Jiehe Commercial City, on the outskirts of the city. In a school field that was built at some point, the banner is unfurled, and the tiger is like a forest.

A thousand knights, dressed in new leather waistcoats and helmets, with long swords and quivers with buffalo horns and arrows hanging from their belts, stood silent. Behind them were auxiliary soldiers leading horses and a war horse at least four feet six inches tall at the shoulders and wearing a half-suit of armor.

The auxiliaries are all leading horses in one hand and holding in the other. It is also known as the horse lance, which is a kind of spear used on horseback, the head is very long, and the selection and processing of the rod are very special, so it is relatively soft. When you hit the target, you won't be able to hurt the knight's wrist, and you can swing it hard to hit the target - whoever wants to be hit by it will have to be seriously injured and disabled if you don't die!

There are also harnesses and ropes on the poles, the ropes can be tied to the saddle, and the harness can be put over the shoulders. In this way, when marching, you can carry the horse on your shoulders with your head up. And when fighting, the horse can also be tied to the saddle, so that when the pole is taken off, the horse can also be pulled back with a rope.

In other words, these 1,000 Imperial Knights who have completed all their training have taken the path of both light and heavy. It can not only be mounted and shot, but also can hold the attack, which is completely the most standard combat method of the Eastern cavalry.

Of course, the legendary wall charge that can win a hundred battles, these knights cannot. They were equipped with horses for solo combat, not for group charges.

Wu Haogu once mentioned this so-called "modern cavalry tactics" that was very popular on the Internet in later generations, but it was vetoed by the two - now there are a total of 1,000 cavalry, and two points are divided into two to serve, but they can't be used as consumables. If it is consumed, the Hebei and Kaifeng forbidden armies, which only have infantry left, will lose their field capabilities.

Even if this tactic does not cause significant losses in the cavalry group, it is undesirable. Because once the cavalry is concentrated in the dignified formation, it will not be able to perform reconnaissance, cover, harassment, cover, pursuit and other tasks.

However, the Imperial Horseman, who doesn't play Group Charge, has still done a lot of queue training in the past few months. After all, they are the knights of the royal horse in front of the palace, and they are indispensable to follow the royal car and appear in front of the citizens of Kaifeng Mansion. So this formation must be practiced seriously!

The sound of the trumpet sounded like a whimper, and all the knights turned and walked to their horses, and with the help of the auxiliaries turned on their horses, and carried the long sword on their shoulders, and the auxiliary soldiers tied the rope at the root of the long dragon to the saddle.

The series of movements of mounting, carrying and tethering the rope were very skillful and completed in a very short time. In this process, the horses under the crotches of the knights were also very cooperative, and there was no commotion.

This shows that there is a considerable tacit understanding between the knights and the auxiliaries and the horses, and it is by no means a temporary patchwork combination.

Immediately afterward, the rapid drum beat sounded again. The knights on the school field immediately rode forward, and soon gathered into a group of ten, and after a period of disturbance, the group of knights formed ten more roughly boxy phalanxes. They are all 10 by 10 cavalry, although they can't reach the level of looking at a line horizontally, vertically looking at a line, or obliquely looking at a line. But it's still very neat.

As the drums stopped, the horses and knights who had formed the phalanx were all motionless. The early winter sun in Hebei sprinkled on the tips of the horses carried by the knights, reflecting a cold light that sent chills down people's spines!

This kind of slaughter is really a big surprise to the chief officer of this royal knight, who is busy accompanying the official's family all day long, and interpreting the imagination of the woman's tall command for the official's family.

The Great Song Dynasty actually has such elite cavalry! Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty is really going to become strong in the hands of today's officials?

Gao Yu, who was riding on the back of a well-behaved and docile little mare, looked at the cavalry phalanx in front of him with dead eyes, and didn't know how long it took before he turned his head and said to Wu Haogu, who was also riding on horseback next to him: "Big, Da Lang...... Is this really our Great Song Dynasty's iron horse? ”

"Of course it's our Great Song Iron Rider!" Wu Haogu smiled.

In fact, these cavalry are not iron cavalry, because they do not have iron armor - the iron armor used by cavalry is another problem that requires a lot of investment to tackle the problem.

The armor can't be too heavy! If you put on a suit of foot armor, the four-foot-five-six horse can not move. It must be a cold forging armor with light weight and strong defense, and Zhao Zhongge has one, but Wu Haogu has no way to mass-produce it.

Therefore, there are no iron horses, at most there are only armor horses.

However, the armor is not bad, and it can participate in battle in the case of a half-suit (that is, a half-body vest) and is used to pursue fleeing enemies. If it is not equipped, it can be scattered as a scout and remote block.

