At the end of October, it is late autumn in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is early winter in the north of the desert, the cold wind cuts people like a knife, the dark clouds are heavy and pressed on the iron-gray stretching mountains, and the white wolf water flows slowly like a black iron stream, silent.

In such cold weather, and the danger of snow and road closures at any time, no one usually goes out, let alone fights. But at such an unsuitable time for conquest, there was a cavalry team of hundreds of people, one person riding in pairs, everyone wrapped their faces and covered their heads, stopped showing their eyes, galloped against the wind, and ran on the White Wolf Valley Road.

Surprise and attack unprepared, this is the key to this Ma Huhan's mid-range attack operation. From White Wolf City to Pinggang, along a tortuous White Wolf Valley road, but less than two hundred and seventy eighty or three hundred miles. A small force of light cavalry of several hundred people, one man riding in pairs, galloping on fast horses, but two days of travel.

Ma Han personally led the team this time, and only Tai Shici was with him, while Tang Nu stayed behind to defend the city, and Wu Chai assisted Tian Yu in attacking Wencheng. This made Tang Nu very unwilling, and revenge on the Wuyan Department was something he had dreamed of doing in the past two months. As soon as he gave the order, he rolled his eyes and repeatedly asked to fight. Ma Han blocked him back with just one sentence: "If you don't lead the team, I can defend the city." ”

Tang Nu is honest, and he can't rob the city guards with anyone.

Tai Shi Ci has not yet accepted the position of the White Wolf Battalion Cavalry, but only fights with the army as a guest of the horse. The weather is cold, the road is as hard as a stone, and the flying horses are rushing, according to Tai Shici's construction, it is best to ride three times per person, and be prepared to scrap two horses. However, when Ma Hao pulled a red healthy horse and handed it to him, Tai Shi Ci stared at the pig iron heavy horseshoes, stepped on the shining bell-shaped stirrups, and went straight from the West City Gate to the White Wolf Mountain. After coming back from a circle, I didn't say anything. He went with him this time. In addition to being a guest secretary, it should be. More importantly, he wanted to see how the cavalry, equipped with this new type of harness, fought.

But as soon as he came out of White Wolf City, he saw the light and unobtrusive super heavy spear tied to the spare horse, Tai Shi Ci was dumbfounded, and compared with the second spear in his hand, he had another thought, and then looked at how this overlord gun did the battle......

The horseman rode one man and four horses. The white horse silver arrow is a combat horse, which is only ridden at the beginning of the war, and the black horse (the Xiliangjian horse snatched from Kebineng) is a riding horse, and there is a strong green horse as a rotation. His overlord spear and a large number of arrows were carried by a brown swallow horse. The ghost swallow horse can't sprint, but it has a lot of stamina, and it's best to carry weapons.

Among the 300 white wolf horsemen, nearly 200 horsemen had broken the Karasuma people with the horses in Xiaozhi Mountain, and were in the offensive and defensive battles of Hange Village. There are many excellent performances, he is the elite of the White Wolf Battalion, and he is also the most desperate follower. Of these, one hundred and fifty were archers, and thirty were heavy. Each heavy rider is equipped with two servants, and the remaining nearly 100 riders are ready to ride for those who have not yet turned into regulars. However, after this war, only they were good. It can be converted into a regular cavalry according to merit.

It was precisely because of such a loyal cavalry elite that Ma Han was so bold that he dared to attack Hiraoka, the old nest of Karasuma in the right Hokpei, with 300 horsemen. There. There were 5,000 Karasuma people, plus more than 10,000 people in the surrounding areas. There are no less than 3,000 people who control the strings.

Three hundred attacking three thousand, this risk is not ordinary. Ma Han is naturally adventurous, otherwise he would not have gone from a penniless smuggler to a big man looking down on the red dust in just ten years. However, this time he didn't play like this, these elite soldiers are his old roots, and he won't take them all. To put it bluntly, in this attack, he wants to achieve the purpose of training troops and deterrence, and his losses must be kept to a minimum. So, he has to borrow strength.

At dusk, the cavalry, led by their guides, came to a leeward col. One by one, exhausted from the horse's back, they beat their spirits, loosened the horse's belly belt, and fed and drank water to the horses. The difference between cavalry and infantry is that the horse, the war horse is the second life of the cavalry, more important than the weapon in the hand. If the weapon is gone, as long as the horse is still there, at least it can escape, but if the horse is gone, what is the use of having more weapons? As cavalrymen, everyone knows this very well, so whenever it is time to fight, no matter how tired they are, the cavalrymen must take care of their horses first, and then it is their turn.

Ma Han looked at the dark sky and estimated the time, there was at least half an hour before nightfall, and they had about two hours to rest, which was enough.

Ma Han beckoned Tai Shici to climb the high place of the mountain col with the guide and a small Xianbei person, and listened to the guide's introduction: "Thirty miles ahead is Pinggang City, which is the county seat of Youbeiping County in the former Han Dynasty (that is, the Western Han Dynasty), so the city is very large, the size of three white wolf cities. However, after the county moved south, and the city was handed over to the Karasuma people to guard, these Hu slaves only knew how to enjoy it, but did not know how to maintain it...... The king's tent in Uyan is in the south of the city, and he is not used to living in earthen houses, so he still sets up a tent in the city, what an old barbarian......"

Ma Han nodded: "How many string controllers are there in the city?" ”

"If you go back to the city to defend it, there are only 2,000 men and horses, and there are almost 1,000 men and horses scattered in the various tents of the surrounding hundred miles, if you raid at night, Wuyan will not have time to gather them all."

