The rain fell for another two days before it stopped. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ding Feng went out hunting several times, but unfortunately found nothing.

Hou Qing quickly ran out of dry food on hand, and after his injuries were better, he also went out to help.

The venison that Ding Feng had saved before was all smoked and put away, and no one was allowed to eat it. Ma Zhong had no opinion, and Wang Li also agreed with both hands - they were all hungry and afraid.

In addition to laughing at Ding Feng's stinginess, Hou Qing didn't have much of a mustard.

Seeing that the rain stopped, several people were unwilling to continue to stay in this barren mountain and wilderness.

Hou Qing took out a war horse from the side hall, and Ding Feng's eyes were shining. These three horses have been taking good care of them for the past few days, and they all look energetic with their noses.

Ma Zhong subconsciously swept his eyes, there were no stirrups and no horseshoes.

Seems like some article could be done......

After thinking about it again, I smiled bitterly in my heart, this is in Soochow.

Ma Zhong didn't want Cao Wei's iron hooves to come to him for trouble one day.

Ding Feng went up and hugged Hou Qing's arm and smiled, "Brother, how about this horse lend me one, and return it to you." ”

When Hou Qing heard this, his head shook like a rattle.

Ding Feng threw his eyes at Ma Zhong, but Hou Qing still shook his head stubbornly, "That's not good, this rain is wet and the road is slippery, even if I am asked to carry him, I can't trample the horse so badly." ”

Although Ding Feng's ability is not small, after all, he has only been a little minion, and when he was under Zhou Gongjin, he accumulated merit and achieved a hundred generals, and later returned to Lu Su, and his civil and military affairs decreased by one level.

The boss who was installed by Lu Su was not his temperament, and he couldn't bear to be a ten-captain again, so he simply followed Ma Zhong for a while.

With his qualifications, of course, he didn't have such a tall experience as riding a horse, and his face was full of doubts when he heard Hou Qing's words.

"Ding Feng, don't mess around, what Brother Hou said is right."

Ma Zhong recovered from a serious illness, and he was damp, and his body was weak, and now the war horses of this era have no stirrups, so he naturally will not die.

Ding Feng reluctantly let go of Hou Qing, and Hou Qing was really reluctant to ride a horse himself, so a few people led the horse to trek on this muddy mountain road.

In danger, Hou Qing and Ding Feng took turns carrying Ma Zhong very righteously, which made the three of them a little grateful to this reckless and upright man.

Hou Qing is tall and stout, arrogant like a bear, but he is very careful when taking care of people.

Gradually out of the mountains and into the flat land, Ding Feng came up with the idea of letting Ma Zhong ride a horse to save effort.

Hou Qing still didn't agree, "That's not good, brother, I see that these horses are heavier than my life, and they can't be messed up." ”

Ding Feng sneered, "What a stingy ghost, such a good flat land, can't you run a horse?" ”

Hou Qing shouted loudly, "Of course! These four wilderness are deserted, full of snake holes and rat nests, and the hooves of the running horses will easily break when they fall into it, and if they fall, no matter how many people and horses will throw their lives here! ”

Ding Feng listened to it, so he didn't insist.

Ma Zhong secretly fell into his heart, so it was.

The southern part of this era had a low level of production, undeveloped wilderness everywhere, and the climate was warm and rainy, except for some small plains that had been cultivated by slash-and-burn, and there were dense forests and shrubs everywhere, which were indeed not suitable for war horses to drive.

He was grateful to Hou Qing, his heart moved, and he opened his mouth and said, "Brother Hou, it is not difficult to solve the problem of easy folding of horse legs. ”

"What?" Hou Qing was startled, and the force on his hand increased unconsciously, and the horse he was holding was in pain, and he neighed and wanted to stand up.

Hou Qing hurriedly let go of the reins and tried his best to appease his beloved horse, but his mind was like a messy twine, with many chaotic thoughts.

How could this be?

A large part of the loss of Jiangdong war horses is due to environmental factors, and seven or eight of Hou Qing's own cavalry were killed on the way to charge because of broken horse legs when they were crusading against bandits.

