"There is no need to scruple, everyone present is your own people, just say it." Tuoba Hong waved his hand and said a little impatiently.

"No!" The grain supervisor arched his hand at Tuoba Hong, and then looked at Murong Feng, who had an ugly face, and said: "Marshal, the amount of grain and grass in this batch is not much, it is only enough for the army to use for twenty days, and this is still the king who has worked hard to raise, I heard that now all households in the royal court are no longer allowed to eat meat, and they can only barely eat every day, even if the king... Come to the newspaper... The king's daily ration was only three wheat bales. ”

When the grain inspector spoke, his eyes were a little moist, as a big man, the grain supervisor in the army, he would almost cry in a serious military meeting, it can be seen that the grain supervisor really blamed himself for Helian's situation at this time.

"Hey...."Not only the grain governor, everyone present, including the bald An who has the ability to read, is panicked, and it can also be said that it is uncomfortable, because Helian is the king of Xianbei, the nominal supreme ruler, actually eats only wheat bales all day long, and there are only three a day....

Everyone looked at the delicious beef and sheep barbecue and the intoxicating wine in front of them, and suddenly felt tasteless, as the people of Xianbei, they could not make contributions to Xianbei, and they couldn't say anything, and now they know that Helian, who is the king, actually saves money to supply the front line, if they are still here to eat meat and drink wine, is it the past?

"Order, from today onwards, all the supplies of this commander will be reduced by half" Murong Feng's face was purple, after decades of battlefield career, how could Murong Feng encounter such a situation? Today's Murong Feng really misses the scene of following Tanshi Huai to chase the grassland in the past, at that time

"Hey, all the supplies of the leader of this are also halved" sighed, Bald An's face was ugly, he glanced around and said loudly.

Seeing that the two marshals of Murong Feng and Vuld An had all given orders like this, including Tuoba Hong, they all expressed their willingness to reduce the supply, and suddenly the leaders of the Xianbei felt much more personal to each other, because they were fighting side by side, fighting for Xianbei!

No one saw that when he said goodbye to Murong Feng and everyone left, the smile of relief that hung on the corner of Tuoba Hong's mouth, in fact, the situation of the royal court was not so miserable, all of this was arranged by Tuoba Hong

============ the sky in Guangning County is cold, and the whirring cold wind blows into the county from the Great Wall.

In order to clear his worries, after Liu Tai arrived in Guangning County, he ordered the erection of the wall to clear the wilderness, and all the people moved to the rear.

The people know that this battle is very important, if the battle is defeated, the majesty of the Han will be lost, and the glory achieved before will be turned into a bubble in the water, disappearing without a trace, at this time, absolutely can not add blockage to Liu Tai, let alone make trouble for Liu Tai, and even some large livestock farmers in Guangning City, unconditionally sent all the cattle and sheep to Liu Tai's army, and did not say hello, let alone name, and left directly with people.

In the time of Guotai and Min'an, the Han people are the most important to small profits, businessmen are even more, and in times of war, the unity of the Han people is incomparable to all ethnic groups, he can dedicate his cattle and sheep, dedicate his own family property, and even dedicate his life! This is the Han people! The Han people who have stood in the world for tens of thousands of years and have never been eliminated! There are difficulties, but after that, the Han people will still exude a new breath, as long as the Han people still have a breath of existence, they will never disappear, because this is a kind of blood inheritance, a spiritual inheritance! Foreign races can be enslaved, conquered, and bloodbathed, but when the soul of the Han people awakens, no matter who it is, no matter what race it is, it cannot be stopped or matched! This is the Han people!! Great Han nation!

On the deserted street, Liu Tai and Guo Jia, under the protection of their personal guards, slowly walked to the Great Wall defense line five or six miles outside the city.

As a general, how can you not like to ride a war horse? In fact, this reason is very simple, because Liu Tai heard a little joke, that is, the men in the Xianbei clan, especially the knights who are perennial soldiers, one-third of them do not lift because they ride on war horses all year round! !

Small joke, but it can also be seen that the reason why the development of the Xianbei ethnic group is too slow, and it can also be seen why the Hu people have stepped on the Central Plains many times because of the advantage of cavalry, but they cannot rule for a long time, because the Hu cavalry loves horses and regards horses as life companions.

The first to appear is the Takahashi saddle, the appearance time of the Takahashi saddle, and who invented it, can not be investigated for the time being, but it is speculated that it should be a product of the Great Xiongnu period, and after the Northern Xiongnu was defeated by the Han Dynasty and moved westward, the prototype of the Takahashi saddle began to appear in Europe, of course, when these Takahashi saddles just spread to Europe, it was mainly used by the European upper class nobles, and this is also a universal law, the nobility is always privileged, and when the nobility is universal, it will be passed to the following.

It can be seen from this that the steppe peoples have long had the appearance of the saddle, and the stirrup is not nothing, but the time when the stirrup and the saddle appeared, a little distance, and the stirrups of the Han Dynasty were generally unilateral, and the main role was to facilitate the horse's body, and there was no role in stabilizing the body.