Ma Han smiled: "In other words, the enemies we are facing are only about 2,000, which is good." What is the total population and livestock of the Uyan Division? ”

"If you go back to the city to defend it, there are 500 tents in the Wuyan Department in the Pinggang area, with a population of more than 20,000 and no less than hundreds of thousands of livestock......

"Hahaha, yes, the news given by Xianbei people is really comprehensive."

When Ma Han was questioning and answering the guide, Tai Shici kept staring at the little Xianbei man. This man was plain-looking, black and thin, with no weapons on his body, but he had a cowhide gauntlet on his left forearm, and a bulging skin bag hung from his waist. This man was very silent, and apart from being extremely respectful to Ma Han, he basically did not communicate with others. Tai Shi Ci just wondered, why did Ma Han call this person?

Suddenly, Tai Shi Ci saw that Xianbei people were moving, he took out a small black whistle from the placket of his clothes, raised his face, his eyes lit up, and his ordinary face turned vivid.

Beep――

A scream, like a sharp edge breaking through the air.

Tai Shi Ci was startled, and raised his hand to grab the halberd behind his shoulder, but at this moment. A strong palm pressed against his shoulder. Tai Shi Ci turned his head sideways, but saw Ma Han smile and shook his head. Immediately understood something and nodded. Relax the hand holding the halberd.

Suddenly there was a long eagle chirp in the distance, and a black dot was getting closer and closer, with the amazing eyes of Ma Han and Tai Shici, the black dot had not moved halfway, and it was clear that it was a goshawk. And when the goshawk circled in the sky, retracted its wings and landed, and landed firmly on the arm of the Xianbei man, Tai Shi Ci suddenly realized. This is actually a letter eagle, and this Xianbei man is an eagle slave.

The letter eagle is used to transmit the news, which is a high-level means of communication between the Xianbei people and the Karasuma people, and the eagle slave is a falcon trainer. Whether it is a letter eagle or an eagle slave, the average small tribe really can't afford it, and there are only a handful of ministry tents that can afford it. It's not that it's expensive, it's mainly that the letter eagle can't pass far, at most a hundred and ten miles, although it is faster than riding a horse. But the efficiency is not much worse, and the post delivery is simpler and more reliable, so the average tribe will not raise this laborious and unreal thing. However, if you are in battle, you need to pass the message to the rear through the enemy's territory. And don't want to alarm the enemy, this letter eagle is much more reliable than the post.

Tai Shi Ci glanced at Ma Han in surprise: "I didn't expect that White Wolf City could still raise eagle slaves." ”

Ma Han smiled: "This eagle slave is not raised by me, how can I afford it." This is a liaison sent by Sully. ”

"Sully? Liaoxi Xianbei Lord Suli! Tai Shici's eyes widened.

At this time, the eagle slave had taken two small pieces of wood from the eagle's leg and respectfully presented them to the horseman. Then take out a small piece of fresh mutton from the bulging skin pouch and throw it to the eagle, constantly stroking the eagle's head.

Only eight Han Li's were written on the two pieces of wood: "Everything is ready." Just waiting for the king's order. ”

Ma Han turned his head and smiled at Tai Shi Ci: "Su Li's 1,000 Xianbei elite cavalry has taken advantage of Liucheng and pressed towards Pinggang from the north, plus our troops, there are a total of 1,300 elite cavalry, and there are only 2,000 Karasuma control soldiers in Pinggang City. Among these people, the real elite, that is, the king's tent guards, were only five hundred, and the rest were herdsman warriors without much training. The combat effectiveness of the enemy and us is almost one-to-one, and they are unprepared, and there are still Xianbei people in Pinggang City. Before this battle was fought, Uyan had already been defeated. ”

Taishi Ciwu couldn't believe it: "The Xianbei people want to attack Pinggang, and it would be strange if the leader of the Karasuma Alliance of the Three Counties didn't send troops to intercept it, how could he borrow it?" ”

Ma Han pointed to the north, and said lightly: "Su Li's banner is to join forces with Budugen to attack Kebineng, Xianbei people are infighting, it's too late to be happy, what is it to borrow a way, and even want to send troops to share the meat." ”

Tai Shi Ci understood now, needless to say, he could roughly guess the rest of the words. Of course, Su Li is not carrying forward the spirit of neighborhood friendship and helping the White Wolf City clean up Wuyan, in fact, in the land of western Liao, the Karasuma force has an absolute advantage, Su Li and another Xianbei leader, Micah, have been suppressed, and the three major tribes of Xianbei in their east: Suli, Micah, and Jiji, all of their subordinates are combined, and they are not as good as a Kebineng in their heyday.

Originally, among the three Xianbei, the eastern Xianbei was the weakest, not to mention that it was divided into three, which was even weaker. In particular, Suli and Micah in western Liaoxi were crushed to death by the Bunton, and the development of the tribe was increasingly embarrassed. They have long been aiming at Pinggang, where the water and grass are called fat, which is like Liaoxi, in addition to the mountains is the sea, which makes the herdsmen how to live.

In the past, I was afraid of Wuyan's strength, but now Wuyan has been defeated continuously, the strength of the tribe has been greatly damaged, and some people have taken the lead, as long as they follow it, they can share the meat and eat, why not?

Ma Han pointed with a long whip: "I use the fat of Pinggang to lead out Suli to jointly send troops, plus Yaka helps Tian Guorang to capture Wencheng, this deal is still cost-effective, right?" ”

Tai Shi Ci picked a thumbs up: "Being generous to others couldn't be more cost-effective." ”

The two looked at each other and laughed. Ma Han shook the demon pupil bow and said to Tai Shici: "Let's go, let's go and clean up the periphery, compare with each other, and see who kills more." ”

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