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At the foot of Mount Taishan on Shamen Island, Li Jing specially set aside a field of about 100 acres as a training ground for the domestication of war horses and cavalry. The war horse farm was built temporarily, but it was not ambiguous at all. As soon as Lin Wu knew that Li Jing got 300 war horses, he began to transfer a group of craftsmen and city builders, as well as more than 200 cavalry, to repair them day and night. The entire war horse farm was completely enclosed with a wooden fence, and a ditch more than one zhang deep was built outside the fence, and a dense line of sharp wooden piles was buried outside the ditch.

There are only two gates in the north and south of the fence, and more than a dozen arrow towers have been built along the gates. And at the fence hung a conspicuous "Heavy military area, no entry" sign.

The horse farm is divided into three main parts, namely the horse shed, the cavalry dormitory, and the training ground. Lin Wu built the horse shed extremely luxurious, the horse pen built of wood, tall and wide, each war horse has an independent wide horse ring, and the whole horse shed is several times better than the dormitory conditions where the cavalry live.

Since ancient times, soldiers have always attached the most importance to training, and Wu Qi, a master of the art of war, once believed, "It is inconvenient to die what it can't do, and it is inconvenient to defeat it." This means that soldiers are often defeated because they are not capable and unskilled in military skills. Therefore, the first thing in the art of using military is training. "If you don't teach first, you can't use it." "If you don't teach the people to fight, you are abandoning it!"

After recruiting soldiers, the most important thing is training. Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime. These are the lessons and lessons of countless predecessors, and Shamen Town has always believed in and implemented this concept from the beginning of its formation. In order to seize the training time, Li Jing not only provided the trained soldiers with four meals a day. Even regardless of the cost, a large amount of pork and mutton are supplied. and even nutritious foods such as eggs and poultry, fresh vegetables and fruits. And all soldiers are classified as full-time professional soldiers. Even if the construction period of the new city is tight now, Li Jing will no longer transfer one person to work on the construction site.

However, compared to the infantry, the training of cavalry is more complicated. Li Jing, who was not very familiar with cavalry, completely left the matter of cavalry training to Lin Wu, an officer from the cavalry of the Shence Army.

Today was the first day of cavalry training, and Li Jing and all the civil and military officers in the town had arrived. In addition to them, there were many guests who came to watch today, mainly the stewards and craftsmen of the town's workshops led by Li Hui'er, Yu Youniang, and Xiao Yulou, as well as the leaders of the Zhendong Sea pirates led by Whitebeard, Megan, and Julie.

War horses are a noble thing no matter what era. Even in the prairie, the herdsmen mostly raise cattle and sheep, while the horses are only raised in small quantities, and the excellent war horses are even more unaffordable for ordinary herdsmen. The entire Tang Dynasty only had 700,000 war horses at most, which shows the preciousness of war horses. War horses are not only precious in themselves, but also more troublesome to feed, war horses are not only expensive to raise, and war horses are very delicate and difficult to raise, not only need special people to take care of, and even eat more than people.

A war horse. Every month, I have to provide three stone millet, sixty grass, and some salt. Black beans, green beans, etc., even water has to drink clean spring water, and at the end of the year, it is about more than 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to buy grain and grass, which is more than ten times more expensive than an ordinary war horse consumes two to three times a year.

In the "Art of War", there is a very scientific management method for raising military horses, which requires that the horse be raised in a suitable place, with clean spring water and good forage around it, and its hunger and fullness should be controlled when feeding; Warm stables in winter and cool stables in summer; Grooming the mane should cover its ears and eyes so as not to frighten it; Give it training, make it tame, go on a blind date, and then you can make it. It is also emphasized that horses should be cherished, and those who ride until evening and the road is far away, must dismount several times, "rather work for others than for horses".

"Horses, fire animals, their sex is damp, and their interests are high and dry...... In the middle of the spring, it is also ...... to go with the flow In the middle of summer, it will be soaked, and it will be warm in winter, and it will be cold. If you walk for a long time, you will work for a long time, if you sweat for a long time, you will work hard, if you don't dry your sweat, you will work hard if you drink and feed, and if you don't drive, you will work hard. The feeding must be selected new grass and the dustpan beans must be sifted. If the clinker is soaked in fresh water, it can be fed; Drink fresh water (clean water) three times a day, in the morning, afternoon, and evening. In the winter moon, when drinking water, it is also necessary to ride (should be carried out on horseback), and it is not easy to take off the wind (when removing the bridle reins, not in the windward place) ......"

Judging from the experience of raising these horses, it is not a war horse that is raised, but really a group of golden bumps, which are usually held in their mouths for fear of melting, and held in their hands for fear of falling. Carefully fed, in order to gallop the war horse at the critical time, charge and break the formation.

Since Lin Wu received this batch of war horses, he has promulgated many very surprising regulations in a row. For example, the first article at the beginning stipulates that after the cavalry receives his war horse, he must personally feed the war horse every day, wash and tickle the war horse, and even require that the horse must sleep with the horse in the horse pen for the first three months.

