Moderation is a rare quality, but unfortunately, many people do not understand this, or can see clearly and know moderation when they are bystanders, but when they participate in it, they can't help but be confused.

Ma Tie thinks that he is a clear bladder, well, a bystander, so he still sees Ma Chao's urine more clearly......

"Big brother is good at everything, but it won't stop in moderation......" Ma Tie sat on a stump and said to Pang De on the side, "The original strategy was quite good, lure the enemy deep, encircle on three sides, and once the expedition to the west is ambushed, it will definitely not die or be crippled...... But now, look at it, Zhengxi didn't see it, we are about to run away......"

This should have been a forest, and then people nearby came to cut down trees for firewood, along with the freezing line during the Xiaoice River period more and more south, in order to resist the cold, people cut down trees more and more frequently, after losing the measure of moderation, this forest is only left with some stumps that have not completely decayed, and gradually degraded forest meadows, perhaps in another ten years, here will become a piece of yellow sand, and there is no green at all.

Pound coughed twice.

“…… You calculate, we ran here from Jincheng for five days, and then went to Tianshui, and ran for another two days, and when we arrived in Tianshui, we didn't repair properly...... Well, if looting the manor is also a repair, it can be considered a repair...... It took another three days, and then I rushed back, two and ......a half days," Ma Tiepao pulled his fingers and said, "Tell me, these legs are thin when they run around...... Is that really good? There is something lacking in horsepower...... As soon as the expedition to the west retreats, the eldest brother will have to chase after ......"

“…… So you mean not chasing? Brother Dai's revenge will not be avenged? Suddenly, a voice sounded behind Ma Tie, and the frightened Ma Tie fell under the stump with a thud.

Ma Tie hurriedly jumped up from the ground, put on a smile on his face, and said, "Ah...... Big brother, this, why are you here......"

Ma Chao's face sank like water, and Ma Jindao sat on the stump where Ma Tie was originally sitting: "Say, it's rare to find that you are still quite good at thinking...... Say, I'll listen, and speak boldly......"

Ma Tie hesitated, sobbing and not daring to speak.

Regarding Ma Dai's death, Ma Tie actually didn't feel as much pain in his heart as Ma Chao, one is that Ma Dai is of Qiang blood, which is relatively close to Ma Chao, and the other is that Ma Dai is also mixed with Ma Chao on weekdays, and he is not very close to Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, so Ma Tie naturally does not have much pain.

"Say!" Seeing Ma Tie's hesitation, Ma Chao couldn't help but feel his liver fire rising, and yelled at Ma Tie, "I told you to speak!" Did you hear that?! ”

Ma Tie trembled, his heart was horizontal, and he simply said, "Yes!" I just don't understand why the eldest brother is so urgent! If we retreat to the west, we will retreat, chase him and force him to retreat to Hanzhong, and we can go all the way outside Yangping Pass, all the way to Guanzhong! If Zhengxi wants to return to Guanzhong, he can only climb the Qinling Mountains again, and when he climbs out, maybe we have already taken Guanzhong......"

The more Ma Tie spoke, the more open he became, pointing to the rivers and mountains, with some passionate words, and continued: "When the time comes, we will base the land of Guanzhong, three hundred miles of fertile soil, which can be cultivated, and the west of Longyou, thousands of hectares of grassland, which can be used for grazing, and we want people and horses to have horses, and we want to seek opportunities to fight for the world, isn't it happy?!" ”

Ma Tie finished speaking in one breath, and then he didn't dare to look at Ma Chao's face anymore, so he lowered his head and waited to meet the storm, but he didn't expect it......

"Bang, Bang, Bang......"

When Ma Chao heard this, the anger on his face gradually disappeared, and then he applauded Ma Tie's words.

Ma Tie was a little confused.

"Come, sit." Ma Chao pointed to the stump on the side with a pleasant face.

"Big brother......" Ma Tie didn't know what to do.

Pound looked left and right, breathed a sigh of relief, and arched his hand and said, "This ...... There are still some miscellaneous things under the subordinates......"

"It's okay for Ling Ming to stay! It's all your own brothers, don't be so polite! Ma Chao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Ling Ming, you also sit!" It's like a brother's own chat, no need to be restrained! ”

Pang De looked at Ma Chao and felt that it didn't look like he was talking back, so he thanked him, and didn't look for any stumps, so he sat directly on the ground.

Ma Chao patted Ma Tie on the shoulder and said, "Third brother, you are starting to use your brains, my brother only has joy in his heart, how can I blame you?" Peace of mind is ...... What you just said is not wrong, but there is one thing that you haven't thought through......"

