Zhao Bing was basically satisfied with Sun Kai's army's performance, but the mistake was that after he stabilized the camp, he immediately organized troops to launch a counterattack, but was ambushed by the enemy cavalry. Fortunately, he did not go out in full, so he had the spare energy to defend the camp and retreated to the troops that were pursuing the front.

"Sun Dutong, what is the taboo in fighting in another place?" Zhao Bing asked, looking at Sun Kai who seemed to be dissatisfied.

"Report to Your Majesty, it is most taboo to not be familiar with the terrain and humanities in combat in other places, and do not know the enemy's troops and deployment conditions!" Sun Kai felt a thrill in his heart when he heard His Majesty's question, but he still answered solemnly.

"Since you understand very well, why do you have to send troops to pursue me when you just arrived at the camp, the geography is unknown, and you are raided in the dark night and the enemy's situation is unknown?" Zhao Bing asked back.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have already stepped forward to detective cavalry and scattered twenty miles around the camp. They have not found that a large number of "enemy troops" have gathered. Therefore, they made a wrong judgment, thinking that the current enemy is only a thousand cavalry, which is enough to annihilate the enemy before the enemy's troop arrives, and have enough time to re-arrange the enemy and defend the camp!" Sun Kai knew the emperor's character very well. The more he did not tell the truth and forcibly defend himself, the more he would be scolded, so he honestly told his true thoughts at that time.

"Well, what is it saying, what does this mean?" Zhao Bing nodded and said, "It means that our concept of enemy combat is still stuck in the old concepts three years ago, and we are not used to fighting on open ground, especially in cavalry combat, so we have made mistakes in tactical use."

"In the past, when we camped, we asked the cavalry to search for the surrounding area for twenty miles. That was because there were dense rivers and canals in the Jiangnan and Huainan areas, and the fields were mainly planted with rice, which was not conducive to the cavalry's advancement. The combat geographical environment we are facing at present was mainly hills and plains, which was conducive to the cavalry's galloping."

"The characteristics of the cavalry are that they have strong maneuvers and are invisible. Half an hour is enough for a twenty-mile cavalry jogging. Before attacking, they can completely deploy outside the range of reconnaissance cavalry cruising. When the attack is smooth, they can quickly enter the battle to expand the results; when the raid fails, the front army can quickly evacuate, and even use the darkness of the night to deceive the opponent into pursuing, but the army ambush the pursued enemy troops in the future."

"Thank you Your Majesty for your teachings. I understand. I will definitely strengthen my training in the future!" Sun Kai replied.

"Yeah!" Zhao Bing didn't argue when he saw that he was "honest". This made him feel like he was hitting his fist on the cotton. He couldn't help but scold him. He couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.

Next, Zhao Bing commented on the tactics of the Second Army and the Fifth Army in dealing with the night attack of the enemy cavalry. However, Liu Zhixue and Ran Anguo were originally calm and had the previous "learnings" and learned the lessons. He honestly admitted his shortcomings and mistakes in this battle. The emperor did not argue anything, which made him have nowhere to start.

As a result, after the previous period, Zhao Bing became much less angry. He ordered the five cavalry division leaders who participated in the night attack last night to tell their respective tactical arrangements, as well as finding out the opponent's deployment mistakes in combat, and commenting on the gains and losses. The infantry chief officers had to make response plans based on the questions they raised.

Zhao Bing listened very seriously at this time. Although he would also interfere in and ask questions, he still listened more and less. The reason why he organized this autumn and winter reading was to review the results of infantry and cavalry training, and to discover problems in combat in the plains and prepare for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

During so many years of war, Zhao Bing knew the weaknesses of the Song army in combat, especially the lack of experience in dealing with large-scale cavalry battles on the plains. Although Song and Mongolia maintained a peaceful situation in recent years, he has been summarizing experience through training and learning and summarizing tactics against cavalry.

In his previous life, what Zhao Bing had the most profound impression of cavalry was the classic scene in the TV series "Bright Sword" where the cavalry company besieged by the Japanese army launched the final decisive charge. It can be said that this also left him with the cavalry as a military force that advocates attack and is good at attack. The excellent maneuver and impact force determines that its basic combat style is the initial concept of attack.

In this world's battle, Zhao Bing saw the real cavalry and understood the advantages of cavalry. During the attack, cavalry can attack the enemy, assault and pursue the retreating enemy on the wings of the enemy. Moreover, cavalry can effectively cover the retreat of the two wings of his troops and the troops, conduct reconnaissance, complete tasks such as attacking and rushing to the enemy's rear. He also summarized several fixed patterns of cavalry combat from it:

Attack is the basic style of cavalry in combat operations. Its purpose is to defeat the enemy and capture important areas and targets. Its content includes: using all weapons to kill and injure the enemy; implementing a resolute impact, and rapidly advance towards the enemy's configuration depth; eliminating and capturing vivid forces; seizing weapons and equipment and occupying predetermined areas, etc. Cavalry attacks mainly serve their offensive targets. In order to achieve combat tasks, cavalry units must be deployed in accordance with the combat pattern.