And for the daily feeding, the fine feeding conditions that can not be more refined are announced one by one. One by one: 1. When the horse feed beans are cooked, they must be cooled, and mixed with more water and grass before they can be fed to the horses, and they are never allowed to feed the horses with hot materials; After the horse has drunk the water, it should be led to walk slowly, for five or seven miles, and then tied to the idle sandy land, so that it can sleep and lie down at will, and is not allowed to be bound to the trough and not move. 2. When the grass grows in spring, graze ten, or twenty, or thirty or fifty horses, chase the abundant water and grass, and graze day and night, in case of hot summer...... Every day at noon, I will take a break in the shade of the trees, and build a pergola if there is no shade. In the hot summer, drink water once at the hour (7-9 a.m.), once at noon (11 a.m.-1 p.m.), and at night; Drink water once in spring, autumn and winter (9-11 a.m.), and once in the evening (1-3 p.m.); Once a month twenty or half a month, the horses are fed with salt water. Horses are not allowed to be fed in the same place as oxen. 3. The groom responsible for raising stallions must set up a stable, and the ground is not allowed to be built with masonry and stone, and it is necessary to clean it frequently, and it is not allowed to indulge chickens and ducks and other domestic animals to practice in the manger and horse grass, and it is not allowed to comb the grate hair in the middle, so as not to make the horse eat and get sick by mistake, etc.

"The sky is like a dragon, the land is like a horse, the horse is the foundation of the armor soldier, and the country is of great use." Li Jing completely agreed with Lin Wu's big move. At present, the army of Shamen Town is guarding the island. The cavalry has not yet been able to play its due role. Li Jing dispersed the cavalry into the ranks. It also means not to send the cavalry into battle immediately. Put the cavalry in the squad. Just let them do some reconnaissance, cover, pursuit. The cavalry could not be trained for a day, and even formed a quantitative scale, and Li Jing was reluctant to send these precious cavalrymen to real war horses for a day. These cavalrymen were the seeds of his future cavalry troops, the cradle of training of cavalry officers.

"Do you have your own complete training program for this cavalry?" Although he had already handed over the matter of cavalry training to Lin Wu, Li Jing couldn't help but ask. Raising 300 cavalry is equivalent to raising an entire battalion. Judging from the current financial situation of Salmon Town, it is a very stressful matter.

Lin Wei was dressed today in a shiny red mountain armor with phoenix wings, and a fiery red helmet on the hood. The beast head swallowed by the iron armor on his shoulders and hung a long cloak for cavalry specially made by the clothing workshop. It is made of precious silk weaving, and such a cloak is not only beautiful and atmospheric, but also has a great effect on preventing arrows. Left saddle bow, right saddle crossbow, waist with a horizontal sword, holding a long lance, today he is majestic.

"These horses are all raw horses that have not been tamed and raised, so the most important thing at the moment is that I plan to tame the horses while letting the knights establish a deep relationship with their horses. Cultivate enough tacit understanding. ”

Li Jing nodded, this idea is good. To use horses. Horses must be tamed first. Although Ma Tong is human, he is a beast after all. If it wants to better accept the knight's intentions and make the power consumption of the war horse a beneficial consumption, then it should be dominated by knights to form an effective tacit understanding, and finally reach the realm of unity of man and horse.

However, this process is not simple, and it is unlikely to be easy. This requires the cavalry to carry out meticulous and patient conditions on the war horse, and finally achieve a kind of reflexive behavior. Even if it is a fierce war horse, it must be caressed often, tickled for it, fed by himself, and washed frequently, so as to cultivate the relationship between the knight and the horse.

"After this period of training, most of our cavalry have already achieved a preliminary mastery of horseback after training with horses. Therefore, my plan now is to tame the horses while starting to intensify the training of the knight's physical and technical skills. Weight-bearing running, wrestling, hand-to-hand fighting. In addition, I also asked the craftsmen of the carpentry workshop to make a batch of wooden horses, and used these wooden horses to train the cavalrymen to get on and off their horses, and immediately wield knives and slash, spears and other techniques. ”

"Is there any other way to speed up the taming of the horses than to let the cavalry and the horses sleep together?" Whitebeard asked aloud on the side, he had been on the sea for half his life, and when it came to ships, he knew better than anyone present about the storms and waves at sea, but when it came to war horses, he was limited to the simple understanding that horses could be ridden. He felt very amused and puzzled by Lin Wu's practice of letting the cavalrymen sleep with their horses for three months.

Lin Wu ignored Whitebeard's mocking words, and replied after a moment of silence: "The difficult action of taming a war horse is inseparable from the harness, and the three of holding the title are interconnected. I can explain the method of training the cavalry of the Shence Army to train their horses to lie down. Pull the reins on one side, and transmit it to the horse, the bit, the gums of the horse, and the corners of the mouth to produce an unbearable feeling of oppression, forcing the horse to lie down, and after lying down, immediately ease the reins, relieve the pressure of the horn on the corners of the mouth and gums, and at the same time give praise or rewards to the horse, such as feeding the horse an egg or a handful of beans. If the war horse does not want to comply, it can be punished appropriately. So pull the reins on one side, the horse's head is tilted, compress the corners of the gums, lie down, and then ease the side reins, relieve the pressure on the corners of the gums, and raise or reward. The whole process is connected in turn and repeatedly. As a result, inertia will be formed in the war horse. Horses are not as smart as humans, but they are smarter than other domestic animals. With such patience and training, over time, as soon as the knight pulls the reins on one side, the horse immediately lies down. Turning left, turning right, forward, backward, accelerating, slowing down, etc., is achieved through harness or special movements of warriors, or even language, etc., but it is much easier than training to lie down. War horses, Zhengjia soldiers said: "Kill its ears and eyes, no surprise." Xi its relaxation, close its progress and stop, people and horses go on a blind date, and then you can make it. ”

"After the basic physical fitness and skill training of the cavalry and the taming of the war horses are completed, then the riding and archery training can be officially carried out!"

"Good!" Li Jing slapped his face hard, listening to Lin Wu say so much, he finally believed that he had found the best cavalry instructor, with such a professional talent, why worry about his cavalry training? (To be continued.) )