After Fang Xuanling said goodbye with satisfaction, Li Jing was invited to the White Tiger Hall.

Li Jing also went to the Sanbao Hall without any trouble. As soon as he entered the hall, he made his request straightforward. "The last general wanted to buy two thousand war horses from Huaihuang Ranch to equip the troops of the Daning Army." Li Jing was a general of the Daning Town. Daning Town is a Zhongzhen. His fifth-rank Zhongzhen general was under 800 soldiers. However, when Li Jing took office, there were only three or five small soldiers in Daning Town. Fortunately, he borrowed 200 soldiers from Daizhou's uncle Han Hong and his elder brother Li Duan, and he did not become a bare-stop general. Some time ago, when Yi Feng led his army to fight with Tiele people in the north, Li Jing recruited soldiers from various parts of Guizhou. Although there were no soldiers left in Daning Town,

The military town of Daning was still there. It was originally controlled by Yi Feng. Later, after the establishment of Gui and Wu prefectures, Yi Feng took the initiative to withdraw all the towns, inspectors and other personnel from the Great Wall Pass. As soon as Li Jing arrived, he immediately took over the inspection of these towns, Fortress and Erlong City, especially the towns and towns of Daning and Erlong City. These two places had already developed well, and many merchants moved in and were on the road leading to Huaihuang, so it was extremely lively. As the general of the town, Li Jing also became his place of troops stationed in his jurisdiction. The merchants in the city naturally had to pay him a monthly salary as usual, and Li Jing refused them all. However, Li Jing was not a greedy person, but he also needed money.

First, the Huaihuang army was extremely rewarded, which caused Li Jing to raise a lot of treatment when recruiting soldiers, which greatly exceeded the military pay given by the court. He could only find a way out for himself. In addition, Li Jing came to Guizhou not to play, but to seize the position in advance in the war next year, so he would go to the battlefield to make contributions. Therefore, after recruiting 800 soldiers in the town, Li Jing was not satisfied. This time he came to Huaihuang. Li Jing was here to buy war horses and weapons. Last time he escorted Gao Qianxue and Murong Qiangwei back to Huaihuang, Li Jing witnessed the strength of the Wuzhou army left in Huaihuang City, as well as the enviable war horses and excellent

The armor of the Sui Dynasty and Turkish Warriors, and the 800 soldiers in the capital, Li Jing now has a thousand troops, which is considered a large number of troops. But this is just a new army. Without equipment and training, it will definitely not play any role if he is to be brought to the battlefield. Fortunately, there is still a while before the Sui Dynasty and the Turks will start fighting. He still has time to train troops. Li Jing is very confident and confident in training troops. Although he has always served in a civil service before, he came from a family of military generals. When he was in his teens, he could discuss military tactics with his uncle Han Qinhu. He was also praised by his uncle of the Shangzhu Kingdom. Naturally, he showed that he was still somewhat sure about military affairs.

However, although he had training methods, fighting was not only done by well-trained. Sharp swords, spears, strong armor, and swift war horses were also extremely important. Li Jing intended to train a elite soldier so that he could make a splash on the battlefield next year, so this time he came to Huaihuang and fought Yifeng to buy horses and weapons.

"Two thousand war horses?" Yi Feng looked at the future war god in history with some surprise. At this time, Li Jing was only twenty-eight years old, and was the most handsome and strong. Although he was born in a family of military generals, he had never really led troops to fight, but he had worked as a palace guard in the palace. Although Li Jing had basically been a civil servant, and was a Gongcao Chang'an at the age of sixteen. He then worked as a court guard, served as a county magistrate, and was a military officer before he became a general of the Central Town of Daning. His career was smooth. But Yi Feng knew that Li Jing's greater talent was still in military affairs. This was not only a famous general, but also a famous general with excellent command skills, but also a master of military tactics. But now, no one knows that Li Jing has such ability.

Everyone was surprised that Li Jing, the general of Daning Town, asked for two thousand war horses. Daning only had 800 soldiers, but Li Jing wanted two thousand war horses. This was the intention of building a full cavalry.

Wei Zheng and Li Jing are also considered to be separated. Li Jing is also a registered disciple of the great scholar Wen Zhongzi of Hedong. He is also half a classmate with Yi Feng. Wei Zheng kindly reminded Li Jing, "Senior Brother Yao, Huaihuang's war horses are not cheap now. If you want to train a cavalry, you don't have a horse. There are good war horses and good soldiers, and you also need sufficient training. In addition, the consumption of cavalry is also extremely powerful. The cost of raising a thousand cavalry can be over 5,000 elite infantry. In addition, with war horses and cavalry, you must have corresponding cavalry equipment. This cavalry equipment is also better than infantry equipment.

