Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

The equality of the Fushan Camp is deep in the heart, and the equality on the surface is meaningless. Riding horses for officers is not only a prestige requirement, but also a practical requirement.

This time, Zhang Shouren was generous!

In advance, Lifeng and other commercial firms were entrusted to buy horses. In fact, Lujing Commercial Firms had more or less contact with them, but they did not have much contact with serious war horse buying and selling.

The Lu army is a poor army town, with very limited war horses, and there is not much money to buy and raise them.

Horses are not just bought, they have to be managed by grooms, rinsed, fed, and the fine materials used are also a heavy expense, not for fun. [

The cost of feeding and raising a good war horse is the cost of six to eight pikemen, and the cost of raising a cavalry is at least the cost of two and a half infantry.

This is still based on the premise that Zhang Shouren's infantry team has a lot of expenses and high salaries.

Liaoxi Army Town consumes 300 million military pay per year. In fact, the cavalry of the Shanhaiguan Iron Cavalry Battalion are actually raised, commonly known as Guanning Iron Cavalry.

This iron cavalry, controlled by Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and other Liaoxi generals, actually exists in the form of servants.

Equipped well, one man and one horse, sturdy and brave, is the most elite force of Ming Dynasty, a monster raised with millions of military pay a year.

By the time of the Battle of One Stone, Wu Sangui had all of Guan Ning's iron cavalry, and the number was more than 6000, of which there were no more than [-] to [-] real cavalry soldiers.

But relying on such a few thousand men, Wu Sangui managed to overwhelm Li Zicheng's more than 6 soldiers and horses on a piece of rock, including the elite old battalion that Lao Li relied on to start his career. Although the braided soldiers who rushed out suddenly decided the victory, The fierceness of the battle of Guan Ning's soldiers also made Li Zicheng and other leaders of the peasant army who had been outside the pass feel very sudden, even surprised.

The difficulty and sharpness of cavalry is roughly the same. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, all forces gave priority to the development of cavalry, because they could not master and control the real array infantry, not the infantry trained by modern warfare methods. It is difficult to gain a foothold at a disadvantage.

Zhang Shouren raised the cavalry because he didn't like the cavalry's swift and fierce assault ability and powerful strategic maneuverability. These are not so important to those who have mastered excellent infantry training methods.

The cavalry team built with huge sums of money is not so much a trump card or a decisive force, but rather a pursuit force after victory, in order to expand the results of the battle, or to control and master frontline intelligence.

In the large-scale wars in the cold weapon era, the grasp of the battlefield situation is mainly on the scouts and scouts.

Without the perspective of God, the fog of war exists. The battlefield with a radius of tens of miles, how the enemy is deployed, how many troops, and how to attack, the mastery of these situations is impossible without elite cavalry scouts.

For this purpose alone, there must be a fairly strong cavalry team.

This time, Zhang Shouren entrusted various firms with deposits two or three months ago. In the past two months, the income from Fushan's salt production was more than 5 taels per month, plus the income from other places. Excluding necessary expenses and reserve silver, a total of 8 taels of silver was used to buy war horses and some related items.

More than 650 war horses were divided into four and transported by sea. When Zhang Shouren arrived in Dengzhou, all the horses bought by various merchants arrived, excluding more than ten horses that died for various reasons along the way. , there are more than [-] horses left.