"Good news! Good news for Anle City! ”

In Youzhou City, a fast cavalry letter soldier galloped through the city and shouted, and the people turned their heads to look curiously, but the letter soldier did not stop for a moment, and went straight to the Youzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Chai Shao is dealing with government affairs, and he is still complaining about Xiao Rui, sending you kid to be the chief historian to help me deal with government affairs. It's good now, you just stare at Anle City, the entire government affairs of Youzhou are handed over to me, and I have to wipe your ass, I really don't know who is Changshi and who is the governor of Dadu?

"Huh? Good news? Where's the good news? Chai Shao walked out of the government room when he heard the sound.

After a while, the fast horse cavalry ran in with a book in hand, "Report! Good news for the city. Dadu Governor, the day before yesterday the Turkic 3,000 elite cavalry came to attack Anle, Changshi and General Su planned to retreat from the enemy, beheaded more than 1,000, captured a large number of horses and materials, our army won a great victory, Changshi specially ordered us to come to report the victory, and sent a merit book. ”

What??? Three thousand Turkic elites attacked Anle? What's going on? For such a big thing, why didn't you come over and ask for help earlier? Chai Shao scolded angrily, and said that something happened to Xiao Rui, who would take care of it?

The letter soldier is just a messenger, where can he answer these questions, just shook his head and said: "Changshi said that everything is in the letter." ”

"Bring the letter." Chai Shao's face was dark, he subconsciously skipped the dazzling record, and quickly opened the letter full of worry.

Well? Well! Oh...... I see! Well? Wrong...... How is this—how is this possible?

Chai Shao's expression was quite exciting, changing continuously, and the scribes around him felt like they were watching him perform and change their faces.

Putting down the letter, Chai Shao asked in a deep voice: "Let me ask you, have you participated in the war to destroy the Turks?" ”

"The last general was fortunate to follow General Su to participate in the ambush battle."

"Well, to put it in detail, if you dare to be half-true, you will not be forgiven. 1,000 people against 3,000 people, cavalry against cavalry, can you behead more than 1,000? When did the Turkic cavalry become soft-footed shrimp? If the Turkic cavalry had been so vulnerable, we would have fought a long time ago. ”

The letter soldier 1510 talked about the battle from the ambush to the battle, including the final acceptance and stopping the pursuit, and told it in detail.

The majority of the governors listened to it again and again, and Chai Shao suddenly realized that it was the Turkic general who was too stupid to fight a defensive battle, so Su Lie picked up a big bargain. Yes, yes, Xiao Rui, this kid is bad enough, in less than two months, he can calculate the enemy, and let the Turks suffer such a big loss, it can be seen that this kid is very good at using soldiers.

"Come, take the merit book, the soldiers of Anle City will use their lives, and the court will not be stingy with rewards, today the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will suspend other government affairs, and only do one thing, to give credit to the soldiers of Anle City. beheaded more than 1,000 people, it can be regarded as a big victory, and it should be played by the imperial court. ”

If Xiao Rui was here, he would never let Chai Shao play the imperial court, what is the beheading of more than a thousand? There are even bigger victories to come.

At this time, Chai Shao didn't know that Xiao Rui was able to make meritorious contributions, but his ability to cause trouble was not small, he only reported the big victory, but he did not report that a group of businessmen and materials were seized. The five surnames and seven hopes of the family must be held accountable.

What is Xiao Rui doing? Although the people in Anle City were panicked, but with a big victory, everyone was more courageous, and the Turkic cavalry of 3,000 came, Anle could win a big victory, which was enough to prove Anle's safety.

Now that all the bad businessmen outside the city are scattered, and no one is destroying the market, Xiao Rui seized the opportunity to let the government-run chamber of commerce in the city negotiate a large number of luxury orders. As for the price? Hehe, Sensei wanted to have an outside price, we even repelled the Turks, and the price, of course, was set by the winners.

If someone is not convinced, they still want to trade with the kind of price outside the city? Hehe, I'm sorry, Anle City will not accept it in the future, they are just a group of people who disrupt the market, don't you see that they are all in prison?

"What a horse, what a horse! No wonder the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is inferior to the Turks, just by looking at the quality of people's horses, you can know it...... Not to mention, these Turkic wolf cubs are all good material for raising horses. In the future, he defeated the Turks, took the entire steppe and gave it to the Tang Dynasty as a pasture, and let the Turks do nothing, leaving them only responsible for raising horses. ”

Xiao Rui stroked the shiny manes of batches of horses, and there were little stars shining in his eyes, which he loved more than he saw rare beauties.

