"Li Gong and Xuanping, you have to work hard," Xu Zixian said to Li Yi and Kong He: "The concentrate has been prepared a long time ago, don't wash it first, tell the horse to adapt to the environment, lay more pasture, burn more mosquito repellent grass outside the stable, don't let mosquitoes stare at them, horses are also afraid of mosquito bites, there will be no way to sleep......"

"Don't worry, the prince." Li Yi said with a smile: "The matter of raising horses is under the management of the herd under the barracks, and I will send the best manpower to prepare all kinds of items, and the veterinarian is on standby at any time...... These are the top hearts of the princes, and they are also our treasures, we will never treat them slowly, and if I die, I want to fight for it......"

"Haha." Xu Zixian laughed and said: "Do your best and obey the destiny of heaven, we will do everything well, and we can accept any result." ”

War horses are sometimes more delicate than people, which is something that many people don't know.

It is a fact that if it is a short sprint, the speed of the war horse is much higher than that of humans. If you travel a hundred miles, the speed of the war horse is still several times that of humans.

If the journey is 300 miles, the war horses need to be carefully cared for, and as long as humans have food, it will not have much impact.

If the journey is in a thousand miles, 1,500 miles, 2,000 miles.

Then it is the other way around, the war horse has to rest for a long time, if it travels dozens of miles every day, the war horse will die quickly, but human beings have no effect, as long as the diet is sufficient, human beings can still march at a speed of dozens of miles every day.

At this time, humans have to wait for the war horses in turn and take good care of these large herds, otherwise the horses will die in groups, and there is no other possibility.

The Mongolian expedition to the west is to walk a certain distance to fight, rest for a while, walk for a while, and rest again.

From the Mongolian Plateau to Europe, there is a large steppe area across the Ural Mountains, and before attacking Eastern Europe, Batu's army used to graze and rest for half a year.

Three hundred horses were carefully brought into the stable area to the west by officials, knights, grooms, and veterinarians.

There were not only stables, but also two whole soldiers stationed around them, for no other purpose than to guard these treasures.

A Tianfang horse is worth at least dozens of miles, and the price will rise a lot if it is transported to various countries in the South Seas for thousands of miles.

and then transported thousands of miles from Lanfang to the Eastern Domain, it is not too outrageous for a horse to be counted as more than 100 times.

Three hundred horses, if you take a small amount, it is worth tens of thousands, plus a lot of manpower to take care of it, the daily consumption of fine material will be more than 100 stones, when you first arrive, you will not feed these good horses to eat grass bundles, and the daily feeding of fine is also quite expensive.

After these horses get used to it, the large pastures are covered with tender green grass, which can be grazed every day, and the place is big enough for these horses to gallop and regain their energy and wildness.

The horses were variegated, white, black, red, and yellow, and under the drive of the crowd, the horses floated away like clouds into the distance, and Xu Zixian stared for a long time, standing still.

This is the hope of the future, against a strong enemy needs to do their best, in addition to the infantry formation, sailors, there must be elite cavalry, with this piece of heavenly horses, a few years later, will there really be a prosperous scene of the horse farm in the Tang Dynasty?

Xu Zixian is full of hope for this.

After a long time, Xu Zixian said to everyone: "Everything is ready to stop, we should also patrol the mountains and prepare to drive away the indigenous savages."

……

Mana lay on his stomach in the grass for a day and a night, and apart from the occasional move of his arm to drink a sip or two of water, he seemed to be a rock, almost motionless.

There were many clansmen around him, all of whom were sturdy men in their twenties like him.

They had broken hair and tattoos, and only grass husk hides, and in order to prevent mosquito bites, they smeared their bodies with thick black mud.

Even so, all of them were bitten by mosquitoes and were covered in redness and swelling.

Another group of cavalry galloped past from a distance, about forty or fifty horsemen, and more than ten miles behind them, thick smoke rose from the sky, and the fire rushed more than ten zhang high, and it was quite clear from a dozen miles away.

Mana made a hand gesture, and all the natives slowly rose back and climbed over the grass, into the bushes, and then stooped upward, stepping over the stones and a few babbling streams, and finally retreated halfway up the hillside, where the dense trees obscured their tracks, so that they did not have to worry about the Han cavalry noticing.

In the past few days, there have been cavalry patrolling everywhere, and as soon as they find the natives, they will charge in columns, and many tribesmen have suffered the losses of sudden attacks, and the casualties are extremely heavy.

In recent days, the elders of many tribes have been ruthless, and they want to gather a large army to fight the Wei people.

Mana was one of the pioneers of luring the enemy, and the idea of the elders was to lure the enemy horses in, and if they fought in the mountains, the Wei people would not be the opponent.

But the Wei people were also cunning, and in the Pinggu region, the men of the various tribes attacked at the head, and once they retreated from the forests and high mountains, the cavalry stopped and did not pursue.

Mana was a member of a large tribe, and now the tribe had gathered more than a thousand people, and the prime and young men all wanted to go out of the valley and go down the mountain to fight the enemy fiercely, while the elders were still hesitating.

"Scold the enemy and lure it." Retreating to the hillside from the forest, it was already safe for Mana and the others, he gave an order, and dozens of native youths began to shoot arrows at the foot of the mountain, while shouting and scolding.

