At dusk that day, Li Xiao led the way, and several coachmen pulled several carriages filled with armor and weapons, and returned to Buguidun with him.

What greeted Li Xiao was warm cheers.

Seeing the exquisite iron scale armor and the best raids and knives, everyone in the pier was filled with shock and joy. Tian Wei and Wang Yishou were even more smiling.

Only cavalry who have been on the battlefield will understand how important it is to have such excellent armor and good weapons.

"Li Baihu, such a good armor really makes people feel very happy. Fortunately, you have a way to get it!" Tian Wei rubbed his hands with excitement.

"That's right, who is our Vice Team Li? It's a hero! Humph, I'm convinced by Li Baihu!" Wang Yishou added repeatedly.

Li Xiao smiled on his face and immediately ordered to start distributing armor to everyone. Each soldier received a piece of iron scale armor. The four original cotton armors that Tian Wei, King Yishou and others were taken back and temporarily stored in the warehouse.

"From now on, all the soldiers will wear iron scale armor and start training. The iron scale armor is well-made and hard-won. Everyone must cherish it and not damage it easily. Do you understand?" Looking at the new recruits who happily put on brand new black iron scale armor, Li Xiao shouted high.

"I understand, thank you Lord Baihu!" The excited shouts below were like a burst of thunder.

Praise Wu Liang was on the side, looking at the high-spirited Li Xiao with a smile, his face full of admiration.

Wu Liang knew how much expenses Li Xiao had saved to be able to successfully get these armor and weapons.

A well-made iron scale armor is priced at least 160 taels in the market, and 33 pieces are 5280 taels. Each of the lances and knives is calculated at 15 taels, and a total of nearly 1,000 taels of silver is also calculated. In addition, each of the bows and arrows counted at 10 taels of silver, Li Xiao spent more than ten taels of gold to open the joints, but he obtained a total of nearly 6,500 taels of armor and weapons for Buguidun!

This is really an amazing achievement.

This Li Baihu not only has great martial arts skills, but also cannot be underestimated by his ability to make relationships.

Now, the armor needed for Li Xiao is to purchase 23 war horses and 20 horses. If the price per horse is 50 taels and the total horse armor is 150 taels, the total cost is only 4150 taels.

Li Xiao still has nearly 8,000 taels of silver on hand. In addition to these expenses, more than 3,800 taels of silver can be used for daily expenses. Based on the premise that the estimated monthly food and salary expenditure is about 480 taels, Li Xiao's existing money can provide about 8 months of daily expenses! In this way, the operating pressure Li Xiao has suffered is much smaller.

In the following days, Li Xiao arranged for Tian Wei and Wang Yishou to bring two whistle cavalrymen Chen Li and Duan Shiqi and the two of them to go to the junction of western Liaoning and Mongolian tribes to buy smuggled horses.

These two people have been observed by Li Xiao for many days. They are all young whistle riders with good character and quick reactions. Therefore, this time, Li Xiao asked the two to accompany Tian Wei and Wang Yishou.

Chen Li and Duan Shiqiu saw that they were valued by Li Xiao so much, and they were inexplicably surprised and promised Li Xiao that the trip would be completed smoothly.

After Tian Wei and others set off, Li Xiao took over the daily combat training.

Time seems to have entered the fast track from this day.

The strict and repetitive training life does not have much brighter colors. Only the day-to-day progress of the soldiers made Li Xiao secretly happy and excited.

Three days later, the soldiers can start to stand in a uniform straight line.

Five days later, the soldiers were able to turn left and right, and they could start group jogging. At the same time, the flags and golden drums that Li Xiao sent Wu Liang to Jinzhou City were all completed. At the same time, they bought 25 saddles from Jinzhou City, and spent a total of 400 taels of silver at the price of 16 taels each.

From the sixth day, Li Xiao immediately began to train soldiers to understand the flag language, as well as common sense in combat of beating drums and retreating with gold.

In fact, until now, Li Xiao’s training content is all about very basic military common sense, but these seem to always emphasize collective action and are quite boring and boring training methods, but they are the essence of achieving an elite army. Although Li Xiao trained all cavalry, these basic training is extremely important for their future growth and growth.

Only by this seemingly boring but gradually changing the physical and mental training of the soldiers can the unity, unity and cohesion of the troops be truly improved. Li Xiao believes that the team he trained in this way will have much more combat effectiveness than the Ming army in the purely ancient sense at this time, but it is much stronger.

At noon eight days later, Tian Wei, Wang Yishou and others returned successfully with a large number of horses.

A large group of tall and strong horses, white, black, blue, red, and flowers, all colors, formed an irregular circle, trotting towards Buguidun, and horses kept neighing and jumping, making the entire horse herd full of vitality.

"Report to the deputy team, these days, I went to the wall outside the Dafu Castle and arrived at the smuggling horse market located by the Daughter River. It was the trading site of the Mongol Kalaqin tribe. After some bargaining, I bought 25 suitable horses for 45 taels per horse. They were all strong horses, and they had a new horseshoe, but there were 2 more horses than the original arrangement. This was also a timely replacement for the horses to get sick or die." Tian Wei ran to Li Xiao first, finished this sentence in one breath, and then unscrewed the kettle and drank a few sips of water.

"Deputy team, the Mongolians who sold horses were happy to see that we were all dealing in cash. They were picked up by the two bastards of Shi Qi and Chen Li during that period. They sold us two ordinary pack horses at a price of 10 taels per horse. In this way, they spent a total of 1145 taels of silver to buy horses this time. In addition, the expenses on the way were about 15 taels, and the remaining silver is here. Please check the deputy team." Wang Yishou took the conversation with a smile. After saying that, he took out the remaining silver from the horse's back and handed it back to Li Xiao.

