Early in the morning, seeing that Yin Yuan was already familiar with the environment, Xia Yu gave his brother-in-law a homework - memorizing abacus and oral arithmetic.
In the past two days, Xia Yu has already figured it out.
His brother-in-law is more than honest and honest, but not very resourceful. He may be fine as a junior officer, but he is not good at leading troops in war.
Since he has never left the army, Xia Yu plans to go to Wen's home to support him.
As the saying goes, a ruler is short and an inch is strong. A person will always have areas in which he is good at. Xia Yu is prepared to patiently search for them and then teach them according to their aptitude.
As for the early stage, you can’t just do nothing, just learn abacus.
If you study well, you might be able to make some headway in the Household Department and the Works Department. These two departments require a lot of accounting.
After the arrangements were made, he took Zhang Yu and others to the school.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived, Li Daoxuan rushed up to Xia Yu with joy and hugged Xia Yu: "Military advisor, good news!"
"There's good news!"
"You, please let go first." This guy was so powerful that Xia Yu was almost strangled to death, and her face turned red.
Li Daoxuan came to his senses and quickly let go of his hand with a look on his face.
"Do you want to strangle me to death?" Xia Yu rolled her eyes in anger. After finally taking a breath, she said, "What's the good news?"
"Your majesty gave me the Mingguang armor, good horses, and weapons that arrived last night."
"There are also a hundred additional soldiers, all of whom are elite."
"You promised me before that you would help me train an elite force that is as good as the Xuanjia soldiers, but you have to admit it!"
Li Daoxuan looked eagerly looking forward to it.
"It's pretty fast!" Xia Yu was a little surprised. It only took more than half a month before the equipment, horses and soldiers were delivered.
"That's right." Li Daoxuan looked proud: "Your Majesty loves the orphan the most."
There is still someone in the court who can be an official!
If this person was still the emperor, that would be even more awesome!
Xia Yu sighed in her heart, but this reincarnation depends on heaven, and most people are really only envious, jealous, and hateful, and they can't compare.
"Okay, let's not practice martial arts today. You call everyone here and I will teach you a few tricks."
"Okay." Li Daoxuan happily sent his bodyguard to summon him.
After a while, a heavy armored cavalry of more than 500 people drove over, with rumbling iron hoofs and a majestic appearance. Everyone looked sideways along the way.
After a while, they formed a formation in front of Xia Yu. In the quiet place, murderous aura filled the air, and the armor was cold and gleaming.
Xia Yu looked up and down.
Except that the soldiers are not as good as the Xuanjia soldiers, who select the best from the best, and are slightly inferior, the other equipment is the same as the Xuanjia soldiers.
At least it seems that the appearance is not false anymore.
"Military advisor, what should we do?" Li Daoxuan asked anxiously.
"It's pointless to copy the tactics of the Black Armored Soldiers. Our soldiers can't compare to others, and if we try to imitate them from behind, we will never be able to catch up."
"So, if we want to compete with Xuanjia soldiers, we must find another way."
"We can call this new type of cavalry 'wing cavalry', taking the 'Wings of God' as a metaphor for invincibility."
Xia Yu squatted down and gestured on the ground.
"The first is long-range attack. The horn bow used by the Xuanjia soldiers kills two stones with one stone. We can't compare with them. If we want to surpass them, we must use crossbows instead."
"Use a crossbow?" Li Daoxuan was stunned.
The cavalry of the Tang Army focused on both riding and shooting. If they used bows, although their range and power were smaller than those of crossbows, they could be fired faster.
In a short period of time, a bow can shoot more arrows, and its killing efficiency is much higher than that of a crossbow.
Therefore, the cavalry of the Tang Army loved using bows and had little love for crossbows.
"Yes, use a crossbow." Xia Yu explained: "The biggest trump card of the winged cavalry is the charge. The mounted shooting only plays a role of suppressing and weakening, so there is no need to pursue the killing efficiency too much."
"With the powerful crossbow in hand, even if the black armor soldiers want to get close to you, they will have to endure several waves of arrows first."
"Although bright light armor is powerful and can protect against bows, it cannot protect against powerful crossbows."
"This means that in terms of long-range attacks, you can hurt the black armor soldiers, but the black armor soldiers can't hurt you. Make a big profit."
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up: Wonderful!
"In terms of close combat, the Xuanjia soldiers' individual combat capabilities are unparalleled in the world. If we want to surpass them, we must make up for it with a team."
"The Black Armor soldiers charge into the formation, but they are all skirmishers. Let's use a wall charge instead."
"The so-called wall charge means that all the cavalry line up in neat rows, leaving almost no gaps between each soldier."
"The distance between the front and rear rows is also very close."
"In this way, the army charged forward, marching together, no one was allowed to advance or retreat alone, like a huge wall."
