Chapter 255: Horse Taming
Wokotai garrisoned the herdsmen's camp, with only 3,000 cavalry, and Wanyan Kang could only be armed with 3,000 men and horses.
Overnight, it is not easy to select 3,000 elites.
And for Wan Yankang, he didn't have one night.
A quarter of an hour!
May those who go with him to the place of death be listed!
The vast majority of herders still chose to flee in all directions and went to Gyeongju to survive.
There are more than 2,300 herdsmen who choose to live and die with Wanyankang.
Although the number of followers is less than 3,000, Wan Yankang is satisfied enough. Because, more than 2,300 people, at this moment, have put life and death out of the way.
Huang Yaoshi and Zhou Botong rushed to Wan Yan Kang's side almost front and back, and after the two of them could not continue their task of killing people and setting fires, they found that Yan Kang's side was still noisy, so they galloped over with light skills, ready to help.
When the two of them found Yan Kang, he was choosing a warrior.
After Huang Yaoshi asked about the situation, he hurriedly persuaded: "Stinky boy, as the commander of the first army, how can you be so rash!" ”
Zhou Botong clapped his hands and applauded: "Good brother, you did a good job, Tie Mu came to beat you, and you will fight back!" ”
Huang Yaoshi originally wanted to persuade Yan Kang not to take risks in person, but when Zhou Botong interrupted him like this, his momentum was suddenly gone.
Wan Yan Kang bowed to Huang Yaoshi: "Father-in-law, I have made up my mind, and White Horse City depends on you!" ”
Huang Yaoshi said: "As the commander of the first army, how can you leave the city at this time?" ”
Wan Yankang looked in the direction of White Horse City, and replied with a firm gaze: "Father-in-law, the situation in White Horse City is not my work alone. Now the soldiers in the city are full of food, the generals are like clouds, and the military division is better than me. After I left the city, there were Rong'er and these housewives to calm people's hearts, and my father-in-law to help me, and White Horse City would be impregnable. ”
Seeing that Huang Yaoshi had not been persuaded, he said, "I will show my banner and go to fight Temujin's lair, and they will definitely divide their forces to chase after me." As a result, most of these herdsmen will be able to escape, and the pressure on defending the city will be greatly reduced. ”
Huang Yaoshi stared at Yan Kang for a few seconds, and finally sighed: "That's it!" That's it! After all, I have a breath of air, and I will never let White Horse City fall into the hands of others. ”
Wan Yan Kang bowed deeply to Huang Yaoshi: "Thank you, father-in-law." ”
Huang Yaoshi suddenly slapped his head and said angrily: "Come back alive, don't let my family Rong'er be a widow!" ”
Wan Yan Kang laughed, and said arrogantly: "Father-in-law, don't worry, the people in this world who can kill me are afraid that they haven't been born yet!" ”
Huang Yaoshi had the heart to say something more, but finally stopped his mouth, nodded silently and said, "Come back early." ”
After Yan Kang hummed, he handed over Wokotai to Huang Yaoshi, explained the identity of this person, and asked Huang Yaoshi to take him back to White Horse City, and take it out to use it depending on the situation.
Zhou Botong was about to leave after seeing Yan Kang's explanation, and grabbed him: "Good brother, you go to have fun, why don't you take me with you." ”
With Zhou Botong's martial arts, no one wants such a companion, but this old man has never been reliable, who knows when he will come up with a moth. After Yan Kang thought about it, he shook his head: "Let you go and set the fire, you haven't burned a few times, what's the use of me taking you?" ”
Zhou Botong was stunned when he heard this, and his face showed an embarrassed look, and after a while, he said, "Then I'll go again... How many more fires? ”
Wan Yankang nodded and motioned for Zhou Botong to set fire again.
Zhou Botong giggled and immediately turned back to the hay in Daying.
After Huang Yaoshi understood what Yan Kang meant, he didn't say much, grabbed Wokotai, and followed Zhou Botong away, leaving only one sentence: "Go early and return early." ”
After the Temujin camp was settled, he was going to send elite soldiers to the herdsmen's camp to find out. As a result, the forage camp suddenly caught fire again, and Temujin could not see it well, thinking that this must be the enemy's plan to attack the east and west, and the core of the plan was to burn the forage.
It's really not a big deal to run a few herdsmen, and if the forage is destroyed, this battle will not be able to be fought.
Therefore, Temujin ordered that the whole battalion should not enter but not leave, and that the whole army should search in a net-like manner, so that not a single spy should be missed, and not a single forage should be burned by the enemy.