Su Lie followed aside, listening to Xiao Rui's words, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the horse master is so young, he has the ambition to swallow mountains and rivers, but sadly there are still some surrender factions in the DPRK, and they have been singing about the decline and starting the war. If I am a Tang Erlang, all of them have the pride of the horse master, even if we don't use cavalry, we are confident that we will destroy the Turks.

"Alas...... Good is good, but it's a little less, only a thousand horses! Xiao Rui said with a sigh.

Su Lie smiled and comforted: "There is a long history of you, and the last general believes that this thousand horses is just the beginning, and we will definitely be able to capture more in the future, and one day, we in Datang can also have one, or even more powerful tens of thousands of elite cavalry troops." ”

"And a thousand cavalry fought against three thousand, and capturing a thousand is already an unprecedented result, and the last general did not dare to write a letter to his old friends in Chang'an City, for fear that people would not believe it."

"Don't believe me? What was the ratio of battle losses to our previous enemies? Xiao Rui was puzzled.

Forehead......

Su Lie didn't seem to dare to give an example, so he could only say vaguely: "In the past, our cavalry of the Tang Dynasty fought against the Turks, and the camp of 10,000 people rushed into battle, and after a fierce battle, they only beheaded more than a thousand in the end. ”

"Oh? Why? Our Datang Sheng is fully equipped in armor, and most of the Turkic cavalry lacks leather armor and lacks defense. Is it because the war horse can't catch up? Xiao Rui was puzzled.

Su Lie shook his head and said, "Definitely." You don't seem to have been on the battlefield for a long time, so you probably don't know it. Unlike our ambush and sneak attack, the two armies fought head-on, and the morale of the first priority was that the loss of soldiers was one percent, and the morale was halved; The soldiers were lost in two, and they were unable to fight again; The army was lost in three, and the whole army was scattered. ”

"The overall quality of my Datang's soldiers is good, and the soldiers can still fight with their lives. Like our 3,000 Xuanjia Army, the reason why it was able to fight 100,000 with 3,000 was because of morale, and it was able to achieve 40% of the losses and still fight to the death. At that time, Dou Jiande's 100,000 soldiers and horses were more defeated in morale. ”

"As for the quality of the Turkic soldiers, hehe, they are here to plunder and fight the autumn wind, and they will only use their lives if they can take advantage, and as soon as they see that there is no advantage to take advantage of, they will withdraw immediately, and they will not be entangled. Their horses come and go like the wind, and it is difficult for us to pursue. ”

Xiao Rui nodded: "Yes, I have studied the grassland cavalry, the reason why the Central Plains Dynasty can't destroy the grassland cavalry from generation to generation is not because of combat power, but mainly because the distribution is too scattered, coming and going like the wind, we can't gather and annihilate it." ”

"Exactly." Su Lie nodded heavily, "Changshi, you are extremely wise, but what is the best plan to gather and annihilate?" ”

Xiao Rui pondered for a moment, with the accumulation of two thousand years of battle history in China, of course there is a way to solve it, and there is more than one. But this kind of thing can't be said casually when the time comes, and if it leaks out, it won't work.

Looking around, Xiao Rui smiled mysteriously: "When we have 10,000 cavalry in the future, we will reveal the secret to you." ”

"I look forward to it!" Su Lie understood and stopped asking.

Xiao Rui sighed and said, "Alas...... Killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, how can raising horses be fast, but it's a pity, we don't have enough troops, otherwise what kind of horses do we raise? We led our troops directly into the steppe and grabbed a herd of good breeds of horses back. ”

Looking at the batch of war horses in front of him, Xiao Rui suddenly remembered the Three Kingdoms he had been writing in the past few days, and a clever plan appeared in front of him.

Smiling slightly, he whispered to Su Lie, "Have you ever heard of a grass boat borrowing arrows?" ”

Su Lie shook his head blankly, although he had read a few military books, he was born in a poor family and had a poor background. It's still not comparable to people from such big families. The straw boat borrowed arrows from the novel Three Kingdoms, this book was written in the Ming Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty has not yet passed.

However, allusions generally have archetypes, and this archetype is in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, and the real historical prototype is Sun Quan: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Shu, Sun Quan's Biography" "Cao Gong attacked the beard, and the right and the rejection of the moon." (Pei Songzhi's note) Wei Luo said: (214 years of the eighteenth year of Jian'an) the right to take a big ship to watch the army, the minister's bow and crossbow were fired indiscriminately, the arrow hit his ship, the ship was overturned, the right to return to the ship, and the arrow was equal to the ship, and it was returned.

Xiao Rui pulled Su Lie, and while walking back to the county guard's mansion quickly, he explained this allusion, and heard Su Lie shouting loudly, but what does this have to do with the war horse?