……

"Boom, boom, boom......"

On the vast grassland, a terrifying vibration sounded, and the endless killing intent was entrained, and hundreds of thousands of iron hooves struck the green land and the Getan, as if to trample the earth to pieces.

"Appeal ......"

The neighing of horses resounded incessantly under the sky, and the galloping horses stretched to the end of the sky, connecting with heaven and earth.

"Woo woo woo~"

The horn of the front branch pierced the earth, and the sharp sound of the trumpet soared into the sky, as if to strip the soul of the living soul from the body.

"Knock knock~"

Hundreds of dull and powerful war drums beat in the rolling torrent, and each blow seemed to shake the sky into a hole, and the space was distorted.

"Hula~"

A large silk as high as several zhang stood in the advancing army, only to see that the banner of the great silk was fixed on all sides, the strong wind blew, and the totem of the wolf king on the banner shrank back tightly, making a whipped roar......

"Whew~"

A wolf howl echoed at the front of the marching torrent, and as far as the eye could see, there were more than a thousand sturdy blue wolves driven by animal trainers, bowing their heads, their sharp iron claws seemed to be able to tear everything apart, and the blood-red wolf eyes were filled with boundless violent aura.

In the middle of the army, 200 brightly armored cavalry tightly surrounded a Hulan man who was over sixty years old and riding on a tall black horse in the Western Regions. Behind them are a full 3,000 horsemen and horses are armored cavalry, they are the only heavy armored cavalry in the Hulan grassland, the Khan's personal guard!

And the Hulan nobleman on horseback is none other than the ruler of the Hulan grassland who has made the seven provinces of the Far East (Yuanzhou, Dingzhou, Yanzhou, Yizhou, Youzhou, Liuzhou and Jizhou) change color and thousands of lives are devastated, Su Xi Dong Li!

At this time, Dong Li's eyebrows were deeply locked, and a trace of deep worry appeared in his eyes. It was only because he received a superstition sent by Murong Yong that he learned that a large force of cavalry in southern Hebei had now appeared outside the Saiwai, and because of this army along the way, many tribes were wiped out.

After receiving the information, Dong Li immediately transferred three units of 60,000 cavalry under his command to go out to the battle, and ordered the rest of the troops under his command to step up protection, and ordered them to transfer 50,000 cavalry to converge on one road, and began to look for traces of disturbing the armies outside the Saiwai.

"Dare to come to the grassland? These weekly dogs really don't know whether to live or die! is worried about how to take revenge, dare to find the door to send them to death, hum, they must all die without a place to be buried! ”

On the side of Dong Li, Dai Duo, who was the captain of ten thousand years, was angry, and his teeth were itching angrily at the arrival of this army!

The fiasco in Yuanzhou last year made him feel that it was a lifelong shame, and the 20,000 Hulan warriors were defeated by the weak officers and soldiers of the Zhou State, and almost all the troops were wiped out! This is a fiasco that has never been seen since the rise of the Hulan people.

It's good now, another army of the Zhou State has come and rampaged into the grassland to wantonly slaughter the people of various tribes? How can this be......

Dong Li looked at the torrent ocean, and after listening to Dai Duo's words, he didn't say a word, but kept closing his eyes and meditating on horseback.

"Dai Duo, let's say a few words......" Su Lichen, who was also a captain on the other side, saw that Dong Libi was silent, and complained to Dai Duo: "Don't disturb the communication between the Khan and the Mother Earth. ”

"It's okay......" Suddenly, Dong Li opened his eyes and stopped their dispute, "Ben Khan is just thinking about why this huge cavalry will appear on the Hulan grassland of my grassland, and the letter of King Zuo Yu (Murong Yong's title) only explained that this is a lone army, and it was defeated by He Danluo in northern Hebei and the lone army that escaped from the fortress, but why did such a defeated army have to move so vigorously and actually let me raise a large army to encircle and suppress it?"

Dai Duo saluted Dong Li when he heard this: "Khan, King Zuoyu has always been cautious, and you don't know it, since this cavalry can get out of Jizhou and attack many of my tribesmen along the way, it must also have a certain strength, no wonder King Zuoyu has this concern." ”

Dong Ke Khan chuckled: "What you said may be right, but King Zuo Yu did not say clearly in the letter what this army is, could it be the Jingwei Battalion?" ”

"Khan laughed......" Su Lichen hurriedly denied, "How could the Jingwei Battalion appear here?" Isn't he fighting with He Danbu in Jizhou now?"

Dong Li shook his head and asked, "Then you explain, why this time the 60,000 troops of He Danluo, He Dansheng, and He Danyun will also follow out of the fortress to pursue this lone army?" Is there anything worth the risk they take to ignore the northern battlefield? ”

Dai Duo and Su Lichen also fell into deep thought when they heard this, and when they heard Dong Li say this, they realized that things didn't seem to be as simple as they thought.

Dong Liwolf looked at the dark shadow in front of him, and said firmly: "Find this army first, whether it is the Jingwei battalion or not, they must be annihilated!" ”

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In another place, He Danluo's army continued to gallop across the grassland, but a trace of sadness appeared on each other's faces, and their morale was low.

Just because the tribes they passed through were full of people and animals, and they were all red, and the women who had not been slaughtered had long since disappeared......

"This group of bitches raised it!" As soon as He Danyun thought of the scenes he had seen these days, he couldn't help but scold, "When we catch them, we must let them die without a place to bury!" ”

When He Danluo heard his son say this, his mood was also extremely heavy.

