265: Start training

The next morning, Lin Yue woke up early. After a simple wash, he put on his armor and walked out.

Just as Lin Yue reached the entrance of the Encampment, the wake-up horn inside the camp had just sounded, and the Soldiers rushed to gather outside the Encampment.

After waiting for about half an hour, all the units had arrived.

At this moment, various units stood in formation outside the Encampment. Apart from Lin Yue's Guard Battalion, three hundred thousand Soldiers, divided into nine camps, rode their warhorses and gathered around the Encampment. The Generals had already begun inspecting the troops.

【Troop Type: White Horse Righteous Cavalry

Colonel: Xing Daorong

Scale: One hundred thousand

Training Level: 81

Morale: 76】

【Troop Type: Great Wall Legion Cavalry (Xiongnu people)

Colonel: Pan Feng

Scale: One hundred thousand

Training Level: 58

Morale: 64】

【Troop Type: Great Wall Legion Cavalry (Xiongnu people)

Colonel: Wei Liang

Scale: One hundred thousand

Training Level: 46

Morale: 60】

Lin Yue took a quick glance and noticed that the Xiongnu Soldiers under Pan Feng's three camps had significantly higher training levels and morale than the Cavalry under Wei Liang's command.

It seemed that when the Soldiers were being selected, Wei Liang was not present. Pan Feng, relying on his seniority and strength, must have snatched many people, recruiting some excellent surrendered Xiongnu Soldiers into his command. Otherwise, such a disparity would not have occurred.

Wei Liang had not yet arrived at that time. Liu Sandao, under his command, only cared about his own Soldiers. The other two, Qibily and Wang Cheng, one was a surrendered Xiongnu people General and the other an old General of Dong Zhuo, were both new arrivals and naturally could not say anything.

This also led to their combat power being extremely uneven, which greatly troubled Lin Yue.

He was unsure whether to train them all as White Horse Righteous Cavalry or to let them remain as ordinary Cavalry of the Great Wall Legion.

Because there was less than three months until the next major battle, this was a consensus among the entire Army.

However, cavalry training is not something that can be achieved overnight. Although the White Horse Righteous Cavalry are much stronger than ordinary Cavalry, Wei Liang's Cavalry's training level has now reached 46. Although not passing, if they follow the Xiongnu people's fighting style, they can still be deployed immediately, though their combat power will not be high.

But if they are trained as White Horse Righteous Cavalry, and if their training level is still below 60 after three months, their combat power might not necessarily be better than that of the Great Wall Legion Cavalry with a passing training level!

Finally, after discussing with several people, Lin Yue decided to train one hundred thousand of Pan Feng's and Wei Liang's personal guards, along with Aruhan's thirty thousand veteran Xiongnu Soldiers, into White Horse Righteous Cavalry. These fifty thousand Cavalry would all be trained by Pan Feng. He has a talent for training troops, with a +20% training speed. Lin Yue hoped he could train these fifty thousand White Horse Righteous Cavalry into an elite force within these three months!

As for the remaining one hundred fifty thousand Cavalry, they could only be trained as regular Great Wall Legion Cavalry.

"All units prepare, begin!"

With Pan Feng's command, enthusiastic shouts of battle began around the Encampment!

Most of these Xiongnu Soldiers had not undergone much formal training in the past. They merely followed their tribes in campaigns, learning some close-quarters combat skills. Although their techniques were the culmination of countless ancestors' lives, which could be said to be deadly, they were not suitable for large-scale Army operations, only for small to medium-scale engagements.

Because in large-scale Army operations, what is needed is strict obedience and quick reactions, all of which require discipline. They, however, lacked these. In Lin Yue's view, their individual strength was not weak, but they were too undisciplined.

Therefore, the Army adopted a method of training off-horse first, then on-horse.

This also made the surrendered Xiongnu Soldiers very unaccustomed at first. Warhorses could be said to be their other pair of legs. Now, without their warhorses, they clearly could not keep up with the Army's training rhythm.

