At The Beginning of The Game, The Five Tiger Generals Were Intercepted

Although the number of Wuqi battalion is small, only 500 people, the training place is no smaller than that of Wufeng battalion.

Although the Wuqi Battalion is a cavalry and archery unit, it not only requires cavalry and archery, but also requires training in charging and slashing.

Riding archery seems easy, but it is actually very difficult to shoot arrows on horseback!

The structure of the current war horse has not been formed at all. The war horse only has a very simple saddle and a single-sided stirrup for the knight to mount.

In the era without saddle stirrups, soldiers had to ride on the back of a simple saddle, only relying on holding the reins or horse mane and clamping the horse's belly with their legs. Once the horse ran, it was very easy to fall off the horse.

This method is also very unreliable. First of all, riding for a long time is prone to fatigue, and at the same time it is difficult to use bows and arrows effectively on the back of a running horse. In close combat, the rider cannot use swords and spears as he likes. Rely on the advantage of speed to overwhelm the enemy in momentum.

This is also why cavalry is difficult to train! If it is not a soldier with superb riding skills, how can he form a combat force if he cannot stabilize his figure while the horse is galloping?

The difficulty of the Wufeng camp is low, and it is only compared to the horse shooting of the Wuqi camp. After all, when the Wufeng camp charges, the soldiers only need to slash forward.

But the Wuqi Battalion is different. The soldiers of the Wuqi Battalion need to draw bows and shoot arrows while the horses are galloping! In such a high-speed gallop, soldiers do not have a stable fulcrum, and it is easy to fall off the horse due to excessive movements.

This is also why Jia Xu told Zhao Yun that it is enough to practice throwing, and it is as difficult as an ordinary archer!

Why can the Mongolian iron cavalry of later generations run rampant in the Eurasian continent? It is precisely because of the Takahashi saddle and double-sided stirrups that soldiers can easily stabilize their body no matter how fast the horse runs as long as they step on it firmly!

Didn't Liu Zhang know about this? He knows it. It's just that it can't be promoted now.

These technologies can be said to be the top secret among the top secrets, and the fewer people who know about them, the better!

The 500 men under Zhao Yun's command were trained by Liu Zhang as an instructor, in order to train more cavalry and archery soldiers after being equipped with Takahashi saddles and stirrups in the future.

Hundreds of cavalry ran, and the dust caused was not too much. Liu Zhang could clearly see the training scene.

"Hey, how many people are there?"

Liu Zhang found that the number of soldiers in the Wuqi Battalion was far from enough, and it seemed that there were only about 300 soldiers.

Is it divided into two rounds of training?

Liu Zhang was secretly surprised in his heart, and looked around.

However, the cavalry did not find them, but saw many people fall off their horses.

When charging, many knights lost their center of gravity because of drawing bows and shooting arrows, and fell off their horses directly.

Liu Zhang instantly understood the reason for the lack of people. It wasn't that they were training separately, but that they were all injured from a fall!

Until the end of the training, Liu Zhang watched the martial arts battalion.

Sure enough, as he expected, at least a dozen soldiers from the Wuqi Battalion fell and were injured!

"Hey, it seems that without stirrups and saddles, riding and shooting is still too difficult!"

Liu Zhang sighed helplessly, and couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed for Zhao Yun.

No wonder the Han Dynasty was nearly four hundred years old, except for the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the cavalry could not develop at all!

Difficult, difficult, difficult!

Hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Liu Zhang couldn't understand the difficulty at all.

Zhao Yun was too involved in training, and he didn't pay attention to Liu Zhang who had been watching for a long time.

It wasn't until the end of the training and when I returned to the big tent that I saw Liu Zhang and hurried over.

"My lord, there will be some mistakes in the end, please forgive me, my lord."

"Zilong, there are quite a few soldiers injured today, right?"

As soon as Zhao Yun heard this, he knew that Liu Zhang must have been here for a long time, so he knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

"At the end of the day, I will bear the great trust of the lord! Please punish the lord!"

Liu Zhang stretched out his hand to support Zhao Yun, and patted the dust off his body.

"Zilong, I don't blame you! I remember that there were not so many wounded when I came last time, right?"

Zhao Yun frowned and sighed heavily.

"Hey, my lord doesn't know something! Ever since I started practicing riding and archery, at least ten people have been injured every day!"

"Soldiers are not used to drawing bows and shooting arrows while riding. They often lose their center of gravity and fall off their horses!"

Zhao Yun was also very distressed. He had experienced all these difficulties one by one. If he didn't have superb riding skills and very strong stability on the horse, it would be very difficult not to be thrown off!

Now it is just to take the bow, draw the bow, and then shoot the arrow in the future, it will definitely be more difficult!

Liu Zhang patted Zhao Yun's shoulder to comfort him a little.

"Zilong, take your time! If you can master it so easily, we big men won't worry about the invasion of foreign races!"

"Let's go, go back to the tent first, I have something to tell you!"

Zhao Yun nodded slightly, and followed Liu Zhang to the handsome tent.

Not long after, the four generals under Liu Zhang gathered in the tent.

"You generals have worked hard!"

The four stood up together and bowed their hands to Liu Zhang.

"I will go through fire and water for my lord, and I will do whatever I want!"

Liu Zhang smiled and nodded, waving for them to sit down.

In fact, he didn't want to be so polite every time. It's just that Confucianism is the only thing in this era, and he cares about these etiquette very much, so he is very helpless.

"You generals are well trained, I am very pleased!"

Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, and Dian Wei showed joy on their faces, only Zhao Yun lowered his head lightly, with a melancholy expression on his face.

"My lord, how is my military guard camp! Isn't it very powerful! Hahahaha!"

Dian Wei patted his chest triumphantly, flaunting himself brazenly from the sidelines.

"Come on, if you say it's the worst here, no one can beat you..."

Liu Zhang glanced at Dian Wei angrily, and he didn't need to give him a good face.

"My lord! I refuse to accept it!"

This silly big guy is simple and honest, although he has no brains, he can always liven up the atmosphere, even the depressed Zhao Yun smiled.

"Come on, say it yourself, which one of those present has your military guard battalion fought?"

"I...I...I..."

Dian Wei stared wide-eyed and stuttered non-stop, but couldn't speak. Although he is simple and honest, he is not a fool!

Staying with these three people every day, even if he doesn't know the arms, he will understand a little bit by ear.

No matter what Dian Wei thought, he really couldn't think of anyone he could beat.

Facing Huang Zhong's martial arts battalion, he would probably be shot to death before he even ran in front of him!

Not to mention the Wufeng Camp and Wuqi Camp, they ride horses, but I don't even have to ride a donkey, so my brothers are exhausted to death!

The more Dian Wei thought about it, the more sad he became, like an eggplant beaten by frost, it suddenly wilted.

"My lord, wouldn't I become a waste..."

This was the first time Liu Zhang saw Dian Wei like this, and even wondered if what he said was too much.

"Come on, why are you useless! Your military guard battalion is our last line of defense! My life is all on your body!"

When Dian Wei heard this, his listless mood was swept away, and he immediately put on a smiling face.

"Hahaha, I'll just say it! My Wuwei battalion is the most important thing!"

"Okay, okay, okay, sit down!"

Liu Zhang knew that he was thinking too much, how could this heartless person feel uncomfortable.

"Everyone, on the 22nd of next month, Your Majesty will hold a military exercise in Pingle Garden, and our Empress General's Mansion and the Great General's Mansion will conduct the drill."

"In this campaign, He Jin must be suppressed head-on!"

(end of this chapter)