Cavalry, in the era of cold weapons with low military mobility, has always been an indispensable key branch of warfare.

If the cavalry is used properly, it will be the real master of war in this world, and Yang Yi can't count the examples of this.

In the history of previous lives, after the Qin Dynasty, especially during the Han Wu period, the Han Dynasty passed the Han-Hungarian War. After seizing the Hetao Plain, the Hexi Corridor, and the Liaodong region, the natural horse farms here were used to provide war horses for the Han army. Among them, the Gansu Horse Farm in the Hexi Corridor had the best quality horses, and they still provided part of the army's horse needs in later generations, which also made the Han dynasty one of the few dynasties in Chinese history that had an advantage in the competition with the northern nomads.

On the contrary, after the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty gradually lost control of the north of the Yellow River, until the Song Dynasty, completely lost the land of Yanyun, lost the strategic location, and had no supply of war horses, resulting in the entire Song Dynasty in the face of the Khitan, Western Xia, Jin and later Mongolia in the north, can only favor the south and even bow down.

And when it comes to powerful cavalry, I believe there is one person who must not be ignored.

Genghis Khan, a generation of Tianjiao, the Mongolian iron cavalry he built swept the world, almost never encountered a decent opponent, a bow, a sword and a horse, and was the master of that era.

Until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, even if the hot weapons such as firearms and cannons have been popularized, the contest between the two dynasties of the Ming and Qing dynasties is actually still the balance of power between the cavalry, the Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty and the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Manchu Dynasty did not distinguish the winner for a long time, until Li Zicheng broke through the capital, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in the coal mountain, and Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers to this protracted war between countries to really pull the curtain down.

Yang Yi's right hand holding the wine glass couldn't help but tremble slightly: "Damn it!" How could Lao Tzu forget about this, the Western Regions is the production area of war horses, and no one reminded Lao Tzu that he almost missed a big event! ”

Lu Yuanliang said with a smile: "It's no wonder that Shama Naigu and Liu Wenhui, one of them is the leader of an ethnic minority, and they have no way of knowing the distribution of Daguang's war horses, and Lao Liu is a literati scholar and doesn't know much about it." The most knowledgeable of our Shu army about war horses is Yue Jing and other generals of the Northern Army, and nearly half of the military horses of the Northern Army were from the Western Regions. ”

The Western Regions War Horse is very famous, and in Yang Yi's previous life, the Western Regions was the production area of BMW horses, such as the famous sweat and blood BMW.

Although the land of the Western Regions in this era is different from Yang Yi's previous life, the geographical environment is roughly the same, and it will produce good war horses.

Sure enough, I only listened to Lu Yuanliang's introduction: "Since Taizu, Daguang has a total of three ways to obtain war horses, one is Youyunqing and the four states produce and supply, but due to the limited water and grass in the four states, and the perennial attack by the northern foreign tribes, there are not many war horses for production and supply.

The second place to obtain war horses was from the northern nomadic tribes, in exchange for silk, salt and iron, but the number was also extremely limited and very expensive, and later after the unification of the steppe, all the grassland tribes were forbidden to sell war horses to Daguang, and this road was not feasible.

This last place to obtain war horses is the Western Regions countries, the production of war horses in the sixteen countries of the Western Regions is not high, although the annual output of thousands of war horses is dispensable for the fierce Di people, but it is extremely precious for Daguang.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Western Regions have a low production of horses but are rich in good horses, the most famous is the Mokoma, which is produced in the Mokona country in the central part of the Western Regions. As far as I can tell, the mount of the wolf king is a war horse that has always had the blood of Mokoma. ”

Yang Yi was very excited when he heard this, pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and his left index finger kept tapping the back of his right hand.

Yang Yi was dissatisfied: "This Basang monk, since he doesn't take out such a good thing, what trick does he play with me?" ”

Lu Yuanliang said with a smile: "This is very simple, one is that Basang is keeping his hole cards, and secondly, Xi Shenguo asks us for help, but it does not mean that he dares to completely stand on the opposite side of the fierce Di people, once they give us the war horse, the fierce Di people will definitely be furious, and they know better than anyone the consequences of angering the fierce Di people." ”

"You mean that Xi Shenguo wants us to give them a lead, but they don't want to come forward?"

"For the countries of the Western Regions, they don't want to be enslaved by the Fierce Di people but they don't dare to confront the Fierce Di head-on, the only way is for us to bite the Fierce Di people and divert the attention of the Fierce Di. You yourself have said that diplomacy is a game of pros and cons. ”

Yang Yi nodded thoughtfully, what Lu Yuanliang said was completely reasonable, and it was also completely in line with the interests of the Western Shen Kingdom and the countries of the Western Regions.

The reason why many small countries in the Western Regions have existed in the Western Regions for nearly a thousand years is that they rely on the left and right sources to survive in the gap between the strong.

"So....how can we get Seishinkook to show their hole cards?"

Lu Yuanliang was already drunk at this time, but it did not affect his thinking at all.

Glancing at Yang Yi in a daze, Lu Yuanliang pointed to the wine glass on the table and motioned for Yang Yi to hurry up and have another glass.

Yang Yi smiled and poured two more glasses of wine, but he didn't drink it anymore, his amount of wine had already arrived, and it was estimated that he would not be able to stand firm if he drank it again.

Lu Yuanliang drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp, and said in a daze: "It's very simple, if you want to let the Western Shen Kingdom and even the Western Regions countries take out all their chips, the key is on this Basang." ”

"Basan? That monk from the Western Regions? ”

"Yes, this monk of the Western Regions is not as simple as you think, haven't you thought about why it is so important and even related to the life and death of the countries of the Western Regions, but it is a monk who came forward to negotiate, this is a bit of a child's play, right?"

Yang Yi did it, stared at Lu Yuanliang and said, "Tell me more details." ”

Lu Yuanliang leaned on his chair and said leisurely: "The reason why the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions have endured for a long time is not only because of their unique geographical location and diplomatic strategy of relying on the strong, but also because of the support of religion. ”

Yang Yi condensed: "Buddhism? ”

Lu Yuanliang nodded and said, "To be exact, it is Buddhism in the Western Regions." Buddhism in the Western Regions has an extremely long history, and even the various Buddhist sects in the Central Plains and the Fierce Di have all passed here from the Impression Country through the Western Regions. Its unique geographical location has not only become an important choke point in the war between the East and the West, but also a necessary place in the cultural and economic fields of the East and the West.

Buddhism in order to better proselytize, the control of the Western Regions is stronger than the rest of the place, and even formed a monk army to protect the smooth flow of its teachings, the most famous of which is more than a hundred years ago, the Western Regions of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the will of the Hali rebellion, the then Hari lord of the Western Regions to the Western Regions Buddhism for help, Buddhism sent three thousand martial arts monks to intervene, to help the Hali Kingdom put down the rebellion. ”