Chapter 143 The sound of drums and horns 15

[143] The sound of drums and horns (15)

Yao Fan added some specific work arrangements and finally ordered: "After the meeting, cadres at all levels should seize the time to convey the ideas of this military meeting to the soldiers. In addition, in the afternoon, cadres should pay attention to get some sleep. Tonight, we will set out to attack Jiangshan County overnight.

"The meeting is now."

After Yao Fan announced the meeting, Li Hainiu stayed.

"Sea cow, do you want to talk to me about forming a cavalry?"

"Yes, Chairman, I didn't fall asleep all night last night, thinking about the infantry on horseback you mentioned."

"Oh? Then tell me, what do you think of the dragoons of the Western powers?

"Chairman, you said that the dragoons are infantry on horseback. I guess this kind of cavalry uses rifles to fight, but everyone rides a horse. In this way, they become a windy infantry."

"You said very well, which is generally the same thing.

Dragon cavalry rarely use sabres to fight hand-to-hand combat. Their way of combat is often by quickly roundabouting and riding a horse to occupy favorable terrain, such as the hills and highlands around the enemy. After reaching the terrain suitable for condescending shooting, they dismount and shoot at the enemy with rifles. Strike, because they often occupy highlands, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, which will cause great trouble to the enemy. Once the enemy decides to attack them, they can easily choose to escape, or simply ride down from the hillside and charge the enemy with a saber. Manatee, you have been the van of the cavalry. You must understand that the swooping cavalry are like shells out of the field, if the infantry in the low position is not With enough fire resistance, it will be smashed like a porcelain bottle hitting a slate.

The dragon cavalry often plays the important role of harassing the enemy's rear supply line, or uses kite-fing tactics to carry out harassing attacks on the enemy's infantry and run away, so that the enemy can't get it if he wants to fight. A dragoon force of 20 or 30 people can often contain the opponent's line infantry of two or 300 people on the battlefield. Yu ran to his life or was stuck in place and couldn't move.

"So that's the case! This kind of infantry tactic on horseback is really interesting!

Chairman! If you plan to set up a dragoon, Mavee is willing to train soldiers for you now!"

Yao Fan shook his head: "The training of cavalry cannot be completed overnight. If you are not used to riding a horse since childhood, it is difficult to make a long bumpy march on horseback. In addition to shooting off the horse, the dragoon sometimes has to shoot on the horse, and skillfully use the sabre to fight hand-to-hand.

And it costs a lot to train a dragoon, and it is not easy to find a horse suitable for dragoons. The sound of rifles and artillery are enough to scare ordinary horses to flee. If it is not for a well-trained war horse, once the cavalry on horseback is fired, it will even fall to the ground by **'s frightened horse.

Li Hainiu frowned and thought about it.

Yao Fan saw Li Hainiu's unforgettable appearance of forming a cavalry. He thought for a moment and said, "If the scale is not large, such as a cavalry battalion of about 100 people, I think I can try to do it. I can still afford such a small-scale cavalry. However, I don't expect that this army can quickly form combat effectiveness and go to the battlefield in the future. It is not impossible for those unqualified war horses to make jokes.

When Li Hainiu saw that Yao Fan agreed to form a cavalry, he immediately said with his eyebrows, "Chairman, don't worry, I will definitely choose a good horse and carefully select good equestrian soldiers!"

Yao Fan smiled and said, "I'll find you a few books about the breeding, *, castration and training of military horses. Especially the castration of military horses is a problem in the world at present. It is best to be equipped with the corresponding anesthetics to prevent the horses from becoming crippled during the operation. In addition, this operation requires that the instruments are very clean, and the corresponding antibiotics should be used as postoperative anti-infection drugs. Otherwise, the mortality rate of horse infection and inflammation after castration is very high, and half of the postoperative deaths are normal.

Li Hainiu is an pedechist in this regard and immediately nodded: "The military horse must be castrated, otherwise in spring, without a Mare*, the male horse will go crazy!" A grumpy mad horse can blow up the whole group of horses! In the past, in addition to the horse, the mare was meek and easy to control, and the mare had horse milk to drink, which could reduce the ration pressure of the cavalry.

Yao Fan said, "This is the old method of Mongolian cavalry. Look who uses the ema of the heavy cavalry of the European powers! A powerful cavalry can never use a awn as the main force! In terms of size, strength and endurance, the uma is worse than the boss!"

Li Hainiu said, "If the horse is not castrated well, it will become pus and die soon."

Yao Fan smiled and said nothing. He knew that during World War II, Japan rode a large number of un castrated horses as military horses because of backward veterinary technology in this field, and it was not tiring to work with both male and female... However, Japan is very lucky. His opponent is the weaker old China.

"Do you know why the horses of the Qing army are very short?"

"The Mongolian horse is just like this, and the Qinghai horse is taller."

"That's still not as tall as European horses. Our China has traditionally had the habit of choosing the best horses as war horses. The best horses are transferred to fight horses for castrated, but the remaining horses are used for *. As a result, the weasel's nest is not as good as a nest. The horses are getting shorter and thinner, and the country has not established a special one. Military horse breeding field. In Chinese history alone, during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, hundreds of sweaty and blood horses were paid tribute to the Western Regions. Because they were castrated as military horses, no one was left today.

"Chairman, the Nian army also grabbed the Yanma brought by the Western Church before. The horse ran and jumped and looked good, but it was far less stable than the Mongolian horse. The cavalry could not shoot arrows smoothly on it and could not aim at all." Li Hainiu said.

