do it."

"Only after the cavalry's basic physical fitness and skill training and the taming of war horses are completed, the riding and shooting training will be officially carried out!"

"Okay!" Li Jing slapped hard. After hearing Lin Wu say so much, he finally believed that he had found the best cavalry instructor. With such professional talents, why worry about his cavalry training?
Chapter completed!