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"Boom!" A horse galloped past, and there was a knight on the horse. He fired three arrows, and the three arrows hit the target.

"Okay!" Li Dingguo's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but hold his hands and laugh.

Although this person is not as capable as General Chen Changzhen of Zhenxi, he is not far behind!

The King of North Korea, Li Jian, also nodded with satisfaction and showed off to Li Dingguo: "I wonder what General Li thinks of the warriors under my command?"

"Good archery skills!" Li Dingguo couldn't help but tell the truth, "However, I have seen many knights and warriors in your country practicing bows and arrows. Why haven't I seen them practicing spears, broadswords and other martial arts?"

"This" Li Zhu was speechless when he heard this.

In the end, it was Minister Cui Mingji who explained: "Our people are good at shooting but not good at using swords, so they use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses to make the angels laugh!"

"Oh?" Li Dingguo nodded after hearing this, without comment.

In fact, just as he thought, this Korean is not a strange creature, so how can he be good at shooting but not good at using swordsmanship?

It turns out that the Goryeo Dynasty, the predecessor of Korea, was deeply influenced by the Yuan Dynasty and became the famous "Consort Kingdom". It even issued an order to shave off hair and change clothes.

Under this trend, the military skills of the Goryeo Dynasty also quickly imitated the Mongols, with riding and archery as their authentic style.

So much so that Li Chenggui, the founding monarch who later came to power through a coup and established the Li family of Korea, had his grandfather called "Boyan Timur" and his father "Wulu Sibuhua". He himself was also good at riding and archery.

Until Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition and his entry into Liaodong, Goryeo was still a country capable of mobilizing tens of thousands of cavalry.

Even when Li Chenggui established the Lee family of Joseon, there were 70,000 horses in the official racecourse, which was the cornerstone of mounted archery in the Joseon state at that time.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, after more than 200 years of purchases and blockade by the Ming Dynasty, Korea was not only hard to find war horses, but even horn bows could only be obtained through smuggling by a few people.

Nowadays, the entire armament of North Korea has become a situation with a very small number of horse archers as the core and a large number of gunmen as the backbone.

This is the direct reason why everyone in North Korea was so happy when they heard that Zhang Shun was preparing to train a team for them.

Li Dingguo didn't know these many ways, but he still remembered Zhang Shun's instructions before leaving: "The Korean country lives on the side of the bed, with ulterior motives, and is a border threat with Mongolia and Jurchen."

"Although we are borrowing its power now, we must not harm our descendants. In my opinion, it is better to use one battalion, so as not to cause trouble to China!"

When Li Dingguo thought of this, he smiled and said: "The elite cavalry of your country are not half as good as our Liaodong cavalry. They can compete with the Donglu in a day."

"However, the number is scarce. Even if we start buying war horses and training soldiers today, I'm afraid it will be too late."

"In my opinion, why not select 800 elite cavalrymen as the backbone, and select more than 2,200 infantrymen to form a battalion, which will be enough for next spring!"

"That's okay!" King Li Zhu of North Korea heard this, although he was a little dissatisfied, but he still took the opportunity to take a look at the rebels' military tactics, and he achieved his goal.

The two sides had already settled their calculations, and then they got stuck without even thinking about the first step.

Why?

It turns out that the number of elite cavalry in Korea is very small. Except for the two to three hundred cavalry in Gyeonggi Province, the rest are deployed in the Hamgyong Province area.

Hamgyeong Province is an important military town in the north of Korea. Its people were originally from China. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Goryeo Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity to rise.

Because its land is close to the Yalu River, Nayin, and Zhusheli tribes of the Jurchens living there, the people are fierce and there are many elite soldiers.

After Li Dingguo arrived at Xianjing Road, he selected and trained 300 elite cavalry. Although he was short of 200 cavalry, he could still barely make up the cavalry needed for a standard battalion.

After the six hundred cavalry were gathered together, Li Dingguo did not turn back to Hancheng and continued to select gunmen here.

To Li Dingguo's surprise, although the gunsmiths here were very crude, most of them were accurate and fast. Even if they were brought back to China, they were elite soldiers. He easily picked up more than a thousand of them.

However, when he selected the elite melee fighters, he discovered that what the King of Korea said was true.

In addition to the powerful horse archers who show off their sabers, spears, swords, broadswords, long knives and other weapons commonly used by the rebels and the Ming army are almost like fire sticks in the hands of these people.

"I've never seen such a bad soldier!" This was Li Dingguo's final conclusion after several days of selection.

It’s no wonder that Li Dingguo commented like this. It turns out that due to the development of the Korean country’s bizarre military skills and the mutual pecking with the three Jurchens of Yalu River, Neyin, and Zhusheli, the Korean country’s military skills have developed into a state that attaches great importance to long-range weapons. Shooting, but extremely despising the state of close combat.

When facing a battle, he would shoot for several rounds without moving, but once the enemy got close, he would disperse in a rush.

"What should we do, General?" He was helpless and asked involuntarily.

"What to do, cold salad!" Li Dingguo couldn't laugh or cry.

It's not that he can't train hand-to-hand combat soldiers. Firstly, his time is limited, and training in cold weapons requires years and months, not a one-time effort. Secondly, according to Zhang Shun's thoughts, he doesn't really want to make up for North Korea's shortcomings in military skills. plate.

"Let's do this. If it doesn't work, we should discuss it with Shen Shikui!" In fact, the "Mao Gourd" under Li Dingguo is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant. If he trains North Korea's national bird gunman among them, he may not be unable to use them.

It's just that not only has the old system been damaged, but if the two sides don't cooperate well, they will be held back by these gunmen.

Li Dingguo had no choice but to turn south and rush toward Pi Island.

After traveling like this for several days, they arrived at Tieshan.

This place is located east of Yizhou, quite close to Houjin, which occupied the Phoenix City and Zhenjiang Fort areas. Li Dingguo immediately became vigilant.

While he ordered his troops to spread out scouts, he also ordered the selected Korean cavalry and gunners to march in a battle formation.

After walking for more than ten miles in this way, a group of people suddenly surrounded him.

Then Li Dingguo was about to send troops to kill him, but unexpectedly, one man separated from the crowd and stepped forward to worship him: "But the heavenly soldiers are here? We are all refugees from Liaodong. Now we are hungry and miserable. Please give me some charity, general." Me!"

"Oh?" Li Dingguo couldn't help but doubt when he saw that each of them was carrying bows, arrows and swords, and some of them were even wearing worn-out cotton armor. "Don't talk nonsense. Which refugee family have you seen like this?"

As soon as Li Dingguo said these words, the man unexpectedly cried: "General, you don't know something. We are originally Liao people. However, the captives are cruel and have no way to make a living. We have no choice but to escape here and surrender to the commander-in-chief Mao!"

"Now that Marshal Mao has passed away, and General Shen is unable to continue, we can only stay here temporarily."

"I never thought that a few days ago, the Donglu troops arrived again, and Kuan Dien, Chang Dien, Yizhou, Tieshan and other places fell into their hands. Twenty-three out of ten of us died in the fighting, and countless others were taken captive. Now it’s just me and others who can’t make a living, they only rely on robbing merchants!”

"Oh? Do you have any martial arts skills?" When Li Dingguo heard this, his eyes lit up and he asked quickly.

"I don't dare to deceive the general. Most of us are from the guards, and there are many barbarians in the mountains, so we have never failed in our abilities!" The man replied after hearing this.

"Okay, that's great!" Li Dingguo couldn't help but clasped his hands and smiled, "I wanted to recruit people, but since you have nowhere to go, why not come with me to beg for food!"