The people didn't know about the death of Princess Ayna, and even if they did, it would only be the death of a member of the royal family to them. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, this news fell on the ears of sensitive people, and it was enough to stir up the situation in the entire north.

Jiang Pengji had a calm face and asked about the recruitment of soldiers and the training of recruits.

Because of the drought in the north, many low-level personnel of the Tsing Yi Army or the Red Lotus Sect felt that they could not live their lives, so they broke away from the organization and became homeless.

Jiang Pengji asked them to be carefully screened and selected to enter the recruit camp with relatively high quality.

Thanks to the household registration policy of the women's battalion, the recruitment work is quite smooth, and many women who are forced by life also want to come in, but Jiang Pengji has raised the threshold of the women's battalion, and only selects women who are relatively strong, agile, and determined to ensure the combat effectiveness of the women's battalion.

In today's era, population reproduction can only rely on women to give birth, but the women's camp stipulates that marriage and childbirth can only be given after retiring at the age of twenty-four, if too many women enter the women's camp, the population of the territory under her rule will inevitably be affected, which Jiang Pengji does not want to see.

In addition, fighting a war is not based on who has more people to win, and the overall quality is also very important.

She would rather have half the number of women than men, but the standard of combat must not slip.

Soldiers are not expensive!

Jiang Pengji asked with a solemn face, "How is the iron ore dug?"

Feng Jin said, "The Tsing Yi army that was captured before has been sent over to mine, and the iron ore veins are quite rich, but only in terms of smelting...... If you can't catch it, I'm afraid you have to carefully look for a craftsman with good craftsmanship. It's not that difficult, Jin can find a way to solve it. ”

The territory has iron ore, which means that they don't need to buy it at a high price, and they can save a lot of money.

Last year, I bought thousands of sets of simple infantry equipment, but Jiang Pengji felt distressed, and she spent money like water.

Even if all the money was contributed by the losers in Northern Xinjiang, it was her money when it entered her treasury!

Feng Jin said again, "It's just ...... In this way, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with the cavalry in the northern frontier......"

Against the northern frontier, they will inevitably have to face their cavalry.

According to previous understanding, the armies of the three tribes in northern Xinjiang are generally composed of infantry and cavalry, and the ratio of the two is about 1:2.

More than ten years ago, the three tribes in northern Xinjiang sent troops to attack Shangyu County in Chongzhou, using 100,000 troops, including 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry!

After the first battle, the people were like a bamboo, and they took down six cities in a row.

If it weren't for the quick response of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, if it was more than ten days late, I am afraid that the entire Chongzhou would have been beaten down by them.

The three tribes in northern Xinjiang are nomadic people, dealing with horses all the year round, to put it mildly, people can ride horses and gallop on the flat land of northern Xinjiang at the age of seven or eight, and the nobles of Dongqing can't even climb on horseback without the help of stirrups.

Stirrups just appeared in this era, but they are not popular, only a few nobles will give their horses simple stirrups, it is not easy to ride horses in these years, but many people with strong riding skills do not like to use stirrups, such as Li Yun's goods, often riding horses without stirrups, so they were ridiculed by the audience in the live broadcast room, praising the young man's unparalleled waist strength, and his wife will be blessed in the future.

The stirrup could be further improved to assist the cavalry in horse combat, so that even those who are not good at riding horses can quickly learn to ride horses.

But in terms of cavalry, even if Jiang Pengji starts to prepare now, it is difficult to surpass Northern Xinjiang in terms of quality, let alone quantity.

Unless—

She trains cavalry as well as special classes that can restrain cavalry.

Jiang Pengji's eyes darkened, her brain began to move, Feng Jin saw her fall into a state of contemplation, and involuntarily put her ten fingers together, and knew that her master was thinking of a way, so she didn't interfere silently, just waited for her to finish thinking.

"It's not impossible to deal with cavalry—"

For Jiang Pengji, no class is invincible.

Even if it is a genetic special operations unit formed by the Human Federation, they are not invincible, and they can still encounter "natural enemies".

Similarly, it is even more impossible for a light cavalry as rudimentary as the three tribes in northern Xinjiang to be invincible.

Feng Jin asked, "I wonder what the lord can do?"

Jiang Pengji said, "I want to train an army that specializes in cutting horses, and the horse farms in Dongqing are all on the Cangzhou side, and Cangzhou is the territory of the Meng family, and they are not the same people as us." If you want to buy enough war horses through this channel, I'm afraid you will go bankrupt. If there is a war in the northern frontier, they will also keep an eye on the whereabouts of the horses, and we are now temporarily cramming to expand the cavalry, which is unrealistic. ”

Zhang Pingdao on the side, "Does the lord want to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, avoid competing with the cavalry, and instead develop a way to restrain the cavalry?"

If you want to talk about horse wars, the entire Kyushu Five Kingdoms, even the Zhongzhao, who is the strongest in national strength, does not dare to say that he can defeat Northern Xinjiang.

Rather than competing with cavalry, it is better to find a different way and study special units that specialize in restraining cavalry.

That's really a train of thought.

Jiang Pengji nodded and said, "The war horse is another life of the cavalry, once there is no war horse, the cavalry is as fragile as a shelled snail." We can now produce our own iron, we can make long knives, we can make heavy shields, if we let different arms cooperate, for example, there are soldiers who hold heavy shields to resist the first wave of cavalry charges, and another soldier stabs and kills horses with long knives or spears......"

This is just an assumption, and it will take experimentation to actually implement it.

For example, how strong the cavalry charge is, and what kind of heavy shield and strength can block the enemy and protect the rear formation.

Jiang Pengji said again, "Huaiyu has also seen the penetrating power of the bed crossbow before, right?"

Bed crossbow?

Do you use a bed crossbow against cavalry?

Feng Jin nodded, and said suspiciously, "But the bed crossbow is cumbersome and not easy to move, and if you deal with the cavalry, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch it." ”

Zhang Ping shook his head and said to Feng Jin, "Huaiyu is wrong, what the lord means should be how much damage the bed crossbow can cause to the cavalry if it can move like a cavalry." The bed crossbow can be placed on a chariot, so it is naturally easier to move. Of course, you can also put wheels on the bed crossbow, but the bed crossbow is extremely tense, and once the arrow is fired, it will drive the whole body to move......"

The thinking of technical nerds is more agile than that of normal people, and Zhang Ping's direction is naturally different from Feng Jin's.

"It's a good idea. ”

Feng Jin recalled the penetration and range of the bed crossbow, and felt a little more confident in his heart.

Jiang Pengji poured a basin of cold water, and she said, "Adding wheels to the bed crossbow or placing it on the chariot can indeed make the bed crossbow flexible, but compared to the cavalry, it is still too slow. If you want to rely on this to deal with the cavalry, it is a fantasy, at most you will take it by surprise and pose a threat to the first wave of charges. When the enemy reacts, this trick will not be good. ”

Jiang Pengji added, "Although the lethality of the improved crossbow is not as good as that of the bed crossbow, its mobility and flexibility are far superior to the latter. If you create a unit that specializes in restraining cavalry, you can have your soldiers use improved crossbows, which can be called crossbow infantry. ”

Feng Jin can understand that it is equivalent to the previous part, magnifying the number of people more than ten times.

Jiang Pengji's words opened up new ideas for him.