"This is just the beginning!" Wu Haogu rode on his horse and said triumphantly, "They are not horsemen of the forbidden army, but knights, horseback riders!" If it is maintained well, this thousand families can continue to provide knights to the imperial court. ”

Although the horsemen of the forbidden army took more money than the soldiers of the infantry army, they still could not maintain and pass on the income of the horsemen in Kaifeng Mansion and could not even afford to buy a house, let alone maintain a Zhuangzi that could raise horses and people.

"Can it be maintained?" Gao Yu was a little worried, "Although 1,500 acres of land is a lot, the land in Beicang Prefecture is not very fertile." ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "Can it be maintained...... There is a bounded river business market, there is a knight school, and in the future, there will be no problem to run the boundary hippo market. ”

His words are not complete, he has another trump card in his hand, which is the boundary hippopotamus! Six Persian and A-three stallions, plus hundreds of tall mares, and then bred from generation to generation using the internal and anti-mating methods, can always breed quite good boundary hippos.

At that time, the good horses and the knight's estate will constitute a rich industry, with which the knights of the Boundary River can not only maintain, but also grow...... In the end, a military group was formed that was closely united with Jiehe Merchant City!

The sound of the trumpet sounded again, this time it was the horn of the march, and the ten phalanxes of a hundred horsemen began to turn forward for the first time, with a neat gait and a uniform speed, which looked very elite no matter how you looked at it.

Gao Yu, who was beside Wu Hao Guchao, smiled: "Brother Gao, when the official family sees such an elite in the military parade in Mu Daogang after the year, they will be very happy...... In the past two years, you and I have finally accomplished a few things that are of great benefit to the country. ”

Gao Yu smiled in response to the situation, but thought in his heart: What did he do? No matter what, as long as you bring this elite back to Kaifeng Mansion and settle it properly, wait until January next year, and your official position can be even higher!

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The knights in front of the palace followed Gao Yu, and a thousand knights, two thousand auxiliaries, more than three thousand war horses, auxiliary horses, and pack horses, marched towards the south.

Behind them, in a three-story pavilion in the office of the Boss in Jiehe City, several figures stood in front of an open window, looking at the horse team that was swaying forward on the plain of early winter.

When the last rider disappeared on the distant horizon, only one of them was heard sighing softly: "It's a pity that the knight who was trained with great difficulty was given to the court like this!" ”

Wu Haogu turned his head and looked at the person who spoke, it was Murong Forget who had spent several years and worked hard to train these knights. I don't know if it took too much effort, this old man was a lot older than Wu Gu when Yan Yun first saw him.

"Daddy Murong, didn't we keep some knights? There are 200 riders! In addition, the Knight Academy is also in our hands. This is a hen that lays eggs! ”

The person who said this was a female streamer, Ximen Qing, who gave birth to a son for Wu Haogu in September. She was already a few years older than Wu Haogu, and now she is Ben San's age, and she has given birth to two more children, and she has grown from a royal sister to a...... This figure also looks more and more concave and graceful.

Wu Haogu smiled at her, Ximen Qing was right. He also left a hand when he set up the Imperial Knight for Zhao Ji - it was 1,000 companies, but in fact 1,200 were built. The extra 200 families were also granted land like the knights in front of the palace, but they were not registered in the front of the palace, but belonged to the Jiehe Merchant City, the City Ship Division, the Knight Academy, the Yuntai Academy and the Jiehe Hippodrome Farm.

Most of these people are the children of the Ximen family, the Murong family, and the Chai family, and some of them are strong men from the north and south, who serve in the Jiehe Business City, the City Bo Division, the Knight Academy, the Yuntai Academy, the Jiehe Hippodrome and other places, and they are also granted land with reference to the treatment of the imperial knights. They will also evolve into a knight family in the future!

In addition, the academy used to train the knights has been preserved. He also opened a branch school in Jiehebei City, where thousands of samurai fake sons (small slave soldiers) were trained. In another five or six years at most, Jiehe Commercial City will be able to have a fake army.

Wu Haogu smiled: "In fact, these thousand imperial knights are also pinched in our hands...... Now they can't leave the Jiehe Commercial Market, let alone in the future?

As long as they can't leave the market, they are our people!

Moreover, the place where Jiehe Shang City can play a role is not only on the south bank, and there will be dependent wealthy families on the north bank of the Jiehe River in the future. There will also be a large number of Chinese people in the city of Jiehe Shang City...... It's all our power! ”

"Yes," Ximen Qing smiled, "As long as the officials firmly hold the Jiehe Commercial Market in their hands, the future of the king will be there." ”

"Sealing the king and ripping the earth?" Wu Haogu smiled and was noncommittal.

It is not Wu Haogu's wish to be crowned king, but the people who follow him now, including his concubine Ximen Qing, "military advisor" Murong Wang, "general" Zhao Zhongge, Lin Chong, Lin Wancheng, as well as Zhang Xizai, Hua Manshan, Huang Shilang, Huang Wulang, Wu Chenglan and other general affairs officials, are all very eagerly looking forward to him opening the palace and sealing the king.