Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 253

Now that Cao Wenzhao has voted under Li Jing's command, many issues are no longer considered as before, especially when Li Jing trusts him very much, he has to reciprocate.

After pondering for a while, Cao Wenzhao said: "Commander, Cao said something from the bottom of his heart, raising cavalry is not so easy. First of all, it is difficult to choose soldiers. Not everyone can ride a horse freely. Some people have been training for many years. , riding is still not good."

Li Jingjing nodded. If cavalry were so easy to train, he wouldn't even have a small squad of cavalry on hand.

Among Li Jing's subordinates, the scout troops had the best riding skills, but these people also did not reach the level of real cavalry.

Because the main purpose of scouts riding horses is to inquire about information, but cavalrymen have to fight on horseback. It is by no means as easy as imagined to be the same as on flat ground on horseback.

Li Jing has also practiced riding skills. Compared with his subordinates, his riding skills are considered outstanding, but if compared with Cao Wenzhao, it is a world apart.

Seeing Li Jing's approval, Cao Wenzhao continued: "In addition, if the commander-in-chief wants to form a cavalry force of tens of thousands, he needs at least twice as many horses. However, the cavalry has very strict requirements on horses, and not all horses can be ridden. They are going to fight, and how to raise so many horses is something the commander needs to consider."

Li Jingwen nodded silently. What Cao Wenzhao said just now is indeed the key issue of raising cavalry.

Li Jing didn't have many military horses in his hands. Except for the main generals equipped with mounts, and Li Jing's personal soldiers equipped with horses, the rest were handed over to the scouts.

Moreover, it is not that Li Jing has people who understand horses, there are not only many, but according to these people, Li Jing knows that the so-called military horses in his hands are not qualified for cavalry use.

In addition, these people also told Li Jing that to raise military horses, you must have a horse farm, and to raise hundreds of military horses, you need at least hundreds of acres of horse farms for the horses to gallop.

Where can I find such a large horse farm on Hongshanling?Even if there is such a large land, food has been grown long ago.

That is to say, after occupying Pingyang Mansion, the land area increased greatly, and it happened to be a plain area, so Li Jingcai planned to open up a horse farm covering an area of ​​more than [-] mu.

If the horses Li Jing bought from other places were untrained horses, then the [-]-acre horse farm is still not enough for training.

Tens of thousands of horses are a huge herd of horses, and it takes a similar grassland to run.

In addition, real cavalry is not in combat all year round.

Generally speaking, military horses are most suitable for going out when the autumn grass is fattened. If you want the military horses to fight continuously, you need to feed the food, so as to maintain the physical fitness of the military horses, otherwise the military horses will lose fat. .

If the military horse loses fat for too long, the military horse will be scrapped and can only be eliminated for civilian use.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing asked, "How to choose the military horses is up to you. As for the horse farm, I will open up a horse farm covering an area of ​​more than [-] mu for you. Can you estimate how many horses you can breed?"

Cao Wenzhao nodded, knowing that Li Jing had already made some preparations.

After pondering for a while, Cao Wenzhao said: "Commander, I think we can buy ready-made military horses from the Karaqin Department of Mongolia outside the mouth (north of the line from Zhangjiakou to Datong), so that we don't have to train the horses ourselves. It doesn't matter if it's smaller, I guess it's still possible to keep [-] horses on a horse farm of [-] mu, but it's definitely not enough."

Li Jing nodded lightly. Cao Wenzhao said that [-] horses should be the maximum for a horse farm of [-] mu.

It's just that there are only [-] cavalry for [-] horses, and the [-] cavalry plus the [-] Guanning cavalry in Cao Wenzhao's hands and the [-] and a half cavalry are no more than [-] cavalry.

Eight thousand cavalry is far from the number of cavalry that Li Jing promised to Cao Wenzhao!
Seeing that Li Jing was noncommittal, Cao Wenzhao continued: "Marshal, in Cao's opinion, let's get [-] cavalry first, and Cao's [-] cavalry will be [-]. Within three years , Cao will definitely build these [-] soldiers into an army of tigers and cardinals, and then Cao will send his troops north to occupy the grassland outside the mouth. At that time, it will not matter how many cavalry the commander wants to raise."

Li Jingjing nodded, knowing that what Cao Wenzhao said was indeed a well-established and safe method.

Moreover, Cao Wenzhao's ability to say this shows that Cao Wenzhao has regarded himself as a member of Li Jing's subordinates and has begun to think about problems for Li Jing.

Thinking of this, Li Jing clapped his hands: "That's it! Brother Cao, you should discuss this matter with Gao Qi, and then select [-] of the most elite soldiers from our army. Quickly form an army, and this army will be under your full command."

Cao Wenzhao was overjoyed. Although the veterans in Li Jing's hands didn't have much experience in battle, their quality was much higher than that of the officers and soldiers. With these people joining them, within three years, it would be impossible to build an iron-blooded cavalry. Next.

But Cao Wenzhao looked back, he couldn't get Longwangshu, and Li Jing's most elite soldiers couldn't get it himself. If these people were to go, don't give Li Jing a bad impression.

Smiling, Cao Wenzhao said: "Marshal, Cao, your direct descendant, don't dare to move, just wait a second time."

Li Jing waved his hand and said seriously: "If you want to get it, you can get the best one. You can choose my subordinates at will! Brother Cao, let me tell you, although Li spent money to train these troops, Li never regarded them as soldiers. My own private property. No matter who it is, as long as it is for our country, I have no objection even if they are all taken away."

