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In September, on the banks of Wuhou Qinshui.

More than 200 high-quality Turkic horses, the grass by the river has already been eaten, the belly is round and round, and now many horses are flat necks and closed eyes to rest, and the horse's tail flicks and flicks the flies on the body. On the side, with the owner taking care of the horse, two big dogs were grabbing a piece of meat and bones and fighting violently.

Horses and dogs are the most important partners of the herdsmen, a good horse is the life of the shepherd, killing the enemy to hunt, and even fleeing for their lives are a good horse, and the dog is the shepherd's brother, guarding against wild wolves, guarding the horses, sheep, and hunting a good helper. And the two horsemen who herded the Turkic horses laughed loudly at this qiē, after spring, summer and autumn, the horses on the grassland were all with bright fur, like satin, and the sound was powerful. Just like the farmers see their fields full of golden rice, and the horses look at their livestock, they all show happy looks, or the sheep are very beautiful.

For a tribe, the number of stablemen, sheepherds, cowherds, and horsemen is small, but all of them are very important. Komulan was the youngest of the stablemen, and not only was he the best archery among the young herdsmen, but he also made the most powerful horse of the steppe his own mount with a glove pole. Whenever Komulan rode through the steppe on a fiery horse, the shepherds begged him to send messages to his acquaintances, and the girl in the tent did not give him a wink.

The other partner, Qi Ashu, was much inferior to Ke Mulun, but he was a few years older, and he once went to the edge of the Great Wall to sell horses with the Han people, and I heard that even the Han merchants, who had always been like honey and treacherous like foxes, did not take much advantage of him.

Ke Mulun asked: "What did you say that the Khan King divided our 100,000 tribes on the banks of the Wuhou Qinshui River into four tribes?" ”

Qi Ashu said: "A piece of wood, can not be used as a wheel, an arrow, easy to break, this is the Khan told us at the beginning, in the past, everyone scattered, as if a pair of hands could not be twisted into a fist, now we 100,000 people into an iron wheel, a bundle of arrows, if the Turks in the future, the Khitans dare to come, you can want them to look good." ”

Listening to the Turks, Khitan, Ke Mulun touched the bow beside him, and said: "The Khitans have been bullying our room for a long time, if it is not for the Khan this time, we will be slaves for a long time, rightly, we will be in a group in the future, and we can no longer be bullied by the Khitan and Turkic people." ”

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves not far away, and a man with a feather on his head rode up to them and said, "Ke Mulun, beggar Ashu, the lord of the building has an order, let you bring fifty good horses to the big tent." ”

"What's going on, why do you need to use horses?" Qi Ashu asked.

When the man heard this, there was an excited look on his face, and he said, "I heard that someone is going to fight with a golden arrow to transfer troops, so the main thing is to use a good horse." ”

"Where to go in the war, to fight the Khitans?"

"No, it's south."

"To the south." Ke Mulun, Qi Ashu glanced at each other.

After collecting the horses, Ke Mulun gave the rest of the horses to the other stables, and the two of them came to the camp by the river with fifty horses. According to the order of the Khan, the khanate was inhabited by a hundred tents, and there was a lord of one building, which was their original patriarch, and there were one hundred and twenty tents here.

After the two met with the lord of the building, the lord of the building said: "The Khan has a large number of troops, and ordered all the military lords with golden arrows to send troops to the south to meet in Yuyi City." The army asked us to send forty-five men and one hundred and fifty horses to each building, and to prepare our own food for ten days. Both of you are the most outstanding warriors in my clan, one is brave and the other is strategic, so I will take you with me. ”

Ke Mulun, beggar Ashu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Thank you Uncle Zhixuan." ”

The patriarch laughed, waved his hand and said, "Go down and prepare, and set off tomorrow." ”

After hearing this, Ke Mulun and Qi Ashu immediately went home to clean up. When Kemulun returned to the tent to see his mother, and after telling her that she was going to go south, he was anxious to go to his beloved lover for the night, and the next day he returned to the tent with unsteady feet.

And the beggar Ashu packed his leather jacket, tent, and food on the road early on a horse, and led another horse to wait for him at the tent. Ke Mulun saw Qi Ashu showed a little embarrassed look, he knew that Qi Ashu had been single, his father heard that the Han merchant was born overnight, and his mother raised him alone, he died of illness not long ago, and in his tent, his mother also made the dried meat early for him, and after the two hastily ate a meal of milk and meat porridge, they went to the military tent in front of the banner of the building owner to report, and the herdsmen and soldiers of the rest of the accounts also arrived, as a herdsman, not to mention the stable, the others at least brought more than two horses, all of them were first-class good horses and fast horses, As for the fifty horses that the patriarch asked them to prepare, that is, the horses were transferred after they were injured, or those that were carried by the injured and sick in the future, so that each person had an average of more than three horses.

