In the following ten days, cavalry from various countries in the Western Regions rushed to Gushi from all directions.
There are various country names, including Nuoqiang, Youqiemo, Wulei, Pishan, Xiyezihe, Dondu...
The number of troops ranges from dozens to thousands.
Shen Bing asked people to register these soldiers one by one and split the Shenwu Army into separate groups.
The total strength of the troops was similar to Shen Bing's estimate, with a total of more than 38,000 troops including the Kucha cavalry.
To Shen Bing's surprise, these soldiers were not all old, weak and disabled soldiers as Shen Bing had thought before. Instead, most of them were elites.
Thinking about it later, Shen Bing knew the reason...
This was due to the influence of King Kucha, or it could also be said to be intimidation.
Thinking from the perspective of the King of Kucha, he certainly hopes that the countries in the Western Regions will be as weak as possible. The best thing is for all the countries to fight with the Xiongnu so that only his Kucha family can become bigger.
So he forced and deceived all the countries in the Western Regions to send their elite troops to Gu Shi and hand them over to the Qin army.
The King of Qiuci has this energy, and even the princes of the surrounding small countries are in Qiuci as hostages. Now he has the Qin army to support him and has artillery to guard him... How dare the surrounding small countries not to follow suit.
However, Shen Bing couldn't stand the fact that the prince was holding hostage in Kucha.
This is obviously not in the interests of the Qin army.
First of all, if Qiuci is a vassal state of Qin, how can it coerce the princes of other countries as hostages?
Secondly, if there is a prince in Kucha as a hostage, wouldn’t it be easy to form a party and order various countries for personal gain?
Therefore, Shen Bing will definitely abolish this in the future. The method is also simple, which is to support small and weak countries and suppress strong ones like the previous strategy.
And this powerful country is, of course, Kucha.
Then a regional balance favorable to Qin will be formed.
But of course not now.
At this time, Qiuci's control over the surrounding small countries is still beneficial to the Qin army. For example, now, it saves the Qin army from lobbying one by one... If these thirty-six countries come down one by one, and they still don't understand the language, I'm afraid they will all It's going to stun Shen Bing.
Shen Bing's arrangements for the Western Region Cavalry were as mentioned before, splitting the Shenwu Army into generals from various countries.
This general is at the level of a hundred generals, that is, there is one deputy for every hundred generals, that is, two people work in groups to command one hundred Western Region cavalry.
In addition to the five hundred chiefs, two to five hundred chiefs, deputy generals, etc., there are more than 30,000 people and more than a thousand divine warriors to control.
The Yuezhi cavalry who arrived later were also organized in the same way.
Just as Shen Bing guessed, most of these Western Region cavalry looked down upon the Qin Cavalry, even the Shenwu Army was no exception.
However, when the Hundred Generals, Five Hundred Lords and other Shenwu Army officers appeared in front of them majestically riding horses with saddles and stirrups, they were convinced at the first moment...the main ones were stirrups, with stirrups and without stirrups. Stirrups are almost the difference between veteran players and rookies, even the best among the cavalry in the Western Regions are no exception.
Then Shen Bing issued a military order:
"Anyone who has excellent training performance will receive a saddle and a set of stirrups and become a member of the coalition."
"Otherwise, we will return to our country of origin."
At that moment, the cavalrymen in the Western Regions cheered loudly, and everyone was eager to show off, hoping that if they performed well, they would get a set of saddles and stirrups.
This is not surprising at all.
Because these harnesses are like giving a pair of wings to a cavalryman, allowing him to truly become a cavalryman...
What does it feel like to be able to completely free your hands on horseback?
The Western Region cavalryman who grew up on horseback has never tried it?
After decades of practicing riding and shooting, the Qin army overtook him just because of the lack of such a set of horse equipment... How can it not make people feel itchy?
It's like a martial arts fanatic who suddenly discovers a martial arts secret book, or an alcoholic who sees a jar of good wine...the more you immerse yourself in this way, the harder it is to resist its temptation.
So the next training was easy. Even if there was a language barrier between the Qin army and the Western Regions and even the Yuezhi, they would try their best to figure it out, memorize, and discuss it.
The training subjects are not like riding and shooting.
In fact, Shen Bing believed that they no longer needed to train in cavalry and archery... Training on cavalry and archery at this time was meaningless.
Riding and shooting requires years of practice to achieve success, but of course, having a saddle and stirrups can shorten this time to a few months, and improvising will basically not work.
What's more, the Western Region and Yuezhi cavalry don't need to practice riding and shooting at all. If they want to practice, they just need to get used to the feeling of riding and shooting with their hands free after having stirrups.
The training subjects mainly include listening to various orders and flags, and forming formations with the sound of drums... What the Western Region and Yuezhi cavalry need is restraint, rules and coordination.
Initially, group training was conducted in units of a hundred people.
The training at this stage is based on understanding commands and signals and making corresponding adjustments according to the signals.
This stage is actually the most difficult. The reason is that there is a language barrier between the Qin army and the Western Regions and the Yuezhi cavalry. Many things have to be explained clearly for a while by pointing fingers.
Even after practicing left and right for several days, I didn't understand it clearly. I only made hundreds of generals in the Shenwu Army yell and curse, and almost beat them.
This is actually the difference between farming peoples and nomadic peoples.
The nomadic people have open spaces everywhere, and they are in a state where the sky is high and the birds can fly and the sea is wide and the fish can jump. Why do ordinary people know the right and left?
Only the aristocratic class can learn the etiquette knowledge of the Central Plains, and they only learn half of it: in the Central Plains, the right is respected, while the nomads generally respect the left.
Later, Shen Bing simply took out a few articulate people from each team and asked Princess Wuyou to give them a batch of orders for the Qin army, and things got better.
Princess Wuyou has an advantage in this aspect.
On the one hand, Princess Wuyou has prestige... She is the Princess of Qiuci, and the soldiers below will naturally obey her as long as she stands in front of the formation.
On the other hand, Princess Wuyou knows the habits of the cavalry in the Western Regions and can teach them in a targeted manner based on these habits.
For example, when they were divided between left and right, Princess Wuyou just told them:
"The hand holding the bow is the left, and the hand holding the arrow is the right."
"When ordered to the left, go to the hand holding the bow; when ordered to the right, go to the hand holding the arrow..."
Then the problem is solved.
Of course, Shen Bing did not dare to train more complex formations. For example, the team was separated in the middle, that is, half to the left and half to the right... It is better not to mess with these Western Region cavalry, and this can be used on the battlefield. not much.
After the group practice is almost complete, each team of 1,000 people will be combined to practice together, and then the team of 1,000 people will be combined into a group to practice.
Princess Wuyou couldn't help but be curious when she saw that Shen Bing was rehearsing his troops and formations every day:
"General, we are going to the grassland to fight against the Huns."
"If you don't practice going into battle to kill the enemy but practice formation techniques, I'm afraid that by then..."
Shen Bing replied:
"Is this formation just a formation?"
Princess Wuyou wonders:
"What could that be?"
Shen Bing cast his gaze towards the school grounds and said:
"Princess, please see, the soldiers are advancing and retreating under General Qin's command and flag, attacking left and right."
"If you disobey, you will be punished or eliminated."
"As time goes by, he will naturally develop the habit of obeying the general's orders."