"War horses! Lots of war horses! Bai Qi looked at Bai Yunfan with a smile and replied.

"Isn't it a war horse? There are a lot of them in our army.,There's nothing surprising.。。。 Bai Yunfan replied disapprerovingly, seeing that Bai Qi was still looking at him with a smile, Bai Yunfan suddenly came to his senses, grabbed Bai Qi's shoulders with both hands and said, "Stinky old Qi, don't you want to tell me that the Tatars are going to sell us war horses, right?" ”

Bai Qi was still silent, looking at Bai Yunfan with a smile on his face, the meaning in his eyes was very clear.

Cavalry is definitely a decisive force on the battlefield in this era, and a key factor in determining the quality of cavalry is the quality of war horses. The Han family in the Central Plains also produces war horses, but the war horses that are fed in a superior environment are still large

Its running ability cannot be compared with the war horses produced in the northwest grassland, let alone the load capacity and wildness.

For hundreds of years, the Han nationality in the Central Plains has not suffered the losses of the nomadic cavalry, and the Xiongnu and Tatars on the steppe, their cavalry can be said to have come and gone without a trace, and often suddenly appear on the battlefield that our army did not expect, and they fought and ran. Such as dealing with foreign cavalry? The best way is to use cavalry against cavalry, but the quality of the Central Plains war horse greatly restricts the combat ability of the cavalry.

Knowing what Bai Qi meant, Bai Yunfan laughed three times and said, "Hahaha, it's good." Saying that, Bai Yunfan shook Bai Qi's hand and said: "Let's go, Lao Qi, let's go to see that Nalan girl, if she can provide me with a large number of war horses in the future, I will also recognize her as a sister." ”

Bai Qi said with a playful smile on his face: "Brother, you are too impatient, it's dark this day, you drill into other girls' rooms, aren't you afraid that your sister-in-law will pick your skin?" ”

Only then did Bai Yunfan react, it was really rude to go to the girl's room at night, and smiled awkwardly: "Your sister-in-law is a reasonable person, you shouldn't blame me, but it's really inappropriate for us to go like this." ”

Bai Qi stood up and pressed Bai Yunfan back to his position and said: "Brother, don't be anxious and happy, you don't know the reason for this matter, I will tell you the reason for the matter clearly, so that tomorrow we can talk to someone about the deal, in short, you must know that it is she who asked us in this matter." ”

Bai Yunfan was confused, the war horses on the grassland have always been sought-after treasures, how did they become others in Bai Qi's mouth?

"Seventh, don't laugh with your brother, why should people just me?"

"Just because brother, you have recently made a windfall, so I have to congratulate my brother first." Bai Qi is interested in selling a pass.

Bai Yunfan heard that the handsome face showed an unhappy expression and said, "Old Seven, are you angry with me?" As you know, our Bai family's children lead the troops, and they never do those things that eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers, and my brother has always done this, and he has always been tolerant of this, which is why our Bai family's prestige in the army has always been very high. ”

As soon as Bai Qi heard it, he knew that Bai Yunfan had misunderstood, and hurriedly smiled: "I have always respected my brother's character, but the windfall I am talking about is not a soldier's blood, I mean something else." ”

Bai Yunfan was even more confused, and after thinking about it, he said, "Then brother, where did I get my windfall?" ”

Seeing that Bai Yunfan was like this, Bai Qi no longer ambushed, and hurriedly explained: "Didn't my brother intercept a lot of grain that was shipped out recently? That's a windfall. ”

Hearing Bai Qi mention the grain, Bai Yunfan suddenly showed a wry smile, and his face also returned to a sad expression: "Old Seven! Don't make fun of my brother, I'm still worried about this, I intercepted hundreds of thousands of tons of grain, which was all when you told me that it might be Zhang Chu and the Huns who were secretly buying grain, so I asked the capital and got approval before intercepting it. ”

Bai Qi heard it and said strangely: "I don't understand what my brother said, I got hundreds of thousands of loads of grain for nothing, what are you worried about?" ”

Bai Yunfan looked at Bai Qi Zhengse and said, "Old Qi, you don't understand the trick. The food is in my hands, and I don't know how many people are staring at me. I originally wanted to keep part of the grain as military rations and distribute the other part to the local people, but after thinking about it carefully, if someone sues me for buying people's hearts from the king, the king has always been suspicious of the Bai family, and if I really do this, I don't know what to think of our Bai family. ”

"Then sell it, take part of the money from the sale to dot the officials in the capital, keep some for yourself, and hand over some to nothing?" Bai Qi came up with an idea.

