Chapter 1840: Where Did You Get So Many People

More than a dozen soldiers of the Ma family stepped aside.

Chen Zhi led the dragon pattern cavalry to rush up against Han Suijun.

Han Suijun, who was chasing after the soldiers of the Ma family, saw a team appear in front of him, and the captain who led the team shouted: "Prepare to fight!" ”

Less than 500 Han Suijun pointed their weapons at the dragon-patterned cavalry that rushed over.

Riding a horse at a gallop, the dragon rider had no intention of slowing down at all.

Chen Zhi, who was at the forefront, couldn't stop urging the soldiers to speed up.

Surrounded by Ma Teng, the soldiers of the Ma family, who had long lost their courage after being chased all the way, looked at the dragon pattern rider farther and farther away in astonishment.

They had not participated in Cao Shuo's campaign against the Xiongnu, and they did not know much about the dragon pattern horseman.

There are even those who believe that the Dragon-Striped Rider is killing himself by doing so.

But what happened next turned their understanding of the battlefield upside down.

The two sides collided together, and the soldiers of Han Suijun fell off their horses one after another.

With just one charge, the dragon pattern rode Han Suijun over.

Looking at the dragon pattern riding on the battlefield in astonishment, more than a dozen people subconsciously licked their lips.

The battle did not last long, and nearly 500 Han Sui's troops quickly dispersed.

The dragon pattern cavalry did not pursue, Chen Zhi led them back, and many of the soldiers did not even have blood stains on them.

"Childe, the enemy army is too uneasy to fight, just a rush to kill, and they ran away." Chen Zhi said with some annoyance: "I also asked the soldiers to save some killing, I knew that they would run, so I didn't have to keep my hands." ”

"I suffered a loss, and next time I have a snack." Cao Shuo grinned, and then looked at the more than ten soldiers standing in front of Ma Teng: "Do you know where Ma Mengqi went?" ”

A dozen people have yet to recover from the shock.

Their faces were stunned, some people looked at the battlefield where many of Han Suijun's corpses were discarded, and some people looked at the dragon pattern horseman.

After many years of fighting, they had never encountered such a powerful army.

The enemy army, which was almost twice as numerous as them, attacked with only 300 men, and killed the opponent without any injuries.

The soldiers of the Ma family who witnessed this scene muttered in their hearts one by one, don't go against these people on the battlefield in the future.

If you really make enemies of them, you can just turn around and run away when you see them.

Fight them?

Unless stupid.

"Childe asked, why didn't you answer?" More than a dozen people were stunned, and Ma Teng glared at them.

was questioned by Ma Teng, and they came back to their senses.

The officer who took the lead hurriedly said: "We know where the general is. ”

"Lead the way." Cao Shuo waved his hand.

Ma Teng was very respectful to Cao Shuo, and also called him "Gongzi", more than a dozen Ma family soldiers did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly got on the horse.

Along the way, they met many escaped Ma soldiers.

After walking only thirty or fifty miles, Cao Shuo's team actually gathered two or three thousand people.

"How many people did Ma Mengqi leave behind?" Curious, Cao Shuo asked an officer.

The officer replied: "The general sent more than 10,000 people to break off, but the number of Han Sui's army was too large, and we couldn't resist it at all......"

"So there are still a lot of people missing?" Cao Shuo asked.

"When I escaped, it was already chaotic, and I didn't know where to run." The officer replied: "Many people are afraid that they have already been killed by the enemy. ”

"How many people are there around Ma Mengqi?" Ma Chao is a fierce general, if it weren't for the big difference in strength between the two sides, he would definitely not easily leave 10,000 horses to resist the enemy army and withdraw by himself, Cao Shuo is most concerned about how many men and horses under Ma Chao can fight again.

"There should be less than 30,000 people." The officer said: "The men and horses that Han Sui gathered this time are really ......."

"I know too much." Cao Shuo interrupted him: "To be able to fight like this, Ma Mengqi has also done it to the extreme." ”

Waving his hand to signal the officer to retreat, Cao Shuo said to Ma Teng, who was walking beside him: "Meng Qi is very brave, and he can be beaten to the point that he can't form an army, which shows that Han Sui came suddenly. ”

"That's how it should be." Ma Teng nodded: "If Han Sui goes head-to-head, Meng Qi may not be afraid of him." ”

"Thirty thousand." Looking ahead, a smile tugged at the corner of Cao Shuo's mouth: "I just don't know how many people there are on the enemy." ”

"At least, it's more than 100,000." Ma Teng replied: "Otherwise, we will never fight to such a situation." ”

"How many people does Xiliang have, and how can they raise so many soldiers and horses?" It was not many days before Han Sui was driven away by Ma Chao, and it was really unexpected for him to be able to gather 100,000 soldiers and horses.

"Childe doesn't know." Ma Teng replied: "There are not many Central Plains people who have settled in Xiliang, but there are many Qiang people. Meng Qi has some prestige among the Qiang people, and Han Sui has also been operating in Xiliang for many years, so it is not difficult to raise so many people. ”

"In other words, there are actually more Qiang people than the Central Plains people?" Cao Shuo faintly felt that something was wrong.

The Central Plains has been fighting for years, and the population has suffered a lot of losses.

In addition, when the Huns entered the customs, they plundered countless women and killed countless strong people, resulting in empty ghost villages in many places.

While the population of the Central Plains was declining dramatically, the nomads of the north avoided the Great War.

They recuperate, and they used to be far fewer than the people of the Central Plains, but now the population is actually more than that of the Central Plains.

If this trend continues, even if the Central Plains are unified in the future, the chaos will inevitably occur.

Since you have come to Xiliang, you have to find a way to reduce the Qiang population.

War is the best way, but there are too many killings.

What Cao Shuo wanted to do was to migrate the population and let the Qiang people live together with the Han people in the Central Plains, so as to achieve the goal of increasing the Han population and weakening the Qiang people.

With such a calculation in his heart, he will not show it on his face.

After all, Ma Teng is three-quarters of the Qiang blood.

The Ma family's feelings for the Qiang people are even more than for the Han people.

"If General Ma goes to recruit people, how many people will come to serve?" Cao Shuo asked.

Ma Teng thought for a moment: "If I go back to Fufeng to recruit people, it shouldn't be much less than Han Sui." ”

"When I saw Meng, I asked him to give me the military power." Cao Shuo said: "Although you can't defeat Han Sui in one fell swoop, at least you won't be defeated and retreated. When the surrender of military power is completed, I will send someone to escort General Ma back to Fufeng. ”

"Childe is going to ......" Although Cao Shuo said it very clearly, Ma Teng still wanted to ask why.

"The enemy is outnumbered, and we can only support it at most, but we can't break it." Cao Shuo said: "There is only one way to really defeat Han Sui, that is, General Ma recruits more men and horses to fight with me in two ways, so that he can be completely destroyed!" ”

"I see, according to Childe." Ma Teng responded.

Cao Shuo didn't say much more, and led the army to continue looking for Ma Chao.

That night, they camped in an open field.

The handsome tent was set up, and he instructed Deng Zhan: "Invite Tian Yuanhao here, and say that I have something important to discuss with him." ”

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