At present, it is the time after autumn, it is the time when the fattest horses are strong, at this time, if the war horses are long-distance gallop marches, they will not lose too much fat, and they are also the least likely to die, and the shepherds hate the spring war the most, when the sheep and horses are the thinnest time, if the long-distance running war horses are most likely to die in large quantities, and now they have more war horses are also prepared, and everyone gathers together to go to Yuyi Town.

They traveled for a day, met with most of the army lord in a valley, and stayed for the night, until the ten buildings were ready. The warlord eliminated some of the old and sick and sick, and after ordering four hundred and fifty people, he set off for Yuyi Town. Because there were horses to transfer, the journey was extremely fast, and after two days, we arrived at Yuyi Town.

"Khan, after the herdsmen of all tribes received your golden arrow order, they all rushed to come, and they have already gathered, a total of 20 armies and 9,000 cavalry."

Li Chongjiu listened to Yinghefu's advice, nodded and said to the craftsman on the side: "Li Zuojiang, how is the matter of horse shoes going?" ”

Li Zuojiang stroked his beard and said: "Back to Taishou, fifty craftsmen and one hundred and fifty men have been selected, and they have all been trained for half a year, and they can all nail horseshoes." ”

Li Chongjiu frowned and said, "This manpower is still not enough. ”

Li Zuojiang also looked embarrassed, and said: "Taishou, there is no way, I can only install the farriers on some of the Hu cavalry first, and even if the shoes are installed, the shoes must be removed and rebuilt once a month, which is also troublesome." You must know that only one of the ten war horses in my Great Sui Army nailed the horse's shoe, this matter was done by the people of the ordnance superintendent, and the ordinary civilian craftsmen would not do it at all, and now we have hastily practiced, just for the two thousand military horses of the headquarters of a thousand iron horses, it took three months, if the manual is rough and the horseshoe is nailed, it will hurt the horse's hooves. ”

On the side, Wang Ma Han said: "Taishou, we walked the road to Huairong County, the official roads here are all mountain roads, there are no stone roads, the horse's hooves will not wear too much, as for the current autumn again, the weather is dry and little rain, not to worry about the muddy horseshoe on the ground." ”

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said: "No, this war horse without a horseshoe can walk dozens or hundreds of miles, but if it is a few hundred miles, you have to break your hooves." Our army is going to run for a long distance, and every horse of the cavalry must be cared for, Li Zuojiang, you horsemen will simply advance with the army all the way, and where our army marches, you will nail the horseshoes to us, and the Hu cavalry must have at least 1,000 horseshoes with horses. ”

Li Zuojiang listened to the order at the moment.

After a few days of running around, after arriving at Yuyi Town, Ke Mulun and Qi Ashu thought that they could rest for a while, but when they arrived here, there were several Han cavalry and craftsmen-like figures, who wanted to take one of their mounts, saying that they wanted to nail horse shoes.

Horse shoes, Ke Mulun, beggar they know, if a horse hurts its hooves, it is basically useless, so for a stableman, regular trimming of the horse's shoe is a must, and if it is a long journey, they generally have six or seven good horses to transfer, and they will also put leather riding shoes on the horses. Ke Mulun couldn't give up his good horse at the moment, so he caught up and saw what was going on, but he was startled when he saw it, because the so-called nail horseshoes they called were nailed to the horseshoe with iron nails and iron sheets. Seeing the way his beloved horse struggled, Ke Mulun couldn't help but feel a tangle in his heart, and when he rushed up, he was stopped outside by several soldiers.

"Bastard, trespass on the weapons camp, do you want to lead the army?" A Han Chinese general speaks the Turkic language.

At this time, Qi Ashu hurriedly pulled Ke Mulun aside and apologized to the Han general. Ke Mulun immediately told Qi Ashu about nailing the horse's shoe, and Qi Ashu laughed when he heard it, and said: "When I walked the Great Wall in the past, I saw the elite cavalry of the Sui army, and the horses' hooves were nailed with iron, which is a good thing, not a bad thing. ”

Ke Mulun didn't know why he heard it, and begged Ashu to speak: "You said that on our grassland, there is no shortage of horses, but there is a lack of iron, so no one nails the horses, but the Han people do not lack iron, but they lack horses to nail the iron, you can rest assured, your beloved horses will be assured to gallop in the future." After listening to the words of Qi Ashu, Ke Mulun was relieved.

After resting in Huaihuang Town for a day, the next day, Li Chongjiu combined 9,000 cavalry of the Hu people, as well as 1,000 cavalry from the five regiments of the original Cangtou Army Headquarters, a total of 10,000 iron cavalry, and led the army south. This journey followed the valley south, but it took only half a day to reach the border of the Great Wall.

Xiongguan is still there, as the entrance of the first army in the Taihang Eight Mountains, the pass here is the monolith, the throat of Xuanzhen in the Ming Dynasty, in history Wara is after breaking the pass, here all annihilated 200,000 Ming troops, that is, everyone knows the change of the civil fort. And the civil fort is in Huairong County, for the layout of the entire Hebei, this is a place where soldiers must fight.