"General, there is something I do not understand," Wang Zhi asked, standing to the side.

"Please speak, Supervisor," Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Why are only Aruhan's thirty thousand Cavalry being trained as White Horse Righteous Cavalry, besides the personal guards of the two Colonels?" Wang Zhi asked.

Lin Yue smiled slightly after hearing this, opened a can of soda, and handed it to Wang Zhi, saying, "Because time is running out, and it's undeniable that Aruhan's surrendered Xiongnu Soldiers, having experienced several fierce battles, have higher combat power. Compared to the newly surrendered Xiongnu Soldiers, their morale is also higher.

The efficiency of training these thirty thousand men will also be much better than that of the one hundred fifty thousand surrendered Xiongnu Soldiers, and consequently, the probability of them ultimately becoming White Horse Righteous Cavalry will be higher.

As for the other one hundred fifty thousand Cavalry, in my opinion, it's impossible to train them into White Horse Righteous Cavalry within three months.

I estimate it will take a month just to correct the common habits of the Xiongnu people people in them," Lin Yue said.

It is said that it takes twenty-one days for a person to form a habit. Lin Yue aimed to make them change these habits within a month. Only then could they better integrate into this Army.

"But from what I've seen in the battle reports, the Great Wall Legion's Army is not all as overwhelming as your White Horse Righteous Cavalry. Half of the Cavalry battles against the Xiongnu people resulted in mutual damage or Pyrrhic victories.

Moreover, these Xiongnu Soldiers are the cream of the surrendered Soldiers, so why not train them directly according to their methods?" Wang Zhi continued to ask, as he was very interested in military matters.

"That is true, but Supervisor, if you recall carefully, weren't the evenly matched battles all on a scale of around ten thousand people?

If we take two groups of Soldiers with similar Martial Power and pit them against each other, ten against ten, there is no doubt that the Xiongnu Cavalry Soldier will win. One hundred against one hundred, the Xiongnu Soldiers will also win, but not easily.

If it's a thousand against a thousand, even if the Xiongnu Soldiers win, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. But ten thousand against ten thousand, there is no doubt that our Qin Army will win!" Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Why is that?" Wang Zhi asked, puzzled, as this touched upon his blind spot in knowledge.

Lin Yue smiled. He had been lectured for several days in a row, and today he could finally lecture someone else.

"Actually, when it comes to physical strength, because of the relatively favorable environment in the Central Plains, we are indeed stronger than the Xiongnu people. But it is precisely because of the harshness of their living environment that they can only obtain opportunities to survive through constant fighting, so they have much richer combat experience than us.

Because they often hover between life and death, they will kill opponents in the most effective way. Living on horseback since childhood also leads to their more exquisite horsemanship. This results in us being physically stronger and having sharper weapons, yet in cavalry combat, we are still inferior to them.

But everything in the world has two sides.

Although we are not as good as them in killing on horseback, we are more united and disciplined. Once the scale of war increases, our advantages are magnified infinitely!

Because in small-scale combat, they have ample battlefield space to display their full capabilities. But in large-scale combat, with limited battlefield space and dense crowds, their advantages will be infinitely reduced. At this point, the Xiongnu people, fighting individually, cannot defeat the cooperatively fighting Qin Army.

It's like how a First-rate Military General can influence a battle of thousands, but in a war of millions, he cannot change the overall situation," Lin Yue explained.

Wang Zhi nodded thoughtfully, then silently began to drink the soda.

Lin Yue had discovered last night that Wei Liang didn't seem to care for this soda, but Wang Zhi seemed to like it very much, so Lin Yue gave him a box as a favor.

It's just that the player named Li Lin hadn't traded with him recently, causing his supply chain to break.

However, he now had about a thousand bottles of various drinks, and his comrades in She Jian's northern counties were continuously sending drinks to She Jian. Without the need to give them to She Jian anymore, his current supply would last for several years, so Lin Yue didn't pay much attention.

He then once again focused his attention on the Army's training before him. In these three months, he must train an elite force!