Xiao Heda fought a war. Before he was sent to Jiehe Shangshi City by Xiao Baoxian as a veteran, the Liao Kingdom's Northwest Recruitment Office was once an official and had been dealing with the Bukelie's troops for several years. He knew too much about how to fight the war on horseback.

In his opinion, the border between the Northern Song and Xixia was long and the terrain was complex, especially in the Hengshan Mountains and Wuding River Basin. The territory of both sides was intertwined, and countless castles were built. Although the Song army was always at the upper hand in the battle for the forts, the occupation and construction of a large number of castles also increased the burden of defense. For the cavalry of Xixia, there were countless targets of invasion and attack.

Unless the Song army can seize the entire Wuding River Valley and squeeze the power of Xixia out of the southeast of the vast sea. Otherwise, the Western Xia cavalry can launch fierce and short assaults to break the fortresses on the edge of the Song army. They even go a little deeper to loot the valleys where the people of the Song Dynasty reclaimed.

After all, the Song army on the eastern front was mainly infantry. Even if there were some cavalry, they were scattered among the generals or the generals. It was impossible for them to gather together in an urgent manner. When they gathered to fight back, the cavalry of the Western Xia had already returned with a full load.

Such robbery will last several times, and the morale of the Song army will drop sharply, and their troops will be forced to disperse. By next spring, the forces they can concentrate for attack may be greatly reduced.

Thinking of this, Brother Cha focused his attention and said to Qianshun: "Your Majesty, I think General Xiao's method is feasible." He thought for a while and said, "But it is not the time yet. Qin Wang Chuan City, Xiazhou City and Youzhou City have not been built yet. It would be inappropriate if the Song soldiers attacked."

“那何时出兵为佳?”

"It can be done until the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month and the Kitchen God will be sent to you," said Cha Ge. "The officials of the Song people will lock their seals and take leave after the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. Although it is wartime now, the line between Hengshan and Wudinghe is still calm. I guess the Song army on the east road will still relax."

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延河北岸,王家坪.

Dozens of cavalry wearing leather armor flew over and headed straight for the straw man hundreds of steps away. The knights on the horse deliberately controlled the horse's speed, making dozens of cavalry barely maintain a wide horizontal formation on the front, as if a long wall that was moving rapidly hit a group of straw man, and immediately poked most of the straw man who had been tied to life-sized with wooden poles.

“快快快,撤回来,别停下!”

Murong Gu's loud voice, as if he was thunder, urging the cavalry who had just completed an attack to retreat. However, the cavalry did not hear his roar, but instead slammed the horses, as if they wanted to see the "results" of the rushing formation just now. Several cavalry even knocked down the straw man who was still standing there with the wooden poles in their hands.

"Yes, do you thief have ears in your army like this?" Murong Tu seemed to be in a bad mood. Seeing the performance of such a cavalry, he was furious and rushed over, raised the horse whip in his hand and beat it randomly.

"Everything is done for grandpa! Why are you standing stupidly? Waiting to be hit by the spear staff of the Western thieves? If it is a battlefield here, you thieves and soldiers will all see the King of Hell..."

With Murong Mu scolding and whipping, a group of useful cavalry, who were playing happily, had to drive their horses and run again and gallop towards their starting position.

The rushing training is the utility cavalry of the Royal Horse in front of the hall, which is the cavalry hired by Wu Haogu through various channels to supplement the knight vacancies. However, it does not include 200 knights and 50 Jurchen knights. They have long mastered the ability to rush the formation and do not need Murong Ke to train. These days, they are being led by local guides to be familiar with the terrain of northern Shaanxi.

By the way, Wu Haogu, who had the right to "do things cheaply", arrived in Yan'an and took over all the troops of the three emperors in the imperial front from Gao Qiu, and immediately adapted and personnel adjustments.

First, Wu Haogu drew 200 knights from the imperial horses in front of the hall and received training from the Military Academy and could serve as knights of the infantry commander and head of the head, and used them to lead 10,000 palace soldiers to form 20 "infantry commanders".

Then, Wu Haogu made adjustments to the Dragon Warriors, forming more than 3,000 warriors into 10 "warrior commanders". When each warrior commander was full, there were 500 people. Now the 200 people were missing. Wait for the second warriors selected by the Imperial Warriors to arrive before making up for it.

Afterwards, Wu Haogu formed a "box" according to the standards of 2 step commands, 1 warrior command and 1 auxiliary command, which means that a temporary unit was added between "direct" and "command".

There were 20 stair commanders, 10 warrior commanders and 10 auxiliary soldiers, which were also composed of the palace soldiers, and a total of 10 wings were formed. The Yulong Mengshizhi and Yulong Inner Guard were assigned to each of them. The two wings were commanded by 5 wings respectively. Under the full wing, the number of people in each wing exceeded 10,000.