The so-called cavalry combat pattern refers to the general term for configuring or deploying troop and equipment to achieve tasks. It is generally composed of a stormtrooper, a clamping team, a firepower force responsible for covering the battle, and a reserve team that expands the results of the battle, or a reserve team that meets the times. The essence of attack combat is to exert its main characteristics and mobility. The ultimate purpose of attack combat is to defeat the enemy's will, make the enemy give up on combat, defeat its main force, and seize various key points as the purpose of combat.

Therefore, the combat pattern must mainly comply with the following four points: first, to focus on the main force in an important direction; second, the combat pattern must be suitable for terrain and combat attempts; second, it is convenient for the use of firearms and technical weapons; finally, it must be flexible in response to changes in the battlefield conditions, so as to quickly change the direction of action and respond to events from time to time.

Of course, this pattern is just a framework, and the combat conditions have always changed rapidly, and they have to be subdivided to deal with various situations. For example, the deployment and tasks of frontal combat; the deployment of troops in raids, how the troops will catch the enemy; how the troops hide in ambush operations, how the horses are placed, and how they are deployed during hiking operations, etc.

These are also an almost whole-hearted topic for Zhao Bing. Due to the lack of cavalry in the past, he could not learn how to use and command large-scale cavalry operations in combat like in the past. Because cavalry had always been subordinate in the past, he also lacked generals familiar with large-scale combat, and now he could only gain experience through drills...

The meeting lasted for a day before it ended, and then the entire army was on the verge of rest for two days to restore the physical strength of the soldiers after the long-distance marches, and the departments carried out rectification. As for how the generals who were scolded at the meeting scolded their soldiers after they returned, Zhao Bing couldn't control it. Anyway, he knew that they must have breathed a sigh of relief, and the drill would definitely spark sparks after the end of the exercise.

As for him, he did not rest in the past two days, but only took two guards to the grassroots level every day to take a look at the various departments. The place he liked to go the most was the kitchens of each command. Of course, there was no place to eat, but because he understood that the most important thing for the army was not only discipline, equipment or morale, but also the most basic needs of soldiers - eating.

I don’t know how many emperors and generals the soldiers’ food has troubled, so Zhao Bing has been working tirelessly for this. In order to make the soldiers full, he did not hesitate to sell their rewards and risked to attack the city. Then the situation improved and he kept trying to improve, so that the soldiers would change from eating to eating better. Therefore, in addition to salary and equipment, the current military expenditure has become the largest expense.

Zhao Bing has been eating in various divisions these days, breakfast is served in the first army, lunch is served in the third army, and maybe in the second cavalry division in the evening. Of course, his purpose is not just to taste the taste and see if anyone is corrupt, but mainly to hear the opinions of ordinary soldiers and see if they are satisfied.

After two days of transfer, most of the soldiers were very satisfied with the current food standards and supply conditions. The unsatisfied people also did not deny that they could eat enough and were better than their families. Zhao Bing, the one who was most satisfied with the food, found that they were not soldiers from Jiangnan, Lianghuai, or even the poor Sichuan-Gui soldiers, but the Mongolian surrendered army.

Before Mongolia was founded, there was no need to say that they had only a small number of standing troops, most of which were herders who dismounted horses for the people and served as soldiers. However, the sheep on the Mongolian grasslands were all from the kings and powerful people. They could have meat to eat every day, while ordinary herders had to hunt and dig wild vegetables to barely eat enough.

During the war, they had to bring their own food and weapons, and the Auru camp guaranteed logistics. There was no special logistics system. The food and grass mostly came from plunder and forced expeditions. It was common for them to not have enough food. Therefore, the Mongolian soldiers won the "famous reputation" of being hungry and cold-resistant. If they want to have enough food, they had to conquer the city and plunder the rich areas. They naturally had to fight to the death of war, otherwise they would have to starve to death.

After the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the military system was reformed, and they also adopted an extremely simple method. The governors under the province had to rely on military households to solve the problem of food, while the grassland army still abides by the old system. Only those who were always in charge of the Qixue army were paid by the court, and even those guards had to farm, and the court allocated meager military salary.

However, the Song army was different. When the accident occurred in Jiangnan, some court officials proposed to let the army farm to reduce military expenditure and alleviate financial difficulties, but Zhao Bing flatly refused. Therefore, their equipment and food and salary were provided by the court and given priority. These were treatments that the Mongolian surrendered soldiers had never enjoyed before. As long as they trained well, they could eat enough and get military salary, and ordinary soldiers were of course happy.
Chapter completed!