When he was upstairs, he said eagerly: "Sir, are you really willing to make a deal with us?" ”

For the nomadic people living on the grassland, silk, cloth, tea, pottery, and gold, silver and jewelry of the Central Plains people are rare luxuries, especially sharp iron weapons are scarce, so as soon as he heard that the Chu army was willing to trade with Lou Furen, Lou Fu Wang immediately became excited.

"Of course." Wu Shi nodded, and said, "However, we only need horses." ”

"No problem, of course this is no problem, we don't have anything else, but there are more horses." After listening to what his uncle said, King Lou was so excited that he rubbed his hands again and again, and said, "Sir, can weapons be traded?" ”

"Weapons? I'm afraid this is a bit of a hassle. When Wu Shi heard this, his face suddenly showed embarrassment.

Seeing Wu Shi's face showing embarrassment, Lou Fu Wang hurriedly said: "Sir, the price is easy to say, whatever you say!" ”

Wu Shi pondered for a moment, and then hesitated and said: "Okay, for the sake of the king's sincerity, try it next time, if you can convince my general, maybe you can really provide some weapons, but if you say it first, the quantity will definitely not be too much, and the price will definitely be very expensive." ”

"No problem, no problem." Lou Fu Wang said repeatedly, "The price is easy to say." ”

Wu Shi nodded, got up and said, "In this way, I will leave here." ”

King Lou was in a good mood, and immediately instructed his uncle to say: "Military advisor, send Mr. for this king." ”

The uncle said that he was helpless, so he had to accompany Wu Shi out of the big tent of the king of Lou Fu, and sent it all the way out of the gate.

Sent Wu Shi away, the uncle said that when he returned to the big tent of Lou Fu Wang again, he found that Lou Fu Wang had already pushed his favorite Hu Nu to the ground, and was pouting on Hu Nu's snow-white delicate body.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, King Lou Fu didn't look back and knew that it was his uncle who said it was back, and he didn't shy away from it at the moment, and gasped while continuing to tartarize the bearded girl: "Military advisor, this king is busy, and I will talk about it later." ”

Uncle said frowned and said, "King, aren't you worried that this is a trick of the Central Plains?" ”

"Trickery?" King Lou Fu gasped as he sprinted, "What tricks can there be?" ”

The uncle said: "What if this is a delaying tactic by the Central Plains people? Pretend to stabilize the king first, and when their follow-up army arrives, they will give us a thunderous blow, what should we do then? ”

"Strategist, what's wrong with you today?" The king of Lou Fu hurriedly finished his work, and got up from Hu Nu again, and the Hu Nu's snow-white delicate body and the grass valley between her thighs were unreservedly presented in front of Uncle Say, Uncle said that he couldn't help but curse a few words in his heart, such a scene, how can he be a eunuch?

Uncle said: "I just think that the people of the Central Plains should not be gullible. ”

King Lou Fu said: "Of course this king will not believe the Central Plains man just now, but what if what he said is true?" What's the need to wait an extra half a day? If it's fake, it's not too late for us to defect to the Huns, anyway, the Huns won't fly away, so why should we rush for a while, military advisor, right? ”

Uncle said silently, in fact, he also believed that most of what the Central Plains people said just now was true, most of the people who came to Jiuyuan this time were the Chu army, not the Han army, but I don't know why, the uncle said that there was always a vague feeling, and he felt that the purpose of the Chu army coming to Hetao should not be so simple, and if the building was annoying, it would suffer a big loss.

But this is just an intuition, and the uncle said that he couldn't explain it to King Lou Fu at all.

Seeing that the uncle was silent, King Lou said again: "Military advisor, what's the point of waiting for half a day?" ”

After saying this, King Lou Fu said thoughtfully: "Also, this king thinks that the people of the Central Plains don't seem to be deceiving people, most of them are the Chu army that wandered to Jiuyuan, and most of them are willing to trade weapons to us, military division, it is an iron weapon, not a bronze weapon, and it is not made of wood!" ”

Iron weapons are of great significance to the Loufu tribe.

Even if it is really incorporated into the Xiongnu in the future, how many people, cattle and sheep, strong men and iron weapons does the Lou Fu tribe have, which will directly affect the status of the Lou Fu King in the Xiongnu, if the Lou Fu tribe can get enough iron weapons in this transaction, then the Lou Fu King may even become the most powerful king of the Xiongnu. ,##########

After leaving the Loufu camp, Wu Shi went straight back to the Chu army camp.

After listening to Wu She's report, Wei Yu smiled and said: "General, it seems that this King Lou Fu is more ambitious than King Lin Hu, King Lin Hu only needs silk, tea, pottery, gold, silver and jewelry and other luxury goods, but King Lou Fu never mentioned these luxury items, as soon as he opened his mouth, it was a weapon, hehe, it seems to be quite discerning." ”

Wu Shi said: "General, the king of Lou Fu is still waiting, how to reply to him in the future?" ”

Xiang Zhuang said: "Weapons can be traded, but they have to come up with the best horses to trade." ”

After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said again: "As for the transaction price, a good horse is exchanged for two double-edged swords." ”

This price is quite exaggerated for Xiang Zhuang who crossed over from later generations, but at that time, it was actually a very fair price, in fact, the Central Plains people at that time were almost unwilling to trade iron products to the Hu people, and the Hu people often could not buy iron kettles, iron swords, iron halberds, iron armor and other iron products even at higher prices.