In order to facilitate the management of the two Zhidu Yuhou and his own three Zhidu Yuhou, Wu Haogu also drew 150 knights who had entered the Military Academy from the imperial horse in front of the hall, and some doctors who graduated from the Jiehe Yuntai Academy, forming three "staff teams".

After 350 knights were transferred out, Yumazhi in front of the palace received a batch of supplementary utility cavalry, including Wanyan Xieye's 50 "Gunda" and 200 fakes brought by Murong Turtle, and less than 200 ordinary utility is the people who are now being trained by Murong Turtle.

The three direct chief officers were also adjusted according to Wu Haogu's intention. Zhao Zhongge, who was originally appointed as the direct commander of the Dragon Inner Guard, was adjusted to the position of the hall commander of military affairs. Yang Keshi was appointed as the direct commander of the Dragon Inner Guard, and Wang Bingze was still the direct commander of the Dragon Inner Guard. The former direct commander of the Dragon Horse was appointed Murong Mu, who only had a ninth-rank official.

Finally, the Yuhousi of the Sanzhidu Metropolitan City also had many direct commands, including the first engineer command, the second engineer command, personal command, baggage command and military command. Among them, the military command is Wu Haogu's staff group. In addition to dozens of "knight staff", the members also have cavalry, drummer, trumpeter, flag bearer, documentary, etc.

After some adjustments, the army with a population of more than 30,000 immediately became strict and orderly, and was easy to mobilize.

Not to mention, this way of using knight officers trained in military schools to standardize the management of the troops is actually enough for a military revolution!

For a great country like the Song Dynasty, where industry and commerce began to develop greatly and the manor system was no longer there, as long as one or two hundred knights and officers were trained every year and hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers were recruited, it would be enough to maintain a large army with considerable combat effectiveness.

Wu Haogu, a "semi-outsider", was also happy to be a hand-off manager, and handed over the training and management of the troops to the military commander Zhao Zhongge. He himself took Oliga and Bai Feifei to wander around Yan'an.

Today, Wu Haogu took two female companions to visit Baota Mountain and climbed the Yan'an Pagoda, which was built in the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qingli period of the Song Dynasty. After exploring the mountains and rivers of Yan'an, he went to see Fan Shu's cliff carvings. He returned to Wangjiaping on the north bank of the river at dusk. He was about to run into Murong Guy loudly scolding a group of undisciplined utility cavalry.

When he discovered that Wu Haogu was driving his horse, Murong Gu stopped cursing people. He disbanded the group of useful cavalry and rode his horse to Wu Haogu. He saluted on the horse's back: "Xuanzan, you are back."

"What?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Someone is looking for me?"

Murong Mu said, "It's Wanyan Xie who is back with Wu Tian and the others."

武天是武好古的“首席假子”,所以就被任命为200名假子骑士的指挥.这200名假子骑士和完颜斜也带来的50名生女真人又被合编成了一个指挥,由完颜斜也担任指挥使,武天担任副指挥(副指挥不是正式的职官),实际上则是斜也和武天共同掌握.

"I've been there for a lot of days..." Wu Haogu suddenly found Murong's expression a little abnormal, and asked quickly, "Is something wrong?"

Murong Gu nodded, "It was something wrong. They seemed to have taken advantage of the opportunity to explore the terrain in the Hengshan-Wuding River area and entered the Xixia territory."

Wanyan Gundam and the Knight of the Riddle are both top-notch horseback skills, so naturally there is no need to stay in the camp on the north bank of Yanshui for basic training. So Wu Haogu and Zhao Zhongge asked them to follow the guide sent by the Western Army to the Wuding River-Hengshan area to check the terrain. This time they went there for more than ten days, so Wu Haogu certainly didn't worry about them. With Wanyan Sei, how could something happen?

"Have you entered the territory of the Western Pirates?" Wu Haogu asked hurriedly, "Didn't you suffer a loss?"

"How could they suffer a loss?" Murong Gu shook his head and said, "They ran to their territory and robbed... and burned several villages, robbed and killed a group of Western thieves, chopped more than a hundred heads, pulled back hundreds of horses, thousands of cattle and sheep, and even caught hundreds of vassals."

"Is there any damage?" Wu Haogu asked.

"The Jurchens suffered no losses. Xuanzan's fake boy injured two, neither serious. The following knight auxiliary soldiers died and six were injured."

Wanyan Xie and Wu Tian's command had a total of 251 soldiers. Wu Haogu assigned them 502 auxiliary cavalry, with a total of 753 cavalry. There were also some Western light cavalry leading the way, with a total of 758 cavalry. The first attack was good, and the losses themselves were minimal, which seemed to be of great use.

"This is a good thing!" Wu Haogu smiled, "I have to remember their merits."
Chapter completed!