"Wanma tribe, Qingshui tribe, Guangchuan tribe. All three tribes produce horses, a lot of horses. Chi He thought about it before giving Ma Shuo an accurate answer.

"Oh, do you know where these tribes are?" Ma Shuo saw that Chi He really knew which tribes had horses, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, so he continued to ask.

"The Wanma tribe is over there, the Qingshui tribe is over there, and I don't know about Guangchuan." This time, the result of Chi He's answer made Ma Shuo a little confused, because what Chi He said was that side, that side, just stood up and pointed in a certain direction with his hand, which was not accurate at all.

"You see, if this is where we stand. You try to draw where the Wanma tribe and the Qingshui tribe are. After thinking about it, Ma Shuo had no choice but to draw a small circle on the ground, and then pointed to the small circle and said to Chi He.

Ma Shuo's task suddenly made Chi He feel embarrassed, because he didn't really know the specific location of the two tribes. The reason why he knew that those two tribes had horses was not because he had seen them with his own eyes, but because he had heard them from his fathers before.

Now, Ma Shuo asked him to draw the specific locations of the two tribes, and Chi He felt that his head was big. However, Chi He didn't dare to refuse Ma Shuo's request, and for a while, he had to stand there stupidly.

"Probably, probably here. And here's it! In the end, Chi He had no choice but to use the branch in his hand to point two places on the ground, probably to the west and southwest of the circle drawn by Ma Shuo.

Chi He's answer, although Ma Shuo was a little disappointed. However, he still had a little more hope, and in any case, there must be tribes and horses. As long as there is, it's easy to do. Judging from the situation of Chihe's painting, the Qingshui tribe seems to be closer.

After pondering it in his head, Ma Shuo decided that when the thousand-man team was almost finished, he would take the team to explore in that direction. The reason why Ma Shuo dared to make this decision was mainly because half of the current thousand-person team were barbarians, and as long as they were disguised a little, they would not be easily exposed in the barbarian area.

However, before that, Ma Shuo first sent a scout to explore the way first.

Horses, this is the most urgent thing that Ma Shuo needs at the moment. Ma Shuo didn't need an ordinary pack horse, but a real cavalry horse. In Daqin, although there are also several places to raise horses, those horses are all supplied to the military, and it is impossible for them to fall into the hands of Ma Shuo.

The bandits had some horses in their hands, but they were far from what Ma Shuo needed. Before, Ma Shuo had snatched nearly 100 horses from the mountain bandits, but there were actually very few that could be used as high-quality war horses.

Therefore, if he wants to build his thousand-man team into a highly mobile cavalry, Ma Shuo still has a long way to go. In fact, this was because Ma Shuo's requirements were too high, and he didn't know that in fact, the number of cavalry owned by the entire town barbarian army was only 20,000. For hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops, there are only 20,000 cavalry, which is actually a very low proportion.

However, there is no way around it. Not to mention the cost of providing for a war horse, the horse resource itself is an important constraint. The vast majority of the truly superior horse breeding places are in the barbarian area.

During the time that Ma Shuo stayed on the side of the secret base, news also came from the militia group. The militia was also full after this period of conquest, and at the same time sent more than 2,000 barbarians to the base, including adult barbarians, women, and children who were not selected.

Similarly, the militia did not forget to strengthen training during this period of time, so the combat effectiveness of the militia remained good after this period of training.

According to Ma Shuo's order, the militia soon arrived at the secret base and gathered together with the thousand-man team. At this time, the scouts sent out also brought back news. The scout brought back the news to Ma Shuo, who was very happy that they had discovered a tribe of horses about a hundred and fifty miles from the secret base.

Although it is not certain whether this tribe is the target to find or not, since the other tribe raises horses, it is a great thing. The scout reported that the size of this tribe was indeed not small, and it was roughly estimated that the population of the entire tribe should not be less than five thousand.

A tribe of 5,000 people is already a big tribe in the barbarian region. However, it is certainly impossible for all of the five thousand people to be adults, and according to the general situation of the barbarian tribe, there should be almost two thousand five to three thousand adult barbarians with combat effectiveness among the five thousand people.

There are a little more than 2,000 people on my side, and there is still a gap between me and the other party in terms of numbers. However, there is a mental calculation on my side, and my side is a formally trained army. So, Ma Shuo thought he could go over and give it a try.

One morning, after breakfast, Ma Shuo led two teams, under the guidance of the scouts, quietly left the secret base and went straight to the tribe that raised horses to kill them.

More than 150 miles, if you go all out, in fact, one day is enough. However, firstly, he didn't want to make too much movement to startle the snake, and secondly, to ensure that the team had enough physical strength to be able to fight at that time, Ma Shuo deliberately controlled the speed of the march.

On the evening of the third day, the group arrived at a valley about ten miles away from the horse tribe, and temporarily stopped and stationed here.

At night, it is not suitable for combat. At the same time, the group also needed to rest after a day's journey. While everyone is resting, the scouts certainly can't rest, and they also need to get more accurate information.

Of course, Ma Shuo, the commander, did not rest at this time. He and Zhang Qi, Zhang Chen, Guan Yun, Jin Hao, Jin Tian and others were discussing the next day's actions. This time it will be the first battle after the Thousand Men and the Vigilante are full, and it should be the first battle of the close match, so you must be especially careful and fully prepared.

In the first battle, you must win the battle with a crisp and sharp slur.

When everyone discussed, they expressed their opinions and fully expressed their opinions. After discussion, after everyone reached a consensus, Ma Shuo made a decision, only waiting for the scout to bring back more specific information, and then fine-tune the details.

The scout team is still very powerful, taking advantage of the cover of night, they successfully infiltrated the other party's station and got first-hand information up close. The size of the tribe as a whole was not small, but the total population was much smaller than expected, especially the number of adult barbarians.

Later, after the scout caught the tongue of a lone barbarian, he learned from the barbarian's mouth that this tribe was called the Hute tribe, and it was not any of the several horse-raising tribes mentioned by Chihe earlier. It turned out that some of the adult barbarians in the tribe had been sent to Zhenmanguan. In addition, from the tongue and mouth scouts, it was also learned that this tribe did raise a lot of horses, but a number of them were just requisitioned by the big tribe above some time ago, and now there are about three or four thousand left, of which the number of adult horses is less than two thousand.

The situation brought back by the scout made Ma Shuo more confident.