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Muling Pass, located at the intersection of Qingmi and Xin, is the pass of the ancient Qi Great Wall at the eastern foot of Yishan Mountain, which was the strategic point of contention between the two countries of Qi and Lu during the Warring States Period, and is also the oldest, most majestic and most dangerous pass along the Great Wall of Qi.

This ancient city of Qi was destroyed in the war in history, after Li Jing controlled the Shandong Peninsula, he saw the important position of Muling Pass, which is actually the first gateway to the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula, so he rebuilt this pass. The new city is located on the Daxian Mountain in the eastern vein of Yishan, the closing building is a two-storey three-arch building, magnificent and towering, majestic and magnificent, there are steep avenues in the north and south of the door, the corridor in the gate is gentle, the pass is the Great Wall of Qi that stretches for thousands of miles, the layout is reasonable, the construction is solid, it can be said that "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open".

Xinmuling Pass is the southeast gateway of the Shandong Peninsula, connecting Canghai in the east, Taidai in the west, Linzi in the north, and Xuhuai in the south. When the fortress was completed, Li Jing once said on the Guancheng that the border of Qi, south of Qingzhou, was guarded in Daxian, and south of Jinan was guarded in Taishan. At a time when the Qin domain was only within the Shandong Peninsula, Mulingguan provided great security for the early Qin army.

Today, the Qin army has expanded south to Chuzhou south of the Huai River, and westward to Xuzhou, an important town of Huanghuai. Muling Pass has changed from a border pass to an internal gate, and it has lost its important role in the past.

However, this is still guarding the gateway of the Shandong Peninsula and guarding the main road of the Yishu River Valley, and Li Jing has not removed the guard of this gate. But. Most of the original defenders were transferred. Muling Pass. It has become one of the 36 horse farms of the Qin Army. Here, in the area of Daxian Mountain, there are 50,000 war horses.

Today's Qin Domain, because of the vast horse-producing areas of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Andong and Rehe outside the Guan, coupled with Li Jing's emphasis on cavalry, the Qin army has attached great importance to domesticating war horses over the years. Up to now, the Qin army has 36 military horse domestication sites, with a full 720,000 war horses. Coupled with the war horses that were raised in the hands of the common people, and the war horse farms owned by the people, all the war horses in the Qin army had reached one million together. This is a number that is proud of the world, even when Datang was at its peak, it only raised 800,000 war horses.

The entire Qin army now has 120,000 official cavalry, and there are also many reserve cavalry in the sequence of Xuejun, Unity Battalion, and Township Soldiers. In the entire Qin Domain, there were thirty-six military horse farms, and the number of horse breeders and horse breeders alone reached 80,000.

The horse farm not only breeds its own war horses. A large number of fierce horses and wild horses brought from outside the customs will also be tamed. A strong horse. They don't have to be warhorses right away, they have to be tamed. After the strict taming and training of the horse farm, the horse will no longer be a raw horse, bid farewell to many animal nature and wildness in the past, and become tame, sensitive, able to approach people, withstand many stimuli, and easy to play the riding function. As soon as the war requires, different types of horses can be provided to heavy cavalry, light cavalry, etc., with preliminary training and a sufficient number of horses. After being assigned to the cavalry, these horses can be used freely with a little familiarity.

The cavalry training of the Qin army has actually begun the preliminary training from the military horse farm, which is more like a huge assembly processing line, standardized assembly line operations, and batch building cavalry.

Daxian Mountain, cavalry training ground, countless cavalry are training, here is a training ground for Wuhu reorganized and trained soldiers and horses, a full 5,000 elite cavalry of the Wuhu tribe, here to receive new cavalry training from the Qin Domain, according to the plan, a total of 100,000 integrated Hu troops, there are 40,000 Hu cavalry, they have to receive at least one year of new training, and then sent to the northeast to supplement the cavalry units to expand the cavalry strength of the Qin army.

On the field of the colonel, Hu Qi was training in the detachment, and Wang Chong, Gao Zhongwu, Guo Zhenshan, Gao Rong, Qin Zongshou and other generals stood on the review platform and watched carefully.

The reorganized Wuhu cavalry is all the same as the cavalry of the Qin army, a group of ten people, a team of fifty people, a hundred people, a battalion of five hundred people, two battalions of one thousand people, and five carriages and five thousand cavalry.

The quality of the individual soldiers of the Hu cavalry is very strong, especially the 40,000 cavalry selected from the millions of Hu people of the five tribes, and they are the strongest in a hundred. In terms of individual horse bravery, horsemanship, cavalry warfare, and cavalry archery, they can definitely defeat a large number of Qin cavalry. However, Li Jing had only one requirement for the reorganization and training of these Hu Qi, while retaining their personal bravery, training to strengthen their team combat advantages.

