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Chapter 592
"Little Shuai Chen has become more and more experienced in using troops. Four years ago, Shuai Chen used troops like this, and Shuai Chen can do the same now."

In the newly completed yamen of the Beiyang Military Mansion in Tianjin, although the summer is over, the military staff still did not forget to shake their fans. Zhao Shizhen held a lacquered folding fan, and Xu Wei lightly shook his cattail fan, pointing to the war report sent back by Japan: "Young people are awesome."

"Our commander-in-chief is formidable. Four years ago, the commander-in-chief used troops like this." Zhao Shizhen raised his head and said, "After four years, the commander-in-chief will still use troops like this. Du Heizi has said it—he can go to him."

The cattail fan who was pointing Jiangshan paused, Xu Wei thought about Zhao Shizhen's words for a while, it seemed that this was indeed the case, and suddenly realized.

"The commander-in-chief only expands his army by one guard in each place, and the rest of the troops are led by others." The old lunatic took a sip of his tea, with an intriguing expression, and said, "Could it be that the handsome man can only lead so many soldiers?"

The two were gossiping at the yamen of the military mansion. Chen Mu, who was wearing a helmet on the school grounds, strode into the yamen rubbing his arms. He saw that the two of them had strange expressions when they saw him, and felt strange. They looked around and found nothing wrong Sure, and asked, "What are you two talking about?"

Xu Wei was an old man, and asked calmly, posing with a cattail fan: "The old man told Chang Ji that the little Chen Shuai has won the three flavors of the general's military skills, and he is indeed a formidable young man."

Zhao Shizhen's skills are insufficient, especially after hearing Xu Wei's serious answer, he couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and shook his head and said with emotion: "Students really don't know the secrets of the commander-in-chief's art of war—just like this practice of cavalry, like the infantry of the banner army, I don’t see anything special, why can the handsome man assert that his army can defeat the cavalry? They are all the same war horses.”

"Only like a war horse."

Speaking of war horses, Chen Mu gritted his teeth. He didn't have any horse troops before, and he didn't think it was too expensive to raise a few horses. Now it's different. Juniper ordered war horses from various guards, army herds, and mouth markets in northern Xinjiang. Nine thousand horses, he didn't have any money to give to others - he only had so much silver in his hands, and he was still counting on giving the new recruits an advance payment to settle down. The large amount of silver shipped from Nanyang was scattered in a blink of an eye, and then he brought back more than 2000 in batches. match.

But this is also good, it can give the Beiyang Army enough time to delineate wild pastures. Such a huge number of war horses cannot be domesticated in one pasture, and it’s not impossible. If you have money, you can. Anyway, Chen Mu’s financial resources cannot afford it. .

He sat at the top of the military government office, asked someone to bring a large bowl of herbal tea, and said: "The pastures have been found, there are eighteen wild pastures, and nine stables for horses. In this way, only horses are raised for three months a year. The financial expenditure is not too big. As for Chang Ji's doubts, let me ask you, what is a captive cavalry?"

"Don't put cavalry against infantry. Cavalry are special because they can run faster with four hooves than two legs, and because they ride horses." Before Zhao Shizhen could answer, Chen Mu talked eloquently: "Chen's original words were not about drills. The cavalry sent out can defeat the northern captives, but the Beiyang army guards can defeat the northern captives. I should say that an armored cavalry can't draw a bow and shoot, or can't dismount and fight? Mongolian light-armored cavalry can't charge with a knife, or can't dismount and shoot ?”

"Even if the horses and banner troops will be exhausted, I have no intention of training a cavalry for the purpose of charging with Alta's armored cavalry or shooting with Beilu's bow cavalry."

"Military battles are not about meeting opponents at chess, but about winning by combining right and wrong. Look at the battle report. Li's use of cavalry is the essence. The family members are all heavy cavalry, but they didn't go for assault. They only ran when the enemy's formation collapsed. Attacking from the front and back, drawing the bow and shooting more than ten steps away, the flail fell down in three to five steps, a mere few hundred cavalry killed thousands of enemies in one battle, and only three of our own cavalry fell from their horses."

