The number of cavalry in the Taixing army is not small. According to the recent understanding of the Bingzhou Division, under the hands of Zhang Qiang, there are at least nearly 1,000 people who have the ability to fight on horseback.

War horses are a kind of military capital, and the price in Jizhou is very expensive. If the Taihang Mountain generation wants to get a war horse, it will inevitably take some tricks. However, for the people of Bingzhou, such a thing as a war horse is not a very expensive military asset.

In the counties where horses are abundant, the price of local horses is at most three or four percent of the price of horses in Jizhou.

Mrs. Guo is a person who is very famous among the people of Bingzhou. Although this person always gives people a quiet appearance that is not obvious, but as a generation of tycoons with deep roots in Bingzhou, if someone really dares to underestimate him, the result will definitely not be too good.

According to Ding Yuan's estimate, if Guo Tai fully mobilized his influence in Bingzhou and wanted to collect 2,000 horses for military use, there would be no problem. Therefore, the current Taixing army, if you want, can at least form a cavalry team of 1,000 people.

However, in the battle reports of the Taixing Army reported by the scouts in the past few days, Ding Yuan only saw the record of the opponent's infantry dispatched, but he never dispatched more than 50 cavalry.

This is very unreasonable.

The Huns were all cavalry. When dealing with them, it is best for the Han army to use the tactics of half infantry and half cavalry. This is the valuable experience that the Han border army has gained through hundreds of years of confrontation with the northern barbarians and used blood and weapons.

To put it simply, if you don't have enough cavalry at hand, it will be quite a headache to face the harassment of the nomadic cavalry of the Huns. Moreover, after defeating the Huns, if there was no cavalry to pursue, the victory of the battle would be greatly reduced.

Zhang Qi is also a general who has fought a lot of battles, and since he dares to go deep into the state and fight against the Southern Huns, it is impossible not to know this.

Ding Yuan looked through the information on the collection of forage for the Taixing Army in recent days, and found that the forage collection of the Taixing Army was very inactive in the recent period.

Forage is the main feed for horses. An ordinary war horse needs dozens of catties of forage a day to fill its stomach. Of course, at many critical moments, the war horse also needs to be fed a large amount of grain to supplement nutrition.

However, horses that do not compete generally do not receive that kind of high-class treatment. Ding Yuan didn't believe that the Tai marching army could be extravagant, and he usually fed his war horses with grain.

At this point, the behavior of the Tai marching army is simply about to come out.

- The cavalry of the Taixing Army has not been seen for a while!

Since it is impossible to go east, and there is no signal to the south, it can only be to go west or north!

Shangjun in the west is a bitter cold place. At the same time, the Hulu tribe is chaotic, and there is a lot of collusion with the chaos of Liangzhou. Now the tens of thousands of troops of General Huangfu are still helpless against these chaos. With insolent intelligence, he will not wade into this muddy water.

Therefore, arrogance must be ......

- To the north!

These thoughts flashed quickly in his mind, and Ding Yuan's thoughts immediately became resolute. He sent his own soldiers to inform Zhang Yang, Zhang Liao, Lu Bu and others under his tent to come to discuss the matter. After the soldiers set off in a hurry, Ding Yuan relaxed slightly, and suddenly said with a smile to himself:

"The arrogant subordinates are really talented! This general, who was left by him to guard the big battalion, was able to easily defeat the Huns with a small infantry, and he was not an idle person! ”

- However, how can the many soldiers under my Ding Yuan account be idle people?

- Insolent erector, you can go. Even if you can defeat the Hun cubs in one fell swoop, but, Anzhi "The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind"?

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Sunrise and sunset. Before I knew it, the grass on the ground had grown green.

A herdsman, dressed in shabby shabby fur clothes, rides on an emaciated chestnut Duma [stallion] and lazily watches the sheep around him.

After gnawing the hay for a winter, the sheep in the entire tribe have lost their fat. No, after eating grass for a month, these sheep have some meat on their bodies, and they no longer look so skinny.