Since the saddle was invented by the steppe peoples, why didn't the Xianbei cavalry like to use the saddle? Because in the eyes of the grassland people, if you use a saddle, it is like losing contact with your relatives (war horses), and you can't really integrate into one and become the most brave knights.

If you are accustomed to the saddle for a long time, when you don't have a saddle, you will be very unaccustomed, and it is very difficult to even turn your body immediately, and the grassland peoples who take the cavalry as the glory and the main combat strength will naturally not be willing to do this, although the people in power in order to improve their combat effectiveness, the cavalry under the command must be equipped with a saddle during combat or in ordinary times, but the problem is that there is a policy and a countermeasure, isn't it?

"Lord, in the winter, the power of Xianbei's archers has seriously decreased, if there are no archers, how can Xianbei fight against our army? Although the power of our army's crossbow arrows will be weakened a lot, it can barely be used, and it is not that serious. Seeing a few members of the Heroic Army in the field, holding bows and arrows in their hands, complaining about something, Guo Jia frowned, suddenly thought of the Xianbei archers, and asked out loud.

As we all know, the bowstring will be soft when it gets wet, and even scrapped, as a horse people, but also a Xianbei tribe with archers as the main station, don't you know this? Or do they have a solution? Otherwise, in this cold winter, Xianbei is full of food and supports the south?

"Impossible, winter has been a nightmare for archers since ancient times, and General Ben thinks that the biggest reason driving the five clans south is not in the grassland, but in my Central Plains!" After thinking about it, Liu Tai couldn't think of any way to deal with this problem in later generations, and concluded that there must be some kind of interest that drove the alliance of the five clans.

"If it's the Central Plains" Guo Jia frowned, this is a problem that the grassland people can't solve for hundreds of years, even if they are resourceful, it is impossible to come up with a way to deal with it for a while.

"Could it be that Zhang Jiao contacted the Fifth Department of the Prairie? Are you willing to cede a certain amount of territory to the five tribes after the incident, and the five tribes will agree to go south to drag our army? Guo Jia thought about it carefully and thought that this was the biggest possibility, but the problem was that betraying the country and cutting the land, this would make people poke the backbone, if Zhang Jiao wants to win the world, the most important thing is to be in the hearts of the people.

Liu Tai nodded with a heavy expression, and said: "This is the greatest possibility, but if you talk about ceding territory, this is just an empty word, General Ben can be sure that the conditions given by Zhang Jiao are definitely very favorable, and the concessions are so preferential that the grassland tribes have to go south, but the question is why don't they choose to go south in February and March of the next year?" According to reliable sources, the time of Zhang Jiao's uprising is in the coming year? ”

After listening to Liu Tai's words, Guo Jia smiled coldly and said: "It's not that Zhang Jiao didn't tell them the time, but they should have advanced the time, because Zhang Jiao knew that if it was a choice between Luoyang and Northern Xinjiang, the lord would probably give up the northern Xinjiang and save the Son of Heaven first, and let the five clans send troops in advance, how big is the scale, even if he can't defeat the lord, it will be difficult for the lord to recover for a while. ”

"Hmph, hum!" Liu Tai sneered twice, and said gloomily: "Zhang Jiao's good calculation, not only dragged the Tianci army, but also pulled the grassland into the water, when the Tianci army and the grassland tribe are in a stalemate, and even lose both, Zhang Jiao can clean up all the baskets, smart, too smart!" ”

Guo Jia heard Liu Tai's sarcastic words, couldn't help but sigh for a while, smiled and said: "Zhang Jiao may not know the situation of the grassland, in the past few years, the winter time has been extended, the weather has become colder and colder, and the cattle, sheep and horses of the grassland tribe have suffered serious losses, and it is impossible to fight for a long time, as long as three or five months, as short as two or three months, without our army's action, the two largest forces of Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu will retreat on their own, or even be defeated by our army!" ”

"Therefore, the Northern Xiongnu and Xianbei are the two major forces that most hope for a decisive battle immediately, because they can't afford to drag it out, and they can't afford it, and their subordinates can be sure that within three days, Murong Feng in the Xianbei camp will issue a war letter and want to fight with the lord!" Guo Jia said confidently.

Liu Tai nodded, Murong Feng was grinding south for dozens of miles outside the Great Wall, and Liu Tai had already seen Murong Feng's intentions, but if there was a decisive battle, it would be obviously impossible in a short time, because Liu Tai's number of cavalry was not the same level as the Xianbei Iron Cavalry, and now the decisive battle, unless he wanted to find abuse.

"Oh, let them wait, General Ben has time, it's best to delay until they collapse without a fight and retreat automatically, and then General Ben will solve the Yellow Sect first, and then settle accounts with these dogs." Liu Tai smiled and said confidently, if the alliance of the five clans collapses, can the alliance be formed next time? No way! If there is no alliance, in less than ten years, Liu Tai believes that the entire grassland can be brought under his rule!

(To be continued)