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After careful questioning, Chen Feng learned that most of these 2000 people came from Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Grassland, and some of them were even soldiers under Gongsun Zan.

When he heard that they were soldiers under Gongsun Zan's command, Chen Feng was immediately happy. After repeated inquiries, Chen Feng finally found more than a dozen elite cavalry from among these people.

For the cavalry of the Three Kingdoms era, the most famous ones are nothing more than Xiliang iron cavalry, Bingzhou wolf cavalry, Youzhou white horse Yicong, and later Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry.

Among the four cavalry, except for the Xiliang cavalry, the first three have been wiped out. The current Xiliang cavalry cannot be compared with the Xiliang cavalry in Dong Zhuo's era, especially the Flying Bear Army under Dong Zhuo's command. Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry Still under construction.

Therefore, it can be said that among the various princes, no one has the cavalry that they can afford, but Chen Feng keenly seized this gap and wanted to take the opportunity to build his own elite cavalry.

Among these four cavalry, the formation and fighting methods of Baima Yicong and Bingzhou wolf cavalry are the closest to the prairie cavalry, in other words, the closest to the Mongolian cavalry known as the whip of God in later generations.

Chen Feng wanted to form light cavalry like the Whip of God.Chen Feng thought about it, as long as he can develop armor-piercing arrows, heavy cavalry will only be beaten in front of light cavalry.

Therefore, when Chen Feng found these old soldiers of Baima Yicong, one can imagine how happy he was.

Chen Feng immediately summoned his trusted soldiers to discuss the formation of cavalry, and everyone in the tent had different opinions.

Because the cavalry has many weaknesses, sometimes it is not even as good as the infantry. For example, the famous White Horse Yicong outside the Great Wall was destroyed by the three thousand Xiandeng dead soldiers. Very cold.

Besides, the advantage of cavalry can only be reflected on plains, such as grasslands, where cavalry gallops wildly.

If they went to the muddy or hilly areas in the south, the cavalry could not run at all, and if they encountered the road full of sharp stones, the horses would not be able to move forward.

Back then, Baima Yicong had indeed defeated many prairie cavalry on the grassland, so what?In front of the strong bow and crossbow, not all the elite Baima Yicong were shot to death.

Hearing that many people in the tent were slandering Baima Yicong, the expressions of the twelve veterans of Baima Yicong standing behind Chen Feng couldn't hold back.

In any case, Gongsun Zan is also a well-known national hero, and Baima Yicong has made a lot of contributions to fighting against the grassland barbarians and guarding the frontier of the Han Dynasty.How brave the White Horse Yi Cong Legion was back then.

The invincible opponents in the grasslands had beaten the nomadic tribes and fled. At that time, who would dare to blame them in front of the Baima Yicong soldiers.

Now, with the fall of Gongsun Zan and the disappearance of Baima Yicong, the world has begun to doubt and even deny Baima Yicong's brilliant achievements.

Chapter 26 Forming the Cavalry 2

Seeing that everyone in the tent was still arguing, Chen Feng didn't want to waste any more time, so Chen Feng waved his hand to make everyone quiet down.

Then Chen Feng asked: "Having said so much, you are all talking about the shortcomings of the cavalry. Of course, these shortcomings are all we have to face. How about this? Who of you will summarize, what are the main shortcomings of the cavalry?"

All the generals in the hall turned their attention to Zhang Jaw and Gao Lan. At this time, it is more appropriate for these two people to make such a concluding speech.

Zhang Jai nodded to Gao Lan, then stood up and said, "My lord, according to my many years of experience in leading troops, the disadvantages of cavalry are nothing more than difficult training and delicate war horses."

Chen Feng nodded and said, "Tell me in detail."

Zhang Ja nodded and looked at the crowd and said: "Since I debuted, I have commanded the cavalry for four years, so I know the cavalry quite well.

As we all know, barbarians in the grassland are qualified cavalry when they mount a horse. That is because they grew up on horseback and are quite familiar with war horses.

However, even for prairie people, it takes at least seven years for them to train a qualified cavalryman.This is just qualified cavalry, and in the Central Plains, it will only take longer to train qualified cavalry.

Also, the tactics of the light cavalry that my lord just mentioned are nothing more than flying shots on horseback and reflexive shooting, and many excellent generals can do it.

However, in order to train a large number of such cavalry, two years must be added to the seven years.

At the same time, I am not trying to hit the lord. Horseback flying and reflexive shooting are quite difficult to practice. Many cavalry will be injured during the training process, and unfortunately even die accidentally.Many war horses also broke their hooves because they could not cooperate well with the cavalry.

Riding on a fast-running horse, even an excellent general cannot maintain his balance unless he has more than ten years of experience.

It is already very difficult to achieve riding and shooting. As for reflexive shooting, I am afraid that only 3000 of the [-] Baima Yicong were able to do it.

