Chapter 95 Obtained a group of cavalry, please follow up)
Wang Hongyu spent half of the past few days rolling around on horseback, fighting, riding a horse, charging on the wall, shooting with a musket, and even practiced falling asleep while riding a bumpy horse...
During the other half of the time, he led a thousand soldiers and horses under his command to practice anti-cavalry with spear phalanx, trap antlers to anti-cavalry, use terrain to anti-cavalry and use cavalry to anti-cavalry.
Half of the training subjects here were created by Wang Hongyu, and most of them are the result of military training in various historical periods in later generations.
Coupled with the guidance of the friendly Nine Sides Elite Cavalry, everyone became more and more familiar with the usual cavalry tactics, and anti-cavalry tactics became increasingly mature.
Zhou Dunji came to Jiliao for nearly three years. He was originally an expert in infantry training for the Sichuan Army and became increasingly proficient in cavalry training.
However, so many trainings involving cavalry could not be carried out without the assistance of friendly forces, so this month, relying on Zhou Dunji's relationship, he invited the three-party Liao aid general Zhao Lute to train together.
And because of the previous influence of Wang Hongyu and the entire Southern Army, General You Shilu, who was guarding Shenyang, was invited to join him.
The Sichuan soldiers and the two northern armies trained intensively, and the Baigan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers also sent people to observe the training in addition to other tasks. Several soldiers and horses have improved a lot.
Early this morning, Wang Hongyu followed Zhou Dunji to the school grounds and found that Zhao's troops were packing up the camp, while You Shiwei's troops had already packed up and were about to leave.
"This is……"
"Yuan Jinglue and General He adjusted their defenses. Both of their units were transferred from Shenyang to Liaoyang. In addition, Zu Dashou from Liaodong was also transferred back."
Wang Hongyu thought that this was Yuan Yingtai delegating power to He Shixian and transferring people from the Shenyang area who were not directly related to He.
Especially You Shilu, he is the younger brother of Shenyang Deputy Commander-in-Chief You Shigong. If they were all here, He Shixian would have to consider what the You brothers thought of everything he did.
Zhao Lijiao was not a direct descendant, and Zu Dashou was also transferred away to avoid being too ostentatious.
You Shilu rushed to the school ground and bid farewell to Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu. They marched from Shanhaiguan to Liaodong and jointly defeated Xianglan Banner Amin. The two armies had already trusted each other.
He didn't waste much time. After commanding the troops and horses to leave, he went to the Southern Army camp to discuss some defense matters with Chen Ce, Zhou Dunji, Qi Jin and others.
After Zhao led his troops to pack up the camp, he also rushed to the school field in person and said to the two of them: "In the past month, the morale of our army has been high, which has completely reversed the decline in morale in Ji Town after Saarhu. With your Training methods improve combat effectiveness. I would like to thank General Zhou and Mr. Wang Qian again!"
Zhou Dunji said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, why bother to say thank you? You and I are both martial arts scholars. We are responsible for training and rectifying the soldiers and horses of Jizhen together. Now we have achieved results. We have learned a lot from each other."
Wang Hongyu also thanked Zhao Shujiao for his guidance on cavalry operations and defensive cavalry during this period.
The military order was urgent, and it was hard for Zhao to stay longer. Before leaving, he suddenly thought of something.
"By the way, I think the training methods of the Southern Army are very effective, and they are worthy of being the strongest infantry of the Ming Dynasty. But..."
Zhou Dunji felt awe-struck and motioned to his friend to continue speaking.
"However, the Confederate army only has a total of more than 1,000 war horses, most of which are used by scouts... In other words, the Confederate army of more than 10,000 has almost no cavalry."
"Indeed, this is the biggest weakness of our southern army at present."
Many people knew what Zhao Shujiao said, but when he specifically said it, he had a very good idea:
"The infantry under my command is weak, but there are many cavalry and horses. Why don't I exchange 100 cavalry and 500 horses for 100 elite infantry from you? I will help you with the cavalry and also rely on you to improve the strength of my infantry."
"Oh?" Zhou Dunji's eyes lit up. This was a good proposal for mutual benefit, but he felt that Zhao Shujiao was at a loss: "With so many war horses, I need more infantry."
"We don't distinguish between cavalry and infantry. We are all soldiers of our Ming Dynasty. No matter how many and important the horses are, they cannot be the same as the soldiers. Therefore, if 100 people are exchanged for 100 people, the exchange of numbers must be the same."
These words were very good and Zhou Dunji could not refuse any more, so he followed Zhao's suggestion and exchanged 100 cavalry for 100 infantry, and also sent 500 horses.
The soldiers exchanged by both sides will be upgraded to one level when they arrive at the other side, and they will not go back until they are destroyed.
Zhou Dunji and Zhao Lijiao were both generals, so they transferred soldiers and horses from their respective subordinates. Among them, Wang Hongyu's training method was the most innovative and effective, and 50 people were transferred from his hands.
Correspondingly, 50 Jizhen cavalry and 250 war horses were also added to him, which can be expanded to form a special heavy armored cavalry.
"Brother, didn't you just say that the special training of cavalry and anti-cavalry is only half done? What is the other half?"
Zhou Dunji thought for a moment and said: "The remaining half of the special training is archery and anti-arrow. These are common situations in the military, but they are your weaknesses."
It is true that archery cannot be considered a talent without several years of training, and it cannot be considered a master without more than ten years of hard work.
Although Wang Hongyu has trained in archery, he is still far behind compared with the veterans in the army. Mounted archery is his weakness in horseback combat, and he is basically unable to shoot moving targets while running.
But he knows muskets~
The Zhejiang soldiers' bird guns, various Franchise machines, Thunder guns, and the self-made handgun given to him by Xu Guangqi were all mastered.
There aren't many tricks to this, it's just a matter of practice.
Previously, Huang Kezuan and Xu Guangqi raised a very large amount of gunpowder for the Southern Army. The Southern Army conducted various trainings based on terrain, wind direction, formation, fixed targets, and moving targets.
Wang Hongyu also used his later basic knowledge of shooting, ballistics and mathematics to introduce the principles of advance to the soldiers, and also roughly calculated the flight speed of different firearms and ammunition.
In this way, everyone will know how to aim and advance different guns, and what adjustments should be made if there is a wind direction.
Zhou Dunji took all this into account and gave a lot of support behind the scenes, but now he needs to give Wang Hongyu more rigorous special training to improve his archery and anti-arrow abilities.
"Jiannu is the best at archery. His armor-piercing heavy arrows are extremely powerful. He shoots people in the face at close range at twenty paces. My third brother may not be able to deal with it well now."
In this battle of Shenyang North, when Wang Hongyu was fighting against a very strong Niulu Ezhen from Jiannu, he rolled on the ground at the critical moment to avoid the enemy's arrows.
"Are you thinking about that time?" Zhou Dunji said in a serious tone: "Do you remember what posture you were in at that time?"
"It's like crouching under a forest of guns and rolling directly against the ground."
"Yes, the enemy's vision and arrows are interfered with by the forest of gun barrels. You are still squatting among them, making it difficult to be targeted, and you can roll to the ground immediately. But what if you are standing? Can you still dodge the bows and arrows within 30 steps?
?!"
"If you were standing, it would be much harder to hide..."
Wang Hongyu was alert, it seemed that he was in danger of winning at that time.