After thinking about it, Hou Qing thought of this sick seedling who made him look down on a little, a person who could boil water and make soup with a paper pot, and felt that he seemed to be able to bring some miracles.

Paper pots can be used to boil water, what else is impossible?! He thought to himself.

The two old men leading the horses in the back also made a commotion.

They are the elite horse team under Xu Sheng, and they naturally know the importance of war horses to Jiangdong.

Ma Zhong smiled and didn't sell it.

"We in Koto attach too much importance to horses, so we don't have enough training on weekdays, and even if we do do do occasionally, the training methods are not perfect. Jiangdong is rich in mountains and rivers, with lush vegetation and trees, which requires a high degree of coordination of horses' limbs. ”

"When you go back, you can find ropes to make horse trips, tie the horse's three legs together, and only give it little room to move, so that if you let it run and train, the coordination of the horse's legs will be greatly strengthened, and there will be no similar situations at all."

Ma Zhong told him about a common method used by grassland herders, where there are more rat holes and the situation is more harsh. This method mainly exercises the coordination of the horse's four hooves, and is more suitable for running in complex terrain.

Hou Qing scratched his ears and cheeks when he heard this, and shouted repeatedly, "If you succeed at this time, brother, you have a lot of credit, I will definitely ask Lord Xu to ask Sun Jiangdong for you to take credit." ”

Ma Zhong smiled and didn't answer.

Maybe it's rare to meet someone who understands, and in the next journey, Hou Qing threw out all the reasons in his mind.

Most of these questions were childish and ridiculous, and some of them Ma Zhong couldn't answer, and he also cleverly made analogies.

Seeing that Hou Qing was dumbfounded, there was almost a tendency to bow down, Ma Zhong also found it interesting, and the boredom of many days dissipated a lot.

As he was talking on this day, Hou Qing suddenly patted his leg and said, "If you want me to say, Cao Mengde is also a character." ”

This topic was a little sensitive, and Ma Zhong did not answer.

Hou Qing is really a brainless person, I don't know which tendon pulled out Cao Mengde, and then there was a mouthless admiration.

"If you want to say that this horse is really a good thing, the brother followed General Xu to quell the rebellion, and the thieves of thousands of children and eight hundred people made a rebellion, and dozens of cavalry rushed over, and they rushed around. The brothers thought, when Xiqiang Xianbei started a battle, the cavalry all over the mountains rolled over, what kind of formation was that! ”

Hou Qing said and came to see Ma Zhong and them.

Ma Zhong still listened quietly and didn't say anything, Ding Feng frowned, and Wang Li was a little fascinated.

Hou Qing didn't see the exclamation, he was a little sullen, and he didn't know how to continue.

Wang Wei has been stumbling for the past few days, and he also has some eyesight, and immediately asked jokingly, "Didn't the hundred horsemen talk about Cao Mengde, how did you talk about Xiqiang Xianbei." ”

"What's the name of the hundred cavalry commanders, they are all brothers!" Hou Qing's face softened, and his eyebrows danced again, "You think, such an awesome savage, and in the spacious Great North, can still be defeated by Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan, it's really not easy!" ”

Wang Lili is a civil official in the end, and his political consciousness is relatively high, so he hurriedly coughed lightly and interrupted Hou Qing's wrong line, "This is not true, Chao Cuo once said that the Han people's knives are sharper, arrows are farther, and armor is stronger." Defeating some wild men who only know how to graze on horseback is not a big deal. ”

After all, Wang Lili did not have the authority of Ma Zhong, and Hou Qing immediately ridiculed him.

"In this case, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been fighting all his life, why are there still Hu people everywhere now."

Ma Zhong was speechless for a moment, and the word "alluring the country and the city" was used in ...... It's apt.

In order to crusade against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty almost used the family background of several generations of the Han people, and when Ma Zhong used to read the "Historical Records of Pingzhunshu", he always felt that Sima Qian was crying and writing at the same time.

Hou Qing's statement that "Hu people everywhere" is not an exaggeration.