My lord, don't think that it is easy to have 8000 out of 3000 people. These [-] white horses are basically the elite of Gongsun Zan's army. Each of them has fought against the grassland cavalry for many years, and their experience is not what our cavalry has. comparable.

In addition, the breeding of war horses is easy to say, the key is that war horses are extremely easy to wear and tear. After a big battle, many war horses have to be replaced due to cracked or damaged horseshoes.

Without considerable financial resources or having their own horse farm, who can change horses so frequently.

Even if the wounded horse is healed, it may not be able to return to the battlefield. What is the use of a horse that cannot run? At that time, it will be difficult for the raised horse to wait for the slaughter or plow the land to transport goods. ?

At the time when Benchu's army was at its peak, there were only tens of thousands of cavalry, but only less than [-] were really useful, which shows how delicate war horses are.Therefore, if these two problems are not resolved, we will not be able to form cavalry. "

Chen Feng nodded, he knew these problems well in his heart, Chen Feng looked at the twelve cavalrymen behind him, and these 12 people also nodded in agreement with Chen Feng, it seems that the problems of cavalrymen in this era are common.

Chen Feng looked at the disappointed expressions of the people in the tent, and he knew in his heart that, in fact, these people really wanted to form a powerful cavalry, but the reality restricted everyone.

Chen Feng turned his head to look at Zhang Jaw again and said, "What if I can solve these two problems?"

"Really?" Zhang Jaw questioned, "Could it be that my lord is deceiving me?"

"Hahahaha, what are you doing to tease you? Tomorrow, I will find a way to solve these two problems." Chen Feng said confidently: "I will definitely count on what I say. Go back today and think about how to train cavalry. These two problems , I will give you the answer tomorrow.”

Everyone left Chen Feng's tent in doubt and bewilderment. They didn't know what solution Chen Feng would come up with, but if Chen Feng could really come up with a solution, it would definitely be a great joy.

The next day, Chen Feng brought the twelve veterans of Baimayi Cong who had become his own soldiers, and Zhang Zhe Gaolan to a blacksmith shop that made swords, guns, swords and halberds for the army.Chen Feng immediately found three old blacksmiths with 30 years of blacksmithing experience.

Then, Chen Feng took out a drawing and said to the three of them: "According to this drawing, according to the size of the horse's hoof, can you make it?"

The old man who was the leader of the three said: "Although I have never seen the things drawn by the general, it is not difficult to build them. We can hand over the samples in an hour. I don't know what the general wants? "

"What's the use, you will know when you build it." Chen Feng replied mysteriously: "If you can successfully create this kind of thing, each of you will be rewarded with a hundred taels."

The eyes of the three old blacksmiths started to light up when they heard the reward of one hundred taels. Chen Feng would not joke with them.

That is to say, as long as they can build this thing, Chen Feng will really reward them with a hundred taels of gold each. At that moment, the three of them didn't delay any longer, and immediately started beating with hammers.

Then, Chen Feng found several carpenters, gave them the same blueprint, and promised them a big reward to build the things on the blueprint.

Zhang Jai and the others still don't understand what Chen Feng is going to do. Didn't they agree to solve the problem of war horses?Why did you come to find a blacksmith and carpenter to do business.

However, if you don't understand, you don't understand. Chen Feng must have his reasons for doing this. Moreover, Chen Feng is the master, so Zhang Jai and others are not easy to ask what he is going to do.

Two hours later, the blacksmith and carpenter finally built what Chen Feng wanted. Chen Feng immediately brought a war horse excitedly, and pressed the two things together.

Then, Chen Feng said to Zhang Jaw: "Junyi, we must be here, just one trick, how about it."

Zhang Ja heard that Chen Feng was going to compete in martial arts, so he didn't postpone it right away, but Zhang Ja also wondered why the competition was only one move.

After Zhang Jai rode on the horse, Chen Feng suddenly said to the others: "Pay attention later, you have to catch Junyi, if you break him, I won't pay for it."

Then, Chen Feng urged the horse, accelerated the speed of the horse and rushed towards Zhang Jaw, Zhang Jaw did not hesitate, and immediately rode the horse to meet him, and both of them raised the speed of the horse to the fastest.

At the critical moment, Chen Feng swung the long spear in his hand, Zhang Jaw was still thinking that there was only one move, and now he also swung the long spear in his hand, ready to confront Chen Feng head-on.

Zhang Jai knew that Chen Feng's riding skills were not very good, and his horse riding skills were not as good as his own, so he was very confident that he could beat Chen Feng on horseback.

However, the next scene opened everyone's eyes. After Chen Feng touched Zhang Ja's weapon, Zhang Jai let out a muffled grunt. Then, unfortunately, Zhang Jai flew out from the horse.

Gao Lan was the first to react, and immediately ran over to help Zhang Jaw up. Fortunately, Zhang Jaw was not injured.