Chapter 424: Horse Grabbing
This rainy night in Chang'an is destined to be the most chaotic night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Li Dao and Guo Yan and others were still asleep inside and outside the Weiyang Palace, they were awakened by the sound of drums and shouts of killing, they thought that there had been a camp roar, and they couldn't help but be horrified, Li Wei hurriedly went to see the Son of Heaven first, and at the same time ordered Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others to go out to check the situation and rectify the soldiers and horses.
When Li Dao arrived at the harem, he saw that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, was unharmed, and immediately left heavy soldiers to guard him, and then immediately drove out of Weiyang Palace to check the situation.
As soon as he arrived outside Weiyang Palace, he couldn't help but be stunned.
But see the street in front of Weiyang Palace, the shadow is longing, everywhere are war horses neighing and running, at a glance there are thousands of horses, and countless Liangzhou soldiers lit torches, roaring, shouting, chasing, dodging, some Liangzhou people climbed on the horse, but more were panicked and frightened away the war horses stepped under the hooves, and became meat paste in a blink of an eye, some Liangzhou people were frightened, and even pulled out knives to kill the war horses, and there was chaos everywhere.
Seeing this scene, Li Dao almost fainted, and he recognized these frightened war horses, all of which were the mounts of their flying bear cavalry, and the war horses stored in the Changle Palace!
He knew in an instant that there was a mess in Changle Palace. As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel like a fire, there were 35,000 war horses in Changle Palace, which was the foundation of their Liangzhou soldiers dominating the world, he didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be if there was a problem with these 35,000 war horses.
"Go to Changle Palace!" Li Dao didn't say a word, and immediately rushed to Changle Palace with his personal guards.
Outside Changle Palace, Zhang Liao looked at the mess everywhere, and he was also a little confused.
The strategy is good, the imagination is good, but the object is wrong, perhaps it can be said that Tsushima plays the harp.
Tens of thousands of war horses are too many, and they are in the dark night, running in all directions under the chaos, and they can't control it at all.
Zuo Ci, a master of horse taming with two knives, was in a hurry, and it was useless to shout loudly.
Seeing this, Zhang Liao immediately made a decision and immediately changed his strategy, ordering the soldiers to divide into a thousand people, looking for horses, beating drums and lighting fires, and driving them out of the city, as much as they could. When encountering a large number of Liangzhou people, they drove the war horses to rush to it. There is only one point, do not break up the group.
However, Zhang Liao can conclude that in this case, the people of Liangzhou will only be more chaotic, not to mention that a large number of Liangzhou people are still in the north of the city.
In fact, as Zhang Liao said, although his goal failed, but it caused another result, Liangzhou people were in chaos, those cavalry woke up, hurriedly looking for their war horses, the infantry gathered, wanted to stop the galloping horses, but the galloping horses were extremely terrible, although it was in the city, but it was dark night, and when they saw the war horses rushing over, they couldn't dodge, and it was really difficult to prevent.
The losses of the people of Liangzhou are incalculable.
Until dawn, Zhang Liao was already outside the city, he didn't know how many war horses his soldiers drove out of the city, but it was estimated that it was definitely more than fifteen thousand, after all, he had the first opportunity.
Xu Huang, Zhang Yan, Zhao Zhao, and the soldiers and horses of Beicheng have all withdrawn from Chang'an City.
After the tens of thousands of war horses were driven out of the city, they did not stop obediently, except for more than 6,000 horses that were snatched by soldiers, most of them were still running around.
"Catch! Not a single horse must be let go! Zhang Liao looked at the running war horses, his eyes lit up, and he loudly ordered the soldiers of all departments to quickly gather the running war horses.
Not long after, Dian Wei also drove out with the tiger warriors, they obviously went through a fight, but the war horses they drove were five or six thousand!
Zhang Liao couldn't help grinning, it wasn't that he wasn't determined enough, but that the war horse was too precious and too rare.
You must know that under ordinary circumstances, a stone of fine grain is only about 200 yuan, and ten catties of beef are only 200 yuan, but a war horse is worth 20,000 to 100,000 yuan! A good horse is worth more than 200,000 yuan! These Liangzhou war horses are all good horses, with an average value of 50,000 to 100,000 yuan.
A war horse is at least equivalent to two or three hundred stone fine grain, and ten thousand war horses are two or three million stone grain, not to mention that after ten thousand war horses, it means that a strong cavalry can be formed, and what can be obtained from it?
That kind of value can no longer be simply calculated in numbers, and no amount of grain can be exchanged!
Zhang Liao was excited, Xu Huang, Zhang Yan and other soldiers were even more unbearable, forming a group of three or five, shouting frantically to chase after the war horses that surrounded and ran, and some soldiers directly chased after them, holding the horse's tail and not letting go.
Not long after, the two cavalry teams of Zhao Yun and Xu Rong, who were responding to the north of Weishui, also rushed over at the agreed time and joined the ranks of rounding up the war horses.
There was chaos in Chang'an City in the middle of the night, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were not fools, they had long known that it was Zhang Liao who did it, and Li Dao, Guo Yan and others almost hated to jump off the Chang'an City Tower.
They chased out of Chang'an City with tens of thousands of soldiers, but they were met by Dian Wei and led by them, and the two cavalry of Zhao Yun and Xu Rong rushed left and right to respond, Li Dao and Guo Yan, who were not ready for battle, were defeated and could only return to the city in a hurry.
There is no way, most of their most elite cavalry are still looking for horses in the city, and they bring out horseless cavalry, losing their horses is like a toothless tiger, how can they resist the combination of Dian Wei, Zhao Yun and Xu Rong.
Zhang Liao also ordered Zhao Yun's cavalry to walk outside the south gate of Chang'an City, pretending to attack Weiyang Palace, Li Dao and Guo Yan no longer had time to care about going out of the city, so they could only order the soldiers to quickly gather the war horses running around in the city.
Outside the city, it took Zhang Liao nearly two hours to gather the running war horses, about 18,000 or so, and some of them ran far away and were difficult to recover.
Zhang Liao estimated that they drove nearly 20,000 war horses out of the city, and there should be 10,000 to 20,000 in the city.
The strength of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry was almost immediately weakened by half by him, and his strength will be doubled!
The 18,000 war horses, plus their original more than 6,000 war horses, suddenly had more than 25,000 war horses, of which more than 6,000 war horses were equipped with the personal guards of the various armies, the personal guards of the Chinese army, the heralds and the scout battalions of the various armies. The remaining 18,000 war horses were handed over to Zhao Yun and Xu Rong.
Zhao Yun and Xu Rong each led 6,000 cavalry and 9,000 war horses, one person and two horses were a bit wasteful, and two people and three horses were the most reasonable configuration. Coupled with nailing the horses' shoes, the loss will be even smaller.
Zhang Liao believed that with the abilities of Zhao Yun and Xu Rong, his cavalry would quickly develop and become a big help, and he would have capital when fighting against foreign invasions. Otherwise, although the infantry can fight against the nomadic aliens, it is impossible to pursue, and it cannot pose a threat to the aliens, so it can only resist passively.
Therefore, the cavalry is also the foundation of their next strategy and coolness, of course, these war horses are not enough, to attack foreign races from afar, to protect the stability of the cool, more cavalry is needed, so we can only find a way.