Now the Hu people in the north are getting stronger and stronger, and Zhang Jiao has not yet been extinguished, followed by the Northwest Qiang Rebellion.

When Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was about to defect to Cao Cao, Guo Yan and Li Dao hijacked the Son of Heaven, and the Southern Xiongnu participated in this game as an important force.

After that, the Xianbei people and the Huns continued to appear on the battlefield of Yuan Cao's struggle for hegemony. Not to mention the Wuhu chaos that has made countless people's hearts hurt for more than a hundred years.

Wang Li listened and argued, "Hu people have horses, and they come and go freely. What is the role of our Han people who are stubborn and stubborn, and if we can't beat the enemy? Those Beidi Hu people relied on their strong soldiers and horses to take the initiative to invite Cao Cao to attack, which gave Cao Thief a small credit. ”

"Besides, what if the thief wins? If people lose and want to run, you can only watch. What can you do if you hang so far away that they come back when you show your weakness? ”

"Back then, Li Ling crossed the desert with 5,000 foot soldiers and was surrounded by the Xiongnu army, didn't he also kill and injure tens of thousands of Xiongnu? But in the end, people are just eyeing you like this, dragging you until you run out of food and arrows, and people are sleepy and tired, what will happen in the end? ”

Wang Li spoke sharply, and what he said was a major difficulty for the Central Plains against the Hu people in the north, and the decision of the war was always in the hands of the other party!

The Han Chinese won easily but could not win a decisive victory. The Hu people can't attack the fortifications, but they can decisively give the Han people a ruthless blow after the Han people reveal their weaknesses.

The ability of the nomads to maneuver, in this era, is absolutely against the sky!

Huo Quzhi made a lot of contributions by relying on unexpected in-depth efforts, but it was always difficult to hit the Huns hard. The Han people can make a powerful fist, but they can't gamble on the power of the whole country to risk on the vast prairie.

The Huns lived by migrating and nomadic herding, and wherever there was water and grass, there was their homeland everywhere.

Such a secretive and dangerous opponent is definitely a nightmare for agrarian civilization.

Hou Qing listened to Wang Li's words, first subconsciously wanted to refute, then his brows slowly locked, and he sighed.

Wang Li won the debate, but he lost his mood, and he was also full of worries.

Thinking that the country has such a big hidden danger, everyone's heart is heavy.

Ma Zhong listened expressionlessly, thinking about the chaos in the near future, thinking about the hardships experienced by the Chinese nation in the next two thousand years, and there was some cruelty in his dim eyes.

Hou Qing and Wang Wei sighed, and Hou Qing suddenly asked Ma Zhong without a clue, "Brother, you have seen a lot, do you have a way?" ”

Ma Zhong replied lightly, "Of course there is a way." ”

Hou Qing was stunned, he just asked casually, and he didn't expect Ma Zhong to give an answer.

Hou Qing was stunned and subconsciously asked, "What way?" ”

Ma Zhong said flatly, "The Beidihu people live by nomadism, and they will also die because of nomadism, because livestock is their only dependence. ”

"Livestock on the grasslands feed on grass, and there is very little energy in the grass, so the cattle and horses need to spend a lot of time every day eating, and then they keep ruminating and chewing to survive."

Hou Qing was a little puzzled, these things have an egg to do with the heavy damage to the Beidi Hu people?

Ma Zhong didn't have any expression on his face, but his cold words were like spit out poisonous snake letters, "Therefore, most of the livestock on the grassland have a relatively fixed and concentrated estrus period, so that they can give birth to cubs when the water and grass are abundant, otherwise those cubs will be weak." ”

"Then, when the cows and mares are about to give birth, we will ......"

Hou Qing's eyes couldn't help but widen.

Ma Zhong's left hand clenched the matching knife, and his flat voice suddenly became rough and high-pitched, "Gather the men!" Equipped with a sword! Bring a longbow! Put on your armor! Carrying wheat beans to feed the horses! ”

"Find them! Drive them away! Then ......"

Ma Zhong grinned, revealing his beautiful white teeth, "Kill all the mares!" ”