Yanzhou grassland, the sunset across the sky obliquely shone on the grassland, dyed a layer of gold for the grassland, on the grassland, the advance army chased out more than ten miles, killing all the way to the blood, the Xhosa people came to the three hundred and fifty warriors, was killed nearly half, the rest were mostly caught up by the advance army on horseback, only a few people got into the unknown where to escape the pursuit of the advance army.

The Xhosa people want to come to be sad, they can't fight, but there is no way to run, this time the advance army went north, considering that it was going to go all the way to a thousand miles, Li Zhe specially equipped each soldier of the advance army with horses, so now the official branch of the advance army, you can call it dragoons.

The horses in Kaesong were all transported from the sea all the way, which was extremely precious, but considering the importance of the cavalry in the grasslands of Nanyanzhou, Li Zhe had to pay a huge amount of money, and the war horses were also transported over, many of these horses were not directly transported from Tianzhu, but from Mozambique, the Falklands were recruited, and they were transported all the way, even so, about half of the war horses were lost, and the horses were delicate, and it was a price that had to be borne when transported from the sea.

So now there are only more than 300 horses in the entire Kaesong, all of which are transported from outside, as for you asking Nanyanzhou is obviously also a grassland, and there are local horses such as zebras, why there are no war horses, this is probably to ask the ancestors of the local indigenous people, in short, this vast grassland of Africa, there is no horse breed that can be ridden.

In this era, there are really no horses to ride in the entire Nanyan Continent.

This situation has long been summed up by the marching division and reported back to Tianzhu, so Li Zhe came to specially organize the transportation of horses.

However, since Li Zhe has decided to cultivate and plant in Nanyanzhou, the climate of Nanyanzhou is not unsuitable for domesticating horses, Li Zhe has already ordered the relevant people of the Governor's Mansion to formulate a systematic plan for the domestication of war horses, and the specific action is to transplant a batch of horses from the Tianzhu area with a similar climate here, and then re-breed and domesticate a suitable horse breed locally.

Of course, this plan is very wide-ranging, and what is needed is not only the military department, but also some big businessmen and even the Qin family of Tianzhu Marquis are involved, and it will take ten or twenty years to prepare, but it is not something that can be used for a while.

Therefore, it can be seen how precious the more than 100 horses under the crotch of this advance army are in Nanyanzhou.

However, this time these horses were also a small test in this pursuit battle, and more than 100 people from Ma Zhong did not run away from more than 300 people on the opposite side, which shows how important the cavalry is in the war of this era.

These natives of Nanyanzhou have survived and evolved on this land for hundreds of thousands of years, but they have not lit up the social division of labor of domestication, which shows the problem of the race itself.

At this time, Ma Zhong was almost certain that if all those war horses were assigned to him, a small army of only 500 capable men would be enough to conquer all the natives here.

As for the legendary warrior chiefs of the Xhosa people. Hey! The three hundred and five Xhosa warriors who were completely annihilated by him just now were the guards under the great chieftain of the Xhosa people, the tribe of the big chief, and the total number of truly capable elites was only about 3,000. And if these people are all this kind of force, hehe! It's really vulnerable.

The aborigines of this land were abandoned like this, which really surprised Ma Zhong, no wonder those Western barbarians were able to occupy Kaesong with only a hundred or ten people and planted that seed in this land.

Compared to this movement of the Governor's Mansion, it is inevitably a bit too fanfare, and the total of more than 10,000 people from the two army and navy departments brought by Li Zhe is simply overwhelming for the natives here.

Such an aborigine, such a place, this is really a godsend, and you will be blamed for it. Thankfully, the Governor had sent troops to occupy the area early, and it was not too late.

From this point of view, perhaps in the future, the Kaesong Governorate will only face the Western barbarians, and as for these natives in the interior, it is impossible for them to bring any trouble to Kaesong.

Thinking of this, Ma Zhong ordered the army to stop and repair, and also sent someone to escort the captured Xhosa warriors back to Kaesong, and wrote a letter to Li Zhe by the way.

"Your Excellency...... The above situation is indeed correct, for the sake of the post, there is no need to pay too much attention to these local natives, as long as our army arrives, they will be turned into powder, their total number in the grassland of Nanyanzhou is only about five or six hundred people, and scattered into hundreds of tribes, it can be said that it is completely a plate of scattered sand, the original plan formulated by the Governor's Mansion is too conservative, I am afraid that there is a suspicion of indulgence, and it is ...... to think that it is not enough."

Ma Zhong's letter to Li Zhe is long-winded, and the core point is, come on! Hurry up and send someone here, the people here are too vegetable, too easy to fight, hurry up and send me some reinforcements, and I will be able to knock down the entire Nanyanzhou to show you immediately.

After the battle just now, even people like Ma Zhong have swelled, and they just want to give themselves a great feat of expanding the land for thousands of miles, as for the gold content of this military exploit, bah, since they are all here, what else do you need to have the gold content, such a merit is established, no matter what, it sounds good! Isn't it?

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At the same time, Li Zhe was looking at the map in front of him at his governor's palace, on which Li Zhe had already drawn the outline of the rough South Africa, which was his goal, from Cape Town to Durban, from Maputo to Pretoria, and his appetite for the whole of South Africa in the future, including Lesotho and Eswatini, the countries within the country.

Maputo and Eswatini, he had ordered the Governor of the Viceroyalty of Mozambique to lead his army to occupy it, and as for Durban, the other day he had ordered that an army be split from his command to open up the port of Durban.

The entire future Nanyanzhou Governorate he set will have more than 1.3 million square kilometers, a mild climate, an excellent territory extremely suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and there are also extremely rich mineral deposits in the territory.

But now that his future fate has been mixed with the princess, in the foreseeable future, he will be the master of the entire Tianzhu and reign over Tianzhu, so there is no need to hide such a piece of heaven-sent land, he decided to take out this land, develop it as quickly as possible, and turn it into the existing wealth.

Obviously, in this case, since Li Zhe has made such a determination, those who approach him will be blessed.