The horse politics of the Great Wei Dynasty was indeed as the deputy envoys said. Whether it was the horse supervision of the group herders before, or the horse protection method used to raise horses by the people, there were too few qualified war horses.

A war horse not only has strict requirements on physique but also has to be trained. He will not panic or lose his own way when he hears the sound of horns on the battlefield. He can also rush forward with the knights. This is the initially qualified war horse.

In addition, it is the ability to be in the camel, the ability to sprint, the durability, and the ability to survive in harsh environments.

War horses are particularly delicate species. Later generations misunderstood that riding a horse is definitely faster than walking, but it is not the case.

In short-distance sprints, horses are of course much faster than people. However, in long-distance marchings that exceed hundreds of miles, horses are definitely not as fast as people.

It is not impossible to leave with one force, you must be prepared to die in large numbers of war horses.

The green Tang horses are plateau horses, and the southwest horses are generally short. China originally had horses, mainly pastoralized in Shuofang. The Hetao area was a traditional horse farming land. In the Han Dynasty, the good family was not a problem with flying horses. The horses were also good horses at that time. Unfortunately, after thousands of years of mixed-race and war, the Wei Dynasty not only had good horses, but also had horse farming land.

The method of protecting horses is to scatter war horses among the people. The horses raised are generally low and timid, and they are not enough to be war horses.

Nowadays, a small number of war horses in the Great Wei Dynasty, except for the horse prison, are mostly good horses bought and sold from the Northern Lu and Western Qiang through smuggling channels. Just as the Great Wei banned iron in the north and west, and smuggled continuously, and the opposite side also banned horses from the Great Wei Dynasty. Some people cannot resist the Great Wei’s attracting wealth and goods, and there are still common smuggling channels.

But buying horses in this way means maintaining a very small scale. There are very few cavalry in the Wei army. Although there are armies in the north, the number is maintained at the scale of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Although it is not comparable to the Northern Barbarians who often have 400,000 cavalry, the Donghu and Western Qiang also have a large number of heavy cavalry. The Wei army's cavalry is really not in scale and is too far apart.

In his question, Xu Zixian clearly opposed the current military and national policies of the Great Wei, that is, the purpose of using heavy infantry to match strong crossbows to fight the enemy.

Although it was a helpless move, Xu Zixian clearly pointed out that the Central Plains, grasslands and Liaodong were all vast plain areas, and the Wei army relied on prefectures and counties and a large number of fortresses in Hebei, and could maintain considerable counterattack ability.

If heavy troops go to the north and Liaodong, they can also engage in field battles with superior cavalry under the premise that the country is strong and the military power of the imperial guards is quite intact.

The times have been completely different. The treatment, equipment and training of the imperial guards have all declined sharply compared to before. The main reason is that they lack financial resources. If they lack financial resources, they cannot strengthen their troops. For them to continue to support millions of imperial guards, it is better to use their limited financial resources to expand their cavalry.

As for the Northern Expedition, if the Wei army did not have elite cavalry with at least 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops to protect the flanks of the army, and had strong maneuverability when counterattacking, and had complete insurgency formations and long-range strike capabilities, they could never annihilate the enemy. If they were not careful, they would be easily caught by the enemy.

In the vast fertile field of Liaodong, thousands of miles away, the four fields are vast and over a hundred miles without supplies and no fortresses, there are no certain cavalry. They rashly attack the north, trapped by the enemy, cut off the food route, and kept harassing, and the army was shaken, and eventually suffered a crushing defeat. The battle of attacking Liao during the Chengzong period was a very obvious lesson.

From a logical point of view, Su Songxian and others did not think Xu Zi was wrong first.

But in terms of the rebuttal of the group of herds and deputy envoys, the main contradiction is still on the horse farming ground.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were horse herders along the coast of Fujian, and there were millions of good horses across the country. During the Tang Dynasty, when fighting against foreign enemies, it mainly relied on cavalry, especially the war in the Beiting Protectorate, to dispatch troops from various tribes of different races to participate in the war. How could the Tang army dominate the infantry war?

Even in the Anxi Protectorate, there are a large number of heavy infantry such as Modao Teams, the cavalry is also excellent. Once the cavalry is insufficient, it is easy to be divided and surrounded by people. In the famous Battle of Henglus, the Tang army lacks cavalry, and at the critical moment, the alien cavalry rebelled and eventually suffered a great defeat.

Xu Zixian’s principle is that infantry and cavalry are in harmony. If there is a step but no riding, there is a ride without a step, it is easy to sag morale under the dangerous and narrow city.

Judging from the opinions of many big names in front of you, Xu Zixian's argument is still rootless duckweed after all. It seems to make sense, but in fact it can only be considered empty talk.

"What should I do?" Chen Gefei, deputy envoy of the group pastor, was a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, and asked Su Songxian: "Has he been demoted?"

"Why do you have to cause such trouble for the left prime minister and the emperor?" Su Songxian smiled and said, "The writing is proficient and the brushwork is so sophisticated. He is worthy of being a master who writes such wonderful sketches as the Fuzhou military parade. Just by words, Nan'an Hou has passed the test, and not to mention that he does have the style of a great man in the discourse of infantry and cavalry."

"If it were Li Youde, he would probably have to attract Nan'an Hou as his soulmate."

Everyone nodded with a smile. The two famous generals in this dynasty are famous for defending and the one who is known for attacking is Li Youde.

The so-called "unmoving as a mountain" is like a forest, and of course this is Yue Zhi.