There are many valuable preparations." Of course, he didn't say anything. Some people have horses and equipment, but they still have to be able to train and command. Even in Huaihuang, Yi Feng has trained 10,000 cavalry now, but these battalions of cavalry have not yet completed all the equipment, and they have not even completed the running-in. The training has just begun. If you want to wait until these battalions of cavalry have real combat power, you don't know when. Huaihuang army has fought several major battles, but none of them have played a decisive role in cavalry. These cavalry are often used for battlefield support, concealment and pursuit.

Seeing that Li Jing was his classmate, Wei Zheng kindly reminded him that he hoped that this Guanlong nobleman would not be greedy for great talents and would turn his troops into cavalry at once. After all, Daning Town was very important in the past and belonged to an important national border in the northern border. But now, outside of Daning Town is Huaihuang. Although Daning Town has been upgraded from Daning Pass to a town, more of it has become a tax gate. It is still okay for the soldiers of the Daning Town to buy some armor and weapons to train. If you have money, buy more than a hundred horses and equip that family mate team, it is still good. But if you want to train all 800 town soldiers and 200 personal soldiers into cavalry, you are a little too much.

In Wei Zheng's opinion, his classmate had a good background and a smooth career, but in fact he had a better future as a civil servant. After working in the imperial court for a few years, he could find a way to be transferred to the local government to be a Sima or a governor. In this way, he would return to the court in the future and maybe he could be a Shaoqing. In a few years, he might be a minister.

"Thank you, Brother Wei, these are also clear that a cavalry can raise five infantrymen, but as long as they are used well, the function of a cavalry is much more than five infantry. In particular, Daning Town guards the Great Wall Pass, close to the outside of the frontier. Once there are police, infantry can only passively defend, but the cavalry can fight mobile and attack or defend, especially against those Turkic nomadic cavalry outside the frontier. Only cavalry is the king." Wei Zheng's kindness cannot change Li Jing's idea of ​​turning all of his thousand soldiers into cavalry.

Li Jing, who had no experience in commanding the troops, saw this in the eyes of many generals of Huaihuang Army in the hall. This was a complete scholar's words, just talking about war on paper. Especially in the current situation of Huaihuang Army, Huaihuang Army has never really relied on cavalry. However, it still won several battles and never lost. Even if they face nomadic cavalry every time, they still achieved a complete victory. Therefore, some generals even felt that using the Huaihuang Army's chariot formation and the longbowmen to fight cavalry was the most powerful method of Huaihuang Army.

However, after hearing Li Jing's words, Yi Feng nodded repeatedly. Huaihuang Army did win several battles with Tieler Cavalry. But each time it was a small battle, and basically fought ambush battles, and the terrain was not traditional plain grassland cavalry wars. Therefore, cavalry must not be considered useless. On the contrary, in the bones, Yi Feng highly praised the theory of cavalry decisive victory. The current situation in Huaihuang is just a tactical response that had no cavalry available. In Yi Feng's real idea, Huaihuang Army should still have a cavalry army, so as to ensure that there is annihilation combat capability against nomadic cavalry on the vast grassland outside the frontier.

Although the chariot formation and longbow formation are also good, they are more of a defensive situation. They can only be beaten passively and will never achieve real victory. Especially on the grassland, the chariot formation has too many shortcomings, and insufficient mobility is a fatal flaw. Even if they can defeat nomadic cavalry, if the other party wants to escape, there is not enough elite cavalry, they can only be defeated and cannot be annihilated.

In history, two people had entered a devastating blow to the nomadic cavalry in the grassland. These two people were Huo Qubing and Li Jing. Their success was almost the same as the chariot, and they used cavalry against cavalry. Huo Qubing's light cavalry went deep into the enemy's back and attacked the Huns' lairs directly. Li Jing also adopted the bold and in-depth tactics of the light cavalry to attack the Turkic camp and capture the thieves and the king, which changed the situation of the entire war in one fell swoop.

He remembered that in history, in the battle of Tang attacking the Turks under Li Jing, Li Jing asked his student Su Dingfang to select thousands of elite cavalry soldiers in the army, and then conducted special training in Youzhou for several years. During the final battle, Li Jing personally led this special cavalry unit of thousands of people, and rushed into the Turkic camp like a divine weapon from the sky.