The cavalry soon saw the Mana, and the cavalry galloped up and down the winding hills, their red robes and black armor mixed with the green grass like floating clouds.

The natives and the Wei people have been in constant friction and war recently, and there are many casualties, knowing that although the number of such cavalry is not large, it is not an existence that can be matched at all, so they scolded and retreated, and when the cavalry arrived at the foot of the mountain, the natives had already withdrawn far away.

The Wei cavalry did not retreat, and Mana saw a tall Wei man in the crowd, who was also wearing a red robe, but the color was more vivid than that of ordinary knights, and it looked more noble, and the battle armor on his body was also a shining iron scale armor, which was much more conspicuous than those gray-black cloth cotton armor.

There appears to be a silver belt tied around his waist, and the silver light shimmers when the light is refracted.

"That's a nobleman." One of the natives also saw it, and he put on the heavy arrow of the hunting shovel, pulled the bow to the fullest, and the tips of the bow were almost folded together, and then let go of his fingers, and the arrow flew out with a buzzing sound of the bowstring.

The weather was hot, and it rained for several days, and the tendons on the horn bow were softened, and the arrows flew hundreds of paces, and finally landed dozens of paces in front of the noble man's head.

The natives cried out in frustration, knowing that they could not do anything.

They were still hoping that the cavalry would catch up, and they kept throwing arrows down the hill or shouting insults.

Mana squinted at the foot of the mountain, he was carrying dozens of short spears behind him, which were the sharp weapons of Mana's enemies, there were not many bows and arrows on the mountain, they were all given to the best archers, and most of them used throwing spears.

This time, the Wei people's persecution was too close, and the elders of all the ethnic groups felt annoyed, and if there was no bloody battle to determine the boundary, all the ethnic groups would not be convinced.

In fact, Mana felt that none of the clans were opponents of the Wei people, but he had no way to say this, although his father was the patriarch, but among the clans, it was the elders who decided on major matters, and what the patriarch could decide in ordinary times was only the small things of daily life.

"Come up, they're coming!"

This time, unlike before, the knights did not stop for long in the hills and at the foot of the hills, but rode on their horses, a bush and deep grass hid them, but after a few minutes the cavalry rose to the heights, their helmets adorned with white feathers, quite conspicuous in the green environment.

"Retreat," Mana saw more knights coming from a distance, and he immediately ordered a retreat, while shouting loudly, "Send someone to inform the elders of the clan that the enemy is coming to the mountains." ”

……

It was not convenient for the cavalry to go deep into the mountains, and Xu Zixian was also forced to do so.

All kinds of major issues of resettlement and development have been impermissible, and the indigenous people are harassing everywhere, and there is no way to make the people who burn and develop the land inside the official road feel safe.

Xu Zixian knew that without some hard work and no solution to the troubles of the natives, his large-scale development plan could only be put on hold, and at this time, he could only give up all distractions, not change, not change the path he had decided, mobilize the forces available now, and move forward firmly towards the set goal.

In the distance, there was a loud sound of military trumpets, which was relatively gentle, and the cavalry galloped towards the horses at trotting speed.

"I took people up the mountain, taught the natives a lesson, and led them to catch up." Xu Zixian said to Zhang Huchen, who rushed over: "We will go out again at this Xikou, Huchen, you will lead the team to garrison here, and the task of responding to and attacking the natives who are chasing over will be handed over to you." ”

"The prince is personally in danger, and I have no way to give an account to Duke Li and Qin Du." Zhang Huchen said: "Please call your subordinates to go down to the mountains to lure the enemy, and the prince will command here." ”

"If I were the commander of the cavalry battalion, Huchen, your advice would be feasible." Xu Zixian smiled and said: "There is no need to argue, I have iron armor and silver belt, and the natives have seen it in the past few days, and it is most appropriate for me to lure the enemy." Moreover, it is difficult for the natives to make bows, not to mention armor, many people use stone spears and stone axes, and even barehanded, without armor. If I had to lead most of his subordinates to join our army, I am afraid that I would not have to hide and flee at all. ”

Zhang Huchen agreed with Xu Zixian's opinion, but he was still worried.

These days, everyone has been cruising under the official roads and mountains, passing through many streams, and once going deep into the mountains, but the group passed by, and the natives were like grasshoppers jumping in the grass, and soon disappeared.

If the cavalry is scattered, most of them will appear in high places and curse and fight.

After a few days, the situation is quite obvious.

The natives were attracting the government army to the mountains, probably trying to ambush them in the mountains, but it was impossible for Xu Zixian and Zhang Huchen to bring the main force of the cavalry battalion into the mountains, so they could only enter the mountains with a small number of people, beat the natives with a stick, and hurt them, and then wait for the natives to be stimulated and go out of the mountains on a large scale to retaliate......

This is the decoy of the enemy and the counter-decoy of the enemy, the difference is that the indigenous side may be a warrior sent by a certain tribe, and on the side of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, it is Xu Zi who has to go out in person first.

"Huchen doesn't have to worry, and he doesn't have to persuade anymore." Xu Zixian said peacefully: "If you want to create a great cause, you will sit in the hall and wait for success?" Besides, I'm not taking risks, and the natives' combat power won't pose any threat to me. ”

At the time of Shen, Xu Zixian led more than 30 guards, and a cavalry from the capital began to climb the mountain.