"You let him start the battle and try to charge horses. The infantry formed a spear formation and threw arrows. Under the thrust of a long pole, no matter how heavy the cavalry was, they would be thrown off their horses."

Zhao Shizhen probably understood what Chen Mu meant, and asked, "What kind of cavalry does the general want to train? Just fight against captive cavalry."

Chen Mu tilted his head and smiled, spread his arms and said, "Naturally, the enemy cavalry can shoot him when he is charging, the enemy cavalry can chase him when he is fleeing, and the enemy bow cavalry can attack him from the flanks when he shoots—in the final analysis, Cavalry is just a functional arm, and only those without horses think that cavalry is enough to decide the battlefield."

"Isn't the cavalry used for assault?"

Zhao Shizhen's mind became romantic, and he danced with his hands and feet: "holding Zhangba riding spears, forming an formation and rushing straight into the enemy's formation, smashing a gap, and slashing and killing on all sides in the formation."

"Of course, if this method of combat is used well, it can directly help the army to win an all-round victory-this is also the main focus of the military guards' cavalry drills in the future, but this requires a lot of training, not any cavalry can do it of."

"A lot of training?"

"You pull out a hundred farmers, give them bird guns, and let them get close to the enemy army to shoot a volley of guns, can you?" Chen Mu smiled lightly, shook his head and said, "Nanyangwei Xiangshan Banner Army, refuse horses In the First Battle of the River, less than [-]% of the first volley of [-] bird guns was fired."

"It's early, it's late, the blunderbuss can't be held firmly, and people in battle have momentum. The courage of the two armies is a struggle, and they intimidate each other. Panic will minimize the ability of soldiers. You can find some peasants and soldiers to fight against each other. Let him shoot guns at hundreds of people without being able to speak clearly?"

"The reason why Chen puts cavalry training on the agenda now is not because he is about to set off for the Eastern Expedition, but because he has finally become familiar with infantry training and has enough experience in theory and practice before he dares to start training cavalry. The level of strength is not only in the cavalry, but also in their horses."

Xu Wei knows better about soldiers than Zhao Shizhen. Remembering the piles and runways that Chen Mu built earlier on the cavalry school, he asked, "So Chen Shuai's road fences and road piles are for training horses?"

"Of course, the Mongolian cavalry is very powerful. Their riders are the best riders. They are bold and fearless, and their orders are strict and orderly. They gather and disperse, but their horses are not, so it is difficult to launch an impact." Chen Mu shook his head lightly, and said: "I am not It is said that Mongolian horses are short and weak, and no matter how small or weak a war horse is, it is stronger than a human. I just tried it today, and as long as the horse gallops five steps, riding a spear can lift a hundred-jin bag three feet away."

Chen Mu sat in the yamen and babbled for a long time. Zhao Shizhen had seen him rubbing his arms several times, and asked, "Then...the arm of the commander?"

"Ah? No, after the stabbing, my mind became hot and I wanted to play tricks right away." Chen Mu covered his face with his hands a little ashamedly, "I almost swung myself off and pulled myself."

The one-foot-nine-foot horse spear was one inch thick, and the nine-pound thick wood spear, Chen Mu had the waist strength and was able to swing it, but he couldn't hold back the strength, making a big joke in the school grounds.

"Marshal, this is retribution." Du Heizi stood behind him with a sullen face, and said in a low voice, "Chapter 7 of the Banner Army's Code of Practice has 37 orders for guns, spears and blunderbusses. You are not allowed to practice flower guns at all."

Chen Mu raised his head and laughed loudly, and said: "This time they should know why they are not allowed to practice flower guns. Military spear skills, only one punch and one poke, the rest are useless, this is the truth."

"Our army is very disciplined. Next, we need to train this cavalry, not only to make the soldiers disciplined, but also to train how the horse walks!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)