Under Temujin's strict control, Zhou Botong and Huang Yaoshi only burned seven or eight forage tents, and it was difficult to find another opportunity. Huang Yaoshi asked Zhou Botong to take Wokotai back to the city first, and he wanted to go to the big tent of the Chinese army again to try his luck.
Huang Yaoshi successfully touched the big tent of the Chinese army, who knew that the net had already been laid here, he looked for an opportunity to kill a person dressed as a general with a snap of his fingers, and was immediately discovered, and then there was a rain of arrows from all sides.
Seeing that the enemy had little chance to take advantage of, Huang Yaoshi had to retreat quickly and make a detour back to White Horse City.
And Temujin's Chinese army was taken aback by Huang Yaoshi, and did not dare to be careless, and constantly strengthened patrols, fearing when the assassins would come out again.
Huang Yaoshi and Zhou Botong re-contained the enemy's sight, and Wan Yankang's side was much more relieved, and they took down the herdsmen who could not follow Wan Yan Kang's westward expedition, and began to scatter and flee to the east.
The more than 2,000 warriors who had followed Yan Kang to the west spent a quarter of an hour reorganizing their ranks, carrying necessities such as dry rations and forage for horses, and began to gallop westward for their lives.
Temujin's army marched eastward, leaving two supply points along the way. The first supply place, three hundred miles west of White Horse City, had a garrison of 3,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep in captivity.
Wanyankang's first destination is here!
More than 2,000 herdsmen began to ride their horses in the middle of the night, and by dawn they did not know how far they had gone. By this time, everyone was sleepy, and many were shouting for rest.
If it is spring and summer, these herdsmen who have grown up on horseback since childhood, as long as the horses are competent, let alone running for one night, even staying on horseback for three days and three nights, most of them can do it.
At this moment, the snow is knee-high, the speed of the horses in the snow plummets, and the horses have a hard time. For horse riders, the bumps and ups of the horses are also different from the past, and it is not easy to adjust the riding posture that has been used for more than ten years.
Even after Yan Kang, he was tired and panting.
What do you say?
He tossed with the horse of Ogedai all night......
When Yan Kang grabbed Wokotai and sat on the horse, he knew that there was a good horse under the seat. After the overall situation was stable, he took the time to take a closer look at the horse, and his heart was full of joy.
The horse of Wokotai is more than a zhang long, nearly nine feet high, and its whole body is jet black, with only four hooves of snow white, and it is called Dark Cloud Treading Snow.
Wan Yankang's original little white dragon was also one in a million, but after being poisoned by Ouyang Feng, his physique was much worse, and it was difficult to travel long distances. After Yan Kang felt sorry for the little white dragon, he only kept it in the stable, and only played with it when he was free on weekdays, and no longer used it as a war horse.
After the little white dragon, although the war horses used by Wan Yankang were also carefully selected, for him, he always felt that it was a lot worse.
Once the sea was difficult to water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud.
At this time, seeing this dark cloud stepping on the snow, Wan Yankang's eyes could hardly be moved. Judging from the fur and teeth, the horse looked about five or six years old, and he had just come of age. Judging from its figure, this dark cloud stepping on the snow seems to be a little better than the little white dragon.
When Wokotai was controlled by Wan Yan Kang, the dark clouds and snow were still under control, and when Wan Yan Kang handed over his master to Huang Yaoshi, the horse immediately began to attack, spread its hooves and crashed into Huang Yaoshi.
Huang Yaoshi is such a master, how could he be hit by a horse, after he dodged, he was about to kill this beast with one palm. At that time, Wan Yankang immediately stepped forward to hold Huang Yaoshi's palm, and shouted at the same time: "Father-in-law, don't!" ”
Then he jumped on his horse and began to train it.
After the dark clouds stepped on the snow and felt that there was someone on their backs, they immediately began to kick forward and pout, and their fierceness was definitely better than any mad cow that Yan Kang had seen in his previous life.
If you are an ordinary horse trainer, at this time, on the back of the dark clouds and snow, I am afraid that I will not be able to stabilize it for ten seconds, and I will have to be thrown to the ground.
And Wan Yankang clamped his legs, and did not hold the reins in both hands, but only put it on the horse's neck, and the whole person was as if he was born on a horse, no matter how the beast fluttered, it would be useless.