Ma Tie couldn't help but ask, "May I ask the eldest brother, I don't know what it is?" ”

"If you don't die in the west, there will be no chaos in Guanzhong! Guanzhong is not chaotic, what chance do you and I have to take charge of Guanzhong? Ma Chao looked into the distance and said slowly, "The land of Guanzhong, the expedition to the west is initially decided, although it is unstable, if the expedition to the west does not die, even if we wait for the troops to drive straight in, the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong who conquer the west will not hesitate to retreat to Zuo Fengyi, where will we defend at that time?" Yangpingguan? Longguan? Wuguan? Or a crossing, such as a slanted and meridian crossing? Or Kamazuto? Eagle Yin? At that time, the thieves who conquered the west only need to be dispatched left and right, pointing to the east and fighting the west, and they can drag our troops to death in Guanzhong......"

Ma Tie and Pang De's faces were slightly abrupt.

"If you want to take Guanzhong, you must kill and conquer the west! Other than that, there is no other way! Ma Chao lowered his face, gritted his teeth and said, "The name of Zhengxi is also rumored in Longyou, so if we kill the thief of Zhengxi, we can borrow his bones to boost the prestige of my Ma family!" Therefore, the thief who conquered the west must die here! So, third brother, Ling Ming, do you understand? ”

"I never thought that the eldest brother was so far-sighted, the younger brother is really ashamed...... Ma Tie arched his hand and said, "The younger brother just said in vain, and I hope that the eldest brother Haihan will ......"

Ma Chao laughed, patted Ma Tie's shoulder, and said, "They are all their own brothers, just say anything!" Where do you need to be so polite! This place is only more than 100 miles away...... Third brother, go hard, give the order, everyone have a good rest for half a day, and set off early tomorrow morning! ”

"Yui!" Ma Tie gave up his order, and Pang De hurriedly accompanied him.

Ma Chao looked at the backs of Ma Tie and Pang De in the distance, and the original smile was slowly put away. What was said to Ma Tie and Pang De was naturally this irrefutable reason on the surface, but deep in Ma Chao's heart, there was another reason, which was not convenient to mention in front of Ma Tie or Pang De.

Ma Teng died. I died inexplicably.

And Ma Chaohe, although he is the eldest son, is a concubine.

Although it is said that it is Li Wei's poisonous hand, Ma Chao also took revenge, and only then can he have the right to lead the Ma clan today, but whether Han Sui contributed to the trouble or did not save him in this matter, this is not easy to say, but one important thing is that after Ma Teng's death, the situation of the entire Xiliang, which was originally relatively balanced, has changed.

Although there are many warlords in Xiliang, they are scattered all over the country, and their power is not very large, and they have their own thoughts, even if they gather at one time, there will inevitably be all kinds of friction and fighting, not to mention joining forces to form a centripetal alliance. In such a situation, Han Sui must be a dominant family, if he can't take the opportunity of this strangulation to conquer the west, let the Ma clan regain his reputation, maybe in a few years, whether it is the Qiang people who originally followed the Ma clan, or the warlords of the Xiliang tribes who are good friends, they will be pulled by Han Sui......

At that time, even if Ma Chao has the ability and ideas, he will not be able to display them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, on the one hand, to strangle the name of Zhengxi and promote the name of the Ma clan, on the other hand, you can also use the fat of Guanzhong to attract the soldiers and horses that consume Han Sui and the warlords of the Xiliang tribe, so as not to let these evil wolves focus on the Ma family whose wounds have not healed!

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if he can't kill Zhengxi and complete the overall strategy, Ma Chao will take this opportunity to encourage the Xiliang troops to attack Guanzhong!

If the strength of Han Sui and the warlords of Xiliang is not weakened, how can Ma Chao be stable in his heart?

In fact, Ma Chao also suspected that Han Sui saw some or even all of his plans, but for Han Sui, it was also quite advantageous to weaken the strength of the warlords of the Xiliang tribes, because Ma Chao knew that Han Sui had also been thinking about these Xiliang departments for a long time, so Han Sui would be so cooperative at the moment.

It's just that until now, no one knows who will have the last laugh......

"Young Commander!" A soldier ran over and said with a somewhat flustered expression, "Young Commander Qiyu, our horse is suddenly restless for some reason...... Like ...... It looks like there's another horse......"

