Chapter 100: Zhao Yun
"What's wrong?"
Diao Chan didn't know what was going on, but she recognized the messenger talisman, Liu Xuan would not shy away from them every time he used it, and even prepared a few pieces for them separately, so that it was convenient to find him when something happened.
As for this time, it is obvious that there is some military intelligence reported to Liu Xuan, although Diao Chan does not know much about military affairs, but he often stays with Cai Yan, and he still knows some common sense.
For example, at present, Cao Cao Yijing returned to Chang'an, and the imperial court did not continue to launch a new attack on the surrounding areas after exterminating the Yellow Turban Army and recovering the land of Sizhou, but stabilized and developed slowly, and Xiwang recovered the people's livelihood in Yuzhou first.
The only soldiers and horses used were the Yulin cavalry who left Beijing a while ago.
Externally, many ministers in the imperial court even said that Yulin rode to the open land in the north for training, but some of Liu Xuan's close people knew that Yulin rode to Bingzhou to pick up Liu Bei.
In addition, during this period of time, jade talismans were passed back and forth from time to time, and Diao Chan only thought that something was wrong with Liu Bei's side.
"Could it be that Uncle Huang encountered some kind of accident?"
"No!" Liu Xuan helped Diao Chan sort out the hair threads, and then put away the jade talisman: "Uncle Huang's side Yijing crossed the Yellow River, and now he is waiting for Zhang Liao and them to huilai, and then they can return to Chang'an together." ”
In other words, Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan and the others have long been safe, if they still encounter any danger in the sphere of influence of the imperial court, then the problem is big, not just a matter of a few lives.
But the likelihood is too low to be a nuance.
However, the news of Zhang Liao's Huilai made Liu Xuan a little entangled: "Originally, I still wanted to collect all the four court pillars in Hebei under the account, and I didn't send Yulin to ride around the state casually, and I could also kill Yan Liangwen Chou by the way...... Do you say that these two guys are unlucky, or is it that Yulin is too strong?"
Zhang Liao's report gave a detailed account of the process of the two battles, made a comprehensive assessment of the performance and combat power of the Yulin Cavalry, and also raised some shortcomings, the focus of which was the ration of the Yulin Cavalry.
A single rider could not carry a large amount of rations, even if each person had an extra horse, they could not bring much, and the Yulin Cavalry was originally the most suitable unit for a lone army to fight in depth, but the rations greatly limited this.
For now, for now...... There is no way around it.
In fact, as long as these soldiers continue to cultivate, after reaching a certain level, the demand for food will gradually decrease, and of course, there will be no bad side effects if they eat normally.
At the same time, if you don't eat, you will just feel empty in your stomach, and your hunger will gradually become lighter. For example, Liu Xuan is now, he eats when he wants, and he doesn't eat if he doesn't want to, and whether he eats or not will not have any impact on him.
Nowadays, he eats more to satisfy some of his appetites, and at the same time, because there is really no entertainment in this era, making something delicious to eat is also a hobby and pastime.
Therefore, as long as you continue to let Yulin Riding continue to cultivate, the food problem will be solved sooner or later.
It's just that it's not easy to deal with now, although the soldiers have become stronger, but they haven't left the category of people, they can hold on for a while without eating, but their combat effectiveness will undoubtedly drop a lot during this time, so there is no doubt that they will go behind enemy lines.
In addition to this, Zhang Liao has no dissatisfaction with the Yulin Cavalry, and even thinks that even in the current state, the combat effectiveness of the Yulin Cavalry without armor is definitely a first-class strong army in the world.
Maybe only the other armies under Liu Xuan's account can compete with Yulin Cavalry, but it is only a competition, if you want to divide the superiority, you have to fight with real swords and guns to know. ..., but they are all elite soldiers and horses under Liu Xuan's account, Liu Xuan may let them fight each other to the death? is absolutely impossible, so it is basically impossible for this question to have an answer.
After putting away the jade talisman, Liu Xuan continued to wander around with Diao Chan and Cai Yan, while Zhang Liao Yijing rode towards the Yellow River with Yulin, and arrived at the pre-selected ferry a few days later, and crossed the Yellow River smoothly.
Because the soldiers and horses in Bingzhou were all choked by Yulin's riding, there were no soldiers and horses blocking the way along the way, and Zhang Liao and others even felt that the way back was a little boring.
"It's a pity, why didn't anyone in Hebei jump out to stop in front, so it's better to fight again!"
Ma Chao is young and vigorous, he didn't feel enjoyable at all after only fighting a battle before, but Tai Shici didn't care, he gained a lot from this trip, because he had a more intuitive experience of the strength and combat methods of Yulin Cavalry, and at the same time, he also had a more intuitive impression of the impact of personal force on the battle situation after cultivation.
"There is no one in this Hebei realm who can really fight with us, what is the point of such a battle?"
Compared to Ma Chao's idea of fighting a fight regardless of whether the enemy is strong or weak, Tai Shici is more likely to encounter a strong enemy, but he feels that this possibility seems to be very low.
At least as far as he knew, the one who could really make these generals of the imperial court regard a strong enemy for so long was a Yellow Turban thief Dao Nanhua.
