"Drive! Drive! Drive...oh..."
Early in the morning, nearly a thousand horsemen returned to the camp from the Nanyun Campus.
The war horse stopped in front of the camp gate. The soldiers guarding the camp looked at the leading young man and said with a smile: "Commander Li, are you taking your brothers in the first compartment to train again? How far have you traveled today?"
Li Dingguo immediately smiled when he heard this and replied: "It's a good day today. You guys ran more than fifty miles in an hour. It's a good warm-up for the babies!"
As he said that, Li Dingguo smiled and patted the neck of the white Uso horse he had just acquired, with a look of love in his eyes.
This autumn, with the arrival of 10,000 Uso horses from Shendu, the army, especially the cavalry, all coveted these highly explosive horses.
However, because Yunzhou County wanted to use this kind of horse to combine with grassland horses in an attempt to cultivate better war horses, so in the end, only more than 1,000 of the 10,000 Wusuo horses could be sent to the army, and the remaining more than 8,000 horses were He was taken away by the Arms and Logistics Department to breed new war horses.
After the expansion of the Yunzhou Army, the overall number has reached 300,000, of which 90,000 are cavalry alone!
There are 90,000 cavalry and a mere 1,000 horses. How can there be enough?
It's not even enough to fill the gap between your teeth.
In the end, only the generals in the army were equipped with one each, and the rest were taken by the heavy cavalry.
Others can only wait until next year or when Yunzhou County's own war horses are bred.
As one of the senior officers of the Yunzhou Army, Li Dingguo had priority in selection. He fell in love with the white horse at a glance and named it Lu.
Lu became his main war horse, and he also had a prairie horse as an auxiliary horse, which he could use when Lu was tired.
"Oh! You ran so far! It's amazing! General, please go back to the camp and rest quickly."
As he spoke, the soldiers guarding the camp swiftly moved their horses away from the camp gate, and Li Dingguo and the other Qianqi immediately rode in.
When Li Dingguo and others had gone far away and all the soldiers guarding the camp moved their horses back, the new soldiers who had just been transferred to guard the camp gate curiously asked the veterans: "Commander Li ordered them to take the horses out every day." For training?
Didn't I hear that running a war horse will wear out its hooves?
If they don't care for it like this, I'm afraid the war horse will be scrapped soon, right? "
When the veteran heard this, he immediately looked at his colleague with a country bumpkin look on his face and said: "How old are you this year? You don't know that the war horses of our Yunzhou Army have been completely replaced after the war with the Tatars." Are the horseshoe saddle and stirrups fitted?
With the protection of horseshoes, not to mention the grassland, which is a suitable place for war horses to gallop, even the sandy and gravel roads will not hurt the horses' hooves.
Commander Li said, this horse is just like people. Now that its hooves are no longer a problem, it must be taken out for training frequently. Only in this way can it maintain its condition and save money on maintenance during periods of non-war.
Look at those war horses in their first carriage. They have been training every day since the war with the Tatars. They seem to be more energetic than the horses in other battalions that have been locked in stables all day long! "
The recruit suddenly realized that he was a veteran, but he looked around, then carefully approached the recruit and whispered: "There is an advantage to this. Shangfeng knows that you are in good condition, and even if you have a good job, you will be tight." You go first, haven't you heard?
The imperial court issued an order to mobilize troops from Yunzhou County to Guan to quell the Japanese.
Our two governors immediately recommended Commander Li. Isn't this the benefit of making an impression on a daily basis?
How powerful can those Japanese be? No matter how powerful the Tatars are, how powerful can they be?
Even the Tatars have to bow down obediently in front of us, let alone the mere Japanese pirates, who are just chopping melons and vegetables.
This trip was simply a good job to get some credit, and countless commanders in the army had their eyes red with envy! "
"Hey! Is there anything else you can say?"
"Can you?"
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Li Dingguo didn't hear the discussion of the camp guards. At this time, he had already led the cavalry back to his station. After returning to his tent, he sat down and took a big gulp of sugar water with sugar before spitting out a sigh of relief. tone.
It was quite tiring to run those roads so early in the morning.
But the benefits are also obvious.
Compared with other cavalry in the Yunzhou Army, the cavalry in their first compartment is far superior to other armies in terms of formation, coordination, and endurance.
This is all practiced day by day.
As for the transfer of him to Guanping, he also received the news.
However, he was not as excited as others thought. Having been displaced since childhood, he knew what was going on inside the pass. He knew very well that their entry into the pass would not be as easy as most people thought.
Just thinking about it, he could think of several places where the army might be in trouble along the way from Yunzhou County to Northern Jiangsu.
The landowners, gentry, and corrupt officials in the pass are all the kind of people who will be stripped naked even if they cross the border.
The Japanese army had to face not only the Japanese pirates after arriving in northern Jiangsu, but also the threat and suppression from the Song Dynasty itself that needed to be guarded against.
If the rear is unstable, then it is not impossible that while they are fighting with the Japanese pirates in the front, those sons of bitches will cause trouble in the back and kill them.
He didn't believe in the integrity of those sons of bitches.
Li Dingguo is not afraid of fighting, but if he is afraid, he will not join the army.
But what he was afraid of was that when he was fighting the enemy desperately, he would be stabbed in the back by his own people. As a soldier, he didn't know what to do, and he didn't have the patience to play tricks with them.
This situation is very difficult for him!
What to do?
This is what he has been thinking about these days since he received the order to lead the Japanese troops into the customs once the supplies are ready, but he still has no clue.
The inside of the pass is no better than the outside of the pass, where... people outside the pass in the distance are more dangerous to eat people!
There are people there who not only eat people, but also ask you to help them eat more people!
Just when Li Dingguo was frowning, a soldier suddenly opened the curtain and walked in: "My lord, the prince is here and summons you to the big tent to discuss matters."
Li Dingguo was shocked when he heard this. He quickly stood up and walked towards the big tent before he could ask any more questions.
Nanyun's big account!
Zhao Jun arrived early at the place where the generals of the Yunzhou Army usually held discussions.
After hearing about Li Dingguo's achievements, Zhao Jun was still quite curious about this fierce man and wanted to meet him before going on the expedition to see what he thought about his entry into Guan and Pingwo.
So he arrived at the Nanyun Campus early in the morning, but he was told that this boy had gone out for training with his soldiers early in the morning and had not come back yet. This immediately made Zhao Jun even more interested. Waited.
I just received news that he had returned to camp, so I immediately summoned him.
This was the scene where Li Dingguo had just returned to camp and Zhao Jun's summons came.
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(End of chapter)