Li Jing wants to practice cavalry now, but Yi Feng seems to have no problem. He is born a famous general, even if his glory is not revealed now.

"I have a batch of captured Tielle war horses on my hand. I can draw a batch of them for you. It's okay for you to want two thousand war horses. However, war horses are indeed very expensive." Yi Feng smiled at Li Jing. Even if he admires Li Jing very much, Li Jing is not his subordinate now, but just a colleague. If Li Jing wants to train cavalry and want horses, he has to buy them with money. He can give some discounts himself, but it is impossible to give them for free.

Behind the screen, Gao Mingyue immediately spoke, "The iron-hoofed war horses of the Tiel tribe are better than those of Hexi horses and Hetao horses. Even the Turks in the south of the desert are less than the horses on the block. If such excellent war horses are sold separately, they are 120 stakes per horse. If you buy two thousand horses at a time, we can give you a discount of ten stakes per horse, and each horse is only 110 stakes per horse. The total price of two thousand horses is 220,000 stakes. As long as you pay the money, you can go to the ranch to pick up horses at any time. Don't worry, all of them are excellent war horses that have been trained and suitable for riding. If you buy them, as long as the cavalry and war horses have a little tacit understanding, you don't need to be specially trained."

Yi Feng does have a large number of war horses in his hand. After the triumph, he brought back a total of as many as 50,000 war horses. Although such a large number of war horses is a huge fortune, the daily consumption is also huge. Huaihuang has been secretly contacting buyers from all over the country for sale. Li Jing was actually very happy to buy horses Huaihuang. However, the price of war horses is not cheap. The Great Sui Dynasty has a lot of cavalry, and the imperial court has a large number of horse ranch farms in Longyou Hetao and other places. According to Yi Feng, the Great Sui Dynasty had a large number of war horses, with a permanent army of less than 800,000, but the number of war horses was also 700,000. Of course, there are also war horses here, with more than 600,000 war horses including war horses equipped in the army and war horses still in the ranch, and many of them were not yet trained. But even if there are sufficient ranches and horses, war horses are an extremely important strategic material for the court.

Qu Tutong, who was just appointed as the chief supervisor of Guizhou this year, was able to serve as the chief supervisor because of his contributions to inspecting the herds of the Longyou court last year. Last year, Qu Tutong inspected the herds of the court, but more than 20,000 hidden horses were found in each horse farm. Emperor Yang Jian was furious when he received the news and immediately killed more than 1,500 officials in charge of horse herding affairs. For the sake of 20,000 horses, the emperor wanted to kill 1,500 officials, which shows the preciousness of war horses. Qu Tutong found more than 20,000 hidden horses, and this year, the two new states of Guiwu were established, and Qu Tutong immediately obtained a real position in Guizhou.

Before, Yi Feng sent two thousand war horses to Yang Guang, and Yang Guang immediately sent Yi Feng a wife and niece as his concubine, and his attitude towards him immediately changed a lot.

It is said that even the Turks, which have a territory of thousands of miles, have less than one million war horses. From this, it can be imagined how precious war horses are.

Although Yi Feng made a fortune and had so many war horses in hand, the price of war horses is still high. Huaihuang is now in unison with Sanfan, and a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, camels, etc. are transported to Huaihuang for sale. The price of livestock continues to decline. The most expensive horses are only forty stakes, and the cheapest ones can be bought even twenty or thirty stakes. However, war horses have never been reduced. Moreover, the war horses in Yi Feng's hands are not those that have not been riding training, but riding war horses that the cavalry have equipped. The breed is still far away, such as the three major war horse breeds of the Great Sui Dynasty, Hexi horses, Hetao horses and the Mobei iron hoof horses that are better than the ones that have not been riding training.

In fact, if Huaihuang had not pressed too many war horses and consumed a lot, these iron hoof horses could have sold at a higher price.

Two thousand iron hoofed horses cost 220,000 guan. For those who know the profession, it is really not expensive, and Li Jing is also very clear about this. However, the court should not pay the 220,000 guan for him. If he asked him to pay for it himself, although Li Jing was born in the Guanlong nobles, he could not afford so much money for the time being.

"Well, I don't have that much money on my hands for the time being." Li Jing said.

Everyone in the hall was stunned for a moment, "If you don't have money, why do you buy a war horse?" (To be continued, please search for astronomy. The novel is better, updated and faster!
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