I thought that this cavalry would be unable to move an inch out of the fortress, but what I didn't expect was that they would take the initiative to launch an offensive against the various departments of the grassland.

In the past few days, more than a dozen tribesmen of all sizes have been slaughtered, and their corpses have been stacked into small mountains among the destroyed tribes, which is terrifying, and it is very difficult to supply their own army......

However, what surprised He Danluo even more was that after so many days, no trace of this cavalry was found, could it be that the horses and riding skills of these Central Plains cavalry were more superb than the grassland warriors who grew up on horseback since childhood?

"How the hell did they do it? This kind of marching speed is really incredible......" He Danluo, who didn't understand anything after thinking about it, couldn't help but say out loud.

"I think I should know how they do it." At this time, Murong Yi rode his horse to He Danluo and said, "Originally, I was still wondering why there was such a thing, but after traveling all the way in the past few days, I finally figured out why they had such an efficiency in marching, so that we could not catch up." ”

He Dan Luoqi said: "Oh? Do you know? Please also point out the last one or two......"

I saw Murong Yong take out a horse leg from the bag on the side of the saddle and hand it to He Danluo.

He Danluo took it and looked at it a few times, and said to Murong Yong: "Donkey, is there anything special about this horse's leg?" Forgive the end of the general's clumsy eyes, and he can't see the clues. ”

Murong Ji smiled and said, "General Luo, if you look at the horse's hooves, you will know what the difference is......

"Huh?" He Danluo looked at the horse's hooves when he heard this, and when he saw the "Ω" shaped horse's shoe at the bottom, he couldn't help but be surprised, "This is?"

Murong Yong Zhengse said: "Nailing the iron to the bottom of the horse's hooves, solving the wear and tear of the horse's hooves can extend the horsepower, plus they plundered the horses in the various departments, one of the horses, naturally they can't catch up, I didn't expect that there are people in the Zhou Kingdom who know how to use war horses better than us, this Jingwei camp is really surprising." ”

He Danluo stared at the horse leg in his hand for a long time and couldn't speak, he didn't expect that a small piece of iron lump would actually raise the horsepower to a higher level, why didn't he think that he still had the grassland people?

"In the future, the cavalry of our steppe empire will also put these pieces of iron on the hooves of horses! Let our warriors be strengthened! He Danluo said firmly.

Murong Ji nodded: "This is natural, but this is a lot of money." ”

He Danluo hurriedly said: "After the elimination of this lone army outside the Saiwai, after returning to Jizhou, I will definitely let the people of Jizhou double the mining of ore, and strive to let all the mounts of the Mengluo Empire be printed with this iron block as soon as possible, and it will be the real iron hoof!" ”

Murong Yong looked at He Danluo and smiled without saying a word, and said in his heart: "The ore produced in northern Hebei in a year is only 600,000 jin of iron, and at most it is 1.2 million catties, even if half of it is wrought iron, excluding the armor, how much iron can be left to equip such a huge war horse?" What's more, the iron on this horse's leg is fine iron......"

But after thinking about it, Murong Yong still decided to equip some of the war horses for the Mengluo Empire first, and improve their combat effectiveness first, which may be helpful to the war in the Western Regions.

For a long time, Murong Yong put aside these thoughts: "Don't think about it so much first, quickly find this lone army, and wipe them out at all costs!" ”

……

In the big tent of the Yuwen Department, Liu Ce leaned to the side of the tent, quietly watching the scene of the rescued slaves and soldiers in the clan busy together. Udara held a wolf's tooth pestle, like a small mountain, and stood motionless at his side.

In the past few days, Liu Ce has been looking at the busy scene in the tribe in a daze every day, without saying a word, so that the generals who came to report the military situation thought that his poison had not been expelled, and immediately went to Lu Yangsheng to inquire about the situation.

"General, Fu Yunxiao sent the latest movements of the various departments of the grassland...... "Not far away, Chu Zijun trotted all the way to Liu Ce and dismounted and saluted him, "After the Luojin Department accepted the surviving Hu people and the remnants of Yuwen in the Dalan Festival, the Ju clan migrated to the north, Fu Yunxiao asked if he took the opportunity to pursue, or take down the Luojin headquarters?" After all, they were in a hurry, and many things couldn't be taken with them......"

After listening to Chu Zijun's words throughout the whole process, Liu Ce still looked motionlessly at the busy figures of the Central Plains people who were taken captive and enslaved in the clan.

After a long time, Liu Ce spoke: "Go back and tell Fu Yunxiao to stay still, continue to closely monitor the movements of various departments, and find out if there can be a large force of cavalry on the road when you come down." ”

"Obey ......"

Chu Zijun left as he said, while Liu Ce continued to look at the captured slaves blankly.

"None of them have been enslaved, there is hope, but ......"

When Liu Ce saw the smiles on the faces of several women who were sewing clothes and armor with smiles on their faces for the rest of their lives, there was a tingling in his heart.

"I'm sorry, I really can't save you right now, sorry ......"

When he first entered the desert outside the Saiwai, Liu Ce saw that the captured slaves of various departments were all submissive and insensitive expressions, which made Liu Ce very disappointed, so he strengthened his mind to release the desire of the soldiers to do whatever he wanted.

However, most of these busy people in front of him still have expectations for life, and at this moment Liu Ce realized that even if the Chinese people on the grassland were like this, he still couldn't save them.

Whether they have hope for the future or are willing to be slaves, the result is the same, that is, the current Liu Ce has no ability to save them......