This Hu cavalry, with a total of 40,000 cavalry troops, as many as eight cavalry troops, was originally intended to eventually disperse and supplement the various cavalry corps of the Qin army, but now, the situation has changed, and Li Jing has just changed this decision. The 40,000 cavalry will join some of the Qin cavalry to form a powerful cavalry corps. Among the new cavalry corps, the Qin army had only 20,000, while the Hu cavalry had 40,000. This brand-new cavalry corps with twelve corps is about to be awarded the title of Iron Cavalry Legion, and Li Jing will personally serve as the commander of this huge cavalry corps.

Li Jing's first requirement for Hu Qi's reorganization training was absolute strict discipline.

The Hu people are fierce and brave, but they also lack discipline, especially team spirit.

Li Jing gave these Hu cavalry very well-equipped, half-body steel plate armor, pot-type steel helmet, round small steel shield, cavalry spear, saber, riding bow, riding crossbow, earth-shaking thunder, steel axe, steel whip

However, Li Jing explicitly forbade them to ride and shoot arrows during war, and instead required them to form a neat and dense queue, first jogging, then gradually accelerating to a large stride, and then galloping towards the enemy, using impact rather than long-range shooting to maximize the effectiveness of cavalry.

On the school ground, the Hu cavalry of the entire battalion wore half-body breastplate, held a cavalry gun, and carried a saber on his belt, and began to charge in a queue.

On the school review platform, Wang Chong and the others saw that these Hu cavalry had only been trained for half a year, and now they were able to act in unison under the constraints of discipline, and they kept their horses next to horses and shoulder to shoulder when they launched a collective charge, like a fast-moving iron wall. This wall always maintains the strength of the collective force, avoiding the chaotic battle of fighting separately after the battle is dispersed.

In the running charge, maintaining a dense queue of cavalry is an overall tactical behavior that is far more difficult than individual horseback martial arts. It is also the cornerstone of the new cavalry tactics of the Qin army.

Gao Zhongwu, one of the generals of the Gao family. I couldn't believe that these people who were charging and practicing were actually Hu people who had just joined half a year ago. And they did. Not only individual bravery, but teamwork, they no longer even need to use their hands to control the reins when charging, because the horses of their companions on the left and right will carry their horses all the way forward.

This way each cavalryman could free up two hands to fight, one with a saber and the other with a crossbow.

For example, the cavalry queue marching through the wall does not need to be too high, and in that case, it will disrupt the formation. Affects the impact force, so they use a neat jogging charge.

On the training ground, Wang Zhong and others personally observed the battle between the blue-robed cavalry battalion, a new cavalry formation that used iron-walled ranks, and the red-robed cavalry battalion, which adopted traditional tactics. As a result, it was surprising to find that when the cavalry of the two sides fought with white knives, there would always be a situation where one scimitar of the red-robed cavalry always faced two or three blue-robed cavalry sabers at the same time.

The red-robed cavalry battalion fought hard against the united discipline of the blue-robed cavalry with excellent riding skills and martial arts, but the result was always defeated without any suspense. And the blue-robed cavalry, since they dispersed the red-robed cavalry battalion, were still able to maintain a neat queue and always fight collectively.

Wang Zhong sighed: "When the King of Qin proposed the 'Iron Wall Cavalry Tactic' before. Most people in the military are skeptical. After all, light cavalry is not heavy cavalry. Charging through the formation is not a strong point. The traditional combat methods of the light cavalry are to ride and shoot and wander, and rarely encounter each other. However, after seeing this drill today, I finally believe that the light cavalry is not really only capable of fighting with cavalry and archery, and when they advance with an iron wall, how many can stop them? ”

Gao Zhongwu added next to him: "In fact, this kind of iron wall tactics is actually more against the cavalry of the Saiwaihu people, in the open boundless grassland, the cavalry on both sides against the cavalry, there is no spear formation and chariot formation of the infantry, and there is no fortress city ditch to restrain the cavalry, it can be said that especially in large-scale cavalry battles, this iron wall tactic does not have many restrictions, and can give full play to the strongest potential of the cavalry." In the ensuing battle of the Qin princes against the Hu people, I seem to have seen them advance with iron walls, defeating the combined cavalry of the tribes all over the mountains. ”

In the land of Daibei, the terrain is closer to the outside of the Saiwai, so it is very suitable for the grassland Hu cavalry to fight. The open grassland, without the city fortress and the deer feet of the Haogou, the advantage of the Hu cavalry is great. If the Qin army wants to deal with Hu Cai, the best choice is to ride and conquer the horse. However, Li Jing's cavalry was not as large as the Hu cavalry, so taking advantage of the equipment and creating a new cavalry method with strict discipline could make the cavalry of the Hu people's traditional combat method the biggest disadvantage.

