The fifth year of Wanli is coming in a blink of an eye, and the plum blossoms of the Beiyang Military Mansion have bloomed.

Far across the ocean, the Jesuits' discussion of the Ming War, as the most barbarian among the Spaniards who knew the barbarians, Chen Mu did not know the other party's discussion about the means of ruling them, but the focus of his eyes was also related to the Jesuits.

"The Beiyang Military Mansion is good."

On the school field, it was Chen Lan, the governor of the Nanyang Military Government, who had not seen him for more than half a year, Chen Lan's beard was longer, and he slowly paced his horse and looked at the rows of cavalry on the cavalry school field who were slowly pacing in parallel, and raised his whip and said: "What are those wood-like horse soldiers doing, the cavalry you trained?" ”

The horse procession is formed into four five rows of phalanxes, each formation is composed of a cavalry of the general flag, the general flag and the adjutant are divided into front and back, each column is a small flag, the preaching, the flag deputy, and the flag officer are respectively in the head of a column of cavalry, the end of the team, and the team, each holding a flag and wearing a different flag of helmet and gun, and there are drummers with cavalry drums in the team, following the drum beat on the grass with weapons and slowly marching in line.

But the formation was not an absolute quadrangulation, but more like a parallelogram, with the head and deputy flag officers of each cavalry team dislocated backwards.

They were slow, but well-formed...... There is no possibility of being undisciplined, and in such a formation, one officer must repeat the order to the beat of the drum in front of and on the left and right of each ordinary cavalryman.

In the three hundred paces they were traveling, every fifty paces, an instructor would sit behind the desk with Wu Ben, and when the cavalry passed by, he watched the water leak and recorded something.

Three hundred paces away, there were rows of human-shaped targets with wooden poles, simulating the appearance of an infantry formation.

On the infantry school field on the other side, the infantry team and the artillery team were conducting coordinated training, and the sound of the guns released by the bursts of bird guns was mixed with the huge whistling sound of field artillery from time to time, and in the heavy shouts of the gun array, several other teams of cavalry slowly ran around the runway of the infantry school field.

As Chen Lan's question exited, a few orders came from the cavalry team that was lined up on the school field, and the marching cavalry team increased speed and spread out in rows, and the cavalry still maintained a stable formation.

The number of horsemen was not large, and only sixty horsemen were equipped in the two hundred-horse teams that were trained in coordination, and only twenty were alternately sounded twice.

When the cavalry marched out of the smoke, the bird gun had been inserted into the horse's hip sac, except for the cavalry in the front row with a lance, the back had been replaced with a saber, and after the final acceleration the formation gradually dispersed in dozens of steps, divided into several groups of stormtroopers led by lances and spears, until every three or five steps to pick up the flight, or the nearest humanoid target.

After a brief period of confusion, the cavalry regrouped, changed their horizontal formation and attacked to the side, and continued to move back after three changes of formation.

"Discipline training, it took us a long time to make the war horse not afraid of the sound of guns, but the horse is still afraid of the humanoid target with a stick, and the actual combat is much faster than in the training, both the speed of travel and the change of the battle situation, and it will take a long time to practice."

"But this kind of training is practical." Chen Mu and Chen Lan were already stationed at the school to watch, he turned his head and raised four fingers to Chen Lan and said: "Taking advantage of the border general's return to Beijing to report on his work, I have visited the generals of the previous nine sides and the instructors of the cavalry section of the Xuanfu Lecture Wutang, on the battlefield, the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry most of the time, and the cavalry against the cavalry, there are usually four possibilities for engagement. ”

"First, there is no charge at all, the two cavalry battlefields meet one side in the charge has been dispersed, this is the most common situation, after all, people are not afraid of dead horses, but once the rout means that the enemy will be slaughtered, in the early years of the nine sides in the field battle against the north will always encounter this situation, this is a lack of morale and discipline."

Chen Lan led cavalry battles, but in the cavalry battles he led, they usually did not fight on horseback, but quickly arrived at the preset battlefield on horseback during the counterinsurgency war, and dismounted to form an encirclement of the enemy army.

Therefore, when Chen Mu talked about these things, he was extremely interested, and asked, "What about the other three?" ”

"The second is that both sides will stop, which often happens in captive cavalry battles, our army dismounts and shoots on foot or stationed on horseback, and the enemy shoots back and forth, and the battle situation is like this, our army usually cannot hold on to the northern captives except for the general headquarters of Zhenshuo, but it will be defeated in a moment."

"Third, the two armies scattered and fought on the wrong horse, which has never appeared in the cavalry of the national dynasty, even if it is a northern captive, it will only appear in its small disputes, the smaller the troops, the stronger the organization, and the only way to maintain the formation in the fight is usually only the small chieftain of the captive cavalry and the family of some generals in the northern Xinjiang can do it, only when the two armies are evenly matched, usually there will be such an opportunity will become the first kind."

"As for the last one, there is no formation to fight directly in one place, our cavalry is rarely this possibility, but the melee between the captive cavalry and the captive cavalry is very easy to appear, and the reason is that the morale of our cavalry is usually lower than that of the northern captive, and the engagement often becomes the first possibility."

Speaking of these, Chen Mu pouted helplessly, and said: "Under the same conditions, morale and discipline in the battle determine victory or defeat, the two sides are not elite, the knight spirit is high and the discipline is low, my knight spirit is inferior, and the discipline is even lower, which is also a helpless thing." ”

"Morale is most affected by treatment, discipline is trained to come, for a long time people focused on the chariot, ignoring cavalry training, and the horse team on the battlefield was reduced to an auxiliary soldier for transmitting messages and investigations, so that the founding horse government has now become a famous food in the north."

After the cavalry drill was completed, the riders still maintained a formation of three or five people after disbanding, leading the horses to the barracks faster or slower, and the three months of training for the birds made them remember the obedience and military orders in their minds, leaving only a few punished who failed in the training and a few who increased their training on the school ground.

Chen Mu straddled and immediately introduced Chen Lan one by one: "Hejian horse meat fire, Zhending horse broth, Beijing horse intestines, not to mention the local horse administration, even the war horses I bought at a high price from the mouth market have been sold for forty-six horses in three months, alive and dead, or originally alive and deliberately raised to death." ”

"And this?" Chen Luan's eyes widened and he said, "Then you can't be killed?" ”

Chen Mu had anger on his face, took a deep breath and said: "Don't talk about this, my brother is going north this time, there is something new in Nanyang, let's make my brother happy." ”

"Happy, I'm afraid you won't be happy." Chen Lan didn't study the affairs of Ma Zheng in detail, and he was really not familiar with the affairs of the north, so he just took out a letter from the horse bag and handed it to Chen Mu, saying: "The letter from the Governor of Goa and the monk Carnero of Haojing, they accused the pirates, your good subordinate Lin Feng, burned down the port of Goa a few months ago, and robbed hundreds of strong men, women, and children. ”

"Immediately after grabbing a few ports to the north, breaking the city and plundering the people, the Mughal also sent envoys to Malacca, wanting to form a joint fleet with the Nanyang military government to eliminate pirates and jointly manage the route."

Chen Lan looked at Chen Mu's expression carefully, wondering what role his righteous brother played in this chaos, and said: "The Western Minister Yin Yangshi sent people to the military government several times to urge the formation of a fleet to suppress bandits and give an explanation to the Indian countries, otherwise the Ming merchants would not be able to dock in the countries, and trade would not be possible. ”

"Nanyang is worried that Lin Feng is being pulled by you and dragged it all the time, now I am waiting for your words, can you suppress it?"