"What? The horse is standing up?! Ma Chaoteng stood up and said, "How is it possible?" It's been a month now, how can there be such a thing? Besides, aren't the horses all in the rear, how can there be horses here? ”

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, after the Zhao State Hufu cavalry shooting, the proportion of war horses in the war slowly became more and more important, but for a long time, even in the Tang Dynasty, the horses that really went to the battlefield were basically stallions.

Although the mare is not unmountable, the mare has several months of the year, either with cubs or nursery, so normally, for the reproduction of the herd, unless there are emergency special circumstances, they will not ride the mare to the battlefield, and most of them will stay behind.

And geldings, although there are now, but not many, and in the Han Dynasty, where the horse iron palm did not appear, many times the life of a war horse is not too long, often after a fierce battle, the war horse will either be injured, or the horse's palm is damaged, and it can not continue to fight.

These wounded war horses, in the absence of treatment conditions, are often turned into horse jerky and horse bone broth......

Therefore, in this period when the replacement of war horses is very rapid consumption, basically no one will go out of their way to gelding, and after gelding, the wound has to recover for several months, plus it needs to be retrained, and the time consumed is as long as a year, and it is impossible to migrate immediately, which is almost impossible for nomads who often need to chase water and grass.

Therefore, until the Tang Dynasty, people were still accustomed to taking a stallion that had never been gelding, which caused many interesting things, such as Li Guangbi in the Tang Dynasty, who used a group of smooth-haired mares to seduce a large group of stallions who could only think with their lower bodies......

Normally, in May, the war horse enters the peak period of breeding estrus, at this time the horse farm is basically full of standing horses, and at this time the herdsmen will take special care of some horses with strong blood, as for the other general horses will be allowed to mate, and after June, it is basically stopped, and the mare no longer accepts the stallion's teasing, if the stallion is around behind its buttocks, it is necessary to pick up the hooves and kick hard.

After this point, the signal smell emitted by the stallions decreases, and the stallions gradually settle down and no longer bite each other......

Ma Chao led the army eastward this time, but he deliberately missed the estrus period of the war horse, and there was no mare in the army, how could he encounter such a thing here?

By the time Ma Chao arrived at the scene, the scene was already chaotic.

Although horses are gregarious animals, they still have some levels with each other, and the stallions are short-tempered, and it is normal to have some quarrels and bites from time to time, so at the beginning, Ma Chao's subordinates, whether they were Xiliang soldiers or Qiang people, did not care, but later found that the situation was becoming more and more wrong.

Not only were the untied stallions biting each other, but even the tied horses were pulling the reins and rushing out, completely ignoring the blood marks on their necks......

When people are in the brain, they sometimes lose their minds, let alone war horses?

After holding back the stallions for a long time, they suddenly smelled the smell of the horse's tail......

The horse is a highly myopic creature that distinguishes the sex of an individual, one by sound and the other by smell. The sudden release of a large number of horses and tails made these stallions crazy.

Didn't you say anything about three years, and you didn't even let go of the sheep, and the current situation is probably similar.

The soldiers and Qiang people who stepped forward to divide the stallions that were pulling the commotion were trampled by the war horses that had lost their minds, kicked and broken bones, and even bitten their teeth, and dozens of people were directly injured, and more than ten people were seriously injured, and they could not survive when they saw it.

And the madness between the horses was even worse, because there were no horses to vent, and these irrational horses were jumping around, scattering the whole herd......

"Young Commander! Be careful! A war horse foaming at the mouth broke free from the encirclement of several Qiang people, and rushed over at Ma Chao and the others in a daze.

Ma Chao turned sideways and let go of the war horse, and immediately pulled out the war knife, and cut the crazy war horse directly with one sword, and the horse blood that gushed out splashed Ma Chao's head and body!

"What are you doing! Kill all the madmen! Ma Chao held his sword and howled.

With the wailing of the war horses, the thick smell of blood spread, covering up the breath that made the peony horses crazy, and the restless horses finally calmed down, leaving only a mess and a crowd looking at each other......

………………………………

On a small dirt slope far away from Ma Chao's camp, three or four heads shrank in the grass and watched quietly.

In this camp, there are Xiliang people, there are Qiang people who have followed Ma for a long time, and there are people who are not very familiar with each other, and even have some hatred for Yak Qiang and Tsing Yi Qiang......

"Gone...... It seems that the mare urine collected is really effective......" Ling Jie retracted his head lying on the dirt slope and beckoned to his subordinates, "Let's go, the play is over...... Go to our horse hiding place...... Be careful......"

"How do you say the general even understands this...... Awesome......"

"Otherwise, how can you call the general, less nonsense, while they are still in chaos, let's go......"

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