Huan Chu, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but object: "General, do you really want to trade weapons with the Hu people?" ”

Ji Bu also said: "Didn't Gao Chu get a lot of horses from the old camp of Aries, enough for us to ride, so why take out weapons to trade horses with Lou Annoying?" ”

"None of the horses will work." Xiang Zhuang shook his head and said.

After Gao Chu led the troops to slaughter the old camp of Aries, he did grab more than 20,000 horses and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, but the more than 20,000 horses were all foals or inferior horses, which were more than enough to be used as pack horses, but not as war horses, that is, the more than 6,000 war horses captured in the Wild Wolf River Valley could barely be regarded as war horses.

Obviously, the Hetaohu people, like the horses of the Huns, belonged to the Mongolian horse breed.

Mongolian horses are short in size and weak in explosiveness, so it is impossible to use Mongolian horses to form heavy cavalry, but Mongolian horses have extremely strong endurance and super adaptability to the environment, whether it is cold or hot, whether it is drought or humidity, as long as there is grass to eat, Mongolian horses can survive tenaciously.

Therefore, it is not bad to form light cavalry from Mongolian horses.

Historically, the reason why the Mongolian light cavalry of the murderer Temujin was able to sweep across the entire Eurasian continent, the reason why he was able to fight from the bitter cold land of the far north to the scorching Nanzhao, and then from the coast of the East China Sea all the way to the Rhine River and even the expedition into Egypt, the biggest reason was the Mongolian horse with super adaptability and strong endurance.

However, not all Mongolian horses can become war horses.

The Mongolian horse that is not tall enough can definitely not be used as a war horse, Xiang Zhuang wants to form a real light cavalry, not a "donkey cavalry" like the Warring States period in Japan, just this one, more than half of the Mongolian horses have been eliminated, because the vast majority of Mongolian horses are less than 130 cm tall.

At that moment, Wu Shi said: "General, then I will go to reply to the king of Lou Fu here?" ”

"Go ahead." Xiang Zhuang said happily, "Tell King Lou Fu that as long as he can get enough war horses, we have weapons, and if he can take out a good horse with a body height of more than seven feet, we can even take out scale armor to trade with him!" Hehe, if he can take out a BMW that is more than eight feet tall, it is not impossible to trade the bed crossbow! ”

Wu Shi changed slightly when he heard this: "General, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?" ”

Wei Yu knew what Xiang Zhuang was thinking, and immediately said to Wu She: "Mr. Wu She, you should follow the general's instructions to trade with King Lou Fu, and tell King Lou Fu that what kind of good horses he can come up with, we can come up with sharp weapons that are equivalent to them, strong bows, hard crossbows, bed crossbows and even well crossbows can be traded." ”

"No." Wu Shi only agreed, and then turned around and walked out of the big tent.

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Half an hour later, Wu Shi came to the Loufu camp again.

After listening to Uncle Gongshu's translation, King Lou was overjoyed and said, "Sir, are you saying that a good horse with a body height of more than six feet can be exchanged for two iron double-edged heavy swords?" ”

Wu Shi nodded happily, and said, "Also, if you have a good horse with a body height of more than seven feet, you can trade for a fish scale armor, and if you have a BMW with a body height of more than eight feet, you can even trade for a bed crossbow!" If there are ten BMWs that are more than eight feet tall, they can trade for a seven or eight feet tall shaft or even a ladder. ”

After listening to Uncle Gongshu's translation, King Lou Fu couldn't help but be more and more overjoyed, and immediately complained to Wu She, and pulled Uncle Shuo behind the screen with a roar, and asked in a low voice: "Military Division, how many horses do we have now?" "The big and small affairs of the Loufu tribe are all taken care of by the uncle, so the uncle said that he knows best how many horses there are.

The uncle replied, "There are about 100,000 horses, but there are less than 40,000 good horses with a height of more than six feet!" ”

"Forty thousand?" King Lou Fu touched the beard that curled up at the corner of his lips, and said in a low voice, "We only have 30,000 strong men, it is enough to keep 30,000 good horses, and the remaining 10,000 horses are all used to exchange weapons with the Central Plains people, what do you think, military advisor?" ”

Uncle said that it was inevitable to nod his head, just from the transaction itself, the real benefit of this transaction must be the Lou Fu tribe, not the Chu army, because after the Lou Fu tribe gets this batch of weapons, its strength will be greatly enhanced, in this desert grassland, you have the strength, are you afraid that you won't be able to grab cattle, sheep and horses?

King Lou Fu thought for a while, and then said: "Military advisor, how many good horses are there that are more than seven feet tall?" ”

The uncle said, "There are relatively few good horses with a height of more than seven feet, and there are only more than 2,000 horses in total." ”

"Only more than two thousand horses, so few?" King Lou Fu gritted his teeth and said, "In this way, take out five hundred good horses, go and trade five hundred scale armor with the Central Plains people to come back, and let the king's personal guard put on the scale armor first." ”