Invasion is like fire, this is Li Youde.

In the thirteenth year of victory against Donghu, Yue Zhi defended well. Li Youde led thousands of imperial guards and infantry to defeat the main force of more than 20,000 Donghu. This battle was still exciting.

This is a famous general who has made the joint attacks of infantry and cavalry, especially the concentrated use of cavalry, which makes people shine.

Now Yue Zhi is the official appointed as the Grand Marshal, and Li Youde also mentioned the position of commander of the Xiangdu. The Emperor of the Great Wei concentrated the cavalry of the three armies in the first wing and was led by Li Youde, and he also took a fancy to his ability to command the cavalry.

Li Youde also wrote a letter, pointing out that more than 20,000 people are not enough to determine the situation of the battle. At critical moments, when cavalry gathered from both sides of the two sides, they can achieve the final result.

Of course, Li Youde hoped to become the Grand Marshal and lead the two-way soldiers on the battlefield. However, when this spread, it was mentioned by people in the capital and officialdom as a joke.

Yue Zhi has achieved success in his famous general for more than 20 years and has made great achievements. No strange things have spread when he was promoted.

After all, Li Youde was only in his thirties. He had only been the commander of the military commander before. He had already paid his contributions to the commander of the military commander of the military commander of the wing. The court was already worthy of his contributions. He was actually thinking about being able to take the two-wing and three-wing soldiers. Not to mention that he was a vanguard general, even a marquis like Yue Zhi, if he wanted to take such heavy troops, he had to think about whether the Privy Council could agree and would the emperor feel at ease?

The Great Wei army system, with more than 2,000 troops in one army, is enough to be used on the battlefield, and more than 20,000 troops in one case, is enough to determine the form of the battlefield.

Those who can lead the army are the generals in the front, especially the Beijing camp, who are even more powerful and are called the Ten-Guardian Army. If you want to be in the ranks of the army and the generals, it is difficult for ordinary generals to do it, let alone Li Youde, who has been on the outside for a long time.

The imperial court would only be assured to hand over the heavy army group of tens of thousands of people to the civil servants’ commanders and appeasers. If hundreds of thousands of people were involved in the war of the Northern Expedition, it would be a minister with a very special order, and the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor, who went to the expedition with the seal of the Jiedushi, becoming the envoy to control these hundreds of thousands of troops.

Even if the deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor was sent out, a large army would set up a military commander to observe the military appearance, transfer envoys, and various comforters to be comforted, and a layer of constraints were restricted. A military general from a vanguard wanted to lead tens of thousands of cavalry. This was almost all the cavalry of the Great Wei Dynasty. Even if it was related to the plan of the Northern Expedition, everyone still felt that Li Youde was whimsical and had a big appetite.

Even Li Guorui, Yue Zhi and others dare not support Li Youde in public. If there is any real change, it will be a trivial matter for them to lose their lives. No one who can harm the country can afford it.

Xu Zixian's heavy cavalry strategy, if you look closely, it is almost the same as Li Youde.

We must use cavalry in a concentrated manner, rather than spreading the armies and wings. Only by using concentrated cavalry to counterattack, the Northern Expedition to the Donghu side will have victory.

"The question from Nan'an Hou is quite exciting." Su Songxian said listlessly: "It must be spread, but it's just a child's discussion."

"He thought that if he led his troops into the government office and killed people and robbed people, he could point fingers on the military and national affairs?" The deputy envoy of the group pastor was from Liu Zhiyuan's faction. He was about to go out, and at most he was sent to the lower-level military states. Of course, he would not have any scruples when speaking, which was considered a broken can.

"Be careful with your words, be careful with your words." Su Songxian is considered a Han Zhong lineage, an official from the Great Wei Dynasty, either Han or Liu. Of course, he would not be polite to Chen Gefei and said seriously: "Chi Wen talked about military affairs, which was originally a matter of martial Jinshi. Nan'an Hou's grammar format is impeccable. Although the discussion of matters is biased, Ce Wen asked people to speak, and it was not a crazy and contradictory word, so it was not a sarcasm."

Everyone had nothing to say at this point. Su Songxian frowned and drew a circle on Xu Zixian's proposal. The other examiners drew a circle together. This was considered qualified. He was recommended to the emperor's desk and then the emperor drew the circle. Xu Zixian's martial Jinshi was obtained.

"I just don't know how many people are?" Someone asked in confusion: "From Ce Wen, third-class is enough."

"The ranking of martial Jinshi mainly relies on bow and horse shooting skills." Su Songxian said indifferently: "He is the deputy envoy over there and is the chief examiner. Nan'an Hou must show his real skills."

In order to stabilize the throne, He Yan, the deputy envoy of Privy Council, had not officially resigned. Wu Jinshi and the examiner decided to leave before the mutiny. Sudden resignation could easily cause unnecessary trouble. Han Zhong could only wait patiently for two days.

Han Zhong has already selected a top military state for He Yan. Privy Councilors are still decent.

"He never dares to do too much." Su Songxian said in his heart: "If you get into trouble, you have to prepare to go to Dali Temple Prison. One of them has already died, and another deputy envoy of the Privy Councilor will die. How big is it?"

...

He Yan's face was really ugly.

Today is the third day of the civil and military jinshi exam. The literary and jinshi are still taking poetry and essays, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Those who can be included in the circle two days ago have already set a new vocational quota. No matter how well the poem is written, there will be no changes in the overall situation.
Chapter completed!