The fifth year of Wanli is approaching in a blink of an eye, and the plum blossoms in the Beiyang Military Palace are in bloom.

Far across the ocean, the Jesuits' discussion on the Ming War. As the most barbaric among the Spanish who knew the barbarians, Chen Mu did not know the other party's argument about the means of ruling them, but his focus was also related to the Jesuits.

"The Beiyang Military Palace is good."

On the school ground, Chen Lin, the governor of the Nanyang Military Office, was walking slowly with Chen Mu. He hadn't seen him for more than half a year. Chen Lin's beard was longer. He slowly walked at the cavalry rows of cavalry walking slowly parallel on the school ground, and raised his whip: "What are those wooden horse soldiers doing? Are you practicing cavalry?"

The horses are arranged in four five-row square formations, each of which is composed of cavalry with a general flag. The general flag and adjutant are separated in front and back. Each row is a small flag, and the flag deputy, and the flag officer are respectively at the head of a cavalry team, at the end of the team, each holding flags and wearing helmets and guns of different flags. There are drummers with cavalry drums in the team, and follow the drum beats to slowly line up on the grass with weapons.

But the formation is not an absolute four-sided square formation, but more like a parallel four-sided square formation, with the first deputy flag officer of each cavalry team being dislocated backwards.

Their speed is very slow, but the formation is strict... There is no possibility of being uneven. In such a formation, each ordinary cavalry must have an officer repeating the military orders with the drum beats.

Within three hundred steps in the direction of their journey, every fifty steps, an instructor took his military officer to sit behind the scenes, and when the cavalry passed by, he watched the water leak and recorded something.

Three hundred steps away, there are rows of human-shaped targets carrying wooden poles, simulating the appearance of an infantry formation.

On the other side of the infantry school, the infantry and artillery team were conducting coordinated training. The sounds of the bird guns were mixed with the sounds of field guns, and the loud whistling sounds of the gun array were mixed with the loud shouts of the gun array, and several other cavalry teams ran slowly around the runway of the infantry school.

As Chen Lin's question exited, several orders came from the cavalry teams lined up on the school ground. The marching cavalry teams accelerated and dispersed in rows, and the cavalry still maintained a stable formation. The long spear with the slanted fingers of the front team did not fall. The cavalry in the back line, holding bird guns, shot forward at the command at a distance of 100 steps.

The number of cavalry guns is not large. Among the two 100-house horse teams that were trained in concert, only 60 cavalry guns were equipped, and only twenty were fired alternately.

When the cavalry was running out of gunpowder, the bird gun had been inserted into the horse's buttocks. Except for the cavalry with long spears in front, they had already replaced the sabers with sabers behind them. After the final speedup, the formation gradually dispersed in dozens of steps, and was divided into several cluster stormtroopers led by long spears and flag guns until they were picked up every three or five steps, or they could knock out the human-shaped target nearby.

After a brief chaos, the cavalry gathered again, changed horizontal teams and attacked the side, and then continued to move backwards after three changes of formations.

"It took us a long time to make the war horses not afraid of the sound of guns and cannons, but the horses are still afraid of human-shaped targets holding sticks. In actual combat, both the speed of the march and the situation change are much faster than during training, and it takes a long time to practice."

"But such training is practical." Chen Mu and Chen Lin were already stationed on the horse and watched the school ground. He turned to Chen Lin and raised four fingers and said, "With this time the border general returned to Beijing to report his duties, I visited the generals from all over the nine borders and the cavalry department of the Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall. On the battlefield, cavalry has an advantage over infantry, while cavalry usually has four possibilities for fighting against cavalry."

"First, there was no charge between each other. The two cavalrymen met on the battlefield and one side had already collapsed during the charge. This is the most common situation. After all, people are not afraid of death and horses, but once they are defeated, it means they will be massacred by the enemy. In the early years, the nine sides would always encounter this situation when they fought against the Northern Barbarians in the field. This is insufficient morale and discipline."

Chen Lin led the cavalry to fight, but in the cavalry to fight he led, he usually did not fight immediately, but rode a horse to quickly arrive at the preset battlefield during the counter-rebellion war, and dismounted the horse and formed an encirclement to the enemy.

Therefore, when Chen Mu talked about these things, he nodded and asked, "What about the other three?"

"The second is that both sides will stop, which often happens when the enemy cavalry fights. Our army dismounts or hangs in the horses and hangs in the horses, and the enemy goes back and forth. In this way, our army cannot usually fight with the Northern Lu except for the General Zhenshuoma, and will be defeated in a short time."

"Third, the two armies scattered the wrong horses to fight, which has never happened in the cavalry of the state. Even the Northern Barbarians will only appear in disputes between their small troops. The less troops the stronger the organization. The only way to maintain the formation during the fight is to maintain the formation. Only the small chief of the cavalry and the servants of some generals in the northern border can be achieved. Only when the two armies are evenly matched, usually, will it become the first type if there is such an opportunity."

"As for the last type, if we fight directly without formation, this possibility is rarely seen with our cavalry, but the melee between the cavalry and the cavalry is easy to occur. The reason is that the morale of our cavalry is usually lower than that of the northern barbarians, and fighting often becomes the first possibility."

Speaking of this, Chen Mu curled his lips helplessly and said, "With the same conditions, morale and discipline in the battle decide victory or defeat. Both sides are not elite. The morale of the enemy is high and the discipline is low. My knights are not as good as that, and the discipline is even lower. This is also impossible."

"Mortality is most affected by treatment, and discipline is trained. For a long time, people have focused on instal carriages and ignored cavalry training. The horse team on the battlefield has become auxiliary soldiers for transmission and exploration, so that the founding horse politics have now become famous food in the north."

Just as the cavalry training was completed, the riders still maintained a formation of three or five people after they were disbanded, leading the horses to the barracks, either fast or slow. The three-month bird gunner training allowed them to remember obedience and military orders in their minds. There were only a few punished people who failed in training and a few who were striving to increase their training.

Chen Mu sat down and immediately introduced to Chen Lin one by one: "Hejian horse meat is burnt, Zhending horse soup, Beijing horse intestines, let alone local horse politics, even the war horses I bought from the high price in the mouth market were sold forty-six of people in three months, alive, or deliberately raised to death."

"There is still this?" Chen Lin widened his eyes and said, "Will you not be killed by guns?"

Chen Mu took a deep breath with anger on his face and said, "I won't talk about this anymore. Is there anything new about Nanyang when I go north this time? Let me be happy."

"I'm happy, I'm afraid you won't be happy." Chen Lin did not take a closer look at Ma Zheng's affairs. He was indeed not as familiar with Chen Mu in the north. He just took out a letter from his Ma Bag and handed it to Chen Mu, saying: "The letters from the Portuguese Governor of Goa and the monk Kanero of Haojing. They accused the pirates, your good subordinate Lin Feng, burned the Goa Port a few months ago and stolen hundreds of strong men, women, and children."

"I followed up and robbed several ports northwards, broke the city and plundered the people, and Mughal also sent envoys to Malacca, hoping to form a joint fleet with the Nanyang Military Office to clear the pirates and jointly manage the route."

Chen Lin looked at Chen Mu's expression carefully, wondering what role his righteous brother played in this chaos, and said: "Western minister Yin Yangshi sent people to the military guards several times to urge the formation of a fleet to suppress bandits to give an explanation to the Indian countries, otherwise the Ming merchants would not be able to rely on ports in the countries and trade would be impossible."
Chapter completed!