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"Empire Hegemony" Chapter 925
The heavy cavalry rushed forward like a rolling iron stream, the horses' heads moved, and the earth roared. The destructive momentum shocked Chen Zi'ang and others who were watching.
If you encounter this heavy cavalry unit like a torrent of steel on the frontal battlefield, no matter how strong the battle formation is, it will be blown to pieces.
"Our Qinghe army has such sturdy heavy cavalry, and the world is just around the corner!" Chen Ziang was also excited.
In the past, when the Qinghe Army first occupied Jiangbei Province, they wanted to build a heavy cavalry like King Ning's heavy cavalry.
But at that time, the Qinghe army had no stable foothold, surrounded by powerful enemies, and they did not have the financial ability and so many craftsmen to forge the equipment needed for heavy cavalry.
After capturing the Jiangnan Province, Chen Zi'ang's money and supplies were also greatly relieved.
The Jiangnan Province is originally a rich and prosperous place with many craftsmen, and the arsenal in the Jiangbei Province and the minerals of Tongshan have also been developed one by one.
Therefore, Chen Ziang also ordered Li Qiye, chief of military affairs, to be fully responsible for building the heavy cavalry belonging to their Qinghe army.
After exhausting their manpower and material resources, their Qinghe army can be regarded as having a heavy cavalry unit of their own.
"Marshal, just give us another year or two, and our heavy cavalry can expand to 20,000."
Seeing that Chen Ziang was happy, Li Qiye, chief of military affairs, also wanted to take this opportunity to try to expand the heavy cavalry.
Because once the heavy cavalry unit arrives on the battlefield, it is a mobile steel fortress, just like the tanks of later generations, the enemy's light cavalry and infantry are completely crushed.
"The power of heavy cavalry is indeed very powerful, but the cost of raising a heavy cavalry is not small."
Chen Zi'ang looked at the heavy cavalry training in the distance, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
The light cavalry of the Qinghe Army only need to be proficient in bow and horse, and then undergo some battle training to go into battle to kill the enemy.
Moreover, the requirements for horses and equipment of the light cavalry are not so high. Although the consumption is greater than that of the infantry, the Qinghe army can still bear it.
But the heavy cavalry is different. In order to build this heavy cavalry, Chen Ziang and the others spent countless manpower and material resources.
A total of 2,000 heavy cavalry candidates were selected from the tens of thousands of light cavalry ninth and thirteenth banner regiments.
These heavy cavalry need to wear thick black iron armor, so they must be tall and strong to withstand it.
And their mounts are also carefully selected war horses, which must be able to bear weight and have good endurance.
There is no horse farm in the area controlled by the Qinghe army. All their horses are obtained from other places through various channels.
Now there are two thousand heavy cavalry with three horses per person, one horse is used for marching and riding, one horse is used for putting on thick black iron armor during marching, and the last horse is used for riding and charging when they fight.
Only one heavy cavalry needs to maintain three war horses, and their current training consumes a lot of horses.
Chen Ziang felt a pain in the flesh just maintaining two thousand heavy cavalry now, let alone increasing to twenty thousand heavy cavalry.
Although 20,000 heavy cavalry are invincible once they arrive on the battlefield, Chen Ziang and the others cannot afford them.
"Let's keep the heavy cavalry at their current size. They are mainly used as a battlefield assault force. If we want to win the war, we still need to be surrounded by light cavalry. I think the size of the light cavalry can be expanded by two to three banner regiments. "
Seeing that Li Qiye, chief of military affairs, wanted to vigorously expand the heavy cavalry, Chen Zi'ang stopped his idea in time, and made a strategic plan for the development of the cavalry, which is to focus on the light cavalry.
"Commander, even if we don't develop heavy cavalry, it will be difficult to expand the light cavalry by two or three banner regiments in a short period of time." Li Qiye also showed embarrassment.
"Now we can receive less than 1,500 war horses every month, and 20,000 war horses are needed to form a light cavalry banner regiment."
Now they have a steady stream of caravans selling war horses from the north, but the number is limited after all.
And now the rebels in the north and the wolf riders on the grassland are also extremely strict in the control of war horses, after all, they are strategic resources.
