PS: Chapter 2 is around 12:00

Qiu Gao's horses are fat, and Yu Xi's cavalry is also preparing to set off. His station is in the county called "Mayi", which is the thirteenth county in Taiyuan County. There is a joke in Jinyang City, that is, there are not as many people in Mayi as there are horses...

This is the truth, 1,500 people, three-fifths of Zhao's cavalry, two thousand horses, three-quarters of the horses that Taiyuan County can supply, all concentrated here.

So many men and horses have exhausted all the grain reserves of Mayi. Zhao Wuxi clearly told Yuxi that if this autumn cannot conquer Daiguo and occupy the fertile grasslands of Daibei, then next year, Mayi will not be able to support cavalry, and the county will not be able to support the cavalry. facing dismissal.

Like Mucha, Yu Xi also prepared for more than half a year in Mayi. He forced the horsemen from Jin and Lu to get used to cheese and jerky. The young people vomited and diarrhoea like the first time Yu Xi ate buttermilk. , and some people boldly protested: "There are Di in the north, and there are people who don't eat grains. If we do this, won't we be the same as them!"

"Look at your body." Yu Xi was not polite, and pointed to the clothes on everyone's body: Diren's clothes with short sleeves and narrow clothes.

"There is no need to deny that in this dress, we ride on horses to shoot arrows and gallop, and we imitate the Di people in the north. This dress is more convenient for daily living and hunting and warfare. Compared with the military chariots and soldiers in the Central Plains, it has a greater Flexibility, this is the strength of Rong and Di."

He raised his ring-headed sword again and said, "The advantages of armored soldiers and the strength of bow materials are China's strengths. The superiors and Beidi and China's strengths have created Zhao's cavalry, so that we can come like birds and go like birds. Absolutely, galloping across China with few rivals."

"But the enemies we face this time are different. Hu raccoon dog and Dairen are both warriors on horseback. Five-year-old children can ride sheep, draw bows and shoot birds and mice, and they can shoot when they grow up. Foxes and rabbits are used as food. Adult men in the tribe can draw strong bows, and they all wear felts and ride horses to fight. Usually when there is no war, they are nomadic, hunting birds and beasts as their occupation; when the situation is urgent, everyone Practice attacking and fighting skills in order to invade and plunder..."

"The grassland and the land are the homes of other generations. If we want to win the battle, we must also adapt to the grassland. Cheese and dried meat are the lightest rations on the grassland. Every time we eat a little, it is enough to supply us for half a day. As for the beans and sorghum in your pockets, they are for the horses. If you are not afraid that the horses will be thin and weak before the battle, it is fine to eat them!”

Everyone obeyed and trained on horseback and archery on the grassland outside Mayi according to Yu Xi's request. The reason why Yu Xi was so painstaking was because he knew that after the autumn harvest, this group of cavalry would really go deep into the absolute territory. They had no flanks and no rear. , the wounded soldiers will not get timely help and medical treatment, and after eating the dry food they carry, if they are unable to supply them on the spot, they can only starve.

This will be an extremely arduous expedition. Their journey is not comparable to that of the infantry of Commander Mucha, a full eight hundred miles away!

Zhao Wuxi was the planner of this route, while Yi Dun and Yu Xi were the executors: "Starting from Mayi, going north along the river valley at the western foot of Guanqin Mountain, passing through Loufan, fertile water, and going deep into the grassland, at Dai After a brief supply break from the sea, from the south of Hongshan to the north of Daiguo..."

When Mu Xia made a statement, moved forward along the Sanggan River, and attracted the main force of the generation to intercept, Yu Xi wanted to make an unprecedented strategic detour!

"Eight hundred miles, we need to finish it within ten days, because Mucha agreed with me, see you in the city after half a month!"

If it is a foot soldier, it is absolutely impossible. Even if they break their legs, they will not be able to move that far in ten days!

But the cavalry can.

"'The Son of Heaven ordered me, the city is in the city of Shuofang. Hehe Nanzhong, Jiu Yuxiang!' Yuxi, you are my Nanzhong!" Reading the letter's expectations for himself, holding the long sword given by the lord, in early September, Yu Xi also Oath to the North! Get out of the car Peng Peng, flag Yang Yang!

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Lou Fanren has always considered himself to be a Rong family, belonging to a family such as Quan Rong and Dai Rong. They live on the edge of farming and nomadism, and live a half-farming and half-herding life. Since it was recorded in the history of King Cheng of Zhou, Loufan has been divided. There are more than a thousand tribes in small states, and hundreds or dozens of people in small ones, except for those big tribes and big city-states that control trade with Jin and Hezong. Besides, most of them lead a poor, chaotic and precarious life.

However, Lou's annoying history was completely changed in the autumn of this year. A small tribe of more than 100 people north of Qinshan, the deafening hoofs woke Lou's annoying from its sleep. I thought it was in front of the neighboring tribe city-state Came to loot, opened the felt tent and looked, but was stunned by everything in front of him.

On a withered and yellow grassland, more than a thousand knights lined up in long formations, as if a black dragon was flying over the vast grassland, and Xiao Xiaoran's horses roared one after another. When they galloped on the high slope, they couldn't stop looking at the Loufan tribe, and even divided dozens of horses toward them.