The dark clouds fluttered on the snow for a while, and when he realized that it was useless, he immediately ran forward, and when the speed was together, he suddenly stood up.
A horse can play such a game, and for an ordinary knight, 100% of them will fall off the horse.
However, this trick was of no use to Wan Yankang, he was still firmly attached to the horse, and his body was almost motionless.
The dark clouds tossed on the snow for a quarter of an hour, and found it useless, so they had to stop helplessly.
In the eyes of the Chinese people on the grassland, martial arts are strong, archery is strong, and equestrian is also strong. When the herdsmen saw that Wanyan Kang's equestrian skills were so sharp, they even admired this Tengger.
Wan Yankang saw that the dark clouds and snow were no longer fluttering, and thought that this guy had been subdued, so he patted its neck, jumped off the horse and came to the horse's head, ready to get close.
Suddenly, the dark cloud stepped on the snow's right hoof and kicked forward!
Wan Yankang subconsciously blocked with his palm, touched the horse's front hooves, and retreated backwards.
The dark clouds and snow sneak attack failed to make a contribution, and immediately lowered his head and slammed into Wan Yankang.
Wan Yan Kangqing snorted: "Good beast! He dodged the collision with a single turn, and at the same time rolled over again on his horse. This time he learned a lesson, regardless of it, he just didn't get down right away.
After the herdsmen cleaned up, Wan Yankang urged the dark clouds to step on the snow and prepare to set off.
In the rebellious consciousness of the dark clouds and snow, if you want me to go west, I will go east. Wan Yankang urged the horse to go west, and it always had to turn to the east.
If it goes east, it will make the horse sting, and if it goes west, it will begin to loosen the force. It took a lot of effort to make the horses temporarily succumb and go west.
Dark clouds tread on the snow and spread their hooves to run, how can other herders keep up. Wan Yankang had to wrap his arms around the horse's neck and exert a slight force to slow it down so that the team could keep up.
After running like this for half the night, the dark clouds and snow found that the person on his back always had a way to control himself. It seemed to resign itself to its fate, and suddenly stopped.
After Yan Kang said in his heart, this time he was finally convinced. But this time he learned his lesson, and no longer dismounted, but kept stroking the horse's neck to show his closeness.
After a while, Wan Yankang felt that he had expressed his closeness enough, so he urged the horse to continue walking.
Then, the horse didn't move!
It's all over, this horse, his temper is really stubborn!
The temper of the dark clouds and snow was beyond his imagination, and this time no matter whether he clamped the horse's belly with his legs or held the horse's neck with both hands, the beast was motionless.
That means clearly, you have the ability to kill your grandpa Ma!
The horses didn't leave, if Huang Yaoshi was here, most of them would have been killed with one palm, or they could only let it go. But Wan Yankang is a person who loves horses, and he finally got a favor, how can he give up like this.
He jumped off his horse, tied all four hooves of the horse, and carried the clouds up the snow.
The herdsmen were stunned!
The more than 2,000 herdsmen who followed Yan Kang, from childhood to adulthood, have only seen people riding horses, and he has never seen people riding horses. What's more, with the size of a dark cloud stepping on snow, it weighs at least a thousand catties.
The moment Yan Kang picked up the horse, he regretted it a little in his heart, but as the cry of "Tengger, Tengger" behind him sounded, it was not good for him to just carry the horse, so he put it down immediately.
Men can't say no!
After Yan Kang used Jiuyang Divine Skill, he did his best and ran for an hour with the horse.
By daybreak, the herders were sleepy. Wan Yankang also ran out of strength, so he had to let go of the dark clouds and step on the snow and rest for a while.
After breakfast and fodder for the horses, the army moved on.
Wan Yankang frowned, he couldn't carry this thousand catties anymore and continue to run.
What to do?
Dark clouds and snow also looked at Wan Yankang, and there was still no intention of surrender in his eyes.
Wan Yankang was furious in his heart, pulled out the spear behind him, and stabbed it into the crotch of the dark clouds and snow......
The dark clouds were startled by the snow and began to hiss uneasily.
Wan Yankang stayed on the lifeline of the dark clouds and snow, and slid it gently, he didn't care if the horse could understand it or not, he only said coldly: "Convinced, just follow me, if you still don't accept it, I will castrate you and let you be a horse eunuch!" ”
As he spoke, he stretched the tip of his gun forward slightly by half a centimeter.
The dark clouds stepped on the snow and looked frightened, and the body did not dare to move, and the horse's head nodded obediently.