If Shen Xiuxiu, the chairman of the Far East Chamber of Commerce, hadn't come up with the idea of ??using war horses instead of pack horses for smuggling, the Qinghe army would not only be unable to form new cavalry units, but the supplementary war horses might not be enough for battlefield wear and tear.
Now most of the caravans entering the Qinghe army's control area use pack horses to transport goods.
In fact, these pack horses are all disguised as war horses, the transport of goods is fake, and the cover of the transport of war horses is real.
The rebels also need caravans to transport trade and provide them with some necessities, so although several forces are fighting now, the trade has not been cut off.
It's just that among the trade items inspected by the guards in the border area, salt, iron, food, war horses and other materials are prohibited and trade is not allowed.
Anyone who sees a merchant driving a large number of war horses for trade will be confiscated by the garrison immediately.
Shen Xiuxiu, the chairman of the Far East Chamber of Commerce, and the others had to disguise the horses as draft horses in order to transport them to the Qinghe Army-controlled area, and they dared not carry out the transport of war horses blatantly.
It was these caravans that continuously transported war horses over so that the Qinghe Army could guarantee enough horses.
"There is no rush to expand the cavalry, let's take it step by step."
Chen Ziang also knew that their horses were in short supply, so he didn't set a timetable for the formation of a new cavalry unit, but just reminded Li Qiye, chief of military affairs.
When Chen Ziang and Li Qiye were discussing the development of the cavalry, a few cavalrymen covered in black heavy armor rode over from a distance.
"Heavy cavalry instructor Feng Yang, meet the commander-in-chief, Mr. Li!"
These heavy cavalry rushed to the front and back, they quickly got off their horses, stood up and saluted Chen Ziang.
"Instructor Feng, you trained well."
After Chen Ziang returned a military salute to them, he also gave Feng Yang a thumbs up.
"The handsome is full of praise."
When Feng Yang heard Chen Ziang's praise, a smile appeared on his serious face.
This Feng Yang is none other than the former General of the Northern Army, but he has now surrendered to the banner of the Qinghe Army.
It was a coincidence that Feng Yang was able to surrender to the Qinghe army.
General Li Kou of Zhenbei led the main force of the northern army to go south to assist the four princes in fighting for the throne, and the wolf riders on the northern grassland took advantage of the gap.
At that time, it was the 100,000 Northern Army led by Feng Yang who guarded the northern border. They guarded the long border.
Facing the menacing wolf cavalry, their line of defense was broken, so that the base camp of the Northern Army was besieged.
General Feng Yang didn't have many troops under his command, and there was nothing he could do to save the base camp. He could only take the risk and lead the cavalry to attack the base camp of the wolf cavalry.
He tried to attack the opponent's sweat to attract the wolf riders back to help, so as to achieve the effect of besieging Wei and saving Zhao.
However, Feng Yang, the general of the northern army, was also unlucky. He encountered the second wave of wolf cavalry heading south on the way. After several days and nights of bloody battles, his troops were wiped out.
Feng Yang also escaped death under the desperate protection of his personal guards. When people from the Far East Chamber of Commerce met him, he was dying alone.
Shen Xiuxiu of the Far East Chamber of Commerce rescued Feng Yang, and under the cover of the Chamber of Commerce, he was able to escape the pursuit of the Prairie Wolf Rider.
The Far East Chamber of Commerce brought much-needed salt to the grassland, so Shen Xiuxiu had opened up the situation in the grassland, so she was able to shelter Feng Yang.
Feng Yang originally wanted to return to the Northern Army after he recovered from his injury, but who knew that his son was beheaded before he recovered from his injury.
Because Feng Yang lost the base camp of the Northern Army, a large number of families of the Northern Army fell into the hands of the wolf cavalry.
The desperate Li Kou had no way to find Feng Yang to vent his anger, so he could only behead Feng Yang's son.
Feng Yang's family members fell into the hands of wolf riders, and the only son who fought under the command of Zhenbei General Li Kou was beheaded again. He had no intention of returning to the Northern Army, and he would die if he went back.
Under Shen Xiuxiu's persuasion, Feng Yang finally joined the Qinghe Army and became a training instructor for the heavy cavalry. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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