After counting the number of sheep, and finding that there was no less, the herdsman, who looked rather old, jumped off his mount, patted the chestnut Duma on the head lovingly, and let the horse graze. Rather, it is two sheepdogs, running between the flock and the owner, and they are quite active.

The herdsman looked at the sun in the sky, took out a skin, took a sip of water, and carefully tied it. Then, he took out a piece of dry cooked meat and a black cake from his bosom, and when he took a bite of the cake, he took a bite of the cooked meat, and slowly swallowed it in the sun.

Last year's world was not good, and the herdsmen were very satisfied to have these things to eat.

It's not that there was any natural disaster here last year. The snow falls a little early in winter, but what year does it not always look like this? To be counted, the livestock that died because of the "white plague" is completely a normal year.

This world is simply too much.

Although he looked weathered, he looked at least thirty-five or six years old. However, the herdsmen's age is really not too old, and this year is only twenty-two or three. There is no way, most of the people on the grassland are old, and there are thirty-year-olds who look like sixty-year-olds in the Han land!

Originally, in the hands of the herdsman's father, there were four stick boys, who had grown to adulthood. This can be regarded as a prosperous family in the Hun tribe. Only two of the six boys died, and the luck was quite good.

However, when the Han people were on an expedition against the Xianbei people, the boss accompanied him as a civilian servant and died in the "Sunset Plain". In a tribal conflict eight years ago, the second child unfortunately fell off his horse and became crippled, and died two years later.

Last year, the emperor of the Han people issued another edict to recruit Xiongnu riders to crusade against Donghu in the north. The third child followed the master of "Zuo Xianwang" and went to Handi, but there has been no news so far.

In today's tribe, among the male members of the herdsman's family, he is the youngest son who guards the stove.1

Due to the excessive expropriation of the Han emperor, the herdsmen in the clan have accumulated a grudge against the Han people over the years. Therefore, when the leaders of the tribe launched a rebellion against the "Shan Yu" lord last winter, the herdsman was also very excited to participate.

However, this internal turmoil of the Huns eventually became bigger and bigger, and it did not bring any tangible benefits to the family life of the herdsmen.

Yes, the originally high-ranking "Shan Yu" lord was killed. Hundreds of noble lords were cut off from their noble heads and hung next to the new "Shan Yu" Da Xuan [military flag]. Everything seems to be different from before.

However, the property and slaves that originally belonged to the dead lords still belong to the living nobles. The clansmen who originally belonged to the living old men are still living their original lives.

In this great upheaval that affected the entire Xiongnu tribe, the herdsmen only got an iron dagger, a new leather jacket, and a few full meals before the battle.

Fortunately, the nobles also know that these herdsmen under their command need loot to comfort them. So, they made a brave decision.

Kidnap the Han Chinese!

Compared with the poor Xiongnu herdsmen, the surrounding Han people lived as if they were in paradise.

- With clothes to wear, food to eat, and a house to live in, isn't this a paradise in Nima?

- How many people are there in Nima Xiongnu, and they are wearing a piece of skin?

- In which land of the Nima Huns can grow so much food?

- The Nima Huns can erect an impermeable tent, that is the treatment of the nobles!

The half of the multigrain cake in the herdsman's hand was baked out of an iron pot with a bag of multigrain flour that he had grabbed during the last captivity of the Han Chinese.

By the way, the iron pan used for pancakes is also one of the harvests of herdsmen.

Thinking of this, the herdsman tightened the torn leather jacket on his body and began to rejoice.

Yes, rejoice.

Although the things of the Han people are good, they must also have a life to rob them!

Think about the beginning of the year, the herdsmen's team of people, but nearly 10% of the people died, and the harvest just mentioned.

Illiterate herdsmen have naturally never heard of such words as "one Han and five hu". However, with his scarce military experience, he can still draw some simple inferences.

The temperament of the Han people can be called fierce.

As for those Han soldiers, they must be called terrible!

ps:1 Among the later nomadic peoples, the Mongols, there is a so-called saying that "young sons keep the stove". It means that the youngest son next to his parents will be able to inherit most of his father's property in the future. By analogy, the Xiongnu, who are also nomadic peoples, should have similar customs.