Chapter 1,353 Cavalry Synthesis

Medaka can live in cold water, so he can take the little fish back. He has already decided who to give it to, the royal grandmother, the father, the queen, and the one who always looks at him with warm eyes. My own Zhu Cairen...

When he returned to the palace and carefully separated the fish for his father to see, his father sighed and asked him to personally deliver the fish to Zhu Cairen.

That day was also a day when he was puzzled. Zhu Cairen held the small fish tank cherishingly, and his tears couldn't stop falling.

Later, I realized that from that day on, I could no longer live with Zhu Cairen. I had to live with the Queen because I had grown up and wanted to study.

Father said this is called Kaimeng.

The Queen Mother warned and warned again and again, which made Xiao Zhao Xu very nervous. When he arrived in the study, he was very happy. They were all acquaintances.

In addition to Huarong County Lord, there are also brothers Bian Guan, Yanbi, Colander, and Shoujing.

Even Sister Bi is here, but she is not a student, but the county teacher's assistant.

The county gentleman is very lazy and usually just sits there and reads his own books. The ones who really teach him how to read are Brother Bian Guan and Sister Bi.

I once asked my father why the county prince didn't teach me. My father laughed loudly, then touched his head and said that the county prince was the most knowledgeable person in the Song Dynasty. He should study hard and strive to gain knowledge in the future. Qualifications taught by the County Lord himself.

Elementary schooling is from the age of four to twelve, and then comes the formal learning stage.

Of course, many aristocratic families will break this tradition. There are many geniuses who can complete the journey that others take decades in a few years.

I often heard the Queen Mother mentioning the County Lord and his brother when chatting with the Queen Mother, saying that they were the first-class smart people in the Song Dynasty.

The county prince was a woman and could not take the imperial examination, but his elder brother, the Duke of Shu, was not enlightened until he was six years old, one year later than himself, but he won the third prize at the age of fourteen.

I can’t remember what the Duke of Shu looks like, but the picture books I read, the questions I did, and the toys I played with were all brought by the Duke of Shu for me, and I learned a lot of words from them.

On the night of the Lantern Festival this year, my father took me and a group of old men to watch the lanterns on the Xuande Gate Tower. My father wrote a poem and asked the ministers to accompany them. Because I was bored, I wandered around casually, sitting in a poem-writing room. Next to the fat old man, I read a line from his poem - the stars come to Ziji in the middle of the night, and in the spring thousands of fires set off the Danqiu.

The old man burst into tears all of a sudden, bursting into tears with excitement, saying that the prince was gifted with wisdom, and that the Song Dynasty had a sign of ten thousand years.

My father politely said that he still needed education, but that night, he never let go of his hand.

Oh, that fat old man’s name is Wang Gui.

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Su You didn't know that he had already established a tall image in Xiao Zhao Xu's heart, but he knew that the person opposite him had a truly tall image among the Tibetan people.

The great monk in red, Ji Duo Gyaltsen, after completing the grand ritual ceremony, decided to go to Dachenggu Shuangta Temple to teach the Dharma.

On the contrary, the climate in Dacheng Valley is not only suitable for pregnant women and children, but also for the elderly.

But if a pregnant woman doesn't welcome you, why are you trying to cause trouble for her?

But this is just Su You teasing the old monk, because everyone knows that there is the Helan Mountain Grand Passage. Stabilizing the people there and making them obey the Song Dynasty will be of great help in consolidating the north gate of Xingqing Mansion. of.

But he didn't dare to say it like this, otherwise he might get beaten by the old monk.

In the words of the old monk, the hostility behind the trabeculae was too strong, which was not good for the fetus. He wanted to influence her so that the child named Cha Ge would not come into the world with the resentment accumulated by his mother.

In fact, Su You also had another idea, which was that north of Langshan Mountain, Heishan Mountain and Yinshan Mountain, there were nomadic Tatars.

These people are nomadic on the Mongolian plateau. Whether they belong to the Liao Kingdom or the Xixia Kingdom depends entirely on their own mood.

Theoretically, with the Yinshan Mountains and the Yellow River Desert as the dividing line, the south belongs to Xixia, and the north and east belong to the Liao Kingdom. However, the Liao Kingdom has very loose management of its own Khitan tribe, let alone these distant Tatars.

There is a relatively civilized Tatar tribe in the north and south of Yinshan Mountain, called the Wanggu tribe. People in the Song Dynasty called it the White Tatar tribe to distinguish it from the Mongolian, Kele, and Naiman tribes further north.