The patriarch was nervous, and greeted him with the young men of the entire clan, timidly watching the army crossing the border. However, when he saw that the visitor had brought the caravan to this place many times, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked in a low voice what was going on?

Lou's annoying class is simple, and he doesn't understand what the ministers are and who is in power, so Yi Dun also said concisely: "Daiguo angered the king of the Zhao people, and sent a large military area attack. Passing through this place, I need your support for food, horses, and other services. Please donate all the jerky, cheese, and running horses from the tribe!"

"All the cheeses and horses?" the patriarch repeated in a low voice, unwilling.

But can they say no? Ever since the old patriarch's notes, there have been so many horse riders on the grassland at one time, more than a thousand cavalry, enough to conquer half a building! Looking at the half-stretched crossbows in the hands of the cavalry, he knew that he could not resist, otherwise he might lead to the disaster of genocide!

He showed a miserable smile, raised his hands that were as dry as old trees, and bowed deeply to Yi Dun and pleaded, "Without the meat cheese, we still have cattle, sheep and wild vegetables, and we can survive this winter. , but without horses, how will you graze in the future?"

Chinese people often think that the Rong and Di in the northern Xinjiang live on horses, so horses are cheap as dung and can be easily obtained. In fact, this is a great misunderstanding. Hu Rong's main livestock are cattle and sheep, and the horses are only tools for grazing, so the number is much smaller than that of cattle and sheep. Usually, a tribe of 1,000 people has at most more than 100 horses.

A bag of copper coins was thrown at his feet by Yidun: "This is an exchange. If you can't survive, you will migrate to the border of Jin before the snowfall. As long as you express your surrender and become the householder of the Zhao family, Qimin, you will naturally be able to get the grassland. and fields."

After he finished speaking, he left and took the only twenty horses from this tribe and followed the army to the next tribe. Only the patriarch of Loufan was left with a sad face, holding a bag of Kongfang Qianwang that could neither be eaten nor worn. Staring at the smoke and dust raised by Zhao Qi...

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On the fifth day of the march, Zhao Qi left the pasture of the Loufan tribe and officially entered the grass hinterland.

A wide, empty plain stretched out below them, flat and wide to the very end of the eye. like an ocean. There are no more hills and mountains, not even the woods, city-states, and roads. There is only an endless grassland, the wind is surging, the yellow grass is swaying like waves, and the whole world has turned bronze.

A falcon is high above, hovering in the dark blue sky, overlooking Zhao Qi's lonely army deep into the grassland, with the withered grass and sand splashed by horseshoes, like a sandstorm.

This is the fourth time Yu Xi has passed through this place. He and Yi Dun have traveled to this grassland business road several times in the past year, officially in order to get familiar with the road and prepare for the expedition.

When they left Loufan Realm, their number of horses had reached 2,500. Yu Xi's goal was to collect 3,000 horses before entering Daiguo, so as to achieve the combat power of one man and two horses. People's horses are equivalent to destroying their ability to threaten Zhao's family for at least five years...

They continued to swept the tribes along the way. Since the first shepherd, the grassland has been a piece of scattered sand. On the grassland that is more than a thousand miles away from the south of Yinshan Mountain, hundreds of thousands of different tribes, totems, and bloodlines have created A small tribe, torn apart.

Generally speaking, a tribe with dozens of miles of pastures has less than 100 adult men. Not to mention that under the threat of more than a thousand Zhao cavalry, there is no way to fight back. Even the East Hu tribe that moved westward that Yu Xi and others encountered before can make them surrender by relying on two or three hundred cavalry. So most of them surrendered, donating their cheese and horses.

However, with the increasing consumption of dry food, Yu Xi ordered that even the live cattle and sheep in the tribes along the way should not be spared! It is slaughtered and eaten on the spot, leaving only a pile of intestines and bones.

Nomadic tribes are by no means as wealthy as people in China imagine. Their livelihood depends on the weather. A snowstorm or plague is enough to destroy a prosperous tribe. Even if they graze all year round, in autumn and winter, there are very few supplies. To make a living~lightnovelpub.net~ So in order to survive the winter, some tribes also took the risk and chose to resist in order to have only a few meat cheese and cattle and sheep left.

But the end was tragic. The continuous felt tent was set on fire, and the tribesmen cried and begged for mercy, but all the Hu tribes who expressed their willingness to resist were slaughtered and ruthlessly destroyed by more than a thousand bows and crossbows. The chief leader was trampled by Yu Xi. Muddy, all men taller than a wheel are killed, women and children are scattered, left to fend for themselves, and by the way spread fear...

"Will they hate and take revenge?" Yu Xi asked Yi Dun.

"Yes, but they are more afraid. They submit to the strong, and at the same time do their best to bully the weak. It is the instinct of the people of the grasslands. Fear can bring surrender and obedience, as well as a steady stream of people, horses, cattle and sheep."

Yi Dun could have foreseen the huge shock that Zhao's intervention would bring to the grasslands. They would either be sporadically incorporated into Zhao Shangqing's new grassland order, or they would choose to escape far north of Yinshan Mountain and continue to live their old lives.

It was as if a huge palm swept across a pile of ant nests in their own right, casting a huge shadow. That is to say, starting from this expedition, the history of the grasslands has been completely changed...(.)