The first precept of the Qin army's cavalry training was that discipline was more important than horsemanship.

The Hu people have cavalry warfare, and there is also a special warfare, that is, cavalry archery. However, the requirements of cavalry archery are extremely high, especially when charging, only the most well-trained cavalry can keep charging when riding and shooting, and most of the cavalry, including Hu cavalry, once the arrow is on the horse, it affects the continuity of the charging process, and the impact is greatly reduced.

Li Jing's strategy was to prohibit cavalry shooting during the charge, and equip his cavalry with a sturdy cuirass and helmet, and when riding a battle, the cavalry resolutely charged, and kept a dense and neat charge, so that the side that charged like an iron wall would be more likely to overwhelm the side that relied on itinerant cavalry archery as a whole.

War is a whole battle, even if the damage received during the charge is greater, but as long as they can break through the enemy formation, then they will only win the greater victory in the end.

Of course, Li Jing proposed the iron wall tactic, but he did not only ask the cavalry to use this tactic. In fact, Li Jing encouraged the individual horsemanship training of all Qin cavalry, believing that cavalry should be able to face multiple situations rather than relying only on dense formations.

The galloping cavalry iron wall, this is only the core tactic against the Hu cavalry, in addition, the quality of individual soldiers also needs to be preserved. After breaking through the enemy formation, the individual qualities of the cavalry came into play.

A beautiful iron wall charge completely defeated the red-robed army.

After the iron wall tactical drill, Qin Zongshou waved the flag, the cavalry withdrew, and soon another battalion of cavalry entered.

"The next thing is the cavalry saber training exercise, all the Hu cavalry have been equipped with the excellent sabers produced by the Dengzhou Ordnance Workshop, and the training is in accordance with the army drill code and saber training manual compiled by King Qin himself, and now it has begun to bear fruit!"

With Qin Zongshou's introduction, the officers' loud orders had already been heard on the colonel's field: "The first part of the saber training drill, step down the saber drill, start now." ”

"Basic defensive moves, stab!"

With the roar of the instructor, a battalion of cavalry dismounted one after another, they moved neatly, dismounted did not need to step on the stirrup at all, jumped down directly, and then drew the saber, with the sound of the command again neatly stabbed the saber in the hand. Saber step down tactics, the first move to stab, there are nine styles!

"At the beginning of the cavalry training, fake knives are used, but after mastering the basic movements, they must start training with real knives, practicing according to the command, so that the cavalrymen are familiar with their weapons."

Wang Chong, Gao Zhongwu and other generals came this time precisely to directly test the combat effectiveness of Hu Cai, and to make the most post-war pre-war assessment for the battle of King Qin's personal conquest. If these Hu cavalry do not perform well, then the General Staff, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Military Department will jointly advise the King of Qin to cancel this very dangerous plan.

However, now it seems that although the Hu people have only received half a year of reorganization training, they have fully achieved the expected results, and even far exceeded. In some ways, the Hu people, who grew up on horseback, were indeed natural cavalry warriors.

The only thing that worries them now is that these Hu people have only been newly attached for less than half a year, and they will be pulled to the battlefield at this time, and it is still the personal expedition led by the King of Qin with them as the main force, and the enemy is still 200,000 Hu people, as well as tens of thousands of Shatuo people. What if these Hu people have bad intentions when they arrive?

Wang said in a deep voice: "This matter has been decided by King Qin, and it cannot be changed. But I don't think we need to worry too much, although these Hu people have not been in the market for a long time, their clansmen and their families are all settled in various parts of our Qin Domain, besides, this time we are going to fight the Khitan and Shatuo-based tribes, and these Wuhu have always been at odds with them. ”

"That's it!" Gao Zhongwu was still a little worried.

"Announce the decree of the King of Qin, gather all the trained cavalry of the Muling cavalry training camp, and immediately set off to the East Sea Port to assemble in Tianjin by boat!" The king ordered loudly.

The war drums rumbled, the horns sounded, and the king's orders were conveyed one by one, and a moment later, all the Hu soldiers in the Muling cavalry training camp had already received military orders, and the king of Qin summoned them to assemble in Tianjin, where they would join the army, and the king of Qin would lead the army to personally conquer the homeless Shatuo wolf and Khitan dogs that they had beaten.

"From now on, you are the Fifth Army of the Iron Cavalry Legion, step on your war horses, hold your sabers tightly, follow the Flying Eagle Battle Banner, follow the King of Qin, but seize the supreme glory that belongs to you!" Wang Zhong drew his sword, stood on the high review stand, and shouted loudly! "Glory Iron Cavalry, fight for King Qin!"

"Glory Iron Cavalry, fight for King Qin!" The mountains shouted and went straight to the clouds! (To be continued......)