And there was a place in that area that was called Baotou in later generations. It is still a land with abundant water and grass, full of forests, fertile soil and rich mineral deposits. The Liao Kingdom established Yunnei Prefecture there and established two counties, Roufu and Ningren.

Judging from the name, you can tell that it belongs to the Jisi area. Su You thinks that it should be easy to win through economic offensive.

After all, the geographical advantages of that area were all on the original Xixia side. Muna Mountain and Wuliang Suhai were all within the original Xixia territory, and the Black Mountain Weifu Army set up several castles there.

The most important thing is that now that we have cowhide rafts, it only takes seven days to transport goods there by water from Xingqing Prefecture.

It was a bit scary to complete the inspection of his own jurisdiction. On Henan Road, there were actually more Han people than Tibetan people. They had a good farming foundation and more powerful aristocratic families. Su You felt more at ease and decided not to go there yet.

To the north of Xingqing Mansion, Su You had no choice but to let the great monk in red take the lead, and then take the waterway after he had prepared the goods.

After bidding farewell to the great monk in red, Su You set off from Xingqing Mansion under the escort of the Dun'an Army and the He Controlling Army, preparing to walk the Silk Road from Xingqing Mansion to Liangzhou, and then from Liangzhou to Tang Dynasty.

Yumen Pass in ancient times.

Along the way, you will pass two huge oases, Xiutuze in the north of Liangzhou and Juyanze in the north of Suzhou.

The Tu cadres and the Yelibu have now retreated to Xiutuze to be on standby. Chaogu means that Xiutuze is considered the hinterland. In the future, Tu cadres will be responsible for guarding the west gate for the Song Dynasty, so they chose to settle in Juyanze.

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There used to be a Han warlord regime near Yumen Pass in the Han and Tang Dynasties that was sympathizing with China. The Shazhou regime was passed down from the Guiyi Army of the former Shazhou Jiedushi. It was only destroyed by Xixia fifty years ago.

To the west of Yumen, there is another regime in Khotan that has always been traditionally friendly with China, but it has been destroyed by the Uighurs for almost a hundred years.

However, what is inexplicable is that in recent years, Khotan businessmen have continued to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty on behalf of the king, and their activities have never been interrupted, such as Xisiluo who founded the Qingtang regime, and today's quasi-successor Ali Gu

, all closely related to Khotan.

In order to support Brother Chao, his sister-in-law, and his nephew, Su You went to Xuanwei this time.

Now Ningxia is divided into three routes. The imperial court also sent three transport envoys under the Capital Transport Department. The Henan transport envoy was Zeng Xiaokuan. The Ningxia transport envoy Su You appointed Shen Kuo's general, who was engaged in construction and is now the Song Dynasty.

The second best person after him; the transport envoy to Hexi is Fan Chunren, who is known for his generosity.

Because it was a newly occupied area, the imperial court also appointed three military governors: Li Wenzhao in Henan, Gao Zunyu in Ningxia, and Chaogu in Hexi.

As for those eunuchs who could fight, Zhao Xu turned them into supervisors who controlled the new army. For example, the one who accompanied Su You this time was Tong Guan.

This journey is actually a synthesis of new cavalry tactics for 6,000 people.

In grasslands, neighboring countries, and deserts, the most effective tactics were summed up by the Mongols later, and that was the kite-flying tactic that combined light and heavy cavalry.

In Su You's ideal, the heavy cavalry would be replaced by chariots and artillery, and the light cavalry's bows and arrows would be replaced by magical muskets. The effect should be better.

So after finishing the spring sowing with a large columbine, he left the government affairs to Shen Kuo, and Su You led the army to set off.

As the grass grows and the orioles fly, Su You is in a very happy mood during this trip.

Six thousand cavalry troops, dragging four-wheeled chariots and thunderbolt cannons, loaded with supplies, marched westward from Xingqing Mansion along the north bank of the Yellow River.

The troops were not moving very fast, hundreds of miles a day.

This speed was actually much slower than the march speed of a Prussian cavalry division carrying divisional artillery during World War I under normal road conditions, which was eight miles, or 70 kilometers.

However, at that time, the Prussian Army was known as the best in the world, and Suyou felt that the main failure was in organization.

Of course, this is just like the navy. It requires long-term training and summary to achieve such achievements, and it cannot be solved in a short time.

In later generations, there was an equestrian competition called modern endurance horse racing, which originated from the weight-bearing training of cavalry in the United States.
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