He didn't know how many immortals there were in this shijie, but Tai Shi Ci didn't think that these immortals would jump out in unison to oppose the imperial court.
Just like that, talking about walking along the way, Zhang Liao and the others finally made peace with Liu Bei, and at the same time met each other, they also met Gongsun Zhan.
As soon as Gongsun Chan saw Zhang Liao and the others, he felt that his eyes lit up.
Zhang Liao and the others did not wear armor, and the clothes on their bodies were even very tattered, looking similar to some rogue thieves, but as long as you look closely, you can see that these people are extraordinary.
As for the cavalry led behind, although the clothes were tattered, the military appearance was neat, and the five thousand horses and horses stopped there in a row, and neither the men nor the war horses made any noise, and they all straightened their backs and sat on their horses.
"It's really the best in the world!"
Gongsun Zhan is an expert in cavalry, and the white horse under his account is known as the first cavalry army in the world, even if the iron cavalry of Bingzhou is inferior to him in reputation, it can be seen that Gongsun is accomplished in cavalry.
Therefore, the quality of the cavalry, he can see at a glance, in Gongsun Zhan's view, the strength of this army in front of him is not only above his own white horse righteousness, but even the whole world, and counting those alien races in the north who are good at horsemanship, it cannot be compared with the soldiers and horses in front of him.
"It's a pity that the image is a little worse!"
This sentence was also blurted out by Gongsun Chan without thinking too much, and it happened that Zhang Liao and others were in front of him, so everyone heard it clearly, and they were speechless for a while.
Gongsun Chan is a master of horsemanship, and is also an expert in cavalry warfare, Danshi In addition, Gongsun Chan also has a bit of a personal habit, that is, he likes white horses, and uses all means to let his most elite cavalry ride white horses.
The white horse is not easy to find, not to mention that the white horse required by Gongsun Chan must be the kind without a single miscellaneous hair and snow-white all over, which is even more laborious.
And on this basis, it must be a war horse that meets the needs of the battle, and because of this, the number of soldiers of Gongsun Zhan's elite cavalry has always been small - not because there are no good riders, but because there are not so many white horses.
≯ At the peak, the White Horse Yicong was an establishment of more than 3,000 people, and he couldn't even make up an army, which shows Gongsun Zhan's dedication to the White Horse.
Liu Bei knew this classmate's hobby very well, but he didn't know how to respond when he heard the words, so he could only say: "This time, because I want to hide my identity, I didn't wear armor!" In fact, Liu Bei suddenly remembered that today's son seemed to be quite concerned about the image of the army under his account, not only paid great attention to the armor of the four elite soldiers and horses currently formed by Yijing, but even used the most mysterious department of the current imperial court: the Refining Department to solve the problem of too heavy armor, so that Yulin Cavalry could not look bad while ensuring combat strength.
At the same time, an ordinary soldier of the forbidden army will also get a military uniform issued by the imperial court, compared to some princes who just give a casual gown to let the soldiers put on to distinguish their own soldiers, this kind of behavior of the imperial court is simply a 'loser'.
Even in the order of the Son of Heaven, even the soldiers of the county and the state will be treated like the same, and this order almost made the ministers of the court and China collectively speak out against it.
For no other reason, it's too expensive!
At that time, the imperial court had just stabilized, although Chang'an had a continuous bumper harvest, but everything in the imperial court was in ruins, and there were many problems to be solved, and there were many places where money was spent on food and cloth.
However, Liu Xuan didn't pay attention to it at all, and directly let the military department and the household department deal with this matter, so now the soldiers of the forbidden army are very neatly clothed and armored, if they are pulled out, I am afraid that everyone will think that this is the elite of the imperial court - who can xiangdao This is just an ordinary soldier and horse of the imperial court?
Although the Tiger Guard Army has just become an army, it has the support of His Majesty, and it has the foundation for forming an army, and the problem of the source of soldiers is not difficult to solve - when Yulin and other armies selected soldiers, they gave priority to those who knew how to ride and chose those who knew how to ride, and if there was no more, they were selected from those soldiers whose cultivation progress was relatively fast.
Therefore, some soldiers who also began to practice danshi but did not know how to ride were defeated and left in the forbidden army, this time the tiger army recruited infantry, and these people were naturally selected, so the tiger army became an army very quickly, and it would not be long before it could become a combat force.
After some gossip together, Zhang Liao noticed that a young general in silver armor was standing quietly behind Gongsun Zhan, and he kept silent, and he couldn't help but ask a question out of curiosity.
"Who is this......?"
"My surname is Zhao Mingyun, the word Zilong, Changshan is really Dingren!"
The silver-armored general was none other than Zhao Yun, and as soon as he opened his mouth to say his name, Zhang Liao immediately looked at it a few more times. There is no other reason, because Zhang Liao also knew that His Majesty asked the imperial uncle to go to Youzhou, in addition to rescuing Gongsun Zhan, he also asked the imperial uncle to bring this Zhao Yun out.
"But I don't know how capable this person is, and he is so valued by His Majesty!"
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