Yao Fan praised: "It's pleasant to discuss problems with insiders! Indeed, because the mount is not stable, Arabs and Europeans can't develop excellent riding and shooting skills, and can only rely on tall horses to compete for speed and impact. Only Mongolians riding short and flexible Mongolian horses will play with shooting skills. The biggest credit should be the Mongolian horse that runs extremely smoothly. Moreover, after the horse is too tall, many equestrian movements cannot be done, such as turning left and right to disassemage the horse, hiding in the stature, jumping left and right to avoid the ground and get back on the horse, and so on. These practical fighting equestrian movements cannot be used for tall horses, resulting in Western cavalry being beaten by Mongolian cavalry during hand-to-hand combat, and finally swept the world by Mongolian cavalry.

"Chairman, you know so much!" Li Hainiu's five-body throws into the ground.

Yao Fan laughed and said, "Discussion has this advantage, which can stimulate people's thinking. Through my conversation with you, I suddenly felt that in this era of less and less relying on cavalry hand-to-hand combat, the Mongolian horse with excellent endurance is really a good material for becoming a dragon cavalry.

Li Hainiu said excitedly, "As long as you don't charge against the high-headed horse and only provide it to the infantry for riding, the Mongolian horse is really not good!" Not only is it smooth and convenient to aim, but it is also suitable for rough breeding. It is not picky about feed, and it is especially easy to gain fat. Once it is fat, it is suitable for long-term marches and war, and it can not eat or drink for a few days, which is especially suitable for long-distance marches! Although Mongolian horses are not fast, their endurance is the best. Other horses have to eat hay with soybeans or corn as feed, otherwise they will lose fat and thin, but Mongolian horses can grow fat as long as they eat grass! Not as expensive as other horses! However, Mongolian horses are wild and temperamental. If they want to be used as military horses, they must be castrated first. If the mortality rate of castration can be reduced, it will not be better.

Yao Fan was also excited: "What you said is so right. As long as it is not used for hand-to-hand combat, it is really suitable for Mongolian horses to march, especially for dragon cavalry who use rifles to fight as military horses! However, in feeding, it must not be rough. It should strictly follow the standard of 10 catties of hay and 5 catties of soybeans a day, and the hay should be enough. To raise horses, you have to love horses. From the moment these horses joined the army, they have become our revolutionary comrades-in-arms.

Li Hainiu said excitedly, "Chairman, I'm going to pick horses now, select those who are not surprised when they hear the gunfire, and use the rest to pull horses!"

After saying that, he rushed out of the county government.

Yao Fan saw Li Hainiu leave happily with his promise to form a cavalry, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "What a horse idiot..."

Yao Fan, who had been busy all morning, went to the garrison camp to have lunch with the soldiers. He was about to go back to the government to rest for a while in the afternoon when he heard the sound of quarrel outside.

When I went out, it turned out that Li Jun and Liu Jinbao were arguing about whether to cut their hair.

"Chairman, please comment. I said it was time to hang all my hair, but Liu Jinbao said that he wanted to keep his hair. If it was so loose, wouldn't he become a woman!" Li Jun stood by the school yard and said angrily.

"This hair was also given by my parents. If it hadn't been for the emperor's need to shave my hair, I wouldn't even be willing to shave my forehead!" Liu Jinbao.

Yao Fan smiled bitterly.

Since the beginning of the rebellion, he has not asked the soldiers to shave his hair for fear of causing the disgust of the soldiers, but he runs around with his bare head every day, which has had a great impact on the cadres and soldiers under his opponents. Many comrades are eager to try and want to learn from Yao Fan and cut a new "revolutionary" hairstyle. However, some people in the army opposed shaving their hair, and they also opposed keeping the braids of the Qing Dynasty. Their idea was to learn from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and keep a long hair.

In comparison, Yao Fan is certainly in favor of cutting a clean hairstyle.

"What is long hair! How can our revolutionary army learn from the cults of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" Yao Fan became angry as soon as he heard Liu Jinbao's idea.

"Bear the scissors and I'll cut them for you!" Yao Fan forced the overlord to bow and pressed Liu Jinbao on the stool and shaved him like a dog.

In the face of the dog's uneven hairstyle, Yao Fan defended his craft with a dry smile and said, "Isn't it beautiful! In the future, all the cadres will shave me into a board inch, which is cool and easy to clean. If it gets dirty, it will be clean with a dozen of soap. How nice!"

After saying that, Yao Fanyang went away, leaving Liu Jinbao with a suffocious face and Li Jun with a bad smile.

Yao Fan slept all afternoon before Li Jun came to get him up for dinner.

"Chairman, don't laugh when you see it later."

"What am I laughing at?"

"Liu Jinbao's boy retaliated against society and shaved all their camp into bald gourds." Li Jun reported with the fresh words he heard from Yao Fan.

When Yao Fan rushed to the school yard for dinner, he saw that Liu Jinbao's three battalions were all shaved into bald monks by him, and Liu Jinbao's head was also simplified to a bare ladle from Yao Fan's dog gnawing masterpiece in the afternoon.

"Good! Not bad! Revolution is not revolutionary! You can see it by looking at your head! This is the momentum that revolutionary soldiers should have! It's commendable! It's commendable!" Yao Fan praised it.

After being praised by Yao Fan in public, Liu Jinbao was so happy that he kept bragging with several other battalion commanders.

So after dinner, the other four battalions also carried out comprehensive hair shaving under the force of cadres at all levels. The short hair of the minority, originally known as "cadre head" and "revolutionary head", has now become the unified hairstyle of the whole army.

Li Junhan choked Liu Jinbao and said, "Look at the one we shaved. This is called the revolutionary head. Your three battalions are monks."

"Bullshit! The shorter the hair, the more revolutionary it is!" Liu Jinbao scolded and walked away angrily.

"Hey? You boy, why do you curse? Li Jun shouted behind him with a bad smile.

At 9 p.m. that night, after the whole army finished shaving and washing their hair, they set off fully armed again with dry food and sent troops to Jiangshan County.