In the morning, cavalry tactical practice was being carried out in a field outside Hanshan City.

Fifty cavalrymen, divided into five columns, marched in the field. With a sound of a sound, they began to change their formations as they marched: they lined up into a densely scattered line.

The distance between horses was very close, probably only one horse could pass through. The cavalry lined up to pass through a horizontal line on the ground, and then began to charge, pushing forward like a wall.

A group of people gathered next to the horizontal line to record the formation changes and line-up charges of the fifty cavalry for the "technical team".

When the horizontal line passes through the horizontal line, they press the stopwatch button to start the timing.

The moment the horizontal line crosses the horizontal line of the finishing point, the person holding the stopwatch presses the button again to stop the timing.

After a while, fifty cavalry in the second team carried out a horizontal charge, and the technical team continued to time, recording the time required for five columns to become one horizontal column, and the time it took to complete the charge.

In the group, Duan Shao had a pocket watch hanging on his neck, but he held the pocket watch with his left hand, pressing his thumb on the button, staring at the cavalry in the field.

The sun is so bright that everyone wears a straw hat, like a farmer working in the scorching sun.

Or the physical education teacher who held a stopwatch on the side of the playground in later generations and recorded the students' running rounds.

However, what they actually have to do is to observe the implementation process of the cavalry horizontal tactics, record the time spent in each stage, observe it many times in succession, and summarize data such as "average time spent".

There are many technical teams, each of which divides the work. By observing the training of the cavalry, they "quantize" common cavalry tactics in order to provide detailed data and improvement opinions for their "optimization".

The ultimate goal is to formulate a "teaching syllabus" that can train a large number of qualified (usable) cavalry more efficiently.

Is this really the case?

Duan Shao often asked himself this recently. He watched the cavalry practiced a horizontal charge, looked at the stopwatch in his hands, and started to think.

The so-called horizontal charge is a cavalry lined up in three rows of horizontal lines. In each team, horses are arranged at a narrow distance, with three rows in front and back, and a sufficient distance must be maintained between rows.

Such dense horizontal teams launch a charge like a wall that can "crumble" and rush towards the enemy cavalry with loose formations.

This conclusion has been tested in practice, but horizontal charge is not a omnipotent tactic and has limited scope of application. If you copy it hard, you will easily lose.

Because the strength of a horizontal charge is that it has a strong frontal impact, and its weakness is that its flanks are unprotected. When fighting with enemy cavalry, once the enemy cavalry scatters and does not confront each other head-on, this tactic will be invalid instantly.

If the opponent attacks the horizontal flank with a ranger, the horizontal team can easily collapse.

When the two armies are fighting, if the opponent encounters a dense horizontal charge for the first time, if time is tight, he may subconsciously choose to fight head-on, and then be beaten to pieces.

After the opponent suffers a loss, he will definitely find a way to solve it quickly. The cavalry will not confront each other head-on, but will siege them.

Therefore, when launching a horizontal charge, you must seize the fighter plane and force the opponent's cavalry to fight head-on.

This is the use of response to the situation in the face of battle, and there are also some considerations in the formation and maintenance of formation charges.

Duan Shao’s ‘technical group’ needs to figure out what are the requirements and precautions for charging across the line, which requires the help of a timing tool - a stopwatch.

As a tactic, horizontal charges need to be "optimized", but if you want to optimize, you have to "quantize" first so that the students can understand.

The so-called quantification refers to the quantitative description of the content. For example, when transporting grain from place A to place B, how much grain is there, how far apart the two places A and B are, is the content that needs to be quantified.

Or, if a person runs very fast, how fast is it?

How much time does it take to run a thirty-step sprint? How much time does it take to run a one-mile endurance distance?

Measure the time and calculate the running speed, this is quantification.

Regarding cavalry tactics, there is more than one technical team to "quantize", such as counting the horizontal charge tactics from the average time required to assemble, arrange, and prepare for charge.

At the same time, for the training of war horses, we must also "quantize" through a timing tool called "clock" to measure the running speed of the horse.

The so-called running includes short-distance sprints and long-distance trots.

Through "quantization", people can intuitively know how fast a horse is, rather than using words to describe it, such as "as fast as lightning".

At the same time, various riding movements, such as slinging stakes, can be "quantized" because of the more sophisticated timing tools.

By constantly "quantizing", analyzing the details of various cavalry tactics, optimizing them, summarizing technical points, and organizing them into a book (teaching content) so that the cavalry can learn and conduct targeted training.

This "organized into a book" is the responsibility of the technical team. The reason why we have to do this is to establish a "cavalry training system".

Training for recruits who have never experienced riding at least three years (the training intensity cannot be low) is carried out to enable them to have qualified cavalry combat capabilities.

He can fight head-on with the Northland cavalry who grew up on horseback by collective combat (tactical cooperation), at least not at a disadvantage.

That is, the "mass-production cavalry" with low cost and qualified cavalry skills will fight against those brave and war-friendly cavalrymen.

This is Li Li's plan.

At the beginning, Duan Shao disagreed with Li Li's whimsical thoughts, but two or three years later, the cavalry trained under this idea, at least proved to be effective with actual combat performance.

Especially when Li Li charged forward with a horizontal force and defeated Zhu Hunyuan's cavalry, Duan Shao felt unable to calm down for a long time after learning the news.

But Zhu Hunyuan was a long-time general who had fought for decades. He made good use of cavalry and could not see the weakness of the horizontal charge.

But he was still defeated by a horizontal charge. It can only be said that Zhu Hunyuan had no choice at that time, that is, Li Li chose the most favorable opportunity to launch a horizontal charge, so that Zhu Hunyuan was forced to face the battle head-on.

This battle touched Duan Shao a lot. If he lost to Li Li a few years ago, it was purely Li Li's use of water attacks.

Now, Zhu Hunyuan was defeated by Li Li in a wild battle and head-on battle. This shows how Li Li's ability increased.

Not to mention that Li Li, a fisherman, actually achieved the result of the cavalry's sudden attack on Yecheng.

There are many signs that this guy who only knows how to play water attacks in the first battle, now he is an excellent general who can command cavalry operations.

After the horizontal charge ended, Duan Shao pressed the stopwatch, recorded the time, and looked at the hot training scenes around him, and suddenly felt unfamiliar.

He rode a horse since he was a child and fought for decades, most of which were cavalry warfare.

Therefore, I know all the tactics of cavalry combat, but I never thought about how cavalry fights to "quantify" how cavalry fights.

Refine and optimize various tactics, and then teach the implementation process, details and precautions to countless students just like teaching.

He was a prisoner here for several years (house arrest). Seeing Li Li's "Caval School" getting bigger and bigger, he couldn't help but look forward to it.

How strong can the cavalry trained in this way be?

Duan Shao didn't know whether he thought the cavalry could fight. First of all, it depends on the source of the troops. The young people from the border who grew up on horseback were the best cavalry seeds.

Only with a good source of troops and no shortage of horses can you have a powerful cavalry, but Li Li has different opinions. Some strange and strange theories echo in Duan Shao's ears again:

"Fighting on the battlefield is a very professional technology, while soldier is a profession, nothing more than a special profession."

"Since it is a profession, then a complete and efficient vocational education system will definitely be able to train qualified practitioners!"
Chapter completed!