Chapter 197 Practice while walking
Four days after Xue Bing led seven hundred cavalry to leave Xinping. In these four days, seven hundred cavalry had already rushed through martial arts and turned toward the east.
Mi Fang looked at Xue Bing for a while and said to him, "This is the place where he will pass. As long as he moves forward one day, he will encounter a river. After crossing the river and going east for a few days, he will be in the sun!"
After hearing this, Xue Bing looked at the knights and the more numerous war horses behind him, and then asked Mi Fang: "Can the river be easily crossed?"
When Mi Fang heard this, she thought for a moment before saying, "This... in the future, one person will be one rider, and there will be no difficulty when crossing the river. Today, most of the cavalry will probably have to delay the last day before they can all pass through it."
Xue Bing nodded and said, "If it's only one day, I don't feel sad when I come to Nahe."...
Originally, according to his idea, if the river could only take one day to cross the river, the river would not have caused any obstacles to it.
But when Xue Bing looked at the wide river surface and could not see half of the boat around him, she no longer felt how easy the river was.
He turned his head and looked at Mi Fang, and said strangely: "How did Zi Fang Xianri cross the river?"
Mi Fang was sitting on the horse and was looking around when he suddenly heard Xue Bing ask him, and then said, "When I met this river on the last road, I happened to meet a few fishermen, so I took a fish boat to cross the river."
Xue Bing shook her head, and finally had to say to the few personal guards beside her: "Go and check it out. If you meet the local people, please ask where the water can be shallow to allow a large group of people to cross the river!"
Not long after, some subordinates rushed back and said, "Twenty miles away from here, there is a narrower river surface, and there is a bridge on the river that can be used for people to walk!" Xue Bing heard this, so he ordered the army to look north.
After walking for twenty miles, Xue Bing finally saw the bridge. The bridge was swaying on the river surface and didn't look very strong. The soldiers could not ride horses, so they had to lead the horse past.
At the same time, Xue Bing was afraid that too many people would crush the bridge at one time, so he ordered: "One person can only take his three mounts across the bridge at a time. The rest had to wait aside and wait for people to go to the other side, so the second person could go to the bridge."
As a result, the speed of crossing the river was even slower. The army only delayed the day before crossing the river. Seeing that it was dark, Xue Bing had to order everyone to dismount, simply set up a few bonfires, and sleep on the river for a night.
Because the cavalry led by Xue Bing only brought dry food and arrows. He didn't bring any things to camp, so everyone was sleeping in the wild along the way. Fortunately, God did not do much to him, if it suddenly rained heavily.
Then these seven hundred riders can't even rest.
Mi Fang sat opposite Xue Bing and saw him looking at the map in the light of fire, then said, "General, where will our army run next?"
Xue Bing looked at the map and thought for a moment, and said, "Our army has crossed the river now, and the closest place to this is Gaoling. However, as Zifang said before, when he met Cao's army, he was already in Feng Sa's area.
Now that many days have passed, I am afraid that Gao Ling will fall into the hands of Cao's army! And our army is full of cavalry and cannot attack the city. Therefore, Gao Ling cannot go!"
Mi Fang said: "If you don't go to Gaoling, there will be only smaller counties and counties nearby. Will General Xue capture these small counties?"
Xue Bing shook his head and smiled and said, "I'm waiting for this. It's not to attack the city and seize the land. It's to prevent the Cao army from moving forward with confidence. Therefore, our army's target should be those Cao army soldiers scattered outside the army."
Mi Fang nodded and replied: "I understand!"
Seeing Mi Fang understand, Xue Bing continued, "Starting tomorrow, our army will bring back and wander around whenever he sees a few Cao troops, he will wait for an opportunity to annihilate them."
But he thought to himself: "You can also take the opportunity to practice this riding and shooting method." Xue Bing thought so because the 700 cavalrymen at hand were well-equipped, but they had not received similar training after all.
When you really get on the battlefield, you can't say how much combat power you can exert.
Therefore, Xue Bing wanted to find some small groups of Cao soldiers and practice these cavalry well. In his opinion, there is no training method that is faster than making progress in actual combat.
Moreover, the use effect of things trained in actual combat is much better than that of ordinary training.
At the same time, when constantly looking for small groups of Cao soldiers, you can also find out the movements of the main forces of the Cao army, as well as the routes for leading the army, food and grass transportation, whether there is a support force, and other enemy intelligence.
These things are things that Xue Bing does not have control at the moment. At the same time, it is the key to whether his troops can survive smoothly.
Thinking about his future combat plan, Xue Bing, who was lying next to the fire, slowly closed his eyes. He was tired enough for a while, so when he relaxed, he immediately fell asleep.
The next morning, before the sun was fully raised, seven hundred cavalrymen were ready in this open space by the river. Each of them ate some dry food, drank a sip of water, and then sat upright on their own war horses, waiting for Xue Bing's orders.