Cao Wenzhao nodded emphatically when he heard this, and secretly sighed in his heart: Daming can have Li Jing, it is indeed the heaven that never perishes Daming.

Li Jing paused and continued: "Brother Cao, let's set a period of five years. After five years, I will use troops abroad. At that time, you will be the vanguard general. I want your soldiers to be invincible. You can do it." Are you there?"

Cao Wenzhao clasped his fists and said, "Marshal, if you give me two more, Cao will definitely do it!"

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "You want whoever you want, I promise you, just ask what you want, money and food, I will give you as much as you want!"

"Thank you, Marshal, Cao Mou only needs the two young masters Dingguo and Hutou!" Cao Wenzhao clasped his fists.

Li Jing was stunned: "Huh? You want two of them? Hutou just said that, Dingguo is only 14 years old, what can he do? You don't think..."

Cao Wenzhao smiled and said: "Marshal, Cao doesn't have that many ideas, Cao just wants the two young masters to help Cao sit in charge."

Li Jingwen nodded lightly. Cao Wenzhao was thoughtful, knowing how he arrived when he first arrived, and rashly sent Li Jing's most elite troops away. I am afraid that many people would have ideas. If Sun Hutou and Li Dingguo Sitting in the army, the people below know that they are Li Jing's adopted sons, so they won't have any thoughts.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing smiled and said: "Brother Cao is able to take a fancy to these two boys, it is their good fortune, but the tiger head is brave, but his temper is a bit stubborn, there is nothing wrong with Dingguo, but he is still young Brother Cao, don't give them too much power, let's sharpen them first."

Cao Wenzhao nodded, knowing that Li Jing didn't want Sun Hutou and Li Dingguo's identities to fetter him. At the same time, he was telling himself that he still had full control over the army.

After discussing the establishment of the cavalry, Li Jing picked up a booklet from the desk and handed it to Cao Wenzhao, "Brother Cao, these are the military regulations of the Jishi Army. Go back and read them carefully, and then go back and tell your subordinates. You have to follow these rules, if you violate the military regulations, those in the law enforcement team will be ruthless."

Cao Wenzhao took the brochure and nodded emphatically.

Li Jing paid the soldiers extremely high salaries, but he also had very strict requirements on the soldiers, and the punishment for violating military laws was extremely severe. Cao Wen had heard about this for a long time.

Putting the booklet carefully in his arms, Cao Wenzhao looked around at Li Jing's study and said with a smile: "Marshal, you can tell that this study is the study of a scholar. It's ridiculous that those people in the court still regard the Marshal as a Merchants come to see."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's just pretending. I haven't read many of the books, so I'm ashamed."

Cao Wenzhao smiled, got up and came to the bookshelf, looked carefully, and saw that there were two books on the shelf that seemed to be untouched, Cao Wenzhao picked up one at random, looked at the cover, and saw that on the cover it said He wrote the word "University".

Cao Wenzhao shook his head, put the book where it was, took out another one, glanced at it, and put it back with a wry smile.

Then Cao Wenzhao turned around and said with a wry smile: "No wonder the commander-in-chief doesn't read these books. These are books like the Four Books and Five Classics. What's the use of the commander-in-chief?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "I can't say it's useless, but I get a headache when I read these books, but I still have to read them if my husband allows me time, so I have to put them in the study, so as not to be scolded by my husband. "

Cao Wenzhao smiled and said, "Isn't it some kind of expert who can be the commander-in-chief, I hope the commander-in-chief will introduce him when I have time."

Li Jing put away his smile and said seriously: "It's Mr. Jie Huan, Mr. is tired these days, I let him stay in Jiang County to recuperate, and I will bring Brother Cao to see Mr. after two days."

"Who? Lord Jiehuan? Lord Jiehuan is the commander-in-chief's husband?" Cao Wenzhao asked in surprise.

At that time, the Ming army fought repeatedly against Houjin, and most of the land in Liaodong fell into the hands of Houjin. It was not until Sun Chengzong was appointed as the governor of Jiliao and Yuan Keli was appointed governor of Denglai that the situation was stabilized.

Especially during Yuan Keli's tenure in Denglai, he regained many occupied territories and gained a high prestige in the army.

Cao Wenzhao served as a soldier under Sun Chengzong in his early years. Knowing that Sun Chengzong relied on Yuan Keli a lot, it would not be too much to describe him as his right-hand man.Naturally, Cao Wenzhao knew Yuan Keli's name very well, but he didn't expect that Yuan Keli had been missing for many years, and he turned out to be Li Jing's husband.

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

Yuan Keli's true identity is not known to many people in the Jishi Army, only a few people at the top know, and everyone mentions Yuan Keli as Mr., so Yuan Keli's identity has not been leaked.

Telling Cao Wenzhao of Yuan Keli's identity now is really treating Cao Wenzhao as one of his own.Otherwise, how could Yuan Keli's identity be told to outsiders?

And Cao Wenzhao is also very clear about this. Zhu Youjian prepared to use Yuan Keli many times, but unfortunately he failed to find Yuan Keli. If Zhu Youjian knew that Yuan Keli was actually in Li Jing's army, there would be great disturbances immediately.

Sighing, Li Jing said, "Brother Cao, Mr. Yuan's greatest wish in life is to make the country rich and powerful, and drive out the Tartars. If we juniors want to be filial to him, we have to help him fulfill his wish. We only hope Mr. Take care of your health and see us realize his wish."

Cao Wenzhao nodded silently.Yuan Keli didn't want to come back, because he was extremely disappointed with Daming's current situation. Li Jing should be Yuan Keli's last hope, otherwise, Yuan Keli would not help Li Jing.

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