Looking at the obviously dark and thin faces of Wang Yishou, Tian Wei and others, Li Xiao took the money and looked at the four subordinates with relief, and then said: "Thank you all, after you drive the horses back to the stable, our team will arrange a banquet to welcome you."

When the four of them heard this, their faces were full of joy and immediately rushed into the stable without mentioning it.

Soon, a simple but realistic banquet was lined up, and Li Xiao arranged for Wu Liang, Tian Wei, Wang Yishou, Chen Li and Duan Shiqi to join the banquet.

After a few people entered the banquet, Li Xiao poured wine for them himself, which made everyone feel flattered.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Li Xiao next told them about his plans and arrangements for the cavalry team.

"Everyone, the cavalry team I want to build has taken shape. The basic training of each soldier has been completed. In the next few days, Tian Wei and Yishou can start training these soldiers to fight on horseback. These soldiers can all ride horses, but they lack combat skills. I hope you will step up the training and within two months at the latest, everyone must be familiar with the key points of fighting immediately." Li Xiao ordered the two.

Tian Wei and Wang Yishou's eyes lit up. After more than half a month, they could finally enter the real cavalry training. The two of them then stood up and bowed and said loudly: "I'm hereby obeying the order of the deputy team."

Li Xiao smiled and signaled them to sit down. Then he said to Chen Li and Duan Shiqi sitting beside him, "You two have performed well recently. Let's do this. Our team appointed Chen Li as the deputy captain of the Chongqi team and Duan Shiqi as the deputy captain of the Light Cavalry Team. Each person's monthly salary is set to 3 taels and 5 cents, and they will assist Captain Tian and Captain Wang respectively."

Chen Liduan Shiqi and the others were overjoyed and stood up: "I'll thank you for your cultivation."

Tian Wei, who was standing beside him, interjected: "Sir, I don't know when to order heavy cavalry horses to wear armor?"

Li Xiao heard this and asked hurriedly: "Tian Wei, you asked this, but you know how to make this horse in armor?"

Tian Wei smiled and scratched his head: "When I was in the army of Youshiwei, there were a few heavily armored cavalry in the camp at that time, and the horses also had armor. So I will learn about it below. These cavalry were all equipped with armor, divided into armored bodies, tails, chests, chicken necks, face curtains and other parts, which could be assembled freely, which was very convenient."

While listening to Tian Wei's words, Li Xiao was pondering in his heart.

Li Xiao read the history books and remembered that this small full suit was a heavy cavalry outfit that was found in the Song Dynasty. It was an improved version of the complete suit. In fact, in ancient China, the most famous one was the complete suit. Under this outfit, the face curtain of the horse's head, the chicken neck on the neck, the armor on the horse's body, the chest on the chest, and the butt of the horse were connected together, which was airtight and was not inferior to the Western heavy armored cavalry at all. The typical representatives of the complete suit are the Eagle Army of the Liao Dynasty, the Iron Harrier of the Western Xia, and the Iron Futu of the Jin Dynasty.

However, in the battle, I found that this integrated complete set of equipment is far less suitable than a small complete set that can be combined separately. The biggest advantage of this small complete set is that when horses also provide sufficient protection, they can add and reduce the required vest parts according to the needs of the battle situation, so as to be more suitable for the maneuvering needs of complex terrain and actual battlefields.

"Very good. The horse armor used by our heavy cavalry can also be defined as this kind of small full equipment." Li Xiao said.

"Person Team Li, I heard that our heavy cavalry will be used for rushing. There is a suggestion for the downward movement, which is to use cavalry to rush into the formation in such a dense manner. The tail can be removed and the armor body will be reduced to the saddle. The armor leaves in other places can be retained. After all, the heavy cavalry all attack the front, and there are light cavalry on both sides to cover the flank and the rear. The rear half of the armor body and the tail body are not needed. Where can the armor required by the horses can be reduced a lot, save production costs, and save horsepower, which is conducive to the horse sweating and greatly improves the speed of the horse's rapid running, but it is not very good?" Wang Yishou's eyes flashed and he added hurriedly.

Li Xiao fell into thinking again.

He knew in his heart that Wang Yishou's opinion was very insightful. If a group of heavy cavalry could be built like this, it would definitely be much better than the so-called heavy cavalry of the Jurchen Tatars now.

Because the current Tartars, compared with their own ancestors, the so-called heavy cavalry, the degree of dressing of men and horses is much worse. In addition to the real elites such as Baizhuyala and Bashikulinggui, who can wear cold forged armor and iron scale armor, ordinary heavy cavalry wear chain mail inside, cotton armor is decorated with copper nails on the outside, and iron leaves on the inside. During combat, it must also water the cotton to absorb water and increase the ability to defend against slingshots and arrows. At most, horses wear armor only have two sides, face curtains and chicken necks, and use a layer of thin cotton armor. A very small number of horses have swaying chests.

The armor body and the tail part are absolutely not available. Even so, this heavy cavalry was incredible in the middle and early Qing Dynasty. From Liaodong to Guangdong, from Northeast to Northwest, it was almost invincible. The specific tactic is that after the heavy armor infantry defeated the front, these so-called heavy cavalry attacked the Ming army's battle formation from the side or around to the back, and they often collapsed in one attack, which was easy to capture and never missed. After breaking the formation, the next one-sided massacre was often one-sided. The reason why the Ming army was extremely difficult to escape every time it fought was that most of them died under the pursuit of these Tartar heavy cavalry or other light cavalry.
Chapter completed!