Xue Bing climbed onto the horse's back, raised her head and took a big mouthful of water, waved her hand forward and shouted: "Go away!"
Before the sound fell, I saw the sound of "Hao!" invisible sound of shouting in the open space. After a chaotic sound of horse hooves, the choking smoke and dust rose several meters high. After everything recovered, the seven hundred knights had already gone far.
Starting from this day, Xue Bing has advanced all the way, conducting assault training on the 700 cavalrymen along the way. And completely combine marching and training.
From the initial long-term raid training to the subsequent technical training, such as changing horses during the marching process. This is also to improve the cavalry's continuous high-speed movement ability.
Especially when the enemy cavalry chases the horse, in order to ensure that they can escape the pursuit smoothly, this skill of changing horses during marching and ensuring the movement of the horse must be mastered.
At the beginning, Xue Bing did not require the army to master this ability while moving quickly. Instead, he only practiced while moving slowly. But the army could not move forward slowly all the time, so it only took half a day.
Xue Bing felt that all the soldiers in the land were familiar with these actions, and began to accelerate the entire army.
Fortunately, these soldiers are all elites in the cavalry unit.
His own qualities are also top-notch in Liu Bei's army. Except for a few who almost fell off the horse when changing horses at high speed and hung up some colors on their bodies, miraculously no one died in this training.
This also improved Xue Bing's confidence in his cavalry. "If everyone ensures this high efficiency when learning skills, then I'm still afraid that I can't practice the riding and shooting method?"
After all the seven hundred cavalrymen learned how to change horses during high-speed marching, Xue Bing immediately began the second training - continuous marching.
This training has actually been conducted in general training. It’s just that the marching and training are different this time.
Xue Bing sat on the horse. While controlling the direction of the horse's land, he looked at the map in his hand.
After watching for a while, Xue Bing immediately ordered to the left and right: "Continue to go east! Don't turn! In addition, send a cavalry to move northeast to see if Jingyang has fallen into the hands of Cao's army now."
When Mi Fang heard Xue Bing's order, he asked: "General Xue, why not send a horse to investigate Jingyang's situation, and the brigade rests here. If Jingyang has not been lost, our army can enter the city to rest!"
While properly packing the map, Xue Bing said, "No! Someone sent someone to investigate the situation of Jingyang, just to determine the direction of Cao's army. Our army not only cannot attack the big city, but also cannot enter the city to rest.
Because once we enter the city, our army's position will be exposed. If it becomes a face-to-face battle, our army will be destroyed!"
When Mi Fang heard this, she stopped talking, but just sat silently on the horse and followed Xue Bing. In fact, what he said before was also for himself.
After all, I have been running for more than ten days, and Xue Bing has not allowed everyone to dismount in recent days. If you have any internal urgent problems, just think of a solution yourself!
Mi Fang had already wanted to get off the horse after suffering so many daily life crimes, and then went to the city to rest.
Not to mention that after Liu Bei got Jingxiang, he had never experienced displaced since then. Even when Liu Bei was defeated and fled, he did not suffer as much as he is now. What Mi Fang missed the most was the comfortable bed in his mansion.
Unfortunately, Xue Bing didn't know Mi Fang's thoughts.
But why didn't he miss the comfortable soft couch? He ran on the horse's back for so many days without getting off the horse, which made Xue Bing, who had long been used to riding a horse, feel a faint pain on the inner side of his legs.
However, in order to be able to entangle Cao's army, this pain must be endured.
After running for a while, suddenly, the horses sent earlier rushed back. Seeing that the horses were anxious, Xue Bing knew that there must be military information to report, so he raised his hand to signal the entire army to slow down. Then he slowly strangled the horses and stopped at the original place.
As soon as he stopped, the probe came closer. The spy strangled the war horse. Yu Ma immediately bowed to Xue Bing and said, "General, you will find a small group of Cao troops thirty miles ahead!"
Xue Bing hurriedly asked, "How many people are there, what kind of troops are they? Is there any general who leads them? Are there other Cao troops nearby?" After asking several questions in one breath, he shut up and waited for the soldier to answer.
The explorer said, "There are about 200 enemy troops, all of which are cavalry. From a distance, there were no generals inside. Other brothers investigated nearby but did not find other Cao troops.
In the eyes of his subordinates, this is the vanguard of the Cao army!”
Xue Bing nodded, and thought in her heart: "The two hundred people are all cavalry! It's a bit tricky.
However, if you want to train the riding and shooting method, this army is a good target!" Thinking of this, he shouted to his left and right: "The target is thirty miles east.
Prepare the bow and arrow! Follow the method I taught you before, and destroy all this Cao army for me!"
"Get order!" The seven hundred cavalry held a long bow in their hands and responded in a coaxing voice. The sound was huge, and the sound of war horses neighing inside!
Chapter completed!