"You don't want to, but you don't know that the domestic grain harvest in the past two years has been bumper, and where do you want me to go to find a buyer for a while. Besides, it is winter now, the climate is dry, and there should be no big problem with grain storage, but when the spring of next year comes, when the rainy season arrives, I don't know where to store the grain, which is really sad. ”

It turned out that Bai Yunfan was worried about this, Bai Qi immediately laughed when he heard it, Bai Yunfan saw that Bai Qi was still laughing, and said angrily: "Guy with no conscience, you still laugh." ”

Bai Qi then told Nalan about his urgent need for food, and told Bai Yunfan about the situation he talked with Nalan one by one, Bai Yunfan learned that there was such a good thing, his mouth was open for a long time, and he couldn't close it for a long time, and only after a while did he say: "Thank God, thank you to the Huns." ”

Bai Qi laughed when he heard this: "Brother, you are too unkind, the Tatars are dying of hunger, and you are still talking cool here." ”

Bai Yunfan smiled disappreciatively: "Then I don't care, whoever helps me get the war horse, I will thank whom, with the war horse, my army plan will be more perfect." ”

At this time, Bai Yunfan could be said to be a big stone that had completely landed, and he pulled Bai Qi with a smile, poured a glass of wine for Bai Qi and said, "Come, Old Seven, let's make a toast to this good thing." ”

Bai Qi pressed Bai Yunfan's hand pouring wine and said, "Brother! Be busy and happy first, the war horse is there, but you have to make some preparations in advance. It's the middle of winter, and there are so many war horses in the army all at once, where are you going to get grass? Also, you have to prepare in advance for the problem of the stable, how to get the horses back, who to appoint to command the cavalry unit, and how to train the troops after they are built. ”

Bai Yunfan slapped his head and said, "Oh, look at me, just know that I'm happy, I really didn't expect these things." Saying that, Bai Yunfan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Old Seven, I have looked at you as an extraordinary character since I was a child, and now it seems that your mental strategy is far above that of your brother." Since you are here today, my brother has to ask you for advice, there are many things that I can't solve in my mind, you have to help my brother. ”

Bai Qi took a closer look at Bai Yunfan at this time, and found that in less than a year, Bai Yunfan looked much older than when he left the capital, and he was also pale due to poor rest and overwork, and fine wrinkles could be faintly seen on his forehead, and a few strands of white hair could be vaguely seen on his sideburns.

Bai Qi's heart hurt slightly, his eldest brother has always been very good to himself, when he was in the capital, he had Bai Qiwei in front of him, and now he is alone, and he also shoulders the responsibility of inheriting the glory of the Bai family, no wonder he has aged a lot in this year. Bai Qi has only one thought in his heart now, and that is to share his worries for Bai Yunfan.

"What did my brother say? As long as it's for the younger brother, you just have to open your mouth. ”

Bai Yunfan stood up, walked to the desk and took a map, and when he came back, he spread it out for Bai Qi to look at, and then pointed to the hungry map and said, "Old Qi, look." The geographical location of Xie Zhou is extremely significant, the southwest is next to Zhang Chu, the northwest is the Huns, and the north is also bordered by the Northern Qin. ”

Bai Qi couldn't help but nod and said: "Yes, the north is a little better, there is the Qinling Mountains as a barrier, it is not easy for the Northern Qin to fight, and the other aspects are all plains with a horse and a flat river, which happens to be a good place for the Huns to gallop on iron horses." ”

Bai Yunfan looked very calm, looked at the map and continued: "Old Seven, you can also see this problem, we haven't been at war with the Huns in the past few decades, but the Huns' ambition to dominate the Central Plains has not been extinguished. In this sense, at least three years, at most five years, we have a war with the Xiongnu. ”

Bai Qi took over and said: "Yes, if the Huns want to enter the Central Plains, there are only three ways to go. The first is from Zhang Chu to Later Wei and Daqi, and the second is to go north to first eliminate the Tatars, unify the grasslands, and then go south from Northern Qin, and the third is to break through the defense line of Jiezhou, and then the front is the great rivers and mountains of Yima Pingchuan. Zhang Chu is now friendly with the Huns, and it is likely to be an ally of the Huns in the future, and the Tatars are now weak, but if they want to destroy the Tatars, it is easy to cause a reaction from the Northern Qin, and it is not impossible for the Northern Qin to send troops to the Tatars at that time, and the Huns will not choose this road It takes too much time for the Huns. To sum up, the best battlefield for the Huns to wage war against the Central Plains in the future could only be Jiezhou. ”

"Hey! Now you get it? Why was I a small 7-rank general in the capital at the beginning, with only 3,000 men in command, Su Yuncheng still nagged in front of the king all day long, saying that the children of the Bai family led too many troops, and my father would propose to let me go to Jiezhou, but Su Yuncheng not only did not stop it, but also strongly agreed, right? Bai Yunfan smiled bitterly.

"Bringing troops in such a place, once there is something in the world, the first place to become a battlefield can only be this, and in such a terrain to fight against the opponent of the Huns, we are also completely at a disadvantage, this is what my brother is most worried about."

Of course, Bai Qi understood Bai Yunfan's worries, but along the way, Bai Qi also thought of a lot of ways to deal with the Hun cavalry, and now it was time to tell Bai Yunfan, thinking of this, Bai Qilang smiled and said: "Brother is not more worried, junior brother has a few strategies, if the Huns don't come, they can't please them when they come." ”

"Come on!" Bai Yunfan was overjoyed when he heard this, and his expression was a little impatient.