Zhou Kai heard Liu Ji ask about the training of his cavalry, and how he got along with You Tong, Zhou Kai immediately said with some excitement: "Thank you for the general's cultivation, my subordinates never thought that one day they could lead more than five hundred cavalry, you must know that in the entire Qianzhou border fortress, no county can take out five hundred cavalry now, and the subordinates get along well with You Sima, and the subordinates promise the general that they will definitely train these five hundred cavalry into an elite for the general!" ”

Liu Ji said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, now we only have 10,000 war horses in our hands, but there are only 2,000 cavalry, and in the future, we will have more cavalry in Chengyin County. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhou Kai nodded, in the past few days, Zhou Kai has learned about Liu Ji's coming to the border of Yin City, and knows that the thousands of troops under Liu Ji's command are all tossed out by Liu Ji himself, and there is no family help at all, Liu Ji is not a child of a family or a wealthy family, Liu Ji's family is just a small landlord.

For Liu Ji, a Shangguan who is just 17 years old, Zhou Kai admires it very much, if he is replaced by Zhou Kai himself, he is definitely not as good as Liu Ji, of course, Zhou Kai doesn't know, if he also has a Chinese military general summoning system, it will not be worse than Liu Ji.

As for Liu Ji's statement that the cavalry troops will continue to expand in the future, Zhou Kai believes that Liu Ji will be able to do it, after all, 10,000 war horses are placed outside Chengyin City, for the Great Jin army, the most difficult thing to form a cavalry unit is the lack of war horses, and this is no longer a problem for Liu Ji.

Thinking of the 10,000 war horses outside the city, Zhou Kai hesitated for a moment and said to Liu Ji: "General, the 10,000 war horses outside the city are particularly precious to us Chengyin City and our entire northern four states of the Great Jin Dynasty, but there is no suitable pasture near our Chengyin City, there is no problem in a short time, let the soldiers cut some hay nearby, and with a small amount of soybeans, they can also feed these 10,000 war horses, but the amount of hay consumed by 10,000 war horses every day is huge, and after a long time, the hay near Chengyin City will definitely be in short supply, We must plan ahead and not let anything go wrong with these 10,000 precious war horses. ”

Liu Ji also considered the question of how to raise 10,000 war horses, and when he heard Zhou Kai mention this aspect, Liu Ji immediately said: "Raising 10,000 war horses does have to be planned, I don't know if there is a pasture suitable for horses in our entire Chengyin County?" If not, we can only go in the direction of the grassland and think of a way! ”

Zhou Kai sighed and said: "In fact, about thirty miles north of Chengyin City, there is a grassland that belongs to the territory of our Chengyin County, more than two hundred years ago, it was still a horse farm in our Great Jin Dynasty, but since more than two hundred years ago, the Tunbao at the Xishan Pass was destroyed by the combined forces of the Wuheng tribe and the Loufu tribe, and the horse farm was abolished. ”

"The Tunpu at the Creek Pass? Brother Zhou, tell me about the tunbao at Xishankou. ”

Later, from Zhou Kai's mouth, Liu Ji learned that it was necessary to pass through the Anxing Mountains to enter Chengyin County from the grassland, and Xishankou belonged to a gorge in the Anxing Mountains, which was the only way to enter Chengyin County from the grassland.

Soon after the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, relying on millions of troops who had fought for many years, a large number of military fortresses were built in the northern states to prevent the invasion of the steppe nomads.

A fortress like Xishan Fort, a fortress was also built in Ji'an County at that time, and it was also built at a gorge in the Anxing Mountains.

After the completion of Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort, the cavalry of the grassland tribes opposite the Jie'an County was blocked in the north of the Anxing Mountains, so that the cavalry of the grassland tribes could not directly enter the territory of the Jie'an County, and also made the people of the Jie'an County have not suffered from the large-scale raiding of the Hu people in the nearly 200 years after the completion of the Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort, and the cavalry of the various tribes in the grassland have been blocked in the Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort.

It's a pity that more than 200 years ago, the combined forces of the Wuheng tribe and the Lou Fu tribe entered Qianzhou from a gorge fortress in the Anxing Mountains in Mochong County next to the Ju'an County, and after the counties of Qianzhou raged, they suddenly divided their troops to the south of Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort, and launched an attack from the south of the two Tunbao forts where the defense was relatively weak, and finally completely destroyed the two gates of the Anxing Mountains in Ju'an County, and then the combined forces of the Wuheng and Lou Nu tribes withdrew from the two gorges that became ruins, with a large amount of looted booty, and withdrew to the grassland.

After that, the border army of Ju'an County, although they tried to rebuild Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort many times, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful, and the various tribes on the grassland near Ju'an County did not give the border army of Ju'an County the opportunity to build Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort again.

Even again, the border army of Ju'an County concentrated nearly 40,000 troops, and pressed the battle in the ruins of Weishan Fort, hoping to rebuild Weishan Fort first, but under the onslaught of more than 150,000 Hu cavalry, Weishan Fort was not built in the end, and the border army of Ju'an County also lost more than 10,000 soldiers for this.

With several failed attempts by the border army of Ju'an County, no one thought about rebuilding Xishan Fort and Weishan Fort anymore.

Zhou Kai said with a wry smile: "If the Tunbao in Xishankou is still there, we can use the grassland thirty miles north of Chengyin City to raise horses, but unfortunately now Xishan Fort has become a ruin more than two hundred years ago, except for that grassland, there is no place suitable for horses in our Chengyin County!" There are patches of grassland on the grassland, but the nomadic tribes will not let us Jin people raise horses on the grassland! ”

Liu Ji touched his chin and said, "So as long as you rebuild a fortress at the Xishan Pass of the Anxing Mountains, you can block the Hu people of the grassland north of the Anxing Mountains." ”

Zhou Kai hurriedly said in shock: "General, don't go to the idea of Xishan Pass, Qianzhou, Pizhou, Qinzhou and Xiangzhou in the north of the Great Jin Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of our Great Jin Dynasty, many fortresses like Xishan Fort were built in the Anxing Mountains and Yunwu Mountains next to the grassland, and now these fortresses no longer exist, and the Hu people will never let these fortresses be rebuilt!" ”