"Wherever it passes, it is like Mount Tai pressing down on the top, and the torrent rushing down. It is extremely powerful."
"Imagine that a Black Armor soldier is facing attacks from two or three of our troops on the battle line. No matter how brave he is, he will definitely lose."
"Great!" Li Daoxuan was ecstatic: "The military advisor really has the wisdom of a ghost. The black armored soldiers are so powerful that they can be defeated in front of the military advisor with just a few hands."
"This winged cavalry is training alone."
"Your Highness, don't be anxious." Xia Yu said coldly: "The winged cavalry is so wonderful that it can suppress any opponent in the world regardless of whether it is a long-range attack or a close combat, but it is not without its weaknesses."
"First of all, wall charge requires extremely high quality of soldiers."
"First, the riding skills must be sophisticated enough, and the coordination must be skillful enough. Otherwise, the army will not be able to advance like a wall like one person."
"Once the formation is messed up, the power will be greatly reduced, so training is not easy."
"Secondly, military discipline must be strict. In a wall charge, the most important thing is the formation. Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you must move forward without hesitation."
"If someone is greedy for life and fears death and disrupts the formation, that will be very bad."
"Finally, there is another shortcoming of Qianglin Charge, that is, the formation change is not flexible enough. Be careful of the enemy's side attack and disrupt the formation."
When Li Daoxuan heard this, his feverish mind quickly sobered up, and he grinned: "It seems that it is not easy to train such a strong army."
"Nonsense!" Xia Yu said angrily: "If it is easy to practice, it will not be the strongest army in the world."
"If it were easy to practice, someone else would have figured it out a long time ago. Is it your turn?"
"That's true." Li Daoxuan was happy.
"However, the rest is easy to say, but the first point is the most troublesome."
"If the riding skills and coordination are to meet the standards, the amount of training must be huge. The money and food spent is okay, but the horses are a problem."
"Military advisors don't know that the world has been at war for many years, and the horse administration has been basically neglected. Every family is in short supply of horses."
"We, the Tang Dynasty, have good relations with the Turks. Every year we can exchange heavy sums of money for 3,000 good horses, and then smuggle some more, just to barely have enough."
"If I train a lot, my horse will suffer a lot of damage. If I keep talking to His Majesty, I will get into trouble."
"With these horses and soldiers, I guess a lot of people in the camp are already jealous."
Li Daoxuan grimaced and scratched his head.
Xia Yu was happy, and waved her hand and said: "Your Highness, that is your business. I am only responsible for teaching you how to fight. You have to solve the difficulties yourself."
Li Daoxuan: "..." sighed: "Yes, no one can make a horse out of thin air."
Seeing how happy and sad the little prince was, Xia Yu changed his tone and said, "As for the horses, I can't change them, but I have a way to greatly reduce the training and battle losses of the horses."
When Li Daoxuan heard this, his eyes widened: You can't increase sources of income, but cutting sources of income can still solve the problem!
This fellow immediately put on a smiling face and said grumpily: "Strategist, my good strategist, I know you must have a way."
"Well, can you teach me a little bit?"
He didn't claim to be alone, and his attitude immediately became amiable.
"It's not impossible." Xia Yu said slowly and calmly: "It's just that I will repay the favor of the county prince twice. You don't lose, right?"
Li Daoxuan scratched his head in disbelief.
The training techniques of the Winged Cavalry were of great value. In comparison, the kindness he showed in teaching Xia Yu how to practice martial arts was a bit lacking.
Having already made a lot of money, it seems a bit embarrassing to try to push the envelope further.
The reckless man blinked and said with a bachelor smile: "Commander, what do you want? As long as I have it, I will never be confused!"
Very good, the fat sheep is asking for slaughter!
When practicing martial arts on weekdays, this guy is 'cruel and ruthless', but this time, he has to express his anger!
Xia Yu raised her fingers and said with a smile: "As for me, there is no shortage of houses in four places now; there is also about a thousand acres of land, so there seems to be no shortage."
"Military advisor, there is too little land." Li Daoxuan immediately expressed his position: "There is no family worth mentioning in the Tang Dynasty that does not have thousands or even thousands of acres."
"What's your idea? How about I give you 500 acres of land in exchange?"
"Not interested." Xia Yu calmly shook her head. He has no love at all for being a landlord or something like that.
"How about a beauty?" Li Daoxuan rolled his eyes and smiled lewdly: "I have a pair of twins in my house. They are sixteen years old. They have beautiful faces and lovely figures. They are absolutely stunning."
"I'm thinking of taking her as my concubine, how about giving it to the military advisor?"
Xia Yu: "..." He said with a righteous expression: "Do you think I am such a lecherous person? Don't mention this matter!"
